Hungry for Food Justice: The Time is Ripe for Change
Dear Trent University, As the new year begins, the future of food services at Trent University is on our minds at Sustainable Trent. After almost 15 years with Aramark as …
Letters to Trent
An Open Letter to Undergraduate Students from a GTA
This is my fourth year as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA). I’ve taught at two universities in four classes, two at the first year level and two second year. Incontestably, …
A Letter to the Graduating Class of 2017
During my five years at Trent, I would occasionally find myself sitting up on those over-sized rocks (obviously not a geology major), waiting for the East Bank bus to pull …
Letter to Trent Admin: Improving the Safety of Queer Students
Dear Trent Administration, As far as the work the administration has done to make Trent University a Positive Space for queer students, I appreciate what’s been accomplished. However, the faculty …
A Letter from a Trent Journalist: Things You Shouldn’t do when being Interviewed
No aspiring journalist’s dreams were crushed in the making of this article, but I can’t deny that they were beaten, bent, and maybe, in a weird kind of way, realized. …
What do Trent and Hogwarts have in common?
Dear Trent, When Arthur called for submissions for this letters issue, I spent time wondering whether or not I should lament the administration, Aramark, or perhaps even lamentation itself. No, …
The elixir to the unpleasantries of master and slave morality: The all Canadian heroic faces of Trent campus
Dear fellow Trent activists, It’s as if sometimes the only thing we are aware of is oppression. When I was studying at Trent, every week, my peers and I in …