I just found out that my old Trent University student pub, The Commoner, was town down last October.
I rummaged through some of my old slides (taken a month before the 9/11 tragedy), and found a few good shots of The Commoner. (since they are slides, I will bring them to work and scan them tomorrow). I also found some shots I took in the cockpit of the jumbo-jet I flew back home to Calgary … back when the pilot was happy to have visitors in the cockpit. I guess we don’t get many of those photographic opportunities anymore.
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Written on Wed, 18 April 2007 at 11:23 pm
Tags: pub, Trent, university
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April 20th, 2007 at 7:24 am
You may wish to read about the Commoner and how its demolition was orchestrated by the administration. Check out this article Trent Demolishes Historic Commoner - Students Away On Reading Break at OurTrent.com.
Here’s the lead-in:
Trent University has demolished the historically significant building known as The Commoner. Just three weeks ago, and in response to criticism from the local branch of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, Vice President Don O’Leary announced the demolition was “postponed indefinitely and the university will take its time to make a final decision.” In light of today’s events O’Leary’s announcement, coming as it did as Alumni gathered for the Head of the Trent, appears to have been calculated solely to deflect the potential of Alumni complaints over the destruction of this historical building. Is it any coincidence demolition began this morning, the first Monday of reading break when students are unlikely to be on campus to cause a fuss? Did Trent have any intent at all to honour O’Leary’s announcement of the indefinite postponement of the Commoner’s demolition? Are someone’s pants on fire?