Interview with Elliott Schwartz
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Elliott Schwartz, a graduate of UTSC (1969), shares his sense of both the disappointments and benefits of early life on campus starting in 1966, the first full year the campus was open. He talks about applying to New and Innis Colleges but being granted admission to Scarborough College instead. He admits, although a life long resident of Toronto, he knew little of Scarborough and felt at the time that he and other student colleagues had been "conscripted," had no choice in the matter. Schwartz shares the remote nature of the campus, everything closed up at 5pm and that students not living in Scarborough took the Blue Bus from the downtown campus or drove. He shares that course work was tough and there were many excellent professors, but just studying wasn't enough so he got involved in drama and sports. There was no theatre at that time, so Schwartz shares how he designed a stage complete with lighting in the Meeting Place. He shares his disappointment in the "model university," including the short comings ot television teaching but overall feels he received the promised "excellent education" at Scarborough College.