Transitional Year Programme Preservation Alliance

White people may experience occasional and unacceptable prejudice, but not racism. They do not experience the systemic racism that makes it hard for them to find jobs, housing, health care and justice in the legal system.

Racism is not personal, it is structural. Unlike the arena of mainstream media, the educational system, religious institutions and judicial systems that reinforce hurtful stereotypes, these spaces remind the oppressed that they are human, that they deserve respect.

Ethnic Minorities Deserve Safe Spaces Without White People Last week The Ryersonian reported on an incident that involved two students who were turned away from an event because they are white. Since then there has been a lot of commentary on the piece and a lot of debate -- a lot of the criticism is valid. ...

Whilst the Preservation Alliance celebrates with the students of the University of Toronto for the building forecasted to open in 2017, some cannot help but reflect on why the same support was not rallied in support of the students at the Transitional Year Programme. In fact some suggest that the recent Toronto chapter of the BlackLivesMatter campaign is also suspect since many of the faces campaigning about the importance of Black Lives failed to support the program that transitions Black lives. Some sources state that U of T funds the same groups that are suppose to have the best interests of the students they serve, and when TYP students were protesting the university threatened those groups with repercussions if they they fully supported the students who by lack of numbers failed to secure a space for the program that has been successfully transitioning students for the past 40 years. "What happened was that many of the students, as well as the Preservation Alliance were demonized by the administration and some members of faculty at TYP whose paycheques are written by the administration to the detriment of the program." Resulting in divisions, and fear to resonate. Currently the new location for the Transitional Year Programme is not being embraced as the safe space it once represented. As well as issues of concern have still not been resolved, but some students remain optimistic believing that it is never to late. As one students said, "I hear people speaking about TYP as if they cared when we needed their support, and hopefully their actions will catch up with their words." Because just like those on strike at the university know, "we need the university to support all of its faculty, staff, and students, and become the institution it purports to be."

Student Commons motions pass at Governing Council Building forecasted to open in 2017

Let us not forget…don't give up the fight to stand up for our rights!!!!!!!!!!


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