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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
Just beautiful!
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I don't know. As a former Trent student, I find Gzowski to be a bit jarring given its context on campus. It's a small school in the middle of a wooded area with some absolutely beautiful concrete buildings and structures (Champlain College especially) that relate well to the river that runs through the campus and to the surrounding natural environment. Gzowski, in comparison, kind of just sits there brashly, huddled over itself.
There's baggage there too. It's a school that really focuses (or, at least, focused) on the liberal arts - one of the most progressive university cultures in the province - so, of course, people took issue with the First Peoples' space on campus getting stuck in the basement of the building the wealthiest students tended to live in. And there was lingering resentment about the Mike Harris-era program that eventually led to its construction while the original campus (one of the two downtown colleges) was unceremoniously sold off (before my time, but still quite the controversy when I was there).
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