"Fifty years ago, as the editor of The Varsity, I was involved in the campaign to open up Hart House to women. Several of our initiatives undoubtedly were annoying to the powers-that-be at the time. First, my colleagues and I published a couple of editorials in favour of integration. Second, we assigned two women to cover a debate. While women were not allowed to participate, the Speaker of the debate, in his wisdom, ruled that the women would be allowed to stay to cover the event, because reporters were 'sexless.' It set a precedent and we got a chance to run pictures of the young women who wrote the story. Another time, I went into the Arbor Room with a group of four young women to eat our lunches. Women were not allowed to eat lunch there, so we were the object of much derision, hooting, hollering and bun-throwing. But we made our point and the incident found its way into the  Toronto Star. I happened to be the U of T campus stringer for the Star at the time. Talk about conflicts of interest!"