Rhonda Anderson a =E9crit :

> Just curious - was Peter Robinson College a residential college?

There were some residential accomodations but as I pointed out, PR was
for off-campus students. Some of the colleges, the ones on campus,
were definitely residential. Obviously, if you were in residence, you
were in residence at a college. Each college is associated with
specific activities but I never paid any attention to those and the
only thing I ever did at the college was to go with my wife to the
Christmas dinner. Colleges have principals, tutors and dons and I
gather disciplinary actions are taken by colleges, not the university
administration. However, that was never a problem, so I never actually
had much to do with the college (barring the aforementioned Christmas
dinner) and only needed to go there to see my academic advisor, which
happened twice.

> Here - found a bit about the residential colleges on the uni website - is
> this the sort of thing you meant by the men's and women's colleges at
> Trent University?
>
> http://www.usyd.edu.au/stuserv/accom...modation/oncam
> p.shtml

Here's the blurb from Trent.

"Each College is an intellectual and social neighborhood -- a centre of
academic and social activity, housing professors' offices, small
lecture halls and seminar rooms. The Colleges sponsor visits by
scholars, writers and public figures, and organize lecture series,
seminars, concerts, films, dances and pub nights."

http://www.trentu.ca/colleges/

It would appear that Peter Robinson College has either disappeared or
been renamed. Here is a page from 2002:

http://www.trentu.ca/colleges/robinson.html

When my stepson was at Trinity at the University of Toronto, the writer
in residence was Mordechai Richler. This was just before he passed
away.