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BLOG: RSU president-elect Toby Whitfield taped, accused of defacing U of T campus

March 14, 2010 Comments: 10 | By Meaghan Zabinsky

RSU president-elect Toby Whitfield was recently caught on tape hurriedly walking away from defaced posters at University of Toronto’s St. George campus.

The video, filmed and uploaded by U of T student Antonin Mongeau, depicts Whitfield pacing in front of a wall of posters, before cutting to a shot of crumpled EFUT French Club posters advertising a crepe lunch and other EFUT events. Mongeau, whose YouTube username is Brahpster, approaches Toby about the crumpled posters, but Toby ignores him and busies himself with his BlackBerry.

“I said ‘Hi, Toby,’ because I recognized him,” recalls Mongeau. “I negotiated a poster truce with him. I often poster for the French Club, so I showed him our posters and I said “It would be real cool if you could not cover our posters and we could not cover yours.” Mongeau then says he continued to poster the St. George campus.

Mongeau and Whitfield’s second encounter is the one initially shown in the video. Mongeau perceived Whitfield’s presence as ‘interfering’ with the U of T student elections, and wanted to ask Whitfield himself. “…I approach him with my camera, and that’s the footage that you see in the video of me asking him questions, asking if he is Toby Whitfield of the RSU, and he’s not very forthcoming.”

It is a few hours later when Mongeau sees Whitfield for the third time. “I was out in the back of Sid Smith … I literally see Toby come out rip down our posters – and just our posters!” Mongeau catches Whitfield on film, but a building between Mongeau and Whitfield causes Mongeau to miss catching Toby’s actual defacement on film.

Mongeau called the campus police, whom, according to eventually apprehended Whitfield outside of the Gerstein Library, while postering for Stronger Together. “If you look at the video, I think I ask him five or ten times, and at no point does he deny tearing down the posters, because he knows he did it,” says Mongeau. “He 100 per cent did it. I saw him do it. Without a doubt.”

EFUT president Sitelle Cheskey was both disapointed and confused when she heard about the incident. “Why?” she asks, “What did we ever do to him?”

‘[I am] disappointed, because as a student leader, he should know how hard it is to run events. Postering is one of the most important things we do as a club, and his actions showed complete disrespect for club involvement in general,” she says.

Despite the defacement, Chesky says that the crepe event was a “great success.”

“I am not disappointed in Ryerson itself, or its students,” says Chesky, “but I think that Ryerson students should be aware of the fact that one of their paid representatives is spending time outside of his university and therefore duty, interfering with another university’s property, and that they should know where their money is going.” … “


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