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The police response to an aborig-inal occupation of Ipperwash Pro-vincial Park was set on course to-ward a fatal outcome because of atragic miscommunication in thecommand post on Sept. 6, 1995, ajudicial inquiry heard yesterday.

Inspector Bill Linton, the over-night incident commander, decid-ed to call out the OPP tactical res-cue unit to arrest eight occupiersbecause he believed they wereblocking the road and had usedbaseball bats to damage the car of awoman leaving a public meeting.

“We just got a statement now; shesays that they were hassling her,”Insp. Linton says in a recorded con-versation with Inspector John Car-son. “So I’ll suit the TRU up heavyand put them in — so they’re enroute now.”

In a Sept. 9 statement, Insp. Lin-ton — who died in a car crash in

2000 — said he got the informationfrom Detective Inspector MarkWright, the second-in-commandfor the Ipperwash operation.

Yesterday, Det. Insp. Wright saidthat Insp. Linton’s account was amistaken jumbling of three sepa-rate incidents.

Det. Insp. Wright acknowledgedhe had told Insp. Linton that earlierthat evening, he had met up witheight to 10 occupiers in the parkinglot. Four or five were carrying sticks,bats or axe handles. He also toldInsp. Linton about a meeting of cot-tagers who had been preparing tomarch on the park, and of an inci-dent in which a vehicle was dam-aged after stones were thrown at it.

Det. Insp. Wright said he had noidea Insp. Linton had passed on anincorrect version of events to Insp.Carson, who immediately went into help direct the operation.

Special to The Globe and Mail

OPP got signals crossed,Ipperwash inquiry toldBY KATE HARRIES, FOREST, ONT.

Surveys of Canada’s youngest co-hort of adults show a generationwith a strong interest in social en-gagement, at home and particular-ly abroad.

Bonnie Goldberg, dean of stud-ents at U of T law school, said moreand more applicants want to studylaw, not for professional careers aslawyers, but as an asset for other ca-reers they have chosen, for exam-ple, in environmental or overseasdevelopmental work. She notedthat a quarter of this fall’s appli-cants have postgraduate degrees inother fields.

It seems at first blush paradoxicalthat they are applying to a lawschool with a reputation of beingthe most elitist in the country — it isby far the most expensive, with fees

Dylan Smith, 25, has come tolaw school at the Universityof Toronto via the Dalits —the “untouchables” — in

the southern Indian state of TamilNadu.

Mr. Smith, from the village ofCarleton Place outside Ottawa,went to India in 2003 with an un-dergraduate degree in political sci-ence and no interest in becoming alawyer. He worked as a volunteerfor People’s Watch-Tamil Nadu, anorganization directed by Henri Ti-phagne, one of India’s outstandinghuman-rights activists.

For a year, he learned from Mr.Tiphagne and other lawyers how touse the law to protect the Dalits —the “broken people” at the bottomof the caste system who make up 21per cent of the state’s population —from abuse, mainly by police.

“I met lawyers who were angry,deeply angered by the injusticesthey saw,” Mr. Smith said. “Theychannelled that anger into effectiveaction through their ability toshape the law and use the law forgood. I saw law practised in its pur-est form. It was a big shift for me. Ihadn’t explored that before. Andthat’s why I came to law school.”

The study of law offers him a tool,he said, “the best tool that I can useto have the most positive effect inthe world.”

Thus, tonight, he will participatein a fundraising event for the lawstudents’ Legal Initiatives for To-morrow (LIFT) project. He hopes itwill financially underwrite a tripthat he will take to Namibia thissummer with U of T medical stud-ent Janice Wong to identify small,grassroots HIV/AIDS projects thatcould benefit from resources thelaw school has to offer.

Mr. Smith’s story illustrates what,increasingly, the new face of law-school admissions looks like. It alsoshows how a school like U of T isadapting to reflect its students’ po-litical and social interests.

at $16,000 a year — and an incuba-tor for Bay Street corporate lawfirms.

Mr. Smith said the school’s repu-tation is a misnomer. He said he ap-plied to the school simply becauseit has the country’s best academicresources and because of its arrayof social-activist programs.

The array is dazzling, what asso-ciate dean Lorne Sossin calls theschool’s mission of “blossomingoutward.”

He says: “If you drill down intoour students, what you hear fromthem is that they want the faculty tofacilitate their interests.”

The LIFT program is a studentinitiative started last year after theSouth Asian tsunami.

Three law students went to SriLanka and established a program tobring humanitarian and legal as-sistance to a small foundationworking to improve the lives ofwomen in impoverished fishingcommunities.

Ten years ago, the law school es-tablished a pro bono program to

place students with international,national and local public-interestgroups. The program is now a na-tional organization called Pro BonoStudents of Canada, placing morethan 1,000 law students each yearwith 300 partner organizations.

In what the school calls its Cap-stone program, about 30 studentsfor the second year in a row havedone legal research on AIDS-relat-ed issues for the Stephen LewisFoundation.

Other students have worked ondeveloping programs to litigate forindigenous peoples’ rights in Bel-ize, to analyze and propose reformsto democracy models abroad andin Canada, to develop a new legisla-tive blueprint for Toronto withMayor David Miller, and to developa framework for the proposed resi-dential schools reconciliation com-mission. About 100 law students areinvolved in tutoring and mentoringat two Toronto high schools.

“This is a really exciting time tobe a law student,” Ms. Goldbergsaid.

Using law to change the worldStudents eagerto make a differenceare altering the lookof legal educationBY MICHAEL VALPY

TIBOR KOLLEY/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

University of Toronto law student Dylan Smith, 25, volunteered with a human-rights group in southernIndia. Law, he says, is ‘the best tool that I can use to have the most positive effect in the world.’

‘This is a really excitingtime to be a law student.’Bonnie Goldberg,dean of studentsU of T law school

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