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TORONTO
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"To shave or not to shave?" was the question students, staff and faculty debated last week at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management as part of the School's efforts to raise money for the United Way of Greater Toronto.
Martin Evans, a professor of organizational behaviour, started the heated discussion last Tuesday, November 2 with his offer to shave his trademark hair and beard if a minimum of $500 was pledged for the United Way by the Rotman School community by Friday, November 5. However this simple offer made by Prof. Evans, who has taught with beard and hair intact at the University of Toronto since 1966, was complicated by a counter-offer by colleagues who did not want him to go bare.
On the Rotman School's internal e-mail system, a bidding war raged between those who wanted to see Prof. Evans clean-shaven and those who preferred he keep his hair.
As Friday's 4:00 pm deadline neared it appeared Prof. Evans would keep all of his hair, but in a dramatic last-minute turn of events, a $1,000 pledge from students in the Executive MBA program had Rotman United Way organizers scrambling to find a barber for Tuesday.
Prof. Evans was shaved in the Fleck Atrium at the Rotman School on Tuesday, November 9. Over $3,000 has been pledged for the United Way of Greater Toronto as part of School-wide efforts that have raised nearly $10,000.
For more information, contact:
Ken McGuffin
Media Relations Officer
Rotman School of Management
Voice: (416) 946-3818
Fax: (416) 978-1373
E-mail: mcguffin@rotman.utoronto.ca
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