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THE PETERBOROUGH EXAMINER calls Trent University's choice for a new chancellor, unusual, edgy and offbeat, but wouldn't stick its neck far enough out to describe Tom Jackson, (yes, actor, singer and activist Tom Jackson) as quirky, calling that word "too strong" to describe the university's "taste" in chancellors.

Jackson will take over from the out of this world Dr. Roberta Bondar, former astronaut, and what the Examiner considers a more conventional choice. (Let's face it, she's a scientist.) CBC radio host Peter Gzowski was her predecessor. No scientist, but a chain-smoking gravelly-voice Canadian icon, nonetheless. Just as Jackson is an icon of the Aboriginal kind.

But do these men measure up?

"Consider the current ...

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