Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 01:44:07 -0500
From: "Doreen Somers" >
To: message@esmartstudent.com
Subject: responce to Professor Naddaf
Reply-To: "Doreen Somers" yu169618@yorku.ca


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With all do respect Professor Naddaf, we do have the right to exercise our Constitutional Right not to cross a picket line during a strike. Whether that is the correct decision is another problem, especially when once considers the fact when we do exercise that right, we jeopardize our education. The point is (I think) that most students are suffering in a number of ways because there is a strike, and I think that the Administration should work to avoid this in the first place. No other university has this many labour disputes.ever!! And we a sick of being the ones who suffer. Each year there is, at minimum, the threat of a strike. This creates anxiety, stress, and worst of all, lost opportunities. Even when Professors continue to teach, we are still disadvantaged -- lost course work, and in my case our classes have been relocated to a cold gym without heat. Students are faced with raising tuition costs, rising costs of living, and most of us will only get slightly higher than minimum wage jobs until we have our degrees (and the way that the future looks, we should not really expect much more than minimum wage even when we do get our degrees). The point, I will reiterate, is that the Administration must get their labour relations in order, because at the end of the day, it is the students who pay (both financially, and emotionally). I for one want my degree to mean something at the end of this. Not that I was given the least course material in the time allotted due to the lost time because of the strike...I want the education that I paid almost $10 000.00 per year to get. I am tired of paying for an education that I am not receiving!

Doreen Somers.



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