Dr. Horton, you don't scare me

Dear Students,

Here is a small piece of truth:

The administration can choose any resolution for our credits that they may desire. One common one is to grant everyone a "P" (pass). The implications of this are not ideal as it does devalue our degree, and any work that we may have done. A few other options exist and every academic facility in our position that I have read about has come to some sort of resolution for class-time lost due to labour disputes.

Dr. Horton's comment in the Cord outraged me. After a week of trying to explain that "losing" our terms wasn't likely, and demanding the administration for an answer, she attempts to scare us! You can't make us "lose our semester" due to a labour dispute. This isn't the answer we were looking for or the one we deserve.

Dr. Horton, I Don't Buy It. You have to do better for us than that.

Is this the rearing of the force that the WLUFA negotiating team has been up against? Is this a pitiful tactic to draw support away from the CAS? Is this administration really going to make us pay for the damage that they have done, e.g., punish us?

Students, be outraged. If they think that we are so simple minded as to not see through this, then they had better reconsider the true value of the Laurier student. They are training us up to be some of the best thinkers on the planet, and well, here we are, actually thinking and evaluating critically.

Fellow students, if the issue with the CAS doesn't make you angry, then this abuse of power should. They hold all the cards when it comes to our time here at Laurier, but making us lose our term is one thing that they cannot, and won't do.

Laurier administration,

What will you do if some of us have ethical issues with crossing a picket line? Will you penalise us for evaluating, thinking critically, and making an ethical decision by failing us?

York University faced a similar issue, and decided that they couldn't penalise students who in good faith could not cross a picket line. I challenge you to do the same for us.

Also, when are we going to get some answers from you? We rely on you for keeping our university a safe, sane, and reliable place. All I feel right now, is scared, nervous, tense, and a lack of confidence that we will be at all protected by those who have the power to do so.