What We Can Do

If you have been following up in the blog and the news media - you know that what's at stake here isn't a few hundred dollars, a question on who will teach what course, and a few credits. This fight is about the respect and dignity of 365 people on their right to be academics, it is about Laurier being competitive in terms of education and research, and it is about what it really is really to be a university professor. In essence, it is a fight against the larger trend that's been happening the west; a fight to keep university a university and not a glorified and costlier version of High School. Everyone can have a part to play this, students especially when it is we who are the largest and most influential body at this university. Here's what students can do to help the CAS profs:

• Say a kind word or honk to the picketers.
• Wear a pin, if you don't have one, ask the picketers.*
• Grab an information pamphlet from the picketers and read it, get informed, then inform somebody else.*
• E-mail or call the administration saying that you're not happy with this strike (all the e-mails are to the right of this text).
• Send them an automated e-mail.
  
• Hang a WLUFA poster on your door and/or window.*
  
• Bring coffee, donuts, Tim bits, or water to the picketers.
• Write letters to the editor of The Cord and The Record.
• When you're studying, sit down in the hallway leading to the administration offices while clearly displaying a pin or a poster in solidarity and just study.
• Attend rallies and demonstrations.
• Grab a picket sign and join the picketers.*
• Pass the link to this page to someone else to read.

* Pins, posters, pamphlets, and picket signs can all be found at the CAS Strike Office at 255 King St. N. Unit 6, the "Gemini Jetpacks" building right by "Get Stuffed."

With continued student support and pressure put on the administration we will show the part-timers have our backing and the administration is all alone in this fight. Then, they would have no other alternative than to agree to what WLUFA has asked and end this strike.