Tomorrow negotiations resume and to show student discontent at how we were treated through this procedure the Student Solidarity Group is having a quiet sit-in outside the administration offices. No signs or fliers this time, this is a neutral sit-in at a symbolic place of power of an institution that has treated us poorly in the past two weeks.
If you are discontent about how both sides have been unresponsive - come by and sit around and study on the second floor of the Peters' Building outside the administration offices* between 10:00 and 4:00 on Thursday.
* We'd call for a sit-in outside of the CAS Strike Office in accordance to having this a neutral event, but it's private property and we'd get in trouble for loitering. If you have other places you can do sit-ins without getting in trouble, feel free to do so.
We need lots of students visibly, peacefully protesting on that day!
Showing posts with label activism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label activism. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Three Words
It's about time!
The Student Union is amusing but not surprising. Back in the day of trying to prevent a strike - holding booths, attending dozens of classes, gathering the most successful petition in history (and then having it spit at by the administration), holding rallies, quiet sit in, and etc. The Student Union pretended that we are not here and that there is no problem. One of us was declined an audience with the Board of Directors before she was not "unbiased," and our warnings that have come true - the strike and the unfortunate results for all of our educations went ignored.
I guess things don't often disappear when you ignore them, huh?
Of course then, for over a week of canceled classes and picket lines the best the Student Union could say is "Play nice kids." Only afterward, when the strike prolonged from being uncomfortable to being scary, that they decided to actually do something... Only a month too late.
Of course, we support them all the way on this venture (though find it questionable as to their "neutral-activism"), better late than never I guess. Oh, but how typical is this of [student] politicians.
The Student Union is amusing but not surprising. Back in the day of trying to prevent a strike - holding booths, attending dozens of classes, gathering the most successful petition in history (and then having it spit at by the administration), holding rallies, quiet sit in, and etc. The Student Union pretended that we are not here and that there is no problem. One of us was declined an audience with the Board of Directors before she was not "unbiased," and our warnings that have come true - the strike and the unfortunate results for all of our educations went ignored.
I guess things don't often disappear when you ignore them, huh?
Of course then, for over a week of canceled classes and picket lines the best the Student Union could say is "Play nice kids." Only afterward, when the strike prolonged from being uncomfortable to being scary, that they decided to actually do something... Only a month too late.
Of course, we support them all the way on this venture (though find it questionable as to their "neutral-activism"), better late than never I guess. Oh, but how typical is this of [student] politicians.
Back to Brantford on Monday
WLUFA is hosting a rally at Brantford on Monday at 1:30. Facebook-wise, there seems to be a big group attending, and a gang from Waterloo is going to be there. We've got three cars now and if you need a ride there, message me (Anatoly Venovcev) on Facebook or e-mail me at tolyv@hotmail.com. It would be good to have a good presence at their rally to show support, once again, for the Brantford people and organize a sister solidarity group there.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Administration Invites WLUFA Back to the Table!
The administration's chief negotiator (Jim Butler) contacted WLUFA's chief negotiator (Doug Lorimer) and the talks are to resume on April 3rd!
It's a step in the right direction, but let me remind everyone that this isn't the end - only the beginning of the end. Picketing will continue until an agreement is reached and continued support is needed. If the line breaks, the administration will call off the negotiations. So hang strong, show support, stand in picket lines, inform, e-mail the administration - we must press on.
It's a step in the right direction, but let me remind everyone that this isn't the end - only the beginning of the end. Picketing will continue until an agreement is reached and continued support is needed. If the line breaks, the administration will call off the negotiations. So hang strong, show support, stand in picket lines, inform, e-mail the administration - we must press on.
Remarkable Initiative
Another CAS support group formed on Facebook by individual initiative of two wonderful ladies calling for an end to the strike with a fair deal for the CAS. They have created a remarkable website that provides especially useful tools where you can simply input your name, press a button, and send an e-mail to the administration. You can find one for parents, students, alumni, and citizens to fill out and click away.
Send the administration your concern!
Send the administration your concern!
Thursday, March 27, 2008
The Brantford Connection
Today, a small gang from the Student Solidarity Group went down to Brantford to inform the Brantford students who have been left extremely in the dark on the occasion. The Cord picked up a little bit on this action with a mention in todays update on the strike. I have got to say the experience was a very positive one and all three of us really enjoyed both the Brantford CAS and the Brantford students. All of us, on both campuses, students and CAS alike, share many of the same concerns with each other and it was great to hear some ideas and thoughts exchanged between the groups. Catherine, the creator of the "Students Trying to Piece Together the CAS Strike," was especially great in terms of her openness about the topic. I have nothing but high esteem for them down there.
We picked up some copies of their "The Sputnik" and brought it up to the strike office in Waterloo. An anonymous Brantford instructor wrote in a remarkable letter that summarizes some of our passion at the Student Solidarity Group. I'll quote it in full below:
We picked up some copies of their "The Sputnik" and brought it up to the strike office in Waterloo. An anonymous Brantford instructor wrote in a remarkable letter that summarizes some of our passion at the Student Solidarity Group. I'll quote it in full below:
"There has been some confusion around what students can do to interfere in the current labour negotiation process, the Sputnik should produce a special issue informing and educating students of what they can do.
You can do A LOT, but first you have to understand your stakeholder position, articulate your own interests clearly, and ruthlessly exercise the leverage your position gives you. Because it gives you A LOT of leverage.
If you paid your tuition, you contracted the university to provide you with a complete suite of educational resources: these include library privileges, computer access, AND INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES. The university then is expected to provide those services. If the computers went down, you would hold the university accountable. If the library went down, you would hold the university accountable. You have no contractual relationship with your instructors. Instructors only have a contractual obligation to you through the contract they signed with the university, and the university has allowed that instructional contract to expire. It does not exist anymore and should a strike or lockout occur, even the ghost of that old contract is done away with.
If they cannot provide you with the services you have paid for, your response should be: "Don't tell me your problems, and don't give me excuses: just as you demand that I fulfill my contractual obligations by paying you and not committing academic fraud (or else you will kick me out) I demand that you fulfill your obligations to me and get your damn house in order, and if you can't I demand my money back on a pro rata basis and we collectively will potentially hold you liable against damages: i.e. lost income caused by having a start summer work late."
The fact that they are contractually obligated to provide you with instruction, but they have been so incompetent as to be unable to do so is not your fault, and you should not have to suffer for their incompetence.
YOU HAVE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR YOUR INSTRUCTION. THE UNIVERSITY IS NOT PROVIDING YOU WITH WHAT YOU CONTRACTED IT TO PROVIDE. YOU SHOULD DEMAND, LOUD, LONG AND INSISTENTLY IN EVERY LOCAL MEDIA FORUM AVAILABLE THAT IT MET IT LEGAL OBLIGATIONS TO YOU, AND DEAL WITH ITS INTERNAL BUSINESS WITHOUT ALLOWING ITS INCOMPETENCE TO DO SO TO HARM YOU, ITS CLIENTS.
Before you publish anything like this, you will of course do due diligence and check these facts with the union and the administration, but I think if you can cut through the university's bullshit (it has a huge interest in you NOT educating your fellow students, paradoxically enough) I trust that you will find that they are absolutely correct.
Signed,
An instructor, who cannot reveal his or her name for fear of retribution."
Monday, March 24, 2008
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:
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.
- 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.
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.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Some Really Tough Profs
After two days where I clocked in about six hours total standing on the picket line, I've got to say - Laurier has some really tough profs! I stood on the picket line four times in anywhere between one and two hour shifts and then had to scurry back for organizational and planning duties. But our profs - they had to be out there in the cold for four hour shifts and some of them are old enough to be my grandparents. That takes endurance and that they have a lot of.
They're doing it for the right thing too. By now you've seen what the administration has proposed and what they asked to be competitive, and you should know that the Faculty Association told the administration where they can reach a compromise. Of course the administration refused to budge even when the proposed pay increase would cost them half of the combined wages of the people sitting on their negotiating team (less than a million dollars in a university whose revenue is 159 million) and on the seniority which is free and sensible. In fact, since this whole thing began the administration moved on their original offer by a grand total of 30 dollars... talk about inability comprise.
Now, through sheer pigheadedness the administration leaves students and profs hurting while they barricade themselves deeper inside their offices in the Peters Building. We managed to storm that bastion on Thursday, though we got nothing but Sue Horton's "fair and responsible" talk that, if you check the administration's website, seems to become more and more their mantra their chanting up there. Apparently, fair and responsible does not mean - realistic or competitive. After six months of this backtalk and mediation that took place from Monday morning to Wednesday at 6:00 am, it's no wonder that our part-time faculty is out on strike - they had no choice, as one of my profs eloquently explains in the video.
You've already heard how fair, productive, and respectful labour negotiations are human rights, however, there's a simpler issue at play here - the dignity of Laurier as a competitive institution and its ability to attract a competitive workforce. With the petty sum offered on the table Laurier is still lacking in many regards (among the biggest is job security and salary grid) to other universities, this will not attract new professors to come here. In fact, they will leave, which will devalue the quality of education provided here and worth of the degrees students are working hard to achieve. Already, since last year, I know of four profs that worked here and left since then. One of them works at UW, others in Toronto and other places. What kind of value does the "Canadian Experience" provides when it can't even keep profs from going to other institutions after they accumulated the experience needed to get a job there? In this scheme of things Laurier is missing out and not being competitive.
There really is no fairness in the current system they are trying to change - not in the salaries compared to other universities, not in salaries compared to full-time faculty (the most junior ones make almost twice what they do), not in salaries compared to the time they taught at Laurier, not in benefits they receive from the ones they deserve. The system is unfair, period. It treats academics - who do research, community service, and teaching, like chattel. It gives them a false title of "part-time," as a misnomer for doing much, much more. It then refuses to budge over peanuts.
As a long term goal, both for the quality of education Laurier provides and the future of the academia, the professors are fully justified in their actions - they have every right to withdraw their services from the people who do not wish to fully compensate for them. Now, they brave the winter weather to stand in picket lines for what they support and I am proud to be with them, walking the picket line, showing that the student body cares, and I urge everyone - even for ten minutes, to join the picket lines and help fight the human injustice inflicted upon the CAS.
They're doing it for the right thing too. By now you've seen what the administration has proposed and what they asked to be competitive, and you should know that the Faculty Association told the administration where they can reach a compromise. Of course the administration refused to budge even when the proposed pay increase would cost them half of the combined wages of the people sitting on their negotiating team (less than a million dollars in a university whose revenue is 159 million) and on the seniority which is free and sensible. In fact, since this whole thing began the administration moved on their original offer by a grand total of 30 dollars... talk about inability comprise.
Now, through sheer pigheadedness the administration leaves students and profs hurting while they barricade themselves deeper inside their offices in the Peters Building. We managed to storm that bastion on Thursday, though we got nothing but Sue Horton's "fair and responsible" talk that, if you check the administration's website, seems to become more and more their mantra their chanting up there. Apparently, fair and responsible does not mean - realistic or competitive. After six months of this backtalk and mediation that took place from Monday morning to Wednesday at 6:00 am, it's no wonder that our part-time faculty is out on strike - they had no choice, as one of my profs eloquently explains in the video.
You've already heard how fair, productive, and respectful labour negotiations are human rights, however, there's a simpler issue at play here - the dignity of Laurier as a competitive institution and its ability to attract a competitive workforce. With the petty sum offered on the table Laurier is still lacking in many regards (among the biggest is job security and salary grid) to other universities, this will not attract new professors to come here. In fact, they will leave, which will devalue the quality of education provided here and worth of the degrees students are working hard to achieve. Already, since last year, I know of four profs that worked here and left since then. One of them works at UW, others in Toronto and other places. What kind of value does the "Canadian Experience" provides when it can't even keep profs from going to other institutions after they accumulated the experience needed to get a job there? In this scheme of things Laurier is missing out and not being competitive.
There really is no fairness in the current system they are trying to change - not in the salaries compared to other universities, not in salaries compared to full-time faculty (the most junior ones make almost twice what they do), not in salaries compared to the time they taught at Laurier, not in benefits they receive from the ones they deserve. The system is unfair, period. It treats academics - who do research, community service, and teaching, like chattel. It gives them a false title of "part-time," as a misnomer for doing much, much more. It then refuses to budge over peanuts.
As a long term goal, both for the quality of education Laurier provides and the future of the academia, the professors are fully justified in their actions - they have every right to withdraw their services from the people who do not wish to fully compensate for them. Now, they brave the winter weather to stand in picket lines for what they support and I am proud to be with them, walking the picket line, showing that the student body cares, and I urge everyone - even for ten minutes, to join the picket lines and help fight the human injustice inflicted upon the CAS.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Rally Tomorrow
Tomorrow (March 20th) if you have time, come by the Strike Office (255 King St. N. Unit 6, right by Get Stuffed), at 11. We, the students, will walk through the campus and gather as much student support as possible. Then, we'll go to St. Michael's parking lot by 12:00 and till 2:00 there will be a rally from all sorts of supporters, both part-time faculty, full-time faculty, staff, students, and supporters from other universities.
Come out and support, they need our help!
Come out and support, they need our help!
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Tuesday
Whatever this day will bring - we'll keep on fighting till the end.
Quiet sit-in in the hallway leading to the administration offices today between 10:00 and 4:00 - feel free to come and leave at any time.
Quiet sit-in in the hallway leading to the administration offices today between 10:00 and 4:00 - feel free to come and leave at any time.
Friday, March 14, 2008
The Strike Vote has Passed
From the WLUFA website:
It's paramount now that we stand behind them in this time of need and much still depends on us, the students, who have a big stake in these negotiations - we must pressure the administration to settle, the profs need our support. So, even if it's for a few minutes, show up to our demonstration on Monday 17th at noon - it will be leaving from the Dining Hall, concourse, and the Science Building atrium to gather in the quad outside of the Fred Nichols Campus Centre by about 12:15-12:30. We need more people there to show that Laurier stands united behind the part-timers!
The CAS Strike Authorization ballot was completed today.Now, before anyone panics let it be emphasized - this does not mean there will be a strike. It only gives the executive power to call for one if mediation on the 17th and 18th fails. If anything, this vote says that a strike may be averted because it puts more pressure on the administration to settle. Also, look at that number and what it is saying - there are 365 CAS/part-time profs now at Laurier and 89.4% are fed up with the way they are being treated by the administration, so much so, that they are willing to do the most drastic labour action they can to fight for their livelihood. If all 365 of them voted, 326 of them are fed up with their working conditions to that point - that's a lot of our profs very, very upset.
89.4% voted in favour of authorizing the WLUFA executive to call a strike if necessary.
The teams will be in mediation on Monday March 17th and Tuesday March 18th. The Bargaining Unit will be in a legal position to strike as of 12:01 am on Wednesday March 19th.
It's paramount now that we stand behind them in this time of need and much still depends on us, the students, who have a big stake in these negotiations - we must pressure the administration to settle, the profs need our support. So, even if it's for a few minutes, show up to our demonstration on Monday 17th at noon - it will be leaving from the Dining Hall, concourse, and the Science Building atrium to gather in the quad outside of the Fred Nichols Campus Centre by about 12:15-12:30. We need more people there to show that Laurier stands united behind the part-timers!
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Strike vote, Tuesday. Strike, March 19th?
Dear all,
I am writing a general letter again, and it is with great concern for all of us. When I say this, I mean not only us students, but also the CAS who will be poised to strike in the next week.
As the subject of this note indicates, due to the lack of progress in negotiation, the CAS will holding a strike vote next week, Tuesday. It is at this time that we must all remember that strike is not a pleasant choice. When workers go on strike, the first 3-4 days are unpaid before strike pay starts. Strike pay is only a percentage of a regular wage, and their regular wage is already a raw deal. The CAS members are our teachers, but we have to remember that they are people, home-owners, tenants, parents, spouses, people with real life worries. We stand to suffer in our education, but they are fighting for their livelihood.
Even with this vote, the administration is also in position to lockout the CAS. This is a nerve-wracking time for us, but it is a scary time for the CAS.
In light of this, WLUFA responded to our questions and concerns after every twist and turn. It was with great disappointment that they informed us about this vote. This is not the result that they have been hoping for, but it takes two parties to negotiate. There are clearly major issues outstanding.
WLUFA keeps its members informed by email and newsletters released to its website, which we have been checking to pass on this information to you. WLUFA has set up information tables, handed out brochures, created poster campaigns (some of us have approached our professors who wear the pin-badges), and has kept in touch with the Cord since the end of October. As we all sit in tense lectures, wondering whether or not we will even be attending in a couple of weeks, whether or not we will need to cross picket lines to get to classes, the administration has not released an ounce of information about how we will be compensated for our term. As we worry about the status of professional and grad school applications, as we worry about time spent and money lost, they have yet to give any information that sheds light on our situation.
It is at this point that I challenge the administration to inform us. I would like to see the administration shed some light on all of this too. I challenge them to create a website with the latest news, like wlufa.ca. I challenge them to talk to us about how they are going to change the situation for the CAS and improve their working conditions. I challenge them to come and talk to us in the Concourse and answer our questions, like WLUFA has, at our request. So far, the administration has sent out a canned email response, riddled with grammatical errors, telling us nothing relevant.
After all, the CAS's working conditions, are our learning conditions.
In solidarity,
Terre
I am writing a general letter again, and it is with great concern for all of us. When I say this, I mean not only us students, but also the CAS who will be poised to strike in the next week.
As the subject of this note indicates, due to the lack of progress in negotiation, the CAS will holding a strike vote next week, Tuesday. It is at this time that we must all remember that strike is not a pleasant choice. When workers go on strike, the first 3-4 days are unpaid before strike pay starts. Strike pay is only a percentage of a regular wage, and their regular wage is already a raw deal. The CAS members are our teachers, but we have to remember that they are people, home-owners, tenants, parents, spouses, people with real life worries. We stand to suffer in our education, but they are fighting for their livelihood.
Even with this vote, the administration is also in position to lockout the CAS. This is a nerve-wracking time for us, but it is a scary time for the CAS.
In light of this, WLUFA responded to our questions and concerns after every twist and turn. It was with great disappointment that they informed us about this vote. This is not the result that they have been hoping for, but it takes two parties to negotiate. There are clearly major issues outstanding.
WLUFA keeps its members informed by email and newsletters released to its website, which we have been checking to pass on this information to you. WLUFA has set up information tables, handed out brochures, created poster campaigns (some of us have approached our professors who wear the pin-badges), and has kept in touch with the Cord since the end of October. As we all sit in tense lectures, wondering whether or not we will even be attending in a couple of weeks, whether or not we will need to cross picket lines to get to classes, the administration has not released an ounce of information about how we will be compensated for our term. As we worry about the status of professional and grad school applications, as we worry about time spent and money lost, they have yet to give any information that sheds light on our situation.
It is at this point that I challenge the administration to inform us. I would like to see the administration shed some light on all of this too. I challenge them to create a website with the latest news, like wlufa.ca. I challenge them to talk to us about how they are going to change the situation for the CAS and improve their working conditions. I challenge them to come and talk to us in the Concourse and answer our questions, like WLUFA has, at our request. So far, the administration has sent out a canned email response, riddled with grammatical errors, telling us nothing relevant.
After all, the CAS's working conditions, are our learning conditions.
In solidarity,
Terre
Friday, March 7, 2008
Hit the Classes!
Next week WLUFA is having a strike vote allowing its leaders to call for a strike after March 19th. It feels odd to imagine that most students still either do not know, care, or know enough about such a proceeding that could shape their year so much - in two weeks time they might have to cross the the picket lines to get to those classes they still have. That is, if the full-time faculty, which overwhelmingly supports the part-timers, decides to cross the picket lines themselves to teach. That says nothing of the staff knowing that they are also extremely supportive of WLUFA. The university might grind down to a halt - all to send a message to the administration.
The great misfortune is that the collateral damage of all this, the students, have also the most powerful voice on this campus over what gets done - when all 14,000 of us speak, everyone has to listen. Collectively, our concerns have force. What people need to be is informed and how best to do it than speaking in classes?
Just recently we made the petition available for download, so print a few off and distribute them on campus and give it to your friends to sign but most importantly - ask your profs if you can speak in their classes. All four of mine (two part-time, two full-time) allowed me to stand up and in the first or last ten minutes of a class give a brief summary of what's going on, pass around the petitions, urge everyone to e-mail in, and then answer a few questions. You should do the same. After you gather the petitions drop them off at the WLUFA office in 2C12. We have over 1,600 signatures now, imagine if every class had somebody give a talk. It would be remarkable! 14,000 well informed, unhappy individuals will give the leverage our part-time profs need in order to avoid a strike and get what they want in terms of compensation for all the hard work they do in teaching courses because, let's face it, 6,000 dollars a course is minuscule. They deserve much more.
But more so, we have requested permission from profs to come and speak in their classes to inform the students and circulate the petition around even more. Majority have replied favorably, so much so, that two people can't cover them alone. So we made the schedule of classes which would hear what we have to say available for everyone. Now, you can just e-mail the prof that teaches the course, come over with a few petitions, give a talk, and then gather the signatures.
With many people, working separately in their free time but for a collective goal - they will get it. We have done much, there has never been a student-run, student-organized group helping the faculty in their negotiations, it's unprecedented. What we need now is the use of people's individual initiatives - the burden of change falls on us.
The great misfortune is that the collateral damage of all this, the students, have also the most powerful voice on this campus over what gets done - when all 14,000 of us speak, everyone has to listen. Collectively, our concerns have force. What people need to be is informed and how best to do it than speaking in classes?
Just recently we made the petition available for download, so print a few off and distribute them on campus and give it to your friends to sign but most importantly - ask your profs if you can speak in their classes. All four of mine (two part-time, two full-time) allowed me to stand up and in the first or last ten minutes of a class give a brief summary of what's going on, pass around the petitions, urge everyone to e-mail in, and then answer a few questions. You should do the same. After you gather the petitions drop them off at the WLUFA office in 2C12. We have over 1,600 signatures now, imagine if every class had somebody give a talk. It would be remarkable! 14,000 well informed, unhappy individuals will give the leverage our part-time profs need in order to avoid a strike and get what they want in terms of compensation for all the hard work they do in teaching courses because, let's face it, 6,000 dollars a course is minuscule. They deserve much more.
But more so, we have requested permission from profs to come and speak in their classes to inform the students and circulate the petition around even more. Majority have replied favorably, so much so, that two people can't cover them alone. So we made the schedule of classes which would hear what we have to say available for everyone. Now, you can just e-mail the prof that teaches the course, come over with a few petitions, give a talk, and then gather the signatures.
With many people, working separately in their free time but for a collective goal - they will get it. We have done much, there has never been a student-run, student-organized group helping the faculty in their negotiations, it's unprecedented. What we need now is the use of people's individual initiatives - the burden of change falls on us.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Petition Available Online
We are entering a crucial time in our school year where we actually have a date for a potential strike - March 19th. To avoid this we have made the petition available online - http://www.youshare.com/view.php?file=petition.pdf. Feel free to download it, print it, distribute it to your friends and in your classes, then bring over the WLUFA office in 2C12 where we will pick it up. To your parents, send out this link so that they can sign the online version - www.thepetitionsite.com/1/support-laurier-part-time-faculty.
Above all, let me urge you all to step up what you have been doing - this is a critical time in the negotiations which may make or break the term. Download petitions, send e-mails to the administration, talk, rouse up support - we've got less than two weeks left to make an impact and the more people are doing this, the better.
Above all, let me urge you all to step up what you have been doing - this is a critical time in the negotiations which may make or break the term. Download petitions, send e-mails to the administration, talk, rouse up support - we've got less than two weeks left to make an impact and the more people are doing this, the better.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
State of WLUFA Negotiations
I tried to get as much information as I could from WLUFA about the current state of the negotiations before I made this entry. You can read their latest newsletter here: http://www.wlufa.ca/negotiations.html .
As for our own research, I have both good news and bad news. The bad news first - as you might have gotten from the linked page above, as many expected, the conciliator did not resolve the issue between the part-timers and the administration and the negotiations continue as well as preparation for a strike on the part of the part-timers.
The good (and really the best) news is that our actions have not went unheard - the part-time faculty is re-energized by the burst of support from students. In less than a week, we have gathered over 1300 signatures of the petition and hundreds of leaflets with the e-mails of administrators have been given out. Such enormous support on behalf of the student body has not gone unnoticed by the administration who allowed the negotiations to progress a little before grinding them back to a halt again.
What this shows is that if we want these negotiations to progress and end in peace and if we want to save our semester from a part-time faculty strike, the burden of progress falls to us - more signatures, more e-mails, more concerns, more talk. The Cord will be publishing another article on the issue tomorrow while we are hitting the concourse and the public places. Feel free to come by and grab a petition in order to circulate it to your peers, friends, and classmates. In the next few days we'll try to make the physical version of the petition available online for download. In the meantime ask for a copy of the petition from me (tolyv@hotmail.com) or Terre (terrester@gmail.com) and we'll gladly e-mail one to you. Take a personal initiative - there's no reason why this movement needs to be centralized. All the while, send this link of the online petition to out of town friends and family members who also need to have a say on the issue - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/support-laurier-part-time-faculty .
As for our own research, I have both good news and bad news. The bad news first - as you might have gotten from the linked page above, as many expected, the conciliator did not resolve the issue between the part-timers and the administration and the negotiations continue as well as preparation for a strike on the part of the part-timers.
The good (and really the best) news is that our actions have not went unheard - the part-time faculty is re-energized by the burst of support from students. In less than a week, we have gathered over 1300 signatures of the petition and hundreds of leaflets with the e-mails of administrators have been given out. Such enormous support on behalf of the student body has not gone unnoticed by the administration who allowed the negotiations to progress a little before grinding them back to a halt again.
What this shows is that if we want these negotiations to progress and end in peace and if we want to save our semester from a part-time faculty strike, the burden of progress falls to us - more signatures, more e-mails, more concerns, more talk. The Cord will be publishing another article on the issue tomorrow while we are hitting the concourse and the public places. Feel free to come by and grab a petition in order to circulate it to your peers, friends, and classmates. In the next few days we'll try to make the physical version of the petition available online for download. In the meantime ask for a copy of the petition from me (tolyv@hotmail.com) or Terre (terrester@gmail.com) and we'll gladly e-mail one to you. Take a personal initiative - there's no reason why this movement needs to be centralized. All the while, send this link of the online petition to out of town friends and family members who also need to have a say on the issue - http://www.thepetitionsite
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Brief History of Negotiations
In the past couple of days as gathering the signatures took a toll on us in our daily life, we realized that we can’t, due to time constraints, carry on this campaign just on the backs of three people. So, I decided to write a short history of the current labour dispute between the CAS (Contract Academic Staff) and the administration in hopes that people will be more knowledgeable and hence more willing to run the table, spread the petition, and talk to their peers about this topic that’s so crucial to everyone’s education at Laurier. A detailed story of these talks can always be found at the WLUFA website (www.wlufa.ca).
According to the terms of the last contract between the part-time faculty members of WLUFA and the administration the part-time faculty received 6,000 dollars per half-credit course with often little or no benefits in terms of dental, health, retirement, or job security. Further, few part-time professors had adequate offices in which to meet the students and answer their questions about course material. Despite the name, many of the part-time faculty taught five or six courses a year (five being the typical for full-time faculty) while at the same time being at Laurier for many, many years. This amounted to a petty wage of 30,000 to 36,000 a year that had to cover their living and research expenses. It is no wonder that many of them taught during the summer and worked at numerous universities in the region, some driving for hours for work.
Despite these atrocious conditions in the past five years the university administration siphoned off 20 million (20,000,000) dollars from education and into building and renovation work – none of which went into building offices for the part-time professors.
In the middle of 2007, the CAS contract expired and the negotiating committee began negotiations for a new one on August 29th. Their aim was to improve their pay and benefits, ask for better working conditions, and introduce a new system for job security based upon the years they taught at the universe, not by the years they taught a particular course. While some of the more trivial aspects of the contract got renewed, the administration bargaining committee (hindered also by a much less experienced negotiating team) would not agree upon those key issues. And so, with little competence and sheer stubbornness left over from the previous presidency, negotiations that were supposed to end in the fall dragged unto past Christmas in a literal stalemate – the administration refuses to admit that part-timers, despite teaching 33% of the courses and 40% of the students, play an integral part in the workings of Wilfrid Laurier University.
With negotiations looking bleak and the prospect of a strike becoming more likely by the moment, the students who have been hearing about this predicament formed this group and began working toward informing and getting the students involved in these negotiations. It is a fact that the students comprise the most numerous and the most powerful group at the university since it is their tuition fees (especially when combined with government subsidies) that funds this university. In basically two days last week – Wednesday and Friday, we gathered close to 1000 signatures from concerned students who care about their part-time profs which is quite an accomplishment for a movement organized by basically three full-time students.
While word reached us that we are making some effect – both in re-energizing the part-time cause and being a pain in the ass to the administration with the long stream of e-mails flowing into the inboxes of the administrators. We fear it might be too little, too late. On Friday, as many of you know, the CAS bargaining team and the administration bargaining team met with a third party conciliator to break the stalemate. While the latest Cord article might have you believe that the negotiations are progressing nicely, it is either a straight-faced lie in a vain hope that we are as naive about these issues or Kevin Crowley, Associate Director of News and Editorial Services at Laurier, is ignorant of the issues. A conciliator is never called in when the negotiations are progressing, but the opposite, when there is a deadlock and it is the last chance to settle the affair before there is a strike. In fact, when the full-time faculty negotiates for a new deal they have a new contract within two months, now it’s been six.
Even though we try to be optimistic that the meeting with the conciliator, which dragged late into the evening, would be productive – we get every indication that both sides were too far removed on their positions to come to any agreement. If there is no mutual agreement within two weeks the part-time faculty are legally allowed to strike and they are preparing. It’s now only a matter of time unless something gets done.
So, let us send more e-mails (and calls) to the administration, send more encouraging e-mails to the part-time faculty, give this link to anyone who can’t sign the physical petition (http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/support-laurier-part-time-faculty ), And most importantly join us on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday we’re we’ll be circulating more petitions in the concourse and speaking to classes and making every effort possible to avoid a strike and give the part-timers a favourable deal. The task is a hefty one but there are 14,000 of us and we can do it.
According to the terms of the last contract between the part-time faculty members of WLUFA and the administration the part-time faculty received 6,000 dollars per half-credit course with often little or no benefits in terms of dental, health, retirement, or job security. Further, few part-time professors had adequate offices in which to meet the students and answer their questions about course material. Despite the name, many of the part-time faculty taught five or six courses a year (five being the typical for full-time faculty) while at the same time being at Laurier for many, many years. This amounted to a petty wage of 30,000 to 36,000 a year that had to cover their living and research expenses. It is no wonder that many of them taught during the summer and worked at numerous universities in the region, some driving for hours for work.
Despite these atrocious conditions in the past five years the university administration siphoned off 20 million (20,000,000) dollars from education and into building and renovation work – none of which went into building offices for the part-time professors.
In the middle of 2007, the CAS contract expired and the negotiating committee began negotiations for a new one on August 29th. Their aim was to improve their pay and benefits, ask for better working conditions, and introduce a new system for job security based upon the years they taught at the universe, not by the years they taught a particular course. While some of the more trivial aspects of the contract got renewed, the administration bargaining committee (hindered also by a much less experienced negotiating team) would not agree upon those key issues. And so, with little competence and sheer stubbornness left over from the previous presidency, negotiations that were supposed to end in the fall dragged unto past Christmas in a literal stalemate – the administration refuses to admit that part-timers, despite teaching 33% of the courses and 40% of the students, play an integral part in the workings of Wilfrid Laurier University.
With negotiations looking bleak and the prospect of a strike becoming more likely by the moment, the students who have been hearing about this predicament formed this group and began working toward informing and getting the students involved in these negotiations. It is a fact that the students comprise the most numerous and the most powerful group at the university since it is their tuition fees (especially when combined with government subsidies) that funds this university. In basically two days last week – Wednesday and Friday, we gathered close to 1000 signatures from concerned students who care about their part-time profs which is quite an accomplishment for a movement organized by basically three full-time students.
While word reached us that we are making some effect – both in re-energizing the part-time cause and being a pain in the ass to the administration with the long stream of e-mails flowing into the inboxes of the administrators. We fear it might be too little, too late. On Friday, as many of you know, the CAS bargaining team and the administration bargaining team met with a third party conciliator to break the stalemate. While the latest Cord article might have you believe that the negotiations are progressing nicely, it is either a straight-faced lie in a vain hope that we are as naive about these issues or Kevin Crowley, Associate Director of News and Editorial Services at Laurier, is ignorant of the issues. A conciliator is never called in when the negotiations are progressing, but the opposite, when there is a deadlock and it is the last chance to settle the affair before there is a strike. In fact, when the full-time faculty negotiates for a new deal they have a new contract within two months, now it’s been six.
Even though we try to be optimistic that the meeting with the conciliator, which dragged late into the evening, would be productive – we get every indication that both sides were too far removed on their positions to come to any agreement. If there is no mutual agreement within two weeks the part-time faculty are legally allowed to strike and they are preparing. It’s now only a matter of time unless something gets done.
So, let us send more e-mails (and calls) to the administration, send more encouraging e-mails to the part-time faculty, give this link to anyone who can’t sign the physical petition (http://www.thepetitionsite
Act
There has been expressed to us on what students can do to act in support of their part-time profs, both to prevent a strike and because they are such great instructors. So, we will lay down everything a student, a parent, a friend, or just a concerned individual can and should do.
First, if they have Facebook, join the part-timers support groups here (Wilfrid Laurier only) and here (global). It should be noted that only people with Facebook accounts can see these pages, unfortunately.
Secondly, if they don't have physical access to Wilfrid Laurier, being a concerned individual some distance away, they can sign the online version of the petition here. Only one signature per person please. They should also not hesitate of sending out the link to the online petition (www.thepetitionsite.com/1/support-laurier-part-time-faculty) to anyone who wouldn't mind signing it.
Third, e-mail or (better) call the head administrators of Wilfrid Laurier University to express your concern for the issue. From what we have heard, our actions are making an impact on the negotiations. The full list of people who can influence the negotiations are as follows:
Fourth, e-mail your part-time/CAS profs and voice your support for the education they are providing and the steps they are taking to be recognized as contributing members to the Laurier community. Also, consider e-mailing this special list of people who comprise the CAS bargaining team. I was talking to one of them and they are very happy for the support they are receiving:
Finally, go to the WLUFA website and read up on the topic. Get acquainted and help us spread the news of the negotiations to everyone because we always could use more people talking and circulating the petitions, even if it's just for half an hour.
First, if they have Facebook, join the part-timers support groups here (Wilfrid Laurier only) and here (global). It should be noted that only people with Facebook accounts can see these pages, unfortunately.
Secondly, if they don't have physical access to Wilfrid Laurier, being a concerned individual some distance away, they can sign the online version of the petition here. Only one signature per person please. They should also not hesitate of sending out the link to the online petition (www.thepetitionsite.com/1/support-laurier-part-time-faculty) to anyone who wouldn't mind signing it.
Third, e-mail or (better) call the head administrators of Wilfrid Laurier University to express your concern for the issue. From what we have heard, our actions are making an impact on the negotiations. The full list of people who can influence the negotiations are as follows:
Max Blouw (President of the University) – max.blouw@wlu.ca (519) 884-0710 ext. 2250
Beverly Harris (Chair of the Board of Governors) – bharrison@wlu.ca (519) 884-0710 ext. 2443
Sue Horton (Vice-President: Academic) – shorton@wlu.ca (519) 884-0710 ext. 2221
Jim Butler (Vice-President: Finance & Administration) – jbutler@wlu.ca (519) 884-0710 ext. 2248
Scott Hayter (Vice-President: University Advancement) – shayter@wlu.ca (519) 884-0710 ext. 3173
Leo Groarke (Vice-President: Brantford) – lgroarke@wlu.ca (519) 756-8228 ext. 5702
Paul Maxim (Associate Vice-President, Research) – pmaxim@wlu.ca (519) 884-0710 ext. 3601
David Docherty (Dean of Arts) – ddocherty@wlu.ca (519) 884-0710 ext. 3690
Charles Morrison (Dean of Music) – cdmorrison@wlu.ca (519) 884-0710 ext. 2151
Lesley Cooper (Dean of Social Work) – lesley.cooper@wlu.ca (519) 884-0710 ext. 5252
Ginny Dybenko (Dean of Business) – dybenko@wlu.ca (519) 884-0710 ext. 2671
Deborah MacLatchy (Dean of Science) – dmaclatchy@wlu.ca (519) 884-0710 ext. 2401
Joan Norris (Dean of Graduate Studies) – jnorris@wlu.ca (519) 884-0710 ext. 3324
David Pfrimmer (Head of the Seminary) – dpfrimmer@wlu.ca (519) 884-0710 ext. 3229
Fourth, e-mail your part-time/CAS profs and voice your support for the education they are providing and the steps they are taking to be recognized as contributing members to the Laurier community. Also, consider e-mailing this special list of people who comprise the CAS bargaining team. I was talking to one of them and they are very happy for the support they are receiving:
Doug Lorimer (History) - dlorimer@wlu.caFifth, hit the classes - ask your profs permission to come and briefly speak and do it. This information needs to be distributed.
Jonathan Haxell (Archaeology and Anthropology) - jhaxell@wlu.ca
Mike Skelton (Library) - mskelton@wlu.ca
Laurie Blaikie (WLUFA) - lblaikie@wlu.ca
Michele Kramer (English and Film Studies) - mkramer@wlu.ca
Finally, go to the WLUFA website and read up on the topic. Get acquainted and help us spread the news of the negotiations to everyone because we always could use more people talking and circulating the petitions, even if it's just for half an hour.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
The Unpublished Op-Ed Piece
A few weeks ago we tried to get an op-ed piece supportive of the part-timers into The Cord. The attempt was unsuccessful. However, due to the wonders of the blog-o-sphere, you can read it here. While it is somewhat outdated in time and the threat of a strike is much more possible, it's ideas are still prevalent. Please enjoy:
Students Should Support Part-Timers
Anatolijs Venovcevs
Perhaps it is a cliché to start off an op-ed piece with a reference to a work of literature or popular culture. In which case, I’m sorry. However, of late, I could not help but see the ongoing arduous negotiations between the Contract Academic Staff (CAS) and the administration, its ever-ominous implications, and the student body’s relative apathy toward it as parallel to Nevil Shute’s post-apocalyptic world in his novel and later movie adaptations of “On the Beach.”
In it, after the people living in the northern hemisphere destroy themselves in a nuclear holocaust, the last survivors of humanity in Australia try to live out their lives as normally as they can while deadly radiation poisoning seeps in from the north to kill them via airways. While much less apocalyptic, we, the students, try to live out our lives as normally as we can when in the meantime negotiations between the CAS and the administration drag on beyond anybody’s expectations and the spectre of rumours for a possible CAS strike slowly stalks the hallways of the campus.
But I digress, my goal is not to scare anyone, something so drastic is not imminent and much legal process has yet to take place before Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association (WLUFA) has a strike vote. My goal here is rather more basic than that – an appeal to the most basic of human logic.
It’s simple: Does equal work deserve equal pay?
The answer is obvious – yes, that has been the demand of every repressed minority for the past century of political and social activism. There is no logically justifiable way that equal work, equal experience, equal quality of service from different individuals not deserve equal pay, benefits, and job security. Regardless of sex, colour, creed, age, sexual identification, etc. it is undeniable that equal output deserves equal value.
This minutia of reasoning seems to escape some members of this university’s administration when it comes to providing benefits to some of the hardest working members of the faculty body who are probably one of the most mistreated individuals out of all the universities in Ontario.
The term “part-timer,” as the CAS are sometimes called, is a misnomer when many individuals teach as many (and often larger) classes than their “full time” counterparts. It does not represent any deficiency in schooling when most of the CAS have Ph.D.s from equally-accredited universities nor sometimes experience with research in their fields nor even value of publication as sometimes a quick search of peer-reviews journals may reveal names of some very familiar professors.
What is it then? The issue with the CAS is a simple rebranding of fine men and women into the demeaning term “part-timer” as if they are only partially valuable to the function of the school. Forgive me; I fail to see how 400 “part-time” profs can only be “partially valuable,” regardless if you’re just starting out in university or about ready to graduate.
Yet, the administration fails to budge to the demands of the WLUFA bargaining team when it comes down to simple decision making of the negotiation process let alone finding a compromise to the CAS wishes for greater job security and office space to meet and answer questions of their students. That is the living definition of incompetence at its finest.
To most students, I would imagine, this sounds like some high-ended labour law skull drudgery which does not concern them in any way. While this might be true to an extent, it’s certainly would not appear so when the distant thunder of a possible strike becomes a hurricane of picket lines, cancelled classes, and very upset tenured profs. Neither will it appear so if the stress and workload of the CAS members of the faculty continues unabated to put an ever-increasing dent in our pursuit of education. Nor will it appear so if in ten years we would look and see the academic landscape of Ontario become a minimal cost-maximum profit endeavour no different than that of Wal-Mart with students as the customers, degrees as the poor quality cheap goods, and the professors as the most educated and most mistreated members of that dystopia. In that light, skull drudgery does not seem so irrelevant after all.
Students are not powerless in this affair. We have a voice that’s louder than we realize since our tuition is the fuel that keeps the university running. When we are not happy the administration must answer for its service. I urge everyone reading this to do something – write an e-mail to the administration, wear a pin, join the student solidarity group supporting the CAS endeavour, or at the very least, pass this article on to a friend and make sure they read it. Spread the word. Part-timers do give full-value.
And if our efforts, both of the CAS faculty and the students that support them, fails and fizzles out, I fear it will be like the last introductory lines to Nevil Shute’s novel, borrowed from the last lines of “Hollow Men” by T.S. Elliot:
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Schedule for Talks
Due to an overwhelming response from faculty wishing us to talk to their classes about the CAS issue, we have created a schedule of all the profs asking us to come and talk to them. To do so, get some petitions, inform yourself, e-mail the profs to whose classes you can come to alert them to expect you, and then come by during the allotted time to give a brief talk of what's been happening and what's at stake and pass around the petition sheet (filled out petition sheets can be dropped off at the WLUFA office in 2C12 to Larissa or slid under the door when she's not there). Here's the schedule of the profs who asked one of us to come:
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Remember also to ask all of your profs from past and present if you can talk to their classes as well. We need to get this information out there.
| Class | Room | Time | Prof | E-mail |
| EN296 | 2C17 | 9:30 | Bruce Wyse | bwyse@rogers.com |
| | Odeon 205 (Brantford) | 11:30 | Sue Ferguson | |
| EN396 | 2-105 | 11:30 | Bruce Wyse | bwyse@rogers.com |
| SBE2260 | 11:30 | Maria DiCenzo | | |
| | CB205 (Brantford) | 11:45 | Mark | mad1@sympatico.ca |
| MA242 | P1013 | 12:10 | Zilin Wang | zwang@wlu.ca |
| MA130C | N1001 | 12:30 | F. Vinette | fvinette@wlu.ca |
| CL206 | N1044 | 12:30 | Alexis Young | ayoung@wlu.ca |
| PC142 | SBE1220 | 12:30 | Eugeniu Popescu | pasti@sympatico.ca |
| MU137 | A223 | 12:30 | Terence Kroetsch | tktarkus@yahoo.com |
| EN201B | 1C18 | 12:30 | Sylvia Bryce-Wunder | sbryce@gto.net |
| Faculty of Social Work | 120 Duke StW. In Kitchener | 11:30 | Nancy Riedel Bowers | nrbowers@aol.com |
| | | | | |
| PC421 | N1059 | 2:30 | Eugeniu Popescu | pasti@sympatico.ca |
| SY281 (Wednesday too) | BA111 | 2:30 | Marcela Cristi | mcristi@wlu.ca |
| RE313 | 1C16 | 2:30 | Chris Ross | cross@wlu.ca |
| CT340 | GRH 134 (Brantford) | 5:30 | Liz Guerrier | guerrier@yorku.ca |
| | Carnegie Building 206 (Brantford) | 5:30 | Linda Quirke | lquirke@wlu.ca |
| | GRH101 | 7:00 | Mark | mad1@sympatico.ca |
| Class | Room | Time | Prof | E-mail |
| | STM 101 | 9:30 | Helene Beaulieu | helene@atua.ca |
| | 2C4 | 10:00 | Enda Brophy | enda.brophy@gmail.com |
| | BA307 | 10:00 | Susan Preston | spreston@wlu.ca |
| PP226 | R137 | 10:00 | Carleton Simpson | msimpson@wlu.ca |
| GM 111 | STM103 | 10:00 or 11:10 | Alexandra Zimmermann | azimmermann@wlu.ca |
| FS443b | 1C16 | 10:00 or 11:10 | Katherine Spring | kspring@wlu.ca |
| (Tuesday) | 4-103 | 11:10 | Larissa Sloutsky | lsloutsk@uwo.ca |
| AN 326 | 4-105 | 11:30 | Katherine Brasch | kbrasch@wlu.ca |
| RE220 | BA-110 | 11:30 | Chris Klassen | cklassen@wlu.ca |
| CS333B | BA111 | 11:30 | Herbert Pimlott | hpimlott@wlu.ca |
| KP 122 (Tuesday March 11th) | BA 112 | 1:00 | Kevin Charbonneau | kevincharbonneau@hotmail.com |
| CS213C | 2C17 | 1:00 | Carleton Simpson | msimpson@wlu.ca |
| EN392 | 2C15 | 1:00 | Dr. R. Waugh | rwaugh@wlu.ca |
| RE224 | BA110 | 4:00 | Chris Klassen | cklassen@wlu.ca |
| CS305 | 2C17 | 4:00 | Patricia Molloy | pmolloy@oise.utoronto.ca |
| WS201 | 2C16 | 4:00 | Allison Weir | aweir@wlu.ca |
| CT324BR1 | OD205 | 5:30 | Nicole Hayes | malawihayes@yahoo.ca |
| HI 249 (not Thursdays) | P1025/27 | 7:00 | Rob Hanks | rob.k.hanks@gmail.com |
| | GRH101 | 7:00 | Mark | mad1@sympatico.ca |
Wednesday
| Room | Time | Prof | E-mail |
| A221 | 9:30 | Terence Kroetsch | tktarkus@yahoo.com |
| 4-105 | 10:30 | Sheila McKee-Protopapas | smckeeprotopapas@wlu.ca |
| Carnegie 205 (Brantford) | 11:30 | Sue Ferguson | sferguson@wlu.ca |
| P1013 | 12:10 | Zilin Wang | zwang@wlu.ca |
| N1001 | 12:30 | Francine Vinette | fvinette@wlu.ca |
| P1017 | 11:30 or 12:40 | Natalie Coulter | nhc@sfu.ca |
| N1044 | 12:30 | Alexis Young | ayoung@wlu.ca |
| SBE1220 | 12:30 | Eugeniu Popescu | pasti@sympatico.ca |
| A223 | 12:30 | Terence Kroetsch | tktarkus@yahoo.com |
| 1C18 | 12:30 | Sylvia Bryce-Wunder | sbryce@gto.net |
| P1013 | 2:10 | Zilin Wang | zwang@wlu.ca |
| N3028 | 2:30 | Sheila McKee-Protopapas | smckeeprotopapas@wlu.ca |
| Meeting room at Wilfs | 2:00 or 3:40 | Natalie Coulter | nhc@sfu.ca |
| N1059 | 2:30 | Eugeniu Popescu | pasti@sympatico.ca |
| Odeon 205 (Brantford) | 4:00 | Sue Ferguson | sferguson@wlu.ca |
| Carnegie Building 206 (Brantford) | 5:30 | Linda Quirke | lquirke@wlu.ca |
| BA111 | 5:30 | Sylvia Bryce-Wunder | sbryce@gto.net |
| 2-106 | 5:45 | Marybeth White | whit1231@wlu.ca |
| GRH 101 | 7:00 | Linda Quirke | lquirke@wlu.ca |
| PO318 | 7:00 | Debra Chapman | debchapman@golden.net |
| Odeon Building 205 | 10:00 | Linda Quirke | lquirke@wlu.ca |
Thursday
| BA102 | 9:40 | Scot D. Evans | sevans@wlu.ca |
| 1E1 | 10:00 | Abdullah Bamasoud | abamasoud@wlu.ca |
| 2C4 | 10:00 | Enda Brophy | enda.brophy@gmail.com |
| BA307 | 10:00 | Susan Preston | spreston@wlu.ca |
| R137 | 10:00 | Carleton Simpson | msimpson@wlu.ca |
| BA111 | 10:00 | Elisabeth Friedman | efriedman@rogers.com |
| 4-105 | 11:30 | Katherine Brasch | kbrasch@wlu.ca |
| P1017 | 11:30 or 12:40 | Katherine Spring | kspring@wlu.ca |
| 2C17 | 1:00 | Carleton Simpson | msimpson@wlu.ca |
| 2C15 | 1:00 | Dr. R. Waugh | rwaugh@wlu.ca |
| N2005 | 1:00 or 2:10 | Scot D. Evans | sevans@wlu.ca |
| BA101 | 2:30 | Garry | Garrypotter34@aol.com |
| BA201 | 2:30 | Viviana Comensoli | vcomensoli@wlu.ca |
| 2C17 | 4:00 | Patricia Molloy | pmolloy@oise.utoronto.ca |
| 2C16 | 4:00 | Allison Weir | aweir@wlu.ca |
| A224 | 6:40 pm | Nadina Mackie Jackson | nadinamackie.jackson@utoronto.ca |
Friday
| Room | Time | Prof | E-mail |
| P1013 | 12:10 | Zilin Wang | zwang@wlu.ca |
| STM107 | 12:30 | Graham Gladstone | ggladstone@wlu.ca |
| 1C18 | 12:30 | Sylvia Bryce-Wunder | sbryce@gto.net |
Remember also to ask all of your profs from past and present if you can talk to their classes as well. We need to get this information out there.
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