Targeting Students—Many of Whom Are in Debt—Isn't Right, Especially on Their Own Campus
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Consultation process on uOttawa tuition fees October 27: Student leaders make presentation to Board of Governors November 5: Senate agrees to a moratorium on exams to enable students to lobby provincial government on tuition fees November 17: uOttawa administration makes presentation to Board of Governors November 24: Board of Governors will hear the SFUO and GSAED response to administration’s presentation Only then will the Board proceed to a debate and a vote on the issue. www.uOttawa.ca Frank Appleyard Editor-in-Chief 3 Letters [email protected] Nov. 21–26, 2008 University education is not a right school, but if they want to get a degree An open letter to Julie Séguin An open letter to Marc Kelly actually contain physics. Re: “Why university education is a badly enough, they will persevere. Re: “Enough isolation already” The purpose of having said fac- right” (Opinion, Nov. 13) What about the fact that a univer- (Letters, Nov. 13) DEAR MARC KELLY, ulty members is to ensure that re- sity degree is the key to employment? In response to your letter of com- search is done with established I RECENTLY READ an article titled Should we be seeking to make univer- DEAR JULIE, plaint against the president of U of guidelines that conform to the sci- “Why university education is a right” sities, the places from which some of I am not taking a side on the ref- O, I would also like to ask why it entific process. Also, I very much in the Fulcrum. h e author stated that humanity’s greatest progress has come, erendum on Student Federation of was deemed necessary to forward doubt the Faculty of Physics de-reg- post-secondary education should be a just one more step on the path to the the University of Ottawa member- your email to every student. I have isters a student from a class without right based on two arguments. First, accumulation of wealth? ship in the Canadian Federation of read the email and the background a justifiable basis. that any student who can complete a By admitting anyone who can pass Students (CFS), and I’m sure that information, and I do not feel much If there is no basis, why is there degree has the right to education, and their courses for free, which is what you know the old adage about opin- sympathy for you. no communication with the dean? second, that a university degree is “a the idea of the right to education is ions. However, I feel that it is un- While I agree that President Al- There is a reason a hierarchy exists, ticket to employment” and therefore a fundamentally proposing, degrees are fair of you, especially as an elected lan Rock’s dismissal of you from his and the president at the U of O is requirement in a fair society. h ere is devalued. representative of the undergraduate office was not necessarily polite, I not responsible for an undergradu- dei nitely something wrong with these I do not mean devaluation in the students of the University of Ot- do not see how it was unwarranted. ate student handing something in arguments. sense that the quality of university tawa, to label the arguments of the It is evident from your recording that does not conform to criteria. As Essentially, by saying that any student education within the institution is No campaign as “wrong-headed”, that you summarily ignored his as- there is no mention of anybody else who can i nish his or her degree has the reduced. Despite what the author of “crazy”, and “angry”. I am unsure of sistant—who mentioned the neces- in the class having the same prob- right to an education, we are equalizing “Why university education is a right” how I will be voting and I am not sity of making an appointment to lems, it is safe to assume that said students who achieve 60s and students posits, that is not the devaluation argu- a member of either campaign, but I you—and have done so in the past criteria were available. who achieve 90s. How is that fair? In ment. Rather, the argument is that the feel that your letter to the Fulcrum as well. The president presumably In any case, I fail to understand fact, this equalization penalizes high university degree is devalued in soci- belittled those who, for legitimate has things to do other than listen- how an individual telling another achievers because they put in more ety because it becomes mandatory. No reasons, oppose membership in the ing to you whine, and therefore in- individual to “get out” of his private work and get the same degree as some- longer is it a representation of a strong CFS. I for one have not heard any sisting on an immediate response is space is in any way violent. Secu- one who just passes. It’s not as if i nan- desire for knowledge and furthering arguments which I would describe rude as well as ambitious. rity was not summoned to drag you cial aid is not there to help those who society. By allowing university to be- as you have, from either side. Let’s I have no physics knowledge outside and break your toes. In ad- want to achieve. h ere are entrance and come a rung in the career ladder, we try and keep this campaign clean, past high school, and can there- dition, I do not appreciate receiving merit scholarships available for those have made it into something to take because in the end, we’re all in it fore make no comment on your your bile against the administration who earn them. h is isn’t to say that for granted. together. research. I fail to understand your in my inbox. people who don’t get high marks can- Carmen Grillo Spencer McKay difficulty in accepting your faculty Kate Goddard not get degrees. h ey will have to work Second-year economics and political Second-year political science and committee’s rejection of your pro- Second-year conl ict studies hard in a dif erent way to get through science student religious studies student posal on the basis that it did not and human rights student Contents thefulcrum.ca poll News Undergrads cast Do you think the Maclean’s Last week’s results their votes Consequences and controversies of the rankings of Canadian How do you plan to vote CFS referendum. p. 4 universities accurately in the CFS referendum? p. 4 Is the U-Pass in danger? p. 5 portray the country’s schools? Arts Fashion forward Laurel Hogan tries on Ottawa Fashion Week. p. 10 Yes Yes No Jaclyn Lytle embraces Arms of the Girl. 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Emma Godmere News Editor 4 News [email protected] Nov. 21–26, 2008 Controversy at CFS polls Students encounter campaigning, identii ed ballots at polling stations by Amanda Shendruk Fulcrum Staf REFERENDUM POLLS CLOSED Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. at er three days of voting by University of Ottawa undergraduate students to decide whether or not the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) should accept full membership in the Canadian Federation of Stu- dents (CFS), a national lobbying organization that represents approximately 500,000 students across Canada.