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Mar. 9 - Mar. 15, 2012 9 - Mar. Mar. FREE! 144-21 Two sides to a strike, pg 3 Brewery Market, pg 8 AUS Hoops, pg 14 Cover by Angela Gzowski WITH DJS T-WOO & Saturday, March 10th at La Trinidade LOUKAS STILLDRUNK 10pm - 2am, $5, 19+ Retro & Guilty Pleasures & March 9 - March 15, 2012 • DSU WEEKLY DISPATCH For Information on negotiations between the Dalhousie Faculty Association and the Dalhousie Board of Governors please visit the following links: In the coming weeks the DSU will be working in the best interest of students. 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E-mail Katrina and Torey at [email protected] news Torey Ellis Assistant News Editor Two sides to the truth Students seek the real story Torey Ellis “These (meetings) could be hap- of the two sides, being both students terizes the administration’s letters to ing that in mind, they’re doing well Assistant News Editor pening more, they could be more and people who have begun to think students as “disturbing.” with the resources they have.” open to other student questions in a about their pensions. “It’s incredibly tactically amazing, Ma, Beale and Robski each agree When the administration’s blog broader forum as opposed to by invi- “Graduate students specifically but also manipulative and scary,” he on one point, though: the DSU needs sounds like only half the story and tation. But I think they’re taking pos- understand the difficulty that’s here,” says. to become the primary source of the Dalhousie Faculty Association itive steps,” he says. he says. Beale says the DFA’s methods of information for students. (DFA) seems to be silent in compari- DFA president Anthony Stewart “But without speaking to individ- communicating with students needs Robski says it’s the responsibility son, what can students believe? said at the meeting the image of the ual opinions, I think graduate stu- work too. of the student union to take a more That difference is due largely to DFA is changing as negotiations go dents—and all students—are most “Ultimately, the interests of the active role. “What I would like to see, resources: the administration has a on. concerned when they don’t see nego- DFA and the students are the same,” personally, is the DFA and the admin- communications team of 23 employ- “You start to see the administration tiations going on.” he says. “But we don’t know it, and istration empower the student union ees, 3 of whom are wokring on less and you start to see me more. So the DFA doesn’t act like it.” to be the communicator to students, negotiating updates, while the DFA I, and the people whom I’m supposed He also says the DFA needs to so that it is coming from one source,” has one full-time communications to be representing, end up getting “I don’t feel like change their strategy to gain public he says. officer. blamed for all this.” opinion. If the DSU took on that role, he says, So naturally, the images that stu- Stewart says the administration’s “If they want students on board, students could have a solid source of dents are getting of each side are communications have been spinning students should they should contextualize their strug- unbiased information, without judg- going to be disparate. Ryan Robski, a the story: for example, in saying that gle in things that students will care ment on either side. “The best tool in DSU senate representative, says that the DFA walked away from the table feel helpless.” about,” he says. place right now is the DSU,” he says. discrepancy is a major worry for stu- of Feb. 15. But Max Ma, the DSU representa- But Beale says the DSU should dents. “We hear two different things,” Charles Crosby, spokesperson for Aaron Beale has seen that frustra- tive on the Board of Governors, says take a mobilizing role, rather than an he says. Dal administration and one of three tion as well. the DFA has no favour in public opin- informational one. “Just not knowing what to believe, communications workers dedicated “People are pissed off. They’re wor- ion. “I stand by my statement that if what the situation is—that’s the con- to disseminating information on the ried, concerned,” he says. “They’ve been relying almost students wanted to, and were orga- cern.” negotiations, says the allegation is “And I think helpless is the most entirely on the Gazette to give their nized under the student union, we While the administration has been unfounded. concerning for me. I don’t feel like side of the story, because they can- could stop the strike,” he says.