Path: utzoo!lsuc!utmanitou!radio!me!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!tjhorton
From: tjhorton@csri.toronto.edu (Tim Horton)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: CUT TO THE FAT (was: Re: CUT TO THE BONE)
Message-ID: <8810170134.AA17930@sheppard.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 88 01:34:21 GMT
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rhubbs@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Robert (NetJunkie) Hubbs) writes:
>I would just like to let anyone who does not know, that a march is being
>held Oct. 31 on Queens's Park to protest the current state of education
>in this province.

>The issues are serious and here is a partial list.
>
>- In the last 10 years tuition has more then doubled
> ...

This sorta stuff always gives me a hoot.  On what scale has tuition doubled?
The number of dollars (or rubles or pesos), or the value thereof?  If this is
the first and foremost of these "serious issues", I can't tell you how
concerned I am.

>- A recent report recomends tuition deregulation upto $2500

Don't want to pay more, but you want more?  Where's it gonna come from?  What
happens when you pump the well dry?  Students pay a few percent of the costs
of running a university.  Should everyone else be the first to pay?

So many of the people I know who crossed the line from university to real life
turn from rampant socialists to rampant capitalist conservatives, it makes one
wonder why nobody seems to see both sides of the question.  Marches with dozens
of self-righteous people chanting slogans is not a good way to deal with real
questions.  It's not so black and white, and I resent people painting things
that way to suit their own desires.

"CUT TO THE FAT" might be an equally justifiable subject line.