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From: jdd@db.toronto.edu ("John D. DiMarco")
Subject: Re: Strike
Message-ID: <89Mar14.100805est.9391@ois.db.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
References: <737@helios.toronto.edu> <89Mar9.140218est.9394@ois.db.toronto.edu> <1989Mar10.161738.19609@utzoo.uucp> <89Mar13.102317est.9395@ois.db.toronto.edu> <89Mar13.135431est.11011@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 10:08:00 EST

In article <89Mar13.135431est.11011@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> tap@ai.toronto.edu (Tony Plate) writes:
>				...if there is alot of strife
>and fighting about the allocation of the insufficient funds, then this sends
>a message that the underfunding is not OK.
>
Perhaps. But this labour dispute was limited to the university itself; it
didn't directly affect the government. The government has a tendancy to 
ignore such things.

>Now, obviously there *might* be better ways of sending such messages, so
>suggest them, don't just flame me about being a heartless TA willing to
>sacrifice countless ugrads lives just so I can afford eat caviar while
>relaxing in my jacuzzi doing my 15 minutes per semester of marking.
>
OK... how about picketing Queen's Park for a week? That would send a much
clearer message to the government about our concerns re: underfunding. And 
this time, I'll be glad to walk the picket line.
	BTW, could you spare a pound or two of caviar? :-)

>Tony Plate
>
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>---------------- Tony Plate ----------------------  tap@ai.utoronto.ca -----
>Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 
>10 Kings College Road, Toronto, 
>Ontario, CANADA M5S 1A4
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John DiMarco
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