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From: jdd@db.toronto.edu ("John D. DiMarco")
Subject: Re: Strike
Message-ID: <89Mar14.102417est.9395@ois.db.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
References: <89Mar13.230408est.38098@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 10:24:11 EST

In article <89Mar13.230408est.38098@neat.ai.toronto.edu> lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes:
>
>Asserting that a university is not responsible for large class sizes is
>preposterous.
>
>          ...But university administrators often get blinkered by
>their budget, and too little attention is paid higher up to things like
>teaching ability or adequacy of classrooms.

There seems to be a direct historical correlation between underfunding and
things like class size. That suggests that what the administration claims
is correct: i.e. classes are large because of underfunding. You seem to be
suggesting that the reason we have such large classes is that the administration
just isn't concerned about class size. I think it more likely that the
administration is concerned about class size, but doesn't have the financial
means to do anything about it.
	This university's finances have been insufficient for a while.
Rather than blame the administration for the effects of this, I think it is
wiser to blame the government which is starving the university. 

>
>Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
>AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
>


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