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From: tap@ai.toronto.edu (Tony Plate)
Subject: Re: Strike
Message-ID: <89Mar13.135431est.11011@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
References: <737@helios.toronto.edu> <89Mar9.140218est.9394@ois.db.toronto.edu> <1989Mar10.161738.19609@utzoo.uucp> <89Mar13.102317est.9395@ois.db.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 13:54:30 EST

In article <89Mar13.102317est.9395@ois.db.toronto.edu> jdd@db.toronto.edu ("John D. DiMarco") writes:
>
>In any case, the University is a victim of underfunding, not a cause. Striking
>against the University doesn't seem to be a good way to tackle problems
>whose root causes are underfunding.
>

Suppose that the university is a victim of underfunding, AND that this
necessitates cutting back on TA's.  (I don't accept that this conjunction is
true, but suppose it is).  Then, if the university community meekly accepts
this without any internal and publically visible dissension, it sends a
message to the govt that the underfunding is OK, and well, maybe the
universities were overfunded before.  However, 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.

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.

Tony Plate

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