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From: dooley@helios.toronto.edu (Kevin Dooley)
Newsgroups: ut.general
Subject: Re: Strike
Message-ID: <744@helios.toronto.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 89 13:59:19 GMT
References: <737@helios.toronto.edu> <89Mar9.140218est.9394@ois.db.toronto.edu> <1989Mar10.161738.19609@utzoo.uucp> <89Mar13.102317est.9395@ois.db.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: dooley@helios.UUCP (Kevin Dooley)
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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.

I have heard this argument many times.  The University of Toronto IS
underfunded.  I think that we all agree.  It is not nearly as poorly
funded, however, as they would like you to believe.  In January, it
was announced that UofT had a 2.2 million dollar budgetary surplus.
That isn't a lot of money, I realize, but it would certainly be
preferable to spend that money on, say, education than administration.
This is the key problem.  The university has an enormous budget,
a budget which could easily be used to hire more faculty and more
TAs, a budget which could easily be used to further the cause of
education on this campus.  Far too small a fraction of it actually
winds up being used for that, though.  Underfunding is an issue,
but budget allocation is perhaps a more serious issue.  We would
all be just a little bit better off if President Connell had not
spent so very much money on redecorating his office.


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