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From: jdd@db.toronto.edu ("John D. DiMarco")
Subject: Re: Strike
Message-ID: <89Mar15.114025est.9395@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> <744@helios.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 11:40:20 EST

In article <744@helios.toronto.edu> dooley@helios.UUCP (Kevin Dooley) writes:
>					...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.
Every year, the university has either a budgetary surplus or a deficit.
This year, it just happened to be a surplus, and not a very large one, either.
Last year, the university had a deficit of roughly the same order of magnitude
as this year's surplus. It's not a good idea to count on a share of surplus
money; would you like to cough up some cash in a deficit year?
	I don't know how this surplus is being spent. Why do you think that
it is being spent on administration? Perhaps you know something I don't. 

>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.
Is there any evidence that allocation is as severe a problem as you allege?
What are the figures? How do you know that the administration is keeping
for themselves a larger slice of the budgetary pie than they should keep?

>                                                       ...We would
>all be just a little bit better off if President Connell had not
>spent so very much money on redecorating his office.
How do you know his office didn't need redecorating? How much money was spent?
If you allege there is waste, give facts. 
>
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