More Spectator coverage of presidential contracts
The Hamilton Spectator ran multiple stories on presidential contract this past weekend. Here are the links:Universities to pay $8m to outgoing presidents The fight for contract details They also printed a beautiful chart comparing the contracts:http://media.hamiltonspectator.com/acrobat/7a/13/47d8f4424c6e98f77864f1a40ba6.pdf…
Bureaucratic red-tape results in student not recieving public health insurance
A recent Wilfrid Laurier graduate is unable to get public health insurance in Ontario due to bureaucratic red-tape resulting from a discrepancy between changed federal work-permit regulations and unchanged provincial public health insurance regulations, according to a report in The Record this morning.…
Wow: I’m speechless
Somethings need no commentary, they speak for themselves. The following statement was sent to McMaster’s student newspaper The Silhouette by McMaster Students Union president Azim Kasmani referring to the revealing of McMaster president Peter George’s $99999/year for 14 years golden handshake: This contract reflects Peter George’s decades of…
The website better wipe my a@@ for me
The Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union is budgeting up to $165,000 to redesign their website, according to a report in The Cord Weekly. You know your collecting too much in student fees when….…
British students sell out: support conservatives
NUS must be going bonkers at the news.…
Why not mention the competition?
A great column today in the London Free Press (which I “stole” the headline from) asking the same question many have been asking about The Globe and Mail’s coverage of university presidential contracts: why didn’t they give proper credit to The Hamilton Spectator on Thursday? To make matters…
Affirmative-action votes this fall
*The Christian Science Monitor *has a great piece laying out the situations in Arizona, Nebraska, and Colorado where a group called the American Civil Rights Institute is campaigning for ballot initiatives to ban affirmative action in those three states. What I find interesting in this year’s debate is…
Sometimes admitting a mistake is easier than trying to cover it up
Dion could really use this lesson – seriously, does he think his explanation actually works?…
Student lobbying organization votes to boycott “apartheid” Israel
Nearly two months ago, Quebec’s L’Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (ASSÉ) voted to boycott Isreali goods and called for sanctions against Israel. Really, and this is a student issue how? (It’s worth noting the disconnect between French and English Canada here. Had this occurred at any English…
University president turns down pay raise
The president of the University of Louisville in Kentucky turned down a pay raise and bonus worth over $100,000 due to state budget cuts that the university is absorbing. Yes, you read that right—he turned down money in a show of leadership. The decision also means that president…