Tuition freeze chills U of T
Re: CFS: Protest not useless, Feb 23
Important note: For this letter let us all assume the CFS were the ones who won a tuition freeze.
Ms. Holloway seems to believe that this promised tuition freeze represents one of the largest single reinvestments that colleges and universities have seen in decades yet seems to leave out the fact that no new money has been provided by Queen’s Park to the university.
What I see as a result of this are stagnating revenues for the university, constant demands for higher pension payouts, constant demands for pay increases and ballooning deferred maintenance fees. Layman’s terms: we are now looking at larger year-to-year deficits and thus larger long-term debt unless we make some drastic cuts.
Would it not have been wise to perhaps win more government funding before demanding a tuition freeze? Would the few extra dollars that now stay with the individual students not be better spent through the collective will of highly diversified funds that garner high returns compared to your 0.0001% return?
Way to go CFS, you sure you want to claim responsibility for this one?
Christopher P. Deans
Stinky students
It’s official-the students at U of T are being worked too hard. And how do I know this? Well, it seems that U of T students are so busy that they have no time to bathe.
At first I thought this was a rare exception. A little alcohol stench on some guy in Robarts library is annoying-but in Toronto, it happens. But this past week I noticed a trend, and I’m sorry to report that these are in fact U of T students.
Lately, as the peak of paper season approaches, I have been working late in the library, in study rooms and at computer terminals. And as we all know, after hour studying requires a valid student card. And in my late night sessions, several times I noticed a strong odour coming from a fellow student.
I guess I’m writing this letter as a request. We are all academics, and therefore we should understand the benefits of good hygiene.
Maybe I don’t work as hard as some of the dedicated students at U of T who spend 24/7 in the library. But my request is this-please take an extra minute for yourself each day. Take a nice hot shower, apply deodorant, and maybe throw in a load of laundry once in a while. After all, that paper will get finished, and that exam will go by, but that girl in the library will always think of you as the stinky student.
Lindsay Kendall
