SAC PROTEST TRIP IS A WASTE OF CASH
Re: SAC paid for NYC protest bus, Sept. 13.
In typical socialist fashion, SAC has tossed money into a black hole from which no positive return on the investment will be gained. In fact, it would be all the more humiliating for the council should it be acknowledged in the American media that certain swing voters came on the side of the GOP as a result of the pestilent actions and obsessively repetitive rhetoric displayed by the protestors.
-Matt Hiraishi
WHO KNEW SAC WAS LEFT WING?
I imagine many students are displeased with SAC sending a handful of lefties to protest in New York not because of the implied political support for their cause, but more so because very few students had the same opportunity [to get support for their own causes].
It smacks of the SAC-throwing-their-own-party affair of last year.
Let’s hold a referendum on SAC.
-Mike Varey
DO NOT IGNORE DARFUR
Despite futile opposition of a few members of parliament, such as Pierre Pettigrew and Aileen Carroll, the Canadian House of Commons passed resolution M-380 on April 21st of this year to acknowledge and condemn the murder of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks during World War One.
In a convenient about-face, Pierre Pettigrew, our present Minister of Foreign Affairs, flip-flops and now concedes that Canada has a global moral obligation in Darfur to “continue its activist role and bring to justice those responsible for committing crimes against humanity and war crimes.”
Perhaps Pettigrew’s newfound understanding of Canada’s role in global humanitarian issues and his budding empathy for human suffering is contingent on the victim’s complexion, their country’s natural resources (oil), or intimidation by advocacy groups.
In order to avoid another Rwanda in Darfur, the international community and our Canadian government must mobilize and vociferously condemn threats of genocide before the situation disintegrates into the barbaric slaughter of innocent civilians. Canada’s reputation as a compassionate and courageous nation must be reaffirmed.
-Miran Ternamian
SORRY, WILSON: ANTI-CALENDAR TRUSTWORTHY
Re: Grade this, professor, Sept. 13.
In regards to Fred Wilson’s comment in the article about the popular urban myth of a Professor bringing wine to class to sway the results of their evaluations, I’d have to seriously disagree here.
One of my second year Computer Science professors brought chocolate for every student in her two lecture sections and cried pathetically just before she gave out the forms. It was her first time and she couldn’t bear the thought of being graded harshly.
I believe that, most times, professors know when they have a bad instructional style or frankly just suck. This is probably why they withhold their results. I feel that professors should have no say in this domain, and the university should give more serious attention to the evaluation results.
Sarosh Jamal
