U of O Watch mission, in the words of Foucault...

"One knows … that the university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class. … It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticise and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them." -- Foucault, debating Chomsky, 1971.

U of O Watch mission, in the words of Socrates...

"An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all." -- Socrates

video of president allan rock at work

Monday, December 19, 2011

GSAED out to get a student University Senate member for ... ?


"WTF" seems like the natural response to this craziness:

GSAED Councillors Wish to Discipline Student Senator over Pay Equity Request (link)

How a disgruntled physics student could get this far against another physics student using the graduate student union is, well, difficult to understand. Are the GSAED Council members eager to participate in mindless mobbing and why?

We might conclude that the brilliant administration of the university has inspired high quality student governance. Oiyoiyoi.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Getting payed by the institution your protecting the student against and defending there views is a clear conflict of interest. I don't think thats hard to understand. It also puts any student senator at the mercy of the senate and to be manipulated. No if he should get paid it shouldn't from the institution itself that is the WTF!

Denis Rancourt said...

Oh lala, presumably Anonymous is a university graduate student.

I guess we need examples.

It's like this: The elected union rep represents union member employees even though the union rep is a paid employee of the employer...

Or like this: The elected prof rep on university senate advocates for the interests of profs that he/she represents even though the prof rep is paid by the university corporation, indeed explicitly paid for his/her senate work...