I appreciate you voting against this. I also spent some time meeting with a grad student this afternoon who was in tears at only just (if that) having enough money to eat, and appealing for more money to cover expenses here in Vancouver. Underemployed as I am, I can relate, but I also value the actual work I'm doing and hesitate to get into other work that pays better but produces little or no value for working people, not directly or indirectly.
This is my radical take- The act of voting for a tuition increase is one that relates not to education, rather one that supports a client bureaucracy of the state. I think to make the kinds of excuses you list is to either lie, or express some form of ignorance. It functions as a selection mechanism, in Darwinian terms, and reinforces the participation in university governance by the kinds of people who will continue to vote that way. It serves the interests of the few, not the many. I very much appreciate you participating as you do, as well as your continued tolerance of me gas bagging in your comments sections. I'm showing restraint on this one.
I appreciate you voting against this. I also spent some time meeting with a grad student this afternoon who was in tears at only just (if that) having enough money to eat, and appealing for more money to cover expenses here in Vancouver. Underemployed as I am, I can relate, but I also value the actual work I'm doing and hesitate to get into other work that pays better but produces little or no value for working people, not directly or indirectly.
This is my radical take- The act of voting for a tuition increase is one that relates not to education, rather one that supports a client bureaucracy of the state. I think to make the kinds of excuses you list is to either lie, or express some form of ignorance. It functions as a selection mechanism, in Darwinian terms, and reinforces the participation in university governance by the kinds of people who will continue to vote that way. It serves the interests of the few, not the many. I very much appreciate you participating as you do, as well as your continued tolerance of me gas bagging in your comments sections. I'm showing restraint on this one.