Letter: Vote Yes to CURE
Vote yes to CURE in by-elections—find new ways to see yourself in your undergrad.
To all you undergraduates striving to attain and understand your voice as an expressive individual and as a critical thinker, the time is now. In the upcoming by-elections, we will all be given an opportunity to say YES to grant fee levy to CURE Concordia, an effort that will help you build relationships with all of the diverse, real and current community efforts that are happening in Montreal.
The uniqueness of this validating opportunity speaks to dissolve so many of the tensions and insecurities that currently surround the undergraduate choice. As undergraduates we can all, in our own ways, understand the combination of pressure and anxiety that is now packed into being an undergrad. The worth of our efforts are constantly being measured and put beside what our degree will mean. Too common is the feeling of powerlessness associated with our decision to be here—a decision that should fill us with a sense of pride and satisfaction as we work to better ourselves through the power and fulfillment of knowledge and experience. Now is the time to reaffirm this intention, to regenerate the strength and purpose of what an undergraduate degree should offer us, and to reconstitute how others recognize what we have to offer them after this experience.
CURE Concordia, with this fee levy, can offer you experiences outside of school. Let CURE offer you credits for term papers you write from your experience; let CURE help you meet your course requirements in places where you want to see yourself. Recognize what hard work looks like outside of school by pairing up with actual grassroots not-for-profit organizations. I encourage you all to take a few minutes to look into CURE at cureconcordia.org, and make an informed decision for yourselves.
Few can disagree that university is a service that is in a current state of constant devaluation. Restore how this university serves you, revalidate your experience here, with CURE.
Julia Griffiths Nadeau
Fine Arts and Arts & Science Undergrad
