Letters

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  Letter: Not Voting is Not the Answer

  Michael Wrobel – Published October 6, 2015

  I was disappointed and saddened to read an opinion piece about the futility of voting in last week’s issue of The Link.

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  Letter: End Word Association of Stigma

  Harold A. Maio – Published October 6, 2015

  “Lace up those running shoes and walk towards a world without stigma.”
  Frankly, I would only attend a walk that did not assert a “stigma.”

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  Letter: Concordia Group Walks for Mental Health

  – Published September 28, 2015

  Did you know that one in five Canadians will experience mental illness in their lives? The walk brings mental illness out of the shadows and serves to reduce the stigma, which prevents so many people from seeking the help that they need. The funds raised from the event go to mental health resources throughout the City of Montreal.

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  Letter: CSU is Seeking Student Parents

  Marion Miller – Published September 22, 2015

  After many months of research and preparation, the Concordia Student Union has engaged over the summer months in concrete discussions with Concordia University to secure a space for a daycare centre on the downtown campus to serve the student parent population at Concordia.

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  Letter: Late Negotiations Stalling Equal Wages

  Robert Sonin – Published September 21, 2015

  There was some misinformation provided by Nader Jafari Nodoushan and Gounash Pirniya in the article “TRAC Wants Resolution for Wage Disparities” (Sept. 14 2015). Pirniya’s grievance is only an issue because of the current executive’s ineffectiveness, and their complaint is the result of a pay structure negotiated by engineering students themselves, a problem that was solved over a year ago.

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  Letter: Students Want Tribunals Dropped

  No Tribunals for Students, Solidarity Concordia – Published September 15, 2015

  During the student strike that took place in spring of 2015, 29 students participating in picket lines at Concordia University received formal complaints from faculty members alleging they disobeyed article 29 g) (obstruction or disruption of University activities) of Concordia’s Code of Rights and Responsibilities.

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  New Cafe, Same Hive

  – Published September 13, 2015

  As we launch into a big second year, we want to thank all of our members, users and the whole Concordia community for a great first year!

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  Open Letter: University Complaint System Requires Reform for Graduating Students

  Yann Grand-Clément – Published June 3, 2015

  On April 24, 2015, I filed a complaint against a group of students who had participated in the blocking of a class during the April 1st strike. My complaint took over a month to be processed, due to the university’s policy that no student complaints will be processed during finals.

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  Open Letter: Charges Against Students are an Embarrassment to Concordia, Must be Dropped Immediately

  Jonathan Summers – Published May 30, 2015

  A graduate student is charged with violating the Code of Rights and Responsibilities at an April 1 picket—even though he wasn’t there.

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  Refugees: Forgotten but Not Erased

  Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) at Concordia – Published May 20, 2015

  We are refugees, but we are not alone; 5,000,000 million of us are displaced, scattered and denied a rightful identity. This describes the largest refugee population in the world. May 15 commemorated this disaster known to us today as “the Nakba (the catastrophe).”