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NewsFamiliar Territory
Approximately 20 students occupied the 6th floor of the McGill administration building Feb. 7, calling it a “surprise resignation party” for Deputy Provost Morton Mendelson.
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NewsGoing to Town (Hall)
Concordia is not a town, but it does have a Hall building, whose room H110 was the home to a Town Hall meeting on Wednesday afternoon to educate students on the fight against the impending tuition hikes.
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NewsHighlights From The Feb. 8 CSU Council Meeting
The Simone de Beauvoir Institute is set to vote on Feb. 29 to go on strike against the impending tuition increases. The SDBI is the first department association at Concordia to rally enough support in their department against fee-hikes to actually set a strike-vote day. During the meeting, all sexuality studies or gender studies students working to attain a certificate, a major or a minor from the institute were encouraged to vote on Feb. 29.
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NewsCUTV, Inc.
CUTV, Concordia’s television station, took the first steps towards restructuring itself and gaining some independence from the Concordia Student Broadcasting Corporation, the umbrella organization that oversees CUTV and radio station CJLO.
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News$900K Later, Judy’s Back in the Classroom
One year after being forced to resign from her position as university president, Judith Woodsworth has made an unlikely return to Concordia as a professor, despite having been compensated over $169,573 in “administrative leave pay” to help her get back on her feet.
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NewsCFS Wants $1.8M
Count your pennies, Concordia students—the Canadian Federation of Students says you owe them money, and lots of it.
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NewsHistory in the Making
Left off this year’s Concordia Student Union calendar and in the dark about any planning, Saradjen Bartley thought her student union didn’t care about Black History Month. The president of the Concordia chapter of the African and Caribbean Students’ Network, Bartley decided to find out what was going on.
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NewsBigger Is Better?
Yelling, “Fuck the police!,” and, “Don’t fuck with our education!,” a group of radical anti-tuition protesters made their way through Montreal’s downtown campuses on Feb. 2.
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NewsOut in the Cold
If nothing else, Occupy Montreal brought in a diverse crowd. From its origin on the Oct. 15 Global Day of Action up until the ultimate eviction two months later, people from almost all walks of life congregated in Victoria Square. Unionized workers, hippies, temporary refugees from the upper-middle class, pensioners, street kids from Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, anarcho-punks, suburbanites from the West Island or South Shore, Mile-End hipsters—and even some yuppies. The general assemblies were well-attended. Musicians played to their hearts’ content.
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NewsGill vs. Graham
A proposed strike against tuition hikes by the Concordia Student Union is being met with unbending resilience from the Concordia administration.
