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U of O raisestuition feesGood date, Bad FlirtOn top of their game
Five great Canadians
News
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Arts
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BOG votes to raise tuition by an average of 4.2% for 2009–10.
p. 4 Amanda Shendruk
investigates the prob-lems that riddled the recent CFS membershipreferendum.
p. 5Hisham Kelati
gets down with Bad Flirt.
p. 9Peter Henderson
lists the top 5 Ottawacelebrities.
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Men’s basketball vies for
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rst place with apair of wins.
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Women’s volleyball shut out by Lions.
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Megan O’Meara highlights Canada’s creamof the crop.
p. 12–13Di
gets pissed.
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Support the U-Pass
Re: “Standing up to City Hall” (Editorial, Nov. 21)
I WOULD LIKE to thank the
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or its editorial last week on theU-Pass—it is important to have stu-dents aware o the progress and de-lays o the initiative. Having been in- volved with the project or two years,it is exciting to see it so close to com-ing to ruition. I would encourage allstudents who care to see a universalstudent bus pass become a reality inOttawa, as it is in dozens o cities inNorth America, to email the coun-cillors o the City o Ottawa (emailaddresses can be ound at ottawa.ca)and express their support or the proj-ect. Supporters can stay up-to-date onthe U-Pass on the “Te University o Ottawa needs a Universal Bus Pass!”Facebook group.he U-Pass will save money, loweremissions, and make a more livablecampus and city or students—butonly i we can convey our supportto city councillors to indicate its ne-cessity. his project has risen andallen over the last 15 years withoutsucceeding, but we are now closerthan ever. Let’s not wait another 15years or something so crucial. histime, let’s have a Student Federationo the University o Ottawa (SFUO)initiative with concrete results. Let’shave a U-Pass.
ed HortonBoard of Administration facultydirector, social sciences
Barrhaven solidarity
Re: “Heckles” (Opinion, Nov. 21)
A FEW YEARS ago, the only issue Ihad when I used Fallowfeld park andride was how close a parking spot Icould get. Now, the only issue is I haveis whether I’ll get a parking spot at all,and how much my ticket will cost i I don’t.About a month ago I did get a $65ticket when I parked at Fallowfeldon my way to campus. Despite theact that I wasn’t blocking any othercars rom leaving, I was one o severaldozen cars ticketed that day. Had thetransit o cer been ticketing my carwhen I got back I likely would havepunched him in the ace or let loosean expletive-laced rant. Instead, Icrumpled my ticket into a little balland, in lieu o voicing my displea-sure, handed my crumpled ticket tothe City Hall employee when I even-tually paid my ticket last week. But Idigress.I read an article a ew weeks agoin one o the local Barrhaven news-papers that, just like the
Fulcrum
ar-ticle, slammed OC ranspo or theirhandling o the Fallowfeld situation.It seems to me that OC ranspo are abunch o lazy jackasses who are morecontent to hand out parking ticketsevery day than increase the size o the parking lot to accommodate theirincreasingly disgruntled riders. EvenBarrhaven Councillor Jan Harder wasquoted in the article as saying that it’sridiculous or OC ranspo to be tick-eting people when there is nowhereor them to park and they are notblocking in other cars.I couldn’t agree more with JaclynLytle’s article in the
Fulcrum
last week;unortunately, it’s one o a handul o like-minded articles I’ve read in thepast ew months. As much as I like tobitch and moan, I think I would pre-er i OC ranspo just fxed the messthat is Fallowfeld park and ride be-ore I get another ticket.
Steve DunneTird-year English student
Let’s blame the Irish
EHICALLY SPEAKING, NO eth-nically, I blame the Irish or the Yes victory in the Canadian Federation o Students (CFS) reerendum. Why isthis, you ask? In the 19th century, Irishworkers were brought over to Englandto intimidate voters to vote or a par-ticular party. In the same way, the Yescampaign engaged in blatant electoralraud. I saw groups o Yes support-ers standing outside polling stationsharassing students. Tese supporterswould descend on a student, explaintheir argument, and then guide thebewildered student to the polling sta-tion. When I voted, I even ound a Yespamphlet inside the polling station!Tis is unequivocally the very def-nition o electoral intimidation. TeReerendum Oversight Committeeought to have enorced the rules andregulations o the SFUO constitutionon reerendums. I the CFS wants aireducation ees, perhaps they shouldstart with a air reerendum.
Matt FairbanksTird-year political scienceand history student
Diversity and solidarity
51.8 PER CEN and 48.2 per centare the numbers everyone is throw-ing around but I’d like to highlight aneven better statistic: 21 per cent.Tat is the percentage o the stu-dent population who voted in theCFS ull-membership reerendum.For those who don’t know, the larg-est recorded voter turnout in this his-tory o the SFUO was 18.9 per cent,which means that more students wereinvolved in this decision than everbeore.Now, as a member o the Yes cam-paign, I am overjoyed at these results,and at the realization o a dream thator many has involved years o longhours and hard work to have thischoice even brought to the students.As a woman especially, I am thrilledto be a part o an organization thathas ought so hard to make me eelsae and empowered on campus. Butnow the results are in, the campaign isover and we have collectively chosento join the CFS. It’s time to move on.Tis shouldn’t be made into a win orlose situation. As a riend o mine stat-ed, “We can change more as membersthan as isolated critics”. Tis meansthat we can now use our voice to helpthe CFS grow as an organization, be-come more bilingual, etc., and to bringthe concerns o the No side to the tableas well. It’s a matter o respect or the21 per cent o students who got in- volved by voting or campaigning thatwe work together to unite our campus,to reach out and understand the posi-tion where everyone was coming romand move orward to a solution. Tisis a time to unite as a diverse studentbody with a wide range o opinions,but a common interest in students andtheir rights. Solidarity!
Becky Dier-McCombTird-year women’s studies and political science student
Nov. 27–Dec. 3, 2008
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