Shirley speaks out over Dirty Bingo firing
Offensive comment at Dirty Bingo leads to second firing in two years
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York events commemorate transgender violence victims
It’s critical to raise awareness around transphobia because it’s something we, collectively as a society, play a role in. [A day of commemoration] is an opportunity for [York students] as a community to remember those who lost their lives as a result of transphobia — Darshika Selvasivam, V-P Campaigns and Advocacy
The more things change…
The YFS are finally making some changes to the student government elections process.
McGuinty’s scholarship plan may not add up
What international competition means for local universities
Point – The strike: York doesn’t care
I remember one thought sticking in my head at that time: my university doesn’t give a single fuck about me
Counterpoint – Know what? The strike wasn’t so bad
Why shouldn’t we mark this anniversary with a look at the brighter side of the Great Strike?
Retrospective: Great York University Strikes
The York University Staff Association (YUSA), made up of 1,000 secretarial workers and library technicians, prepares to strike in the fall of 1978; they’re worried about administration contracting out their jobs, as well as the notion new technological advanc- es may make some of their work ‘obsolete.’ They also ask for a 10-percent wage increase, where the university offers four percent.
How the strike saved my school life
While CUPE 3903 and York were in meetings, arguing over contracts, I was at the doctor’s office discovering that I had caught infectious mononucleosis.
Toronto’s biggest little film festival
Reel Asian returns with great movies and plenty of audience interaction
Galloway incites protest
The brutal wind and the pouring rain did not stop protestors from gathering to rally against a presentation by controversial guest speaker former British MP George Galloway at York Nov. 16.