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?
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How York Spent Its Strike Time
How the York students did in the mean-time
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.
Dungeons and Dominatrices
The ETDWSS made for an excellent forum for student kinksters to learn a little more about the BDSM scene
Undefeated with six wins
‘It’s knowing what I want and where I want to hit and just going full out and not worrying about the other team and not worrying about my game’ — Brandie Wilkerson
Lions forge comeback after weekend wins
‘It was a team effort, we never gave up, and we are always dedicated to win as a team’— Lllyandra Kerr
Weekly catch-up
Sport-bites from the past week
The new n’etiquette
Interacting online might seem as simple as taking the social world to the net but words like ‘friend’ have completely different meanings on the web