Strike fever
The early morning news said it all; the professors at my favourite university are on the sidewalks, with polite picket signs and polite rhetoric. Parity, at any cost.
I don’t want to think about the stress this is causing to a certain percentage of the student body. Students can do the math. Every class does have a value, both in educational and monetary terms. For students that are going into debt for the next decade or more, the thought that a calendar year might just be forfeit must be frustrating to a degree that their academic efforts have never been.
I sympathize with the professors; however, they did contract with the university to provide a certain amount of effort for a certain amount of money. The demand for parity, whatever that really means, should not be placed on the backs of those least able to fight back. Governments are able to spend (squander) public funds in the oddest of places. The purchase of a lobster processing industry or a golf course might be done deeds, but the future budgets should avoid such marginal expenditures. The government can decide to better fund the university, with the same pen that has mismanaged tax monies in past.
