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>From: SPTnews
[mailto:SPTNEWS@YorkU.CA]On Behalf Of q q
>Sent:
November 24, 2000 3:22 AM
>To:
SPTNEWS@YORKU.CA
>Subject: yesterday's
events
>
>
>hi all,
>
>just a quick
report:
>
>the liberal
thing went well, some people occupied the liberal headquarters.
>no arrests.
>the rest were
outside handing out leaflets...
>about 80-100
people were there.
>
>then we had a
speakers mike. sid ryan gave a nice speak... and others, like
>david mcnally,
also spoke. it was nice pep talk.
>
>the public
art collective had some heads on sticks and all that
>jazz. it was
>nice because
the rhythm squad also showed up. jonnie and grant gave the
>puppets a
cool groove to dance to.
>
>then we all
left without incident.
>
>then at 4pm
we went to senate.
>lots of
senate talk stuff,
>then more debate
about blue safety gates...
>but then in
the last 5 minutes the senate
>voted to have
a cupe link on the yorku.ca website.
>it passed. a
minor victory.
>but will
senate recommendations be implemented?
>
>and that was
it.
>
>Lorna was
there.
>she looked
ragged and tired.
>(that is the
real lorna, not the puppet)
>maybe we got
her on the ropes...
>
>As people
filed out, jonnie and grant beat out
>a tremendous
groove.
>
>ciao,
>mike
>
>note: the
high point of the senate meeting was when Andrea
>Harrington
gave a
>stirring
account of her teaching at york and her current feeling
>of betrayal.
>I got choked
up. It was another strike menopausal moment for me.... mm
>
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