>-----Original
Message-----
>From: YUFA in
solidarity with CUPE 3903 [mailto:YUFA-CUPE@YorkU.CA]On
>Behalf Of
Louise Ripley
>Sent:
November 19, 2000 11:02 PM
>To:
YUFA-CUPE@YORKU.CA
>Subject: What
would he know?
>
>
>To Lorna
Marsden -
>I just read
the quote below in the latest MacLean's issue on
>universities.
I
>you are
taking in the ongoing CUPE3903 strike, where you are
>working hard
to
>indexation we
offer our current and should offer our future graduate
>students...
>at MIT and
UofT, what would he know?
>
>"Robert
Birgeneau, the former dean of science at the Massachusetts
>Institute
>believes that
it is key for Canada to boost support to its graduate
>students.
'Our top grads are going to be rapidly sought after not just by
>the United
States, but by Japan, Western Europe and the rest of the world,'
>says
Birgeneau. 'We need to significantly increase stipends for graduate
>students, and
to increase the number of graduate fellowships so people can
>focus their
energies. They shouldn't be spending half their time in
>part-time
jobs in order to feed themselves.'" (Maclean's 11/20/00:55).
>
>Louise Ripley
>Member, York
University Faculty Association
>Associate
Professor of Marketing
>The Joseph E.
Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies
>York
University
>~~~~~
>The mills
were made of marble
>the machines
were made out of gold;
>nobody ever
got tired
>and nobody
ever grew old