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Thursday 22 January

1. Notes on yesterday's meeting: meeting-20-jan.htm

2. Message from Senate on Accommodation: senate-22-jan.htm

    Printable version: senate-22-jan.doc

3. Those who have firm (and demonstrable) commitments for the spring that may be difficult or impossible to meet because of an extended Winter Term should consult the document above in #2.  As stated at our meeting yesterday,  the time to act is now.  There are ways to obtain deferred standing and accommodating students in this position.  The time to act is now while doors should be open.  Immediately contact by e-mail your instructors, even those on strike, all of whom should have the courtesy to answer you.  If not approach chairs of Departments.  If no one responds within a reasonable time, contact an Associate Dean in your Faculty.  In your correspondence you must be clear and brief about your problem and at all times courteous.  Leave aside any ill feelings about the strike.  Your message must be about your problem not about how you and your fellow students have been wronged.  That can be addressed on another day.  If you can show clearly that you will have difficulties, act now!

4. Return to classes for some lucky students: http://www.yorku.ca/mediar/archive/Release.php?Release=1587

5. Message from President Shoukri: http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=11888

6. Today’s :Tool Kit”: http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=11884

7. Today’s meeting of Senate: http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=11887

8. Those wishing further information and to make contact with other students should contact Winters College Council at: www.winterscouncil.com

Wednesday 21 January

Message from CUPE: cupe-21-jan.htm

Bustin' out at the AGYU: bustinout-agyu.htm

1. Three important notes from the Registrar:

A. registrar-20-jan-a.htm

B. registrar-20-jan-b.htm

C. registrar-20-jan-c.htm

Printable Versions:

A. 20-jan-a.doc

B. 20-jan-b.doc

C. 20-jan-c.doc

2. CUPE on the vote: CUPE-20-JAN-B.htm

3. Further statement from CUPE: cupe-20-jan-c.htm

4. Message from the University: http://www.yorku.ca/mediar/archive/Release.php?Release=1585

5. York Student Federation on Refunds: http://www.yfs.ca/index.php?section_id=250. You should remember that the last date for dropping a course and receiving a refund was 1 October 2008.  The University is obliged to offer  students the courses in which they have enrolled in a manner that satisfies degree requirements stipulated and regulated by the University Senate.

6. Metro Pass On-Line: http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=11880

7. Latest "Tool Kit": http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=11881 (This link is currently blank.)

Tuesday  20 January

1.  CUPE 20 January: cupe-20-jan.htm

2.  2 notes from Terpsichore6: terpsichore6.htm

6.  "Tool Kit": http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=11865

7.  Monit Sahota announces a new, non-profit book exchange: books.htm

Monday 19 January

1.  The latest from CUPE: cupe-19-jan.htm and cupe-19-janb.htm

2.   "Strike Tool Kit": http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=11859

Sunday 18 January

1. Message from some CUPE members: CUPE 18 January

2. Message from CUPE: cupe-18-jan-b.htm

3. For information about tuition difficulties contact General Enquiries-Bennett Centre for Student Services (BCS) Telephone: (416)736-5262.

Saturday 17 January

1. From CUPE: http://www.yorku.ca/pswarney/Winters/cupe-17-jan.htm

2. Assignments due before 6 November will be penalized according to formulas advertised in the course syllabus.  They will not be accepted only if the syllabus or assignment announced that no assignments would be received after the advertised due date.

3. The reason for voicing your opinions individually to all your instructors in each of your courses is that the dominant perception of students' opinions comes from the position announced by the Students' Federation.

Friday 16 January

1. Deans’ message to CUPE: http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=11856

2. Message from CUPE to Contract Faculty: http://cupe3903unit2.cupe.ca/

3. Today’s “Tool Kit”: http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=11851

4. Message from some members of Faculty to CUPE: http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=11854

5. If you are sending e-mails to your instructors expressing your opinion against or for York's proposed contract, send them to all your instructors. 

Thursday 15 January

1. Latest "Tool Kit" from York:  http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=11847

2. York's message to CUPE: http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=11850

3. Those wishing to write to the parties in the strike can find e-mail addresses for CUPE in the bulletins from CUPE published here and for York on the University's main web page.  Please carefully read York's offer to CUPE (cf. # 2. in the items listed for 8 January below before writing:

 http://www.yorku.ca/mediar/archive/Release.php?Release=1580)

and Cupe's replies (http://www.yorku.ca/pswarney/Winters/cupe-09-14-jan.htm)  

As stated below (14 January # 5) your comments should be as polite as possible to be persuasive.  I think that "righteous indignation" is partly at the core of this impasse. Equally or more effective targets for your comments both against and for the proposed contract may be all the instructors in all your courses.

4. Tuition is charged according to the credits that the University Senate has assigned to each course Faculty by Faculty and credit is given according to whether Senate deems that you have satisfied the requirements of the course.  My observations from previous disruptions, which have appeared often in these notes, is that attempts to recover legally  tuition paid for classes suspended during strikes have failed.

5. The strike will be settled on Tuesday night only if the majority of all those voting accepts York's offer.  The vote will be held unit by unit. 

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