CBC Radio\u2019s \"As It Happens\" host Mary Lou Finlay interviewed two York University student politicians Jan. 13 about the lack of agreement over who won the student council elections. Finlay talked to Nick Freedman<\/B>, a member of the old student council who does not wish to ratify the Nov. 27 election results, and Paul Cooper<\/B>, who won the vote for student council president but whose win has not been ratified. Freedman denied allegations that the old council was full of pro-Palestinian sympathizers. He said the old council rarely discussed Middle Eastern politics, and Cooper said only a small minority of the Progress Not Politics (PNP) candidates who won seats had Zionist links.<\/P>
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In continuing coverage of the impasse, Canadian Jewish News <\/I>reported Jan. 15 that York had suspended funding to the York Federation of Students last Friday and a University staff member was appointed to monitor the group\u2019s finances. Although the PNP slate, headed by Cooper, had won the bulk of the seats, the results had not been ratified, said the newspaper. \"This is the epitome of undemocratic, pathetic, sour-grapes illegal politics,\" Cooper <\/B>told CJN. \"It\u2019s a renegade council that\u2019s gone against the wishes of all students of York and the principles of democracy that it\u2019s meant to uphold,\" he said, adding that \"the administration has been supportive of doing what\u2019s right.\" Outgoing YFS president Mike Novak<\/B> told CJN last Friday he was \"distraught\" over the council\u2019s behaviour and its \"undemocratic nature.\"<\/P>
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York stadium \u2018out of reach\u2019<\/P><\/B>
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In his Globe and Mail<\/I> column Jan. 14, sports writer Stephen Brunt said a downtown stadium could be the answer for everyone. At York University<\/STRONG>, he argued, the Toronto Argonauts football team would be out of sight, out of mind \u2013 and effectively out of reach of mass transit. It's the potential of attracting new customers that's the key to this enterprise and ample parking isn't going to be much of a sales pitch, he said. Brunt observed that Larry Tanenbaum, key shareholder in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, which has proposed a stadium at the University of Toronto that would include the Argonauts, usually gets what he wants. Writers in the Toronto Star <\/EM>and National Post <\/EM>also hashed over the stadium proposals, noting that while Argo owners Howard Sokolowski and David Cynamon have expressed strong interest in York, as well as Woodbine racetrack and the Exhibition grounds, it was useful to have a strong negotiating position in talks with Tanenbaum.<\/P> On air<\/P> York students involved in the debate over student election results articulated their views...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-york-in-the-media"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"\n
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