UWSA reschedules AGM, students get big chance for change By Nick Olynyk News Reporter April 2, 2008 The UWSA will hold its annual general meeting (AGM) at 4 p.m. this Thursday in the CAW commons area.
The meeting, required of every corporation in Ontario, is an informative opportunity for students for ask questions and speak their minds in front of student council and executive.
This year’s meeting will have presentations from each member of the UWSA executive. Additionally, a special presentation of an environmental assessment done on campus will be made.
Students will have a chance to make big changes in the direction council takes on matters if quorum is met. >> | Senator challenges bankruptcy law to ease student debt By Natasha Marar News Editor April 2, 2008 Quebec Senator Yoine Goldstein is receiving support since the reintroduction of his Bill S-205 last October, which hopes to ease the financial burden of individuals paying back student loans.
 The purpose of S-205 is to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act so that post-secondary students fraught with student loans will be able to apply for bankruptcy after only two years of finishing school. Normally, individuals must wait seven years before filing for bankruptcy. >>  | | Campus Kiss | | Part-time profs paid par to poverty wage By Natasha Marar News Editor April 2, 2008 The University of Windsor’s 450 sessional instructors are negotiating a new contract that has many contract professors hoping for increased recognition and promotion.
Half of all instruction on campus is performed by sessional instructors.
“Over the last ten years ... this supplemental teaching force has been relied on increasingly to fill non-renewals in teaching,” said Garth Rennie, a sessional communication studies professor for the past eight years. “The sessional [instructors] have met the demand of the expansion, especially the double cohort.”
“It’s looking worse and worse for this pool of people who are looking like a subclass of people,” said Julie Sando the sessional director for the Windsor University Faculty Association (WUFA). “You are working like a workhorse for the department without adequate pay and research time ... you get caught up in teaching only ... and [sessional instructors] don’t have any security knowing if they will be hired back next semester.” >> |
