By Dr. Jeff Noonan
Sandwich Resident, Assistant Professor, Head of the Department of Philosophy
October 7, 2009

There is perhaps no experience more liberating than the feeling of freedom from parental domination that accompanies becoming a university student. Like all experiences of liberation, its initial expression tends to be undisciplined: rather than the freedom to differentiate oneself from one’s family background, to explore new ideas and new projects for living, it is first expressed in an egocentric way as the freedom to maximise pleasures without regard for others. In itself this expression is not bad but it must ultimately be accompanied by a learning process through which a deeper understanding of our interconnection with others is developed. >>

By Terrence Kennedy
Sandwich Resident

October 7, 2009

If there’s one thing I want Professor Noonan to understand, it’s that Sandwich Town is not the University’s Neighbourhood, and to couch it in those terms, is insulting. The University’s various partnerships with the Ambassador Bridge Company are self-promoting and destructive. Don’t presume to tell our citizens who we belong to.
When is the University going to admit to the public, that it runs the Duty Free shop in the bridge plaza?
The conflicts of interest must be a moral dilemma for all those principled professors who make six-figured salaries. Will your principles be challenged before or after your friends remove 15,000 Sandwich Towne residents? Don’t choke on the answer. >>