Meow everyone.
Many of us either are, or have been through the university system, in some cases, several times. I have had the opportunity to attend schools in BC as well as several Ontario colleges and universities to undertake a variety of study areas. I have always felt that school was and will always continue to be a very significant [part of my life as what i can learn is priceless.
I have come to learn that university offers the obvious in that it teaches the student the basics of a potential career on a wide variety of professional fields. One can be a Dr., a Lawyer, an engineer, literally anything ones heart desires is only a campus away. The academic knowledge is plentiful, the atmosphere as unique as are the students who attend and the offerings equally as great. however, in my discoveries, i have learned that the academic component of the university system is actually a very small part of what university life is all about. Now I do have the benefit of a few extra years of lived experience as opposed to the average age of a university student , so i have a certain amount of for knowledge afforded me as a result of this lived experience. Universities offer, as i said, a great academic background in a variety of professional careers, however, what it REALLY offers is the beginnings of a LIVED experience. One gets to see, possibly for the first time , a life outside their town, as one example.
However, there is on element of university life and its subsequent experience that shows its dark side. I am referring to the many fringe groups that prey upon unsuspecting students. I am really sick and tired of them ( these fringe groups ) using my school , and other schools as their own private recruitment sites for their criminality. I can see clearly, innocent students looking for a cause, but being exploited by these criminals . So many of these students are not only new students , but also, new to the big city and all of its trappings. These fringe groups exploit them, knowing full well these new students are not worldly enough yet to really know what they are getting into, until its too late. I know we can’t stop this from happening, but at least, my opinion only ,t we can educate them enough to allow them to have some sort of vision as to see at least some of what they ( these fringe groups ) REALLY do.
We are all by now aware of the student strikes in Quebec. These were led by so called student leaders. one of these leaders , ( she was the past president of the Ryerson Student Union ) made the following statement on her twitter feed :
I must wonder if Ms. Loreto was aware of the significant consequence of acts of criminality that it will have forever on the person who commits the offense. These fringe groups and radical student unions look for people. prey on people will do the dirty work for them, while these same leaders hide in their offices away from where the action is.
As rule , student unions have , or are supposed to have anti oppression polices against things such as violence , racist and sexist comments, along with a plethora of other things. However, policies are one thing, enacting them is quite another story.
In the not too distant past, there was a very well documents case were right inside and literally at the front door of of the University of Toronto graduate student union lounge / pub, an act of violence was not only enacted, but it was pre-planned and persons were brought in specifically for the sole purpose of enacting this violence upon one person that they themselves have invited to speak on a matter. this took place on University property and under the direct watch of ANARCHISTS, black bloc anarchists. So they seeming had all of these wonderful policies to fall back on , when it was convenient to use them, but somehow, they decided to suspend policies when it suited them to physically assault someone.
Last night, I had an opportunity to attend a seminar about human trafficing, one of the ugliest forms of oppression on the planet. it was not long before Harsha Walia spoke. If you want to see the racist in action, just go to an event where she speaks and see for yourself. According to her, white males, are responsible , almost exclusively, for the claimed exploitation of aboriginal , brown and black women ….. according to her.
Racism, anarchism, the condoning of violence, they are all alive, sadly, and one does not have to look farther than their own student unions to see it.
Let me leave you with a quote to show the mind set of some persons who are so called student leaders. here is a direct quote from a guy from the York University Federation of Students. :
” … Before the show started, Nila Zameni, the V.P. of Campus Life for the YFS urged the crowd to take action against the school for continuing to raise their tuition fees and had the entire crowd chanting “Rise Up, Resist, Retaliate”. … ”
Next time, i will start to expose the persons directly who lead these student unions / fringe groups on the campuses . there will be names and faces .