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James Keast feels that the presidents of DAL and TUNS should not be
involved in a "back-room deal" to merge DAL and TUNS.

I am under the impression that there is a lot of negotiating taking
place. For this reason I am not concerned over how the presidents wish
to conduct bussiness. I see the negotiating process as being very
similar to a union negotiating a contract. None of the details of a deal
are realeased untill a tentative deal has been reached. I trust my
university president, Dr. Rhodes, to negotiate the best deal for me as a
TUNS student.


> As far as I know the Dalhousie Senate has yet to be officially informed
> of this and probably won't be untill Traves is in a position to force
> them to agree - with _any_ $$$ to be saved they will find it difficult
> not to.

I don't think that the universities are being given any choice regarding
this merger. My understanding is that cabinet is very much in favour of
the DAL-TUNS merger. Remember that election time is getting closer and a
DAL-TUNS merger would allow the government to say: "Hey, we did manage
to merge DAL-TUNS and save big $$$."

While I am not particularly found of a DAL-TUNS merger. I don't see it
as being a "BAD-THING." I would like to know what other DAL and TUNS
students think. James Keast and I are hardly a representative sample of
students :-)


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Stephen Gregory                                    aa614@chebucto.ns.ca
Electrical Engineering, 3rd year                       gregorse@tuns.ca
Technical University of Nova Scotia        Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA