🚀 go-pugleaf

To start with I'd like to say that I am totally for a Dal-TUNS merger.  I
wish that Dal's Co-op program was as developed as TUNS's.  At least maybe
after a merger, the students enrolled in CS and Math could take _real_ 
full summer term classes instead of ridiculus 3 or 6 week courses.

As a student enrolled in a Joint CS and Math degree program, I
am naturally concerned for the future of Dal's CS program, but I am
as equally concerned with our Math program as well.  It seems to be 
getting overlooked in this discussion.  

I'm ashamed to say that before, last Friday, I didn't realize that 
TUNS had an Applied Math department (I apologize to students at 
TUNS for my ignorance).  To me, this source of overlap between Dal and 
TUNS presents more of a problem than the overlap in the CS departments/
divisions.  What will this mean for the future of the Math Division at 
Dal?  Is half of our Math division going to be uprooted and moved to 
the East Campus while the rest of the division tries to recruit lots 
of Grad students to fill up the empty offices in the Chase building?  
At least there has been no talk (that I have heard) of splitting up 
the CS division.

Am I the only Math student concerned about this?  Although this merger
won't affect me, since I plan to graduate before any implementation could 
occur, I am concerned for future students who have aspirations of gaining 
knowledge in both the practical and theoretical areas of Math and CS.

Stacey Scott
4th year Dal CS and Math student