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Re: Concerns about Dalhousie-TUNS merger

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From: Kirk Brown
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 00:00
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Marni Tuttle (tuttle@ug.cs.dal.ca) wrote:
: Paul Moeller (pmoeller@ra.isisnet.com) wrote:
: : >	How do you adequately transport students from one HUGE campus, to
: : >another campus downtown in the 10 minutes we have for class changes?  

: : I attended a very large university in the U.S. that held classes in a
: : number of "satellite" campuses that were kms from the main campuse.
: : The attitude of university admin was that it was entirely the students
: : responsibility to get to those campuses.  

: 	Doesn't seem like an ideal situation to me... Particularly awkward
: for those of us who are involved in two extremely different degrees.  So why
: would our universities plan such a thing on purpose?  Why would they
: discourage students from pursuing both their interests when it is to the
: benefit of everyone one involved that students become multi faceted and
: talented individuals?

: --
: Marni Tuttle | tuttle@ug.cs.dal.ca | Look! http://www.ug.cs.dal.ca/~tuttle/ 
: '95/96 President of DSCSS | Dal Grad '96 | BA English | BSc Computing Science
: All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. - Unknown


Don't people from Dal and Saint Mary's travel to MSVU (and vice versa) to 
courses?  MSVU, if I'm not mistaken, has the only courses locally in 
Women's Studies.  

I think the commute down the street won't be as bad as everyone is making 
out to be.  Courses will be planned appropriately.  

kirk brown@ug.cs.dal.ca
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From: brown@ug.cs.dal.ca (Kirk Brown)
Subject: Re: Concerns about Dalhousie-TUNS merger
Date: 1996/03/31
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