🚀 go-pugleaf

UBC's student newspaper, the Ubyssey has an article about the
crass political appointment of Ken Georgetti to the Board of
Governors of UBC.  Why on earth the govt. in Victoria thinks
that a labour advocate should have a hand in the governing of
a university is a question that students ought to ask themselves.

In the article, Georgetti admits "I don't have enough connection
with students themselves.  I look forward to hearing their
perspective."

Well, being naive, I took him at his word and called him up to
give him a student perspective on the Tubesteak issue.  I wanted
to explain the complexities: the history of the
Administration saddling students with monopolies, special interest
groups running everything on this campus, why this particular issue
so resonates with students, etc. but before I even got into these
things, I was told that the issue was insignificant and that I
was impolitely asking 'leading questions.'  My 'leading' question
was: was it fair to say that students could expect him to side
with CUPE given his involvement with the labour movement?

So much for Mr. Georgetti's forging connections with students.  It
would seem that if you are not a partisan supporter of his special
interests, Mr. Georgetti is not interested in your concerns as a
student.  I suspect that the 'looking forward to student's perspective'
that Mr. Georgetti claimed was really the looking forward to
having the socialistic psychophants of student politics whispering
in his ears.

Which again begs the question that students should ask themselves,
does the govt. in Victoria have students' and the university's
best interests in mind when it appoints labour advocates to
govern universities?

An apparently unimportant urchin of the underclass at UBC,

Michael Kyba