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william burchill <williamb@ee.ubc.ca> wrote:

>Our story so far: UBC Food Services invites Mr. Tubesteak to hustle hotdogs
>on campus. It happens. Soon, wiener wanters were enthusiastically engorging
>exceedingly excellent entrails. A considerable cornucopia of condiments 
>complemented completely.

>CUPE, confused and concerned, condemned. Preternaturally protesting 
>"privatized" products, pernicious persons precipitated problems. Too
>terrorized by tubesteaks?

>Cowardly, campus cognoscenti capitulate. High Noon for Hotdog Handlers!

>To paraphrase, tubesteakers were told to get out of town by sundown, Jan 31,
>or eat lead!
>                         *   *   *   *   *

>Moral Bankruptcy: By caving in to a few whiners, UBC's administration has 
>displayed a politically expedient moral bankruptcy.  While hotdogs aren't
>worth defending, people's jobs and certain principles are. Why have they
>been trashed? (De-employed and dis-upheld if you prefer.) 

>     The tubesteakers created their own jobs without displacing others. They
>work for every penny they earn, and are cheerful and courteous. It's fun
>to go to their little carts, and students line up for them even in the rain.

>Many people believe hard work, innovation, job creation, and services to 
>students should be encouraged, or at least not outlawed. To the UBC
>Administration: Please show us that you agree, and invite the tubesteakers
>to remain. It may not be the easiest, but it is the right thing to do.

>William Burchill,
>Grad student

Extremely funny and a delight to read! Please post more often!

Exemplary execution exceeding every excellent endeavor ever extracted
from van.general. Unless, of course, you are a grad from the creative
writing program, in which case: FAIL for excessive alliteration!

MRM