🚀 go-pugleaf

You have my TOTAL support!  I don't know what I'd do without my weekly 
tubesteak smothered in onions and jalepenos and hot sauce!

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


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Jerome Soh
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
ERTW