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In article <89Feb27.021748est.10863@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> tap@ai.toronto.edu (Tony Plate) writes:
>... I'm not striking against my department, I'm striking
>against the administration...
...
>...I've no
>desire to hurt my department or its faculty, and I hope that they don't take
>my striking as an action directed against them.  I also intensly dislike
>deserting my students just around mid-term time.

Although the TAs may be striking 'against the administration', the people 
hurting the most are students. I know. I'm an undergraduate student. I've had
my tutorials cancelled. I've had my access to classes blocked by picket lines. 
I've had tutors refuse to talk to me about academics. But I'm not nearly 
as affected as some of my friends, who feel completely lost.

Do the TAs realize that they are playing with our lives? Our careers? Our
futures?

In numerous gangster movies, I've seen portrayals of mafioso hurting
kids because of a dispute with their parents. In this strike,
the TAs are hurting students because of a dispute with the administration.

If you are truly concerned about your students, go back to work. Please?

>---------------- Tony Plate ----------------------  tap@ai.utoronto.ca -----
>Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 
>10 Kings College Road, Toronto, 
>Ontario, CANADA M5S 1A4
>

John
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