From ck390@FreeNet.Carleton.CA Fri Feb 9 08:23:56 1996 Xref: elastic can.general:33753 ont.general:27548 soc.culture.canada:16661 tor.general:29457 Newsgroups: soc.culture.canada,ont.general,can.general,tor.general Path: elastic!exorcist!lethe!geac!herboid!whome!infoshare!iaw.on.ca!torn!nott!cunews!freenet.carleton.ca!FreeNet.Carleton.CA!ck390 From: ck390@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Neil A. McEwan) Subject: Congratulations U of T Students Message-ID: Sender: ck390@freenet.carleton.ca (Neil A. McEwan) Reply-To: ck390@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Neil A. McEwan) Organization: The National Capital FreeNet Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 04:52:06 GMT Lines: 32 Just a word to say congratulations to all those University of Toronto students who, in the guise of having a protest, rioted at the Ontario Legislature today. Once again you have made known your conviction that every student, no matter how affluent, unintelligent, or improvident, has a right to have 80% of his or her education paid for by the working taxpayer. Now we all know how those mean, heartless Tories want to make us pay for our own studies in German cinema, narrative theory and psycholinguistics, but to hell with them! Make the working people, most of whom were stupid enough to have voted Tory anyway, pay for our future prosperity. And if they won't pay, we'll simply threaten with violence the government that they democratically elected -- if democracy has to go in order to guarantee our future status as members of the upper-middle- class, so be it! You were all taught in first-year sociology that democracy was a sham, anyway. Remember -- the generation that ran up an incredible deficit with its social spending is aging and will soon be retired. We university students must be ready to take our places as the new generation of freeloaders! Students of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your... uh... I forget what, exactly, but you get the idea. Yrs. Neil A. McEwan University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies --