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[occupysiuc-blog]

[doctorqueer]

Please watch this quick video. We need everyone's help at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Thanks.

[doctorqueer]

RAW FOOTAGE of SIUC Student March and Rally. 1000+ estimated marchers! This is what democracy looks like!

[doctorqueer]

quick update on the union-busting tactics of Chancellor Rita Cheng and the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University Carbondale

[girlnamedkatie]

Today I didn't go to class because I didn't want to be harassed and heckled by professors, who I cannot avoid on my way to class.  I support the faculty but I've spent thousands of dollars for this semester and I cannot afford to throw that away.  Faculty should be intimidating the administration,  not the students. 

[siucsettle-blog]

Rita Cheng's E-mail Propaganda 11-4-11

I will spare you the majority of this official e-mail and instead highlight what I mean when I say the university spreads false information and half-truths. After several paragraphs of explaining the proposals SIUC made to the faculty association Cheng slips this in without any explanation of why it was rejected.

Finally, the University’s wage proposal mirrors the proposals offered to and accepted by other unions on campus. Namely, a 1% increase in January of 2012, a 1% increase in July of 2012, and a 2% increase in July of 2013.

If you watch the video I posted last week or read any of the statements made by the Faculty you will learn that they rejected this because they do not want tuition raised for students.  Instead, the Faculty Association asked that they share in any increased revenue the university makes.  I wonder why the Administration would reject that? Could it be because raising tuition is far more lucrative to them than sharing in profit which would reduce the administrators' raises? (Raises that they all received this year during this financial crisis, by the way).

Now if I had included the full text you could have also basked in Rita Cheng's egregious repetition of the word "Finally". Apparently she doesn't know what it means.

[siucsettle-blog]

For Harry Potter fans this is what it feels like at SIUC right now.  I have heard reports of Grad Assistants being tailed around campus, spied on, and the administration continues to churn out false information and half-truths.  Officially, "qualified substitutes" are in classes to replace faculty, but many of these people merely take attendance and dismiss the students.

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