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Activists at Concordia like to brag that the school has a long tradition of “direct action”. During the heady days of 1969, the (in)famous “Computer Riots” occurred at Concordia??s Hall Building. Some students felt that not enough was being done to address complaints of racism against blacks in a particular professor’s grading. Instead of simply occupying the campus, the protesters chose to ‘take it to the man’ by throwing computers out of the seventh and ninth floor windows...
Radicals have dominated the CSU for the past three years. Many only take one or two classes in order to devote themselves fully to activism. Hard leftists, they ally themselves with many of Concordia??s large Middle-Eastern community on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, making the issue dominate student political life. Widespread apathy has also allowed extremists to flourish in the CSU. The executive that oversaw the Netanyahu riot was elected with less than 7 percent of the vote. But when campaigning, even they had pledged to tone down the extremism of their predecessors...
...Next year’s CSU was elected on a platform of “students first, activism second”. This new executive, called “Evolution not Revolution,” won by a landslide with one of the highest turnouts in Concordia??s history. And that’s the thing: The vast majority of students do not agree with the CSU’s recent extremism. Even though many, including myself, are strongly opposed to certain Israeli policies, very few believe in globalizing the Intifada. Academically, Concordia is a fine university with world...
...Concordia??s a very good team that plays in the tiered division above us, and they have some talented players,” captain and setter Mike Bookman said. “We wanted to show that we can play with the best teams on the East Coast...
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