Word: students
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Just as Canadian workers are becoming more politically aware as economic problems increasingly plague Canadian society, Canada's students are showing more interest in promoting social and political change in their country. The recent upsurge in Canadian student activism creates a stark contrast to the relative complacency of their counterparts in the United States. The gradual radicalization of the students has played a crucial role in the left-wing politics of Canada, because students provide an important academic base for the working-class movement and help legitimize left-wing demands...
...National Union of Students (NUS) is one of the cornerstones of student radicalism. The union officially represents 350,000 students from all over the country and has an operating budget of hundreds of thousands of dollars, which comes from dues paid by individual chapters at most colleges and universities. The union, run by a Central Committee of 11 members, goes beyond simply looking out for students' interests by connecting student issues with the broader question of structural reform of the Canadian economy...
...Student members of the CRR say that equal student and faculty representation is the most important of the reforms...
...bureau's initial purpose "was to try to see the experience of college in the very different ways that different students see it," Perry said. "We found that the same student came to see the meaning of the experience in new ways year by year," he added...
...legal responsibility is largely redundant. Harvard has some extremely competent management investors and I am sure the administration has professionals to deal with other facets of these subjects. Not only is the ACSR's concentration on them inappropriate, it is dysfunctional. The ACSR was set up in response to student demands for a group to investigate the social and moral aspects of Harvard's actions and lack thereof. Although social consequences are sometimes discussed, they tend to appear secondary and the discussions are largely superficial. When the question that Harvard might be sued was raised, ACSR members discussed the negative...