So, remember when the ivory tower was about ideas?
Tonight, the Carleton University Students Association will debate a motion as to whether or not pro-life groups should be restricted from forming clubs. While I loathe their movement, I am a big fan of letting all ideas get the test of open air. Bad ones tend to rot quickly, and to be sure the pro-life cause is filled with rotten ideas.
So, I am going to link to the document I put up on the relevant facebook group, which I started, opposing the motion. You can find some more background stuff out here, and there have also been a number of traditional press stories on it.
I suspect tonight's meeting will end up a shouting match, which is unfortunate, but hope that it does not. Similarly, I suspect that the motion will pass easily, even if opposition is entirely eloquent and rational, which is also unfortunate. I'll update more as I get it, and to be sure this will become a bit of a cause celebre on this blog over the next few months.
So, I am going to link to the document I put up on the relevant facebook group, which I started, opposing the motion. You can find some more background stuff out here, and there have also been a number of traditional press stories on it.
I suspect tonight's meeting will end up a shouting match, which is unfortunate, but hope that it does not. Similarly, I suspect that the motion will pass easily, even if opposition is entirely eloquent and rational, which is also unfortunate. I'll update more as I get it, and to be sure this will become a bit of a cause celebre on this blog over the next few months.
posted by an Mike Powell at 1:37 PM
3 Comments:
i thought the motion was to block funding to them, though they could still form clubs and /or societies?
The motion, as worded would suggest that clubs dedicated exclusively to pro-life causes would be restricted. There was, apparently, some discussion at the meeting on interpretation which suggested otherwise.
In any case, the matter remains that this is not reasonable grounds to restrict either funding or club status.
Free market of ideas baby. Free market of ideas.
Honestly, they are the last real bastion of collectivist political action in Canada...it is remarkable. Unlike other student governments, it isn't so much that CUSA is incompetent or corrupt as it is that they actually believe most of the bullshit they spout and use it as a basis of their operations. Give me a liar over a zealot any day of the week.
Here is a fun thought experiment. If one were to eliminate CUSA, and refund the hundreds of dollars per student in fees paid each year to keep their million $+ operation afloat (essentially every Carleton student would get their books for free) would anyone notice? Yeah. Exactly.
At least no CUSA politician in recent memory has been able to get elected to a real public office and been allowed to exercise their unique ability to poison public debate on a broader scale.
Sigh.
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