Tuesday Nov. 22nd 2011

SUCKS TO B.U.
I live in Rivers MB. Rivers is only about half hour away from Brandon MB. Brandon is home to Brandon University, and as we all know; Brandon University has now been on strike for the past 41 days. So over a month now. This weekend when I visited home I was able to talk to a couple of my really good friends who are going to BU and there thoughts on everything that has happened with there school. I was actually surprised to see how frustrated my one friend is just because all throughout high school is was about the most un-studious person I knew! So it came to shock when he vented about how mad he was about the strike.
I think that it is complete B.S. what the students are going through right now. What's worse is that the profs have said that they are not refunding the students there lost tuition for missing the school that they have. I just do not understand the nerve that they have. At first (I don't know if this has changed on not) they were asking for a 37% increase in there pay! How do they expect to get that?! I know for a fact that after this year if they are wanting to get an increase in pay there tuition costs are going to have to get a lot higher because there is most definitely not going to be the same amount of people who attended BU this year as they have been in the past.
This is also ridiculous because they are saying that if they go back to school they will be making up for lost time during either the Christmas or summer holidays. I'm sorry.... but if they expect to get paid more money they how the hell can the students afford to pay for that if the time that they have to work in the summer and Christmas break to pay for there school is cut short.
One last note to how crazy/ridiculous/frustrating this whole thing is is that how are exchange students  and the students that do not live here are being torn into not being able to go home because they have no idea to when they will even return to school. So in the mean time they cannot go home for right now, or even make plans to go home for there own Christmas because they don't know if they will have to stay at school and make up for the time that the selfish, self centred, self absorbed professors have missed.