I'm glad that Cinema Politica got their extra funding, I think they do great stuff. I'm not a Concordia student but I do donate at every screening I attend. For what it's worth I don't think Fagstein is against the decision to provide the increased funding though he did use the percentage and not the dollar value.

Cheese

PS: I can't beleive that JN managed to throw in yet another separatist comment on a topic that has nothing to do with Quebec independence. Unreal.

So, yeah, students don't have much right to complain about tuition increases when they are choosing to pay $30 for a grocery store that they will never shop at or $15 for a newspaper that they will never read.

No, it didn't.

http://elections.csu.qc.ca/index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=3&pid=369

Tuition fees: Students have no choice. They are enough to put someone in debt for decades after graduation. They have all kinds of "back door" and surreptitious ways of insinuating themselves. They go to a failing education system that does more to please corporations than to provide good critical education to the public.

Fee levies: Students have a choice to opt out - this isn't a smarmy or cheeky ploy, students really can opt out: don't let the ironic tone fool you folks! They add up to a teeny fraction of overall student expenses (Cinema Politica's current fee of 2cents per credit per student is less than two pieces of licorice per student, per year). They go to excellent social and political services on campus like QPIRG, The People's Potato, Frigo, Cinema Politica and more.

The notion of aggregate funding is something anti-union people hate, but everyone chipping in a little makes for great daily free lunches and weekly free documentary screenings at Concordia. And if you're not into all that hippy stuff, again, you can opt out (unlike tuition fees).

PS: Council is not always the rosy-cheeked open-armed group that is described in the above post. I was there when Frigo posed their fee levy increase question to council - it took over three hours and was voted against at first. Hardly the all-are-welcome portrait painted here.

PPS: It's clever, but also kind of predictable to put a tiny fee levy increase like Cinema Politica's in percentage terms isn't it? 250% sounds much more drastic than a nickel. But then again, we've come to expect this kind of rhetoric from those who prefer the megaplex to our lefty fare...

So what’s wrong with the CSU??? If it’s good for the goose, it’s good for the gander, no???