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[elizalavelle]

Yet another reason to be ashamed to be a Laurentian graduate:

http://ourlu.com/

http://ourlaurentian.googlepages.com/home

They are keeping people out of their programs, suing their own students and really what this comes down to is just the University having a petty grudge against one of their own professors.

That school makes me so mad that I feel phyically sick.

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[browncoat2x2]

That is utterly ridiculous...

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

This is the institution that is responsible for my dislike of Sudbury.

I actually took a course with Dr. Persinger. It was one of the hardest courses I ever took but I was so proud when I passed it. He is one of the few profs there who really challenge their students. LU would rather people get easy marks, that makes for happier students and more people telling their friends to go to their school ergo more money for LU. It's shameful.

[browncoat2x2]

Well, I wouldn't dislike the whole city based on the University, but I don't blame you for hating Laurentian. But most Universities are just as bad in their own ways... my hubby could tell you all kinds of stories about York when he was there. Universities aren't learning institutions anymore, they're money making enterprises, and the longer they're allowed to remain so, the worse off our education system will become. It's not just LU, sadly, it's everywhere. But this does go above and beyond. I can't believe the precedent they are setting with this case... what this could mean for students, it's frightening. It's like taking a step back into the dark ages, where education was solely the province of the rich...

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

This is true, and parts of Sudbury I like a lot. We used to go visit my aunt there every summer so I have good memories there, just a lot of recent bad ones.

LU has always set a scary precedent for dealing with things. My first year I was a witness to a student being sexually harassed but LU didn't want to punish the harasser because she was a woman and native and claimed that everyone was picking on her because she was native. The school said it looked like we were picking on her because she was gay, the harasser insisted she wasn't gay (she's is now and she's out, at the time I think she was just confused... which still doesn't make it okay to look through shower stalls at people changing)

Anyways the school took forever to even move this girl to a different floor of the building and only really took action when the harassee got the police involved.

Then everyone who was a witness was banned from moving to any other residence. I had to appeal that just so I could get away from that drama.


Loooong story to show that LU really operates itself poorly.