Photo: Could CC students unionization require Burning Man Festival attendance?
This past week, the CC Student Newspaper, The Catalyst, posted an article regarding current efforts by students to unionize at the $52,818 per year college. The goal of the effort is to take on “the organizational structure which takes after the namesake unions that catalyzed the labor movements in the U.S. and across the world.” After some research, we have found their list of their Top 10 priorities:
1) Grant students tuition clothing credits at local thrift and salvation army stores
2) Drop math and science from the Block Plan
3) Award college credits for time spent at cafe debates
4) Core curriculum include attendance at three formal protests to meet college requirements
5) Use CC endowment funds to level the Manitu Incline so ‘everybody can do it’
6) Add Burning Man road trip to Freshman orientation
7) Instead of naming buildings after imperfect founders, re-name campus facilities after planets or pastels
8) Change all the cafeteria glasses to mason jars – not because the CC can’t afford them but because they look utilitarian
9) Tuition cost to provide comprehensive health insurance for kiln explosions
10) Change ‘Pass/Fail’ to ‘Completed/Participated’
According to a direct quote from the article, “The organizers of the student union are not named in this article because they do not want to be singled out, out of respect for the horizontal nature of the organization.”
I’m sure the parents of the spoiled rich kids that make up the CC student body think the students deserve a union.
Au contraire, the parents must reside on the executive floor, infamous for busting unions, not supporting them.
I’m sure the parents of the spoiled rich kids that make up the CC student body think the students deserve a union.
Au contraire, the parents must reside on the executive floor, infamous for busting unions, not supporting them.
You got #6 wrong….you’re not allowed to refer to new students as “freshmen” as this alienates the female population due to the word, “man” in freshman. New students are officially recognized as, “first year’s.” Trust me, I know-even 20 years ago, as the token middle income student attending CC, I got ridiculed for referring to myself as a freshmen. God I’m insensitive.
They do the first-year label at DU, too.
You got #6 wrong….you’re not allowed to refer to new students as “freshmen” as this alienates the female population due to the word, “man” in freshman. New students are officially recognized as, “first year’s.” Trust me, I know-even 20 years ago, as the token middle income student attending CC, I got ridiculed for referring to myself as a freshmen. God I’m insensitive.
They do the first-year label at DU, too.