We’d like to welcome a new Guest Writer to our group, Anthony Oluwatoyin. His column called Simon Fraser University versus the Public Interest is now posted in the Columnist section. Here’s a snippet:
The recently released 10th Anniversary issue of Antithesis, Simon Fraser University’s Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) magazine, is a must-read for all taxpayers of the province and anyone who wants a good peek into the future of our politics and journalism.
PIRG is part of an American-based left-wing activism group going all the way back to the late 1960s, early 1970s, inspired by then consumer advocate and later US Presidential candidate Ralph Nader. PIRGs were and still are mainly centered on University campuses. The one at SFU (SFPIRG), originally BCPIRG, was organized around 1981.
PIRG power at SFU is now at such a point that every single student is a member of the group. And not by application, either. It’s automatic with enrolment, and there is only a brief period each semester when a student may apply for a refund of fees. That’s right. With involuntary membership comes a $3 fee for each full-time student ($1.50, part-time) that the group gets, straight from the administration. At 25,000 students, this is serious money. Not to mention taxation without representation.
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