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Re: “Strike calls for sympathy, transparency” Nov. 24, 2009

To the editor:

There was once a time when I was proud to represent my purple and white. But the handling of this London Transit Commission strike situation is just appalling.

To think I was defending this university when my friends were bashing it during the first couple days of the strike, now no one’s holding them back. We have approximately 22,000 undergraduate students and at roughly $0.50 each day [the LTC reimbursement to students], it comes to a staggering total of $11,000 per day. To this point in time, it’s been 14 days, which results in a grand total of just over $160,000.

I fail to see the correlation between this total, and the services provided by Western to cope with the situation.

Why aren’t the parking lots free? Haven’t they generated enough money from the extra traffic that’s been going to the lots?

I really hope Western gets its act together, for our new president’s sake and for our much-celebrated student satisfaction rating, because I know at least 22,000 people are not satisfied.

—Mo Paco
Science IV

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