Tailgate & Unscientific Survey on Campus WiFi

SGA will be tailgating before tomorrow’s football game versus Slippery Rock. We have a tent in the M-7 lot by Taco Bell on Fifth Avenue starting around 5.30pm. You’re all invited.
We want to push for open, on-campus wireless internet (WiFi) this year. Maag Library already has WiFi, which is great, but you have to use [...]

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The Contracts (Online)

If anyone is interested in reading the old contracts, sorry I’m so late on this by the way, they can be viewed via this page on the cc.ysu.edu server Contracts. I’m assuming this page will be updated within the next few weeks with the new contracts. For reference reasons I’ve saved copies of these [...]

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How was class today?

I think today was a good day, overall. I just had a couple classes and a brief meeting with a professor. It felt like a typical first day, though I forgot how many students pack the campus core on a busy day after being here all summer with hardly anybody around. Everybody I saw seemed [...]

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More good news.

As of early this morning (around 5 or 5.30, I believe), the ACE and Administration negotiators reached a tentative agreement. I give them all a lot of credit for sticking it out overnight. State Senator Marc Dann (D-32) stayed with them at the Newman Center to help things along. He told me [...]

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Fall semester starts August 29th.

I’m on campus right now, using a dial-up connexion. My sister has a laptop with this thing called a modem. How about that!
I am pleased to announce that the Faculty Union, by a vote of 182 to 119, has voted to approve the tentative agreement, meaning that class will begin tomorrow, as scheduled. I am [...]

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ACE says no.

I just received word from John Vogel, who is still on campus, that the ACE Union rejected the University offer by at vote of 211 to 85. This is an unofficial tally but it sounds pretty clear.
Also, Walt Ulbricht, YSU executive director of communications, has stated that the University will make the determination about [...]

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What we know, and what we don’t know (hint: there is more of the latter)

Hi everyone. I’m at home now, so here’s what I know:
ACE met at 11am. Between 11.30 and noon, there was a very resounding voice vote in favour of a resolution of no confidence in Dr Sweet’s administration, probably with the same or similar language to the resolution endorsed by the Faculty last Monday [...]

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RALLY SUNDAY AT 11 A.M. FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH

I realize this is short notice, but it’s time to act. With ACE voting at 11 a.m. tomorrow (Sunday), we’re trying to get as many bodies as possible there to support the students.
They’re voting at the First Christian Church on University Plaza (across from Bliss Hall in front of the Butler). If you’re planning on [...]

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AN UPDATE, FINALLY!

Sorry for the lack of posts. I moved into Cafaro last night, and I’vebeen without Internet ever since. Ironically, I had to go to Panerain Boardman to give you this update. On campus, it feels like 1994. I saw a lot of comments were made to the last post, but unfortunatelyPanera will [...]

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Talkin’

As far as I know, both ACE and OEA negotiations are taking place right now. They started at 8:30 and 9 respectively. (There have been some brief recesses.) That’s all I have to report right now.

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