WOW! 165 signatures in 24 hours! This is spectacular. A great first step.
The next step is to follow through, to keep the pressure on the administration. Would some of you be willing to join me on such a committee? This will be a minimal commitment, I promise. I would simply like to open a channel of communication with the appropriate parties and keep checking in with them until the situation is resolved. Otherwise, much like the TSSU issue -- despite meaningful faculty support to pressure the admin to negotiate with the union nothing meaningful has happened in the past YEAR of negotiations -- we must keep some pressure on if we have any hope of seeing housing made available for these folks in August, and for future folks who want to come study here at SFU. Those of you at the rally yesterday will have noted how "international" the crowd. Many of the residents are not just hard-working economically stretched students, they are international students, too.
Thanks, Elise