Re: UBC pres on vaccines and masks

Let's keep our powder dry, maybe for the case that we find out that the inevitable policy isn't implemented properly. This will now happen without us, and quickly.

For practical purposes, this is a federal vaccine mandate: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/08/13/todays-coronavirus-news-aug-13-2021-gta-world-canada.html

I would support an open letter congratulating SFU on being the last university of note to hold firm to the sacred principle of "if we do nothing, it will be someone else's problem". Unlike all those flip floppers! And maybe suggest we revert back to our old motto:

... until we earn the "engaging" back.

Lucas

From: Cynthia Patton <cindy_patton@sfu.ca>
Sent: August 13, 2021 12:52:31 PM
To: Christopher Pavsek; sfufa forum
Subject: Re: UBC pres on vaccines and masks

Why is the ‘Berkeley of the North’ always holding up the rear guard?? Anyone up for a General Strike?

I can’t tell if I am joking or not ….

Cindy Patton
Professor of Sociology and Anthropology

The lands on which we live and work are the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Kwikwetlem (kʷikʷəƛ̓əm) Nations.

From: Christopher Pavsek <cpavsek@sfu.ca>
Sent: August 13, 2021 12:17:55 PM
To: sfufa forum
Subject: UBC pres on vaccines and masks

FYI: https://president.ubc.ca/blog/2021/08/13/update-august-13-2021/?utm_campaign=COVID-19&utm_content=1628875959&utm_medium=sprout&utm_source=facebook,linkedin

I would hope our admin might do something similar, but also go a step further with the knowledge that AQ and Harbour Centre lecture halls and cramped windowless seminar rooms are also rather “high contact”…

Perhaps now that UBC has done some trail breaking…SFU might follow...

Chris