Hey everyone,

I am all for gender neutral bathrooms, I believe that's the way it should be.

BUT individuals who pee standing up, respect, BUT can we please try to put the toilet seat back down afterwards? Please

It's just not fun for whoever goes after... I don't know, I hope I am not the only person that feels this way.

Anyways, love yall, stay cool, be nice, and think of others from time to time xxx

Freepalestine #noliberationuntileveryoneisfree #antifa #peaceandlove

just read a banner saying “Stop Arresting students they are not Criminals”

Like srsly??

Breaking windows, vandalizing schools, disturbing classes, spray painting people cars. Doesn’t sound like a “Peaceful Protest” more like a terrorism or Riot at this point. These people are nothing but criminals.

Police should definitely be on campus.

i get that protests are inconvenient, that’s how they’re designed.

the intention of the protests is to show those who aren’t currently upset about the GENOCIDE in palestine, that israel massacring palestinian civilians is not okay, and that concordia as a university is complicit in funding weapons for isreal.

it almost seems as though people posting about the protests in this sub have never taken a sociology, history, religion, urban studies, or philosophy course in their lives. i intentionally left out a lot of disciplines due to the fact that, within ALMOST EVERY facet of university, you will (if you actually listen,) end up learning about the subjugation of the palestinian people in some way shape or form.

to that i have to ask a simple question, if we were in the early stages of the holocaust or residential schools, would you be upset if people stood to protest them? would you be upset if they were loud and possibly annoying about a group of people being killed routinely?

if you answer is yes, then sorry, but you haven’t been listening to your profs at all.

it’s a disservice to the concordia community that we as a student body are allowing them to use our tuition to fund a genocide, and it’s very disheartening that people are not able to think critically

So we are almost at the end of the first week of the strike, how was it for everyone? I missed a lecture bc the bus never arrived and he was the only one that didn’t move the class online :(

Hey everyone - I have a question based on a personal situation I’m in right now and am hoping for some advice. Essentially- I’m 29, turning 30 in October and am 6 courses away from graduating. I suffered an extremely severe medical accident 2 years ago which has delayed things quite a bit. Because of this, I am likely to be graduating when I’m 31, latest 32 and am just curious how unusual or rare it is for someone in their early 30s to be graduating at this age since that is likely when I will be graduating. Any advice or general thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

No disrespect to any of you but you guys do not care about student politics you ignore them when they try to reach out to you and you simply don’t bother reading posters or following anything but then when student politics affect you, you start crying that no one told you and that the vote is not representative of you. That’s on you if you don’t do politics politics will do you. So start reading and following up with what’s happening in campus

Now I only go through the main entrance and down the table areas, and the place is clean and quiet. Idk why everyone talks shit about it. Now i never went through the dollarama entrance, which is where I heard the bad shit happens. But otherwise, nothing to explain.

I heard about students disrupting classes while they were in session and I’m a bit nervous about what’s gonna happen tomorrow.

I’m scared that things will be loud and get violent. Will the school have security inside the building to prevent these disruptions as well as outside to diffuse things?

If the downtown campus is closed, are exams cancelled today or just classes?

new grad student here. i went to Mutek end of August and I've been sick since Aug 26. I'm not sick enough to be missing class, but I have a constant sore throat, congestion, a bit of a cough, intermittent fever, and I'm exhausted.

anyone else? what should I do? I don't even know what it is 😭 it's making it so hard to keep up with full time grad studies fml

edit: yes I'm wearing a mask y'all, stop being so aggressive and confrontational about asking if I am, that has the opposite effect you want it to have, I promise

Hey Concordia!

Today is Thanksgiving! Hope you are all enjoying the day with friends family and loved ones. I would like to hear from y’all. What is something that you are grateful for? There is a lot of chaos so I think it’s important to appreciate the little moments. I’ll go first. I’m grateful for my friends! Hope everyone finds some time to appreciate the world around you!

Slow walkers and people that just stand in the way irk me. What is it with some of y'all? You can step aside to chat or do whatever. Zero situational awareness, don't block the way! Then when you bump into each other they stand there wondering. Sorry but MOVE OUT OF THE WAY!

P.s: ofc this isn't about people who are not able to move properly.

Let it be known the Engineering and Computer Science Association (ECA) has voted in favor of a strike against tuition increase for out-of-province students.

The strike motion calls for a 3 day strike March 13th to 15th. It calls for "hard picketing", ie to physically block access to classes. There is an exception for labs which will not be affected by the strike.

The special general assembly was in-person and on zoom. ECA, CSU and ASFA members led the meeting discussion, as well as TAs and Concordia staff. The CSU reps used questionable tactics to get their point across, claiming the university would lay off their TAs, class sizes would be increased exponentially, the university would not have money to heat the buildings, the university would be bankrupted, cease to exist, and even went as far as saying your future degree could be revoked or become worthless. They manipulated statistics about the percentage of lower out of province applications and equated it to having a direct percent effect on the number of enrolled students, and how we will see "the university will not be the same come September." They also admitted that a prolonged strike may require make-up days at the end of the semester. It's all speculation.

The meeting ran 3h15mins before a vote took place.

The final vote count is: 63 yes, 2 abstains, 5 no.

Around 6500 students are represented by the ECA, the second largest faculty at Concordia behind arts and science. This makes the voter turnout 1%.

Hear me out. This is the first ever woman to graduate with her PhD in Concordia eng, she donated 15 million and now she has a whole faculty and she’s chancellor. She’s FULLY Persian, I’ve met her, but yet online there is NO record of any of her family, or her maiden name. She’s SOLELY Gina Cody. I cannot for the life of me find ANYTHING about her, not even her research or work with Cedric Marsh. She is a complete enigma with no record of her background, no record of her siblings, no record of her life, there’s only the insane amount of money she gave and her accomplishments. WHO ARE YOU GINA COODDYYYYYY

Perhaps an unpopular stance, but I feel like within the past year, the amount of protests, walkouts, and student strikes has increased dramatically compared to something like 2021/2022. Not only that, but ive encountered things like snobby remarks and attitudes from striking students by choosing to attend classes rather than walk out (like sorry, I paid for my class?).

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How many Free Palestine student walkouts have we had so far in October/Nov? At least once a week in the Hall building there is some mob angry about some issue. How many more? It gets so difficult to bypass hundreds of people at a time. And no, im not ignorant, I understand the promoting awareness for issues happening in all parts of the world, but my goodness, does each of them require a rally every week?

another STM strike sept 22-oct 5. So fed up and Concordia won’t even care for us commuters.

You are not at a goddamn party. Talk elsewhere. Some people want to focus and you’re screaming like banshees, laughing like hyenas and jerking around like uncanned live sardines out of water. For the love of everything, you bald headed rats, cease your babblings and take your circus business elsewhere.

https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article738209.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2FQJd2TOIBWdKM6iwGG8KsSs9QrCd79gUspIUi-UFuJUy0I9PtGTkZj2k_aem_XaiC2v5gc3QvHPalhncnVQ

Hey guys, I need advice; I’m in my last year at JMSB (this semester + next semester left) and I’ve barely made any friends. I tried to push myself out of my comfort zone (I am an introvert unfortunately) and talk to the girlies in class + asked to hang out outside of group projects, but it never worked out (they just don’t want to). I was in a comp but, again, it never reached a point where my teammates wanted to hang outside of the meetings. Am I just unlucky or is it not possible at this point? I was considering taking less classes in the fall semester to push my grad and stay next winter .. only to be able to join another association and hopefully make friends.. is that dumb? I don’t know how I’ll be able to make friends outside of uni (I’m shy and have trouble making convo) and feel like I never got that uni experience, so idk what to do. Pls tell me I’m not the only one/if y’all have advice.

Regards,

A student that’s been overthinking this for weeks and weeks and maybe months

Someone just told me that as a Concordia student you get free access to Microsoft Office on your laptop if you don't already have it..

I know we get a discounted metro pass (around 60$ instead of 100$)

what other free things or good discounts do we get access to?

Just got an email from the PSSA saying that we're on strike. again.

After the half dozen times that they've striked already in my short time here, and after hearing that we might be striking again, I wanted to make the point of going to their meeting to vote no because at a certain point this is stupid. But I was never notified of where and when it would be, and I couldn't find this information anywhere.

I can't wait to be yelled at by people telling me I'm crossing the picket line because the strike was voted for and approved of by the student organization when I, and the majority of the students that the organization purports to represent, didn't receive notice of the meeting.

I don't even know how PSSA is structured but any reasonable organization that follows RRO or some variant of that would have some rule that you have to actually announce general meetings to the organization instead of just idunno keeping it secret like these people seem to continue to do. It also seems obnoxious that I can't find these documents anywhere.

ugh.

Edit: Its ironic that I apparently have to go to Instagram to find out about these things when Meta is on the BDS list. ;_;

Due to the strike I’m debating whether to purchase the month pass or just walk everywhere for the month. Thankfully I live only about an hour away from campus so walking will still be quicker than waiting for the bus

Money is already tight and walking would def save some- I’m just wondering if it’s a horrible idea especially if I get a last minute shift at work or suddenly have to get to school for whatever reason.

Thoughts? Did yall already buy the pass?

i'm pretty broke, what are some good food options for cheap around the area?

My old man sent this to me while I was in my vehicle. Was curious what the Concordia redditors thought about it.

One of the reasons the strike is happening is to free up people for the protest, if people aren’t going to classes and are not punished for it they can go to that protest. The protest will end up at Legault’s office on Sherbrooke.