In Other Schools: Concordia Yanks The Link
April 12, 2006
MONTREAL (CUP) — The Concordia University Administration removed copies of the independent student newspaper, The Link, from stands in the main building on Concordia’s campus.
The issue contained several articles that were highly critical of the Concordia Student Union (CSU) for their treatment of the Quebec branch of the Canadian Federation of Students, a worker’s union. The issue also included an editorial exposing the weaknesses of Experience, the slate favoured by the current CSU executive.
According to Tracey Lindeman-Jarvis, Editor-in-Chief of The Link, mixed reasons were given for their removal of the paper. They were told initially that the administration received a complaint that newspapers posed a fire hazard, and later that the lobby needed to be cleaned up for the student union elections.
“It just seems really suspicious,” said Lindeman-Jarvis. “It’s so obvious that the administration has a lot to gain or lose [in the student election]. It’s all about the university’s reputation.”
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