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David Noble

For years York University has kept its liability insurance policy confidential, preventing faculty, staff, and students from knowing that they are covered. Thanks to the interventions of the Financial Services Commission of Ontario and the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario the policy has now been made public.

The YUFA Democracy Caucus

Once again, YUFA observers were excluded from much of the meeting, an action not mentioned in the Constitution.

On behalf of the York Democratic Forum

Paul Baxter, Jody Berland, Malcolm Blincow, Ricardo Grinspun, Nick Lary, Marcia Macaulay, Arun Mukherjee, Ester Reiter, Nicola Short

In his address to Senate on 26 February –available at http://www.yorku.ca/mediar/archive/Release.php?Release=1623 –President Shoukri delivered his first speech after provincial back-to-work legislation led to a long-delayed return to class and a chaotic end-of-term schedule for students and faculty.

The YUFA Democracy Caucus

The YUFA Democracy Caucus summarizes the highlights of the poisonous YUFA Executive meeting on Feb. 23.

John J. DeGioia

...If you can't debate controversial ideas here, where can it be done? This is the unique role and responsibility of the academy. It is a role we must play if we are to sustain a civil society. The writer Ron Suskind once told me that the university is the last place where there is still "untitled land" in the public square. Every other piece of ground has been claimed in support of some particular interest.

David McNally

Dear President Shoukri, I am writing to protest the disciplinary actions taken by your administration against Students Against Israeli Apartheid at York, specifically the one month suspension of the group and fines against their organization and its contact person.