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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Huh. That seems odd to me. Didn't you at least have to take a political science or history or sociology or philosophy course or something? Nobody at your university was even remotely interested in current events? No protests or petitions or political griping of any sort?
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No political sciences or anything like that. Didn't have to take it. Maybe if you were in arts or something you had to, and yes i went to a major canadian university. The closest was some sort of environmental ethics.
We definetely didn't protest and i can say i don't even think i remember one protest anywhere on the grounds. Sometimes when the ctv news camera's showed up people would gossip about what the news story was but that's it. Nobody talked politics but talked about drinking last weekend or this weekend was very common. Sports talk also common but never heard any politics talk.
Even joining the university students union or club or whatever it was, was weird. There was two or three people in that room but that was just the room you walked by.
There was the occasional petition but pretty rare. Political griping - only if you mean complaining about profs, but no conservative or liberal or ndp type griping, no. I actually forgot about the polling station at the university but the only people in there were professors and some artsy students. It was the exam auditorium but mostly really empty.
Stop and think, when's the last time you heard about a major protest at a canadian university other than quebec about a tuition reduction? Think about that.
Everyone knew where to pay for parking tickets though.
Politics in university, not really.