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<P class=ecxyiv1273637710MsoNormal><B>WHAT: Rally Against the Corporate
Takeover of UofT</B><BR>
<P class=ecxyiv1273637710MsoNormal><B>WHEN: Thursday April 7<SUP>th</SUP>,
3:00-5:30 pm</B></P>
<P class=ecxyiv1273637710MsoNormal><B>WHERE: Meet on U.T.S.U. lawn (facing
Hart House), march to Governing Council (Simcoe Hall)</B></P>
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<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"
class=ecxyiv1273637710MsoNormal><SPAN></SPAN>The anti-corporatization
working group of the UT General Assembly calls on members of the UofT
community and allies to unite to oppose a corporatized vision for our
university. On Thursday, we will rally against the Munk “donation” and
Governing Council’s tacit approval of privatized education.</P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=ecxyiv1273637710MsoNormal>The UofT
administration is partnering with the Munk Foundation to create the Munk
School of Global Affairs. The administration wants to generate discourses
around global issues that are financed by and subject to the annual
approval of the Munk Foundation. Peter Munk is the chairman of the mining
company Barrick Gold, a corporation facing frequent allegations of
international human rights and environmental abuses.
<SPAN> </SPAN>What’s more, Barrick is currently pursuing lawsuits
against three academics who have written about these issues.
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<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=ecxyiv1273637710MsoNormal><B>As staff,
students, faculty, and allies, we do not want our university to partner
with Barrick Gold. We are suspicious of the kinds of “academic” activities
that the Munk Foundation encourages, and concerned about what forms of
knowledge production will become excluded.</B> </P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=ecxyiv1273637710MsoNormal>Even the
UofT administration seems to know that taking money from Peter Munk is a
bad idea. Negotiations around the agreement were kept secret, even from
the Governing Council – a body that is, at best, a façade of democracy.
<B>At the last GC meeting, when a student governor presented notice of a
Munk-related motion, the chair tried to prevent her from speaking. Though
the motion was served with due notice, it is notably absent from the
agenda of this upcoming GC meeting. </B></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in" class=ecxyiv1273637710MsoNormal>The
governing bodies at UofT run our university like a business. Mergers with
other corporations are sought, while members of the university community
are dismissed as nothing more than income and labour units. <B>On
Thursday, at the same time that we are being kept off the agenda at GC,
governors will be voting to increase tuition fees so that for the FIRST
TIME EVER, tuition and other fees are projected to surpass public sources
of funding in UofT’s projected budget. </B></P>
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</SPAN>We will rally on Thursday to show GC that we are not silent sources
of profit; that we are the university. We will gather with Professor Noam
Chomsky after his much-anticipated lecture on the State-Corporate Complex,
in order to extract our university from complicity in this doctrine. We
will rally to enact a new vision for UofT that reflects the interest of
our community, not corporations and not neo-liberal governments.</P>
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<P class=ecxyiv1273637710MsoNormal>Facebook event : <A
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<P class=ecxyiv1273637710MsoNormal>Sign the Munk out of UofT petition : <A
href="http://www.petitiononline.com/munkoff/" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://www.petitiononline.com/munkoff/</A></P></DIV></DIV>--<BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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face=Helvetica,Arial><B>Petition against Corporatization and for the
Cancellation of the Munk Contract at the University of Toronto</B></FONT>
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<BR><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt" size=+1>To: UofT President and
Governors</FONT> To the President's office, <BR><BR>We, the undersigned, express
deep concern over the Memorandum of Agreement between The Peter and Melanie Munk
Charitable Foundation and the University of Toronto, for the establishment of
the Munk School of Global Affairs. This contract was negotiated behind closed
doors and not made public, even to the members of the University of Toronto's
Governing Council, until after it was finalized. Additionally, the contract
imposes many conditions on the University that compromise its academic
integrity, offering a route by which the Donor might exert undue influence on
academic matters. <BR><BR>Most troubling in this contract is the inclusion of
annual progress reports as a condition for receiving funds. This condition
requires that the University provide a detailed written report indicating
descriptions of programs, initiatives and activities of the Munk School of
Global Affairs. It also requires that the Director of the School meet annually
with the Donor's board of directors following the submission of the detailed
report. <BR><BR>As there is a $15 million gift that can be terminated based on
the Donor's determination as to whether the school is achieving its objectives,
and considering that the Donor would meet regularly with the school's director,
it is clear that this contract could enable the Donor to exercise undue
influence over the Munk School's program areas. <BR><BR>As Peter Munk is the
founder and acting chairman of a gold mining company, Barrick Gold, which is
accused of human rights abuses, environmental violations, and corrupt practices
at many of their operations around the globe, this donor relationship is
particularly troubling. Munk's influence on the School is especially troubling
as the school's areas of study, International Relations and Global Policy, are
areas in which Munk has vested business interests. <BR><BR>Moreover, the manner
in which this contract was approved reveals serious flaws in the University's
process for accepting and receiving donations. It reveals that the University
lacks proper measures to ensure that such conflicts of interest not influence
the University's curriculum. Furthermore, the University's reputation is at
stake when it brands itself with the names of leaders of questionable industries
and businesses. <BR><BR>Therefore we, the undersigned, demand that: <BR><BR>•
the final approval of any contract associated with a donation be conditional on
prior approval by the Academic Board of the Governing Council of the University
of Toronto; <BR><BR>• any contract stipulating conditions under which donations
are to be received be made public on a University website as well as through an
announcement in the Varsity Newspaper at least one month before the contract is
finalized; <BR><BR>• the University protect academic integrity by ensuring that
any contract between a donor and the University not include stipulations that
offer the donor influence over the University's program areas, be they research,
curriculum, right to publish, or any other subject of academic interest;
<BR><BR>• include democratically-elected student and faculty representation in
the approval process for any memorandum of agreements between the University and
large donors; <BR><BR>• annul and renegotiate the contract with The Peter and
Melanie Munk Charitable Foundation to eliminate the suppression of academic
freedom inherent in the Donor's ability to cancel an additional $15 million gift
at any time, according to their subjective opinion as to whether the University
is fulfilling its objectives. <BR><BR>• reconsider the branding of the Munk
School, considering the Donor’s conflict of interest with a school that deals
with global policy, under a new decision-making process that includes the
approval of the Academic Board of the Governing Council of the University of
Toronto. <BR><BR>• support the resolution submitted to the University of Toronto
Governing Council that would strike a standing committee made up of students,
faculty, staff and their representative organizations as well as relevant
community members to vet the ethical questions around accepting future donations
from corporate sources and to ensure there are no strings attached.
<BR><BR>Sincerely, <BR><A
href="http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?munkoff">The
Undersigned</A> <BR></DIV>
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