Northern Harvard P E O P L E ´ S
D A I L Y
2015 APRIL
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Issue 96 Obeying our Supreme Leader since 1906
WESTERN UNIVERSITY REBRANDS. BORN AGAIN AS “NORTHERN HARVARD UNIVERSITY” See page 3 for full story
PEOPLE HONOURED TO BESTOW SUPREME LEADER WITH SMALL MONETARY TOKEN Wendy Wow SLAVE LABOURER Supreme Leader of Northern Harvard University, Amit Chakma, requires the assistance of students, staff and faculty. Last year, only 161 students paid their tuition directly into Chakma’s pocket. Annual salary earnings of $924,000 plus $43,244 in taxable benefits are a meager testament to Chakma’s contribution to Northern Harvard’s quality of education. Rest assured, a petition is making its rounds professing the
people will not stand for such unjustifiably low compensation. After all, Chakma’s dedication to the university is reflected in his refusal to take a year of regular salary for not working, and instead choosing to stay and attend more cocktail parties, drum up more alumni funding and rub elbows with more distinguished guests of NHU for just double the money — oh, and a 10 per cent bonus. Although the same inadequate stipulation has been included in Chakma’s second five-year term extending to June 30, 2019, the people can do better. Students,
staff and faculty are suggesting gifting Chakma a vacation residence in addition to the lavish Gibbons Lodge mansion currently bestowed rent-free so he can enjoy his one month of vacation each year. Another one of our great leaders, chair of the board of governors Chirag Shah, said it best in a CBC News article when he stated we must “ensure continuity of leadership at a critical time.” And what a critical time it is. Regardless of growing class sizes, shrinking funding for students and an ever-increasing reliance on parttime faculty — doubling Chakma’s
income sends a clear message to the community that Northern Harvard prizes undergraduate quality of education and fiscal responsibility above all else. Shah reminded us that Chakma “is recognized nationally and internationally as one of the most influential academic leaders in Canada,” — a fact that students will be the first to whole-heartedly acknowledge tremendously impacts their daily lives at Northern Harvard. In addition to paying him more than Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama combined, a transformation of the
University Community Centre into a shrine acknowledging Chakma’s immeasurable value to Western is in the works, scheduled to be completed before his second term is completed and his inevitable contract extension. Hopefully the people will see the board of governors compensate Chakma more fairly over the course of his next term — heck the administration should gift him the entire 2009–13 university operating budget surplus of $344 million. Students, faculty and staff certainly won’t care.