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Hi Margaret.  I applaud your move.  I've Tweeted and posted a link to Emmie's letter on my Twitter account.  I think individual letters as well as  a group CASDW, and CWCA letter might be a good idea.  Cheers, Theresa.

On 03/13/15, Margaret Procter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Dear Inkshed colleagues:

I'm shocked to learn that Wilfrid Laurier University has just terminated the position of its writing-centre manager Boba Samuels. She was told on Tuesday that her position was redundant and immediately escorted off-campus, along with several other staff members in other university positions.

The former (and now retired) manager Emmy Misser wrote a scathing letter to a Waterloo newspaper asking the university's president to explain this decision: http://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/5474412-an-essential-service/.

Emmy encourages other people in the writing-studies community outside Laurier to let the administration know that we value writing-centre work and deplore this cut. She notes that the service is a highly efficient small operation: "An attack on writing is fundamentally an anti-intellectual move. Is that what Laurier now is about?"

The contact page for WLU senior administration is http://wlu.ca/about/senior-leadership/index.html, and a link at the bottom of the page leads to a Faculty and Staff Directory with a search function for email addresses. I'm going to write the president Dr. Max Blouw myself, and hope many others will join me.

Should CASLL as an organization also take this up?

Margaret Procter
(retired) University of Toronto

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