In regards to the upcoming counterstrike rally, and the strike in general. . .

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Happy profs mean good quality teaching, which equals a good product for us, the students. The administration does not deal with us on the same level the professors do, and I think that they're burning their candle at both ends by selling the university as a place where the faculty is so small and has so much time for students, and yet also puts upon it the expectations of a much larger institution without giving them the benefits to reflect that work. The situation is not the same as in other companies, where the employer can be equally if not more experienced than the employees, even if in the end we the students are buying a "product". With some exceptions, professors teach while admininstrators administrate. It should be a reciprocal, not a hierarchal, relationship. Both sides play two different roles, and it is the teachers and the education they provide that the university uses to draw students in.
The strike realistically can't last much longer without real damage being done to the semester. I can't condemn a non-partisan counterstrike rally, even if my position is a partisan one, if indeed it will encourage the administration to return to the table and give some real offers that reflect the professors' true role. Hopefully it won't simply lead to the faculty being legislated back in (however long that would take) without any progress being made at all.

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So true.