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It’s nearing the end of November. For Ryerson and U of T students, this means the dawning of final exams—a time when the only heavy drinking students engage in is downing rounds of extra-large double doubles, the only game of musical chairs is the one for the last vacant chair in the quiet section of the library, and a two-hour nap constitutes a good night’s sleep. Well, not for York kids, who are still stuck wondering if the tuition they paid a few months ago was a lost gamble—but that’s old news. In Monday’s meeting, a proposal review between CUPE 3903 and a mediator for York [PDF], the only real progress, was, well, setting up another meeting. Next Thursday, at the start of the fourth week of the strike, 50,000 students will find out their fate when university meets union—either that, or they’ll find out if finding out about their fate is going to be further postponed.
But until then, what are academically starved students to do? Today, the dedicated pupils who have actually stuck it out on campus are invited for a day of child’s play. Imaginatively dubbed Untitled: FUN (remember, these students haven’t had much criticism for their lack of creativity over the last month), today’s event includes everything you ever needed to get your mind off matters of your failing education—from gargantuan games of Twister, to spine-twists at yoga sessions, from musical chairs to musical jam sessions. There will be drawing and improv games—think of it as summer (or rather, winter) camp for big kids. And of course, cinema screen Guitar Hero—’cause everything’s better when it’s super-sized. It’s no class, but it’s consolation—beats another day of daytime soaps in the dorm.
Untitled:FUN is presented by York Fine Arts Students and runs today at the Keele Campus’ Accolade East Building, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. The event is free, unless you include the tuition fees already paid for no classes.
Photo by shervin2 from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.