'Anti-oppression' training, bureaucracy, holds up student clubs
Article from the Sun Media, April 7, 2016
If students at the University of Guelph want to start, say, a chess club, they first have to take "anti-oppression" training that includes learning about ableism, saneism, classism and other ideas.
This is just one of the strange facts I discovered about how politically correct and bureaucratic the student experience in Canada has become after learning about the hurdles faced by student group Generation Screwed. (Photo Brock University Matt Clare/Flickr/Creative Commons)
Boasting 27 chapters in schools across the country, Generation Screwed is the youth wing of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Although it's taken some perseverance to even get some of these clubs formed.
On Wednesday their Brock University club had to cancel a speech by CTF Ontario rep Christine Van Geyn for the most frustrating of bureaucratic reasons. New clubs need to attend training that's available twice a year, which a Generation Screwed student leader did a couple weeks ago. However the administration still hadn't approved the paperwork, so the group wasn't able to book the space.