When I was at York University last week, my friend and I decided that it be interesting to sit at the back of the room during an all-candidates debate. So, I am sitting watching things and who do I see leading the one slate in and advising them plus handing out materials?
None other than Nora Loreto who is not a York student, should be working at her SU (Ryerson students are paying her) and has no business interfering in the York elections. Now, if she was a casual observer that be one thing, but she was not. Anyway, I took out my camera and took some pictures:
It’s Nora Loreto! Interestingly, when the RSU office was contacted, the person answering claimed she was off that day to attend a funeral. I guess that she could have done that before 12:30am or after 2:00pm with campaigning at another school mixed in there for fun.
As I was taking pictures, I was informed that there was no recording of the proceeding allowed including photographs. Someone from York Undivided went up to the CRO and she announced that this was the case and that people were required to delete any recordings already taken unless they were members of the media. Members of the media were asked to sign a sheet. I did so, signing my name as Joey Coleman from The Silhouette where I am a staff member. I released these photos to other papers as soon as I returned to McMaster. My friend noted that when I was nearly complete signing the sheet that the CRO’s and York Undivided’s faces changed suddenly. That would be when I signed my name and they must have recognized it. The Silhouette did receive a call later in the day asking if I was truly staff. Anyway, I went back to sitting down and noticed a conversation occurring between Nora and YorkUndivided with lots of looking (and one person pointing) my way. At this point, realizing that last year the YFS CRO (another die hard CFSer) called security on student journalist who caught outside interference, I left the premises since I was never intending to actually catch a story or take pictures or anything like that. Just decided that I be interested to hear what was being said and to see if any candidate had a position on 407 GO Transit service which is an important matter for students at York and McMaster.
Paging Nora Loretto! Paging Nora Loretto!
Ms. Loretto, please page Donald Crane.
(How I wish I could have strangled Coleman with his camera strap for this stunt.)
Haha! It must be Philip Link who posted this one!!
http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/98-3/issue1/link.html
Nah, she doesn’t need Don Crane – Ms. Loreto already HAS representation, being paid for by the students of Ryerson no less – since she is being sued for defamation after perhaps interferring in another school’s business already this year.
We all wish you could have, alas you didn’t. I’m more disappointed in the lack of action from the Cheese than I was when I found out Santa IS real.
dont you think you’re making a lot of hay out of nothing? nora has been on RSU for like 3 years and obviously knows the candidates running on one of the YFS slates and not the other one. she is going to be president of RSU next year and if, on her day off out of the RSU office, she chooses to attend an all-candidates’ debate at York to support her friends running in the elections, what’s wrong with that?
your blog is making it seem that the CFS is the major link between her and the york undivided team, but did you ever think maybe it was just that they shared the same politics? maybe they are both left-leaning and thus political allies. i don’t see anything wrong with that. you clearly have political allies at the university of manitoba, simon fraser university and other places you don’t attend. would it be wrong for you to go to an all candidates’ debate at one of these places?
btw, what does it take to go from “cfs supporter” to “CFS hack” all the way to “diehard cfser”? is there a points system?
CFS supporter: when you’re going along with their shit to help you get elected.
CFS hack: after your first AGM when you get brainwashed by the slogans that keep being repeated.
Diehard CFSer: one you realize that you can have a career with these bunch of morons and stay a student forever.
Or, you can go from CFS supporter, to CFS wishy-washy, to CFS hater. That’s what happened to me…
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