U of O Watch mission, in the words of Foucault...

"One knows … that the university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class. … It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticise and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them." -- Foucault, debating Chomsky, 1971.

U of O Watch mission, in the words of Socrates...

"An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all." -- Socrates

video of president allan rock at work

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Allan Rock: "What to do? Threats? Bribes? Empty promises (it works during elections!) ..."

Allan Rock, former Minister of Justice, president of the University of Ottawa, wants Gee-Gees student hockey players to develop high moral character (link).

In a 2011 email made an exhibit in evidence in a labour arbitration that is presently in judicial review at the Divisional Court for Ontario, Allan Rock sent this note to his then chief-of-staff Stéphane Émard-Chabot:

"What to do? Threats? Bribes? Empty promises (it works during elections!) ..."


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