01-10-2019, 07:24 PM
(01-10-2019, 06:09 PM)plam Wrote:(01-10-2019, 05:51 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Looks like UW is cancelling the Canada Day celebration on north campus, one last fireworks this year:
https://www.therecord.com/news-story/911...lebration/
My Editorializing:
The students organized and hosted the celebration for 29 years, within 5 years of taking over, the UW administration is cancelling them. I don't have much respect left for UW administration.
It's the flip side of the St. Patrick's Day festivities. UW doesn't want to host an event with 60,000 people. I couldn't verify the claims that attendance has been increasing; there was 70,000 for the 150th anniversary but the 60,000 seems pretty stable.
I also wonder if the administration took it over after the students didn't want to do it anymore / no longer have the capacity to do so.
Maybe, but it was huge when I was there, before 2013...
And the administration has never shied away from taking things from the students.......
I'm sure more money is being spent now (there is a suggestion the amount is increasing), but that too could change, without cancelling it.