{"id":9667,"date":"2013-11-07T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=9667"},"modified":"2013-11-07T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T19:17:28","slug":"an-accountability-cheer-for-ubc-bcpoli-bced-ubc-yteubc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2013\/11\/an-accountability-cheer-for-ubc-bcpoli-bced-ubc-yteubc\/","title":{"rendered":"An accountability cheer for UBC #ubcsauderschool #mba #bcpoli #bced #ubc #yteubc"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ubyssey<\/em><\/a>, November 6, 2013<\/p>\n

All together now: A.D.M.I.N.!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A is for we like Accountability!
\nD is for it will be Deferred!
\nM is for the Money that runs the show!
\nI is always for I point the other way when the heat is on!<\/p>\n

All together now!<\/p>\n

UBC President Stephen Toope and Sauder School of Business dean Robert Helsley, how accountable is it to let two student executives of the Commerce Undergraduate Society (CUS) take the fall for the Sauder rape cheer?<\/p>\n

At\u00a0Saint Mary\u2019s University<\/a>, where a similar cheer took place, Student Union president Jared Perry said, \u201cI tender my resignation.\u201d<\/p>\n

At UBC, Enzo Woo and Gillian Ong, president and VP engagement of the CUS respectively,\u00a0resigned<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All together now: A.D.M.I.N.!<\/p>\n

A is for we like Accountability!
\nD is for it will be Deferred!<\/p>\n

A month and a rushed fact-finding report later, the administration at UBC remains entrenched solely in damage control. Curiously, the words \u201cadministration\u201d and \u201cadministrator\u201d do not appear in the fact-finding report [“student\/s” appears 46 times].<\/p>\n

Protect the brand! Especially now. Especially for commerce. No resignations, no accountability.<\/p>\n

However, amidst the smoking guns and smoking pipes of politics back east, UBC\u2019s rape chant is still making headlines.<\/p>\n

On Oct. 31, the CUS\u00a0rejected a referendum<\/a>\u00a0to approve a $200,000 allocation for student counselling and education on sexual abuse and violence.<\/p>\n

Still talking but not walking, Helsley issued yet\u00a0another statement<\/a>\u00a0that he was predictably \u201cdeeply disappointed.\u201d Why? Maybe because it is time for Helsley to walk and for Toope to walk the talk.<\/p>\n

From all optics, it is the students who are taking care of business \u2014 resigning, reflecting, self-governing, voting and regrouping. Students have realized that lines were crossed and are dealing with it. Given the rejection of the referendum, are the students simply saying they are dealing with their own behaviour?<\/p>\n

Administrators, figure out what your role is for oversight of students in the 21st century. Enough of remaining \u201cdeeply disappointed\u201d that students are not assuming your accountability.<\/p>\n

There is an apparent culture of entitlement within Commerce. That may be why neither the president\u2019s office nor the Sauder dean\u2019s office have tendered resignations, cut salaries or revoked budget lines. We dare not conclude that atrocious chants originate or thrive within these cultures, yet one may draw conclusions that a culture of entitlement hurts accountability at the top in times like these.<\/p>\n

This entitlement is apparent when faculty contracts are negotiated, with Sauder\u2019s breakaway faculty association independently bargaining for bigger pieces of the pie for themselves; when the Sauder chief is appointed to oversee the University\u2019s budget; and when its bloated administrative lines are sacred.<\/p>\n

Yet to this moment in the throes of the rape chant controversy, not a single Commerce administrator has resigned, and the President has pulled not a single line.<\/p>\n

Potentia ad Populum,<\/p>\n

Stephen Petrina, professor<\/p>\n

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