"This critical appointment for Western calls for a visionary, strategic and imaginative leader -- someone who is energized by the opportunity to deliver on the mandate of the Student Experience portfolio," reads the ad in 'The Globe and Mail' yesterday.
Yes, that's right. Western is looking for....wait for it....sit down.....hydrate, an "Associate Vice-president of Student Experience". I am not kidding! "Western's vision is to be a destination of choice for the world's brightest minds seeking the best learning experience at a leading Canadian research university," it goes on. Whew, nearly ran out of breath reading that too-long sentence!
Boy, even though accepted, I'm glad I didn't go there, couldn't afford it. Are you telling me that now university students have to have their hands held by a VP of Student Experience?!?! How pathetic. I went to good, ole' Carleton, where I got plenty of experience in many things -- drinking at the Chaud, the Rendevous, the Standish Hall, the Ottawa House and other down-at-the-heel dives in Hull, smoking, partying, dating crazy British professors with whom we played strip-poker and yes, going to class, studying and graduating.
I loved it all!
But now kids have to be molleycoddled even when having fun! OMG! What's the person going to do? Hang around the bars orchestrating "fun"? I can't believe Amit Chakma, the president of Western, let this go to print; he must be delusional. Maybe it's something that has to be regulated in other countries, but here in Canada, university is supposed to be a wide-ranging experience. Some people played bridge all day, others gambled, others played chess and others flunked out....you name it, we did it all -- and by ourselves.
Sad.
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