STRIKE!!! (PARO!!)

STRIKE!! UNIVERSITY OF CHILE!!

Tonight I received this email from the Student Union. Tomorrow the students are going on strike to protest poor treatment of themselves and the LGE (I don't know what LGE is).

Here's the text of the email, followed by the Google Translation (with a few words corrected by me to help it make better sense).

Alumnos, Académicos y Funcionarios:

INGENIERÍA ESTÁ EN PARO !

Mañana jueves 24 de Abril los estudiantes de la Facultad de Ingeniería han decidido ir a un Paro Informativo por los problemas de la LGE y de morosidad de estudiantes de la U. de Chile.

Durante la jornada de mañana se realizarán distintas actividades, principalmente de discusión entre integrantes de los distintos departamentos.

El CEGEOF invita a alumnos, académicos y funcionarios a un desayuno (café y galletas) mañana jueves a las 9:30 en la sala de seminario, 2do piso, para poder compartir e informarnos de los temas que llevan a los alumnos a efectuar este paro.


El orden de actividades para los alumnos del DGF es:

- 9:00 - 9:30 Inicio del Paro en el Hall Sur de la Escuela.
- 9:30 - 10:00 Desayuno del Dpto. en la sala seminario 2do piso.
- 10:15 en adelante Discusión de los temas con otros centros de
estudiantes (Física o Geología). Se seguirá la propuesta se trabajo creada
por el CEI y adjuntada acá.


Esperamos que los estudiantes no vayan a clases y asistan a las discusiones para que pronuncien sus posturas.

Y esperamos compartir un ameno cafecito con los integrantes del dgf para seguir así manteniendo la comunicación entre entidades e informarnos sobre las problemáticas internas y universitarias en general. Las discusiones que se realizarán entre dptos. son abiertas, asi que profesores o funcionarios que deseen asistir serán bienvenidos.

Se adjuntan además del cronograma documentos que pueden servir a la discusión de mañana y la votación final de adhesión al paro.

CEGEOF
Centro de Estudiantes de Geofísica

Departamento de Geofísica
Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas
Universidad de Chile

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Students, scholars and officials:

Engineering Campus is on Strike!

Tomorrow, Thursday April 24 students of the Faculty of Engineering have decided to go to on strike to protest the problems of LGE and poor conditions of students from the U. of Chile.

During the day tomorrow will be conducted various activities, mainly discussion between members of different departments.

The CEGEOF invites students, academics and officials at a breakfast (coffee
and cookies) on Thursday at 9:30 in the seminar room, 2nd floor, to share and inform us of issues that led to this strike.

The order of activities for DGF (Department of Geophysics) students is:

-- 9:00 to 9:30 Beginning of strike in the South Hall School.
-- 9:30 to 10:00 breakfast at each department in the seminar room 2nd floor.
-- 10:15 onwards Discussion of the issues with other centres
students (or Physical Geology). The proposal is subject to change and will be posted here by the CIS (Center for Student Information).


We hope that students will not attend their classes and instead attend the discussions to decide their positions.

And we hope to share a pleasant coffee and cookie time with members of the DGF for to maintain communication between entities and information on internal problems and university in general. Discussions to be carried out between departments are open, so that teachers or officials wishing to attend would be greatly appreciated.

Attached in addition to the schedule are documents that will help the discussion tomorrow and the final vote on accession to unemployment.

CEGEOF
Students of Geophysics Center

Department of Geophysics
Faculty of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
University of Chile

Most likely this just means that the students are tired of exams / etc., and want a day off. How convenient, just call a strike! :) My colleagues told me that occasionally there are strikes and the students stop coming to class, but that strikes and protests and such were much more common in the other campuses (the arts, humanities, etc.), not the engineering campus. More to come tomorrow as events unfold. I just might take my camera to work :)