SIXTIES STUDENTS Simon Fraser (2): The TA Incident
On March 17 1967, SFU Student Council voted to strike to demand that the Board reinstate Teaching Assistants, who had been fired for organizing a political protest outside a local high school off campus. They won active and visible faculty support, and the Board reversed its decision..
SIXTIES STUDENTS Simon Fraser (1) Experimental University
Simon Fraser University opened in September 1965 as an ‘experimental university’ on the working class east side of Greater Vancouver on Canada’s west coast. The first major left-leaning protests were directed at the SFU Board’s decision to grant a private corporation (Shell) exclusive rights to an on-campus gas station, as a reward for donations that helped finance a men’s residence.
