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OPT OUT of OPIRG

Fall 2008 at the University of Toronto

To download and print a flyer, click here:  http://www.geocities.com/optoutopirg/opirg-card.html

YOUR student fees go toward OPIRG-Toronto's controversial anti-Israel campaign.

YOU can get your MONEY BACK!

Deadline:  Monday, October 6, 2008 at 5 p.m.

Bring your student card along with a copy of your 2008-09 fees invoice (printed from ROSI) to the OPIRG-Toronto office, in the North Borden Building, 563 Spadina Avenue (northeast side of Spadina Circle), Suite 101, Monday through Thursday between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

• Full-time graduate students will receive $5.00 (includes students from all 3 campuses, in all programs – MA, MSc, PhD, Information Studies, MBA, MMPA, Architecture, OT, PT, etc.).
• Part-time graduate students will receive $2.50 (includes same groups as for full-time listed above).
• Undergraduate students (both full-time and part-time) will receive $1.00 (includes all Arts & Science colleges*, Engineering, Dentistry, Law, Medicine, Music, Nursing, OISE, Pharmacy, Phys Ed, Theology, Transitional Year, etc., even Certificate and Diploma programs).

Alternatively, full-time undergraduate students on St. George Campus can obtain their refund ($1.00) from the UTSU office, 12 Hart House Circle (north of King's College Circle, across from Hart House and UC, building in the middle) Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., until Friday, October 10, 2008.  Call 416-978-4911 for UTSU information.

Part-time undergraduate students (all 3 campuses) can obtain their refund ($1.00) within 3 weeks of the start of class at APUS Student Service Office, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street, Room 1089, Monday through Thursday 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.; Friday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  Call (416) 978-3993 for APUS information.

One of OPIRG-Toronto's working groups is Students Against Israeli Apartheid.

SAIA works at U of T to promote a campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel.

SAIA's events include the infamous annual Israeli Apartheid Week (during February each year), as well as various controversial speakers and movie screenings (such as Occupation 101).

SAIA promotes the position of a small group of anti-Israel extremists.

SAIA portrays Israel using pejorative language and one-sided propaganda.

SAIA offends many students, and does not reflect a consensus of the student body or of the "Public Interest".

We are ALL* paying for SAIA's campaign, whether we know it or not.

U of T students pay over $100,000 per year to OPIRG without knowing what we're paying for!

GET YOUR MONEY BACK!

President's Statement on the Events at Simcoe Hall on March 20th, 2008:  http://www.provost.utoronto.ca/public/pdadc/0708/43.htm

Information from the Student Accounts Office on Student Society Fee Rebates:  http://www.fees.utoronto.ca/session/fallwinter0809/rebates.htm

The University’s Office of Student Affairs provides some general information and policies regarding Compulsory Non-Academic Incidental Fees (such as the fee charged by student unions on behalf of OPIRG) at the following web site:

http://www.students.utoronto.ca/docs/incidentalfees.htm

For more information, please click on the links at the left.

To help with the "Opt Out of OPIRG" campaign, please contact [email protected]

*The only U of T students who do not automatically pay a levy to OPIRG are full-time undergraduates at the Mississauga and Scarborough campuses.

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