Faculty, staff, students and their children rally for on-campus child care at the Tate Plaza on Thursday. The rally was sponsored by the Campus Coalition for Childcare at UGA and the Women's Studies Student Organization. They presented University President Michael Adams with a petition with more than 2,000 signatures asking for changes in campus child care.
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annie
posted 9/28/07 @ 9:02 AM EST
Terrible headline. The rally was productive and this headline makes it seems like parents are just trying to get rid of their kids. this is a real and serious issue for many women and i think the headline could have been a little less slanted. (Continued…)
Christy
posted 9/28/07 @ 11:11 AM EST
Thankfully you changed the headline, online. The original headline trivialized an issue that is important to thousands of people in the community. I think you should consider posting an apology for it. (Continued…)
matt
posted 9/29/07 @ 11:23 AM EST
Why should you University be responsible for taking care of anyone's kids? Did these parents think that someone would always be there to provide daycare for them when they had children?
Christy
posted 9/29/07 @ 12:51 PM EST
"These parents" are your fellow students, professors and the staff that maintain the University. Without childcare none of this is possible. We want, and deserve, better options. (Continued…)
matt
posted 9/29/07 @ 7:42 PM EST
So... someone "deserves" better options than, I don't know, maybe paying for daycare themselves? Because last time I checked, having a child doesn't entitle you to anything, much less free child care. (Continued…)
Mary
posted 9/30/07 @ 6:48 PM EST
Matt, you clearly aren't thinking through the issue. If you are a student at UGA, then the lack of quality child care does affect you as well. Because the University doesn't provide child care (not just free child care, but virtually none at all--there is only room for 53 children for how many faculty, staff, and students?) there are a TON of professors and grad students that just can't work or study here. (Continued…)
Molly
posted 10/01/07 @ 8:04 AM EST
This is to "C-Student"
I'm not sure what has been said in print, but I was at the rally and the talk of "subsidized" childcare was in regards to low-income employees, like those who work in food service making $20,000/year or students who make even less and could not afford the $180/200 per week even if the university did expand the childcare services--- not for all university faculty/staff/students. (Continued…)
Riley
posted 10/01/07 @ 11:13 AM EST
Is it documented that prospective faculty turn down job offers from UGA solely on the issue of childcare? Likewise for graduate applicants. (Maybe the "study" Adams has in mind will answer this. (Continued…)
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