A Conservative Student Assault on the Canadian Federation of Students in the Mid-1980s
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Abstract
Abstract: Student newspapers, conference documents and delegate reports offer insight into how the executive of the University of Alberta Students' Union, affiliated with the youth wing of the Progressive Conservative Party, tried to establish the Canadian University Students' Executive Council (CUSEC) in the mid-1980s. CUSEC organizers envisioned creating a narrowly focused, low-cost, easy-to-join, national student organization exclusively for student union presidents from Canada's largest universities to undermine the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS). CUSEC organizers were unable to effectively challenge the legitimacy of the CFS, a relatively well-established, social-democratic, national-level student organization that arose in the 1970s and 1980s after the collapse of the Canadian Union of Students in 1969. Leadership attrition, shifting organization tactics, and a general lack of interest outside the large universities in Western Canada (and McGill University in Quebec) led CUSEC to dissolve in 1988, but it was successfully revived under different organization names in the 1990s. Abstract: Les journaux étudiants, les documents de conférence et les rapports des délégués donnent un aperçu de la manière dont la direction du syndicat étudiant de l'Université de l'Alberta, affilié à la branche jeunesse du Parti progressiste-conservateur, a tenté de créer le Canadian University Students' Executive Council (CUSEC) au milieu des années 1980. Les organisateurs du CUSEC envisageaient de créer une organisation étudiante nationale à vocation étroitement ciblée, peu coûteuse et facile d'accès, réservée exclusivement aux présidents des associations étudiantes des plus grandes universités canadiennes, afin de saper la Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants (FCÉÉ). Les organisateurs du CUSEC n'ont pas réussi à remettre en cause efficacement la légitimité de la FCÉÉ, une organisation étudiante nationale relativement bien établie, sociale-démocrate, qui a vu le jour dans les années 1970 et 1980 après l'effondrement de l'Union canadienne des étudiants en 1969. L'attrition des dirigeants, l'évolution des stratégies organisationnelles et un désintérêt général à l'extérieur des grandes universités de l'Ouest canadien (et de l'Université McGill au Québec) ont conduit à la dissolution du CUSEC en 1988, mais celui-ci a été relancé avec succès sous différents noms dans les années 1990.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.056 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".