Opposition to Renaming the Accolade West Building
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Whereas the York University Board of Governors has decided to rename the recently-launched Accolade West Building the "Tribute Communities Building" in conjunction with Tribute Communities purchase and ongoing development of the Southlands, an area south of the Main Keele campus formerly owned by the University;
Whereas the Board of Governors agreed to sell the Southlands to Tribute Communities without a public tender, to a business associate of a principle of the York University Development Corporation, and at a price well below what the Board had initially hoped to raise from the sale;
Whereas the completion of the Accolade Project, to which Tribute Communities made a $2 million donation (the largest amongst private donors) and which houses facilities for the Fine Arts, could positively affect the value of lands now owned and being developed by Tribute;
Whereas this decision to rename the building was undertaken by the Board of Governors in camera, a move usually reserved for discussions relating specifically to legal, labour, personnel, or government policy issues;
* [See the York University Board of Governors By-Laws, Article IV, (16), http://www.yorku.ca/secretariat/board/documents/bylaws.htm]
Whereas this decision represents the first instance of a campus building being named after a corporate entity or organization;
Whereas this decision suggests a lack of administrative accountability to faculty and students following widely publicized concerns regarding the lack of public student space and the increasing commercialization and commodification of space on campus and generally in the University;
Be it resolved that we, the undersigned, strongly disapprove of the renaming of the Accolade West Building.
Whereas the Board of Governors agreed to sell the Southlands to Tribute Communities without a public tender, to a business associate of a principle of the York University Development Corporation, and at a price well below what the Board had initially hoped to raise from the sale;
Whereas the completion of the Accolade Project, to which Tribute Communities made a $2 million donation (the largest amongst private donors) and which houses facilities for the Fine Arts, could positively affect the value of lands now owned and being developed by Tribute;
Whereas this decision to rename the building was undertaken by the Board of Governors in camera, a move usually reserved for discussions relating specifically to legal, labour, personnel, or government policy issues;
* [See the York University Board of Governors By-Laws, Article IV, (16), http://www.yorku.ca/secretariat/board/documents/bylaws.htm]
Whereas this decision represents the first instance of a campus building being named after a corporate entity or organization;
Whereas this decision suggests a lack of administrative accountability to faculty and students following widely publicized concerns regarding the lack of public student space and the increasing commercialization and commodification of space on campus and generally in the University;
Be it resolved that we, the undersigned, strongly disapprove of the renaming of the Accolade West Building.
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Mary H
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Fine Arts Student
Accolade was chosen to be a name celebrating York and its Fine Arts community and development. Please don't commercialize our students' public space.
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Sidd R
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York Affiliation
Student
At least if Tribute was going to rename the building, they could have choosen a better name! This is no good!
4 January 2016
4 January 2016
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Mike C
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York Affiliation
Student and Employee
This is entirely unnecessary. York is already a consumer paradise, we needen't be convinced of it.
1 January 2016
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Gordon V
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York Affiliation
student
Wasn't there also a large sum of money invested in the creation of the "Accolade" image? It would seem a shame to throw that all away.
24 December 2015
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