Without such acquired literacy, how will future citizens be equipped to function in a world where untruths constantly bombard us?
We think Albertans want university students to continue learning traditional skills like writing and analytic reading, and studying classic authors like Shakespeare, Dickens, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Thomas King. Salter and sponsored by his family, and the Rudy Wiebe creative writing room, named for a giant of western Canadian literature who taught here? Or efface the memory of donors like Sarah Nettie Christie, or affront the families of other former students, who generously funded scholarships in memory of loved-ones’ happy days in this place? Or bulldoze its Indigenous students’ room, or halls where Nobel laureates have lectured? The building is not just concrete and tile: it houses human beings, and represents a proud history of the humanities in our province. Shall we destroy the building’s Salter Reading Room, named for Edmontonian of the century F.M.
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