Concordia bin Laden

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by Craig Segal

Is the Concordia Student Union a secret tool of Osama bin Laden?

The B'nai Brith seems to think so. They held a press conference last Monday saying they don't like the CSU-printed student agenda, and now the student union is getting broadsided all over the place for its revolutionary and anti-Zionist zeal. "This is now a matter for CSIS to handle," says Steve Slimovitch, criminal defence lawyer and national legal council for B'nai Brith. "This is a piece of documentation you would expect police to find with a search warrant. We sarcastically said this may as well be a blueprint for Osama bin Laden's organization. One has to wonder where the document comes from. What are the connections to this document?"

"Bin Laden would hate this book!" says CSU researcher David Bernans. "He would want to burn it. It has queer-positive articles, pro-feminist articles. It's anti-violent. B'nai Brith is using the tragedy of September 11 to attack the CSU and it's an insult to all of the people that were killed in the September 11 attack."

Nevertheless, Concordia students are distinctly displeased with the CSU. They voted overwhelmingly against a union-presented motion to expel specific corporations from the school, and are circulating a petition to boot the CSU.

"Basically I think 98 per cent of students have come to one conclusion: the CSU has got to go," says Tyson Clinton, 22, VP Social Affairs of the Engineering and Computer Science Association.