Our story so far: UBC Food Services invites Mr. Tubesteak to hustle hotdogs on campus. It happens. Soon, wiener wanters were enthusiastically engorging exceedingly excellent entrails. A considerable cornucopia of condiments complemented completely.
CUPE, confused and concerned, condemned. Preternaturally protesting "privatized" products, pernicious persons precipitated problems. Too terrorized by tubesteaks?
Cowardly, campus cognoscenti capitulate. High Noon for Hotdog Handlers!
To paraphrase, tubesteakers were told to get out of town by sundown, Jan 31, or eat lead!
Moral Bankruptcy: By caving in to a few whiners, UBC's administration has displayed a politically expedient moral bankruptcy. While hotdogs aren't worth defending, people's jobs and certain principles are. Why have they been trashed? (De-employed and dis-upheld if you prefer.)
The tubesteakers created their own jobs without displacing others. They work for every penny they earn, and are cheerful and courteous. It's fun to go to their little carts, and students line up for them even in the rain.
Many people believe hard work, innovation, job creation, and services to students should be encouraged, or at least not outlawed. To the UBC Administration: Please show us that you agree, and invite the tubesteakers to remain. It may not be the easiest, but it is the right thing to do.