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Rolf Horn chops up an old tree on the lawn of Wilfrid Laurier University‘s Lutheran Student House, at the corner of Seaâ€" gram Drive and Albert Street, last weekend as part of spring cleaning activities around the city. The tree had died and Horn had to remove it before the old trunk could cause any damage‘ GREG MACDONALD PHOT tudents, staff and faculâ€" Sty at Wilfrid Laurier University are ready to get back to work after a twoâ€" week strike by partâ€"time instructors was settled on Monday. Members of the contract academic staff union â€" mainly partâ€"time instructors and support staff â€" ratified a deal that would see a modâ€" erate pay raise and increased compensation for staff with more seniority, said Sue Horton, the school‘s academic viceâ€"president. The union was initially looking for a full seniority grid, but instead will see partâ€"time instructors with a certain amount of experiâ€" ence getting pay bumps starting in September 2008, said Herbert Pimlott, a spokesperson for the faculty association. "We see this as a meanâ€" ingful first step," he said. "We did achieve seniority in principle. It‘s begrudging recognition (of seniority) by the administration." Horton said that the administration was satisfied with the resolution. "Any strike is too long for a student, but ... once peoâ€" ple go on strike, it‘s unusual for them to come back in less than two weeks," she to class at WLU after 2â€"week strike Now that the labour disâ€" pute is over, the university is working hard to get back on track, Horton said. â€" "We‘re ready to get back to life as normal," she said. Classes taught by partâ€" time professors resumed late Monday afternoon and will run through today at the Waterloo campus. Exams will then resume as scheduled on Thursday, Students go back By Grec MacDonaLp _ Chronicle Staff "The purpose of these makeâ€"up classes is to give professors time to go over the material that is on the exam," she said. Horton said "The aim is not to catch up on material missed." _ There was a plan in place to push exams back a week and give students and faculâ€" ty time to finish their coursâ€" es, but there was no appetite for that on campus, Horton added. But Pimlott contends that the striking faculty wanted extra time between the end of classes and exams. "A student ... pointed out that since two study days have been replaced with makeâ€"up classes, he has nine hours of class on Wednesday, then an exam on Thursday," he said. But the school wanted to keep on schedule for the benefit of students who needed their marks or had summer jobs or plans, Horâ€" ton said. > Summer school will also begin on schedule, and materials have been sent out so distance education coursâ€" es can begin. "The (striking) faculty were not thrilled that they weren‘t paid through the strike, but we‘ve decided to put that money towards a student scholarship," she While the strike certainly had an ill effect on the school, it will have one posiâ€" tive outcome, Horton said. "We wanted to recognize the cost students paid durâ€" ing the strike." _ _ Pimlott said that the staff association pushed for the scholarship, not only for the benefit of the students, but so that the university did not benefit from the strike. GREG MACDONALD PHOTO www.waterloochronicle.ca Complete Collision and Refinishing Service Area Rugs [ _ YR _ yA u’msoo/orfir p t A b, } P ¢â€" I Ceramic Laminate j wose.. J _$1""._ ;;z Northdale Auto Body 519â€"884â€"0550 , in teday‘s WATERLOO CHRONICLE + Wednesday, April 9, 2008 * 5 Victoria St. North