The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer They are calling it Black Monday in Sudbury. The Northern Ontario city, made famous by its nickel mines and a Stompin’ Tom Connors ode to its raucous Saturday nights, is reeling from this week’s announcement of massive cuts at struggling Laurentian University. Everyone is rightly looking for someone to blame for the financial mess that led Laurentian’s current administration to fire more than a quarter of the university’s professors and eliminate dozens of programs, from mathematics to midwifery. After filing for court protection from its creditors in February – a first for a publicly funded Canadian university – Laurentian this week broke another major taboo of higher learning by handing out pink slips to tenured faculty.