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Students at Wilfrid Laurier are outraged after the operator of a popular campus café was fired for posting a tongue-in-cheek ad looking for a “slave.”

Sandor Dosman, who runs Veritas Café at the Waterloo, Ont., university, said the school’s Graduate Students’ Association called him into its boardroom on Monday, showed him a copy of the ad he posted and terminated his contract.

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“I had the ad in front of me, saying, ‘What was it? Was it the word slave? Was it the word kill? As in try not to kill our customers?” he said. “I dug a little bit and said is there something more to this? But they just said, ‘No, it’s because of this ad,’ and that’s it.”

The student group had two security guards escort Dosman off campus. The café, which was set to close next week for the holidays, was shut down, too.

Dosman, who ran the cafe for nearly five years, posted the ad in late November in the Facebook group “Food in the Waterloo Region.” He said the ad received a good response, with many people applying for the job and others sending him messages complimenting his humour.