Students after Access 2000

By Leo Cheverie

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The Student Union and _ the Canadian Federation of Students should be congratulated for hosting the forum on, post-secondary education at UPEI. As many of you know, student tuition has risen at least 89 percent in the past 10 years at UPEI while student debt burdens have risenastronomically. It is clear that the Millennium Scholarship program and new research monies are not benefiting small universities like UPEI.

become increasingly strained, especially when attempting to meet the needs of a larger body of students witha shrinking pot of money.

In the last provincial election, Conservative leader Pat Binns came to campus to promise that he would meet a concern of UPEI’s by promising a three-year forecast of the DO VICES Ss commitment to UPEI. However, after the election, he revealed that he meant a cut of six percent and four percent in the university’s funding

Robert Maddix, opposition education critic, called “slush funds.”

So what did we hear about at the

debate? The importance of education for the

future, the need for research dollars, the crushing burdens of student debt, the advent of a food bank oncampus for students the privatization of public education, the need for national standards, and the fact that accessibility for students in the future will be compromised. As John Desrosiers stated of his fellow students, “We are the

university PEI, asa whole, will suffer in the long runas more people join the “brain drain.” Dohis fellow caucus members like Jamie Ballem have more say? Well, with aprovincial election on the horizon (I say itmight be April 10!) Is it too much to request that the province devote at least $1.5 million ata bare minimum and certainly more to ensure that students at “UPEI. “are guaranteed an affordable and quality education? Can we settle for anything less, especially when the Conservatives are

Call For Submissions

Students, staff, and faculty of UPEI are invited to submit art

work, photographs, and/or poetry to be considered for

inclusion in the “Body Thoughts: It’s All About Perception”

visual arts event to be held on campus March 18, 2000. purpose of the event is to celebrate bodies of all kinds, challenge the narrow range of body representations

throughout popular culture, and explore contradictions, ambivalences and instabilities around bodies and identities.

Deadline for submissions: March 8, 2000

Submissions may be dropped off at UPEI Women’s Centre

=sSsS Ruth at 628-4332 or Ann at 628-4312

For further information, please contact:

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