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By John Cairns

In a ceremony on October 12th Dr. Ken Ozmon was inaugurated as the new president of St. Mary's University. A former dean of Arts at UPEI, Dr. Ozmon has succeeded Dr. D. Owen Carrigan at St. Mary's.

Anyone at UPEI in the past decade could hardly haVe missed meeting Dr. Ozman. While here he compiled an impressive record. He first joined the psychology department in

1969 and from 1970 to 1972 was the department chairman. His time as dean of Arts ran from 1972 to 1979, and in early I979 he was reappointed for an additional three

SYMPOSIUM

By John Cairns

Hurried last minute preparations, anxiety over attendance, and visible signs of nervousness; these were the symptoms just - before UPEI's Symposium '79 Committee held its first press conference on Monday. When things got underway, however, Mark LedWell and Joanne Peters made an impressive presentation to the media.

They explained that they represented a committee of students organizing a UPEI symposium for November 6th, and 7th. The symposium is to be a series of speeches, debates, and discussions, involving guest Les Harris of Memorial University in Newfoundland, and dealing with questions abbut students and university. The central such question is "Why are we at university?" In approaching this issue the

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MANINAUGURAT

studied at St. Bernard College, Alabama (B.A. 1955); of America, (M.A. 1963);

years. That was before he acquired his new post at St. Mary's.

Dr. Ken Ozmon

Throughout his academic career the new president has been associated with various universities. A native of Virginia, he

Catholic University

and the University of Maine (Ph.D. 1968). UPEI, he has taught in

Alabama at Marionopolis College, at St. Thomas ' Institute in Montreal, at University of Maine in Orino, at California State university, and at St. Dunstan's University.

Besides

Always one to be involved,

Dr. Ozman also had non- academic interests in Charlottetown. at the managerial levels

of the PEI mental retardation association, the Addiction Foundation of PEI, and the Occupational Training Center. Equally important was

He served

PEOPLE MEET PRESS I

.SYmPOSium shOuld raise new questions as well as answer

...M . a ,.., ...,, old ones. The foremost goal is to help students analyze their roles at university and especially

at UPEI.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once commented that, "You send your your son to the school master, but it is the school boys who educate him." Mr. Ledwell

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pointed out that this comment

is typical of what Symposium '79 is trying to accomplish. It is to be an event by students and for students.

FaCulty and the non—university

community will be afforded some participation, but will mainly have to watch. The SymPOSium is to prove

,that given the chance UPEI

Students can express both themselves and their concerns. The entire event also has

several more concrete aims. As it all draws to a close, for example, the symposium committee will draft a list of resolutions which may someday be applied to UPEI. There is also the possibility that intellectuals elsewhere

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his prominence in the local branch of the Canadian

Human Rights Foundation,

the Charlottetown Roadrunner's Club. All these contributions will be missed.

The October 12th inauguration ceremony makes Dr. Ozmon's departure from Charlottetown final. He can't, however, depart this fair province without memories. This was made clear during the inauguration. Each of the Atlantic university presidents went on stage to present Dr. Ozmon with a scroll.

When the turn of UPEI's President Meinke came, he approached‘IDr. Ozmon and handed him both a scroll and a POTATO. This province has a way of trailing those who leave it.

will respond to the UPEI symposium with something similar of their own. Last, but not least, people at UPEI may become more intense as students once they know why they are students. Monday's press conference was for all the Charlottetown media. Unfortunately, the radio stations and the Guardian failed to appear. Similarly, Symposium '79 is Planned for all UPEI students, and hopefully the student body will respond better than the media has. With poor attendance the symposium may fail. With good support, on the other hand, it will do a lot for the UPEI community.

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