'JheUPEISUN Thursday April 6‘ 1978, page 4‘ ‘ ' p ’ \

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‘7 "The7"‘UP"E'I"SUNWi’sia mar; year .by the UPE‘I Union,

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‘wi'th exclusive national {and distributed'throughOut advertising rights held :the campus and g’few. select by Youthstream, 307 :Spots in Charlottetown. Davenport Road, Toronto, ._ (tangents. are the in. Qatar-Io.» " I responsibility/pf the I The UPEI- SUN aims, to. editortﬂpfniogsare those he an Independent news— :06 the persons expressing. paper published weekly.-- . them. - ‘v . q . 7 jth'roughout the .acade__m_l_c ' 5

V $3,]. editor; hrsla L. (hudet. assistant. editor; 'J. Geraldvmkerma, lay-out manager; Barry omelet, graphics artist and IeeR'Dmrelly,_ V ,would liketo ,thankall-tlosepoeplevmohaveworkedmtle, U.P.E.I. SIN including V . .

George‘McGibbcn Mike when

John more

Val more Claire Nantes John Neville * Paula o'lboke Joanne Peters Jim Picone Mickey Place Bill Power

Iois Pursey Tony Reddin ‘ Sandra Saunders Linda Scales my Shalala Riger Simmons Mark 'Ihibeault Iaurie Tierney Jennifer 'IWeddle Al Ward

Lois Watkins Rick Webber

editorial. ; ,

.I finally return to write the last edit- orialforttelastissueofﬂeyear. Iwould liketothankallcmrreadersarxiwishyouall luck with the next few weeks. ' V

.I‘d like to aim this editorial at any stu- dentswhoare thinkingofbecoming involvedwith student organizations next year. '-

‘Jhe most important thing that student or— ganizatims do is to get stude'lts who have 'in—* - terestin a specific field working together. Itisnotighave thatgmipofpeopletodo a jda that can be termed professional.

' 'me majority of stuthlts don't index-stand this. As a result, the organizations do not spendenoughtineonrecruitingsuidentswl'o would like to heme involved but are either not self—confident enough or do not know how to go about it.

These organizations beoare a semi-profes— sional enterprise nm by a small number of students. Siroethemmberis smallandthey donotspend time instructing new members, their job is done very well.

']he jobs done by suzdent organizations are not so inportant as to place the needs of the individual student in the back seat. It would be better if a job was done as if it was done by a bunch of amateurs who learned from the ex— perience, than by a smallgroup of students who are semi—professional.

Although university teaches us a lot, it gives little practical experience. Student organizations provide this much-needed quality in learning. "Ihey cannot do this if they stress thee‘ld-product more than how they achieve it. '

It was for this reason that our graphics artist, assistant editor, and myself refused to work on the

- last two issues. We took a long look at the operation of the newspaper. and decided it couldn't really be

called a student newspaper if it was put out only by six people. ' to our newspaper and condone those filthy wreches

The three of us decided there should be only , who didn't pay their three dollars but read it any- one more paper (which is this one) but the rest of way. ,

the six decided to put out the last two anyway. We Special thanks to Jonh Cairns, who never failed . feel that it is not mrtlmhile to spend all that to meet his deadline (the editor would like to know

student money if we are not really helping students. his secret) also President Ronald J. Baker, who Nothing in our paper is so relevant that it could not kept us going without realizing it. ‘ ' have waited two weeks. It has been an experience; working as editor- I hope that people who are running things next. well worth going through once but not twice.

year keep this in mind. 'Ihe students come first, not Anyone intersted in my job, please contact the the student body. Aim to get as many people as pos- student union. Don't worry about inexperience; sible involved and worry less about how professional I'll be here for a few years yet. it is, and you will have a better year next year. , ‘ Larry Green

LETTERS MW

Editor,

Kelly Crockett Claire Currie Brian Deveau

Ken Dodd‘ Elizabeth Downie Maria Driscoll Dianne Dunsford Linda Fall John Fleming Sharon Anne Green thry Anne Hutchinson Pat Ingraham

' Dawn Ieeman Nora MacAdam Pat NEC'rPhail

' Peter Maloney

We would also like to thank all those’people who submitted articles, stories, poene, ect. and who gave moral support when needed.

We applaud the honest professors who subscribed

’ are not happy "in a Dear Editor:

Being the only profoundly deaf student at U.P.E.I. for the past four years, I would like to take this opportunity before graduation, to extend thanks and offer sone ocmrents.

I've found my 'four years challenging. It has been ‘ difficult at times and has meant a lot of hard work.

However, I have many ‘ reasons to be thankful.

cooperative and under—

I found the fellow

students the same way. To all, I would like

to say, learn a little

handicap. Accept deaf people into your group and community. Cormamicatim is never that difficult and

'Ihe professors have been

standing, and of course ‘

more about deafness as a

renen‘ber that deaf people

silent. world of their own". Every htman being wants to be part of the main stream of society.

I only hope that I have way for other deaf . students who may enter U.P;E.I.

Thank you all again. We have a wonderful univer—

sity and only hope you can keep it that way.

Elaine Campbell

In recent, successive issues -of the SIN, you published one letter from

' off canpus criticizing an

advertisement for . contraceptive materials V and two letters critici— zing the first one. 'Ihis note omtinues that discussion. ’

It seens to me the first

’letterwasmisreadbyits,

critics. So far as I :can

, LETTERS CON'T ON PG '5 .