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Athletic director’s job still up in the ai

By Scott MacDonald Itappears that the search for the ‘new’ Athletic Director is still going on. The vote for who gets the job has been delayed for a yet undetermined length of time.

Many people are wondering why the committee is taking its time making a decision since the university athletic season is just get- ting underway. It would make the most sense to hire someone as quickly as possible so they could get started in their position.

The six member search committee was supposed to pass in their formal vote to the Board of Governors last Monday to decide who would become the new A.D.. It seems, though, that the committee’s decision to rehire current A.D. Barb Mullaly has some opposition from both the board and some members of the community. Mullaly has been the acting Ath- letic Director on an interim basis for the past four years, since she replaced Ed Hilton who resigned amidst controversy in the fall of 1990.

Mullaly was on the three person ‘short list’ which was cut down from the more than 20 applicants that wanted the job. The other two names were Concordia hockey coach Paul Arsenault, and ex-women’s basketball coach Dave ‘Hermie’ MacNeill who has worked with

Sport PEI the last few years.

Several reasons were given for delay in decision making, including a noti that the search committee itself was at fa because two of the six-members had an ob ous bias for Mullaly to retain her job; and, t only voted 4-2 in favour of Mullaly.

There are some people who are s wondering why several applicants, includi Morell native Al MacAdam, were not evi given interviews for the position. One me ber of the Board of Governors said that t delay will allow further information from t public to be voiced.

One rumour floating around campus that Mullaly and one unnamed varsity coa were on bad terms, leading toa partisan crov who are opposed to the idea that Mullaly appointed as head A.D..

What it all boils down tois this: wheth the committee approves Mullaly does not ma ter. The Board of Governors has the ability select any of the three member short li regardless of the committees recommend tion. Mullaly’s four years as a highly com tent athletic director may mean nothing what may amount to a glorified popularit contest.

Frontier College seeks to set up literacy program at UPE

By Shannon Younker Many University Students Find they are swamped with reading material at this time of the year. Fortunately for most, the bulk of material en- countered every day is legible and understand- able. This is not the case for the 5 million Canadians who are classified as ’’non-readers’’.

Worse still, according to statistics Canada, of the 38 per cent of Canada’s population classi- fied as functionally illiterate, less than 4 per cent are getting help with their reading and writing. Those who are considered ‘‘non-readers’’ in- clude over half of the Native Canadians living on reserves and over 70% of the nation’s prison inmates (all statistics from 1988).

Ninety-five years ago, Alfred Fitzpatrick inspired a group of students from Queen’s Uni- versity to help the workers and labourers of the nation upgrade their literacy skills. These read- ing tents became the Labourer Teacher Program which in turn was the beginning of Frontier College, now a nation-wide, non-profit literacy organization.

As well as labourers, Students for Lit- eracy volunteers now work with street kids, youth at risk of becoming drop-outs, prison

inmates, recent immigrants and many other learners.

There are now Frontier College pro- grams in twenty-two Canadian Universities including Mount Allison, Dalhousieand Saint Mary’s. At St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, students have been working with Micmac and Black communities for over twenty years. Frontier College staff would like to add fifteen more campuses to the Students for Literacy network and Anna- Lisa Brewer, Campus Outreach Coordinator says “‘the University of PEI is a priority’.

Information on Frontier College, hints on how to set up an effective, efficient group of volunteers and training to become a tutor is provided free of charge by the Frontier College staff. Stephanie Miller, Program Manager tells interested students all that is needed to be involved is *‘a sense of commit- ment, an open and creative mind, and a big heart.’’ People interested in tackling the illiteracy problem in Prince Edward Island can contact Mary Burke at 675-4791 for more information on establishing a Students for Literacy club at UPEI.

Human Rights case against UPEI under investigation

By Rebecca Moore Wendy Adams, an employee of the UPEI secu- rity department, has filed a human rights case against her employer based on sexual discrimi- nation. The case is still in the preliminary stages and the findings of the initial investigation are likely to be released this week. An anonymous source says that Wendy would like everything to work out, ‘““She hopes

everything can be worked out and is hopeful for a positive conclusion’’

Jim Wyatt from the Human Rights Commission stated that he is restricted by the confidentiality rule, but he did confirm thal the case is under inquiry. John McEntee, Director of Security, had no comment on the case.