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weeks early to practice for a tourney in Summerside, we travel every second week- end which ‘costs each person about 30 to 40 dollars out of their own pocket and we are committed to rep- resenting our University in this Hockey conference. We consider ourselves a fam- ily and like any family we fight and

ourselves.

argue amongst However, when someone on the team is in trouble everyone else sticks by them. On Saturday March 12, we achieved one of your goals. Our cele- bration was going to involve The Sports Page Lounge was gracious enough to invite our whole team down to have a victory cel-

everyone.

Don Clow asked me how the vote went. When I told him he informed me for the first time that we would be going out as one and not to worry about not being part of the party. Instead of criticizing a group for this type of action

for having character?

I am truly whole incident took place

is the fact that people that the time to write a let- ter to the Editor and not

should they not be praised sorry this

but what bothers me more ©

bother to even question any

of the people involved. If someone were to ask me in private what happened I would gladly explain. It is when. this whole incident

“is brought up four months~

after the fact and kept in

the paper Ske icse weeks by

members of this university community that makes me feel a mountain is being made out of a mole hill.

Kevin MacNeil

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More about Rahman

Dear Editor:

On my reading of Pro- fessor Rahman’s The Psy- chological Quest, I have dis- cerned certain affinities with Alan Bloom’s influential The Closing of the American Mind. Whether Professor Rahman would own these affinities is, of course, other matter. At any rate, Bloom and Rahman. alike, it seems to me, are con- cerned that the ethos of

appropriate only when it critiques the perceived un- derpinnings of those certain “issues” that are deemed to be “significant” by the in- telligentsia that frame such issues, and for which a cor- roborative consensus can be found among the broader intelligentsia. Clearly, there are affinities between Rah- man’s challenging of the recent Mazer/Percival Find- ings and Bloom’s less than

an-

work, and their children, whom they leave in day care centers in order to pursue their careers, are sexually abused by teachers. All these crimes must be legis- lated against and punished. What sensitive male avoid realizing how danger- ous his sexual passion is? Is

can

there perhaps really original sin? Men had failed to read the fine print in the Emanic- ipation Proclamation. The

virtue, accompanied by re- lentless propaganda on radio and television and in the | press, has its own catechism

‘inducing an examination of

the conscience and the in- most sentiments for traces of possessiveness, jealousy, protectiveness — all those things men used to feel for women. There are, of course, a multitude of properly indignant censors equipped with loud-speakers

and inquisitional tribunals.”

Surely the tone that many found. so __ offensive in Rahman’s criticism of the Mazer/Percival Findings pales in comparison © the seeming invective of Bloom. If Bloom were a UPEI Faculty Member, he would doubtless be. ac- cused of being “unethical”,

sanquine. observation con- new interference with sexual

cerning recent imputations of sexism:

critical inquiry, upon which the Western University is presumable predicated, is waning in its sway to the ex- tent that criticism no longer

I am sorry that not everyone did not know

ebration. desire is more comprehen-

sive, more intense, more difficult to escape than the older conventions, the grip of which relaxed.

the s really only a day between the overthrow of the Ancient, Regime and the onset of the Terror.

where we were going to cel- ebrate. I know there were some people should or would have liked

“Male sexual passion has ‘ become sinful again because attempts to justify itself on it its own terms, but only to

the extent that it lends itself jects, they are raped by to the selective critiquing of their husbands as well as by selected contemporary ‘i

is- strangers, they are sexually sues”’. In many

circles, criticism today is considered

missing that was so_ recently

The July 14 of

revolution was

culminates in sexism, with

to have been there. I would women are made” into’ ob- Sat like to point out that it was a team decision involving everyone that we would be : . harassed by professors and going out partying together. The new regime of employers at school and at

Saturday afternoon 4-7

Special prizes for everybody

“THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT | AND BEST OF LUCK 10: YOU. Allg.

JIMS LOUNGE

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