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Dear Editor:

'I recently came across a co- py of your white,racist,mid- dle c1ass,patit-bourgsois establishment "newspaper" THE CADRE,.I noticed that t the official emblem of your Athletics Department teams :is nothing less than a Black .Panther! Right on man, that really blew my mind and told me man, that you cats at U. P.E.I. can't be all bad even though you are "whitey"!

Then I flashed on a really wild idea. Seeing as how our "Panthers" are fairly well gone to pieces, with brothers Huey Newton dead, Rap Brown in Canada, Bobby Beale in jail and me in Al— eria; there is a lot of_of- yicial Panther equipment 'just lying around going to waste. I‘m sure the cats at U.P.E.I. that really dig your "Panthers" could use some of our groovy gear. I have for example: official "up the Panther" buttons, Panther berets, jackets, as sunglasses, flags, beer 1% i mugs, pencils and last but n¢t least Panther dynamite, machine guns, bazooias, sawed-off shotguns etc, all those things necessary for really groovy victory par- ties. If you dig, I could give you this stuff at one half the cost price (plus 7% Algerian sales tax). So, drop me a line. Right on. All power to the Panthers.

Eldridge Cleaver, Panther Minister of Information and Quarter Mas- ter Stores, 21 Revolution Row, Tangiers, Algeria

’ November 18,1971. Professor Robin Neill,

fDaar Robin,

This letter has caused me awkard interns! debate. I have learnt recently that the Faculty Association is applying for a 15%+ merit increase,and I am troubled ~on two counts.

without wishing to look "holier—than-thou“ or indeed "holier than oyhers" I can- not support this application My difficulty is twofold. It involves,first,ny view that a university commun— ity is not a set of conf— licting interest groups, but rather a congerie dev- ,oted to the good of learn- ing,research,and teaching.

Consider the first poinh

I do not see myself serving the community best by asking for a salary high- er than the one I currently enjoy.Thl Maritimes is a ."depressed"area;in Ch'town many of my fellow citizens and their children go hun — gry.It seems to me that if my role as a university teacher is to be—to a lim- ited sxtent—meaningful;then my acts must match my pro- fessions of faith.Hence I am,very deliberately,writing to Bresident Baker and to the Board of Governors, asking that my own salary be frozen,unless some more. modest proposals are forth- coming.

The second way that Faculty Association's pro— posals embarrass is that th they seem to devide the uni- versity community into come peting factions.

There seem to be a grow- ing tendency for members of the university to be dev— ided up according to rank and fuction.0nce the room, now claimed by Faculty ass— ociation in Main Building -and refurnished,I am told-

'at university expense-was

available to all levels of the university community.

I was able to have coffee with other members of the university—the maintaince paople,the janitors,the secetaries.Now it is an ex- clusive club to which these others and students(the most important members of

the academic community)are ' not admitted.I am disturbed

moreover,that some of the secretaries and janitors are now in uniforms which

' segregateathem off from the

rest of 23 as different classes of"unspeakable menials".while I do not have the power to stop peoplgf being "pinned and wriggling on the wall" loan at least protest the tendency and to be absorbed into its-what seems to me at least- thoughtless maw.

The government gives the university only a certain amount of money,because as professors,we have economic and political advantages,we

assess EEWWE‘ES

can quite easily get more\ of the salary cake than others.8y contrast the jané itors,the typisits,the lower ranks of administration

have no bargaining power. Hence,if we suceed in gettirg a 15% increase we can only do so at the expense of less fortunate members of the university community,and this is a situation that I cannot bring myself to support.

I realize that mine is an extreme and unpopular position,but than I have no wish to be separted or to be made to feel separ- ated from other members of the university community. while I may wish to have my own salary frozen,I do not expect others to take simil- arly suicidal measures; hence I am writing to other to take similarly suicidal measures;I would consider an increase of 4% reason- able and quite adequate.If such agreement cannot be re- ached than I feel I must dissociate myself from all salary increase proposals and ask quits finally to have my own salary frozen.

I hope you and your colleagues will pardon the length and other disturbing features of this letter,and I hope that you will treat it with the impartial con— cern in which it was comet posed.with best regards,

Yours sincerely, Reshard Gool Dept.of pol.science

Dear Mr. Editor:

Could I point out that the decissedt to hold classes on Remembrance Day was not made by the "admins istration" as you put it. It was a decision of the Senate, on which there are six student members and on which there is an elected facgltyuggjority.

However, as someone who did go to the memorial ser- vice, I sympathize with your view that we should pay tribute to all who ear served through war.

I am asking the chaplains to discuss with the Student Union the possibility of a memorial service on campus next year, so that you and all other students may at— hand.

' Yours sincerely, R o J. Baker President

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|'Twas the night before Xmas,

and everything quiet; No sit-down,no protest,not even a riot;

_ The bottles were stacked in

the cellar with care,

'In hopes that a beer permit soon would be there. Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The Mounties were crouched under dressers and beds, While visions of drug-pushers danced in their heads;

As 3aks(he's a hippis)and me (I'm a sqare),

Had just settled down with some picters from"HAIR".

when out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,

we sprang from our pads to see what was the matter;

we tore to the window,threw -open the sash,

‘ I upset the table,and lost

all the hash. ****************************

THIS EXCERPT FROM HDN'S COLUMN

The moon on the Great 0f amateand matted with soot;

new-fallen snow,

Save a psychedelic aura to objects below;

when what to our wondering eyes did appear,

‘But a miniature sleigh,and eight battered reindeer.

W” with a was little driver,who

gave us some pause;

Till we saw through her rage

it was old Mrs.Clause; ' All wild-eyed and snorting, her coursers they came,

Her maxi was shredded,she

limped on one foot;

And our questioning stares brought an answer-not glib, "After this night,my lads, they can stuff women's Lib!" **************************** Then she took out a hanky, and shedding a tear,

Told me and poor Jake there -was nothing this tear;

"i hooked every gift at some pawnbrokars' wickets,

To pay for collisions, and

And she bellowed,and whistled,,can parking tiCkets!"

and called them by name;

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"whoa DancerIStop Prancerl watch out for that holel"

She said nothing more,there was nothing to say;

Then she knocked down a fence and a telephone pole;’

"Halt DasherICease Blitzen! Get away from that wall!

I wish I knew how Santa handles you all!" **************************** And then,in a twinking,we heard on the roof,

A grunting,a wailing,an "ouch",and an "oof"!

As we draw in our heads,snd were turning about,

Down the chimmey she came, with a shriek and a shout.

Her hair was quite tangled,

'we gave her a reefer,to puff

on the way;

Then laying a band-aid along side her nose,

And giving a tug,up the chimmey she rose; ‘ **************************** She lurched to her sleigh; to her team gave a boot;

And away they all flew, leaving us with no loot;

'But me and Jake heard,e'sr she crashed out of sight, "Merry Christmas to all- what a heck of a night!"