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Why is everybody here?We might get a suspicion of student motives by examining the enrollment in The Pilot Project first year programme. Of about 700 first year students only 18 registered in the new prog- ramme. The Pilot Project is an inter- disciplinary course which attempts to lend a progressive and tightly de- fined course schedule. It lays empha-

sis on broad understanding of themes

and issues rather than the boxing of knowledge into departments, and on discussion as a forum for learning rather than the mere relating facts by a lecturer to be absorbed uncrit- ically by students. It is, I think, a

sincere attempt to provide an envir-

onment in which people can learn meaningfully, to avoid the pitfalls of academic gamesmanship. Why didn‘t, more people register for it? ,

Fear. 1

I think those who made a concious decision not to take the new prog- ramme did so because they were

afraid of it. They were afraid because

the new course didn’t seem to offer the same standards of ladder-climb- ing that they were accustomed to._

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It wasn’t as clearly defined as those other courses which students had traditionally taken. One. was also expected , apparently, to take part. in discussions - not quite as secure as sitting in the back of a lecture theatre. Maybe you couldn’t transfer to another University. What would your degree really be worth?Little matter whether anything was learned whether one’s philosophy was ever challenged, as long as you got that

.1 piece of paper for ajob and Isymp—

ize with these reservations, although I disagree with most of them.

But I don’t believe that the fault lies with individual students. I think that we could expect little else from our present high school system. High school graduates have been submitt- ed to the personal achievement rat- ionale for so long that any other motive is entirely foreign. They . have been taught that the grading system is the important part of the educational process taught to comp- ete with their peers, rather than working together. Doing a home- work assignment with a friend is con- sidered cheating. How absured.Good students are quiet and well-behaved,

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Highiackers

the high schools tell them - No wonder discussion is scary -It’s an entirely new phenomenon.

But the old marking system gives

"the professor the ultimate power of

evaluating students-don’t disagree with him, because he can penalize you, and he often will. Then when you apply for a job, your employer will see the mark and discover that you might be a shit-disturber. That‘s

2% Fish

MONTE CARLO (CUPI) -

“The oceans are dying. The po- llution is general.”

Jacques Ives Cousteau, who has covered more than 155,000 miles of ocean exploring and making movies in the past three and a half years says:

“People don’t realize that all pollut- ion goes to the seas. The earth is less polluted. It is washed by rain which carries everything into the

scary, and that’s what a real educat- ion should be- it should challenge you and everything you stand for.

Despite the foregoing, I am op- timistic about the contribution that this years Freshmen can make to UPEI. From my observations during the first week of school, they appear more critically aware than any pre- - vious high school graduates. Contin- le combat!

4A’\ oceans where life has deminished by 40 per cent in 20 years.”

Cousteau also said the “an excess of fishing is also pollution.”

New methods utilizing modem technology is upsetting the balance of life in the oceans, he said. “Even in the Indian Ocean, which is little travelled.”

However, he said he had hopes that efforts now being taken might stop the pollution trend, “ and the rest can be saved.”

Narcing

ED NOTE

In the early days of Union organ- izing, a scab was about the lowest form oflife God put on earth. To- day when young people consider the methods used by NARCOTICS

agents (a Charlottetown lawyer, when discribing such methods, said that even a dog would not turn on their own kind like they) many feel that Jack London’s discription ofa scab might be very fitting for a ‘Narc’ also. Here is a portion of his discription of a scab'with the word ‘Narc’ inserted in place of ‘scab’.

After God had finished the rattle- snake, the toad and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a narc.

A narc is a two legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water logged brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

When a narc comes down the street, men turn their backs and an- gels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out. No man has the right to ‘narc’ so long as there is a pool of water to drown his carcass in or a rope long enough to hang his body with.‘

Judas Iscariot was a gentleman compared with a narc. For betray- ing his master he had character, he had character enough to hang him self. A narc has not.

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