CANEARM in Atlantic Canada.

The university's exten~ sion work should, of course, not be limited to food and fiber. It should try to meet various educational demands as they might app- ear in different-parts of the Island. In an age where people's skills tend to be— come obsolete in short per- iods of time, retraining & upgrading are important matters in which a communi- ty minded university has a role to play. Inoreased le- isure time may bring about a thirst for knowledge that the university could help: to quench. we pride our- selves on the successful Centennial Students Program. Is it not even more imp— ortant to cater to the ed— ucational and training needs of'younger people with more useful years ahead of them? The whole Island should be our campus.

But it would be uneconom— ical for UPEI to embark on extension on its own. Ex- tension would have to be— come a cooperative effort

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involving agencies already in this field or able t0»

take part -- Holland College,

the Rural Development Cou— ncil and the provincial & federal governments are such agencies. Extension would be a coordinated eff- ect with UPEI playing a vital part -- so vital that nobody would‘seriously-sug— gest this province could do

munity. Recently the Marit — ime Chamber of Commerce ma- de a submission to the P.E.I. government: it con- tained a request for more Marine research by U.P.E.I. In a meeting of the late Brothers and Sisters of Cornelius Howatt, on the land question, some of tho- se attending asked for more university involvement in

without its university. No doubt such a cooperative

effort would bring about a great increase in produc— tivity from existing re— sources in research, ed— ucation and extension. St- rong leadership, perhaps combined with some finan- cial incentive, would be necessary. We could learn a lot from U.S. land grant colleges and our western ~ universities. we cannot win by trying to be little McGills or Universities

of Toronto.

I am sure there are Island people who would like the university to become more intertwined with the com—

Fun & Games at the Queens county

I remember the first day I met Wilf. I was Cursing the world because there

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was no salt, when Wilf went into his own personal "se— cret salt stash". He had salt and pepper mixed to- gether in his own shaker, hidden.behind a brick. He used to ask me for tooth— paste, which he would then put on a piece of paper towel, wet, and rub over his teeth. A toothbrush was naturally the proper pre— sent for him. ‘ Only four prisoners were staying in over Christmas, simply because they had n0where to go. Wilf lived too far out of town. I remember him saying, "Fuck

them! If I go out that gate,

I'm not coming back." So he seemed content to spend Christmas in jail.

"It'll be the only peace and quiet we'll get for aw- hile", said Don. All he asked was to play one more game of 45's before we left. A new deck of cards for Don. I was really a genius at cheap gifts.

Right from Boxing Day till after New Year's I was flipping bad. As soon as I heard the news: it was heavy!

On Christmas Day the spir—

w‘it was high. The justice

dept; decided to suspend

the Island community. Pro— bably these people are in the minority. This is not~ surprising, since most Is— landers are not used to western or U.So land grant college type universities. Students similarly do not seem to understand the in- herent possibilities. How- ever, with their minds still flexible, they might want to look into this matter and help to bring about ch— anges so that we become a bit more than one of the many Liberal Arts Colleges in Atlantic Canada.

Walter Fobes Economics Dept?

the sentences of the four men who were still in.

They only had a few days ' left, so "Merry Christmas!"

Only problem was, that wh- en Wilf and Don got through the gate, they really did have nowhere to go. Well, down to the east end for a bottle and then somewhere to drink and it would be a Merry Christmas after all. (maybe? but then maybe not).

Well, anyway, Wilf was right about not coming back. Perhaps you read in the pa— per about a fire Christmas night in a condemned, non- heated house down on Water Street. ‘ ‘Wilf died in that fire and Don spent some time in the hospital with bad burns. I didn't get to the funeral or the rest home. I some— times wonder just who did. I wonder if he got to use the toothbrush?

It's a very weird situa— tion when a man has to con— sider jail as being his home. Surely there should be somewhere that a man can call his home and yet, not be called the Queen's Coun— ty Jail.

Love & Kisses Sidney T. Kidd & friends.