The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. — Confucius
Derrick Webber ............... Editor-in-Chief Lori Anne Heckbert ..... .... Production Editor Daniel Mullen ........... Advertising Manager Shelli Wheaton ..........2..0000. Photo Editor Jamés Connolly ..... 0.0.63: Systems Manager
Staff Members:
Kaberi Dasgupta Kerry Lafferty
Don Lane Brian Linkletter
Jill Noonan Chris Vessey
We have room to welcome many, many more.
Thanks to This Week’s Unparalleled Contribu- tors: Inge Dorsey, Sam Okello, and Dean Mac- Millian
Anyone can contribute to The GEM: announce- ments, short stories, poems, letters, or just plain ideas can be dropped off at the Barn, sent through VAX MAIL to GEM, or put through our revolution- ary GemSlot 2000, Rm. 401 Main.
We cherish typed and double spaced submis- sions. For legal reasons, submissions must include the author’s name. However, names can be with- held from publication on request.
Deadline for submissions iS FRIDAY, 4:00pm
The GEM is published by the University of Prince Edward Island Student Union. Views expressed are not necessarily those of the GEM staff or the UPEI Student Union.
We reserve the right to edit submissions due to space or taste limitations.
Our office is Main building, Rm.401. Phone 566- 0629 or 566-0530.
The GEM is a valued member of the Canadian University Press.
Subscriptions: $24.00 for 1 year (24 issues) in Canada, $36.00 Foreign
New Approach for Academic Planniing
Ever wonder who it was re- sponsible for offering the only course you really needed at 8:30 in the morning? Or for cancelling that course you’d always wanted to take but never had a chance? Well, you used to be able to blame these obstacles on the university’s Academic Planning Commit- tee (APC). This was a commit- tee in charge of both the short and long-range plans of the university. Short range plans include things like curriculum and course changes, while long-range plans deal with the entire academic direction of the university.
There is no longer an aca- demic planning committee as such. The work-load on this group grew to such proportions as to necessitate the creation of two separate committees; one for long range planning and the other for short. The committee was getting bogged down by the abundance of
YEARBOOK
The 87 yearbook needs you and your organization. Al- though work has been under- way for a semester, the bulk of the work is yet to be done. The book’s layout and overall struc- ture are set, but there is still enough room for individual pages and two page sets.
What this means to you... If your organization wants space in the yearbook, you must make your intentions known, in writing, by the end of January. A brief letter or memo describ- ing your previous and future activities should be included. Please indicate whether or not you have photos of your own to be included in the yearbook. If we don’t have enough pictures of good quality and content, then we must photograph them as soon as possible. In order to do this, your request for a page or two page spread must be made no later than 31 January 1987.
If you would like a special story or write up of your group’s activities to be included on your page(s), you must have a first draft (if possible double spaced and typed) turned into the
yearbook office by Friday 20
February 1987.
Any submissions after these dates will not be guarenteed space in the yearbook. It’s your organization’s responsibility to tell the yearbook staff that you want to be included, and you must do it in writing.
For further information, please phone 566-0629 or 566- 0530. The letters of activities and requests for yearbook
short-range planning needing attention and was not focus- ing enough on long-range goals and needs.
The two new committees are the Academic Review and Planning Committee (ARPC), and the Curriculum, Course Change, and Calendar Com- mittee (CCCC). The CCCC is oriented towards the short-term needs of the university, includ- ing among its duties reviewing and coordinating proposals from Faculties and Schools for program changes, approving the final draft of Calendar material, and reviewing the academic regulations of UPEI in general. The committee is
composed of the Registrar and all the various deans of the university.
The ARPC is concerned with long-range goals, focusing on the goal and mission of the university in a long term con- text. This committee is to “recommend to Senate aca- demic directions, policies and strategies that create a pattern of academic programs consis- tent with the declared mission of the university.”
Together, both the CCCC and ARPC should be able to rectify the previous problem of “over- loading” and give rise to more effective plans for UPEI.
Slide Presentation
Canadian Crossroads Inter- national will be sponsoring a free slide presentation called “Dependancy by Design,” and
interesting show about the roots of under-development, at the Robertson Library, Rm 06 on Tuesday, Feb.3 at 7:00 pm. Everyone is welcome.
space must be sent to the year- book by dropping them off at the barn, or by placing them in the GemSlot 2000 (the door of the GEM office, Rm 401 Main Building).
Societies and clubs who should request space include, but are not limited to: the busi- ness society, the biology club, the engineer’s society, the English society, Inter-varsity Christian Fellowship, Ba’hai
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Topic: Ways to combat terrorism using the three principles of Endrerror.
1500 words or less. Postmarked no later than March 31, 1987.
Mail entries to:
Sports information needed.
society, the chemistry society, the physics club, the French Club, the debating club, CIMN radio, the home ec. society, all sports teams, and interested people from the Atlantic Veter- inary Club, math/computer science, psychology, philoso- phy, Student Services, and the 3 residences are also urged to phone 566-0629 or make writ- ten requests for space in the 1987 yearbook.
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1. Canada and the United States should lead the way towards enacting world laws against terrorism.
2. Terrorism will be stopped using education. communication and mediation, not retaliation.
3. The concept that non-violence will win over violence proposed by Leo Tolstoy and practised by Mahatma Gandhi will be effective in ending
All entries must be typewritten, double spaced.
All entries become property of Endtérror and will not be returned.
Judges decision is final. Winner will be announced June 30, 1987.
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