taped it down and then at- tached all these pens and markers to it. Then ev- erybody wrote down any complaints they had about school,” said Cairns.
complaints were about the lack of adequate parking and other space problems ou campus. Cairns said about half of the students wrote on the “bitch rug”
who
didn’t take the exercise se- -riously, "but we got a lot of
OTTAWA (CUP) — Some mourned the post-
complaints that we can work University of Guelph, On- on.” tario where classes had been cancelled for an hour. Macerollo and student council president Jim Ryan debated Guelph Conserva- tive MP Bill Wineguard, about the roles of the federal and provincial governments
Cairns said the council secondary education system
in Canada by wearing black armbands, others boycotted
also tried to encourage stu- dents to wear black arm- bands to mourn the demise
classes, still others sent post- of Canada’s post-secondary cards to their federal govern- education system, but this
ments.
And lots and lots of stu-
didn’t go over as well as the
F bitch rug”. in funding of post-secondary »y
dents just went to class like guess they
nothing was going on. ee b 500 thought that wearing arm-
Last week, January 18 Seer Ae stu- bands was too radical,” sug- dents out and we hada
to 22, was National Action gested Cairns. Students at
University in St.
frank discussion about trans-
Week and student councils Memorial
z fusion between the two lev- Joho ms » gata Newfoundland and Simon
Fraser University in Victo- ria dropped bottles contain-
at many Canadian colleges fey PR TOTES ROE See HA
and universities pushed their
students els
of government, Macerollo.
9935 A "bitch rug” was the ing SOS messages, into their most popular event of the * respective oceans. .
week at Douglas College in New Westminster, B.C, said student council vice presi- dent Fiona Cairns. Students wrote complaints down on paper, grafitti-style.
to get organized and active about government underfunding of post- sec-
ondary education.
”There seems to be ac- Exchanges between re-
tivity in every province,” gions will be stressed, to get said Tony Macerollo, chair of the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), the national student lobby group which
coordinated the Week.
Macerollo attended a fo- rum on January 19 at the
bNtb
student unity in the fore- . front of national efforts,” said Anne-Marie Vaughan , student council president at
Memorial.
Students at invited federal politi-
We just took this huge roll of paper and stretched We
Memorial also
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it across our concourse.
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Cairns said many of the
cians to enjoy the traditional student aid meal of Kraft dinner and took them on "underfunding tours” of the campus — outlining problems with over- crowding, day care, and inadequate sports facilities.
In the prairies, enthusi- asm for the week was low.
"Maybe we should be calling it the national week of inaction,” said Lyndon Sur- jik, chair of CFS-Saskatchewan, about the lack of interest from post secondary institutions in the three prairie provinces.
As far as I know, only the University of Regina and the University of Calgary grads are taking part in the one hour boycott of classes on Tuesday,” said Surjik.
The University of Regina students used the hour to host a forum on post sec- ondary education issues.
"We will be asking stu- dents to get up and explain their beliefs about education, and we have invited the assis- tant deputy minister of edu- cation along to listen,” said Surjik.
Saskatchewan and A\l- berta students are making
use of the national CFS postcard plan which sends cards to federal Minister of Finance Michael Wil- son and Secretary of State David Crombie demanding the elimination of differential fees, and provincial account- ability for federal monies ear. marked for post-secondary education.
In Manitoba, only the University of Brandon par. ticipated in the Week of Ac- tion. Shelley Ireland, pres- ident of the Brandon Uni- versity Students’ Union, said she was surprised at the lack of support for the week. Brandon students: only par- ticipated for one day — the ”National Day of Mourning” on January 20.
"We are trying to get students to focus on the is- sues in education which are
not up to snuff, such as
higher tuition, student aid,
underfunding, and the prob- lems native and international students run into,” said Ire- land.
"Unfortunately we have the problem of getting our students interested, too,” said Ireland. , '
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship
This past weekend, 13 IVCFers from UPEI headed for Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship’s annual bible re- treat in Malagash, N.S.. It was an exciting time. In three little cars we made a little convoy and headed for Borden. We arrived at Malagash just in time for the evening snack and after
that we heard guest speaker, ©
Andi Crowll speak. He spoke on what being a Christian was all about (Love, humil- ity, and servanthood). We also had small group meet- ings. These were a great op- portunity to get to know peo- ple from other universities. In our small groups we dis- cussed many issues through- out the weekend such as: evangelism, sex and integrat- ing your faith and your mind.
Saturday morning saw the break of another great day. Andi «continued _ to talk on servanthood, and also spoke. on the ‘grey’ areas of Christianity. these were: divorce, drink- ing, denominations and des- tinations. On Saturday af-
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ternoon we had time to pre pare for the upcoming ve riety show, as well as play some snow sports.
the Andi spoke again to an er: thusiastic crowd. When he was done we had a ‘beat pit’ session. Here, stu dents asked Andi questions concerning ‘the® topics that he had been speaking © and questions that were com pletely unrelated. Andi had many interesting and goot points to make. He was liked by everybody"(I’m sure tht fact that he looked and acted like Howy Mandel had not!" ing to do with it). -
The variety show w% *good fun’, to quote Wannit Our very own group sang the Marine Forecast in an Ang!
can Chant. 3 = The UPEI IVCF gro?
will never be forgotten. , On Sunday we met with
our small groups again, bul
Later in evening
ship service. We than ate UP! packed up, cleaned up al
left for Cape Tormentine- 4 By the way, did y?
know that 11 people can fit into a Honda Civic? — Z