TIE UPEI SUN, Thursday, November 27, 1980, 4

"Editorial + a

i hate pleading. I REALLY DO HATE PLEADING. yet what alternatives are there to alert students fed a diet of soap Operas and high SChOOl level university courses to world events? how can you be impressed upon to realize the devestating effect that world cccurences will have on all of us? how can you be convinced that one of the duties of a hunan being is to have a universal concern for the condition of mankind... not just your roarmate __ or your grandfather or Joe Clark, but for the plight of the political prisoners in South America, for the beneficience of blacks in South Africa, for those 509 political deaths in Jamaica, and for the dying Cambodian race.

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Dear Editor, ' to re e un

The President of the Silggdmeg ﬂit“) 9 University of Prince Edward mortale and neatly ISland has effectively de- into the slots and niches cided that, within a few of the social mchinery Y§arsr graduatmg ISland as these become vacant. bifgh‘SChoO1 §tudent§ "ho Contemporary education is Wish to receive a higher increasingly becoming ‘~ education will have to'pursue less a hmizing process that increasingly eluSive and mre a ..doggy_scmolu 'grall' in some Part.“ the where students are trained world Other than the” in the methods and techniques, Bland hm?- The really the V'tricks of the trade', of sad till-1'19 13 Phat Dr' a particular occupational @kaeﬁaS glven every area. Surely a fully human mdlcatl?n that he {309$ education is more than not realize that this is learning the ltricks of a what he has done by Pro“ trade'; surely there is

i'm not trying to sound like a stereotypical radical right out of the Sixties, but those radicals were cor- I rect in principle. we should have sympathy for our fellow man because his actions will eventually'affect us. after all, how many of us would have beez1_nmrediate- - 1y aware of the implications of an assassmation in Eastern Europe in 1914? 7 _ . ‘ V

granted, world news these days is depressmg and sure-— times downright boring. that is partly thefault of "hedia, encaSed in their fantasies of accurately reporting the events of earth. on anindividual level this world is Contented, but on an overall basis we 'are doomed by our own selves. if you wish to contest this, write for the SU_N next semester. laughter will save us. '

have a contented and funny Christmas and be strong.

themselves updating their resumes. '

It may already be too late to reverse this trend at UPEI, but if Islanders were

to raise enough of a stink over the potential loss of higher education in their province, perhaps those with the decision-making power at UPEI would re— consider and look more carefully at the long- term implications of their actions. We were not asked our opinion on this

matter (a gross oversight on the part of the President V considering the long and / rich history of the two Island institutions of higher learning which Supplied the building . blocks of UPEI and which were so intricately woven into the fabric of Island ‘ life), but perhaps, we ought to offer that opinion no». _ ‘ Yours truly, Timothy P.G. Trainor, B.A. UPEI Class of ‘79 "

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mating (and 4591atin9) the more to being human than BuSiness Admin13tration being emertly prepared, program at the univerSity on paper at least, for

E0. Wtstatus 0: ilaigmol pushing the_right buttons, 10m 1 s presen ank using the right fOrms, or soon be former 1r . the employing the right (read, ascil epalf: Artt W1 "most popular") method FaOf guise bs.makin in teaching 9r in trans—

. t’zheypr . dg t acting a busmess deal.

'Fhls I‘me'nf . 9511:“ And yet; it is this narrow, :1: (31323511221: igg thg con_ materialistic and even more utilitarian antennae s. vision (or lack of vision) that is fast turning higher of education—as—apprenti- education into no I . g 8a; “dolcggmg' more than longer education. . B . revolutionary or creativeo p 3B)., iigztli'gg :he $12285

It is incredible and dis- ‘such prominence within the

eggshells“ universe ' effective r uCin '

mending a hOSt Of Stu‘ients number of 1students Enrolled , and professors' i’eli‘fwe Fhat in the Faculty of Arts (which 3.331332 m; y have wag; reggae?

, F s ou dollars and cents, or unlf's:j its timinpato mug. can ms m to thew; itgis grams), Pres1dent llflemtcécethe muse— ’ E ' has driven his nai in ; meaningless and a waSte Of coffin of higher education tiNB‘ . . in P.E.I.

A trui'y ﬁai1$::?n' Itcan only be a matter vu- one (18519“ of the of time\before the UniverSity mid fem the E g other of PEI makes the final mmd' to paés on’ m break with its past de— Wordsr the mtelleCtual generates into a series of discipline and breadth of professmnal schools iBuSiness vision which have always Administration, Veterinary characterized truly learned Medicine, Education ) and nenandmmen, is my thegodsknowwhat else), being gradually edged out and the talented men and of some modern universities -women who presently teach I s, by those in favour of par- philosoPhy, Regigious Studies,

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