The Cadre, Tués. Feb.l8,1975,

'U.PE.I. is at present an institution which is-governed by two bodies — the Senate which has responsibility for all matters "of academic con— cern"_and the Board of Gover- nors which deals with all af- fairs which cost money. 0n Senate there are six people who sit ex—officio, the Pre- sident of the Student Union, the three faculty deans and three members of the adminis— tration, as well as five ele— cted students, thirteen elec— ted faculty, and one repres- entative of Holland College. The Board of Governors has nine members appointed by the prov- incial government, the Presi- dent and Chancellor of the university, the president of Holland College, and six el— / ected members—two from each of the faculty the student body and the Senate. Thus there are three people who are members of both bodies, President Baker, and his cohorts, Regis Duffy and Ken Ozmon. .

All well and good. We have then forty—one people who con— trol our university; only eight are students. Even if that co- uld be justified the whole sys- tem is largely artificial. If a "matter of academic concern"

‘happens to cost money (as most

do) then who gets the final say on the matter. You guessed it — the unelective, unrepren— tative Board of Governors. Further if a matter does come up which concerns (or, more accurately, is deemed to concern) both bodies then who is going to act as intermedia— ry between the two in case of

~ dispute? As the only members

of both bodies are President Baker, Regis Duffy, Ken Ozmon they would seem to be obviOus choices. This gives these three men considerable power to interpret (or even prevert) the position of one body to the other. And if you don't think these three will act as one, go to a meeting of Senate to see who slavish— ly follows Baker's line. Oth— er than Mike Hennessey (the one who‘s Registrar) I can think of two in particular... Don't try to watch them in ac- tion at Board meetings, though these are closed to the public (hmm). There is very little doubt in my mind that this pow- er to at least subtly change the positions of the two bod- ies has been used in the past and will continue to be used. If an avenue to power exists then it will be exploited. . Even if this little loop- hole was sewn up and the Board was made more representative of the "university community". then the most important issue would still remain unresolved}

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the Senate (Ind Board ofGflornorS

All things that cost money are

'of academic interest from sal-

aries to facilities and all but the most trivial matters

of academic concern cost money.

It is the height of the absurd, to have one body legislating on monetary matters and'another legislating on those-of acade— mic concern when in reality there is no difference.

As long as we have two bod- ies which deal with the same thing then conflicts will ar— ise (unless, as is both argue— able and undesireable, all are ’a bunch of conformist assholes) There are three ways ' of de— aling with such conflicts, all undesireable. 1) leave them, making the univerSity unmanage eable,2) allow one man or a small group of men to act as liason between the two bodies, thereby giving this small gro— up the real power at the univ— ersity or 3) subjugate one bo— dy to the other making it es— sentially irrelevant. I would suggest that here we use the

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second and third of these ale ’decide what kind of services

ternatives. When we don't give system is good enough for the the power to R.J. et al we su- governments of ten provinces bordinate the largely elective and U of T then just possibly and open Senate to the largly it would suit UPEI.

closed and appointive Board of .If such a thing was imple— Governors. mented here then I would sug—

It appears then that the gest the following composition only solution is to amalgam- ,for it: ten members elected by ate the two bodies and thus and from the faculty of UPEI, eliminate the loop-holes, bur- ten members elected by and eaucracy, and just general all from the student body of UPEI, around bull—shit that surroundsand five members elected by the‘activities of the two.bod— and from the Island community ies. The University of Toronto (maybe one from each school about sir years ago did just unit). Unless the body is both this, strangely enough on the elected from and open to the suggestion of the President. public'then iffEfill never re- Can you imagine our dear R.J. present the opinibns, the deS— suggesting anything that might ires, the needs of the people be construed progressive or WhO’it is supposed to serve. worse democratic?? So far theirTo have the governing body on attempt appears to work quite camPUS closed to the public well. After all the provincial and two-thirds appointive is governments of both Ontario an affront to the intelligence and PEI use this type 0f SYS' would be available to the peo— tem- Maybe they WOU1d Prefer ple of the province. If this to have one body dealing with of all concerfied‘ matters of monetary considera-'

tion and another which would David MacRae

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