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0n the afternoon-of Mar. 27th, in resonse to a letter by Mike Hennessey in the Cad-V re, Scott Sinclair'and Jan- ice Nicole walked into the Registrar's office looking to see their files. Scott asked first and the girl ,went to the filing Cabinet

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It would seem that the above story is in direct co- ntraction to Mike Hennessey's recent letter to the Cadre stating that all records are open to you — all you have to do is ask. If this is the case then why was Scott Sin- clair left with little choice but to'steal' his records in order to see them? Granted that suchidocuments should be kept in stricteSt confi— dence..But from the person to which they refer?

What happens if these records contain statements which are unfounded, unsub- stantiated, and bordering on‘ slanderous as.was the case with Scott's? For example ’

Montreal Student's-

Montreal (C.U.P.) On Fri- danyebruary 21, an estim— ated fifty McGill students packed a'Montreal court— room for the fourth preli- minary hearing of Ismail Haridy, a McGill student charged with assaulting Therese Couture, a native», Montrealer.

‘It was decidedthat the evidenCe presented by the Prosecution was sufficient to warrant a criminal trial

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A Students Confidenti

“lot

to get it. But before she

' fibrought it back, she went into an office with it. Ap— .parently she took a sheet or th\out of it. She then brought it to Scott who as-

' ked where his high schoOl recommendations were. She said they didn't have them.

his states without any elab- oration or justification that he is likely to come to university only to"fiind a

‘place to sleep, eat, play

cards, etc." Or which makes statements which in themsel- ves are meaningless but which tend to create an at— mosphere prejudicial to the subject such as "Life has not been overly kind to him [Scott] personally but no worse than a lot of other .studetns" and"he certainly is radical in his thinking". Incidently the latter state- ment was tied to "we had a of trouble with him, to keep him in school") How do the two relate? Should a

File Opened Id

So Janice asked for hers and the secretary (an- other one this time) brought

» straight to her and sure e—

nough the recommendations were there.

‘ Upon seeing this, Scott demanded to know why he couldn't see his. After a short conference the secre- taries had-a change of he- art and brought him the re- commendations. When he as— ked why they weren't there the first time she replied fthey were". Not wishing to make a big thing out of a small issue, Scott sat down to read them.

Just as he started, Lou- ise Gay came racing out of her office and demanded them back, saying they had made a mistake. Scott suggested he read them in her prese— nce. She still refused and finally after some more ar- guing she went around the glass divider and attempted to-gain them by force.

Scott just put the pa- pers behind his back and _ Louise continued to maul him in an attempt to get them back. Finally she de—

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person be insulted because of his political views?

The thought that such a statement could exist about. me certainly burns. I hope it does you too. How can you do anything about unfounded alegations of this sort? Do you have to wait until the Registrar's office makes an- other "mistake". (And you can bet your bottom dollar that after the first one there will be fewer) ‘

Unless these records are kept open to the student de— scribed, then such libelous reports will continue, pos— sibly affecting the subject for the rest of his/her life. Does it seem right that a

The Cadre; Apr. 1, 1975, page 3

Assaulted

cided to destroy them, say- ing"if you won't give them to me then I'll destroy them. ,

But Scott parried her and since he was by now backed into a corner he handed them to Janice tell— ing her to run. So Janice bolted out the door with a secretary in hot pursuit.

Outside in the snow the secretary managed to tackle and bring down Janice. To the tune of screams for help Scott ran out and freed Jan— ice from the secretary. They both then ran across cam—

pl-'S"Meanwhile the Regist—

rar's office called secur- ity and asked them to find the two. Eventually they' did and placed them under arrest, charging them with theft and assault (3?). At this point Prs. Baker came down and suggested that the charges be held in abeyance

until today. I As this was written

Friday, we have no further information. So either lis- ten to CIMN or read next

week's paper for further details. ”

councilor can write things like "I like Scott as a per- son but doing him a favour is what he wants [don't we all] and would not thank us for it", despite the fact? that he has never seen Scott in an official capacity. When, in view of this he can turn around and have the au- dacity to say "He [Scott]is a hard boy to understand and

'an even harder one to help.

Believe me we've tried." (Italics his), then it is time that students not only had the right to see their records but also to make ad—

flitions and corrections to

them. Dave Macrae

Assault, Trial Found To Be. Inconclusin

knowledged his own "compu- ter—like memory", he was. unable to remember the names of his fellow officers or the number of his squad car I

' or even the nubmer of Is—

mail's apartment.

The three prosecution witnesses contradicted each other as to how and whether,

V MiSs Couture was dressed.

Gigi, a friend, stated that

. she lent her a coat while

nounced, a whisper of shock spread through the court— room as viewers turned to’ each other in disbelief.The' presiding judge who had been laughing minutes ear— lier was now pronouncing 'criminal charges. Ismail was ‘visibly shaken as he reals — ized that he is now faced With six more months of waiting for the culmination of events dating back to July 1973, which include several brutal beatings and

he is guilty. However he has no past records of cha— rges or convictions, nor has he ever been in contact with any persons or organ- izations which have been in conflict with the police. Perhaps the police bear a special grudge because Is- mail was responsible for the suspension of one of their fellow officers.Per- haps there is more to the story than has been revea— led. However the fact re—

tO be held next September. The prosecution relied

heavily on the testimOny of

the arresting officer who,

the pfficer insists that he did the same and Miss Cou— ‘ ture said she had her clot- hes on at all times although Ismail claims never to have .they were in various states seen before in his life. of dissarry.

Although the officer,ac+ ‘yw 4 When the verdict was an—. in. ,, . . J . I .

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numerous court appearanCes. Many have speculated as to the causes of ISmail's ‘difficulty with the police. 'His long history of harass— ment from the police leads many to the conclusion that

mains that Ismail is inno— cent until proven guilty beyond any doubt, and at this time there are certa- imly many doubts surround- ind these charges of crim- inal assault.