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UnIiVerS ity of pereinzese ed Wate iS | @Nd_ February 13, 1986

Volume Il, Issue No. 17

By Peter Kuitenbrouwer

of Canadian University Press OTTAWA (CUP) — Union leaders, a brew2ry president, and even some anti-apartheid activists strongly oppose a boycott of Carling. O'%eete beer and Roth- man’s cigarettes that is spreading across Canadian university cam- Puses.

Students on at least seven uni- versity campuses have voted to ban the beer from their pubs and take the cigarettes out of their vending machines, in protest of beer company’s ownership by a South African conglomerate.

McGill University and Univer- sity of Prince Edward Island student recently joined the boy- cott, also in place at Carleton University in Ottawa, MacDonald College in Quebec and the Uni- versity of Saskatchewan, Univer- sity of Toronto and University of Victoria.

Thirteen university newspapers and one college newspaper also boycott the products’ advertise- ments.

A recent prospectus of Roth- man’s International provided by

David Cohen an_ investment analyst for Wood Gundy in Toronto, shows the Rupert

Foundation holds the controlling 44 per cent of Rothman’s shares. Carling O’Keefe is listed as a Rothman’s subsidiary.

The Rupert Foundation, the prospectus says, is “‘deemed to be controlled by Dr. Anthony E. Rupert.’ The 1985-86 Interna-

OTTAWA (CUP) — Minister of finance Michael Wilson told uni- versity lobbyists last week he plans to announce several-year funding plans for three research councils in his late February budget, but

won’t change his mind on cutting transfer payments for health-care and post-secondary education by

$6 billion over five years. Wilson met the lobbyists, cluding John Casola, executive

~ director of the Canadian Federa~

UPEI adds to ban

tional Who’s Who list Rupert as a “South African business execu- tive ... founder and chair, Rem-

brandt Group of Companies (tobacco).”” Carling O'Keefe president

Donald Twiner played down the South African connection. ‘Ti is is a widely held public corpora- tion. They bought the shares on a free and open market in a demo- cratic society,” said Twiner.

He protested the boycotts, sayin Carling O’Keefe is a Cana- dian company providing jobs for Canadians. ‘This corporation is governed by the laws of Canada and pays over $325 million taxes here,’’ Twiner said.

“We buy over $1/2 billion in packaging in Canada,’”” he said. “We probably employed 1500 students at our seven breweries over the summer. So it is strange that these actions would come back and hurt our corporation.””

Gordon Blanderleith, president of the Canadian Brewery Workers Union which represents most Carling O'Keefe employees, is furious about the boycott.

“It doesn’t make any sense to cut off jobs from Canadian workers,’’ Blanderleith said. “This (beer) isn’t imported from South Africa. ‘These were Cana- dian jobs before someone from

South Africa bought into the company.” “Why doesn’t someone

smarten up and worry about what’s going on here?” asked Blanderleith, “Like with the

Inuits, native Canadians, the poor and needy ...?””

Scott Burke, president of the Student’s Administrative Council at the University of Toronto, de- fended his school’s boycotts saying “It’s a statement of our displeasure and awareness of the situation that exists in South Africa.

“I sympathise with them (the brewery workers) because most of the money stays in Canada. But a lot of the profits go back to South Africa. The money then goes to the regime which has huge mili- tary expenditures,” Burke said.

“Are domestic jobs more im- portant to you than basic human rights around the world?’ Burke said. “I think basic human rights are more important.””

Joanne Naiman, chair of Cana- dian- Concerned about Southern Afric viento said Canada is the only country. where there are boycotts of Rothman’s products. (Rothman’s also owns Dunhill, Jordan wines and Cartier watches)

“Our goal is to squeeze the economy so much that (President Pieter) Botha has no choice but to dismantle apartheid,’’ Naiman who teaches sociology at Ryerson said. ‘‘Don’t buy South African products, and get your campus to pull out investments in South Africa.””

But she said a boycott of Carling O’Keefe “is not hitting the real target,”” since the product is made in Canada with Canadian labour.

Profits for Rothman’s Inc. in- cluding profits from Carling O'Keefe were $15 million for the nine months ending Dec. 31, 1985.

The Rembrandt Group, which Rupert chairs, reported $170 mil- lion Canadian in net income in 1984, . The University of Saskat- chewan and -Carleton have been

prevented by provincial law from carrying out the Carling O’Keefe portion of the boycott.

Laws in those two provinces say bars must stock the brands of beer that are “commonly in de- mand.” Burke at U of T said nonetheless, the bars there don’t stock the brands.

Memorial award established

The Honourable Chief Justice John Paton Nicholson Memorial Award has been established at the University of Prince Edward Island by friends and colleagues of the late Chief Justice. Pre- sently, the fund stands at $4000., and the first award, valued at $500. will be made in May 1986, the chairman of the Awards Com- mittee, Michael Hennessey, has. announced.

The terms of the award state: “The Award will be granted to a deserving English Major. or Honours graduating student who has completed with high standing a minimum of five courses in pre- 20th Century English Literature. (Intent: if more than five courses are completed, the average will be on the top five.)”

The Chief Justice’s interest in the Classics was well known to residents of Prince Edward Island. The University invites futher con- tributions to The Honourable Chief Justice J. P. Nicholson

Lobbyists all over Parliament

tion of students, in his office Feb. 2 during the lobby of 150 ministers and members of parlia- ment.

The National consortium of Scientific and Educational So- cieties, representing 31 groups involved in universities and re- search, organised the lobby week to convince the government to hold a first minister’s conference strictly to sort out post-secondary education problems.

The consortium of students, ‘teachers and researchers also’ warit

no cuts in transfer payments and a committment to research an’ foreign students.

Wilson told those meeting him he would take up the idca of a first ministers conference on post- secondary education with the prime minister, Casola said.

At a press conference Feb, 4, Consortium representatives talked about the need for government to meet the five year plans of the three research councils, SSHRC, 'NSEPC, and MPC.

Anderson said because the councils fund about 60 per cent of the costs of university research,

adequate funding for them is vital to the <ival of Canadian univer

Berna’’ shapiro, ‘president of

the Social Science Federation of Canada told the story of two pro- fessors who left a research centre in Toronto last week to take positions in the U.S., where a similar centre was able to offer them $500,000 a year for 10 years

Memorial Award c/o Murray Stevenson, Business Manager, UPEI, Charlottetown, P.E.I.

CIA 4P3. A tax receipt will be issued by the University

Mr. Justice Nicholson, a native of Charlottetown, studied at Prince of Wales College, gra- duated from Dalhousie University Law School in 1947, and was admitted to the bar in 1948,

During his years of law practice in Charlottetown he served as President of the Law Society of P.E.I, and as_ provincial president of the Canadian Bar Association. He was named crown prosecutor of Queens County in 1966, continuing in this capacity until 1970. He became the 15th Chief Justice of P.E.I. in Feb. 1977. Mr. Justice Nicholson died in Charlottetown in May 1985 at the age of 62.

He is survived by his. w the former Grace Diamond of Charlottetown, his son Christopher, and his daughters Martha and Margaret.

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to carry out work they started in Canada.

A background paper by the Consortium shows Canada has the second worst record among OECD countries in terms of fund- ing research. Only 1.3 of the GNP was allocated to R & D in Canada last year.

During its 1984 general election campaign, the government committed itself 10 doubling this figure but has not

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-- sproduced-on this promise.