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INTERNATIONAL

STUDENTS: 7

SI'UDYmG DIF— FICULT. ' ' Ventral I

The Mounties are mak— - ing studying in Canada ‘ very” stressful, according ‘ to two international stu— L dents at Concordia Univer- sity. i I .

RCMP officers twice ' . Visited the home of Ghanian students Seth Larbi and Hen- ry Poku-Fsiri during the Christmasbreak. The RCMP _ claimed it,was investigating an allegation that the Stu— dents were illegal aliens.

On Dec. 22 at 10:30 p.m., twovofficers arrived at the students' home to examine .. their imigration papers. Larbi, told, thepofficers,‘ to . massif. hams" sura’r

. visstisia

wereseesi at- . the, Dept. - of, migratiqn.g Both students' papers were in order. although Poku—Esiri's passport was to expire Jan. _3. Accord- inth. one officer. threatened that if "you don't take care, you'll go back to your..<:a~m country/J.I Two weeks. later, three RGVtP officers: returned. According. to mini—Esta?! one ‘officer Said "Herr-T, we'reycigningnfor you." The . Poligs;v1§nbrefi‘ defies ’ Martian: icetr: and . going 2007 he. . 44,61 the. Galiin __ ent. certificate. ,. Emigration "f t, r _Poku—l§fsiri he wait a week to ob— tain lit.me a call to aV-. erted a“'pofllice ride. "You're, ludqu." one officer told Poku—Esiri.

The officer‘then unres- tionn'ed on the wherezfliout of a mutual aquaintance they had no information about.

According to Poku—Esiri, the Officers tried _unSuccessfuly. to bribe them. At this pomt i

POku—Esiri complained to the Officers that they were

making "our stay in Canada

unocmfortable and insecure" He. was told that if he dis- liked the treatment, he could return to'Ghana.

: CORRECTION

In a recent issue of this newspaper Beverley Luetchford was listed as winner of the second Ford Mustang in the TransCanada rIlelephone System’s Hello Again Sweepstakes.

The winner’s name should read Renzo Purchio

, ofDawson College, Montreal, Quebec. The 'IranSCanada. rIlelephone System apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Although the‘ RCMP con formed that it made the visits, it would grant no further ccmment.

Attorney Julius Gray, when informed of the in-

cident, said the visits may contravene the Char— ter of Rights, although there has yet to be a test case.

Dear Editor: This is a letter to

Postal Increase .1...

CUPW OPPOSES NEW POSTAL RATE INCREASES. '

JeffWoods, Presid— ent of the Charlottetown Local of the Canadian Un— iOn of Postal Workers, 0 today expressed the . Unien's oppositiOn to the. postal _ rate _ increases . effective tc'morrw, which will see the cost of a ‘

/.first class. letter go fran 30 to 32 cents. This is in addition to increases in all other classes of mail which became effective on January 15‘, 1983.

"Under Bill 0—42, the. law that established the Post Office as a Crown Corporation, the Post Off- ice has an obligation to

"maintain, expand and im- prove postal services to the Canadian Public as its first pribrity", Jeff I Woods stated. "This it . has utterly failed to in its; first fifteen months of existence. "

. "In spite of this, Micheal Warren and the Lib

z eral Goverment have im—

‘ posed a new series of in- creases in postal rates with no guarantee that ser viceswill improve", Mr. Woods said. '

"In fact, service is getting worse. Micheal War ren has succeeded in cut--. ting back in traditional postal services— rural route deliveryon Saturday gone, wicket operations on Saturdays reduced, overtime

some of my ments in the article "All Work No Pay?" were quoted out of context. The article implicated Mike Trainor as not taking the Yearbook Carmittee serious— ly. (This was incorrect.) Mr. Trainor was Catmitte Chairman and organized pro— ceedings very effectively. Mr. Trainor is owed an ap-

ology.

letter carriers who, are sick (now at arbitration)

"The increase tomorrow for first class letters represents 76% increase in rates in 13 1/2 months, while service to the pub- lic declined.

"The reason for this is clear. MichealWarren has given top priority to the task of making the Post- Office financially self sufficient, at the ex- pence of service to the '- public and relatiOns with the workers. '

"The Canadian labour Congress submitted a brief on behalf of this Union and other unions in the Post Office to Andre Ouellet before Christmas outlining our opposition to the new .7

V.E. Moore V.P. External Student Union

Mea Culpa:

My notes indicate that while Victor Moore was quoted faithfully in the main body of his comments

rates and why." "The Union believes

these increases should be ’

put off until the Post Of— fice gets back “to putting

servi ce to the public as 7]

its number one priority, with better labour relat—

ions ahead of financial self

sufficiency. "

"With the drOp in service and the increase rates, it

is no wander the public is still not satisfied with postal services. Recession or no, postal workers and members of the public de— serve better." Jeff Woods concluded.

hours reduced causing back—

logs in postal stations, and no replacements for

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directed at the yearbook conmittee, owing to some errant punctuation on my part, his intent on saying

than may have been distorted.

He did not mean to suggest that Mike Trainor failed to treat the matter seriously in his role as chairman. Both have my apologies for any accidental inference to this effect.

-C.B.