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Dear Sir:

I ‘There is a simple solution to‘ the problem pf books and periodie cals stolen from the University Library, which I am surprised no one has proposed (at least to my knowledge). Perhaps its very sim— plicity will preclude its.being adopted at this Byzantine institu- tion, where every issue is made to seem as complex as possible. Here it is: '

Each full-time student, when Ehe pays his university bills in September, makes a Library Use De— posit of $10.00. Assuming there a are 1800 full-time students, this , rodufas an income of $18,000.00. *Ir the Library's less due to theft amounts to $15,000 during the aca- .demic year, this figure is charged

Hare is how one university library, namely Laurentian Univer— ’sity in Sudbury, solyed its pro—

, blem of book—pilfering:

H.‘ first of all the AdministraL tors of the library faced the re— ality that in any student-popula— tion - in fact, it could be ex—

tended to any population —— there

who will steal anything they can get their hands on. Secondly, b'r some people are just absent-minded and quite unwittingly will walk off with books. Having established {this by observation and sad exper- ience, they arreved at a solution. The staff, not the Security Police Mere instructed to inspect books, Jaatchels, etc. as students left ithe library. Since this was lib- frary policy and stated as such, no fans was offended, and, lo and behold, books stopped disappearing - or at least in the vast quan- tities they had been disappearing in. .

is vound to be a number of thieves,

against the 813,000. The balance

’of $3000.00 is refunded to the de-

positors, at the rate of about $1.65 person.

If, however, the Library's loss totals only 810,000, there is $8000.00 to refund. Each depositor then receives a refund of about $4.40. The refund increases as the losses decrease, and diminishes as .the grow.

Should the theft loss exceed $18,000 during the academic year, the ceposit for the following year should be increased proportionately. If the loss approaches $20,000, the deposit should be raised to $12.00, bringing the income up to about $21,600.00. 0n the other hand, should losses decline appreciably over a period of years, the deposit should be reduced.

During the year the Use Fund should be banked to draw interest

Now, I believe we could a- dopt this policy at U.P.E.I. I for one, would not be offended if :a staff member were to inspect my books.' it I had something to hide

I might be. Assuming that we, as university students, have some degree of maturity, we should be able to see that such a ploicy is to our benefit financially (since Library materials are purchased in part with money ME pay) and schole

:astically ( since the more mater- ials we have in our library the better we can do research and ex— tra reading). "My human liberties" will not be jeopardized by the K-Nart mentality".

Let‘s faCe it. Unless such .a policy is put into effect, our library will remain n prey to

Letters, To The Editor

to the Use Fund.

Ado tend to be expensive.

($900.00 at 5% of $18,000.00), which may be used buy new books. VPerhaps a bookplate might read, "Donated by Unknown Benefactors of the Kelley Memorial Library."

I suppose the librarians will 1

contend that this scheme does not

'prevent the theft of "irreplaceable"',

materials, but there are very few I of these. Microfilmed or xeroxed

copies of books-and periodicals are‘ quite easy to acquire, though they 1

I see no reason why faculty should not be asked to contribute

Adoption of this idea, or a comparable one, will spare Us all the insult of closed stacks and commissionaires.

Yours truly, D.M. Cregier

Department of History

"thisvoo. Ampeale to moral in- stinctswill NUT stop these peo— ple. Only the fear of being caught will._‘A IGalley of trust" is just not realistic. It can only harm the innocent.

I worked at Laurentian Uni— versity Library for six months 'and must confese I felt uneasy at first asking students to have their books inspected, but never once did I reCeive any trouble or oven "snarky"-remerks. If you are . innocent, you don't mind; if you're guilty, you deserve to be 1 shown up.

Are we no ultra—sensitive here that we cannot submit to hook—inspection even if it is for our benefit?

I hose Not. .

Linda Campbell

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Sport Capsule vvvvvv

well, it's almost here —— that time of the year when varsity sports have run their course. Looking back, we can see that at was an interesting- and exciting period, even though we were not always as successful as we sould have been.

The football team was supposed to have some tal- ented material and, at times, this was proven to be correct. They got off to a show start, however, and it was not until the last part of the schedule that they really began to show their stuff. The ' result was a 4 and 2‘re-

cord, good enough for third

place. Obviously, the po—

‘tential was there but, fol-

lowing a long line of tra- dition at this university, they couldn't put it all together. Next Year - watch out!

The basketball team added its bit of excite- ment, too. Lead by Andy Packard, who finished se-

' far from over.

cond in the voting for the conference all—star team, they showed plenty'of hus— tle and determination. A lack of heighth may have been their big weakness. Nevertheless they finished

strongly and had they been

able ot win a few of the squeakers that they lost, they might have improved greatly on their fifth place finish.

As for hockey, it's The Pant- hers were very impressivs

‘in compiling a 14—4 record

only three points behind St. Mary's who were ranked number One in the nation. Although beaten twice by the Huskies in the regu— lar'season, the Panthers were well off their best

performances in both cases.

The Huskies are not as good a hockey team as the .Panthers are and once we realize this we're half— way there.

: ‘ The play-offs start Friday, March 10, at the Halifax Forum. ,At 7: Ph

gers.

St. Mary's plays Memorial.

‘Either team could win this

one in what should be a goal-tenders battle. At.

. 9:00 P.M., the Panthers

take on the DalhOUSie Ti— Uhile the Tigers are an explosive team, U.P.E.I. has proven that they can handle them if they put their minds to it. Tickets for the two game set are $1.50, $2.00 and $2. 500

The Championship game is scheduled for 2:00P.M. Saturday, March 11. Tic- kets for it are the same as the two-games the previous evening. If you “ant tickets for Friday

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evenings games they will be available at the forum box office between noon and game time.

According to~reliable tickets will also be available on the U.P.E.

sources,

campus. Since the Forum can seat 7,500 an advance sale of 750 - 1,000 is

.expected here. Check the

'Athletic Department, basee

ment of the gym.

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with the 10th and 11th

being the start of our March break, we expect to see over 1,000 fans make ‘the tripto Halifax. with

any luck at all, we can end our vacations at the ' Canadian College Hockey~ Championships!

Contributing staff for

this issue: Ron Kelly,

Geoff Crutchfield, Richard

O'Brien, Grant Moodside, Kathy Roach, Karen Lloyd and photos by Ken Adams.

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