. Behind the scenes: commendable

by Sheila Lund 'Behind the scenes of the UPEI

Speedy Propane scare. a whole different problem presented itself, How was the University going to house 200 Bernardine and Marian Hall students. who were evacuated. and possibly the residents of Blanchard Hall if they.

too. had to be evacuated? Mike _

Read. Residence and Conference Manager for UPEI. had to deal with this situation. and deal with it he did - he was up until 3 am. that morning making sure the on- campus students-had a place to

. sleep that night.

Read said that they had plans which they could follow in order to house the students. Firstly. they thought of possibly housing the Marian and Bernardine Hall

residents in Blanchard Hall. The students of Blanchard were willing to house approximately 150 students. Read thought that the

I students of Blanchard Hall should

by “commended for their coopera- tion." - and indeed they should. Read was informed by the Fire Chief at a later time. however. that

' SU ' General

by Sheila Lund

"The Student Union is you.” stated Gordon Cobb, SU Presi- dent. at the General Meeting held in the Library Lounge last Mon- day. The meeting was the second attempt at getting students in-

volved in the affairs of student government. The first try at a General Meeting failed due to the lack of enough students to com- prise a quorum.

Cobb explained the services the Student Union offered students for their $70.00 student fee, such as

“things looked rather grim." for all residents staying on the UPEI cam- pus that night. including Blanchard Hall residents. As a result of this in- formation. Read then went to the

Kirkwood and made tentative reservations for the Bernardine and Marian Hall crew. Realizing the possibility that Blanchard may also be evacuated. he made ar- rangements with the Rodd Motor inn to put up Blanchard Hall students for the night.

Read was pleased the “the

measures to accommodate

students went so well." He stated

that “the students were very

cooperative." and aided in the smooth running of the move. “The fellow from Kirkwood expected a real problem." in the move of the students to the motel. Readcom- mented. “but things were organiz— ed enough to have most of the people in their rooms by 10:30 pm,“ He was also very happy with the conduct of the students in the motel: “No damage - a few parties.

but that‘s only natural." Read said, _

The Kirkwood management went

so far as to say that if an occur— rence like this one ever happened again. they would be delighted to house the students.

Now that the propane scare is over. and students back in their respective residences. we should take the time to commend Mike Read, the head residents. the residence assistants. and the students for being so orderly and cooperative as to let the evacuation procedure take place without many complications. and making the move to the Kirkwood go as smoothly as possible.

Meeting successful

pubs. movies, etc.. and also about “the things you can't really see" that the SU offers. such as political representation. “One decision affects the whole future of the university.“ said Cobb when speaking about the Senate facing an upcoming proposal for the Photo: Lane

Psychology Department.

The Department wants to re- quire students to have at least a 65% average in order to enter 3rd year Psychology.- and at least a 65% average in order to graduate as a Psychology major.

Cobb issued a call to “voice our concerns to all parties that come forth in the upcoming elections." He was referring to issues such as housing. education costs, and athletic facilities. Cobb felt that “all of these things are possible things to be done," and that “ifwe do act as powerless people then nothing may be done." He went on to say. “There will be no action if we don‘t speak out."

A question was raised that the SU makes the same statements every year about student concerns, 'such as housing. In answer to this question, Cobb pointed out that Holland College has hired two stu- dents called Accommodations Of- ficers. who are hired to find the best way to accommodate students and to lobby landlords and the government on housing issues. Cobb said he was in favour of this student p‘05ition. and that discus- sion of hiring Accommodations Officers for UPEI will be coming up shortly in Council.

VP Academic. Carolyn Ryan. during her speech to the student body. brought forth information concerning the Future of Work Lecture Series. and went through a schedule of events. She also ex- plained the reason why the year- book is so late this year. which is due to three pages being lost dur- ing the summer, which was not dis- covered until this September. This year the Student Union is hiring lntercollegiate Press to do the

yearbook.

VP Operations. Karen Blac- quiere. spoke about the success of Orientation, and the failure of the recent fashion show.

She also reminded

students that Fall Fest is in two weeks, and urged everyone to get involved.

John Orr. SU Treasurer. ex- plained that the Student Union has only $250,000 in its budget and in- vited students down to the Barn if they are interested in finding out what the money will be used for. Orr stated that $380,000 was “hacked away from the UPEI budget last year from $13 million dollars", resulting in the increase in residence and tuition fees this year.

A question was raised from the audience concerning the amount the Student Union planned to allot to sub-committees for the upcom- ing academic year. To this Orr replied that if they were concerned

i'about the amount of money the sub-committees would be getting.

they should bring it up before Council.

At the end of the meeting stu- dents expressed interest in what the Student Union's policy on sell- ing South African products shall be. in light of recent news stories concerning the issue printed in The Norm] (70m. Ryan addressed the question by stating that the Stu- dent Union is presently awaitinth package of information regarding the sale ofSouth African products and they would probably bring a motion before Council to boycott South \frican products in the future.

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