Believe and Succeed Program Underway Soon
The “Believe and Succeed” campaign is something that most students have heard me talk about, but not very many under- stand. Believe and Succeed is a fancy name for a simple program. Many philosophers and inspira- tional writers have always said that if you really believe that you will succeed at something, then inevitably, you will. When you believe in yourself, this too has a profound effect on your entire personality. Greater respect for yourself and the people around you soon permeates your sub- conscious, and most of all, your confidence level goes up. This, then is why the campaign I am about to describe is called a “Be- lieve and Succeed” campaign.
First of all, why bother with such.a program? After all, is this what student unions do? Well, the answer to the latter part of this question is “No”. Stu- dent Unions usually don’t do this kind of thing, but remember, we are talking about the UPEI Stu- dent Union. It has always been on the leading edge of things! As for the question “why bother with this?”, well, that’s answered fairly easily. In a recent Michi- gan State University survey, 75% of the students said that their sin- gle biggest problem was lack of confidence. I think that’s rea- son enough to start a program like this one. In a nutshell, this program is designed to hopefully help the Student Union and its members. It helps the organiza- tion by providing a means of con- verting student fees into some- thing concrete that can be offered to students, and it helps the stu- dent by hopefully gathering con- fidence and perhaps feeling good. about what they are doing.
In order-to explain how this
will be achieved, I will try to ex-
plain some of the various com- ponents of the program. First of all, we plan to use some very powerful helpers. These helpers are nothing more than sentences. That’s right... plain old sen- tences. These won’t be normal sentences, though. Did you ever notice that when you read or hear an inspirational sentence it makes you feel pretty good? Here are some examples: “Success is fail- ure turned inside out”, or “All storms pass”, or “The deepest feeling shows itself with teeth”. Well, if we could only hear these more often, eh? Well, we intend to get them to you. Posters, radio messages, and one-liners in the Gem are going to permeate you from now on.
The best way to become in- spired however, is to listen to someone else who has used his or her belief in themselves to suc-
ceed, This leads us to the biggest |
part of the “Believe and Succeed” program. Starting on Wednes- day, the 18th of January, we will have weekly speeches come to the Robertson Library Pit to speak to students about how im- portant positive thinking and be- lief in yourself really is. Every Wednesday following this, we will be having a speaker. So you can look forward to approximately ten speakers this semester. We have some very good speakers lined up so take advantage of this
and have a listen.
There are a number of other aspects to this campaign but I won’t mention them here. I'll leave that for the Grande Open- ing of the campaign Wednesday, Jan. 18th when the premier, Joe
Youth Ministers Allocates up to $265,000 for Education
Ottawa Jean J. Charest, Minister of State for Youth, Fitness and Amateur Sport, has renewed funding up to $265,000 with the Canadian As- sociation for Cooperative Educa- tion (CAFCE) to stimulate more
Work/study projects for commv- °
tity college and university stu- dents, :
“Canada’s unique experiment with cooperative education has Proven to be very effective in helping young people make the ‘chool-to—-work transition,” Mr. Charest said.
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“That’s why we are _ inter- ested in seeing CAFCE emerge as a strong and independent ad- vocate of cooperative education,” he added
The funding, subject to an an- nual review over three years, will enable CAFCE to promote part- nerships with employers, the gov- ernment and education so that all sectors are involved in coopera- tive education. One of CAFCE’s
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Ghiz will be here to open it and speak to students. All of us at the Student Union sincerely hope that this program will be of help to you and be most enjoyable to you. If you would like to help out with the campaign, there is lots of room for anybody. Just call the Student Union office at 566-0398 and leave your name and number.
Your S.U. Prez, Dean McMillan
UPEI STUDENT RECEIVES BURSARY
The Prince Edward Island Advisory Council on the Status of Women is pleased to announce the awarding of two bursaries to women students. This year’s re- cipients are Geneva Faulkner of
Charlottetown and Dawn Ambler SSSSS
of York.
Criteria for the awards in- ¥ cludes full-time enrollment in a ¥ program at Holland College or X the University of Prince Edward % Island; prior absence from school ¥ for at least two years; and demon- ¥
strated financial need.
Dianne Porter, Chairperson Y
of the Advisory Council, states: 3 -“We had thirty-seven applicants % for the bursaries this year, which ¢ is more than we have ever had be- ¢ fore. It is really encouraging tu % see more and more women fur- ¢
shering their education, particu- % ‘arly those who, for whatever rea- % son, have had their studies inter- %
gOn In And Try Out As Many Classes As You Like.
rupted for a number of years.”
Ghiz to open “Believe and Succeed Program”
On Wednes- day January 18,premier Joe Ghiz will be will be on campus to of- ficially open the Student Union “Believe and Succeed” campaign. Mr.Ghiz will be the first in a line of speakers that will come to the library pit stop every wednesday from now until April.
Mr.Ghiz will be opening the program and giving us some in- spiring words to think about. As premier and an accomplished
lawyer, Mr.Ghiz knows what pos- itive thinking is all about. Hope- fully he will show us some of his positive attitudes with us next wednesday.
The premier will be speak- ing at approximately 11:30 in the PIT . It is probably best if you come early to get good seating. We hope to see everybody there for will surely be a great kick off to the “Believe and Succeed” campaign.
The Gem staff meetings will now be at 5:30 on Tues- day evenings. Members are urged to attend and new people are always welcome.
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