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This summer the Student‘. epresentative Council (SRO; f Saint Maryfls University gnu) was bailediout of near

dministration. ‘ For the past several years he SRC has been going eavily into debt. ’Finally he point came when debtors ould not be put off any onger. The Council was eriously considering bank- uptcy as an option and 1most all suborganizations f the Council were immed- 'ately cut off from all unds until further notice. Fortunately (?!) the“SMU

RC with funds of an undis- 1osed amount. It is not nown whether these’monies ere in the form of a grant r loan nor whether the niversity has attached any iders. It would be surp-

ankruptcy by the university-

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rising indeed if the Council "

obtained an unconditional grant. ‘

It appears that the SRC's troubles were not due to embezzlement but rather to gross mismanagement of funds. Everything the Union. owned was running at a loss, including the bar. Ounce and a half drinks were sold for the pricé of an ounce; capital expenditures far beyond the means of the body were made, etc.

' It appears, though, that the amount of the grant/

loan was less than the total of the debts owed by the Council for it is still run- ning on a shoestring. All committees have been cut back in their funding and many have been cut off. is to be noted, however, that salaries of executives have remained at their former level. '

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Vol.7 No.4 u.»59pt. 30,1975»

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y M. Harisiiorh

Sunday night at the stud- nt council meeting there ere two representatives of he campus maintenance wor- ers present to ask the st— dent union for their supp- rt should the maintenance orkers decide to strike. Right now 30 of the 44

he workers are asking for 1.25/hour increase across

tract. The administration as offered them $.65 for” he first nine monthS‘and: v n additional $.25‘for the ast three months. At pres— nt neither will budge. ' . On Oct. 9 the workers ‘ 111 vote whether or not to

The student council agr- Ed that they would support he strike. How they SfiPP‘ H rt the strike will be dec-

orkers have a $4700 SalarY-V

he board on a One year co— A

ided by council when and if the decision to strike is final.

I feel it is important for all students and facul— ty to support this strike for two main reasons.

The wages the workers are presently being paid are just not enough to sup- port a family. I think it ‘ should be the responsibility of the university to pay

’their workers a reasonable '

wage for their day's work. Should the university not set an example for other Island employers as well?

The second point I would like to make is that if we support them, the strike will be shorter and thus have less effect on all of- us. *

by R. H'uyck

There are two new organ— izations that have now been officially recognized by the Students council, First one

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' The SMU Journal, the

~student newspaper,/has con-

sistently criticized the student council in large measure for financial irres— ponsibility. Not surpris— ingly, even after the un— iversity funds came through, the journal was refused any. The Radio Station, also a money-losing venture (all university newspapers and radio stations in Canada, including The CADRE and CIMN, are) was to continue. As a consequence, the jour- nal has not published yet this year.

However, it appears that the SRC will attempt to create a newspaper after all, but only on the condition that it pay for itself through ad revenue. In, order to do this, adver- tising revenue is expected to increase (although there is no manager!) and cir— culation to decrease. Some- how it is expected that ‘an advertiser will find more attractive a newspaper which reaches half as many people.

Sara Gordon, the only former journal staff member left has established a budget which calls for a deficit of“, 000. When pressed she admits that this is optimistic . For comparison purposes, The' CADRE, a paper with maybe lower costs, projects a deficit of $5,000. The other two candidates for editor are willing to believe in the

being, The Student Internat— ional Meditation Societx for more information concerning this Society, you may con- tact Joyce Burnett at your Students Council office in the basement of Memorial Hall. The second organiza- tion is The Charlottetown Kung-Fu Club which will ob- tain the University Gym for three sessions a week; for more information about this c1ub, you may contact Ken Tollack, or an executive member of your Students Council. .

U.P.E.I.S.U. has decided to officially join the At-

.lantic Federation of Stud—

ents. There will be a con- ference this weekend in Halifax at St. Vincents and Dalhousie University . We will be sending two dele— gates to this conference, they will be Ray Shalala, and Michael Hartshorn. The topics which will be dis— cussed are Entertainment, Student Aid, Athletics and

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idea that the Journal can operate a break—even oper— ation. Neither has ever worked on a newspaper bef— ore. ,

’ Nevertheless, Council has appointed a committee of five to select an editor. Ms. Gordon feels that this meth— od of selection is wrong, although it will probably give her the editorship. According to her, all senior staff members should be decided by vote of the news- paper staff. Since there

is no staff at present the only alternative is to select an interrum editor until there is a staff to decide. She has told this reporter that if the committee chooses she will take the job only

‘on condition that the staff

makes the final decision. Ms. Gbrdon is presently

attempting to get together a staff to produce a small (four or eight page) paper which will come out on Thursday. The committee to choose an editor will make its final decision Friday. According to her, this is

to serve two purposes. One— to ensure that the journal still retains an interest fl amo ng students both in terms of potential staff members and in terms of potential readership and, number two— to prove to the SRC that the only way a viable and well- read newspaper can exist

is without editorial inter— ference from Council.

Student Council Supports Maintenance Workers, Joins AFS

Communications between At— lantic Federation of Stu— dents. .

There is also a confer- ence being held in Ottawa, concerning Women in Educa— tion. Nominations were held and Pat Vickerson will accompany the administration delegates.

Sandra Dunsford volunteer— ed to sit in on the weekly

~Student Services meetings,

to represent Students Coun— cil. ‘ Donna McGough presented recommendations from the _Personnel Board. Decisions that were made concerned Bartender salariesiand sal- paries for the Cadre with job descriptions; also Mau—

‘rice Rogerson was appointed

as the interrim period Elec- toral Officer for the up— coming elections for Sci- ence, Education, Senate, Board of Governor reps.

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