‘ A.F.S Discusses Breakdown into

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A meeting of the Atlantic Federation of Students was held on January 17 and 18 at The Nova Scotia Agri- cultural College; with rep- resentatives from all of the Atlantic Provinces Universities except from U.N.B. .\- r

The Meeting opened with a review of the October and May 1975 minutes.‘ .

A preliminary discussion followed concerning the topics which were most im— ’ portant to students in gen- eral. It was decided to break into groups for in— tense discussion on certain topics.

Three Group Meetings were “

held and resulted in the .

following presentations: Group A — There were four

considerations regarding the

general philosophy of Stu-

dent Aid.

1 View of Student Aid.

2 Effectiveness of on cam—

pus.representation in Stu-

dent Services to provide

an information Programme.

3 Submission of income

statements from students

stating summer earnings,

in the.h0pe/of eliminating

unequal distribution of

loans._

4 Reinstatss Student res—.3 .‘ a resentationzonxAppealsr\.;~.wew

Committee rather than an annual visit from the Minister of Education re—' garding policy making; Group — Summer Employment was brought up and they felt that this is the area which needs to be :eriously looked at; It appears that most summer (mpIOyment opportunities are leing curtailed, i.e. O F Y and agriculturally oriented positions. Also they felt that the Part—time Student situation should be looked

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tation was also look at by this group, and this aven- ue was looked at completely separate from the cost of living allowance on the Student Loan; that is Gas prices, buses, University rates, insurance rates, the need to be able to get to part-time positions, and the diStance of off-campus students in relation to school,

The morning session then brokexoff and begun again

again at 2:00 P.M. with the

topic being; the situation of A.F.S., re priorities and structure of the union. It was suggested that the main problem with AFS is

a breakdown of communica- tion amongst campuses. As a‘result of this groups were once again formed to

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‘discuss the priorities and

structure of AFS. The re- sult of this was; the pri- orities would be, Housing, Student Aid, Communications, and M.P.H.E.C. A definite

.structure was not decided

upon at this time as the proposed structure was not accepted by U.P.E.I,.

At the evening sessions

‘there was a presentation by

Frances Long concerning NUS,

'which does pertain to U.P.E.I

students at this time as we do not belong to this or- ganizétion at this time. \On Sunday at the plenary session; the dates of the next conference were set they being April 30 to May 2, 1976. vThe Student Aid

subject discussed on Sat- urday was once again dis- cussed and it was decided

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mmunications

that each representative .would have a report pre- pared for the next meet- ing concerning this topic. "One other thing which was discussed in short was U.P.E.I.‘s bid for the Veterinary School of Medi— cine. It was felt by a member of NSAC that AFS should support them in their bid for the Vet School.— It was suggested that U.P.E.I.' bid for the School was a step towards justifying their existence, we in turn reported that a study has been taken of the various Universities and according to this study, we are jus- tified in our bid, for ag- ricultural and aquaCultural reasons in our region.

Ray Shalala

at and a course of action be decided upon, concerning Stu~

Loans and Bursaries. Also

the Married Student situa-i

fion was reported to be un— realistic and should be

looked into. A '

Group C - This group

ifElt the_Student Loans fimuld be upgraded to fol-

53§ the form of a presenta-

‘ loW the increase of the cost

M living. Therefore they

isuggested'that the loan : level shouldnbeeraised to

$3600.00-with7 $1000.00 of Wis being,loan, $1600.00

of thisheing bursary, the balance being overhead. They “50 telt that the interest ree period should be exten-~ ded to 9§§_year rather than éix months. , This situation 5 baing handled by NUS and' It Would be in order for AFS ’ 9 Support them, for example

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