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TUESDAY, September 29,1981‘ By Lesley Sempl

12:30 p.HL ‘

location: Robertson Library \

The speaker, Neil MacKenzie, called the. meeting to order immediately after a 10% quorum‘(l43 students)

of the student enrollment was present. Terry Palmer, president of the Student Union, spoke on:‘ the renovations to the barn over the summer, the background of Federal Funding cutbacks, the' March to Provincial HOuse September 30, 1981 and the future plans to attract students to the Barn.

Patti Bradley,

By Kathy Greene This year the Political Science Department is participating in the National Model United/Nations Conference. y':This Conference will be . held at the Grand Hyatt 'Hbtel in New York City. The dates for this conference are April ‘6—11, 1982. This conference is a political education

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Director of Amnesty Inter- national - USA.

Reprinted from Amnesty 'International Bulletin

After all, governments are pledged/to uphold the mdnimum standards set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in the various covenants and treaties that translated the vision of the Univer—_ sal Declaration into inter- national law. If govern— ments lived up to the ob: ligations (and all of them have Subscribed), there would be‘no work for us.

And though we look forward to that day with some eager- ness, we are not in any immediate hope of being able to go out a? existence.

While wt may have come of age quite some time ago, an anniversary such as the one that we are observing this year must necessarily be a SObeIng matter. This brings me’to the discussion

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by Gerhard Elston, Executive

Vice President External, discussed her'responsib~ ' ilities involving the SUN, CIMN, and the Yearbook. She introduced the people involved under these areas, informed students on what has been done and what plans have been made for the future of these areas. Patti encouraged students to get involved and that they would be more than welcome to participate in these activities.

Sue Parlee, vice President Internal, explained that she was in charge of the C.P.'s, Bartenders, and any activities that involved the Barn. Susan wants to make massive use of

experience about the U.N., world affairs and of inter- national pelitics through five days of sins ulated U.N. sessions.. The idea of the conference is that each participating university represents a country in the united Nations. Each university delegate will have a chance to meet the U.N. members from the country they represent.

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4sion. debating at governmental levels; be given to human rights

This political discus— sion is most interesting—— but it is not an AI discus— It is certainly worth

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the Barn via movies, pubs, and main events. She also discussed wage increases for C.P.'s and other paid staff at the Barn. . The final report

came from the Treasureer,’ Bruce Hickey. Bruce briefly went over last year's audit. He invited students or anyone

-interested to go down to

the Barn and View the audit. Bruce said he would be happy to answer any questions involving the topic.

The floor was then open to questions.

JimlRevell, a senior Business Student, questioned the union‘ executive on a motion that had been put through

Model U.N. Conference

The Grand Hyatt is located above Grand CEntral Station and is within walking distance of the U.N. and other popular sites in New York City. ’

This opportunity is open to all students. If you are interested there will be a meeting on Tuesday, October 13, at 6:30 in the Political Science/Philosophy

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that has recently erupted

matter of were common sense, we should haVe

long since learned — not we as Al, but we as citizens - that unless human rights are observed and people are treated with a measure of equitable justice, there isn't

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Student Council this fall.

The motion involved

the bar proceeds going to classes and sub- organizations after a pub or main event. The passed motion as it stands now allows classes and suborganizations to receive 75% of profits

' from the Bar after all

expenses have been off. Jim could not the Student Unions of thinking on the Subject. As a result it was suggested that Jim would go to the next student council meeting and present his arguement towards the motion.

The meeting was then adjourned by the speaker.

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Faculty Lounge, Main Building, Room 326A Further details about the conference and possibilites of fund raising to defray the cost will be discussed.

Remember:

Thesday, October 13,6:30 Political Science/Philos— ophy Lounge, Main Building, Room 326A

All students are welcome.

have to exist if they did hold themselves and each other accountable to these standards."

The preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights makes it very clear that the intent of

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considerations when foreign policy decisions are made?" But that Obviously is not a problem for a human rights

organization.

Governments obviously take many things into consideration - we must ahve one committment, namely, that these rights are honored and observed. And when other consideration override these human rights concerns, we will scream and continue to be very But it is also a very interesting discussion at the governmental level to discuss the relative- role of human rights considerations when you're talking about national security matters.

going to be peace and stability in the world; therefore, human rights considerations should be ranked very high at any discussion of national security.

But this is not just an AI question, because the AI approach to these matters is more direct and simple. Our challenge to government is not the measure and degree and attention that human

'rights concerns are to be

given in the matter of policy, but very bluntly, "How do you hold govern- ments accountable to the standards that they theme selves have set and agreed to? Because we wouldn't

the Declaration was not only to say "never again" to the horrors of Nazi death camps, but also to make it clear that the world commmnity had determdned that these violations,

if they ever occured again, would never again be regarded as the internal affairs of any nation, country, or government. The preamble of the Declaration makes it very clear that not only are governments to be held accountable to these standards, but they are also pledged to hold each‘ other accountable 7; these standards.

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