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Oct 8 1981

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Complex proposed for UPEI location

At a noon press conference on Tuesday, October 6, Gordon Bennett the Chairperson for the Steering Committee of the Recreation Complex, ~ announced the proposal of a new sport and recreatio complex to be built at

be for the joint use of the university andthe Island community as a whole. have yet to be finalized, but funding for the '

will not come out of the university coffers. Ongoing operating costs will be shared between UPEI and the local community with UPEI agreeing to distribute as much as it is ' presently spending to

_ 7 ‘Last Friday the first faculty of the / year was held. This marked the beginning of the seventh year ofgseminars in which time over 140 topics havebeen discussed, “argued about, or chewed hover in one form or another. «The inaugural talk of this year's series was given” by Professor Donald Nemetz, who spent six ' months in El Salvador ’. during the 'SO's as’an advisor to the government there.

Prof. Nemetz's talk' ” evolVed from his concern that in the game of international politics, the third world countries often become the pawns caught middle‘of a foreign ideological strug— gle. Whether the issue. of foreign intervention in a comtry's affairs is for resources or political ‘ 'cher'Jusually both), result always involves an imposition of foreign interests on the existing native culture” "The road ion-hell is paved with

good intentions," Prof”. Nemetz said in reference

' to the education, health,

and social services

policies which foreign

aid undertakes. The problems arise

"because, in almost all

foreign aid programs ,-

this. good things are based on a literate nation; we teach people to read, write, and other skills but they have very little to read and no jobs in which they can apply the new skills.

In developing health . programs, foreign aid has

been tremendously success— ,7

ful, the'onlyrproblem is that food production often doesn't increase with the resulting pOpulation grmzth. "Then we have. to teach them not to have babies", said Prof. Nemetz. "Success in one area creates more problems- problems which are often harder to J handle." . In summing up this situation \Prof. Nemetz concluded, "We're not as clever as we. think we are- not by ahalffl"

l Battle of Ideologies .

This is the problem», in El Salvador; Arterican- aid is backing the existing government in various , areas of social services. To pUll out now would mean leaving the Salvadorians with many of the‘problems which foreign aid has- incurred in the first . place. ‘ Prof. Nemetz questions the journalists mports which. are coming

\ . out Of El Salvador because

they don't grasp the whole situation—"not kncwmg what to believe I believe non of it". ' The problem yith having the Americans pull out

_ of El Salvador is that

this "would automatically

' leave the field to the

left". Prof. Nemetz ques— tions whether this is right because it assumes that the left will do a better job their; the government".

Because of this ques- tion about which reports to believe, prof. Nemetz cautions that "Canada should

Sportsplex

New $7 million Recreation ,

UPEI . m This facility will

Funding agreements

construction of the complex

.won't buy oil then how else

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operate the rink and gym. The rink will be renovated to form a new "field house" and will greatly improve gymnasium facilities. A I 25 meter swimmingpool is also part of the pack- age. . ' President Meinke has assured the SUN that n any frill, costs, or operating costs that could be left out were cut from the proposal. . is his opinion that this proposal contains the necessary to "upgrade the UPEI sport and recreation facilities to a university level.

Note: Wheelchair accessability and energy conservation, as well as maximizing solar energy resources, have been involved in the proposal.

For more details, see next week's SUN.

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avoid, too quickly, taking» sides in this power struggle". Ultimately it involves a "battle of ideologies, which is somthing that these peOple (the Salvadorians) don't need?

Part of the problem hin— ges on the fact that the main export product in El Salvador is coffee, and that the thir— teen barrels of oil which one bag of coffee bought five years ago, now buys only three barrels. Put this kind of in— flation onto a country which has poor agricultural re- sources and a huge population growth and you end up with a serious condition that can- not be abandoned by foreign aid.

'In tnnclusion, prof. Nenetz stated that "if their coffee

can they be helped ?" There doesn't seem to be an easy or simple solution but we can "continue sending dam experts" to help with sort- ing out the crucial areas such as "health and alter—- native energy". '