HALIFAX (-CP) —— Most news medis in the Maritime Provinces have failed to meet their “responsibilities” to create public awareness of is sues involved in Maritime un- ion, Kingsley Brown, of Anti-x gonish, N.S. said here today.
Mr. Brown, director of communications f o r t h e Prince Edward Island region'-
al development plan, spoke at the Atlantic Province Econo~ mic Council’s annual meet- ing. The meeting is consider- ing the pros and cons of Maritime union.
He said that “Maritime newspapers, radio stations, and television stations, par- ticularly the Canadian Broad- ing Corporation, have largely
abdicated their responsibili- ties in creating greater criti- cal judgements and social awareness” of issues sur- rounding Maritime union. Some misconceptions that the news media should be ex- ploding, he said, were that Maritime union Would lessen the area’s representation in
the House of Commons and the Senate, and that Nova Scotia’s financial po sit i on would be weakened.
With a few notable excep- tions, political and business leadership in the Maritimes was weak. This lack of‘ lead- ership hurt most in a region where the per Tcaptia was the
lowest in the country.
Mr. Brown said Maritime leaders should help the re- gion respond to federal at~ tacks on regional disparity. “It’s difficult for the govern- ment to help people who won’t help themselves.”
(Reprinted from The Guardian)
VOL. I, No. 4 UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ‘ OCTOBER 31, 1969
'Changes Needed'- Says Pres.
Drastic changes are needi- ed in higher education if it is to become relevent in the lives of students who attend university says Interim Un- ion President John Heaveny. He suggests that professors should play a greater role and be given greater recog- nition in the educational pro- cess, and that concern should
I‘N ' MEMORIAM
CUS
TORONTO (CUB—The Canadian Union of Stud— ents is dead. Thursday (Oct. 22) students at the University of Toronto vot- ed to withdraw from the union. Without Toronto’s membership fees the un- ion, which has been losing members for the last two years, can’t possibly con,- ‘tinue‘ financially.
With its membership cut to less thanla dozen institutions it Wouldn’t be much use continuing any- way.
“The exact fate of the union will be decided at a national council meeting next Monday and Tues- day,” said CUS president Martin Loney Thursday night. “I don’t want to make any comments until then about future plans,” he said while attending a CUS party generally billed as a wake.
Financially the union may not even be able to meet its present commit- ments. “If those who are still members pay, and if
Toronto pays the portion I
covering the last two months, we’re 0K — other- wise I don’t know,” Loney said. '
The Toronto vote had a .
record campus turnout of 38 per cent. [5434 students voted ‘no’ and- 2222 ‘yes.’
Student president Gus A b 01 s, who 'camtpaigned against CUS,jsaid he was very satisfied with the re- suits.
“This proves me,” he said, “that the radicals are no longer the representa-
be geared more toward the student than toward re- search.
These suggestions f o rm part of a seven-point pro- gram which Keaveny believes will reform education in such a manner that it will be use»- ful and relevent to today‘s generation. In a lengthy ar- ticle he says that: “Today
more than ever before col- leges and universities have become woven closely into the fabric of our society. Our economy, our government, our military strength, our churches, our schools, and our cultural life, are all utterly dependent upon the institu- tions of higher education. We simply could not operate our
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tives and the students have rejected them.”
Loney disagreed that the meaning was clear.
Loney agreed, however, that the vote did give some indication of students’ po- litical views.
“It shows that a lot of students are no more or less liberal than the gen- eral public —— when things are put to them in the form of anti-communism th ey will respond the same as the voters did in British Columbia — which is a re- flection of our educational system and: the society it perpetuates,” Loney said referring to a BC. provin- cial election in which So- cial Credit leader W. A. C. Bennett openly redubaited to defeat strong N DP chal- lengers.
In the last few months CUS has been attacked from the left as well as the right. As early as last February some radical left students at the University of Waterloo had opposed CUS during a crucial re- ferendum battle eventually lost by 17 votes.
Loney was disappointed by the attacks from the left. “In the actual context of what’s happening, he said, “they ignored what CUS could do to increase awareness, and instead of giving th e organization critical support sat back and watched the right wing backlas .”
The end of CUS may not be the end of a national student organization. At Toronto, student president Gus Abols said- he would
try to form a new union with other campuses that rejected CUS. The propos- ed union would be “non- political” and would “work for student reforms.”
Founded in 1926, the Canadian Union of Stud- ents was :the world’s third oldest national student or- ganization. Still operating are Britain’s National Unh ion of Students, and the All Union Student Council of the USSR.
CUS GOES DOWN AT DALHOUSIE
HALIFAX (CUP), —- Students at Dalhousie Uni- versity added the coup de grace to CUS Thursday (Oct. 23) by voting ‘no’ in their CUS referendum.
It probably didn’t mat- ter: the loss of Toronto the same day kill-ed CUS. And maybe the students knew that — 237 spoiled their ballots compared to 633 ‘no’ and 411 ‘yes’ votes.
Larry Kapz, president of the Dalhousie g ra d ua to student association, felt “the defeat of CUS could set the cause of student rights back five years.”
But for undergraduate president Bruce Gillis the vote was a victory. Gillis tried to bring about the end of CUS at its congress in late August when he proposed the formation of a new “student federation.” of the motion, University He and the other proposer of Toronto’s Gus Abols, were repudiated by their delegations and the pro- posal died in the plenary for lack of a seconder.
society — it would soon break down —— without the educat- ed and trained people the uni- versities, etc. provide a nd without the basic research they perform.
H i g h er education has changed fantastically in our time; enrollments have sky- rocketed, facilities have been enormously improved, new fields of study have been added, and the governance of institutions has been under-
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 7)
Plans Set
Despite his continued pro- testations that demonstra- tions won’t shape his policies, President Richard Nixon is clearly in trouble. Johnson’s war has. become his war, and now three out of every five Americans, according to the Gallup poll consider that it was a mistake to ever get into Vietnam.
Nixon faces this week the full impact of the Vietnam Moratorium —— a movement which is breaking new ground both in the breadth of the circles it is drawing into the fight, and in the varied forms of action being initiated).
Those formsinclude candle- light parades, seminars and debates, religious services, and the ringing of tens of thousands of doorbells by young men who will say:
PRESIDENT J. KEAVENY
for Nov.15
“Good morning, ma’m, I’d like to talk to you before I die in Vietnam.”
These forms also include an attempt to keep the United States House of Representa— tives in session all night, and giant rallies with an impres- sive roster of speakers in the great cities.
The surging U.S. peace movement is inspiring Canad- ians to renew efforts for mas- sive demonstrative actions on Nov. 15. In Toronto the Viet- nam Mobilization Committees is planning to produce 14,000 posters, and 50,000 leaflets to announce its march which will commence at 1.00 pm. Nov. 15 at Queen’s Park and end at City Hall. Special mes- sages will be addressed to the labor movement, to high school students, and to the Italian population.
St. I X Students Open Residences
ANTIGONISH (CPS-CUP) — St. Francis Xaxier stud- ents last week voted four to one to defy the administra tion and declare open visit- ing hours in their residences.
Wednesday, Oct. 22 stud- ent council accepted a propos— al for open residences (mean- ing that each residence would determine its: own rules. and hours by majority rule, an ‘ that these! would be recogniz- ed as legal). A referendum was called for the next day.
Nearly 80 per cent of the university’s 2400 students turned out to overwhelmingly approve the “open housing” proposal.
That “I041”: afi'lflnn‘l- uuinn
president Frank McKenna an- nounced the results of the vote to a mass student as- sembly and declared the resi- dences open.
Several hundred girls then entered the male residences in defiance of existing rules set by the administration. Al- though prefects were in- structed to take names of the rule violators, no action has been taken against them ; the demonstration was orderly and ended after two hours.
A negotiating committee, set up by students and ad- ministration, is now meeting to discuss settlement of the disputes. In the meantime, the residence rules are being
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