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To the editor:

Once again this year, the Stu- dent Union elections have had a low voter turnout. While. this, in part, can be cred- ited to a lack of interest or awareness on part of the students, fault should also-lie with the faculty.

Although professors were requested to ex- cuse students from classes between 10:45 — 12:00 for Stu- dent Union speeches a number of professors felt that they had lost too much time due to storms to grant this.

However, professors should be aware that university edu- cation entails not only academic enhancement but. also political and social development. As an example to the stu- dent body, the _ pro- fessors should encour- age the overall develop- ment of students rather than being unduly con- cerned over loss of one class period.

Some fault may. also lie with the Student Union which should have en- sured the cancel- lation of classes for the speeches did carry over to Wednesday. (The re- quest had been made for classes to be can- celled on Tuesday but due to the storm day,

the speeches were post- poned until Wednes- day.)

Sincerely,

Maureen Keenan & Blair Weeksua

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Dear Editor,

Something must be done about the noise in the Robertson Library. Every time I am read- ing, there are people talking around me. I am getting so fed up!

I know I am not the only one who feels this way. There ought to be a no-talking rule. There is such a rule for study carrols, but it

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There is three inches of slush and wa- ter on the walkways. |

The boys in: main- tainance (as in main- tain?) must be having one hell of a card game.

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is not making any dif- ference, so I no longer wish to have a car- rol. Our “super-quiet” room. is a joke! I was there someone had a tape playing and I could. hear it even though he had ear- phones on.

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