PAGE 6 EDITORIALS

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.” E. '1'.

MAR'c‘n 9, 1970

aE-WHAT IS TO BE Domes-fa.

No.1

As the regime of boy populist John F. Keaveny fades into Never-Never Land and the Year of the Ross comes in, the new Council is faced with the job of planning anldl implementing a more relevant Student’s Union — one that will be involved with more aspects of SU life than dances, films, teach- ins, a weekly newspaper, discount service and so on.

The plans for the Student Union. Building (SUB) should be a big priority. Some opinion-s,

based on projected enrolment, should be solicited

re space requirements, and the sort of facilities that students (within the realm of the Union’s ability to commit itself to pay) feel should be included. Considerations as to whether it should be built off- campus or on campus (whether or not the Union would own. the SUB’s land) are necessary.

We wouldn’t want another debacle like the SDU (Malpeque) Coffee Shoppe, which the SDUSU paid for but didn’t own, or: what happened to that sec- ond storey we were supposed to have been able to build on.

A lot of tightening up and in some cases, set ting up, of sub-organizations will need to be done. Actually I can’t think of any (including this one) that oouldn use some direction and/or help.

Student housing is a big problem and it will continue to be one. The possibilities exist for the union to buy or build its own co-op residence al- though this may be a long-range plan. A listing including cost and evaluation af available apart— ments, would help a lot of students. This could be done in part by students now rooming off-campus and could be updated periodically.

In the classroom, an evaluation of all courses should be published. This if honestly done, would help both professors and future students in the courses. Course evaluation, by the way, was a re- mmendation of the recently-published commis- sion on University Government (CUG) report at

e University of Toronto and is quite effective, ihile being rather easy to draw up.

There’s a lot to be done.

—Hornby

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While the recent student council elections were by no means a pat on the back for the more “pro- gressive” students on council, this year has shown an increase in the number of students who are willing to consider what may be termed as Radical Students this year, but it was also a voice crying in the wilderness, heard by few. This program while well organized and carried out attracted little attention from the students at UPEI.

This year the number of students who are willing to look at alternatives (notice how I avoid labels) has increased by about 15 while this is not a very large number considering there are about 1,600 students at the university. Yet these people have shown that they are willing to put a great deal of time and energy into their work.

At this time we must consider “what is to be done” next year. I do not feel that an organiza- tion like the Education Committee wo-uld make the best use of the time and energy Radical Students are willing to put in on this campus. The Educa- tion Committee fluctuated too much in numbers, while most of the work was done by a small group. You were never sure if the other people who drift- ed in and out of meetings were willing to work or were just sight—seers. The Committee, I believe, attempted to involve too many people too quickly. It never consolidated its base, i.e. the members who were willing to work spent most of their time on service work, organizing teach~ins, writing letters, and other bureaucratic work. They never really spent the time necessary on politicizng its own members. Not enough time was spent on building a political movement on the campus. Only out of coordinated study-and political action can a cohe- sive movement develop.

Next year I feel these students should organize themselves into a closely ,knit group, with some. type of internal discipline. This organization should be independent of the Student Union, and should internally involve itself in constant study and com- munication while externally attempting to politi- cize other students and make demands upon coun- cil and administration. Because of this communica- tion and discipline students in the group would: be

quickly (able to mobilize to back up their demands. . r ' l

,. These students must be open about the fact that they do have alternatives and must be iden-

_ tified‘ as such I y other students. Finally this type

of “group would provide the necessary security which is needed when you are asmall minority force for change. ’

—MacKay

DOWN THE runs

It must come as a shock to most students to hear that the $32,000 of the SDUSU will be given ' to the UPEI Athletic Department. (The actual fig- ure may hit $34,000 when the ends are all tied together.) '

This, in view of the fact that the administra»

tion was going to pay for the and extensions

to the rink anyway, and" that the Hall of Fame could have been housed in the UPEI SUB, seems like an anti-UPE'ISU move by the SDUSU.

What is even more precedentsetting than giv- ing student money to the administration, is that ' the .SD'USU members ,i.e. the ones. Who paid in the money) were not polled. The feeling that a refer— endum of SDUSU members would be “too difficult” is somewhat hard to believe, since they must have lists of their members, and since the great bulk of them are concentrated on the Malpeque campus. And surely you could have held a dozen referen- dums since September.

We are told that a select 15 or 20 were sent letters asking for opinions, and that only “four or. five” replies were received. So what? If the infor- mation on the various proposals had been handed out, I suspect that interest would have been high. I also suspect that the money would have gone to a SUB fund.

The accusation has been made that former UPEISU President John Keaveny was too aggres- sive when he met with the SDUSU, and! that a. personality clash was involved. As a fomner mem- ber of the SDUSU, I trust that a. more substantial basis for decision than that was at stake.

Interestingly enough, the group is functioning as a completely autonomous body—athe Executive was empowered last Spring to make all decisions as it felt necessary, and the Coffee Shop Board mem-

' here were taken in because the biggest asset was

the Coffee Shop. However, the legality of the C'of- fee Shop BOG members having a vote, is question-' able.

But the real winner of the week is the news that the money will be paid Monday evening — the ' same night that Ellen MacDonald! explains the de cision.

——Hormby

' The Cadre editor/lewdscizzors: jim hornby A dedication: dermis mackay photos: macden niskay photo editor: jim hornby resisting arrest: captain bear-heart

' public drunkeneSs: the bear party

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