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Speaking of rumors,, p. rumor has it that there is talk of having a fall con— vocation this year. It app- ears that every year more and more students end up completing their degree requirements during the summer months but sorrow-v fully have no convocation, ceremonies. It certainly would be a courteous ges- ture on the part of the' university to have Such a function. It would probably take pressure off students who feel compelled to have to produce by the end of" April in order to legally take part in_the regular

'most other higher edu- cationalyﬂnstitutions.- wereabolished. For an extended discussion of this topic, readers are referred to my article in IMPROVING JOLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ~" TEACHING XXII (Autumn 19.71..) ,» 215-7, as well as other " cogent articles in the

same issue of this journal.'

Yours truly, Don M. Cregier. History Depart-

mment._ '

I was glad to see Jo's

article entitled Education is

a Life-Long Process.... It dealt with the important_role

that the University anguelph is playing in the community through extending nonécredit courses._ _ ‘ flectin on an article which

I wrote in the Cadre exactly a year ago on the very same1 topic under the heading 922' Vadis. It didn't draw any comments from the university community, although the lar- ger P.E.I. community is at times clamouring for more guidance frOm the University. I believe people are looking for creativeness and dynamic approaches from the univer- Sity; governments,stultefied by political processes, can— n0t.provide these. At any rate, Jo may get more resp- onse since she describes something working in Ontario. If.something new is to be

convocation ceremonies in 7 May. How do you feel about this idea? ’

Since convocation is/ gradually coming around again, it sure would be nice to find out what‘is going on. All that's been heard so far is that Gore don Pincent is going to be. the convocation speaker ‘ and that the ceremonies are 'going to be held on May 11th.(Happy Mother's Day) The convocation Committee has been meeting regularily this semester, making all ‘the arrangements for our graduation. I feel sorry. 7to say though that we have

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tried in this univerSity, the first question raised is usu—. ally: what are other Univer— sitiés doing? - Must we a1- waysLbe followers? ~Whatls needed in P.E.I. , is;the important question; not what works in other places?

In the Cadre we are of— ten fed generalities such as "Down with Capitalism". That is fine, but in a community like P.E.I., the university should also apply itself'to . short-term here-and-now pro— blems such as farm incomes, Roverty too much government, and no doubt Others.

An example of community action was the establishment‘

of the Direct Charge Consum- er's Cooperative, in Charlot—

tetown, a couple of years ago. It was founded because the leadership in the established co—op was unwilling to listen to its active members who wan- ted 1the co - 0%; as a tool for'reducing’food prices to cohﬁumers.'_Thekestablished co¥bp's only concern was that

, Ithe "Certain Failure" of the LD.C. Co-op has now a member- ‘ship of 350 and a waiting

list of potential members

vawaiting the opening of lar-

ger premises. In fact, it

is the C.C. Co-op who should worry about the good co-op name since the established co—op has been experiencing difficulties, as aired rec- ently on the 030's Market - _\ _ the estab-' 1iShEd Wrap has n0w set up

a W fol-

.flowing, in good old corpore

ate.tradition, a management

Sonly two student represent- ‘atives on the committee - the president of the Senior class and the president of the Junior class. Butaafter

and Doug!)

Thus ends another patron- izing chapteruin the book THE UNIVERSITY OF PEI AND

this is a function es-

pecially for the graduate 1 ing students put on by the university. Again, I'm' afraid we are thus stricken with token student repres— entation. Token meaning 2‘ istudent representatives, not the people who are _ functioning in that capace

(No offense, M.J.

:onsultant's report. I can not go on with details of this episode - but it shows where a people-oriented un-V iversity could have played an important part in helping people with their problems, so that we would have had

Vonly one people responsive

co-op in the community with

maximum effeCtiveness in the

market place. “ ' Some faculty members

'have said that we do not have

the resources for community- oriented extension work. A look at the Calendar shows that we do have resources.

‘ Perhaps enthusiasm is lack—

ing. Or there might be too much Ivory Tower pre—occupa-i tion, for which P.E.I. is hardly the place. It is a well known fact that sociaL _change, inventions and in—f novations are rarely corre;, lated with tﬁktgrowth of formal inputs dEVoted to these activities. They owe nuch more to the efforts of lone wolves.

Walter Fobes

Economics Department

‘Dear Editor,

‘ I'm pretty'well fed-up with CIMN. For the past 2% weeks they have been playing the same old tape. If I re- member correctly the station was suppose to be fixed up after Xmas. Well I was up there about 2 weeks ago and it's still a mess. I'd just like to remind the station. that part of my 40 dollars paid to S.U. does go towards

CIMN. Get some mhsic on and

*THE STUDENT. Maybe it's time for humming" We Shall Overcome".

"Rumor Has It" that a 9011—. ection is now being taken for Chaplain Ian Glass.

Jhe proceeds will go into buying "The new watch; It seems that his watch has been running about thirty minutes late' (approximately Ottawa time) and has caused him much concern.

Reverend" a

lstop playing the same damn

tape over and over again. I'm sick of it and alot of other people are too.

A Resident Student

Dear Mr. Baker, Last week you "replied to my article which suggest—

led an amalgamation of the

Board of Governors and Sen— ate. I apologize for my ig— norance in not knowing that fifteen years you had sup- ported this proposal (and apparently six years ago too) I had simply assumed that since a variety of people,

‘some of whom have been at

this university for five years, had not heard of any such proposal from anyone in administration that you sup— ported the status quo.Silence on any suggestion of change generally indicates either support for the status quo or a perception of personal inability to do anything as a result of oppression. Sin— ce I could not conceive of you as a victim of oppress- ion, I assumed that the for— mer was the case. Again I apologize.

Coming to the other po— ints you made, I feel that all of them are somewhat shallow. As to your advoca— ting students on the combin— ed council, I note that you never argue figures. There is a major difference betwe- en our present representat— ion and the type I suggested.

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