TO: The Cadre ” A V“; ~ ' ' There has been a lot of talk on his campus of student apathy. l, r one, do not believe that this is the case. I feel that the cause of student non-inv°lvement in campus life is something entirely different than just not caring-a dawns ~1t8t 19 thiﬁt

magicalfcsuse; this ainsivs excuse for

non-involvement. I call it fear and feel it characterizes every one of our relationships with our fellow students on campus. Tb illustrate my point, how many of us would be willing to go up to someone in the coffee shop, whom we do not know. introduce ourselVes and start talking? How many of us would have the nerve? I say, not very many, if any. Why are we unwilling to do this? It is because of fear,.fear that we will be thought of as foolish or nutty. We are very conscious of the opinion other people have of us; consequently, we don't wish to endanger an opinion by doing something that might be con- sideredifoolish. The result of all this is that these other people haVe no opinion of us at all, for our fear of appearing foolish has not allowed us to meet them. V .y second point follows logically from the first. Why do we not attempt _to know people any more.than superfic- ially? Why do we just take people on the surface of things, and not bother to find out what really makes them tick? Why do we let our first im- pressions of people be lasting ones, without making a conscious effort to determine if our impressions are valid. From the general to the specific, why is sex a taboo subject of conversation between males and females on this campus? Why do girls type guys as be— ing either great, or dull and boring and not worth bothering with? Why do guys type girls as frigid bitches if they won't go for a roll in the sack? e answer to all these questions is

plain, simple fear.

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But what is this fear? what does

it mean and what causes it? 'People who enter into genuine human relationships with others. haVe to give freely of Ln themselVes, expecting nothing in.re- turn. This is the origin of our fears. By giving freely of ourselves we lay ourselves open to be hurt. How can we be sure that they are not secretely H talking and laughing behind our backs? How can we be sure that that we tell a person will be kept in confidence? The

' answer is that we cannot. This is the

while theme of what I am saying. ‘A genuine relationship is not forced. We do not begin, or experience, a rela-e

. tionship by the attitude, "But what

can you do for me?" We start off on the premise that what we do may not be received and responded to with

the same spirit as we giVe it. Sure this leaves us open to be hurt. How- ever think of all the groovy people we might meet if we but try to look for them. Think of all the great rela- tionships we might form, which we might not otherwise have developed. Personally, I feel the risk is worth the reward.

PS: I would like to hear comments, from other students concerning what I had to say. These comments could be made to me personally, or through the pages of the Cadre.

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This fall students have observed a very busy atmos- sphere about the campus. All the building, ploughing, and excavating have aroused the curiosity ~of many who are

'not familiar with the U.P.E.I

Expansion Plan. The plan is calling for capital expend- itures in excess of 15 mill- ion dollars over the next fifteen years.

The first construction project of the plan. which is in progress. consists of a) a central utillities building and b) the sight services. The central utill- ities building will include a boiler room, all the trade shops (ex. carpentry, electric plumbing, painting.shops etc. the maintenance offices, the maintenance stores, inVentory storages, general storage room for the university,

a purchasing office and a place to do maintenance on trucks. This is what is

taking place behind the chapel. The cost of this building will'

be approximately one million dollars. The building will

be covered on both sides with earth, on which there will be lawns. This will prevent the building from sticking like

a sore thumb. The sight services will cost approx- imately one million three hundred ninety two thousand dollars.

_ This first project will betcompleted_ in September,72 It has been top prority be- cause the present heating plant, underground facilities

and maintenance facilities can't handle the current work load and thus couldn't be‘ex-' pected to handle the increased load.fromjthe new buildings. The Cadre ﬂaked Mr. Clough, theComptrollerfor‘ U.P.E.I. where the money was coming from. Mr. Clough said the universitmreceived a cap- ital grant from the province and of that approximately, Seven hundred thousand dollars is being used the first pro ject. Permission has been recieved from the provingﬁto borrOw funds to complete this project. a The next major project is a new library. There is a building committee working on it now. Approximately 2.9 million dollars will be all- ocated to this project. The ' new library is to located be- tween the Duffy Science Center and the present football field This project is expected to 'be completed in_2 or 3

T e an ill then bggfgto cﬁie,tﬁe problem of

teaching space, about one million six hundred thousand dpllars will be put to use for this project.

Mr. Clough was asked the possibitities for an

.increased.in fees next year.

His reply was that there is always a possibility of this because of 1abor‘.utilityand material cost are always ris- ing. This year the university will be working with a projec ted residence '” defiéit of $120,000.

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