Still fighting “the—foe whose name is Apathy

hiding something from the

sUPEI is a campus small in size and signiﬁcance right? Nestled in a small city in, let’s face it, a small province, it has a growing enrolment that probably ‘ won’t touch the University of Toronto’s for a couple of years.

Nothing much happens here?

I-la.

Last year the Atlantic Veterinary College about to be built on our former soccer ﬁeld started attract- ing the interest and mis givings of even the most unconcerned groups of UPEItes. ’

The provincial govern- ment decided this ‘Anim- al House East” would be a good site for an un- doubtedly much-needed

.nuclear fallout shelter, prematurely, « it turned out.

Our soccer Panthers

took the AUAA title, and

~ dropped a few jaws at the . CUAA ﬁnals.

‘ Senate dithered all year

about a paper by a man

named Smithwhich would

have made an altered state~

of the university.

The UPEI Student Union passed a new con- stitution.

Security removed sev-

reral flags from the rooms. at Marian Hall While the

owners were home —for Christmas, then returned them in what could be called embarrassment. Below the surface bub- bled more. Much more. A student newspaper

that used to‘xbe called the

UPEI Sun w' picked up, shaken out, 5 t upright, and given a prod in a new direction. The new name annoyed some ‘readers, but they read it. ' . You see, the NETTED had made a res- oluti'on'to BE a’ newspaper about the time it decided to look like one. Typeset- ting and some help from a friendly Canadian Univ- ersity Press ﬁeldworker

made the surface differ- ence. The staff did the rest. ‘ That’swhere you come in-for an experience that’s

going to be fun, chal-

sed only by a curious, alert press. What led to President Peter Meincke’s announcement last spring that he’d be leaving at the end of this year, having

Questions to be tackled this year by the Gem:

Meincke?. . . Vet

College ?. .. Women ’s

men’s and women’s sports at UPEI? Will the Barn be serving lobster suppers next summer, under Saga supervision? Speaking of sagas, what’s to be re- vealed next about the Vet College by the powers that try to be? Who will be our Fearless Leader this time

sports?. . .Part-timefacultyﬁ . .Student Aid and next year? Win thePink our rights under a new government?. . .Lessons of the ﬁrst fifteen years?

lenging, and, if you feel like it, a little risky.

A lot of questions can be unearthed and addres-

been told his contract wouldn’t be renewed for more than a year? Is there ﬁnancial equity between

What the Gem stands for

The GEM is a weekly publication of the Univer- sity of Prince Edward Island Student Union, but fiercely guards its edit- orial freedom. Because we have this freedom, the

- Newspaper was admitted

last year as a full member in CUP (Canadian Univ-

ersity Press), a national

coperatiVe body of over fifty campus papers.

The GEM holds three goals as sacred, to be considered before all else, and asks its staff to do the same.

€Fij’st, the. newspaper must provide “a forum for free exchange of ideas and opinions among, but not limited to, the stu- dents of UPEI. ”

Next, the GEM “shall provide current, accurate,

and unbiased articles on provincial, national, and international issues, but with the main emphasis on campus life.”

Finally, we pledge to cover “all facets of un- iversity life”, as far as is superhumanly possible.

These goals were es- tablished in~a policy paper written last spring by a committee of newspaper staff and Student Union members. .

A fourth goal seemed too obvious to add. The GEM, like its forerunners, the CADRE and the SUN, gives UPEI students a chance to become in- volved in a way that re- sume writers love; to learn; to enjoy themselves; and to meet other students with similar interests.

Panther apply? And is he

Ethics Senate?

Here’s a chance for you to shine. Ask some questions of your own. Draw an editorial cartoon' with a wittybite of truth. Discover just what it takes to put together a news- paper--physically on lay- out nights, and dynam-

Committee of

ically at staff meetings.

Write a non-news feature about something that fascinates you about

UPEI. Earn your own by- line. Come‘ up and just talk to us.

It’s up to you. Without people caring enough to join the GEM, it will not be able to probe, inform, amuse, or survive.

The student newspaper of the University of Prince Edward Island

The

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Volume 2, Issue 1

September 3, 1984

Photo: MacLeod

A Week in the Life of a Gemmie

‘ A NETTED GEM week starts at staff meetings on Monday night at 6:30 (to be negotiated with staff when class schedules are earned). There, staff members suggest and volunteer for story assign- ments, decide on a topic for the editorial, vote on policy changes, and air

problems. We also sort out details of pizza layout nights and such.

Stories must be on the editor’s desk by Monday noon, to be edited and

/marked for the typesetter. This gives staff one full week to work on assign- ments--news stories are usually 11/2 to 2 typed

pages.

On Tuesday, layout begins. Most of it is done in the evening, and the production team (anyone who wanders in) pastes the typeset articles to lay- out sheets the size of two regular newspaper pages. Ads, photos, headlines and graphics (mostly

cartoons) are added, and the whole thing is juggled until everything fits, or everyone ' falls asleep, whichever comes first.

Layout nights are when normally sane people are 'prone to fits of hysteria and/ or giggles.

On Wednesday morning the finishing touches are

added, usually in a mad rush, and the layouts are sent off to our printer, Williams and Crue, around two in the after- noon. Bodies drift off to work on the stories they took on Monday night, and generally take it easy until the same time next week.

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