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Rhinos Promise Solid Student Grant Program

By Chris Lawson MONTREAL (CUP) - Se-

nior year students must get a $100,000 grant to study the ef- fects of increased income on their life-style, according to the leader of Canada’s fastest growing polit- ical party.

International Rhino Party Humble General Secretary Charles McKenzie says he is “100 per cent committed” to his stu- dent study program.

McKenzie and co-leader Fran- cois Gourd say originality gives the. Rhinos’ the edge im. the promise-racé. ;

“They steal from each other. Turner comes out with something and then a day later Mulroney comes out and promises the same thing,” he said.

McKenzie said the Rhinos have hunted down 83 candidates

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across Canada. One of them is 23-year-old John Jagiellowicz, a third year McGill student run- ning in Montreal.

“T won’t lie,” he said, “I’m in it for the money.”

Jagiellowicz promised if elected he would float the is- land of Montreal down to the Caribbean for the winter. “After the hurricane season, of course,” he said. “Think of all the heating costs it would save, not to men- tion saving on road salt.”

He also promised a 24 hour-a- day all-Barbara Frum news chan- nel and an ‘eight day week, with the extra tacked onto the week- end.

Jagiellowicz is a veteran of the 1984 election where he ran as a Rhino in his hometown of Cam- bridge Ont. He’s hoping the stu- dent vote will whisk him past the conventional competition.

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EDUCATION UNDERFUNDING © ISSUE IN ELECTION

WINNIPEG (CUP) — A group representing most of the nation’s universities is hoping to make education underfunding a major issue during the federal election campaign.

“The next government of Canada will guide the affairs of a nation confronted by impor- tant challenges requiring urgent attention,” said Dr. Arnold Naimark, president of the Asso- ciation of Universities and Col- leges of Canada: “The extent. to which Canadians meet the chal- lenges will in large measure be determined by how well educated they are.”

The quality of the coun- try’s higher education is in jeop- ardy because of the federal and provincial governments’ constant

cutbacks, Naimark said at an October 5 press conference in Winnipeg. The AUCC, which counts 87 universities and col- leges among its members, held its annual general meeting the first week of October.

Naimark, also the president of the University of Manitoba, said that while enrolment in Canadian universities has increased over 30 per cent in the last 10 years, grants have only increased by three per cent.

The country goes to the polls November 21.

Naimark said that the AUCC was not supporting a specific po- litical party, but rather trying to make the underfunding issue one which all parties should be con- cerned about.

Closure of College Upsets Students

By Cosmo Vecchiarelli TORONTO (CUP) - Shout-

ing “Crandles is a vandal”, about 60 York University stu- dents marched September 29 to Provost Tom Meininger’s office to protest a one-day closure of col- lege pubs.

Seven bar-related incidences of vandalism occurred the night of September 22. York adminis- trators say that over the last five years, vandalism has cost the uni- versity over $1 million.

Citing a pattern of increasing vandalism on Thursday nights, which a student security off-

cer characterized as the rowdiest

time of the week, Food and Hous- .

ing Director Norm Crandles and Meininger decided to close the pubs for September 29, “to send a signal to the (York) community that this (vandalism) is a serious problem.”

Two college student councils sponsored the demonstration.

Vanier College student coun- cil president Phil Downes told the protestors that “students are not the perpetrators of vandalism (on campus). Closing the pubs will increase violence on campus.”

The provost eventually ad-

When asked if it could com- pete with the free trade debate as an election issue, Naimark admit- ted, “I think it’s naive to believe that.”

The AUCC is hoping for a larger percentage of Canada’s GNP to be spent on research, an increase in funding, and much more co-operation between the provincial and federal govern- ments.

The Manitoba Association of University Stu- dents (MAUS), which represents

. the 40,000 post-secondary stu-

dents attending Manitoba’s four universities and colleges, is also tackling underfunding.

The association sponsored a student demonstration against tuition fee increases October 14.

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dressed the protestors, saying “yes, the administration of this university is floundering about what to do about this problem. | We don’t know.”

In a pamphlet distributed by Downes, York security was called “inadequate... Some people have witnessed events where (regular) security have not acted properly, have let the suspects go.” _

While agreeing that more se- curity was necessary, the provost said that an obsession with se- curity matters would not be wel- — come. “You don’t want six cops standing around every time you

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