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Students say “Yes” toWUSC question .
By Michael Zinck
With strong candidate sup- port from all contenders and a hard-hitting campaign of posters, an information table in the library lounge, resi- dence visits and heavy one-. on-one campaigning, the WUSC local committee rolled up 728 ‘yes’ to 110 ‘no’ votes to win student support for its permanent refugee fund.
‘ Joe Byrne (President of WUSC) along with the other WUSC (World ‘ University Services of Canada) local committee members waited Thursday night for the results
in the Panther Lounge. Byrne, who turned in a ‘ solid, low-key speech on Tuesday afternoon, was
clearly delighted and some- what amazed at the over- whelming show of support.
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“That’s great!” was the extent of his speech-making on Thursday to the assembled local committee, who were elated at the 87% showing.
While happy, the local committee now realizes that the work has just begun. WUSC local must now raise
an additional $3,000 dollars to cover one refugee stu- dent’s costs at UPEI. Professor Ralph Hazleton, WUSC’s faculty advisor stated, “At least now we have something to point to when We ask the rest of the community for support. ”
Hewent on to say, “This is what the UPEI students have done. Now what will (the community) do to help us?” .
The WUSC local com- mittee will be meeting soon, and everyone is invited to help out.
Dorsey admits mistake.
By Michael Zinck
After the dust settled over the pulling of Kevin O’Brien’s
name from the Vice-president
Academic ballot, President Michelle Dorsey admitted to allowing the whole affair to start.
“I accept complete re- }sponsibility for what hap-
pened,” President Dorsey said, having met with Kevin before he filed his nomina- tion papers. ._
Dorsey stated that “I checked the constitution with Kevin at the time, but we only looked at the first section (of the constitution regarding eligibility). ’ ’ '
After this check of the
constitution, President Dorsey gave Kevin verbal permission to run for the position of Vice-President Academic.
1 Clearly disturbed by the upheaval that occurred through out Thursday, Pre—
sident Dorsey could only add, “
“I guess I should have checked further.”
Stanley satisfied with results
By Michael Zinck ‘ "
Bob Stanley is not too unhappy with the results of last Thursday’s election, but
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wants to congratulate op- ' ponent for the position of VP Operations Karen Blacquiere on her victory, and will, he promises; lend .her ,all .;his supportnext‘yearar x 4 He says ‘w‘l look forward to working with Karen.”
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By Michael Zinck
Carolyn Ryan would have preferred to win her position of VP Academic through _the
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dents last week Bob stressed his experience in the opera- tions field, especially with CIMN. But clearly‘Bob states “I feel I did a good job, but you can’t eliminate popular- ity boundaries over a few weeks.” ~
“He felt there was a. lot of voting in,blocks,.and that the election could' have gone either way;
ballot box in last Thursday’s election, but it was not to be.
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But he admitted, while he received a lot of individual support, he did not get the bigger groups, such as re- sidences to vote for him .
Yet Bob’s not out of busi- ness yet, he says. He plans to apply for the position of Station Manager at CIMN or for Orientation; chairman nextyear. If, of course, he should become Operations Manager at CIMN, he would
be working Karen.
He may have lost this election, but clearly Bob is a long way from quitting. He will be back next year, in- volved in many activities within the UPEI Student Union.
Aboveall, Bob says, “I am glad it was a clean race, and one of the fairest of the election.” '
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not been easy. As it is, Carolyn realizes that there will always be a question hanging over her .term of office.
Yet she feels good to have the position and intends to throw herself fully into the job..
After all, she says, “I worked harded to get it, so of course I feel happy.”
In her speech last Tuesday, Carolyn told the crowd what she would do if elected. Her biggest job, she felt, is to get
. a number of research pro-
jects underway. This remains her commit- ment. Carolyn plans now to
. get the projects started over
the summer and to draw up a plan ,of action for next year. Carolyn says, “I want to get to know people in the university and open up the channels of information.”
Also as important for stu-"
dents, Carolyn ' I plans to attend the summer meetings of the Senate. This, she states “will be to see that nothing just gets pushed through on
students while they aren’t
aware of it.”
In her speech she spoke of the need for better recruit- ment for the Yearbook and the Netted Gem. Carolyn will followthat up, working with the editors‘of both operations
in order to help make the team feel Comfortable with their new jobs.
Carolyn will also sit on a newly-established committee
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Carolyn feels “this posi— tion has a lot of potential, for providing information to students and lobbying both
government and the Univer. sity administration.”
She promises to actively search for student opinions, and student can, she says, “bring me their concerns, and I will help any way possible.”
VP Operations— elect ~B|acquiere »
‘ By Michael Zinck
“I’m looking forward to working hard in my new posi— tion,” is what Karen Blac- quiere wants the student body to know about her now. _ Karen is pleased to have won the election for Vice- President Operations, and she fully intends to fill her cammign promises. '
Karen, in her speech to the UPEI student body last Tuesday talked of her exper- ience on past student coun~ cils, and she felt this was one of the contributing factors in her win. '
.“I feel that I was involved in more areas (of The Student Union) than Bob,” stated Karen.
She felt also that her heavy advertising campaign and speech worked in her favour.
Says Karen, “1 did the best I could, and I put a lot of
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work into my speech.”
When told that Bob Stan- ley felt block voting contri- buted to her win, Karen agreed, but wanted it know that she had worked and
campaigned hard for those
residence votes.
“I visited the, residences (Marian & Bernardine), and went door to door to get the vote. I didn’t just assume I had the vote”.
Karen was not sure that Bob had done this, and She felt it was an influencing factor.
Karen’s immediate plan is to get working on plans for the Orientation program next fall.
Karen also looks forward to working with the new full—time Entertainment Di- rector, and will be glad of his or her help. ~ She also feels the new sub-
organization policy will be an assistance in bringing better order to all sub-organizations.
At present, she is working with Howard Beattie, current Vice-President Internal to gain experience in her new position.
While Karen has little ex- perience with CIMN she in- tends to learn the station’s operations inside out.
Karen says, “If I know the station better, it will be of help, especially to the new operations director.’ ’
Like Stanley, Karen is Dleased the campaign for Vice-President Operations was run cleanly. She felt there was already enough trouble in the other campaigns.
Karen also wants to thank Dave Doiron, Jody Cunning- ham and Shelly Enman for their help and support on the campaign trail.