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Thursday, February 28

By Carol Doiron

Attacks occur in many ways. So UPEI’s Women’s Centre has initiated a cam- paign of their own.

The Centre recently spon- sored a self—defense demon- stration by Bob Harris, fire- nrms and self-defense instruc— [01' at the Atlantic Police Academy. He and his cour- ageous wife Bonny showed those in attendance a variety of ‘basic redirection and manipulation techniques’ to help in almost any situation.

Although only a handful of people showed up, the even- ing was still a success. The pair displayed and explained the moves very clearly. For each new move, some members of the audience were asked to get up and try it themselves.

“If you are attacked,” - explained Instructor Harris, “position yourself and don’t panic. Don’t try to pull away. This is a very common mis- lake.

“Crowd the assailant and

line of his body vulnerable. This is where your attacker is strongest and is therefore where you will have the most effect.” (Most victims find it difficult to' match blows with their attacker, who is usually bigger and stronger or

OTTAWA (CUP) —-— Two hundred and eighty million. dollars in post-secondary funds will not make their way into provincial coffers this year, thanks to the combined efforts of the old and the new Parliament Hill. The Tory government has no plans to restore the millions of dollars lost under the old Liberal government’s six and five restraint pro- gram, imposed on education transfer payments since 1983, and will leave the provinces with considerably less. Nearly $120 million was lsot in the 1983-84 funding year, more than $250 million in the year after that and now about $280 million will be lost in 1985-86. The pro- vinces, which could have expected-a total of $4.8 bil- lion in federal education transfer payments this year, will receive only 84.5 billion. T he drop reflects an eroding bElse level of federal con- tributions. " Though the fedeal govern- ment has said it will not alter Existing formula governing f{ideal payments to the pro- Vlnces and will in fact in- trease education funds by more than seven per cent this

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Millions in education funds gone

gestions that it make up the accumulating losses.

“It’s like crying over spilled milk,” says Nigel Chippindale, a senior bureau— crat in the secretary of state’s office. “it’s like saying something is half empty instead of half full.”

Chippindale says the Tories promised not to re- store the losses during its election campaign and referred to a statement in the Canadian Association of University Teachers’ Bulletin a monthly newsletter, in

.which the fedeal party expli-

citly said it would not do so.

“Why should the govern- ment restore the losses? It’s on record in the election campaign that the govern- ment would do what it’s doing. It’s not inconsistent,” he says.

But according to the Canadian Federation of Stu- dents, the Tories’ position is ironic because they vehe- mently criticized the Liberal government when it intro- duced the bill, called Bill 012, in Parliament in 1984. The bill was retroactive to 1983.

“The Tories are legitimiz- ing Liberal policy by not restoring the losses,” says

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CFS economic researcher Jean Wright. “They’re right in saying it’s not a cutback, but it’s surely a cutback in expectation.”

Had the restraint program not been imposed, the pro- vinces would have received a 9.3 per cent increase in post- secondary funds in 1983-84, a 8.3 per cent increase in the next and a 6.4 per cent in 1985-86. Wright says the provinces will continue to lose money because the federal government will not adjust its base level of con- tribution when it calculates transfer payments in up- coming years.

During the House of Commons debate on Bill 012, on PC MP was parti- cularly outspoken. Flora MacDonald, now employ- and immigration minister, said at the time: “Surely this is the time and place for investment, not for the kind of discouragement which (Bill C-12) is bringing. If Canada really wants to maintain its standard of living and be more than a mere supplier of natural resources for other industrial- ized c0untries, we must develop our own technology

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, leverage at your disposal.”

Many people believe that it is best to hit a male assailant in the groin. “But if you are going to do it,” explained Bob, “you’d better make damn sure you do it right. Injure him badly or you will only succeed in making him angrier.”

What shduld you do if the

’ person has a knife?

“Get a large protruding object (ex. a chair) between the two of you. Or throw as many things as you can find.

‘ And for Christ’s sake, don’t

back away. If you continue to do this. you will eventually funnel yourself into a corner.”

Director of the Women’s Centre, Mary McCarvill said they are hoping to sponsor other, similar evenings deal- ing with women’s issues in the near future.

“The next lecture will hopefully be about the situation of women in err- ployment,” she said Monday.

The centre is, in the mear- time, waiting to receive a grant from the Secretary of State, for which it applied a few months ago.

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trained people that will be impossible.”

“Universities are without ‘ .doubt the major

training ground for these people,” she said.

The Tories now say the fate of this year’s funds for education is up to the pro- vinces, some of which failed to match the federal g0vern- ment’s fiver per cent funding increase in 1984-85.

While Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta increased university operating grants by nearly or a little more than five per cent this year, Newfoundland virtually froze funds and British Columbia cut funding by five per cent. Manitoba passed on a three per cent increase. Figures for Prince Edward Island, New Bruns- wick and Quebec are not available.

CAUT president Shorten says the current arrangement between the federal and provincial govem- ments, called the Federal- Provincial Fiscal Agreements and Federal Post-secondary Education and Health Con- tributions Act, makes univer- sity long-term planning impossible.

“The government treat it

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Cabinet comes to UPEI

In the first move of its kind in recent memory, the P.E.I government Cabinet Ministers met last week with the Board of Governors for a tour of the campus and some insight into the way the univeristy is run.

Student rep Ken Mutter says “nothing spectacular" happened at the meeting last Wednesday. The Cabinet was shown the run-down condition of the Gym, the Rink and Main Building, and heard reports from the Chairman of the Board, William Wedlock and some of its commit tees such as Budget and Buildings and Grounds.

In the next month or so the P.E.|. government must decide what increase in federal transfer payments the university will actually be given.

The Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commis- sion recommended 4.5%. but the Budget Committee has said it needs at least 5 or 6% to retain the same level of operations.

Election spots

Nominations for positions on the '85-

'86 Student Union Council closed on

Wednesday, February 27 at l p.m.

I Chief Electoral officer Tracey Arse- I nault announced the following people

are running for positions:

President: Gordon Cobb Robert Hanf Steve Zakem I Vice President Academic: I Kevin O'Brien Carolyn Ryan Vice President Operations: Karen Blacquiere Bob Stanley Elections fOr these positions will be held March I} and IA, I985. Public Ispeeches will be held in conjunction I with the spring general meeting of the Student Union on March l2, l985 at l p.m. in Duffy Amphitheatre.

Also on the election ballot will be a referendum question from l/JESC'S local lcommittee on campus. Details page 7.

The following people were acclaimed to their positions: Treasurer: John Orr

Ombudsman: Paul Peacock

Senators: Inga Dorsey and Paul Ledwell

IArts: Joe Byrne, Betty Johnston, Jane I Mallard, Barbara Younker Business: Paula LeClair and Tanya Hamye

Science: Robert Kelly

asn an exercise in arithmetic and not as a strategy for

at this this time is a failure to make an investment that is

Post-5600de Education," desperater and urgently she says. “It’s madness to needed,” driftalongasweare.” The federal government

does not earmark funds for education nor penalize pro- vinces that fail to pass on the increases.

“Universities are clearly in a state of damage and a failure to invest adequately