“OLD HAT

we had seen this type of‘ thing before at U.P.E.Io

A few M.P.'s from one of the national political parties, come on campus: they come to the barn to 'see the students in action (sic.!), then joyfully Vproceed to one of our great halls of learning to field an encounter with the student body — politic. Is this participatory deL mocracy in action? or is it some politicians trying to sell us on an institu—

' tion that may be antequa—

' ted? d This Was the basic quest- ion being asked by those in attendance at the "Bear Pit" put on by the P.C. organisation on campus. :Jake'Epp and Flora Mac Donald were the two M.P.'s representing Bob Stan- field's Progressive Con— servatives. Epp. who is known as an agricultural expert, represents the Provencia riding in Ottawa. (Provencia is situated in eastern - Manitoba). This riding is diverse in nature having industrial, tourism, and agricultural interests which Epp must adequately repreSent in Parliament. MacDonald represents

THE SOFT SELL

James Griffith, the head of student services, has announced the end of opens house week-end on this campus. However, Griffith is not an anarchist/(?! 7 he offers us something else instead.

This year the high—school ‘students will be brought a1 one high school at a time. They will arrive on Thurs. evenings, will stay in residence for the night and will be introduced to 4the campus Community on Eriday. ‘

As many as possible of these high school students will be paired off with \students already living in

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Kingston and the Island on the St. Lawrence River in Ontario. Flora's cur- rent concern, as chairman of the parliamentary com— mittee, investigating the situation at federal penal institutions, is reform of the penal process in Canada from a punishment orientation to one of rehabilitation.

After the two conservative exponents amazed the aud-r ience with their "avoid the issue in question" tactics, Fred Von Dteger, professor or political science at U.P.E.I., put it down to this: "O.K., are you people saying these beautiful things, such as, "we are going to get better housing, transportation, and fiscal policies" just 'to please the audience, or are there any concrete mea— sures that have-been ad- opted by the Conservative party which you can now point out to us?"

Well, the two M.P.'s se— emed a bit put out by this, somewhat challenging and, 'as it turned out, embarras- sing question. However, once the "put—out" hang-up was overcome (which attests to the great 'psycho—drama' abilities of the two in question) they introduced

residence.

This is where a snag exists in the plan. Volunteers

are needed by student ser- vices to make the idea a success. Any student, liv—

‘ing in residence (which

includes the apartment complex I assume) who wishes to have one of these students to show around campus, should con- tact Jim Griffith at stu- dent services, first floor Main.

According to student ser- vices last year's open

‘house was not a success.' ‘The high school students

were not seeing what cam— pus.1ife was_all about: the

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the fundamental notion of decentralisation of polit- ical decision - making into the discussion.

‘ At this point, it was sug- gested by the author of this report that if cent— ralism will not work (cents ralism being the useage of a central decision — making arena for all of Canada) then maybe the whole con— cept of Canada was errat— ional,- maybe we never were a nation! . A' At present, Alberta is treating the rest of Can— ada as an aliemrpeople in, the oil-policy debate, the western farmer charges 'more for grains when sel— ling to eastern farmers

Vthan he does a farmer from

amywhere else in the world. Surely this puts the argu- ment supporting the need for the Canadian nation in doubt! In an attempt to -thwart this question, the two M.P.'s struggled to' prove the necessity for confederation with argu—

vments that were so vague

that at present they escape me.

It seemed to be the same old story with a new cover, talk but little or no action. After all isn't that what conservativism in this country is all about?

new plan is an attempt to communicate to the visit- ing students the pros and cons of coming to UPEI more effectively.

One draw back though, Thursday evenings are re— served for those fantas—

_tic drunk-outs at the'Pig'

I can just see several of

these innocent high school students being seduced by

such social orgies. Man -

that's the~real way to con 'em.