Heard an interesting squib on early naming CBC yack— yack last week. A survey. was made somewhere in the states to determine, in or- der of fearfulness, man's greatest fears. Number one? Not fear \of death. suprisingly .it ranked four-- th. Believe it or not, the survey showed that the greatest fear for the major- ity of those poled was the fear of speaking in pub— lic!

his fear, of course, does not exist among the youth of P.E.I.-—or does it? Possibly it does. Maybe not as a number one fear but a very real fear all the same. the sus— pects it from the umrill— ingness of students to speak out in class participation and the reluctance of young Christians to get up and read Scripture at a service or at Mass.

Time was...well, go hate and ask your Dad about the good old days when this Is- land, these very hallcwed halls of learning, produced some of the best young pub— lic speakers in all of Can- ada. Ask Dad if he lmew Mark McGuigan Jr., Fr. Lor- ne MacDonald, Don MacDougall Colin MacMillan, to name but a few of the old de- bators.

To argue that it wasn't debating skill alone which brought these men to pran- inence in their careers would be to make a valid point. But—-and perhaps they would be the first to

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Who says you can't have fun without liquor? Coffee ,- tea, cake and cookies were all that was needed at the coffee house Last Wednesday night. ' People sat around candle-lit tables, drank coffee and listened to some great nusic. There was a piano player, several guitarists and sane fantastic singers. 'Ihere - were even a Couple of poetry readers. 'Ihings got ~ Started around 8:30 p.m. and‘ carried on until 11:30. People were caning and going all evening. At one point I counted over fifty people, not bad for a first night event. 'Ihe coffee house will be held every Wednesday night at the Chaplaincy Centre frcm 8:30 to 11:30. Everyone is walcare. » v

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agree—the ability to ' think on one's feet, to be articulate, to persuade ‘ with all the tricks of the debating trade were skills they were happy to have de- veloped. 4 Students feel themselves to be so hassled these days they may well feel they have

no time to invest in any—

thing other than their cou- rses, papers, seminar pre- paraticns etc. Pity! All that knowledge and perhaps only a grade ten ability to share it with others. All

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those. . .all you business majors with more brains than tongue to put your id- eas across in" board rooms and sales meetings later on. All you poli—sci peo— ple with good ideas to bring before the govern- ment in years to cone, rob— bed by shyness of the op; - rtunity of being properly heard. Greatest loss of

all-“you who are Christians and who have the responsi- bility of bringing the con- viction of your Christian principles to all walks of

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Some of the old speech masters are gone.

- But there are a few old

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