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editorial”:

Iast Thursday evening, as everone knows by now, there was a disturbance at the gym. As everyone knows, it resulted in two problems:

It was blown out of proportion, and it resulted in the cancellation of some licensed events. The former could be avoided in the future and the lat— ter should never have happened.

Radio station, as soon as they heard about. the five police cars and the ambulance on campus, decided that there was a siory out. ,The only way to get the story was to get it by word of

mouth and from the police.

we all know that word'

of mouth is as reliable as the library in a rain

storm and the police did not wake an official an— Therefore, the story was somewhat How could that have been prevented?

nouncement. twisted.

One of the executive positions is Communica~

tions Officer. ities are:

As it now is, his responsibil- The Student Directory, the Student Newspaper, and the Student Radio Station.

The last

two take care of themselves and the former is fin-

ished in November.

Since this position is almost

ended in November, it could be expanded to include press releases dealing with Student Union activi*

ties.

In a case such as the one we are discussing, the Ctnnunications Officer would.nake a press

release first thing Friday norning.

This would

give the straight story to all media that had not yet covered the event, and straighten any stories

that were incorrect.

That solves one problem. The other should not be a problem because it should not have happened. Cancelling events does not prove anything except fear on the part of the Student Council.

If the dance was cancelled because Council feared another outbreak, then the Student Council must believe that the students are irresponsible. The only way we could be irresponsible would be by voting in a Student Council that believes that we

are irresponsible.

If the dance was cancelled by the Council in order to prevent the troublemakers from returning and stirring up trouble, cancelling the event was

not the way to do it.

If troublemakers are going'

to stir up trouble, they'll wait a week if they

have to.

If the dance was cancelled because the Cbuncil thought it could not police it's_own events, then it should not hold any more events.

All that the cancellation proved was that three people can ruin a whole event (and perhaps the whole Carnival) for the rest of the student body.

I would think that Council would make a point of continuing all events to show that a fight can't

beat it.

Considering that the Student Council

believed the story was blown out of proportion,

it really overereacted.

LETTERS

Dear Editor; Congratulations to SUN editor Larry Green for. stirring interest on campus in an otherwise quite uncontroversial topic —- the sign of a true news— paper editor. Having carefully read your editorial concerning the mbhoﬁkmomem WW and having watched quietly from the sidelines while students from all over canpus argued as to what

happened to the book and

who was responsible, I

think it is about time to

clear up a few points and.

lay the blame at the feet of

the people who deserve it. The whole controVersy

' started because of the

effort (or lack of effort) on the part of several people, nanely the editors and staff of Nexus '77. As has been explained, the ' original editor hired last

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Editor - J. Laurence_Green ;Assistant Editor 4_Marsha L. Gaudet fIayBOut manager - J. Gerald McKenna _Photographer - Iee R. Donnelly _g§aphic Expert - Barry l. Chandler

be withheld. Deadline I -for all submissions is Friday noon. Office hours are 9:30 to [2:00 and 2:30 - 5:00 Monday and Wednesday, l0:00 to. l2:30 Tubsday and Thurs- day qnd most evenings. ' The staff mdbting is every Monday at 7 PM in The SUN's office, fourth floor Main, East end. The Editor would like to take this space and bless all who worked on this issue. They include: Laurie Tierney Pat Ingrahm _ Lois Pursey. Iinda Scales Elizabeth Downie Valerie ,lvbore Claire Nantes Rick webber - John Nbore, May you all graduate in less than five years.

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year quit just after

Christnas. Three new editors were hired. They were Chris Eldridge, Vicki Schmidt and Marlene wright. In addition,'photographers were hired to supply the

pictures:, Gordie Pierce, :r'

Gordon Coffin and Kenny Adams. ’ »

After the new editors were hired, they began to work on the book. They began with the graduation

-pictUres, since the

pictures of the first semester hadsnot yet appear— ed and did not appear before the end of the senester.

~A¢ the end of April, both

Chris and Vidki left the province,_leaving one editor to finish the book whidh still had no more than the graduation pictures crnpﬂeted. And as it turned out, . graduation piCtures kept arriving frtnIHeckEert Studios right until July, so those layouts had to be redone several tines. Crldmme l, the~ _ photographers finally. delivered the lictUres. They presented.Marlene with a stack of photographs and asked her if they would be enough to do the book. TWo‘ cont'd on page 5