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_ Let me warn you immediately, this is not a real editorial. It is masquerading as an editorial in a cheap attempt to ﬁll

space and attract attention.

It also has some serious housekeeping to do. First, or primo, I remind all potential letter writers that letters to the editor must be typed, submitted on Mondays,

and most importantly, signed.

[address that comment to the person who dropped off a letter last Friday in regard to One of our writers. May I suggest that you come see us personally if you have a serious

complaint?

Personal attacks upon persons will not be printed in the pages of the Gem, for legal purposes. In another vein, such letters more often serve to alienate

rather than help.

If letter writers feel they would rather not sign their names to a comment, that’s fine as long as someone on the paper, and traditionally that’s been the editor, knows the writer’s

identity.

Conﬁdentiality will be strictly respected, we assure you. Another bit of business. The results of the survey we took

last Friday will be published next week. We receited over 100 replies to our questionnaire, but we want more, and not only from frequenters of the Library.

This week we’ll go into other buildings, such as Duffy and Kelley, to quiz students there. We also want replies from faculty;

(By the way, we will not, as some have suggested, fudge the results if we don’t like them. This is a university, for the love of Plato. We’re above that kind of thing.)

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Search Committee responds

Dear Editor:

If a woman were to become President of U.P.E.I., she would want to know that she was there because she was the best, not because she was a woman.

Despite the recent com- plaints in this newspaper of the university’s “Women’s Studies Group,” there is no woman on the short list on this occasion because that is the way it worked out.

No other reason.

Chose best

The Search Committee for President picked the six best candidates as it saw them, according to such criteria as educational philosophy, ad- ministrative experience, de- grees, research and teaching experience, probable fit with the Island and with univer- sities of this type, community involvement, potential as a fund raiser, leadership style, and others.

Sex had nothing to do with it; neither did ethnicity, religion, or class for that matter.

‘ As for the suggestion that the Search Committee was trying to reproduce itself in the short list, the Committee has ten members and ap-

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parently only four of them — according to the “Women’s Studies Group” letter achieVed cloning in fashion.

This suggestion is too silly to merit further comment.

Perhaps the “Women’s Study Group” might have contacted the Search Com- mittee before going public with these groundless worries.

The Committee has met every individual and group who have requested a meet- ing, but the “Women’s Study Group” has never made a request, not even during the formative stage on criteria.

Nor did they make a single nomination to increase the number of women candidates, of whom there were only three out of ‘a total of thirty~three.

Nor did any of their group or any other 'women offer to be a member of the Search Committee either from the Senate or from the Board, though Senate nominations were open to the whole university.

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Did not contribute

The “U.P.E.I. Women’s Study Group” choose not to participate but to complain, and it‘ has carefully chosen‘a'

narrow window of complaint too late to affect the choice of a Short List and too early to' have accurately aSSessed the candidates so chosen.

Yours Truly,

Search Committee for

President

UPEI

From the

Information Office

In response to questions recently directed to it, the Search Committee for Presi— dent of the University of Prince Edward Island offers the following remarks on its activities to date.

The Search Committee was elected according I to the regulations contained in the University Act: five members were elected by the Board of Governors and five by the Senate. In the latter case, membership in the Com-

mitte was net‘ limited t0‘

Senators; all-faculty and stu-

' 'dents ‘.were eligible for nomination. The Search Committee

made wide appeals for nomi- nations and applications for President and for criteria to be usedin assessing applica-

tions. All contributions thus received were given serious consideration. Any indivi- dual or group who asked to meEt with the Committee was welcome.

As a result of this process, the Committee’s criteria covered a wide range of con- cerns but emphasized several in particular: an educational philosopy stressing a balance between the liberal arts and sciences and professional programs; . experience in upper-level administration of a university or an institution of comparable complexity; a leadership style stressing con- sultation and effective dele- gation. of decision-making; qualiﬁcation in, or demon- strated sympathy for, the basic university functions of teaching and research; and

V probable compatibility with

U.P.E.I. and the Island at large.

The Committee believes that the responsibilities of the new President will include dealing with the fellowing special concerns: building a sense of community, dedica— tion and'excellence with the University; addressing con- structively the serious pro- blems of funding and budget- ing which will U.P.E.I. for the foreseeable future; and enhancing the relationship between the

University and "ftiié’3’l§fari’&'

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communit . y Candidates for the office

The Search Committee re-

ceived 33 applications. As required by its mandate, the Committee made all its de— cisions by majority vote.

of President will be inter- viewed on campus in January and February; their lectures each Monday evening are

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open to all. When the inter- views have been completed, the Committee will again stand ready to receive com- ments from all interested parties before making its ﬁnal recommendation to the Board of Governors.

Accordingly, the short list consists of those candidates who, in the judgment of at least six members of the Committee, are most likely to provide the leadership re- quired by the Island Univer- sity during the next several

The N ettedj Gem

January 31, 1985 Volume 2, Issue 16

Ever valiant, ever objective, ever right, ever untruthful —« that?s us. And who is “us”? Us is Katy Baker, Robert Bodrog-Goodland, .Glen Boswall, Kaberi Dasgupta, Carol Doiron, Lori Anne Heckbert, Ross Hartinger, Jim Lai, Ron Lewis, Brian,~ Linkletter, Brian MacLeod, P. Stahl Macintyre, Jonathan Orlowski, John Pendergast, Nancy Ross, Carolyn Ryan, TheShadow, Bob Stanley, Phil Stanyer, Jill Warburton, Dave Yorston, andMichael Zinck.

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The Netted Gem is a full member in good standing with Canadian University Press, a collective of 57 Canadian student newspapers. The Gem is the student publication of the University of Prince Edward Island, publishing weekly in the fall and winter terms with acirculation of 1300. - i v :" rt

Views expressed herein are not necessarily those attire Student Union, the staff, or anyone in particular. We-reserve the'right to 3, edit copy for space, style, 'or legalr‘eas‘o‘ns. Letters to the editor‘niust! be typed, double—spaced, and submitted before noon on Mondays. All . letters must be signed by their author(s), but names may be withheld upon consultation with the editor. Phone 892-4121, extension 387. Staff meetings are Mondays at 6 pm. All students are welcome to rails? §W_ /. . ' I._ H I‘ ' “

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