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At a "Cadre" news interview, Student Union President, Gor— don Campbell announced plans to combat "student apathy" at UPEI on two fronts. Camp— bell's plans include the“ transformation of the struc— ture of the Student Union from a presidential toward -a parliamentary system and the "surfacing" of Student Union Officers from—the basement of Memorial to the ground floor level at the "Barn".

Campbell cited over-confid- ence and laziness as the reason for apathy at the ' leadership level in the union: the presidential form, he claimed, "allowed for resting on one's laurels instead of active participation in the circulation of the stu— dent interest." The parlia— mentary form, if accepted by the union membershipL will allow for the develop- ment of several political ,interest groups vieing for power rather than a static elite subjected to no course of response to the students on a regular basis." According to the plan, still in the\developmentary stages, the executive of the union would have to inswer to the ‘Council members through Vconfidence" motions, etc.

If the executive did not

keep its office "dynamic" they could lose their position and power Very easily."To counter-act this", argued Campbell, "an executive would have to keep Council and the student membership well informed of the issues in ‘order that it survive. What would probably, and hopefully result would be the 'party' style of politics where the

'real' student articulation of interest would occur." -The president stated that it would probably be the fall befOre the referendum would be held on the idea of‘the "structural overthrow" within the union. He said that a great deal of time would have to be spent con— cerning the conservative el— ements within the union of the validity of such a re- form of present structures of power. '

"Even if the idea does not receive the support of the

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majority,of the union member- ship, the expression of op- inions in this regard will help develop a political

"conciousness" on this campus," stated President Campbell.

The moving of Student Union Offices from Memorial to the Barn is designed to make the executive more accessible to the Student Union membership.

The new offices will be loc— ated in the Day—Care Center, which will be moved cross cam— pus to the present union : offices. It will cost the un— ion treasury in the area of $500. to complete the move.

President Campbell claimed that he had already approached Council with the idea of the office move to the Barn and

received adverse reaction.

"However", he confidently

noted, "I have yet to really put my case!" He Said that

he is currently preparing

'white,papers' to present to

Council on 'the two attacks

on apathy' announced today. “

He sqflashed any ideas of changing the location of CSUR, on campus radio, from Main

to the Barn by stating that

such a move was too costly

at this time. "There is too

much red ink on our books to

be.too extravagant in 1974,"

cautioned Campbell.

Another point of information

was the establishment of a

committee to collect inform—

; ~0n Abathy’

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ation on scholarships avail- able to students at UPEI- The union would publish the lists of scholarships for the senior class for their own information. Campbell said that in a recent meeting with President Baker he learned that aPPrOXimately $20,000. goes unclaimed by UPEI eligible students ann- ually. "The best idea is an attempt to reelaim the annual loss caused by laCk of information and faculty- student communication," cla- imed Campbell.

Another attack on the scho- larship problem suggested by the president is for prof?‘ essors to get solidly behind students who are interested in post-graduate training &, consequently, post-graduate scholarships. "Too many professors are uninterested when scholarship information ls sent to them -— they usually throw the informa- tion in the waste can instead of pushing the information in their classes, seminars. etc.," argued Campbell. The

President urged all students at UPEI to become aware of scholarship availability no matter what their marks are like for, as he noted, "fin— ancial need is a primary criterion of many scholar—

‘ ships rather than abnormally

high academic performance.“