nce more, the UPEI ate has delayed a decision exactly how the Atlantic erinary College will fit I the structure of UPEI. t the March 30 meeting, st of the discussion on the 1 College centred on the
estion of integration — _
ost favour integration, but
whether the College should have the status of a faculty within UPEl. . a
A round-the-table airing of opinion revealed that the vast majority of Senators are “either rabid, mature, or wary integrationists”. Only two faculty members vocally
opposed the College.
Senators were reacting to a report from the ad hoc steering committee on the Vet College, which presented its report last week. The committee was given a man— date to examine the questions
integrating
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And this, boys and girls, is what a body of profs with only a few students thrown in for balance looks like when it’s not making important decisions — which is what the UPEI Senate spends most of its time not doing. (Photo: Grimmer)
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of a name for the Vet Col- lege, a definition of relation- ship, and the necessity, if any, for changes in the University Act by the pro- vincial legislature.
The committee essentially reduced the main arguments to the following oposing statements: 1) UPEI may be too small to retain its identity as a liberal arts and sciences university in the face of Veterinary College integra-_ tion, and 2) Accreditation of the college will be difficult, if not impossible, without such integration.
One of the most prevalent themes in the discussion was that of community.
“We are a community of scholars in pursuit of higher learning,” said Dean of Arts Verner Smitheram. “Is there any reason to think that vets as a group don’t share this value?”
He scoffed at a common “worst case scenario: Keep the beast at arm’s length! If we put our finger in its mouth it may swallow us whole.”
Several Senators fear the possibility of the campus splitting into hostile “we ‘ they” camps if the college is not an integral part of the university.
Others like the idea of inte- gration because it will allow Senate and other university regulatory bodies to keep a close watch on the College,
and ensure that any actions potentially damaging to UPEI would have to be ap- proved by representatives from the whole university, not just the Vet College itself.
Also, according to Chemis- try prof Glenn Palmer, “It would give us an idea of their wants and prerequisities.”
Lack of strong arguments for the othertwo alternatives, affiliation and federation; the importance of accrediation; community opinion; and a simple “Dean Thompson (of the Vet College) has been studying this for five years. He recommends integration, and he should know” were also given as reasons to sup- port integration.
Some were not swayed by them.
Dr. P. Nagarajan of the Economics department was one. “First the school must be created before we can know what to integrate.”
He thinks the entire dis— cussion should be left ten years until the initial stages of development are Over.
Others among the “wary integrationist” camp were worried about what will happen in ten years, when the interprovincial agreement to jointly fund the college expires.
“They’ll be in direct con- flict with us for funds,” states student Senator Norman Beck.
382-name petition presented
Unanimous “no” to shelter
By Carolyn Ryan
A U.P.E.I. Senate motion to go record as being strongly opposed to the construction of a fall- out shelter under the Vet College has passed with— out dissent.
The motion was brought to Senate by History professor David Weale at the March 30 meeting.
Weale also presented a
I petition opposing the pro-
vincial government’s $2 million shelter. Circulated by the U.P.E.I. Women’s
Studies Committee, the petition gathered 382 names from students,
faculty, and staff angered by the thought of this university being used for a military purpose. According to President
Peter Meincke, no con— crete proposal concerning a shelter has been made; and the provincial govern- ment has not yet ap— proached U.P.E.I. to ask for the 20,000 square feet of the Vet College base— ment necessary for its construction.
As part of a federal- provincial agreement, six provinces now have radiation shelters, while money is available to the other four. This is ap- parently where the $2 million would come from.
Meincke said the shelter would be connected with the Emergency Measures Organization and could potentially be used in case of flood or tornado,
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Dr. David Weale brought up the issue of “the battle for the mind, as opposed to a mundane vision of training people to do this or that”. In his opinion, “grafting on a large professional school will make it difficult for this university to work to- ward the goal."
As the meeting concluded, and Senators requested an opportunity to return to their constituencies with the con- cerns raised in the discussion, it seemed that the often- reluctant consensus .was toward integration, but with some reorganization of pre- sent decision~making struc— tures within the university.
Student Union president Jack Keefe, who changed his mind from wanting affilia— tion “preferar't in another province" to approving integration, doesn‘t see man) implications for the SU if an integration policy is adopted.
“After all, the number of new students will be limited,”
he explains. More cryptic is Roger Rlack Faculty Association
president who admitted he is “saving the “:st for later.”
“The Faculty Association welcomes the prospect of its membership increasing by 50%, with the attendant increase in fees, especially from those in the higher income bracket,” was all he would say.
well as nuclear holocaust. He added that U.P.E.I. probably became involved only because “it’s too late to look into (using) the basement of DVA.”
Most Senators seemed vehemently opposed to the whole idea of a Vet College- fallout shelter combina- tion, calling it “contrary to the ideals of education" in this institution.
“To build such a shelter implies nuclear war is winnable and startablc." emphasized English pro- fessor Terry Pratt.
Weale made the motion with the intent that it be communicated to the Board of Governors a»; the ch i..‘ollegc plane-s
committee.
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