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spect to the Barn the pay— ments are based on $12. per

less. This puts the average estudent in the position of

"Now. there's ‘outside agitation?”

At this point in time it is becoming obvious to ma- ny people that the finan- cial position of the Stude— nt Union is not what it could or should be. Study of the expenses of the SJl show that there are two ma- jor items that account for the largest part of the ex-' penses -- the payroll-and

student, therefore the tot— al payment increases and decreases with enrollment. The possibility of reduc— ing the size of payments is reportedly being looked into by the executive. This however will not be enough

_to solve the financial pro-

blem of the S.U. The pro-* blem is with the students themselves. Contrary to an attitude that often sur- faces in conversations be- tween students, the UPEISU is your organization, you own it, elect its executive and council, support its _activities and enjoy the benefits it has to offer. Now -- to the problem. Qui- te simply it is apathy. That's a cop-out, isn't it? That's a symptom, not the problem. The problem is th- is: ' ' Throughout the years the S.U. has tended to evolve into a clique, one that does receive a fresh shot of blood every once in awh—

being an outsider. When a person is an outsider they feel little need to do things that would contribu- te to the enjoyment of the— ir fellow students without considerable incentive. That incentive is money. The problem is that to accom- plish things the S.U. has to spend money to hire STUDENTS to do the work ne— cessary to provide benefits to the students. That is where your money is going, into your fellow student's pockets. Now, before you all have me written off as a hopeless radical, I'm not advocating that everyone work for nothing. What I am questioning is the size and numbers of pay cheques that the S.U. has to issue every week. A little restraint

on the part of everyone would go a long way towards solving the financial pro- blems of the S.U. and would also allow the S.U. to do more with the funds it has.

the Barn mortgage. With re— ile but a clique neverthe-

K.J.M.

“vulovuss email. To ANIMALS

terns, horror films and so. called art and "personal statement" films use the ag— onized death throes of inn- ocent creatures to provide the shock that their "dime store mysticism" and lack of plot, taste and imagination fail to do.

In Dennis Hopper's, “The Last Movie", the sheep sac- rificed matter-of—factly after a religious ceremony raises its head, "blood st- reaming from its throat, and looks with glazed eyes at its executioner, and then its head slowly drops. Death.. (and) violence breathes in and out of this film."

‘The managers of cinemas sh- owing such films will plead, like Eichmann, that they are the movies, and not as quick- "only following orders". As 1y or as cleanly as a regu- concerned and civilized peo— lated slaughterhouse. ple, Islanders should vote

The death of a horse in the with their feet and refuse film "JeSse James" provoked to View offending films. It a public outcry in/l940. is a sad fact that only ec- The effect of such concern onomics,not Christian out— was that by 1956 it was law in the film industry that. all pictures involving aan mals must have a humane off- icer present during the sta- ging of animal action. Then, in 1966, the,entire produc- tion code was discarded.

The treatment of animals was left to the whim of the producer, responding to the cravings of the sub—human patrons who view such filth.

'We cannot have a humane at— titude tOward humans without a humane attitude toward animals. Readers will have noted the odious roster of Vile films produced since . ' 1,,. m..; the production code was thr— ewewi'g wfl.eks*e_ own out- Vampire: devil: ’European and domestic wes- ~ v ..

. . f The biggest irony on the Is- ' land is the showing of Sam

Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and

Billy the Kid" in conjuncti- ‘,on with "Running Wild". The

latter film at Cinema I in

Charlottetown shows some of , the beauty and spirit of

the remaining 16,000 mus-

tangs.‘Sam Peckinpah's

film brutalises man and bea-

st. . Peckinpah's film trip-wires its horses, a procedure in— curring the broken legs and necks of the horses. It uses chickens, buried in the gr- ound up to their necks, for target practice.

The era of permissiveness has reached into the handling of innocent animals. They really do kill animals in'

look, determine whether or not the films are advertised and shown.

If the films are shown, th— eir advertising and showing proceeds could be turned ov— er to the Humane Society rather than’back to the blo— ody hands of Sam Peckinpah, George C. Scott, Burt Lan- caster, Richard Burton, Fer— nando Arrabal and Alexandro Jodorowsky.

Marguerite DeBeaumont, int- ernationally famous horse-

*woman, spoke for all con- cerned when she wrote, "Any— one who has no love for his fellow men, no understanding of,their problems and diff- iculties, will find it hard to follow the way of a horse and to give him the underst— anding and the care which can be the outcome only of a kind heart and an intelli— gent brain."

Sharon E. Cregier