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Dear Editor;

In response to the “Letter to he Editor” printed in the Octo- ver 26, 1989 edition of the Gem egarding the animosity between Jeterinary students and the so alled “UPEI” students, a few oints need to be addressed.

Firstly, every communication hat I have had with this uni- versity was addressed to the Uni- versity of Prince Edward Island. My tuition is made payable to the University of Prince Edward Is- land, I buy my books from the university bookstore, I pay my student union fees to the Student Union that every other “UPEI” student makes their payments and finally my degree will have the words “University of Prince Edward Island” stamped across it. Does that not make me a -“UPEI” student? I think the an- imosity might just be in “Loo’s” imagination.

Having made that statement, I would like an opportunity to make a few other comments be- fore hate mail starts arriving. I am a member of the Class of 1990, a class that has an average age of 30 years old. The major- ity of our class has completed at least a BSc; that’s four years of education before we even entered UPEI. Of that majority, another Population has completed a MSc degree, another 2-3 years of ed- ucation. Now let’s look at those Students that are “UPEI” stu- ¢ents but do not attend AVC. I’m Sure the average age is nowhere near 30 and they have not al-

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ready spent several years at a post-secondary institute.

In addition, most of us com- pleted our initial education at in- stitutes other than UPEI, Person- ally, I attended a university that had nearly 20,000 students, and as such was use to a university life that was much bigger than that here at UPEI. This included fa- cilities such as a student center, that was actually the place where people went to meet and enjoy themselves (rather than the li- brary), and a library that had the books that you needed. I’m not knocking the Robertson Library, as they have made great advances in their acquisition of books and journals etc in the last few years and should be commended for that effort. However, there is still room for improvement! Certainly UPEI takes some getting use to, and that may take some time! So I can see how some person who has met a vet student during that period of adjustment and formed their opinion on that first impres- sion may have a sense of animos- ity. To these people, all I can say is to look again.

I would like to comment on the use of the facilities at. AVC by other students. Personally, I have no objections, but as Loo pointed out, please respect the building. Lecture theatre A is used as the visiting dignitary and special event theatre. That hap- pens to be the same room that is used for other classes besides vet- erinary courses. The state of the

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chairs, ie: grafitti, is rather em- barassing to all students of UPEI. I’m sure that those visiting peo- ple leave with a bad impression of UPEI vet students if all they see is the state of that one the- atre. I encourage President Eliot to make a visit to that room. One other point that I would like to make about the use of lec- ture theatre A, those students that use the room on Monday and Wednesday mornings (the 10:30 lecture) please allow us to exit the room before you stampede into the class. I now know how a salmon feels trying to swim up- stream.

With regards to graduation, I would not want AVC students to graduate from UPEI with the regular graduation services. The reason is that I have spent a num- ber of years obtaining my edu- cation, and for me, this is the end of my academic carreer. I do not want to walk across a hockey rink to pick up my de- gree. I think that it is highly in- sulting to all students to have to graduate in that manner. The Confederation Center is a much more appropriate facility for such an event; after all, as a graduate you earned the right to be treated that way. In addition, there are a number of foreign students in our class that have paid approx- imately $28,000 tuition per year for 4 years. That is a great sum of money just for tuition and does not include living expenses etc. I think they deserve more than a trip across a rink! The major-

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ity of our class are from other places besides PEI, some from as far away as California. Gradu- ation from a professional school has traditionally been a very joy- ous family occasion. There is no reason why that should differ at UPEI. With that in mind, some parents are going to have to pay a great expense to attend the up coming graduation ceremonies, to experience that brief moment of joy as they, watch their offspring walk across the stage. Too bad that stage is in a hockey rink, In relation to the family expe- rience of graduation, a number of classmates have expressed con- cern that the number of guests has been limited to two people per graduating student. Well, some people have spouses and children that they would like to have attend in addition to their parents. All of these people have played a great role in supporting the student while here at UPEI, and should have the privilege to attend. I think all of these prob- lems could be solved if someone was to take the initiative to book the Confederation Center for one morning in May.

Thanks for your time, R. Harding Class of 1990

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Yesterday while spending a few minutes at the University Li- brary I picked up a the latest copy of the Gem. There were some interesting and well-written arti- cles. But I also found a totally useless page on the subject, How to Make Love to a Dead Skunk. What kind of person thinks this is worth writing, printing, or read- ing? Is this what the student’s want? I hope that most of them have higher standards than this.

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