The Cadre + 3 November 1998
On-line registration at UPEI
* Continued from page 3 tinue courses. Students will be able to access the system on the Internet by entering their studentnumbers and PIN num- ders.
Through various other programs being installed with the system, students will be able to access their grades, individual class schedules, and the outcomes of academic au- dits. Students will also be able to examine courses they al- ready have, as well as inquir- ing into requirements needed to obtain their major. These additional services will be of- fered slightly prior to the re- lease of the on-line registra- tion services.
The new system comes with a rather large price tag: $100,000 to get the program up and running (including hard- ware and software), and roughly $5,000 per year for maintenance fees. These num-
bers are excluding the work | that will be done by “in house” staff.
The large investment has students wondering if the new system is worth it. Most students on campus seem quite pleased with registration going on-line, but many still have doubts.
“I don’t really trust it,” says Richard Haines, an edu- cation student. “The comput- ers on campus aren't really reliable enough as it is. I can’t trust registering ona computer that will crash in afew minutes anyway.”
The question of how stu- dents will feel about having their grades, courses, majors, and class schedules posted in the Internet has also been raised. Granted, there will be codes blocking easy access to student files, but students may still feel unsafe knowing all of
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By RANDY MCDONALD
David Sultan, Israeli Am- bassador to Canada, recently paid a courtesy visit to Charlottetown, taking the time to make an hour-long visit to UPEI.
The ambassador arrived at the President's Office at 1:45 pm, and paid a 15 minute courtesy visit to Vice Presi- dent John Crossley.
Sultan -- born in Egypt in 1938 and taken by his parents to Israel following the Israeli War of Independence -- is a career diplomat, having served in Israeli embassies and con- sulates in Céted’ Ivoire, Kenya, and Italy prior to his appoint- ment as Israeli ambassador to Egypt in 1992. In 1996, he was appointed Israeli ambassador to Canada.
During his visit, Ambas- sador Sultan exchanged cour- tesies with UPEI, leaving open a possibility that UPEI could establish links with Israeli in- stitutions of higher education in the same way that UPEI has established links with universi- ties and governments in Aus- tralia the United States.
Upon the completion of the ambassador’ s ing with Cone inahalf-
question and answer ses- sion with a dozen political sci- ence students, along with Po- litical Science Department Chair Barry Bartmann and
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Professor Henry Srbernick. In the question and an- swer session, Ambassador Sultan responded to numerous beam about Israel's i clopment over the fifty years of its independence into a wealthy democracy, and about the progress of the Mid- die Eastern peace process be- tween Israel and her Arab neighbours.
The ambassador also made many observations on the slow of the process enteen Israc! and the Palestinian Authority, stat- ing that the reluctance of Is- rael to cede land to the Pales- tinian Authority is due to the apparent lack of oy pro- duced by the transfers of land.
Sultan said that he be- lieves that progress will con- tinue to be made, if for no other reason that the desire of all ewes in the Middle East to
ing an end to the series of wars in the region.
“We have to have
" he said. “If we don't
ve it now, then we will real- ize it a year or two later, after more le of died.” anada and Israel have traditionally had friendly, though somewhat distant, re- lations since the founding of Noniedinciente the right of Israel to existence, Canada has limited its role in Middle Eastern politics to that of me-
diator and in the border between Isracl and her Arab neighbours.
Trade with Israel has been slowly increasing since the signing of a Canada-Isracl free trade agreement, oe a
a - cit with Israel, importing Is- racli electronic equipment while ing raw ; and fi ffs.
The strongest connection between Israel and Canada is Canada’s large Jewish com- munity -- at more than three hundred thousand people, the Canadian Jewish community is the second-largest in the Western Hemisphere after that of the United States.
Since the foundation of Israel, it has played an impor- tant role in the community life of Canadian Jews, providing religious and education serv- ices for the Jewish commu- nity, ially in the main cen- tres of and Toronto.
With the advent of eral in the Middle relations between Canada and all of the countries of the Mid- dle East, including Israel, seem set to rapidly, both on the level of inter-
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