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Students have " Objectives

Last Thursday there was an open forum to discuss University objectives from the students viewpoint. It was probably the most largely attended meeting of its kind that there has ever been at. U.P.E.I. Maybe some people that were there thought it

evolved into a "bull-session" but there were some very concrete ideas discussed also. 7 _

The biggest problem that ~ was recognized by the maj- ’ ority of people there was the student to student comm- unication problem. It was realized that before any- thing can be accomplished on-this campus for students

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If you eat in the campus cafeteria, this concerns you! Five years ago, resident students were asked by way of a vote, whether or not they wanted to retain their English style breakfast of ham and eggs etc. or convert to a cheaper Continental 1 breakfast of coffee, paster- ies and cerials. The students at that time voted in favour of the Continental breakfast. The change came about be— cause the majority of stu- dents did not attend break— fast and did not want to' pay extra for meals which they weren't attending. How- ever, they felt that break— . fast.should not be complete— 1y done away with, as there were those who attended reg-‘ ularly. In order to solve the pro— ,blem, the ca began '

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this communication problem has got to be fixed. It's not only the communication between the Student Council and the members of the Stu- dent Union that has to be corrected, but the commun- ication between the students themselves. A method has to be devised so that all 1400 students can know and can have a say in what is going on at U.P.E.I. Gary Webster suggested that possibly course unions could be or-

, ganized. That is, that all'

the persons majoring is a certain dicipline (psych, history, economics etc.) form a union in which they could have a strong input into the functioning of

serving the Continental type breakfast which we have at the present time. . In the light of complaints recieved about why the caf— eteria dOes not provide an English stlye breakfast, we, the food committee felt it was time to clear the air on this matter once again. We therefore decided to let you vote and decide whether you want to retain the pre— sent Continental breakfast or go back to the English breakfast. 1 Converting to English st- yle breakfast will cost you

,approximately $2.80 per week“

or $47.60 per semester more to cover the extra cost in- volved in providing such a‘ meal. (Based on a five day week) ‘ ' *' It should be pointed out that whatever decision is reacheds all students eat-

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be things like discussing course changes in that dep— artment, marking procedures, faculty/student problems and a great variety of other things. After all we have to take the courses and try .and get through them! At the meeting, Thursday some people offered their servi— ces in order to try and . possibly form some of these unions. So if someone walks up to you this week and asks if you would be interested A r'in forming a course union 'in your discipline, why not give it consideration. It certainly can't hurt.

This wasn't the only sugg— estion that evolved from the meeting though. There were some sound student ob— jectives voiced — objectives which students felt should be strongly considered by the university.

One fact brought to light was that in order to pass most courses students have to write what that professor wants to read. A couple of students substanciated this fact with their own examples — one girl said that after she had written a paper of her own ideas on the topic, she recieved a low mark and could not get a reasonable

students... Bayou want to. eat- breakfast?

ing in the cafeteria will have to abide by it. d

On Wed. Nov. 13, beginning at'4:30 p.m.,,a questionn— aire will be given to you upon entering the cafeteria. It is to be filled out and placed in the box provided there. Voting will be open to anyone eating at the caf— eteria for that meal.

Please choose wisely, as this decision will effect students coming here in the future.

So remember to bring your

7 opinions and your student

I.D. card to supper on Wed. Nov. 13.

Yours truly, John P; Barry It i Chairman Food Committee’

explanation from the pro— fessor. It's very hypocrit— ical of the university to do absolutely nothing about these going - ons when they say that they are here to expand our knowledge as stur dents. One big joke. What it boils down to is that Some profeSsors think that students don't have any brains at all, therefore the students Should follow their light of knowledge. In some cases this light

is getting very, very dim. We have to put up with this bull shit if we want to get

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degrees. This stifling of our creativity by professors has to stop. This should be one of our prime objectives. [A lot of students were concerned about the univer— sity and the community. Right now, there is very little interaction between the two. They felt that the university should become more involved in the Island community. Some suggested that possibly an agricult- ural department should be set up considering that agriculture is our number one industry in the Island.

All in all, there was alot of loose talk at the forum, but there were alot of good, useable ideas passed around too. But we have to stand as a unified body behind our objectives once we get them all tabulated if we want to see them become re— ality.-~

If you missed the meeting last Thursday, there's one this Thursday and Friday. Watch for posters.

By the way, has anybody heard the rumour that there is going to be a senate meet ing before Christmas? If

‘ there should be one, there

is something very controver- sial coming up - a compuls- ory college composition

course. I don't know too much about it since I haven't received the outline of it.

I guess senate members don't need to know about it yet

or something. But the Senate is another story in itself.

A long, long story. Anybody got a couple of years and we'll talk about it?? I be— lieve that the Senate in- vented procrastination. Let's have a minute of silence in/

,memory of the Senate. It's

been dead for years, but rumour has it that the tide may be finally coming in. The Senate may take the a

~limelight next week.

This week's "Poke in the Ribs" goes dually to Mickey "open-throat" Place and Dean Ken "slow-guzzler" Ozmon. They placed first and third respectively in the CIMN chugging contest last Wed— nesday night. Keep up the good work!?