Betsy ’E‘pperly, professor of English at UPEI recently received a letter firm the UniVersity of Iondon that she has successively de- fended her Phd thesis.

'Ihe thesis, which is titled moun‘in Patterns ‘ of language in 51.)! Major Nost by Anthony Trollope, V

CIMN

deals Valli: 7’ sions and classical refer-

The UPEI SUN/Imirsa, L,«,Dec.1,1977,1: , 3

"fascinated" by 'Ihe Warden, which was the Trollope no-e

ences and how Trollope used vel smdied in the course, these for characterization and asked Professor Frazier

and structure in" six of his major novels.

Professor Epperly first became iritrusted in Troll-

to supervize a special stu— dies course on Trollope.

Prof. Epperly "still

wasn ' t satisfied that (she)

knew as much as (she)

ope in a nmfeL..OOU-rse wanted to know" and so did

,at UPEI taught by Prof. Fran Frazier. She was

UNHAth

. a master's thesis on Trol—

lope at Da‘lhousie Univer— sity. She then went-to Iondon to do her Phd. thesis.

INTERFERENCE ON 1

Cable 12, the Island Cablevision channel that is operated by CIIVN, has suffered from interferen- ce botln in the sound, and in picture quality, for over a month. V 'Jhis diff- iculty is concerned with cable only, as the on-cam— pus reception is fine. -

The Chief Engineer of CINN said that the inter- ference on the cable Sta- tion is not due to any equipment belonging to CID/N, but is caused by sarething happening betwe— en the University and Is— land Cablevision head- quarters in Pownal, or UPEI and Island Cable- vision.

Both the engineer at ' CIIVN, and a representa— tive of Island Cable- vision explained that in- terference was being cau- sed. by a short wave radio from the states cutting in.

‘Ihe Island Cablevisien rer- presentative said, however, that the problems with the picture are being caused

NEWMAN CONNECTION

A of students and chaplains from the \ three Halifax universities . *is busy preparing for the Atlantic Regional Newman Conference to be held on the Week and of January

by‘over-modulatic'n, or too '

much Video power being ‘ broadcast by CIIVN. He

' also explained that it would take about two weeks

, to trace the lines and find where the interference is

. entéring the system. He said he lnopes to get star- ted in this procedure in two or three weeks.

Another representative earlier told the Sun that all lines connecting the University to the Island Cablevision have been checked out, and no pro- blens had been found, this is a direct conflict.with the staterent of CIMN's engineer.

. Although Cable 12 was do— nated to the Student Union radio station, it cost the University approximat— ely $1,600 for the modu- lator and otherequipnent.

As well CID/N has recently invested in a television

typewriter which puts ty- ped messages on- the tele- vision screen over Cable

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The guest speaker will be Dr. ByrlOriss, a 'Ibr— onto psychiatrist, who

7 will be speaking and lea—

ding discussions on thi— ‘vation as it pertains to the university setting.

'Ihe Conference will be held at the Renewal Cen- tre in the Nbunt Saint Vincent Ocmplex and regis- tration 'fees are $25.00. For further information“ interested persons may contact either Father Joe Hattie, O.M.I.‘ at 424-2287 or Brian Duggan at 455- 0700 in Halifax, or call

~;, 7 your local chaplain.

able her to obtain a pro-

fessorship more easily, or Epperly respondid that she "had been frightened by so

EPPERLYDEFENDS IHESES

many people telling (her) for so many years. . .that

‘Phd's couldn't find jobs -

that would have been no in— ducerent togo an." Epperly went on to ex— plain that her reason for working on a Phd was for her own satisfaction and to find out as much as she could about Trollope.

'Irollope wrote 47 novels but lne 's best known as the author of the Pallisens

_ novels which were made in—

to a 'IV-series by the BBC.

Although her Phd is in the-:bag, Prof. Epperly will not receive it officiallly until the Spring.

"CANADAS LITERATE

SAN FRANCISCO (ms—CUP) --

Amid the national outcry by university administrations over alleged "illiteracy" among students, it's easy to forget that Canada ranks as one of two countries in the world with a 100 per ’ cent literacy level.

.PERFECTLY POPULATION

A world—wide study by a Washington e—viromental fund showed that only Canada and Czehoslovakia can claim perfect literacy levels, while 10 other boast a 99 per cent rate. Forty—one per cent of the world's population cannot read or write.

CONT'D FRCIVI PAGE I. article, Coates defended South Africa's plans for

the Transkei, the first Black homeland which was

‘ pushed into"independence" in

October, 1976. He wrote: /

"I visited the Transkei, net Prime Minister Kaiser 'Matanzima and many of his cabinet ministers. _ It has

both secure borders, a foreign

policy , that differs

significantly from that of South Africa and the potential to become the breadbasket of Southern Africa. It-would not have attained nationhood with- out the assistance of the South Africa governnent. It. was deserted‘by Brit-

"It has the right to becare .

a nenber of the Conmon— wealth on the basis of its past history and tradition.

Instead of recognizing the

authenticity of the Transkei, it has been

treated like a leper by the

world, " he added.

Coates also charges that

Mansour's editorial said ' "that I have 'publicly

supported the inmoral and illegal activities of a

' public press:

discriminatory governrrent. .' without having an iota of evidence to back up the claim. "

In his newspaper article, Coates had described the South African occupation of Nanbia, which has been declared illegal by the International Court of Justice, as "the most re— freshing experiment in black Africa today."

"It rejects 'rule by the rifle' , oanmrism and ' tyranny. Will the free world stand by these men who have spent so many months to conceive a nation at the conference table? Or are they, also, to be classified as lepers ,for the free world to demean and denounce?"

.Coates concludes his -

~ letter to the student paper:

v "Somehow I had hqned that

the degree of excellence that would be part of a university newspaper editorial would surpass even that available in the My only comment is that when Miss Mansour undertakes her next

editorial she get her facts straight. "