Predictions- for1986

By Jim Lai

At present, we are living in a strange world where almost any— thing can happen. Predicting unusual and extraordinary events for the coming year, let alone the distant future, is hazardous at best. With this in mind, here are ten truly amazing predictions for 1986.

l. Haley’s Comet will come and go.

2. The Vet College will open at UPEI and new students will be accepted.

3. The officials in the Prime Minister’s Office will voluntarily take lie detector tests and pass with flying colors.

4. Inflation will be under con- trol as the price of sugar plummets below two cents per pound and porkbellies fall below forty cents. As well twenty percent of all American farmers will go bank- rupt.

5. The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) will declare war to protest scientific experimentation on live

animals. They will be supported by Greenwar,‘ a splinter group of Greenpeace that will have de— clared war on France and all her allies.

6. The'Canadian dollar will be on par with the US dollar. American politicians will then propose free trade with Canada, only to be rejected. '

7. There will be peace in Lebanon. The Christians, Jews, and Moslems will lay down their arms and regard one another as brothers and sisters.

8. Reagan and Gorbachev will jointly receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

9. In addition, Andropov will be commended posthumously on his outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of human rights by Amnesty Inter- national (Remember KAL 007?)

10. Finally, California will at last experience a major earth- quake. As a result, all the western states except California will sink into the Pacific.

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S~..U. wants to “spread the word” ’ about International

Youth Year

“The U.P.E.I. Student Union is looking for people to help spread the'word about the events of the International Youth Year by making posters, doing radio interviews, and going through the residences to let people know,” said Carolyn Ryan VP Academic of the Student Union.

Through the International Youth Year the Student Union wants “to let the students kn0w that the government is interested in them as a special interest group. If the students want to take

advantage of that, this is the time ~

to do it!”

To get groups on campus to talk about this subject there is going to be a special series of lectures on work. The Student Union is bringing three speakers from across Canada. “The series

is for people our age to learn to be more flexible when choosing an occupation and to know what the job situation is like now,” says Ryan.

The Student Union expects to reach “every student, especially freshmen, because they have the m05t time to get things done. The potential is there. The seniors are important too because they will be leaving soon and have to know how to organize their own interest groups,” explains Ryan.

U.P.E.I. has been granted $1800.00 dollars from the Cana- dian Federation of Students to give the lecture series. The series is called “Our Present Future”. It’s being co-sponsored by the U.P.E.I. Student Union and the Canadian Federation of Students with an international youth year grant from the Secretary of State. ‘The series is going on from October 18 to November 20.

Heather Menzies will speak on the tOpic “Women in the Future Work World”. Senator Loran Marsiden, a sociologist at the

University of Toronto, will be speaking on “The Sociology of

Work”. Therewill also be a N

Brunswick group doing a play the topic of youth employm called “Downtime”. It will I

place on October 22.

There is a possibility that R Matheson could be third speak The third speaker will speak how to build a successful yo

organization, and how to your organization work with organizations. The name 0 tOpic is “Network”.

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responsibilty. “Basically, we hope to

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working together as

of the Student Union. By Karen Couthl

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