Photo dated 1954 showing roof of bunkhouse

Foundation uncovered behind Main

THE FOUNDATION of an old bunk house once attached to Main Building was uncovered by workmen last week. The building was once used as living quarters for farm labourers for St. Dunstan’s College.

St. Dunstan’s, which amalgamated with Prince of Wales College to form UPEI, once operated an ex-

tensive farm in the lands behind Main Building. The farm workers were housed in the bunk house, known then as “St. Isadore’s.” According to a paper found in the UPEI archives outlining the history of Main Building, the bunk house was a “one and a half storey frame build- ing” built in 1910. A

short corridor connected the bunk house to the present-day English Annex and brickwork outlining the roof of the cooridor can still be seen at one end of the Annex.

Very little documenta- tion about this building could be found, but Eugene

PERSONAL OPINION

Third World Development: A topic neglected by media

This week:

by Sam Okello

ARCUP Human Rights Coordinator

Often journalists from the western media fail to re- port news on development issues in Under-developed Countries.

This year, another his- torical World University Services of Canada achieve- ment took place at UPEI. A new student from Africa was sponsored by WUSC. WUSC is an organization that exists to increase un- derstanding between peo- ples of different cultures. A major emphasis is to increase the awareness of UPEI students to the fun- damental issues confronting People of the Third World.

Why do we hear only about the disaster, the trauma, and the tragedy of the Third World? Why have Reagan, Thatcher, and some other politicians stubbornly refused to im- Pose punitive sanctions on the Apartheid regime in

South Africa? Why? Why? Why?

Such questions should be posed by every peace- loving person. The more perspectives on these is- sues, the better. Whoever is concerned with peace, love, and unity, should not have any ideological slant. He would run into problems if he did so.

The western media con- siders “bad news” when it comes to development news, a topic often ne- glected in the commercially-geared newsrooms of the _ west. The only news that makes the headlines, is the over- thrown of a government, violence in troubled areas such as South Africa or the African famine where hundreds of people die of diseases, hunger, malnutri- tion, cold and abandon- ment. “Third World people only become stories when they die in the hundreds and thousands,” noted one concerned African journal- ist. “They must die en masse to make a story. In

the west, if one person dies, it’s a story.”

There is a need for the western press to report on situations before they reach crisis porportions. “South Africa became a story of

.disaster a couple of years

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ago,” said the African jour- nalist, “But the disaster had been going on for a long, long time.”

It should be pointed out that alternative media, such as educational televi- sion and alternative publi- cations like The Gem pick up the slack left by the event-oriented main-stream media.

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McCabe, a long time mem- ber of the University main- tenence department, said the building continued to be used as quarters for university employees until UPEI was formed in 1969. After that, loading bays were added to the struc- ture and the shipping and

receiving department was housed in St. Isadore’s.

The building continued to be used until the Utility building was constructed in 1972. Apparently the building was thought to be of no historic importance and so .was then ished.

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