A war to end all wars

World War One was supposed to be the war to end alears. Then there was World War Two, which hardly ended all wars either. Then there was Korea, Vietnam, the Arab-Iraeli Wars, Afghanistan, El Salvador, Angola, Nicaragua, Namibia, Chad and so on. Wars of independence, domination, liberation and hatred continue. The world wars never stopped, they took a short breather and then continued to roll on in various forms.

Remembrance day is not so much a day of past reflection as much as a reminder of the primitive world we live in where the only solution to clashing ideologies seems to be death — violent death. Might is right, or so they would have you believe.

Meanwhile civilization has come to terms with what the real war to end all wars might be. It is a horrifying thought that peace can come only at the expense of total human annihi- lation — through nuclear war. I

November 11 has always stuck in our minds as a day when the military places wreathes on war memorials, when poppies adorn our lapels. November 11 is gaining a new significance

now. It is becoming more than a day to remember the dead. ‘ It is becoming a day when we reflect on a world crisis and the

winds which bring those old battle cries back to life.

At the llth hour of the llth day of the llth month, when we take that minute of silence to reflect, it should be one of reflection on the human costs of the past, the costs of the wars of the present, and a short prayer for our threatened world of tomorrow.

LETTERS

Netted Gem gets reaction

serious reservations, but no arguement, against maintaining the news portion of this pres— tigious publication.

Reservations

about news

As the Netted Gem now stands, it does not fulfill the needs of all students (or any, for that matter!). We feel that this publication could be infinitely improved by the addition of a humour/comedy section. It should be noted that we have

HOWEVER, not only does the existence of society comedy columns enhance the spirit within each individual society but poking good-natured fun at rival societies, but it also

' improves the quality of academia

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Staff This Week: Returned for more thrills, action and adventure are (in no particular order once again) Phil Stanyer, Jonathan Orlowaki, Sharon Leighton. Joanne MacKinnon, Mickey Place, Carolyn Ryan. Denise Richardson. John Dougan, Darrel Blacquiene, Ruth Edge“. Aided and abetted by CUP fieldie Rick Jansen. v

The Netted Gem is the weekly student We! of‘the University ofPrinceEdward lsland,Viewsexpressedinthe Nettedemare not necessarily those of the UPEI student We reserve the right to edit copy for space, style, or legal reasons. Letters to the Netted Gem must be typed doubled spaced and be submitted before noon on Monday. Letters exceeding 500 words in length are prone to cutting and much abuse by the collectiVe staff. All letters must be signed by their author(s). Our office is located on thefourth floor of the Main building. Our telephone is 892-4121 Ext. 387. The Netted Gem is a member usually in good standing with Canadian UchrSitme-yzv;' . .-. . ;:

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faculties, we feel that the comedy sections were the most read, and if they remain sadly lacking, the Netted Gem will be soon buried into the ground. P.S. What is wrong with good, clean comedy without any slander? P.P.S. The name ain’t too purty either. We ain’t a bunch of ‘tater' farmers!

The name should be chosen through a contest. ,

The Economics Society

(i.e. Philanthropic Phi, Gregarious Gord, et. al)

Distressed over’format and name

Many students are quite distressed over the change in the campus newspaper. We dislike the new format and the new name.

As for the new name it sounds as if UPEI is educating potato farmers. This does not mean that we do not like potato furthers (we all want to become one!) — itmeansthatweareverytiredof being known only as "spud

Islanders.” Surely there is a

better name for the paper that would be more applicable to UPBI.) ' ..

We feel that manyorip'nal

- and intelligent nameswould be ptnforthifitwasopenedupas' ’a contest. filewinnerofthectsn-

test receivefame and glory

is the sense of having a purely news newspaper if no one (or at least the majority of students) reads it. It seems a shame that you knock yourselves out to get up a couple of points on some rating scheme and do this at the expense of your readers.

In conclusion you could be burying the Netted Gem, not planting it. Afterall, what is a newspaper without readers. Gordon Connors PS. The Invisible hand may be down (due to censorship) but not out.

Clarification: No such rating scheme of newspapers exists. The reference in the second last Sun that the paper was rated 53rd in CUP stemmed from a comment from fieldworker Rick Jonson underlying the necessity for the paper to improve. It by no means constituted any kind of “official rating. "

Name undemocratic

I would like to know who changed the name of the student union newspaper from the Sun to the Netted Gem, and why? Secondly, why wasn’t thestudent’ body intimated of - this change and their views on it solicited

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upon, I wonder if other themes were discussed such as the fishing industry: The Cod Fish or Tourism: The Tourist Trap or employment: The Unemploy- ment Enjoyment or construction: The Hard Hat, etc. ‘ They weren’t chosen because they haVe very little relationship to the University or its campus.

The point is neither does the .

Netted Gem.

In conclusion, if the name Netted Gem was agreed upon by the campus population in general, then yes I would agree too. But it is my opinion it isn’t so why not have the Sun back on the shelves?

— Dennis C. O’Hanley

The name was changed to the Netted Gem by a meeting of the stuff. Neither the Cadre, or the Sun were chose by a referendum among students, just as any other campus society would not have to go before a referendum to change their name.

Congrats Netted Gem

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On to the format. We feel that f » a compromise between the old 1

Sun and the new Netted Gem would be in order. We feel that a newspaper needs news, but we feel just as strongly that a ' grill”!

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without any doubt the most professionally written and de- signed production ever to descend from the attic of Main Building. My God, I couldn’t even find spelling, syntax or layout errors on my first quick reading. There were three well researched and coherent news stories on the front page and, wonder of wonders, the editor left out the usual scatological scratchings of the engineers and earnest exhortations from the Business herd to attend the latest people-on-the-make event. Please keep up the good work. My only regret is that I will no longer have the Sun to use for wrapping the garbage. ' —Andy Robb History & Canadian Studies

propogandpa machine does

not exist

I would like to take a minute to reply in kind to the article “Of war and truth” in the Nov. 3rd edition of the Netted Gem. Let us not forget in our efforts to run down the U.S. that this beast called a propoganda machine does not, in reality, exist. In the U.S. the press is neither owned or controlled by the government thus anything that we receive in the media is their reporting the facts that they canaquire.

In the example stated the only major problem was the media was required to aquire informa— tion from the government sources. Information aquired in this way has the possibility. of being modified by the govern- ment, but modification has one catch in that when .the dead is discovered all hell breaks loose, as was the case during the Watergate affair.

Considering Cuba's record, I personally have no problems believing that the Cuban na-

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