CIMN Top 25
1. Love Becomes Electric
2.. Never Gonna Give You UP 3. Just Like Paradise 4. Tell It to My Heart 5. Devil Inside 6. Closér Every Day 7. Father Figure 8. I Get Weak 9. What Have I Done to Deserve This 10. Thinkin’ About the ; Years 11. Heaven Knows 12. She’s Having a Baby 13. Language of Love 14. Can’t Wait 15. Hazy Shade of Winter 16. Man in the Mirror 17. Catch Me (I’m Falling) 18. Dancing in a Dance Club 19. Body Next to Body 20. So Careful 21. Out of the Blue 22: Hysteria 23. Day After Day (Rose- Colored Glasses) 24, Crazy
25, Good Vibrations
Strange Advance Rick Astley David Lee Roth Taylor Dayne INXS
The Jitters George Michael Belinda Carlisle Pet Shop Boys
Haywire
Robert Plant Dave Wakeling Tu
Nancy Martinez The Bangles Michael Jackson Pretty Poison Northern Pikes
Falco Meets Brigette Nielson
Images in Vogue Debbie Gibson Def Leppard Blue Rodeo
Icehouse
FM
Just TELL THEM SOME JoKEs yuTiL WE FIND THE TURN TABLE,/
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PEP
SLOP MIC?
unwanted behavior can lead to Orwellian committees of ever- watchful big-brothers and big- sisters keepig tabs on trips to the coffee shop to quantify ‘“un- wanted pressure.” Orwell's ap- prehension that North America would quietly slip into totali- tarianism by apparently demo- cratic measures would then be fully vindicated.
The Survey moves us one step closer
Sexual Harassment
in this direction when it sneaks
in questions unrelated to the
der discrimination. If the pur- pose of this is to examine atti- tudes towards feminism based on its presumed/hypothetical relationship to the tion/definition of sexual ha-
percep-
rassment, it simply reinforces the point that the instrument is not exactly but is
made earlier
an objective survey loaded with implicit and undis- closed definitions. While such lack of disclosure is consistent with the ethically questionable “scientific” practice of cover- story deception used in social-
psychological experiments, it is
SSSR RS © a aioe naman “Studies which use such hollow measures
are themselves a symptom of a science which treats people as hollow objects to be manip-
ulated and harassed.”
Part section in
subject of harassment. B of the Attitude the questionnaire
cludes such questions as agree-
which in-
ment /disagreement
about a woman prime minis- ter for Canada. While, by now, many have no doubt that Mila would do a_ better job than her husband Brian, it is somewhat puzzling to find such questions in a survey on sex- ual harassment — unless we are also being tested (unawares and uninformed) about our atti- tudes towards feminism or gen-
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hard to justify sneaking these questions in the present study
claiming to measure sexual ha- rassment. If the researchers had told us of their intent, it would have at least made it fair
— if not sensible.
the need
for such information on. atti-
Even granting tudes towards supposedly femi- nist/sexist issues, it is not diffi- cult even for a lay person to see that agreement/disagreement on such
issues tells the re-
searcher precious little about
an individual’s reasons for the same. for instance, one may agree on Mila over Brian, but not on Margaret over Pierre, and be indecisive about Sheila Copps over John Turner. Even such agreement/disagreements may occur for entirely differ- The total lack of
interest in asking. for the re-
ent reasons.
spondents’ reasons is typical of much of the research that goes on in the psychological and so- cial sciences. Studies which use such hollow measures are them- selves a symptom of a science which treats people as hollow objects to be manipulated and lharassed.
It is amusing enough that psychologists will put ideas into
one’s head and words into one’s mouth and then ask for one’s “free” opinion (agree-
ment/disagreement) on the is- sue. But it is doubly iron- icaly that a survey which is supposedly examining an un- ethical form of behaviour itself resorts to the ethically ques- tionable practice of sneaking in a set of questions which have nothing to do with sexual ha- rassment — except in the eyes and theories of the beholder. Parenthetically, we may men- tion that the credibility of the whole questionaire is lowered in direct proportion to the num- ber of respondents who did not raise any questions about
the rationale of such unrelated questions. If they were gullible
enough to take this as part of the sexual harassment survey,
they may well have been sug-/<*
gestible enough to have had
their perceptions colored by the nature of the leading and loaded questions in the rest of
the questionnaire.
It is therefor necessary to take a critical look at the jar- gon and techniques of experts on human behavior whose measurements, despite appear-
ances and computers, are far
eruder-than those of old fash-
ionedatailers.J
Vib He ZY u I
wu Pol CA S ‘dear reader, is
Phe} fault}, not in our researchers, nor in their stars, but in their science which makes humatis into such underlings that each one of us ends up as a mere anonymous statistic — as hollow as the cir- cles we are supposed to mark And
this ain*t even good nonsense.
on these quéstionnaires.
Caveat emptor!
cont. from Page 8
rently have towards their university. I propose a new bond between myself and the individual faculty represen- tatives, whereby which I-can co-ordinate our mutual ef- forts and creativity, towards
a closer student body, and™
‘ q improved academic respect.
The Gem is the Voice of Campus and every faculty is a single note. Together they can say, “University Spirit”. The kind of spirit that makes us proud to be students of UPEI.
John Scott ;
cont. from Page 9
versity and community at large.” I have the drive nec- ‘essary to serve the interests of UPEI students in the offi- cial capacity of VP Finance.
For the past 2 years, I
have been fortunate to work,
on the Student Union Bar- tending staff. As an em- ployee of the Student Union, I am familiar with the op-
erations of the Barn and
VP Academic Candidate
other Student Union activi- ties. This is definitely an as- set for the position of VP Fi- mance. |
In closing, I urge you to support me in my bid for VP Finance. It is important that you exercise your right to vote in the upcoming elec- tion on Wed., March 16 and Thurs., March 17. See you there! s
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