- MUSIC DEPT. BEING DUMPED. evolving into what some - PRESIDENT MEINCKE WASHES HANDS BY REPLACING WITH

CONSERVATORY; - STUDENTS‘REBUEHMlWITH FACTS AND FIGURES.

eriment that failed.'"

of Operation the Dept.

encrieg" that the recommen- Opening statistics: dations set (Oath bv the -out of 71 full or part‘ presidents Advisory Group time positions in P.E.I. was the termination of the do are UPEI graduates Music Procram and replacing ’1 is the DirPCtOr or

it w4th a Conservatory. Operations, Winnipeg

The report cave this depart— Svmvhony

‘nent: "special considerat- ~1 Canada Council grant ion.” Its conclusion was TECiPient

that the Drovram. in the ‘11 Pursue V or have pur' beginning' was "to ine sued further study creater public visibility Teaching, or have tauoht to the new institution." in = NOW that it has done this -1 Music Dept. Brandon U. through such community ~1Music Dept. Memorial U. services as;

-puhlic performances 10c- -? " " Acadia U. allv.in and outside or -7 McGill Conservatory Canada -? Manitoba

-radio broadcasts '2 Ontario

-narticipation in, or dir— '3 New BrunSWick ection of, a wide range of ‘5 Nova ScOtia local musical ensembles, ‘17 Ne'foundland such as the p 3.1. Symphon‘ The ratio of faculty/ ,Iegion Chorus, Belfast / student for the Atlantic Pipe Band and manyymany Provipnces Clea“ly states. more ‘ ' where UPEI stands with

_ private teaching the other universities.

~church music programs ’Acadia A'o

-actinz as advisers to “DRIHOUSie 3'8

local school music teach— ’"Memoria1~ 5'8

9,5 -Mount Allison 6.6 -Drovidine assistance to ’"PE1 4‘0 . local dance, theatre, or ‘St° FranCis XEVIer musical productions. ("° 3‘ MuSiC degree) it is saving that; J ’gonCton 5‘9 . "the UPEI Music prosram 3° there you have 1t' consequently became and buiﬁﬁzry millstone around lines for its criteria in the neck of the universit

uction of the canODY,-that great outdoor café, nor ' the 300 dollar hike in the summer faculties salaries.

Here on campus last summer while the leaves were turn ins brivht preen ,and the sun shone on the arowina blades of qrass,scmethinz verv fishv, something very smelly was going on. This was being brewed durins those nice long-lazy-days of summergwhen the campus a was in a state of semi-

H hibernation.Now that this a concoctiOn has settled

_ for four months, we are

’ being made to swallow it: all in one gulp.

No, it is not the constr-

put forth by PALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN", in what has become to be known as the "white_paper2" One major provosal that the "white paper" put forth was the complete termination of the music department. It should be known that this went on, and through the summer without any consultation

have called "a noble exp- The Plannin2 commitﬁee.has

The statistics seem to Roommendation on the trends of {other universities and the

very much asainst that las , , quote. After twelve vears overall demand 1" the 30b

One of the "five broad catprpsents the followins eve-

"shuttine off" the music dep'

It is the sudden proposals

artment.'

based this outrageous rec-

market.

Obviously thev(the planninz' committee)did very little: if any research in this part‘ icular area. This was shown bv one of the students in the Dept.

The Canadian Job Bank on Yuesday, Oct. 12 showed that eight positions in Enelish, one in Business, and two in Gomputer Scienceaand Bioloay were available in Canada. Quite an astromical figure' of ?6 positions were availab able fir music.

How then can we justify the

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—1 Music Dept. Simon FraserPIODosals?

The job market is there,-a lot of community work is done on the outside of the campus, and, most cf the studentsCas music majors) hays to pay mere money for their courses.

In conclusion, the Music Dept., Students and Facult alike feel that "the Music Dept. is an active and pro- ductive oreanization devot- ed to the growth and devel' opment of music on P.E.I. The benefits it has prorid‘ ed to the University and to

fthe community cannot be measured, and to recommend its termination on the has- is of enrollment and cost ' 'of operation, without con-

These statistics do so contr SUItinz with and taking inr" continues to be an enormous ary to What the preposal out to account the Y"?3-‘31?i°¥13"$3f'

the people who have benefit- edlfrom its untirina dev-

of the faculty or the -students in the muSic department! . How is that for good pra- ctices of administration?' I will commend the Groupnon a job well done. It worked; the usic

otion, acceptable."

sity.

is unfair and un-f

If and when this proposal goes through,then,what wil happen? . Basically it is like this, -1 the student majorine in music will leave the univer Enrollment will result in a decline -2 the faculty will not sta} ltherefore the quality and the expertice will cease to exist.

-3 the Conservatory will prove to be an even larger economic problem than the now existinv Music Proaram, at least that is what the committee feels anyway.

then

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and fieures to this outrageous report. This is more than I can say for any of the other epts. Lets follow their

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conaratulate them on an ept.excellent job well done.

did not find out until theGOOD LUCK TO ALL OF THIS proposal was set stratesidDEPARTMENT AND ALL OTHERS!

ally in their post boxes. Therefore, this did put

the apt. in a sort of

tivy. BUT, onlv for a / few minutes. They quicklié;// not tonether as a group ' and came u. with facts

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keep fiehtine and were bound to Win.

NANCY MARIE ARSENAULT

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