THE GEM —

olume 4, Number 12. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. — Confucius

November 28, 1986

THE IMAGINUS ART SALE AND EXHIBITION

WAS A SUCCESS DESPITE U.P.E.I.’s SIZE

Back for its second year at U.P.E.L., ind its twelfth year over all, the maginus Art Sale and Exhibition

as held Nov. 17 and 18 at the RobertsonLibrary and went better han the organizers predicted.

raeme Card, a representative of he show, said the success of the Lhow was’moderate”, but given he size of the university, this was better than expected.

According to Card, he and his col- league, Kyle Rosenberg, visit ap- proximately 20universities over a hree month period in Atlantic (Canada, Quebec, andOntario, while other teams of two travel to uni- versities in Western Canada.

The show is limited strictly to uni- versities, U.P.E.I. having been

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added to thelist of destinations last year. Card says he expects the exhibition to returnto U.P.E.I. next year.

When asked about the seeming lack of new prints, he countered by saying that,not only is about one third of the stock changed each year, but this year thestock has been increased in size. This increase in stock has caused oneproblem, however. The Robertson Library lounge, which is the area that wasassigned to Card and Rosen- berg by the university to set up the display, was toosmall to allow them to display all the art works at the same time. As a result,some prints had to left until the second day of the show to be seen, whileothers were nowhere to be seen after the first day.

OF THE SEMESTER ,,.. READ € ENTOY:.

By Kerry Lafferty

A regular feature of the exhibition is a draw for a $100 gift certificate whichis held on the last day of every show. This time, the lucky winner was HollyLeLacheur, a

student here at UPEI. By five o’clock Tuesday evening, Holly wasready to leave the university with an arm-load of carefully chosen prints.

So, if you missed the show this year, or just couldn’t afford any of thosebeautiful artworks, don’t worry. With any luck at all, Imagi- nus will returnnext year.

DAVID SUZUKI AWARDED MAJOR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

Ottawa,13 November 1986 — Dr. David Suzuki, Vancouver geneti- cist, is the winner of the 1986 Unesco Kalinga Prize, the highest international distinction in the field of popular science. Dr. Suzuki, who shares this honour with Dr. Nico- lai Basov of the Soviet Union, is the second Canadian to win the award. In 1977, Fernand Seguin of Montreal received the Prize.

The Kalinga Prize was established in 1951 by Unesco on the basis ofa grant for this purpose from the Kalinga Foundation Trust of India. It is awarded annually to a distin- guished communicator of science issues who has helped to interpret

science, research and technology to the public. The winner must also have conveyed the importance of science in improving public wel- fare and in solving some of the problems facing humanity. The highly prestigious award includes a sum of a thousand pounds ster- ling and a visit to India. Past winners have included Margaret Mead, Bertrand Russell, David Attenborough, Julian Huxley and Sir Peter Medawar.

Dr. Suzuki is a renowned geneti- cist, best known in Canada for interpreting science and environ- ment issues to the general public through the media. He has made

On behalf of the staff o an like to thank the following people for ther contributions to the success of our computeri

The Gem.

Robert O’Rourke _and the UPEI School of Business

For the donation of the Model 2 computer, without which, we could not have even tried to computerize.

David Cairns

.of the UPEI Computer Centre

an outstanding contribution to the public’s understanding of science and of its impact, through such radio and television programs as “The Nature of Things”, “A Planet for the Taking”, and “Quirks and Quarks”.

The award is one way in which Unesco fulfills its mandate to promote an understanding of scien- tific issues and their relevance to everyday life. The Canadian Com- mission for Unesco nominated David Suzuki. His nomination had been proposed by Dr. Stuart Smith, the Science Council of Canada.

Dr. Suzuki will receive the prize at aceremony in India later this year.

For making the bits and pieces all fit together.

Paul Ledwell

..our VP, Academic

For being a swell guy and giving us the money we needed to finish the project.

James Connolly and Derrick Webber ..our Account Managers

For beating the staff senseless until they could type on the terminals.

Lori Ann Heckbert ...our departing interim Editor

‘For not asking any questions and for holding the hammer when I hooked up our computer’s phone line.

You

...our readers

ith us. Just wait for January!