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     Why is everybody here?We might 
     
     get a suspicion of student motives 
     
     by examining the enrollment in The 
     
     Pilot Project first year programme. 
     
     Of about 700 first year students 
     
     only 18 registered in the new prog- 
     
     ramme. The Pilot Project is an inter- 
     
     disciplinary course which attempts 
     
     to lend a progressive and tightly de- 
     
     fined course schedule. It lays empha- 
     
    
   
   
    
     sis on broad understanding of themes 
     
    
   
   
    
     and issues rather than the boxing of 
     
     knowledge into departments, and on 
     
     discussion as a forum for learning 
     
     rather than the mere relating facts 
     
     by a lecturer to be absorbed uncrit- 
     
     ically by students. It is, I think, a 
     
    
   
   
    
     sincere attempt to provide an envir- 
     
    
   
   
    
     onment in which people can learn 
     
     meaningfully, to avoid the pitfalls 
     
     of academic gamesmanship. Why 
     
     didn‘t, more people register for 
     
     it? , 
     
    

    
     Fear. 1 
     
    

    
     I think those who made a concious 
     
     decision not to take the new prog- 
     
     ramme did so because they were 
     
    
   
   
    
     afraid of it. They were afraid because 
     
    
   
   
    
     the new course didn’t seem to offer 
     
     the same standards of ladder-climb- 
     
     ing that they were accustomed to._ 
     
    
   
   
    
     The 
     
    
   
   
    
     It wasn’t as clearly defined as those 
     
     other courses which students had 
     
     traditionally taken. One. was also 
     
     expected , apparently, to take part. 
     
     in discussions - not quite as secure 
     
     as sitting in the back of a lecture 
     
     theatre. Maybe you couldn’t transfer 
     
     to another University. What would 
     
     your degree really be worth?Little 
     
     matter whether anything was learned 
     
     whether one’s philosophy was ever 
     
     challenged, as long as you got that 
     
    
   
   
    
     .1 piece of paper for ajob and Isymp— 
     
    
   
   
    
     ize with these reservations, although 
     
     I disagree with most of them. 
     
    

    
     But I don’t believe that the fault 
     
     lies with individual students. I think 
     
     that we could expect little else from 
     
     our present high school system. High 
     
     school graduates have been submitt- 
     
     ed to the personal achievement rat- 
     
     ionale for so long that any other 
     
     motive is entirely foreign. They . 
     
     have been taught that the grading 
     
     system is the important part of the 
     
     educational process taught to comp- 
     
     ete with their peers, rather than 
     
     working together. Doing a home- 
     
     work assignment with a friend is con- 
     
     sidered cheating. How absured.Good 
     
     students are quiet and well-behaved, 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ THE CADRE, Sept. 30. Page 2 
     
    
   
   
    
     Highiackers 
     
    
   
   
    
     the high schools tell them - No 
     
     wonder discussion is scary -It’s an 
     
     entirely new phenomenon. 
     
    

    
     But the old marking system gives 
     
    
   
   
    
     "the professor the ultimate power of 
     
    
   
   
    
     evaluating students-don’t disagree 
     
     with him, because he can penalize 
     
     you, and he often will. Then when 
     
     you apply for a job, your employer 
     
     will see the mark and discover that 
     
     you might be a shit-disturber. That‘s 
     
    
   
   
    
     2% Fish 
     
    
   
   
    
     MONTE CARLO (CUPI) - 
     
    
   
   
    
     “The oceans are dying. The po- 
     
     llution is general.” 
     
    

    
     Jacques Ives Cousteau, who has 
     
     covered more than 155,000 miles of 
     
     ocean exploring and making movies 
     
     in the past three and a half years 
     
     says: 
     
    

    
     “People don’t realize that all pollut- 
     
     ion goes to the seas. The earth is 
     
     less polluted. It is washed by rain 
     
     which carries everything into the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     scary, and that’s what a real educat- 
     
     ion should be- it should challenge 
     
     you and everything you stand for. 
     
    

    
     Despite the foregoing, I am op- 
     
     timistic about the contribution that 
     
     this years Freshmen can make to 
     
     UPEI. From my observations during 
     
     the first week of school, they appear 
     
     more critically aware than any pre- - 
     
     vious high school graduates. Contin- 
     
     le combat! 
     
    
   
   
    
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     oceans where life has deminished by 
     
     40 per cent in 20 years.” 
     
    

    
     Cousteau also said the “an excess 
     
     of fishing is also pollution.” 
     
    

    
     New methods utilizing modem 
     
     technology is upsetting the balance 
     
     of life in the oceans, he said. “Even 
     
     in the Indian Ocean, which is little 
     
     travelled.” 
     
    

    
     However, he said he had hopes 
     
     that efforts now being taken might 
     
     stop the pollution trend, “ and the 
     
     rest can be saved.” 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Narcing 
     
    
   
   
    
     ED NOTE 
     
    

    
     In the early days of Union organ- 
     
     izing, a scab was about the lowest 
     
     form oflife God put on earth. To- 
     
     day when young people consider 
     
     the methods used by NARCOTICS 
     
    
   
   
    
     agents (a Charlottetown lawyer, 
     
     when discribing such methods, said 
     
     that even a dog would not turn on 
     
     their own kind like they) many feel 
     
     that Jack London’s discription ofa 
     
     scab might be very fitting for a 
     
     ‘Narc’ also. Here is a portion of 
     
     his discription of a scab'with the 
     
     word ‘Narc’ inserted in place of 
     
     ‘scab’. 
     
    
   
   
    
     After God had finished the rattle- 
     
     snake, the toad and the vampire, he 
     
     had some awful substance left with 
     
     which he made a narc. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A narc is a two legged animal with 
     
     a corkscrew soul, a water logged 
     
     brain, a combination backbone of 
     
     jelly and glue. Where others have 
     
     hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten 
     
     principles. 
     
    
   
   
    
     When a narc comes down the 
     
     street, men turn their backs and an- 
     
     gels weep in heaven, and the devil 
     
     shuts the gates of hell to keep him 
     
     out. No man has the right to ‘narc’ 
     
     so long as there is a pool of water 
     
     to drown his carcass in or a rope 
     
     long enough to hang his body with.‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     Judas Iscariot was a gentleman 
     
     compared with a narc. For betray- 
     
     ing his master he had character, he 
     
     had character enough to hang him 
     
     self. A narc has not. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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