By Jim McGrath 
     
    
   
   
    
     For those of you out 
     
     there who aren’t that in- 
     
     volved in the production 
     
     of ‘The Gem’, there was 
     
     an Atlantic Region Cana- 
     
     dian University Press {.47'- 
     
     CUP) conference in Halifax 
     
     this past week-end. CUP 
     
     is a non-profit organization 
     
     linking over fifty students 
     
     papers across Canada. As 
     
     a member of CUP, our fees 
     
     pay for a news & features 
     
     exchange, and a source of 
     
     ‘national advertising. 
     
    

    
     This 
     
     ference was jointly hosted 
     
     by 5t- Mary’s ‘Jour- 
     
     nal’, and _ the 
     
     ‘Gazette’. Gem stiit mem- 
     
     bers to attend the AR- 
     
     CUP conference were my- 
     
     self, Danny Mullen, and Su- 
     
     san Arbing. Cther univer- 
     
     sity papers to attend were 
     
     ‘the Picaro’ of Mount Saint 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Anyone can contribute to The GEM: an- 
     
     nouncements, short stories, poems, letters, or 
     
     * just’plain ideas can be dropped off at the Barn, 
     
     sent through VAX MAIL to GEM, or stuck on 
     
     our door down in the basement of the utility 
     
    
   
   
    
     . building. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     Vincent, ‘the Athenaeum’ 
     
     of Acadia, ‘the Baron’ (for- 
     
     mally Tucker Yark Press) 
     
     of UNB in Saint Joh», ‘the 
     
     Xaverian’ of 5i. Pren- 
     
     cais ‘the 
     
     of Memorial University, as 
     
     well as 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Xavier, 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Journal and 
     
    
   
   
    
     Gazette. 
     
    

    
     Many interesting sem- 
     
     inars were given. One 
     
     interesting one was with 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tony Sheed of a new Cana- 
     
     dian magazine called ‘the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ho taiked 
     
    
   
   
    
     New Magauziyc’: 
     
    
   
   
    
     about the magy 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     is totally unbisscsi L485 
     
     no ads at all. Another dele- 
     
     gate attending was very up- 
     
     set that Mr. Sheed would 
     
     not reveal the financers of 
     
     the paper, as there were 
     
     rumors that it was funded 
     
     by a neo-naxi son of a 
     
     Japanese millionaire. Mr. 
     
     Sheed stated that these ru- 
     
     mors were totally untrue 
     
    
   
   
    
     We cherish typed and double spaced sub- 
     
     , missions and submissions on computer disk or 
     
     through VAX mail. For legal reasons, all submis- 
     
     sions must include the author’s name and phone 
     
     : number. However, names will be withheld from 
     
     publication on request. 
     
    
   
   
    
     > 
     
    
   
   
    
     and that their indentity was - 
     
    
   
   
    
     confidential, but the mag- 
     
     azine did accept donations 
     
     from people and was fi- 
     
     nanced partly though loans 
     
     from those who ran and 
     
     worked for the publication. 
     
     Another thought the man 
     
     was an SIU agent from the 
     
     Canadian military. 
     
    

    
     At the opening semi- 
     
     nar on Saturday morning, 
     
     we discussed what CUP re- 
     
     ally is, and what we get 
     
     from our membership in it 
     
     when we pay our fees to the 
     
     national office in Ottawa. 
     
     We have the right to deter- 
     
     mine and uphold our edito- 
     
     rial policy, including adver- 
     
     tising, regardless of pres- 
     
     sure from students govern- 
     
     ments and administrations. 
     
     The major role of the stu- 
     
     dent press is to act as an 
     
     agent of social change, as- 
     
     sist students so they can 
     
    
   
   
    
     LIVE IN HALIFAX: ARCUP ’87 
     
    
   
   
    
     understand and act against 
     
     oppression and_ injustice, 
     
     and emphasize the rights of 
     
     each and every student on 
     
     campus, as outlined in the 
     
     CUP Code of Ethics. 
     
    

    
     In short the student 
     
     press in an instrument to 
     
     bring about social change 
     
     on campus, as well as lo- 
     
    
   
   
    
     cally, nationally, and_ in- 
     
     ternationally. CUP acts 
     
     against any system that 
     
    
   
   
    
     preserve any hierarchy that 
     
     is based upon the majority, 
     
    
   
   
    
     as they always have in the 
     
     past and represents the mi- 
     
    
   
   
    
     norites (religious, disabled 
     
     The GEM 
     
     is to provide a forum for 
     
     the free exchange of ideas 
     
     and opinions of the student 
     
     body attending UPEI. 
     
    

    
     While at the confer- 
     
     ence, the Gem 
     
     met 
     
    
   
   
    
     people, etc.). 
     
    
   
   
    
     delegates 
     
    
   
   
    
     many new people; Eleanor 
     
    
   
   
    
     Brown, our. Bureau Chief 
     
     who wanders to different 
     
     campus papers and gives 
     
     seminars on news reporting 
     
     and other newspaper re- 
     
     lated stuff; and Erin Good- 
     
     man, the ARCUP women’s 
     
     rights coordinator, her role 
     
     is to promote the writing 
     
     of women’s issues and to 
     
     monitor ARCUP papers for 
     
     any possible sexist remarks 
     
     She 
     
    
   
   
    
     ranges seminars to promote 
     
    
   
   
    
     or stories. also ar- 
     
    
   
   
    
     women’s issues. 
     
     We discussed feminism 
     
    
   
   
    
     and the problems that may 
     
     arise on papers all over the 
     
     country. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Overall, the ARCUP 
     
     conference seemed to be a 
     
     great success. The next 
     
     ARCUP conference will be. 
     
     held here on our very own 
     
     campus hosted by us truely 
     
     the GEM. The conference 
     
     will take place in five weeks, 
     
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