by Kate O'Camell 
     
     Last week it was 
     
     announced that the oper— 
     
     ative grant for UPEI _will 
     
     be increased by only 8.6% 
     
     next year, the amount 
     
     recommended by the MPHEC. 
     
     In the face of this puny 
     
     increase tuition fees are 
     
     expected to be increased 
     
     next year. 
     
     The MPHEC also recoxme'lded 
     
     that provincial governments 
     
     reduce grants by $7 50 for 
     
     foreign students which will 
     
     in effect double tuition 
     
     fees for these students. 
     
     (This policy will be imple— 
     
     mented next year in N.S. 
     
     and is expected in N.B. and 
     
     P.E.I. also.) 
     
    

    
     UPEI President Peter 
     
     Meincke has stated, mg 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     you a engineer: this Chai 
     
     COUICI be yours. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It’s the Master Engineering Control 
     
     Centre of one of our DDH 280 Destroyers 
     
     ——powered by jet turbine engines, one of 
     
     the most advanced propulsion systems in 
     
    
   
   
    
     the world. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In Canada’s ships, Maritime 
     
     Engineers work in a wide range of 
     
     disciplines—mechanical, electrical and 
     
     electronic. Marine Engineers are 
     
     responsible for hull, main propulsion, 
     
     and associated systems. Combat Systems 
     
     Engineers are responsible for the 
     
     fighting equipment—weapons, electronic 
     
     sensors, communications and control 
     
     systems. And both are managers, 
     
     supervisors and leaders of men. 
     
    

    
     If you're an engineer, 
     
     to become one, think about this Officer's 
     
     career. It will offer you challenge 
     
    
   
   
    
     on both a professional and 
     
    
   
   
    
     personal level —and might take 
     
    
   
   
    
     you anywhere in the world. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ASKUSABOUTYOU ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
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     arriVing at a dec1510n on 
     
     the tuition fees will mean 
     
     a "trade—off between an in— 
     
     crease in tuition and 
     
     quality of education to the 
     
     student." 
     
    

    
     This is outrageous! 
     
     Students have not caused the 
     
     economic crisis. Why should 
     
     we pay for it, either through 
     
     increased tuition fees or 
     
     through a decrease in the 
     
     quality of education. It is 
     
     the rich who should pay. It 
     
     is they who are using the 
     
     opportunity of the economic 
     
     crisis to reap huge benefits. 
     
    

    
     For example, corporate 
     
     after tax profits in Canada 
     
     jumped an average of 43% to 
     
     $1.72 billion in the 4th 
     
     quarter of 1978 from $1.21 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
     y  in the correspondin 
     
    
   
   
    
     rising; I905! 
     
    
   
   
    
     Director of Recruiting & Selection, 
     
     National Defence Headquarters, 
     
     Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0K2 
     
    
   
   
    
     Please send me more information about 
     
     opportunities in the Canadian Forces for 
     
     Maritime Engineers. 
     
    
   
   
    
     riod in 1977.‘ This was 
     
     the 11th quarterly rise in 
     
     a ran. Corporations in 
     
     certain sectors such as. 
     
     mining and. forest products 
     
     have secured even higher 
     
     year to year profit increases. 
     
    

    
     Maritime Electric 00. just 
     
     announced last week a year 
     
     to year profit increase of 
     
     43% from $1.6 million in . . 
     
     1977 to,$2.3 million in'l978. 
     
     Millions of dollars in 
     
     interest free loans and 
     
     grants are provided to 
     
     catpany after catpany through 
     
     IEI all the while the 
     
     government is moaning about 
     
     how it must practice 
     
     " financial restrain "~, and 
     
     therefore, UPEI's operating 
     
     grant canlonly be increased 
     
     8.6%. ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     ' CANADIAN ARMED FORCES 
     
    
   
   
    
     recommendations . 
     
    
   
   
    
     A ated by the Commission, each 
     
    
   
   
    
     ” Make 
     
    
   
   
    
     The 1960's saw an enormous 
     
     expansion of U.S. finance 
     
     capital into Canada and the 
     
     construction of large * 
     
     numbers of brand’t plants 
     
     and the stepped up 
     
     exploitation of Canada's 
     
     resources by U.S. . r 
     
     mmopolies,‘  neant‘ an 
     
     increased  for  
     
     trained personnel. The 
     
     sellout governments of the 
     
     rich in Canada greatly ‘, 
     
     expanded the educational 
     
     system, not to meet the 
     
     needs of the Canadian 7 
     
     people, but to fill the 
     
     requirements of the U.S. 
     
     imperialists. 
     
    

    
     During the 60's univer- 
     
     sities and colleges all 
     
     across Canada were expanded 
     
     and new mes built. All 
     
     of this was paid for by 
     
     the workers through their 
     
     taxes, over $860 million 
     
     from 1965-1971. 
     
    

    
     - During the period 1965-66 
     
     to 1970—71 full time 
     
     university enrolment in— 
     
     creased by 54% and the 
     
     number of full time univer— 
     
    
   
   
    
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     The Maritime Provinces 
     
     Higher Education Cdmnissim 
     
     (’MPHEC‘.)  _  (March 
     
     that it has, received . ‘ 
     
     responses to its 1979-80 
     
     operating . assistance 
     
     The 
     
     Provinces of New Brunswick, 
     
     and Prince Edward Island ‘ 
     
     have accepted the Commission's 
     
     recommended levels of 
     
     assistance. The Government 
     
     of Nova Scotia, as earlier 
     
     announced, has approved a 
     
     level of assistance less 
     
     than the $92 .2 million 
     
     recommended by the Commission. 
     
    

    
     The 1979—80 provincial . 
     
     government contributions to 
     
     operating assistance in 
     
     millions of dollars with 
     
     1978—79 contributions in/ 
     
     parentheses are: New Brunswick 
     
     60.9 (56.0); Nova‘Scotia 
     
     88.7 (84.1); Prince Edward 
     
     Island 11.3 (10.1); total 
     
     Maritime Provinces 160.9 
     
     (150.2). 
     
    

    
     The approved 1979-80 
     
     provincial contributions are 
     
     according to a new regional 
     
     funding formula that has been 
     
     apporved by the Council of 
     
     Maritime Premiers- Under 
     
     the new arrangement formul— 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     province provides the grants 
     
     to the other two provinces 
     
     in respect of any of its 
     
     students enrolled in 
     
     programmes in these provinces 
     
     that are not offered in the 
     
     province of residence. For 
     
     the past two years the 
     
     provinces have been sharing 
     
     the cost of post-secondary 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ education according to -