November 25,1997 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Cadre 
     
    
   
   
    
     The continuing saga of the blue poles 
     
    
   
   
    
     UPEI's security system continues to malfunction 
     
    
   
   
    
     By Colin Bassett 
     
    
   
   
    
     UPEI students that the blue 
     
    

    
     poles security system has 
     
     had its problems with reliabil- 
     
     ity in the past. Students have 
     
     complained that the response 
     
     time is usually drastically inef- 
     
     ficient, or that in some cases, 
     
     there isn’t even any response 
     
     at all. 
     
    

    
     “Admittedly, there have 
     
     been problems in the past,” 
     
     said Campus Police Officer, 
     
     Wayne Squarebrigges. “How- 
     
     ever, they were purely me- 
     
     chanical.” 
     
    

    
     The department said that 
     
     the problem developed be- 
     
    
   
   
    
     I is not a secret among 
     
    
   
   
    
     cause it was previously not 
     
     mandatory to check the poles 
     
     ona regular basis. But after an 
     
     experiment conducted on No- 
     
     vember 2nd by several con- 
     
     cerned nursing students re- 
     
     vealed problems with the poles, 
     
     the campus police must now 
     
     check the poles every day. 
     
     This means that students 
     
     should now expect to see of- 
     
     ficers activating the poles daily 
     
     on campus. 
     
    

    
     “Our department is glad 
     
     that what occurred with the 
     
     nursing students was not an 
     
     actual incident.” said 
     
     Squarebrigges. “We are grate- 
     
     ful for the effort that the nurs- 
     
     ing students took in bringing 
     
     our attention to the problems 
     
     of the blue pole system.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     He also added, “Safety 
     
     and security are not only the 
     
     responsibility of our depart- 
     
     ment, but should also be shared 
     
     with the university community 
     
     as a whole. We need the input 
     
     from concerned students, fac- 
     
     ulty, and staff in making our 
     
     university as safe as possi- 
     
     ble.” 
     
    

    
     Students who still ques- 
     
     tion the dependability of the 
     
     poles can take comfort in 
     
     knowing that the Campus Se- 
     
     curity Department is currently 
     
     under a Risk Management 
     
     Review by an independent 
     
     company from Halifax. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Drag pageant sparks a furor at the 
     
    
   
   
    
     By Kate Archibaid-Cross 
     
    
   
   
    
     PETERBOROUGH 
     
     (CUP)- Comments made at the 
     
     Miss Harvest Weekend a 
     
     eant, which is part of the Fall 
     
     College Weekend, hosted by 
     
     Trent University’s C i 
     
     Col earlier this month 
     
    
   
   
    
     is a 
     
    
   
   
    
     A group of contestants, 
     
     including residence don Kevin 
     
     aakeher Meteo 
     
    

    
     y that one of their pet peeves 
     
     was “men who py tout 
     
     stand that no means yes, yes, 
     
    
   
   
    
     been dri 
     
    
   
   
    
     inhibitions and [were] horny as 
     
     hell.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     angry response 
     
     dents and administrators at 
     
     Trent. 
     
    

    
     “Joking about sexual as- 
     
     sault is not [and] joki 
     
     about child abuse is i 
     
     not funny,” Theresa Mc 
     
    
   
   
    
     a student who attended the 
     
    
   
   
    
     event, said. Sie, 
     
    

    
     ith, acti i- 
     
     dent of Trent ahaa tars 
     
     the activities at the pageant were 
     
    
   
   
    
     HOT unacceptable. 
     
    

    
     I}t is in the very nature 
     
     of the university that there 
     
     should be respect... for all mem- 
     
     bers of the university [and 
     
     these] events are not consistent 
     
    
   
   
    
     Martin Boyne, acting mas- 
     
     ter of the college, says the com- 
     
     ments were inexcusable and he 
     
     plans to take some form of 
     
     action. 
     
    

    
     Dan Gunn and Alex 
     
     Thompson, co-chairs of the fall 
     
     festival, defended the pageant 
     
     in a written response to their 
     
     campus 
     
    
   
   
    
     “The intent of the (pag- 
     
    
   
   
    
     Trent University campus 
     
    
   
   
    
     eant] is pot feaen sexual ae 
     
     otypes pageants 
     
     placing it on a stage and holding 
     
     it up for ridicule. It is not to 
     
     Se en ere 
     
     “At the time we found 
     
     the comments] humorous; 
     
     wever, when taken out of 
     
     context, we can see how it 
     
     would be offensive. Perhaps 
     
     we gave university students too 
     
     much credit, but we assumed 
     
     they understood this was in- 
     
     Fiabe pad oehahon: 
     
     organizers of this event 
     
     for the last 10 years.” 
     
     Andrea Norquay co-co- 
     
     rent Wom- 
     
    
   
   
    
     iti personally target- 
     
     ng Thompson and Gunn for 
     
     their role in the pageant has 
     
     on the Trent campus, 
     
     and that has also been con- 
     
     demned. 
     
     “It seems to us that the 
     
     same people who wave around 
     
     licies on human rights and 
     
     [oeenend as inherent protec- 
     
     tion for the community feel 
     
     threatening and harassing us is 
     
     weer It — es Be 
     
     massive hypocrisy of spec 
     
     i groups at Trent. Our 
     
    
   
   
    
     feeli 
     
     i 
     
    
   
   
    
     interest 
     
     involvement in the actual pag- 
     
    
   
   
    
     eant was to solicit participants 
     
     and then run the aed a 
     
     lights, we did not read or write 
     
     the bi ies of the contest- 
     
     ants,” wrote Gunn and 
     
     Thompson.