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     Editor’s Note: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Since President Baker took office there have 
     
     been many complaints about his handling of the 
     
     amalgamation process and the direction of the 
     
     University since amalgamation. We will not de- 
     
     bate the merits of these criticisms at this time. 
     
     It has come to our attention, however, that there 
     
     was one stage in the negotiations for amalgam- 
     
     ation where the President showed up very well 
     
     indeed. We believe he should get credit for his 
     
     stand against the Board of Governors of St. 
     
     Dunstan’s University. The adoption of the 
     
     S.D.U. proposals shown below would definitely 
     
     be contrary to the intent of the Act and the 
     
     Govemment’s position stated in the White Paper 
     
     of April 2, 1968. Although this document is 
     
     classified as confidential we feel it is important 
     
     people realize what was going on during the 
     
     amalgamation negotiations in the summer of 
     
     1969. We also feel that the President and the 
     
     U.P.E.l. Board of Governors should be com- 
     
     mended for their unanimous stand against such 
     
     insane proposals. 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 
     
     Minutes of the Closed Session of the Board of Governors 
     
    
   
   
    
     July 28, 1969 
     
    
   
   
    
     The President reported to the Board that he had been asked by the St. Dunstan’s University 
     
     Negotiating Committee to obtain the opinion of the Board of Governors of U.P.E.I. on two 
     
    
   
   
    
     sections of the S.D.U. proposal: 
     
    
   
   
    
     (k) The University of Prince Edward Island shall establish and maintain a programme in the 
     
    

    
     Faculty of Arts of the University (preferably to be known as the St. Dunstan’s College pro gr- 
     
     amme) which shall offer to students of the University such courses in the ‘ 
     
     as may be determined by the Faculty Board appointed to administer such . 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
       
     
          
     
    
   
   
    
     resources of the University warrant, the University will provide adeq ' 'ties on campus 
     
     to accommodate the teaching and administrative staff and students in 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
           
     
         
     
        
     
        
     
       
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
         
     
       
     
       
     
        
     
        
     
       
     
        
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     . s, for the students who are 
     
     - f library, athletic and social fac- 
     
     to a reasonable accomodation in the matter 
     
    
   
   
    
     of lecture halls and other academic facilities 8 as may be mutually agreed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     -The President had taken the stand a 
     
     Sen te and that it would be both improper and 
     
     illegal for the Government of the Pr the Board of Governors of S.D.U. or 
     
     U.P.E.I. to negotiate them. He 
     
     was the same towards the two f . overnment. As a courtesy, however, he was 
     
    
   
   
    
     prepared to obtain an opinio fr - i - Board/of Governors of U.P.E.I., without in any way 
     
    
   
   
    
     The President said that h een forced to ask that the meeting of the Board of Gover- 
     
     nors be closed for thi ' - \ ‘ 
     
     iating Committee to se proposals. He would try to obtain permission as soon 
     
     embers if the item was no longer confidential. (At the following 
     
     mittee the S.D.U. negotiators asked that the proposals be 
     
    
   
   
    
     ey not be discussed in open meetings.) 
     
    
   
   
    
     * sed 1118 views strongly. He said that these two clauses opened the way to 
     
     ney for a program outside University control — in effect a federated 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
        
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     1it ope . (1 within it. In his view this would be totally uneconomic; moreover it 
     
     t . pirit of the Act, and certainly against the spirit in which he had been brought 
     
     to the o . i I point in his meetings with members of either university or in his meetings 
     
     had there been a suggestion of the likelihood of such a wftem. 
     
    
   
   
    
     After a lengthy discussion, the Board unanimously agreed to support the President’s stand 
     
     that the negotiations between Government and S.D.U. should be confined to the acquisition of 
     
     physical assets. The President thanked the Board for their support. He said that he would 
     
     notify the Negotiating Committee of the Board’s opinion.