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     W John Cairns I 
     
     “on November 29 a Contract 
     
    
   
   
    
     FLANETARIUM CONTRACT SIGNED 
     
    
   
   
    
     government's University Act 15 
     
    
   
   
    
     forbids UPEI to undertake any 
     
    
   
   
    
     the university run by its own 
     
     board, but UPEI does have the 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE UPEI SUN, Thursday, January 10, 1980, page 3 
     
    
   
   
    
     a separate corporation from planetarium announcement 
     
    
   
   
    
     came as a surprise. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Wm signed in the conference new financial liability 
     
    

    
     I.oom of Kelly to bring the _without the approval of the 
     
    

    
     Abegweit Science Centre (A-S-Co) previncial cabinet». Dr. 
     
    

    
     to UPEI. 'The Centre, featuring Meincke hoped such approval 
     
    

    
     3100 Seat planetarium theatre, 'would be forthcoming. 
     
    

    
     was represented at the signing Dr. Grant feels that the I 
     
     writs president, Mr- Heber planetarium will be a way to 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
         
     
         
     
        
     
        
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     advantage. 
     
    
   
   
    
     buildings that if they are 
     
    
   
   
    
     then go their separate ways. 
     
    
   
   
    
     the SUN staff included, the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     assurance that the facilities 
     
     will be used to the university's 
     
     It will be part of 
     
     the lease on the planetarium 
     
    
   
   
    
     used in a way detrimental to 
     
     UPEI the agreement can be ended, 
     
     and UPEI and the A.S.C. would 
     
    
   
   
    
     To much of the UPEI community, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Although it had 
     
    

    
     been taken to the 
     
     university Senate and 
     
     Board of Governors, the 
     
     plan for the planetarium 
     
     received very little 
     
     advance publicity. Dr. 
     
     Meincke declared 
     
    

    
     this lack of buildup the 
     
     result of uncertainty. 
     
     The negotiations with the 
     
     A.S.C. were delicate, 
     
    

    
     and they might have 
     
     broken down at any 
     
    

    
     one of several points. 
     
     Yet as luck would have 
     
     it, the talks proceeded, 
     
     agreements were reached, 
     
     and now the contract has 
     
     been signed. All systems 
     
    
   
   
    
     are go, and the planetarium 
     
    
   
   
    
     dome should soon start to 
     
     loom next to Alumni 
     
     Gymnasium. 
     
    
   
   
    
     PLAN ETARIUM 
     
    
   
   
    
     LINK TO GYM 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
           
     
           
     
        
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
     Jmms, andghy*"‘ “tgpgnp , make UPEI more attractive to 
     
     Mr.Henr$ Cdia.f-ST§hih Prince Edward Islanders. 
     
    

    
     NTH Werémuflilerfiixy’DEESidentic ‘He states that UPEI, as a new 
     
     Dr.Peter Meincke, and Dr. university still finding its 
     
     Kanmth C. Grant, Chairman place, has to have the support 
     
     ofthe Board of Governors., 
     
    

    
     hm agreement stipulates that 
     
     Um university will construCt 
     
     um buildings for the new 
     
     facility while the" A.S. C‘. 
     
     movides most of the additional 
     
     emupment.l; 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the community. By being 
     
     of interest to people, the 
     
     planetarium can help win that 
     
     support. ’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Abegweit Science Centre 
     
     Will be built just to the north 
     
     1 _ of Alumni Gymnasium. The two 
     
    

    
     Having the A.S.Cw at UPEI was facilities will be connected by 
     
     aproject conceived ianune of a walkway, and eventually 
     
     19Th and for which negotiations the gymnasium will be turned 
     
     Mtceeded until recently. over to the A.S.C. as a museum. 
     
     Cmmtruction is to begin almost This location, along with the 
     
     nmediately and the planetarium's I 
     
     Wmning date is to be sometime 
     
     ix1the summer of l9BO.\sThis 
     
     mans that the buildings must 
     
     lie finished by late April for 
     
     itwill take an extra QOidays 
     
     tOinstall the planetarium 
     
     maddnery.< Once completed, 
     
     MNever, the new facility/will 
     
     Nbvide a rather spectacular 
     
     White study the sky and sky ‘ 
     
     Menomena. fThough often a 
     
     Confllsed with observatories, 
     
     Dlanetariums are more for 
     
     deIMmstrating scientific 
     
     hfimenings‘than for watching 
     
     um real thing. ‘ ’ s , ;’«. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     provision for the gym, makes 
     
    

    
     yvthe planetarium more affordable 
     
     for UPEI: tit also puts the p. I 
     
     planetarium on display to theca g 
     
     public while keeping it away ~" 
     
     from the more ancient structures 
     
     at the center of the campus. 
     
     Thus, the planetarium will be 
     
     clearly in sight to travellers” 
     
     on University Avenue while 
     
     ,remaining invisible to students 
     
     moving between classes. 
     
    

    
     Just because it will be on 
     
     the periphery of the campus, 
     
     however, does not make the 
     
     ,planetarium»valueless.to 
     
     ‘Students. Montreal's James 
     
     Dumas, curator of the Abegweit 
     
     .Science Centre, assured those 
     
    

    
     e contr t .> . present at the contract signing 
     
     Wmnt f ac a hlstorlc \that the planetarium will be 
     
     easur or UPEI' He expfessed_ a definite asset for university 
     
     6 that the long discu351ons 
     
     negotiations with the A.S.C., courses, particularly astronomy. 
     
     {We borne fruit; At thé same Dr. Meincke then added that 
     
     “E he cautioned that the ' _special planetarium shows could 
     
     .anetarium still faced one 'be provided for students in 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     On November 29 University 
     
     reSldent, Peter Meincke, 
     
    
   
   
    
     called the completion of THE 
     
     ISLAND." 
     
    
   
   
    
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