LetterS...e 
     
    
   
   
    
     To the editor: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Once again 
     
     this year, the Stu- 
     
     dent Union elections 
     
     have had a low voter 
     
     turnout. While. this, 
     
     in part, can be cred- 
     
     ited to a lack of interest 
     
     or awareness on part 
     
     of the students, fault 
     
     should also-lie with the 
     
     faculty. 
     
    

    
     Although professors 
     
     were requested to ex- 
     
     cuse students 
     
     from classes between 
     
     10:45 — 12:00 for Stu- 
     
     dent Union speeches a 
     
     number of professors 
     
     felt that they had lost 
     
     too much time due to 
     
     storms to grant this. 
     
    

    
     However, professors 
     
     should be aware that 
     
     university edu- 
     
     cation entails not only 
     
     academic enhancement 
     
     but. also political and 
     
     social development. As 
     
     an example to the stu- 
     
     dent body, the _ pro- 
     
     fessors should encour- 
     
     age the overall develop- 
     
     ment of students rather 
     
     than being unduly con- 
     
     cerned over loss of one 
     
     class period. 
     
    

    
     Some fault may. also 
     
     lie 
     
     with the Student Union 
     
     which should have en- 
     
     sured the cancel- 
     
     lation of classes for the 
     
     speeches did carry over 
     
     to Wednesday. (The re- 
     
     quest had been made 
     
     for classes to be can- 
     
     celled on Tuesday but 
     
     due to the storm day, 
     
    
   
   
    
     the speeches were post- 
     
     poned until Wednes- 
     
     day.) 
     
    

    
     Sincerely, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Maureen Keenan & 
     
     Blair Weeksua 
     
    
   
   
    
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     The entrance’ to 
     
     Belvedere is one and a 
     
     half lanes wide between 
     
     the barrel and the drift 
     
     (the one you have to 
     
     be in the middle of the. 
     
     road to see around) for 
     
     traffic going both ways. | 
     
    

    
     The — ~ park- 
     
     ing lot looks like a scene 
     
     from °’Platoon’: Half 
     
    
   
   
    
     Dear Editor, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Something must be 
     
     done about the noise in 
     
     the Robertson Library. 
     
     Every time I am read- 
     
     ing, there are people 
     
     talking around me. I 
     
     am getting so fed up! 
     
    

    
     I know I am not 
     
     the only one who feels 
     
     this way. There ought 
     
     to be a no-talking rule. 
     
     There is such a rule 
     
     for study carrols, but it 
     
    
   
   
    
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     the spaces are occupied 
     
     by snowdrifts. 
     
    
   
   
    
     There is three 
     
     inches of slush and wa- 
     
     ter on the walkways. | 
     
    
   
   
    
     The boys in: main- 
     
     tainance (as in main- 
     
     tain?) must be having 
     
     one hell of a card game. 
     
    

    
     signed, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Snowbody Works 
     
    
   
   
    
     is not making any dif- 
     
     ference, so I no longer 
     
     wish to have a car- 
     
     rol. Our “super-quiet” 
     
     room. is a joke! 
     
     I was there someone 
     
     had a tape playing and 
     
     I could. hear it even 
     
     though he had ear- 
     
     phones on. 
     
    

    
     I am severely pissed 
     
     off! PLEASE help! 
     
    
   
   
    
     (Name witheld by | 
     
    
   
   
    
     request). 
     
    
   
   
    
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