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     As I sit here and write 
     
     this column I am very 
     
     pleased to say our policy 
     
     project (written portion) 
     
     is over. The remainder of 
     
     the Senior students will, 
     
     I imagine, completely 
     
     agree with me. (Rumor 
     
     hath it that the one and 
     
     only 'Ibby Nantau was 
     
     driven to drink by his 
     
     policy project partners.) 
     
     A great deal of time and 
     
     effort went into each 
     
     project and as far as I 
     
     am concerned, it was a 
     
     learning experience never 
     
     to be forgotten. I' wish 
     
     the Juniors lots of luck 
     
     next year and, contrary 
     
     to rumors, policy projects 
     
     will never cease to exist. 
     
     Presentations begin 
     
     Tuesday, 5th of December 
     
     and prove to be most 
     
     interesting. 
     
    
     Exam schedules have 
     
     been released and quickly 
     
     students rush to the lists 
     
    
     and no»: they have 3 of 
     
     the toughest Business . 
     
     exams in 4 days. This 
     
     totally amazes this writer. 
     
     How can the em schedule 
     
     be so tough on a group 
     
    
     of people? The answer 
     
     very quid&lt;ly is the same 
     
     echoed throughout the 
     
     past, "the computer did 
     
     it. " (he must remember 
     
     that the computers are 
     
     programmed by human beings 
     
     and whoever made the final 
     
     decision never had the 
     
     experience of writing 
     
     marketing, finance and 
     
     accounting in a 4-day 
     
     period. 'Jhe juniors will 
     
     have it tough and it will 
     
     continue to be'difficult 
     
     unless they start 
     
     expressing their opinions. 
     
     Here is where we enter the 
     
     picture. The Business 
     
    
     &gt; Society represents the 
     
    
     students and if we receive 
     
     a legitimate complaint 
     
     then we will try to do 
     
    
     ‘ the better. 
     
    
     8th h - rescheduled 
     
     but it will work out for 
     
     We are- 
     
     presently looking at 
     
     Dec. 19th (last exam day) 
     
     for the event and feel 
     
     this is an'excellent time. 
     
     Now for thebiggest 
     
     piece of news that has 
     
     rod&lt;ed the student 
     
     populatim. Next semester 
     
     we will be without the 
     
     services of the one and 
     
     only Gerald McKenna who 
     
     will graduate from this 
     
     institution. 'lhe 
     
     grapevine estimates Gerald 
     
     has been registered at 
     
    
     ; UPEI for somewhere 
     
    
     between 5 and 8 years but 
     
     only he and Mike Hermessey 
     
     know for sure. He has 
     
     held almost every position 
     
     available and volunteered 
     
     for anything which has 
     
     been raised. I personally 
     
     feel there should be a 
     
     building named in his 
     
     honor. If 10% of the 1400 
     
    
     .prs, intramurals and 
     
    
     to see when the time and 
     
     place of the all-important 
     
     exams occur. Much to the 
     
     dismay of many Junior 
     
     Business students, they 
     
     very quid&lt;ly find out 
     
    
     that 3 months of hard 
     
     studying is behind them 
     
    
     feedback . 
     
    
     Soft Energy 
     
    
     conservation and renewable-energy areas. “There are 
     
    
     incredible Opportunities to make money right he 
     
    
     says. "i have eight products ready to go." 
     
    
     Nevertheless. Swain does not think that a 
     
     renewable-dominated energy economy isan immediate 
     
     orospect for Canada. “There are some who assert that 
     
     we can fill the gap (between‘future domestic supplyand 
     
     demand‘i With renewable resources. l don’t think we 
     
     can. During the next 50 years we are not likely to find 
     
     Substitutes for liqwd hydrocarbons in many areas." 
     
    
     Making haste slowly, in fact, seems to sum up the 
     
     attitude of most energy planners toward the 
     
     develooment of renewables. Many caution that such 
     
     develooment sh0uld not be allowed to become 
     
     uneconomicai, in a report on solar energy prepared for 
     
     the federal government, Professor MK, Berkownz of 
     
     the Universin of Toronto oomts out that "while self- 
     
     reliance IS a major objective. Canada might also aspire 
     
     to self‘suffiCiency in coffee, tobacco and, for that 
     
     matter,anything else.The abundance and deSirabilityof 
     
     solar energy is eVident. The proolem is utilizmg the sun 
     
     in an economically viable way." In the same vein, Dr. E. 
     
     P. Cockshutt of the National Research Council has 
     
     warned: "The baSlC feaSibility of solar heating has 
     
     definitely been established, but there exists a wide 
     
     diversity of imperfectly proven hardware systems... The 
     
     commerCial outlook for the next 10 or 15 years is far 
     
     from certain." 
     
    
     Nor do those charged With the planning of Canada's 
     
     energy future share the view of some supporters of the 
     
     conserver seeiety that nonrenewables and renewables 
     
     are mutually imcompatible. Dr. Robert Durie, who as 
     
     director of the federal 
     
     Advanced Concepts Centre played a maior part in the 
     
     establishment of theArkhas considerable experience in 
     
     both areas. "Renewables and nonrenewables”, he says. 
     
     "are often seen as adversaries. I try to argue against 
     
     that. There need be no conflict. In fact, there are a lot of 
     
     opportunities for improving the enVironment in 
     
     nonrenewable energy development.” 
     
    
     Similarly, in another government study on 
     
     renewable energy, R. J. Templin of the National 
     
     Research Council, and one of Canada's leading wind 
     
     experts, says that "no energy source lS perfect, and it is 
     
     probably misleading to think of the various sources, 
     
     renewable or nonrenewable, as being competitors for 
     
    
     future application.” 
     
    
     This view is reinforced by a recent study by National 
     
     Economic Research Associates, a US. economic 
     
    
     something about it. The 
     
     professors are behind us 
     
     100% but we (professors 
     
    
     and society) can‘t react 
     
     unless we have a form of 
     
    
     I am sorry to say that 
     
     the pub planned on Dec. 
     
    
     enwronment department’s . 
     
    
     or so students had as 
     
    
     much school spirit as 
     
    
     this gentleman, then UPEI 
     
     would be the most exciting 
     
     university to attend east 
     
     of U.B.C. Good-bye, 
     
     Gerald; too bad after all 
     
     these years you didn't 
     
    
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     consultingfirm :hath soeen engaged for many vearSin 
     
     var-ous rzsoect -‘;‘ energy :1 9 ..5 authors, Harry Peary 
     
     and Sally H, Smelter, see no evsdtnce th 
     
     and "soft" energy patns are mutually exciuswe. 
     
     "Endugh evidence does exist“. thevwrite. "to conclude 
     
     that hard and soft technologses can eXist-side by Side, 
     
     both being used to the extent that they prowde the 
     
    
     lowest—cost...source of energy. 
     
    
     "Until now, however, the soft supply technologies 
     
     have been unable in most instances to compete with the, 
     
    
     i. 
     
    
     at the "hard" 
     
    
     (hard ones. in fact, a transmon from mostly soft- 
     
    
     technologies —— biomass (wood), windpower, solar 
     
     energy to a more limited extent. and hydroelectric — 
     
     took place worldWide in the past hundred years. This 
     
     occurred not because the two types of energy are 
     
     mutually exclusive — in fact, they continue to exist 
     
     almost everywhere —— but because under the existing 
     
    
     conditions and under the constraints in operation, at' 
     
    
     least up until now, the hard technologies were generally 
     
     less costly." 
     
    
     Fortuantely there is no reason why Canadians need 
     
     be unduly dismayed by the collective opinion of our 
     
     energy‘experts that a totally renewable economy is not 
     
     just around the corner. While Canada’s storehouse of 
     
     nonrenewabl fossil fuels is finite, it is by no means 
     
    
     exhausted. Our traditional sources of energy supply— 
     
     oil and gas ——- are likely to playa diminishing role in the . 
     
    
     future, but even here the results of aggressive 
     
     exploration suggest grounds f0r cautious optimism. 
     
     Improved technology and more attractive economics 
     
     have already resulted in a start being made on tapping 
     
     the vast potential of western Canada’s oil sands. In 
     
     addition, coal —— of which we have a plentiful supply— 
     
     will play an increasingly important role, and hydro and 
     
     nuclear power will also make important contributions. 
     
    
     When, to our still-extenswe nonrenewable energy 
     
     sources, one adds the effect on energy demand growth 
     
     that more efficient use and conseryation can have (and 
     
     which are already beginning to show), it becomes 
     
     apparent that Canada does have the time to make an 
     
     orderly and ec0nomic transfer to a renewables-based 
     
     economy. 
     
    
     We may, indeed, be headed for some kind of 
     
     conserver society, in the sense that today's values and 
     
     standards will be replaced by other more in accord with 
     
     future living conditions. But there is no reason, in the 
     
     veiw of many informed observers, why that kind, of 
     
     society cannot function in a world that, with a new~ 
     
     found prudence, employs both renewable and 
     
     nonrenewable sources for its energy needsIJ 
     
    
     ' see the light and enrol 
     
    
     in the B.B.A. program. 
     
     (P.S. Youdid a remarkable 
     
     job as editor of the SUN.) 
     
     7 As the semester comes 
     
     to a close one must look 
     
     had&lt; and see whether it 
     
     wasputtouse._Asfar 
     
     as the Business Society 
     
     is concerned, we _ 
     
     accatplished‘a number Of 
     
     our objectives and are 
     
     lodting forward to next 
     
     semester activities.. The 
     
     busmesspersms' ' dinner 
     
     in February, ordering of 
     
     Business Society shirts, 
     
    
     other events which will 
     
     be exciting are in the 
     
     planning stages. 
     
    
     I think this is the 
     
     first time I ever showed 
     
     any sympathy to a ' 
     
     professor who was giving 
     
     an exam. In this case I 
     
     feel it is warranted 
     
     because nearly all 
     
     business exams are 
     
     scheduled near or at the 
     
     end of the year whidi is 
     
     close to Girisutas. There 
     
     will be a big rush on their 
     
     part to correct the many 
     
     exams written and 
     
     present them to the 
     
     mgistrar at a specified 
     
     time. This will‘definitely 
     
     effect ﬂieir performance 
     
     because they are only 
     
     human but I will offer 
     
     a suggestion: lots of 
     
     ched&lt; marks becausa they 
     
     are easier to make than 
     
     an X‘ and put 80 on all 
     
     exams you don't have 
     
     time to correct. 
     
    
     Seeyou next issue. - 
     
    
     r Brian Gaudet 
     
    
     EXCHANGE —_ DECEMBER 6 
     
    
     Why not finish this term 
     
     the right way by taking a 
     
     night off and enjoying the 
     
     last Exchange Coffee-House 
     
     of the year! 
     
    
     It's going to/be a great 
     
     night of music supplied 
     
     by such fine musicians as 
     
     Ray Peltier, Mary and Ron 
     
     Bourdon, Jim Stright, 
     
     Scott Parsons, Ien Madnal' 
     
     and Paul Allen, Paul 
     
     Broadbent, 'Iennie Gallant 
     
     and Roy Johnston. And of 
     
     course lots' of hot d'IOCOl 
     
     hot coffee and teah and 
     
     delicious Cookies. All 
     
     the ingredients are here 
     
     for a relaxing evening. . 
     
     You jtst have to add your' 
     
     self! ' 7 
     
    
     This extra special night 
     
     of entertainment will 
     
     begin' at 8 p.m. sharp, 50 
     
     .be sure to make plans to 
     
     be there with your friends 
     
     on time because there is 
     
     only seating for 95 
     
     people. 
     
    
     Have a. nice day. 
     
    
     A]. Ward