UPEI Sun October 14, 1982 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     CM’IENI‘S & CRITICISVIS 
     
    
   
   
    
     After the student‘s 
     
     meeting on Oct. 7, at 
     
     which students expressed 
     
     their Views  
     
     Pres. Meincke"s proposed 
     
     changes at UPEI, I received 
     
     a number of comments and 
     
     criticisms. I think 
     
     it might be of interest ‘ 
     
     to students if I expressed 
     
     these publicly. 
     
    

    
     Before I do that I will 
     
     say the following: 
     
    

    
     At one point I was 
     
     asked ‘to read a proposal 
     
     fran a student who had 
     
     laryngitis. This pro— 
     
     posal, in effect, called 
     
     for an investigation into 
     
     the manner in which the 
     
     "Meincke Report" was made 
     
     and, in the event that it 
     
     was done moonstimtionally, 
     
     the students should 
     
     proceed to take legal action 
     
     with the ultinate aim of 
     
     de-throning (inpeaching) 
     
     the President. Being chair- 
     
    
   
   
    
     V I've heard: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Marilyn Hardy, Soph. Music 
     
     "Yes we need cutbacks but 
     
     a degree program” 
     
     issue changes my set plans. 
     
     I think athletes and 
     
    

    
     other fringes should be 
     
     investigated further 
     
     before (specifically) 
     
     Music etc. is dropped." 
     
    
   
   
    
     This 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mark Stevenson, Soph. Arts 
     
    

    
     "I think that on the whole 
     
     everyone is overreacting. 
     
     Yet,I do disagree in principle 
     
     with the methods used to 
     
    

    
     gain information for the 
     
     proposals. 
     
     bombshell. " 
     
    
   
   
    
     It hit like a 
     
    
   
   
    
     person, I had no right to 
     
     editorialize on this 
     
     person's proposal and 
     
     should have merely read . 
     
     it for him (or her) ." ' ‘ 
     
     However, because I was 
     
     afraid that the press would 
     
     PiCk up on the issue and 
     
     destroy the credibility of 
     
     the meeting and because 
     
     I was afraid of personal 
     
     vulnerability I destroyed 
     
     the intent of this person's 
     
     proposal through some can- 
     
     ments I made. - I realize 
     
     that I was wrong to do that 
     
     and I would like togapologize 
     
     to person congealed. 
     
     Now for the criticisms 
     
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     Several people came to me 
     
     after the nesting and said 
     
     that it ‘was unfortunate that 
     
     I had permitted mrbersof - 
     
     Student Council  to 
     
     dcnu'nate part of the neeti'ng. 
     
     by answering the students 
     
     back, when (after express- . 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ing their personal views) 
     
     they should have been listen- 
     
     ing to and accepting the 
     
     will of the students. 
     
    

    
     To this I say:- first, I'm 
     
     still learning to chair a 
     
     mass meeting; and secondly, I 
     
     believe sane good'oould be 
     
     taken frcm these happenings. 
     
     At least students had the , 
     
     opportunity to see how respon- 
     
     sible (or non-responsive, as 
     
     the case may be) Student 
     
     Council Executives are to 
     
     the wishes'of studa'zts. 
     
    
   
   
    
     igfirnmf “mm” 
     
     responsible ...Note 
     
     oamnents on CBC-rm the 
     
     fouowmg day} When he assert- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ed that  Student Reps. Will 
     
     proposed 
     
    
   
   
    
     vote against the 
     
    

    
     Qantas, as the students ,, , 
     
    

    
     Wmlo ’_ ' . 
     
     Finally. It was felt— that 
     
    

    
     there was a need to move 
     
    

    
     more {rapidly Wands 
     
    

    
     Planning alternatives to 
     
    
   
   
    
     Question: What do you thmk' 
     
     of the Acadanic changes 
     
     proposals? , 
     
    
   
   
    
     Micheal Moore, Frosh, Education 
     
     “I don't like the proposals, 
     
    

    
     I don't believe they will ' ‘ 
     
     help the university in - 
     
     relation to'music, etc. 7 
     
     Although these proposals 
     
    

    
     do not affect me I think 
     
    

    
     there are better ways y 
     
    

    
     than cutting out programs." 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sheila MacDonald ,Frosh,PSc 
     
     "The whole face of the 
     
     university will be 
     
     changed." 
     
    
   
   
    
     the report. Many students 
     
     felt that the alternatives 
     
     were not "aeoncmic catas— 
     
     trophe" or "devestation 
     
    

    
     of acadenic programing". , 
     
     'It was felt that the Admin- 
     
    
   
   
    
     istration created panic in 
     
    
   
   
    
     an attetpt‘to forestall 
     
    

    
     thought. a. . 
     
     'Io this point ,If'want to 
     
    

    
     mention that John MacDougall 
     
    
   
   
    
     . has said that bewill call 
     
    
   
   
    
     for a admitted (not of) - V 
     
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     ° and that” thistecnmittee will 
     
    
   
   
    
     be for bringing 
     
     the shrierits,‘  to 
     
     ' 'mese  most common 
     
     criticztsns' ’  ' 
     
     were many f  f" laments 
     
    
   
   
    
     as well.- 
     
     . John O‘Brien 
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
    
   
   
    
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