was thatr-like Marx's sta— 
     
     te--the administration as 
     
     a superVisory level over 
     
     students and teachers wou— 
     
     ld "wither away". I need 
     
     hardly point out that qui— 
     
     te the contrary has happ— 
     
     ened at UPEI since 1969! 
     
     There is no doubt that 
     
     the Curriculum Proposal C 
     
     is the only one of the 
     
     three that has any merit, 
     
     but it still falls short 
     
     of the person-centered 
     
     learning program that is 
     
     needed at a "people's 
     
     university." Back to the 
     
     drawing boards, gentlemen! 
     
    
   
   
    
     Yours truly, 
     
     Don M. Cregier 
     
     History Dept. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Dear Editor, , 
     
    

    
     It is with deep sorrow 
     
     that I pen this letter to 
     
     you. It is the knowledge 
     
     that this very day, the 
     
     day to follow and the days 
     
     afterward that a death is 
     
     taking place. Slowly, but 
     
     relentlessly Canadians ha- 
     
     ve been losing their will 
     
     to survive as a distinct 
     
    
   
   
    
     international people. Them .:007 
     
    
   
   
    
     passing, though unnoticed 
     
     by most: is saddening to 
     
     some and heart breaking to 
     
     myself. Nationalism, you 
     
     may tell me, is still ali— 
     
     ve, indeed at a high point 
     
     but that is only the last 
     
     shiver of a body mortally 
     
     wounded and now falling to 
     
     darkness. Even death might 
     
     be fine for death brings 
     
     the possibility of going 
     
     on to heaven. Canada will 
     
     not go to heaven. It will 
     
     only go to the United Sta— 
     
     tes. , 
     
    

    
     I write, however, not to 
     
     lament the cession of our 
     
     Dominion to the corrupt 
     
     cesspool that haunts us to 
     
     the south but rather of 
     
     two examples that have de- 
     
     eply disheartened this st- 
     
     udent of Canada. I 
     
    

    
     As a student living in 
     
     residence at Memorial Hall 
     
     I enjoy access to the ele— 
     
     ctric media of the tele- 
     
     vision. Having grown up 
     
     in an enviornment in which 
     
     one could pick and choose 
     
     programs shown by the 
     
     "idiot box" I developed a 
     
     taste for some document- 
     
     aries: Canadian documenta— 
     
     ries. Thus on November 11 
     
     (Rememberance Day) I hurr- 
     
     ied to the television room 
     
     to watch a fine dOCUmenta- 
     
     ry series presented by the 
     
     CBC, entitled something to 
     
     the effect of "The Days 
     
     Before Yesterday". It was 
     
    
   
   
    
     not being watched. Instead» 
     
    
   
   
    
     MacMillan & Wife had cap— 
     
     tivated the intellectual 
     
     minds of my well educated 
     
     cohorts. Without despair 
     
     I raced over to first Mar— 
     
     ion, then Bernadine Halls, 
     
     only tgxfind that every 
     
     set in those bastions of 
     
    
   
   
    
     ~“1iaingffrustr 
     
    
   
   
    
     Let's go home and 
     
     wait.“ carbons 
     
    
   
   
    
     higher learning was attuned 
     
    
   
   
    
     to the heavy socio—cultur- 
     
     al examination of life in 
     
     .San Francisco. I was disc- 
     
     ouraged. 
     
    

    
     Last Sunday night I was 
     
     enjoying the premier Cana— 
     
     dian documentary fig. Half 
     
     way through the show, whi- 
     
     ch by the way had shown, 
     
     features on the debate of 
     
     JFK's asassination and on 
     
     an African tribe headed by 
     
     a white man, a number of 
     
     fellow residents filtered 
     
     in to watch their weekly 
     
     dosage of flswaii_§:9- I 
     
     knew what they wanted and 
     
     ,being a meek, gentle pers- 
     
    
   
   
    
     'on, was ready to leave 
     
    
   
   
    
     when I thought better of 
     
     the matter. As an experi- 
     
     ment(and perhaps with a 
     
     martyr complex) I decided 
     
     to quietly hold my ground. 
     
     (Besides Carole Taylor was 
     
     on and what better supple— 
     
     ment can there be to a 
     
     man's courage than her pa- 
     
     triotic charm?) As each 
     
     entrant sat down he would 
     
     indignantly inquire as to 
     
     why Hawaii 5—0 was not on 
     
     "I'm watching this." I 
     
     would answer: Silepce. Bu- 
     
     'atioh.11j_ st 
     
     compliment the gentlemen 
     
    
   
   
    
     / 
     
    
   
   
    
     'on their polite acceptance 
     
    
   
   
    
     of one man's madness. Del: 
     
     iberating upon this dilem— 
     
     ma however, it was Only a 
     
     matter of time until one 
     
    

    
     would revert to that old~ 
     
     American tradition of maj— 
     
    
   
   
    
     And 50 +0 efhel‘ we shall I 
     
     over-Throw 
     
    
   
   
    
     a. 
     
    
   
   
    
     efi'udeau regime. 
     
    
   
   
    
     / 
     
     ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ority rule. I had held my 
     
     post for ten, maybe fifte- 
     
     en minutes but submission 
     
     was at hand and easily gi— 
     
     ven into. I never have be- 
     
     en a good martyr. ‘ 
     
    

    
     Perhaps I am not guiltless 
     
     myself. I too have watched 
     
     American documentaries or 
     
     movies when Canadian shows 
     
     were being presented. But 
     
     I felt saddened for my 
     
     people and sorry for myse— 
     
     lf. Even the CBC had hel- 
     
     ped engineer our defeat by 
     
     injecting the popular Ame— 
     
     rican shows into our blood— 
     
     streams. Is there no just- 
     
     ice? 
     
    

    
     These examples are small 
     
     but probably significant. 
     
     The Canadian search for 
     
     ourselves has succumbed to 
     
     the American obsession wi— 
     
     th violence. That night a 
     
     horrible vision fraught my 
     
     dreams. Sam McGarrett was 
     
     tracking me down as an 
     
     anti—American for not wat- 
     
     ching his shows. In the 
     
     darkness he shot purpose- 
     
    
   
   
    
     fully at my heart. Waking 
     
    

    
     in terror I searched my 
     
    

    
     pillow for blood. I found 
     
    

    
     only tears.; fi. ;» 7. ,.. 
     
     ;. ~ Don Pridmore