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     *th BUSINESS KILL-'TPETT 
     
    
     by Anna MacDonald 
     
    
     IA recent debate concern- 
     
     ing a possible change from 
     
     the Department of BusineSS‘ 
     
     Administration to a School 
     
     of Business, has caused a 
     
     great deal of controversy 
     
     and heated discussion among 
     
     both the Faculty and stu-‘ 
     
     dents of UPEI. ' 
     
    
     At present, Business Ad- 
     
     ministration is classified 
     
     as a department under the 
     
     jurisdiction of the FacUlty 
     
     of Arts. Any students at- 
     
     tending UPEI for the busi- 
     
     ness program must register 
     
     under the Faculty of Arts 
     
     with a major in Business 
     
     Administration. 
     
    
     Some of the Faculty and 
     
     students of Business feel 
     
     that the Business Depart- 
     
     ment would function more 
     
     effectively as a separate 
     
     school. 7 
     
    
     Professor J. Revell, 
     
     head of the Department of 
     
     Business'Administration, 
     
     expressed his views on the 
     
     issue in an interview with 
     
     the SUN. Revell feels that. 
     
     the time has come for change 
     
    
     at UPEI. ' 
     
    
     in 1969; the Businessv;,w 
     
    
     Department consisted of?‘ ?‘”n 
     
    
     three faculty members and; 
     
     less than l00 students. 
     
    
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     grated degree-program with 
     
     an enrollment of approxi-' 
     
     mately #00 students or 
     
     30% of the student popu- 
     
     lation at UPEI.’ ' 
     
     Revell feels that Busi- 
     
     ness Administration should 
     
     have separate status due 
     
     to differences in organ-‘ 
     
     izational structure. Busi- 
     
     ness is not a faculty be‘ 
     
     cause it is unidepartment- 
     
     al while the Faculty of 
     
     Arts is multidepartmental. 
     
     A change from department— 
     
     al to school status would- 
     
     place Business Administra- 
     
     tion in its proper place 
     
     at UPEt, actording to 
     
     Revell. School status, he 
     
     feels, would actually cre- 
     
     ate a better business pro- 
     
     gram for the students.' 
     
    
     Although Revell expresses 
     
    
     confidence in a new status 
     
     ‘for business, some arts 
     
     faculty members and arts 
     
     students have expressed. 
     
     fear that school status 
     
     would give the business 
     
     sector t00 much influence 
     
     in matters such as budget, 
     
     staff changes, and curri- 
     
     culum. ' 
     
    
     ‘ Revell replied to this 
     
     fear by saying that the 
     
     university would have to 
     
     'ensure safeguards that 
     
     would prevent business or 
     
     any other department from 
     
     getting a bigger share in 
     
     the budget. 
     
    
     President Meincke stated 
     
     in an interview that “the 
     
     determination of the needs 
     
     of any one department or 
     
     program has to be made by 
     
     \comparing it with all the 
     
    
     other programs and depart- 
     
     ments throughout UPEI and 
     
     not just with those in a 
     
     partiCular faculty. Thus, 
     
     school status for Business 
     
     Administration will not 
     
     enhance its ability to get 
     
     a greater share of the pie. 
     
     Meincke stated that such 
     
     safeguards ane built into 
     
     the budget process itself. 
     
     Some arts students have 
     
     expressed belief that 
     
     schpod status would result 
     
     in the increased special- 
     
     ization of business. 
     
     Meincke replied by saying, 
     
     "I certainly do not believe 
     
     school status will increase 
     
     the degree of business 
     
     specialization. There will 
     
     ‘ be important input into 
     
     planning and development 
     
     of the program through 
     
    
     . the Academic Committee. I 
     
    
     am confident that Senate 
     
     will continue to keep a 
     
     very careful eye on what 
     
     happens in the business 
     
     program.” 
     
    
     Revell believes that 
     
     school status will actually: 
     
    
     increase the interaction k ‘ 
     
    
     and integration of students? 
     
     .and faculty members from E 
     
    
     both business and the Fac". 
     
     ulty of Arts. 
     
    
     Meincke replied by saying, 
     
     "I do not think making busi- 
     
     a school will either enhance 
     
     or increase/decrease the 
     
     interaction of business stu- 
     
     dents with students enrolled 
     
     in arts programs. This in-, 
     
     teraction will continue to 
     
     come through.being enrolled 
     
     in the same courses. I am 
     
     also confident that the in- 
     
     creased activities of the 
     
     Student Union will play an 
     
     important role in bringing 
     
     all students in this Univer-‘ 
     
    
      together.“ ' " " ‘ ' ‘ ‘ " " ‘ " " 
     
    
     ‘ The implications of a new 
     
     school status for business 
     
     could possibly have far- 
     
     reaching effects for UPEI. 
     
     While some students and 
     
     faculty members gri both 
     
    
      FUR'NERS ME ETéy-‘Z 
     
    
     by Heather MacDougall 
     
    
     The first meeting of the 
     
     l980/8l International Stu- 
     
     dents Society of UPEI was 
     
     held Wed. Oct. 8. The agen- 
     
     da included a review of the 
     
     past year's activities; the 
     
     election of this year's new 
     
     executive; and some sugges- 
     
     tions for the upcoming ac- 
     
     tivities of the society. 
     
     Among those in attendance 
     
    
     were Jim Griffith of Student 
     
    
     ,Services; Profs. Jammu and 
     
     Judson, UPEI's foreign stu- 
     
     dent advisors; and Nadine 
     
     Smith, the International 
     
     Education Representative 
     
    
     for Red Cross. Unfortunately, 
     
    
     ‘the student turnout was not 
     
     as great as anticipated.. 
     
    
     ing executives were as fol- 
     
     lows: 
     
    
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     arts and business applaud 
     
     the idea of a business 
     
     school, others feel that 
     
     it may be detrimental to 
     
     the Faculty of Arts. Frank 
     
     Ledwell, Dean of Arts, re- 
     
     fused to comment on the 
     
     issue at this time. But 
     
     one arts professor mentioned 
     
     that if business became a 
     
     school, and students were 
     
     made to take more business 
     
     courses, the fine arts and 
     
     other small arts courses 
     
     may phase out due to lack 
     
     ‘of enrollment. 
     
    
     If this becomes the case, 
     
     the fear of UPEI losing its 
     
     status as a “liberal arts“ 
     
    
     school to become a community 
     
     college may be well founded. 
     
    
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     President ‘ Harmut Jewan 
     
     (Germany) 
     
     Re’election 
     
    
     Vice President - Heather 
     
     MacDougall (Canada) 
     
    
     Secretary-Treasurer - 
     
     Memboob Rahemtulla 
     
     ' (Kenya) 
     
    
     The members and executive 
     
     of this years society have 
     
     the advantage of an estab- 
     
     lished constitution, a sub- 
     
     committee status for the 
     
     Students Union, thanks to 
     
     the work of last years 
     
     executive. 
     
    
     The membership of the 
     
     international Student 
     
     Society of UPEI is not 
     
     limited to foreigners. 
     
     0n the contrary, the 50* 
     
     ciety welcomes all stu- 
     
     dents, Canadian and non- 
     
     Canadian. A society such 
     
     as this gives an oppor- 
     
     tunity for each member to 
     
     establish good friend- 
     
    
     ships and to widen world 
     
    
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     meeting this week to plan 
     
     projects for the coming 
     
     year and the next Society 
     
     meeting will be well an- 
     
     nounced. 
     
    
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