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     The Cadre is at the present time facing strife from 
     
     within as well as from without. This could very well be 
     
     the final issue of the Cadre for this year, and from this 
     
    
   
   
    
     staff. Following is the delemma the Cadre and its present 
     
     staff face. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Firstly, the main reason for no cussequent issues 
     
     this year is the simple fact that there is no one who 
     
     cares enough to give some time in the auctual production 
     
     of the paper. For the issue you are now reading a stag— 
     
     gering total of five people worked to get this issue to 
     
     the printers. The time is upon us all to prepare for the 
     
     end of the semester and it is not possible for a hand- 
     
     full of people to put out a decent paper and still main- 
     
     tain a good academic standard. Therefore the paper is 
     
     finished for this year. 
     
    
   
   
    
     However this is not our main concern what is , is 
     
    

    
     the student union through its articulate spokesman 
     
     Norbert Moran, has decreed that the Cadre must now have 
     
     an editor for next year. This is contrary to the magor- 
     
     'ity of the present staff for two reasons. ' 
     
    

    
     1) me feel that the editor should be chosen next fall. 
     
    

    
     39 we feel that the editor must be elected by the paper 
     
     staff and that this person be ratified by council. 
     
     The fact that this may be the last issue for this year has 
     
     no bearing on Moran's desire to have an editor selected 
     
     this year for next year. I fail to see Moran's logic how 
     
     can his efficiency be doubted if a paper which is not 
     
     being published does not have an editor. Instead Moran 
     
     has called for nominations from the entire student body. 
     
     However it is my opinion that a student should work on the 
     
     paper before he becomes the editor. How can one be selec- 
     
     ted from persons not even working on the paper or those 
     
     who have been a member but don't have the initiative to 
     
     stick it out. Also Moran has asked a certain student to 
     
     apply for the position of editor contrary to the policy of 
     
     other student newspapers where the staff are the ones 
     
     “who chose an editor. 
     
    
   
   
    
     , we asked Moran why we could not appoint an interim 
     
     editor untill the fall of next year. He replied to the 
     
     effect that he was not waiting for us any longer and that 
     
     the editor for next year would be chosen at this time. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The present Cadre staff feel for the sake of freedom 
     
     of the press no outside interference shall be imposed 
     
     upunthe paper. The Cadre at present has come a long way 
     
     from the beginning of this year yet the student union 
     
     desires that its policies come before the ethic of good 
     
     journalism. The student union no more than the adminis— 
     
     tration can make a puppet out of the student newspaper. 
     
     The campus press exists for the benefit of all students 
     
     and it is not intended to be an information sheet which 
     
     would tend to support the student union and those the 
     
     student union supports. For these reasons I feel that the 
     
     paper should be in the hands of the staff and not the 
     
     student union. \ ' 
     
    

    
     Richard O'Brien 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE CADRE 
     
    
   
   
    
     Member of the Canadian’ 
     
     ~University Press. Founder 
     
     and charter member of the 
     
     Cadre Press Syndicate. The 
     
    
   
   
    
     RICHARD O'BRIEN 
     
     RUN KELLY 
     
    

    
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     KATHLEEN ROACH 
     
     KAREN LLYOD 
     
     BREDA FOLEY 
     
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