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     Save Our soil _~ " 
     
    
   
   
    
            
     
       
     
        
     
         
     
          
     
        
     
         
     
         
     
       
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
        
     
        
     
         
     
         
     
        
     
       
     
           
     
           
     
        
     
       
     
         
     
        
     
       
     
       
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
     The Brothers and Sisters with which Island land is erosibn poses a serious ' people to take ’ 
     
     of Cornelius Howatt are currently being bought up threat to the future of rain agriculture: 
     
     concerned about the rapid by non-residents. We feel , our province. rare unable to ma 
     
     and accelerating rate that this process of soil This loss Of land is PrOV=« A ”Kent livelihooaib 
     
     _ 7‘ ' ing destructive both to can hardly bevqsi 
     
     t3?» ‘f; ,7gj:-‘ ' v_ (yewe- -4.Nr _ ' our agricultural industry ‘ Selling—“afld9t tn 
     
     ’ ‘ ' ' “' ' ' ‘ _and to our rural communit: highest biddeiEéi 
     
     ies1 Good productive farms ‘ WE ISlanderS 575’ 
     
     are being delivered into to fU1lY reali u 
     
     the possession of those - Ultimate value ff 
     
     who merely want a-summerv lanfi- Farms Whj.h 
     
     home, and the price of SUStained.fami is 
     
     land‘is being forced up 50' '. more than a hu{.f 
     
     high that few local farm—r and Whieh coulS‘m 
     
     ers can afford to compete to do so for gen& 
     
     ‘for it on the open market. Yet to come: arer 
     
    
   
   
    
     sold for the equi 
     
     of a small suburm 
     
     glow and a few im 
     
     lly—manufactured 
     
    
   
   
    
     Last year alone more than 
     
     20,000 acres were lost in 
     
     this way, and so far in 
     
    

    
     1973 the rate of non-res— , . 
     
     ident purchase has tended We,are Selllng,t05 
     
     to increase still further. trlfle the heele' 
     
     Already more than 100,000 our econowy and 0 
     
     acres of our land, and tural heritage! 
     
    
   
   
    
     about one-third of our It it ironic that 
     
     available prime recreat— when the wqud is 
     
     ional shore frontage, is ' ingrchronicaiiy & 
     
     ,in the hands of non-res- - 909d égricultural 
     
    
   
   
    
     idents. and the pri’e of; 
     
    
   
   
    
     We feel that our Island ShOWing SubStahti 
     
     Government has shown too creases! we hon“ 
     
     little initiative in the Process .f'a 
     
    

    
     ‘ either providing assist- sale setl‘ u ' JUS 
     
     ance to our family farms, the famlty‘f rm to 
     
     or in encouraging young ‘ Once agaln a Pr 
     
    
   
   
    
     economic unit/iti 
     
    
   
   
    
     New Enrollment 
     
    
   
   
    
     K.J. McNe' 
     
    
   
   
    
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     The new full time ' The,students are with-" I V 
     
     enrollment is 1447. drawing and the university 
     
     This is down 9% from ls dying. If any of the 
     
     'last Semester. part .' readers of this have any 
     
    
   
   
    
     \time enrollment is up 
     
     9%. In total,enrollment 
     
     is down 123 or 7% from 
     
    

    
     . last semester. “" 
     
    
   
   
    
     The long awaited fig-_ 
     
     ures are out. The enrol— ~' ' 
     
     lment has dropped again!’ " 
     
     At one time, U.P.E.I. 
     
     boasted of approx. 1870 
     
     students. Today I450. 
     
    

    
     At this rate, what is the 
     
     future of this institution. 
     
    

    
     The writer will even go 
     
     ‘but on a limb to say that 
     
     if this drop continues, 
     
     this university will be 
     
     extinct in 5 years. It 
     
     is not too late to do 
     
     something. It\is time the 
     
     administration started ‘ 
     
     Nmixing their rosy View 
     
     of the future with some 
     
     present day reality. 
     
     According to President 
     
     Baker, a university is 
     
     a dynamic tension bet— 
     
     ween the people, who pay 
     
     the shot (the province) 
     
     the faculty, who teach, 
     
     and the students, who 
     
     come here to learn. 
     
    

    
     If any of these with* a. , _ 
     
     draw, the university dies. g 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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