“OLD HAT 
     
    
   
   
    
     we had seen this type of‘ 
     
     thing before at U.P.E.Io 
     
    

    
     A few M.P.'s from one of 
     
     the national political 
     
     parties, come on campus: 
     
     they come to the barn to 
     
     'see the students in action 
     
     (sic.!), then joyfully 
     
     Vproceed to one of our 
     
     great halls of learning to 
     
     field an encounter with 
     
     the student body — politic. 
     
     Is this participatory deL 
     
     mocracy in action? or is 
     
     it some politicians trying 
     
     to sell us on an institu— 
     
    

    
     ' tion that may be antequa— 
     
    

    
     ' ted? d 
     
     This Was the basic quest- 
     
     ion being asked by those 
     
     in attendance at the "Bear 
     
     Pit" put on by the P.C. 
     
     organisation on campus. 
     
     :Jake'Epp and Flora Mac 
     
     Donald were the two M.P.'s 
     
     representing Bob Stan- 
     
     field's Progressive Con— 
     
     servatives. Epp. who is 
     
     known as an agricultural 
     
     expert, represents the 
     
     Provencia riding in Ottawa. 
     
     (Provencia is situated in 
     
     eastern - Manitoba). This 
     
     riding is diverse in nature 
     
     having industrial, tourism, 
     
     and agricultural interests 
     
     which Epp must adequately 
     
     repreSent in Parliament. 
     
     MacDonald represents 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE SOFT SELL 
     
    
   
   
    
     James Griffith, the head 
     
     of student services, has 
     
     announced the end of opens 
     
     house week-end on this 
     
     campus. However, Griffith 
     
     is not an anarchist/(?! 7 
     
     he offers us something 
     
     else instead. 
     
    

    
     This year the high—school 
     
     ‘students will be brought a1 
     
     one high school at a time. 
     
     They will arrive on Thurs. 
     
     evenings, will stay in 
     
     residence for the night 
     
     and will be introduced to 
     
     4the campus Community on 
     
     Eriday. ‘ 
     
    

    
     As many as possible of 
     
     these high school students 
     
     will be paired off with 
     
     \students already living in 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE CADRE, Tues., Oct. l6/73 Page 3 
     
    
   
   
    
     Kampus 
     
     'K oncern 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Kingston and the Island 
     
     on the St. Lawrence River 
     
     in Ontario. Flora's cur- 
     
     rent concern, as chairman 
     
     of the parliamentary com— 
     
     mittee, investigating the 
     
     situation at federal penal 
     
     institutions, is reform 
     
     of the penal process in 
     
     Canada from a punishment 
     
     orientation to one of 
     
     rehabilitation. 
     
    

    
     After the two conservative 
     
     exponents amazed the aud-r 
     
     ience with their "avoid 
     
     the issue in question" 
     
     tactics, Fred Von Dteger, 
     
     professor or political 
     
     science at U.P.E.I., put 
     
     it down to this: "O.K., 
     
     are you people saying these 
     
     beautiful things, such as, 
     
     "we are going to get better 
     
     housing, transportation, 
     
     and fiscal policies" just 
     
     'to please the audience, or 
     
     are there any concrete mea— 
     
     sures that have-been ad- 
     
     opted by the Conservative 
     
     party which you can now 
     
     point out to us?" 
     
    

    
     Well, the two M.P.'s se— 
     
     emed a bit put out by this, 
     
     somewhat challenging and, 
     
     'as it turned out, embarras- 
     
     sing question. However, 
     
     once the "put—out" hang-up 
     
     was overcome (which attests 
     
     to the great 'psycho—drama' 
     
     abilities of the two in 
     
     question) they introduced 
     
    
   
   
    
     residence. 
     
    

    
     This is where a snag exists 
     
     in the plan. Volunteers 
     
    

    
     are needed by student ser- 
     
     vices to make the idea a 
     
     success. Any student, liv— 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ing in residence (which 
     
    
   
   
    
     includes the apartment 
     
     complex I assume) who 
     
     wishes to have one of 
     
     these students to show 
     
     around campus, should con- 
     
     tact Jim Griffith at stu- 
     
     dent services, first floor 
     
     Main. 
     
    

    
     According to student ser- 
     
     vices last year's open 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘house was not a success.' 
     
     ‘The high school students 
     
    
   
   
    
     were not seeing what cam— 
     
     pus.1ife was_all about: the 
     
    
   
   
    
     by ioel hansen 
     
    
   
   
    
     the fundamental notion of 
     
     decentralisation of polit- 
     
     ical decision - making into 
     
     the discussion. 
     
    

    
     ‘ At this point, it was sug- 
     
     gested by the author of 
     
     this report that if cent— 
     
     ralism will not work (cents 
     
     ralism being the useage of 
     
     a central decision — making 
     
     arena for all of Canada) 
     
     then maybe the whole con— 
     
     cept of Canada was errat— 
     
     ional,- maybe we never were 
     
     a nation! . A' 
     
     At present, Alberta is 
     
     treating the rest of Can— 
     
     ada as an aliemrpeople in, 
     
     the oil-policy debate, the 
     
     western farmer charges 
     
     'more for grains when sel— 
     
     ling to eastern farmers 
     
    
   
   
    
     Vthan he does a farmer from 
     
    
   
   
    
     amywhere else in the world. 
     
     Surely this puts the argu- 
     
     ment supporting the need 
     
     for the Canadian nation in 
     
     doubt! In an attempt to 
     
     -thwart this question, the 
     
     two M.P.'s struggled to' 
     
     prove the necessity for 
     
     confederation with argu— 
     
    
   
   
    
     vments that were so vague 
     
    
   
   
    
     that at present they 
     
     escape me. 
     
    

    
     It seemed to be the same 
     
     old story with a new cover, 
     
     talk but little or no 
     
     action. After all isn't 
     
     that what conservativism 
     
     in this country is all 
     
     about? 
     
    
   
   
    
     new plan is an attempt to 
     
     communicate to the visit- 
     
     ing students the pros and 
     
     cons of coming to UPEI 
     
     more effectively. 
     
    

    
     One draw back though, 
     
     Thursday evenings are re— 
     
     served for those fantas— 
     
    
   
   
    
     _tic drunk-outs at the'Pig' 
     
    
   
   
    
     I can just see several of 
     
    

    
     these innocent high school 
     
     students being seduced by 
     
    

    
     such social orgies. Man - 
     
    

    
     that's the~real way to con 
     
     'em.