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     7. Volume tit, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bectoe Nok Vee rs bt yoo tf prin.¢e2edward. isa 
     
    
   
   
    
     February 27, 1986 
     
    
   
   
    
     Student Council meeting tense: 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Protest and confession 
     
     EE TR - 
     
    
   
   
    
     By Sheila Lund 
     
    

    
     A tense Student Council meet- 
     
     ing took place last Sunday night. 
     
     Heated debate developed around 
     
     a report of unfair ticket practices 
     
     at last January’s New Year's Eve 
     
     Event. At one point during the 
     
     debate, two Student Union execu- 
     
     tive members admitted to buying 
     
     tickets before the doors officially 
     
     opened to the public. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ombudsman, Kevin O’Brien 
     
     has been following up on a 
     
     number of rumors alleging abuses 
     
     of Student Union rules and regu- 
     
     lations. His investigation led 
     
     O’Brien to present his concerns 
     
     before Council at the meeting, 
     
     and to recommend that a motion 
     
     be passed requiring the.e: ucation 
     
     of SU employees on SU rules and 
     
     regulations. 
     
    
   
   
    
     SU President, Gordon Cobb, 
     
     and VP Operations, Karen Blac- 
     
     quiere, both admitted at the meet- 
     
     ing to purchasing tickets before 
     
     the doors opened for the New 
     
     Year's Event. Said Blacquiere, 
     
     there were so many, ‘“‘personal 
     
     influences there that night’, add- 
     
     ing later’ on, “I'm really glad this 
     
     came out." Cobb stated, ‘‘We're 
     
     not trying to bury what Kevin 
     
     said.”” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Although O’Brien commented 
     
     that he appreciated the statements 
     
     made by the two executive mem- 
     
     bers, he felt that, “What hap- 
     
     pened that night is not the pro- 
     
     blem — there is a greater problem’”. 
     
    

    
     O’Brien was referring to a num- 
     
     ber of reports brought to his at- 
     
     tention concerning the disregard 
     
     of SU regulations. He feared that 
     
    
   
   
    
     these possible occurrences stem- 
     
     med probably from ignorance 
     
     among SU employees about those 
     
     rules. O’Brien then brought forth 
     
     a motion that recommended de- 
     
     signated executive members carry 
     
     out. a campaign to ensure that 
     
     employees were aware of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     » regulations. He felt this campaign 
     
    
   
   
    
     would ensure that no rules were 
     
     accidently broken. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Many Council members dis- 
     
     agreed that the problem was with 
     
     the SU employees. Board of 
     
     Governors Representative, Parker 
     
     Grimmer stated, “I think people 
     
     who are employed ... have proven 
     
     they know what to do."* 
     
    

    
     “But O"Brien didn’t agree with 
     
     his statement, commenting ‘I 
     
     don't think anything could be 
     
     further from the truth.’’ He then 
     
    
   
   
    
     went on to cite various rumors of 
     
     violations such as, ticket scalping; 
     
     too many tickets being sold to 
     
     events, (and therefore too many 
     
     people: in the Barn to meet fire 
     
     regulations) and liquor being sold 
     
     across the bar after hours. 
     
     Councillors became very upset 
     
     at these allegations. Grimmer said 
     
     that they were totally unsubstan- 
     
     tiated, and were potentially harm- 
     
     ful because they suggested every- 
     
     one at the Barn was guilty. VP 
     
     Acad * °c, Czrolyn Ryan, sug- 
     
    
   
   
    
     gested that O’Brien “‘give proof of 
     
     his allegations,’ before any in- 
     
     vestigation is undertaken. Cobb 
     
     stated that, ‘‘we're not really the 
     
     day to day ™anagers of the Stu- 
     
     dent Union, and so, should not 
     
     bear total responsibility. 
     
    

    
     At one point in the meeting, SU 
     
    
   
   
    
     Treasurer, John Orr, said ‘‘The 
     
     problem rests higher than with the 
     
     CP’s and bartenders’, adding 
     
     that ‘‘two executive members were 
     
     ultimately responsible"’, and ‘we 
     
     all know the rules." 
     
    

    
     Orr did not commletely agree 
     
     with O’Brien om, which he 
     
     felt insinuated thai the bartenders 
     
     cand CP’s were responsible. As he 
     
     was expressing his disapproval, 
     
     O’Brien got up and left the meet- 
     
     ing, disgruntled that his motion 
     
     was not yet going to a vote. 
     
    

    
     He returned, though, about a 
     
     half hour later, since he would 
     
     otherwise be automatically im- 
     
     peached for failing to attend 
     
     enough meetings (he had 
     
     some due to illness recenti 
     
    

    
     Later in the meeting the motion 
     
     was put to a roll call vote, and 
     
     passed by a majority.