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     If you haven't noticed, I must warn you 
     
     that university life, like any existence, is , 
     
     too often plagued by various irritations. 
     
     Recently, one of the most persistent of these 
     
     has been cutbacks. That has been a word 
     
     frequently heard in circles of higher education. 
     
     As time has progressed cutbacks have seemed to 
     
     accelerate, affecting both professors and 
     
     students. Students have faced rising tuition 
     
     and professors have undoubtedly worried about 
     
     eroded work security and salary increases. 
     
     Courses once offered annually have become, 
     
     available only every two years, and the appearance 
     
     of new university calendars has been similarly 
     
     reduced. Whether or not these things diminish‘ 
     
     quality within the university, one thing is clear.. 
     
     That, namely, is that the end to cutbacks is 
     
     nowhere in sight. ' 
     
    

    
     If any universities have escaped the bite 
     
     of cutbacks, U.P.E.I. has not been one of them. 
     
     Our latest examples of the evolving save-money 
     
     syndrome were painfully evident at this semester's 
     
     registration. AThe evidence was in‘plain sight as 
     
     everyone paid student fees and secured updated ID 
     
     cards. These fees have risen substantially, and 
     
     are now well in excess of one hundred dollars.~,\ 
     
     There is also a new ID scheme. In the past 
     
     everyone received a new ID every year, but not 
     
     now. The official strategy has become to 
     
     simply replace dates on old cards. New ones are 
     
     to be made only every twenty-four months, and 
     
     students who lose the ancient cards will have 
     
     to pay two dollars for a replacement. Both 
     
     innovations are bad news for the student. Each 
     
     threatens his dwindling pocket book, a pocket \ 
     
     book already besieged by rising tuition and 
     
     residence fees. 
     
    

    
     ' Yet this doesn't necessarily mean that 
     
     cutbacks and the resulting fee increases are‘ 
     
     avoidable. It also doesn't follow that ‘ 
     
     administration isn't doing its best to give 
     
     students a fair break. I assure you, further,‘ 
     
     that my complaint rises not from any single 
     
     instance of increased student expense. It is 
     
     more a protest against the entire trend toward, 
     
     relieving students of their last dollars. When 
     
     our financial obligations have risen so high and 
     
     so quickly, it would be nice to at least get a 
     
     student card every year, and free of charge. 
     
     Cutbacks may be economically necessary, but they 
     
     still hurt. The pain is especiallngreat when 
     
     everything is cut back except student expenses. 
     
     That, at least, is the way it can seem to a 
     
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