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     ose MacAulay mitted after Monday at 3:00pm. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Editorial 
     
    
   
   
    
     Well, this is the final issue of the Gem for this academic 
     
     year and I must say that it has been quite an er, um, expe- 
     
     rience. There were some rough spots, but on the whole, I 
     
     would have to say that the newspaper did quite well. 
     
    

    
     Most people don’t realize how much work is done in 
     
     putting a newspaper together, not just for the editor, but 
     
     for everyone on the staff. But this year, I must say that I 
     
     was quite fortunate in having staff members that were co- 
     
     operative, helpful, and always willing to go the extra mile. 
     
     (They paid me to say that.) There were plenty of times when 
     
     I just felt like putting the pen down and leaving the work 
     
     for someone else. But, unfortunately, the other Gemmoids 
     
     encouraged me to go on. I would like to thank them for 
     
     helping out, and for always being full of energy, even when 
     
     things looked hopeless. (Hmmm, this sounds like I just won 
     
     an Academy Award.) 
     
    

    
     I would like to thank the Student Union for noticing what 
     
     was happening at the Gem. Traditionally, the student news- 
     
     paper and government tend to disagree on most issues; how- 
     
     ever, by the grace of fate, we managed to work well together. 
     
     Editor’s note: in other words, we’ve been able to keep them 
     
     in their place!] Hopefully this mutual respect will continue 
     
     in the semesters to come. 
     
    

    
     Perhaps some of the most important people to the Gem 
     
     are those members of the university community who submit 
     
     informative articles on a regular basis without becoming full 
     
     fledged Gemmoids. You people know who you are, and we 
     
     sincerely appreciate your efforts. 
     
    

    
     My final task then (other than seeing that this issue gets 
     
     to the printer’s on time) will be to thank you, the students 
     
     who read, criticise, and make the GEM better. Thanks to 
     
     you, we have a reason to keep printing each week. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sincerely, 
     
     Cora—Lee DesRoches, 
     
     Editor-in-Chief 
     
    
   
   
    
     A Humble Opinion 
     
    
   
   
    
     (Spoof on Aloud . 
     
    
   
   
    
     Happy everything everybody! 
     
    
   
   
    
     This writer’s naivity exceeds all 
     
     tales of woe. I cannot write about 
     
     problems, unless and until, a so- 
     
     lution is given. This writer can- 
     
     not insult anyone, because I like; 
     
     perhaps love everyone (In a spir- 
     
    
   
   
    
     Thought) 
     
    

    
     itual and Moral sense). I know 
     
     to some that I’ve “Strayed a long 
     
     way”, but hey why complain and 
     
     together, rather than crying, re- 
     
     sulted in an harmonious feeling. 
     
     Naive you say? Irresponsible? I 
     
     can only judge from experience. 
     
     This is my humble opinion. 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ Manager 
     
    
   
   
    
     “As nearly everyone knows, a 
     
     manager has practically nothing 
     
     to do except to decide what is 
     
     to be done; to tell somebody to 
     
     do it; to listen to reasons why it 
     
     should not be done, why it should 
     
     be done by somone else, or why 
     
     it should be done in a different. 
     
    
   
   
    
     way; to follow up to see if the 
     
    
   
   
    
     thing has been done; to discover 
     
     that it has not; to inquire why; 
     
     to listen to excuses from the per- 
     
     son who should have done it; to 
     
     follow up again to see if it has 
     
     been done, only to discover that 
     
     it has been done incorrectly; to 
     
     point out how it should have been 
     
     done; to conclude that as long as 
     
     it has been done, it may as well 
     
    
   
   
    
     be left where it is; to wonder if 
     
     it is not time to get rid of a per- 
     
     son who cannot do a thing right; 
     
     to reflect that he or she proba- 
     
     bly has a family, and that cer- 
     
     tainly any successor would be just 
     
     as bad, and maybe worse; to con- 
     
     sider how much simplerand bet- 
     
     ter the thing would have been 
     
     done if one had done it oneself 
     
     in the first place; to reflect sadly 
     
     that one could have done it right 
     
     in twenty minutes, and as things 
     
     turned out, one had to spend two 
     
     days to find out why it has taken 
     
     three weeks for somebody else to 
     
     do it wrong!” 
     
    
   
   
    
     ANONYMOUS 
     
    
   
   
    
     Thursday,April 13,1989 |