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     At a "Cadre" news interview, 
     
     Student Union President, Gor— 
     
     don Campbell announced plans 
     
     to combat "student apathy" 
     
     at UPEI on two fronts. Camp— 
     
     bell's plans include the“ 
     
     transformation of the struc— 
     
     ture of the Student Union 
     
     from a presidential toward 
     
     -a parliamentary system and 
     
     the "surfacing" of Student 
     
     Union Officers from—the 
     
     basement of Memorial to the 
     
     ground floor level at the 
     
     "Barn". 
     
    

    
     Campbell cited over-confid- 
     
     ence and laziness as the 
     
     reason for apathy at the ' 
     
     leadership level in the union: 
     
     the presidential form, he 
     
     claimed, "allowed for resting 
     
     on one's laurels instead 
     
     of active participation in 
     
     the circulation of the stu— 
     
     dent interest." The parlia— 
     
     mentary form, if accepted 
     
     by the union membershipL 
     
     will allow for the develop- 
     
     ment of several political 
     
     ,interest groups vieing for 
     
     power rather than a static 
     
     elite subjected to no course 
     
     of response to the students 
     
     on a regular basis." 
     
     According to the plan, still 
     
     in the\developmentary stages, 
     
     the executive of the union 
     
     would have to inswer to the 
     
     ‘Council members through 
     
     Vconfidence" motions, etc. 
     
    

    
     If the executive did not 
     
    

    
     keep its office "dynamic" 
     
     they could lose their position 
     
     and power Very easily."To 
     
     counter-act this", argued 
     
     Campbell, "an executive would 
     
     have to keep Council and the 
     
     student membership well 
     
     informed of the issues in 
     
     ‘order that it survive. What 
     
     would probably, and hopefully 
     
     result would be the 'party' 
     
     style of politics where the 
     
    

    
     'real' student articulation 
     
     of interest would occur." 
     
     -The president stated that 
     
     it would probably be the 
     
     fall befOre the referendum 
     
     would be held on the idea 
     
     of‘the "structural overthrow" 
     
     within the union. He said 
     
     that a great deal of time 
     
     would have to be spent con— 
     
     cerning the conservative el— 
     
     ements within the union of 
     
     the validity of such a re- 
     
     form of present structures 
     
     of power. ' 
     
    

    
     "Even if the idea does not 
     
     receive the support of the 
     
    
   
   
    
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     majority,of the union member- 
     
     ship, the expression of op- 
     
     inions in this regard will 
     
     help develop a political 
     
    

    
     "conciousness" on this campus," 
     
     stated President Campbell. 
     
    

    
     The moving of Student Union 
     
     Offices from Memorial to the 
     
     Barn is designed to make the 
     
     executive more accessible to 
     
     the Student Union membership. 
     
    

    
     The new offices will be loc— 
     
     ated in the Day—Care Center, 
     
     which will be moved cross cam— 
     
     pus to the present union : 
     
     offices. It will cost the un— 
     
     ion treasury in the area of 
     
     $500. to complete the move. 
     
    

    
     President Campbell claimed 
     
     that he had already approached 
     
     Council with the idea of the 
     
     office move to the Barn and 
     
    

    
     received adverse reaction. 
     
    

    
     "However", he confidently 
     
    

    
     noted, "I have yet to really 
     
     put my case!" He Said that 
     
    

    
     he is currently preparing 
     
    

    
     'white,papers' to present to 
     
    

    
     Council on 'the two attacks 
     
    

    
     on apathy' announced today. “ 
     
    

    
     He sqflashed any ideas of 
     
     changing the location of CSUR, 
     
     on campus radio, from Main 
     
    

    
     to the Barn by stating that 
     
    

    
     such a move was too costly 
     
    

    
     at this time. "There is too 
     
    

    
     much red ink on our books to 
     
    

    
     be.too extravagant in 1974," 
     
    

    
     cautioned Campbell. 
     
    

    
     Another point of information 
     
    

    
     was the establishment of a 
     
    

    
     committee to collect inform— 
     
    
   
   
    
     ; ~0n Abathy’ 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ation on scholarships avail- 
     
     able to students at UPEI- 
     
     The union would publish the 
     
     lists of scholarships for 
     
     the senior class for their 
     
     own information. Campbell 
     
     said that in a recent meeting 
     
     with President Baker he 
     
     learned that aPPrOXimately 
     
     $20,000. goes unclaimed by 
     
     UPEI eligible students ann- 
     
     ually. "The best idea is 
     
     an attempt to reelaim the 
     
     annual loss caused by laCk 
     
     of information and faculty- 
     
     student communication," cla- 
     
     imed Campbell. 
     
    

    
     Another attack on the scho- 
     
     larship problem suggested by 
     
     the president is for prof?‘ 
     
     essors to get solidly behind 
     
     students who are interested 
     
     in post-graduate training &, 
     
     consequently, post-graduate 
     
     scholarships. "Too many 
     
     professors are uninterested 
     
     when scholarship information 
     
     ls sent to them -— they 
     
     usually throw the informa- 
     
     tion in the waste can instead 
     
     of pushing the information 
     
     in their classes, seminars. 
     
     etc.," argued Campbell. The 
     
    
   
   
    
     President urged all students 
     
     at UPEI to become aware of 
     
     scholarship availability no 
     
     matter what their marks are 
     
     like for, as he noted, "fin— 
     
     ancial need is a primary 
     
     criterion of many scholar— 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ ships rather than abnormally 
     
    
   
   
    
     high academic performance.“