WHAT’S NEXT HALIFAX cUP) — Third year public slations student Barry De- yrbide totes his own type- riter to class because he ays the machines at Mount aint Vincent University are jways broken. The Mount’s P.R. De- artment is behind all other niversities across Canada in ommunications technology, ccording to assistant profes- or Judith Scrimger. And joney. the problem is “You can’t spend what ou don’t have,” says Paul leyno, director of university ervices. He says the univer- ty is ill-funded and can’t af- keds. rd to buy the equipment it ~ A recent study of eight comparably-sized Maritime universities shows the Mount receives the smallest operat- ing grant. While Acadia Univer- sity was awarded $16,600,000 in 1985-86, the Mount was granted less than half that amount, according to Mary Morore Uhl, executive assis- tant to the Mount’s presi- dent and funding liaison. The university’s P.R. students rely on the generos- ity of other departments for access to computers, profes- “sor Scrimger said. And the 96 students must share five portable video recorders and one editing unit. A $7.7 million communi- cations building designed to Pigmented Perspectives --Bring Your Own Prof? qaA08 2A0TI3AIC e + *Faphic: ¢ 5 Currare alleviate some of the depart- ment’s problems is scheduled for completion a year from & Fé tH oo ‘ Ye 4] It » you saw yesterday? ae “Oh, it was < full of non-stop gratuitous ‘ * violence, explodin - bombs .~ | GRAPHIC INDECENCLES, <oars¢ LANGUAGE, MAIMED B PARTS , AND IMMORA | PART: IANS: IGLORTFI CATIONS: 3: reoty/ It was Calling _ All Thespians STUDENTS, LIKE PRisoners SHOULD PAY THE Deer TO sacteTY! now. Says Reyno, “The prob- lem is not being ignored.” «= Announcing AUDITIONS for the Univer- sity Theatre Society’s major production of the year. It is Count Oederland, a politi- cal play from 1946, by Max Frisch, German playwright. The play will be performed in mid-March in the Macken- zie Building, and rehearsals will begin on campus in late January. The auditions will be held in Duffy Amphithe- atre from noon until 3:00pm, on Tuesday, December 8, the last day of classes. Con- tact Terry pratt (AVC-3175, 566-0677) for further details, OR sign up for an audition time at the pre-season of Box and Cox, live and free in the Pit, Friday, November 27, at noon and 1:00pm. s Contest FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 1987 ~ $150.00 in Prizes hursday, November 26 1987 ee