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     January 24, 1984 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     Soup kitche‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     publicizes job cuts 
     
    
   
   
    
     By John Pendergast 
     
     ‘ and Carolyn Ryah 
     
    
   
   
    
     A makeshift soup kitchen’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     was assembled in the Robert- 
     
     son Library Lounge last 
     
     Friday, and despite some stu- 
     
     dents who said, “Hey, I’ve 
     
     got a job” while eating their 
     
     free soup on CBC television, 
     
     organizers feel it was a 
     
     success. 
     
    

    
     Its main purpose was to 
     
     attract attention to the 
     
    
   
   
    
     federal government’s deletion 
     
     of 600 student jobs under the 
     
     Canada Summer Works pro- 
     
     gram. The organizers of the 
     
     included 
     
    
   
   
    
     soup kitchen 
     
    
   
   
    
     members of the Student 
     
     Union, Canadian Federation 
     
     [of-Studentschair Beth Olley, 
     
     and local CFS representatives. 
     
    

    
     Cathy Campbell, provin- 
     
     cial representative for CPS 
     
     and a UPEI student, con- 
     
     siders the soup kitchen to 
     
     have been more of an in- 
     
     formation session designed 
     
     for student awareness than a 
     
     publicity stunt. 
     
    

    
     Publicity was in the air, 
     
     though, with reporters from 
     
     CBC’s Compass, local radio 
     
     stations, and newspapers cir- 
     
     culating through the Friday 
     
     noon crowd in the Lounge. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     As students entered the 
     
     lounge, members of the com— 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘mittee organizing the SU 
     
    
   
   
    
     campaign against job pro- 
     
     gram cuts handed out yellow 
     
    
   
   
    
     pamphlets, some with large' 
     
    
   
   
    
     red X’s on the back, which 
     
     described the SU’s intentions 
     
     for the rest of the campaign. 
     
    

    
     After most had been served 
     
     with bowls of chicken noodle 
     
     soup purchased from the 
     
     campus food service, Saga 
     
     Foods, at a total cost of $60, 
     
     Campbell called for order 
     
     and explained that all stu- 
     
     dents who had received 
     
     marked pamphlets repre- 
     
     sented the proportion of 
     
     student jobs lost through the 
     
     recent Summer Works cuts 
     
     — about 25%. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Fishbowl food last Friday. (Photo: MacLeod) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Furthermore, she’said, this 
     
     would mean an incresed de» 
     
     mand for student loans and 
     
     bursaries next year, and a 
     
     greater strain on the existing 
     
     post~secondary funding 
     
     sources. 
     
    

    
     In a random survey con- 
     
     ducted by Netted Gem re- 
     
     porters, it was found that a 
     
     majority of the students pre- 
     
     sent were opposed to the job 
     
     cuts. 
     
    

    
     One student remarked that 
     
     one friend would be unable 
     
     to attend university next fall 
     
     because of a lack of funds. 
     
    

    
     Another predicted that 
     
     some individuals would not 
     
     bother to repay their student 
     
     loans next year, not having 
     
     been employed during the 
     
     summer. 
     
    

    
     Student Union president 
     
     Michelle Dorsey, one of the 
     
     organizing committee, fi- 
     
     gured that it did raise the 
     
     level of awareness on cam- 
     
     pus. Dorsey feels the loss of 
     
     600 student jobs will mean 
     
     cutthroat competition for 
     
    
   
   
    
     I the next 
     
    
   
   
    
     those student jobs left on 
     
     P.E.l. 
     
    

    
     The soup kitchen itself is a 
     
     beginning step in UPEl’s 
     
     fight against job cutbacks. In 
     
     week, postcards 
     
     signed by students will be sent 
     
     to Flora MacDonald, federal 
     
     Minister of Employment and 
     
     Immigration, asking for the 
     
     replacement or reinstatement 
     
     of Summer Works. 
     
    

    
     The organizers hope to 
     
     express concern about the 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
        
     
        
     
       
     
       
     
        
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
         
     
        
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
     Some of the approxnmately 125 students who enjoyed an unexpected break from cold 
     
    
   
   
    
     cutbacks and ask both pro- 
     
     vincial and federal govern- 
     
     ments to remember students 
     
     in future job creation plans. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Also they plan, by holding 
     
     a fund-raising Main Event on 
     
     Valentine’s Day, to raise 
     
     money to recreate one stu- 
     
     dent job that has been lost. 
     
    

    
     This move especially will 
     
     symbolize the importance of 
     
     the job to the student and to 
     
     the community at large. 
     
    
   
   
    
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