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     THE UPEI SUN, Thursday, January 10, 19-80, page 1. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ EDITOBIBI. 
     
    
   
   
    
     MACDONALD COMMISSION CONSULTS SUN 
     
    
   
   
    
     Traditionally the first editorial of January expresses 
     
     hope that students, faculty, and administration all enjoyed 
     
     the holidays, and welcomes them back to the grind of 
     
     another term. There is no reason why this editorial can't 
     
     do the same thing, and so it shall.‘ The editor, then 
     
     trusts everyone had a memorable Christmas and that we are 
     
     all set for a new year. 
     
    

    
     OK, with that formality out of the way I can get down to 
     
     my main thrust. It is not often that a student newspaper 
     
     finds itself, even indirectly, taking part in national 
     
     affairs, especially when that newspaper is a small one 
     
     serving a small university far from the nation's center. 
     
     That is why our readers should know that during Christmas 
     
     exams the SUN was dragged onto the periphery of a 
     
     national issue. ' , 
     
    

    
     What am I talking about? Well, it's nothing spectacular, 
     
     but it is something rather interesting. On the evening of 
     
     December llth your editor was at home preparing for an 
     
     exam when he was called to the telephone. The call was from 
     
     Ottawa and the man at the other end of the line was Mr. 
     
    

    
     Len Preyra, a researcher for the Macdonald Comission 
     
     investigating RCMP wrongdoing. Mr. Preyra was looking 
     
     for information, information which only the SUN could 
     
     give him. _ 
     
    

    
     It seems that on March 25, 1975, the SUN's predecessor 
     
     at UPEI, the Cadre, exposed an RCMP training manual, a 
     
     manual outlining interrogation techniques that were 
     
     nothing less than intimidating and dehumanizing. The 
     
     Cadre was the first newspaper to question this manual. 
     
    

    
     It printed long passages from it declaring the contents 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' a disgrace. 
     
    
   
   
    
     After 1975, of course, RCMP misdeeds came more and 
     
     more to the public's attention, and they grew into an 
     
     issue of national concern. The result was that 
     
     government launched the Macdonald Commission to learn 
     
     the truth. Now, in 1980, the task of that commission 
     
     continues, and the SUN was able to help. Mr. Preyra 
     
     told your editor that the training manual of 1975 is 
     
     no longer available. Though there are still records 
     
     of it, the manual itself has disappeared. Anxious 
     
     to learn its actual contents, Mr. Preyra requested 
     
     that the appropriate stories from the Cadre be 
     
     photocopied and sent to him. The SUN editor agreed, 
     
     and several days later the information was in the mail 
     
     to Ottawa. w 
     
    

    
     The Cadre called the training manual a symptom of a 
     
     sick police force in a sick society. -It will be interesting 
     
     to see to what extent the Macdonald Commission may 
     
     agree. 
     
    

    
     John Cairns 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     _ A sincere thank you 
     
     and a helluva lot of 
     
     gratitude to: 
     
    
   
   
    
     IT WAS JUST THE CORE CREW 
     
     THIS WEEK. WE'RE HOPING 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘FOR A BIGGER CREW NEXT 
     
    
   
   
    
     WEEK. 
     
    
   
   
    
     . for all the work they 
     
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     Assistant Editor — Ann Higdpn 
     
     Layout Manager — Maureen Hartman 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Todd MacLaughlan 
     
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     Advertising Manager — Kevin Gauthier 
     
     Typist — Pat Ingraham ' 
     
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