Members of the 
     
     University Community, 
     
    

    
     Recent unfortunate events 
     
     have dictated the necessity of 
     
     this, a formal apology and a 
     
     clarification of the Student 
     
     Union’s position. 
     
    

    
     The October 16 issues of 
     
     The Gem, the Student Union- 
     
     published newspaper, was of- 
     
     fensive and insulting to many. 
     
     Certainly there was material 
     
     included in that issue which 
     
     should never have been 
     
     printed. On behalf of the Stu- 
     
     dent Union, we apologize to 
     
     all for the errors which have 
     
     been made. 
     
    

    
     This week’s Gem was the 
     
     culmination of numerous 
     
     communication problems 
     
     among and between the Gem 
     
     staff and the Student Union. 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ .#As a result, the resignation of 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘the editor was accepted on 
     
     October 19. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Dear Editor, 
     
    

    
     Regarding our ‘‘View From 
     
     The Top’’ page in last week’s 
     
     Gem, we, the engineers wish 
     
     to offer our sincerest apologies 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘to those that we offended. 
     
    
   
   
    
     When we put our page to- 
     
     gether last week, we thought a 
     
     few of our articles (namely 
     
     ‘Poets Corner’ and ‘Why Beer 
     
     Is Better Than Some Women’) 
     
     were funny at the time but 
     
     looking back, we really regret 
     
     putting them in. It was never 
     
    
   
   
    
     It is regrettable that it took 
     
     such a distasteful event for the 
     
     impetus to be provided to 
     
     solve the problems which had 
     
     existed. However, readers may 
     
     be assured that actions are 
     
     being taken to guarantee that 
     
     incidents such as this one do 
     
     not again occur. The offensive 
     
     material should in no way be 
     
     interpreted as a reflection of 
     
     the Student Union or the Uni- 
     
     versity community. The views 
     
     outlined in several Gem articles 
     
     last week -have no support 
     
     within the Student Union or 
     
     the University as a whole. 
     
    
   
   
    
     our intention to degrade or in- 
     
     sult women in any way. We 
     
     thought we were making a 
     
     joke and trying to make 
     
     people laugh. We aren’t trying 
     
     to defend our actions; we 
     
     made a mistake and its all in 
     
    
   
   
    
     - the past now. All we can do is 
     
    
   
   
    
     try to repair some of the da- 
     
     mage we have done. 
     
    
   
   
    
     There are a few people who 
     
     took all the heat for our 
     
     actions and who were wrong- 
     
     fully abused because of our 
     
     actions. Our professors, Mr. 
     
     Gillis and Mr. MacEwen, took 
     
    
   
   
    
     Again we emphasize our 
     
     sincere apology for this un- 
     
     fortunate incident. We can not 
     
     repair the damage done, but 
     
     we can assure that similar 
     
     episodes will never again 
     
    
   
   
    
     occur. — 
     
     Sincerely, 
     
     Rob Kelley 
     
     President 
     
     Paul Ledwell 
     
     V.P. Academic 
     
    
   
   
    
     a lot of abuse from people 
     
     complaining about their stu- 
     
     dent’s actions. These two men 
     
     had and have never had any- 
     
     thing to do with ‘‘The View 
     
     From The Top’’. If anyone 
     
     takes offense to our attempted 
     
     humour, they should talk to 
     
     us, the students. 
     
    
   
   
    
     To the women on campus 
     
     who took our page seriously 
     
     and were offended, we offer 
     
     our sincere apologies again. 
     
     But we feel that it is we who 
     
     have degraded ourselves by 
     
     putting in the offensive ma- 
     
    
   
   
    
     terial. We made a judgement 
     
     that our material wasn’t all 
     
     that bad but we were wrong. 
     
     We made a mistake. And we 
     
     beg your forgiveness. 
     
    
   
   
    
     To everyone else hurt in any 
     
     way by our article we can only 
     
     say that we are truly, very 
     
     sorry. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Apologetically, 
     
     The U.P.E.I. 
     
     Engineering Students 
     
    
   
   
    
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