

     - MUSIC DEPT. BEING DUMPED. evolving into what some 
     
     - PRESIDENT MEINCKE WASHES 
     
     HANDS BY REPLACING WITH 
     
    
     CONSERVATORY; 
     
     - STUDENTS‘REBUEHMlWITH 
     
     FACTS AND FIGURES. 
     
    
     eriment that failed.'" 
     
    
     of Operation the Dept. 
     
    
     encrieg" that the recommen- Opening statistics: 
     
     dations set (Oath bv the -out of 71 full or part‘ 
     
     presidents Advisory Group time positions in P.E.I. 
     
     was the termination of the do are UPEI graduates 
     
     Music Procram and replacing ’1 is the DirPCtOr or 
     
    
     it w4th a Conservatory. Operations, Winnipeg 
     
    
     The report cave this depart— Svmvhony 
     
    
     ‘nent: "special considerat- ~1 Canada Council grant 
     
     ion.” Its conclusion was TECiPient 
     
    
     that the Drovram. in the ‘11 Pursue V or have pur' 
     
     beginning' was "to ine sued further study 
     
     creater public visibility Teaching, or have tauoht 
     
     to the new institution." in = 
     
     NOW that it has done this -1 Music Dept. Brandon U. 
     
     through such community ~1Music Dept. Memorial U. 
     
     services as; 
     
    
     -puhlic performances 10c- -? " " Acadia U. 
     
     allv.in and outside or -7 McGill Conservatory 
     
     Canada -? Manitoba 
     
    
     -radio broadcasts '2 Ontario 
     
    
     -narticipation in, or dir— '3 New BrunSWick 
     
     ection of, a wide range of ‘5 Nova ScOtia 
     
     local musical ensembles, ‘17 Ne'foundland 
     
     such as the p 3.1. Symphon‘ The ratio of faculty/ 
     
     ,Iegion Chorus, Belfast / student for the Atlantic 
     
     Pipe Band and manyymany Provipnces Clea“ly states. 
     
     more ‘ ' where UPEI stands with 
     
    
     _ private teaching the other universities. 
     
    
     ~church music programs ’Acadia A'o 
     
    
     -actinz as advisers to “DRIHOUSie 3'8 
     
    
     local school music teach— ’"Memoria1~ 5'8 
     
    
     9,5 -Mount Allison 6.6 
     
     -Drovidine assistance to ’"PE1 4‘0 . 
     
     local dance, theatre, or ‘St° FranCis XEVIer 
     
     musical productions. ("° 3‘ MuSiC degree) 
     
     it is saving that; J ’gonCton 5‘9 . 
     
     "the UPEI Music prosram 3° there you have 1t' 
     
     consequently became and 
     
     buiﬁﬁzry millstone around lines for its criteria in 
     
     the neck of the universit 
     
    
     uction of the canODY,-that 
     
     great outdoor café, nor ' 
     
     the 300 dollar hike in the 
     
     summer faculties salaries. 
     
    
     Here on campus last summer 
     
     while the leaves were turn 
     
     ins brivht preen ,and the 
     
     sun shone on the arowina 
     
     blades of qrass,scmethinz 
     
     verv fishv, something very 
     
     smelly was going on. This 
     
     was being brewed durins 
     
     those nice long-lazy-days 
     
     of summergwhen the campus 
     
     a was in a state of semi- 
     
    
     H hibernation.Now that this 
     
     a concoctiOn has settled 
     
    
     _ for four months, we are 
     
    
     ’ being made to swallow it: 
     
     all in one gulp. 
     
    
     No, it is not the constr- 
     
    
     put forth by PALL THE 
     
     PRESIDENTS MEN", in what 
     
     has become to be known 
     
     as the "white_paper2" 
     
     One major provosal that 
     
     the "white paper" put 
     
     forth was the complete 
     
     termination of the music 
     
     department. It should be 
     
     known that this went on, 
     
     and through the summer 
     
     without any consultation 
     
    
     have called "a noble exp- The Plannin2 commitﬁee.has 
     
    
     The statistics seem to Roommendation on the trends of 
     
     {other universities and the 
     
    
     very much asainst that las , , 
     
     quote. After twelve vears overall demand 1" the 30b 
     
    
     One of the "five broad catprpsents the followins eve- 
     
    
     "shuttine off" the music dep' 
     
    
     It is the sudden proposals 
     
    
     artment.' 
     
    
     based this outrageous rec- 
     
    
     market. 
     
    
     Obviously thev(the planninz' 
     
     committee)did very little: 
     
     if any research in this part‘ 
     
     icular area. This was shown 
     
     bv one of the students in 
     
     the Dept. 
     
    
     The Canadian Job Bank on 
     
     Yuesday, Oct. 12 showed that 
     
     eight positions in Enelish, 
     
     one in Business, and two in 
     
     Gomputer Scienceaand Bioloay 
     
     were available in Canada. 
     
     Quite an astromical figure' 
     
     of ?6 positions were availab 
     
     able fir music. 
     
    
     How then can we justify the 
     
    
     1 
     
    
     —1 Music Dept. Simon FraserPIODosals? 
     
    
     The job market is there,-a 
     
     lot of community work is 
     
     done on the outside of the 
     
     campus, and, most cf the 
     
     studentsCas music majors) 
     
     hays to pay mere money for 
     
     their courses. 
     
    
     In conclusion, the Music 
     
     Dept., Students and Facult 
     
     alike feel that "the Music 
     
     Dept. is an active and pro- 
     
     ductive oreanization devot- 
     
     ed to the growth and devel' 
     
     opment of music on P.E.I. 
     
     The benefits it has prorid‘ 
     
     ed to the University and to 
     
    
     fthe community cannot be 
     
     measured, and to recommend 
     
     its termination on the has- 
     
     is of enrollment and cost ' 
     
     'of operation, without con- 
     
    
     These statistics do so contr SUItinz with and taking inr" 
     
     continues to be an enormous ary to What the preposal out to account the Y"?3-‘31?i°¥13"$3f' 
     
    
     the people who have benefit- 
     
     edlfrom its untirina dev- 
     
    
     of the faculty or the 
     
     -students in the muSic 
     
     department! . 
     
     How is that for good pra- 
     
     ctices of administration?' 
     
     I will commend the 
     
     Groupnon a job well done. 
     
     It worked; the usic 
     
    
     otion, 
     
     acceptable." 
     
    
     sity. 
     
    
     is unfair and un-f 
     
    
     If and when this proposal 
     
     goes through,then,what wil 
     
     happen? . 
     
     Basically it is like this, 
     
     -1 the student majorine in 
     
     music will leave the univer 
     
     Enrollment will 
     
     result in a decline 
     
     -2 the faculty will not sta} 
     
     ltherefore the quality and 
     
     the expertice will cease to 
     
     exist. 
     
    
     -3 the Conservatory will 
     
     prove to be an even larger 
     
     economic problem than the 
     
     now existinv Music Proaram, 
     
     at least that is what the 
     
     committee feels anyway. 
     
    
     then 
     
    
     ﬁ¢.§' 
     
     1W 
     
    
     and fieures to 
     
     this outrageous report. 
     
     This is more than I can 
     
     say for any of the other 
     
     epts. Lets follow their 
     
    
     VJ 
     
    
     DV‘OVG 
     
    
     conaratulate them on an 
     
     ept.excellent job well done. 
     
    
     did not find out until theGOOD LUCK TO ALL OF THIS 
     
     proposal was set stratesidDEPARTMENT AND ALL OTHERS! 
     
    
     ally in their post boxes. 
     
     Therefore, this did put 
     
    
     the apt. in a sort of 
     
    
     tivy. BUT, onlv for a / 
     
     few minutes. They quicklié;// 
     
     not tonether as a group ' 
     
     and came u. with facts 
     
    
     ’ . , . ., 57.3 i 5.2: 
     
    
     keep fiehtine and were 
     
     bound to Win. 
     
    
     NANCY MARIE ARSENAULT 
     
    
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