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Thursday, March 29, 1990.

Celine Pinsent. B.A., UPEI, 1989, is in the final process of choosing a graduate school in the Ph.D clinical area of psychol- bgy for this fall. She applied o ten Canadian universities and has fairly firm acceptances at four hile she is on the short list in hree more. She has not heard from two and was turned down by pne. During the past year she has been doing research on domoic acid and also on self-help groups for her Honours B.A. She said most places are offering between

310,000 and $11,000 and one up

to $15,000. Moreover many uni- versities indicate there could be

Disabled 7 Issues U Of

(Source: The Varsity)

Ed. Note — last week is March 12- March 16

By Maylin Scott

TORONTO (CUP) - Uni- versity of Toronto students are outting their money where their nouths are to improve accessibil- ty to campus buildings.

On the week of March 16, 70 oer cent of the 4,275 students who voted in student council elec- ‘ions, agreed to a three year, $ 30 student levy to improve accessi- bility for persons with a disabil- by.

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(Source: The Varsity)

By Tatiana Tonks

TORONTO (CUP) - Some itudents are upset by a Univer- ity of Toronto student council- ‘ponsored concert which made un of blind people and orientals.

One student has called parts Corky and the Juice Pigs’ act ‘blatantly racist”.

Some of the controversial ma- erial included a joke about laated eyes, the rhetorical ques- jon “Do blind people fall in Ove at first sight?”, and a skit ibeus two dyslexic game-show losis who rnix up their words.

“Il stayed for most of it, but I valked out because I was so of- ended,” said third year student

“ily Quan said about the Mar. 16

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Celine Pinsent

$3000 to $4000 added on to the $10,000 to-$11,000 once one is in the program.

The Gem

Psychology Students Heading to Graduate School

Another student, Laura Campbell, has been accepted into Applied Social Psychology at the University of Guelph and is on the waiting list at the University of Saskatchewan.

Two other psychology stu- dents, Cathy Morgan and Carey Sullivan, have been accepted into the M.A. clinical program at Lakehead University and Jennifer Bartlett has been accepted by Dalhousie in Speech Pathology. Several others are still waiting for word on their applications while several more have applied to B.Ed programs.

T Students Pay For Accessibility

“!'m absolutely delighted,” said Eileen Barbeau, coordinator for Services to Disabled Persons. “IT would hope this would give a clear indication of how students feel and prioritize things, and I hope others will join the band- wagon.”

Barbeau said she does not yet know how the money will be

spent but a committee will be

formed to make those decisions. “As soon as the money is available, we would want to start something right away,” she said. “T would also want to involve stu-

dents in the decision making pro- Gesg.”

Rennovations should begin in

the fall.

The levy will raise approx- imately $ 2.7 million over the three years, but Barbeau said this is short of the approximately $ 10 million needed to make the entire university accessible.

U of T gets $ 800,000 from the -

province to promote services for disabled persons. But the money can only be used for expenses such as hiring staff and not for renovations.

Offends Audience

concert.

Quau said she knew at least three other people who le? be- cause they were upset by the ma- terial.

In a letter to a campus paper, Quan said she was particularly of- fended by a prolonged skit about two Chinese game-show hosts, which “degenerated into racist caricatures consisting of mindless gestures and rude noises.”

But student council official Elaine Wren, who was responsible for organizing the event, said the students who were offended mis- understood the group’s humour.

“Pm familiar with the band so I know that they don’t mean to be racist or homophobic or

anything like that,” she said. “They’re net making fun of the races, they’re making fun of peo- ple who are racist, of the ex- tremes.”

The council spent $ 14,000 dollars to stage the concert which was attended by about a thou- sand people, Wren said. :

Wren said the band has played at U of T in the last three years, without any corplaints. “The complaints are being passed on to the band and they are going te take them into consideration in their future skits,” she said.

“There was sore material that I was hoping they would not do, that they did do,” she said. “I want to apologize to those peonle wno were offended.”

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