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CHARLOTTETOWN. P. Ell.

English teachers protest rating

Recommend abolition of ‘Matrics’ infng'lish

Connaughton and Niles bedding-in at

the Department of Education

Hilton fires activists

Two UIBEI students were fired from their jobs with the athletic department, because of their involvement in the action taken by the students concerning the fee increase.

Bob‘Connaughton, who worked in the rink and Don Niles, who worked as an announcer during basketball games were told that they would lose their jobs. E‘d Hilton. Chairman of the athletic department, told them, according to Niles that “you made asses of yourselves” during the student action. He also told them that they

were fired. ' , . /

John Keaveny, Student Union President took the matter before the Senate. Although no formal action was taken by the Senate, we have received information that they were offered their jobs back the day after the Senate meeting. Niles refused his job back, but Con- na-ughton has gone back to work, apparently because he

needs the money.

No, discipline for faculty“ members

At a recent meeting of the UPEI Senate, John Keaveny President of the Student Un- ion, suggested that since the University feels there is a need for a committee to han- dle student discipline, there should also be one for the faculty.

Keav-eny felt that there should be some means for protecting students from fac- ulty tyranny Keaveny cit-ed examples Of this tyranny, such as, refUIEiin‘g‘ to ans-

wer questions in class, using

attendance records in grading He said “Students have been even kicked out of courses for not meeting attendance re- quirements”. One st u d e n t commented that this is sim.

mm- to a 19th century law in

Britain which held that the penalty for attempted suicide was death by hanging.

Keaveny felt that if this committee on faculty was set up as a committee of Senate then it should be made up of half students and half facul-

'ty.

The suggestion apparently got a very cool reception from senate. President Baker sug- gested that if this type of committee was set up the University would lose all of its good faculty. ‘

Keavény commenting o n Bakers statement said “I feel that if a faculty member is doing a good job then he would have nothing to worry

about from such a commits

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all American troops Viet Nam.

HALIFAX — At a confer- ence at St. Mary’s University in Halifax February 6 and 7, a group of fifty English tea- chers and professors f r0 m across the Atlantic provinces called for “the abolition of provincially standardized and externally graded examina tions” in English. This would include, delegates explained, both the present system of matriculation examinations, or departmentals, and. any other uniform, provincially- administered examination deb signedl to rate students ac- cording to a provincewide

_ standard.

Reasons given for the re- commendation include the de- legates" conviction that Eng- lish is a field where such ex- aminations are both imperfect as an evaluation device and detrimental to the teaching of English in the high schools.

It was also. contended at the meeting that such exam-

‘ inations cannot allow suffic-

iently for the wide diversity of cultural backgrounds in in- dividual provinces, but it was decided not to make this part of the official recommenda- tions of the meeting.

It was also recommended by the meeting that indivi- dual universities should be made responsible for selecting their own entrance and place- ment criteria, that the judg- ment of the classroom teach- er in the high school should be “recognized as the decisive factor” in evaluating students in English classes, and that universities should “develop a range of clearly differen- tiated freshman English cour- ses” to serve the varied needs of incoming freshmen.

The conference, whose of- ficial title was the “Confer- ence on Freshman English in the Maritimes,” included de legates from all four Atlantic provinces, representing uni- versities, high schools, and provincial departments of

War is ever (if he

WASHINGTON, DC (CPS) —After conferring for sever- al hours with top political, military, economic and public relations advisers, president Richard Nixon today ordered the immediate withdrawal of from

In a startling move of ob-

scure political brilliance the president said, “It’s not real- ly our war, anyway.” Presi- dential advisers cited grow- ing political dissention at

home and a need to “cement

‘ our divided society and allow

us to prepare" for the hard

pull ahead.”

The troops will begin leav- ing some time next week, as soon as the non-commission- ed officers clubs can recoup their losses. The pullout will amount to some 497,000 mili- tary and civilian personnel. When asked if the new C5-A . transports will be used, a mil- itary spokesman explained that the South Vietnamese government prohibits aircraft

whose engines produce over 140 decibels of sound.

The South Vietnamese em- bassy was closed and the am- bassador unavailable for com- ment. Rumors circulating this afternoon said the ambassa- dor had fled the countryfear- ing threats of his: life. (A state department spokesman denied that South Vietnam was preparing to sever rela tions with the US before the troops could be redeployed.)

Leading economists predict that the shift from wartime to peacetime economy could prove disastrous to the stab- ility of the dollar and fear a plunge into the depths of de pression. “What will we do with the six months backlog of war materials we have stockpiled ?” asked Mil t o n Friedman. call

The president is scheduled to go on nation-wide televis- ion tomorrow night to make his position perfectly clear. At today’s special press con- ference he refused to go be-

education. The meeting vot- ed overwhelmingly for the four resolutions, and called for another meeting to con- tinue the discussion. “This is really just preparing the ground,” said one delegate. “Now when we meet next time we will be able to make some concrete recommenda— tions about freshman English courses.”

One effect of the resolu- tions, delegates pointed1 out, would be to promote a closer liaison between high schools and universities, “because you wouldn’t have the matrics making a wall between them.” It was also asserted that these resolutions should ap- ply to disciplines other than English. According to a. New Brunswick delegate, “The evils perpetrated by metrics pervade our entire education- al system.”

A second meeting is tenta- tively scheduled for the fall, in Fredericton.

wants it)

yond the following general statement:

“I want my position to be perfectly clear. This nation is going to fight communism wherever it springs up. Now, my fellow Americans, 1 rear- lize the tremendous strain on our economy the end of the war in Viet Nam could be, and I have provided for it

“Our neighbor to the north has long been frought with internal strife. From the pro- tection Canada has been giv— ing our young draft dodgers it becomes apparent that Can- ada has been taken over by the communists. We cannot allow this threat so close to our own soil.

“After much deliberation, I have ordered the saturation bombing of eastern Canada, and our troops are already securing the principal ports, airports, and border cross- ings. If we pull together in this fight, Canada will soon be a safe place to live for all peace-loving people.”

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—-Jerry Rubin on the Revolution ............................ .. page 2 1 ——-Our repressive legal structure .............................. .. page 4 —-“Stoont radicals” ...................................................... .. page 7 —-—Crossword Puzzle ........................... ....................... .. page 3