EHE CADRE, TUES., FEB. 26, 1974 Page 6

Criticizing the

Let's now assess the candi— dates arguments.

First, all candidates det- ermine that the problems are apathy, financial incompet- ency, poor communication, insufficient use of campus media (Cadre, CSUR), student— faculty gap, gap between SU executive and committee he- ads. And they are right. However, in identifying the symptoms, they have neglec- ted the disease —- Capital- ism! Furthermore, but con— sistent with their shallow insight -— they all propose immediate solutions to the immediate problems. Granted they can see poor usage of funds and propose to clamp down on this: but they must fail because to concentrate on the immediate situation is to neglect the real pro- blem —— which is the val- ues, aims, beliefs, etc, which give rise to these pr- oblems in the first place. Until they identify the true - soUrce of the problems they will be left with "hand-aid" proposals and, of course, will remain in the dark and "in the red".

They all see apathy as a problem -- and all propose to deal with it. Again they fail to see that you cannot "deal" with apathy in a community as representatives. Apathy is for each to work outwfor himself -— no comm— ittee in the world can over- come my apathy° The candi- dates(1ike everyone else) see apathy as a problem --

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but do not see it as a spi— ritual (not in the religious sense) problem of our age and, thus, do not realize that you cannot legislate away the problemo

No candidate has noticed the relationship between apathy and incompetent exp— enditure. Disinterested & aleniated students have fa- iled to appreciate (natura— lly) the significance of the SU and the treasury and, as a result, treated these as infinite sources of money. Apathy is integrally tied to poor expenditure. Stude- nts who don't care, will abuse the Student Union. It's why they don't care th- at should be the object of ’pursuit.

The candidates for (presi- dency) are not the most im— pressive, with the exception of Barbara Stevenson. Gordon Campbell can easily identify the problems (at the super- ficial level) but gives you the impression that he has no ability to deal with the responsibilities these prob— lems imply. He is incompet— ent in argument, uncertain, and too easily persuaded to assume a firm stand on an issue.

Bruce MacDonald also iden— tifies the same problems everyone else does, but can— not put forth concrete al— ternatives —- he's a band - aider. Furthermore, he imp- lies lack of tact and confi- dence in the sturdy, rigid means whereby he intends to smarten-up executive. Viol- ence is the tool of the in—

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competent. He gives you the impression he knows little

or nothing about people -—

examine his platform on the front page. . ,

The third candidate -e Bar- bara Stevenson -- is by far, more secure, confident, ex— perienced and intent than the others. Her performance on Senate is (as I can per- sonally attest) of consider— able quality. She gives you the impression she knows wh- ere she's going —- and that's what the SU needs. Brains are important but amount to nothing without character. Barb has, in my opinion, mo- re strength of character th— an the other candidates. To be sure -- she has much to learn —— but she knows this. To know that you don't know is a mark of wisdom -— and wisdom is the medicine our SU could do with —- not just brains, force of personality, or rigidity, such as the ot- hers possess (and even then I overestimate theml).

Should Barb realize (as I think she does) that a full scale plan is not the answer (though important) but, rat-

'her, a person of resolute

character who will meet each situation as it comes and endeavour to resolve it on the basis of a concientious will —- she will no doubt

do this campus a great ser— vice. Sometimes one must tu-

,rn one's back on one's peo-

ple in order to do justice by them. Stan Dalton

Girls! Want to help your government cut down their cost per prisoner ratio.

Here‘s how! - ~

We had one female prisoner in here last week. Guess how much it cost to keep her here?

She wouldn't pay a $40. fi— ne so the judge gave her 30 days. Out of the 30 days she would have to serve 20.

Now, when there is a female prisoner, a female matron must be on 24 hours a day. She has to be paid and fed as well as feeding the pri— soner. ' .

I feel that $60. a day is a conservative estimate of what female prisoners cost to the department. Over 20 days, this comes to $1200. dollars that it WOuld cost. Plus the $40. fine that the woman wouldn’t pay!

Perhaps the department got wise to that woman's plot of cheating the government out of $1240. because they let her out after only 12 days. Good thinking guys!!

we have two female prison- ers now so the cost is al—

most out in half. Imagine 4