THE SCENE

Province House with a swell of peop- le, jamming, pushing to hear our stuffy politicians. The reason - X- Mart was challenging the store close~ inglaw.

THE REASON- The citizen at large- really uptight because the X—Mart Won’t come in unless they can stay open every night. The general belief is the more competition the lower the price, and Joe Citizen looks out for himself.

X-Mart finally got its way with the help of the pressure put on our political jackasses by most of the “well informed citizens” of the Is- land.

And as our fairy story continues ' we see construction and technical workers of the Island employed “building for the people” and re- ceiving significantly lower wages than the same type of workers im- ported for the job.

Now 01’ Joe was pretty proud of himself. though he knew a hell of a lot about democratic capitalism. But X-WMart was a smart outfit, hav- ing its roots in a giant American con- glomerate. It didn’t take long for our American related company to get its hands on Joe’s potato money

Dond X—

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-much for their wares as the market

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and ship it out of the province, us- ‘ing it to fatten up its distinguished corporate coffers. Joe liked imper- ialism as long as he was on the re- ceiving end. I guess he still thinks he is. Joe loves X-Mart almost more than his sebagos, because he doesn’t

What XZ-Mart is doing is taking the cream of the market without feeding the cow. It puts very little into the Island economy compared to most local merchants, and by their very presence raise the ante for the local merchants, thus in the long run raising market prices. In other words screwing you Mr. Citiz- en.

X—Mart is here to make max- imum profit, they will charge as

will bear. After all that’s what cap- italism is all about. I don’t suppose most people cared to get bilked at all, but if you deal with local merchants you’ll get bilked less than if you deal with X-Mart. Local merchants profits are not pum- ped off the Island, and in fact, most local merchants support community projects. So if you want to do your- self a favour;

ShOp an:

yes folks the hits just keep on’ as comin from ye olde WHAT, radio CAD- Re-Sl/z to be PREcise. Wendying his way over to the ol watering hole in 'the base Mem (bitter known as the Stud Union’s office for all you chauvini ists-we know what they really need don’t we guise) was Dinn iss who comes com- plete with Grade I speller and inane boyish grin. Also available for spot announcing (“that’s a spot” is one of his best) was one of our favorite cartoon characters, B.C. Jane and Nadine hit the keys-if not indeed the skids. Garryxx bearly made sense, and Elaine and Char- maine looked helpful, but you must

remember our standards are low. The writer.

Chief Heads - Rod and Den

Girl Guide - Garry M. STAFF HISTORIAN - B.C. Paper Hanger - Donna ABSENT - Jock

Types - Wendy, Nadine, and Andrea

masthead cutline has traditionally been; _

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Sheep in Cheap Clothing - Sweet Baby James H.

Photos - Rod (who also became Red)

Help and Encouragement - the girls from Bernadine, the Bear Party and the Security Police.

the most obvious example of this. Shom of all his bureaucratic adomments but still trying to look important was Jim who at midnight turned into Captain smiebody or other: Bonnie (who con- trary to popular opinion did not tell a falsehood about being over the ocean) did something revelant. Din compented Brian for writing his editorial. Donna flunked letraset but still pastes a mean blank sheet on the wall. Rod concluded that 12 was 5 and committed hari-kari with an ems ruler. Only the IBM 72 kept its composr. For those who want to know why the paper looks better this year, we told our old printers “Irwins 'we don’t like your type.” Until next week just remember: the decal you lick may be your own.

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Once upon a time on a fabled Isle called Prince Edward, if one was fortunate enough to have a degree in Arts or Science then one could teach school. At present this is all in doubt, with the advent of new regulations on licensing of teachers which come into effect January 21, 1970. One wonders What one may do with a plain B.A., B.Sc., cr- Masters degree.

_ According to the new regulations have a B.A., B.Sc. or Masters de- gree will not get you a license, you must also have some Education Courses.

I imagine that the Prov. 'Dept. of Education feels it is necessary to keep those people with degrees out of the schools. The High Schools for example, are over run with tea- chers who have degrees. Why I bet every High School on the Island has at least one degree teacher.

The new regulations also make one think that Education courses must have radically increased in their quality over the year. The Dept. of Education assumes that a course in Education will make the differ- ence between a qualified teacher and an unqualified one. One can assume the good teachers are mou- lded, not gifted with any parti- cular personal insights.

I feel that the Dept. is putting too much stress on Methodology and not enough on content. It is very apparent that the teachers in our High Schools are poorly qual— ified and it is ridiculous that the Dept. come out with regulations like these which make it more diff- icult for High Schools to hire Qual- ‘ified academics.‘0bviously the Dept. has established as a priority the up- grading and training of new teachers. One assumes further that the Dept. is quite satisfied with its present staff, although 15% of all High School teachers were judged to be underqualified under the present criteria. Without deference to those

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Exposure to the financial element involved in registration served as somewhat of a shock to many stu- dents. Apparently certain individ- uals sole concern is in the financial aspect with no consideration of the educational element. It would be unfortunate if the criteria for ob- taining an education becomes (or has become!) financial well-being.

If wealth is reflected as the prin— cipal necessity for those sincerely seeking a learning experience in a supposedly humane atmosphere, gr- eat disillusionment could result for

those not occupying the highest ec— onomic bracket.

disillusioned.

Here’s the scene. Henry Sniffle, UPEI freshman student, arrives on

campus. He gets in a line-up.

_jThat’s okay, he’s used to line-ups;

presently engaged in the teaching

profession, I would say that the de-

partment could afford the luxury of

hiring a great number of young de-

gree teachers to inject new blood and ideas into the profession.

It is interesting to note that those who receive a four year B.Ed. are not included in the stipulations of the regulations. However,'it would be safe to assume that they have been afforded special status - Cert- ificate 4 perhaps?In other words,

both B.A. and B.Ed. students par- take of four year programmes and yet one ' l} A.) is subject to the spec- ial restrictions and the otheris not. Further to this point, the B.A.

and the B.SC. graduate has signif- icantly more academic experience than his counterpart, and academic experience in our opinion is inval- uable to anyone hoping to teach in _specialized discipline areas.

The consequence for most under- graduates is quite clear, either one is forced into taking an additional year to procure a B.Ed. (which is of dub- ious value), or one is compelled to take summer courses to upgrade one’s qualifications.

The emphasis on methodology is- supposedly for the purpose of in- creasing one’s professional compet- ence, but in the least professional competence, but in the least profess- ional of all professions, it may be better to promote a better teaching climate as opposed to the creation of teaching technicians.

The question of what kind of prep- aration teachers require has been a point of contention in many educat- ional spheres. The priority is, how- ever on kind andquality lofedu'cation which is developed provincially. The development of special types of tea- chers may, consequently, not be in the best interests of the type of ed- ucation which young people 'are seeking. _

after all, he’s been to high school. And he’s familiar with numbers, assemblies, regimentation, “order; liness”. So he doesn’t think much about his line-up until he’s ready to register and finds out he should have been in another one first.

'But he gets through, gets~ his courses laboriously figured out, and goes to bed that glorious night with timetable in'hand and visions of sugarplums and lewd freshettes dancing in his head.

So first or second, class in each course finds the prof asking him when he wants to hold the class—

In any case, by the time Sniffl'e gets the campus layout, professors and timetable figured out, the mere week allowed for changing classes (some of which meet only once the first weekranyway) has elapsed.

Sound unreal?lt is.