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Co-Editors: Cora—Lee DesRoches

Dawnne Chappelle

Production Editor: Jan Mollison Advertising Manager: Derrick Cameron Typesetter: Simon T. Berge Photographer: Vivian Huizenga

News Editor: Laura Kilfoil

Sports Editor: Matthew Beardsley Graphics Editor: Jim Macgrath Systems Manager: James Connolly

Circulation Manager: Chris Vessey

Anyone can contribute to The GEM. Submis- sions can be dropped off at the Barn, sent through VAX MAIL to GEM, or stuck on our door down in the basement of the Main building. Our phone number is 566-0629 or 566-0530.

We cherish typed and double spaced sub- missions and submissions on computer disk or through VAX mail. For legal reasons, all submis- sions must include the author’s name and phone number. However, names will be withheld from publication on request.

The GEM is published by the University of Prince Edward Island Student Union. Views ex- pressed are not necessarily those of the GEM staff, the UPEI Student Union, or of anyone in particu- lar.

We reserve the right to edit submiissions due to space or taste limita-

tions. :

We reserve the right not to print submissions that are sub- mitted after Monday at 3:00pm.

Hello everyone out there in Univer- sityland! Well, it looks like it’s the end of another semester here at good old UPEI, and hasn’t it-been a great one?!

We at the GEM have had an especially good year; with the new equipment that we got over the summer, and the new office that we finally moved into, things have been rolling. We managed to finish out the year with only a minimal amount of trouble.

At this point we would like to thank

all those who submitted to the GEM this semester, and encourage.everyone to do

the same in ’89. It’s going to be a great New Year!

We would also like to thank all the people, both staff members and non, who helped us work on the paper this year. You did a great job!!! We are looking forward to ’89— Let’s hope next semester will be as good as this one!

Come visit us in our new office next semester. Or better yet, join our team— it’s a lot of fun.

Merry Christmas, all!

The GEM staff

Information Update

In the November 17 issue of the GEM, we printed a Pet Peeve that stated: “It really bugs me when the Vax goes down and the Computer Center staff takes a long weekend.” We would now like to clear up any confusion that this state- ment may have caused.

First of all, the Vax did not “‘go down”. What happened was a disk fail- ure of the User 1 hard disk. This is the disk that holds all student, per-

sonal, and faculty accounts. Failure of this disk means that anyone with one

of these accounts does not have access to the Vax. However, members of the

Computer Center staff, including Dave Cairns, Blair Vessey, and Mike Reid, spent the long weekend transferring stu- dent accounts to another disk so stu- dents would be able to gain access to these accounts to work on assignments.

We at the GEM would like to apol- ogize to the Computer Center staff for any misunderstanding and thank them for allowing us access to their equipment for this week’s edition of the GEM.

The Editors

UJ LLRVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVFVVVVIVVIVVIIIIIFIFIIFIS,

CFS/UPEI Committee Member

_ There will NOT be a committee meet- ing until Tuesday, January 10, 1989. You have all done a tremendous amount of work and deserve a break from that crazy student movement at UPEI. Good luck with exams and assign- ments and have a wonderful Christmas

holiday! } Sincerely yours,

your Chairperson, + * Lisa Murphy x VP Academic

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