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Well,our three—day flu is over and everyone on cam- pus is in the throes of those two most disabilitating of human emotions- either a moaning self-pity at its pass— ing and its failure,or a perverse I—told-you—so gloating over the inability of the student body to un- ite or accomplish anything.

Yet, let's keep things in perspective.True,we did fail to keep it going more than three days.True,we did fail to bring the strike to a quick end.But perhaps it makes more sense to look at our definate accomplishments and move from them rather than to slip into our own

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Be Informed ?- The Ster% Sﬁllon

Dear Editor,

Since the time when the Maintenance strike began two weeks ago,a number of events have taken place. A referendum which asked for a complete shut down of the campus, including a boycott of classes for two days was passed.However,people still attended classes.Picketing was confused and the whole

organization of the strike was haphaz ard.There was

no one leader for the whole affair which is political in nature and anything political is complicated.Also.the S.U.

private form of apathy. We should look at our failures as lessons to be learned from,not a proof that nothing can be done.

A philosophy prof.said a couple of days ago that this was the most succesul‘ student strike he had ever seen.While it's probably true that he exaggerates somewhat,there is more re- ason for that point of view to converSe.To whit: 1.From Friday October 24th to Friday October 3lst,the differential in the admin— istration and union offers 'has gone from fifty cents .an hour to seven and a half cents an hour.By the time

was afraid to stick their neck for fear that it

may be cut off in the future,so to speak.Can

you blame them (YES!)

when the professors (the Gods we follow like blind sheep)still held classes? People-have'complained about some of the happen— ings going on.But what- ever the course of action taken there still would

be complaints from some V small fraction.It's too bad

there was such poOr media coverage from the news— paper and T.V. station. I commend the maturity of the students in conducting a quiet orderly march to the Pr emier's office and then back to the adminis- tration building.Mr. D Clough was quite conden— cending andlspiteful to the crowd by basically telling us to shut up. His behavior was pretty indecent,to we students. The main reason I wrote this letter though, was basically to say this: the people who tried to inform themselves about this matter ,besides just "thinking"about it(though thinking is fine,we had an entire week to do it before the referendum,

Plus countless meetings to 3A~'-

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.town,it is clear that he

twhich.side was stalling

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failures-but mostly had sum cesses,where do we go from here?The

you read this,they may well go to zero.

first and perhapS most important step is to analyse the situation honem‘ ly—not gloatinly,not des- pairingly(for whateverreaS —but honestly,openly,and negotiations.It may well be objectively in an attempt m that from time to time of 7 discover what caused the our talk with him and the one failures and what caused am with DenisClough,several successes.This paper lays telephone calls were made. . its pages open to anyone 3.We clearly impress the wishing to make commentary

people of Charlottetown on this in the next week or two.We would ask,though,

With °uf ability to §°1d an that you wOuld avoid rail- orderly and sane strike, ings against apathy on the particularly during the march. one hand or campus radicals 4.Baker came up with a pro— on the other posal on university government The next step is Since WhiCh’Stripped Of its bad the settlement of the im— aspects,may be the single mediate issue is by now mOSt e¥Cit1?g an? Innova?e: mostly out of our hands to hit.thls uglver81ty’or alt er attempt to consolidate and o 1t? pre ecessors‘ever' expand our successes and m) 5.For once we proved that not leave them hanging in we can come OUt Of our mid—air,but to grow and fhm apathetic Shellssand m°§e a clear base on which to rag importantly in favour 0 In the immediate future Others‘even if only for 3 the most important thing ‘ daYS- would be to take Baker's }

If We had only accompliShed proposals,flush it out and one Of these things and it'3 make it into a viable entny fair to put most of the credit If we can tru 1y do thk, for all Of them on the then we may at last have a shoulders of our strike—then university community which it would have been well wor— is a'university communityk th while. ‘ . .

So given that we did have

Premier Campbell did down-

knew by the end of our "discussion"with him

workers are still on

strike and one doesn% eat for free so money donated to the union

would be the best com bution to the strikas now.

reinform the people about the matter too)are in my opinion far better persons than those who just sat back.After all action is better than words and one can only talk for so long.

Karen Woodhall ' ’

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