Oct 30 and Nov 6

By Colleen Easter ALCOHOL AWARENESS CAMPAIGN October 17 marked the start of the alcohol awareness campaign ‘‘If You Drink Don’t Bowl’’. The campaign runs for seven weeks so keep your eyes out for the fantastic posters with the important message. You may even want to steal one for your room. Ray Murphy thinks the campaign is going great. Why don’t you tell him what you think? CROSSWALKS For those of you who have not noticed the bright yellow crosswalks adorning our cam- pus, they are the work of the student council. According to Patricia Embleton, we even ran out of yellow paint! Hopefully all students will now use them and the drivers on campus will have less fear of killing students who don’t

This week in the

look both ways before they cross the street. PAST ELECTIONS

The Chief Returning Officer reported on the results of the recent Student Union election. Chantal Theriault, Erin Hutchins, Nelson MacRae, Scott Campbell and Anika Larkin won seats on the council. That’s the good news. The bad news is that only 4.2% of the full time registered students voted. The newly elected councillors were sworn in on Novem- ber 6.

FUTURE ELECTIONS

The voter turnout for the last election was lamentable. However we all have a chance to try again! There will be an election on Novem- ber 28, 29, and 30 for 3 arts reps, 1 nursing rep, 1 senate rep, 1 ombudsperson, | education rep and the senior class executive. Please use this

Student Council

election to redeem yourself and get out and vote!

STUDENT PROTEST

During the Oct 16 meeting, the student council decided not to hold a student strike over Lloyd Axworthy’s discussion paper unless negotia- tions with the government fail to alter the report. Nevertheless, plans for a student protest have been going strong. November 16 has been set as protest day. An information booth will be set up in the pit, letters to MP’s will be written, black ribbons will mourn the possible loss of education and lots more. Just remember, not protesting now could mean a $50,000 debt for your education.

ACCESSIBILITY REPORT

The committee on the university’s accessibil- ity report is working on getting bigger room

number sign for classrooms and larger butty in the elevators, along with other impro ments to the university. Anyone interested a sport wheelchair to use at the sports centre interested in giving recommendations fort report should contact Ray Murphy. PRESIDENT’S TRAVELS

President Andrew MacPherson has been ye busy lately. He started by meeting with \ Dingwell of ACOA and the presidents of { maritime universities. Last Tuesday he hel meeting with Hillsborough MP George Pro On Wednesday he was in Halifax with oth Student Union presidents to meet the infamo Lloyd Axworthy. Then he was off to Ottawa! the CFS general meeting.

THE BARN

Finley Martin reported that the recent perfon ance of Great Big Sea was a great succe Tickets have gone on sale for Terry Kell; appearance at the Barn on November 28. Dor forget that Purple Helmets will be performi on New Year’s Eve.

Student teacher evaluations

By Colleen Easter Derwe THE SENATE MEETING ON

November 4, the UPEI Senate passed a motion to delay the vote on mandatory student teacher evaluations until their December meeting. This delay was in order to give the Faculty Associa- tion time to look at the motion and give the Senate feedback and rec- ommendations. This will almost assuredly make theevaluations non-man- datory for this semester. I believe this was a grave insult to the students of UPEI and I am unhappy with the Senate’s actions. It is my under- standing that when the motion came to the forefront of interest last year (the fall of 1993), the Senate gave the issue to the Faculty Asso- ciation so they could prepare a report on the subject. Apparently, the Senate waited through- out the year for this report but the Faculty Association never submitted one. Earlier in the fall, the Senate actually voted on the issue. It was later learned that an incorrect calculation of the number of Senators needed to vote on closing the debate made the vote invalid. These were the reasons the issue ap- peared on the agenda of the latest meeting. Once again the Faculty Association decided they needed time to make recommendations to the Senate. The Senate agreed and delayed the vote. As a student of this university, this action has upset me greatly. Every day I goto class and get deadlines

And thanks to the combined

efforts of the Senate and the

Faculty Association this, what I sociation has had all of

consider an important endeav- last year to make any

our will not take place this semester.

papers. I usually manage to hand them in on time. I have never missed a deadline. If I had missed one, however, I could not ask my professor to hold my final mark while I fin- ished the necessary work. I could not get the credit for work I could not be bothered to complete on time. Yet it seems that this is precisely what the Fac- ulty Association is do- ing with the Senate. The Faculty As-

recommendations they wanted. Icannot blame them, however, for con- tinuing to try to get what they want. Iam more upset with the Senate for allowing this to occur. In real life I have never been allowed this kind of leeway and I doubt many other students have been either. Students want the evaluations for the betterment of the university and the enhance- ment of teaching. We don’t want to make professors look bad or be boycotted. We want to give them suggestions to enhance the learn- ing process and give additional information to the decision makers when it comes to awards and tenure. I don’t think this is some horrible thing. And thanks to the combined efforts of the Senate and the Faculty Association this, what I consider an important endeavour will not take place this semester. The enhancement of teaching has been slowed by one more semester due to the far too generous nature of the UPEI Senate.

Media: College paper shut dow!

By Jill-Beth Rosenthal and Aubrey Cohen (CUP) AWSON COLLEGE BIGWIGS SHUT down thestudent newspaper Nov. 10, after editors of The Plant refused to allow school representatives to check the newspaper before going to print.

The decision came a week after The Plant ran a cover photo ofa naked man with an erect penis holding a condom. Michelle Clabrough, Dawson’s head of stu-

dent services, pulled the issue for In the end, they agreed that fear of being sued, later allowing resentatives of the council, editors to paint over the offending Board of Governors and The P! phallus. will meet to review the final f Last week, the student as- The aay the Sesame Street. __ isSues of the paper this sem sociation’s media council ordered Merial Sis after they are printed, but bef thepaper’s editorial board to allow an advisor _ distribution. from the administration and a media council Clabrough will serve as the board

representative to look over the entire paper before going to the printer.

The Plant refused to comply with this ultimatum. In response, the media council voted 2-1, with three abstentions, toclose down the paper.

Sean Garrety, editor-in-chief of The Plant, speculated that the paper was not the real issue.’’ The issue is, more or less, ‘Who’s run- ning whom?’”’ he said. ‘‘I know who it is, and it’s Dawson. When it comes to legalities, they are going to be very anal.”’

Lauren Kisilevsky, a media council member, said that a Board ofGovernors repre- sentative-- the college’s highest decision- makingbody-- advised them that the board was already considering action.She added that the council mistook this person’s opinion for fact.

"We were told that if we didn’t do something that strong, that The Plant would be closed down forever,”’ she explained.Richard Blake, another member of the council, apolo-

gized for the mistake. ’’ We did not look into! whole thing thoroughly,’’ Blake added.

Clabrough commented that the auth ity of the media council toshut down the pap is ‘‘questionable,’’ and that | constitution does not make a ‘/ rect reference to it.

The media council, Clabrou and the editorial board of the p per met to find a short-term sol tion to the conflict after Pla | staffers were locked out of tht Offices.

resentative. She will still have final say as whether or not an issue will be distributed. said her criteria for this decision will be on her ‘‘personal judgment.’’

"I’m looking from a legal per tive,”’ she said.

Garrety said any representative the paper will only be able to defend Plant’s decisions.

’*Legally, Dawson’s our publishef our hands are tied,’’ he said. ‘‘I don’t like! all, but I’m going to lose the battle and wit war.””

Garrety explained that he wants to corporate the paper by thebeginning of semester, and become autonomous from ' administration. ‘“We wouldn’t be g° through all this BS if we were[autonomovs he noted.

(Source:the Link, Concordia University, The McGill Daily, McGillUniversity)