um CADRE, Se t. 25, 1973 - Pa e 4 -"

Save Our soil _~ "

The Brothers and Sisters with which Island land is erosibn poses a serious ' people to take ’ of Cornelius Howatt are currently being bought up threat to the future of rain agriculture: concerned about the rapid by non-residents. We feel , our province. rare unable to ma and accelerating rate that this process of soil This loss Of land is PrOV=« A ”Kent livelihooaib _ 7‘ ' ing destructive both to can hardly bevqsi t3?» ‘f; ,7gj:-‘ ' v_ (yewe- -4.Nr _ ' our agricultural industry ‘ Selling—“afld9t tn ’ ‘ ' ' “' ' ' ‘ _and to our rural communit: highest biddeiEéi ies1 Good productive farms ‘ WE ISlanderS 575’ are being delivered into to fU1lY reali u the possession of those - Ultimate value ff who merely want a-summerv lanfi- Farms Whj.h home, and the price of SUStained.fami is land‘is being forced up 50' '. more than a hu{.f high that few local farm—r and Whieh coulS‘m ers can afford to compete to do so for gen& ‘for it on the open market. Yet to come: arer

sold for the equi of a small suburm glow and a few im lly—manufactured

Last year alone more than 20,000 acres were lost in this way, and so far in

1973 the rate of non-res— , . ident purchase has tended We,are Selllng,t05 to increase still further. trlfle the heele' Already more than 100,000 our econowy and 0 acres of our land, and tural heritage!

about one-third of our It it ironic that available prime recreat— when the wqud is ional shore frontage, is ' ingrchronicaiiy & ,in the hands of non-res- - 909d égricultural

idents. and the pri’e of;

We feel that our Island ShOWing SubStahti Government has shown too creases! we hon“ little initiative in the Process .f'a

‘ either providing assist- sale setl‘ u ' JUS ance to our family farms, the famlty‘f rm to or in encouraging young ‘ Once agaln a Pr

economic unit/iti

New Enrollment

K.J. McNe'

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The new full time ' The,students are with-" I V enrollment is 1447. drawing and the university This is down 9% from ls dying. If any of the 'last Semester. part .' readers of this have any

\time enrollment is up 9%. In total,enrollment is down 123 or 7% from

. last semester. “"

The long awaited fig-_ ures are out. The enrol— ~' ' lment has dropped again!’ " At one time, U.P.E.I. boasted of approx. 1870 students. Today I450.

At this rate, what is the future of this institution.

The writer will even go ‘but on a limb to say that if this drop continues, this university will be extinct in 5 years. It is not too late to do something. It\is time the administration started ‘ Nmixing their rosy View of the future with some present day reality. According to President Baker, a university is a dynamic tension bet— ween the people, who pay the shot (the province) the faculty, who teach, and the students, who come here to learn.

If any of these with* a. , _ draw, the university dies. g

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