by Ann Higdm ’

Television's W5 (I'm sure you've all heard of it) broadcasted a rep0rt Sept. 30 surrounding the idea that foreign stiﬂents are taking university plaees‘i away from deserving \ A Canadian students. CBIE , (Canadian Bureau of Inter- naticnal Education), the principal source of information concerning , foreign students in Canada; and the only organization

on the. programme, responded by pointing out several factual errors.

W5 clained that in . Canada (at‘ all levels of educatim) there are 50,000. foreign students, of which 20,000 are full- time university students. The proportion of foreign students in canadian universities iswactually smaller stated

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by Ann Higdon

An often attacked part, of our university is the Classics. After an inter- view with; associate " professor Jdin Quincey of the Classics department,» I've tried to put the Classics in the proper r ‘— perspective fOr you, the student. "

The Classics courses are divided into two types, the languages (Greek and Latin) and the civilizaj- ticn courses which don't require knowledge ofthe classical languages. ' 'Ihe. civilization cOurses’are

a good idea for" students

who desire a well—rounded Program, be they Arts or Science students. Con— trary to popular opinion, they involve" little if’ / any written‘work,’ the :7 ._ main requirement being that the students. attend all Classes. In the “classes Slides take the place of a

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(really mly 5% of the total student pOpulation).. Also, there are only 85 fareign Med. students in all Canadian Med schools,

contrary to the "more than

4/0091 quoted by W5. And in opposition to W5‘s declaration that landed immigrant status is‘veasily. foreign students, it is now impossible for them to get' landed immigrant statiis except for special reasms. And ‘finally, the programme accused the Faculty of Pharmacy at U. of 'Ibronto of excluding Canadian students in favour of foreign students. CBIE states ,\ in defense, ‘ﬂ'lere is not one single foreign student in that faculty. CBIE says that most of the errors are traceable to one false premise: that "foreign students" and

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enough, as Professor mentioned, the

UPEI course handbook does not suggest these courses

-' for electives, although

they, would provide a cultural base for the "core" courses.

Professor Quincey ’also .mentioned a few facts about the classics. He said that there has been 100%Uin—

crease in Classics 101 in

the past year. Also, most of the Classics students

are seniors and/or girls. '

Prefessor Quincey also f came up with an idea of supplying UPEI with a motto and. a heraldic coat of arms.

«He said that it would help

'mive‘rsity unity to use

an’ official motto. I think it iS"a good idea and ‘ maybe we, the students, ‘ should look into, it and. get our Student Union working on it.

Valuable asset to. UPEI

Personally, .' I I consider Classics a‘

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"landed immigrants" are similar. A landed immigrant

has been granted the right

to live permanently in Canada, and WS's concern about students leaving Canada with important skills (and costing Canada . money) should not bear upon the landed immigrant. - CBIE also maintains that , W5's choice of film ‘ suggested that any student who is not‘white is a foreign student. The film and manipulative Words '— ' '!a foreigner is anyone who-

lOoks foreign", and "Canada

is being suckered as a. nation" — appeal to the

. worst instincts of: an

audience, as CBIE puts» it. As a final rebuke, CBIE

.A maritime that Canadian

universities now sane 20,000 "foreign students" Who will leave Canada on

completion of their studies.

W5 stated these students are concentrated in tech— nical and technological programs (for usefulness

in the job market.) Nearly all the foreign students are

in programmes with no

shortages of space. And the programmes such as ’

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medicine, dentistry, law and pharmacy are closed to foreign students; only Canadians are admitted. Enclosing, CBIE states, that Canadian students are being excluded only due

' to an overall lack of

space in universities rather' than by foreign students. ,

CI'V's treatment of the issue might make things more difficult for foreign

, students across Canada.

And here on campus one of the coordinators, of the

_ International Students

Association of UPEI (Chinedu Ibeanusi) commented on W5's blunders ous program. He said that most universities will not take foreign students before Canadian students and that "W5 was raising

‘ a false alarm, and it‘s-

not good for the academic world."

Just out of curiosity, the International Students Association has three

' coordinators and about

35 foreign students. All that the“ group is missing is Canadian students, ironic as that may seem.

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