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by Robin Clcw

I'm sure many of you were surprised (mostly pleasantly so) to see that the one and only John Neville is not only absent as a contributor to our paper but as a student on campus. John was abused enough at a roast held for him earlier

this month so I'll jLst say that people like John are few and far between and sports on campus will miss his support and enthusiasm this year. I'm attempting to take over for John as sports columnist for the SUN and right now I 'm fighting a deadline, which will come as no surprise to the professors who have waited for papers from me in the past. This week I'm to write on the 1979 Panthers and their new head coach, Doug Crossman.

Doug is a former Panther defensive back where he left his mark as an aggressive hard—hitting player, selected for both Team M.V.P. and All Confer- ence honors during his years here. He‘left us for two years from 1974-75 while he finished his Maste Master's degree at the University of Waterloo. captained the Warriors as well as being All—Canadian

In 1975 he was

‘ selected Team M.V.P. and All Conference once again, bringing a great deal of hardware back on his return to the Island.

For the past three seasons Doug has been an assistant coadn under Ed ' Hilton, serving as Defensive Co-ordinator in charge of the Panthers' excellent defence last year. In his first year as. head coach, Doug is , faced with a major rebuild— ing program, having lost

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alone. I — As the defence will

undoubtedly be weaker than last year, if the Panthers are to win then the offence will have to take up the slad<. '

However, the Panthers 4 opened their regular season last Saturday on the wrong end of a one—sided score. The defending A.ULA.A. champion St. Francis Xavier XfIIEIl thoroughly'dcminated , the unaggressive'Panthers ' in a 42—1 rout. For rookie “ head coadi Doug Crossman it must have. been a demoralize ing start to the season.

In talking to Crossman " last week, he said that he, expected an aggressiVe hard— hitting game with the X-men and that the Panthers, who have had whistory of close games over the past years with“ X, would be in the

game till the end.

From this writer's view- point, the game was never in doubt from the start. The Panthers' offence was unable to move the ball against a defence which appears ready to repeat as the best.

‘ in the country.- 'Ihe X—men's weakness last year was lack of offense but on Saturday they showed real power in this area, . amassing close to 600 yards. ’Ihey were able to gain much ‘of this running up the heart of the Panther defense, showing how sorely we miss the players lost from last year.

It's hard to talk positively as a whole about the team as anyone could see they were badly beaten. Some players look like with some support from the best of the team that the Panthers can play. good football this year; Vernon Pahl, J .P. MacIntyre - 'IYerry Palmer, and Neal Ccnnaughtcn all showed well on Saturday; ~;

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However, Panther” fans should not despair as, , though our men had‘a poor; start on Saturday, their main weakness is inexper— this should improve. Ladc of size and ‘ can be compensated for by \- aggressiveness’ and desire. ,

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and sxpport team; yell, scream and think

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There are few "things more frustrating at university

get the text book.

than signing up fora course, but not being able to The person the student usually ‘

complains to is Russ Stewart, the bookstore manager. "99 per cent of the time it is the fault of the

professor," Mr. Stewart will answer.

"Occasionally.

a book will be between printings‘ and so won't be 7’ available, but ‘us‘ually'it is the fault *of“the"'-pro—fessor:" ' 7 It is hard for a student to believe that those ’

same people who penalize student-s for mot making

deadlines", don't make them themselves. _ . To be assured books, a book order should Some professors are not around in r

the end of June.

be in by

the summer, and instead of taking care of suchj_things ‘

beforehand, leave it to afterward. ., ._ ’ “' Nowadays , withicomputerized red tape added";

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regular administrative red tape, it takes least. four

weeks

for a book to arrive after it is crdeﬁed.

And

that's if the book is in stock. If it's not, it

can take much. much longer.

Those guilty professors will have plenty oftexcuses on hand — some learned from their students.

But ‘as

we are frequently told, "There is no excuse for being

late." Now if'we could only: penalize professors. . . s “65”” I’m-"r ' ‘ Wrﬁmmﬁ‘y’ym

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