UPEI SUN,‘Ihursday,Feb.23,I978,page 9

ANSWER TO BASKETBALL.

'IheUniversity of P.E.I. basketball Panthers ,will close out their 1977-78

seasonathcmethis

regular

weekend when play a pair of games against the St. Francis Xavier X—‘men. The Panthers will enter, weekald play needing one win to clinch their fourth consecutive berth in the

Atlantic Conference play— ‘

offs that will be held in

.Nova Scotia next weekend.

'Ihe meetings between the two _clubs will take pIaCe Friday night at 8:00 pm and Saturday afternoon at- 2:00 at Alumni Gymnasium.

Before the. current ‘AUAA season began, many obser- vers tlmght that the X—men would have trouble because of lack of height. 'Ihe Antigonish consisten- tly ranked in the top

seven nationally since of the year. 'Ihe man to watch on the3 X-men would have to be 2. last year's leading scorer in Canadian college basket- ball, Peter Ryan. Iocal fans will remember Ryan when he played for UQI'R last season on the Island and was an all-star at the UPEI Holiday Classic. He has been a major reason

MODERN DAY ROBIN HOOD CHOCOLATE CANDY CAPERl

Bogota,Oolcmbia -

Police in Bogota,Ool. say left — wing Guerrillas hijacked a truck loaded

with thousands of chocolate

bars today and distrib— -_ uted the candy in a Bogota slum,most of it to child- ren. ‘

They say that during the morning rush hour,an , undetermined number of gum men stopped the truck at an intersection near down—

ple had gathered around

they shouted Anti - Government

slogans and passed out the chocolate.

Authorities blamed the sweet — tooth crime on the "M-l9" Guerrilla band."M —‘ 19" stands for Movement — April 19 -- the date in 1970 when Ex - Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla was barred from seeking the Presidency,Rojas Pinilla headed the National Pop — ular Alliance, which drew

next Sunday's elections for

the National Parliament,

Provincial Legislatures and City Councils.Presidentia1 - elections will be held June

4th. "M - 19" Guerrillas,who

want to establish Socialism

in Colanbia,have been gen- erous with other people's property in the past.

last Christmas they seized

a department store truck carrying toys and gave the toys to poor youngsters in a slum area.

for the success of the X-men this season.

'Ihree members of the Panthers will be making their final regular season appearances in UPEI uni- forms Saturday. Dave Ar— seneault, Dennis High and Butch Postma have all play— ed large roles in Panther fortunes during their days in the Green and White. Arseneault has been a maj- or cog in the wheel of success of the Panthers this season. with the squad faced with such a rebuilding job at the be- ginning of the year, Ar- seneault' s scoring and leadership pulled the Pan— thers through some rough moments during the season and made hima bonafide All-conference candidate.

The days that Dennis High has spent in a UPEI uniform have seen the Pan- thers enjoy their finest moments ever. The 6'10" native of Lynn, Mass. was a vital driving force be— hind taking the Panthers to the national tournament last year and his absence

town Bogota and ordered the driver out.‘ '

A Police Spokesman says the hijackers drove the vehicle .to a Squatters' slum

will leave a gaping hole in the Panther's inside game.

. most of its support from the lower classes.He died in 1975.

The chocolate bar raid

In January,they hijacked a truck in the city of mdellin and distributed

and when hundreds of peo—

apparently was linked to

FEESINCREASE???

MPHEC-rAFSLOCC

HALIFAX (CUP) . — The Nova Scotia caucus of the Atlantic Federation of Students has decided to . challenge the Maritime

Provinces Higher Education '

Commission by demanding that they face students in public forms on campuses. 'Jhe MPHEC has invited AFS Epresentatives to meet with them privately while in Halifax on a speaking, tour in, Nardu. ‘

In a caucus. meeting Feb. 11, a motion to boycott the meetings was defeated When student represent— atives agreed that although the MPHEC had 13me to he ‘a "facade" Valuable information could be gained by guestiming the commission In front of students.

Matt Adamsm, Saint ‘ Will's Student Council External Vice-President, Sald, "By exposingthe MPEEC to sanents, AFS‘ can Show everyone what a farce this supposedly

"nuetral" body has become. [his will be an educaticn for students." \

_, Last year the MPHEC asked the governments to

L increase srbsidies to the

institutions for 1977-78 oy'll.5 per cent but the government decreased this figure to seven per cent.

-. ‘Ihis year's recommendation

of 14 per cent was cut

< almost in half.

Delegates. to the meeting mapped out a campaign against educational cut- backs, urging studentsto researd). cutbad<s in ‘ variais miversity dePa-rt" ments to diSODVEI' the effects on the qwlitynf educatim. A November general meeting 0f AFS called for the researdl j work but it had not yet “begun. . '

Gene Lang, Atlantic fieldworker for the

‘ National Union of Students .‘ told de1e9ate5 theY Mt,

continually gather -

its cargo of chickens to slum residents.

ERHEADW

information and keep the cutbacks issue alive on campus. "As well, we should pressure the administrations to take a stand on tuition hikes," he said.

PHOTO

departments .

betaken.

$1. 75 each.

24, 1978.

Butch Postma has seen the good days and ﬁne bad of UPEI teams over the last four years and is the only one that can say he has been on every playoff team in recent history. The Kinkora native has been a tireless worker and that work has paid off in prob— ably the finest basket- ball player that Prince County has ever produced.

All three players will be honoured in a pre—game ceremony prior to Satur— day afternoon's game.

ORDERS

In recent weeks the Information Office, through its facilities, photographed members of all the academic and administratiVe .

At these sessions many persons ‘ asked for individual copies of the photographs. 'Ib. accommodate these requests the Information Office in cooperation with. the Business Office has made arrangements for order for prints to

Beginning Friday, February 17, the photographs will be placed on display in the ‘ Robertson Library show case; order fonts will 5. be availableat the Library's Information Desk. '_‘Ihose who wish to have copies made must icomplete the order form and take it to the Business Office between 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Photographs are eight by ten inches and are ‘ Since the orders will be processed _ doring the mid-semester break only (a student project), deadline for orders, is Friday, February