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Dear Editor:

While walking around the university last week, I noticed an absurdly large yellow poster on the wall. I did not take the time to read it, since I was in a rush, but the next day I noticed more and more of these posters around. Since my curiosity got the best of me I decided to take the time and finally read it. Well I am glad I did. I read in horror the first line, "The course you may need to finish your degree, may not be offered next year." My God, how can this be? I won’t get my degree. After all the work and money | put into university, they tell me now that the course that I need will not be offered next year. Then a feeling of relief overcame me as I read the rest of the poster. It turned out to be nothing more than yet another clever promotion put out by something called the "Canadian Federation of Students".

This Canadian Federation of Students sounds like some sort of course offered in Business, maybe "Clever Marketing 401". I don’t know, but whatever it is, I am glad I am not in it. Wait, maybe this course will be one of the dozens that will be dropped because of the federal government cutbacks. Maybe. Hopefully!

Well I did some checking on this. CFS organization, and again | find myself horror-filled. | am a member of this organization. How can this be? I don’t remember signing up for it, but if its recruitment is half as clever as its promotions, I probably did and just did not know about it. Well, now that I

realize I am a member, whether I want to be or not,

I am starting to take notice of all the CFS Material I see. Yet again I find myself in horror. No, that is not the right word. I guess embarrassed would be much better.

It is at a point now where I feel embarrassed to be a member of the CFS. All the silly complaining that they have been doing over the past few years is just getting to be too much for me. Their big rally down at Province House last year was a huge success. Every immature whiner at our university who always wanted to be a big protester, just like in the sixties, was there, protest signs, chants and all. How exciting. Hey, even the evening news was there. What were they protesting again? I don’t remember, it’s not important anyway. While we are reminiscing, ° I may as well add my memories of a letter that was sent last year to somebody in Ottawa from somebody at UPEI about something or other. What was it again? I don’t remember, it is not important

anyway.

The real embarrassment is when I read the CFS supplement "Student Voice" that appeared in the October 12 issue of our university newspaper. It is obvious that the heads of the CFS aren’t using their heads. These top of the hour intellectuals seem to get all their information from the extremely slanted, highly propagandist mass media, whose only concern is to cause enough uproar to attract viewers and their only way of doing this is to present the worst case scenario as fact. Soon, weak-minded individuals, like those at the head of the CFS, fall for this scenario and push the line onto us students. Immediately most of the whiners at the university quickly jump on the band wagon and soon all the slanted information is considered fact.

A prime example of this practice is the big yellow posters littering our university. Their catchy slogan is not more than a fictional scare tactic, No classes will be cutback, and even if there was a cutback in courses offered, the university would not cut a course that is needed for a degree. But, the slogan was catchy though.

There are a few other catchy slogans I would like to

The UPEI X-Press

November Ist, 1990

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