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     THE CADRE, APRIL 11, I973,PAGE 6 
     
    
   
   
    
     Jim Hornby Bu 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr. C. St.Clair Trainor 
     
    
   
   
    
     Chairman, Board of Governors, 
     
    
   
   
    
     University of P.E.I. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Dear Sir: 
     
    

    
     I wish to bring_to your 
     
     attention a recent incident 
     
     on campus which, although’ 
     
     of relatively minor import- 
     
     ance, I feel nonetheless 
     
     merits your notice in terms 
     
     of future policies your 
     
     Board may wish to pursue in 
     
     the area of parking on cam— 
     
     pus- f 
     
    

    
     On the evening of March 20 
     
     of this year I and a friend 
     
     were on campus, with the in— 
     
     tention of visiting another 
     
     mutual friend and later 
     
     seeing a movie downtown, 
     
    

    
     I parked my car in the 
     
     visitor's lot in front of 
     
     the Duffy building. As we 
     
     were leaving the lot a mem- 
     
     ber of the UPEI security 
     
     police approached me to ask 
     
     if I knew that this lot was 
     
    
   
   
    
     for visitors: when I replied’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     in the affirmative, he asked 
     
     me, "Are you a student at 
     
     this university?" to which 
     
    
   
   
    
     yls This Man 
     
     A Student, 
     
     0r 
     
    
   
   
    
     An lmpostor ? 
     
    
   
   
    
     I replied, "No". The Officer 
     
     with a certain brutal logic, 
     
     said "If you're not a stu- 
     
     dent, why are you carrying 
     
     books?" ‘ " m 
     
    

    
     I then asked him if I had 
     
     to be a student to carry 
     
     books: as he Seemed to have 
     
     nothing further to say'to 
     
    
   
   
    
     'us we went on our way. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Our friend had a 7 o'clock 
     
     class that evening in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     annex beside Duffy, and we /. 
     
    
   
   
    
     decided to sit in it with 
     
     him as the professor is an 
     
     old friend. I found‘out 
     
    
   
   
    
     -later that the officer we 
     
    
   
   
    
     had met looked in a win— 
     
     dow during this class, 
     
     apparently concluding that 
     
     I had lied to him about 
     
    

    
     not being a student. When 
     
     the class was over around 
     
     8:15 we went to our res— 
     
     ident friendfs room for half 
     
     an hour: arriving back at 
     
     the parking lot at 8:40 we 
     
     found the car missing and 
     
     were told that the car was 
     
     at Bell's Garage and could 
     
     not be obtained that even- 
     
     ing without paying the tow— 
     
     ing charge. The officer in 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     x- I 
     
    
   
   
    
     fled Chargei lmperSohating 
     
    
   
   
    
     question was ingenuouS' 
     
     enough to tell us that he 
     
     had made sure my car was 
     
     well blocked into Bell's 
     
     lot, because he thought I 
     
     "looked like the type" who 
     
     would try to recapture it. 
     
     Recognizing futility when 
     
     we saw it we took a cab 
     
     downtown, but were too 
     
     late to get into the film 
     
     at Confederation Centre as 
     
     all the seats were by then 
     
     occupied. we had lost app- 
     
     roximately half an hour 
     
     getting to towh and thus 
     
     missed the film, "Anne of 
     
     Green Gables," which was 
     
    
   
   
    
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     'on that night only.\ 
     
    
   
   
    
     The next morning I tele- 
     
     phoned chief A.J. MacLeod 
     
     and let myself be persuad- 
     
     ed into a meeting with him 
     
     and the officer who had had 
     
     the car towed, so thatfhe 
     
     couldfihear "both sides of 
     
     the story". Mr. MacLeod did 
     
     not make it to the meeting 
     
     that afternoon but instead 
     
     sent word to release my 
     
     car, and I was driven to the 
     
     garage to reclaim it at app- 
     
     roximately 2 p.m. A UPEI