W BUZZER BLUES" 
     
    
   
   
    
     A number of Buzzer hockey 
     
     players have expressed in- 
     
     dignation at the treatment 
     
     they.are‘collectivelyprec- 
     
     eiving at the hands of 
     
     UPEI!s athletic dept. I am 
     
     one of that collective; I, 
     
     too, feel a mistreatment 
     
     has been committed. 
     
    

    
     When the money men at UPEI 
     
     take their cut at registra- 
     
     tion time each semester, I 
     
     often wonder just where and 
     
     (to whOm the capital is dis- 
     
     tributed? It certainly isn't 
     
     spent at maintaining a deg 
     
     cently supplied sportS‘sto- 
     
     ckroom for amateur, i.e.‘ 
     
     non-varsity athletes. Ah! 
     
     the old "beef" is coming 
     
     back, (just as I thought 
     
     it would). 
     
    

    
     ‘And man, I mean this camp- 
     
     us does not have a decent 
     
     stock of equipment. The last 
     
     time I was in looking fOr 
     
     a hockey stick, to use for 
     
     practice, there wasn't even 
     
     a toothpick to bite on to 
     
     help suppress the anger th- 
     
     at ruptured within me. 
     
    

    
     Probably most of the money 
     
     is being spent on inter-cog 
     
     llegiate leagues, and I 
     
     suppose that is somewhat 
     
     justified. The interesting 
     
     aspect of the aforesaid pr— 
     
     oposition is the element 
     
     of probability. Probability 
     
     I say, because in my years 
     
     at this university I have 
     
     never seen a reprint of the 
     
     audit report of that dept. 
     
     (Athletics). This is not 
     
     unusual because I don't 
     
     think I saw an audit report 
     
     from any of the multivario- 
     
     us departments of UPEI sin- 
     
     ce arriving here. 
     
    

    
     However, since every stud- 
     
     ent makes a direct payment 
     
     towards the maintainence 
     
     “ of the athletic facilities 
     
     on campus, a yearly fiscal 
     
     .statement ought to be prl- 
     
     nted in the cadre. This 
     
     would help put an end to 
     
     the mumblings of those 
     
     who at present, feel snub— 
     
     rbed by the jock manage— 
     
     ment at UPEI. ’ 
     
    

    
     The reason I personally 
     
     feel some adjustments in 
     
     priorities may be in order 
     
    
   
   
    
     is that other universities 
     
     are beginning to shift em- 
     
     phasis away from the varsi- 
     
     ty level towards the more 
     
     popular (in the sense of 
     
     participants) intramural 
     
     and Buzzer levels of com— 
     
     petition. These universi- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ties, St. F.X. and St. Mary's 
     
    
   
   
    
     are cases in point, actua- 
     
     lly are able to supply thi- 
     
     rty or more hockey players 
     
     with a complete set of equ- 
     
     ipment for each game. This 
     
     university, as I noted bef- 
     
     orehand, does not even sup-‘ 
     
     ply decent sticks. 
     
    

    
     Another problem is the di— 
     
     rect increase in the rate 
     
     of.injury with the decline 
     
     in rate of well outfitted 
     
     hockey players. For example, 
     
    
   
   
    
     ’ one of the goalies playing 
     
    
   
   
    
     this season in the Buzzer 
     
     League may be injhred for 
     
     life around his knee area 
     
    
   
   
    
     bccvuse of a goalie pad, too 
     
    
   
   
    
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     be used. But what else cou- 
     
     ld the result be, the goal- 
     
     ie was forced to take what 
     
     he could get — and what he 
     
     got was ? rip-off. ‘ H‘ 
     
     An immediate measure I feel 
     
     justified in calling for 
     
    

    
     to end the rip-off, is the 
     
     permanent maintainence of 
     
     top-quality goalie equip- 
     
     ment and decent hockey 
     
     sticks for all. This is, 
     
     after all, a bare minimum; 
     
     the expense of supplying 
     
     sticks and two sets of 
     
    

    
     high standard goalie equip- 
     
     ment is not inflationary 
     
    

    
     to the Athletics Department's 
     
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     The proposition is this: 
     
     If UPEI wishes to promote 
     
     intramural levels of com— 
     
     petition among the student 
     
     body then UPEI has a res- 
     
     ponsibility to help keep, 
     
     to some measuse, that body 
     
     equipped. ’ 
     
    
   
   
    
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