The Muse, vol. 40, no. 21 (May 25 1990)

              the muse
May 25,1990
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Volume 40, Number 21
MAY!
By MIKE DAVIS
Dr. Arthur W. May is the new
President and Vice-Chancellor of
Memorial University, said an announcement of the Presidential
Search Committee.
Born and raised in St. John's,
May is a renowned Canadian
fisheries biologist and is currently
President of the Natural Sciences
and Engineering Council of
Canada (NSERC).
A graduate of Memorial
University where he received a
B.Sc. (honors) in biology and a
M.Sc.in fisheries biology, he
went on to get a PhD in marine
sciences from McGill University.
He became deputy minister in the
federal department of fisheries
from 1982-86 after years of involvement in the fisheries.
Al Roberts of the Board of
Regents said, "We looked nationally, internationally, and locally
and May was the best candidate
we could find."
He said several prominent candidates were nominated for the
position and were interviewed by
the Presidential Search Committee. May was the most popular
choice, inside and outside the
university, because of his ad
ministrative, academic, personal,
and public relations experience.
A number groups made presentations to the committee, including the Council of the Students'
Union. Dr. Arthur May was a student councillor at MUN during
the 1950s and is very interested in
students and student issues, according to Roberts.
CSU President Wade Brake
said that Dr. May "...seems very
qualified and I look forward to
meeting him before he takes office."
Spring
registration
Government reinstates funding
Womens Centre protests pay off
By DONNA WONG
On May 4, 1990, the federal
government announced that it
would reinstate 1.2 million dollars of the 1.6 million allotted for
Women's Centres that was cut in
the budget.
However, explained, Marion
Hopkins, member of the steering
committee of the Women's
Centre, it will only be for one
year. Additionally, various organizations like CCLOW
(Canadian Congress for the
Learning of Women), CRIAW,
CAPS, Health Sharing Publication (a feminist magazine) and
many political lobbying groups,
are not included in the 1.2 million
dollars.
"We were very happy to
receive the funding for one more
year...but as a long term goal, it is
not suitable.", Hopkins said. She
added that there are no definite
plans as yet, but an Annual
General meeting of the Women's
Centre will be held on May 29 at
the Grad House, where the whole
issue and long term plans will be
discussed.
"We're not going to just
sit...we're doing some long-term
planning.", Hopkins said.
The government refunding did
not occur without work. Jackie
Brown, also of the Women's
Centre, said that numerous calls
were made and many letters were
written to various politicians.
Two protests were held at Bannerman Park; and there was a
Weiner roast. Probably the
strangest form of protest was the
protest held at the Secretary of
State office, which received national media attention.
On Wednesday, April 25,1990,
women and children protested the
cutbacks by sitting in at the
Secretary of State's Office. "They
didn't really make any trouble for
the workers, they just stayed there
to remind people of the protest.",
explained Cass Reimer.
On Friday, May 27, the women
were kicked out. Twenty-two
women and two men were arrested, on the Monday the occupation ended.
"The group was just waiting in
}he writing WDm,"f explained j
Muriel Male of the Women's
Centre. Male said the twenty-four
people were charged with mischief.
At present, one person has already appeared in court and has
already appeared in court and has
been charged; the others have
received their summons and are
waiting to appear.
Although there are no definite
plans on how to counteract the
government's action, Jane
Burnham, the provincial representative of the National Action
Committee on the Status of
Women said that, "...the intention
is to keep on lobbying (the
government) at all levels."
At present, this federal government has said that it is prepared to
fund Women's Centres on a dol-
lar-for-dollar basis with the
provincial governments after this
one-year period.
Burnham explained,
"Women's Centres are necessary
to help women help women."
Even though plans are not
definite, Burnham said, "My
recommendation to all women is
to keep on lobbying; write letters,
call, speak to them (politicians),
to make them recognize that
funding to women's groups is
necessary."
By MIKE DAVIS
"This Spring 1990 telephone
registration session had the
smoothest run so far." according
to Assistant Registrar, Mr. T.
Morgan.
Morgan said that unlike past
semesters the number of complaints were "virtually nil". He
credited changes brought into the
system for the spring semester as
the reason for this improvement.
There was also an increase in
enrollment over last year's spring
semester. As of May 18, preliminary figures showed that 5010
students had enrolled compared
to 4847 who had enrolled by the
deadline last year. Final figures
are expected to show an even
higher enrollment for this
semester.
The changes to the telephone
registration system included extending the period of registration
to include the week before classes
up to Sunday, May 13. Morgan
said that extending the registration period ensured that
"telephone lines were open al
most the whole time."
Morgan said that changes to
the procedures for adding and
dropping classes ensured "an
even flow" in the system. These
changes included allowing adding and dropping at the fee payment terminal.
There will also be changes to
the registration system for the
Fall semester starting in September.
The Fall semester which is
heavily attended and has experienced problems as a result of
the lack of telephone lines in the
past, will have 16 new telephone
lines as of September, double the
present number.
The registration handbook,
which many students have found
difficult to use, will also be improved. Morgan said that there
will be more readable procedures
with clearer directions about
what parts of the book are
relevant to their situation.
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