Carleton University - Raven Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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ln a year when the actions of students in universities across Canada have been the subject of headlines, editorials and otherwise apprehensive scrutiny, it would be misleading to portray a year at one of these institutions solely in the traditional terms of its social activities, sporting events and beer hashes. However strong one's reactions to, or however weak one's awareness of, the diverse issues at Simon Fraser, Saskatchewan, NlcGill, Sir George Williams or Carleton, there is no denying their common expression of an increased emphasis on the student's role in his environment. CarIeton's variety of student activism has been somewhat less spectacular than elsewhere. If it had not been for Professor Dunn's denunciation of our sexIess co-eds , and the claim of Professors Nlathews and Steele that there is an increasing influx of foreign teachers on Canadian campuses, we might have received no nation-wide attention whatsoever. However, the changes instigated this year are no less significant and the student's interest in the nature and quality of his education should be no less sincere. This year students acquired the opportunity to convert interest into action and gained some ground in that Administrative domain known as the decision-making process . lt was a change, and a necessary one. When the ballot boxes were set up in the junction this year, as they frequently were, it usually meant more than the selection of another faculty queen. But things like New University Government are not self-sustaining. The necessary ingredient in education reform and admittedly in beer bashes as well, is the participation of people. Neither activity is peculiar to Carleton, only the people behind them. However one may attempt to define the past eight months, one is ultimately forced to resort to a description of the individuals who made it distinctive. Consequently the following pages depict the people - the popular, the unknown, the personality, the academic - who participated in the issues, the protests, the changes, the lectures, the social activities and the sports events. lt is, after all, the people one knew that make a university what it is, that make a year memorable, that make Carleton unique. tude CSS lit sstudentpo .2 :: E

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