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New b y A nn e M acLennan Brian Fish w a s elected b y the clubs as M cG ill Students' S ociety's n ew V .P . Finance to replace Salim T harani, w h o recently resigned. Since he has been put into this p osition quite early in the academ ic year, he has a chance to have so m e im pact on the budget that w as p roposed b y Salim Tharani. A lth o u gh so m e parts of the p rop osed budget, such as that for the m aintenance and fu n ction in g of the Student U n ion B uilding, w ere ap p roved prior to the election of Brian Fish, he can initiate som e of his ow n p olicies and ideas w ith regards to such disputed item s as the p rop osed budget cuts for the clubs. T he m andate as outlined b y the co n stitu tion basically ou tlines his role as on e of keeping the Students' Society in fo r m e d of fin a n c ia l m a tters. H o w ev er, Fish intends to p lay a m uch m ore active role. H e is v eh em en tly op posed to Salim 's club budget cuts and is n ow in the process of exam ining w a y s to avoid this. The new V .P . Finance hopes in som e w a y , b y cutting corners in other areas, to be able to direct another $9 ,0 0 0 to the clubs. Brian Fish also disagrees w ith the current arrangem ents for the funding
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V.P.Finance outlines priorit groups. T his group includes an y other club that is accredited b y the Students' S ociety but d o es n ot fit into either of the first tw o groups. A m o n g them are G ay M cgill, S tratom atic H eroes, the Cam era C lub, and the C hinese Students' A sso c ia tio n . It is in this area o f interest groups that Brian Fish feels there is a problem w ith classification and fun din g. C olin T om lin s of G ay M cG ill is presently w ork in g in his p o sitio n as president to try to h ave his group's classification changed from that o f an interest g fo u p to that of
and grou p ing of clubs. A ccord ing to Fish there are three types of clubs. The first o f these is com p o sed of Students' S ociety A ctiv ities, and these include: election s, W elcom e W eek, C arnival, the Program Board, the Tribune, H an d b ook , D irectory, and other sim ilar projects. T he secon d group of clubs has 'functional status'. S om e exam p les of those are the Film S o ciety , R adio M cG ill, Legal A id , the W om en's U n ion and others that perform a service for the M cG ill co m m u n ity. T he last classification is that of interest
fun ction al organ ization. A lth o u g h there are m any clubs w h ich fit in to the category of interest groups, Students' S o ciety funding practices in the past h ave not seen that
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Federal and p rovin cial educational cutbacks w ere discussed at the co n ference held b y A N E Q and RAEU during the w eekend of O ctob er 2 , 3 and 4. Forty-eight association s w ere represented there, including CEGEP's and fourteen colleges not m em bers of ANEQ or RAEU. A ccord ing to R ic h a r d F lin t, V ic e -P r e s id e n t ■U niversity A ffairs of the Student's S ociety, the strong feeling of u nity and the com m o n cause a m on g all the
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students enabled them to m ake som e im portant d écid ion s and form ulate serious p olicies. O n S unday, O ctob er 4, a series of p rop osals w a s ad op ted b y the student representatives at the conference, the m ost im portant, in Flint's op inion, being as fo llo w s. 1
. T o form a com m ittee of liaison b etw een A N E Q and RAEU and C utbacks - page 3
T Brian Fish, V P Finance the funds w ere distributed in such a w a y so that each group cou ld have som e kind o f m onetary su pp ort from the S o ciety . The first tw enty interest groups to a p p ly for funds prior to the spring d eadline received $400.00 regardless o f w h a t k ind of request they m ade. S o it w a s b asically first com e first served. A ll the rest w o u ld receive Finance V P - page 5
Former students produce film on farm workers A form er M cÇ ill student, A nand P atw ardhan, w ith colleagu e Jim M on ro, has co-p rod uced and codirected a film ab ou t the birth of C anada's first farm w orkers' u nion . T he film , entitled "A Tim e to Rise," w ill be sh ow in g at M cG ill on O ctob er 16, at 7:00 p .m . in the Stew art B iology Building, room S7. A d m ission w ill be three dollars. "A T im e to Rise" w a s in vited to the 1981 M ontreal and T o ro n to film festivals w here, according to Keith H enn essy of Students' S ociety, it w as received quite w arm ly. It w a s just sh o w n in V ancouver, B .C ., w here 700 p eop le paid seven dollars each in order to see it. A nother 2000 dollars w as collected afterw ards, for the C anadian Farm workers' U n ion , and neither Patw ardhan nor M on ro w ere able to talk ab ou t the film , as planned, after the sh o w in g, due to a n on-stop
standing o v a tio n . Said P atw ardhan, "The reception w e g o t in V ancouver m ade our w h o le tw o years of w ork in g on the film w orthw h ile." A t M cG ill, there exists a M cG ill for Farm w orkers com m ittee, w h o se m ajor goal is to support the C anadian Far m w orkers' U n ion and to help Q u eb ec and O n ta r io fa r m w o r k e r s get union ized , sa y s H enn essy. If a n y o n e is interested in this subject, details are availab le from Keith H enn essy, at 3928971.
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Rock group photograph ap pearing in Union Ballroom tommorrow night. . See page 9 ^ Film on farm w orkers, 'A T im e to Rise', sh o w in g in Stew art S /7 O ctob er 16th, 7 p .m .