The McGill Tribune Vol. 03 Issue 3

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The M cG ill Tribune Published by the Students’ Society of McGill University.

Volume 3, Issue 3, Tuesday September 20th, 1983.

M c G illF E S T : A re race. Other highlights include a ballet, the Greek drama Heracles, preformed by a group from King’s College, London, a mini-farm on the Lower Campus, a symposium on aging, and of course, clowns and balloons. Things get underway on Friday, September 30th at 11:30 a.m. with a kick­ off blast-off of 3,000 balloons and a speach by a major political figure. Organized tours are being run by McGillFEST on Friday. Led by Student tour-guides, these tours will visit three departments of the group’s choice. These tours are designed to get groups from the Montreal area interested in McGill and to

Photos, Anyone? We at the Tribune love a good laugh, and attempt to share them with you when we see them in print. Photos, of course! If you have any pictures of McGill life or surroundings that tickle your funny bone, why not share them with us? If we like them, we’ll print them; they may even make page one! Address them to The McGill

Tribune, Room 411, The University Centre. Make them to the attention of Todd Kasenberg. By the way, the Tribune needs photographers and a photo editor. If you’d like the glory of seeing your pictures on newsprint, come up to 411 and identify yourself to Todd.

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show them what McGill has to offer. Tours by ethnic groups, handicapped and other social service groups as well as business and special-interested groups are all booked for that Friday. On Saturday and Sunday, all tours are self-guided, as people are free to wander the campus at will and see the activities they want to. To guide visitors through the university, McGillFEST is producing a tabloid which will have a full calendar of events as well as being a lasting souvenir of McGillFEST. The huge McGillFEST operation needs volunteers. Over 1,000 people are needed to organize activities, serving as

F o r It? guides, poster distributors and support ser­ vice personnel. Stacey Ageranioti is the volunteer director. Anyone wanting to work as a volunteer should sign the sheets which are posted around the campus, or drop into the McGillFEST office at Rm. 105, Burnside Hall. Volunteers will receive a call in the next two weeks asking them to come to an orientation meeting during the evening. McGillFEST offers an opportunity for all of McGill to get involved, either as a participant or as an audience. Nomi Morris recommends it as the best, fastest way to meet new people and to get to know your university a bit better.

CUSASET Manager Fired at Concordia by Brian Todd The firing of Dwight Smith as the manager of CUSASET, the typesetting shop of the Concordia University Students’ Association, and the hiring of Wayne Menard as his replacement, heralds a change in the philosophy of the shop. No longer is it a high-quality collective workshop; it is now a business-oriented shop where speed and efficiency are the primary goals. CUSASET has been plagued for a number of years by two conflicting goals, that of running a shop where students can get typesetting done cheaply and with a high standard of quality and that of running a shop that at least breaks even if not turns a profit. Lacking instructions from the Board of Directors, the management of CUSASET, under Dwight Smith, chose to run a lost-cost service to students while working as a team within the shop. Smith says, “ We were left on our own. So certain directions were established.” Apparently, the Board of Directors did not like the direction taken. Paul Gott, CUSASET board member and president is quoted as saying, “ We (the board) don’t think Dwight has done a bad job as such, but he isn’t doing the job we need. ” Gott commented that the board was also concerned about CUSASET’s growing debt which now totals around $100,000, including both long and short term loans. This comes despite the fact that under the terms of Smith’s contract, the Board of Governors has ultimate financial responsibility. CUSASET’s Board had a number of options available to them last week including the closing of CUSASET or opening it up to a professional management team. Instead they chose not to renew Smith’s contract and to eliminate the posi­ tion of assistant manager, throwing Cait Beattie out of a job. On Monday, the 12th,

they hired Menard, a 10-year veteran of the typesetting and printing business, as its new manager. Menard has been given a year by the Board of Governors to improve services and eliminate the losses. In an interview with the Concordia Link, Menard has said that he expects the student-oriented shop will begin to make money soon, but not at the expense of student users. In fact, he believes that after reviewing the present

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pricing policy, new, lower prices will be available to CUSA groups. How he will tackle the problem that Dwight Smith found insurmountable is not known. As for Smith, he is left with a bitter taste in his mouth, understanding that his own philosophy conflicted with that of the Board of Governors, but not sure why that conflict of philosophies had to come to this end.

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by Brian Todd Over 100,000 people are expected to visit the McGill campus on the September 30th to October 2nd weekend if all Nomi Morris’ plans and the weather hold out. Since 1953, McGill has held an open house every three years. This year’s open house is entitled McGillFEST/McGill en fête. Over 100 university schools, depart­ ments and groups will have exhibits set­ up, or are planning events for the people of Montreal as well as the McGill com­ munity itself to tour through either by themselves or on specially arranged guided tours. Nomi Morris and Maisie Cheung, the two student co-ordinators of McGillFEST, and the only paid employees, have been working since last spring putting together the open-house. McGillFEST coincides with the begin­ ning of the first Canada-wide National Universities Week (October 2-8). The largest event of McGillFEST is the 10 km Road Race benefiting the McGill Cancer Center. The Center’s Director, as well as Principal Johnston, will be running in the

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