Nov. 29, 1977 NATIONAL _ page3 KPH a a Trudeau unaware Kenny attacks cutbacks of NUS mail-in campaign OTTAWA (CUP)--Prime Mi- nister Pierre Trudeau has told students he knows no- thing about a National Union of Students mass mail-in campaign protesting rising unemployment, or about his signed reply being sent to students participating in the card campaign. Students attending a state dinner for visiting Italian premier Giulio Andreotti No.v 17 pressed Trudeau on the issue after his office reported poor student res- ponse to the campaign. The card campaign, launched in early Septem- ber, expressed ‘‘disappoint- ment’’ with the federal go- vernment’s inability to halt increasing unemployment, and asked that a new federal student aid program be esta- blished. A poster campaign quoted Trudeau’s now fa- mous words to students in Toronto this spring, when he said his ‘‘heart did not bleed’’ for them if they couldn’t find jobs, and they should ‘‘find another coun- try. Trudeau told students at relief VANCOUVER (CUP) - A committee formed by faculty British Columbia appealed for help Nov. 28 to aid Rhodesia and South Africa. In a prepared statement, the committee says the “Steve Biko Fund”’ has been established to collect money for clothing, blankets, food, medical sup- plies and legal aid for the victims of facism and apar- theid in southern Africa. Steve Biko, a black leader in South Africa, died recently in mysterious circumstances while in the custody of the South African government. Geoofrey Durrant, a spokesperson for the Canada South Africa Relief Com- mittee said the group is asking people ‘‘to protest... through humanitarian re- lief,’” against the govern- ments of South Africa and Rhodesia. The announcement follows the efforts of other groups at UBC and other campuses across Canada to draw atten- tion to the crisis in South Africa. Campus Christian groups have urged students to re- move their money from the Bank of Montreal, which is financially involved in South Africa. Following the lead of other student unions in Canada the members of the University of refugees from the white sup- remacist governments of Memorial the dinner that he had seen the poster for the campaign. According to NUS central committee member Pea, Doherty, Trudeau said the comments quoted in the poster were made in the context of a speech on ‘‘sup- ply and demand.”’ NUS officials dispute prime minister’s. office claims that they have re- ceived only 3,200 cards. ‘‘ There must be some errors somewhere,”’ said NUS exe- cutive secretary Dan O’Con- nor. ‘‘We know that more than that number were mailed by student union people who collected and mailed the signed cards on some campuses.”’ Prime minister’s office spokesperson Michel Rochon said last week that only 3,200 cards had been received by Nov. 18, and that the number of cards had ‘‘slowed to a trickle.’’ Student unions partici- pating in the campaign or- dered more than 90,000 cards to distribute on cam- puses during September and October. South African fund set up at UBC UBC student representative assembly voted last week to take as much of its money out of the Bank of Montreal. “Economic and _ political pressure on the South Afri- can government is a matter of political judgement,”’ Durrant said. ‘‘From our point of view, protests should be more than ver- bal.”’ Durrant left South Africa 15 years ago after. living there for 21 years. He had been a captain in the South African army. Durrant, currently an eng- lish professor, left the coun- try after the government imposed apartheid on the universities and removed Black students. “‘I could no longer exercise my profes- sion,’’ he said. Durrant said the fund was established after reports of school children being shot and arrested began to filter to neighboring countries. “‘Host countries are very ie so we have set up the und as a moral protest against the conditions which have allowed this to hap- pen.”’ : Among the host countries are Angola, Botswana, and Zambia, he said. VANCOUVER (CUP) - Uni- versity of British Columbia Administration president Doug Kenny renewed at- tacks on the provincial go- vernment Nov. 24 for its education cutbacks policy. “I do not think for one moment that any of the cut- backs were justified,’’ said Kenny. ‘‘They were forced upon us.”’ The cuts had to be made quickly and without full re- gard for the future needs of the university, Kenny told 150 students at a cutbacks debate in the student union building. ‘“‘This university has reached the bottom line, academically and fiscally,’’ he said. “Our nation and all the people in this province will be the biggest losers if our university continues to slip on the fiscal banana peel,’’ light flavour. Take home the taste. 2 Enjoy the smooth, Take home the satisfaction of Heineken beer. said Kenny. ‘‘We could be- come a mediocre university for we are on a slippery peel.”’ Student board of gover- nors representative and de- bate panelist Moe Sihota also attacked the government, and called for united anti- cutbacks effort from the UBC community. “The government is the source of the trouble,’’ said Sihota. ‘‘No institution in this country should have to put up with the cutbacks.’’ But Sihota said that while Kenny is ready to speak about education cutbacks, he has not done anything else about them. Sihota said the fact that Kenny has prepared a report which deals with operating the university under a long period of education cutbacks means that he is not ready to actively oppose the provin- Its all a matter of taste. IMPORTED HEINEKEN —AVAILABLE AT LIQUOR STORES Represented in Canada by Sainsbury international Agencies Ltd. cial government’s funding decisions. “The students need the solid support of the admini- stration and the faculty,’’ he said. ‘The entire university community has to come to- gether.’’ Kenny and Sihota agreed that it is time the cutbacks issue was brought to the attention of the public. *‘We must alert the sym- pathetic and sceptical public to the real dangers facta UBC,”’ said Kenny. ‘Our cutbacks are not a mirage. They are real. They do threaten the entire academic enterprise.’’ Sihota called for strong university action. ‘‘We’ve got to let the public know about the minister of educa- tion, Pat McGeer. He is scared to talk to the press and would not meet with the board. The minister has the heart of a chicken.”’