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THE OTHER PRESS

CFS Takes

OTTAWA [CUP]- Canada’s
national student organiza.
tion took a slow but deliber-
ate political step to the right
at its semi-annual genera!
meeting Nov. 8-14.

About 100 delegates from
40 post secondary institu-
tions across the country
elected Beth Olley, a self-
proclaimed moderate from
the University of Saskat-
chewan, to be the next chair
of the Canadian Federation
of Students.

Olley, who is president of
the student council that kill-
ed its women’s directorate
last month, will be the first
federation chair who does
not take a left-leaning

stance. Her term starts in
May.

Her only opponent, Ann
Travers from Guelph Uni-
versity, ran on a left-activist
ticket but soundly lost the
25-18 vote.

Brian Chadwick, a repre-

sentative of the Queen’s
University graduates, was
elected to chair the board of
CFS-Services. His constitu-
ency has long decried the
federation for its leftist pol-
icles.
_ Delegates also took steps
to halt debate within the
federation on issues that do
not directly affect students.
They defeated a motion to
condemn the U.S. invasion
of Grenada, and decided
that CFS should not be
officially represented on a
national committee to solicit
peace petitions.

The week-long conference
in Ottawa’s plush Holiday
Inn ended with an 18-hour
final plenary Nov.13. Debate
was mostly dull and slow
until the final hour, when
one delegate walked out to
protest lack of debate on
important issues, and an-
other delegate was just
storming out the door when
the chair declared that quor-
um was lost.

Several agenda items
were left uncompleted.

But Olley said she was
pleased for the most part
with the general meeting.
She applauded the federa-
tion’s shift away from debat-
ing international issues or
the peace movement.

 

“Right now, the organi-
zation has a lot of its own
difficulties to deal with,’’
she said. ‘‘The (past) frus-
trations (with the federation)
resulted from the fact people
were so idealistic, they for
got the were running a big
organization. :

Olley said many people
would consider her studen:
council ‘‘right wing to fas-
cist’’, but added ‘‘person-
ally, I ‘think I’m pretty
middle of the road.’’

Delegates voted to start
giving the federation chair a
$20,801 per year salary.
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They failed on a motion t
recognize the Canadian or
versity Press statement o|
principles, and refused to
debate a motion to condemn
the UBC administration for
stalling negotiations with
the Teachers Assistants Uni-
on.
The UBC motion was bro-
ught forward by the pres-
ident of teh UBC graduate
association who — angrily
stormed out of the room
when delegates said they
did not want to debate the
motion unless they could
hear the administration’s
side of the story.

       

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