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HALIFAX (CUP) - Nova Sco-
tia student unions have
charged that the Canadian
Federation of Students (CFS)
provides poor service and is
guilty of arrogance and nepo-
tism.

The St. Mary’s University
Council is threatening to pull
out of @:F-:S. if it does not
make major changes at its
Nov.8 to 13 national confer-
ence.

Peter Rans, president of
the Dalhousie University
Students’ Union, said he
supported a national student
organization before but now
he has doubts. He said
C.F.S. national staff treat the
Student Union of Nova Scotia
(SUNS) and individual stu-
dent councils condescend-
ingly.

“C.F.S. has a_ national
mentality that runs counter
to provincial interests,’’ said
Rans.

SUNS members were up-
set at the way C.F.S. hired a
\new Atlantic field-worker,

 

C.F.S. chair Brenda Cote
ruled the interviews invalid
because provincial student
organizations are not allowed
to participate in staff hiring.

Rans said the candidate
hired, Steve Alexander, is
competent enough but other
candidates were equally cap-
able. ‘‘The way the staff
hiring was done reflects
poorly on C.F.S.”’

SUNS executive officer Pe-
ter Kavanugh charged that
C.F.S. practises nepotism.
“C.F.S. is truning into a
retirment home for ex-stu-
dent politicians.”’

But Soucie said C.F.S.
hires people with prior in-
volvement in student unions
and organizations because
they are the best qualified.

SUNS chair Eric Walker
dislikes the requirement that
students must eventually
choose to belong to both
C.F.S. and SUNS or neither.
He said this allows C.F.S. to

control SUNS membership,
undermining SUNS’ legiti-
macy.

He said C.F.S’attitude and
policies towards SUNS re-
flects ‘‘Upper Canada imper-
ialism,’’

Mike Crystal, former Nova
Scotia representative for
C.F.S.-Services (CFS-S),
said the services body is
““myopic’’. He said its travel
agency, Canadian University
ravel Service, only has one
office to serve the Atlantic.
He added that the C.F.S.-S
speakers’ bureau and nation-
al theatre troupe are hardly
national because speakers
and the troupe are reluctant
to travel outside Ontario.

Charlie MacArthur, vice-
president of student affairs
for St. Mary’s University,
said SMU will pull out if
changes are not made at the
national conference in Vic-
toria. SMU became the first
C.F.S. full member in the
spring of 1981.

MacArthur said the SMU
council asked C.F.S.-S for its
1981-82 financial statement

Nova Scotia Students Unions Knock CFS

Christine Soucie, the Nova
Scotia representative on the
C.F.S. Central Committee,
asked some SUNS members
to help interview candidates.

ago, and has received no
answer.

Crystal is also critical of
C.F.S.-S’s failure to produce

-a financial report.

“There better be some

 

but it is unrealistic to expect
immediate changes at the
Victoria conference. The na-
tional organization is still
young and needs time to
grow, she said.

 

 

 

answers in Victoria,’ he
said.
Soucie said SUNS has
some legitimate complaints, 2

 

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weekly meetings. Come and see how your student
newspaper gets things done and perhaps, you might
want to get things done with us.

 

 

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