Volume 4, Number 24
Published by the Studentsâ Society of McGill University
Friday 12 April 1985
W helanom ics by Victoria Hammond â W e may have to change som e o f their ways o f living and theyâre not going to be happy about th at.â Eugene W helan, sans fam ous green hat brought a message o f mixed hope for Ethiopia to a small group o f listeners at McGill last week. A s President o f the World Food Council, W helan, former Agriculture M inister, could speak with som e authority a b o u t t h e s o l u t i o n s to Ethiopiaâs current plight. â The problem can be solved, but itâs not a one year program, it will be a minimum o f 10 years.â Whelan suggested that the technology exists already that could be put to use in Ethiopia. â It isnât big technology farming with $100,000 John Deers but farming with oxen and small anim als.â â These people are suffering. I donât care what political beliefs you have. Back in Amherstburg (Ontario) if so m eone needed food we used to give them it, no matter what ethnic group or religion they were.
Congrats Skip, hereâs your brand new graduation present. Youâve come a long way, son Whelan rejects the notion put forward by som e that â if it rains, theyâre going to be saved .â â They d o n ât have seeds; they donât have oxen. They don ât have the strength to plant a crop. Theyâre miles from their fields and even if they were there, thereâs no trees or grass left on them .â
Despite his professed aver sion to political beliefs in the matters o f charity W helan con tinues to see the answer to the Ethiopian situation in the freemarket system. â W eâve not showed them how to farm. We never showed them anything about m arketing.â â N o coun try can be productive unless there is incentive to survive. The reason Canadian farmers are so successful is because they know the land is theirs.â W helan sees the crisis in E th io p ia as â th e b ig g e st challenge the world has ever faced.â But he does see the solution resting in Ethiopian hands. â There is no greater pride than a people doing things with their own hands.â
Green Gene harangs â missionariesâ with his message of hope
photo by Ezra Greenberg
Vacancy Vote Vetoed by Brian Todd It seemed like it was going to be an easy transition, the new Studentsâ Council taking over for the Old at last weekâs meeting o f the 1985-86 Council. Easy, that is, until it was brought to the C ouncilâs atten tion that the residences were without a representative. T h is a p p a r e n t la c k o f representation wasnât a problem for this inaugural m eeting where President-elect James Green simply explained Council procedures and the responsibilites o f several internally elected positions. The problem was going to arise, however, when at the next Council meeting nom inations are to be closed and the Vice-President (Finance) and Vice-President (U n iversity A ffa irs) elected from within Council. Jo Ann Evans, Residence Representative to the 1984-85 Council objected to the sugges tion that as yet unelected posi tions be filled by non-voting
representatives from the current Council. She suggested that it was not a valid proposition for the residences to be representated by their various faculties. â The residence vote canât be split up. The residences are a unique situation; thatâs why the Residence Representative was created in the first place,ââmain tained Evans. At the suggestion o f Daron W estman, Clubsâ Rep, a m otion was passed allowing all vacan cies on the 1985-86 Council to be filled with representatives from the current Council with observer status alone, over the objections o f Evans. In other business, nomina tions were opened for the two Vice-Presidents. Marie Davis, Arts R ep., and Stephen Hum, Clubs R ep., were nominated for V .P .(F in a n ce). A m y Kaler, Sen ate/B oard o f G overnors R ep., and Gracy M imran, Graduate Studies Rep., were nominated for V .P.(University Affairs).
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