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12 Orono Weekly 'limes. Wednesday, November 8, 2000 > Jennifer Perrin twirls in her: vampire costume last week Wednesday, when the Orono Figure Skating Club's Can-Skate class came to the rink for lessons in costume. by Peter Jaworski Recently, the Ontario government government has passed a proposal proposal (Bill 132) to allow private universities to set up shop in our fair province. Possibly as a response to this, my own Queen's University is currently currently considering de-regulat-' ing the Arts and Science programs programs in what is turning out to be one of the most heated discussions on this campus. Our principal, Bill Leggett, is • the recipient of both applause as well as appalled t reactions. Principal Leggett i§ claiming claiming that de-regulation of these programs will allow Queen's to battle with some of the bigger private schools down south. Schools like Princeton and Harvard. Deregulation, Deregulation, says he, will allow the University to, improve. facilities, h> hire new staff, to keep better professors professors from taking their families families to the 'land of the free,' and will draw better students from not just Canada, but from all over the world. In short, Queen's can become • not only a nationally recognized, recognized, but an internationally recognized' and respected, university. A tall order. The left-leaning pundits decry this new venture as being the beginning of the death of 'accessible post-secondary post-secondary education.' What will the poor do? How will they manage? And so on in like predictable manner. manner. Unfortunately, this criticism criticism misses the point entirely. entirely. Accessibility to post-secondary post-secondary institutions with a higher price tag is not at issue, there exist, and will exist, a plethora of options to those who cannot afford university university out of pocket: Private and semi-private (like a deregulated deregulated Arts program) universities universities have the highest level of donations from private private individuals and corporations; corporations; hence greater scholarship scholarship opportunities. OSAP js available to some, and others typically get a loan from a bank or a financial institution. institution. There are also various private charities and organizations organizations that are willing to take up some of the burden. But you have to ask. ' So the question isn't one of accessibility at all. The question is whether or not you are willing to make the investment. The fact of the matter is that the university graduate is the one who receives the highest benefit in expected standard of living. A university university grad earns, on average, more than a college grad and, again on average, substantially substantially more than a highschool graduate. You can expect to earn more than your 'otherly- educated" counterparts if you decide to go to university. So not only will I make more money than someone without a university certificate, certificate, I also get that somebody else to flip the bill through taxes. And, of course, I get to feel self-righteous thinking, thinking, as that catchphrase 'education 'education is a public good' . implies, that 1 am benefitting everyone else while raking it in. Small wonder, then, that students are the ones most upset by this and why students students are the most vocal about claiming that: education is a public .good.. 1 find this all remarkably curious. You see, pretty much everyone else is expected to pay for what they get. _ You wouldn't expect a ' stock breaker to demand public public funding, and you won't see plumbers with placards claiming that they are much maligned by not getting a portion of your income to pay for their various utensils:. So why do students, like myself, get a '.free' ride at your expense? 1 won't hazard a guess. I will only suggest that maybe, just maybe, we should change this state of affairs. RECYCLE (continued from page 1) name. Their names would also appear on the voters list multiple times. When ballots are received at the Clerk's Department; the voters name is crossed off the voters list. Candidates are provided a copy of these updated lists. It is apparent on, more than one' occasion, that a voter has voted twice., "It is up to the electorate to complain about double votes," stated Barrie. A complaint complaint can be registered with the Ontario Court (General Division) and any person guilty of voting more than once in a municipality can be charged a fine of up to $5,000. According to Barrie, she has no way of knowing who the voters are. They could be relatives with the same name. "This entire process is an insult to democracy," stated Khouri. The 'Vote by Mail' system was adopted by this municipality municipality to increase voter turnout and reduce costs. Left, yhcnv envr CiA/Lo Time to "Spring Clean"! 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