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This newsletter discusses the changing technologies that also alter society, the second annual Invitational High School Basketball Tournament, the Protest of Playboy Channel, a 'Canada's Energy is Mindpower' advertisement, community show prize awards, faculty research grants, women and the economy, and the amount of nuclear weaponry possessed between the United States and the Soviet Union compared to the amount used in World War II. There is a section on alumna Dorothy (Harrison) Egan, who donated a copy of 'Art on Nantucket, The History of Painting on Nantucket Island' by Robert A. diCurcio to the Mount. The article discusses the beginnings of the Peace Library, as well as the protest by the School Sisters of Notre Dame against the Arms Race. The newsletter includes information on a meeting between the Mount and conference officers to discuss university facilities, National Universities Week in October, Atlantic visions of craftsmanship, a 'This and That' section concerned with the Speakers Bureau and the all-mail editorial staff of The Picaro, and an advertisement for quitting smoking. There is a section for the Dollar Campaign, as well as the existence of the Florence S. Dunlop Memorial Fellowship.
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Topics covered include: Sexual Harassments; Campus Security; Museum Studies Grant; Osteoporosis; Canadian/Caribbean conference; Senior Class co-president Valerie Eddy and Nancy Moar; Student drinking; Dalhousie Univeristy law students; Jean Busters; Peace activists; Canadian Public Relations (CPRS-NS); Young Liberals; Peace seekers; Youth unemployment in Newfoundland; Margaret Fulton; Chair of Women's Studies; Cancer; Neptune Theatre Cabaret; ·Tile Bay Bay (play); Basketball team College Conference
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Topics covered include: Coup D'etat; Tim Fisher; Student Union Hawk; Systemic Gender Barriers; Andre Cain; Sports Editorial; Shaun MacMillian; Reality TV Blows; Cristina Teixeira, Tobius; Yvan Caftonguay; Get Your Jollies; Matt Mansfield; Will Martin Bury "Flying Coffins"; I Want to be Anarchy; Kazaa Blocked on MSVU Campus; Soha El-Borno; Symphony Nova Scotia; Poetry; Robert Broderick; The 1950's Culture is Back; Movie and Music Reviews; Heather MacDonald; Lights, Camera... Karaoke; An interview with Kim Barry Brunhuber theAauthor of the Racy, Witty, and in-your-face, Kameleon Man;
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Topics covered include: International Women's Day; MSVU Chair in Women's Studies; Judy Erola, Minister responsible for the Status of Women; New Student Councillors; Canadian Federation of Students Referendum; Student Summer Employment; Marketing and enrollment; Memorial University co-op students; Peace workshops; Liberals and youth newspapers; Adult education; Bruce Curtis; Mature and part-time students; Youth unemployment; Top Girls (play); Record counterfeiting; Celine Hervieux-Payette and Youth Ministry; Concordia sex discrimination and athletics; Brandon Sun censorship; University of Regina women's center
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This newsletter contains information on concerns expressed in the Mount's brief on pornography, amnesty campaigns for women, a crab apple tree planted for women struggling with human rights, Mount tourism reaching out to the tourism industry financially, promoting women in science, Judy Manchester's reception of a scholarship, the possibility of holding a pornography workshop, a learning seminar, and a classified ad on items for sale and being given away for free. The alumnae update includes information on the alumnae fair, detailing the various activities and prizes to be won during the event. There is also a letter from Sheila Brown to CBC's Peter Gzowski regarding her experiences during wartime as a reflection of the Cold War experiences during her time. The newsletter also discusses how the new council on university education should determine universities' role, the role of fantasy as 'fuel of the future,' the fact that the Mount was invited to a meeting held by the Bedford Basin Branch of the Canadian Federation of University Women, and the support offered for raising funds for the Mount's Science Society. There are also sections on Mount faculty being keen on peace studies, the continued legacy of Greenham Commons, students named to the Dean's List, and a boy who wrote a letter to God asking for $100.00, which prompted a humorous response from the Prime Minister in which $1.00 was sent back. There is also an opinion piece on commentators on North American society, a dinner theatre at the Atlantic University Teachers of English Conference, female students hanging back from employment, faculty appointments to new positions, meetings attended, and public lectures, the opening of gallery exhibits by the Lieutenant-Governor, and a list of times for the presentation of Charles Schulz's musical 'Snoopy.' There is also a 'What's New' section discussing the experience of being a woman according to the Bridgetown Weekly Monitor from May 10 1882.
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Topics covered include: Available bursary information; Nominations open for student awards; Job watch: keeping an eye open for you; Top 10 fiction and non-fiction novels; Eighth annual community show is eighth annual hit; Neiman scholars learn new perspectives from Canadian visit; Turnout good for career week; Feds want more say in education funding; Issues: How long before we're starving; Please don't misinterpret our fun; Aches conference success; Robert Scott sends out a note in a bottle; Audience baffled and bored by "Endgame"; Hockey team makes strong showing despite loss; MSVU Society information; Mount basketball team wins 71-57 over C.C.B.
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This newsletter contains information on the near-completion of the E. Margaret Fulton Communications Centre, a grant received by the Mount for a caregiver project, healthy eating patterns emphasized by nutritionist Hilary Manning, a 'Closing the Gap' speech given by science writer Michael Keating, open campus days for high school students, and an 'Of Interest' section on the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), a workshop on LISREL (a computer software program) by the Survey Centre of the Gorsebrook Institute at Saint Mary's University, and a new telephone system adopted by the University of Alberta.
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Topics covered include: Student Council; Elections; Non-Resident Students; Frank Biazley; Student Involvement Committee (SIC); Calssifieds; Frank Hiscock; Continuing Education Department; Alan Rimmer; University Women's Club; Steve McGregor; Don Shipton; The Canadian Armed Forces; Theatre; Winter Carnival; Student Union Candidates for President named: Ginny Turner; Lois Hartnett; Lois Brison; Bob Washington; Carol Millet
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