This newsletter contains information on long-range planning at the Mount, the Planning Day held on February 1st, 1984 by administrators, a table of a strategic planning system, a discussion and chart of the long-range planning process by W. B. Ingalls, Terms of reference and activities of the Committee on Planning and Budgeting relating to the long-term plan envisioned by the university. There are also sections on the internal assessment, the external environment, and institutional research involved in the long-term planning process. Factors cited as internal resource categories include human, financial, physical, program, image, and internal environment; external forces include economic, social, technological, political/legal, demographic, and competitive.

Topics covered include: Marathon of Hope; Resignation of Student Union bookkeeper; Student identification cards; CFS Health Plan; Societies Membership Drive Day; Foreign service seminar; Vinnie's pub launch; Ontario education funding cuts; Apartheid and McGill University; Purchasing a car; Doug and the Slugs (band); Dr. Margaret Fulton; Speaking of Nairobi (documentary); The Fly (film); Drama (band)

Topics covered include: Student Awards; Chris Ferns - errors with grammar and spelling in Picaro; Toronto Maple Leafs; Meech Lake Accords; Mounts Athletes on The Rise; Personal Ads

Featured teams include women's basketball, men's basketball, women's soccer, women's volleyball, and co-ed badminton.

Topics covered include: Residence; Board Senate Committee; Women's Education; Cafeteria; Student Council; Student Union; Taxes; St. Mary's University; Budget; Canada Manpower Centre; Home Economics Department; President's Administrative Committee; Parking; Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP); the Canadian Armed Forces; Business Society; Entertainment; Awards Day

This newsletter contains information on an Enormous Shift in Higher Education, the Mount's 'Special Plea' for funding to initiate and continue women's programs, admission standards, comparative ranking and enrollment and grants for the academic years 1974-75 and 1982-83, and the moral aspect of education emphasised by the Mount team. There are sections on training students in a variety of skills to help them function in everyday life, rather than specializing, as well as comparing the funding of the Mount compared to other universities. The newsletter also contains sections on how technology isolates rather than humanizes individuals, and the growing part-time population at the Mount.

Topics covered include: Darrell MacLean; News from the Library; 2009/2010 Students' Union Executive Team and Student Representative Council; Tutor Database; Cat Wilson; Gender Stereotypes Affect Healthcare Process; Valeria Nekhim; One Snap and You're a Burlesque Star: Montreal Burlesque Photographer Gives Clients the Royal Treatment; Peter Pumpkin Head; Something Wicked Comes This Way; Stacey McLachlan; Secret Meat: Not So Sweet; Andrew Hawley; Carleton University Women's Soccer Team Ends Suspension Rookie Initiation Causes Team to Forfeit Two Games

Topics covered include: Student Council; Steve Hall; Dr. Lawrence Stone; Dr. Hanna Gray; the Corner Store; Oxfam Canada; Elections Committee; the Canada Employment Centre; Art Gallery; Continuing Education Department; Student Council; Association of Student Councils (AOSC); Casa Dante; English Society; Assisi Hall; Exams; Sicaro

Topics covered include: Referendum to determine if the student union will join the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS); Student council elections; Tourism degree for MSVU; Royal Commission on Post- Secondary Education; Women's Information Resource and Referral Service of Halifax; President's holiday; Women's speech contest; Gilt (band); Winter Carnival '84; The Spoons (band); The Tenth Annual University Community Art, Craft and Baking Talent Show; Kathy Naugler - Athlete of the Week

This newsletter contains information on guest speaker Honorable Judy Erola, Minister Responsible for the Status of Women, speaking about how women face the future in an International Women's Day Rally. The newsletter discusses the growth of the Mount's Co-op Education Program after three years in action, as well as the Mount's presence at the Royal Commission on Post-Secondary Education on February 3 1984. There are sections on a seminar titled 'Writing the End' offered by Dr. Peter Schwenger of the English Department, a unique film series, and an alumnae update on the second annual alumnae-athletics challenge. There is a section on transitioning from university to the workplace titled 'Exploring Your Tomorrow,' and there are sections on Talent Galore, award nomination deadlines, and new co-editors of the Picaro. There is information on the challenges of teaching using DUET (Distance University Education via Television), as well as a section on practical discussions surrounding educational activities in the classroom.