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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 18:42:46 -0400
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From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sudbury - Native Students - Laurentian University
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NATIVE STUDENTS ISSUE WARNING
Sudbury Star April 13, 1999
By KENNEDY GORDON/Star Staff Writer
If Laurentian University wants to keep its native students, there had
better be some changes made, warns the president of the university�s Native
Students Association. �We are the only growing group on campus. Anglophone
numbers are going down, and so are francophones,� Mark Solomon said in an
interview Monday.�If we don�t get the support we need, we�ll go south to a
school that�s more
native-friendly.� Solomon has been watching with interest as the university
contemplates a change to its administrative structure.
A restructuring proposal by senior Laurentian administrators calls for
French-language and English-language programs to be overseen by separate
vice-presidents and committees of the university�s senate.
If that happens, Solomon said, there should be a similar setup for native
students.
PROPOSAL DRAWN UP
He�s drawn up a proposal and plans to present it to the senate at its next
meeting, Thursday at 2 p.m. �You can�t give one minority group preference
over another,� said Solomon, who also sits on the university senate.
That�s not the way the university administration thinks, said Geoff Tesson,
Laurentian�s vice-president, academic. �Mark wants to get us moving on
this, and that�s fine,� he said. �I may not agree with him that appointing
a native VP right off the bat is the best way to
go. There�s going to be some study of the situation.�
Solomon likes the way university president Jean Watters has been talking
about boosting the school�s native presence. Watters has said he�d like to
see aboriginal enrolment rise from the current 300 to more than 1,000, with
an increase in native-related fields of study and an emphasis on attracting
native students to other programs. He calls it �tri-culturalism.� Solomon
said he wants the president to back up his statements. �Since the president
has had this wonderful idea of tri-culturalism, we decided to make him
prove it,� he said.
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