What are your thoughts on UPEI making the new world issues course mandatory instead of the English 101 course?
Rebecca Chowen-Sciences: I think it’s going to affect the learning because the English 101 has grammar and writing, which you need for future knowledge. Without it you’ll door poorly. Especially if you’re becoming an English major, you’re not starting out on the right foot.
Emily MacAdam-Sciences: I don’t think it’s a good idea. Although I don’t like English, it is important for your other courses to be able to write essays and stuff. It’ll help strengthen every course.
Kelsey Phelen-Biology and English-I think English should be mandatory because everybody has to be good at writing and the other course should be an elective.
Emily Jay-Arts, English major-I don’t think it’s a very good idea. I’d say its not going to help students enough with their English as opposed to the English course.
Mike Good-Chemistry-You need to be able to communicate and articulate your findings. Some students don’t know what an adverb is. English should definitely stay mandatory.
Jeremy Oakes-History-We need a good understanding of the English language or we won’t be able to communicate effectively. It should stay mandatory.
Friday, April 25, 2008
City Council meeting
Charlottetown city council voted 9-0 to ban smoking in cars with children at a city council meeting March 10.
Smoking will also be banned from restaurants, bars, and for the first time in Canada, hospitals.
Streets are another high priority to members of Charlottetown city council as they announced renovations to multiple streets across the city.
itchell Tweel suggested University to Queen Streets should get a professional engineer to look at it because of dangers to the public. Such dangers include storm water, lack of sidewalks, and the overall condition of the street.
Tweel said they have been talking about this problem for the past three years and has yet to see action on the issue.
University to Queen is not the only street that Tweel would like to see fixed up. He also mentioned University to Euston.
The lights need to be changed to help the flow of traffic, he said.
“Residents are concerned about traffic flow. It’s too dangerous.”
Another street that was mentioned during the meeting was St. Peters Road. There were complaints about pedestrians not being seen on the top of the hill on the road so a suggestion was made to have a sign over the crosswalk cautioning drivers of pedestrians crossing.
Coun. Cecil Villard said he would like to see something done regarding crosswalks for the whole city, and would like to see a big change by spring.
“We’re really pleased to know there’ll be something done,” he said.
Smoking will also be banned from restaurants, bars, and for the first time in Canada, hospitals.
Streets are another high priority to members of Charlottetown city council as they announced renovations to multiple streets across the city.
itchell Tweel suggested University to Queen Streets should get a professional engineer to look at it because of dangers to the public. Such dangers include storm water, lack of sidewalks, and the overall condition of the street.
Tweel said they have been talking about this problem for the past three years and has yet to see action on the issue.
University to Queen is not the only street that Tweel would like to see fixed up. He also mentioned University to Euston.
The lights need to be changed to help the flow of traffic, he said.
“Residents are concerned about traffic flow. It’s too dangerous.”
Another street that was mentioned during the meeting was St. Peters Road. There were complaints about pedestrians not being seen on the top of the hill on the road so a suggestion was made to have a sign over the crosswalk cautioning drivers of pedestrians crossing.
Coun. Cecil Villard said he would like to see something done regarding crosswalks for the whole city, and would like to see a big change by spring.
“We’re really pleased to know there’ll be something done,” he said.
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