Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 20, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba V students feel pressure of cutthroat Competition by Manfred Jager the pressures students feel in their bid to get a University Educa Tion in Manitoba Are getting much says the head of the University of Manitoba student coun Selling and the Lyle ought to Eide and the 10 professional counsellors work with the to students who seek solutions to their problems through counsel Ling each in an interview Eide said there has been a change in the types of concerns students bring to their counsellors now when com pared with a few years students Are much More Wor ried about Competition now than Treyve been in some time often what they Are complaining about is outright cutthroat compe particularly Competition to get into the professional such As Law and Eide said there much of the coun Selling is still aimed at clarifying the University and its Workings to but beyond there is panic and anxiety now than what we used to Eide one of the other growths in counselling we have experienced is in relationship involving Domestic mar separations and problems involved with All of the new pressures our Are under is the one about into the professional a few years ago you could Law school with a plus now you need a plus one students getting get into the same is True in medi Cine and both of them tend toward an a average its becoming extremely competitive out it Means that you cant afford to fail a single course or even get c in one of there1 Are no second chances and we get the spinoff of Eide said the serious University student no longer has the Opportunity to Experiment with to take courses just for if i want to get into its got to be singleness of purpose All the i for afford to take a music because id have to get an a in that course in order to compete in my the medical Eide said grim competitive Ness is showing up in classes among the it manifests itself Here when a student comes in very upset and anxious with his own they May not help him or her with an not Tell them what they would have to know after having missed a or take a student going to a Library to use a reference there and or misplacing the resource on a different so that the next student then wont be Able to find it and use these Are isolated Eide but they have occurred and have put students under severe and repeated or take Competition with your Best the old approach avoid Ance if in your and Only one of us is going to get into medi then whats most important to me Friendship with you or my getting into Medicine As a personal is really very hard on Young peo advertisement i Long term smokers successfully see Page 5 Winnipeg free press March 1979 City news 2nd class mail registration number 0286 Mirnoff it leaves you Heike Jansen of Winnipeg pauses sunday outside the Holiday inn to Admire two ice sculptures by chef Tony the car won first photo by Dave Banner prize in a Manitoba association of chefs de cuisine there were eight two of which melted slush filled lanes irritate motorists thaw triggers deluge of beefs City officials have been swamped with Calls from rubber booted and annoyed homeowners who cant get their cars in or out of slush filled and while the lanes Are flooded with a Good foot of Winnipeg finest have been taking advantage of the situation and ticketing cars for illegal overnight parking on residential Al Ducharme ice Glen Lawn said monday he has received numerous complaints from residents saying they cant drive Down their some Winni Eggers Are being Dou Bly slighted with parking tickets because they cant drive Down the Lane to their works and operations committee chairman Gary Filmon said he spent of the weekend answering com plaints from residents about the condition of the cites Frank Johnson ind Emori Al said some of the City lanes Are so impassable that even a four wheel drive jeep could make operations director Rod Mcrae says there is nothing the City can with Springs first the packed ice in lanes that Hast been scraped to ground surface All and with the limited capacity of the there is nowhere for the slush to said City equipment has been out since Friday night trying to Clear away the and while almost All of the cites lanes have been conditions will be repeated until the end of the week when lanes Are said the Slushy situation occurs every said the operations be cause Back lanes Arent cleared of Snow during the Winter months like front streets if they were the City would get Calls from homeowners who dont like having to shovel Snow from Back said and its More economical to do it Only once when the thaw is upon said Mercier not in running federally by Mary Ann Fitzgerald Manitoba attorney general Gerry Mercier monday ended speculation that he would seek the Federal conservative Nomi nation in the new Winnipeg fort Garry in not going to Mercier said in an he said he had been approached and Given matter some consideration but i have sufficient responsibilities Here with the government and sufficient Challenge to keep me with the conservative nomination tentatively set for april neither government services minister Sidney Spivak nor provincial party president Inez both considered possible have declared their Spivak monday denied he had told the constituency executive during the weekend that he be seeking the that not what i he told a but he declined to discuss his plans constituency president Bill Neville also declined to he said discussions had been held with All three and with Elizabeth former president of the party women he said no discussions had been held with Warren conservative la for Crescent who has also some inter est in the Spivak and Trueman said they had no knowledge of a conservative which showed James former Liberal my from the present Winnipeg South As the Strong Leader in Richardson quit the Trudeau Cabinet and the Liberal party Over his disagreement with the party bilingualism conservative sources said the taken in showed Lloyd the Only Liberal in the Manitoba Legisla Ture and the Only declared candidate in the new Winnipeg fort Garry As run Ning the conservative sources said the poll was taken on the Assumption of a Axworthy has said recent Liberal polls dispute the findings of the pc the Liberal polls indicate Axworthy stands a fighting Chance of overcoming Richardson and by no Means relegate him to third he Richardson said last week he will de Clare his intentions after the election has been he said polls show his Strong support in the constituency will Gerry Mercier not interested Sidney Spivak no comment James Richardson support in polls bail plan helps guilty rehabilitate Stony Mountain bail Shields innocent from prison by Ritchie Gage the High Cost of and the question of incarceration As a cure for criminal behaviour is a dilemma for authorities in the corrections the Cost of keeping one Man in heading Ley jail for a year is and for Stony Mountain the Cost is yet things might be a lot worse in Manitoba were it not for a bail supervision says Florent who runs the the plan was initiated three years ago by provincial judge do Bienski with the cooperation of the Crown and a probation offi cer for 16 years with the department of health and social Arnaud keeps tabs on an average of 80 accused persons a month in on going supervision while they Are awaiting they Are placed on the supervised bail program at a judges British Columbia and Quebec have inquired about the program and arnouds statistics Are enough to make him believe the plan is for innocent persons accused of bail provides a shield from the prison for those who Are working on specific problems before going to trial is a step toward their stay in jail is and for Many prison is no longer sought As a keeping tabs on accused people used to be a haphazard officials and nothing was done to Deal with a guilty persons lifestyle before senior Crown counsel John Guy says relatives Are often emotionally involved in the persons and have Little control Over the i Dividu if similar circumstances exist for people awaiting some May commit another in not emotionally involved with these Arnaud All i want to know is what their problem is and How there solving i can direct them to but i want to know what there up they keep in touch at least once a sometimes twice a we get at their problem while there on its a High risk the people i see have a 25 per cent re involvement judge Ubienski says just getting caught is a cure for the majority of guilty people who appear before the to be freed on an accused person has to have a relative or Friend put up Cash or the to prevent bail being Grant has to establish that the accused either wont appear for his trial or that he May commit another judge Dubinskis previous plan of Long to work with the individual sentencing was quashed by the Manitoba court of which said it be so the judge instituted the bail supervision program my approach is to with jail As the absolute last not particularly because of what its like but because of its effective i try to canvass every alternative i can hoping that something of More Benefit to the accused and society can be the judge predicts a Day of reckoning for the jail everybody involved in jails is satisfied that sooner or some How we will be Able to make an assessment whether or not jail has a deterrent All we can say now is that it has some deterrent but we dont know How we know that getting caught has More deterrent effect than going to the judge also supports work sentences to keep people out of for a woman with a history of alcohol related minor offences was sentenced to paint a civic judge Ubienski says there will be More of that Type of sentencing in the he also believes those who sign Cash or property guarantees for accused persons should be More responsible for if someone who goes bail for a relative knows the Guy is going to commit another they should pull the plug and Call the that their responsibility As a Citi provincial judge Graeme Carson says he would let More people out on bail if those who sign sureties guarantee keep the accused person in once the Basic two facts of bail Are the judges discretion plays a part in allowing there Are differing feelings among judges and lawyers go judge shopping when looking for he Crown counsel Guy favors an Independent scheme for monitoring people on but adds More and More people commit crimes while on he says the bail supervision plan is relatively and brings a higher rate of people showing for ;