The Press, Volume 28, Issue 5, September 25, 1991

Abstract

The Press, Volume 28, Issue 5 includes: NDP cutbacks to education irk students after a meeting with the Minister of Colleges and Universities Dr. Richard Allen was “a waste of time.”; A protest took place in front of the St. Catharines Courthouse in an attempt to persuade the judiciary to reconsider letting sex offenders out on parole and to hand out more severe sentences for crimes related to sexual violence; Female Brock students are being offered a Foot Patrol Service to guarantee their safety to and from the Brock campus at night; The failed August coup in the Soviet Union has prompted many observers to predict the break up of the USSR and to dismiss the five year Soviet experiment in glasnost and perestroika as a failure.