Item 78 - "Rationalizing Ontario's Universities" - Address in the AMS External Affairs Commission Lecture Series,Queen's University; Population Policy in China and India (Address at Queen's University)

Address at Queen's University by Sean Conway (January 31, 1984) and Dr. Chandgashekhav (Feb. 7, 1984). Side One: Politician Sean Conway discusses the problems of underfunding to Universities by the Ontario Government, and the current government student assistanance program. He discusses the possibility of drastic restructuring of higher education and with the lack of accessibility of universities to those of lower incomes. Side Two: Former Minister of Health and Family Planning in India, Dr. Chandrashekhav, provides statistics to demonstrate the phenomenal growth of the world's population in the last couple of centuries relative to the preceeding 2 million years. He indicates that this growth is a serious problem since it is associated with poverty and starvation in some parts of the world. He describes various methods that have been used to control population growth in India, and why they have failed. He also describes China's population policy.