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April 30, 1996

 

 

 

Congratulations to Douglas College Presi-
dent, Dr. Susan Hunter-Harvey. She has
been an extremely busy woman during the
past school year and, in the process, has
managed to achieve significant success in
the college community. However, after many
attempts to interview the president so that
students may get to know her better, she has
also managed to avoid meeting the student
press of | Douglas College. The following is an
open letter to Dr. Susan Hunter-Harvey ex-
pressing our concern about this issue.

to us. We heard nothing more from you re-
garding this sensitive subject.

Being a successful women in your field, it’s
odd that you didn’t jump at the chance to
encourage other women to strive for excel-
lence and equality in their chosen ambitions.
Oh well.

The other day, we sent a reporter up to the
president's office to talk to you, much like we
did in the past when Bill Day was the presi-
dent of the college. We were always able to
meet with Bill, and that’s the reason why we
sometime wander up to your office on a
whim. (We're just curious people here at the
OP, and sometimes we like to tell the stu-
dents what’s happening on the 4th floor). We
were told you were out of the country, and
that it would be at least three weeks until it
would be possible to set up a time and meet
with you. It’s going to be difficult to summa-
rize your thoughts on your first eight months
at Douglas College when you're not here to
speak to, so we had to scrap that idea for the
moment and write this letter with the hope
you will read it and respond ASAP

This all strikes us as a little odd, especially
because you went out of your way last Sep-
tember to meet with the communications
office at Douglas to arrange “to meet the
media through a series of meetings, in order
to help get our message out.”

‘Here’s a little secret, Susan; Meet with the
Other Press and we'll be more than happy to
get your message out.

Dear Susan:

After learning last September that your
appointment as president was official, we
were eager to talk to you about your plans for
the future of Douglas College. That was a
hectic time for many people, so we agreed to
submit a list of questions to your secretary
and wait until you had the time to meet the
Other Press. But because you had a “get
aquainted session” with the Douglas College
Student Society, we here at the OP expected
‘to be visited shortly thereafter, but that didn’t
happen. So we waited (patiently) for a re-
sponse from the president's office.

In the meantime, another opportunity to
speak to the OP arose when our annual
Women’s Issue was being produced for
March 5. We felt you might like some input
toward the Issue, so we requested an inter-
view. Again, we were told that you had a busy
schedule and that your office would get back

 

 

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