OEE ae EE TIE SRI AS Ft ioe hem es St ee ee eo epee Ty Volume Tl DOUGLAS ies RLSEE eee Ce ARCHIVES Number 4 October 30th, 198 BURNABY (CUP) The Sim- on Fraser University senate moved to restrict enrollment in two departments by in- creasing entrance require- ments at a meeting Oct. 5. 80 per cent of the university transfer students at Douglas College will be going to SFU. The senate approved a proposal from business and computing science faculty members which will let the faculty set entrance require- ments as high as necessary to cut expanding enrollment in the two departments. “I don’t like the restic- tions, but it’s the only thing they could do,’’ said student senator Al Wotherspoon. Wotherspoon, a comput- ing student- who voted for the restrictions said busin- ess faculty members want to cut the number of third and fourth year students to 1,250 from the current 1,700. Student senator Jim Cra- ley said the faculty’s propo- sals were ‘‘piecemeal’’ and a ‘badly handled. ‘‘There was no time to think and discuss the proposals,’’ he charged. The proposals are senates adjustment for lack of fund- ing he added. ‘‘The univer- sity should take a stronger Kevin Hallgate,DCSS President, contemplateing cutbacks. ‘ Raises GPA stand with the universitie’s council (of BC),’’ he said. The new business and computing standards requ- ire a 2.6 grade point aver- age, equivalent to #passing grade. Protest cutbacks by Jan Hunter The Douglas Colege Stu- dent Society will. be actively campaigning against cut- backs. Kevin Hallgate DCSS president said at the Oct. 22 Multi Campus Council mee- ting, ‘‘Our primary purpose is to make sure education gets top dollar.’’ “There will be a point where the campaign will be everything,’’ he said. ‘““The campaign will affect studies, relations with the (College) \Board and also relations with this council.’’ Hallgate -said that the main purpose of the cam- paign will be to attract media attention to the cut- backs issue, which so far has been sparse. ‘‘I spent three hours with a Colum- bian reporter and all I got was ‘Kevin Hallgate is a ‘third year economics stu- dent at Douglas College. Hallgate said all of the student society must play an active role in the campaign. ‘“‘This is going to affect our | studies and I am not going to go through this alone. I will pull out very quickly if the rest of the board is not behind me.”’ Hallgate stressed _ that students outside the Student Society must get involved as well because cutbacks are one thing that affects every student. ‘‘We have to get students who are not in council involved.’ “‘Let’er rip!’’ said Coquit- lam chairperson Ian Mac- donald as the meeting drew to a close. by fan Hunter ® NO SUMMER SCHOOL ® WINSLOW CAMPUS CLOSED and an ¢ END OF BASIC ADULT EDUCATION is the ‘‘onion scenario’ presented to Dou- glas College’s Board of Dir- ectors by the college admin- istration to meet a possible $2.4 million cut in next year’s budget. The government had earl- ier_requested that the col- leges provide information on what the college would do if of money this year as last year, listing, in order of be dropped. Bill Day said the onion scenario is ‘‘peeling off one layer at a time, leaving the core’, The deeper the bud- get cuts go the smaller = onion (D.C.). The first layer to go could be the Winslow campus of D.C., said Day. Next could be the Maple Ridge Campus and some Adult Basic Ed- ucation programming. Then the nursing program will be drastically cut back, as will the arts program, business programs and then the can- cellation of summer school. “It's not just a scenario,’ student society president Kevin Hallgate said, ‘‘No matter how many flowery phrases Bill Day has or how many eloguent expressions the government has, it is a fact. There will be cutbacks next year.’’ Hallgate said, ‘‘It is the worst bloody document I have ever seen.’’ Hallgate accused the board of sit- ting back and passively ac- cepting the government re- quest.”’ Sandy Thompson, board member, said in response to Hallgate’s accusation that ““we are not a passive board and we will continue to fight cutbacks.’’ Day defended the board’s decision of going through with the governments re- quest, saying, ‘‘To ignore SL. LAH Makes You Cry it received the same amount, priority, what courses would directives is like throwing a towel in front of a raging bull.’’ Jim Davies, faculty assoc- iation Vice-President said that it is ‘‘absolutely in- sane’’ to provide this infor- mation. ‘‘We have one of the best educational insti- tutes in the world and it is absolutely insane to pas- sively allow it to be dis- membered like this.’’ he said. Davies said the document will be a ‘self-fulfilling prophecy, and I’m for fight-| ing. Day feels certain the in- formation they are providing the government with is go- ing to be used to defend the colleges against cutbacks. ‘*The people in the Minis- try of Education know there is a financial bind. They will be competing against other departments for dollars.’’ Hallgate says the govern- ment has other things in mind. ‘‘When the govern- ment gets the document in their grubby little hands they are going to say ‘that Douglas College can survive these cuts. This is Bill Bennett’s idea of a balanced budget.”’ Day says, ‘‘If the. worst happened this board would have the maximum control over the funds left.’’ The basic operating mon- gy given to the college is untaged, meaning that the college has power over how it is spent. About $1 million of the budget is designated by the government for spec- ific programs. These pro- grams are the ones that the board are going to cut back first. The Student Society and Faculty Association have not come up with any specific plans to oppose the cut-: backs, but Hallgate expects there will be a collaberation: with the students and facul- ty in opposing them. The Board will be making their decision on whether to. accept the scenario at the October 29th board meeting. AJ