ay Sa as page six news The Other Press January 22, 1981. UP forms national ad co-op by Tom Schoenewolf Three delegates from The OTher Press attended the 43rd annual Canadian Uni- versity Press (CUP) confer- ence held in Quebec over the Christmas break. Member papers attend- ing the conference launched a newly formed national advertising co-operative to replace Youthstream, Can- ada Ltd. Cup Media Serv- ices Limited will now begin preparations to provide pa- pers with national ads be- ginning April 31 when the. present contract with Youthstream will expire. Negotiations with Youth- stream terminated when the latter refused to extend a vote to the national confer- ence dealing with amend- ments which would have seen CUP and Youthstream work together for another three years. Mike Balagus, CUP pres- ident, said that the ad co-op is an incredibly positive step for the Canadian stu- dent press. “It ultimately means that papers will have a much more stable financial base in the future. This will allow them to adequately serve their student readership,’’ he said. vote in support of the co-op, Youthstream will still at- tempt to solicit advertising to individual member pap- ers. Another heavily debated issue at the conference was sexual harrassment. Com- plaints were expressed by several women delegates claiming sexual harrass- ment in one form or another during the conference. One source of harrass- ment Balagus said was the “highly competitive, jock- style soccer games were just too rough,”’ he said. A career seminar on Journalism will be held on Wed, Jan 28 from 12-2 at the Coquitlam campus, Rm. 104 Seperate men and wonren caucuses were held to dis- cuss sexual harrasment. A grievance committee was then struck consisting of two women and one man to be appointed by °° the women’s caucus. The purpose of the com- mittee was to- enable S ; by Carol Pope Nora Minogue of Douglas College is heading a natural vision training course,. the first of its kind in Canada. The program teaches the use of relaxation, move- ment and visualization to help students make full use of their visual capacities. Minogue virtually eliminat- ed her own need for eye- glasses last year after at- tending the natural vision teacher training course in Los Angelos. Minogue said that visual re-education is learning to women to voice their con- cerns in the event that they were being sexually har- rassed at CUP conferences. The committee would then take an educative role rath- er than a disciplinary one. CUP also supported a motion to take steps to inform students at their consciously control move- ment, relaxation and the use of visualization. “‘Like other self-improve- ment programs the success of this course depends on the students, a swell as physical, psychological and spiritual well being,’’ she said. Minogue said that she believes that visual prob- lems are the result of tension in the ocular mus- cles. “Instead of supplying eyeglasses, optometrists should try to get to the root campuses about the prob- lems of sexual harrassment. Member papers approved the full membership of The Kootenay Reporter, located at Selkirk College in Nelson and The Goliard of Okana- gan College, bringing the total CUP membership to 62 newspapers. g is believing of the problem,’’ she said. Minogue is pleased by the efforts of behavioural optometrists who have man- agedto eliminate reading problems in 80 per cent of those treated for binocular fusion related learning dis- abilities. The natural vision train- ing course is offered at Coquitlam campus on four consecutive Wednesday nights from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. beginning January 21. The cost of the program is $20. Minogue is also hold- ing a two part seminar on March 7 and 14, at a cost of $80. Interested ‘students can register at Douglas Col- lege’s continuing education department or Coquitlam’s administration office. The number for inquiries is 939- 6611 or 987-9656. AGM delayed by Rob Guzyk The Douglas College stu- dent society’s Annual Gen- eral Meeting will be held a month later than usual to allow the student society to acquire knowledge of their legal status. Student society president Kevin Hallgate said that the society has received per- mission from Victoria to delay the AGM from Feb- ruary to March. ‘‘We can’t change the constitution un- less we know what the law > is,’’ Hallgate said. ‘‘The main hassle is discovering if the DCSS legally exists. There will be two AGM’s, one for the new Douglas College and one for Kwant- len College. ‘I’m suggesting that pe- ople who are going to be here next year attend the AGM,”’ he said. ‘‘If there is no quorum there may be no student society.”’ Quorum of 100 students is required at each AGM. “I don’t think many stu- dents know what the impli- cations of the split are,”’ Hallgate said. ‘‘One council among four campuses is tough and it will be tough for the new Kwantlen to get — reps from 3500 students.”’