= TT ae 5 * Tay Ty. ¥ FR ol eh ee eee a ee ees bi Wine) en ge ees eae ee = ree = beaten mrp Oe Os eRe See | VANCOUVER (CUP)--The Uni- versity of BC Student Repre- sentative Assembly voted Thursday to spend as much as $10,000 to organize a March 1 rally against tuition fee increa- ses. j And the SRA decided to follow the rally with a tuition fee boycott if the UBC Board of Governors at a meeting the - same day votes to increase fees. To promote the rally, SRA will hire full-time organizers, print posters an¢ ipviie administrat- ion president Doug Kenny to a public meeting about fee increa- ses. The vote means defeat for a proposal drafted by undergrad- uate society presidents recom- mending students accept tuition fee increases of as much as 10 per cent. The proposal called for a fee boycott if the board increased fees more than 10 per cent. But now the boycott--students would refuse to pay any increase --will go ahead if the board approves any increase. Kenny has said tuition fees will increase 25 per cent for most students next year and as much as 40 per cent for students in professional faculties. The SRA vote followed a lengthy debate about how to fight fee increases. Moe Sihota, Alma Mater Soc- iety external affairs officer and Student Board of Governors member, said tuition fee increa- ses would compound serious financial problems students face now. He said increases in rent, the price of food, and transportation costs have made it difficult for “many students to afford a university education. “UBC is a rich institution. Most students can probably afford fee increases but we are talking about the 1,000 or 2,000 on the border.”’ Sihota said a 10 per cent fee increase would hurt some stu- dents although it would do little to improve UBC’s financial pos- ition. He said a 10 per cent increase would contribute only $1 million to a university budget that will UBC will protest tuition fees exceed $100 million. Board member Basil Peters said students must act quickly to express their opposition to fee increases. : ‘‘We should spend some money and put some people to work. In two weeks the board will decide on fees and it will never change its decision.” Arts representative Pam Wil- lis said the only reason students . have not yet joined to opppose fee increases is that student leaders have not shown them how. _ Febru: Volume II Number 3 14, 1977 -The Other Press Student Council accepted a ‘ proposal at last Wednesday’s meeting that business manager Carol Grout’s employment be | terminated because she had not | “‘fulfilled the three month trial _ > as ‘Council’s satisfact- (ion. | Grout said in an interview last Thursday she had contacted the | Labour Relations Board and | may be launching an appeal. But an LRB official told her that as long as a majority of the Council supports her terminat- | ion, the LRB has no grounds for action. The decision to terminate Grout’s employment was based on a recommendation of the personnel committee, which had met with Grout immediately before the Council meeting. Rob Rae, Surrey Vice-Chair- man, stated that part of the | reason for her termination con- ‘cerned “‘interaction with Coun- ‘cil members.’’ Grout said Thursday she was fired primarily because of a *‘personal con- flict’’ with Ray Harris, Student Council.chairman. Investigations have begun in- to the deaths of two Riverview hospital mental patients who died within a week of each other, New Westminster coro- ner Doug Jack said last week. Jack ordered an Attorney-- General’s department inquiry into the death of Lewis Hall, 61, who died Jan. 30-in the burn unit of the Vancouver General Hospital three weeks after being severely scalded in a bathtub at Riverview. {St Society Business Manager fired New Westminster rep Dar- lene Zerr said at the Wednesday meeting that because of ‘‘per- sonality conflicts’’ with Grout, Harris should not have attended the personnel committee meet- ing, at which Grout was inter- viewed regarding her employ- ment. Sheilagh Cahill, New West- minster rep, asked Harris to be specific about the reasons for firing Grout, but he replied: ‘‘I don’t want to see the reasons why she was let go spread all around the college. “It was the decision of six people, not just one,’’ Harris © said. The personnel committee was made up of the chairperson of each campus, Ray Harris, and Student Council advisor Jim Anderson, Grout complained that former Council members, who were her employers for most of her three month trial period, had not been consulted in the evaluation of her performance. ‘I’m going to fight this through to the end,’’ she added. Later at the meeting Council - Jack is also investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of 19 year old John L’Hirondelle, who was found dead at aproximately 3 a.m. Feb. 3rd after being admitted only hours earlier for exhibiting ‘agitated, psychotic behavior."’ Riverview director lan Mann- ing has refused to comment on either of the deaths. A member of the Committee of Concern for the Rights of Mental Patients was told by a struck a committee tu work out hiring procedures for the next business manager. Also at the meeting: -Amotion that $300 be allotted to a Council-staff party, which would have included employees of the leisure services commit- tee and the staff of the Other Press, was defeated.. Jim An- Riverview Mental Hospital as-seen from the outalde ‘I'm going to fight this to the end’ derson questioned the ethics of the Council “‘throwing a party for itself,’’ and the Other Press stated that it would not partici- pate in ‘‘such heinous corrupt- ion’’; -Shuffleboards for the four cam- puses should be appearing in the near future; -A request for more money by ation effective Feb. 25. | Grout shown door out -conflict the Fashion Design Club was turned down; -The Varsity Christian Fellow- ship was granted, by unanimous decision, $200 for the purchase of religious literature and the cost of film rental; -New Westminster rep Leonora Grande announced her resign- photo-T.Glavin Riverview official last week that the matter of Hall’s decth was ‘‘confidential’’ and could not be discussed. Hall’s daughter, registered nurse Marcena Levine, said last week she was ‘‘troubled’’ about the mystery surrounding her father’s death. She added that she was not told by Riverview officials how her father received the burns until after they were informed she had consulted a lawyer. When contacted last Tuesday Manning refused to comment on L’Hirondelle’s death-and told the Other Press that the matter was ‘‘not the kind of subject matter a college paper should be involved with.”’ He added that he would * contact Dean Bill Day, Coquit- lam campus supervisor, ‘‘about the role of the paper at the college.’’ Coroner Doug Jack said last week L’Hirondelle died from a Investigations begins into Riverview deaths fuug nemorrhage of an un- usual’’ kind, and though there was no evidence of trauma or physical injury, an investigation is being conducted into circum- stances surrounding the death. Coquitlam RCMP Sergeant Mellow said last Tuesday that investigations are proceeding into Hall’s death. ‘‘We’re not saying whether there is or isn’t going to be any criminal charges, but there could be,’’ he added.