= , OTHER Douglas College’s autonomous student newspaper. Wednesday, January 4, 1984. PRESS Volume 16 Issue 1. F aculty A sso. doesn't know Unlimited class sizes possible _ Waiting lists for courses at Douglas College will be eliminated-this semester, ac- cording to Caroline Hardon, a student society employee who attended a registration information meeting Decem- ber 21. by Dan Hilborn This could mean unlimit- ed enrolment at the college and unprecedented large class sizes at the New West- minster and Maple. Ridge campuses. Len Millis, the vice-pres- ident of the Douglas Kwan- tlen Faculty Association, said he had not heard of the unlimited enrolment, how- ever, he added, ‘‘I think it would be. extremely _irres- ponsible with the facilities we have to open up to unlimited enrolment.’ Because the college was closed for the semester break and administrative spokespeople were unavail- able for comment The Other Press was unable to confirm ‘or deny Hardon’s statement. “It -would “be a real change of pace around here, but | don’t think they'll do it,’ said Millis. College registrar, Andy Wilson, said last semester when the college registered a record number of stu- dents, ‘‘There may not be much more room in the facility.’’ The college currently has a waiting list of 500 stu- dents, all of which would be able to register this week. This could mean some class- es having enrolments of 60 students or more. Millis said that last sem- ester an experiment was held with one mathematics course enrolling 70 stu- » dents, the largest class ever held at Douglas College. “Faculty won’t go along with an increase,’’ said Mil- lis, who also added that the association did not approve any change. The possible change wo- uld come two weeks after a letter sent to college pres- _ident Bill Day outlining -a ministry of education propo- sal to fund colleges on a per student basis. According to Millis the \D Whe to ministry hopes to determine the cost per student average across the province and then reduce the funding by five per cent per student this year. In following years, those colleges and __ institutions which best implement the budget reductions would be rewarded with a budget in- crease. It’s been more than a little cold at Douglas College during the last semester but by Dan Hilborn that was nothing compared to the zero degree tempera- ture faculty and staff had to put up with during the semester break. ‘“‘A number of anomilies in the design and functioning of the heating system’’ have resulted in students wearing coats, scarves, and gloves to their classes ‘during De- cember, — West Graydon, the direc- tor of physical plant, attri- butes the ‘‘cool tempera- tures’’ to a difference in the amount of fresh air coming into the college compared to the exhaust. A construction deficiency in the heating system is drawing ‘‘vast quantities of exterior air from the top of the con- course.”’ UeLLO CLASS, FRerace mY ARS LECTuRE BY SANE HOW GRANFES VAM Ar TE Wad Youre “They've been working on this since the summer,’’ said Millis. The ministry letter de- scribes productivity as ‘‘a lowering of unit costs.’’ Un- its in this example are In- structional Funding Units, more commonly known as students. It is impossible to tell how unlimited enrolment could - It’s bloody freezing in rooms near the concourse entrances. ‘‘As these en- trances are used, quantities of cold concourse air are: flooding the building corri- dors,’’ Graydon said in a memo last December. People in most areas of the college say that it doesn’t matter where you are, you’re still going to run into weird temperature fluc- - tuations. “It’s bloody freezing,’’ said Dez Wilson, a member of the science and mathema- tics faculty, and John Ha- zell, another faculty member said he had to move one of his classes out of room 1811 because it was so cold. “It was 55 degrees here on Wednesday,’’ said Hazell who added that students have been wearing ° coats and scarves during his ex- ams. Merrilyn Houlihan, the “Ths section 1s MUCH Too caowoeo, §(), WHAT I PRoPose THO...” affect class sizes at Douglas until after registration is completed, but Wilson has said that 1000 more students would enroll if the right courses were offered. The registrars office will be expecting students to fill in an availablitity survey, describing what happens during registration. Last semester the survey showed student society business manager, is only one of many people to bring elec- tric heaters into their offices to combat the cold on the New Westminster campus. “I’ve made a lot — of friends with my_heater,’’ said Shirley Jean McKinley, of the Nursing department. ‘People ask about where to get one.”’ It is getting warmer re- cently, but in the concourse, where the temperature has been the lowest, there seems to be little ‘change. The security desk has been the coldest spot on campus all semester and recently had a large heater installed behind it. “All the security guards have colds,’’ said one shy guard. ‘‘The heaters don’t work. There’s no way they can keep that heat from going up into the air.’’ ‘‘For 13 months it’s been only 58 per cent of the students who wanted to en- rol in five courses found room in all five. Millis said that the college has already increased the sizes of most classes from 35 to 40. “It’s ludicrous if they try to do it,’’ he said. ‘If they ‘increase those (class sizes) it’s going to be chaos.’’ CTC miserable,” said Brian Da- vies, another faculty mem- ber. ‘‘Just recently it’s been warming up. It’s a health hazard, it was 52 degrees in this office.’’ The cold temperatures outside have aggravated the climate inside the college but some of the college personnel say that there are more than just problems with the heating. “When they built this building they told us they’d have a problem keeping the building cool,’’ said John Hazell. “Keeping in mind the complexity of the problems, they are being solved in a fairly rapid fashion,’’ said Sooz Klinkhamer of physical plant. “Only a mechanical engi- neer could explain it and only a mechanical engineer would understand it,’’ she said.