ae ETE Oe eg oS St cue 2 —_— = er a @ Mee Ti Se Mi aaecrteieceetie MARCH 16, 1983 What do Douglas Uollege Students think of the Queen’ She looked tired. I can’t un- derstand why you have to be born into this tradition when there are lots of people with just as much personality as her. Lannie Magic, just unreal-is this for the paper? Chris Shannon It goes against all of my political beliefs but I like the Queen-she’s just a symbol. anonymous She’s a nice lady, but looked tired waving at all the idiots. A student Nazis at UBC Vancouver (CUP)-The Dutch government claims a convic- ted Nazi war criminal is a lec- turer at the University of B.C., but UBC administrators are refusing -to-comment on the allegation. Administration president ‘Doug Kennedy said he will assume botany lecturer Jacob Luitjens is ‘‘totally innocent’ until other evidence is found. The Dutch government says Luitjens was tried and convic- ted in the Nétherlands in 1948 for allegedly killing a German army deserter and Dutch Re- sistance member. The Dutch requested Luit- jens’ extradition in 1980, but the Canadian government re- fused because it has no ex- tradition treaty with the Netherlands for war criminals. Luitjens became a UBC lec- turer in 1961. Stanton Speaks by Glen Nazaruk ‘The Douglas College Board is not protesting to the min- istry of education adequately, says faculty association pres- ident Ralph Stanton.There may be a conflict of interest on the part of some board mem- bers because they are ap- pointed to the board by the ‘Ministry.”’ Stanton will represent the Colleges two hundred faculty members at the College open- ing where he is invited to speak on Friday. Also invited to speak is Douglas College President Bill Day. Day defended the Board last week stating; ‘“The board is doing the best job it can. Every means to protest to the Education Ministry has been followed by the college board. It is not in the best interests of the Douglas College Board to carry a high profile in its op- position to the Ministry.”’ The Ministry of Education was recently appointed Eric Hedlund to the Douglas Col- lege Board. Hedlund ran for mayor in New Westminster in the last municipal election and coming 3 out of 4 carried a fair amount of Socred support by some indications. Stanton’s opinion is; ‘‘It’s basically a boobie prize offer- ed by the Ministry. It’s de- signed to give Hedlund a high- er profile in New Westmin- ster.”’ Abe on EPPCO by Glen Nazaruk “I'd like to see ‘a greater em- phasis placed upon student needs within the college.’’ Abe Schoenwolf student rep- resentative on the Educational Policy and Planning Commit- tee stated earlier this week. “‘Administration could get lost in the paperwork and might forget the reason for the exist- ence of tis college is to ed- ucate peop‘e. EPPCO m. kes recommend- ations to the college board and invites students to fill posi- tions on the committee so that students will have proper in- _ put into decision making at the college. At the moment, Abe: Schoenwolf and Julie Miller are the only students repre- sentatives on EPPCO* and there are three more positions available. “The faculty limits it’s input on EPPCO because it doesn’t want to create a conflict of interest.’’ Schoenwolf said. “The faculty does not want to participate in decisions that will eliminate positions for fac- ulty in the future because of. cutbacks’’. ‘‘This is unfortun- ate because it limits the amount which a faculty mem- ber may want to become invol- ved.”’ EPPCO is supposed to con- sist of representatives from the administration, faculty and student body of the col- lege. The faculty assoc. has decided to limit faculty invol- vement in the decision making process and this Schoenwolf feels, makes EPPCO less dem- ocratic. ‘“EPPCO members are really on the ball.’’ Schoenwolf sta- ted. ‘‘A great many of EPPCO recommendations have been implemented by the adminis- tration, however some of them may not have been that rele- vant to students.”’ “I'd like students to app- roach me if they have any con- cerns. I’m always willing to listen and would like to see a few of them get more invol- ved.’ said Schoenwolf. by Dave Christian Douglas College is in the pro- cess of developing a first year engineering program, accord- ing to Gordon Gilgan, Acting Dean of Applied Programs. The program will be designed to be transferable to the UBC Engineering program. But the program is exper- iencing some difficulties in arrangement, owing to chang- es being made at UBC. On . February 18 the UBC Senate granted permission to the En- gineering Faculty to reduce the engineering program from five to four years, but last Engineering at Doug las? Wednesday it was announced that the change would be de-. layed one year. The UBC en- gineering program is present- ly a five year BA program, with the first year being spent in sciences, and the remaining four in engineering. Most Canadian Universities have a four year engineering _pro- gram. The purpose of this is to allow direct access to the pro- grams from secondary school. “‘We are working towards developing a first year pro- gram parallel to theirs’’, Gil- gan said. ‘‘This (the change) puts a bit of a crimp in our planning, but we’re develop- Photo by Paul Mohr ing alternatives:’’ If the program is offered this fall, first year sciences may be a prerequisite for transfer- ability. The college is developing a proposal to offer to UBC ‘‘es-: sentially to negotiate’ accord- * ing to Gilgan. ‘‘UBC has been very selective-only some of the Interior Colleges are presently allowed to offer the program.”’ SFU and UVIC are also de- veloping engineering science programs, but Gilgan say’s thev will probably be. ‘‘pretty restrictive-mechanical and electrical engineering, or something like that’’. Creation of army jobs Ottawa (CUP)-When Prime Minister John Diefenbaker created army jobs to alleviate. high unemployment, the pro- gram didn’t leave any lasting . impressions. Nor will the current military job-creation scheme, argues MP and NDP defense critic Terry Sargeant. , The proposal given to the cabinet in early February by Liberal MP Ursula Appollini was signed by 108 of 114 Lib- eral Backbenchers. It urges the government to createa special two-year training pro- gram in the military for 25,000 people each year. The pro- mee is aaned at the young, tween 17 and 25 years old, the age group suffering from the highest unemployment at 20.3 percent. Federal Conservatives have repeatedly called on the government to adopt a mili- tary job-creation plan. . Sargeant opposes using the military for job creation. He says the proposal has received strong support because “‘it’s a quick and easy way to create jobs. “The military is not espe- cially productive. At this time, job-creation programs should focus on public works or make- work programs,’’ Sargeant said. These are types of pro- grams that would leave some- thing tangible that would ben- efit a community--a new rec- reation centre for example. It is now up to finance min- ister Marc Lalonde to approve the proposed $200 million pro- gram. Rumors on Parliament Hill indicate that Lalonde could present a watered down and less costly version of the scheme, possibly one that would employ 10,000 to 20,000 people over a two-year period, Appolini said. Her proposal is similar to the one penne by the Liberal youth committee last October to enlist 25,000 people for two years. Defense minister Gilles Lamontagne submitted some job-creation proposals late last year suggesting, an increase in permanent staff by 5,000 or by the creation of a special re- serve that would accommo- date 25,000 people over two years.