Ain’t restraint great? = - On one side you have the federal government trying to keep all in- creases within 6 and 5 per cent, and on e other you have our porvincial. government saying students must. pay a greater share of the cost of education. That’s fine and dandy, but why do it now when people can’t afford it? If you want to screw people it’s a lot easier when the economy is good and they have a lot more ‘excess’ income to fritter away on bureaucratic salaries. Increasing tuition fees does nothing to help make education more access- ible. They are making it increasingly difficult to improve one’s self through education. You are unemployed, the job you got iaid off from will be phased out due to technology, so you decide to go back to school. Good Luck! Grants are no more. If you take their loans you will be in debt io the tune of approxiamately $20,000 at the end of four years, and will have spend the next five years paying it off, if you are lucky enough to find a job. If you manage to scrape the money | don’t care if your read this, but if you do, you'll probably stare agape. What we’re talking about is apathy, _ the second most popular pasttime here at D.C., after bad-mouthing Michael Jackson.Not that he doesn’t deserve it, | mean he did for Pepsi, what Richard Pryor did for coke. You’ll have to admit that not caring about how this college is run, or even knowing how this college is run, is pretty popular these days. We're in an age of space travel, break-dancing, blue hair and the C.S.1.S. That’s really tough to beat, but the college really has some pretty outstanding things happening in its murky depths. For instance, the new ban on smoking in the hallways is a pretty interesting topic to ponder. The college removed Monday, August 27,1984 * The No more tuition hikes together yourself, they hit you with tuition increases. Of course this doesn’t matter to the lackeys in Victoria, Garden of Lobot- omy. They make sure we pay enough to afford their children’s education. it’s only fair. Our illustrious student society pres- ident said at the time, that an 11.8 per cent increase would be acceptable. Really? Other institutions are getting hit with increases averaging 33 per cent, ‘so how can we bitch? Quite easily, actually. They preach that they want a better educated populous to compete in a new work enviroment. That means that there will have to be and increasinly general approach to education, away from the specialist attitude and more to the adaptable worker, as most of the new jobs will be in decision’ making Unfortunately, the government doesn‘t seem to be able to see past the next election, and is putting priority ‘Two rather interesting letters the ash recepticles from the halls to prevent students from smoking in non-designated areas, due to born holes in the carpet. | derive a certain amount of stimulation from the con- cept that if you don’t want students butting smoking debris on the carpet, you remove the ashtrays. The bone- head that thought this one through, has been picking his ears with a revolver. What’s scary, is the fact that | haven’t heard anyone oppose this outrageously silly notion. How much is new carpeting going to cost in respect to a few more ashtrays? How will the more honorable students handle the dilemma? Perhaps they will design a cigarette that can be masticated. What about the general lack of healthy ventilation in the college? What about the janitor that was forced Other Press Dear everyone! This letter is about an exiciting, new Student Society program, just for students. I'm Debra Niessen, the program director for the Douglas College Student Society paper recycling pro- ject. This program has the support of the College Board and is set up to help make it easier for a lot of people going to school. But | need your help. We’re looking for any paper we can recycle. And the money raised by this es goes into our new student ursary fund. This great ecologic idea comes with teasy instructions. Take all those scrap ‘notes, ruined photocopies, and any other of a long list of recycleable ipapers and then put them into one of ‘our specially marked bins. There’s ‘going to be one hundred of these bins tin different places around the college. i But most importantly, it comes at a itime when people really need it. If tyou’re a new student, you may never have known that at one time money could be a to you to attend Douglas College. It was called a grant. Grants were given to people who could prove they needed them most, but the regulations were so strict you had to have been a full-time student, even to apply for one. This year we don’t have them anymore. That’s why we’re setting up the recycling bins, to help make a bit of money to give as grants to Douglas College students. This recycling project , in order to be successful, needs your support and contribution. Your contribution of recycleable paper, as well as your time, is needed. We need volunteers to help this become a very prosperous undertaking. If you are interested in helping this program by volunteering some of your time, please contact me through the Douglas College Student Society office. Thank you for your time and consideration. Debra Niessen Program Director The Other Corner funding into programs that will churn HOW DO YOU FEEL out people to fill specific positions that ABOUT THE UPCOMING will not exist in ten years. FEDERAL ELECTION? It would be alot more productive if they encouraged people who have been unemployed for six months or longer to go back to school instead of becoming another statistic on the discouraged job-seeker list. They would be increasing morale and the likelihood of these people to get jobs and also there is the off chance that they may actually pick up a few votes in the process. It is a sad day when the government loses sight of the future they are trying to build and insists on cutting back on education funding when it is most needed. So as you are thinking about all the beer you could have bought with the money you just spent on tuition also remember that you may be the last of the middle class to actually afford to go to an institute of higher learning. Never forget an ignorant citizenry is ia lot easier to subjegate than an ,educated one. en or prophet, only time will telly“ Gloria Grant: Brian Mulroney is too confi-. dent, and stuck up. Turner is the most handsome and he speaks more openly and real- istic. Kristin Grant: John Turner seems the most capable person to lead the country. Mulroney is not open enough. to handle toxic chemicals in some unventilated nether world? Let’s not stop there. The people who don’t smoke might own a car. If they own a car, they have very few choices on where to park in the surrounding area. The underground parking lot is prob- ably the most convenient place. There is a mild, musky smell down Lisa Clement: there that some of you may or may not : have noticed. It’s tough to tell where \’d like to say that I’m too exactly that odor is coming from. !’d young to vote. like to know how many non-smokers ss are going to be willing to park their cars down there when the Cancer Research Department finishes their analysis of the matted grey coating on the ceiling of the place? I’m sure the poisoned pen depart- ment will have a few more bitches in the future. I’m sure this stuff is just a little hard on the people that try up there in the big, bright offices in the sky, but I’m sitting down here in a hole where hopefully | won’t cause anyone any trouble. | just hope that someone takes note and makes allowances. My only wish is that we continue to raise a little hell once in a while. It let’s us know that we’re doing something besides not getting involved. It gives us some satisfaction that the entire student body, faculty and maybe administration haven’t come to pre- mature lividity. Who does care anyway? Nope! No flies on us. Sincerely Yours, Roger Bolen Poison Pen Department Eddy Alexandre: | have to watch more TV before | can decide who to vote _ for apse Omar Shariff: | think it’s disgusting. Those guys should learn to keep their sexual inadequacies to them- selves. No one cares Mr. Bolen. We just printed your letter because we need the filler. - Ed.