oe page four exists. Almost half of the employed instructors at Douglas College are hired part time and are called sessionals. The role of the sessional was created for people who had special skills in industry that could bring their skills to Douglas. . Unfortunately Douglas College has more sessionals than any other college in B.C., which in itself is not unusual, because Douglas College serves approxi- mately one third of the population of B.C. What is unusual is that a lot of the sessionals teach academic courses on a full time basis, without the salaries and bénefits of fulltime staff. This is a precarious situation. Sessionals who teach full-time on less than full-time wages do not have job security nor do they have the same benefits of full time staff. In fact several suffer morale problems because the college is not offering an incentive for career advancement. Imagine what it would be like to work five or six years— steady, without vacation or the same benefits as | fulltime. employees. It’s not comfortable. The Faculty Association is two to three years behind inflation and this worsens the plight of sessionals. In some instances, as at Capilano College in North Vancouver full time faculty members have sacrificed wage increases for the benefit of sessionals. This would be extremely unlikely at Douglas College. | The problem of sessionals at Douglas is important, because it does affect students. Although Douglas College is a multi-campus institute and many instructors have offices on only one campus, sessionals often do not have an office to work in. For students this means that spending time with an instructor is at best difficult or impossible. Often sessionals will have a class on the New Westminster campus and are due in another campus, such as Richmond, on the same day. night. It will take considerably time before sessionals | will have security and receive the same salaries as full-time faculty instructors. But the most important factor is the students. If students enrolled in academic courses do not or can not spend time with their instructors, the quality of education could be affected. And if the quality of education is affected, it affects everyone. society cannot spend the money allocated for students because there are no representatives something is wrong. Before you roll over and fall asleep, remember it’s your money they are not spending. Become involved with the student society. They need your help and if you’re not careful you could learn how Douglas College really operates. Several positions are begging to be filled and they could be satisfying to any student who wants to get his teeth into the decision-making process. And besides that, it looks good on a resume. a Ask Tom Styffe. At Douglas College a very interesting situation The problems of sessionals will not be solved over Apathy at Douglas College? Nonsense, perhaps? Not really. When an organization like the student soot Roy Tornay, Robert Gardiner, Tammie Méitchell. Typesetter: Colleen Glynn Press and a subscriber of Pacific News Service. Publications Society every Monday. The news office Business manager: Dave S. Hayer; Ad manager: Andre Lloyd, Co-editors: Rob Guzyk, Dan Hilborn: Reporters: Rob Campbell, Brneda Gough. Other Staff: Dave King, The Other Press is a member of Canadian University The Other Press is a democratical!y-run, student newspaper published under the auspices of The Other located at the rear of the cafeteria on the New \ Westminster campus. Phone: 525-3830 or 525-3542. - if The Other Press February 18, 1980 SEE DICK RUN. RUN DICK RUN - UNIVERSITY MAY START REMEDIAL ENGLISH CLASSES FOR ILLITERATE STUDENTS “This isn’t going to work,’’ said Dan Hilborn to his trusting accomplice Rob Guzyk. ‘‘There’s no way we can get the staff to hand in their stories on time.’’ Guzyk who just —an- nounced the winners of the Roger Sullens look-a-like contest disagreed. ‘‘You’re wrong Dan—you crazy guy. We merely threaten to scrawl obscenities on their underwear or other, equally unpleasant things. Hey, I’m just kidding! | love ya, get out of here.’’ Meanwhile rock writer Duane Rockerbie was rock- ‘}ing his. way to Memphis Tennessee to catch a glimpse of Elvis’ grave. ‘‘lreally like the man,*’ said Rockerbie. ‘’I love all - his songs like Pump it Up, Red Shoes, and Watching the Detectives. It’s the way rock and roll should be played.’’ Before he could complete his. lecture on rock socio- logy, Rob Campbell inter- jected saying, ‘‘Duane, you fool, the Elvis in Memphis is Presley, not Costello.’ This put an end to Duane’s trip. In the back of the news room Brenda Gough could be heard yelling and screaming. ‘‘It’s alive, it’s alive,’’ she yelled, pointing to an X-acto knife. The knife which was lying on the floor was obviously an inanimate object. Brenda was hallucinating from a -Perspectives- lack of sleep. Pat Worthington was late - aS usual. And as usual h was hungover. “I’m soooo hung over,’’ he said. Of course no one believed him and he quietly rolled back to sleep. What he didn’t realize was that the staff had put molasses and cornflakes in his revol- ving round water bed. At the same time the radio played another army ‘‘there’s no life like it’’ ad, and when Pat found out women were being con- scripted, he promptly got up and left. -Money. That’s what Dave Hayer had on his mind, and that was his job, getting money. ‘‘Hmmnm,, it looks like we’re a bit short here, Ill have to find alternative ways of obtain- ing funds. How does every- one feel about working part time at MacDonalds?’ ‘1 don’t know you, but | have absolutely no inten- tion of working there,’’ said new-comer Dave King. “‘I’m not going to work in place that uses munchkins in their commercials. They bug me. Andrea Lloyd quickly. in- terrupted and offered a suggestion for obtaining money. ‘‘What we need are mord ads, something that wil bring us revenue. | suggest we run more ads on Elvis Presley, he seems fairly popular.’’ With that statement Duane Rockerbie was up and about shouting ‘’You fool Elvis is dead!’’ “Yeah, we know,” grumbled Dan. ‘‘But he still lives in a metaphysica sense.”’ : At this remark Kathy Riley propped up and re- cited some John Donne } poetry whereupon’ Rob Campbell said, ‘lf death be not proud, why am | afraid “to go?”’ Kathy quickly stopped and switched over to some Johnny Rotten. - This pleased Rob. In the office someone had brought a television set and was forcing the staff to watch an eight hour An- nette Funicello film festi- val. The staff decided that it was culturally more sti- mulating than Charlies’ Angels but not that’ sti- mulating. ‘This film festival. is de- grading to women and sheds a bad light on beach movies,’’ cried Andrea. “We know,’’ said Pat. “But the only other thing on is a special news feature about some Iranians hold- ing hostages, and who would want to watch that?’’ With that Rob and Dan started to bang their re- spective heads against the closet wall and pogoed their way to the Smiling Budha. |