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CFS blasted

In your last issue you
reported on the fact that
the students of Douglas
College were being asked
to examine their  con-
tinued role in CFS
through a referendum on

December 10. As _ the
representative for the
Douglas College Student

Society on the CFS Pacific
Region executive, I would
like to take this time to re-
late my™~* €xperience with
the organization.

In the preamble to the
CFS constitution, the
basic aims of CFS are laid
out. They sound very nice
and, on the surface, give
the illusion that CFS is
working in solidarity with
all students in Canada.
Nothing could be farther
the truth. If CFS
“speaks with one voice”,
that voice must be rather
quiet. Quebec as a whole
does not belong to CFS,

Douglas want to be affilia-
ted with an _ organization
with a reputation like this?

Students in B.C. and in all
of Canada are not united.
Section I of _ the
preamble states CFS will
organize students to adv-
ance the interests of the

student community.
What have the members
of CFS outside B.C. done
to help the students in
B.C., or are they even
aware of the problem?
Education has been under
attack by the provincial
government in B.C. for

four years, yet the nation-
al chairman for CFS says
he is only now begining to

understand the _ serious-
ness of the _ situation?
Clearly; .. CFS” - is-. “NOE

advancing the interests of
the student community.
Section III assures that
CFS will make “effective
use and distribution of the
resources of the student
movement”. Again, what
have the members of CFS

that B.C. should fight the
government here on our
own, that is fine with us;

Just give us the exorbitant
amount of money we send
to the National Office each
year as we can do a far
more effective job than is
currently being done
under the guise of ‘lobby-
ing’. Further to this, for
the past three years, the
CFS handbooks have
gotten here too late for
registration. This year,
they arrived at 2:00 on the
last day of registration;
and this was after they
had been’ given’ two
month notice of when we
needed them. If this con-
stitutes “effective use and
distribution of resources”,
then I would hate to see
what they call a waste of
resources.

In Section VII the
preamble states that CFS’s
ultimate aim is “a system
of Post Secondary Educa-
tion which is accessible to
all...” If this the ultimate

off their eductaion if they
can’t afford it”. This is
clearly not an “accessible
to all” type of statement, is
it? But what has_ been
done to aid the students of
B.C. in fighting this gov-

ernments attitude? Noth-
ing of significance.

Other concerns raised
by the DCSS_ executive

regarding CFS were:

- A high cost to belong
($25,000 a year) with no
noticeable return.

- No direction in the

organization at either the
National or Provincial
level.

- Low communications
both between the locals of
CFS and between Nation-
al office and locals.

- B.C. issues are not
addressed on the National
level, they are virtually
ignored.

- The Federal govern-
ment is not seen as a major
‘problem to B.C. students,
Victoria is; yet Victoria is
not being effectively
lobbied by CFS.

has gone overboard on it,
making it a hassle just to

get the simplest things
accomplished.

- CFS is too. services
oriented and not issues

oriented, as it should be.
Further, the services offe-
red by CFS are sketchy at
best and tend to be of far
more value to students in
central Canada that to the
students in B.C.

In closing, I would like
to state that these con-
clusions were not made in
haste, but reflect my ex!
perience with CFS both
the DCSS representive for
the last five months as
well as from the  con-
versations with
people who have
involved with CFS in the
past. The primary conclu-
sion I have reached is that
CFS is the lame _ duck
organization that is more
of a burden. to th
students than a help. It is a
drain of resources that
could be better used el-
sewhere and I give un-

  
   
   
     

   
  
   
  
  

most of Alberta doesn’t,
and: in B.C., the student
society at BCIT refers to
CFS as “the CFS Mafia’.
Do the students at

done to help B.C. since
the provincial govern-
ment began cutting back
on education four years
ago. If the CFS locals think

flagging support for the
position taken by _ Scott
Nelson on the matter in
your last issue.
: Michael Booth
DCSS Vice-President

goal, why isn’t CFS fight- - The entire organiza-
ing for it? The minister of tion is drowning in a sea of
Post Secondary Education bureaucratic bullshit.
in B.C. has stated that While it is nice to have
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