by Chris Page The rumors are true. | Students will pay for park- ing when Douglas College opens its new campus in November, as the College cannot meet security costs. Tentative rates are: $48.00 for a four-month semester pass $15.00 for a monthly pass .25 hourly 1,50 maximum daily rate to 6:00 .m. , .50 flat evening rate “We may adjust costs according to (our) costs and revenue’’, says West Gray- don, Director of Physical Plant and Site Services. - There will be no reserved spaces, but the College pass buyers. : es An‘outside firm, Imperial Parking, will run the parking operation, including a gate controlled system. Imperial Parking plans temporary sales booths at the old McBride, Winslow and Agnes sites, to sell monthly passes before Oc- i tober 30. ‘“‘Tje rates are very reas- guarantees parking to all. onable relative to any park- ing rates anywhere for a facility of this size and shape’, Graydon says. “Qnly S.F.U. and U.B.C. (rates( are comparable (0 by Gerry Oikawa Education cutbacks are > forcing the D.C. library to STS TI purchase fewer books and magazines, and offer less service to students. - The College split with Kwantlen last year means the amount of books we will have in the New West : campus is smaller. Out of the total collection of books New West Campus and Kwantlen had together, the New West campus has 45% of the collection and Kwantlen 55% of the e collection. The move to the new campus on Royal Avenue will Me a a a a ea Douglas) because they have indoor parking’’. While S.F.U. and U.B.C. have higher priced indoor parking ($66.00 /semester and $132/year respectively), they also offer outdoor park- ing for $13.50/semester and $12.00/year. Douglas College will soon have the highest minimum parking costs per semester of Vancouver’s Post Secondary Institutions. (Kwantlen,ilano and Langara still offer free parking). The difference is that Douglas parking is indoors. “I think there should be free parking’, says Student Society President Tim Shein. “I would like to have seen the College run it rather than some outside company’’. Shein thought that the new parking arrangements might have been used to create jobs. About 690 stalls on three levels lie below the new Royal Avenue building, a number Graydon considers sufficient for a few years. The College plans to use some of the parkade south of Columbia St. in the few years when it is larger. Operating paid rather than free parking will save Doug- las College an estimated $5,000 monthly. Library?????? - Shell-Out or P (= photo by-Gerry Oikawa Faculty Refuses 5 Day Plan On September 29th, mem- bers of douglas college’s faculty association (Teach- er’s union) rejected a propo- sal to accept five days leave without pay in exchange for guarantees of job: security be comming. The library will approximately five times the be moving approximately on size of the old library; our old October 25, 1982 and will library being 8,000 sq. feet remain closed for one week. while our new library is The library will be using book trucks to transfer all books to the new campus. 37,000 sq. feet. The new library will have two floors, featuring two During this one week of small classrooms, a learning closure there will be no centre and also a preview library services or borrowing privileges. Students who have taken books out before October 25, 1982 do not have to return these books until the new library is open. It was estimated by West Graydon that there will be a “three week disruption in total library services’’. The new library is room for films and a computer terminal and software available for student use. These new features plus the old features will make our library one of the best ones in the province. Unfortunately we were unable to get pictures of the new library. until March 31st, 1983. The union’s negotiators had originally presented the pro- posal asking for guarantees until august 31st. They considered this an alterna- tive to the college's request for a three percent salary rollback. When they were told the college could only offer March 31st, they re- - luctantly allowed their mem- bers to decide. The College requested the salary rollback as a reaction to losing $349,- 700 in provincial funding earlier in the year. The proposal’s rejection will result in lay-offs for .nine faculty members between. March 31st and -august 31st of next year, and deeper cuts in college programs and services. Ralph Stanton, the Associa- tion’s president, felt mem- bers rejected the proposal because jobs could not be guaranteed beyond ’March 31st, but acknowledged a ‘‘division’’ among faculty members, evident in the close 42-31 vote rejecting the proposal. There seems to be some possibility of future negotiations between the administration and the fac- ulty. Bill Day, president of the College, does not believe the faculty's decision was “‘in the long tem interests of the associates’’, but also said he understands ‘‘the very diffi- cult nature in which the faculty members find them- selves’, adding that he con- siders the lay-off of teachers a ‘‘desperation move’’. According to Day, the teacher’s decision will result in the ‘‘elimination of the remaining Theatre program in January’’, the ‘‘elimina- tion of the Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation Program in January, non-registration (for the) Dental Auxilliary program in January ’’, the ‘reduction in counselling services’’ and the ‘further reduction of library | purchases’. He also men- tioned the reduc.ion of ad- ministrative staff by three positions ’)one directly), and the complete elimination of D.C.’s athletic activities in the Totem Conference in January. a Continued on....