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November 25, 1982

by Ian Hunter

In an event reminiscent of the
Great Trek of 1922, which celebra-
ted the start of the University of
B.C., Douglas College will have a
Great Trek of its own.

The event will be the symbolic
move of the college to the $40 mill-
ion structure and will start from the
old McBride campus, ending at the
new Royal Avenue campus. The
time is set for Wednesday, Decem-
ber 8th, from noon to 2:00 p.m.A
route has not yet been decided
upon.

The success of the event depends
upon student participation and en-
thusiasm.

“If everyone is very positive about
it, it will come off,’’ said Douglas
College Information Officer, Bill

‘‘We have to approach the publi-
city about it from the point of view
that ‘‘this is going to happen and
we want you (the students) there.”’

In order to get the students there,
all classes during the event are
going to be cancelled. The staff,
faculty and administration will also
be taking a break, so everyone in
the college can participate.

College President Bill Day sugg-
ested ‘‘It’s going to take some in-
centive to get those students down
to McBride site for the start of the
march...say a wiener roast or a car-
decorating contest in the parking lot
with prizes.”’

Other suggestions made at the me-
eting were to have competitions
between faculties, departments,
and students within the college,
with prizes for ‘‘most unusual forms

with a live rock band,

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kies Invade Douglas

in either the
central concourse or in the gym of
the new building after the trek.

There was also some talk at the
meeting of the music students put-
ting together a marching band to
lead the procession.

Student Society members will be
publicising the event to the stu-
dents by speaking to students in
class over the next two weeks. A
huge banner will also be hung in the
centre concourse of the new college
to publicize the trek.

There was some concern at the
meeting about students not both-
ering to show up to the event at all,
and about the apparent low morale
of faculty because of the uncertain
ty of their jobs due to continuing
cutbacks.

‘‘Our biggest problem is morale,’’

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Student Society President Tim
Shein said ‘‘I’m worried some stu-
dents will not show up because their
class is cancelled.”’

Day responded ‘‘If we were work-
ing on the assumption that students
wouldn’t care enough to show up, I
don’t think we would be doing
this.’

There may also be a problem with

There may also be a problem get-
ting people down to the old college
to start the trek. Buses were sugg-
ested but were thought to be too ex-
pensive.

“We're flat bust,’’ said Day of
possible financing for the event.

“‘We don’t have a plug nickel for
that sort of thing. Whatever money
we can scrape up, I would like to see
go for food and entertainment in-

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of wheel transportation.”’

suggested having a ‘‘sock hop,”’

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by Chris Page

ICL has finally begun food
service at Douglas College's
new Royal Avenue campus,
but there may be problems
with pricing and food quality

No prices are posted at this
time, causing a few students
to be startled when they
reach the cashier. (For exam-
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Ashamed students turn back Oetng assaulted because they
on photographer for fear of buy food from a non-union-

cup;it was 30 cents at Nel’s,
the food service at McBride.)
Student Annette Murray
saw a ‘‘disgruntled preppie”’
look at his hamburger, say
‘this is shit,’’ and head back
towards the food counter.
Student Mike Rennig, how-
ever, says his hamburger
was ‘‘good, although it had a
bit too much sauce.”’
Although ICL outlets are of-
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ised outfit.

photo by Gerry Oikawa

So you wanna eat, eh?

yet.

At SFU this summer, ICL
employer-employee negotia-
tions broke down, workers
saying ICL was trying to take
away benefits they had 14
years under another comp-
any.

Vending machines in the
“‘lunchroom”’ below the 2nd
floor cafeteria are also avail-
able to sell overpriced junk-
food when they're working.

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DCSS Fees Too High

Student Society. President
Tim Shein can’t explain why
Student Society fees went up
$1 per semester more than
necessary to pay C.F.S. fees
Feb.26.

At the Febuary A.G.M.,
students were not told that
$1.25 of the $4.00 per sem-
ester increase would go to
the Student Society rather
than C.F.S. All Douglas Col-
lege students pay fees to the
Student Society.

“‘T don’t even remember it
(discussion of how much to
raise the Student Society
levy),’’ says Shein, then
treasurer of the Society. ‘‘I
don’t have a clue.’’ 3

The Student Society paid
$1 per Full Time Equivalent
(FTE) student each semester
(about $4500 for 1981-82) to
CFS’ parents,
National Union
of students and
B.C. Federation
of students in the

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fall, and to CFS itself in the
Spring. (Douglas was paying
the much lower provisional
membership fee back then.)

Douglas’ Student Society
now pays $3.75 per FTE
student per semester to CFS
(about $16000 ‘in 1982-83).
The other student organiz-
ations were among the
groups which merged to
begin CFS, so no longer
collect fees.

The $2.75 ($3.75-$1.00)
increase in payouts to stu-
dent organizations could
have been met by a $3.00 per
semester increase in the
Society’s levy, rather than a
$4.00 one.

Shein says he will try to
understand the situation by
listening to the tape of the
Annual General Meeting. He
said last year’s
President Kevin
Hallgate
might be
able to
‘explain /
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