Loan scheme inadequate |VANCOUVER (CUP) - The |B.C. government’s scheme for students to create their own jobs this summer could prove costly for young entre- The government. is offer- ng 2,000 interest-free | this summer, but will not be jaround to pick up the pieces jshould students go bank- jrupt. | Students aged 15 and old- jer who plan to take full time |studies in the fall are eligi- jble to participate in the Jprogram. They can borrow jup to 2,000 but must repay jthe loan by October or face interest charges, among jother default penalities. The government unveiled the plan in its Feb. 20 budget, at. a time of chronic small-business failures in B.C. The labor ministry’s }guidline paper - ‘‘Be your own boss this summer’ makes no. provision for stu- dents who become .bankrupt ‘in the venture. _ “Any student that can make profits from this pro- gram is a business genius,’’ says Margaret Copping, stu- lent society president at the University of _ B.C. government is inviting stu- dents to lose 2,000.’ copping says students will have a tough time financing their education next year and the program does no- thing to compensate for the recent elimination of grants from the province’s student aid package. ~ Nelson wants university ditch attempt, Nelson’s city council has offered to buy ‘the small liberal arts univer- sity centre the B.C. govern- ment insists will be shut down May 1. Nelson council voted re- cently to purchase the David Thompson University Centre from the provincial govern- |ment for one dollar and continue its operation as a 1 private institution. “The provincial govern- | ment has refused any other ideas we’ve had, so .we | thought we would just take it over,’’ said Nelson mayor Louis Maglio. The Socred government ‘| announced the planned clo- J} sure Jan.4, citing low enrol- ment and financial restraint as the reasons behind the decision. | Along with students and | faculty, the Nelson commun-. ‘Friday, March 16, 1984. The CUP FILES, VICTORIA (CUP) - Ina last "aa ae ity is protesting the deci- sion. The latest campaign culminated in a 200-strong demonstration outside the C. legislature in Victoria Feb. 27. Despite growing protest in the Nelson area, B.C. education minister. Jack Heinrich said his decision is final. Nelson’s buy-out offer proposes the government fund the centre as a private educational institution and help the city with other fund raising activities. ' Education ministry official Bill Staudal says Heinrich has not yet considered the proposal. ‘‘It’s going to be studied and will be respon- ded, to.’’ Woman raped at Toronto college TORONTO (CUP) - Police are still looking for a man in his late 20’s who attacked and raped a woman at the University of Toronto earlier this month. Administration at Innis College, where the attack occurred, has ordered clean- ‘ing staff. to refrain from working after hours. Police said the assaulted -cleaning woman was. work: ing alone on the second floor! of the college when she was approached by a man, hit on the head and raped. The incident occurred at about 10 pm. She was treated at a local hospital for a head injury} and shock, and later re- leased. “It is always a shock to) recognize that a place as} familiar as one’ 's workplace is not secure,’’ said Innis principal Dennis Duffy. BCIT to lay-off 70 employees VANCOUVER (CUP) - The B.C. Institute of Technology gave layoff notices to 70 employees and another 50 may get their slips soon, the institute’s president says. At a March 1 campus meeting where the layoffs were announced, BCIT pres- ident Gordon Thom placed blame on the provincial gov- ernment for reducing the institutes funds by 15 per cent - 3.9 million. Thom also said fees could} rise by 30 per cent next year for the institute’s 4,400 full time students and 15 per cent for the 30,000 part-time students. Tuition fees are now 970 for full time studies. THE OTHER PRESS. ‘page 3 Vice-president joins sit-in The Douglas College stu- - dent society is planning its protests against the provin- cial restraint program be- hind closed doors. by DAN HILBORN Plans were made to pad- lock .the main entrance to the New Westminster cam- pus on March 12, but no one was able to find a chain and lock for the symbolic pro- test. At the Langara campus: of Vancouver Community Col- lege the front. entrance was locked on the 12th to symbo- lize how. provincial govern- »ment policies were closing the doors to post secondary education in B.C. Gordon Bryan, vice presi- dent of the society, attended a sit-in at universities mini- ster Pat McGeer’s office last week. where students from around the province told the media their concerns and plans of action towards the government. Ros Morris, spokesperson for the group, said the Bennett government has been directing a ‘‘series of attacks and a generalized assault’’. against education in B.C. The plan to padlock insti- tutions’ doors was~ an- nounced at the occupation as part of a series of pro- tests. town Vancouver on March 16. Guerrilla theatre and a forum to discuss further actions will also be held. “If you’re looking for con- frontation you'll have to wait and see,’’ said Bill Coller, another spokesperson from the group. The group feels they have the general support of Bri- tish Columbian — students even though not everyone knows the issues. “The situation in B.C. is urgent,’’ said Morris. The group didn’t list what they felt were the most important ‘issues or repressive policies. At least not during the press conference announcing their departure trom the office however, earlier in the day some people singled out the closure of the David Thomp- son University Centre and the redirection of federal education funding as blatant policy examples of poor planning. Students form SFU, UBC, Langara, Douglas, Kwant- len, Cariboo and University Hill High School attended the sit-in. At Douglas College we’ll have to wait and see what plans are being made. Vice president Bryan will be attending a meeting at UBC this Thursday where a per- manent organization will be set-up. AGM postponed again ‘The Students Society Annual General Meeting was post-poned three weeks’ lacking the necessary one by DAN HILBORN The group will be. ‘holding public classes down- hundred students to form the quarum. Student Society president Sean Balderstone was frus- trated in attempts to recruit the fifty-five remaining seats and after a fifteen minute delay succeded in obtaining only fifteen addi- tional students. It is questionable what caused the initial lack of support. The Other Press was said to have advertised the A.G.M.. at an improper time, a full half hour after the actual time of 12 o’clock p.m. The warm weather and lunch hour may have been contributing factors to the quantity of students absent. For those interested in attending this vital students function the next Students Society Annual” General Meeting is scheduled for March 29th at room 2201, 12 o'clock p.m. promptly. Cariboo imports students The Cariboo College board decided March 6 to import students from Hong Kong and to. charge them by Kevin Behnsen 1100 per cent higher fees than domestic students. Over 300 Hong Kong high school graduates have no hope of attending a home university because of in- tense competition and limited space, much the same as B.C.’s interior stu- dents. The visa students will be placed in segregated class- rooms, and charged 7,500 for a university transfer pro- gram including _ biology, computer science, Canadian economics, physics, calcu- lus, psychology and sociol- ogy. The students will also have to pay their own travel expenses to Canada, a 30 registration fee and higher textbook costs. The college will be bring- ing in students in groups of 20, with an expected profit of 50,000 per group.