THE MAD HATTER
A Douglas College Newsletter
published weekly during the spring
and fall semesters, bi-monthly in
the summer semester
by
Douglas College Technical
and Vocational Institute
P.O. Box 2503, New Westminster sB.G..
Editor: Judie "Steeves, Surrey campus
Telephone: 588 - -4411, loc. 283

 

Notice Board

Telephone Calls

a. To West Vancouver and North Vancouver
from Surrey Campus - please dial
7 + 9 + seven digit number, other-
wise it's considered a long
distance call and costs money.

b. ALL long distance calls from any
campus must be by College credit
card.

Method - dial operator, state:
"this is a credit card call" to
wherever. The operator will then
ask for your credit card number.

 

In March the following calls
were charged to Douglas College;
no charge was necessary if the
procedure in para (a) above

was followed.

North Van West Van
929-6174 921-8025
987-1355 921-8329
987-7131 922-1211
987-7229 926-2439
988-1323 926-3212
988-7301 926-3374
988-9312

Rick Reynolds

 

 

New Jersey College Seeks Faculty Exchange

The Director of the International
Studies Institute Division of Community
Services at Middlesex County College, Edison,
New Jersey, is interested in participating
in a faculty exchange programme with Douglas
College on a one semester basis.

Any faculty member interested should
contact Barry Leach, Chairman, International
Exchange Committee, as soon as possible,
phone: Coquitlam Campus 521-1911, loc. 691.

 

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“High on the list of prerequisites for New West-
minster’s imaginative City Centre Concept is a
downtown campus for Douglas College.

The idea is being pressed by the project
manager of the B.C. Development Corporation for
a couple of very practical reasons. It would tap
the buying power of 5,000 students and would go
along wayin establishing an identity for the down-
town core.

You might call it an audacious idea. But you

_ would not call it that for the reason that it rever-

ses the usual circumstance of a commercial cen-

tre being built up around an existing campus,

although it does that. You would call it audacious
because Douglas College is already firmly em-

‘barked on developing an already acquired site

that many would consider the most ideal the city

We are referring to the comparative

 

the west by the city’s largest park, private homes

"on the east and the wide-open space of the B.C.
: Penitentiary land on the south (with, incidentally,
_the demolition of the pen in sight).

In the face of all this, a proposed switch to a

downtown ‘site has been given daringly high

billing by the City Centre Concept promoter.

‘Much depends on this man’s performance in the

early critieal stages of selling the concept to
downtown property owners without whose
cooperation the concept is a dead issue. Why risk

_ the letdown of rm penny the college relocated

there?
Maybe that’s the way the game is played.

‘High stakes make for interesting watching.

.. Still, when you think of it, a downtown campus
in the city of New Westminster could be rather
spectacular. re host touted attraction of the
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