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Last Thursday’s lobby day by the BCSF in Victoria
was unfair towards colleges.

Education minister Brian Smith was left out of the
question period arranged by BCSF chairman John
Doherty because a small number of immature students
from two of our province’s universities insisted on
badgering Pat McGeer without allowing the college
students the opportunity to talk to Smith.

This small handful of students persisted in acting out
of order and talking out to McGeer in such a manner
that even McGeer couldn’t have made the session
worthwhile even if he tried, and Brian Smith spent the
entire time sitting in a corner feeling quite pleased that
he wasn’t given the opportunity to field any of the
questions.

Besides the immaturity these university students
showed, their actions were also quite callous towards
their fellow post-secondary students.

The problem could have been resolved if the
university and college students had lobbied on separate
days but then obviously the BCSF was hoping that the
mass lobby would have been more of a show of strength
rather than a display of disparity.

Of course the problem could have again been
resolved had the Social Credit government never even
divided the old ministry of education into two separate
parts.

By dividing the ministry up in this manner the
government quite effectively lowered the strength oi
the students and in doing so it allowed the few
university students to ruin what could have been an
extremely successful venture.

 

If there ever was a time for pessimism, now is the
time. i
The average honors graduate B.A. student graduates
from university only to find out that skilled tradesmen

make 15% more.
Inflation, our friend of the Seventies is not only

present it is a prevalent force across Canada.
Vancouver. may not have the highest inflation rate in
Canada, but that does not mean that it is inexpensive to
live here.

Canada’s once comfortable middle-class is definitely
feeling the crunch. In an effort to control inflation the
Liberal government has instituted floating interest
rates that change every Thursday. This policy
according to many economists is at best a short-term
solution that will not fight inflation in the future.

The students of this decade are going to feel the
crunch. It is not reassuring to know that when one
graduates he or she will have to fight to get a job. A job
should not be a privilege, it should be a right.

There is definitely something wrong here. A country
like Canada should be prosperous and growing. Instead
our economy is stagnant and our growth below that of
other industrial nations.

Students, theoretically, are the leaders and citizens
of tomorrow.

They just want the same opportunities as their
parents.

The right to a job and the right to a house is not
something that should be treated lightly.

 

 

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The Other Press March 17, 1980

 

And without those, who needs an education?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

along with the books.