eee oe A eee SUT ES em RS I em ap \( Volume VIII 5 Issue X eran Te Pe rer rr Tt - §S President asked to resign Militant birds in Vancouver took control of unattended garbage can last Wednesday. Complete details of riot are on page six. UBC council condemns CRTC VANCOUVER [CUP]—The University of B.C. student council voted overwhelm- ingly March 12 to demand that the Canadian Radio, Television and Telecom- munications © Commission (CRTC) hold a hearing to investigate charges of racism levelled against the CTV network. The W5 program ‘‘The Campus Giveaway’’, aired on CTV last September, claimed one student in 10 in B.C. was a foreign student and persistently portrayed Chinese-Canadians as fo- reign students. But statistics compiled for the show say 4.4 per cent of B.C. students are foreign, a member of a UBC group protesting the show told the council. Phil Calvert of the UBC subcommittee of the ad hoc Chinese Benevolent As- sociation committee against \W5 also showed council a videotape of the program, stopping the tape several times to identify Canadians who were portrayed as foreign students. In every case the students were Chinese-Canadians. “There are 85 medical students studying on visa in Canada, not 400 as W5 claimed. Sixty-six per cent of those are American,’ Calvert told the council. W5 also said 10 to 30 per cent of a University of Toronto pharmacology class consisted of foreign students, yet U of T has no visa students in the class whatsoever, Calvert said. He added W5_ had claimed there are 100,000 foreign students in Canada, but a letter to CTV from the president of the Association of Universities and Col- leges of Canada stated that there were only 50,000 foreign students in 1979. Only 18,000 were at the post-secondary level, the letter stated. Meanwhile at Simon Fraser University, students there. have circulated a petition asking people to condemn the W5 program. The petition also asks that the CTV give equal television time to the Chinese Canadian com- munity to rectify ‘‘damages committed by the pro- gram’’ So far the petition has collected 70,000 signatures from across Canada. STOCKHOLM [CUP]— Pastor Kaarlo Toivio got a charge out of the holy water. Toivio was standing in a heated pool when = an assistant handed him a microphone. A noise like an explosion followed and the pastor collapsed, a church official said. Toivio died while being taken to a hospital. March 27, 1980 by Dan Hilborn Student society president Les Brett received a call for’ her resignation at last Monday’s multi-campus council meeting. Rod Bergman, Surrey campus chairman, called for Les’ resignation on constitutional grounds, specifically bylaws number 13.6, 11.3 and 5.1. Bylaw 13.6 states that “willful neglect, abusive- ness, or abrogation of this Constitution shall consti- tute one of the grounds for impeachment.’’ Bergmann stated that Brett had been neglecting by Pat Worthington Student council elections for Douglas College will be held April 15, 16 and 17. Positions open include student body president, vice-president internal, vice-president external, treasurer, New West chair- person, Coquitlam chair- person and last, but not least, Surrey chairperson. Nominations for the various positions close Tuesday, April 8 although candidates are allowed tc start campaigning April 1. her duties as president especially when. she was supposed to have helped him arrange a Las Vegas Night for the Surrey campus. Brett also abused her powers during the same incident when she lied to Bergmann about a college board member’s request about the same event. Last Thursday a special committee of inquiry met at the New Westminster campus to make a recom- mendation to the multi- campus council before the end of last week. Election, again.... All candidates meetings are scheduled for every campus in April. During the meetings the candi- dates express their views and answer questions from the audience. The all candidates’ meeting for New West will be in the cafeteria April 9 at 12 p.m.; at. Surrey, April 10, 12 p.m.; Richmond April 11, 2 p.m. and Coquitlam April 14, 12 p.m. Successful candidates will assume their offices October 25. Self-study on college completed by Rob Guzyk Students at Douglas College will be visited by members of an external committee that will be here to assess the strengths and weaknesses. of the college based, on a_ recently completed self-study _ re- port. The self-study report is the second one in the college’s history and is done every five years. According to Don McEa- chern, Director, Office of Institutional Analysis, the report is important for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the college and to serve as justification to the Minister of Educa- tion of the college’s existence: The 616 page report includes 751 recommenda- tions on how to improve the quality of education and aaa of education at Douglas College. The examining commit- tee will be interviewing as many people as_ possible involved with the report and will be talking to students as well. McEachern sees positive improvements for Douglas College as a result of the report. “| believe very strong- ly, report will have a direct impact on the education experience here,’’ McEa- chern said, and added students. would feel the effect of the report in the very near future. McEachern cited the feasibility of lockers on the New Westminster campus as one recommendation. DCSS treasurer Carolyn Steinson who sat on the self-study committee said the quality of education could improve as a result of cont'd on p. 2 coe