OE Oo 1 pre Fe pe SOE SEER Te YT RE ENS ee IP FT TTS AE WNIT NET + = ia et di hh ate le ec ae Volume 11 number 3 October 16,1981 by Ian Hunter Douglas College could run into severe financial diffi- culty next year if it is forced to live up to its own recom- mendations, now being pre- pared by the college admini- stration. These recommandations are of what courses will be droppedand what services will be withdrawn if there is no increase to meet in- flation.‘It is an extreamly difficult situation,’ says Bill by Ian Hunter Kim Manning, last year’s Vice president external and winner of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for DCSS,; became an honorary member of the Student Society at the last council meeting, ‘Kim worked wholeheart- edly for the students, said Day Douglas College Presi- dent. ‘The direct impact will be on programs not on budget,’ he said ‘They are asking us to give, in a pr- ority ranking, what we would drop Ist, 2nd,3rd, etc. given absolute dollars.’ Day feels sure that the intent of the ministry is to use the information in order to make'a case against education cutbacks. ‘The ministry of education would say to the ministry of finance, ‘look, this is what DCSS president Kevin Hall- gate, ‘he was a major influence to the council last year.‘ «Manning, who is. mosily known for his work in found - ing and organizing Douglas Colleges young socialist club, said last Thursday, ‘Its a sutprise and an honour ...I'm really proud.’ Ex Student Society hack Kim Manning Basks in nis moment of glory (good going Kim). will happen if you don’t give them the money.”’ Day is worried that they may in turn use that inform- tion against them. ‘The minister might say ‘all of the colleges would drop all of the, say, university tran- sfer programs therefore university transfer programs are unnecessary and a waste of money so Colleges should get out of the university transfer business,’ says Day of what the ministry might Manning Manages Membership . The Thursday night discus- sion club was another one of Mannings major contribu- tions to the intellectual life of D.C. this years council to become involved in student issues. . The effects (of educational cutbacks) are being felt right now’, he said, ‘and it is going to get worse.’ . Manning said he felt very positive about this years council and said ‘the vice president (Seana Hamilton) has a lot of energy.’ Also receiving honorary membership in the Douglas College Student Society is Jerry Della Mattia, Dean of Student Services. Della Mattia said ‘I hope I can cross the line between faculty and students.’Della Mattia is also working on improving sports at Doug- las . ‘We are going for a joint effort on intermurals with the college and student society putting resources behind it.’ Commenting on the new campus Della Mattia said it will have’ a ‘gorgeous physical plant,’ and that ‘regardless of budget cut- backs, I can hold back money for other than the ‘jock’ activities’. . Referring to the tendancy of the college supporting only team sports,he said ‘there has not been much money for the less athletic types of recreation.’ Douglas facing hard choices say when they get the infor- mation they want. Another concern is of mor- ale within the college. Staff and students would know that they’re jobs and courses would be on the line. Day says that the exercise ‘must not: place the exis- tance of Douglas College as a community college in je- opordy.’ The severity of the impact on students is still not clear but,with a possible 20 per- cent cut to the budget, the effect is not hard to imagine Kevin Hallgate ,DCSS pre- sident is apposed to giving this type of information to the ministry, feeling that it is a direct threat to stu- dents.The DCSS council is also circulating a petition calling for increased college funding. 5 Students United by Ian Hunter A unanimous decision to- become prospective memb- ers of the Canadian Feder- ation of Students was given by Douglas Colleges’ stu- dent council at last Thurs- days multi campus council meeting. The decision was made just in time to send two delegat- es (May-Liz Vahi and Kevin Hallgate) to the founding conference of the CFS being held in Ottawa this week. ‘It is the duty of this council to give the students the opportunity to join CFS.’ said Hallgate. The CSF is replacing the British Columbia Federation of Studentsas a single voice for students in Canada. In the past BCSF and other ‘provincial student organiza- tions across Canada and the National Union of Students have been working separatly in their efforts to stop cutbacks. ‘BCSF and NUS are going to be gradually phased out,’ said Jean Kirk, BCSF representative at the meet- ing. A sad Day for Douglas College and rest of colleges. Day said that, ‘there is un- animity among the college principles that we are at the end of our limits with budjet constraints: “ We are in the process of founding CSF.Nine colleges and universities are full members and we have another $1 prospective members (including Doug- las and Kwantlen),’ said Kirk. ‘Along with thenew or- ganization will be be a fee increase of $3.55 per stu- dent per semester. Kirk says fee increase is for more staff and increased services. Kirk cited several concerns that has led to the need for the CFS. The federal government now funds 60 percent of the education in this province. Finance Minister Allan MacEachen wants to reduce that to half. : ‘Between now and 1990 the federal government plans to} cut 11 billiondollars fro the education grants to the provinces with 1.5 billio dollers being deducted this) year.’ Continued on page &.... ) |