activities for a four month term, however, it seems that they
have managed to rip off students of an entire month of the
services that they pay for with their student fees. Before
long the calender will read October and the society has yet
toestablish a budget and distribute needed monies to the
various campuses so that they can get on with what they
paid for.

One month is too long wait without any in put from the
student society. Does it take a whole month to decide where
the money is to go? More likely the society is having its
usual problems of disorganization, indecisiveness and lacl
of concern over students interests.

Last spring students enjoyed the opportunity to play
raquetball in Richmond. It is the responsibility of the
student society to see that such activities such as these are
initiated as early as possilble. The semester is not so long
that a month of dead time will not affect the student.
Possibly the proc edure dealing with the dispensing of funds
should be reviewed so that the money could be put into use
immediately.

The problems facing the-student society include the nature

_ of the student fee payment and lack of a full board of

representatives on the society. The fee payment probler
stems from the fact that many students late register and
therefore the student society does not know exactly how
much money they are working with. Also, the student
society does not elect all its members until quite late in the
semester, since campus representative elections are no
held until a few weeks into the semester in order to give
new students a chance to run for these positions. Still it
does not seem to be an impossible proposition that
student fees ‘be utilized more quickly. ’.

If the student society executives, who are holding positions
by the beginning of the term, could allocate a suitable
proportion of money to activities at the beginning of the
semester.This way activities could be immediately be
available and the student society could still decide where
the bulk of the funds go.

Hopefully the society will adopt this or some other system

to ensure that the students are getting a return on their

student fees throughout the term.

    

 

It seems that the famo us red brick house will provide a
service for the students of Douglas College after all. One
brickfrom theill fortuned building has beensaved and will
bepresentedtothememberoftheadministrationorfaculty
who is responsible for the biggest goof of the week. It
seemsverysuitablethatafragmentofthisstructureshould
beusedtosymbolize mistakes made bythecolleges probus
(professional bureaucrats ) since they were the ones who
had the house torn down after it had been earmarked for
useasastudentsociety building. Althoughthe award does
not exactly even things up, revenge is sweet, even a little
bit. Wehopeonlythattheadministratorshave the courage
tostandupandclaimtheirreward,foryousee,theyhaveto
stepforwardontheirownviolationandexplaintotheworld
how they screwed up. Who will be the first to face up to
their mistakes? Willit be some administrator, announcing
thatheaccidentally fired alltheteachers, orperhapsit will
be someone admitting that he threw a parapledgic student
out of the handicapped parking spot.

Let us imagine for just a second that the bosses ot this
educationalinstitutionare not soimcompetantthatthey are
notafraidtoadmitamistakeforfearofdrawing attentionto

themselves and their contin uous comedy of erreors.This
presentation could be bigger than the Academy Awards.
Wecould have formal pubnight every week, maybe at the
Hotel Vancouver or something. Just imagine the crowds it
would attract, and the copy it would make would be

On the other hand. this whole deal might turn into an E
internal investigations organization eith diligent graphics
students hiding in wastepaper baskets in order to catch a
quickshotofsomebumbling bureaucratmakinga boo-boo.
Teachers would wait at the end of each week, knees
knocking, teeth chattering, in paranoid anticipation of the
moment when the student investigating team awards the
brick, which is accomplished by loading it into a howitzer
and firing, it into the recipients nid-section.

Of course there is the third unfortunately most probable
‘result; noteachers or administrators will claim the award,
evenifthey had the guts to because nobody will have told
them about it. The students won’t know about the award

becausetheyaretoolethargictoeven read this paper; and
the student society will once again be unsuccessful in
promoting one of their ideas, as they are with all of them
that are not centered on booze; and the red brick will
probably end up onan Other Press desk, weighting paper
and opeming bottles.

The Other Press

Sept. 18, 1980

 

 

 

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