Other Press Womens’ Caucus Thursdays 10 - 2 All Women Welcome Ex-Douglas Employee Enters Quebec fin? 2 Naked Lunch - Burrough's Twisted MoV \K 7 4 Student Siress - How To Fight it Douglas College First NoationsAssembly Meeting February 6,4 pm Room 1811 douglas college’s autonomous student hewspaper - since 1976 ae Volume 15 Number 8 February 4, 1992 FREE DCSS Gets Student Building Started by Tim Crumley The first major impasse to the completion of the Douglas College Student Union Building has been breached. The Douglas College Student Society signedalegalagreementwith college administration to collect fees ‘ Richard Marion feels students got the best deal possible from administration for the building of the student centre last week, although the College had been collecting fees for the construc- tion of the structure since the spring semester of 1989. The Student Union Building was designed as a center for stu- dents, containing the DCSS offices, as wellasmeeting rooms,a womens’ Multiculturalism Week To Enrich College by Stephen So February 24 to 29 is Multiculturalism Week at Douglas College. Sponsored by the Work Study Program through the English asa Second Language Departmentat Douglas College, the week is pot pourri of festivities throughout the campus. There will be live dancers from B.C. Native communities, and troupes in the style of Brazil and Spain, the Eukrane, Croatia, Hun- gary, Italy, and more. There will be live theatre,film and panel discussion. It will be “an experience to enhance social aware- ness” said Klaus Michelsen, a co- ordinator of the Multicultural Festival. "Different cultural and so- cial organizations will be exposing their ideas and fostering an atmos- phere of analysis and participation.” Questions about racism, its sources and location in our commu- nity, and on this campus, will be given exposure through the art and through the discussions. One of the ways in which racism subtley effects our culture is through theabsence ofa multitude of voices in the mainstream arts com- munity. The Multicultural Festival is meant to bea solution to this chronic problem. Sounds like its going to be a lot of fun, with lots of art and new experiences. So get out and enjoy. STAFF PHOTO centre, a pub, and other areas. DCSS vice-president external Richard Marion was pleased with the signing of the agreement. “It's one of the momentus things that has happened to the DCSS,” he said. “Atleast the student fees are secure.... they [college ad- ministration] can’t hold them. “Now we've got a good agreement... it’s enforceable.” Because a legal agreement with the coilege was never signed, the money collected from student fees did not have to go towards the student buildi Under the new agreement, ground must be broken before Janu- ary 1, 1995, or the college has re- served the right to seize the fees and give them to the Douglas College Foundation, the registered charity of Douglas College, to be earmarked for scholarships and bursaries. This marks the first activity on the Student Union Building in two years, when the college first agreed to collect the fees for building construction. Marion said the major reason for thedelayinbuildingconstruction was the absence of an effective advi- sory committee. “The committee just sat there and did nothing,” Marion said. The committee stood vacant for 2 years. The next step towards com- pletion of the building is the signing of a land use agreement, which the DCSSis looking towards. Accordin to Marion, they are examining lan use agreements from other institu- tions and devising a strategy to present to administration. Marion is confident that the process should not take long. “The land use agreement won't take as long as the other con- tract,” he said. “It will be easy todo.” Banner Removal Upsets Douglas Group by Tim Crumley The Lesbian, Gay, and Bi- sexual Collective on campus is hop- ping mad over a banner that was taken down from the concourse over the weekend. The banner, advertising the Collective and giving a contact number for interested people, was hanging from the 4th floor balcony on Friday, but was missing Monday. Collectivespokesperson Nor- man Gludovatz was livid. “WhatIdliketoknowis why didn’t Security see it being taken down, and if they did, why didn’t they report it as being stolen?” he said. “What are they, inept?” Gludovatz said he talked to Pat Thomasson and Terry Leonard of Physical Plant, who both had no knowledge of its whereabouts and did not have the banner taken down. Last week, the banner was removed because of a mistake in communica- tion. A college employee who ° r= Z e ee Norman Gludovatz is very angry ~ wished not to be named said that the banner was taken down by Building Service Workers (BSW), who re- moved it because no banners are allowed on the 4th floor. But a quick examination re- veals that there are 2 banners on the 4th floor right now. Physical plant spokesperson Fadi Baydoun said that the BSW’s could not have taken the banner down. “No one can take anything down in this building unless it’s okayed by Pat or Terry,” he said. “Not the BSW’s, not you, not me, nobody.” Gludovatz thinks someone inside thecollege took down the ban- ner. “Ifit would have beenripped down, there would have been signs of it being taken down quickly.... the strings would have been there,” he said. “There’s no strings there.” “If it was taken down prop- erly, that would have takena couple of minutes. And there would have been a rattling sound.” “If they [security] can’t hear that, then maybe they wouldn’t hear other things, likesounds of distress.” Authour MacLeod Spending Time At DC by Philp Dobrikin Author Alistair MacLeod will be at Douglas College as a writer in residence this week. He is considered to be one of thebestfictionauthorsinCanada and will be doing a series of work- shops, readings, and lectures. The highlight of the week will bea reading on Thursday Feb- Tuary 6, atnooninroom 3406. Some of his other events include: Tues 10am,room 3406: Talk. Wed 10am, room 3406: Ca- nadian literature talk He will also have open of- fice hours Thursday 3 to5 and Friday 10to12 and 3to5 p.m. No appointment necessary.