The Douglas College tudent Society wants to a _ financial worth = over 10,000 with the Other blications Society, pub- shing parent of the Other ess. “It’s going to cost us 10,700 over five years,” aid DCSS Treasurer hris Lirette. Passed at a _ Special eneral meeting of the tudent society last spr- g, the motion called for e DCSS to assume the Polling clerks Mills and Balasubramanian, resident and candidate interfered in by-election. } say interest payments on an existing OPS loan agree- ment with a_ type-setting manufacturer. The OPS has proposed that the student society place money equivalent to the interest portion of the loan agreement in a trust account to be administe- red by the two society’s mutual accountants. Yearly cheques would be drawn on the account with accrued interest going back to the DCSS. Lirette called the whole “., Mike The Chief Returning Offi- cer and two polling clerks . have accused student society President Scott Nelson and __ university transfer representative Bouchard with irregularities in the Oct. 8th by-election. But Nelson and Bouchard deny the allega- tions and dismiss the claims of a returning offi- cer who, they say, did not know what he was doing. CRO Andrew’ Gut- teridge said that his pol- ling clerks overheard both Nelson and Bouchard tel- ling people to vote for ICSS questions OPS debt agreement ~- “unfavourable to the student society” because of the 18% in- terest rate of the manufac- turer-financed loan agreement. He added that the DCSS would like the Other Pub- lications Society to consi- der re-financing at a lower rate or a direct loan to the OPS. “We’re looking at several proposals,” Lirette said. However, OPS _ rep- resentative John McDon- ald urged the DCSS Senate at their Oct. 20th meeting, to accept the OPS proposal _— without refinancing. He said that interest from the proposed trust account would offset the $10,700 cost and that they would be willing to release the DCSS from the agreement if marketing of the high- tech _typesetter proved successful. “We're looking ahead to future student society and newspaper govern- ments,” said McDonald. “They'll have enough headaches without hav- ing to renegotiate a loan every year.” Bouchard. But when Gut- teridge acted on the report by pulling Bouchard’s ballot out of the running, he claims he was _ badge- red and_ threatened by Nelson and Bouchard to reconsider the move. “I was called into (Nel- son’s) office and told that I was wrong and that I had no right to pull one candi- dates ballot in the middle of the election,” said Gut- teridge, who claims that Bouchard stood over him and “screamed obsceni- ties” at him. Bouchard, who admits “talking in a loud voice” when arguing with the CRO, claims that he wasn’t even in the college when the alleged irregu- larities took place. “First he said it hap- pened at 10:00 am, then 11:00, and then it was after lection interference charged twelve,” Bouchard said. “T wasn’t even in the college until 12:20 pm and I’ve got a parking receipt to prove it.” But polling clerks David Mills and Tony Balasubra- manian insist they heard, Nelson and Bouchard tel- ling people who to vote for. “Mr. Bouchard was bantering with voters about fifteen feet from the polling station,” said Mills who said he couldn’t re- member exact con- versations but that references to “voting for Bouchard” were made. Balasubramanian said that he heard Nelson tell several people in_ the vicinity of an athletics so- See election interference Page 2 Byutoa ay Cash Counted what to do with the fund. “We'll decide that at a It’s payday for Douglas College Sider! Society as three 90-day term deposits mature within a two-week period. The $80,000 in term deposits, held with three different commercial banks, are expected to yield over $5,500 interest. DCSS_ Treasurer Chris Lirette said that $58,300 of the - anticpated $85,000 was to be put into a rec-. ently established capital expenditure fund. He says the — student society hasn’t decided general meeting of the students,” said Lirette, “either annual or special.” With a deficit 86-87 budget forecast, Lirette said the remainder of DCSS money would be invested in treasury bills, except for the society operating account curr- ently at “about twenty- thousand.” Lirette blamed drop- ping enrolments for full- time students as the rea- son for a $10,000 drop in activity fees revenue. CFS still useless highly-praised Task pies on Student Aid, sponsored by the Canadian’ Federation of Students, still can’t con- vince student society President Scott Nelson that the national student lobby __ organization is worth the money. Speakers at the task force included represen- tatives from the B.C. Fed- eration of Labour, provin- cial Liberal leader Art Lee, New Democrat Anita Hagen and Socred John Parks as well as Douglas College President Bill Day and speakers from a number of other organi- zations. But Nelson said that he still thinks CFS is “incompetent.” “We only heard from them twice the whole time the Task Force was being organized,” says Nelson. “Once when we came up with the idea and the day of the meeting itself.” Nelson says that lack of communication is the root problem: with CFS. “We never hear from them. un- less they want money,” he said. A campus wide referendum will be held on March 10, 1986, to de- cide whether the DCSS should stay in the student organization.