INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / AUGUST 7, 1990 Increased enrollment leads to campus expansion: New Westminster site ake a good look at Douglas College, because it’s chang- ing fast. Construction has begun on phases two and three of the expan- sion plans. Over the next few months, the sound of walls being torn down will become familiar as major additions to certain parts of the building take shape. Douglas College Bursar Peter Greenwood says that phase two of the expansion is an addition to the Stagecraft area at the northwest corner of the campus. "It’s being done by ProCan Construction at a cost of $650 thousand dollars, and it’s slated for completion at the end of Oc- tober," says Greenwood. The Stagecraft program will be using space at the old Trans Canada Glass building adjacent to the College during construction this fall, but most of their activities will still take place on campus. Meanwhile, renovation work is also beginning on the south side of the College on the lower level (phase three). That space was oc- cupied by the Musical Instrument Construction program, which has moved temporarily to New Westminster Senior Secondary School, and the Other Press, which has relocated temporarily to the gymnasium equipment room. "We've had to shift some storage spaces and we're using space in the Gough Electric build- ing next door," says Greenwood. “We also had to vacate six class- rooms, so we're arranging for some classroom space at New West Senior Secondary in Septem- ber. We're trying to accommodate as much on-site as we can." Greenwood says the Douglas College Boardroom, the third-floor staff lounge, and the library orien- tation room will all be used for classroom space when required. The total price tag for phase three is $3 million. H & K Con- struction Ltd. is handling the job. The additions will help the College cope with the increased demand for post-secondary educa- tion and overcrowding problems, says Greenwood. Our building construction is catching up to our enrollment growth, says Peter Greenwood, Douglas College Bursar. "It will enable us to remedy some of the significant space shortage problems of the last two or three years," he says. "It’s not anticipated that the new space will result in large FTE (full-time enroll- ment) numbers. That increase has already happened, and our build- ing construction is catching up to our enrolment growth." The most pressing needs are for seminar rooms, additional com- munication and computer labs, and large seating classrooms. Greenwood says the expan- sion will make Douglas College more flexible in meeting com- munity needs. The new sliding partition classrooms, he says, are large enough to handle groups that are currently using the Per- forming Arts Theatre. The addi- tional space will free up the Theatre for other uses. "We'll be able to accommodate the needs of the community better and more efficiently," he says. Plans for phase four expan- sion could see the area off the Theatre Foyer developed to con- tain classroom and conference room space. Construction could start as early as January, 1991. @ Missing purse found in locker room ceiling One night in 1985, during a basketball game, a thief broke into Betty Lou Hayes’ office and grabbed her handbag. Who would have guessed that the handbag would turn up five years later? Last week, construction began on Douglas College’s ex- pansion and electrical workers stumbled onto a women’s purse. The missing handbag was discovered in the ceiling above the women’s shower room, leading investigators to con- clude that the perpetrator made a clean getaway. "It’s funny now, but it wasn’t funny back then,” says Hayes, who is Manager of Ath- letics and Intramurals. "The purse had my whole life in it. I was very upset." A check of the contents revealed that nothing was taken except sixty dollars in cash. "My wallet, credit cards, my nice silver pen, everything was in there except the money,” says Hayes. "I had all these lottery tickets too, but they’re no good now, so I’m not going to check them. What if [had won?" @