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Volume 17 Number 17

 
     

July 9, 1993 FREE

 

Irritating the #*$@ out of students from New Westmonster, Maple Syrup, Codependance, and Planet Borg.

Douglas College Announces New Campus

New Pinetree Way Campus
for Coquitlam now in the works

By Niki King-Jocks

It's official - thy ~ew campus is
coming!  ~

On June 16 °
Board passed a» on to accept the
provincialgover: __.t's proposed budget
to build the new Pinetree Way Campus.
The new campus will be located in
Coquitlam, ‘and the Advanced Education
Ministry has committed over $34 million
to go towards building the new school.

The motion came about after much
hard work and negotiations on the part of
several members of the Board of Directors
of Douglas College including James Doerr,
Dean of Community Programs and Services
and Peter Greenwood, College Bursar.

The original budget proposed by
Douglas College was turned down, but
aftera 16%reductionin size of the proposed
complex, a new budget was accepted by
the Ministry. Dispite the reduction in size

ouglas College

the actual budget only went down 0.9%.

The new budget allows for the
spending of approximately $1400 per
square metre towards the building costs,
up from the previous $1200 per square
metre in the original proposal. Theaverage
high school in B.C. is funded at only
$1385 per square metre.

Although the new budget has
provided for the planning and construction
of the building itself, funds have yet to be
found for the construction of parking and
recreation facilities. There are, however,
some hints on the horizon that $1,000,000
may be coming to go towards funding the
recreation facilities.

Both Bursar Peter Greenwood and
Director of Physical Plant Terry Leonard
have met with the Coquitlam School Board
to discuss the possibilities ofadvancing the
construction schedule of the new high
school that will be built opposite the
college site. Some feel that the educational

link that this will provide will be beneficial
to the community.

The new campus will allow students
that already attend Douglas College and
live in the Coquitlam area to attend school
closer to home. It will also allow potential
students that live in the area easier access
and give people who can’t commute a
chance to go to college.

Committees will be formed to aid in
the planning and construction of the site.
A Program and Service Development
committee will be headed by the Dean of

Human Resources to look at the.

development of the programs that will be
available at the new campus.

There will also be a Project
Construction Committee which will look
at various things that should be involved in
theplanning of thenew complex, including
reflecting the needs of minorities and
provision for people with physical
disabilities.. The committee will be
composed of members of the Board of
Douglas College, faculty, students, and the
president of the College, William Day,
will be involved out of interest only.

The college is currently in the process
of placing ads and hiring project managers,

  
  
   
   
   
    
  
    
  
   
   
   
  
  
    
   
    
        

 

This is Tom Perry, Minister of Advanced Education. He gets a// the credit for
everyone else’s work on the budget for the new campus.

space programmers, andarchitectstomake so the decision on who gets to draw th
the building a beautiful place to be. pictures will bea tough one. This numbe
Originally, there were 22 different will be narrowed down to five and th
architectural firmsinterestedin the project winner will be chosen from one of these

    

 

    

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