VANCOUVER [CUP]--The
B.C. Social Credit government
is calling for an average six
per cent cut in college funding
but at least one professor feels
that colleges in NDP ridings
will receive even less money.

Jim Howard, faculty as-
sociation president at Selkirk

‘College in the B.C. interior,

says schools in ridings that
snub the Social Credit party
will have to absorb a dispro-
portionate amount of the cut-
backs in funding.

Selkirk, the interior’s oldest
college, is agood example.

Howard says the school is
being ‘‘diluted to pieces’’ and
is bracing itself for a whop-

ping 10.4 per cent funding cut.
The cut will force the college
to fire 15 per cent of its faculty
and eliminate its second year

university transfer _ pro-
gramme. The college _pro-
gramme _ allows __financially-
strapped students in the in-

terior to study for two years at
a local institution, before mov-
ing on to a university on the
B.C. coast.

Three other institutions are
in the same position as Sel-
kirk. They are: Capilano Col-
lege, the Pacific Vocational
Institute and the B.C. Institute
of Technology. All of B.C.’s
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‘‘Major expenditures — re-
quire articulate consideration
and are the primary concern of
the Treasurer. If elected, |
foresee immediate feasibility
studies for a student union
building. If the study reveals
that it is possible for this
student body to lease a build-
ing, without any increase to
the student. levy presently in
existence, a large expenditure
could be in order if decided
upon by the students at a
General Meeting.

“Locker installation is not to
be a large expenditure be-
cause the College Admini-
stration has already agreed to
install lockers, at no cost to the
student society, by September
1985.

“Major expenditures may
also include more typewriters
in the library and possibly an-
other photo copier in the
activity room to reach the
present demand of students.’’

Okanagan, Kwantlen, Doug-
las, Langara, and Malaspina
lare suffering from prolonged
‘underfunding.

Howard says the Kootenays
region, where Selkirk is locat-
ed was dealt a ‘‘crushing
blow’’ last year with the

‘Closure of the David Thomp-

son University Centre in Nel-
son. He says the move was
politically motivated.

A coalition of educators has

begun to protest the govern-
ment’s policies and staged a
demonstration at the opening
: the B.C. legislature recent-
y.
‘‘What. we'd like to hear
from (education minister J ack)
Heinrich is why the govern-
ment wants fewer B.C. citi-
zens to have an opportunity
for an education. Since Ottawa
pays 75 per cent of all post-
secondary funding, surely

Toe the (Socred) line or else

there’s no sound financial
reason for cutting back,’’ says
Jack Finnbogasan, president
of the College - Institute Edu-
cators Association (CIEA).

The federal government will
increase transfer payments for
post-secondary education by
7.4 per cent this year, while
B.C. plans to cut colleges
funding by at least 6 per cent
and universities funding by 5
per cent.

D.C. to get playing field?

A new athletic field may
soon be on its way to Douglas
College thanks to Vancouver
entrepreneur Jim Pattison.

Recent negotiations on the
Fraser River waterfront by
Pattison involve five acres of
land previously committed to
Douglas College as an athletic
field. The city of New West-
minster will be negotiating
this week to exchange that
land for college use of city
parks.

Bill Day, college president,
said at the March 21 college
board meeting the city will
initially give Douglas College
use of the fields at Queens
Park during the week and
school property on weekends.

Eventually, the college will
be given access to Simcoe
Park directly across the street
from the New Westminster
campus, Day said.

Some board members were
leery of the suggestion to give
up the waterfront property
and a special board meeting
could be held later this week

     
   
       
       

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to settle the negotiations.
““Anytime someone’s in a
hurry to get you to sign some-
thing is the time you take a
walk around the block for a
breath of air,’’ said govern-
ment appointed board repre-

sentative Eric Hedlund.

A. proposed contract be-
tween Douglas College and
the city of New Westminster
should be passed through city
council on Monday or Tues-
day, Day said.

Douglas College trust fund
provides needed bursaries

Scholarships and bursaries
were awarded to nine of
Douglas College’s top stu-
dents at the March 21 college
board meeting.

Four students each collect-
ed $300 from money made
available through the Student
Trust Fund, and these went to
Micheline Blancard with a
3.84 GPA, Leda Hedge with a
4.0 GPA, Vicky Joe with a 4.0
GPA and Shemin Juman with
a 3.86 GPA.

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worth $250 apiece and they
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These went to Perry
Armitage, in the academic
program with a 4.0 GPA;
Anne Clarke, in a two year
career program with a 4.0
GPA; Heather Fleming, a part
time student with a 4.0 GPA;
Tracey Rapanos, in a career
program with a 178 GPA; and
Pam Parrish, another part
time student with a 3.75 GPA.

The college continues to
receive new scholarships from
groups and individuals in the
community thanks to the Stu-
dent Trust Fund, and $500,000
in seed money is hoped to be
raised by 1988.

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