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More Manitoban

Part two

by Michael Roberts

The student newspaper at
the University of Manitoba
was closed down by the stu-
dent council’last December.
The original staff is con-
EiTnvanGe its: etftoerts oto
produce a ‘’free-press’
newspaper. They are running
an ‘underground’ paper
called ‘the Toban Gazette.’

The UMSU council, repre-
senting what they saw as
the general student opinion
of the Manitoban, passed a
motion to shut-down the
paper "with well over a 2/3
majority vote after a four

 

hour debate." The staff was
allowed to print its final
issue after the UMSU execu-
tive gave its approval.

"During our last production night,"
said one former staff member, "the
printshop, which belongs to UMSU,
hired a guard to make sure we wouldn’t
vandalize the typesetting equipment.
The locks to our office were changed and
now no one is allowed in without the per-
mission of the UMSU."

The Manitoban Operations Commit-
tee has been replaced by a UMSU- con-
trolled Manitoban Publishing Board,
comprised of seven UMSU councillors,
the UMSU director of communications,
plus a non- voting Manitoban managing
editor, and the UMSU advertising
manager.

SFU Student Senate
Supports DKFA

by Laurie Long

The Douglas College Student Society
has been completely bypassed in what
has been said to be the most outstanding
effort ever made by individual students
in the history of Douglas College.

Due to a perceived lack of action from
the DCSS, this ad hoc group of students
acted on their own accord, drafting a
petition to express their opinion as stu-
dents on the issue of quality education.

Their position is a popular one; after
only one week in circulation, the petition
has received well over 1000 student sig-
natures.

This tremendously wide spread
response is reflective of the anxiety of the
students over not only the quality of
education versus cost cutting, but also
the absence of a public position from the
Student Society. The petition states...

We the undersigned request the Stu-
dent Society elected members to take a
leadership role with respect to assisting
students in supporting faculty. We feel

 

 

the Student Society should take a stand
for the following reasons:

1)We want instructors hired on the
basis of qualifications because we want a
quality education.

2)We have a common interest with
faculty to resist cutbacks to education
funding.

3)If a strike occurs, everyone will suf-
fer. However, student support now will
reduce the possibility of a strike and in
the event of a strike, student support
would shorten the duration.

Shane Pollack, Treasurer of the
Douglas College Student Society,
declined to comment on behalf of the stu-
dent society because "we are too
divided".

The Simon Fraser University Student
Society has taken a stance and has sent
the DKFA the following letter of sup-
port:

Dear Mr. Millis,
On behalf of the Simon Fraser Student

Society I would like to express our sup- |

The responsibilities of the publishing
board include receieving the yearly
budget, ratifying and reviewing
parameters for percentages of content
(news, editorial, etc.), reviewing matters
relating to advertising, and maintaining

all section editors, assistant managing
editors, and managing editors, as well as
setting a yearly publishing schedule.

The old Manitoban Operations Com-
mittee served as the publishing board for
the paper. It was comprised of three
UMSU councillors, including the direc-
tor of communications, and three mem-
bers at large.

The new MPB is flawed in Atkinson’s
view in that the managing editor doesn’t
have a vote.

"In effect, this (will) transform the

 

port for your efforts against the conces-
sions now being demanded of you in
contract negotiations with the Douglas
College administration. Of particular in-
terest to us in the dispute is the issue of
Faculty rights on hiring commitees.

as Douglas and Kwantlen as potential
sources of employment, fully recognize
the importance of faculty rights in the ad-
ministration and development of the
community college system. We also
recognize the dangerous precedent that
this concession would represent and the
further compromises it would lead to in
the areas of faculty and institutional
autonomy.

It is our sincere hope that the resolu-
tion of this dispute holds in your favour,
not only in its outcome, but also in terms
of its expediency. Should you require
any assistance or further support in your
dispute, please do not hesitate to contact
me.

Paul G. Mendes

External Relations

 

Simon Fraser Student Society

If the purpose of the DCSS is to repre-
sent the voice of the students of Douglas
College why is it that the students have
to goover the Society’s head to be heard?

 

Faculty Escalates Instruction Plus Campaign

At a meeting held January 28, 1988,
the Dougalas/Kwantlen Faculty As-
sociation (DKFA) voted unanimously in
favour of escalating their "Instruction
Plus Campaign". The campaign was im-
plemented on January 1! 1, in an attempt
to put pressure on the college and draw
attention to the issues in dispute between
faculty and management.

According to Dr. Len Millis, President
of the DKFA, major issues in dispute are
the college’s demands to hire part time
faculty on the basis of cost rather than
qualifications, reduction of faculty par-
ticipation in making decisions affecting
instruction, and salaries.

The Instruction Plus Campaign was

 

initiated as an alternative to takeng im-
mediate strike action. "Efforts will be
made to exert other forms of pressure on
the college, although a strike may still be
necessary. The Instruction Plus Cam-
paign is ddesigned to inform the students
and the commusity of the educational
implications of the issues in dispute. The
campaign will also give students a head
start if interuption of services does
occur”, said Millis.

Faculty voted 88% in favour of a strike
on December 14, 1987, and served notice
of intent to strike to the college on
January 3, 1988.

The Instruction Plus Campaign invol-
ves faculty offering additional assistance
to students and the community through
library tours and orientations, special

counselling sessions and other activities
designed to enhance instruction or
provide course and program information
to the students and the community.

The time for this extra work will come
from faculty postponing work on college
commitees. The campaign will include
delegations to School Boards and
Municipal Councils and distribution of
leaflets.

Escalation of the Instruction Plus
Campaign will include resignations from
some committees as well as a faculty or-
ganized Douglas College open house.

by Jeff Mekiel

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Manitoban into an UMSU council
organ. It (will) be purely a propaganda
sheet, not a student newspaper," she
said. "The managing editor (will) be
hired by and be responsible to the stu-
dent council, and not to the students,
who provide the money to run the
paper.”

UMSU’s Ted Kennedy says he
"..agree(s) with having a seven person
UMSU publishing board because I think
there needs to be more accountability
for the student’s dollars," said Kennedy,
who was also the chairperson of the
Manitoban Operations Committee.

The new managing editor is UMSU
appointed. He is responsible for main-
taining the proper conduct of the
newspaper within the guidelines estab-
lished by the MPB. Hiring and firing of
editors and managers lies directly in his
hands.

The new managing editor supports the
UMSU’s decision.

"Something had to be done," he said.
"I as a student and other people were
very embarrassed (by the Manitoban). I
believe a change was necessary.”

He said he had not been involved at
the Manitoban because he was "a little
intimidated" by the "cliquish" attitude at
the paper. He is determined to publish a
good paper, "as if this were the Winnipeg
Free Press."

“We'll gel as a unit and publish a
quality newspaper," he said.

Under the new structure the UMSU-
appointed managing editor hires the
other 14 paid Manitoban staff. Mignac-
ca, the new Manitoban editor, said he
had offered positions to some of the fired
editors, but was turned down.

"I got a call last night," former
Manitoban sports editor Brian Hunter
said. "I told them right off the bat that I
would never backstab the staff."

Atkinson is also opposed to the new
staff structure which "ties the managing
editor directly to their wishes. Freedom
of speech on campus through an open
forum would end."

[ack. Susie Strachan (CUP), James
Young (CUP), Eric Geringas (Varsity)]

 

 

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