January 18th 1983 © The Other Press

 

 

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Term Paper |

It’s difficult to appreciate
our new campus facilities
when one finds oneself in a
washroom with no toilet pa

or Paper towels two days dur-
ing the first week of classes
this semester. os

The washroom of which I
‘Speak is the ‘ladies’ room out- -
side the main cafeteria.

What would
Mr. VanderZalm have to say

about this, one is led to won- |

der? Our lumber mills lie pan-

ood ?

Dear Editor:

With the brand new food
facilities that are available

here at our brand new cam-
~ pus, would it be to much to ask
‘or something other than the
same old, barely edible ham-
burgers. I mean just to look at
them is enough to turn you off
food for life.

While I don’t expect French
gourmet, neither do I except
Canadian gross. Since I.C.L.
has a monopoly on food ser-
vice here, why are they perm-
itted to sell such poor quality
hambugers? A simple phone
call to one of the best burger
joints in town will tell you that
they sell burgers for $0.40 less
than I.C.L. So what is happ-
ening here?
_ Friends of mine have com-
mented that the burgers are
‘‘disgustingly gross’’ and that
they ‘‘taste like bile.’’ I think
that we as students have the
right to decent food. We are
not mindless clones who will
eat anything that is put in fr-
ont of us. I say revolt now and
let’s get some quality food.
JOHN STEEL

ting for pulp and paper sales, :
like thirsty giants, yet the new :
Douglas College campus can:
not see its way to providing us :
with these minimally expen-
sive paper products.

Is this the wave of the fu-
ture? Must we petition the col- :
ege even for toilet paper?

They’re taking away our

us clean our asses?
Emily Post

 

I lama part time, married

: student and I support removal
: of the married/unmarried cl-

> ause in the grant applications
: for the following reasons:

: Tam going to school against |
: my husbands wishes. | have to’
: negotiate for funds every sem-

ester to continue. I puts an
undo strain on my marriage,
which puts an undo strain on

my ability to do well in school.

Therefore I only go part time.
He resents my taking time a-
way from him to study so I can
only take classes and do ass-

ignments from 8 to 4. Being
married (for a women) is at

: least a part time job, whether
: there are children or not. In
: the amount of time available

to me for my own use, there is

: no time left to work to get
: funds for my own education,

classes. Will they at least let : and if I did work, the funds

would go directly into a pool,
from which I might not get
funds for education, suppos-

ing there was time after work..

As it is, my grades are fine
and I’m reasonably sure that if
I had financial help, I'd be
able to finish with the same
grades in four years instead of
eight. I wouldn’t be pressing
my husband for money and I
could relax about that and just
concentrate on doing well in
preparing for my own career.
Susan Knox

 

 

 

FINANCIAL AID SUCKS MONS

Students who have enrolled
at Douglas College in the ’82-
83 academic year have been
faced with an endless number
of problems and an equal nu-
mber of bureaucratic excuses
for these problems.

The financial aid office cer-
tainly seems to have its fair
share of both.

I am an independant stu-
dent living away from home. I
meet the requirements put fo-
rward by the Student Assist-
ance Program and the money I
was to receive from it was to,
play a key factor in supplimen-
ting resources saved from my
previous job.

But my interactions with fi-
nancial aid have been, to: say
the least, frustrating. I did not
receive the initial assesment
of my application for over 5
weeks. Kwantlen Financial aid
said that application turnover
within their office adverages
three weeks at peak periods.

Maybe I was on the wrong
‘end of the adverage, but fur--
ther problems with my applic-
ation lead me to believe that
financial aid is not operating
efficiently.

When I finally received my
award assesment from finan-
cial aid I found that it was
several hundred dollars less

than I applied for. Their

was no explanation even thou-
gh awards wich vary more
than $200 from the initial re-
quest are supposed to be just-
ified.

A financial aid officer ex-
plained that I had been docked
close to $1000, because they
did not agree with the estim-:
ated value of my car. I was
told I would have to have it
appraised at a couple of car
dealerships. Catch-22: I could-
n’t afford to move my car until
I received my award!

My award was‘lost’, God
knows where.

Now that I have received my

 

a ‘Instead of 2% hours. only 1
hour. Way to go guys!”’
Change guy
-
~ grant
applications
sae : Dear Glen Nazaruk,
: Re: Canadian Federation of
: students.

 

Doug Andrews:

“It went pretty good, a lot
faster. I’m taking 5 classes. I
got all of them and made it
through registration in about
40 minitues.

 

 

®
Sharon Cordingley’;
“For me registration was re-
ally organized.”’

 

award and had my car apprais-
ed, and filled out another bud-
jet etc. ect. I have been told
by financial aid that applicat-
ions handed in this semester
have not yet begun to be proc-
essed and that I will have to
wait 3 weeks for word on my
reassesment. i

I have substantiated my in-
itial request. Student aid ch-
ose not to believe my applicat-
ion. Student aid was wrong,
and I think student aid should
get my reassesment through
now so that I can be sure I will

nave enough money to finish

this academic year.
Sean Valentini