A Brief Lookat DCSS Happenings

 

by Peter Malacame

The Douglas College
Student Society survived a
choppy Spring semester - and
did it with money in the bank.

Julian Smit,
Treasurer, announced at a
Representative Committee
Meeting July 8 that the
Spring/ 91 budget has been
distributed and a surplus

“The Spring semester
brought in $10,000.00 more in
revenues and spent $6,000.00
less than allocated, therefore
leaving a budget carryover of
$16,000.00.”

The Summer/91 budget is
not complete yet and will not be
complete until figures from the

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submitted.

In other DCSS news, some
transcriptions of minutes
previous will be changed.

The DCSS office has made
complaints about the “content
and appearance” of the minutes
for recent meetings, with the
minutes for the meeting of June
24/91 being singled out. The
minutes will be redone from
tape recordings made at that
time.

The Dewdney DCSS office
almost ceased to exist last
month.

Douglas College wanted the
DCSS’s only site in Maple Ridge
for office space, but after
inquires b
Vice-President Internal, the

the DCSS.

Kirk Ritchie and Mickey
McLaughlin were declared
honourary members of the
DCSS.

Ritchie was a member of the
DCSS for one year, and he was
involved in an anti-racism
campaign in Spring 1991 named
“Dance in My Shoes”. He is also
the authour of an acclaimed
report, “Education for First
Nations/ Aboriginal Persons.”

McLauglin had been a DCSS
Nursing Representative for two
years, later serving as Speaker of
the House. His efforts earned
him the title “the whip”.

Sascha DeVoretz tried her

Marleen Lehti, best, but failed to stop Douglas

Yup. You may have noticed there’s no news

Library Thefts Continue

 

by Alexandra Cordeiro

Douglas College Lib is
still having problems with theft
of personal belongings of the
students.

_ According to Corey Stuart,
staff supervisor in the Library, 4
or 5 complaints are recieved
every week.

"Everyday I get a
complaint", said Stuart.

Stuart also believes that it
may be organized with one or
two people who are not Douglas
College students.

The stealing of parcels,
mostly bags, occur when
students go to the bathroom or
book racks. Last spring two bags
that were stolen were found
near the college with the money
missing. The library plans to put
upa new sign warning about the
stealing to replace the previous

 

one that was stolen last
semester.

“During (library)
orientation, we tell students that
they can leave there stuff here
(behind the library desk)," said
Jean Cockburn, library staff.

Fadi Baydoun of Physical
Plant denies that anything has
been reported stolen in the last
three semesters. But the library
fill out reports only when
something of theirs gets stolen,
not students’.

“When it’s students, we
don’t fill out reports," says
Virginia Chisholm Head
Librarian.

Cockburn said she walked a
student to security because she
was so upset about having her
bag missing.

If your belongings are
stolen, call Security at local
5405.

 

"Life is completely, utterly fucked because of the war."
- Tim Crumley, Production Coordinator

 

Volume 14, Number 17

Other Press Leaves Hovel,
Has Lebensraum

 

by Norman Gludovatz

The Other Press, your
friendly neighbourhood
student newspaper, has moved

 

_ toanew office in our wonderful

and expensive college.

The staff of the paper
moved into their new space on
July 30, at Room 1020, formerly
the Macintosh and IBM
computer lab.

Tim Crumley, Office
Coordinator for the Other Press,
was pleased about the move.

“We're finally out of that old

College from instituting the 17%
tuition fee hike.

On July 18, DeVoretz, DCSS -

President, presented an 8-page
brief to the Douglas College
Board of Directors, who were
meeting to, among other things,
ratify the increase. Also in
attendance were  Lehti,
Vice-President External Richard
Marion, and Provincial Chair of
the Canadian Federation of
Students, Brad Lavigne.

The motion to increase fees
passed easily.

The next Student Union
Building committee meeting is
to be on August 7 or 8 at 5:00pm.
Committee chair Ralph Jahn is
asking interested people to
attend. For more information,
go the DCSS office.

   
   
    
   
   
  
   
   
   
   
 
  
   
  
   
   
   
  
   
 
 
  
   
 

August 9, 1991

pace,” he said, “and it’s a ga
thing, too. There were a lot
things that we couldn’t
because of the size of that of
We had no darkroom, no spa
We had things we needed
boxes for a year because of q
last move.”

The Other Press was mo
into a temporary space in
summer of 1990, as the a
containing their old office
turned into a_ series
classrooms and lecture theatr

The staff hopes to hav¢
fully functioning off
(including ‘darkroom)
September.

The computer lab moved
1231.

The Other Press invites a
and all people to the office fo
look around, a talk, and
knows what else. Come
during normal office hours, a
say hi — we're interested
seeing you.*

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