Monday October 23,1989 Other Press ; The Strike in Black &White by Tamara Gorin Douglas College Faculty As- sociation has served the College Administration notice of their in- tent to strike November 6th. Here is a brief list of their most important demands and the Administration’s point of view on each one. Contract Faculty: The As- sociation warits Tanguage put into the contract which would ensure some job security. As fifty percent of Douglas College faculty are con- sidered "contract faculty," this is a major point for the Association. The College Administration will not change their stance on this Their point is that they matter. worked to get the language in the agreement as it is now last year, and they are "unwilling to give into’ concessions which would put them right back where they started." Salary Increases: On this, the faculty’s position is clear: their buying power has decreased 17% since 1982, they make less than every other college in Greater Van- couver, as well as making less than of New Westminster public school teachers. They feel that their demand for 12% over one year is reasonable, especially considering the possibility of the Goods and Services Tax coming into effect. The Administration has tabled a proposition of 21.75% over the next three years. With Malaspina Ross Cameron, Chief Negotiator for the Administration. Woman Expelled Due to Pregnancy 05/10/89 SEXISM: SINGLE MOTHER SUES OVER EXPUL- _ SION (Source: College Press Ser- vice) (CUP/CPS) A former Baylor University student has sued the university, claiming she was forced to leave school in 1987 because she was pregnant and single. The Dallas Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit on behalf of Dawn L. Bonner. The suit says campus Officials didn’t tell her about an "unwritten policy” that requires unmarried, pregnant students to leave the Southern Baptist school. Baylor officials deny the charges, and say she was warned that their students must act in accordance with Baptist values. "Few Baptists would con- done sex outside marriage," said Eugene Baker, executive as- sistant to Baylor President Herbert Reynolds. The suit also calls the policy discriminatory because no male has been expelled for making a woman pregnant outside of marriage. "In the event the man was a & Technology OCTOBER 2-2 — College faculty in Nanaimo com- ing out of arbitration with basically the same offer, Administration believes the faculty are being un- realistic to expect more. rkl An ever-in- creasing number of students has driven workloads of. faculty in all areas of the college steadily up- wards. They have responded to the idea that they cut back on the num- ber of assignments and the nature of classroom related work with an adamant no, citing student expecta- tions of a quality education as the main reason for this. They want a convenor within each discipline, contact hours reduced, class size limited to that specified in the course outline, and contract lan- guage about weekend work. The faculty reject any committee proposals as this has not worked in the past. A committee to. look into the faculty workload situation is an op- tion that the Administration is seriously looking into. It would en- compass every area of the College, and because of this, take quite some time. Co-ordinators would replace convenors. Sexual/Personal Harassment Policy: The facul- ty wants the entirety of Article 1.10 in their tabled proposal for the col- lective agreement included in any contract with the Administration. The Article outlines procedures in dealing with. possible harassment situations with ‘a member of faculty and/or administration, as well as defining what exactly harassment involves. Seeing no clear standards for a personal harassment policy, the Adminstration was not prepared to accept personal harassment lan- guage, but has put forward sexual harassment language that is both definition and has provisions in it driven by the B.C. Human Rights Act. Two Votes- One Man 01/10/89 STUDENT POLITICS: VOTE ONCE, VOTE OFTEN IN UBC POLL (Source: Ubyssey) VANCOUVER (CUP) -- At least one student managed to get more than their say in a recent University of British Columbia referendum. While voting at one poll sta- tion, the student noticed that the poll clerk did not check off the back his student card to show he had voted. The clerk also did not ask the student to sign the register. Asked if he was supposed to scratch off one of the blue squares on the back of the card, the poll clerk (who did not want to be iden- tified) gave a shrug. He said, "We’re not really told how to do anything." He later expressed concern that the system could potentially be manipulated by poll clerks. "No Adrienne Peacock, DCFA Vice-President UBC Council Gets Nasty VANCOUVER (CUP) -- A council-imposed campus media black- out was partially lifted last week to permit “neutral” coverage of a University of British Columbia student referendum. UBC student council’s elections committee had ordered The- Ubyssey and radio station CiTR not to print anything about a referendum on students paying for a proposed athletics centre. The order included a demand that elections officials be permitted to censor anything related to the referendum before it went to press. But the committee agreed to permit "neutral" reports in both the paper and on the radio. Many student leaders said the move was and infringement on the rights of both the press and students to express opinion. Iain Hiscoe a member of the Ubyseey’s publication board said the board was "scandalized" by the ban. "I’m especially upset students cannot get their letters printed. I think this contravenes an individual’s right to speak." "It certainly brings to light that there is a problem that you are funded by people who are often written about. The lack of independence seems to be a problem,” he said. Earlier, elections commissioner Angela Pontikis had said council by-laws required her to censor all campus news coverage during the week of the referendum. "This isn’t censorship, it’s just protecting students,” Pontikis said, adding that improper media coverage could invalidate the referendum. CiTR president Lane Dunlop said a total ban on publication would be just as harmful to the referendum by reducing voter turnout. "T think it’s the duty of CiTR and The Ubyssey to get the information ut,” he said He said he wasn’t satisfied with the agreement reached at last night’s meeting, because the issue of the autonomy of the news coverage on campus was not addressed. "It’s a real threat to have the people written about in the news in- charge of the funding," he said. Doing the Economic | Shuffle! Economic students at Simon Fraser University are mad, but not mad enough to complain. In an effort to cap the number of students enrolled in economics the ecnomics department has introduced requirments for acceptance. The new requirments were to affect students who aplied for admission to the ecnomics department after August 1. Because of the large glut of aplica- tions recieved in July from woried students the department held all aplications until after the August 1 deadline. "It’s not fair," an anonomous student said,"the real deadline was in July." The number of student who did not get accepted into the department is unknow and at press time none of thoses afected have spoken either to the S.F.U. ombudsman or The Peak.