the other press _ March 7, fom Lek nae ss ‘ editoria by Grant Dahling After spending the past few days sifting through the memorabilia of the SGM (Special General Meeting), you know, the one held on Feb. 25, 1977 on New Westminster Campus, it appears that in the haste to enshrine a “‘new’’ and ‘‘better’’ constitution a number of points were missed and errors made. The constitution gives the general appearance of being cut out of other constitutions, thrown together in a patch work effort, with little thought or hind sight of the past experiences with the old constitution. The lay out is not arranged to allow the reader accessibility to find all points concerning a section in that section or references tend to miss the correct reference or refer to parts that don’t éxist--you think this sounds confusing, just try to piece together parts of section 11 and 12 of the by-laws. The need for a catalogued index of this constitution is obviously required even if it was more orderly. The need for a review by the Student Society's lawyer is evident if the Student Council wishes to avoid the fiasco last fall over the ammendments to the constitution. In the forefront is the idea of Campus Councils directing their two votes on issues-and motions (as is the present constitutional procedure with the one vote of a Campus Chairperson), most decisions coming before the Student Council require immediate attention and change during the course of discussion so that proposals are amended: in such a way that they weren’t as they once were. Does this mean that as these motions are changed they are referred back to each Campus Council to be discussed, changed and again brought forward, then back again in a vicious circle or will all members of a Campus Council attend each Student Government meeting (as they do at Student Council meetings) causing six hour meetings and progressing half way through the agenda? Or wouldn’t it be easier to have straight representation by opulation (heaven forbid) for each campus and be independent to vote, with recourse for their actions from'those they represent? Further the rationale for Campus Councils is to provide some activities on their respective campus, yet Student New West. Does each campus need six people to tell one person to organize a pub this week or could it be designed that there be some permanent entertainment fixtures, like the “Pit”? at UBC? Also the only qualification to run for and hold office on al Campus Council is that you take one course on that campus, where as under the present constitution you must take of your courses a majority on a campus to hold office. This could lead to larger campuses gaining control of smaller ones and increase their voting capacity, because there is no restriction on how many Campus Councils one may sit on. This leads us to note the need for checks and balances. The only method of impeachment is at one of the various General Meetings. If a member of the Student Government is delinquent of their duties the elaborate process of gathering together a quorum is rather time consuming. The Student Government should have this power as does the present Student Council or better still give the student body an opportunity to recall or impeach a member by use of a petition| of 20 per cent of the current student population. » cont'd page 11° Council has hired a Pub Manager to do just that on Surrey and). the Other press Staff Box Managing Editor: Gord Isfeld Copy Editor: Terry Glavin News Editor: Rory Munro Photo Editor: Pat Johnson Arts and Events Editor: Gwen Odland Writers: Neil Dowie, Eileen Galuska, Grant Dahling Kathy Neilsen Typesetter: Patrick Dyck Member of Canadian University Press, and subscriber of Pacific News Service. >The Other Press is a democratically run student newspaper. Published under the auspices of the Douglas Coliege Student Society gvery Monday. The news office is located at the rear of the cafeteria 4p New Westminster campus. The Other Press, Box 2503, Douglas College, New Westminster, British Columbia, 522-6038, between 12 and 1, weekdays, Advertising: §22-6038. dant you The name's Aus, Come _on, Mc MeGeer, you. remember me Woadken oo ¢ An open letter to the Student Body Tuition increases: at post-sec- ondary institutions in B.C. are eminent. On Thursday, March 10, 1977, there is going to be a student protest rally at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza in Vancouver. The purpose of this rally is to show the Provin- cial Government that their Edu- cation Budget is not acceptable to the students throughout B.C. The government once again is showing it’s callous regard for the voting public. If tuition fees are increased they will be reducing the accessibility of higher education to a select few. — The Douglas College Student Society, with the B.C. Student Federation is calling for a boycott of classes by all students so that they will be able to attend, en masse, the protest tally in Vancouver. We need the support of the student body in _ order to make our point. If you don’t make yourself heard now it will be too late to complain later. There is a good chance of making the government listen if you act now. If you care at all come out and say ‘‘NO’’ to tuition fee increases. If you don't come out it will be the same thing as saying “‘yes’’. The rally will begin at 12:00 noon at the Vancouver Vocat- ional Institute. We are trying desperately to provide free stu- dent transportation from all campuses to the rally site. For more information call Dave Johnston, (Douglas College Rally Co-ordinator-525-6279). yours truly Dave Johnston Dear Editor: I would like to comment on the appalling conditions of the New West campus library, not just the lack of decent material but the volume of inconsiderate school children that congregate there to discuss subjects per- taining to anything but scholas- tic material. ‘Hey, what'd you do last night?’’ ‘‘Man, did I ever get pissed!"' ‘I felt her up for half an hour.’’ ‘‘Mom won't let me’’, etc. “If x is y than what'd you pay for your wheels?’’. If this letter isn’t worthy of print perhaps you could use your experience to get the point across for the people who want to use the library for it’s original purpose. thank you D. Garrett New pub manager to apply for special liquor permit Bob Daniels, new pub man- ager for the Student Society, is applying to the Liquor Admini- stration Branch (LAB) for a special liquor permit for activi- ties to be held on campus. At present the licensee must appear before the police to get a permit for each individual event costing $10. Douglas College is limited to only 12 permits per year under the Liquor Administration Act, as is anybody wishing to hold a dance or pub. The special liquor permit costs about $10 per year and allows the Society to hold un- limited activities on campus through out the vear. and would be similar to UBC or SFU's permit which allows the ‘*Pit”’ or the UCB to operate. Something of that capacity will not appear at Douglas though until there are more permanent facilties, but until then there will be weekly events sponsored on each campus. it re ng 5