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by DAN HILBORN

‘‘The Douglas College stu-
dent society will be opposed
to any tuition increase at this
college.’’

Speaking on behalf of
student society president
Kevin Hallgate, Ron Burn-
stad said those words to the
college management com-
mittee Tuesday morning.

Gerry Della Mattia, dean
of student services and a
member of the management
committee, said that there
hasn’t been a formal reply
made to the student society
yet.

Della Mattia said that
while a committee has been
formed to look into a tuition
increase it has yet to meet.

If the recommendations of
a report made by Rick Mc-
Candless, the director of
institutional support services
for the ministry of educa-
tion, are followed, then stu-
dents at Douglas College
may pay up to 32 per cent

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higher tuition next year.

The report recommends
basing tuition on a new
system of ‘‘student contact
hours’’, which are the num-
ber of actual classtime in-
structional hours a student
has. A province-wide mean
figure of 53 cents per hour
was proposed.

The current figure at
Douglas College is about 42
cents per hour.

Student representatives at
Capilano College have raised

a furor over the proposal,
claiming that the figure was
‘‘pulled out of the air.”’
Jack Newberry, executive
director of management ser-
vices for the ministry, admit-
ted that he didn’t under-
stand McCandless’ paper
and that he had to meet with

McCandless to make sense
out of the proposal.

After meeting with minis-
try officials to discuss the
recommendations another
Capilano student represent-

ative said, ‘‘Nobody knows
what’s going on. The whole
thing was bizarre. Kind of
frightening.”’

At Douglas the student
society now has to wait until
a figure is presented before
the tuition committee.

If McCandless’ proposal is
passed by the ministry some
colleges, including Douglas
and Capilano, will be forced
to either raise tuition or have
their revenue from Victoria
reduced.

In spite of this the bursar
at Capilano says the student
contact hour method is the
‘‘only equitable method.’’

McCandless proposal says
colleges can set their own
rate below the _ provincial
mean level but they'd have
to accept a lower level of
gross operation.

The Capilano student soci-
ety has granted a $500
budget to an Ad Hoc com-
mittee set up to oppose the
tuition increase at that cam-
pus.

Students suffer loss

SASKATOON [CUP]- Des-
pite personal losses of over
$130,000 and the destruction
of two years work, the
victims of an art department
fire at the University — of
Saskatchewan will recieve
little help from the univers-
ity administration.

The fire, which occured
during the summer, gutted
the art department studio
and destroyed the work of
five art graduate students.
Two students bore the brunt
of the costs, losing approx-

Native

SASKATOON [CUP]- The
struggle to entrench native
treaty rights in the constit-
ution continues, but Steve
Pooyak of the Federation of
Saskatchewan Indians, is
pessimistic about the out-
come.

Canadian Indians are re-
cieving only about 15 per
cent of the rights guaranteed
them by treaty, Pooyak said.
He cited education and eco-
nomic developement on re-
serves as two priorities of
native organizations in the
province.

iamately $50,000 each.

The university said it will
not make any payments to
the students over the $500
mentioned in the outdated
insurance policy covering
personal losses on campus.

The students involved feel
this amount is an “‘insult’’
considering the monetary
value and unique quality of
the items lost.

No smoke alarms, sprink-
lers, or fire extinguishers
were present in the area of
the fire.

rights

Pooyak said that education
facilities on the reserves are
deteriorating rapidly - par-
ticularly in the far north.

He called affirmative ac-
tion programs for natives
‘“‘band-aid programs’’, say-
ing such programs do not
reduce prejudice in society
and discrimination still oc-
curs, even where there are
affirmative action programs.

Pooyak emphasized the
need to supply natives with
‘‘the best possible training”’
in order to equip them to
find jobs.

Al Livingstone, university
safety officer, indicated the
assessment of the need for
sprinklers and alarms is left
to the Saskatoon fire mar-
shall office and he said,
‘‘they obviously didn’t think
they were necessary at the
time of the last inspection.”’

Jack Scarf of the provinc-
ial fire safety unit, said that
all the buildings on campus
‘fare approved in Regina’”’
and the reports are sent to
Saskatoon. He stated, ‘“‘They
don’t have the staff to look
after everything.”’

Alan Reed, superintend-
ent of buildings and _ gro-
unds, said, ‘‘the building is
built in accordance with the
provincial fire codes as up-
held by the fire marshall of
Saskatoon.”’

Arson is suspected.

R.T. Morrow, a university
administrator, said, ‘‘the
administration sympathizes
but absolutely denies liabil-
ity." He advised students
who have a_ considerable
amount of their possessions
on campus to carry their own
insurance since ‘‘the uni-
versity can not assume this
responosibility on their be-
half.’’

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The latest in a series of photos taken by
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Shown here is another one of Saturn moons.

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NORML faces gloom

[ZNS]- The National Organ-
ization for the Reform of
Marijuana Laws (NORML)
reports that the so-called
‘*Reagan landslide’’ is being
greeted by ‘‘gloom and de-
pression’’ in marijuana re-
form circles.

Gordon Brownell, the ex-
ecutive director for NORML,
says there is ‘‘zero chance”’
for decriminalizing pot at the
federal level during the next
four years.

For the past decade, there
has been a trend at the
federal level to reduce or
even remove jail penalties
for simple pot infractions.
Brownell expects this trend
will be reversed beginning
January 20.

The NORML director says
he is particularly concerned
about conservative republic-
ans as leaders of the senate-
and with South Carolina’s
Strom Thurmond taking over
the Senate Judiciary Com-
mittee. Thurmond will re-
place the liberal Edward
Kennedy as head of the

 

committee that authors cri-
minal laws; and Thurmond
announced almost immedi-
ately after the G-O-P land-
slide that he would make
tougher drug laws one of his
two highest priorities.

Says Brownell: ‘‘We ex-
pect tougher drug statutes
and higher appropriations
for the Drug Enforcement
Administration.”’

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