ST a ES ee erage SF SS ae x From Jail to Wecca - Pg. $ Y douglas feted tet = Volume 16 Number9 AL Kistory of the (orld, In Briefs: EAST TIMOR- CANADAeS COMPLICITY IN Student Bloopers Pg7| THE HORROR - picking our noses by the egg nog carton with co PGS 8&9 Other Holiday Fun Lae THE RIGHT TO SAY No : DOUGLAS COLLEGE's NEW HARASSMENT POLicy- PGs 12 & 13 VC4E4 RE lege administration autonomous student hewspaper — since 1976 SEI: December 10, 1992 FREE Concern for Student Safety Over Fights by Christopher MacLaren Several fights broke out at Ban; Night, a Douglas College kt, wick, Soraliad = the New Westminister police being called on October 23, 1992. According to a security report provided by Terry Leonard, Director of Facility Services, “there were numerous fights, however nothing too serious occured until 11:15 pm when ten or more fights broke out both inside the concourse area, and outside the college doors.” Karm Sedhu, ex-S; the DCSSexecutivemem| of Banghra Night. Sedhu wasn’t er, was present at the time of the incidents, t: said thehe felt theoveralloutcome was positive. “Stuff haj and it’s very unfortuanate thatsomething likethat happens but the general intent was good,” said Sedhu. This incident has raised some concerns ingstudentsafety on campus as well as the response of Security, and the New Westminister police to these types of matters. Thereportstated thattheguards felt the situation was out of control and called the New Westminster police. “The police arrived shortly thereafter and assisted in breaking up the fights and removing all persons from the building.” A member of the DCSS, who asked toremain anonymous but will be known as Jill, claims neither security nor the police did anything to stop the fighting. “Security stoodand did nothing. The police also stood and watched. I asked them to please do something and they said ‘your social, your responsibility’ ,” said Jill. Another member of the DCSS, whoalsoaked toremainanonymous and willbe knownasjJack, confirmed that Security did not get involved, but merely stated their presence. “They were walking in and their presence. They never to a single person involved, then they walked back out. I think they did the best they could with the amount of people they had,” said Jack. The Barnes Security Head office refused comment and would not release a copy of the guards job description because itis against their national policy to release any information to any member of the media. Jack also said that the fighting had stopped when the police arrived but only attemped to remove people from the premises. “Allthey did was send people to the outside stairs and told them to go home. All the people did was walk across the street to the Subway and cause a big crowd gathering there,” said Jack. “One policeman was yelling ata person ‘come on you little mouth piece, get out of here’,” said Jill. According to Jack, the first scuffle apparently started on the dance floor between two males. “There was a little scuffle on the dance floor and then they started going at it,” said Jack.. Following the first incident, the music was turned off and people were told the social was over. However, fifteen minutes later the music was turned back on and the social resumed. “Thetension was there. Youjust knew something was going to happen,” said Jack. According to Jack, the situation became chaotic again, with people going in and out of the cafeteria. “People went outside and all you could hear was people wanting to fight saying ‘let’s go, let’s go’, ” said Jack. Anotherensued in theconcourse and a male hit a female in the face. New Parkade for Douglas in ‘94 by Angela Chiotakos Students attending Douglas College will have 265 new parking spaces in January 1993. The parkade will be located on the corner of Carnarvon and Begbie, and will be built in conjunction with a residential building. “The development will have 6 floors of parking and a 10 floor residential building,” stated Peter Greenwood, DouglasCollege Bursar. “The college operation will support aproximately four floors of that parking,” added Greenwood. The total approximate cost for the college will be $3.4 million. “That cost includes adequate security uipment and parki tes,” said Greewrood. — “The City of New Westminister was obligated to pers 300 parking spaces along the waterfront for Douglas College when it was built twenty years ago,” said Greenwood. In 1985, the First Capital Development Corporation of British Columbia, the government agency responsible for supplying the money for the parking spaces, refused to Quildany parking spots for thecollege and gave the college $1.5 million to find it’s own parking. “We invested the money into high yeld treasury bills and term deposits,” saidGreenwood, “and we now have$2.9 million to work with.” “The difference [$500 000] will be made up. over twenty years.” Greenwood added,” we’rebe getting some of therevenue from renting the new spots and increasing parking fees. ww“ The contractor, Stoneman Developers, is hoping construction will start within the next six to eight “There was a small group outside arguing and then a guy punched a girl in the face,” said Jill. Jillalsosaid thatthe only serious assault she witnessed was a male who had “his faced smashed into the hand rail ” of the stairs leading to the bookstore. : Terry Leonard, Director of Facility Services, wouldn’t comment at this time but said that administration is looking into the role of Security on premises, and the New Westminister police with whom the college is supposed to have a “working liason” with. Leonard also said that an overview of the security report and police report would be written and available when complete. Const. Barritt and Const. Meadem of the New West police were not available forcomment. ~ Student, Marion Drakos, was one of fourteen women who volunteered to place a rose for the women murdered at L'Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal during Douglas College's Red Rose Ceremony held Friday, December 4th. ©NO3T SNIV months. “We're hoping that parking will be available for January 1994,”said Greenwood. Asked if the college considered purchasing floors in the building for student housing, Greenwood answered, “we never considered it. We just don’t have the resources to run student residences.” Ecologists Dreaming of a Green Christmas by Angus Adair The Community Education on Environment and Development Center (CEED) of Maple Ridge and Haney Place Mall are attempting to make Christmas a little greener this year. The CEED Centre has made arrangements with Haney Place Mall to have a booth in the mall that sells environmentally friendly gifts, @ available also at their “Green Shop” in Maple Ridge. In addition they are also providing a gift wrapping service. The mall administration has provided scissors, tape and the various equipment needed for gift wrapping and the CEED Center has endeavoured to make people’s holidays “greener”. The booth is staffed by volunteers who refuse to wrap anything too big and waste precious paper. Instead, they recommend bows to add to the items, many of which are already in their own packaging. What they do wrap, they wrap with reused or recycled paper which has been decorated with vegetable oil inks, and made without chlorine bleach. The CEED volunteers will also wrap gifts in colorful cloth bags which can be reused. Payment for the service is, simply, by suggested donations. Suggested donations are : glove box- $2, shoe box- $3, shirt box-$5, and eo of appliance size are $6. All s raised go to support the environmental efforts of the CEED Center. The CEED Centre is part of the Fraser Information Society which in 1990spearheadeda petition toSchool District #42, ( Maple Ridge) calling for comprehensive environmental education in public schools. Out of this campaign sprung the CEED Centre and it’s current location at 11739 223rd St. For more information call the Fraser Information Society at 463- 2229.