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Thursday, January 17, 1985

 

 

 

Vandalism blamed

 

Douglas College’s Autonomous Student Newspaper

Other Press

Volume 18 - Issue 2

 

  

Pubs face permanent death

 

by DONNA FORBES

 

If you are wondering what
to do with the gap in your

wait. At present, the fate of
Douglas College socials. is in
the hands of college adminis-
tration, in particular Bill Mor-
fey, college bursar. According

 

social life, you'll just have to

 
 
 
  
  
  
 
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    

to Morfey, ‘‘We haven’t kept

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Classes overfilled

There was nothing unusual
with spring registration at
Douglas College this year.
When registering on the first
day, you get what you wanted;
on the second, you juggled
your day-time classes; and on
the third, almost everything
was gone.

The Technology fundamen-
tals program, recently trans-
ferred here from BCIT, is not
what it was expected to be.

~ Four sections of these courses

plus another nine sections
were dropped from the sched-
ule.

But the college did add 28
emergent sections of classes

in demand, _ including — six
CRIM sections, and three each
of MAT, ENG, PSY and BUS.

A majority of classes were
overfilled, with many instruc-

tors accepting students with |

the hopes that others would
drop their classes.

About 300 more students
are now registered than in any
other spring semester since
Douglas College moved to the
New Westminster campus on
Royal a short six semesters
ago.

Some classes still have room
and late registration will con-
tinue until this Friday.

 

a detailed track of vandalism,
but the college has been
plagued by it. I’m not blaming
the students, but I’m not
prepared to see the building
damaged at the expense of
education dollars.’’ He further
stated that most colleges in
the area do not utilize college
facilities for pub nights.

The Douglas College stud-
ent. society was amply warned
as to the precarious position
the socials were in. DCSS
president, Jesse Sedhu, stated
“‘Mr. Morfey stressed the
problem of vandalism several
times at several management
committee meetings. It was
implied that if any more
vandalism occurred, we would
run the risk of losing our
socials. ’’

Now you see it...now you don’t. Offended

The incident at the Novem-
ber 17th pub night ‘‘was a
complete breakdown of all of
our control mechanisms,’’ ac-
cording to DCSS secretary,
Ron Huml. ‘‘There were: a
series of minor problems with
our controls which culminated
in the altercation and sub-
sequent vandalism which is
responsible for the loss of pub
nights on campus.”’ A fight
broke out at the social bet-
ween the security service and
a‘non-student. This is the first
time that this has occurred on
this campus.

The damage costs from the
broken door and window, plus
the extra security that had to
be hired to secure the building
amounted to approximately
$1000. According to Huml, the

  

students remove sexist campaign poster

from wall in concourse.

photo by Brian Bisset

broken glass was not replaced
until 48 hours after the dam-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ages were incurred. ‘‘It was
unfortunate that the two exec-
utives present (president
Jesse Sedhu and Speaker of
the house, Matthew Owers)
did not have the damages
repaired,”’ said Huml. ‘I
thought that both the pub
manager and the executives in
charge should have handled

themselves in a more profes-

sional manner.’’

Matthew Owers, executive
in charge at ski club pub night
said that ‘‘it didn’t occur to
him to have the glass replac-
ed. | was improperly briefed
about the duties of the execu-
tive-in-charge, and was told
that if there were any prob-
lems to phone the police.’’

The police were called in
and are now proceeding with
charges. The person charged
was a non-student and got
through the door by signing in
with a false student number.

Proposals directed toward
rectifying the poor security at
college socials are now before
the college management com-
mittee. These proposals in-
clude the sale of advanced
tickets and the relinquishing
of student 1.D. at the door.
According to. Huml, ‘’50 per-
cent of the excess profit from
the advanced sales will go
directly to the Student Trust
Fund. | hope the management
will be reasonable and will
look at our proposal.’’

Bill Morfey, stated that he
was willing to consider such a
proposal, and stated that ‘‘we
haven’t made up our minds
and it will take us some time to
come to a decision.”’