Friday, Oct. 31, 1980 Winnipeg [CUP]--The Na- tional Union of Students (NUS) has reconsidered its proposals to raise fees from members to $4 per student. The current fee is $1 per student. Last week NUS announ- fee increase at their nation- al conference held in Winni- peg over the weekend. At the conference, however, the organization began re- structuring itself and thus has called off the fee in- crease. When NUS representa- tives announced the need for the fee increase they Said the student organiza- tion would be unable to continue current levels of ervices without the ‘n- rease. With the restructuring hey feel they will receive nough money to keep NUS unning. Fees for the new estructured student organ- zation will be $4 per stu- ent. The new organization ill not have its founding onvention until at least 983, said Mike Miller, BC fieldworker for NUS. Kelowna, BC [CUP] Okanagan College’s stu- dent association has been swamped with complaints from students who are liv- ing in motels because of BC’s severe housing shor- tage. “The complaints have ranged from a general lack of privacy to cased of direct sexual harassment’’, said student association chair Phil Link. ‘‘The motel situa- tion creates an extreme authoritarian ' situation where the tenant has very few rights or legal protec- tion.’’ BC’s motels fall under the innkeepers act, giving the proprieter the right to eject any person on the premises who is not a registered guest. Unlike the provisions of the landlord/ tenant act, which covers most other accommodation, people living in motels can be evicted without ~ prior notice. NUS considers fee raise ced they would be seeking a - Heartbreak motel under the threat of a one- However, Miller said, the concept of the new organiz- ation will be taken to stu- dents in referendums right away. At the campuses where the concept is accept- ed, the $4 fee will be collected, Miller said. This money will be used to continue financing NUS and also for the restructuring process, said Kirk Falconer, NUS treasurer. A number of student councils are ready now, Falconer said to hold refer- endums for membership in the new organization. He said he is optimistic the new body will have six or seven fee-paying members by, May, 1981. Campuses which may have referendums before May include Carleton and Saint Mary’s universities the Universities of Waterlog and Winnipeg, and Mount Royal College in Calgary. “If the new organization can win these referendum and the per capita fees star coming in, NUS will be abl to keep functioning an there will also be mone available for restructurin) costs,’’ Falconer said. The students’ association is campaigning to educate students about their rights as motel lodgers and is also trying to pressure the pro- vincial government to a- mend the_ poorly-written} and obscure innkeepers act. “The students’ associa- tion doesn’t feel it’s accept- able for the students to live hour eviction notice.’’ Link) said. Meanwhile, six Okanagan College students are actual- ly living out of their cars. Says student association} executive member Stewart Murray: ‘‘Even one student living in their vehicle is too many.”’ Vocational student Greg Mantle is one of the stu- dents forced to adopt vehi- cular living. He describes it as an endless regiment of ‘freezing to death in the morning, having to take showers at the recreation centre and brushing your teeth at a gas station.”’ The Other Press Coq. ca page three us unique Ann Kitching, Coquitlam campus principal. is busy with administrative duties. (Satisfied Tim?! By Dan Hilborn Coquitlam is unique as a campus of Douglas College. Walking through the front doors the first thing you see is a composition of pictures taken from around the community, some of the logging camps in Port Moody at the turn of the century, and others of new buildings and the college itself. Ann Kitching, principal of the campus says, ‘‘Those pictures reflect the com- munity with the juxtaposi- tion of yesterday and today. Very visible at the cam- pus is Kitching’s idea that a community college should be responsive to the com- munities’ needs. “Rather than taking the money for those pictures out of the campus budget, we rented out space to the Royal College of Dental Surgeons’’, said Kitching. Other things happening at Coquitlam campus in- clude the attempt to give night-time students the same services as day-time students, even as far as administrative services. Kitching along with vice- principal John Slattery and don McEachern have been alternating night time du- ties so that four nights a week there is one admini- strator on campus. Besides this, the cafeteria is open evenings, a service no other campus has the benefit of. The New View Society operates both the cafeteria and a woodworking work- shop which is currently New harvest ‘bugs’ 'ZNS]--The super-secret national security agency is alleged to have perfected a computerized system -- code-named ‘‘harvest’’ -- which is capable of monitor- ing millions of phone con- versations simultaneously. According to the Progres- sive magazine, ‘‘harvest’’ is the code-name for a compu- ter program that is capable of recognizing certain words in human speech. The magazine says the computers cu. identify cer- tain combinations of sounds from millions of voices fed simultaneously into its sys- tem. The agency has admitted to monitoring most radio and telephone transmis- sions overseas from the United States. According to _The Progressive, however, the agency also uses elec- tronic taps and microwave interceptions to listen in on domestic conversations as well. busy building for Christmas. New View is a coopera- tive, community service says Kitching. ‘‘We had no programs that needed the space, being used for the woodwork shop and if we’re. really a community college we should Nbe providing services to the commun- ity,’’ she added. . “T hope that with the smaller colleges (after the split) we'll be able to have a closer relationship with our communities,’’ she said. ‘‘Who knows what’s go- ing to happen in the fu- ture,’’ says Kitching, “But Vm looking for the com- munity to come and say what they want me to do.”’ —_— DIAL-A-SNAK PIZZERIA FRIED CHICKEN SUBMARINES toys FREE DELIVERY IN NEW WEST AND BURNABY AREA 401-8thST NEW WEST