student body. Seaweed was not aware of this new bylaw, but says some policies state that certain amounts must be “post- ed” for the student body, two weeks prior to being approved or spent. Wheeler says she doesn’t think the amount has increased. But according to the new Bylaw XIV, Section 4, for all expenditures exceeding $10,000.00, the general membership must be notified two weeks in advance of the expenditure, by newsletter or broadsheet.” This old bylaw had an expenditure figure of $3,000.00. But, for all the shiny new bylaws and the streamlined representative a committee, there are many questions _ still unanswered by the Student Society. Why were the election results rati- fied by the newly elected candidates themselves instead of an independent. appeals committee? Why was the review run under unregistered bylaws instead of those already in place? Why is it necessary for the execu- tive and representatives to spend $10,000.00 without being account- able to the student body? And most importantly, why weren't the constitutional and bylaw changes filed to the British Columbia Society Act before the election? Until the correct documentation is received in Victoria, the society’s name also remains unchanged. “Douglas College Student Society” - will be the official title until “Douglas Students’ Union” has been submitted correctly and been checked and searched by Victoria. And, until correct documentation is received and filed by the Societies office in Victoria, the DCSS needs to acknowledge that their new bylaws ‘are not yet in effect, and therefore the March 26 elections are invalid. The plot thickens... ealing ANNETTE MARTIN Amanda heeli gan n interesting twist to recent Ac occurred within the DCSS offices. Amanda Wheeler, whose job description since the March 1999 elections is now, “External Coordinator,” says that her office has been bro- ken into twice in the past three weeks. All of her elections documents were stolen, as well as Wheeler ‘s own file materials, financial documents, and memos relating to the Merrilyn Houlihan case. (Houlihan is the for- mer DCSS business man- “| ager who was fired January 1998 for alert- ing college administra- tion to the problems of money missing from the Student , Society. Rhonda Lussier, a former DCSS treasurer, was later charged by police with theft over $5000 and fraud over $5000.) Blank computer disks are also missing from Wheeler's desk and she page 6 the Other Press May 1999 suspects they may have been used to make copies of her computer back-up files, which were in the same drawer as the blank ones. Wheeler's office is not the only area to be affected she says, as filing cabinets have been found open in the morning when staff arrived at the office. She adds, “Yasmin’s [staff member Yasmin Irani] computer was messed with too.” The incidents have been reported to Douglas College Security, but the New Westminster Police do not have a separate file number for this case. At the April 28, 1999 representa- tive meeting, Wheeler announced that after hours access to the DCSS building has been restricted to the four executives and staff members for what she calls, “legitimate reasons.”