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Letter to the
editor

The other day, while waiting for
a friend, I counted two dollars
worth of pop cans lying around in
the concourse.

If this was an average day, then
two dollars a day for five days a
week and fifteen weeks a semester
would mean that one hundred and
fifty dollars worth of pop cans get
thrown out at night be the night

janitor; and you thought students ~

were poor!

Last semester I had the good
fortune of getting into a computer
course. While working in the
computer lab (room 3910), I
noticed that two large trash bins
would fill up with waste paper
every day. Again, this makes 150
large trash bins of waste paper get
thrown out every semester.

If students are concerned with
the rising cost of education, they
should not gripe about insufficient
government funding and the high
cost of living without realizing that
there are direct ways for students to
influence the cost of education.

Governments, bureaucracies
are not the sole controllers of the
student wallet. Students must use
self-control to achieve a lower cost
of education.

Take your pop cans back,
brown-bag it more often, and ask
the student society to set up a
recycling program at the college.

Donald Rennie

 

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There is a conspiracy at
Douglas College.

A big one - it affects me, you
and students to come.

They are replacing the paper
towel dispensers in the washrooms
with hot-air dryers.

I hate hot-air dryers.

Bitch #1: They don’t work.
You can "rub hands vigorously
under vent" for an hour, all you will
have are warm, damp hands.

Bitch #2: Only one person can
use it at a time. If 1am on my way
to class, [don’t want to have to wait
in line to dry my hands, with the

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traditional paper-towel dispensers,
this was not a problem.

Bitch #3: It makes a lot of noise.

Bitch #4: If I spill something at
my locker, what am I supposed to
do? Pull that section of carpet it up
and run it down to the hot-air drier?

Bitch #5: It makes me feel like
I am at McDonald’s. Mind you, I
have heard Douglas College
referred to as "the McDonald’s of
higher education”...

The college raised tuition this
year, can’t they stop cutting back
just a little?

Jeff House

 

Need

As people who pay great sums
of money to attend this institution,
it is astounding how little the
students of Douglas College know
about the vast number of services
available to them.

One such service which is
terribly under-utilized is the
Ombudsoffice. The students have
available to them = an
Ombudsperson whose chief role it
is to assist students in resolving
conflicts that they can not take care
of on their own.

Anything from financial aid
problems to unsolvable conflicts

Help?

with instructors are areas where the
ombudsoffice could assist you.
The office is located next to the
lower cafeteria in Room 1242.
You can drop in during regular
office hours on Wednesdays from
4-6 p.m. or Fridays from 8-10 p.m.
If those times are not
convenient, you can also contact
the Student Society office in Room
2780 to leave a message for the
Ombudsperson to contact you.
Remember, this is a service
that is for you, the students, so if
you need it, use it!
Bill Small

 
   

The problems
of home
owning!

I have owned my own home for
the past four years, and enjoy it,
however, the amount of ’junk’ mail
I receive in my latest location has
prompted me to seek the origin of
it. One company I contacted
(BCAA) stated my name was on a
mailing list that they purchased
from BC Telephone.

When I contacted BC
Telephone they clearly admitted
using my name, and the
information I forwarded to receive
their services, to compile mailing
lists (which are sold -to private
individuals). They also stated that
the CRTC is aware of this practice,
and that it is public information and
therefore permissible. However, if
I requested, I could have my name
deleted from the list.

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offices in Ontario to confirm this
and also found that every
telephone company company
across Canada does this. The
CRTC says that they have no
jurisdiction in the matter, "BC
Telephone is just telling us so we
can’t say they didn’t."

23,000,000 people go to their
telephone companies, in all good
faith, to receive the services
offered by giving information
about themselves, and that
information is used for purposes
other than stated - for a profit.

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