+ tee sete RON FOR ee ee san ey Tena BF aT Tm oy wre SE A A A ee on» : Wednesday, February 1, 1984. page3 Daycare delayed by board Day care will not be provi- ded at Douglas College until the college board receives guarantees the child care by DAN HILBORN workers. will not have the right to strike and picket at the New Westminster cam- pus. “‘Another union and they _ could cause us -a problem within. the organization,’’ said Eric Hedlund, a gov- ernment appoiiitee to the board and _ former New Westminster mayoralty can- didate. The motion to table the lease to the Douglas College Early Childhood Ed- ucation Society was moved by Sandy Tompson and sec- onded by Gerry Trerise. “‘| hope that it’s’ not a serious issue,’’ said college president Bill Day. “‘But we’ll do our level best not to muck up the society.’ The lease was originally intended to take affect Feb- ruary 1 but society chairper- son Pat Brown said they will now probably open their doors in early March. . Day said tRe college will now have to stipulate. a no picket agreement with the workers. The society discussed the terms of employment for the three new workers at a meeting January 23 but re- fused to discuss the contract with The Other Press. ‘’Stu- dent papers often write in- flammatory stories,’’ said one board member. Room will be available for 20 children when the facility opens, and preference will be given to college students, however, Brown said 70 applications have already been received. About $34,000 has been received in donations but parents will still be charged for the service, Brown said. Rainbow House had been - operating a day care centre at the New Westminster campus up to November 83 but Brown: said they were only on a short term lease. ECE’s lease will expire Jan- uary 31, 1986. Cafeteria worker upset A worker for ICL Food Services on the New West- minster campus is upset after being fired by a new supervisor two weeks ago. Leslie Kovac claims she was ‘‘terminated’’ January 16 by Leanne McKinley be- - cause she ‘‘didn’t look en- thusiastic enough’’ and was resting her foot on a railing while wrapping muffins. “People can’t believe what’s been going on,’’ said DB by unfair firing Kovac. The, company: re- fuses to give her severance pay because they claim she hasn’t worked for the re- quired six months, however, her UIC réport shows. she worked for 31 weeks. “| can’t figure that out,”’ she said. “Right now | can’t even buy groceries. If | can’t get a good enough job I’ll have to sell everything and move back home,”’ she said. , place,’’ he said. \. Library use triples staff stays the same Library use-has almost tripled since last year while a backlog of over 1,000 books is still sitting in boxes because staff are too busy dealing with day to day circulation. , Statistics from -the fall semester show total circulation rose 121.5 per cent and reserve and community borrowers circulation both rose 279 per cent over 1982 levels. Ralph Stanton, a faculty worker in the library, told the college board last week the money being spent for new books should be diverted to hiring more staff. ‘‘It’s a very busy a Joan Wenman, a librarian at. the New Westminster campus said there has probably been a 25 per cent reduction in staff over the past two or three years while every category of circulation has risen dramatically. Last November the total number of items used in the Douglas College library increased from 960 in ‘82 to 4,860. There are 10 full-time staff in the library, including the audio-visual department, and only two part-time workers. One temporary full-time worker has been hired for this semester to help with the overload. “Staff size has never been built up to a level you would expect for aslibrary this size,’’ Stanton said. S 7” More strain was added to the Douglas ‘College opera- ting budget last week when the college board was told the ministry had cut all funding for the lease of the Maple Ridge centre. “It’s a test of how sincere Douglas College is,’’ said president Bill Day after an- nouncing the decision to the No vote for fashion Last fall the Douglas Col- lege Hockey Association re- cieved permission from the DCSS to run and recieve the by PAT O'DOHERTY profits from the first pub night in January. They had also planned. to have a fashion show in conjunction with the pub night but this was. cancelled because it was deemed inappropriate by’ the DCSS; however, there is some doubt as to whether or not the subject of cancelling the fashion show was decided upon by the whole of the DCSS. Several people attending the December 7th meeting at which the fashion show was discussed said that no f motion was made and no vote taken. Betty-Lou Hayes talked to Sean Balderstone about the decision, but to no avail. “You don’t even know what types of models we’re us- ing,’’ she said. “And | don’t want to know,’’ was the the repy. Karen Moxhan, who was to help with the fashion show stated that no details Wises Maple Ridge fund c board. The move did not come as a surprise to college administrators and budget plans have been prepared to cover the cost of the lease. “There is not a shadow of likelyhood the campus will. be closed,’’ Day added. “We will still be able to operate because of the pid- dling amount of the rent,’’ said campus director Larry of the fashion show were asked of her. The fashion show was to have male and female participants model- ' ing sport clothing. The pre- sentation was to be a spon- taneous, fun thing she said, ‘| can’t recall being ‘told the - whole society opposed. The way | hear it, it was consid- ered by just the president to be sexist.” ~~ Application fee story wrong The Douglas College board did not.reject a mo- tion to charge a $10 applica- tion fee January 12, as reported in Volume 16 Issue 1 of The Other Press. At the board meeting Jan- uary 19, members discussed implementing the charge as a way to increase revenue, however, bursar Bill Mor- phy said the $10 fee would be a backwards step «in policy. No motion was made to either accept or reject the recommendation. ‘‘An application fee would be another knife in the backs of students,’’ Balder- stone said. Davis. The campus has only three classrooms and offers 28 course sections a semes- ter, Davis said, and students _ at the site would like to see more courses offered. Keeping the campus open is, and should be, a high priority for the college board, but demand for clas- ses requires more space than what is available at the site, Davis said. ‘‘The com- munity has been scoured for another site, but other sites are so expensive,’’ he said. The current lease costs about $850 a month. Students are willing to overlook the leaky roof and water seeping through the floor, said Davis, because they can save the cost of a years tuition in transporta- tion costs alone by attending school in Maple Ridge. In a letter to college board chairman W.R. Emerton, the deputy minister of edu- cation, R.J. Carter, states that the college region is “reasonably compact’’ and students could have access to the New Westminster campus. ‘‘It is recognized that this would be less convenient for the people of Maple Ridge than attending the location in Haney,’’ the: letter said,. ‘‘however it is possible for them to do so.’’ Outgoing board member Gwen Chute asked the other members to ‘‘get that im- pression changed.’’ “I'd like to take Jack Heinrich and his friend R.J. Carter on a bus trip from Maple Ridge to the New Westminster campus,’’ said Maple Ridge student society * representative Doug Lewis.