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by lan Hunter

A Social Credit civil serv-
ant recommends that two of
three dental programs at
Douglas college be elimina-
ted and the third not
offered.

This comes from Lorne
Thompson, Executive Direc-
tor of programs in B.C. who
has told Douglas College
president Bill Day to not
offer the level three dental

‘hygiene (one below dentist)

which was to be in the new
D.C. campus.

This comes at a particu-
larly crucial time in the
construction of the new
campus. ‘‘It will have a
great impact on the new
building if what they are
suggesting occurs,’’ said
Day ‘‘because it will mean
re-engineering one of the
floors in the south building.
The re-engineering itself
will cost a minimum of
$250,000, it could ultimatly
cost as much as $500,000
depending on just what
happens.”’

Day has until the end of
March to decide what to do.
““We have set, for ourselves -
March 30th as the absolute
deadline for all decisions.’’
said Day.

If a decision has not been
reached by that date Day
says that the move to the
new campus would be de-
layed. ‘‘The real pressure
on us is that if we move
from a certain time frame
we delay completion of the
building and ultimately the

Dental Program Decayed

entire site.’’ he said.

The reason given for this
action is that they have
data within the ministry to
suggest that there is no
need for a dental course at
DG.

Day says that the college
has no access to the infor-
mation the government
used to calculate the de-
mand for the courses and
that the college’s informa-
tion indicates that the den-
tal programs are needed.

‘Generally employability

"

is advanced as. their con-
cern...we are just collecting

data at this point because if
it should prove that there is
doubtful or non-existent.
employment for these peop-
le then no one wants a
million dollar turkey. That
does not, and | must stress
that, square with our in-
formation.’’ said Day ‘‘If,
after examination, our in-
formation doesn’t square
with the ministry we will be
stating so quite forcibly,’’
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by Ian Hunter

Due to buget cuts, fifty
jobs are to be chopped at
the Royal Columbian
Hospital, In New Westmin-
ster, and as a result, the
future of a unique and
successful programme with-
in Douglas College is in
doubt.

Offering a wide variety of
health related courses,

‘Co-op chopped

Royal Columbian Douglas
Education Centre (RCDEC),
runs approximately 200
courses a year. 2,700
students annually attend
courses ranging from six
hour heartsaver seminars
to three day intensive
nursing management skills
courses.

“There is a great demand
for these courses,’’ said
Ann Howard, the centre’s
Programmer, who works

_ Preparing
To Protest

by Arne Hill

The - Douglas College
Faculty Association is back-
ing students battling pro-
posed cutbacks in post
secondary education.

They are sponsoring a
colloquium Feb. 26th to

‘kick off the fight against

reduced funding to the
College. The meeting,
where College principal,
Bill Day, will be among
speakers, along with a let-

_ter-writing campaign target-

ing provincial members of

the legislature for their
support for education, will

lead up to the planned
March 8th-12th ‘‘week of
action’’ planned by B.C.’s
provincial student organi-
sation.

“We're a little bit behind

the students but we’re
catching up,’’ said Jim

Vice-President.

| Vice-P Faculty Association

The faculty Association’s
cutbacks committee origi-
nally requested $300. from
the Faculty Association for
their letter-writing
campaign, but the associa-
tion decided to increase the
contribution to $1,000.

The College and Institute
Educators Association is
also carrying out a leaflet-
ting campaign, with the
motto, ‘‘Their decisions:
your future.’’

Also, a Canadian Federa-
tion of Students (pacific)
meeting Feb. 6th will dis-
cuss strategy for the week
of action , and will include
a massive demonstration in
downtown Vancouver
March 13th. Douglas and
Kwantlen Colleges are
prospective members of the
Canadian Federation of Stu-
dents.

with one other full time
person from _ Douglas
College.

“All of the programmes
are self-funded...priced to «@
cover the cost of the
course.’’

One of the fifty jobs being
eliminated is the clerk for
the education’ centre.
According to Howard, the
centre cannot operate with-
out a clerk.

“‘T can hardly believe that
the hospital association is
aware of what they are
doing,’’ said Douglas
College President, Bill Day,
at a recent College board
meeting. ‘‘Is the Royal
Columbian aware of how
extraordinarily successful
that operation is?’’

Board member A.F.Sweet
defended the _ hospital
association, saying that
their priority is the delivery
of hospital services.

‘They (the hospital board)
find it very hard to justify
keeping the position of a
clerk typist for educational
purposes when they are
laying off physiotherapists
and nurses,’’ said Howard.

Jim Davies} Douglas-
Kwantlen Faculty:
Association Vice-President,
said, ‘‘They would have to
take money from some-
where else (to pay for the
clerk typist) or shut down
this programme.”

by Deborah Bolton

Technology is here, and
‘it’s in the library! B.C.Tel,
as part of a field marketing

Day said, ‘‘The hospital
has simply pulled out from
their half of it and the
College is in no position to
take over all operating costs
At that point it becomes a

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trial, has lent to Douglas
College, for a six month
trial period, a Telidon video
display information system.
Telidon is a Canadian-
developed

information

  

Information at the touch of a hand.

D-C: and 1984

centre, which offers the
user access to weather,
farming news, and stock
quotations from the
Vancouver, Montreal,
Toronto, and New York
Stock Exchanges. One can’
even get a list of all the
movies in the lower main-
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