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Perils of Pauline

———“The house is discusing a bill to reduce the federal contribution to post
—-secondary education by $18 million i
—nillion in the fiscal year starting April 1, 1984. Is that not rank hypocrisy?
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The federal government
has practically disowned ed-
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by JEREMY BLOOM

 

Westminster MP _ Pauline
Jewett. Jewett spoke on Wed-
nesday, January 15 to a small
but interested crowd at
Douglas.

‘By denying it’s a federal
concern, they’re practically
taking the country back to the
19th century,’’ she stated,
noting that the federal gov-
ernment has supported edu-
cation programs since World
War II. ‘The quality of edu-
cation is not + a local
concern.’ - See

ac Jewett continued that a
recent poll indicated over 49
percent of the public would

actually be willing to pay
higher taxes in order to in-
crease education funding.
And she found there is a wide
concern on this issue—‘‘In
the 1984 election, at nearly
every door, people told me
how upset they were at the
decline in education in this
country.’

Jewett sees lots of room for
improvement in student aid
programs. She praised the
Canadian Federation of Stu-
dents, whose lobbying effort
she credited with the increase
in student cost of living allow-
ances from $52 to $100 two
years ago. ‘‘But,’” she added,
“it’s frozen again.’

In the short term, she sees
a need for a major improve-
ment in part-time student
loans; in the long term, ‘‘we

Hon. John Crosbie, then Finance Critic, now
Justice Minister, in Parliament, February 7, 1984.

need a much more effective
grant system.’’

She also felt it is ‘‘incredible
that 45 percent of summer
earnings are calculated as the
student contribution—at min-
imum wage? That’s totally
unrealistic.’’

As for student jobs, Jewett
says ‘‘the Federal Summer
Jobs Programs are in a mess
—and the types of jobs they
are creating are too narrowly
trades-oriented.’’

The job market for grad-
uates is tough, too. One of the
things she says have taken
the New Democrats by sur-
prise is ‘‘The degree you have
to hustle—and the extent to
which many people are creat-
ing their own jobs.’’

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had just gotten a job with the
C.B.C. Jewett thought her
friend was ‘‘set’’, but was
very surprised to learn that
the job was just for one year,
with no guarantees after that.
““You have to be on the hustle
all the time—and most people
tell me they don’t want to be
too narrowly trained—it’s
much better in this market to
have a broad-based edu-
cation.’’

One thing that inspired
many questions was the issue
of the Socreds funneling Fed-
eral transfer payments for
education into other areas,
like health. Many students
just couldn’t understand how
the government could do that.

Jewett explained that the
provinces insisted on absolute

freedom, no strings attached,

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and the government gave in.
The N.D.P. was the only
party to oppose open-ended
transfer payments when the
issue first arose in 1977. So
Bennett and company are
basically free to spend the
money as they wish.

“Last October, a_ public
opinion poll was commission-
ed, which found that 80 per-
cent disagreed with the So-
creds reduction of University
funding,’’ said Jewett. ‘‘The
pollster was so surprised, he
thought it had to be an error,
so he re-did it—and found it
was still 75 percent.’’

Eat ’em raw!

| am writing in response to John
Stickum’s letter in your last issue. |
am a paisley hunter. There are,
despite some unbelief, thousands of
paisley hunters in the Lower Main-
land.

It’s fuckheads like John ‘‘let’s put:

‘em down’ Stickums who help put
B.C. even further (if that’s possible)
into this recession. Actually, this-is a
full-fledged depression brought on by
right wingers like John.

If your (sic) going to keep your
opinion, | suggest you do just that.
Keep it!!

Think of others for a change. Stick
it, Stickums!!!

Bob Head

€3 P.S. We don’t use clubs.

 

I'm a stranger
here, myself

You would think that after the
success of movies like E.T. and Close
Encounters that young people would
be less put off and even a little in-
quisitive about beings that seem a
little out of the ordinary. But aliens at

this college, like myself, know
otherwise.
You see, l|’m classified as a

“mature student’’ and I’m proud of
it. But because of my age the younger

piece of furniture. When we’re in the
classroom everybody talks and jokes
with everybody else, even with me.
It’s really enjoyable. But once we get
out of the classroom they don’t even
seem to know me.

| can remember a couple of times
when | walked into the cafeteria and |
was asked to ‘‘join the crowd.’’ But
when | sit down, nobody will say
anything to me. | don’t like being put
in my own little shell by everybody.

When you go to school, you go to
learn, not to be judged. I’m human
like everybody else. Treat me like
one; it won’t hurt you. | don’t bite.

Yours truly,
Len Patton

Everything gives
you cancer

| know this is an old story. | have
heard it from teachers and students
alike.

But as | am a new student here, |
feel strongly that this issue should be
kept alive. The college’s classrooms
and the library’s environment are not
comfortable for students to study in.
The classrooms that are nearby the
street are very noisy. We can con-
tinually hear the traffic loudly passing
by outside.

During cold days, the heating
system never seems to work. Some-
times | have to put on_ several
sweaters and a coat when sitting in
the classroom.

There is also no air in the class-

Dom oS = DoS a a

 

can hardly breathe towards the end of
a class.

The fluorescent lights in the college
are eye killers. | recently. read some
articles about them, and apparently
they are the worst lights for your
eyes. They may save the college a few
dollars, but how about our eyes and
our health? | only use the library
because | have to use the reserved
books, otherwise | would stay away
from there. | have found that after a
short time reading in the library my
eyes are very tired and | feel a
burning sensation. | wish that the
college could put a few table lights or
some other kind of lighting in, instead
of these fluorescent lights.

| think the college administration
should give everyone’s health a high-
er priority.

Elizabeth Liu

 

Pete complains

As a new student at Douglas
College | received an armload of
papers and information, as | attended
orientations and registration.

Eager to learn all | could about the
college, | read everything top to
bottom, cover to cover. and yes | read
The Other Press, cover to cover. And
that’s where | stopped.

Surely a college paper doesn’t need!
“Fuck you Pete’’ on its cover. You
have a good paper, please don’t spoil
it.

 

Writing on the wall

The educational authorities have
their’ priorites wrong. They have
targeted students with poor reading
and writing. skills for remedial classes .
in essay structure. | believe them to
have missed the real problem stu-
dents, namely the variety who failed
toilet training.

I’m referring to the intellectually-
stunted morons who cannot or will not
flush the toilets in the college wash-
rooms. Instead, they leave their stink-
ing effluent as a badge of their ignor-
ance. _

Perhaps these people are so dull
this is the only means they have of
making a ‘‘splash’’ in life. More likely
it’s the drooling stupidity of the
sub-psychotic, attempting humor.

Then there is their counterpart.
Those brilliant wits. Those erudite
potty poets who leave their spoor in
stalls everywhere.

They espouse on all topics, big and
small, these literary giants who grace
our toilet walls with angst, id, and
idiocy. But it seems they can’t have a
coherent. thought without their pants
around their ankles. Of course it
doesn’t help their spelling but it
scarcely matters when the medium is
the message.

Perhaps toilets should be installed
in classrooms. It would surely help
that segment of the student populat-
tion who recieve inspiration from a
bad smell.

Roh Rilank