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April 9, 1990

 

 

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Douglas College Sold to
American Company EduCorp

 

by TTam Nitram

Douglas students will be
American students by 1991.

"Douglas College has become
a victim of free trade" said Dill Bay,
president of Douglas College.
"Douglas has been bought by the
American corporation of EduCorp
for $250 million." EduCorp has
many large holdings including
Dow Industries of South Africa.

"What’s going to happen to
us?" asked one concerned student.
"Are we going to become
Americans?"

A spokesperson for EduCorp
said that it is their "way of socializ-

 

ing Canadians to the American way
of life."

Dill Bay added that "EduCorp
will be beneficial for Douglas Col-
lege in the long run. Among their
future plans are a large fee increase
so that they can hire better faculty -
instructors who will do their jobs
properly."

Also among EduCorp’s plans
are de-unionization and removal of
the cafeteria to make room for more
administration space.

LLib LLeb, the Public Infor-
mation Officer for Douglas College
was enthused about the whole con-
cept. "Think of the opportunities"

he said, "the possibilities are mind
boggling!"

Gorman Nludovatz, Speaker
of the Douglas College Student
Society was enraged. "This sort of
policy I just cannot stand for! We
already have a damn good faculty!
I’m getting a copy of the contract
and am looking into the pos-
sibilities of a general student
strike!"

The provincial government
has not taken a policy stand on this
issue as of yet and were unavailable
for comment at the time of produc-
tion.

 

 

 

 

Just
Kidding!

 

 

 

McGill Univ. Recieve
Death Threats

by Joyce Lombardi

MONTREAL (CUP) -- Two gay McGill staff members received
death threats, after they put their names on protest literature circulated at
the university.

Robert Head and Richard Cooper, organizers of Lesbian and Gay
Employees of McGill (LAGEM) received anonymous calls Mar. 27 from
people who threatened to kill them.

"An elderly woman with a heavy accent called, said she got my
number from a student paper, and asked for information on the next
LAGEM meeting,” said Head, a staff member and a second year Theol-
ogy student.

"She seemed really shy, and asked what we would be discussing at
the meeting. After I told her where it would be held, she said OK. We
will be there, and we will kill you’," he said.

The same evening, Cooper, a professor in the Faculty of Religious
Studies, returned home to find an obscene message and a death threat left
on his machine by what he described as an elderly man with an Eastern
or Central European accent. Cooper and Head said the calls must have
originated from within the university because their names and numbers
have appeared on flyers and newspaper ads circulated on campus since

 

early February.

The group has not requested security for their next meeting.

"I figure they’re all a bunch of crazies," said Head. Head and Cooper
have contacted campus security and the MUC police.

The police offered to put a tracer on their phones if the calls persist.

While this is the first threat LAGEM has received, other members
of McGill’s gay and lesbian community have been targeted.

After the Dec. 6 massacre at Universite de Montreal, an anonymous
caller told radio host David Shannon during "The Homo Show" on
McGill’s community radio that he would do to gays what Marc Lepine
did to women, station manager Nadine Gelineau said.

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Douglas College Evacuation
Policy Inadequate

 

by Matthew Martin

The daycare was not
evacuated during the fire we had 2
weeks ago. Wednesday, March 28,
there was a small fire in the "pent-
house" behind the theatre on the
fourth level. The staff of the
daycare did remove the children
from the building, but not from the
balcony.

The policy states that the
children will congregate on until
attendance is taken. Then the staff
will take the children across 8th St.
and up to John Robson school when
told to do so. The confusion arises
because the policy does not state
who is responsible for infoming the
staff to evacuate.

 

According to the special needs
consultant, the idea that there really
was a fire seemed to really hit
home.

Since the alarm, the staff have
reviewed there policy and in the
future will remove the children

.from the balcony and then move

them out in front of the building
with everybody else.

The staff did do what they had
been told and there was no
negligence on their part, but it is not
clear who is to inform them to
evacuate.

Besides the daycare, there are
other fire safety concerns such as
the hearing impaired. There are no
visual warnings when the alarm

rings. There are two deaf faculty
members who share an office. If

the alarm rings, they can’t hear it. -

There is a proposal that some kind
of visual warning system be in-
stalled.

Another concern is the special
needs on the second level. Their
only method of escape is down
stairs. That means someone has to
carry that person down two flights
of stairs in the S.W. corner of the
building. What the policy neglects
to say is who is responsible for
those people. As it stands now,
there is no-one designated to help
remove the special needs in case of

 

emergency except their instruc- Children playing in the Daycare after the slant.

tors..

photo by Matthew Martin

Campus Notes

 

by Tim Crumley

 

For El Salvador Ad

The Douglas College Student
Society Representative Committee
(DCSSRC) approved a $150 ex-
penditure to assist the Canadian
Federation of Students (CFS) pay
for an ad appearing in the Globe &
Mail March 24.

The ad urges the Canadian
government to "pursue an active
and independent policy in support
of justice and peace in Central
America."

Canada joined the Organiza-
tion of American States earlier this
year, but has taken a timid role in

setting foreign policy contrary to
that of the United States, according
to most OAS members.

In Action

The DCSSRC has agreed to
restart the Humanities Institute in
conjunction with Philosophy
Department.

The Humanities Institute was
responsible for presenting lectures
to the student population on various
topics of moral importance to the
students. The Institute was closed
for the 1989-90 academic year.

The Institute should be run-
ning again by the Fall 1990

semester.

Student Society Funds Col-
lege Program

In a surprisingly backward
turn of events, the DCSSRC voted
to approve the donation of $100 to
the DVST program at Maple Ridge
Campus. The money was used to
help the students, in a writing
course, attend a play at the Arts
Club Theatre to improve their
playwriting skills.

Douglas College would not al-
locate funds to the program for the
activity.

The College has been severely
underfunded since the implementa-

tion of budgetary restraint
programs at both provincial and
federal government levels about 8
years ago.

Pool Fee Raised

Students will now have to pay
$1 to get into the Canada Games
Pool, after the DCSSRC voted to
negotiate a new contract with Pool
Administration.

Finance Committee had
originally cut money from
Women’s Organizing Committee
and Social Issues Committee to
keep the Pool rate at its present 50
cents, but the DCSSRC felt that
was unfair and voted to go with a

High Tui-
tion Sparks
Food Fight :

MONTREAL (CUP) -- About
60 bun-wielding students started a
food fight in Concordia
University’s faculty lounge Mar.
21 to protest Quebec’s huge tuition
fee hike.

The students, part of
Concordia’s Tuition Freeze Task
Force (TFTF) had gone to "break
bread" with Rector Patrick Kenniff
and his invited guests, according to
James Brown, a spokesperson for
the group.

Brown said the group thought
Kenniff was holding a luncheon
with other university principals.

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