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CEGEP’s brutal environment

MONTREAL [CUP] - Sixty
shouting professors and stu-
dents stormed out of a Vanier
CEGEP board meeting re-
cently, after the board refus-
ed to reconsider its decision
to amalgamate the college’s
two campuses by 1987.

A week earlier, 200 stu-
dents from the CEGEP’s
Snowdon campus, which will
be closed, had stormed the
Ste-Croix campus cafeteria
accompanied by 400 Ste-Croix
students... The — lunch-hour
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show how crowded Ste-Croix
would become if the Snowdon
students were — transferred
there.

At the board meeting, the
Save Snowdon committee pre-
sented a petition with 4,300
signatures from teachers, stu-
dents, and members of the
community demanding that
the board reconsider the
amalgamation.

A board vote on whether to
reconsider came to a tie,
hence it automatically failed.

At once, the packed room

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erupted in shouts. ‘’You dis-
credited the school and you
discredited the process!’
screamed Snowdon English
teacher George Ferger.
Teachers and students are
furious because the board
voted 10 to 9 to amalgamate
the schools without hearing
the report from the committee
set up to examine the various
options for Snowdon’s future.
“The consultation process
was cut short,’’ Ferger said.
Currently Snowdon’s 2,200
students study in a run-down

  

eight-story office building
next to a freeway. They are
already crowded, and the new
Ste-Croix building will be
designed to house only 1,750
people. The students also
anticipate an overcrowded
gym, auditorium, and library.

Most Snowdon _ students

want a new building, but not
at Ste-Croix.

__ A report prepared for the
Quebec government last fall
said a CEGEP should not
have more than 4,000 stu-
dents, and warned that above

that level students have prob-
lems with ‘‘a feeling of be-
longing’’ and do not learn
nearly as effectively. The
combined campuses will make
Vanier a 6,000 _ student
CEGEP.

An article in the most
recent issue of Mental Health
in Quebec’ warns that
CEGEPs are too large and
“‘brutal’’ an environment to
allow students any comfort or
chance to meet others. The
magazine says interaction is a
crucial part of learning.

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