“ Othe K PRESS Douglas College's Autonomous Student Newspaper Says “ram it” to CFS Nelson wants out te me DCSS President Scott Nel- son recently outlined the | motivation behind the proposal to leave CFS. He is particularily concerned with , the distribution of CFS fees, claiming that only $1.50 of the $3.75 each student pays towards CFS membership stays in British Columbia. As well, he states, the - majority of the money sent East is used for lectures and activities in Ontario, an im- | balance he hopes to correct by leading the _ student society out of CFS and into an organization _ tentatively called the British Columbia _.Federation of Students. : By John McDonald OP: Why do you want to pull the DCSS out of CFS? NELSON: I don’t think B.C. is, getting their fair share from CFS. We invest $25,000 every year in CFS and we really get nothing for it. We originally asked if we could . pull out nationally (from CFS) and remain in at the provincial level but. they said we couldn’t so we said ’fine, we'll pull out completely’. OP: Don’t you think that in _ this time of crisis in educa- tion that students should stick together nationally? NELSON: The problem is not with the Federal Gov- ernment - they’re paying their fair share of transfer payments to the provinces. The problem lies with the provincial governments’ - they spend the money on other things (than educa- tion). With what we (B.C schools) pay into CFS we could have two people full time in Ottawa or Victoria for that matter. OP: What will you replace CFS with? NELSON: We’re looking to fall back on something like the old B.C. Federation of Students. The concensus with other colleges, particu- larily UBC and BCIT, is that their interested. in forming a provincial organization. OP: What guarantee is there that a new organization will represent us any better or give us better service? NELSON: If all the colleges and universities join together, I think it will provide a better unity pack- age - we're going to try to provide the same services. OP: What are the major problems with CFS? NELSON: The problem with CFS is that they tried to go so big, so fast, they lost a lot Page 3 Page 5 Page 6 Some Poetry Page 8 Page 11 TENS IDE BOX Socreds make lousy dates First year fools The Great Divine Les Autre Funnies, of course people along the way. This isn’t a new problem. It takes almost a year to get out of CFS and I think they realize this - they know that most student politicians are only in for a year and by the time they get their shit together to protest, their out (of *. office) and the problem is See Nelson, Page 2 BC Transit refuses “political” By Dino Forlin An education awareness campaign has been refused publicity on transit vehicles after it was initially OK’d by the B.C. Transit Authority. “We see it as a form of political censorship,” — said DCSS vice-president Michael Booth. The ad campaign is being promoted by the CFS- Pacific Region and _ several lower mainland campuses, including Douglas College. The advertisements in question were designed to make the public aware of the education issues before the upcoming provincial _ elec- tion. “Our ads are non- partisan,” said Marg Fartaczek of the CFS-Pacific Office. “They don’t mention any political party. We just want to remind people of the problems in our educa- tion system before they vote.” ads The ads_ were initially allowed by Trans Ad, the transit publicity firm. How- ever, Trans Ad _ has _ since refused to display them, cit- ing the ads as “To political in ~ nature.” “It is a long standing policy of B.C. Transit not to permit political advertising in or outside of our buses,” said Bob’ Lingwood, an ex- ecutive director with the B.C. Transit Authority. This statement, however, was not accepted by Fartaczek. “We — submitted several proposals, each one more toned down in nature than the last,” se said. “We asked if they could point out the problems so they could be corrected.” “The reply was that the ads couldn’t be run at all.” “As far aS we are con- See Transit, Page 2 — Upcoming CFS referendum The Douglas College Student Society (DCSS) un- animously passed a motion calling for a referendum on continued participation in the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) at their Oct. 6th Senate meeting. The motion, moved by Vice-president Michael Booth, will see a campus- wide referendum - most likely a yes/no vote - held on Dec. 10th, 1986. The decision to call the referendum is part of a province-wide movement against the Ottawa-based student lobby group, led by the DCSS, according to society President Scott Nel- son. Plans are in the works to form a provincial group, similar to CFS, but oriented towards provincial —con- cerns, said Nelson. Douglas College joined CFS in 1982, at an annual general meeting where only eight people voted yes for the move. The DCSS pays $25,000 annually membership in the. organization, approxi- mately $3.75 per student each semester, which comes out of DCSS activity fees paid at registration. _ CFS also provides student services such as _ Student Savers, Travel Cuts and the Students Working Abroad Program (SWAP). DCSS President Nelson wants to leave CFS: provincial schools talk about an organization of their own Fraser By Dino Forlin Russ Fraser, B.C.’s_post- secondary education § minis- ter, has cancelled an ‘appearance at a benefit con- cert for student aid. Fraser, who was quoted in the Vancouver Province on October 5 as saying, “Maybe they (poor people) should put off their education if they can’t afford it,” was to speak to concerned students and concert-goers about B.C.’s student aid program. The benefit concert, billed as “Rock for Brains”, is organized by 5;F.U."s Ces J Student Society. The concert is intended to assist the CFS’s Student Assistance Task Force, which is holding forums at several B.C. campuses, including Douglas College on Oct. 16. ams” out The benefit concert featuring DOA, Key Change and the Rockin’ Fools, will be held Oct. 16 at the Commodore Ballroom. Ticket prices are $5 in adv- ance and $7 at the door. “Now Black Sabbath...they were nihilists.”"