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Loan
Process

Detrimental
To Students

For as long as I can
remember, people have said
“get a higher education. You'll
have a better chance at a
good job.”

But what can you do
when a) the loan that you
need in order to go to school
and keep you alive is late; b)
by the time you do register
the only class left is Library
Skills; c) two weeks into the
semester the faculty are
threatening to strike. Really
makes you want to attend a
post secondary institution,
doesn’t it?

For those of you who
are down to eating macaroni
without the cheese because

_ your loan is late, go to Stu-

dent Finance for an emer-
gency loan. You should only
have to wait a week for an
appointment.

The reason behind the
delay in student loan docu-
ments 1s due tO understaring
in the finance office during
the summer. Even those who
filed before early dead line
are waiting. (At the time this
article was written, Student
Finance were still waiting a
large amount of documents
to come in.)

Again this year, the college

 

 

 

 

 

 

had to turn away students
because all classes were full.
If you did get Library Skills,
you were fortunate. Accord-
ing to Trish Angus, the col-
lege Registrar, the official
number of students turned
away is unknown as of yet,
but university transfer stu-
dents alone made up 250-
300. of those turned away.
We can thank our es-
teemed government for this
problem. They do not see the
need to allocate more funds
to meet our increased popu-
lation. And finally, many
students do not realise that
the faculty are currently dis-
cussing strike action. So, even
if you did get all yourclasses,
you may not have a teacher.
You may eventually get a
‘higher education’ - if you

 

 

 

 

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deems to be sexist,
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Student Society
Elections
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can take late loans, full
classes, and threatened fac-
ulty strikes without having
a nervous breakdown. So, the
next time someone tells you
that having a higher educa-
tion will get you ‘ahead’ in
life, ask them if they really
think it’s worth the stress.
Then throw something at
them!

Rachael Burnett

No

Excuse

For
Under-

- funding

Lack of government
funding for post-secondary
institutions has left B.C.
colleges and universities with
too few seats for too many
students. While our provin-

Cla. BYUVErLLUeLL 16s COmpiain-
ing about the low percent-
ages of high school students
who go on to attend college
or university the same gov-
ernment refuses to ade-
quately fund these institu-
tions.

Presently in B.C., only
six percent of the total edu-
cation operating budget is
funded by the provincial

government. Compare this
to the fifty percent funding
Quebec provides for it’s col-
lege and universities. This
lack of funding causes in-
creased tuition fees and se-
verely limits the avalablity
of money for building expan-
sions. Tuition at S.F.U. is
fifty-two dollars to a credit
while McGill University in
Quebec is nineteen dollars a
credit.

Douglas College is a
good example of the scarcity
of funding for expansions.
Current enrollment is esti-
mated at 6500 but there are
only 259 seats in our library
and 500 on-campus parking
stalls, which must be shared
with the staff. The building
was originally designed to
allow for expansion on the
north building but so far the
government has decided that
this expansion is either not
needed or not economically
feasible.

Expansion would allow
for the hiring of more faculty
and open up more class room
space. With expansion the
problem of students waiting
several semesters for intro-
ductory level courses could

. be avoided. If the cost of tui-

tion would decrease then
perhaps more high school
students would opt for con-
tinuing on into post-secon-

dary education: ;

 

 

 

‘Thanks A Bunch, Ted!

to the Other Press,

The Student Society, on
behalf of all students at
Douglas College, would like
to take this oppurtunity to
thank Ted Malek, Manager

‘ of the college cafeteria, fir

his co-operation and geuer-
osity in providing coffee and
donuts at reduced cost dur-
ing the Fall 1989 registra-
tion process. This service to

students assists greatly in
alleviating the starins of
registering for calsses.

Mr Malek has provided
similar assistance in the past
and we would like to acknowl-
edge him for this.

- » Thanks Ted.

Rose Grassmann
Treasurer
D.C.S.S.