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Student Society President Kevin

Hallgate talking to College Board

TORONTO (CUP) - Nicar-
agua’s Sandinista govern-
ment declared a national
state of emergency March
14, ‘‘to counter imminent
aggression coming from the
U.S.’’, according to Carlos-
Fernando Chamorro, editor
of Barricada.

Chamorro, in Canada to
publicize the current status
of Nicaragua, said the U-
nited States administration
is pouring funds into out-
side efforts to destabilize
the leftist Sandinista gov-
ernment. He was a guest
speaker March 29 at a
Toronto conference, ‘‘Social
Movement, Social Change:
The Remaking of Latin A-
merica’’. .

“Since the moment. the
Sandinistas took power,
they h ave been engaged in
the important process of
agrarian reforms and of
constructing a system of
pluralism and democracy,’’
Chamorro said.

But the Nicaraguans face
opposition, he said. There
are 2,000 National Guards,
loyal to deposed dictator
Anastazio Samoza, concen-
trated on the northern bor-
der of neighbouring Hon-
duras.

{to att guerillas, prepared

to attack at any moment,

_US money hurting
~“reformists

are believed to be support-
ed by the sympathetic Hon-
duran Armed Forces, said
Chamorro. There are also
22 Argentinian army of-
ficers in Honduras, active
in training the guerillas.

Chamorro claimed that
$19 million has been pump-
ed into destabilizing op-
erations by the United
States National Security
Council since last Novem-
ber.

The U.S. operations, he
told a press conference,
have included attacks a-
gainst some ‘‘crucial cen-
tres of Nicaragua’s econo-
mic .infrastructure.’’ He
said some bridges in the
country have been destroy-
ed by the Samoza guerillas,
and cement plants have
been blown up.

‘There are great U.S.
military activities taking
place all over the Carrib-
bean and Central America,
proposing hostile action in
Nicaragua,’’ said Chamor-
ro.

Chamorro is the founding
editor of Barricada, one of
the daily newspapers in
Nicaragua and the official
voice of the Sandinista Na-
tional Liberation Front
(FSLN).

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RBS oN Pert ome ALE en

by lan Hunter

‘‘The students of Douglas
College are willing to pay a
price for their education,’’
said outgoing Student So-
ciety President Kevin Hall-
gate to the College Board
April 1st. Hallgate was
recommending raising tui-

tion fees for part time.

students in order to save
summer school.

The board accepted Hall-
gate’s proposal. Earlier that
week, the college manage-
ment discussed raising tui-
tion fees and shutting
summer school in order to
curb an expected half mil-
lion dollar deficit in the
college budget next year.

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commend the College Board
increase tuition from $12
per credit to $14 per credit,
with a maximum tuition of
$196 for full time students.
This would keep tuition at
5%% of the total college
budget. Chopping an al-
ready depleated summer
school would save about
$60,000.

The board instead took
Hallgate’s recommendation
of raising tuition to $15 per
credit while keeping the
‘maximum at $195, thus
affecting the part time stu-
dents more. This would
raise the $60,000 needed to
keep summer school! going.

' Tuition hike saves summer school —

Enrolment for summer
school this year is expected
to be around a thousand
students.

‘People figure we -(stu-
dents) are out for a free
ride,’ said Hallgate, ‘‘but
we’ve tried to show by our
recommendation that our
education means more to us
than money.’’

Mike Miller, a Canadian
Federation of Students
fieldworker, said of the
decision, ‘‘its just another
example of students making
‘up for government cut-
backs.’’

 

 

 

Douglas College given computer

by lan Hunter

Obsolecence sometimes
has its rewards... at least
for Douglas College it does.
Douglas has just acquired,
for free, an IBM computer
that originally cost around
$350,000 dollars in 1974
when the machine was
bought by Weldwood, a
logging company.

Dave Reed, Operations
Manager at Weldwood said,

the machine has no. mar-
ket value, its obsolete. If
we were to sell it we would
be practically giving it
away. By giving it to an
educational institution -we
can at least get some tax
writeoff and the students

get to use it, so it is to our
mutual benefit,’’ said Reed.

Reed says the machine
was costing too much to
maintain. ‘‘For roughly the
same price (of the original
computer) we get the new
IBM which has about 8
times the capacity of the
old machine, with four mil-
lion bits of information in
its memory as well as being
more efficient and cheaper
to run.”’

Marsh Price, a computer
specialist at Douglas who
made the deal with Reed
said it will aid the students
greatly in understanding
computers. ‘‘Some of the

circuits in the machine that
Weldwood gave us are the
size of dinner plates and
because of miniturization,’’
says Reed, ‘‘those same
circuits are the size of
postage stamps.’’ The larg-
er sized circuits will allow
the students to see what is
in the circuit.

“It was very good of
Weldwood to give it to us,’’
said Price.

The computer is now in
storage at the Winslow
campus of Douglas College.
It will be moved into the
new campus in New West

which is scheduled to open |*--;
in September. :

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