TORONTO (CUP)--Ontario Col-
lege and university students will
face tuition fee increases of 30
and 17 per cent next year, the
provincial government announ-
ced Thursday (Nov. 25).

Harry Parrott, colleges and

universities minister, also an-
nounced operating grant increa-
ses for each type of institution
on only 8.7 per cent and eight
per cent.
Community college students
will pay an additional $75 push-
ing fees from $250 to $325.
University students face an
increase of about $100, pushing
their tution fees to about $700.

The provincial government

VANCOUVER (CUP)--Anti-Tri-
dent protestor Jim Douglass
was hauled out of a U.S. district
courtroom last Tuesday as he
tried to read a prepared state-
ment before he was sentenced
on two counts of trespassing and
destruction of government pro-
perty.

Douglass and four other pro-
testors received sentences rang-
ing from 30 to 90 days on
charges stemming from a fence-

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cannot order the fee increase,
but by cutting back on operating
grant increases, institutions will
be forced to levy fee increases in
order to meet costs.

Parrott said the funding pro-
gram is designed to make
students pay a larger share of
education costs. ‘“The increased
costs faced by universities and
colleges should be borne in part
by the students who use them
and in part by the taxpayer,’ he
said.

Parrott also announced in-
creases in the budget of the
Ontario Student Assistance Pro-
gram from $61 million to $74
million next year. However,

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in Bangor, Wash.

The protestors were members
of the Pacific Life Communities
in New Westminster and Seat-
tle.

The PLC is a pacifist group
aiming to halt the spread of
nuclear weapons through non-
violent protest.

Douglass and John William of
Seattle have both said they will
fast through their entire 90 day
jail terms. The two men receiv-

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students must still take out a
$7,000 loan before receiving
provincial grants, he said.
Parrott said higher tuition
fees will be taken into account
when students apply for finan-
cial assistance. ‘‘As in the past,
students who can’t pay their full
share of education costs may
apply for financial assistance
from OSAP,”’ he said.
Ontario’s 22 colleges will
receive a total of $250 million in
operating grants, up from $230
million, while universities will
receive $713 million, up from
projected expenditures this year
of $651 million at the province’s
15 publically funded universities

ed concurrent 60 and 90 days on
trespassing and destruction
charges, as did Jo Maynes, also
of Seattle.

Douglass completed a 39-day
fast of in Washington D.C.,
ending Nov. 2. He lost 34
pounds in that fast, but PLC

member Marty Osberg of the »

Community’s house in New
Westminster said last Wednes-
day Douglass has regained his
weight and strength.

. Magistrate John Weinberg
gave Douglass’ wife Shelley
“concurrent 39 and 60-day sen-
tences for the same offenses and
Caroline Wildflower of Seattle
was sentenced to 30 days for
illegally re-entering the Trident
base after receiving a previous
barring letter.

The Aug. 8 demonstration
protested the building of the
Trident base, which by 1979 will
be the home of at least 10
550-foot nuclear subs.

The submarines are designed
to each carry 408 individually
guided nuclear warheads, which
will make the trident system the
most powerful in the world. It
will be capable of launching a
first-strike assault of at least
4,080 targets at once.

Half-way through reading his
prepared statement, Douglass,
who holds joint Canadian and
American citizenship, began to
speak about Canada-U.S. relat-
ionships and Canadian involve-
ment in the Trident project.

Weinberg declared this irrel-
evant and asked Douglass to
confine his remarks to the case.

Douglas continued reading

from his statement and Wein-.

berg order him removed from
the court.

A sixth convicted protestor,
who was also scheduled to be
sentenced Tuesday, did not
appear in court. Laurie Ray-
mond was arrested last Monday
night by Washington police for
spray-painting a downtown
Seattle theatre and was still in
jail at the time of sentencing.

She was sentenced Dec. 6

and other post-secondary insti-
tutions.

Next year’s increases are
down from this year’s operating
grant increase of 14.4 per cent
and follow a trend set by the
provincial government in recent
years of steadily decreasing
increases in post-secondary
operating grants.

For the 1975-76 academic
year, funding for universities
and colleges increase 16.9 per
cent, a drop from the 19.6
increase the previous year.

According to Parrott’s fig-
ures, university students will
pay 15 per cent of their educat-
ion costs while college students

with three other people arrested
at the Aug. 8 protest.

The protestors are being held
in the King county jail in
Seattle.

Three other Anti-Trident pro-
testors were found guilty last
Tuesday in Seattle on charges of
destruction of government pro-

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Tuition fees hiked in Ontario

will assume 13 per cent after the
increases are in effect.

The Ontario Federation of
Students called an emergency
session of its. member campus-
es for Sunday (Nov. 28) to
decide strategy for dealing with
the tuition hike.

The four-year-old federation
has concentrated on opposition
to tuition fee hikes and student
aid policies since it was formed
in 1972.

When university fees were
increased $100 at that time, the
federation organized a tuition
fee boycott. The boycott was
followed by a four-year freeze
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Trident protesters given jail sentences

perty during another fence-cut-
ting protest at the Bangor base
Sept. 19.

They will be sentenced Dec.
30 by Judge Donald Voorhees,
who earlier this year gave
30-day jail terms to three wom-
en involved in a May demon-
stration inside the base.

 

Christmas fund-raising

at Douglas

Surrey Campus rep Blake
Murray and Richmond campus
rep Jack Lich have invited
students at Douglas College to
participate in two Christmas
fund-raising campaigns for the
Richmond Children’s Hospital
as well as for children of poor
families.

Murray’s project, being assis-
ted by Sheilagh Cahill, began
last Monday, and it will include
placing ‘‘hamper boxes at the
four campuses where students
can put food, clothes, or gifts.’’

He said he intended to ap-
proach retail and department
stores as well as residences, for
cash donations and gifts. He
said he needed. the help of
students to canvass residences
for the project, which will

concentrate on the New West--

minster area.

“Tm going to dress up as
Santa Claus and go knocking on
doors,’’ he said. ‘‘I don’t care if
they call me nuts.”’

Students have been asked to
watch for posters on the campu-
ses, and if they would like to
help, to call the Student Society
office at 522-6038 or drop in at
the Student Council office at the
Surrey campus.

Jack Lich’s project, though
similar in purpose, is notably
different in strategy. In an
attempt to raise money for a
new children’s hospital, Lich
has organized a ‘‘drinkathon”’
at the Steveston Hotel Dec. 4.

The 12-member team have
asked students to pledge five
cents or more per beer, for any

or all team members.
The team will donate $20 of
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Surrey Reps Blake Murray

“*We will drink until we pass out
or we run out of money,’’ Lich
said last Friday. Contributors
are asked to call 522-6038.

   
   

 

 

 

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