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Volume IV 5

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The Douglas College Student newspaper serving the campuses of: Richmond, Coquitlam,Surrey, Haney,and New Westminster.

 

 

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The future redevelopment
of New Westminster as a
regional town centre will
hinge on a decision by
Douglas College to relocate

| its New Westminster campus

in the city’s downtown core.

College council is expected
to reach a decision within
two weeks on whether to
accept a proposal by the
British Columbia Develop-
ment Corporation (BCDC) to
construct a new $16 million
campus as part of a massive
$150 million downtown rede-
velopment scheme for New
Westminster.

BCDC project director Rob-
ert McIntyre told ee
council this week that the
college’s involvement ‘‘is
one of the critical factors’’ to
the project because the “
market population from the
co is needed.’’
2aet to himself as ‘‘a
fairly tough-assed planner’,
McIntyre said if the college
did not relocate the campus,
developers would pull out of
the project, and New West-
minster would never become
a regional town centre. He

) said if this was to happen,

_the Greater Vancouver Reg-
ional District’s whole ‘‘live-
able region’’ program for
decentralized growth in the
Lower Mainland would have
to be scrapped.

“We (BCDC) ask you to
make a commitment because
we have made commitments.

_‘Talktoour Communities beamed courses
lawyers — FANDU

VANCOUVER(CUP)-‘‘Don‘t
talk to us, talk to our
lawyers‘‘is the position the
Faculty Association of Notre
Dame University is taking
towards the B.C. govern-
ment.
FANDU is a three-year-old
‘union that has been without
a boss ever. since the B.C.
government closed down the
NDU earlier this year, and

| replaced it with the David

Thompson University Cen-
tre.

Bill 91, a recently-passed
omnibus bill that decertifies
B.C.‘s university faculty un-
ions, does not apply to NDU

| because it no longer exists,

which leaves FANDU, the

| only university faculty union

in the province.

~ Downtown campus inevitable

..If we don’t do this BCDC
will lose credibility. We want
to make links so tight that no
link will be able to drop out,’’.
he said.

McIntyre said the city

would vote on the project

within two weeks, and he
asked council to do the same,
adding, ‘‘the question that
faces you is of great magni-
tude...(but) I don’t think
people have a choice. This
as got to work.”’

The plan, favorably. recei-
ved by city nel at its
unveiling Sept. 26, calls for a
20-year redevelopment of
New Westminster’s decay-
ing downtown core to include
the campus, a new justice
centre, Provincial and Fede-
ral offices, a 2,500-seat per-
forming arts centre, a mono-
rail or aerial tram and devel-
opment of the waterfront
with construction of a resid-
ential and hotel complex.
Residential development is
also planned for the present
Douglas College site. The
project will be contained
within a 100-acre area and is
expected to increase the
city’s population by 25,000,
as well as provide about
2,000 permanent jobs.

The proposed college cam-
pus would be located on
50,000 square feet of build-
ing area, the site originally
earmarked for construction
of the Insurance Corporation

The problem is that it
doesn‘t have an employee,
and the union isnt talking to
the government. But the
Ministry of Education is
“entertaining the notion of
negotiating’‘ according to
University of British Colum-
bia Faculty Association pre-
sident Richard Roydhouse.

Roydhouse has been acting
as a low-profile mediator

‘between the union and the

government but the gover-
nment's response has had all
the impact of ‘‘warm ice
cream‘‘, Roydhouse said.
FANDU wants all the rights
of acertified union no matter
who its members end up
working for, but currently it
has not employer and no
workplace.

 

College'Coucil ponders BCDC assessment consultant’s display during project unveiling

City’s future up to college

BY GORD ISFELD

 

 

 

 

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of British Columbia’s (ICBC)
regional head office.

e college will have the
option to either build on the
whole site area with extra
floors constructed as the
college expands horizontally
or to build only on a portion
of the site and eteaat
vertically later.

McIntyre said it was the
college’s ‘‘sphere of influ-
ence’’ that would increase by

Five community colleges in
B.C. have been selected for an
eight-week experiment later
this month to receive lectures
via satelite from Vancouver --

and the students will in turn

be able to respond to the
lecture over the screen.

The lectures will originate
from the provincial educatio-
nal media centre at the B.C.
Institute of Technology and be
beamed to the U.S.-Canadian
satelite Hermes, then redirec-
ted to small receiver stations
in Chilliwack, Dawson Creek,
Kelowna, Campbell River and
Pitt Lake.

The satelite courses, comp-
lementing extending methods
of adult education, will be

selected by B.C.‘s three major

universities and community
colleges.
This is taking advantage of
ne latest technological devel-
‘ments,’’ Education Minis-
Pat McGeer said in annou-
cing the program. He said if
.€ experiment is successful,
could be expanded to inc-
ide more students as well as
he general public, in other
»C. communities.
the ability to ask questions

such relocation and the issue
of the college’s growth were
“‘only second order quest-
ions.”’

The plan calls for the pres-
ent site owned by Douglas
College to be used for resid-
ential development, with the
college’s recreational and
sports facilities being devel-
oped on a 175,000 square
foot area adjacent to the site.
No figures on the cost of

“nd receive instant answers,
nd for lecturer and student to
e each other, will provide
iperior education for people
. remote areas, he said.
‘cGeer said it is not econo-
.cally practical to build col-
4¢8 and universities in spar-

populated areas, nor to

‘ve people in those areas

end urban universities and

sleges,

Most ‘face-to-face’ viewing
vill be from special classes at

cal community colleges,
with microphones at the
chools to allow two-way com-

“iunication.

At Pitt Lake, there will be
:udio, telephone and televi-
sion equipment installed in
“gging camps so that loggers
in the area can also participate
-n the courses.

'n Chilliwack, Campbell Ri-
~er and Kelowna the instruc-
ion will also be carried by
.ablevision to private homes.

Pat Carney, manager of the
Distance Education Planning

Group which has been organ- ©

izing the network, said the
federal department of com-
munication has provided the
free channel on the satelite as

relocating the college are
known.

College council chairman
John Sutherland told MclIn-
tyre that the college would
not to be pressured into an
early decision. ‘‘In no way is
anyone to assume that
council has made up its
mind,’’ he said.

Sutherland stated council

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well as all the ground stations
and transmitters.

The B.C. education ministry,
she said, has contributed ab-
out $50,000 towards the prog-
ram, with extra funds to come
out of all the other institu-
tions.

Carney said a meeting will be
held at BCIT next week for
representatives from test
communities to assess the
possible number of students
that will be involved.

Deputy Education Minister
Walter Hardwick has said the
material that goes out through
the TV cable systems is going
to be readily available to
anyone who wants to use it.
What we are doing here (with
satelite) is moving into the
post-secondary and adult ed-
ucation areas, which the mini-
stry has not been performing
in a significant Goan in the
past.

McGeer feels the distance
education ‘‘is a high priority
of this government. Commu-
nications satelites could prove
much more practical than
microwave systems or land
lines, given B.C.‘s size and
topography.”’ ;