The Douglas College Stu-
dent Senate, at the last senate
meeting, asked Wayne Schm-
uland for his resignation from

 

by KAREN HOOEY

 

the position of secretary. This
request was made of Schmu-
land because he is allegedly
not doing his job, as well as
the ‘‘misuse and abuse’’ of
his position.

A usually reliable source in
the senate who asked not to
be named “Stated that ‘/The
wise and wonderful Mr. Sch-
muland took it upon himself
to cancel, independent of exe-
cutive or senate approval, the
clothing sale scheduled for

February 26 and 27, a repeat
of last month’s clothing sale.
Apparently, Mr. Schmuland,
an entrepreneur extraordinar
has decided to undertake to
become the Douglas College
haberdasher.’’

Schmuland phoned Rita
Dabgotra of Dress for Less to
cancel the sale, stating the
campus was ‘‘too busy those
two days.’’ He later phoned
her and told her his intentions
for cancelling her sale—he
wanted to have his own. But
he found out through the
administration that he would
have to go through the stu-
dent senate.

Schmuland also admitted
he was doing it ‘‘for personal
gain.’’ Dabgotra, having been
in this business nine years,
donates funds to the Douglas
College Day Care Centre. The
last sale, she donated $50,
which was used to buy some
new toys.-She hoped to do-
nate 100 percent.of the funds
raised from the sale of her
1985 stock in this month’s
sale. »

D.C.S.S. president Michael

. Glavin stated that ‘‘It seems
inconceivable to me that any
member of a student society
can, in good conscience, man-
ipulate a position of authority
in such a way as to personally
profit from the position.’’

Schmuland admits he had
abused his position on the

senate. In regards to the alle-
gations of his failure to do his
job as secretary, he stated, ‘‘|
do the job as best to my
ability with time allotted after
my classes and everything
else.’’

The senate. asked for Sch-
muland’s resignation as they
say he was supposedly not
doing his job. According to
Schmuland, his job is to ‘‘do
things that need doing such
as phoning, signing cheques,
arranging social activities’’ as
‘well as other secretarial du-

ties like writing memos and
letters.
The Constitution, in Bylaw 6,
states that the secretary. is
also in charge of distributing
copies of the senate meeting
agendas, as well as minutes;
that he/she ensures the main-
tenance of all committees in
the college and brings forth
all problems; also he/she is
responsible for dealing with
internal matters between
clubs, associations and other
groups within the college.
Although the senate voted

for Schmuland’s resignation,
he declined to resign. Glavin
stated ‘‘His refusal to resign
is in keeping with his char-
acter.’’

Schmuland states that this
is the second time he has
been asked for his resig-
nation. He said he declined
the first time because the per-
son asking had no just cause,
only ‘‘biased opinions’’.

‘“As a letter which | wrote
basically stated, nothing has
been done to benefit the
students this semester and

axing and Wayneing .

last semester, and | feel
nothing will be able to be
done. We should now: drop
our personal dislikes towards

‘one another and try to do

whatever we can to aid the
students of Douglas College
as one.’’

The senate will ask Schmu-
land for his resignation at the
Annual General Meeting on
March 27th. As before, Sch-
muland says he will ‘decline’,
but will in turn ask for the
impeachment of the presi-
dent, Michael Glavin.

 

Feds

The Federal Government
has announced it’s Challenge
86 summer jobs creation pro-
gram for students, but the
Canadian Federation of Stu-
dents is not impressed.

“Students in B.C. are be-
ing short-changed’’, stated
Terry Hunt, Pacific Region
Chairperson of the CFS.

“Although B.C. has the
second highest youth unem-
ployment rate in Canada, the
federal government has. cut
the B.C. allotment of Chal-
enge 86 funding. And B.C.
students get the lowest wage
in Canada under the program.

Canada-wide funding for
challenge 86 increased by 212
per cent from last year’s
spending, yet funding for the
B.C. portion of the program
was reduced from $19,423,000
in 1985 to $17,940,000 this
year. This represents a cut-
back of 7.6 per cent in jobs for
British Columbians.

As well, since the Chal-
enge 86 jobs in the non-profit
sector base the wage on the

 

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No food for students
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No Smoking
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If music be the food
of love, play’on........... p.12

 

 

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attend Oxfam-Canada and the Canadian
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conference at U.B.C. Hospital.
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would make the difference
between going back to school
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