Vander Zalm _ says no - Bursaries — Vander Zalm said unless the federal government acts quickly to increase its’ com- mitment to student aid, B.C. will have to find a way to deal on its’ own with the increasing financial needs of student applicants. An all-loan program would be more expensive to admin- ister than the B.C. student aid plan which supplements the federal loans with grants, Photographer gets a chance to say goodbye to the old campus as it gets taken apart and hauled away. Sa Eat. a - = THE is ag O fy : NS ae COUN CMEC chair and Ontario education minister Betty Stephenson would not rel- ease details of the minister’s discussion with Joyal, but it appears that the $1,800 fed-. eral student loan ceiling will be raised by $1,000. B.C. student aide recip- ients may find their . non- repayable grants replaced by loans next year. A provincial all-loan stud- ent aid plan is one of the options being considered by the B.C. Social Credit gov- ernment, education minister Bill VanderZalm said follow- ing a two day council of Ministers of Education meet- ing this week. a een = = spmeaaeall. = = a= — VOLUME 14 NUMBER 4 FEBRUARY 16,1983 HER PRESS ~ DOUGLAS COLLEGE STUDENT NE WSPAPER VANCOUVER (CUP)--Student groups are beginning to or- ganize against the B.C. overnment’s anitcipated reeze on university funding. - The freeze will actually mean a drop in funding because B.C.’s current inflation rite will not be taken into consider- ation said a University of B.C. Board of Governors member. Student representative Dave Dale said cutbacks will be in- evitable if UBC recieves the Gov't versit same level of funding for next year as it did in 1982-83. “The public should be informed that cuts in university funding are ulti- mately unfavourable for the public. It’s cheaper to educate a person than to support him or her on welfare,’’ said Dale. The Canadian Federation of Students(CFS) will coordinate action among student associa- tions from UBC, University of Victoria, Simon Fraser Freezes he said. But switching to strictly loans will make more money available next year for needy students, Vander Zalm added. At the Victoria conference, B.C. education officials rev- ealed significant tuition fee increases may be coming. But student aid was the prin- ciple topic of discussion. Secretary of State Serge Joyal, the minister respon- sible for the Canada student loan program, met with pro- vincial education ministers before the conference. An expected announcement by Joyal concerning loans never materialized. Joyal indicated to the CMEC last fall the federal government was considering a national bursary plan fin- anced by the removal of stu- dent education tax deduct- ions to replace the existing Media Tries New West 5 VANCOUVER (CUP)-- The five people charged with sab- otage greeted each other with hugs and smiles as_ they entered a packed Vancouver courtroom Jan. 26. Their legs were shackled, but they waved cheerfully to the crowd. ‘‘Be strong and resist always,’’ shouted de- fendant Ann Hansen in the courtroom. The five, who face 15 charges each in connection -with the bombings of the Litton plant near Toronto, a Vancouver Island B.C. Hydro substation and three Red Hot Video pornography outlets, ap- peared in court for 12 minutes. The hearing was postponed until Feb.21 to allow defence lawyers time to obtain infor- mation about the charges from The Crown. Seventy-five people squeezed into the courtroom for the hearing, while court sheriffs turned away another 75. Plainclothes police listened to conversations in the waiting crowd and officials thoroughly searched the people entering the court- room. A ban on publication of ev- idence was ordered by Judge Brian Bastin. ‘“We know very little about the case,’’ said defence lawyer Judy Gedye. ‘‘We’re getting our information from the news media’. Another defence lawyer, Don Muldoon, said police are giving information to the news media and are attempting to try the accused in the press. “I’m offended by the way the police are handling the case,”’ he said. ‘“The police have done a great deal of dam- age to the rights of these in- dividuals to ensure that they have a fair trial.’”’ Muldoon said lawyers could only talk to their defendants through monitored telephone conversations during the two days they spent in Vancouver police cells. The five were taken to Okal- ia and Lakeside prisons Jan.22 after lawyers requested they be moved from police cells where they were subject to intense interogation Charged are Hansen, 29 Brent Taylor, 26, Gerald Hannah, 26, Douglas Stewart, 25, and Juliet Belmas, 20. federal student loans. | University and community colleges said Donna Morgan, chair of CFS pacific region. CFS will present briefs to government officials which will emphasize . the universities’ contribution to B.C.’s economy. ‘The current economic policies will stamp out any Icag term growth in B.C. The government should include education among its top priorities,’’ said Morgan. The education of society is the best step towards pro- gress. orientation seminar by Glen Nazaruk Institutional Representatives from BCIT* Simon Fraser, UBC, and U VIC will be cond- ucting an orientation session at Douglas College from 1-4 on March 10. Students will be given one half hour to spend alone in consultation with each academic advisor they choose to see. All interviews must be made by appointment on or before March 10. Coucnsellors and academic advisors from the institutions taking part will answer any questions and provide educat- ional direction to any interest- ed students. This session will be of a special intrest to any transfer students who may be in need of more information.