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March 7,'1977

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Despite a student council
decision of Dec. 13°that all ‘‘free
non-student publications con-
taining advertisements should
not be allowed on campus” the
magazine Like It Is is appear-
ing at Douglas College.

_ The counselling and Student
Services in Surrey, to who the
magazine is sent, seemed in a
bit of confusion about the matter
when questioned about their
role as “willing distributors of a
private magazine. a

Marilyn Smith director of
Counselling and Student Ser-
vices said she was not much up
on the history and not aware of
the matter except for a memo
she had received in the mail.

Smith added that the’ Coun-
selling and Student Services
were trying to seek as much job
information as possible. ‘‘The
magazine often has a lot of
information on jobs and it is by a
Canadian publisher,”’ she said.

by Colleen Glynn
The Faculty Association of
Douglas College and College
Council are in dispute over the
continued existence of a positive

| evaluation committee.

After the resignation of two
faculty representatives on that
committee, the Faculty Associ-
| ation has recommended to Col-
lege Council's personnel com-
mittee that the positive evalu-
ation committee be disbanded.

Still awaiting this decision,
the positive evaluation commit-
tee has continued to function.
According to Don. Porter, ad-
ministration representative,
they have had much progress
with hearings on the problems
_ of instruction.

**The College Council does
not intend to disband this
committee,"’ said Porter.

Until recently, Douglas has

-never had any process in which

Did you know that with a
Douglas College student card

“you can borrow material from
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J.L. Steeves

Douglas College has now
received Ministry of Education
approval to expand its Adult
Basic Education (A.B.E.) pro-
gram on the Richmond Campus
to the grade 12 equivalency
level from the grade 10 level.

The A.B.E. program provides
upgrading in English, Mathe-
matics, and Science to the grade
10, 11 and 12 level to prepare
people for enrolment in vocat-
| ional or other specialized train-
| ing.

 

Mike It Is’

‘‘I cannot see how it interfer-
es with advertising in the Other
Press,"’ and added she will
check into the matter.

Sheila Dennison, of the -
Counselling department, said a
letter had already been sent to
LIKE_IT IS and that this issue
was a mistake.

She also said the current issue
of Like It Is at the New
Westminster campus (one reli-
able source said there was 12
boxes and an unknown amount
of the magazine waiting to be
distributed) had been ‘‘thrown
out.”"

Andre Piquette, also of the
Counselling Department, felt
they (the department) were
being used as a distributor.

‘I do not mind taking a few
copies for our bookshelves.”’
he said, *‘they are free.

Like It Is is a magazine
which is distributed ‘‘free’’ to
campuses. Posing as a ‘‘Student
the magazine car-

magazine’’,
ries a certain political line.

to evaluate programs or instruc-
tion.

_ In October, the postive eval-
uation committee was formed in
compliance with section 4.1.5 of
the Faculty Association/College

Council contract agreement. It

states that ‘‘Within thirty days
of signing this agreement, a
joint committee will be formed
for the purpopse of investigat-
ing the feasibility of a positive
evaluation process at all levels.
The faculty, staff, ac’ministrat-
ion and student body will each
appoint representatives to es-
tablish mutually agreeable de-
tails."

At the first and second meet-
ings of this committee it was felt
that the position of section 4.1.5
in the contract suggested that
positive evaluation was to be
used for contract negotiations.
In response to this, the College
Council and the Faculty Asso-

ster, Fraser Valley Regional
pulbic libraries?

Members of The Douglas
College Library Division gave a

ABE to be ex panded

Students may enter this pro-
gram at any time, and work at
their own pace until they ach-
ieve the level desired.

They may attend full-time (six
hours a day), or half-time, from
Monday through Thursday, in
the afternoons or evenings.

The cost is two dollars a
student for each full school day.

For more informaion, call the
Richmond campus of Douglas

College at 273-5461, and ask for

Counselling,

on campus

once again

Examples of this comes from
Unorthodox Investment Propo-
sal which Like It Is sent to
prospective investors:

‘‘Aside from the contributions
we will make to Canadian
culture and summer employ-.
ment, our publication has the
potential to contribute long term
benefits to the private sector...

_ ensure the survival of your

company in a social climate
where it can continue to grow
and prosper.”’

For many years it has been
the dream of the radical left to
launch a national student pub-
lication to promote its ideologi-
cal viewpoint. They. aiready
control much of the campus
media and will do their damn-
dest to scuttle us, particularly as
our lines of distribution spread
out across the country. They are
waiting in the wings to replace
us and we must stay three or
four steps ahead of them.”’

Positive Evaluation Committee
may be dis banded

ciation agreed to move the

clause to a less ambiguous

‘position in the contract.

In future meetings aims and
ubjectives were discussed and a
zonsensus was reached that the
sommittee proceed in two
stages:

1. a period of identifying
‘actors that needed evaluation.

2. a period of developing and
tssessing methods to evaluate
chese factors.

After these discussions Bob
Lowe, administration represen-
tative, put forward a motion that
the committee return to its task
as outlined in section 4.1.5 of
the Faculty Association agree-
ment. It was at this point that
the faculty representatives stat-
ed that positive evaluation was
not feasible and announced
their resignations.

Both faculty and representa-
tives were unavailable for com-
ment.

Libraries have more than thought?

BCIT, Burnaby, New Westmin-

presentation of their services at
Thursday's College Council
meeting in the New Westmin-

ster Boardroom.
The Douglas College Library

houses: 70,000 volumes - mostly
course related material; 1,080
serieals - magazines; Govern-
ment documents - mostly feder-
al.(described as the ‘‘only way
of access to government pol-
icy’’); archives - shows the
present history of the college
and other topics; 750 16mm
films - one of the largest
collections on the Lower Main-
land; video tapes and micro

film, 3
‘The library does over “10,000

transactions a year and one
member says it has two imme-
diate challenges: automation

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kathy Hancock
New Westminster Campus
Kathy attended the Special

it was poorly attended. She also
noticed that the Student Council
Chairman Ray Harris, tried to
tush through the Constitution

thought that the March 10 rally
to protest rising tuition fees was
a good idea, but she is skeptical
as to the results of the rally and
thinks that most students will
not attend. Despite this though,
she is planning to go.

and get it over with. Kathy:

Did you attend the
Special General Meeting held February 25,
and what did you think?

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rally is of utmost importance but.

Deane Miller
Richmond Campus
As is the case with many
students, Deane didn’t go to the
SGM, although he said that it

feels that the March 10 protest

like the SGM will probably be
poorly attended. Deane will
probably go to the protest rally
but he is sure that its succes
will only be marginal.

 

Kenton Harris

Surrey Campus
Kenton had a class during the
SGM and therefore could not

about the meeting, though, was

ing students, running through
the halls, trying to drum up
enough students to make a
quorum for the SGM.”’

Despite the ‘‘poor advertis-
ling,’’ of the meeting, Kenton
was able to find out some
information about it. He defin-
itely agrees with the decision to
walk out on March 10 and plans
to attend the rally.

 

attend. The only reason he knew -

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fa. than National Student Day.

   

"= then cry and complain after it

_ often, people sit around and

Arnie Nermo
Coquitlam Campus

Arnie wasn't really aware that
the meeting took place but does
recall reading something about
it in The Other Press. He was
happy though, to find out about
the affirmative decision to ate
tend the March 10 Protest Rally,
and hopes it is more successful

Arnie would like to see a good
60s style rally with lots of spirit
and adds ‘‘the students must do
something about tuition increa-
ses now before its too late. Too

wait until something happens.

happens, when there is nothing
that can be done.”’

 

 

  

 

 

and. control of book theft: —\.