campus chair

by DAN HILBORN

More than a year after the
first presidential search be-
gan an announcement is
expected this week naming
the new presidents for both
Douglas and Kwantlen Coll-
eges.

The search committee
screened over 90 applicants
before making their final
presentation of five candid-
ates to the college board.

During the course of the
search three members of the
oe, Helen Casher,

the college board chairper-
son, Jack Finnbogason, the
faculty association presid-
ent, and Richard Rittenburg,
a management consultant,
went across Canada to inter-
view candidates for the posi-
tions,

Kevin Hallgate, who also
Sat on the committee, said,
‘“‘The candidates we recom-
mended to the board will all
be extremely well qualified
to become the president of
either Douglas or Kwant-
len.’’

Leo Hungle, another com-
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week, “‘The whole process
has gone quite well and the
entire committee has done a
commendable job.”’
‘*Special tribute should be
payed to Leslie Brett and
Kevin Hallgate, who asked a

“(Me and Bill here both think that eveyone should sign this
tuition petition,” says Tim Shein the Maple Ridge

New presidents soon

number of questions on the
students’ behalf,’’ added
Hungle.

Hallgate said, ‘‘The com-
mittee deserves the thanks
of the students and the
multi-campus council.”’

 

The Other Pr

The Douglas College student newspaper serving New Westminster, Richmond, |
Surrey, Newton, Langley. Coquitlam, Maple Maple Ridge anc and Agnes ot. Campuses. }

by DAN HILBORN

Ron Burnstad the Douglas
College student society trea-
surer was at a conference of
the BC Students Federation
November 20-23 where plans
to battle tuition increases
across the province were
presented.

The federation asked for a
student fee increase of $1.25
to raise the total cost of
membership to $3.50 per
student per year. The extra
money would be used to hire
two more staff people.

‘*Personally, I’m against
raising student fees,’’ said
Burnstad, ‘‘but there are
people who'd disagree with
me."

Burnstad was also told
that Douglas College could
expect a 32 per cent tuition
hike for next year. ‘‘But I’ve
heard different,’’ he said.

Under one of several pro-
posals presented by the min-
istry of education it was
calculated that the average
full-time science student at
Douglas would pay $194 per
semester, an increase of 55
per cent.

The proposal, which is
calculated on the number of
hours the student spends in
the classroom (student con-
tact hours), is designed to
give equitable fees across
the province, however, pre-
liminary reports indicate
that the proposal would
bring increases to the major-
ity of colleges.

Bill Carvell, New West-
minster campus chairperson,

Costumes pilfered from drama dept.

by JAYNE AKIZUKI

The Douglas College the-
atre department would like
its costumes back.

It was discovered that
costumes from past produc-
tions were missing after they
were recently moved from
the Coquitlam campus to the
Agnes St. campus.

Among the missing artic-
les are medieval costumes,
several hats, two crowns, a
green Victorian dress, fen-
cing equipment and several
RCMP jackets.

Department head Dorothy
Jones believes that the cos-
tumes were borrowed for
Halloween parties. She
stress that no questions
would be asked of anyone
returning a costume. The
costumes can be left at any
campus with instructions for

the courier service to deliver
them to Agnes St.

Got any costumes you no
longer need? The theatre

department welcomes © all
donations. If you’d like to
donate something please call
Dorothy Jones at 536-7798.

Tokers fried?

[ZNS]- The chief of the
police force in Nashville,
Tennesse, says that people
convicted of importing mari-
juana or selling pot to min-
ors should be put to death in
the electric chair.

Chief Joe Casey says he
would also recommend the
death penalty for anyone
convicted three times for
either growing pot or selling
it to adults.

Says Casey, ‘‘you catch a
person selling it to a minor
and he ought to be electro-
cuted. He has killed that

person. He has destroyed
that person’s life.’’

The Nashville chief insists
that stern measures are nec-
essary because marijuana
penalties in most US juris-
dictions ‘‘are not expensive
enough. People have to pay
for it with their lives,’’ he
says.

Casey admits that many
people may look on him asa
“‘horrible, cruel and hard old
chief.’’ But, he adds, some-
thing has to be done to stop
the spread of marijuana and
other drugs.

[Drama dept...pg6

Tuesday, December 9, 1980.

  

 

says that he would like to
know what the increase is
before getting too upset.
The student society has
been distributing a petition
protesting any hike for the
past week and a half on all
nine campuses. Kevin Hall-
gate told council at the
December 1 MCC meeting
that he expects at least half
of the college’s 6,500 stu-
dents to sign the petition.

Burnstad said that a day
of action was being planned
to pressure the provincial
government into doing an
accessibility study before
tuition is raised. ‘‘Tuition is
something you’ve got to go
out and fight,’’ he said.

Tim Shein the Coquitlam
and Maple Ridge chairper-
son said that he has gotten
60 signatures out of a cam-
pus population of about 580.

‘““‘We may get 100-200
from Coquitlam but for some
reason some people don’t
care,’’ Shein said.

On the New Westminster
campus Carvell is unsure of
the response to the petition
because the information cen-
tre has done the major
portion of the canvassing
and has yet to return any
signatures.

“T'd guestimate that we
can get 500 signatures,’’
said Carvell, ‘‘but a lot of
reps are having difficulty
justifying missing a project
or failing an exam just to gc
get signatures for the peti-.
tion.”’

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SS wrap-up ..pg3

Financial aid.pg7
Maple Ridge..pg8

Reviews.....pg13|
Sports......-Ppg17