Brian Bisset Photo by John McDonald Douglas College was the only college in B.C. to be represented at a _ recent “‘model Parliament’’ in Vic- toria. Funded jointly by an Inter- national Year of Youth grant and the federal goverment, the model Parliament saw 56 delegates from post second- ary institutions across the province gather in the Legis- lative Building in B.C.’s capital. But Douglas student Dan Hilborn was the only one from a B.C. college to attend the weekend-long affair staged by the University’s Model Par- liament Society. Parliamentary ota Ma%eee%eMatate tote tee etetetetetetetee”s deloteteteeteteteteteteteteteteteteterets democracy anyone? “The constitution of the U.M.P. Society was recently amended to include college students,’’ said Hilborn, who added, ‘‘they should take advantage of it.’’ Each major political party was represented in the model Parliament, the Tories and New Democrats holding 19 seats and the Liberals 18 seats. Hilborn said that the division was based on a poll of political preference on uni- versity campuses. Each party was allowed to present one major bill. The N.D.P. bill called for universal child care. It was amended by the Tories who included an income-based percentage of payment. ‘‘It defeats the idea of universal- ity in exact terms, but ‘given the economic situation of this country, it is not something | can be terribly opposed to,’’ said Hilborn, an N.D.P. delegate. The Liberals presented a bill for legalization of ‘‘inter- personnal services’’, which would see prostitution _ li- censed and lowering of penal- ties for involving minors. The N.D.P. amended the bill to include health regu- lations, unemployment insur- ance and pension benefits. The Tory bill, which called for the sale of all crown corporations was defeated. ‘| learned more about par- liamentary procedure in three days than | did in seven years of using Robert’s Rules of Order,’’ said Hilborn, who would like to see a co- operative government. “‘l think the idea of a 3-way co- alition would work well if none of the parties put in a non-confidence vote,’’ said Hilborn, ‘‘except in extreme cases.’’ iNew: ‘Westminster MP: Pauline “Jewett expounds 0 [-education: atthe: college.: See: more-of the story-on: page 5: The Douglas Student Socie- ty was called on to loan $25,000 to the Other Publicat- ions Society at the first senate meeting of 1986. Brian Bisset, O.P.S. board member, asked for the loan to help in the purchase of a $45,000 typesetting system for the society. He cited educational and economic benefits for Douglas students as the reason for the student society to approve the loan. Student Society president Michael Glavin was in favor of the request. ‘‘We should definitely support the O.P.S. in their efforts to acquire this machine,’’ said Glavin to the senate. However Glavin said that other methods of financing such as the underwriting of a loan and assumption of in- terest payments by the stu- dent society should be exam- ined. He noted a special general meeting was required for any expenditure over $3,000 and said that. the student senate and the O.P.S. board should meet to ‘‘bash out’’ a finan- cial proposal. The motion calling for the special general meeting will be presented at the Jan. 20 senate meeting. Thank you To all of those who donated to the Food Bank Drive in December, Thank you. Ap- proximately 1000 food items were donated, to show a participation of 22 percent of the entire school population. The leaders of the food drive were the Administration at 303 percent donating, and Library & Support Staff at 40 percent donating. However, the two depart- ments that contributed the bulk of the food were Busi- ness and Commerce, donating 359 items, and Social Sciences donating 182 items. One other group that de- serves a special thanks is the E.S.L. and Developmental Department, whose faculty donated 86 items at a time when their students were on a’ semester break. Thank you,.once again, from the Food Banks and the Doug- las College Marketing Club for making this drive a real success.