i i — eaeae ye = |e pe pet een ae pepemre ene ge eee Bawa ee March 3, 1980 Volume VIII Issue VII Vancouver [CUP] - The University of B.C. Women Students’ Office is fed up with the sexist activities of the engineering under- graduate society and is challenging the UBC ad- ministration to take action. In a public statement Feb. Attempts by the fashion design class to get a grant of $500 from the student society have been in vain because of meeting can- cellations and failure. to meet quorem. Last Monday two repre- sentatives of the class sat for an hour and a half through a student society meeting before they were \ told that their request could 11 director Lorette Woolsey charged that there has been no significant attempt to stop sexist. EUS activities although administrators made promises to do so a year ago. “No significant dimun- ition of Sexist activities took SS thwarts grant not be discussed. The grant is to be used to help finance the classes annual fashion which will have a total budget of almost $10,000. Other ways of financing the show will include a bake sale, a texas mickey raffle, a bottle drive, a chocolate sale, a car wash and a car ralley. douglas college student newspaper Card campaign comesto Douglas When Douglas College students sweat over mid-terms, they REALLY sweat. Actually student is enrolled in farrier program in Langley. You wouldn't find horses in New Westminster or Coquitlam now, would you? UBC women tired of gears place as a result of their efforts. In fact to my surprise, the most notice- able repercussion was a nasty, thinly veiled refer- ence. to the Women Students’ Office and myself in the Red Rag (the EUS newsletter) the year,’’. she said. Woolsey said the Nov- ember, 1979 EUS news- letter libelled one. woman and gave her’ home telephone number. The woman later __ received obscene telephone calls as aresult, she said. Here statement was dis- cussed at the~ Tuesday dean’s meeting but’ no action has yet been taken. Medicine dean . William Webber said he had no Cont’....p.2 . issues on by Brenda Gough Almost 2000 students from across B.C. have given their support for changes in student grants and aids; tuition fees and parental contribution. A card campaign recently implemented by the British Columbia Student Fed- eration (BCSF) has been gaining positive feedback, and if there is enough support, students .will be transported by bus to Victoria to present the March | 13; according to BCSF execu- tive officer John Doherty. ‘‘Buses are top priority,’’ Doherty stated. ‘‘Although there is presently no money in our budget for trans- porting the student, if enough students want to go we will go back to the budget for more funds.’ Douglas College Student Society treasurer Caroline Steinson stated that tran- sporting students would be the student society’s main contribution. “We will be putting up a list for students to sign if they are. interested.’’ Steinson said. According to Steinson, the response from - Douglas College alone has been tremendous. At last weeks A.G.M. in New West- minster, almost 40 cards were signed in a matter of 20 minutes. “Only one person | spoke to said no.’’ Steinson said. “He said it would be a futile effort, because you can’t change anything in the Government.’’ Along with the lobby to Victoria,, student repre- sentatives will be approaching all local MLA’s. 110 bored by AGM by Robert Campbell The student _society’s Annuai General Meeting (AGM) held last Thursday at the New Westminster campus was, if nothing else, a chance for the student body to actually see their representatives in action. Les Brett, in her pres- idents report, assured the students in attendance, approxiamately 110 of them, that the society has been operating in the black and also gave a preview of upcoming plans. Purchasing an apartment block near the new campus to use as student housing as well as buying an unused church for use as. the student society offices were both suggested. Caroline Steinson, in her role as treasurer, provided the societies operating budget which showed a profit, however, the extra monies will be used to finance the summer sem- ester. She also made the appointment of Yada, Tompkins, Huntingford and Humphries as_ the society’s auditors. A number of constitutional amendments were also on the agenda and all were passed with the exception of one which asked that representatives at large have at least one credit courses on the ‘campus which he/she represents. The organization of a car pool was also taken up at the meeting with the student society planning to have a full program in operation by the _ fall semester. The NUS, BCSF card campaign calling for changes in student aid policies was presented at the meeting with concerned students invited to part- icipate in a lobby in Victoria on March 13. Les Brett later said that the meeting, ’’went very well given all the noise.’’ Other executive members had the same comments.