IZNTT ANT AX VV LALN LEN COLLEGE LIBRARIES Volume 11 Number 6 December 10th to 1981 1982 Page 1 D.C. student bounced _ by Ian Hunter day after the incident to A torn--sweater, an embar- complain and to ask for ™&}, assed security service, and a Barnes to pay for the sweater “™&, he loss of as: much as $1600 is that was ripped during the a, ot me A a aaa Ne aa SIS A Ra Tey ZBOI © YIOT A9quis00q 9 soqunyy TT ouMIOA, the result of ‘‘the worst student function’’ Kevin Hall- gate has ever seen. The function was the annual Student Society dance, held November 27th at the Arenex in New Westminster. “It was a shitty dance,’’ said student Jim Boerma, ‘‘It was terribly boring.’’ The only excitement at the dance, in fact, was when a Barnes Security guard attack- ed a Douglas College student for apparently no_ reason, while two of the other bounc- ers held him down. According to Boerma, ‘‘The student (Joe, we’ll call him) was standing by the door when this bouncer came up to him. and words were exchang- ed. (Joe didn’t know he was a bouncer at the time because he had a jacket on.) The bouncer left Ralph and came back with a couple of other bouncers (jackets off) and he started talking to Joe like Joe was Starting trouble, which he wasn’t. Joe leaned against the door, like he definitely did not want to have the hassle. The bouncer went ahead with plans.’’ The bouncer shoved Joe into the door jamb, then into the corner, and then the two other bouncers joined in and threw Joe into the garbage can. ‘‘Someone then came in and broke up the fight,’’ said Boerma. ‘‘After the fight, the head bouncer, who wasn’t even around when the fight happened, said that the other Ibouncers wouldn’t have has- sled Ralph if he wasn’t caus- ing trouble and then he told us to mind our own bus- iness.”’ ‘‘They (Barnes) knew that they were wrong because they got rid of the bouncer and not Joe.’’ The bouncers may have also been drinking at the dance. “After the fight was broken up, Joe went to retrieve his beer and one of the bouncers said to Joe, ‘Don’t touch that beer, it’s mine.’ (I didn’t know they were allowed to socialize and _ drink dances),’’ said Boerma. Joe phoned Barnes the Mon- fight. Karen Owen, of Barnes Sec- urity, said that they have not heard anything from the Stu- dent Society. ‘‘We can’t do anything until we _ recieve word officially and in writ- ing.”’ Owen also said that they would have to have some evidence before taking any action. ‘‘We are unionized and we have to be very careful to fire somebody.” Douglas college Student Soc- iety president Kevin Hallgate said that Joe had not come to see him and that he could not do anything until then. Only about 50 people show- ed up to the dance. ‘‘If you spit you wouldn’t -have hit anybody,’’ Hallgate said. Hallgate says that the fail- ure of the dance was due to a combination of screw-ups. He cited four points that should be followed by future dances: 1. No future bands will be hired without several Council members listening to them in advance. 2. The band contract must be seen by the president of the DCSS. 3. The president of the DCSS should not have to be in charge of dances. 4. Student Society members of Council should not frater- nize with the hired security, as it loosens the employer/ employee relationship. 5. Other euphoriants should not be smoked at Council meetings before important dances where violence is like- ly to occur. Seana Hamilton, DCSS Vice President, blames the lack of communications for the dis- aster. ‘’Normally the New West chairperson (May Liz) would be in charge of the dance...but nobody told her that. Also, Kwantlen had a dance «that same night that they didn’t tell us about,’’ said Hamilton. ‘‘We were burnt out from a. week of protesting and drinking.”’ Hallgate said, about the dance, ‘‘That made us look very very stupid:.. it will not happen again,’’ he said com- at paring the performance of the Council to a high school council. VANCOUVER (CUP) - The federal government’s new budget will force tuition fees to rise at least 60 per cent next year, British Col- umbia finance minister Curtis said November 12. Each B.C. post-secondary student will have to pay $370 more in tuition next year, in addition to already planned increases by the individual institutions, Cur- tis said. “Post - secondary educa- tion and health care in B.C. and in the other provinces have been hit hard as a result of the federal budget, he said. The federal government will remove $5.7 billion of federal transfer payments to provinces for post-sec- ondary education and health care over the next five years. The provinces were given additional tax- ation powers amounting to $3.7 billion, but these funds are not necessarily ear- ‘Fees up 60 percent’ marked for education. UBC students already face a minimum .15 per cent increase for nect year, to conform to the UBC board of governors policy to have tuition fees represent at least 10 per cent of the DCSS meets Smith by Ian Hunter “| think that anything that comes out of ministers’ mouth is double talk,’’ said DCSS president Kevin Hall- gate after his meeting last week in Victoria with Brian Smith, minister of post-sec- condary education in the Soc- red government. Hallgate met with Smith following the protest that was held at Douglas the week before. ‘‘Our timing on the protest was incredibly bad,’’ said Hallgate of when he arrived at the legislature, ‘‘The |.W.A. protesters came - Curtis university’s operating bud- get. The federal move will cost B.C. $91 million during the next fiscal year, and $600 million over the next five years, Curtis said. in (to the legislature) just before us.’’ Hallgate met with Smith following the protest that was held at Douglas the week before. ‘‘Our timing on the protest was incredibly bad,’’ said Hallgate of when he arrived at the legislature. ‘‘The 1.W.A. protesters came in (to the legislature) just before us.’’ Hallgate met in private with Smith and presented him with pennys that the student society had collected in order to make a symbolic gesutre in contributing towards educa- tion in B.C. ay