The Other Press Nov. 10, 1986 Page 5 Faculty strike hits students _ Vancouver (CUP) - Faculty at Capilano College went on strike on Oct. 28, largely over the issue of workloads. The 270 faculty members walked off their jobs following the break- down of last minute nego- tiations. Some of _ the college’s 4,000 students have joined picket lines at three entrances to the _ college. a. s The _ instructors, who have not received a raise since 1983, voted 81 per cent in favour of strike ac- tion. The provincial govern- ment appointed _ salary board is proposing _ that faculty who teach nine sections would receive a 3 per cent increase in 1986 and a 3.8 increase in 1987. The normal course load is eight sections. The board also recom- mends a highest salary of $46,000 in 1987, below the average of $49,000 at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. Faculty negotiator Ed Lavalle said the nine- section workloads, intro- duced in April, 1985, are unreasonable and_ result from provincial cutbacks. Funding to B.C.’s colleges has dropped 12.4 per cent since 1982. Both faculty association president Carol McCand- less and communications instructor Crawford Hooked on Burnaby (CUP) - Love is the biggest addiction among the students at Simon Fraser University, according to -psychology professor Bruce Alexan- der. In a recent study con- ducted with graduate student Anton Schwe- ighofer, Alexander found 62 of 134 students, or 46 per. cent, report being addicted to love at some time, with addiction defined as “an _ over- whelming involvement which pervades total life activity and controls behaviour in a wide. range of circumstances.’ The next most frequent addictions to “other activities” such as_ self- reflection, followed by sports, work, sex, reading and socializing. Even. when limited to “aversive” addiction, when subjects feel the ex- perience is harmful and report not liking themselves as a_ result, love still ranked first at 11 per cent, followed by “other activities”, food, nicotine, work, and sex. As for illegal. drugs, Alexander said in a recent interview that addicted _ students = aren’t ~—_ particl- larly heavy users, with dependence on substances like cocaine a rare phenomenon. “About five per cent of students are addicted to a drug and it is almost al- ways a legal drug, such as nicotine or caffeine,” he said. An earlier study of 107 students indicated that at some time, 5.6 per cent had been aversively addicted to nicotine, 2.8 percent to caffeine, 2.8 percent to cannabis and 1.9 percent to alcohol. But Alexander said students should not’ un- derestimate the — signifi- cance of any adverse addiction, whethér to an activity like love, a legal drug like caffeine or an illegal drug like heroin. “Imagine what it is like to be involved — with something you find harmful and don’t like yourself for doing,” he said. Nor should people down play the harmful physical effects of nicotine addiction, which can lead to emphysema or cancer. And “caffeineism” can result in severe chronic anxiety, insomnia, head- aches, and, in the extreme case, death from overdose. Alexander argued that the tradional definition of addiction, meaning “given over” to or “intensely devoted” to something is more useful in understanding compulsive behaviour than the 19th century definition identifying addiction with drugs, ill- ness, vice, aquired toler- ance, and especially with- drawl symptoms. “Students who fail school after sitting around drinking. _ coffee and smoking and not getting their work done have an addiction problem,” said Killian said the heavy workloads threaten the quality of education at the college. “We're pretty _—_ deter- mined not to see a severe drop in the quality and ef- fectiveness of our teach- ing”, Killian. said. Both student council ~ president Teresa Newlove and communications coordinator Imtiaz Popat said council supports the strike, but Popat is not keen on the college’s plan to compensate for missed classes by operating well into December. “I don’t want to take classes over Christmas,” he said. OVE — Alexander. “It’s every bit as serious as heroin in terms of not facing up to their life: responsibilities and possi- bilities.” There are no answers easy for-~ people who become addicted to an activity, Alexander said, and likened the current practice of arresting drug users to “pouring gasoline on a house fire.” He said people turn to drugs as a trivial substi- tute for life’s challenges and recommended _ re- directing money spent on drug law enforcement to schools, universities, and outdoor programs. “In B.C. we have the perfect example of the wrong way to do things - in recent years the gov- ernment has cut money from social services and education - that’s exactly the wrong way to control drugs,” he said. He also emphasized addiction problems dep- end more on_ the in- dividual than on the drug. itself, as there are many. occasional or recreational drug users who do not become addicts. “In the U.S., there are seven casual heroin users * for every addicted per- son,” he said. “We cannot suppose that people are seduced to addiction by devil drugs ~ we have to say people who don’t have anything better turn to these subsi- tutes.” Smoking Policy The college campus is a primarily ‘no smoking’ facility, and the redrafted “Restricted Smoking Policy” confirms it. The re-draft occured on Jan- uae 3, and reads as follows. Smoking is permitted in the following areas: - Areas exterior to the buildings, excluding roof decks. - The concourse area (both the first and second levels). - Portions of both cafeterias. - Employee lounges (Rooms 2120 and 4605 only) - Public telephone area of the library - Board room lounge (Room 4925) - Ceremonial entrance foyer (only during theatre events) Smoking is permitted, at the discretion of the occupants, in the following areas: - Faculty offices: Single offices (at the discretion of the sole occupant and provided the door is shut) and double and triple offices (all occupants must permit smoking in these rooms, and the door must be closed). - Private offices (at the discretion of the sole occupant, and provided the door is shut). Smoking areas: - General business areas - Classrooms - Labs and support spaces to laboratories. - Library (both levels) - Boardroom (Room 4920) - Employee Lounges (Rooms 2847 and 3304) - Lecture Theatres (Rooms 2201 and 2203) - Performing Theatre and support areas backst- age (excepting only the green room) - Instructional Media Services - Gymnasium (both the floor and bleacher area) - Conference rooms - P.E. Instructional areas and labs. - Bookstore and storage room - All. storage and service areas (including Jan- itors’ rooms, General storage, electrical and tele- phone, etc.) - Corridors - Mail Room - Elevators or stairwells - and, of course,-the Other Press office. is not permitted in the following All areas where smoking is permitted will be indicated by ‘smoking permitted’ signs.