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The Other Press Staff hard at work, bringing you the
first news second and the most up to date, late breaking
stories. Our reporters respond to the most up to the
minute features, digging deep to the heart of the matter.
Left to right:Victor Cromarty, Martin Hemerik, Sean
Valentini,Doug Parsons, Roger Bolen, Dan Hilborn,Stew
Woolverton, and a cast of favourites.

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-Farecard Faerietale

Despite protests. from the
Douglas College student so-
ciety and other groups, it
will cost more to ride a bus
after April 1.

A new time-zone fare sys-
tem means it will cost stu-
dents $50 for the same
services they now pay $28

Regular bus fares will be
$0.85, except during peak
periods (before 9:30 A.M.
and between 3 and 6:30
P.M.) when riders will pay
more depending on where
their trip begins and ends.

“‘Yeah, so2’’ said student
society president Sean Bal-
derstone, ‘‘students can af-
ford it.’’

“At least that’s what the
government thinks,’’ he ad-
ded.

Balderstone was not hap-

Coalition of

py with the changes but
aside from writing letters
there was not much either
he or the society could do.

The new fare cards are
now being sold.in the soci-
ety offices. Four different
cards are being offered,
with different costs, depend-
ing on the time and areas of
travel wanted. All of the
cards will be valid anywhere
in the system except during
the rush hours.

Riding. in any one zone
will cost $34, travel in Van-
couver, UBC, Burnaby, New
Westminster, Richmond and:
the North Shore will cost
$40, and a pass for any-
where but Vancouver and
UBC will also cost $40.

Travel anywhere at any-
time will cost $50.

Concerned Students

To The Other Press:

From March 6th to 9th a
group of students, con-
cerned about the current
crisis in education in B.C.,
occupied the Point Grey
constituency office of Uni-
versities Minister Pat Mc-
Geer. This civil disobedi-
ence action was primarily
symbolic - a ‘‘Free Univer-
sity’’ was set up on the
premises to emphasize: the
government's betrayal of
educational access - and
successful in achieving its
major goals. In this article
we want to share our experi-
ences with others who might
want to contemplate such
action in the future.

The official, legal chan-
nels of communicating our
distress to the government
and to the public at large
are drying up. On the one
hand the government
doesn’t listen, on the other
the media are bored of
rallies and demonstrations.

Essential to political ac-
tion is reaching out to indivi-
duals who are concerned but
not yet active. The occupa-
tion supplied a place and a
time in which this could
happen. We were overjoyed
at the number of personal
connections that were made

.during that time. A secon-

dary point is that we ob-
tained three or four days of
media coverage, instead of

the one day allotted to most
forms of protest, merely as a
result of the greater length
of time involved.

Naturally enough, the
strategic logistics of the oc-
cupation were planned well
in advance in ways which we
don’t need to discuss here.
The affinity-group which un-
dertook the action was divi-
ded into two: the core-
group, of occupiers, and the
support-group, whose duty
was to provide food, bed-
ding and other daily necessi-
ties, as well as communica-
tion with the outside. The
distinction between these
groups, never rigid in the
first place, became more
and more relaxed as time
went on; this was important
in that it allowed tired occu-
piers to take rests while
their places were taken by
others.

We wasted a fair amount
of time on the democracy
issue. We overestimated the
media’s interest in the is-
sues. We were too cautious,
through being too fearful of
a premature end to the
occupation through police
action. (In fact we stayed
longer than we originally
intended.) We should have
made the staff leave imme-
diately - occupation should
be total and exclusive.

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