VANCOUVER (CUP)-- Des- pite intensive efforts to lo- p= amen ' «| UBC. students: are without accomodation as the fall | term begins. University housing director Michael Davis says the stu- dent housing _ situation |“‘looks tighter’’than last year, when student leaders considered setting up tents at lower mainland colleges and universities to deal with the crisis. Davis said the university had ‘‘done all we can about off campus housing,’’ ref- erring to appeals through the media for housing and a campaign that put leaflets requesting help on thou- t 14% fee i Jeate student housing. Poi sands of doorsteps on Van- couver’s west side. Currently, the waiting list fora Place in any of UBC's student residences — 1,700, while Vancouver’s rental vacancy rate hovers at about one tenth of one per cent. A third-year science stu- dent, who described the housing situation as ‘‘pretty difficult,’’ said landlords are very wary of student renters this year. ‘‘There’s a very distrustful attitude on the part of people renting. Less trust in reliability and ability to pay.”’ Another student said he walked more than 60 miles in a five day period before finding a room to rent. Glen Sanford, arts 2, siad a Last April when Douglas College split and the Surrey- based Kwantlin College opened, course fees were increased by 142 or $24 for: full credit load. Although the student council strongly opposed the cutbacks, stu- dents council president Ke- vin Hallgate says its like ‘flogging a dead horse’’. Douglas College students Can expect to pay an in- crease of approximately 82, or $25 for each of the next four years. This semester the OTHER PRESS collects a $4 fee from students, last year they were allocated 254% of the student’s society bud- get. The student seh is collecting a $15 fee. A $2 friend with limited financial means is renting a base- ment storage space in his see Re See ee tops find low cost accom ation and was desperate to find somewhere to stay. According to housing ex- perts the cost of accom- modation in Vancouver has jumped by a third since September of last year. A two bedroom suite costs on ‘average of $450, with one bedroom suites averaging $300 In addition, small suites, basement suites and co-op houses, once the domain of students, are now grabbed by non-students desperate for living space. Students are'in competition for rental units in a market that has increase by student society fee is added for late regis- tration and is paid by all students regardless of whether they register late or not Presently,Douglas College finances are at $50,000. Money will be spent primar- ily on a better intermural program such as the addi- tion of board games for chess and checker fanatics, dances, busing facilities for sports clubs, and new food machines. Hallgate has been at Doug- las College for 4 years, this is his second and last year as president. He asks any- one with any ideas, to write or phone them to the stu- dent’s council. Phone: 522- 6038. ~GOTNOWHERE TOLIVE not increased substantially in a decade. Despite the tough wemeee: ie oe git ‘Metiey. ‘says © “students should not give up. “There are places out there,’’ Medley said. ‘‘It all depends on how many (stu- dents) want to hold out for self-contained suites.’’ Fewer at school VANCOUVER (CUP)-- More and more, fewer and fewer B.C. high school students are going on to post-second- ary institutions, according to a report by the UBC Alumni Association. The report states that the percentage of students bet- _ween ages of 18 and 24 going on to college, univer- sity or technical institutes in B.C. is the lowest in Canada and continuing to drop. ‘Tt means, in effect, that students in our province have significantly _less chance of entering a_ uni- versity program in B.C. than they would have if they lived in Quebec, Nova Sco- tia, Ontario, Manitoba or Alberta,’’ the report re- leased in June says. It was presented to the provincial Social Credit and NDP cau- cuses. In 1980-81 the brief says, 10.71 per cent of B.C. high school grads were projected to continue their education, compared to a national per- centage of 12.97 and a B.C. rate of 13.22 in 1971-72. It also states that most students continuing their Housing authorities are hopeful the problem will be worse? = in ba next few ; key i, 's erisi, trailers were brought in to the B.C. Institute of Tech- nology and SFU students were temporarily housed on the floors of student re- sidences. education are from urban centres in the province. “This means that high school students in the met- ropolitan areas of Vancouver and Victoria have double the probability of attending a university than those from the more remote regions’ of the province.’’ The brief recommends the provincial government con- sider special grants to stu- dents from remote areas to encourage them to go to school. But it states that 64 per cent of students going on to post-secondary education had no idea of the amount of money available to them through the B.C. govern- ment student assistant pro- gram, indicating a need for greater publicity. The association says the ‘disturbingly low’’ percent- age of students going on to post-secondary education. post-secondary education may also be due to a lack of adequate opportunities in fields of study most in iis Sc a demand.