PAGE 2 September 19, 1985

by Steve Gray

Fall Registration, usually
a mixed up time for students
and teachers alike, ran ac-

cording to schedule with .

virtually no problems what-
soever.

Gerry Della Mattia, the
Registrar at Douglas College
said that registration moved
along quite smoothly. Ac-
cording to Della Mattia an
estimated 4200 students
have registered and after
late Tegistration is complete
there will be an estimated
total of 5000 students at
Douglas College; 60 percent
of the student body are

part-time students.

When asked if another
system of registration was
being considered, Della
Mattia said alternative sys-
tems were being considered
for next year, but had not
yet been permanently de-

cided.
The problems that occur-

red with registration did not
hamper the process in any
way such as the computer
breakdown that occurred
early on the first day. And
overcrowding is always ap-
parent in any. registration
process. Registration went
smoothly and was even a-
head of schedule on its three
day run.

   

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“Wadda ya mean all the sections are filled?”

Student reporters win cash

Ottawa [CUP] ‘‘It all started
when...”

That’s how lan Halperin,
the co-winner of this year’s
Rolling Stone College ‘In-
vestigative Journalism a-
ward, begins the story that
rocked Concordia Universi-
ty’s athletics department in
1983 and 1984.

Halperin and another
Concordia journalism stu-
dent Max Wallace, wrote a
series. of articles on varsity

athletic pay-offs, and sexism. .

within the sports programs
at the Montreal university.

Their article was original-
ly printed in Concordia’s
student newspaper, The
Link.

Halperin and Wallace re-
ceived $1000 from the Amer-
ican magazine, the first

 

“Spending the prize
money isn’t worrying
the two students...”

 

Canadian students to win
the award. David Hunt, then
editor at the Link, sent the
stories in for the contest’s
consideration without notify-
ing either of the authors.

“We didn’t even know he
had until one day they called
and said we were one of the
three finalists,’’ said
Halperin.

One of three _ finalists,
from a field of 430 entries.

Halperin’s and Wallace’s
series of exposes revealed a
number of athletic depart-
ment improprieties, includ-
ing under the table. pay-
ments to varsity athletes. A
report of a committee set up
by Concordia’s administra-
tion later proved the writers’
allegations.

’ foreign

The report said the ath-
letic department paid for
some athletes’ books, tuition
fees, living expenses, help-
ed them find high paying
student jobs and lent them
money.

The Canadian _ Inter-Col-
legiate Athletics Union, the
league in which Concordia
teams play, later suspended
the university’s- men’s. bas-
ketball team for one year for
paying some of its players.

Ottawa [CUP] -- With de-
liberations still underway,
nearly 100,000 foreign stu-
dents will have to wait until

late fall to find out how -

much they will each have to
pay to off-set the Canadian
government's deficit.

The government plans to
charge visa fees, possibly
$50 each, in hopes of gen-
erating $20 million a year in
federal revenue. Students
make up about a third of the
population in
Canada.

Finance minister Michael
Wilson announed the de-
cision to institut: visa fees
last November. He plans to
begin charging fees in Jan-
uary 1986.

According to Len
Westerberg, an official with
the department of immigra-
tion in Ottawa, the particu-
lars of the fee rate will not
be made public until late
October or mid-November. *

“It hasn’t been settled
yet,’’ he said.

Westerberg denied the
government was planning to
charge $50 per student au-
thorization to study in
Canada, as reported in the

The team is still suspended.
The series also included
stories about the huge dis-
parity between the funding
of men’s and women’s
sports at Concordia and the
apparent disregard of
women’s sports at Concordia
and the apparent disregard
of women’s concerns by the
department’s officials.
Halperin said a more re-
cent committee has recom-
mended that the athletic

Globe and Mail in August.
‘Those are not the figures
we are using at the mo-
ment,’’ he said.

Westerberg would not say
whether the fees would be
higher or lower than the
reported $50, and added:
‘there is no sense in putting
fear or a false sense of hope
in the public that the fees
will be ’X’ number of dol-
lars.”

By law, all foreign stu-
dents are required to obtain
authorization to permit them
to live in Canada, which
must normally be renewed
annually. Institutions op-
-erating on a semester format
often requiring authorization
to be renewed on a term by
term basis, Westerberg
said. ‘‘It’s a document
count, not a head count.’’

Westerberg said some of
the money raised by the fees
would cover administrative
costs and the rest would be
applied to the federal defi-
cit. He said the government
hopes to earn $4.4 million in
the first fiscal quarter ending
April 1.

This is not the first time

that the Ministry of Em-

     

department alternate every
four years from a female
director to a male director.

The story doesn’t end
with changes in Concordia’s
sports program. Ed Enos,
Concordia’s athletic direc-
tor, is suing Halperin and
Wallace for libel.

“But we haven’t heard
anything
months,’” said Halperin,
“and if it does come to
court, we’re not worried.’’

ployment and Immigration
has decided to try and re-
cover administrative costs.
In July, minister Flora
MacDonald announced a
charge of $10 will be assess-
ed to people applying. to
have their Social Insurance
card replaced.

An official with the min-
ister’s office, Laurie Jones,
said that the charge is strict-

ly a direct recovery fee and:

that first-time issuance of

about it for

Enos settled out of court
with The Link and
Concordia’s student council.
Each paid him $5000.

Spending the prize money
isn’t worrying the two stu-
dents either, both of whom
enter the final year of their
degrees this fall. They gave
the $1000 to the West End
Sports Association, an or-
ganization that provides
funds for underprivileged
black athletes in Montreal.

Visa students fee increase

the SIN card would still be
free.

George Tillman, the direc-
tor of the International stu-
dent Affairs department at
the Canadian Bureau for
International Education,
said the proposed visa fee
will only add to an already
heavy load. ae

Foreigh students currently
pay stiff differential fees on
tuition costs in all but three
of Canada’s ten provinces.

 

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