preety ha 120 R Oe e ee RY Volume 19 Issue 1 Another | Paditorial... We were right. We've talked to people all over Douglas College, and just as we said, nobody read last issue’s editorial. Average Joe Students didn’t read it. Student Senate members didn’t read it. Some Other Press staffers didn’t readit. - Why do we bother, then? We figure there must have been maybe fifteen of twenty people who read it. Hi folks! Hope you’re still with us! Now, what | want you to do - all fifteen of you - is each of you show this editorial to just one friend. Maybe they’ll even show it to somebody, as well. This is a chain editorial, but you don’t have to write anything, and | don’t know if you'll have bad luck if you don’t do it. But you might have better luck if you do. Maybe the college will be a better place if you do. We were talking with some friends, and they said ‘‘Who cares about the Student Senate! Who even knows who they are? What a joke.’’ Guess what folks - the jokes on you! This is.assuming, of course, that the fifteen people reading this are also the same fifteen people who voted in the senate election... These people thought it would be funny to get somebody to run, and get all their friends to vote for him or her,’and they’d win, of course, because you need a pitiful number of votes to win. And then they’d stand up at the senate meeting and say ‘Hey idiots, I’m not going to serve, because this organization is a joke.’ Wouldn’t that be great. 5 Well, wouldn’t it be better if maybe, just maybe, you got your friend to run, or ran yourself, and got all your buddies to vote for you, so you got in, and then - sat on the senate and actually see to it that the do something! ?! How about that? It can happen you know. Even without the election - go to the senate and say, ‘’Hey | think you should be doing this, or doing that and I'd like to help you do it!’’ Granted, you might cause some heart attacks among unsuspecting senate Douglas Gollege’s Autonomous Stu The Other Press press dent Newspaper | | Ee Douglas College’s Autonomous Student Newspaper News/Production Coordinator..............2-2s:0..ctcceseeeee@eeeenes John McDonald & CREA ECLOU Sees Ra tee Me tes Ig. heerlen ane ce aaans nee Jeremy Bloom & EE PerEAIETIeTL COOTOIMAUON 5.05... ccs ca as orgs eteay eee copes tag ses cna yers- Kirstin Shaw @ ST Ni SOO OITALON ooo as ee me erecta teh sens sa tlsa bee voavaseqcares Cynthia Kilt 0 BStISINGSS INDAITAGEN: > nei ct” URES oR kos sown es eocnn es Sd ieet se Jean Joyce & Galley Proofer/Graphics Coordinator....................:s0s0ecneerees Doug Finnerty & SNS SE SL KS a RON Sy oR Re car ry Jane Muskens. GIFIGG GOT CINALON .Us5c 5: boosie ot aa areca hecews esa gees sce Suz Graham Beatuibess Ce OOUGIMalG seco s use srn nc awe ere ane tes = agen e eam Tea os Paul Ehni BOLO OO GINALON. ccc co Fae accer yee ets catronat Sis i os veh andaies Dave Watson members. But you’d be amazed at the kind of positive results that could you could have. You’d feel better, the college would be better and odds are you'll have a hell of a good time doing it. Think about it. Or don’t. It’s your choice. er Or rvespenddence The responsibility of the students who expect accountability and their voices to be heard by Douglas College Student Society should form non-part- san Coalitions to formally present their ideas to the senate. Formally, meaning identifying their representative in council and present- ing them with a detailed proposal on an area of concern. Graphic pictures, consumer reports, editorials and/or any information that might be perti- nent at hand, in the subject that they wish to deal with. The reason for the students to form these coalitions is obvious. Areas of interest such as the example of monetary purchases, that should go scrutiny, could easily be handled by business students and/or other in- formational groups who can offer . insight into the products. They could offer information about product, alter- natives, cost confirmation, necessity of purchase, purcharse agreements, student usage rates, etc. The idea of these groups would not be to criticize his or her counterpart in the senate but to be a channel of information that the senate can feed off of to make decisions. The plain truth about the student society senate members is that they are not being paid for the time that they put in council; they do get a few meager benefits that, in my opinion, are just to create a bit of unity ‘between senate members. This incen- tive for motivation seats mostly in the members desire to help out the student body as a whole in the best _fair way possible. There is real frustration for a Senate member who cannot effective- ly juggle their duties in Council and classes. The example of a senate member with five classes and a part-time job working ten to twenty hours a week, plus he/she is also sitting on two or three committees, comes to mind. The question though about this Senate member is, where does his/her social life come in? | would personally like to see eight committees in the areas of finance, student society policy, communicat- ions with student body, special Classifieds Coordinator.....................5. Recruitment Coordinator................... - i Contributors...... Richard Haines, Paul Pilon, Doug Grondahl, Larry. Fairfoull events, social coordination, activity room proposals, self study and an all club and association committee in operation, interactively participating with the senate. Yours truly Christopher Lirette Business Representative | would like to express my appreci- ation to the Douglas College Student Society, and particularly to Mike Glavin and Susan Woods, also to lab technician, Bob Hirtle (who initially conceived the idea) for the Famine Relief Week and Program. Those who missed the Dennis Humphries talk lost a special oppor- tunity of knowing firsthand about undernourishment and famine from a very sensitive and well-informed per- son. The fact that few people attended the events does not alter the facts that a significant amount of money was raised and all of us have been to some extent affected by the Famine Relief week and program. Three cheers for Society! Jim Davies the Student Pinky Hunjan Sandra Glass § OF LIBRARY. Graphic/The Muse Sound scary? T] Ver Read on!