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meetings was pitiful to say the least.

A minimal amount of students attended both meetings
and quarum was not reached and had to be declared at
New Westminster. In fact, a lot of faculty members
ignored the fact that classes were cancelled from 2:00
pm to 6:00 pm, and held classes anyway.

The students that didn’t attend a class looked upon it
as an opportunity to take the afternoon off.

The council got fairly good feedback from New West
students on the VPI and VPE almagation and an
investigation into tuition increases.

Douglas College student Mike Kennedy, who spoke
against the first motion, felt that the amalgamation of
the two vice-presidential positions would increase the
demands upon the person accepting the position and this
act as a deterent to any prospective Douglas College
politicoes.

On the other hand, the feedback the society got from
the Surrey campus was almost nil.

One group of students moved and seconded almost
every motion that was presented. They did so without
even familiarizing themselves with the details of the
motions. The society could have presented a motion
that everyone wear red underwear on Tuesdays, and
that table would have probably passed it.

There are two things the student society could have
done to get more support at their AGM.

One, is to hold regular classes and then students
would have at least stayed on the campus and,
therefore, maybe wandered in to see what the noise was
all about, and the other is that they could have held the
meeting and followed it with a pub-night. The latter has
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March 19, 1981

 

Administration ‘underhanded’

Dear Editor:

On Saturday, Marcll4, at
3:00 pm, Surrey student
representative, Patty Bill-
strom, reported to the stu-
dent society office that B.C.
Tel’s TWU was picketing
Surrey campus of Douglas

College.
' Surrey representatives,
Bob Powell and Mike

Simcoe went to inquire a-
bout the reason for the
pickets.

They were advised by the
picketers that repairs were
being done to the adminis-
tration switchboard.

Upon location of the re-
pairman, it was found that
the administration had gi-
ven previous notice to the
B.C. Tel supervisors to co-
me in and make repairs.
The supervisor said that he
was blameless for the event
and was just doing his job.
Powell and Simcoe then
mentioned the complica-
tions that would be created
if a stationary picket line
were installed

Instructors would be un-
able to cross the picket line
and would have to respect
the demonstrators’ actions.
This would, of course, lead
to a delay and possible
incompletion in student
courses throughout the du-
ration of the strike. The
representatives were then
advised that the picket in-
stalled was a flying picket
and would be removed
when the repairs were com-
pleted. Thus, the reps

returned to their office.
would not have allowed the

entrance of B.C. Tel super-
visor-repairmen on any day.

the library.

table)

Business manager,
Marrilyn Houlihan, was
then called and advised that
administration was a sepa-
rate entity from that of the
student society and that the
reps should wait the situ-
ation out and be cordial to
the union members in res-
pect to their purpose.

It was then found that the
pickets and the supervisors
had left the campus. Mike
Simcoe went to the library
to see if the repairs had
been completed and to seek
information on the details of
why the repairs were done
on an ‘‘unsuspecting Satur-
day afternoon,’’ when stu-
dents are known to be off
campus. He was then
verbally attacked for his
support of the multi-campus
decision to support the B.C.
Tel union by Surrey libra-
rian, Ruby Labecque who
was irrate over the ‘‘distur-
bance created in the library
on administrative proper-
ty.”’ :

Simcoe offered his apolo-
gies but defended his act-
ions by. explaining that they
were based on a multi-
campus decision and that
Labecque, as a_ student,
should respect those deci-
sions passed by her own
student society. The rep
left ‘‘respecting’’ her ob-
viously anti-student society
opinion despite the persis-
tent echo of her shouts in
(disturbance?)

Now, why did adminis-
tration request that such
repairs be done when stu-
dents were off campus?
(hidden cards under the
Student support

The students and the
student society are in full
support of the union’s strife
and have responded by not
paying their phone bills.

The Surrey society feels
that the measure under-
taken by the administration
was underhanded, anti-
TWU* obviously against the
wishes supported by the
students.

Bob Powell (nominee for
Kwantlen College president
and present representative:
of the Surrey student so-
ciety) claims that ‘‘it seems
as if it‘s back-handed for
the administration to risk a
picket line on Surrey cam-
pus at such a crucial time in
the semester, and at the
same time going totally
against the decision passed
by the students of Douglas
College.”’

We, as student represen-
tatives, feel stabbed and are
disappointed in our admi-
nistration for their careless
risk taken in the normal
flow of the educational pro-
cess at Douglas College.

To the administration we
say that the feet under
which your fingers are just
could be heavier next time
around. Going behind the
students’ backs in direct
opposition of their wishes is
not the way to conduct the
business of a democratically
run college. Maybe, in the
future, some sort of com-
munication between _ tu-
dents and their administra-
tion could be applied.
by: Bob Powell, Surrey
Representative and Mtke
Simcoe, Surrey Represen-
tative

Student absence endangers
Kwantlen Student Society

Dear Editor:

In a society, the only
determinant that ensures
the successful outcome of
its business, is the forsight
of its responsible members
to vote, when the need
arises. Without voting, the
society may be left with an
incompetant and unquali-
fied government. This, of
course, endangers the very
existance of the chartered
group and could possible
even destroy what the group
and its government are try-
ing to accomplish.

On Monday, March_16, we
had an annual general mee-
ting (AGM) on Surrey Cam-
pus of Douglas College.

Fortunately, the neeting
turned out successful, but
not without effort. In

desperate need of a quorum
of 100 students (5% of total
students) to form a new
Student Society for Kwant-
len Council members in
Surrey had to practically
drag students into the cafe-
teria to vote formation of
the society into effect.

For those students who

used their own intuition and;

realized the importance of
the quorum and took the
necessary 5 minutes to sign
the petition, Surrey Student
Council would like to
“Thank you.’’ For those
who not only turned down
their right to vote, but also
endangered the existence of
Kwantlen College student
society, your effort would

_have been appreciated.

 

Kwantlen college student
society is now formed under
the ‘‘Societies Act’’ - But
this is just the beginning. If
it is going to survive, to
serve and represent the

students, then all society
members, students, must
exercise their right and

responsibility as students,
to vote. If this right is not
exercised then the society is
in grave danger of not
succeeding.

Please remember this on
April 9th, when we vote for

‘the Kwantlen College stu-

dent society executives, the
very executives who will

either ‘‘make’’ or ‘‘break’’
the society of which we now
belong.

by: Bob Powell
Surrey Student Rep