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QUOTE of the MONTH

© You aim at the impossible
to get the unusual. *

Floyd Patterson, U.S. boxer

 

 

April 3, 1994

The Douglas College Newsletter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tokyo's Meiji University OB Mandolin Orchestra delighted more than 600 concert-
goers on March 17 at Massey Theatre. With concert proceeds, matching funds and
$2,100 donated by the orchestra, $10,000 was raised for student scholarships.

 

 

Jones to monitor election

A former coordinator of Douglas
College’s Early Childhood Education
program will be one of four members of a
United Nations non-governmental
organization (NGO) travelling to South
Africa in April to monitor that nation’s
first all-race elections.

Silvia McFadyen Jones says she is thrilled
at the opportunity, despite dangers evident
from pre-election violence in the region.
In March there were reports that South
African security force and the Inkatha
Freedom Party were providing support to
groups using violence to de-stabilize the
country. There were also fatal clashes in
the neighboring independent homeland of
Bophuthatswan and a South African
commuter train accident which killed

more than 60 people was reportedly
deliberately caused and may have been
politically motivated.

"We’ ve been told we’re going at our own
risk, but to me taking risks is the ultimate
freedom and I’m very excited about being
the only Canadian participating from this
NGO," said Jones, who retired from
Douglas College in 1989.

Jones is scheduled to arrive in South
Africa about two weeks before the
elections which will be held in late April.
She will join three other members of the
International Women’s League of Peace
and Freedom (IWLPF) from Holland,

Jones continued on page 2

College awaits
budget details

Finance Minister Elizabeth Cull unveiled
her provincial budget on March 22 but its
specific impact on Douglas College won’t
be known until the Ministry of Skills,
Training and Labour supplies more details
in mid-April.

Cull allocated $1.06 billion to colleges
and universities, an increase of 3.4
percent. The budget speech specifically
pointed out that, after adjustments for
population growth and inflation, this is a
real cut of 1.3 percent and the government
provided no funding for education salary
increases.

A portion of the increased funding for

* post-secondary education is being
earmarked for skills training to give young
people and working British Columbians
the skills they need for jobs in a changing
economy.

The budget also contained two sections
which could be significant for the future
Pinetree campus in Coquitlam. The first
was the announcement that $1.4 billion
will be spent for capital works projects,
such as schools and hospitals. The second
was the commitment to create additional
full-time post-secondary space in B.C.

 

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President’s Report............ 2
Rossell new director .......... 2
New integrated program....... 3
Rich and famous dying........ 4
Task Force reports...........- a
Royals earn medals........... 5
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