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Monday, April 4, 1988;

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New Campus for College

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by Jeff house

In 1995, Douglas College will take possession of it’s new campus on the old B.C. Penitentiary lands.

The new campus, designed in the style of a 16th century mansion with a great Sumerian staircase leading to the Fraser River, is es- timated to cost in the range of $250 million.

The building, with a total of 2,000,000 square feet of class- rooms on 6 floors, will have a potential student population of 15,000.

Bill Day, president of Douglas College, announced on Friday, April 1 that the Douglas College Foundation fully backed the move. "They were extremely enthusiastic, one poor fellow was so overcome by the excitement that he passed out, but I hear he. is recovering quickly," Day said.

"This move is a fantastic oppor- tunity to put Douglas on the map, we have been fighting an uphill bat- tle since the college was formed. The new campus will capture the imagination of Canada, and the world, as we hope to average 75% international students, particularly from Europe and the Mediteranian, to whom the setting will be home- like."

Terry Leonard, head of Building Services at Douglas, is also happy with the decision to move.

"Ever since the Royal campus was built, there has been nothing but problems with keeping the place up,” Leonard said. "The new

More Fee Hikes

by Jeff House

Once again, students are being made to pay for the decisions of the administra-

tion.

Begining in the fall semester of 1988, student fee’s will increase by ap-

roximately 500% to 81 19.74 per credit to hel ay for the new Douglas Col- ege campus. ven though Douglas is

already second highest in the lower mainland with interna- tional student fees, they will rocket to the top when the 550% increase raises the fee to $742.50 per credit, over $500.00 more than UBC charges.

campus will have a central vacuum system, cutting the custodial staff by half. As well, the walls will be made of the same material that the SkyTrain stations are, making cleaning the campus a snap."

Karen Downey, President-elect of the Douglas College Student Society, isn’t so optimistic about the move. "Even though the administration’s offer of a $3 mil- lion Student Union Building is at- tractive, I just can’t see anyone wanting to pay more to go to this flashy campus, except the athletics department."

Betty Lou Hayes, head of the DC Athletics department, is elated by the move. The new campus in- cludes plans for an olympic-size in- door pool, a indoor track, a huge universal gym and a full ice hock- ey rink.

"This gives Douglas what it needs to really make a dent in na- tional collegiate sports, with facilities that are the envy of every major olympic team in the world, how can we miss?" Hayes com- mented. "The year-round bobsled circuit is a good touch, too.”

Aeriol Alderking, production co-ordinator of The Other Press, is uncertain but says, "What the hell, it’ll make for good news. Besides, it will be nice to move from the bowels of Douglas to the nice new SUB building.”

Construction of the new campus is scheduled to begin in the fall of 1988 and will take 7 years to com- plete.

Despite the controversy over the legalities of the fee increase, Bill Morphy, Bur- sar of Douglas College, is certain that Douglas will not have trouble attracting stu- dents. "We will have facilities unrivaled anywhere in the world: Our library will be more than twice the size of UBC’s, our Athletics facilities will outshine most olympic training sites, and our laboratories will house equipment that rivals MIT,"

orphy said. "Hell, we even have plans to install our own partical accelerator for the physics department."

e new facilities will cost in excess of $250 million and will eau a mortgage plan over 25 years.

"The world is constantly moving, and we hope to hop on," said College president Bill Day.

The Other Press levy will remain unchanged at $4.00 per student.

Volume XXIV; Issue X

Being Taken for a Ride

by Imtiaz Popat

Transit fares in Greater Van- couver may be increasing as high as 13.5%as early as April 15 or May Ist 198 A public meeting on the proposed transit increases has been called the Greater Vancouver Regional Transit Commission on Thursday, April 7th,John Oliver High School at 7:00pm "The in- crease is two year catch-up at the rate of inflation, "said Don- Lanskail, Mayor West Vancouver and Chair of the Greater Vancouver Transit Commission. There was no increase last year. The fares should have gone up on April Ist to coin- cide with the Transit commission budget. The increase couldn’t go up April Ist because the commis- sion was still negotiating a new- funding formula with the provin- cial government said Lanskail. The basic one-zone, non-peak hours fare will go up from $1.15 to $1.25. The Farecard for one zone, non- peak hours will go up from $46 to $50,and the Faresavers for one zone, non-peak hours will go up from $10.50 to$11.25. That’s about a 9% increase. The two zones, peak hours fare will goup from $1.55 to $1.75. The Farecard for two zones, peak hours will go up from $62 to $67 and the Faresaver will go up $14 to 15.75. That about a 13% increase. The three zone, peak hours fare will go up from $2.20 to $2.50.The

Farecard for three zone, peak hours will go up from $82 to $90, and the Faresaver will go up from $20 to $22.50. That is a 13.5% increase college and university students will be the hardest hit with this proposed increase. The Canadian Federation of Students-Pacific Region believes that post-secon- dary students should get a discount intransit fares. "Just as highschool students have a limited means of in- come at their disposal, so do post- secondary students,” said Stephen Scott, CFS-PR spokesperson CFS has been campaigning for conces- sion fares for post-secondary stu- dents for the past few years. There

was a post-secondary until they dis- count until they werediscontinued in 1982.There is ongoing discus- sion the principle of concession fares," said May Lanskail. The proposed for concession post- secondary students has been ongo- ing for several with the transit com- mission. But every year the fares go up and there is never a decision on concession fares,Students are an important part of ridership should get more respect from B.C. Tran- sit," said Scott. "They give such a short notice for a public meeting, there hardly any time to organize,” he added. CFS and its student society member will be making presentation on Student discount at the April 7th meeting.