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Volume 12 Number 4 March 4th to 18th 1982

during an AGM that .reached quorum in name only.

by Ian Hunter and Chris Page

“| find it ironic that 20) people have just determin- ed the fate of 3,700,‘ DCSS president Kevin Hallgate said at last Friday’s Annual General Meeting.

Hallgate was referring to a decision to join the Can- adian Federation of Stu- dents. which resulted in raising student fees by $4.

The twenty people were

those...left to. .vete.:an-athe:: CFS referendum. According j;

to the new constitution that was also approved at that meeting, by law 10.35

“Quorum may be declared if no challenge is made.’’ No challenge was made

even though the AGM nev-.

er actually achieved the required 100 people for quorum.

DCSS vice-president Sea- na Hamilton attributed the dismal respanse of the stu- dents at the AGM to bad timing (Friday of mid-term week), student apathy, and lack of planning because the Student Society had concentrated on the upcom-

: Whats missing from this pictur... QUORUM: !

ing anti-cutbacks campaign

‘It was like a slap in the face,’’ said Hamilton after the meeting, ‘‘] couldn’t help but take it (the poor turnout) personally...as a CFS executive, | have =

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Dental Hygiene on the brink

by lan Hunter

The proposed Douglas Col- lege Dental Hygiene pro- gram that was cut by the Provincial Government because of an alleged lack of demand, may be moved to the new campus next fall.

Last January, work stopped on the section of the new campus that was to house the faculty after

-Lorne Thompson, Executive

Director of programs in B.C., told Douglas College Bill Day, not to offer the courses, which the Ministry of Education deemed redundant.

This data, according to

\Dr. Thordarson, Registrar

of the College of Dental Surgeons was . compiled from to Ontario but not to B.C. Their stated reason (for dropping the program) was that they were getting a surplus of dental assistants in this province.’’ said Thordarson, ‘‘We. find it laughable that they would make this statement.”’ ‘‘We feel that we have a grave shortfall of dental hygienists in this pro- vince, Thordarson explained “‘Currently there are 150 unfilled positions for Dental hygienists in this province. Gordon Wong, a researcher for the Health

information relevant

Manpower Research Unit said that they had not conducted any recent re- search work regarding the demand for dental hygien- ists. He also stated that the HMRU do not make predictions but only provide the province with a ‘‘snap- shot’’ of the current situ- ation.

‘“‘We didn’t do any spec- ial studies of any kind; we just gave them (the mini- stry) tables.”’

Wong said of Thordarson’s accusation that the informa- tion was from Ontario data; “We never do that; other

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Women’s day happening this week.

women to work together to

In 1982, the International

Women’s Day Committee .

will examine and celebrate the organizing women have done to fight against our oppression. Over the past year, locally, we have seen aboriginal women, domestic workers, lesbians, trade union women, incest sur- vivors and women on wel- fare

fare organizing with deter- mination: their actions have demonstrated to people everywhere the struggles which all women face right now. We know that it is necessary for

demand what we want. Today, more than ever, it is necessary for us to demand

decent pay for our work,

quality childcare, adequate social services, abortion and birth control without danger to our health and freedom from violence, among other things.

In British Columbia and in Canada there are issues facing. us right now which we must act on:

- in the past month, the provincial government has

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