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dents questions they hadn’t prepared for. Unable to back up claims that it was harder than ever to get a student loan, the students also weren’t aware of a student readmission programme an- nouned as part of last March’s budget. They also weren’t aware that capital grants to universities couldn’t be used to hire more profes- sors.

Despite this, Okanagan student Lorne Todderian said the six-day sit-in in Bennett’s office earlier this month suc- ceeded because students met with the premier.

He said the occupation with be a ‘90 per cent success’’ if Bennett attends a_ public meeting at the college.

At the occupation, students demanded a public meeting, an all-grant student aid pro- gramme, a reduction of tuit- ion fees to pre-restraint levels, and no cuts in col- leges’ 1986-87 budget.

Bennett refused to from page one

set a date for the public meeting), and he knew that.

Flanked by his Deputy Min- ister, Norman Spector, and deputy Finance Minister David Emerson, Bennett said education was a high priority for his government. He said access to post secondary edu- cation had improved since the government eliminated finan- cial aid grants, in favour of an all loan program.

‘It’s easier to get a student loan now than it was under

the previous grant system program,”’ he said.

‘“‘There is not limit to the number of students who can get aid now,’’ added Bennett. Without their statistics, the students could not respond.

At the public forum in January, the students plan to take Bennett to task for what he called ‘‘The destruction of

post-secondary education in Be Ultimately, they want

Bennett to restore funding to pre-restraint levels, and re- turn financial aid to a grant

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