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B.C. Hydro is using children’s
environment- and conservation-
conscious attitudes in an aitempt to
influence parents. The utility has
declared November to be "Power
Smart Month" and is organizing a
number of events in the Terrace
area to encourage people to use
less electricity in their daily living
habits.

Terrace area Hydro manager Roy
Staveley announced last week that
next Wednesday, Nov, 14, will be
"Power Smart Night".

- | | Terrace Review — Wednesday, November 7, 1990 A9 |
Hydro counts on kids to
influence parents’

"We’re asking everyone to switch
off unnecessary lights at 8 p.m. for
one hour, but we’re making a
special appeal to kids because of
their great powers of persuasion
where parents are concerned!"
Staveley said.

B.C. Hydro launched the 10-year
Power Smart program directed at
electricity consumers in March of
this year as the preferred alterna-
tive to building more hydroelectric
dams to keep up with increasing
demand for power. The program is

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being promoted in conjunction
with a program to encourage small,
regional generating plants proposed
and operated by private companies.

Hydro says that since the pro-
gram began Power Smart conser-
vation efforts have saved about
120 million kilowatt hours
throughout B.C., enough electricity
to meet the needs of 12,000 homes
for a year. In the next decade
Hydro hopes to have reduced
power demand by 2.4 billion kilo-
watt hours per year, enough energy
to power 240,000 homes.

Down by the River — Continued from page A7

university computer registration is
a good idea? According to Watson,
simply by writing letters to Stra-
chan that suggest this idea is not
.one of convenience, but one of
financial need. A system that is
required if he is going to promote
“Access for All" in the north.

But this system would only save
one trip: What about those inter-
views? Our post-secondary institu-
tions need to be "sensitized" to the
situation, says one advisory council
member, [If the northern public
were to get through to the dean of
the institution, and convince the
dean that the whole process is
unreasonable, some changes might
be made. Perhaps videotaped inter-
views could be submitted. Or

iM _ perhaps.-a.. committee from the

institution could visit senior
secondary schools in more remote
paris of the province in the spring.
Here again, it might only take a
few letters addressed to the right
people to bring about some posi-
tive change.

If you live in the north, however,
the expense of registering in a
post-secondary institution is only
the beginning, Once registered, you
have to find a place to sleep and
eat, Typical expenses for Northern
students might be $2,400 to move,
live in college or university dorms,
another $2,000 for living expenses,
and about $500 for a return flight
home if that’s how the student
chooses to spend Christmas.

Considering these expenses, then,
and assuming the need to travel
south for an inlerview and regis-
tration, the Northern student is
faced with an annual post-
secondary expense, including
tuition fees, of at least $7,000.
Someone who lives a little closer,
on the other hand, say a student
from Hope attending the Univer-
sity of B.C., could easily find
private transportation and, even
living and eating in dorms, can
probably get away with only about
$5,000 a year. And then there are
those living in Vancouver, studenis
who have the choice of living at
home, who can probably get their
education for less than $1,500 a
year if they commute by bus or
private car. Looking at these num-
bers, where is the equality in
access? 7

One idea put to the advisory
council was this: why not raise
tuition from around $400 per
semester to $500 or $600. This
would of. course ...raise’. past-

secondary education expenses for
everyone, but that extra $160 or
$200 per student could help Nor-
therm students considerably if it
were used to subsidize the cost of
room and board. Perhaps that
$7,000 figure might drop to some-
thing like $5,000 or even less.

Get rid of those interviews and
early registration expenses and it
might be possible for Northern
students to attend university for
less than $4,000 a year. A student
who was able to save $1,000 a
month during the summer, then,
wouldn’t be faced with the inevi-
table student loan, the govern-
ment’s way of postponing the cost
of post-secondary education, rather
than finding a way of reducing that
cost. . a
"At this point there is not totally
equal access," admits advisory
council executive director James
Garton. At the same time, how-
ever, he points out that post-
secondary students today are far
better off financially than they
were in the past. Access is easier,
in part, because of the availability
of student loans.

For the purposes of discussion,
however, the members of the advi-
sory council presented another side
to this argument. What do people
in the south think when we in the
north complain about the high cost
of post-secondary education? First
off, people in the north live there
by choice. The could live in the
south. If, however, they decided to
move south simply to save money
on education, they might be in for
a surprise. It might cost three
times as much for a home in
Vancouver, for example, as for one
in the north. And property taxes
might also be far higher.

The argument presented by those
in the south, then, might not be
easily defeated. It could take a
little accounting wizardry to deter-
mine the true balance of costs, and
perhaps this is something Nor-
therners should be working on
now. It’s just possible, though, that
the argument could be reversed in

the not-too-distant future. What
about southem students who want
to attend the University of Nor-
thern B.C. How are they going to
pay for the high cost of a post-

secondary education?
; Advisory Council on
Science and Technology
was formed about-three years ago.
Their first year was spent defining
a science and technology policy
for B.C. that would assist in
achieving a better lifestyle through
research and technological
advances. Since that time, the
council has advised the premier on
how this policy can be effectively
implemented,

Obviously, if we are to have
technological development in this
province, we need the pro-
fessionals to do the work.

he 15-member Premier’s

This, or course, raises the ques-
tion of equal access, and who
better to ask about the equality of
access than the Minister of
Advanced Education? But Bruce
Strachan wasn’t available on Sept.
24. He showed up the next day
and went siraight to Kitimat. There
was, however, another alternative.
Strachan’s predecessor, Stan
Hagen, was in Terrace on Sept. 24,
so we tried following the public
meeting at Veritas School to ask
him about equal access to educa-
tion. But he was too busy, we were
told. He apparently had another
engagement and had to leave the
hall almost immediately.

Not to be discouraged, we
phoned Strachan’s Victoria office
laier that same the week. He
wasn’t there. He was at his con-
stituency office in Prince George
we were told, so we faxed a copy
of our questions there... Hoping for
a speedy reply. But that was a
little more than a month ago and
we're still waiting. Perhaps these
questions aren’t quite as important
as a lot of Northerners seem to
think.

Pifer =e Continued from page AG

a row now, and continues to play
the media like a violin. It’s time
we cut a few of the strings. .

Maybe his visit to California _

will end there, and will be sole-
ly a vacation, with no business
meetings with people winging” ”

in from, say, Taiwan, or Van-
-couver, or Holland.
But should not a vigilant

' media — especially the wealthy

ones which could afford it —
be present to confirm that, and
any “‘backfire’’ be damned?

.. T-certainly think so. |