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“Northwest Community Col-
lege Students’ Association presi-

dent Allan Ballinger has told
‘the NWCC board of trustees
that they support the proposal
for a Royal Commission on the
Funding and Affordability of
Post-Secondary Education as
submitted to Ministry of Ad-
‘vanced Education Bruce Stra~
chan by the Canadian Feder-
ation of Students. Ballinger is
also a member of the Canadian
Federation of Students. -
According to Ballinger, the
topic of post-secondary funding

and tuition fees is the ‘‘issue of.

the times” and he suggested that
the board, the college and the
community would be best served
if the board would offer their

support in principle to the CFS.

' submission. “If we have your
backing it has some substance,’
Ballinger told the board. “‘It’s
dead in the water without the
board’s and public support.’
Board chairman Hans Wagner
told Ballinger that his request
would be placed on the agenda
of their February meeting for
further discussion.

In the submission to Strachan,
the CFS states that they repre-
sent 50,000 college and universi-
ty students in B.C. and 400,000
across Canada who together
with post-secondary staff and
administration are living within
“outdated framework’’. ‘‘Those
involved in the system,’’ their
submission reads, ‘‘are being
forced to make impossible
choices, whether it is between
such things as having a safely lit

campus or adequate on-campus—

counselling services, or between
freezing tuition and giving facul-
ty and staff a needed salary in-
crease,”” -

The paper continues: “Under
the current funding. structure,
local administrations seek addi-
tional operating revenue
through an increase in user fees
as a menas of making up for in-
_ adequate government funding.

Our concern is that such deci-
_.Sions are being made in the

Janitorial |

-contract -
awarded |

Northwest Community College

has awarded its 1990 janitorial
contracts to the Terrace firms of
C&F Enterprises Ltd. and Skyline
Janitorial Service. C&F won the
contract for janitorial maintenance
of the dormatories and cafeteria
building with a bid of $99,720, and
Skyline got the contract for class-
rooms and shops with their bid of
$87,620.

'. College bursar Geoff Harris says
their’ was a lot of competion for
the two contracts, 15 bids in all,
and in this case entering the low
bid didn’t necessarily offer any
advantage. He explains that the
‘college had done their own job
estimates prior to. receiving the
tenders and therefore had a good
idea what it'would cost to do the
job properly, For this. reason, the
two low. bids of $49,000. and
$63,000 were rejected because they
were considered to.be "unrealistic"

absence. of any comprehensive.

policy of what is fair and afford- :

able, and equally important,
without clearly articulated goals
for the post-secondary system.”’

The CFS submission -con-

tinues by focusing on the

“‘crisis’’ resulting from a decade -

of serious financial cutbacks and
a number of recent. ‘proposals
advocating increases in tuition
as one of the keys to developing

excellence within. the post-
Increasing:

secondary system.
tuition, according to those who...

for the.work required, 2. 0. J

support the idea, would provide

both high cost, quality programs

as. well as a more affordable
“no-frills” education. Another
proposal, according to the CFS,

-comes from the Canadian Man-

ufacturers’ Association, who
suggest that in order to provide
excellence in education post-
secondary institutions must be
privatized. ©

Neither of these solutions are
acceptable, says the CFS, and a

-task force is. needed to in-

Nestigate current. low- level fun-

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Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 14, 1990 B7

~ Student Association supports freeze

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tion provided by the CFS states
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