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. The Vancouver Province newspaper ‘recently carried
a piece by education columnist Crawford: Kilian.
~The column ‘was a blistering attack on the manner
in which the board of trustees for Northwest Com-.-
_ munity College and the college’ § senior administration
ran a badly demoralized institution for several years. _

-The information on which the column’ was based .
appears to.have come from an internal evaluation of
the college authored. by. Ian Thomas, who recently ad- —

ded.his name to a.series of resignations at NWCC. His’
evaluation was backed-up by an external evaluation
put ‘together by faculty, administrators and a board. -
member from another college.
_ The report they produced was appallingly frank i in
= its- criticism of the way in which NWCC was operated.

| The evaluation team found a college full of good peo-'
ple. trying to. function without effective leadership.
Successfull programs were due to the individuals work-
ing in’ ‘them, and not a product of good planning and
organization - — which in many cases was non-existent.
_.” It-would appear that the NWCC board should have -
= demanded the senior administrator’s: resignation after
receiving. the evaluation. They should have also been
aware of the problems much sooner.

Hans Wagner, the present chairman of the. NWCC
board, stated on a recent television news program that
the college is now entering a new phase. The question |
is, can political appointees run an institution of this

type effectively in view of the past failures. of both the |

system and the people appointed to‘it? -

Significant. sums of public money pass ‘through .
Northwest College every month. The NWCC board .
members have'not: shown: their effectiveness. tothe:

- commiunities they serve in this region. Perhaps the
senior levels of government which are responsible for
advanced education would be well advised to view
NWCC as an éxample of why board members should
be elected by the population they serve rather than be-
ing appointed by the provincial government.

The unfortunate part of the NWCC experience is
that we have lost some talented education profes-
sionals, and the unsavory. reputation that our college
_ has developed in academic and professional circles will
make it difficult to replace them. .
Is this the price the people of this region have to
pay while the college board members undergo 0 on-the-

_ job training? | 7

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Wednesda ry

by Bob Jackman

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‘Ah! More blue sky in the ”
past couple of weeks than
we’ve had in the past couple
years! All of us transplanted
Kootenay and Okanagan na-
tives are lapping it up — it’s
great to sit in the car with the
heater.on, an oldies rock and |
roll tape at full volume, look-
ing up at the sky and pretend-
ing it’s April to October -
anywhere else. oo

Yes, the incessant grayness
of a normal Terrace winter

pointed out, lead to negative —

feelings about our fellow man.
~ But speaking of blue sky...

Alberta is trying to nominate

a candidate for the Senate. You |
_ remember the Senate — it 7

comes up as an election issue
every four years. The party in
power loves it, because it’s a.
good way of paying off -
political bagmen who can’t be
trusted to run Air Canada or .
the CBC, The opposition wants
to make it triple E — elected,
efficient and enterable —
because as long as appoint-
ments are made by the party in
power, the opposition has —
nowhere to put their bagmen. ~
A bagman without a future is a
campaign detriment. And the
party with the least hope of.

gaining power suggests a Triple

A Senate — abolish, abolish,
abolish. Which makes in-
credibly good sense, unless

you're a promotable bag-man.

If Alberta can do it, why not

| Terrace? We sure don’t lack

for backroom politicos. At

. election time, party receipt

books are as common as |
millimetres of precipitation, _
and many an arm gets twisted _
until a chequebook appears.
The flavour of party politics

 ¢an be felt daring ¢ teacher. .

cn oar rane tinh EPO QUEER 20 BT vem anes deen ee eee URMMNE Honineg tee Heenan oe

‘6 A bagman without a future i is a campaign | bee

detriment. ad

strikes and e even in certain din- ©

ing establishments. Surely, we
can find in our midst an ideal .

candidate for a Senate appoint-

ment! .
Qualifications? Old. Should

- remember the Beatles, at least,
" and preferrably had a babysit-

ter who played Elvis records on
. can, as one letter to the editor |

a Seabreeze. Small-c conser-
vative, so as not to rule out
labour leaders, who have as -

“much difficulty with Third

Wave thinking as do most cor-
porate bigwigs. Should have a
presentable jacket. And a tie.

About four inches wide, kriot-

ted.so the end stops about -
three inches below the sternum.
(It's not dirty — look it-up!)
Churchgoer, Property-owner.
Able to amass frequent-flyer

points at a single bound, Com-

mitted to Terrace, Never com-
mitted anywhere else. Male -+ -
there’s too many faulty tickers

among the incumbent. Senators |

to risk the effects of a mini-~.
skirted 200 pound 5$-year-old -

femme fatale. No columnists _

I’m ready to forgo the position
if only to keep the real crazies.
out — a worthy sacrifice, I
think.

AS with most’ help-wanted

ads, these qualifications are on--

ly set out as a guideline. If you
know somebody on the inside,
by all means apply. Send me
your application or preferrably
a nomination for someone else.
I'll act as a fair and impartial
arbitrator, for a reasonable

percentage, atid we'll send Ter- -

race’s nominee off to Mr.
Mulroney.
| Wes can maybe hold an lee.

little more blue sky. into our

winters, and our lives. -

@ Tom Waterland. was in town: ~~ |

last week promoting mining —.

which he is paid well to do. -

_ Knowing that our legitimate

media types would be able to -
distill his speech into a few

well-chosen nuggets, I did not.

attend,
What is interesting on the
mining front, though, is the

lores ‘Laie Ae sos

tion every February — bringa

‘announcement that a consulting

firm hired by the feds and the.

province will’ be studying. :

_ potential access routes into the.

mining areas north of us.
At the Johnny Mountain

. ‘igold mine official opening last
August, the absence of Cana-
dian politicians of stature was

rather pointedly noted by the |

_mine’s owners, AndI guessthe .
local media coverage finally got...
through to our upper-echelon = |

politicians when they. dis- |

covered, belatedly, that

ing but about 90% of the con-.

struction materials to the mine. ©

Now, a study does not a

_ Wrangell, Alaska had not only
sent half the town to the open- —

road make! If every study done.
by the Regional District of

Kitimat-Stikine had resulted in’ -

west B,C; would be a parking

lot. But at least it’s a first step ~.
‘toward recognizing the un-
boufided potential for mining --
.and-other resource development
on the spokes of our Terraces 2

based hub. And: that’s good ©
news!

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