British Columbia - $40 million far short: students The province ploughed an additional $40 million into post-secondary education at the last minute, but B.C.’s college and uni- versity students pressed on with their rally Thursday demanding an end to the chronic underfunding of the system. Advanced Education Minister Stan Hagan made the announcement at a press conference that morning, “and that’s a direct result of this rally,” said the president of Canadian Federation of Students, Pacific Region. But students will press on with demands for more than $100 million additional fund- ing necessary to ensure accessibility to post- secondary education, Pam Frache told a rain-soaked rally of some 400 students out- side the Vancouver Art Gallery. Students were there to reinforce their demands for a three-point program that includes: e Anincrease of 11 per cent in university and college operating budgets, to catch up with inflation. e Anadditional 1,500 spaces in the post- secondary system by September, and 15,000 by September, 1991. -— e An immediate freeze on all tuition New Titles OUR UNFINISHED BUSINESS: U.S. Catholic Bishops Letter on Peace and the Economy By Phillip Barryman $12.50 (paperback) NUCLEAR EMPIRE By Robert Alldrich $11.95 (paperback) WHAT ARE WE AFRAID OF? An assessment of the “Communist Threat” in Central America By John Lamperti $11.50 (paperback) 1391 COMMERCIAL DRIVE VANCOUVER, B.C. V5L_3X5 TELEPHONE 253-6442 fees, Additional demands the CFS has made include democratic representation on col- lege boards. The government removed the powers of school trustees to appoint repre- sentatives in 1983, ending, as the federation puts it “the last vestiges of democratically elected representatives on college boards.” The organization also demands that stu- dent organizations at the college and insti- tute level be recognized in legislation. In a package of research papers the CFS Pacific Region points out how students from lower income backgrounds are increasingly denied higher education due to provincial funding cutbacks to institutions and student financial aid. : The federation has a long standing national policy that tuition fees should be abolished. But for the immediate future, it calls for an end to the practice whereby college and university boards make up shortfalls in government funding by setting yearly fee hikes in excess of 20 per cent and 13 per cent respectively. Since 1981, tuition has increased an by a staggering average of 122 per cent for uni- versities, and 192 per cent for colleges, the CFS reports. The student organization notes that operating grants increased by only 22 per cent in the nine-year period while inflation ran at 40 per cent. Lately cash-starved institutions such as Simon Fraser University have introduced desperate measures such as limits on enrol- ment. It adds to the injustice of a system that saw 10,000 applicants turned away last year. Additionally, a financial aid system that is almost entirely based on loans — grants were abolished in 1983, and only minor improvements have been made since then — means students acquire a debt averagirig $24,000, to be paid in just 9% years. That works out to $358 per month at today’s interest rates, CFS research shows. Fred Weir tour dates set Tribune Moscow correspondent Fred Weir’s B.C. tour kicks off April 1 with a meeting in Vancouver. 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