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The only To fill the spaces left on coun- \ By Kim Martin SAG may not be able to fill all of thing 1 won't be doing as much is cil, there will be co-options avail- the positions." attending 7:30 a.m. meetings." able for any interested, full-time News Reporter A weighted grade average is Since SAC is a student volun- students. Several of Humber's SAC achieved by getting a grade point teer organization, the former reps Co-options will be open to stu- members have been removed average based on credit hours as may still stay involved with dents until the program seats are from the council because they opposed to classes. events and in the office. The con- full or until the end of February. didn't make the grade, or because "The difference between these stitution, however, makes clear The co-option packages are they are transferring programs. averages is a big one," Hobbs that the students have lost their available in the SAC office. The SAC constitution says that said, "and because of the tight- voting privileges. students must achieve a weighted ened criteria, a few reps didn't "These students should feel WITH FILES FROM BETHANY LeE, KaTE grade average of 65 per cent to make it." free to Still be involved with SAC Calder and Rebecca Maxwell represent the school body. Dearden explained that, in her but they are now ineligible to rep- This average is five per cent case, there was a 5 per cent differ- higher than last year's cut off of ence between the two methods of 60 per cent. calculating averages. This rule, combined writh stu- Hobbs said that there were dent transfers, means eight SAC several reasons some of the stu- members will not return to their dents didn't make their marks official positions in 1998. including miscalculations and Mary Sclafani, a SAC member switching programs. still in office, said that one repre- "Some of the representatives sentative was taken off council planned to switch programs but after recently graduating. She did not withdraw from their added that a few others may have courses before the marks went on been sacked after they transferred their record," Hobbs said. programs. Withdrawing from their class- Maggie Hobbs, director of stu- es would have left the students dent activi- with a clean ties, said "/ fee/ like I let down the record but about the they would problem of people wtio votcd for m^" havebeenonly "There - Brookc DeoFden enrolled as was a ,' part-time whiplash .,- students, while the still not students were getting adjusted to meeting the specifications needed the new specifications. to be a part of council. fMOTo IT Nancy Lahin "Many of the students miscal- Peter Bean, one of the axed Richard McFadden and Ian Jones load up boxes of donated goods culated their marks and did not SAC members, said he still wants realize that they were in a headed to victims of the ice storm. Students and faculty gave life- saving supplies, Physical Resources donated a power generator, marketing department donated $200 towards the purchase of batter- visithttp://etcetera.humberc.on.caus on the web at: JnQUyt- yOUUTuter computer computer compute41(!ln6155TiC22(OX|M4098 shop0 bmWterto* ^ • • •^<^>^«<^ wMMiKeaihpusdoin|iiitersllop^.Gfim ® iVews Colleges/Universities face tuition hike Cash crunch for education) and our goal here is to already have enough financial matters as reducing class sizes, will not have repaid their loans," apportion the costs fairly," Harris concerns, and rising tuition only hiring more staff, and improving Poirier said. He said that because students as fees said after the hikes were hurts. laboratories and computer labs. women and minorities generally announced. Harris said the "If you're paying for yourself, But Poirier said the guidelines have lower-paying jobs, they are rise again money families save through the you have to go through financial are unmanageable, not specific, stuck with their loans for a longer provincial income tax cut, nearing aid. We do what we can, but it's and open to abuse. time, all the while paying interest 30 per cent, should offset the cost to the downfall of everyone if we "Every administration has on the remaining amount. Poirier BY Andrew McKay of extra tuition fees. can't afford it anymore." found a way, with this kind of also claimed that the introduction News Reporter SAC president Shirley Forde Humber's Vice-president of hike, to maximize the increase to of ICRPs has always been related Ontario's colleges and univer- disagreed. Forde said the govern- Administration, Rod Rork, said the highest allowable level)," to fee hikes. sities face a massive tuition hike ment is ignoring the other costs the fee hike should not be seen as Poirier said. "The government Students stage protests over the next two years, with the involved with school; as well, as a money grab by the school. He puts in vague regulations, and The CFS is calling for an imme- provincial government expecting families often have more than one said that almost a third of the doesn't have the means to follow diate freeze on tuition, as well as a loans and families to make up the child in the post-secondary sys- increase will go towards the up." national system of grants. Poirier difference. tem. work-study program, which sets Poirier used the Ontario said the grant program is the only The Ontario government "A family with three kids in up jobs for students within the Student Opportunity Trust Fund way to reduce student debts, announced on December 19 that university can be paying $10,000 a school. as an example. A year and a half rather than just manage them. schools will be able to raise year, just for tuition," Forde said. "Students will benefit" after the OSOTF program was Poirier disagrees with the tuition fees by an average of 10 "If the parents had to pay for "It's a key component of the implemented, Poirier said his Premier's statement that middle per cent in each of the next two books, transpprtation, and paid school," Rork said. "Our payroll organization still has not seen the and higher-class students benefit years. That number is flexible, for it all, they wouldn't be middle for work-study is approaching $1 accounting from the province on from school, and should pay for meaning some programs may be class for very long." million a year." the fund's management. it. subject to a higher increase, as Humber student Roi Gonsalves Rork also said the provincial "They can't give us any stats "That's the most ridiculous long as the overall hike remains at said the provincial government guidelines do not guarantee that on how the schools are using our thing I've ever heard," Poirier 10 per cent per year. In addition, said. "High tuition does the exact fees for post-diploma courses opposite; it prevents the lower- may be raised at the discretion of class from getting ahead, and cre- the school, with no maximum Boards o( governors at universities and colleges may, where they deem it ates unnatural barriers. If the level. middle and upper-class are bene- Wayne Poirier, Ontario chair- necessary to improve the (jualitv of students' oroqrams, choose to increase fitting, then that should be person of the Canadian I addressed tl>rough the tax sys- Federation of Students, said the average tuition lees by up to live per cent in 1998-99 and up to a further five per] tem." increase will keep some people I from attending school, and will .2C "That's the niost financially cripple others. uution ridiculous thing I've ttdeiiFdnnation "Middle and higher- Pcstsecgndu^Eii'jcalicn ever heard." income kids poetsecondoin; are the Ontario -Wayne Poirier, fthRoofJ ones getting the responding to Mike ' If boards of governors decide to invest in additional educational program greatest benefit out To(t)nio( Harris' claim ." mm of university improvements, they may choose to approve an additional increase of ud to five oeij -Mike Harris CFS has organized a city-wide [cent in each of these two years. protest for January 28. Plans call for separate student walkouts at "(Tuition hikes) will lead to a area universities, as well as a high deterrent education system," • r school walkout and rally at Poirier said. "There will be pro- Individual institutions will also have discretion to set tuition fees for graduate and Queen's Park at 1 p.m.