College Dips Into Students* Fund
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. ' ting our 20th Anniversary NOT TO Bt FAu f-UVM IHIS ROOM {''.> Volume 20 Thursday, March 19, 1992 Number 25 College dips into students* fund Administrators have taken $264,000 from student activity fees to cover college staff salaries activityfee is the prerogative ofthe ram for financial reasons. into other areas which have not ferret out and follow up these by Kevin Connor student council. Neither the board Brett Honsinger, the current been approved." allegations. As colleges are minis- For the past three years there has nor the college staff is entitled to SAC president, said, "Giroux ... College President Robert Gor- try agencies we are ultimately re- been a hushed controversy be- dictate how student council funds pushed it through. He had no busi- don said, "I haven't the faintest sponsible to step in if a successful tween student representatives and are to be spent." ness getting his hand in it. He stuck idea what's happening. I haven't conclusion is not met." college administrators on the Tania Mills was the 1989/90 to his guns and put the money into looked at the CSA's budget this The CSA is made up of six stu- Council of Student Affairs (CSA) SAC President when a consulting the pot for full-time salaries." year so I don't know why the salary dent representatives and six col- flrst over the allocation of $264,000 of fee appeared in the CSA's In an interview, Giroux said, is still in effect, but I assure you we lege administrators. The position student activity fees. budget for the Athletic £>epart- "Students should share some of are fiilly audited. I presume the of chairperson for the CSA alter- Among other responsibilities, ment. Mills said, "I remember the the costs of managing activities." money is being spent responsibly, nates each year between students CSA is Ae governing body over scandal with the budget, we tried to He said activity fees from CSA in ways that would beneHt the stu- and administrators. Chairpersons SAC and the Students' Athletic stop it. Unfortunately the power of which are directed to the Athletics dents." do not vote. Students have always Association. CSA budget expense students is only so strong and the I>epartment were to be used to hire voted against the issue and adnii- administration asked if the salaries statements starting in the 1989/90 does dictate how students in the athletic area. When were nistration has always voted for it. year, show a portion of activity the CSA can spend its money. It's "That's the way the plan was in- being masked fix>m BOG in CSA's Murray said, "I have difficulty the students' fees are being spent on salaries for not responsibiUty to tended to operate," he said. budget, Gordon said they were not. with the fact 12 people sit on the full- time college staif relieve the college of its fmancial John Sutton, director of Finan- Rammage said Gordon is the board that deals with the allocation Rick Bendera, director of Stu- problems and it shouldn't stiU be cial Operations, said, "Rather than only contact to BOG, as far as the of the money. If people feel strong- dent Life, said/'that (Vice- happening because in my year it have student government hire em- CSA is concerned, and he can use ly opposed to something then they was to be a one-shot his discretion in President of Education and Faculty deal." ployees to run their programs we own what he tells should vote negatively. I think you Services) Roy Giroux's area was in The next year the consulting fee have made an agreement with the other members. have to stand up and be accounted financial problems and he had to again appeared in the athletics CSA that they will provide us with David Murray, BOG chair, said for how wu feel about an issue." look for resourcing of his area. budget. Student representatives a certain amount of money that that he had no memory of student What he did was take a portion of were given the option of absorbing helps us administer the athletics activity fees paying for college A survey of Ontario colleges ' activity fees to cover off salaries. the costs of salaries or having the area." salaries. showed Humber is the only college The money was taken from the hockey team cut. Gordon said Murray hasn't been where administrators have voting athletics division, which is under Lee Ranmiage, 1990/91 SAC In one case, budgets for CSA around long enough to understand memberships on student boards. the jurisdiction of the CSA. president and a current Board of show $22,000 a year is being col- the nuances. Drew Nameth, director of This contradicts the Ministry of Governors (BOG) member said, lected for an Associate Director of David Scott, special policy Financial Services, College Affairs Colleges and Universities 'Guide- "We felt threatened and didn't Student Affairs and Development, assistant to the Minister of Col- Branch, said, "I would suggest the lines for Governors' which states: want to be responsible for the cut- a position which has not existed for leges and Universities said, "If CSA look at the structure of their * 'Each board (of Governors) mem- ting of the hockey team so we paid three years. fluids are earmarked for a position board. I would have some concern ber should become familiar with the salaries." Honsinger said, "We don't that doesn't exist then that is an if there is any coercion but I'm not the structure and operation of stu- Later that year, college adminis- know where that money is going impropriety ef fimds. The minis- aware of any complaints over the dent government. The annual tration cancelled the hockey prog- but it's obviously being pushed try's policy is to rely on BOG to nature of their relationship." Lakeshore fitness fanatics! ' Pafle2 Thanday, March 19, 1992 Coven Reform policies meet with criticism institutions would have to give bet- According to Gosse, the Reform by Chris Vernon ter service to students because the Party is growing in popularity Students should be given more students would be controlling which "attracts some radicals who control of spending on education, where the money is spent. want to be part of something that is said Reg Gosse, Ontario chair of Students can spend the grant successful," said Gosse. the Reform Party of Canada. only on higher education in Cana- Recently, the Reform Party re- About 40 people arrived at the da. The idea, entitled "Advanced voked the memberships of five Lecture Theatre Monday to listen Education Voucher," will force people who belonged to the Herit- to his hour-and-a-half political colleges and universities to com- age Front, a white supremacist message which focussed on the pete for students. "Students, it organization. highly party's mandate as it pertains to the seems to me, will become "Five people out of 110,000 younger generation. "The party desirable to institutions when they members. It's absurd to call us ra- won't be complete without bring with them not only their tui- cist because there are Jewish peo- youth," he said. tions of $2,000 or more, but also ple in our organization. Blacks, Gosse laid down the party's vouchers worth another $3,000," Chinese, women — all are part of proposals for post-secondary he said. our party," said Gosse. But the proposal drew criticism education which caused an intense He also mentioned the Reform from the audience who felt that debate in the half-hour question Party's platform on immigration some institutions would then be period that followed. which would remove the current to Gosse, the Reform under-funded because some don't According quota system replace it with a skills get the same number of students as Party is studying a policy which quota. may see doing away with the cur- others. "Instead of setting numbers on . questioned rent way in which post-secondary The students also how many people we let into Cana- institutions are funded by govern- Gosse about the party's other poli- da, we believe that the economy ment. tical mandates and the issue of rac- and the demand for skills dictate "We would like to introduce a ism. Gosse went on the defensive our immigration standards." voucher sytem for students. In- when questioned about allegations Gosse said the stead of giving money to various that the Reform Party was racist. plan would not is partly to blame eliminate people from third-world levels of government, we'd give it "The media countries. directly to the students through a for these charges. The national "There are some fine universities voucher," said Gosse. media looks for scandal, so they in India, and South BY CHRIS VEKMON Africa," he said. Under the plan, post-secondary concentrate on a few radicals." Reg Gosse Applications up a third be made to "approve, if there's there are "big bucks coming from by Sean O'Connell space, all of the students who meet industry." Humber has seen a dramatic 36 our requirements on the deadline Marlene Roseblade is all too per cent increase in student ap- date." familiar with Humber' s booming plications this year and questions Even so. Hook said the reality is application rate. She works for persist as to whether the college that "students are being let Humber Inquiry answering calls can meet the demand. down." from prospective students. Richard Hook, vice-president of A shortage of jobs due to the "The phones never stop," said Instruction, says this figure will sluggish economy is one reason for Roseblade.