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Editorial of the opinions are approved by the editorial board and are independent University, WLUSU, and Student Publications. The Cord Weekly is a member of the Canadian Uni- versity Press. Copyright © 1989 by WLU Student Publications,Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5. No part of this be without the of the Editor-in-Chief. publication may reproduced permission The Cord Weekly 3 Thursday, March 16,1989 NEWS 40,000 summer jobs axed by province C. Leblanc By Bryan southern Ontario," said Duffy. "In fact, students' chosen fields. This may affect also come under criticism. Nancy Okada, and the Canadian University Press in southern Ontario we're students' to their tuition fees of employment services at the experiencing a ability pay manager severe of for next University of Toronto's Career Centre, shortage young people for the year. TORONTO/WATERLOO -- (CUP) jobs available." "It impacts on the whole issue of ac- said students who were depending on the More than 40,000 have she said. for have summer jobs Northern Ontario has the highest cessibility," government jobs may passed up axed the Ontario been by government in the The concern of OFS Chairperson other opportunities. Usually, applications youth unemployment rate pro- because the province's "booming econo- vince. Last summer's 12 Shelley Potter is that students will not be are made available in early February. was per cent, has eliminated the need for job crea- able to afford the costs would have been for my" compared to 6.9 per cent for the entire living they "People waiting said official. tion, a government province. have to incur to access the job market. (government) job information for This the $17 million "Students cannot live in Toronto min- said Okada. "Students who summer, The Canada Employment Centre for on months," Summer Ontario Employment Program Students in imum said Potter. were to are now told Kitchener-Waterloo sees no wage," expecting get jobs will 18,500 jobs, which for the Potter is concerned with the current can't For someone whose heart provide problem with the provincial job cuts. Ac- they was first time is restricted to Northern of in the for the cording to Katherine Carter Yost of the state youth employment pro- set on working government, how Ontario, and the Summer Experience vince. "If look at the cuts in summer it?" Employment Centre, "summer jobs for you are they going to do Program. An additional 3,000 jobs will students employment in southern To for the lateness of the are at an all-time high. Students programmes compensate be created through the Environmental in Ontario, the cuts to Challenge '89, the the region will have no problem find- announcement, applications are due June Youth Corps at a budget yet to be The federal job and then the 30 instead of 1. ing a job." jobs available to students programme, April determined. about massive tuition in- in the rumours The from course- area pay competitively and are of experience gained Last summer, $45.8 million provided creases—how can students afford to live high quality, said the Employment related employment is difficult for stu- 62,000 jobs. Centre. "Because and afford university?" dents to acquire. Okada said it is impor- the job market is so Most of the cuts will be made in A out of competitive for employers, there has report Queen's University tant to distinguish between jobs and southern Ontario, while areas north of has called for 44% increase in tuition, been an across-the-board a career-related wage in- opportunities. Sound will continue above the inflation rate. The federal Parry receiving of the "The real value of summer employ-; crease—most jobs pay in the $6- said John government-sponsored grants, government cut or redirected $51.6 mil- ment is the $7 range," said Carter Yost, experience you gain," she communications assistant to lion out of last total of $180 mil- said. "For student Duffy, year's any considering Skills and Development Min- communications direc- lion from the '89 provincial Georgia Guy, Challenge programme. careers with the government, these jobs ister Alvin for Ontario Federation of Stu- Curling. tor the "If you look at the dollar cuts, it does are terrific." "There's no need for the government dents said it is still difficult to find a job not look encouraging," said Potter. "The perception is that employment to be out for in outside of metro in The of the has creating jobs people Toronto, especially timing announcement for youth is not an issue." Possible 44% tuition hike TORONTO confiden- The increases would rather than the current (CUP) -- A restore revenues, tial the level of the 18 cent. Queen's University proposal funding to early per circulated to schools throughout '70s. This would allow univer- Helena Moncrieff, press sec- Ontario recommends increasing sities to improve student to facul- retary to colleges and universities said tuition fees 44 per cent over the ty ratios, buy new equipment, minister Lyn McLeod, five - before in- with is that tuition next years even help building maintenance, government policy flation is factored in. and buy library books, according fee increases be kept equal to the document "All we're trying to do is get to government hikes in university fees back to a reasonable level," It also said universities should funding. said Ken Snowdon, one of the au- assume greater responsibility for Snowdon, director of resource thors of the document. "This student accessibility and as- planning at Queen's, said 30 to tries sistance funds 40 of the proposal to share the cost of by channeling per cent extra revenue improving university education towards bursaries and student ser- from tuition fees would be chan- with the real stakeholders of the vices. neled back into university bur- The Council of Ontario education-students, government, Uni- saries, grants and student ser- universities, and the private versities is circulating the vices. the sector~and everybody should be proposal to boards of gover- Tuition would be raised $125 nors of the universities would contributing." province's per year, but students only for discussion. has al- added. The provincially- Queen s pay the increase once, he recommended tuition fee is ready accepted it But Moncrieff said the minis- A letter from the $1,411. The document, obtained president try has increased funding to uni- chair of board of by the Ontario Federation of Stu- and the the gov- versities and lifted the spending hike. ernors of McMaster to freeze dents, urges a $625 University on university capital the minister of and uni- The proposal also suggests in- colleges projects. versities also that stu- creasing provincial university proposes Said author Snowdon, "I from the current $1,545 dents more.