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' 'M$tiii0f'^''i:^n0mmMT^ ';3a*»,FfogrMr- '^'^i w. Wii yy^uimr ^ M^ nfi >-irhm*i6#li>yf' Jatitthry ^(ijllttjiid '^'">''^k.iUj Tuition to This Week: Editorials increase Students should pre pare for fee Increase $107.75 Features By Cher^ Bullee Photography club The Lethbridge Community for everyone College Board of Govemors has 7 approved a tuition increase of $107.75 for September 1994. Rick Buis, LCC's rice-president Entertainment of administration, proposed the E^ssies the bar of choice maximum increase allowed. "Students understand and Ptioto by LMnane* QIaaMHi 10 appreciate the increase, but they IXX president DonnaAUan emd Bo€irdof Govemanchainnan obriously don't like it," says Buis. CHennVcaiuui go over the agenda before Wednesdays board meeting. Buis says tuition is the second Sports major source of revenue for the Dean Stetson, dean of Student college, and LCC is facing a shortfall stained dining the voting. Serrices says the board originally New volleyball coach of $453,000 for 1994-1995. This vrill "I can definitely see the rationali proposed the maximum increase zation, but at the same time as a every year for the next three years 13 have to be made up with tuition student I don't want to vote for but the Student Association increase and salary rollbacks. myself paying more money. I wasn't disapproved. They agreed with the Craig Knutson, board of gov eigainst it, but I wasn't for it," says increase for 94/95 but wanted to Campus Relations emors student representative, ab- Knutson. wait to see if other increases would be necessary. Separation from family, iAi hard on dad. Student paridngfees 16 recomrnended By Lawrence Gleason through television coverage Students who wish to park on Provincial gov't campus may soon be required to pay for parking, states a Jan. 17 TSN coming to LCC Communications Office memo. reduces grants sponsors such as Tritrex The memo summarizes By Joanne Sdimldt recommendations made at the Jan. International. Judy Smith, president of to college 13 retreat of the College Tlw Sports Network (TSN) Management Committee. the CCAA is excited about the By Lawrence Gleason will be on campus to cover tifie sponsorship and its affiliation The final decision on student final game of the men's National parking fees will be made by the with sport. The province-vride cut to basketball championship, "^e are pleased to have post-secondary school LCC Board of Govemors. thanks to Tritex International's No decision was made on this or Titrex on board as the title grants translates ^x) a $2.25 sponsiofship. sponsor for our basketball million reduction in other user fees at the Jan. 19 Tim Tollestrup, head of meeting. championships. It is Lethbridge Community athletics at LCC, thinks TSN encouraging to see a company College's 1994-95 i/^ "The students association coverage will be positive for executive had asked that user fees which produces health budgetshould province-wide the college. products supporting amatetur cuts in Advanced Education be phased in," said Dean of Students, "The fan support will Dean Stetson. sports programs." be implemented uniformly. increase drastically &nd I Titrex International Advanced Education's Student parking fees were encourage anyone wanting suggested by the Committee of 101, develops and distributes a $1.25 billion annual budget tickets for the final game to variety of dietary products will be cut 10.9 per cent however, college president Donna buy them in advance." Allan said no decision has yet been includingmddicinal herbs and during the 1994-95 fiscal The 1994 CCAA basketball supplements designed to meet year. That year begins April made to implement any of the . championship tournament is committee's suggestions. the needs of active 1, ten weeks from today. slated for March 15-18 in the individuals. LCC received $20.7 r. Students and staff at the U of L Val Mateotti Gymnasium. currently pay. $130 per year for a Although the college will million in government Titrex International's host tha event, it will work in Yf^ non plug-in parking space and $190 grants during 1992-93, for a sponsorship was Key to the conjunction with the CCAA in budget of $34.3 million for a space with a plug-in, said U of sucefis of the tournament. L security officer Toby Stevens. devolopiag strategies and while LCC students paid •We needed a title sponsor obtaining sponsorship. $4.07 million in tuition. Parking fees for staff at LCC to offset the costs of a TSN were implemented two years ago. "The CCAA tiakes care of These figures are based telecast,", said Tollestrup. the national event, we're ju^t on LCC's annual report for Staff presently pays $75 peryear for "Also (TSN) offers an added a parking space with a-block heater , the l(6cal hosts. We're working 1992-1993. prestige to the tournament." together with the CCAA for plug-in and $50 for a space without CCAA recently decided to a plug-in. the national event," said Next Endeavor ';maTk«t its programs and ToUestrup. Should parkingfeeafor students ,<|.i«|yi^p8 through corporate January 27 beimplefmented, parkingatthe Bam \z would remain free the memo stated. THB ENDEAVOR Thnrsday. January 20, 1994 2 LCC not cutting varsity sports By Lawrence Gleason GFC recommendation. The uni versity seemed to be undergoing the While Lethbridge's university is same stage of protectionism the considering abolishing inter college went through in November, university sports funding, he said. Lethbridge's college is preparing to "I think the decision was based host the men and women's collegiate upon the idea that if we don't cut basketball championships March 15- athletics, then it might be the 18, to be telerised intemationally by academics. TSN. Tollestrup said his department Lethbridge Community College and the Alberta Collegiate Athletic is not cutting varsity sports, said Conference are working to make LCC president Donna AUan Tuesday intercollegiate sports more cost- in reaction to the Univerisity of effective and self-supporting. PItoto by OinnI* BantM Lethbridge General Faculty "We've eliminated pre-season Council's recommendation to tournaments. Instead of three ACAC Gerald Kretscttmen new SAjinancial coordinator suspend funding for athletics. organizational meetings a year, we The university's Board of have two. We've changed our playoff Kretschmer says finding ways to reduce the finandal load of students is a Govemors will consider the General format from six teams playing a best first priority. One ofhis first tasks will be to explore the possibility of Faculty Council recommendation of three to a final four playing a redudng student fees by five per cent. Jan. 27. The 61-member GFC, which sudden death in one weekend." includes five students, is not a Tollestrup also said LCC employs decison-making body, but makes part-time coaches while the Student fee reduction recommendations to the U of L Board university uses full-time coaches. of Govemors . Travelling is more expensive for Allan said LCC plans to make imiversity teams, said Tollestrup. the Kodiaks more self-supporting LCC plays largely within Alberta, a top priority for SA over the next three years, following in the ACAC conference. The inter a recommendation of December's university sports teams at times By Kirsten Broatch says it was not worth it to run an Committee of 101. must fly some distance to meet their election which ordinarily costs $300 LCC's vice-president of competition. Reducing student association fees to $500. administration. Rick Buis, said that The UofL also told two employees by five per cent is the first priority "It costs too much to have an provindal education grants prorided Jan. 4, the Athletic Director and for the new financial co-ordinator of election. We wanted to get the job for LCC intercollegiate sports Sports Information/Publidty Officer the Lethbridge Community College done right; not every election puts amountto"about $200,000." College their positions will be abolished as Students' Association. the best person in position. It looks Communications Director Tara of March 3 L Gerald Kretschmer, 26, a second- hand-picked, but you have a council Pentney said grants for U of L Co-ordinator of Campus year Business Administration in place who will try to get you intercollegiate sports cost LCC Recreation, Sandy Slarin, will take student says the SA is searching for through tough times." I'^J "between $165,000 and $170,000, on the additional responsibUties of ways to reduce the fees to lessen the Kretschmer says it was a shock depending on whether you include Athletic Director, said U of L Athletic financial load ofthe students. to leam how much was involved in the Athletic Director's salary in Director Murray McAuley. "With the potential of a tuition the position, but he is pleased with there." McAuley said the GFC increase and parkingfees, we wanted how things are going. Inter-university sports at U of L recommendation was not surprising, to make it easier on the students. "I was left more or less to leam by cost about $562,000, of which "considering the mood around here It's small, but it's something." myself." $450,000 comes from the provindal these days, everyone is protecting Kretschmer says the SA will know The executive is helping a great education grant. their rear ends." by the end of January if the reduction deal, they're a great group to work LCC's Athletic Director Tim "Athletics will survive (at the is feasible but does not see a problem. with, says the new financial co Tollestrup said he was "very university), but in what form 1 don't "So far this year we are under ordinator.