Bigger Debt Looms Over Future Students

' i FOR REFERENCE NOT TO BE TAKEN FROM THIS ROO^- wmt^mmm^mi rrr(rttirt rigif Vol.27 No.13 Humber College's Student Newspaper December 1, 1994 Flood causes stink in photogiîliy studio HlMttBto. **"" I"" ''^'WMilMMWiW* 4t tated floods ov^r the last two weeks have "reeked" havoc in the basement Creative Photography tab. Students have had classes cai iHicause of the mess and stench from overflowing grease traps. See story on page 3. photo by jeff collins Bigger debt looms over future students RENEE DESJARDINS removing means tests, and ish high school based on the fact forum said they find a growing fees, and as it stands there are no loan Staff Writer revamping applications. they cannot afford to further their number of students in programs provisions for a cap on how high "The system would not education. that just don't fit their career tuitions could go. depend on proving need," said In a reaction written by the plans. Faculty also said if guid- O'Connor said schools could Huge debts and elitist educa- Eleanor O'Connor, a faculty Faculty Union at Humber it said, ance counsellors in high downsize, but increase tuition tion systems are things students member attending the November "Some experts predict that tuition school were doing a better job, based on the fact that students can look forward to if changes to 25 forum. fees, which have risen 93 per students would not be wasting have been proven to learn better the federal social system take There is also speculation the cent over the past 10 years, will time and on a program in a smaller classroom. place said those attending an money government would re-introduce rise to $10,000. For a 2-year not suited to them. The group Still others may charge really Academic Council forum at Humber. the grant portion of the student program students would pay proposed up front counselling on low tuition, but have over-filled loan to combat the subsequent $20,000 in tuition alone. Add to careers and program choices to classes. In the Government of Canada increase in tuition as the govern- that the cost of housing, food, make up for the high school 'There would be a tiered sys- paper "Have Your Say", it said, ment decreases funding. travel, books, and probably com- shortfall. tem of education based on "while students might have to Those attending the forum puters. Student debt on gradua- shift in funding also income," said O'Connor. pay more, they could borrow The may New said this debt burden many stu- tion could be a staggering affect schools as a whole. For Zealand and United States were money more easily." dents would face would shift $40,000." example schools in smaller, less used as examples of the system In Hon. Lloyd Axworthy's pro- from whether you can academi- The premise of Axworthy's prosperous areas may be forced at work. posal, released in October, plans cally succeed in a program to proposal is to make education to close as students go to bigger The Humber faculty written to shift educational funding from whether you can financially suc- more accessible, but faculty more well known schools. reaction describes the voucher the post-secondary institutions ceed. O'Connor said many stu- said a better way to O'Connor also said the proposal system which countries like onto the students themselves members do New dents may shy away from college that would be to revamp ttie col- supports an elitist education sys- Zealand use. "Where (vouchers) were announced. The proposal or university because of the debt lege system. tem where only the rich can have been used, it has resulted in wants to implement the "rapid they would face when they fin- "They may just be jumping afford to go. The quality of your the creation of a tiered education phase out of cash transfers" and ished school. ship," said O'Connor. She went education would then depend on system, where some people have "expand the system of loans and "We lost students when grants on to say the government was how much money you have or access to the basic service, while grants." were taken away," said throwing away all the good as can borrow. those with more resources can For every one dollar the feder- O'Connor. well as tiie bad parts of the col- In the proposal, many of the buy higher quality service." al government would save, four As statistics show, the need for lege system. cuts to funding would have to be The courses at schools may be dollars would be given out in more education continues to Many said the colleges are made up by the schools them- forced to change in order to keep loans. capitalist grow, therefore students being blamed for all the ills in selves. Institutions may be given up with the direction of The system would many new make education. may not have jobs when they fin- prevtous grades. Faculty at the die opportunity to set their own getting loans easier, possibly by Please see ''Tuition", Back Page SECTIONS: News 2 - 3 / Editorial 4 /Head 2 Head 5/ Lifestyles 14 - 18 / Entertainment 6 - 9/ Sports 19 - 22/ Classifieds 23 FEATURES: ...Like it is 2 / Unusual jobs Special Section 10 - 11 / Complaints Corner 17/ Beyond the Boxscore 22 / Horrible-scopes 24 ) ) Number Et Cetera Dec. 1, 1994 >»'.'« • .- ,. I y't.- .'•ny News EDITORS: Dixie Calweii and Cynthia Keeshan 675-3111 ext. 4514 Humber caught hiding fees Administration's clandestine "non-tuition fee" scam exposed tor, financial planning, why we weren't scripts, and let's see, subtraction now, Note the careful choice of words on being told what portion of the $118 goes $103 goes to the all-inclusive mystery cat- the fees invoice in stating: "Non-tuition I jlf^p IT 1^ ^° ^^^^ °^ these, arâ^^ Sutton responded egory: "ETC." related fee mcludes student activity, con- . lîrxC II /O tât j(,_^5 d#i;^'iaQiiy for the purpose (Let me assure you the "etc" in this vocation ..." It didn't say "non-tuition fee ipirnv in how the funds case does not refer to this newspaper. is for," or "non-tuition fee covers." aisWbutecuted. ^-^ "Ir^cludes" very clever. \ \ \ rcîwete U — But vyhai \ asked to get a breakdown Finally, it all becomes clear Was it an oversight, do you think, that oLb'GM/ the money was divided last year, I it did not also say non -tuition fees mclude RALPH TASGAL was politely infoifijicd I couldn't have this Then the;^9t f^levjîeije î, more than $100 to be directed to a giant ^1 P^^<^j i Columnist înfortHafiorC^^Vi^.^Sutton explained he revealing tl^ fUl^tettt olP'this-dirfc) micjih pool of Humber College revenue; money ! J'cHan't,v*«kn* to'be seen as attempting to nations thafiUent into creating this graB^ which could very well be going towards influence a committee which was about to illusion. i-V-':- ' paying for cleaning college washrooms, or be formed with the mandate to make rec- 1 obtained a copy of the Humber perhaps paying the $70,248 to $100,786 What if you were busying yourself ommendations to the Board of Governors College Financ??!, Plan- and- Qperaîfig. a year the vice presidents of this school trying to curb an annoying leak in as to how the money should be spent in Ancillary and Capital Budgets' for ihe are paid, or the $90,951 to $127,331 the a bathroom faucet, and you were the future. Fiscal Year 1994/95. (I urge every one of Humber College president draws as concentrating so hard you failed to notice you reading this take a stroll down to salary. the toilet had backed up and was over- Back to the drawing board room C121 and pick one up for yourself.) The supreme irony, of course, is that flowing? It is prepared by the office of the director. Humber may in fact be justified in raising What if you were a farmer and you Hitting a dead-end, I students' spent so much time guarding a chicken checked my tuition fees fees. coop to make sure no one stole any invoice to see if it had anything "Non-tuition related fee includes student Certainly chickens, you didn't realize until it was too to say about non-tuition fees. the college late that the bank had come to foreclose It did. activity, convocation, transcript and stu- needs the on your farm? There, at the bottom of the cash, no l.D. What if you were a reporter covering invoice, was a note of explana- dent card fees." one doubts Humber College, and every move the tion: "Non-tuition related fee that. But to - Humber College Fall 94AAînter /95 Fees Invoice Students' Association Council (SAC) includes student activity, con- deliberately made, you tracked and reported because vocation, transcript and stu- set on a every one of the nearly 12,000 full-time dent l.D. card fees." financial planning, John Sutton, on April course of obfuscation, clearly intended to students here has given it $47.60 and it is Seems fair enough, but then I got to 29, 1994. Allow me to draw your atten- disguise how it is spending the $1.2 mil- your duty as a journalist to ensure that wondering how it is that the fees had tion to an important number on page 23, lion it has collected from students is a student government is held accountable gone from $124 two years ago to under "Other Income Details." scandal and the college must be made to for these funds? $236.80 this year, when on the surface, it $1,200,000.

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