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Becker Justifies ._Witholding Money To: Michael Drache President This letter included two enclosures. Sec Glendon Student Union tions of special interest are reprinted below. From: J. A. Becker Date: 21 November 1975 Minutes of the Executive Meeting oftheGlen don Student Union held on March 6th, 1972: I have your letter of 17 November concern ing the motion passed at the Union Council Item 18 m~eting of the same date. - run a referendum asking for raise in stu I would like to ·assure you and your dent fees {or a 3 year basis - to subsidize Council that there is no dispute with you about a pub on campus. the Council being the 'duly representative body of the students'. - moved that: we run a 3 day referendum Similarly the University has -no· basic ob... c~l1ling for $4.00 raise in the student Union jection with any student government constitu fees schedule for a period of 3 years and tion that contains in it a provision allowing the end of 3 years that" the money be held the government to collect fees. The diffi in trust be turned over to us. Paul se culty is that such a provision does not bind conded by Ted (unanimous). '. the University to collect such a fee. What . The money held in trust - in the capital the University does do is forward to each Expenditures Fund - at the end of the three student government an 'operating grant' each years, i.~. in 1975-76, would ·become part of year. the operating budget of the Union. The $4.00 It is very important ~or the Council to make would only be collected for the three years the distinction between what they call a 'fee' and would be used only for capital expendi in their constitution and what the University tu~es in the student operated pub and cafe. VOLUME15 NUMBER13 DECEMBER 3, 1975 forwards to the Union each year which is an If the w.hole amount was not needed for operating grant. I t may be clear that the captial or not spent by -April 30, 1975 any Union has the consitutional power to levy a unspent funds would be returned to the Union. I- ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.••••-•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••; fee. What is not clear is that constitutional (This request was approved by the Board GET YOUR TICKETS NOW FOR THE provision' overrides t.he responsibility of the of Governors). Board of Governors of York University as II set out in the York University Act to est Letter to ,J. Becker from K. Fort, External CHRISTMAS BANQUET •• ablish the fees and the budget of the Univer Affairs Commissioner, July 29 th, 1975: On sale every lunch and dinner hour outside sity. No such transferal of power has ever cafeteria. Cost is only $6.00 for a night been made _to the Glendon Student Union by "The· Cafe grant was to be discontinued at of fun. Price includes: the Board of Governors. the end of the 74-75 year, thus reducing the Your Council also appears to be misled activity fees by $4.00 per student." MUSICAL EN-TERTAINMENT_ concerning the 1972 referendum on the $4.00. Attached you will find the facts of the matter. Problems: SING-ALONG CHRIS-TMAS CAROLS No referendum ever established that 'fee' 9a) the Union does not know how the money (or operating grant as I would call it) to was spent si~ce it has never asked the pub SANTA CLAUS 'and apply in 1975-1976. The fact that the Coun for an accounting. cil never requested it and the fact that the A GREAT MEAL! Board of Governors never approveditaretwo (b) There is legitimate SUSPICIon thf:lt the very good reasons" lor the. Council to not money was not just used top~rchase equip e~ct getting it. ment but- was;'· ilf"'1act," used to subsidize I do oot think that the College can claim operations, pay salaries, etc. Related Activitie-s include a pre-baoquet ignorance on this question. As early as Jan uary 25th, 1974, I wrote your Dean of Stu- , (c) The only visible attempt of the Union REFRESHMENT PARTY dents mentioning-the impendingtermination of to request an alteration in these conditions at Or McQueen's the gr~nt which was then 18 months away. was a Spring 1975 referendum which the Council subsequently disallowed with the everyone is invited. Principal Tucker mentioned it in -a memo on February 7th, 1975 a very complete letter result that no information on this matter It's free! with a financial recapitiulation went from me reached my office until 30 July '1975, three to the President of the Union as well as, to months after the bu~et year had started. the Principal, the Dean of Students and Mr. Selection of the Policy Statement on Student Plus a 0 AN CE later in the evening for a nominal fee. Pilley. Government and their Financial Support You must realize that none of these efforts ....... , •••••••••••••••' •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••, ••••••••••• 5 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••I' at communication resulted in any response. The level of financial support is a Univer So starting on July 8th and again 'on August sity decision and may be altered from 5th I started writing the Principal making time to time depending on the needs of stu Take Positive Steps sure copies always went to the Union Pres dent governments and other considerations ident and R. Scott among others. By this affecting the tuition fee charged to students. time I had abandoned attempts to learn what Discussions regarding changes in the level Bilingu'alism the Union wished me to do and was concentra of support should always commence prior to# Towards ~to ting on trying block the tran-smittal of December 1st to take effect the following recruit more students to the bilingual pro wrong or imprecise information. One reply September. I challenge the Action Committee for Biling gramme, anglophone as well as francophone? frpm K. Fort on July 29th helped somewhat Student governments receive operatinggrants ualism and Biculturalism to justify the word Every extra student we attract into the biling but left a basic contradiction unresolved. from the University which are drawn from "actton" in its title and to do positive things to ual programme brings the abolition ofthe uni The telephone produced some belated results general University revenues. A student is promote bilingualism at Glendon. Here are a lingual- stream a step closer. If you paint a and on September 16th and November 11th I not paying a compulsory membership fee to few samples. gloomy picture of bilingualism atthe College, met with the Union officers. The lastmeeting, the University which is passed on to a society you'll turn off the verypeople whose presence I assume, produced the first response (your legally separate from the University. He is paying a tuition fee to the University Instead of demanding an immediate increase here will hasten the realization of the goals letter) I have received from the Council which, in turn, supports a wide range of in the number of courses offered in French to you, and I, have very much at heart. Tell pro itself on this topic since April 1972! I am departments, agencies and activities further 50%, why don't you encourage qualified stu spective students frankly of the difficulties, sorry that it is too late. ing the University's educational goals. dents, anglophone as well as francophone, to then challange them to come and help make it Yours very truly, Student Council meeting lasted less than two enrol in the courses now available, as elect work. ives and to fulfil General Education require J. A. Becker. ments, even if this entails some sacrifice of To the Editors: personal interests? Nothing will persuade a department chairman to1ncrease- his French Several different figures have been used in course offerings so surely as the likelihood your columns recently as representing the to tal number of courses offered in the College What's Inside that the extra courses will have healthy en p.2.. :GSCU rolments. this year. Your readers may be interested in the following figures based on an actual count: p.3.•.Letters Instead of calling on the College to refuse the Total number of courses offered 236 bilingual grant on the grounds that Glendon is p.4...and" more letters Courses offered in English 188 not bilingual enough, why don't you submit a Courses offered bilingually 2 brief to the Government making a case for an p.5...Communications Courses offered in French 46 increase in the grant so that the College may be~ome more bilingual? p.6...A Meal to Spare? J.A. d'Oliveira p.7...The Bald Soprano, Big X Little Y Instead of insisting o~ the immediate aboli Eds. note: These figures include the courses tion of the unilingual stream, why don't you offered by the French and English depart p.8...0n T~p volunteer to assist the School Liason Office to ments. 2 PRO TEll December 3, 1975 RADIO GLENDON Bell Seeks Board Post MUSIC The following questions were asked of Jay campus? to ensure that enough financial resources are Bell, a candidate for the Board of Gover There are four candidates for two positions allotted to ,Glendon by the board in order to FOR .AN nors, by Pro Tern.. on the board. Two of the candidates are help this college be what it was supposed to from the left wing clique which dOlJlinates be. Pour nous, Shelley Rabinovitch et Jay OPEN What is the election being held today about? main campus politics . Shelley and I are Bell, le bilinguisme cl Glendon est une prior This election is for the purpose of picking trying to convince the moderate constituency ite.