Investing in the madness since 1918 volume 77 issue 12 Tuesday, October 17, 1995 Soggy Trekkers fight the cuts by Chris Nuttall-Smith They came on foot, on skate­ boards, in strollers and by po­ lice escort. In a remarkable af­ front to student apathy, hun­ dreds of umbrella-toting stu­ dents, faculty and staff from UBC, Langara College and lo­ cal high schools braved the rain last Friday to 'Trek for Educa­ tion' and fight cutbacks to post- secondary education. A group of about 150 trek­ kers met at Connaught Park in Kitsilano, grew to over 800 people en route and walked to UBC to send the government a message that students will not bear the weight of cuts to fed­ eral transfer payments. "It was pouring rain and we had 1,000 people trekking up to UBC. Today we showed the provincial and federal govern­ ments that we are very serious about keeping university educa­ tion accessible to all Canadi­ ans," AMS Coordinator of Ex­ PHOTO CHRSf*JTTALL-SMTH ternal Affairs Dave Borins told SCORES OF STUDENT PROTESTORS fill the streets of Kitsilano at last Friday's Trek for Education. The Ubyssey. growing out of reach of some Borins, who organized the students and said faculty must march, said the goal was to call support students. "I think it's Wage gap shocks researchers upon the federal government to important that faculty and stu­ end corporate tax breaks and dents come together to recog­ by Douglas Quan He expected no differences, but cause of their immigrant status. subsidies instead of cutting edu­ nize that faculty depend on ac­ A new study on the salary gap the research proved otherwise. UBC sociology professor David cation funding, and to ask the cessible education for their between whites and visible mi­ The Pendakurs found Canadian- Schweitzer says Pendakur's conclu­ provincial government to legis­ jobs, and students should have norities suggests that Canadian born males of a visible minority sion is not enough. According to late a limit to tuition increases. the right to an education." employers have some explain­ earn 10.2 percent less than their Schweitzer, income differentiation Trekkers screamed "hey hey, Long time UBC activist ing to do. white counterparts. is usually based on jobs and educa­ ho ho, tuition hikes have got to Nancy Horseman said she Earning Differentials among "That's big," he said. "Such dif­ tion, a "structured inequality." go," and "Stop the hikes" as couldn't believe the Trek's turn­ Ethnic Groups in Canada reveals ferentials cannot easily be Given this study's measures to they walked towards a rally out. "I've never seen anything that white, male immigrants shrugged off on cultural differ­ control for language, schooling outside the SUB. like this since the sixties," she earn two percent less than their ences, langugage skills and edu­ and occupation, Schweitzer said, As shoppers poked their yelled over the noise of the white Canadian-born counter­ cation quality." "there seems to be a hidden mes­ heads out of store windows rally. But when asked if the parts, while immigrant males of Eric Wong, director of the BC sage that there are cuscriminatory along Broadway and Tenth Ave, demonstration would have any a visible minority earn fifteen multicultural education society, practices being combined with, they were greeted with signs effect on government policy she percent less than their white agrees with Pendakur. He said perhaps in the realm of ideology, and banners reading "Stop the said; "No. Not at all." male counterparts. "too often, our conclusions are a form of racism." Madness" and "Philosophers Horseman said students can­ Krishna Pendakur, an assis­ drawn from casual observations." Pendakur emphasizes, how­ are rolling in their graves." not expect one march and rally tant professor of economics at Wong says the numbers con­ ever, that the results are "not Ironically, a few banners for to affect university administra­ Simon Fraser University co- cern him because they suggest that proof." He conceded "you could the low-budget trek were made tion and government policy. authored the study with his "certain attributes like education still think that [the differences] are from ripped sections of a ban­ "Eventually this kind of protest brother Ravi, who works in the may, in fact, not be the equalizer due to something left out of the ner used to promote last year's is going to have weight, but this federal government's Canadian we think it might be." analysis, some kind of unobserved $40,000 flopped "Spirit" cam­ corporate mentality is just on heritage department. While he The study is based on 1991 cen­ variable." paign. the go and there's no stopping "expected to see that immi­ sus data. 150,000 cases from six Women immigrants of a vis­ One high school student who it right now. But when the kids grants earn less," he didn't ex­ major cities were examined and ible minority earned about seven would only identify herself as recognize that, they'll fight re­ pect to find such a large gap used to compare the wages of Ca­ percent less than white Cana­ Jen, said she probably wouldn't ally hard." between white immigrants and nadian and foreign-born males dian-born females. Visible mi­ be able to go to university if the But Desmond Rodenbour those of a visible minority. and females, aged 20 to 64, who nority females born in Canada, government allowed tuition to from Langara's Student Union He says it is not a new fact that are a visible minority, with those however, earned about the same double. "Unless I want to pay was more positive about the fu­ visible minorities earn less than of white, Canadian-born males as white females born in Canada. for student loans for the rest of ture of post-secondary education. white people in Canada, but "[the and females. Dr. Schweitzer expected wider my life, I just won't be able to Rodenbour drew raucous ap­ differences] have commonly In the full report, no interpre­ percentage differentials among afford school," she said. plause from the rain-drenched been blamed on...immigration tative analysis was made beyond women. Pendakur suggests the Langara English department crowd with a poem inspired by status. The natural test of that what Pendakur says is the study's smaller gap can be attributed to member Roger Holdstock his favourite professor, Dr. is...do Canadian-born visible mi­ "rejection" of the misconception females in general already being agreed the cost of education is Seuss. norities earn any less?" that visible minorities earn less be­ at the lower end of the payscale. Ubyssey Staff can vote! 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