VISA STUDENT FILES Visa Students File: by Chris Carey Last Year’s scare over rising school fees for foreign students gave us a rare chance to meet-each other: so those of you who started this year are probably unaware of the politics that we dealt with and you are probably paying the new rate of $7,500. Those of us that were here when the new fees were implemented were exempt (after a little battle) under a “grandfather clause” (we are the students with canes and grey hair). The new enrollments are paying the new rate but there are 10 full time placements available at the regular rate which the administration is now in the process (| hope) of deciding how to divy up for you people. The student associa- tion has a position now for a foreign student rep which I’m filling for this year but I’m out of here in May 1990, so that’s your chance to keep up to date with all the action at ECCAD in the fall. Graduating brings up another hurdle. It used to be possible to get 12 months extension to practice what you studied in Canada before returning homeward. No longer - Emily Carr doesn’t qualify. Alan Barkley has written to Barbara Mc Dougall (the Minister for Immigration | think) and so should we if it concerns us. It might not mean anything to you now, but as grad gets closer | myself want to have a show here before | go home and some of the Graphics people have been offered jobs. It’s pointless to study here unless we get some exposure before hitting the ol home town. If this or another problem concerns you, you can catch me in Rm 168 or leave a message at the Student’s Association Office in the cafeteria. And next January | suggest we get together and have a Canadian custom “pot luck” in the Faculty Lounge ( the party that should happen at the begin- ning of each year). Look out for info. So this file is for you. Maybe you would like to contribute something to this paper about you or your country so we don’t just disappear into the building walls. Exhibition News Catch Senta Tsuchiya’s lithographs at Malaspina Gallery on the Island till Dec 22. Senta is from Japan. jit, 4 eS : rT Tl a 2 ee 8 at Cohen is playing softly in my ears and I'm reviewing a package sent to the Student Union by the Graduation Pledge Alliance. Because of it I'm trying to figure out 28 how to write about social and environmental responsibility without being terribly condescending. | suppose there not much chance of that happening. Leonard is getting to me. The paper in this package is for the most part recycled,which comforts and disturbs me. | realize how far behind we are in our own Student Union even though | myself usually preach a good line. This package along with a strange personal cover letter to Karen (Union hack), from someone she doesn't even know, asks us to "Spread the word of the pledge to your friends". The package is called the Graduation Pledge of Responsibility and it is based out of the Humboldt State University in California. The concept involves anyone who graduates from a college or university pledging “to thoroughly investigate and take into account the social and environmental consequences of any job opportunity" that graduate should consider. Nice theory but the actual taking of the pledge reminds me to much of the pledge of allegiance and all the mind numbing associations that go along with it. Visualizing over one hundred graduating art students standing up and pledging the - same lines in synchronicity really scares the hell out of me. | hope though that even if we don't take the pledge that you're already thinking of what responsibility you have to others as a worker, employer, consumer ... person. Who am | exploiting this time? $740 3g fo qouna Uorqips 1IquIN as "ALMIGISNOdS3Y LAS WO AGL Leslie Smith FILES Visa Students File: by Chris Carey Last Year's scare over rising schoo! fees for foreign students gave us a rare chance to meet-each other: so those of you who started this year are probably ‘unaware of the politics that we dealt with and you are probably paying the ew rate of $7,500. Those of us that ‘were here when the new fees were implemented were exempt (after a little battle) under a “grandfather clause” (we are the students with canes and grey hair) ‘The new enrollments are paying the new rate but there are 10 full time placements available at the regular rate ‘which the administration is now in the process (I hope) of deciding how to divy up for you people. The student associa- tion has a position now for a foreign student rep which I'm filing for this year but 'm out of here in May 1990, so that's your chance to keep up to date with all the action at ECCAD in the fall Graduating brings up another hurdle. It used to be possible to get 12 ‘months extension to practice what you studied in Canada before returning homeward. No longer - Emily Carr doesn't quality. Alan Barkley has written to Barbara Mc Dougall (the Minister for immigration | think) and so should we it it concerns us. it might not mean anything to you now, but as grad gats closer | myself want to have a show here before | go home and some of the Graphics people have been offered jobs. It's pointless to study here unless ‘we get some exposure before hitting the of home town. I this or another problem concerns you, you can catch ‘me in Rm 168 or leave a message at the Student's Association Ottice in the cafeteria, ‘And next January I suggest we get together and have a Canadian custom “pot luck” in the Faculty Lounge ( the party that should happen at the begin- ning of each year). Look out for inf. So this file is for you. Maybe you would like to contribute something to this paper about you or your country so we don't just disappear into the building walls Exhibition News Catch Senta Tsuchiya’s lithographs at Malaspina Gallery on the Island till Dec 22. Senta is from Japan. ANY Mi = Cohen is playing softly in my ears and I'm reviewing [eo] a package sent to the Student Union by the Graduation Pledge Alliance. Because of it I'm trying to figure out 7 how to write about social and environmental { responsibility without being terribly condescending. | Nn suppose there not much chance of that happening. Leonard is getting to me. The paper in this package is for the most part recycled,which comforts and disturbs me. | realize how far behind we are in our own Student Union even though | myself usually preach a good line. This package along with a strange personal cover letter to Karen (Union hack), from someone she doesn't even know, asks us to "spread the word of the pledge to your friends". The package is called the Graduation Pledge of Responsibility and it is based out of the Humboldt State University in California. The concept involves anyone who graduates from a college or university pledging "to thoroughly investigate and take into account the social and environmental consequences of any job opportunity” that graduate should consider. Nice theory but the actual taking of the pledge reminds me to much of the pledge of allegiance and all the mind numbing associations that go along with it. Visualizing over one hundred graduating art students standing up and pledging the same lines in synchronicity really scares the hell out of me. | hope though that even if we don't take the pledge that you're already thinking of what responsibility you have to others as a worker, employer, consumer ... person. Who am | exploiting this time? 940 2p fo puma Morpe sequin “ALIMISISNOdS3Y ——