May-June 1996 / Planet of the Arts 9

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| have no idea. ambivalence to the store selling student work. One of the issues
becomes, how do you determine what gets sold and what

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How does it accomplish this?
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a hundged people.

1s there an apathy problem with ECIAD's student body?

Yes. And I don't knola fits specific to Emily Carr. I think for dit-
ferent people there are different times for them to be active.
Being at Emily Carris a pretty busy thing to be doing, and a lot
of people have to work as well as go to school. So it doesn’t
leave a lot of time and energy to be thinking politically or inter-
nally But | respect that the same people who I might think are
not participating now may well be participating in the future or
‘may well have been participating last year And | see that in
myself ~ last year | wasn't involved, and this year I'm very much
so, and | don't assume that that'll be forever.

the priorities are.
al initiative
then those

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that that:

Is student activism increasing or is apathy winning out?
| don't really have anything to compare itt. | think as a cam-
pus, Emily Carris very apolitical, Again, | don't realy have any-
thing to compare that to, but its @ perception that I have. And |
don’t know how to change that. don’t know that i's my per-
sonal agenda to change it, because if it were, that would be a
full-time job in itself, putting out information

‘What will you do to help create a student lounge at ECIAD that,
will be a comfortable social meeting place for students, as well
as a space for student performance?

| think as a member of the Board of Governor, if there's feed-
back in that context = I don't know that there is ~ I think i's
important for me to present the importance of a student lounge,
and I-don’t think there's any argument against that. As far as
What | would personally do, | mean, I'm certainly an advocate
for it, but | can’t honestly say I know what makes a comfortable
lounge or a good sound stage, 56\} would support the people
who motivate it that way.

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have no idea.

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Auition, as in students not having

| think it an ideal state, And not one that I think is going to be
a reality. So philosophically, we can discuss it, but in terms of
teality, | think i's kind of a moot point.

‘What practical steps are needed in order to make this happen?
| don't know that any would have to be taken. I don't know
that by changing tuition, that the structure tends to change.
How do you mean?

You said it's an ideal state If there were a possibility of it ever
happening, what practical steps should be taken to make it a
reality?

| think if ts the mandate of people to make ita realty, then
steps would be taken. I'm not sure that itis the mandate, so
‘again i's theoretical. | think its associated with the idea of fight-
ing against ever-increasing tuition-fees, which I think is impor-
tant, So to me, zero-tuition represents one end of the spectrum,
where privatization represents the other end of the spectrum,
and in the middle we haggle over $500 a year — capping tuition
fees, or ralsing them, or lowering them:

What do you think of the plans to create a retail store at ECIAD
in which student art work and ECIAD t-shirts and coffee mugs,
among other things, willbe sold?

| think its great. ve heard several theories about whether it
would be selling the art of students or commercialized gifts.
think that however it comes out it’s great. | think i'l attract a lot
of attention at the street-level, and if there's coffee mugs with
the ECIAD logo on them, then I think that's good.

‘Would you be more in favour of selling student art work over
things like coffee mugs?

| think it’s safer to go with the commercial items. | have a lot of
ambivalence to the store selling student work. One of the issues
becomes, how do you determine what gets sold and what

doesn't. is there going to be a
committee that decides, ‘this is
the best work, so we'll

with graffi, particularly not if

its contentious,

Will having served on the
Board of Governors look good
‘or bad on your résumé?

f ‘look good. There's
an attachment of prestige with
the... you know... praise Board
of Governors. And again, it's a
position that's validated with
the honorarium. So some-
body's attaching value to it.
‘And if that’s reflected in my
résumé, great... 'm happy to
be there, and I think I'l make
2 fine representative of stu-
dents. Right now I'm very
involved, politically, and that's
just another step in that
involvement, and a personal
kind of education process for
myself. ®