: Pipeline: by: chris bradshaw

STUDENT RALLY AT ROBSON SQUARE:

Friday, March 12 saw the first evidence of student solidarity
im many, many years, with the Student March Against Government
Cutbacks to Education and rally at Robson Square.

About a thousand students gathered at the Queen Elizabeth
Theatre plaza at 1:30 in the afternoon and after a short rally,
proceeded to march along Georgia Street to Howe, and finally to
the steps of the oid court house in Robson Square.

The point of the march was to make it unmistakably clear to
the bureaucrats who are in the position to control our futures,
that ultimately we control theirs; that they are indeed account-
able to us, as students and citizens of this province, to pro-
vide us with the sufficient oppertunity for education.

This march was a statement by the students of B.C., that we
do not accept their alibis, their ‘pass-the-buck' attitude in
taking responsibility for the proposed cuts to post-secondary
education and health care. We find these cutbacks totally un-
acceptable and demand that funding for education be reinstated
at their former levels. Petitions to this effect were circulated
at the rally and will be used by the Canadian Federation of
Students- Pacific Region, in lobbying the governments concerned.

A valid comparison was evidenced at the rally, where it was
pointed out that hundreds of millions of dollars is currently
being spent in building of B.C. Place and hundreds of thousands
spent in refurnishing the bureaucrats offices in Robson Square,
at the same time as the government is introducing a policy of
restraint in the public sector and cutting back millions of
dollars to post-secondary education.

As an additional bit of information, | noticed a total of 9
Emily Carr students at the march; something like 2% of the total
population of the College.

OPEN DRAWING REINSTATEMENT :

Who says that you can't fight City Hall? ! am happy to inform
you folks here at ECCAD, that the recently defunct Open Drawing
Session in the College has now been reinstated, due to some polit-
ical lobbying by some concerned students. Let's make sure we make
good use of this hard-earned educational opportunity.