make education a real privelege, a privelege
for the middle class and the upper middle
class, right? You know, I don’t agree with that.
Education is not a privelege. It’s not for the
rich. It’s not for people who can afford it. It
should be for everybody, right? But you know,
in an “ideal world” it would be free, right, but
that’s not the way it is. Maurice sets it up in
his letter as two realities. There’s the harsh
reality and there’s the ideal reality. The ideal is
that you don’t pay anything. The harsh is that
you have to pay an increase of 25-30 %. It
doesn’t have to be like that. It’s not going to be
like that. What kind of solutions...what do
people here think about how we can really
change this college drastically to not have
these tuition increases? Does everyone think
that this is inevitable and it’s just going to
happen; we’re just going to go along with what
they say? If that happens, you know they’re
just going to raise it again and again and again.
So I encourage anyone to step up to the mike
and just give their own experiences their own
feelings about what’s going on. Anybody?
This is a forum, not a monologue.
Mohammed...Benoit!

Benoit: _ Plus the 10% they want $5 for each
credit, so if you take 15 credits, it’s like $60
more a semester...

Jeremy: Studio Fees. What else are they
going to raise? They also want to increase—I
think they’re going to put a toll booth in the
front of the building, five cents every time you
want to go in or out...
Mohammed: | don’t really think there’s a lot
of solutions to the problem that is there. The
government is not giving money and the
school should run they should keep the quality
of the school. This school has an international
reputation, people outside of this country
recognize this school as the place to study art
and that’s because of the faculty and because
of the programs that are provided here. And I
don’t think there’s like in a short period of time
we can do anything about this. As somebody
who’s been here for four years, I’m a little bit
more familiar with the process of decision

making in the college and the way it’s going to

work is, Maurice is making a package about all
the changes related to the deficit, and then
there’s a board meeting and the board is a
group of people apointed by the provincial
gov’t to [?] in the college. We have different
committees here, committees are what come
up with the ideas, goes up to the PAC, the
Program Advisory Council, presents things to
the Board, and then Board votes on things that
the PAC has proposed. Maurice is working on
a package to pass to the PAC. There’s a board
meeting in the middle of reading week and
they decide in March if they're going to in-
crease the tuition or how much they’re going
to increase it. What Maurice is working on is
just a package, so it will just be yes or no to the
package. And what is more important than
tuition is that they’re thinking of cutting an
entire program, and that’s a very...[little?]
sentence, that we might get rid of one program
in the college in order to like get rid of the
deficit, which means for people in foundation
right now there won't be one of the
programs...one of these programs will be part
of the package, just wiped out of the college.

students should sit on the board. These people

Which means that the instructors who are
teaching that course will be unemployed and
that program won’t be offered. So that’s one of
the things that tomorrow we have to start
asking Maurice. Which program is that?
Think of this as part of it, too; it’s not just the
tuition. They’re going to increase tuition and
lower the services. For foundation students
who read the calendar and the calendar said,
we have all these programs, now it will be like
you can’t go to this department because we
had to change our minds since then. In the
long term the best thing is for foundation
students to push for getting representation on
the board. ECCAD Student Union has been
asking this from the administration and the
provincial government; that faculty, staff and

are appointed by the government. We area
part of this community, we should be able to
participate in the decision making process

which is the board. So if we were on the board

at least we could voice our opinions about the
tuition increase, but all we can do is go and
watch how board votes in favour of tuition.
Tell them how angry we are but they’re going
to make a decision anyways. So I don’t think
there’s much we can do about tuition because
it’s such a short period of time. Let’s voice our
opinions and let’s push for it but also think
about long term. Think about the programs or
the program that’s going to get wiped out.
Thanks.

[Inaudible question from the floor]

Mohammed: The school budget...Brad
Campbell prepares it in the summer when no
one is around, puts up slides click click click
and won't repeat them, I’ve gone to take notes
and I’m lucky to get just a few important

things down. [Mohammed went on to specu-
late about how we have little power to fix
things if we can’t realy scrutinize the budget,
can’t look for ways to cut, mentioned the
outrageous travel budget line item of $30,000
for the president’s “travel expenses”. He also
mentioned that through the freedom of infor-
mation act we may be able to access previous
budgets from Victoria. ]

Phillip: [Said it was useless to focus on
people who aren’t elected, to go occupy
Harcourt’s office before the budget comes out
in four weeks. }

Jeremy filled up dead air saying that the cuts
won't come in the bread and butter depart-
ments of the college, design & film, because
those are “job-oriented”, that the cuts will
come in the liberal arts areas. He mentioned
the past protests against closing school early,
sleeping in the concourse gallery.

Phillip said that the one year freeze on tuition
was due to student activism putting enough
pressure out that the NDP had to put a 1 year
freeze on tuition in their running platform, and
we’re seeing increases now because of a lack of
student activism. We have to get active and
make the govt. accountable.

Jeremy mentioned the student picket the took
piace several years ago at the entry to the
island, pointed out that it was effective to put
pressure on the feds because G.I. is a fed. place.

Phillip said that a good strategy is high-pro-
file, gets media attention.

Mohammed said how did we get so far in the
hole without Brad Campbell noticing? He
pointed out the govt. strategy of creating a
panic-deficit type situation to push a hidden
agenda.

ACEN ACO WULORLE
make education a real privelege, a privelege
for the middle class and the upper middle
class, right? You know, I don’t agree with that.
Education is not a privelege. It’s not for the
rich. It’s not for people who can afford it. It
should be for everybody, right? But you know,
in an “ideal world” it would be free, right, but
that’s not the way it is. Maurice sets it up in
his letter as two realities. There’s the harsh
reality and there's the ideal reality. The ideal is
that you don’t pay anything. The harsh is that
you have to pay an increase of 25-30 %. It
doesn’t have to be like that. It’s not going to be
like that. What kind of solutions...what do
people here think about how we can really
change this college drastically to not have
these tuition increases? Does everyone think
that this is inevitable and it’s just going to
happen; we're just going to go along with what
they say? If that happens, you know they're
just going to raise it again and again and again.
So Tencourage anyone to step up to the mike
and just give their own experiences their own
feelings about what's going on. Anybody?
This is a forum, not a monologue.
Mohammed...Benoit!

Benoit: Plus the 10% they want $5 for each
credit, so if you take 15 credits, it’s like $60
more a semester...

Jeremy: Studio Fees. What else are they
going to raise? They also want to increase—I
think they're going to put a toll booth in the
front of the building, five cents every time you
want to go in or out.

Mohammed: I don’t really think there's a lot
of solutions to the problem that is there. The
government is not giving money and the
school should run they should keep the quality
of the school. This school has an international
reputation; people outside of this country
recognize this school as the place to study art
and that's because of the faculty and because
of the programs that are provided here. And I
don’t think there's like in a short period of time
we can do anything about this. As somebody
who's been here for four years, I'm a litle bit
more familiar with the process of decision
making in the college and the way it’s going to
work is, Maurice is making a package about all
the changes related to the deficit, and then
there's a board meeting and the board is a
group of people apointed by the provincial
gov't to [?] in the college. We have different
committees here, committees are what come
up with the ideas, goes up to the PAC, the
Program Advisory Council, presents things to
the Board, and then Board votes on things that
the PAC has proposed. Maurice is working on
a package to pass to the PAC. There's a board
‘meeting in the middle of reading week and
they decide in March if they're going to in-
crease the tuition or how much they’re going
to increase it. What Maurice is working on is
just a package, so it will just be yes or no to the
package. And what is more important than
tuition is that they’re thinking of cutting an
entire program, and that’s a very...little?]
sentence, that we might get rid of one program
in the college in order to like get rid of the
deficit, which means for people in foundation
right now there won't be one of the
programs...one of these programs will be part
of the package, just wiped out of the college.

Which means that the instructors who are
teaching that course will be unemployed and
that program won't be offered. So that’s one of
the things that tomorrow we have to start
asking Maurice. Which program is that?
Think of this as part of it, too; it’s not just the
tuition. They're going to increase tuition and
lower the services. For foundation students
who read the calendar and the calendar said,
we have all these programs, now it will be like
you can’t go to this department because we
had to change our minds since then. In the
long term the best thing is for foundation
students to push for getting representation on
the board. ECCAD Student Union has been
asking this from the administration and the
provincial government; that faculty, staff and

students should sit on the board. These people
are appointed by the government. We are a
part of this community, we should be able to
Participate in the decision making process
which is the board. So if we were on the board
at least we could voice our opinions about the
tuition increase, but all we can do is go and
watch how board votes in favour of tuition.
Tell them how angry we are but they're going
to make a decision anyways. So I don’t think
there’s much we can do about tuition because
it’s sucha short period of time. Let's voice our
opinions and let’s push for it but also think
about long term. Think about the programs or
the program that's going to get wiped out.
Thanks.

[Inaudible question from the floor]

Mohammed: The school budget...Brad
‘Campbell prepares it in the summer when no
one is around, puts up slides click click click
and won't repeat them, I’ve gone to take notes
and I'm lucky to get just a few important

things down. [Mohammed went on to specu-
late about how we have little power to fix
things if we can‘t realy scrutinize the budget,
can’t look for ways to cut, mentioned the
outrageous travel budget line item of $30,000
for the president's “travel expenses”. He also
mentioned that through the freedom of infor-
mation act we may be able to access previous
budgets from Victoria.)

Phillip: __ [Said it was useless to focus on
people who aren’t elected, to go occupy
Harcourt’s office before the budget comes out
in four weeks.]

Jeremy filled up dead air saying that the cuts
won't come in the bread and butter depart-
ments of the college, design & film, because
those are “job-oriented”, that the cuts will
‘come in the liberal arts areas. He mentioned
the past protests against closing school early,
sleeping in the concourse gallery.

‘was due to student activism putting enough
pressure out that the NDP had to put a 1 year
freeze on tuition in their running platform, and
‘we're seeing increases now because of a lack of
student activism. We have to get active and
make the govt. accountable.

Jeremy mentioned the student picket the took
place several years ago at the entry to the
island, pointed out that it was effective to put
pressure on the feds because G.I. is a fed. place.

Phillip said that a good strategy is high-pro-
file, gets media attention.

Mohammed said how did we get so far in the
hole without Brad Campbell noticing? He
pointed out the govt. strategy of creating a
anic-deficit type situation to push a hidden
agenda.

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