my white trash —

take on all this

My initial reactions to
the Feb. 3rd/94 financial
forum with Maurice
Yacowar, acting president ©
at Emily Carr School of
Art and Design, were frus-
tration and disbelief. Once
again, another baby boomer
was bringing my g-g-g-
generation a message
filled with despair. Woe is
me, I thought. Is there
anything that can be done
to rid us of this financial
scourge that currently
plagues our most vital
institution? Besides hint-
ing at the non-option of
program killing, Yacowar
feels that our only hope is
to raise student tuition
and implement a few cut-
backs, namely the school
store and reduced access
to the college in the
evening hours. It’s not
these items that cause me
grief, it is the larger idea
behind all of that which
has got us to this point on
February 3rd, 1994.

The reality of this
situation is not as heavily
steeped in paranoid vi-
sions as one might think.
There are a few obvious
truths and patterns of
behaviour which have
caused our school, or
should I say the students
at this school, to be faced
with the slow painful
death of our quality educa-
tion.

First of all, problems
I have with the
administation is the lack

of proper behavior in the
information of the student
body as to the status of
our school’s financial
health. They have made an
interesting habit of with-
holding important infor-
mation in total, or wait-
ing until some unjust
amount of time has
passed, then throwing it to
us with hardly more than
the briefest of clarifica-
tion, which we needed to
ask for ourselves. If they
have nothing to hide, it
seems obvious to me that
they should be making the
information on the well-
being of our school more
accessible to us. There is
no way a $400,000-plus
deficit can creep up on
you, and we have a right to
know what is going on in
every single area of the
school’s operations on a
regular basis. You should
have brought this area of
concern up in September
1993 or sooner. We need
more time to prepare our
suggestions than a couple
of weeks. We are full-
time students, Maurice.

Secondly, why did the
school not invest our sur-
plus of late into promotion
and fund-raising? Now
you tell us we are not even
high profile enough to
warrant philanthropists’
start-up support for a
campaign. You really
missed the point that solid
business decision making
examples have been telling
us all along: advertising
is more than worth its
investment. It is becom-
ing hard for me to under-
stand how you people were

chosen for the jobs you
have. These positions
demand communication and
business skills that have
exceeded your abilities as
administrators. And how
can you justify spending
anything on the poorly
redesigned front entrance
to the school? The doors
are not only confusing and
inefficient, but also to-
tally out of sync with the
rest of the campus aes-
thetic.

Finally, I see that I
must make my time more
available to the school and
my fellow students. I can
no longer remain apathetic
and totally self-oriented.
That would doom me to
repeat the mistakes made
by the preceeding and
receeding generation. Ap-
parently, our school is
faced with a financial
dilemma and we have only
this inadequate adminis-
tration to help us resolve
it. We all must be able to
brainstorm some viable
solutions to our deficit;
and we all should be pay-
ing more attention to the
way our school is being
run.

To you, Maurice
Yacowar, I must make a
proposition. Let us get

together and begin design- F

ing what will end up being
an audio-visual calling

card which we can proudly

send off to the world. It
will incorporate all the
departments in its crea-
tion and allow us to grab
our audience and effec-

tively raise our profile.

This can be done cheaply

here at the school with our
equipment and facilities,
as well as give our stu-
dents some valuable expe-
rience in the areas of
project design and execu-
tion and public relations.
This promotional casette
can then be packaged along
with our catalogue and
sent off to all of our
feeder schools and other
institutions as well as
local television stations
in the form of a slick and
tapered view of the school
in a series of thirty sec-
ond spots. Yes, this will
cost us some money but
how about letting us have
a fighting chance at sur-
vival rather than accept
the slow starvation strat-
egy you have offered us? I
am more than willing to
meet with you and begin
organising our new ap-
proach to staying alive in
the interesting 90’s. It
would look good on your
resume.

Christopher D. Spelay

2nd-year
shitdisturber

my white trash
take on all this

My initial reactions to
the Feb. 3rd/94 financial
forum with Maurice
Yacowar, acting president
at Emily Carr School of
Art and Design, were frus-
tration and disbelief. Once
again, another baby boomer
was bringing my g-g-g-
generation a message
filled with despair. Woe is
me, I thought. Is there
anything that can be done
to rid us of this financial
scourge that currently
plagues our most vital
institution? Besides hint-
ing at the non-option of
program killing, Yacowar
feels that our only hope is
to raise student tuition
and implement a few cut-
backs, namely the school
store and reduced access
to the college in the
evening hours. It’s not
these items that cause me
grief, it is the larger idea
behind all of that which
has got us to this point on
February 3rd, 1994.

The reality of this
situation is not as heavily
steeped in paranoid vi
sions as one might think.
There are a few obvious
truths and patterns of
behaviour which have
caused our school, or
should I say the students
at this school, to be faced
with the slow painful
death of our quality educa-
tion.

First of all, problems
Ihave with the
administation is the lack

of proper behavior in the
information of the student
body as to the status of
our school’s financial
health. They have made an
interesting habit of with-
holding important infor-
mation in total, or wait-
ing until some unjust
amount of time has
passed, then throwing it to
us with hardly more than
the briefest of clarifica-
tion, which we needed to
ask for ourselves. If they
have nothing to hide, it
seems obvious to me that
they should be making the
information on the well-
being of our school more
accessible to us. There is
no way a $400,000-plus
deficit can creep up on
you, and we have a right to
know what is going on in
every single area of the
school’s operations on a
regular basis. You should
have brought this area of
concern up in September
1993 or sooner. We need
more time to prepare our
suggestions than a couple
of weeks. We are full-
time students, Maurice.

Secondly, why did the
school not invest our sur-
plus of late into promotion
and fund-raising? Now
you tell us we are not even
high profile enough to
warrant philanthropists’
start-up support for a
campaign. You really
missed the point that solid
business decision making
examples have been telling

us all along: advertising
is more than worth its
investment. It is becom-

ing hard for me to under-
stand how you people were

chosen for the jobs you
have, These positions
demand communication and
business skills that have
exceeded your abilities as
administrators. And how
can you justify spending
anything on the poorly
redesigned front entrance
to the school? The doors
are not only confusing and
inefficient, but also to-
tally out of syne with the
rest of the campus aes-
thetic.

Finally, I see that I
must make my time more
available to the school and
my fellow students. I can
no longer remain apathetic
and totally self-oriented.
That would doom me to
repeat the mistakes made
by the preceeding and
receeding generation. Ap-
parently, our school is
faced with a financial
dilemma and we have only
this inadequate adminis-
tration to help us resolve
it. We all must be able to
brainstorm some viable
solutions to our deficits
and we all should be pay-
ing more attention to the
way our school is being
run,

To you, Maurice
Yacowar, I must make a
proposition. Let us get
together and begin design-
ing what will end up being
an audio-visual calling

card which we can proudly

send off to the world. It
will incorporate all the
departments in its crea-
tion and allow us to grab
our audience and effec-

tively raise our profile

This can be done cheap!

here at the school with our
equipment and facilities,
as well as give our stu-
dents some valuable expe-
rience in the areas of
project design and execu-
tion and public relations.
This promotional casette
can then be packaged along
with our catalogue and
sent off to all of our
feeder schools and other
institutions as well as
local television stations
in the form of a slick and
tapered view of the school
in a series of thirty sec-
ond spots. Yes, this will
cost us some money but
how about letting us have
a fighting chance at sur-
vival rather than accept
the slow starvation strat-
egy you have offered us? I
am more than willing to
meet with you and begin
organising our new ap-
proach to staying alive in
the interesting 90’s. It
would look good on your
resume.

Christopher D. Spelay

2nd-year
shitdisturber