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B.C. education suffering

VANCOUVER (CP) — Budget slashing by the provincial government has resulted in a steady deterioration of the quality of education in British Columbia, says a report commissioned by the Canadian Federation of Students.

The four-month study, to be released today, was based on # survey of nearly 200 university and faculty members and 50 education experts,

It concluded that education has suffered most in the areas of instruction, availability of research materials and the amount of time instructors spend with students.

Robert Clift, federation chairman for the Pacific region, said the federation plans to take its concerns to the provincial government.

“We intend to take this document to the government and show them exactly what's wrong with our educational system,” Clift said. “It's time the government re-evaluated its priorities.”

cent since 1981, while provincial funding for universities rose only 8.5 per cent,

Funding for colleges and institutions rose even less — just 2.5 per cent between 1981 and 1988 while enrolment in non-vocational programs rose 29 per cent in the college sector alone.

The federation said those figures have resulted in fewer instructors attempting to teach more courses to more students as well as a lowerigg in the amount of library materials available to students.

Seventy-four per cent of all respondents — 81 per cent for colleges and 65 per cent for universities — said they were not receiving an acceptable level of one-on-one contact with instructors.

Eighty-four per cent of faculty said increasing class sizes and higher work loads has had a negative impact on the quality of post-secondary education in B.C.

cent of the 87 respondents claiming their work hours had increased significantly.

The federation claims instructors are increasingly modifying exam formats and course content to compensate for increases in class sizes and decreases in faculty.

“Some instructors indicated they have simplified course content and simplified and decreased course assignments,” the study said.

“Forty-three per cent of instructors who used multiple- choice questions in exams say their use of this technique has increased since 1984, while use of essay question exams has decreased for 30 per cent of instructors. The use of term projects has decreased for 24 per cent.

Advanced Education Minister Stan Hagen has already commissioned a report analysing the impact of the budget on colleges after college presidents expressed disappointment Monday with last week's budget, ministry spokesman Dick

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The federation said the cost of living has soared 44 per

CSIS under fire

there was no evidence Marc Boivin was encouraged by federal security agents to commit illegal acts.

The all-party committee, headed by former conserva tive MP Ron Atkey, ques- tioned the wisdom of the Canadian Security _Intelli- gence Service in using Boivin as an undercover agent.

It also said CSIS was too slow in reporting the bomb plot to Quebec provincial police.

The watchdog group also warned that CSIS had exer- cised its legal powers in an “unreasonable and unneces- sary” way by continuing to update files on union activ- ities that it inherited from the former RCMP security service, which had a much broader mandate.

The committee said al. though Boivin was assigned to monitor people with com- munist ties, he provided “in- cidental” information on union affairs that ended up in CSIS files even though the union wasn't an official target

College faculty seems particulary hard hit with 92 per

for investigation,

Boivin, a strike director for the Confederation of National Trade Unions, has admitted he served as a paid source for 15 years for the RCMP and then for CSIS when the civ. ilian security agency was created in 1984.

He was sentenced last October to 15 months in jail for bombing two hotels and conspiring to bomb four others owned by Quebec City businessman Raymond Mal- enfant.

CNTU president Gerald Larose has accused Boivin of repeatedly counselling vio- lence in labor disputes going back more than a decade and has suggested he may have been assigned by security agents to destabilize the union.

When Boivin finally con. fessed his involvement in the bomb plot to his CSIS handler in late May of last year, the service waited two full days before tipping Que- bec provincial police even though Boivin had warned

that more bombings were imminent.

The officers responsible for the delay have since been disciplined, Solicitor General James Kelleher said in an interview.

The review committee re- jected allegations that CSIS tried to protect Boivin by blocking his arrest and pros. ecution on the hotel bombing charges.

Similarly, the group found no evidence of a wider cam paign by CSIS to infiltrate the union movement, al. though individuals within the movement can be investi gated if they are considered threats to national security.

Under reforms Kelleher has announced for the ser. vice, CSIS will devote more money and manpower to monitoring foreign agents

Melville said.

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VANCOUVER (CP) — Th new College of Teachers, operating at even a minimum level, will cost $1.7 million to operate the first year, says college chairman Bill Broad ley.

The cost will mean a mem: bership fee of $50 per teacher to cover expenses of running the certification service for merly operated by the pro- vincial government, as well as disciplinary and qualifi cations committees.

One problem cited was the conflict between the feder. ation’s stated goal of keeping the college as low-level and

and susp: rorists. The counter-subversion branch, which had often been crit icized for meddling in unions, peace groups and legal polit- ical parties, has been dis- banded.

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pensive as possible and the federation's democratic tradition of maintaining con. tact with all its members so teachers don't feel as though one small group is making decisions without consulting them.

A federation committee set out ways of keeping close ties between the college, the fed. eration and teachers, but not all were accepted.

The more than 600 dele. gates defeated a recommend. ation to put money into helping teachers and college council members meet.

“I consider this to be a dangerous move for the

future of our organization,” said Burnaby teacher Chris Campbell. “I think the college should do what it was elected to do— as little as possible. It. would be an enormous irony if the BCTF were broken up long after Premier Bill Van- der Zalm was out of office by a breakaway group” that was a result of the college.

Others worried that it's equally dangerous to have the 15 federation-endorsed college council members making bylaw and organiza- tional decisons without ever needing general meeting ap- proval.

“How do you save money and yet ensure that we have a democratic process?” ex- ecutive member Jackie War- boys asked.

“i think we should be able to ratify what goes on in the college at the annual general meeting. Although we have 15 very worthwhile repre- sentatives sent with our blessing to the council, we have no way to tying any accountability from that body to this one.”

Broadley said afterwards it would probably cost about $50,000 for one mailing to inform all the college mem- bers of an annual meeting.

Teachers elect union council

VANCOUVER CP) — Bri. tish Columbia teachers voted for personalities instead of politics Tuesday by electing an executive of moderate. minded unionists headed by president Elsie McMurphy.

The more than 640 dele- gates, attending the B.C. Teachers’ Federation's first annual meeting as a union, gave the cold shoulder to a left-leaning faction.

“I voted mainly for indiv. iduals," said a Kamloops delegate. “There was a move away from voting for one particular political group.

“I think most people are interested in getting on with real issues in the classroom.”

Two political camps, Mc Murphy's Teachers’ for a United Federation which favored low-key unionism

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“People were impressed with McMurphy’s) leader- ship through the chaotic period of protest” over pro- vincial labor legislation pass- ed last year, said federation spokesman Elaine Decker.

“They're now looking to her for stability and con- tinuity through a re-building phase.”

Ken Novakowski, presi- dent of the Langley Tea. chers’ Association and a fed- eration staff member, was named first vice-president.

Coquitlam teachers’ presi dent Michael Lombardi was elected second vice-presi- dent,

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Reagan revealed

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Ronald Reagan looked so old and tired after he was told of the space shuttle Challenger explosion in which seven U.S. astronauts died that spokesman Larry Speakes refused to release a photo- graph of him to the press.

Speakes's account of the scene in the presidential Oval Office on Jan, 28, 1986, is one of a number vignettes of the Reagan White House that the former chief presidential spokesman provides in a new book, Speaking Out, scheduled for publication on May 1 by Charles Scribner's Sons.

“A White House photographer rushed in to record the moment,” Speakes writes. “The president had the saddest look on his face I have ever seen. He also looked extrémely old,

“That photograph was so unflattering that I refused to release it’ to the press.

Speakes, who became vice-president for communica- tions at the Merrill Lynch brokerage firm after leaving the White House in February 1987, writes as an admirer of the Republican president, but adds that he's “not blind to the man's flaws and weaknesses.”

DEPLETED OZONE LAYER THREATENS FOOD CHAIN

WASHINGTON (AP) — A _ veteran Antarctic researcher announced findings Tuesday which indicate that the depletion of the Earth's ozone layer could threaten the world’s food supply.

Prof. Sayed El-Sayed of Texas A and M University said increased amounts of ultraviolet light, which a thinner ozone shield permits through to the Earth's surface, supresses biological. activity in microscopic marine plants in the Antarctic.

El-Sayed said his finding, the first of their kind, confirm strong suspicions of biologists: that ultraviolet light might mean trouble for fish, animal and other life in the southernmost part of the world.

On the other hand, “I never underestimate the resiliency of nature,” he said.

El-Sayed said it’s impossible to say whether the plankton — microscopic single-celled organisms called “the grass of the sea” — and the organisms that feed on them might adapt to increased ultraviolet radiation, and much work remains to be done.

Plankton and the tiny shrimp-like creature called krill that feed on them are the primary food source for the entire web of life in the Antarctic, including fish, penguins and whales.

A baleen whale may eat three tonnes a day.

“If anything happened to the krill population, the whole ecosystem probably would collapse, and you can say goodbye to the whales and the penguins and the seals and the fish,” El-Sayed told reporters.

He spoke at a news conference arranged by the World Resources Institute, a Washington environmental research organization.

Chemical firm receives fine

VANCOUVER (CP) — the toxic fire.

Later Chemicals has been Gill estimated that 225 fined $1,000 for storing pes- kilograms of the pesticide ticides under unsafe condi- methyl parathion went into tions at its plant in subur- the atmosphere.

ban Richmond — conditions _ Michelle Edwards, region- that led to a dangerous al pesticide officer with the chemical fire last July federal Agriculture Depart-

During the first year or two of the Reagan administration, he says, aides failed to keep the president abreast of what was going on in the news.

LOSES TRACK

“When there was a lapse of much time between press interviews or news conferences, he would be totally out of the swim on what was in the press and what had happened two weeks ago, and it would be like reinventing the wheel to get hime prepared,” the former spokesman says.

He said Reagan “does not read many ne apers thoroughly” and “his habit is to read the comics first.”

Although Reagan frequently uses sports metaphors and stories, Speakes says Reagan isn't really an avid fan.

“He talks baseball at World Series time and football at Super Bowl time but does not follow those sports regularly, and he knows next to nothing about sports other than basebase and football.”

When the Iran-Contra arms and money affair broke, says Speakes, “my own advice to the president, which I gave him several times, was to admit that he had made a mistake.”

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Pressure build-up in the drums caused the tops to pop off, and a fire began.

About 50 people who lived near the plant were evacu- ated from their homes during

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“The man can make a mistake and the man can hear something so many times that he believes something is true when it really isn't, but he simply isn’t a liar,” Speakes said.

Speakes has pungent words for members of the presi dent's personal and official families, although in his six years as the principal White House spokesman, he presented a glowing portrait of them and turned aside reports of bickering and dissension.

In the book, co-written with Robert Pack, he writes of the president's daughter, Maureen: “You didn't want to stir her up. Maureen is. . . a straightforward, punch-you-in-the- nose type. Her husband, Dennis Revell, seems to live in mortal fear of her.

“T've seen her cut him down one side and up the other, and he just stands there and takes it.”

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Elaine Crispen, her press secretary, said Tuesday that Nancy Reagan hadn't read the book and would have no comment.

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