student aid has been a subject given-little pub— ic attention by the fed- eral government. And with good reason. It seems a Strong student aid con- ciousness.on the part of students can cause prob— lems. . y ' v The problems are arising as a result of strong act— ivity on the part of NUS, the national union of stud- ents. NUS has been voicing strong criticism of curr— ent aid policy, and has drawn up a series of de— mands which are to be preé sented to parliament this fall.These demands have been stimulated by a lack of federal initiative in di—

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The Student Council meeting eld on Oct. 5th was remark-

to stick to the topic, to raise only germane points, and, what's more, to raise them only once. I However, in typical Coun- cil fashion, not less that four agenda items were drop- Ed (one is tempted to say abled but there was not

The question of yearbook fees was the first one to_

e discussed at any length. It seems that the yearbook this year will cost appro— lmately $7.75 per--and as

8 all know fees only cover- 6.00 of that. As a conce- uence Woozy asked that cou- cil raise the fees two d01- ars. . '

Wade yacLaughlan immedia— ely pointey out that fees re a very?tOuchy subject ith the student body. Con- eguently council should not 3188 them without there irSt being considerable 1scussion-on campus.’ In he diSCussionxwhich.emer- ed from this, they came‘to

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even a motion to that effect)

rections seen_a strong priority by students. It seems there is a communi— cations gap inhibiting the formation of a sat- isfying student aid pro; gram.

Typically, policy has been decided in meetings which are not open to student inspection. Even when students have been given positions on advis— ory boards, they have been refused access to material outlying criter- ion determining the select- ion‘ process .

The three demands NUS will present include: 1 student participation in

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the conclusion that we had three choices—~raise fees,

labolish the yearbook, or-

give it over to a company which would publish it, probably in an inferior fas- hion, and with more adverti— sing—-but for nothing.

It was finally decided to table this notion to the ge— neral meeting, allowing a much more widespread viewpo- int to emerge. Possibly the whole thing may go.before a referendum in the end.

The other point on the agenda was a constitutional ammendment. It seems that in Our constitution is an item over which the Student Union has no Control. We have stated that the number of people on the Student Judiciary Council must be nine. However the Universi— ty has control over the SJC, not the Student Union. So Woozy MacDonald moved that the number in the Constitu— tion be changed from nine to five (since the Univer— sity/has already changed it) and further that it be a by- law not a constitutional paragraph.

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2 Student aid criterion 'which are flexible and realistic g removal of all financial barriers to education.

The first demand has arisen as a reSult of the fact that students

~'have virtually N0 say in ; decisions regarding stud—

ent aid programs. The de- cisions are often made by policy boards with no real awareness of student pro— blems. This can only be called irresponsible when you realize their decis- ions may determine the future course of a persons life.

The second demand was stimulated by an awareness that criteriOn for aid were quite severe in reference

However it was eVentually dicided that since the Stu— dent Union had no control over the number it was ab— surd to have it even as a by—law. So the final mo- tion was that the reference to the number of students on the SJC be removed but -the selection procedure remain, doctored up to fit five rather than nine. At present it states that there must be one from eaCh year, each faculty, etc. If how- ever, this if juggled so that it now fitshfive rather than nine, then we have not really gained anything.

If we say, as an'example, that there must be one day- student, one residence ' student, one science student, ,one arts student and one _ education student then we have required that the Coun- cil consist of five people, eyen though we still have, no control over the number, Council seems to have for— gotten this point., V

The final item on the ag- enda was the question of a telephone for the Radio Sta— tion. Last year Council pa—

to parental and summer sav- ing contributions. This seemed unrealistic in the face of disparate earning power and an unstable economy.

The third item is the most radical. NUS feels that grants should replace loans as the basis of the student aid program. NUS says that loans deter people from low income areas. '

It is imperative that students realize that stu— dent aid policy reflects the administrations atti— tude towards participat— ory democracy. This form of democracy is only valid as long as there is an in— formed populace. If

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ssed a motion that the phon— es for CIMN and the Cadre would be run through the University system because

of an excess of unauthorized phone calls. Several were made on the Cadre one, ap— parently by cleaning women, a problem which has since , been cleared up. CIMN ran one huge bill ordering equi— pment and was accused of ma- king unauthorized calls. Both of them were put thro— ugh the University exchange. However this does not solve

_ the problem, long distanCe

calls can be made through that exchange~-they are just more expensive!! There has been a move twice to give CIMN a new phone since the amount of requests which co— me in tends to overload the‘ university exchange, espec— ially after ten when there are only two lines. Council tabled this motion since it

'did.not have enough infor-

mation about the various al- ternatives.

Once again, I must congr- atulate council for their ability to conduct an intel- ligent meeting for once.