10m (CUP) - An article exposing the poor controls on mtario's age of IWajOrity cards has left two (htario student journalists facing diarges. Janice Bell and Cathy perry, editor and news editor of the (blique Times at Seneca College, have been charged by the Liquor Licensing Board

of Ontario with obtaining government documents by fraudulent means.

In December, Perry (18) obtained an age of majority card using Bell's identification. The Cards, which show that the

bearer is at least 19,

are the only legal indent— ification in Ontario to proVe a person can be served alcohol. 1 Perry immediately returned the card, and wrote a news , story on the incident for the Dec. 7 issue of the Paper -

"It was an experiment for the paper. We wanted to see how easy it was to get them, and show that the system wasn't working as it should be."

On Dec. 15, the police informed Perry she was charged a section of the Ontafio liquor License Act which states "no person shall use false. identification to datam government documents".

Bell was charged with supplying false identific— atim.

The maximum penalty for eadi conviction is $10,000 or one year in jail. According to police constable Frank Peck, the LlBO had wanted to press

14 different charges, starting with fraud.

A reliable source informed the dalique Times that the two staffers were being used as "examples" . They are the first to be charged under the section, and

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It was also revealed that, if the LLBO is successful in its case against Bell and Perry, two more student

journalists - from The Press

at Brock University in St. Catherine's - could be charged.

JIhe' two Press staffers used the sane identification to obtain two age of majority cards Dec. 8 and then turned the cards over to a Liberal MPP. 01 Dec. 11, the MPP confronted the

Ontario Consumer and Corporate Affairs Minister Frank Drea with the card in the Ontario legislature.

Drea then turned the matter over to the police. Press editor John Ferri said he expected the results of Bell's and Perry's case will decide whether the two Press staffers will be diarged. .

According to Bell, she and Perry were told when V they returned the card that the police would not be

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involved, although they were urged to contact an official in the Ministry of Consumer and Corporate Affairs. They did not contact the official because the length of time necessary would not have allowed

them to run the story before Christmas.

Perry said she thought the twO probably would not have been charged if the paper had not run the story.

She expected they would receive a summons shortly.

FEE INCREASE FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS?

HALIFAX (CUP)--Differential tuition fees for foreign students studying in the Maritimes may become a reality.

The Nova Scotia pro- vincial cabinet is pres— ently studying the possi— bility and will make their decision public along with other funding announcements in February.

Other Maritime prov- inces are also considering differential fees. Francis McGuire of the‘Council'of Maritime Premiers said that although the decision is up to the individual provinces, there is always a concerted attempt to have identical

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it although they haven't made the issue public yet", McGuire Said.

Terry Donahue, N.S. Education Minister said it is hard to predict when the decision will be made. Don- ahue, who believes the pres-

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enriches the university communities, said the prin— cipal concern is cost. "Questions of benefits of the presence of foreign students must be examined", he said. "Differential fees aren't an attempt to discriminate."

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Higher Education Commission funding arrangments and monitored through them. Donahue feels public reaction would be mixed in this area. "I don't perceive any great support or opposition to the idea", he said.

Mike MacDonald, Nova Scotia rep on the National Union of Students Central Committee said differential fees are nothing less than discrimination against for- eign students. Accessibility to education is important to everyone, not just local students, Macdonald said.

In 1977, there were 1,463 foreign students in Nova Scotia,‘454 in New Brunswick and 62 in Prince Edward Island. Of the total foreign student pop- ulation in Canada, 6.9% are in the Maritimes.

Differential fees are presently in effect at in— stitutions in Alberta, On- tario, and Quebec.

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