RONTO (CUP) — Katimavik porters would have resented be federal government’s move to jose the youth programme no ytter when it was announced, vat they say the Jan, 28 can- ‘ilation came at a particularly oad time. ;

According to Paul Phaneuf, satimavik executive director, half | the recruitment for next year’s yogramme had already been pmpleted. And $330,000 had seen spend on advertising and ts 30 to 35 Katimavik alumni

promote the programme in

sh schools.

Though Sen. Jacques Hebert’s

nunger strike has made most sople aware that Katimavik is ‘ne, Toronto subway riders are ‘il greeted with appeals to sign for Katimavik, advertising

ught before the cancellation. ‘It’s a lot of waste of public joney,”’ said Phaneuf, still bitter ut the federal government’s ncellation of the nine-year old joject. Katimavik allowed about 00 young people a year to work

community projects in three ifferent provinces, and promised -m better comprehension of the

her national language. Partici- nis received $1 a day and 000 if they completed their nine- = tenure.

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Marie-Josee Lapointe, press ‘aktache for Secretary’ of State Benoit Bouchard, called the $20 million Katimavik ‘‘a Cadillac programme”? and said the govern- ment would funnel the money into an employment or youth pro- gramme that would better serve

young people. “If we knew last fall, say, we wouldn’t have hired people and

. VANCOUVER (CUP) — Stu- dents would rather starve than take jobs at Expo °86 for ‘“‘star- vation wages.””

University of British Columbia students looking for summer jobs have turned down Expo interviews at the campus employment centre because they say it is impossible to live on the Expo wage, $4 per hour.

UBC graduate student Catherine McGovern said she did not show up for three interviews because she could not afford to live on “dismal” Expo interviews.

“My initial reaction was that the wage was too low for any kind of job and certainly too iow for a

had to pay their salaries and lay them off. And we wouldn’t have had to buy that space,’’ said organiser Barry Bloom of Kati- mavik’s Toronto office.

Katimavik officials used to plan the programme’s activities six months in advance and by the time the January announcement, much of the recruitment budget had already been spent.

However, Phaneuf said even if the government had advised him sooner, that wouldn’t have softened the blow.

“It’s not a question of timing; it’s a question of preoccupation by the government. What have they got to offer young people (now that both Katimavik and the Ministry of Youth have been

Expo is a big joke

job that requires skill,’ said McGovern, who was offered the position of traffic controller on the Expo site.

“Expo jobs are okay for kids who live at home and who could use some spending money. But for those students who live away from home and depend on the money to pay tuition and living expenses, they are of no use at all,”’ she said.

Marjorie Nichols, a columnist for the Vancouver Sun, told dele- gales to a recent conference for journalists that only teenagers could afford to take the low paying jobs.

And, Nichols said, their “*moms

will have to pack their lunches and their dads will have to drive them to work.””

But John Evans, Expo manager of recruitment and employment, said low wage have little to do with low interview turn out. “There are a whole host of rea- sons why people turned down the jobs,”’ he said, but admitted that wages ‘may have been a factor.’” He noted his office has had no problem filling 7,000 EXPO jobs to date.

Evans said his office has not given any thought to the amounts students can save from Expo jobs:

Stephen Scott, executive officer of the Canadian Federation of Students-Pacific, was not sur-

terminated)?’ he asked. There are still 1,000 partici-

pants working at projects across Canada. Some will finish this month and all will have finished by June 4. Katimavik’s 350 staff are being phased out and all operations will cease as of June 30.

prised that students would refuse Expo jobs.

“Poor paying jobs means that students must take on an in- creasing debt load to pay for tuition and living expenses,”” said Scott, noting that low wages would discourage students from returning to university.

According to Scott,

B.C. has an enrolment rate of 13.5 per cent — the lowest participation rate in Canada.

B.C.’s minimum wage $3.65 an hour has not increased for the last

six years, while tuition fees at the

University of Victoria have in-

reased 104 per cent over the same

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‘out and students participated.” Neil McGill, a philosophy pro- fessor and for 25 years at UNB tesident fellow at the university’s Bridges House, said “the admini- stration does have a slight tend- tncy to take things over,’’ men- tioning the takeover of the school’s faculty club three years

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But McGill also criticised Bos- nitch’s style. ‘*He tend to poli- ticise everything ... and get di- rectly involved with everything himself,” he said.

McGill called Bosnitch’s push for student power ‘‘not unreason-

is able”.

One professor who asked his named not to be used said the faculty has the exact same fights with the administration as the students. “They say we don’t re- present anybody,” the professor said.

English said the university’s recent wholesale revisions of aca- demic policy have made staying in school much more difficult, thus diminishing student interest in politics.

Bosnitch thinks if he can gal- vanise student support and “‘short- circuit the power of the board (of governors)"’, students will be on their way to new power over the facilities their money supports.

But students may lose every- thing. “Students have a place in terms of governance and can be a very creative voice in the lives of student,’’ Downey said. ‘Uni- versity years are a glorius time for students to get involved in Politics.

“But,”? Downey said, ‘“‘the pri- mary purpose of students in the university is to pursue an educa- tion. Occassionaly some students

think Senate and the council are some kind of model parliament.

“I’ve said to Mr. Bosnitch that ‘one of the things the university would have to consider is whether we wish to continue to be a col- lection agency for student fees,” Downey said.

“If there’s going to be a refusal of the student council to behave properly as judged by the board of governors, they may have no other choice than but to take that action (stop collecting fees.)’”

Bosnitch is worried that eroding student power may be a national trend, and will travel to the Canadian Federation of Students conference at the University of Western Ontario in May to en- courage national student strategy to maintain policial power on campus. UNB students vote this week on joining CFS.

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