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27 October 1998
y JEREMY NELSON
TINIPEG (CUP) -- Univer- ity of Manitoba students may soon be without their campus newspaper thanks to a contro- versial motion passed at the student union’s general meet-
dent union to cut the $6-per- student levy the newspaper the Manitoban presently re- ceives to $4 per student for the 1999-2000 publishing year, and to $2 for all following years.
Introduced last week by engineering students’ rep- resentative Chad Silverman, began by saying the Manitoban
“sucks.”
The general meeting is the only event where average students can make direct mo- tions, providing quorum of 200
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threatened with shut down
individuals is reached.
“I voted in favour ofthe motion because | just wanted tocut,” said Silverman, adding that many engineers were also angry about the removal of a cartoon the paper used to run.
The syndicated comic strip was pulled after students expressed concerns it was sexist.
“I felt | was paying out too much to different student organizations that needed money.”
Under the newspaper’ s budget forthe 1998-1999 pub- lishing year, $2 per student would not even cover the cost of printing the paper.
The motion received lit- tle discussion. It is now before a student council committee before being sent for final ap- proval by the student union. However, the motion may be
retroactively ruled out-of-or- der because it may have vio- lated student union by-laws. The regulations state motions must be posted well prior to meetings so students have an
opportunity to express their
“I voted in favour of the motion because | just wanted to cut”
views before a vote.
“We are talking to our lawyers to discover whether the motion was appropriate and a legal motion, and then they'll take it from there,” said Kelly Friesen, director of public rela- tions for the student union.
The Manitoban will also one ee ee the student union and those
University
enrolment down:
Statistics Canada
By ANGELA PACIENZA
TORONTO (CUP) -- The number of people choosing to attend university has once again decreased, recently re- leased government figures show.
University enrolment across Canada declined by nine as cent in the past five years
th some regions experienc-
ng as much as a 44 per cent uction, the October 14 re- port from Statistics Canada
indicates.
_ The attributes the eee line toa 24 per cent -time students since the 19 -1993 academic
year.
Among mature part- time students, ages 25 to 44, enrolment declined 28 percent for men and 31 per cent for women.
Some provinces saw more of a decline than others. Prince Edward Island, New-
foundland and Manitoba all aa more than a 40 per cent decrease in part-time ner Tid bagel nconion oF increase 0 full-time students occurred in British Columbia where 16 per cent more students are attend- ing school, the annual report showed. Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Alberta and Saskatch- ewan also experienced sub- stantial increases.
But student leaders sa ay the numbers only tell one si of the story.
The head of one na- tional student lobby group says the report doesn’t acces hidden factors -- like high tui- — ne = ve ieebly
evels -- ve probab contributed to the decline.
“Enrolment figures should always be perceived with caution because "re not always clear,” said Eliza beth Carlyle, national cha
woman of the Canadian Fed- eration of Students.
Carlyle added the sta- Geticg Cree ees picture of trends in education in Canada. “The federal gov- emment has not commissioned
adequate studies to track roa te wack post
income aan of people at-
a ut Fromowitz added those figures may be mislead- ing, since the university doesn’t count students in full-time fac- ulties who are taking a partial Oe calculati average calculation
for a part-time student across Canada is three courses or less. However, Nicola Paterson, an analyst with the Center for Education Statis- tics, says there’s no standard definition of part-time and full- time studies.
“That can have an im- pact on the figures,” she said.
involved in the motion ifit is not ruled out-of-order, said the paper's editor Ed Janzen.
He says the motion not only violates student union by- laws but also flies in the face ofa 1997 referendum in which 1,814 students voted in favour of both the $6 levy and givin the Manitoban full editorial financial autonomy.
“I was struck by the disorganization and the con- tradictory nature of the [mo- tion] organizers’ complaints with the Manitoban,”said
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Students at U of M claim the Manitoban “sucks”
Janzen.
He added the $6 each student pays to finance the fm isn’t that expensive. “The six-dollar levy works out to 25 cents per student per issue, which is a very small amount, especially when you take into account that we are charged with the responsibility of covering events and issues at one of Canada’s largest uni- versities,” he said.
“UMSU collects 30 times the amount students pay to the Manitoban,” he added.
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