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T,aWA (CUP) — adian student leaders . Sending telegrams to the use of Commons finance mittee to protest govern— m plans to cut between it and $400 million from { secondary education ding. V he committee is currently iewing a proposed amend- nt to the Established Pro- 5 Financing Act that uld limit federal transfers education to the six and - restraint program. ‘Students realize this kind ut is simply unacceptable, . are reacting quickly to t the amendment,” says ham Dowdell, chair of Canadian Federation of

dents. he federation sent letters campuses across the

ntry Feb. 6 urging student ers to telegram protest sages immediately. y Feb. 9 the office of Jim erson, chair of the finance mittee, confirmed it had ivcd several telegrams i was expecting more. ' , FS also plans to present bjections to amendments n it meets with the com-

mittee this week. “Basically, we’ll tell them that tying transfer payments to six and five 'is unacceptable,” Dowdell says.

The federation will also ask the government to insert a clause to earmark federal funds for education.

The Liberals introduced the bill for second reading

Jan. 27. It is up to the finance committe to decide when to bring the bill back to the house for third and final reading.

The bill would be retro- active to April, 1983. The federal government, through an order in council, has already cut more than $150 million from EPF for the

83-84 budget by tying it to six and five. At least that much will be cut again for 8485 if the amendment passes. -

According to Dowdell, if the amendment does not reach the House of Commons before transfer payments are made for 84-85, he will again use an order in council to commit the cuts.

Single parents with ‘

student loans

EDMONTON (CUP) Alberta student aid officials plan to crack down on single parent students who, they

claim, often abuse the system . - The Student Finance

Board is reviewing the course loads of all Edmonton and Calgary single parents who received aid for 1983—1984, according to board member Gay Mathieson. ‘ “We’re taking a good hard look at abuse within the system,” she said. “Single parents take a minimal course load, and fail courses but remain'in school in order to

receive financial aid.’ ’

Single parents who take three courses, considered, a full-time load at the Univer- sity of Alberta, are eligible for $15,000 in maintenance grants per year.

But Brenda Davis, a fourth year student and mother of

two, says, “They’re squeezing ‘

the wrong group it will basically force them out of school and onto welfare.”

Mathieson denies this is the finance board’s intention, and says single parents have to be realistic.

“The pressures of a job are equal to the presshres of an

picked on

education,” said Mathieson. “If they can’t handle a full- time course load, and go home to their children, how will they handle a job?” Mathieson said it some- times takes $65,000 in aid payments to put a single parent through school, as

opposed to $15,000 for regular students. Karen Tjosvold, another

student and mother of two, said the proposed changes would make it impossible to drop any of the five courses.

“If I hadn‘t the option to drop (courses), I wouldn’t have made it,” she said.

Another shocking animal story

TORONTO (CUP) — The group which recently vanda- lized a laboratory at the University of Toronto and released 70 experimental rats, mice and gerbils, acted because the animals were being “tortured”, says a spokesperson.

The man, who refused to

reveal his identity, said the so-called Animal Liberation Front found two animals with electrodes attached to their heads. ‘ But William Milgram, the psychology professor whose experiment was destroyed by the vandals, said the Animal Front representative “didn’t know what he was talking about.”

“We don‘t give electrical

shock to animals. We apply 20 to 40 micro-amps as stimulation to the brain. If we applied that level to your finger you wouldn’t feel it.” Milgram said.

Jim Gurd, chair of the Animal Care Committee at the college, said many of the animals will have to be de- stroyed becauses the vandals removed identification tags from .. the cages and the animals themselves.

Gurd said the research for which the animals were used is now a “complete disaster.”

When the break-in was dis- covered, all but six of the animals were found, The six not found have been kept by the Animal Front as pets, the representative said.

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