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5 FLASH...Photo Club airman, Mark Rock re— .gfid his post. Citing '1ack of members,a too Iall budget, and pers+ fl_concerns, Mr. Rock 4; that it was just ‘mossible for him to mtinue as Chairman.
In his official re- signation notice giVén to the Student Union on Monday at 1:00 pm, Mr. Rock said "I resign. I cannot run a club with a working membership of vzero. I cannot run a club with $700 worth of chemicals, $300 worth '.of repairs, $300 worth
of equipment for begin-' ers plus other expenses and less than $700 left in the budget. I cannot devote one year of my life to unpaid labour. for,the Student Union (or paid,for that mat— ter). If you can find someone to run the club fOr the rest of the
vide prints for the Yearbook, then good show.
Goodbye.
book, Orville Lewis
care”
"Covers they'lsland Like the‘Tourists‘
On Wed. Nov. 5th,Student .uncil held another of its_ -rennial arguments,high {ghted by passage of a nfiget" for the Photo Club d a new Medical plan for — .reign Students.
The single biggest item
:5 the Photo club budget.The iginal budget submitted , the Photo club chairman wk Rock amounted to $3200 ¢a1.The Budget Committee fired by S.U.Treasurer :yShalala,pared it down .$2000.Among items cut
me travel,$150 to $30;
is amount has already -a1spent:Cameras were cut on $6005for 4 to $320 for Also out were repairs,
gm meters,flashes,etc.
Further,the student's dget committee felt that ePhoto club could earn 000 through sales of pic-~ res to Topics,E1ection twidates,Jocks,Grads,etc. rdie Pierce,council and oto club member ocuntered at not only was this amr nt of money not obtainable tsince the members were ing their own equipment 9 5 members have each ested from $600 to $1500 camera equipment)for both dre,Yearbook and other otos and Work,they should allowed to make some I 'fit for the wear and ‘r 0n the eqipment.
The banter finally de- erated into nothinngith
’ Shalala arguing that budget contained «suff- :Ent monies for equipment
' members would not have use their own and’Mark harguing that it did not.
e budBEt presented by
Icommittee was a _ _nded. p ssed un
“cal fees
C - _ azgncfl Passed unanimous- Wlthout debate a ,
motion that the fees paid
'by the foreign students be
increased to allow them hospitalization coverage. Canadians presently obtain hospitalization through Medicare. ' Since hospital costs can literally be disasterous- 'at the rate of about $60, per day—Council felt that it was imperative that full coverage be given. One student from China got involved in an auto accident last year—it Cost his family p$32,000.The fees will go
from $19 to about $48. -
Other Items
Station Manager of CIMN, Mike Hennessey,has long argued that the Radio Stat— ion needs an outside line and one local on the Un- iversity exchange instead of the present arrangement of two locals,the reason being that the amount of calls which CIMN gets tends to overload the university's phone system.The Council
year for $700 and prof
Mark Rock"
the same time the only canidate for the editorship of the Year- not take the job again.
withdrew his applicati— on, purportedly because he wishes to support the position taken by Mr. Rock. Former Editor, Bill Chandler, is busy with his new post of Student Union Comptrol— ler and swears he will
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acceded to Mr.Hennessey on the proviso that the outside phone have no dial thereby ensuring that no unauthorized long distance calls be made on that phone. Interestingly,CIMN can still make any long distance
calls it wishes on the other phone—it just costs more!
Ray Shalala announced that he intended,to look into the possibility of the Student Council building a professional Photo studio.
Governors Ignore Referendunu Act as Bored
Monday November 3, the Bored of Governors held their re— gular fall meeting at which the single major question V was whether or not to hold a closed meeting. Despite the. objections of approxi mately twenty people who wished to watch only one spectator was allowed — University Comp- troller, Dennis Clough.‘
As soon as the Bored sat down, it went into closed session to decide upon a chairman; C. St. Clair Trai- ‘nor was re—elected. Then the meeting continued in closed session as the Bored debated whether to open for the pub- lic. When the vote came, the result was 13-4 with 1 ab—‘ stention. The no's included
' Ray Shalala, Arthur Reddin,
Jim Gyrus, and Ken Ozmon. Ron Baker provided the ab- stention.
During the course of the meeting, Art Reddin read off the results of Friday and Monday's referendum. Chair-
man Trainor ended discussion
on this point by stating that’the results have no place at a Bored meeting and asking if the members wanted to "go to the people or act as a Bored". The referendum was ignored. ‘
I Other than these two pro- ce dural points, the Bored of Governors's agenda was
g pretty contentless. The Pre—
sident, the Comptroller, the
-Ster FinaHy
On Wednesday November 5, the three-week strike of maintenance workers here- came to an endwith a vote by the forty—nine union members to accept the last offer of the administration. The new contract gives the workers a ' base rate of $5900 from July‘ 1, 1975 to OctOber 1, 1975 and $6500 from then until the first of April. This re- presents an increase of almost $2000 from the old rate of $4700.
On Tuesday, negotiatiors for the union and the admin— istration met twice and ab- ruptly called off the nego— tiations. The union called a meeting for the morning. As had been speculated through the night, the purpoSe of the meeting was to decide whether or not to accept the offer, '
Local I.B.E.W. Bargaining agent, Phil Fleming, said
Finance committee and others gave reports of figures that had no reference points or base in reality (e.g. other expenses $647,000).
Ends
that the union was quite satis fied with the settle- ment, citing the very high increases as a good sign. The lowest paid worker will recieve an increase of ab—
out 40%.
Most workers were back on campus Thursday or Friday, earning more in back pay than they lost during the strike.