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.-durhamregion College THE CANADIAN STATESMAN ♦ March 8,2006 ♦ Page 11 Drugged nurses in search of answers leaves students but in cold £ from page 1 p Ontario, key elements of the council's offer to OPSEU include a 12.6 per cent increase in salary over four years, which l Would increase the maximum pay to i$94,277 by April 2009, a four-year increase for,'two-step co-ordinators' to ;move their maximum salary to $99,303, and maintaining the average teaching -time in the classroom at 14 hours per week. | "I want to stress it's not about money," gaid Ms. Rautins. "I would tell students this is about them." -- She said the teachers are taking a stand jo improve education. Ms. Rautins, a iDurham College nursing instructor, said She doesn't have a spare seat in her class because of rising enrolment, yet the number number of full-time faculty has not kept up With the increases. f Faculty is forming picket lines from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday at entrances to the Whitby and Oshawa Campuses. Continuing education classes 'at the college's Uxbridge and Ajax-Pick- 'ering campuses, as well as college-hosted online courses, are unaffected. Às for how Jong the strike will last, Ms. Rautins said 'she doesn't even want to guess. Durham College president Gary Polon- ! sky said it's frustrating to be the post-secondary post-secondary institution's president, but have no influence over anything happening in the ÿürrent situation. _ "We have terrific faculty at this campus... campus... who would rather be in the classroom classroom than on the picket line," he said. V n Although he had to cross the picket line,. Mr. Polonsky brought coffee and food to -those manning the various locations. r, "I hate crossing picket lines," he said. ""You have to do what you have to do." He added it's a downer to see the campus campus so empty; two-thirds of its population, population, about 5,800 students, attend the college and the rest go to the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Trent University classes here. • Although he's not able to specify what measures would be taken to make up for Ibst student time, he said some ideas were created, during the strike of 1989, which • lasted almost four weeks, j "In 1989, we extended the school year By. a week or so, introduced examflexibiLf Ity so there was a bit of give arid take from everyone's side," said Mr. Polonsky. | He said the college will have to partner partner with faculty once they're back to ietermirie how > the lost time will be iddressed. newidurhamreglon.com search keyword: ' collegestrike2006 From page 1 hospital after they drank pop spiked with morphine. Lisa Brillinger, 30, a Bowmanville resident who still works at Strathaven, said she and co-worker Pam Ferguson were drinking from cans of soda on Oct. 30, 2002, when they discovered the pills in their drinks. Ms. Brillinger swallowed the pills; Ms. Ferguson was able to spit them out. "It was morphine," Ms. Brillinger said in an interview early this week. ."A fairly high dose of morphine." Ms. Brillinger, who had an allergic, reaction to the drugs and Ms. Ferguson were treated at hospital. Both women said one other person tested positive for morphine: Sarah Bowes. In separate interviews both Ms. Brillinger Brillinger and Ms. Ferguson described a series of events including thefts of money from a staff room and a deliberately-set deliberately-set fire in a linen closet at Strathaven two days after the morphine incident. Police were called in and a number Jeff Mitchell/Metroland Durham Region Media Group BOWMANVILLE -- Strathaven LifeCare Centre employee Lisa Brillinger was the victim of a deliberate drugging in the fall of 2002. of staff members were interviewed, the women said. Ms. Brillinger, however, was not.' Ms. Ferguson gave a statement to police, and said she has spoken.again with both Durham police and RCMP this week. Ms. Brillinger said Ms. Bowes, a friendly, pleasant co-worker, left soon after the incidents. Strathaven administrator Patrick Brown confirmed Ms. Bowes's employment employment at the institution for a two-month period near the end of 2002. And he confirmed assertions by Ms. Brillinger and Ms. Ferguson that Ms. Bowes had access to medication storage areas as part of her job. "Yes, that would be part, of her role," Mr. Brown said. The administrator refused to discuss any aspects of the ongoing police investigation. investigation. Ms. Bowes's father Brian vigorously defended his daughter in an interview published Tuesday in the Grande Prairie Prairie Herald-Tribune, calling the police investigation there "a fishing trip." Reached at his home on Manitoulin Island Tuesday Mr. Bowes, a retired Peterborough police officer, declined further comment. LIVE ENTERTAINMENT 'it ii 0, THUR. Mar. 9th • 9PM 'VNIIDTOWr 600 Grandview, Oshawa 905-436-1476 M Metroland Durham Region Media Group Fixers mil neeessnrilx in all paper' Remember. nil inserts, im liidiiiy those mi glossx paper, ciin l)v reexeled villi I lie lest of'xoiii newspaper through \onr Itlue ltn\ Kerxeling program. There's lots more news online at durhamregion.com Dr. Karl Vermeulen Dr. John Balenko & Assoc. 60 Liberty St. S., Jiliiaill Bowmanville tSfljtPSr (905) 623-7100 The Comfort Zone J.P.'s Corner Hi everyone, being the new kid on the block here at the Comfort Shoppe, I just want to thank Glenn & Maureen for the opportunity of joining this great staff. 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