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Cruisin' Mn the sc-o1 __ __ _ Cm , i ti a Layoffs an d program -cuts atCollege. FRO let~Terry, Kelly, BII Hayball and Dave7, Flett of -the William F.-.,Haybal Charitable Foundation hand out cheques- to representatives from 16 lIocal charities. The- donations; which, total $83,00o,- include $1 0,000 each to the Ontario Regiment and Oshawa' Deàf -Cqntre,. $71000 to the Relunascent Founidat1 rid$ O0 êch LosCanine, Visionî,* Rose'.ot 'Durham, Destiny Maor aýcnd Denise House. The foundation, estabished in 1988 »by Ha"bIl, a sucessful Oshawa businessman, has so tar given more than $1 .1 million dollars to, Durham-bsed charities. Photo by Mark Roosor, WhItby Free Pross Durham College wilI drop three programs and lay off 26 staff te address reduced fundlng from the provincial government.. As of September,' 1996, the interior design, civil engineering techaician and technology, and electrical techniques courses will flot b. offered. The college will also change public -relations from a three-year te .atwo-yerpro gramuan enirolment in -thé* first year of the nurfflg ,progM~m vwIl, b.reduced by;40 studenfti. The changes mean,, 267 -feier college employees '- 5.3per cent of Durham's full-time staff." Moreover, 24 staff membèe have decided te, retire. "Although I deemi any losa of programming, services and colleagues to ho just plain awful," says college president Gary PolonskY, It could have been much worse if tegether we hadn't positioned Durham by building, our- reserve fund,- reduclng overhead, increasing Our enrolment and sucèceeding with ourentrepreneurial revenues." .While some progmae were cut or changed, the college also added two new full-time . diploma progranis, ilu-computer proranrnng and computer science technology. « Post-dîIoma progranis will.also behooffered,ý on a part-time baste, te studeuts 0f 'acornmunity ,nursing, nètwork' mnaemnt programmer analyst. system>am analyst and 'succdeding In your own business.' ,The college considered, enrolment dema4nd, completion rate, job placement and cost te determinie what programas would ho cut, kept or changed. MPfurlous over obstruction., By Mike Kowalski The. prospect of legisiation te 'modernize' Canada's electoral system likely dying lu the Senate has iufuriated a local Member of Parlianient. Ontario riding Ml' Dan MéTeague is inoensed that a bill to revamp the Electoral Boundaries Readjustinet Act was not brought forward for a vote in the Senate last week. The propoaed legislation - Bill C-69 - was left at the conunittee level and will die if the. current aitting of parliaâment ends and a uew -session' commnences in Whùiy's (nmetiowi February. Not only wifl measures aimed at streamlining. the 31-year-old act not be. approved, but the probability of drastic changes te Whitby's electoral boundaries hocomes even more lkely. The, changes would see the entire town fail within on. ridlng, but result in the predominantly urban municipality being lumped in with the. largely rural Township of Uxbridge. "This is more than just a tragedy, more than just a bill," said McTeague of the. Senate decision. "Hée la the unelected and unaccountable Senate teaching the elected members on the demographic boundaries of their ridinge. I canWt think of a more justifiable reason te abolish it." Introduced* by Goverrnment Houa. Leader and Solicitor-General Hrb Gray last February, Bill.0-69 proposes a nuinher ofnew steps to b. followed lu determiuing electoral boundaries. Under the current systemn, judges lu each province are appointai te act as commissioners followlng the most recent census (every 10 years, the last being lu 1991) and ridings are -redrawn basai on population figures. Thia system has mn into criticism lu that the methoda usai often result lu unfair population distribution, with some ridins having considerably more votera than others, long-standing communities hoing tomn apart, and insufficient public input. Bill C-69 provi des for greater Public Participation and lu ameas with rapld population shifts, «a five-year redistribution. Safeguarda are also lncluded te Protect traditional communities wherever possible. In September 1994, the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario released ias proposaIs for the. next election, but the. commlsslon's work was suspended until the new legialation could ho drafted. The commission wants te increase the nuniber of ridings in Ontaio from 99 te 103 and redraw the. bordera of Md'eague's ridlng, which now includes Pickering, Ajax and Whitby south of Taunton Road. SUR PAGE2 7 Letters: modified' sehool year plan Page 2 0 Merry Christmas/. privilèges for .SLM By Mike Kowalokl Town councilhas had its fil of a local environmental group's persistent opposition to the Lynde Shores housing development. By unaninous consent, council last week formally dlrected Town 'staff to treat the Save Lynde Maroh (SLM) citizens' organization no diffoent1y than any other individual or ratepayers' group. In future, Town employees will ho able to use discretion when responding to matters ralsed by SLM members lIn connecti on.wlth the Lynde» Shores project. Council's, ruling mesns staff can now decide for themselves lIa requst lgima-l pertains to protecting the'marsh or If il merely a part of SLM's ongoing - camai -tsoth controversial development In bringlng forward the, motion,, councillor Don Mitchell *xpressed concern about the 21 'hours spent by Town staff ln preparing a report dealing wlth last October's remaval of 49 trees from municipal property near the marsh. anmleofsus The report was ordered after SLM raise4 ubro sus relating to stafrs mIeiluperi tting tieep alongti efrySre road allowanoe tobe cut as work got under way on the site of the. Rose Corporation"s 545-unit subdivision. 'The report says the. allegations wëre basically unfoun'ded and that our tree preservation policy lu a thoughtful on.,"- said Mitchell of the document which came before councills planning and deve1opment committee twice lu two weeks. (Onh thefirst occasion there was. no discussion because Mitchell andcouhil1or Jo. Driummstormed o0ut of th e meeting in diagut over commenta made bySLM member Tom Moore.) "But whae troubled me la that when the SLM group appeared (at the suk.sequent.-meeting), the report *as not addressed," said Mitchell. auRPAGE 27