HAVE YOU EVER:

-Wanted to start an action
group on your campus to
promote environmental and/or
social justice?

-Wanted to be a student liaison
with other UNBC campuses?

-Wished that more speakers or
events occured on your
campus?

-Felt concerned about global
issuse or your future?

’-Been concerned about issues
of dicrimination and wanted to
voice your opinion?

-Had a problem finding
alternative sources’ of
information for a personal or
class project?

-Wanted to attend events at
another UNBC campus?

-Felt concerned about student-
related issues like tuition
hikes?

If you answered ‘yes’ to any
of these questions, P!RG can
help you find the answers.

PGP!RG is having an Annual
General Meeting March 24
4:30

Proposed Agenda: .
*financial statment of budget
* report by board of year’s past
events

* constitutional ammendments
*adoption of an official non-
discrimination policy.
*additional items submitted

Although we are based in
Prince George, our goal is to
serrvice and unite with

Prince George

Public Interest Research Group

regional campused. This year
has been our first as a fully
operational resource center,
and we now have -five hired

‘staff members: a P!IRG —

Coordinator; Composting
Coordinator; Hazardous Waste
Assement; and two Regional
Campuses Coordinators. The
Regional Campus
Coordinators are dedicated to
finding out how P!RG can
liase with and assist the
regional campuses. We have
put together a newsletter that
is being circulated at the
regional campuses, and we are
hoping this will help us to get
input and liasons from the
UNBC student body. In
response to some concern
from the regions, we are going
to discuss a name change at the
AGM. Hence, PGPIRG may
be callded something like
NPIRG (Northern PIRG) to
avoid any sense of PG
centerism!

Communication with the P.G.
office and the regions is very
important to us, and so is
communication between
regions. We are hoping to act
as liasons between all UNBC
campuses. If you have any
information of ideas you
‘would like to share with other
UNBC students please send us
your submissions and we will
put them in the next P!RG
newsletter. Your submissions
can be anything from an article
about a social or
environmental issue in your
community to questions or
suggestions you may have
about increasing
communication between the
regions. We would really love
to hear from you!!!!

Students at the regional

campuses can access the P!RG
AGM via _ email,
teleconferencing, fax and
regular mail. Thev can access
our libray at:

-Williams Lake: posted on the
UNBC bulletin board

-Peace River-Laird Region:
contact the Ft St. John office:
787-6220

-Quesnel: contact 991-7540
-Northwest campuses: contact
the Prince Rupert office: 624-
2862.

CHECK THE UNBC
BULLETIN BOARD NESR
YOU FOR PIRG UPDATES!

y Vince Yim

10: Driving away from the
UNBC campus to go to the
Western Regional Canadian
University Press (WRCUP)
meeting held in Vancouver...
and inadvertently dragging a
police officer all the way to
Hope, who happened to have
stopped us earlier for failure
o come to a complete stop at
a stop sign (phsyical assault
and battery).

9: Neglecting to notice that a
police officer was being
dragged by his sleeves on the
passenger side door (resisting
arrest).

8: Giving food from the local
greasy spoon diner to a

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Got Arrested For

homeless man on the streets of
Vancouver (attempted murder).

7: Drinking gallons upon gallons
of coffee and Jolt Cola before

_ going on that ten hour road trip

to Vancouver (driving under the
influence).

6: Eating the chili at Wendy’s
and then using the bathrooms at
McDonald’s (vandalism).

5: Listening to Nine Inch Nails
during the entire roadtrip and
cranking it up while driving
through Cache Creek (disturbing
the peace).

4: Ejecting the tape with Nine
Inch Nails on it and forgetting

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’ before we left (arson).

to turn off the radio . . . while
“Wannabe” by the Spice Girls
was playing (mental assault
and abuse).

3: Staying in a motel and
forgetting to turn off the stove

2: Locking our keys in the van
and using a wire coat hanger
to retrieve them (breaking and
entering).

1: Making a pit stop in Blaine,
Washington and being caught
at the.border with 10 cases o
Coca Cola, 12 cases of Jolt
Cola, a hundred pounds o
gourmet coffee beans, and 20
cartons of cigarettes.