News

Parking fees
REDUCED!

by Charles Hogg
Parking fees are
being reduced at UNBC.
According to Alistair
McLean, Director of
_ Services, the price reduction

is due to his department.

receiving government funds
for the five emergency
response systems on. the
campus's parking lots.

The price reduction .
will amount to 5$ a month, :

which translates into savings
of 20§ a semester.

Hearing complaints
from both students and
faculty, Mclean said he had
already been looking for
other ways to lower the
parking fees before these
additional funds were
received, McLean also
comments that he has heard
a lot of thanks from people
already about the reduction.

This brings the

UNBC parking price, $120 a
semester with reductions, in

line with many other BC
universities. For instance the
University of Victoria
charges $96 per semester for
parking, but these spaces are
far away from campus
buildings. The prices -that
are better to compare with
UNBC's are $112.

UBC charges $360
for parking in an open search
lot. Simon Fraser University
charges $133 for parking as
close as the lots at UNBC-
and as little as 78§$ for the
further parking.

McLean also cites
greater overhead costs of
building a completely new lot
as a reason for the somewhat
higher costs at UNBC, but he
also says that the ten year
business plan takes these
costs into account and that
more savings could possibly
be passed on the future,%

over THE EDGE - Wednesday, November 30 , 1994 7

A HOME AWAY FROM HOME

by Kellaine McKendrick

Another student owing her time spent at the University of Northern British
Columbia is among the numerous others involved in our foreign exchange program.

Camilla Kyledal is here from Alvest, Sweden,a city of merely 8 000 people, and
Vaxjo University, a school double in student body than our own.

In Sweden, a post-secondary student must obtain at least fifteen points a semester
for their classes in total, and then may proceed on into an upper level year. Camilla,
engaged in English and Political Science at school back home, is here taking
International Studies. :

Spending the winter of '93 in Quebec City she studied French while attending
Laval University, and then chose to reside in Toronto for a month:before returning to
Alvesta. Camilla has evidently had an extensive Canadian experience, and as yet
must still decide whether she is going to complete her education here or back home.

She has recently started plans for the formation of a buddy system which is meant
to help succeeding International students. Camilla is able to attribute her introduction
to Prince George to her temporary host family as students from abroad were billeted
for a week in September until the residences were completed. She feels this
experience would help students next year and in the years following by providing
information about the city itsif and of our phone and banking services.

Students will certainly appreciate any help or hospitality offered to them when
first arriving at Canada'a newest U.

Great idea, Camilla! <

Was McLean forced to work at
McDonald's (top) after receiving a
parking ticket? Not exactly. Left is
Godfrey Medhurst, Director of Facilities,
pointing at the ticket which was a
warning to McLean, the man in charge of —
parking fees, that making the rules
doesn't mean you are exempt from them.