March 24, 1998

LETTERS

No sleeping allowed

No Sleeping Allowed! So
what's that all about. As | scan
the notes on the UNBC flames
bulletin board (a bitch board, for
those of you that don’t sub-
scribe), | was intrigued about the
discussions around the new no
sleeping policy. The notes were
the usual complaints about
administration once again invok-
ing senseless policies whose
only purpose seems to be to
annoy students. | was intrigued
enough to make a few enquires
and thought | might share the
information | received.

In fact there is a new policy and
it is no longer acceptable to
sleep at UNBC (residences
excluded). If you are working
late at night and decide to use
one of the sofas in the Doug
Little lounge to catch a few
winks, you will be awakened by a
commissionaire. The policy may
seem senseless, but as is often
the case it is a reaction to one or
two individuals abusing a previ-

ously tolerant system.

Each morning the commission-
aires make the rounds opening
rooms for that days classes. It
seems one morning they opened
a classroom and found several
students camped out. These
students were not just having a
quick nap, they had bedrolls,
sleeping bags, an electric wok,
and a food and beverage.supply
with them. Once they packed up
and left, the classroom could not
be used that day because of the
mess and smell left behind. The
result was that administration
began to examine the amount of
sleeping being done on campus.

As people were being awak-
ened it became apparent that a
large number of the comatose
bodies were not computer sci-
ence students, they were not
even UNBC students. They
were from CNC, high schools

.and transients looking for a

warm piace to sleep. The com-
missionaires have since been

Fighting for Security

| want to thank the 504 people
who supported our beloved
security; The Commissionaries
at UNBC, by signing the petition
| started. Too often we hear,
“There is not enough money to
continually support blah, blah,
blah.” Well, its bogus. That's
precisely what the People on top
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to believe, and it’s an illusion, a
false conciousness ingrained
into our heads. The truth is there
is money, but it’s not being dis-
tributed: it's making those at the
top, rich. And you, poor.

The bottom line, however is that
this is YOUR University and
YOUR safety, your security
should not be compromised by

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just because there’s a system - doesn’t mean you can’t have rights
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instructed to awaken any sleep-
ing bodies around campus. Part
of the reason is to keep UNBC
from becoming a hostel, but
there are also safety issues
involved. The commissionaires
are not rousting people and
throwing them off campus,
although if you are sleeping here
because you can’t get home they
would make arrangements for a
ride.
| expect that at some time in the
future, when non-UNBC people
get the idea that this is not a hos-
tel, and when students under-
stand that camping inside the
buildings is not acceptable,
enforcement of the no-sleeping
policy will lighten up. In the
meantime if you must sleep on
campus, try to do it during one of
your less stimulating class lec-
tures so that you can get some
uninterrupted zzz’s.
Toni Fletcher
Student Representative
Board of Governors

the money-hungry vaccum
cleaners that do nothing other
than “administer” how your
funds, your educational dollar
should be spent - in light of hiring
“don't-give-a-shit Rent-a-Cops.”
Let's see if our voices will be
heard.
Kevin Larson
UNBC Student

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