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be assessed demerits
by the resident life
coordinator.

A Prince George City
Fire Truck responded to
the call. Security and
Facility staff were able
to determine that the
alarm was not triggered
by a fire and by 6:00
PM students were
allowed back into the
residence.

Pratt said that the fire
drills that are held every
semester are usually
held in the third weeks
of September and
January but have been
delayed this year.

To date there have
been approximately 15
fire alarms since the
begining of the school
year.

City of Prince George fire, UNBC security and
Facilities personel dicusss the latest fire alarm
in Residence 2.

-photo Aaron Mahoney

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By Nicole Larson and Naomi Manning

Bill Vander Zalm is
back, and nobody
seemed to notice he
was missing. On
Thursday, September
17, Bill Vander Zalm
was welcomed by a full
Canfor Theatre as the
leader of _ British
Columbia’s Reform
Party. Mr: Vander Zalm
was brought to Prince
George by BC in
Focus. BC in Focus is
a non-profit, non-parti-
san local group that
aims to take an active
role in British
Colombian politics by
acting as a watchdog
on political and govern-
mental policies, issues
and activities.

The crowd was
ready and willing to
enfold Bill to their
bosom as long as he
answered one simple

‘question: When and

how are you going to
form a coalition with
the Liberals and drive
the NDP out of office?
Vander Zalm did not
have the answers most
of the people were
looking for. He stated
firmly, several times,
that a coalition
between the Liberal
and the Reform Parties
would not occur
because of their differ-
ences in_ ideology,
especially about social
programs.
“Economically, we’re
very close,” Vander
Zalm told the crowd

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when first questioned
about uniting the
Liberal and Reform
parties, “But on social
issues, the Liberals
have voted with the
NDP about 85% of the
time.”

Many people who
attended the rally were
worried about the
Liberal and Reform

Parties splitting the

! would like
to see both
the opposi-
tion and the
power being
held by Free
Enterprise
parties.”

vote in the next elec-
tion, but Vander Zalm
addressed that as well,
“Unity is not what you
want. You want to rid
BC of the NDP. You
would like to see a
Free Enterprise party
win. | would like to see
both the opposition
and the power being
held by Free
Enterprise parties.”
Vander Zalm did
address other issues,
such as the current
Tuition Freeze,
Agriculture, and the
Forest Practices Code.
He addressed the
question of the Tuition
Freeze by offering the

choice between keep-
ing a freeze on tuition
or creating jobs for
graduates. . Vander
Zalm suggested look-
ing to California for
ideas to help with local
agriculture. He also
said that tossing out
and rewriting the
Forest Practices Code
was going to be part of
the Reform Party’s
platform.

In his closing state-
ments Bill Vander Zalm
addressed the issues
of why he had returned
to politics, something
he wasn’t questioned
about during the entire
three hour meeting.
Vander Zalm
expressed that he was
becoming angry with
the way British
Columbia was being
handled and felt that
something had to be
done about the blatant
hypocrisy of the NDP, ~
and the lack of any real
opposition from the
Liberal Party.

The evening with Bill
Vander Zalm was the
first in the “meet-the-
leaders” series by BC
In Focus. In the near
future they hope to
have the leaders of all
of the other provincial
political. parties in
Prince George for the
same kind of question
and answer forum.

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