UNIVERSITY COLLEGE of the FRASER VALLEY

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Volume 7, Number 5

Perry covers ground, plants tree

Advanced Education minister Tom Perry
formed a more accurate mental picture
of the University College of the Fraser
Valley last week as he toured the
Chilliwack and Abbotsford campuses
and the Totil:thet Centre and met with
representatives of the UCFV community.

“Tt’s nice to actually come and see the
campuses,” Perry remarked at a
meeting with Faculty and Staff
Association members. “My image
of UCFV so far has been the
Rainbow Inn,” (where he was a
guest at the UCFV Question of
Balance conference in January).

At the end of the day, Perry
officially opened Building E, the
latest addition to the Abbotsford
campus, and got behind the
controls of a crane to plant a tree,
symbolic of the growth UCFV
has undergone in the last year.

Oct. 28, 1992

Perry, Brian Minter, Cheryl Dahl and Wilf Vicktor at opening.

Perry toured the Chilliwack campus
in the morning, and met with about 35
students for 45 minutes. Student Society
president Wilf Vicktor opened the
meeting by outlining student concerns.

They included the need for more
access to post-secondary education, the
parking crisis at UCFV and attempts to

What’s for lunch? —Tom Perry, minister
of Advanced Education, Training and
Technology, checks out the kitchen at the
Toti:lthet Centre, where he was fed a
gourmet lunch prepared by the students
in Culinary Arts program.

Perry managed to touch bases in three of
the UCFV region communities during his
visit Oct. 19.

on quick tour

address it with a shuttle bus, limited
library resources, and the inadequate
student loan system.

Perry said that his government had
expanded seats in post-secondary
education by about three percent this
year, but conceded that this was not
enough to catch up to the national
average." The limit is purely financial —
there’s no disagreement with principle
or lack of desire," he said. “But the
question is how much can we increase
the deficit or taxes, or take away from
other expenditures.”

He went on to say that even raising
tuition 10 percent would increase
Student spaces by only two percent.

“Tt’s crystal clear to me that money
alone is not going to solve the access
problem. We have to look at other
measures, like reducing the number of

Please see Perry, page 2.