Tbe opportunity to vote u.n,,.H! JJ~tc)r;.,t
colleg~ pl~iscit,e, •. ·•.•. _·· · · ._· · .lf:lll!Cb
th~ q~tion: ",.A.re you b) ta'\ror •OE~es:UU)'oo.fj ·
lishum7a donirnunity College on · •.·
amh>"''~l'l
Shore?" emies with. it a cOJiieJJtJ®E!O
responsibility on many .leV'els•....
. You,· the voter; carrY the·h~t re~-··
sponsibility.
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.··have
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You hold the future of "the neglected i ~-~ru.G<:u.~r~.llll
majority,'' those students unable to meet }
give active .
the high entrance r~quirements of t!ni- '
nat~ judgment ·
.versity in your haruts. T(,, meet this.re- . An~)astly. ~e ·_illtl;erilrn
,sponsibility you, the voter, should be in- college board h&$, a. . .•. ·. · . . to ~;;
formed what a 1community college-will do · f~~t~,yoter of al~ ·._. ·.. pertinent inf~r..
atld it$ 'need in the light of today's stan- '· matioribeshould kri9W bef
casting\,bi$
dards and computer-changing world.
ballok·Peter Jones, ata n
confe.rettce
~-last F"riday, assure~ the groUp this wpuld
Dr._ Jay Halliday of Los Angeles, an be so.
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expert in· the college.·· field, says:
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He said qualified people .are do~ the
"Con1munity Colleg~ can be. the key :long-range planning and they could fore, to the future prosperitJ,·Ior ,the Lower 'see a college of 2,00 students by 1970 an<I
· Mainland. Like it or not; man lil.l,ltOJ:naij(}n · 6,000 to 10,000 by ~985. He. ac:lmitted',
era, we'll either have to,su~rt people however, that costwould depend on manY
who are unable to be .productive, or we'll :fattm:s, such as enrolment,_ demand for
retrain. them .to oontrlbute to the econ- c c~ain courses and so on. BUt a report
omy.'.'
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· in a few days would project,
·coming out
· Not ·b~lping you, the voter; · to · dis- costs five years .from now as far ·as was
charge your responsibility is the cloudy possible to estimate.
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issue· .• of provincial cost-sharing ·formula
· The Times is initiating today .a ·special
of .iunior colleges.. ·
s'!ries on the proposed cotnD1unity colfege.
The :gov~rnment· will $hare 50-50 on It is the responsibility of you, th,e
. operati11g ~9sts. Jf seems realistic .t11at. .to read these articl,es,. and be informed of
munjcJpali~. wb;~p. ~U ~e able to' die-;,, th~ tre~i:mdous opportunity you now have
tate the ~eul~ to .~~~t their nee(is .·Q.f,:a~slstinghundreds of young men and
and Will '~~e t$ ~a9~~.(, ¥ilit}; ,to ·t 1
in tur.the~ing their education serve)~~~ ~.n~.~-'t~ assume § .• (TY:~
Yf.Mir ch,ildr~n·~ ~tur~.

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