Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 20, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba U of m streamlining part time schedules by Manfred Jager a University of Manitoba official says streamlined class schedules could result in increased enrolment by part time students next year. Gordon Thompson the University s director of summer session and credit Extension programs said part time class schedules which used to meander a lot through the week have already been streamlined for this fall to make taking classes easier. We Are thinking of the housewife or the office clerk for example who will find it easier to get away from Home or Job if it s the same Lime of Day mondays and wednesdays or tuesdays and thursdays. Achievement we be achieved this for the fall Thompson said new time tables will be patterned to feature symmetrical 90-Mi Iii Ite periods twice a week or three hour time slots once weekly. Previous timetables necessitated students to come in for 50-minute lec Tures As Many As three times a week at different hours. Thompson said part time City student enrolment has risen every year increasing 10 per cent alone from 1975 to 1979. The University s continuing education Board and the University of Manitoba Stu dents Union will hold a one Day workshop Friday for students people considering courses University professors and administrators to air other problems and Sug Gest solutions. Dubbed obstacles and set to accommodate 300 participants at University Centre the workshop will Deal with problems such As financial Aid Day care for toddlers and transportation difficulties. All possible obstacles to the obstacles workshop have been removed Thompson said. There will be free parking and free babysitting service for participants. Registration has been set at and includes lunch. Thompson emphasized Nei ther schedule changes nor the obstacles workshop should be seen As a u of m to engage in hard sell for More students. We Are trying to meet the needs of the Community. This is their University. They pay for it. We Are Here to serve the University of Winni Peg started removing some of the obstacles to Access As Long As 10 years ago when it launched its University at noon programs involving professors teaching lunch hour courses at various downtown locations twice weekly. Successful the approach was so successful that off Campus noontime teaching has been expanded several times. In 1975, the University added another feature called University at two making afternoon courses available mainly to housewives who might be Able to get away Between 2 . And . Additional courses were offered in a University after work scheme enabling Stu dents to come to the Down town Campus directly from their jobs and before going Home. Last fall the u of w took the latest step toward greater accessibility by of Fering a handful of three hour a week saturday morn ing courses. Eaton Bay Trust company formerly Commerce capital Trust Branch 349 Pottage Avenue Winnipeg 942.8211 Eaton financial centres Winnipeg 988-4863 is Villa 988-3805 Bay financial centres Winnipeg. 774-2421 financial centres open store hours Winnipeg free press monday april 20, 1981 13 Gas company workers vote to reject offer the largest membership meeting in the history of workers at greater Winnipeg Gas co. Overwhelmingly rejected a company contract offer which featured a wage increase of 28 per cent Over two years. About 230 service and maintenance workers who have been on strike since feb. 2, voted 91 per cent against accepting the latest company contract package said Aniie Makinson president of Energy and chemical workers Union local 681. The Gas company s offer tabled thursday called for a 15-per-oent wage increase during the first year of the contract and 13 per cent for the second. Workers would also have received an extra one per cent salary increase if they agreed to extend the contract one month to feb. 28, 1983. The offer represented a one per cent wage increase per year Over the company s previous proposal. Makinson said the contract was rejected on the basis of the salary offer and the Lack of a Back to work agree ment. The Union originally asked for a 35-per-Cem wage increase but said it would accept 32 per cent. Makinson said both sides in the labor dispute will be Back at the bargaining table for a meeting tentatively scheduled for tomorrow to try to Iron out an agreement to end the workers first strike against the company. Employees end 3-month strike what s he use for baited Paque rear in hooded Parka took his car fishing saturday in Suamico wis., but not intentionally. His wife neglected to set the emergency Brake and while de was trying desperately Stop the car his fishing pole bounced out of the car into the water. He finally managed to fish it out with another Rod and his car was later pulled to safety. Employees at Behlen Wickes co. Ltd. Of Brandon will end a three month strike today when for work after accepting a new three year contract. The workers wednesday voted 75 per cent in favor of the pact which Calls for a 31-per-cent salary increase and other fringe benefits said Bob Latcham president of United steelworkers of America local 7913. The employees went on strike Jan. 20 to protest wage member Cahaba Deposit insurance corporation Days 6 locations Call v today j facilities for both men women swimming pools Sauna Baths steam Baths Sun rooms Whirlpool Baths. 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Not one per son throughout the strike crossed the picket the Union cleared a final stumbling Block to a new contract recently when it dropped its demand for a Cost of living clause. The company had stated it had a policy which did not allow any cola clause in any of its plants. Latcham said the workers Are expecting some animosity As a result of the strike. Let s face it after a Long strike like this there s bound to be hard feelings on both he said. Behlen Wicks manufactures prefabricated steel products such As Grain bins and Sheds. Girl 16, killed when car Rolls Over in ditch a Portage la Prairie girl 16, died Early yesterday in a single vehicle Accident. Ramp said Tracy Brown died after the car she was Riding in went out of control about . On a gravel Road about one Kilometre West of Portage la Prairie and about one Kilometre North of provincial trunk Highway 1a. Police said the 1973 Volks Wagen rolled Over three times in a ditch Landing on its roof. 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