Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 6, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba B2 Winnipeg free january 1994 local students haunted by racial abuse College combats discrimination with new policy by Bud Robertson staff reporter Blessing Zugara recalls Only too Well his first encounter with racism in the 23yearold was a firs year psychology student at the University of living in residence with four other Black one he awoke to find the words niggers in 107 go Home Spray painted on the Walls outside his it was a rude Awakening for a Young student from being the target of racism was difficult to he but he Learned to i found ways of dealing with said now in his fourth year of studies at the if i it would be a Burden that id carry with this Zugara became student Union Vic president and a member of the University of Manitoba intercultural Rhonda coordinator of the coalition run by the International Centre for said visible minorities at the University Are subjected to various kinds of racial from the Lack of cultural awareness to outright vandalism and verbal while there Are about year for in this staff reporter Bud Robertson introduces the year for racial Harmony project and examines the advances and the setbacks being made in promoting better understanding Between Winnipeg ethnically diverse part 4 foreign students on they tend to stick close to those from their own its those who grew up in Canada who Bear the Brunt of racial Friesen the University does not have a race relations committee nor an office set up specifically to Deal racial said but University president Arnold Nai Maric said positive Steps Are being taken to improve race relations on such As developing a human rights code and appointing an officer to investigate racial changes to curricula Are also in the works to recognize the contribution of other cultures in Naimark the University of Winnipeg is also developing a human rights red River Community is ahead of its two larger counterparts in meeting the needs of students from visible especially its aboriginal since the completion of a presidents task Force on multicultural issues in the College has adopted a race and ethnic relations policy and hired a native Dean of aboriginal education and institutional the task forces other recommendations Call for a resource Centre for aboriginal hiring More staff from visible minorities and installing building directories in Cree and it also Calls for More Cross cultural training and awareness and the appointment of a human rights officer to Deal with while Many of the recommendations have yet to be implemented on its already made a said Don the colleges new aboriginal its very Clear that everyone suffers because of said task Force co chair and Dean of Zugara rude Awakening while there Are about foreign students on they tend to stick close to those from their own student Fausto but that can Only be solved through a process of awareness and tomorrow natives struggle at province Sells roadsigns shop by 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resume to Box 773 Winnipeg free press Home assessment out of line councillor says by Dan Lett City Hall reporter Glen Murray Home has been reassessed at less than he paid for it and he wants to know i May have paid More for my House than other people might have but i think my House is Worth Murray fort Rouge said he said the discrepancy highlights a weakness in the assessment pro one of thousands of Winni Eggers now getting reassessment notices in the said he bought his House for in Early just months before it was As but the City valued it at to say that my House is Worth less than i paid for it is re ally grossly he City assessor Bob Brown said such discrepancies Are not that Brown said All of Winnipeg residential properties Are reassessed based on averages of the value of similar properties in some 140 neighbourhoods across the in most the City assess ment department feels it can judge the value of a property to delay to Cost within plus or minus one per cent of what the property would earn on the open Brown the City has been fairly accurate in assessing the value of residential he there have been More problems with commercial partly be cause changes in legislation governing Brown said if renovations or additions were made to a Home without the proper building per then a House could be Worth More than the City i the assessment notice is More than five per cent More or less than what a Home owner has estimated its Worth the individual should Contact the assessment department for a cur Sory Brown in some the adjustments can be made he if the discrepancy is More than 10 per it May require a for Mal Appeal to be filed with the Board of he Murray said he is concerned the cites system May not recognize All the different variations that Homes in older neighbor hoods May despite similar outward you fight City Hall by its own methods by Bill Redekop staff reporter homeowners who try to Appeal the cites latest property assessment should do their Homework before trying to fight City according to a property tax Les Sytkowski a seven year Veteran of the cites property tax Appeal Board has received Doz ens of Calls Over the past two Days from homeowners whose assessments jumped from for to Between and for the new base who claims an 80 percent Success rate in handling assessment appeals for Home said a key argument commonly used to convince an Appeal Board an assessment is too High is to find comparable Homes and compare their Market and assessment prices the same method the City City assessors find three comparative properties by simply putting raw data about your Home into a which spits out a list of comparable the computer is not always says you could argue they Are not proper the comparative properties list is Public information Avail Able through the but Sytkowski warns that once you the City is Likely to come up with three different properties to strengthen its Sytkowski method is to find properties similar to ones Check their recent Sale prices and assessment values and take pictures of the properties to present to the Appeal the comparison Homes should be of similar condition and All that information is in Public files at the City assessment de but you May have to get help with the coded terms on the Sytkowski investments january 25 and february 22 nou 111 Iii it 10 and Sci in t n our Ings ret hit s Irmi part or it Book ail phone 6977150 fax 6977370 Winnipeg free press v v v v v v y v v v v v v v ;