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— SPOKE, Jan.
18, 1999
Kitchener Transit Strike?
Students say attendance threatened
Francois Phaboriboun, firstyear materials management
Aarti
student.
student.
Sharma,
should
first-year
management
materials
get
more
public
the
involved so they can get support,
she said.
Conestoga College students board a Kitchener Transit bus outside Door 3 on Jan.
Ball
also
should
not
the
drivers
knowingly
disrupt
said
the passengers’ lives in order to
9.
pressure management.
“They are
By Jacqueline Smith
mess, they should look at the public’s perception.”
Students at Conestoga College
who depend on
Kitchener Transit
means of getting
and from school are deciding whether or not to buy a four-month bus pass as a
because the
Atsupe Numekevor, a secondyear accounting student.
go on
transit
to
drivers nSay
JoAnn
Woo(toall, transportation
30 students were an impromptu survey 7,
would
they
get
if there
to is
a
Most of
the students surveyed
said they are hesitating to spend
$169 for the four-month pass that
provides
access
throughout a semester.
buses
to
More than
95 per cent said they are worried that their attendance will be affected.
analyst
does not
Chad Hagan
said he
know how he would
get to school. “I’d be in a lot of
trouble,”
he
said,
adding that
Kitchener Transit should give the drivers
what they want so students
can get to school. “I
go on
drivers
missing
strike
college,”
will
I
be
Aarti
said
Sharma, a first-year materials
management student. Steve Wood, a paramedic student, said from a public relations stand point, the drivers
won’t gain any public support.
“Before
'
they
“They are their
Chad
Hagan, first-year mechanical engineering student.
get
in
biting the
would
describe
would
a
Kitchener
she
some
buses
strike,”
electrical
who can
drive
should
days
engineering
student,
me
affect
hope
I
to that,”
said Ball.
it
I
will stay
home.”
every
in
doesn’t
The
Photos by
come
Jacqueline Smith
drivers
while his dad will be able to give
him
a ride to and from school,
be able
may
strike
it
not
to get a ride every day.
“I don’t think the drivers
because the bus
xIIm
should
my
is
only
alternative,” first-year journalism
Luke
student
added
that
Jeffery
said.
He
he cannot afford to pay
taxi fare every day.
engineering
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in the cafeteria (all
testing questions.
said
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in
the
ISO boxes
campuses), the Sanctuary (Doon), the staff lunch rooms or mailrooms
campuses) by Monday, January
student,
25"'.
Be sure
to include
number.
Be
at
your “home” campus ISO celebration on January
28'" for the
draw
for prizes.
strike.
“I
won’t
come
do, because
I
I.
What
is
the origin ofthe term
“ISO”?
cannot afford taxi
said
fares,”
to school if they
second-year
the
2.
How many
elements are there
3.
Who
ISO Co-ordinator at Conestoga College?
4.
Which
5.
Name
in the
ISO 900
1
Standards?
student.
management
is
the
Phaboriboun,
Francois
student
doesn’t like the idea of a strike,
level
of ISO registration
is
Conestoga College pursuing?
especially in the winter. “I
do
drive, but
1
drive on the ice, so to
and
from
Phaboriboun
Jody
am 1
scared to
one benefit of ISO
registration.
take the bus
college
now,”
said.
Bishop,
an
Hint;
electrical
For answers, check your
ISO
Committee member
newsletter, ask a Steering
or read Spoke!
said he doesn’t think the drivers
hands that feed them.
We
Name:
Student
Campus:
Phone #
pay
wages.”
.
paramedic student Chris Ball
(all
your name, campus and phone
she
hopes the drivers won’t go on
the
said second-year
Kljiljana Ljajic. -“The other days
aspect so
engineering technician student, this
me
Ruben Guevra, a first-year computer program analyst, said
First-year materials
don’t have a car, so if the
how
their wages.”
have friends
should she miss classes because of
Dijana Barukcic, an electronics
First-year mechanical engineer-
ing student
she
that
will be difficult since he
transit strike.
program
said
the strike.
Jan.
is
catastrophe
“We pay
said.
“I
“The bus is my primary means of transportation, and a strike
back,”
adding
in his class to give
Paramedic student Chris Ball said
biting the hands that
feed them,” the paramedic student
a ride.
who
passes last semester.
and from college
student.
money
that
someone
sure he can
is
Transit strike.
should be refunded her tuition fee
how
computer
get
him
but
strike,
walk
Conestoga College students bought the four-month 441
asked in
first-year
“If the drivers decide to off the job, students
Numekevor,
On
Guevra,
Atsupe Numekevor was not aware there might be a strike when she bought her four-month pass.
planner with Kitchener Transit, said
Ruben
find
Second-year accounting student
already bought their passes should
strike.
should
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Other