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So
it's
9
p.m.
on
our
final
night
of
production
here
at
Free
Forum;
a
bad
time
to
be
starting
a
newspaper
editorial.
There's
just
not
enough
time
in
the
day.
Or
the
weekend.
Or
in
the
whole
semester,
really.
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As
reading
break
draws
closer
and
closer
here
at
New
Caledonia,
there
seems
to
be
just
one
thing
on
the
mind
of
so
many
students,
like
myself.
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Sleep!
.
With
midterms
and
papers
and
dozens
and
dozens
of
assignments
and
work
and
volunteering
commitments
and
car
problems
and
so
many
other
prerequisites
to
our
personal
success
screaming
at
us
from
our
day
planners,
it
becomes
difficult
for
students
to
remember
.
'
many
of
the
important
things
that
make
life...
what
did
they
call
it,
back
in
the
summer?
Oh
yeah,
fun.
'
,
Recently.
I
asked
onestudent.what
they
thought
of
the
Liberal
government's
pre-election
throne
speech
earlier
this
month,
and
she
;
looked
at
mewith
the
most
dazed,
disinterested
look
of
indifference
-clearly
this
wasn't
a
concern
of
hers."
Understandably,"
too,1
with
.
dozens
of
other,
more
urgent
academic
concerns
beckoning
her
from
the
desk
in
front
of
her.
-
Who
has
.time
.to
care,
what's
going
ori
in
the,
.-
world.
outside
our
lockers?
"I've
got
three
midterms
on
Monday
and
haven'teven
started
my
term'paper,
ohgodohgodohgod."
We
tend
to
:
hear
thiskind
of
thing
a
Jot-;
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Incidentally,
February
9's
throne
speech
marked
an
important
event
.
in
the
lives
of
all
British
Columbian
students,
heralding
a
long-await-
ed
end
to
the
"deregulation
of
tuition
fees
in
thisprovincerrrieantog
'we
w
can
stop
dreading
the
next
double-digit
tee
increase
that
win
suck
up
the
rest
of
our
hard
earned
minimum
wage
paychecks
from
our
three
.
part-time
jobs.
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Another
important
development
for
students
here
at
CNC
is
the
Students'
Association
announcement
of
a
referendum
to
:
tie
Association
fees
to
inflation,
with
the
goal
of
avoiding
large
fee,
increases
every
few
years
to
balance
cuts
in
revenue
from
enrollment
drops
at
the
college,
,
'
..?,''
-
....
But
you've
got
other
things
to
worry
about;
so
should
you
care?
:
The
answer,
as
always,
is
yes.
After
all,
this
is
a
little
bit
more
of
your
money
that
someone
is
asking
you
to
fork
up,
even
if
it's
just
so
they
have
the
resources
to
continue
offering
you
the
services
they
do...
1
,
'
mean,
shouldn't
you
care?
Of
course
you
care,
.
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:
.
:
,
Hey,
and
there's
a
provincial
election
on
the.
way
'tool
-.Where
did
.;
that
come
from?
Now
I
have
to
register
and
read
the
party
platforms
"
and
blah
blah
blah...
I
Just
want
to
go
to
bed.
We
all
feel
this
way,
but
as
students,
we
can't
let
events
like
this
just
go
by
without
becoming
involved,
even
just
by
taking
the
five
minutes
td'get
out
'a'ncfvdte'J
Otherwise,
when
another
round
of
tuition
'
increases
or
funding
cuts
comes
around
and
affects
you
directly,
what
are
you
going
'to'say?
"I
was
too
busy?'.
:
'.:'.
So
keep
working
hard,;
and
playing
hard
when
you
have
the
time,
'butlno'matterjibwfpnful'it
is,
stay,"
informed
and
get
involved,
because
thelworld,
surprisingly,
won't
listen
to
you
if
you
don't
say
'
anything
when
you
have
the
chance.
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