Harassment
complaints

Advisor handled 43 complaints during the

tallied

Heather MacFadgen said eight of the
complaints did not fall within the College's

the process for handling it—you will see an

definition of harassment, leaving 35 com¬

initial upswing in numbers. After the program

plaints which did fall within the policy.

has been in place for awhile the number of

The College's new Harassment Issues
first three months of this year.

number of allegations than might be expected
in the future.
Said Martin: "As people become edu¬
cated to the issue of harassment—and also to

Of the 35, eight complaints proceeded

complaints will often level off or decrease."

to formal written charge. Of these, one has

Please turn the page for a more detailed

gone to a hearing, three have been informally

breakdown of the figures.

resolved, three are under investigation and
one has been withdrawn. MacFadgen said that

in all other cases falling within the policy the
complainant has either decided not to proceed

Wylie, Martin
appointments announced

or to pursue another remedy such as contact¬
ing police, filing a student grievance or han¬
dling the situation on his or her own.

Of the 43 complaints, 18 came from
City Centre, 16 from KEC and nine from
Langara.

In addition to the 43 complaints,

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MacFadgen received 46 contacts for informa¬

Linda Holmes, who is Acting President
in John Cruickshank's absence, reported to

Transition Council Monday that the College
Board has approved the appointments of Fred
Wylie as Vice President of Finance and Ad¬
ministration, and Wayne Martin as Director

of Employee Relations. Both individuals had
been serving in acting capacities

tion and advice but with no complaint alleged.
President John Cruickshank said he was
concerned by the total number of allegations.

VCC Issues Forum

May 28 at KEC

"On the one hand I wonder what people
used to do before (the harassment proce¬
dure)," said Cruickshank. "But what's most

In Administration Council business

important now is that these people not only

Monday, it was announced that the VCC
Issues Forum will be held for more than 200

have something to say, but they have someone

participants on May 28 at KEC.

to say it to."

The Issues Forum, which is one of the

Relations, said that the recent awareness of

first steps in VCC's planning process, will
contribute to what the College should look

the program may have attracted a larger

like in three to five years, and the steps that

Wayne Martin, Director of Employee

Continued on the other side...

need to be taken to get there. Representatives from all of the constituency groups-students,
faculty, staff, administration, the Board and the external Community--will determine who will
attend, based on application forms which all College people will receive this week
The deadline for returning those applications is coming up fast, Friday, May 7 As well,
everyone will have an opportunity to fill in a questionnaire on the College's future, with the
deadline for that process being May 10. The answers to these questions will help guide the
partiapants' discussions at the day-long Forum.
If you have not received the application form or the questionnaire, you can contact one
of the following VCC Steering Committee members.

Dennis Cumming (VMREU)
Dalton Kremer (YCCFA)

Gail Rochester (Administrators' Assn.)
Michael Fergusson (City Centre Student

Donald Oakes (CE Program Co-ordinators)

Assn )

Richard Pearce (Executive Committee)

Manuel Salinas (KEC Student Assn.)

Pauline Reaburn (B C. Nurses' Union)

Statistical breakdown of harassment complaints

Brown, Goard named
to PMDI conference
Two employees have been nominated
for attendance at this year's Pacific Manage¬
ment Development Institute, June 20-24 on
Bowen Island They are Karl Brown, Depart¬
ment Head of the Electronics Program at City
Centre and Jim Goard, Director of Informa¬
tion and Computer Services Donald Oakes,
Senior Program Co-ordinator for CE, was
named as an alternate. Each College in B C
may send two people to this annual leadership
development event

If you have any comments or ques¬
tions, please send them to Chuck

STATUS OF RESPONDENT GENDER 0F GENDER OF
COMPLAINANT RESPONDENT

Poulsen, Manager of The Exchange,

in care of College Administrative
Services.