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course assignments. Thus as midterms and finals approach, many "staffers"
are unable to fulfill their time committments making us appear unreliable.
One of the most common complaints we receive at the centre is that we are
not open enough hours. The demana anu need is clearly there.
A third problem has to do with the nature of our present funding system ,
through the Student ee ee Alchough @ur services are more important and
of a different nature than most clubs we are classifies as a club for tiie
purposes of funding. Consequently our budgets are often not approved until
the middle of the semester or less than a month before classes end. With
the type of services that we provide the problems witi this approach are
obvious.
Tie problem is not only with the nature of the funuing but the amount
allocated per semester.The budget we present to the Stuueinti Society is the
miNamum we can operate w.th,yet every semester it is further cut resuiting in:.
l.insufficient funding for the library.
a. books from smail independent, feminist presses which are in great
demand are difficult to locate in public and university libraries.
The Centre gets many requests for such books which often time cannot
be filled . the same applieu to pamphlets, magazines stc.
b.Feminist records.
Many women requed these, but as yet we are not avie to help them as we
have no funding to cover this.
c.tapes
‘We have been denied tunding for a Fape recorder which is needed to
record talks vy women in Vamouver.
2A preseic we have only limiteu funds for workshop leaders and speaker.

We can only get those iew women willing to work for very little. This