SPOKE Toyota locates near Doon By Paul Vandenberg
area.
The proximity of Conestoga College was one factor that
ing, the supply and availability of skilled people was crucial
influenced Toyota to locate its new assembly plant in Cambridge, says an associate professor of economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. Douglas McCready said last
and we looked at the educational facilities and what they were doing,” he said. Hunter said graduates from
month
that,
“When
“The company
is
Conestoga had an impact
(on the decision).”
McCready made ments
Tom
Right where
I
Jantzi/Spoke
want you
mentalist, entertained a large audience Dec. 6 students under his influence of suggestion. Story on pg. 4.
Casey Bones, a renowned
in
in
coming
The the
final
faculty
mediation stage of contract
dispute
to be held Jan. 9, 10 and 11, said Bill Harrison, past presi-
was
a strike in the future as there is this time. “We don’t know the result of the negotiations and we don’t have an offer from Council (the Ontario Council of Regents for Colleges of Applied Arts and Technolo-
no issue at
dent of Ontario Public Service Employees Union, Local 237,
gy)”.
which represents Conestoga
to
faculty.
with mediator Gene Swimmer on Jan. 11. After these talks Harrison said Swimmer will end his role as mediator and has implored the two teams “to
“There could be a settlement at this time,” he said. In a Jan. 7 interview, Harrison also said he doesn’t foresee
OPSEU and the Council were have completed
their talks
get their act together”. Workload was to be main topic of discussion. OPSEU, the Council and mediator Swimmer met in early
December
for talks
which
Katie FitzRandolph, spokesperson for the union, termed “very profitable”.
to the college in 1974,
After the “mediation stage scenario” Harrison said there are three possible developments. The teams can continue an to finalize to negotiate agreement or, as a result of
ask for a strike mandate.
president of Jutzi, said in December that she doesn’t expect negotiators to reach a settlement in Jan-
Grace
OPSEU,
uary but hopes it will come some time in 1986. Before his role as mediator of
negotiations.
Swimmer,
manufactur-
million to aid Toyota in training workers and that “a certain amount” of that money will be spent at Conestoga.
Sue Groodwin, an oficial with the ministry in Toronto, said the entire $15 million will go to Toyota and that the company wll decide what training programs it will invest in.
comes
mediations, a final offer could be put to the faculty for a vote. But in the event of an offer being “so bad” that it would be turned down by a large vote, the negotiating team would likely
in
materials management, weldCAD/CAM and other technology programs, as well as business and computer programming, will be needed by Toyota. As well, he said, the college will be “working directly with Toyota in the near future” to assist its training needs. He said workers could be specially trained at the college for tasks at the plant. Hunter said the Ontario government has committed $15
agreed with McCready. He said companies evaluate the labor market before moving into an
Mediation stage of faculty negotiations By Barbara De Smet and Jane Moreau
com-
an interview shortly after Toyota announced its plans on Dec. 12 to build a $400-million plant in the Hespeler section of Cambridge. Conestoga President Kenneth Hunter, an executive in the aerospace industry in the United States for 15 years prior to
the cafeteria by putting
the
was
ing,
interested in high tech and the University of Waterloo and Conestoga College will give them the kind of labor they will need. “I have no doubt that the technology facilities available at
I
a
a close
to
Carleton University professor, was the appointed “fact finder” in the dispute between OPSEU and the Council. Swimmer was appointed on Oct. 25, 1985 to investigate the contract negotiations. A revised of his Nov. 15 report was distributed by Harrison to
Doon campus stewards on Jan. 6
.
Swimmer
said the issues for the negotiating parties and the general public.
In his report.
he
attempted
to
clarify
Enterprising student builds a coffin for future business what
By Tom Jantzi
is
involved
in
making
them,” stated Berg.
David Berg, a second-year manufacturing technician student, decided to build a coffin which might be the only one ever built at the college. “I made it to experience what was involved in making a coffin,” Berg said. “It was a learning experience for a possible business venture in the future,” Berg added. Berg would like to get into his
own coffin-making business
in
the future.
“There isn’t too much competition in the casket business and the profits seem to be good. I’m using this year to find out
He learned
that there is a plant in Mount Forest but most coffins come from the coffin
United States.
The coffin took Berg four months to make and cost about $500. It cost $250 for the wood and $250 for the hardware. Berg added he enjoyed making the coffin because it gave him ideas about different designs for the future. Berg said he “definitely” wants self-employment, but if the coffin business doesn’t work out he would like to get into the grandfather clock business.
Storm closes campuses Although almost everyone returned to school Jan. 6, students at the Stratford and Clinton campuses had an extra
day
off
due
Clinton
Tom Berg
may use
this coffin
as a model
for
another coffin or he
may
turn the coffin into a bar.
Jantzi/bpoke
to blizzards.
campus students
closing by the
Stratford
missed winter
last
missed a day due to poor weather Dec. 2, 1985. The 20 students were notified of the
Wingham
radio
station.
which
campus students
their
due
first
to a lasted until
day this snowstorm noon.
Both campuses resumed noractivities Tuesday.
mal
— Spoke, Monday, January 13, 1986
2
OPINION SPOKE Editor: Karen Mantel Associate Editor: Kevin Swayze
Photo
Editor:
Tom
Jantzi
Entertainment Editor: Brenda Harris Sports Editor: Jenny Wilson Advertising Manager: Staff:
Susan Calmusky
Vickie Campbell, Barbara
Robert Martin,
De Smet, Frank
Galfusz,
Wendy McCreary, Jane Moreau,
Paul
Vandenberg. Contributing Writer: Rachel Wallace-Oberle
Spoke Is published by the Doon Student Association and produced by the students of the journalism department. The views and opinions expressed In this paper do not necessarily reflect the views of the Association of the College.
Spoke Is a member of Youthstream. Spoke shall not be liable for damages arising out of errors In advertising beyond the amount paid for the space. Address: Spoke, c/o Conestoga College, 299 Doon Valley Drive, Kitchener, Ontario. N2G 4M4. Telephone (519) 653-5380. For national advertising,
No
gripes for
1986
To most people, an editorial is a chance to have your say and if you have something to gripe about, then you can. As part of Spoke, each of us has a chance to do an editorial and to have our say. This week it is my turn. The problem? What to write about. If someone asked me if I had anything I was upset or angry with, I would probably have a list a mile long. But to actually sit down and think of something to write about has inflicted me with writer’s block. In past issues we have covered student spirit, Santa Claus parades, the Canadian post office and the municipal election, to name a few. Now that it’s my chance, I can’t think of anything. I am not saying I have to a trouble-free life, but right now I don’t feel it’s" right to complain about anything. I just finished having a wonderful Christmas holiday. I
celebrated me happy.
it
I
with people I care very much about and who make also received some nice gifts from Santa Claus to
top off the holidays. Once school started again I received a grant cheque for the remainder of college stay, so I really am in no position to
Question of the Week What are your New Year’s resolutions and have you broken them yet?
“My New tions
were
Year’s resoluto get
my Cana-
dian citizenship and to live life to its fullest.”
Elke Hensel
my
LASA
“My
resolutions
complain.
As 1986
were
to
apply myself to this course and to be on time for every class. I’ve broken my resolution by being late for my first class this term.”
Marty Power joins us,
I
would
like to take the
resolutions were to and party more and at same time be more responsible and not to drink and drive. I also want to do well in try the
classes.”
Len Van Esch
LASA
thank all the not find anything to
time
“My
to
people who have made it possible for me to gripe about and given me a wonderful 1985 and a bright start for 1986. Especially Fancy Face.
LASA
By Brenda Harris
Don’t forget to write The
editorial staff at
Spoke
invites
comments from
“My New
readers in the form of signed letters, free of libel and personal attack. We reserve the right to edit all letter to meet space requirements. Submissions should be 250 words or less, and may be left in the mailbox outside the Spoke office or sent by mail to: Spoke, c/o Conestoga College, 299 Doon Valley Dr., Kitchener, Ontario. N2G 4M4.
tion
was not
Year’s resoluto eat so
much
junk food, but I’ve broken it already. I’m hoping to start it again soon.” Jane Bowden Accounting
“My New
Year’s resolu-
were to pass accounting and to go on a diet. So tions
“My
New Year’s resolution was to get a job in field by the end of the year
my
my
and also make more money this year. I haven’t
Dawn Chandler
had a chance to break them yet.” Manuel Fernandes
far I’ve been faithful to resolutions.”
Accounting
LASA
Fewer drinking charges By Karen Mantel
New
Year’s with its traditional blitz of resolutions has passed by once again. And, as usual, many of the resolutions will ‘pass by’ before the new year becomes very old. The diets
and good intentions often don’t
last
too long.
Hopefully, however, one resolution particularly noticeable on Toronto streets on New Year’s Eve, will last well into 1986 a resolution to not drink and drive.
—
Toronto’s
New
Year’s papers
heralded the news of only one impaired driver charged by the RIDE
(Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) program, out of over 6,000 cars checked on New Year’s Eve. The charge was only the second one by the program since Dec. 22, out of about 34,000 cars checked. Regular police patrols charged five drivers on New Year’s Eve, leaving the year’s total charged in Metro at 244, down from 342 in 1984.
No doubt the greatest impact on drunk driving has been the recent introduction of new provincial and federal legislation for impaired drivers.
Now
a
first
conviction for
impaired driving calls for an automatic one-year driver’s licence sus-
starts
new year
pension (up from three months) and a
minimum
fine of $300.
Apparently liquor and beer sales have not decreased and, in fact, are running slightly higher than in 1984. Therefore, more people must have taken advantage of public transit, taxis and designated drivers on New Year’s Eve a promising beginning
new year. Certainly the problem of drinking and driving will continue to plague us, but with the new legislation and better awareness, the problem can and will be reduced. Publicity about drinking and driving was noticeably increased during the holiday season, as it is before any to a
right
long weekend or holiday. Some people might even say the emphasis on stopping drinking and driving is excessive. Maybe this is one case where excess is good. Over the holidays someone commented to me that the new laws were too tough. After all, they said, if you hit someone while you’re drunk it’s an accident, you don’t do it deliberately. Well, I disagree. If you drink and drive your actions are deliberate. The laws may be tough, but they’re fair. I just hope it is the threat of the new legislation, and not involvement in an accident, that causes most people to stop before they drink and drive.
3
spoke, Monday, January 13, 1986
Photos, jazz busies instructor Doug Wicken obviously
likes
keep himself busy. As an instructor at both Waterloo and Stratford campuses, Wicken not only teaches photography but works as a freelance photo
tographer, gives seminars, dabbles in jazz music and
manages
to
get
away
to
his
Manitoulin Island cabin once
in
a while.
Wicken, 43, was born in Hamilton, Ont. in 1942 and was, he likes to say, the largest baby until then in Mount Hamilton hospital. Setting the record at 10
lbs.
grew up
and
six
ozs.,
come down here to go Oktoberfesting with us.” It was quite an experience for Wicken and within three months he was back at the reserve to do some more photography. “I still go back to visit. We bought some property up there and I do a lot of art photography on the island,” said Wicken. Wicken, his wife Audrey and their two boys go up to their cabin on Manitoulin Island for weekends and sometimes for a couple of weeks at a time. still
By Rachel Wallace-Oberle
Wicken
Hamilton, Guelph, Toronto and Montreal. He attended school in all of those cities and finally, out of sheer boredom, left high school in the middle of Grade 11. in
“I was discouraged and bored,” said Wicken. “But
‘My
first
was
ambition
to pursue a
musical career but ended up going into photography.’ I
I
think that move encouraged my direction later on in life and related to how I teach now.”
Eventually, Wicken went back to high school and completed his secondary school ed-
Taconis died and Wicken lost his mentor! When Wicken finished his book Manitou Miniss, in 1982, he dedicated it to Taconis. In his book,
ucation.
Wicken attempted
Before continuing with his education, Wicken worked at numerous jobs which consisted of selling paint for a paint company and working as a garage attendant, an expediter and a buyer for Sutherland and Shultz. In 1970, Wicken pursued his interest in photography and enrolled in the photography course in Conestoga College. Mainly interested in documen-
tary and photo-journalism, Wicken w as influenced by Kryn Taconis, one of his in,
structors.
“Kryn only came in a few days a week to teach,” said Wicken. “But I became quite attached to him and his work. Kryn used to work for Life Magazine. He represented what I wanted to do.” In 1971, Wicken went on a Manitoulin Island Indian Reserve. It was there his idea for a book took form. field
trip
to
the
“Kryn dropped me
off at the
reserve and picked me up a week later,” said Wicken. “The people I boarded with there
In
1979
to
“de-
stereotype” the Indian people. “The Indian people are not all alcoholics and on welfare,” said Wicken. “When the work I do deals with human concerns, I try to work around stereotyping. I try to go through the back door.” A year after Wicken’s book was published, 50 of his photographs were on display at the Centre in the Square in Kitchener. Two art exhibits in the area have included some of Wicken’s photography of Sunbeam Home. Again, he avoids stereotyping the residents in his
work.
“A
lot
of these people can
communicate better than normal people,” Wicken said with a smile.
Wickens teaches continuing education evening courses in photography at the Waterloo
and Stratford campuses. Waterloo features an advanced course and Stratford offers basic and advanced. Wicken’s basic photography designed for the individual who has no knowl-
course
is
edge of photography. The course is six weeks tong and, according to Wicken, after six weeks students should have an understanding of lenses, shutterspeeds and film speeds. They should also know the characteristics of different films
and
posed
to a lot of
will
have been exWicken’s opin-
ions.
“My opinions are based on my experience,” said Wicken. “I take this all very seriously; I’m not just doing it for the fun of it. If you can’t be serious about it, why do it?” In the advanced photography course, Wicken wants his students to think in other than technical terms. He attempts to make them appreciate the finer points of photography. “It’s not all just flashes and film,” said Wicken.
The course does not equip an individual to be a proessional photographer. However, it does enable one to enjoy the world of photography. “It lights the flame, but they have to keep it burning,” said Wicken. Along with Wicken’s many accomplishments, he is a contemporary jazz musician and plays the string bass. “I’ve been a jazz musician long before I knew Audrey,” said Wicken with a laugh, looking at his wife. “My first ambition was to pursue a musical career 4jut I ended up goings into photography.”
Wicken
also at the
composes and
Olde English Waterloo every Friday and Saturday night. Fondly dubbed “Doug Wicken and Friends” by the staff of the Olde English Parlour, Wicken plays with a small band and sometimes gets together with different musicians to do a fewiconcerts at the University of Waterloo and plays
Parlour
in
at art gallery openings. In 1984 Wicken went on the
road with a few other musicians for a couple of weeks, touring from Windsor to North Bay. “We were playing real jazz,” said Wicken, his face lighting up.
“We had
a
ball.
The
response was really good.”
Tom
complex
Staff talks Life
is
Jantzi'/Spoke
complex for a college
contract negotiator. “There is a great deal of difference between public (college) and private negotiation,” says John Podmore, Director of Personnel Services at Conestoga College’s Doon campus-, because of the number of different people and organizations who need to be informed of the day’s negotiations. Podmore, a member of the
a “heavy measure patience,” Podmore says that a negotiator also must have a “thorough understanding of the collective agreement and the associated legisla-
mind” and of
tion.”
The present negotiations
be-
tween the Ontario Public Ser-
Employees Union, who represent the teachers, and the colleges’ Council of Regents vice
“management team” have
seven-person college negotiation team who are working to get a contract with Ontario’s
been underway since the provincial back-to-work legislation ending the teachers’ strike
community
in
teachers,
college
says that the negotiaton team must report back to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities, the Council of Regents for Ontario’s colleges, and all 22 community college boards of governors and college presidents throughout negotiations.
having
Besides
an
“open
November
of 1984.
27, there have been 65 days of negotiations. Podmore is getting ready for the first set of talks in Toronto this month and says that even though negotiations are slow,
Since June
“I
am positive we’ll resolve the
matters in the
in dispute
between us
new year.”
Concerns dealt with needs by single visits to the student service office, she
By Jane Moreau Identification of the special
needs of mature students is scheduled for a “brown bag” luncheon meeting for all mature students on Tuesday, Jan. 14 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in
Room
2B11.
“Anyone returning
to school
after a two-year absence
is
a
student and is encouraged to attend the meeting to talk about their concerns,” said Diane Mountain, co-ordinator of support activities for
mature
mature students. “In the last five years there has been a 50 per cent increase
mature
students at the great number are students over 30 who are changing careers, she said. “We want to hear about their needs and the issues of importance (to them) so we can find out how we can help them.” Mountain is a second-year social service student on placement with student services. Until now, mature students have expressed their special
in
college.”
A
said.
Mountain said mature
stu-
dents are often married, with families, or are single parents
with children. “They have many primary roles and more on their plate” than the regular student, she added. “They are balancing school
and family. Some are dealing with lack of support from family and friends and there is also the
problem
of isolation.”
Students whose home is too far away for regular visits have lost their support systems. It takes time to develop friends at college, she explained. Other concerns she noted were housing, day care, social needs such as peer conversation, and organized activities such as cross-country skiing.
“There
is
a need for activi-
support the mature student who has been out of school for a few years.” The purpose of the meeting is to determine their needs, she ties
to
said.
Pass saves $22 Kitchener Transit offered a $22
Tom
Staff
member
Jantzi/Spoke
faces student pressure
Brent Davidson, a staff technician in the learning resources centre, has his blood pressure taken by nursing student Brenda Leis. Learning sessions like these take place once a year and help nursing
students improve their
skills.
saving on four-month bus passes when its representative, Herold Neidenbach, was at Doon campus Jan. 6 and 7. Usually $31.50 a month, the special “semestered pass” at $104 for college and university students is effective until the
end of April, said Neidenbach. Passes can still be obtained by calling Neidenbach at 8857197 but must be accompanied with a student photo card, he said.
The regular ticket.
fare
is
80 cents a
.
Spoke, Monday, January 13, 1986
4
ENTERTAINMENT Nooner
power
By Vickie Campbell Casey Bones, a mentalist, entertained a packed cafeteria Jan. 6 as he proceeded to convince people they could swim, water
ski
and dance
bal-
let.
The highlight
of
the
show
Easton
the audience.
Bones said prior to becoming mentalist he was a booking
per-
formance.
tremely suggestible. are more “suggestible” because they are
He
thinks
interested in the
He
Wilcox struts stuff once again
He said it’s comparable to people who are impulse buyers.
is suggested to a person that they would find
embarrassing or
if^it
suggested
comfortable
in
“I
want
to
thank the audi-
ence,” said David Wilcox after he performed at the Doon campus pub on Dec. 11, 1985. “I really want the audience to
know how
grateful
I
am
for
their support.”
Wilcox started his career as a
young boy playing
in his
air guitar
room.
found other jobs “just weren’t suitable.”
He has
played in the United States and Europe. He has performed as a sideman with Anne Murray, Charlie Rich, Jerry Reed, John Paul Jones and did a movie soundtrack with Paul Butterfield.
On
“We are a rock and roll band. We do blues, but we are basically rock and roll,” said Wilcox, when asked to describe his music. “We try to write from the heart. We do what we like and, hopefully, what the
people will like.” Wilcox started
performing
his
also
own he has performed to coast in Canada
from coast
“numerous
times,’’ in the Northern United States and has recorded a bit in England. Wilcox’s band has been together for three years and Wilcox said he “couldn’t do without them.” Wilcox’s band consists of
himself, David Rose, on bass,
and Whitey Gian, on drums. Wilcox said he still gets scared before a performance. “Just ask my buddy J.D. (Jack Daniels).
a
is
not
He began
playing the school Oct. 31 when he appeared at Humber College. Since then he has played Niacircuit
on
gara, Lambton and about 10 high schools. He said college students are often more accepting than people at a bar because people at school are interested in the show whereas at nightclubs the
crowd
is
often “wondering
where their drinks are.” Bones says he spends his spare time working out and booking performances for himself.
Sci-fi film uplifting
get terrified.” He finds the business “very stressful,” but said it depends on attitude. “You could be a janitor and have more stress than being the president of a country, depending on your atI
set out and see some help.
By Brenda Harris
What do you do if you are suddenly stranded on an uncharted planet with your enemy? Try
to
survive
if
he can find
Davidge finds people, scavenger hunters, who have Drak slave workers. Davidge and Jerry run
to-
gether.
other things, such as death, new life and a climatic ending as the plot constantly changes. Gossett and Quaid work extremely well together as the two lead characters, into
how the plot Enemy Mine starts out. That
is
Pilot Willis
of
Davidge
(Dennis Quaid) is marooned on a desolate planet with his fighting
professionally because he needed food and shelter and
By Brenda Harris
girls
out California, Texas, Arizona,
in the
did a lot of reading on the subject, watched artists and said “he knew how to put the packaging together” to establish an act. Bones said he does not use hypnosis but instead uses “the tists.
Nooner
some people are more “suggestible than others.” He added that 25 per said
something
He became
his
York.
He
claimed they were Kenny
subject after booking and watching several mentalist ar-
Casey Bones during
Georgia Florida and New
mind.
Bones said people do not do what they don’t want to do. If
Sheena
it.
association with the conscious
another left the room in a desperate rush for the bathroom. A duet of “We’ve Got Tonight” by two people who
and
situation they will not do
Bones has performed in various comedy clubs through-
less critical.
agent for comedy acts United States.
friends help
en-
other people practised synchronized swimming and
a
Mark Hart and
He
cent of these people are ex-
amazed
Jantzi/Spoke
of suggestion.”
courages people to concentrate as hard as they can for 10 to 15 minutes. This breaks down
occurred in the last section where he managed to convince someone he was a male dancer from Chippendales, while two
Rogers
Tom
swimmers
attracts
enemy,
Jerry,
a
Drak (played by Louis Gossett Jr.)
They form a working
rela-
tionship to survive, and it turns into a lasting friendship.
After many months together fighting the creatures of the planet and meteor storms, Davidge decides to
combining both dramatic and humorous scenes. Director Wolfgang Petersen does an excellent job
and the make-up and special effects are astounding.
Enemy Mine
is
currently
showing at the Frederick Twin Cinemas and in Cambridge.
titude.”
Wilcox said he is not “out to a rock star.” He said he plays his music for himself and his audience, and to enjoy
become
it.
Wilcox has four albums to The latest (The Best of David Wilcox) was just redate.
leased three months ago.
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to
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College acquires area’s screaming paper work and the course combines learning on the job with
“The industry
By Jane Moreau After four years of application to the Ministry of Colleges
and Universities, Conestoga College’s first cook’s apprentice program opened on Sept. 9
school,” she said.
The 15-week basic program 15 students
accommodates
at Waterloo campus.
(currently four females and
a credit to the hospitality program of the college and a benefit to the local industry,’’ said Beth Esenbergs, co-cor-
“It
is
for cooks qualified to do
is
11
males) that have acquired 2,000 hours of experience in a
food establishment that is managed by a master chef, Esenbergs said. But, the quality of the master chef and the establishment’s menu must have been assessed and approved by the skills development branch of the Ministry of Colleges and Uni-
dinator of hospitality programs. Formerly, local cook’s apprentices had to endure the cost and inconvenience of atcolleges outside the the food industry in this area lost them to the hotels and restaurants in the
tending
community and
cook’s apprentice program of menu planning, nutrition, sanitation and kitchen man-
gram
the student must acquire another 2,000 hours of work experience before proceeding
here is gained by reputation earned in the food industry, said Nevio Bijulio, executive
agement such as food and labor
15-weekadvanced program, Esenbergs said. An advanced program was planned for the Waterloo campus, beginning Jan. 6. Following the 15-week advance program and another 2,000 hours of work experience
chef of the cook’s apprentice
cost control.”
to
the
program. In this community, Bijulio has been executive chef at the Valhalla Inn, the Waterloo Inn and most recently at
Students
come from
a vari-
The student’s program is 30 hours a week and follows
ety of styles of food operations and bring a variety of experiences and skills to share with other students, she said. For students who want to enter the cook’s apprentice program but do not have the
the provincial papers that qualify the apprentice as a
guidelines set by the ministry,
necessary work experience,
Esenbergs
said.
certified cook. Esenbergs said that Canada has no master chef’s course. Recognition as a master chef
hours
hands-on
the student
is
eligible to write
Houligan’s on Highway
8,
he
said.
“They have
12
practical food preparation, 12 hours of of
theory and demonstration of food preparation and six hours
Esenbergs recommends the basic
food
preparation
pro-
gram. This 20-week program has a continuous weekly intake, she said.
versities, she added.
After the 15-week basic pro-
big cities, she said.
Open houses
to
By Susan Calmusky
Proctor says the open houses are “another way in which we
Conestoga College will host two open houses this winter to offer prospective students, plus anyone interested, an opportunity to learn more about the college, said Lynne Proctor, co-ordinator of college liason
services.
The open houses will take place on Sunday, Jan. 26 at the Guelph campus (460 Speedvale Ave. W.) and Feb. 2 at the Boon campus. Both are to be from 2-4
first
5
p.m.
be held
(the liason services) can make the college accessible to the public.” At the open houses, information will be available on fulltime diploma programs that
March and September and on careers related to
begin in
them. Proctor says the Guelph and Boon campuses were chosen because they are the largest Conestoga campuses and have large nearby populations.
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What
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is
played at the pub Wednesday, Dec. 12. 6. What movie grossed the
indigo?
deep violet-blue b) deep pink c) pale green d) tawny brown 2. What position does Rostance hold at the a)
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most money during 1985? 7. If something is insipid
Mac
a) tasteless b) unattractive
col-
lege? 3. For what movie did Meryl Streep win the best supporting actress Oscar? 4. According to Trivial Pursuit, how many times a day does the average person go to the bathroom? 5. Name the performer who
it
is
c)
an antique
d) colorless 8.
Who
9.
What company
recently
announced its plans in Cambridge?
to locate
wrote Catch-22?
10. Name the second book of the Old Testament.
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Students learn about electricity at
rate
Part of a continuing senes exploring programs at Conestoga College
By Wendy McCreary
A
spaciously equipped envi-
ronment that is conducive to learning, as opposed to stuffing people into filing cabinet-sized spaces, is provided at the D.B. Detweiler Centre in the electrical technician - machinery and
“It has a spirit that catches you,” Peper said, but most (including electricians) are never exposed to it.” The centre displays photos of inventors such as Georg Ohm and Thomas Edison “so students can relate a face to the discovery and the way they
Peper said. “People have trouble
lived,”
apparatus program, says Heinz Peper, program co-or-
relat-
ing to things that aren’t of their
dinator.
age,” he said. The photos
Peper said the equipment available
is
“representative of
help
students
all manufacturers possible. We have motors from wee little clock-sized ones that are two watts and weigh less than an
realize how much effort into the technology we
ounce, to those that are 1,200 horsepower and weigh 97
in
now, he explained.
The program follows the chronological steps of how things happen and compares
them
he said, “but then we have everything.” The program is broken into can’t
a
“It (technology) didn’t start 1945 right after the war,”
said Peper.
However, Peper said, “these are not big in terms of big.” Big is 50,000 horsepower, tons.”
modules with
went have
to
today’s advance-
ments. Generally, students work on their own. They must do all the experiments, but whether it takes three hours or six hours is “immaterial,” Peper said.
maximum
enrolment of 24 students and is based on the students asking questions.
“just as long as they succeed.” Students are introduced to the “roots” of electricity, to the “romance” of it, said Peper. The basics are taught to all, even though all have different
backgrounds. He explained that “those who need it get simple problems and more instruction,
while
those
that
need it get more difficult assignments so they don’t get bored.
“Some say it’s not fair that some should be given more difficult work but,” he ex“they shouldn’t be held back.” Peper said the centre is looking into accepting the phyplained,
sically handicapped.
designed
enough
the
When he
centre
he
left
room
that those in wheelchairs didn’t feel they’d be in the way. “It costs far too much to aisle
leave them (facilities) idle.” Besides, there is “too much to learn, to see, to do.”
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Student demonstrates his
DSA
skills at
plans activities
By Barbara De Smet Doon
students
seeking
to
break away from their studies should have no trouble finding escape routes in January.
Doon Student Association (DSA) activities co-ordinator Sandy Nay reported that the fourth
the Detweiler Centre.
annual
Home Grown
Talent night will take place Jan. 30 in the Doon cafeteria and will feature musical groups, soloists and air bands,
The Arrows, a Toronto new wave group, will perform at the pub Jan. 16. The band, whose The Lines are Open video is currently in the Top 40, has appeared at previous Conestoga pubs and played to sellout
crowds
Park. Students
will
Bingeman
at
have the oppor-
tunity to take in an all-day skiing trip to Blue Mountain Jan. 24, at a cost of $20 for a lift ticket and transportation and $7 for rental of equipment.
with recordings. So far there are five entries in the competition, which is
The DSA is sponsoring chess and backgammon tournaments the weeks of Jan. 14 and 21, respectively. Pariticipants may register and record their
sponsored by Molson Brewer-
winnings
the
tatter composed of perin synchronization
formers
in the
DSA
activities
office.
ies.
Rachel Wallace-Oberle/Spoke
Lewis
Arriola,
a Spanish teacher
Arriola
—
weeknights. not teaching, eight hours a he is day, seven days a week. Arriola has had six books published. Crime of Justice was published in 1970. Quietly With is
—
No Tears in 1974, Vengeance of the God in 1980 and Cast A Shadow Over Spain in 1983. Defeat
is
an Orphan was
to
be
out at the end of last year and
An Anthology Stories spring.
is to
My
Choice be published this of
I loved to play with paper and pens,” said Arriola. “I used to come home from school and lock myself in my bed-
but
Lewis Arriola has lived in six different countries and considers teaching at Conestoga College the balance in his life. Arriola, who remains vague about his birthdate and place, teaches Spanish at the Waterloo and (iuelph campuses on Arriola writing
six
books.
teacher, writer, traveller
By Rachel Wallace-Oberle
When
Waterloo and Guelph campuses has published
at
Arriola started writing at the age of eight. “Other kids loved to play with trucks and toys.
room.
My mother would
wonder what
I
was doing and,
would say I was doing my homework. But I was writing. I wrote poetry, love stories and adventure.” of course,
I
Writing was fun for Arriola he discovered “the difference between good writing until
and bad writing. “Then I discovered the difference between very good writing and true art,” said Arriola. “And I did not know that I was chaining myself to a merciless but
marvellous master.” Just as most writers go through dry spells and crises, Arriola has recently emerged from a crisis. “I never doubted
my material,
but from ’80 to ’83 or ’84, I started reading everything I’d written and I found the texture of my writing was
too thick.
After months of meditation, Arriola finally found the answer. He must use everything he knew about his writing. He began to expose his writing to the reader, not impose it. Arriola loves scuba diving and goes to the Mediteranean every summfer. “A while ago I had a 35-footer, a really nice boat, and I spent two years diving,” said Arriola. “I have a
where I spend every summer. I love life. I have so
house
many
interests. I play tennis, I love the theatre, I was a professional boxer once.” Arriola is always on me move and says the more one travels, the more one desires to
I
am
down to a job. can go anywhere in the world not tied
and write,” said Arriola. “I plan to keep on writing. I’m always writing. But what I can change is the location.”
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spoke, Monday, January 13, 1986
SPORTS Hunking ranked Bruce Hunking, the center hockey Condors, ranked
He plays hockey for fun. “I don’t plan to play competitive hockey, I’m too old, and not so
for the
in the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association’s standings as of Dec. 8. In 11 games, he got nine fifth
ambitious.”
He
dislikes
watching hockey
TV and Wayne
on
Gretzky. “I
and 12 assists. “I have to work for the goals. I don’t have the Gretzky touch. I get a lot of garbage goals,” Hunking said. Hunking commended Mark Shaver and Dave Petteplace for helping him. Also, he said that he had a lot of ice time which gave him greater scor-
like
ing opportunities. Hunking, 21, a medium-sized player, weighs 175 pounds. “You need a smaller/faster person to play center, because you have to beat the bigger players.” Hunking, a second-year accounting student, played for the Cyclones, a Junior B team in Listowel.
Conestoga College,” Hunking said. Also, he said that the bus ride on the away games drains
gocfls
Watch
fifth
a
Bobby Orr, because he has more all-around ability.”
He
predicts
that the
team
be more successful in the second half. The hockey Condors have eight games at home, and four away. “A lot of teams are not used will
the
to
large
ice
surface
at
the players’ energies. He feels that there are a lot of talented players on the team. “We just can’t put it all together.” Hunking plans to play another season for the hockey
Condors.
out!
Reinhard Burow, of the Conestoga Condors basketball team takes a shot at the basket in an exhibition game against the Kitchener Titans on Jan. 4. The Titans defeated the Condors 1 06 to 87. After the game, coach Helmut Tinnes said, "It was a good game for us. We haven’t practised together since Christmas. It was a time to get all the kinks out.”
985
1
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The sports year
By Jenny Wilson With the highlight of a second straight golf title, 1985 was a year of achievement for the varsity athletes of Conestoga College. Some of the year’s
achievements are listed below. In January, at an Ontario Badminton Association tournament hosted by Conestoga College, Mike Graff took the men’s singles title then teamed with John Veigli for the men’s doubles title and with Wanda Bach for a second-place finish in the mixed doubles.
Kitchener native Dan Malewas a leading men’s basketball Condor scorer three times and averaged 12.7 points per tic
game, despite the fact that Conestoga was winless games.
in six
court victory over College of Sudbury. In April, Brenda
Cambrian
of
the
men’s
Goudy
volleyball
all-stars,
straight
OCAA
championship,
provincial
coasting
in Ottawa. He his leadership
was
cited
and
for
all-around play.
the
varsity
team won
its
second
25-shot victory in the two-day event. The back-to-back titles tied an OCAA record. In addition, the foursome of Sean
Conway, Steve Stewart, Dan Calquhoun and Steve Stumpf tied an OCAA single-season mark by winning all four of their tournaments. In women’s softball competition the week of Sept. 23, Sue Blacklock of Guelph pitched three complete games, two of them wins. She also hit .385 in
the three games.
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13,^
1986
Yandryk puts team By Jenny Wilson Alex Yandryk, a player on the Conestoga basketball team, said that he came to play for the Condors because he would get a lot of playing time, whereas if he played for a university team he wouldn’t.
Yandryk, 20, who has been chosen twice as the varsity athlete of the week, if 15 in the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association’s standings as of Jan. 7. “It feels good. I’m glad we win, but the team comes first and then personal goals,” he said.
Yandryk said he started playing basketball in grade nine when he attended Lakeway Collegiate in Sault Ste. Marie and prefers basketball to other sports “because I’m good at it.” But he also likes other sports like football, baseball, golf
and
first
Yankdryk said his favorite team is the Detroit Pistons and his favorite player Isiah Thomas after
whom
he models his
He watches basketball on TV, “A lot”, he said. play.
A student in first-year accounting, Yandryk said that his school work doesn’t suffer even though he practises basketball “approximately 21 hours a week.” Before coming to Conestoga, Yandryk estimated he practised basketball about three hours a day.
that
Danny Ainge, a high draft choice of the Toronto Blue Jays, who left baseball to play basketball for the Boston CelYandryk’s favorite allround athlete, he said. After graduating from Conestoga, Yandryk said, “I’ll be
tics, is
playing basketball somewhere.”
skiing.
Robert Martin/Spoke
Les Robertson, shown here
a
in
game
Les Robertson By Jenny Wilson Les Robertson, a varsity basketball player on the Cones-
toga team,
is
the second-
highest scoring leader according to the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association (OCAA) as of Jan. 6. Robertson, a student in production planning and inventory control at the Cambridge campus and a Cambridge native, said he has had a lot of experience playing basketball because he has played for the Kitchener men’s team, the Titans, and for Toronto Estonia when they won the Canadian Senior Men’s Championship in
against the Titans
in
is
second
port in Toronto, his full-time college course and his basketball training time of 14 hours a week, he said, “My job allows
and because he likes to play everyday. The basketball team practises two hours every
my
night.
hockey. He likes watching United States college basketball and says that his favorite team is (Georgetown. His favorite player is Larry
Robertson, 25, said he likes basketball because “it combines a lot of physical skills.” Some of the skills he listed were: quickness, agility, strength, team play, individual play and co-ordination.
Robertson has been chosen once to be Conestoga’s varsity athlete of the week, for which he won a gym bag, he said. When asked how he finds it possible to
job as an air-traffic controller at Pearson International Air-
team
coach Bob Scott. These players
Blair are: Kelsey, Lennox Lewis, Mike Goble, Les Robertson, Alex
Yandryk and Greg Benson. But these players do not come to to play basketball, said Scott, the course they choose to take is their choice. He stresses three things when the players come to play: academics, basketball and social life in that order. The Ontario Basketball Asso-
Conestoga just
ciation operates a Junior De-
velopment program where they divide the province into eight sectors and conduct tryout camps, said Scott. Scott receives a print-out of the participants try-out camps. all
Centre
at
the
team in April 1985. The cost of the centre was
fit
in his full-time
be very flexible.”
sports like skiing and
snow
skiing,
water
Bird.
Robertson said that he “doesn’t really care” that he’s the number two scorer according to the OCAA, “I want the team to win, there’s a lot more important things in a game,” he said.
Robertson said,
“I’ll
always
play basketball until I’m too
Robert Martin /Spoke
old.”
Alex Yandryk
Intramural
is
Team
ranked
fifth in
OCAA
of the
league standings.
Week
said Scott. Scott said he has talked to 27 prospective players for next year’s team already this year. “This is approximately the same number as I talked to last year,” he said, “of which I got six players to come. That’s a 23 per cent success rate. One in four or five prospective players will
come,” he
said.
excellent
local fund-raising with $250,000, a Wintario grant of $450,000 and
the college
itself,
which donat-
ed $100,000, said Bob Neath,
manager
of college recreation
services.
The centre was
among the ministry of colleges and universities, which contributed
said Neath.
$3.5 million.
to
In May, Scott brings in the people he’s talked to for an orientation day. Both the prospective player and his parents are invited. The prospective player engages in a mini-tournament and a practice with the players currently on the team. During the day Scott talks to the prospective player on the value of Conestoga’s placement record. “To this date, we have never had a basketball player who did not graduate,”
built to “facilitate the need for the college to offer an athletic program,”
shared
time
Robertson enjoys other
recruiteij
facilities
The $4.7 million Conestoga Centre officially opened in September, 1980. The centre was designated the official training centre for the Olympic Skating pairs
standings.
eight. He came to Conestoga to play for the basketball Condors because they “offered the program I most wanted,” he said,
Robertson said he became involved in basketball in grade
Six of the players on this year’s varsity basketball team were recuited to play, said
OCAA
league standings
1984.
Half of
in
The Hawks The Hawks from the no-contact hockey league were selected as the
Week In
for
the
week
Intramural
Team
of the
of Dec. 9-13.
semi-final action the
team Waterloo by a score
Beavers defeated the Sheiks by a score of 11-1. The Useless 6 downed of 4-7. The Beavers then went on to defeat the Useless 6 by a score of
5-4.
The Hawks, who were
in
first
place,
bypassed the
semifinals.
In
the
final
game
the
Hawks
defeated the Beavers by a score of 2-1
Team members are: Brian Schmidt (captain), Rob Morris, Eian Campbell, Kingston. Torri Hornsby, Martin Gamble and Allan Prior.
Doug Greenway, Pete