SPOKE Conestoga College, Monday, July 14, 1986
Lipizzan stallions perform at sports centre By
Sherri
In a cipline
Young
demonstration of
dis-
and grace, the original Herrmann Royal Lipizzan Stallions performed June 11 and 12 at the Conestoga Recreation Centre located
at
the
Doon
campus. The stallions danced rhythmically to the beat of music and dazzled the audience with aerobatic movements, while receiving commands from owner. Col. Ottomar Herrmann, 60. Proceeds from the show were going to the Equine Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre Fund. Herrmann said it was his pleasure to show the Lipizzaners to help other horses. He also wanted to “make people
aware and knowledgeable about the Lipizzaners.” With 10 stallions ridden side side, a performance out of the ordinary, the audience witnessed the strong communica-
by
tion between Herrmann and his stallions. It is not common to see more than one stallion in
same
arena without a leadership combat. Stallions are not known to come to terms without a fight. the
Another precision movement, the capriole, was performed. The most deadly of the “airs above ground” (leaps in the air that were once used in battle against foot soldiers), the capriole occurs when the stallion does a horizontal leap, with its front legs tucked and its hind legs kicked out at the
height of the jump.
Long reins were used for the young stallions still in the training stage and the more advanced stallions were
mounted by experienced riders. Among the riders was Herrmann’s 13-year-old
niece,
Tanya.
Herrmann’s operation in Myakka City, Florida is family oriented and there is a special bond between the Herrmann family and the Lipizzaners, he said.
The stallions are not trick horses like those in a circus. All of the manoeuvres are natural
movements
to the horses,
said. The trainer the stallions’ natural
Herrmann enhances
instincts for doing the special leaps, but can only train a stallion to respond to the commands of the trainer and later
See Lipizzaners page 3
The Herrmann Royal
1
Stallions in
a demonstration
of discipline
and grace.
,200 students graduate
By Dan
About 1,200 students graduated June 14 at the 18th convocation of Conestoga College. The event was held in the gymnasium at the Conestoga Recreation Centre. Stephen Coutts and Patricia Wray received Conestoga College’s two highest awards.
James W. Church Award and Wray the Mastercraft Award. The James W. Church Award consists of $1,000 and an inCoutts received the
scribed guild shield related to the winner’s program of study. The award was established in honor of the college’s founding president and recognizes a
combination of academic excellence, demonstrated concern for the individual and the
making
(CPR), served as a counsellor and organizer for church summer camps, provided tutoring to other Guelph campus students, and organized and conducted a wilderness canoe trip for a Toronto halfway house. Coutts also provided sponsorship for a child in Thailand and was instrumental in saving
tation
Schiller
of a contribution to so-
and assisting a group of boat people who had fled southeast Asia as refugees. Before his marriage, he travelled all over the world as a diver for the oil industry. He inspected, repaired and did a number of other activities involved with off-shore oil production.
Coutts said he feels he “got sleep in school” than he is getting now, due to an over
more
47-hour work week.
He said he was “stunned” to receive the award, but admits the money will help, especially since he and his wife are expecting a baby. Wray, a graduate of the design-graphic
advertising
program also received a $300 award from the Ministry of Colleges and Universities. This was for her second-place design for a brochure and poster promotion for the Ontario Stu-
dent Assistance Program (OSAP). “I am glad I’m finished (school),” Wray said. “It is nice to be making some money for a change.” Wray is currently freelancing her material in Toronto, and is dealing mainly with the Neil MacNaughton Design Association.
Related story, page
3.
ciety.
The Mastercraft Award
rec-
ognizes excellence in programrelated handskills, and consists of $250 and an inscribed guild shield related to the winner’s
program
of study. Coutts, 27, a graduate of the metal fabrication technician
program
at the Guelph campus, is currently employed by Durose Manufacturing in Guelph. In
Maureen McTeer presents Stephen Coutts with award for academic excellence at the 1 8th Conestoga College convocation. Patricia Wray (inset) received Mastercraft award.
November
of 1983, Coutts
graduated from the welding and in 1985 fitter program enrolled in the metal fabrication technician program. He also took two night courses.
He
taught courses in
first aid
and cardiopulmonary resusci-
Is
he Bobby Who’s brother?
Maureen McTeer was interrupted briefly by a heckler during her address at the June 14th Convocation at Conestoga College, but carried on to talk about the inability of people to pay attention during speeches. With reference to the short attention span of children, McTeer, whose husband is Joe Clark, minister for external affairs, said she frequently speaks to school children in her husband’s riding. She recounted an incident where she was speaking to one class in which everyone was fidgity. Following the talk she was surprised to see a hand raised for a question. McTeer said the question was: “Is Joe Clark really Bobby Clarke’s brother? She concluded the boy had probably been thinking about the question during her speech.
Spoke, Monday, July 14, 1986
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crcatco aho
CO t LCGC Editor: Katherine
wwrv
KCHSClt
Brenner
Associate Editor: Sherri Young
Photo Staff:
Editor:
Monty
Kersell
Bruce Lacey, Dan
Schiller,
Gerry Shultz, Glen Parr.
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Valley
Drive,
Kitchener Ontario,
Cold, cold cash In society today, several controversial issues exist, but the one issue which sets the foundation for the rest has plagued us all for centuries money. In different shapes, sizes and colors, money is the basis for survival and death and it has created a controversial
—
society.
There are some people who prefer to stash their cash and starve, while others splurge on a materialistic lifestyle. Those who choose to starve, spend their lives saving every penny earned and found. Those who choose to live, spend their money and save their lifestyle. These are just a few of the issues which are money related. Everyone wants money, whether it’s for hoarding in a hidden vault or spending on lavish luxuries. This money has to come from somewhere. In the case of extra billing, it is the patient who supplies the money. For government expenditures, taxpayers have to sacrifice portions of their incomes. If a woman wants an abortion, she has to be able to afford one and if governments keep stocking up nuclear arms, there won’t be any need for money. With the increasing number of divorces the final outcome is financial settlements. Had I been extra billed for all the wasted visits to doctors, I would have lost more money. After finding an up-to-date, knowledgeable doctor, who realized that I had allergies, I no longer waste money on prescriptions for cold
Question of the
Week
What
did you think of the doctors’ strike?
remedies.
For hospital expenses, all right. I don’t want to be paying everybody else’s bills, but for simple office visits, forget it. Unless, of course, the doctor shows the patient a little more concern by remaining at the office five days a week as my does. In fact, without extra billing, my doctor has often been at the office for patients until 6 or 7 o’clock at night. I don’t know too may doctors who would even consider such a thought. The other issue receiving much attention is welfare. Just lately there have been several stories about people who suffer on welfare. If these people want more money, they should convince the government to raise the minimum wage in order for average, low income earners to pay the taxes that provide welfare.
own doctor
By Sherri Young
“Where would the
government
it
end, with
telling
them
how much to make or not make? I wouldn’t be happy
to if
the doctors went out indefinitely. If your doctor extra bills,
go
to
another one. ’’Nancy
Dawson — mechanical
engi-
neering,design drafting
“They
(the doctors) are not it the right way. The patients are the ones who are suffering. The doctors have
going about
an oath
to uphold. I
am
against
The people don’t support it, so now the doctors must go back to work.’’ Ali Manoo-
it.
chehri
“I would support whatever action my doctor took within limit. She is out on strike. I don’t agree with closing down emergency wards. ’’Ruth Bonnett mechanical faculty
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— real estate
-Rambo’ attitude not welcome at college By Monty
Kersell
someone from allowing another
Administrative Services Officer Linda Krotz confirmed that students are allowed to use the college telephones for reasonable purposes. College Procedure A 01:11(85)
permission from the only person I could find from that department, to use another telephone. I would have been happy to present my case to the individual who decided (s)he didn’t want me to use that telephone.
states: Students may use college telephones for local calls with permission of college personnel provided that the purpose is program or
I was told to hang up immediately. As I was on hold at the time, I was not even able to tell the secretary who was patching my call through what
instructional related. In my case, I had promised to call someone at a certain time to get some information for a story I was writing. Unfortunately, the telephones I am allowed to use were not available. Since my purpose was school related, I saw no reason not to seek out another school telephone to make the local call. I asked for, and received
was happening. What still strikes me as odd is that the telephone was not going to be used by this person but was being removed
use the telephone
Asking permission .to use the bathin your host or hostess’ home is accepted as a rhetorical question; the answer is ‘certainly’. The same goes
room
for use of the telephone, within reason. Students here at Conestoga are not merely guests, but more like paying residents. Why, then, was I kicked off
a telephone that I was given permission to use? The reason, I was told, was that the telephone was only to be used by the students in the course for which the
telephone was installed. I can accept that as sound rationale for not allowing just anyone to use telephones whenever, or wherever, they wish. But that should not prevent
if
they need
to
to.
from its position to be taken somewhere else. There may have been good reason for wanting that particular phone, but
why
the
demand to relinquish it I was not told why.
immediately?
Perhaps, being a lowly student from another course, it was felt that I didn’t deserve an explanation. Would another faculty member have been ordered to hang up immediately? Would another adult, dressed in a nice suit and tie, be ordered off the telephone without so much as asking why it was being used? I doubt it.
Telephones are the basic mean»| communication, a necessity for eaw of us. If we observe the common courtesies of asking permission, revoking that permission arbitrarily is
unwarranted.
Rambo may
shoot first and but such an attitude has no place on the campus of a community college.
ask
questions
need
to.
later
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Spoke, Monday, July 14, 1986
Report favors decentralization of colleges By Bruce Lacey
An
tions
Ontario government re-
port unveiled July 1 favors the decentralization of government for the province’s 22 community colleges. The Council of Regents currently administers provincewide labor negotiations and appoints members to the boards of governors. Implementation of the report would shift responsibility for negotia-
and
all
matters affecting
nings
OPSEU
local 238. Council of Regents
program approval and academic policies to the
staff for
colleges.
something we think has had its day. It’s probably a stumbling
The report also recommends the appointment of staff and student representatives to the college boards of governors, something Gary Jenningsof the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) says “we’ve thoughtwould be appropriate for some time.” Jen-
“The
is
block,” said Jennings.
Walter Pitman, executive director of the Ontario Arts Council, began the report following the 22-day community college teachers’ strike in 1984. Heis the former president of
Ryerson
Polytechnical
Insti-
tute.
Doom
With most of Conestoga Colfull-time students on
summer
holidays, a greater percentage of current students are taking part-time and continuing education courses. Among the offerings at Boon
campus are part-time
certifi-
cated programs and courses,
part-time post secondary courses, and health courses. The travel consultant and Introduction to real estate courses are offered in cooperation with professional as-
Lipizzans
Continued from page
the rider. The Lipizzan was the best war horse in history because it
was bom,
was the most dependable, Herrmann
said. The stallions were last used in battle for the “airs above ground” in 1812.
They were eventually replaced as gunpowder became increasingly popular, he said. “The horse gifts
is
1
always remain brown, just as
it
said Herrmann^ daughter, Gabriella Lester. The foals are usually born black or brown, and gradually change to white as they mature. It is rare for a Lipizzan to
be born white because it would be an albino, Herrmann said.
one of the greatest
Herrmann has travelled around the world four times
human
with the Lipizzan stallions, but
from the Lord
to
beings.”
In 1944, American Gen. Patton initiated the rescue of the Lipizzaners from Czechoslovakia, where they faced being destroyed. With the help of Herrmann’s father, Patton had the horses painted black so they could be moved through the night, out of Russian-occupied Czechoslovakia. With the exception of 17 stallions, more than 400 Lipizzaners were safely taken back
George
Herrmann said. Today, Herrmann maintains
to Austria,
this was their first appearance in Kitchener. (They are not affiliated with the Wonderful
World of Horses, which has been here several times.) With 18 stallions in the show, the extensive operation in-
•
Conestoga College will be receiving $424,397 from the provincial college excellence fund which was established last fall.
A
total
around the big tent, and there were always people around the horses. Among the adaptations
railings
according to their own priori-
an were keep the
at the centre to create
arena for the
stallions,
up to audience back, and carpeting. The carpeting posed a small problem, as the horses were leery of slipping. They performed with caution, Lester said. The stallions can normally leap about six or seven set
feet in the air, but they don’t
jump
as high when they know is carpet underneath them, she said.
there
The Learning Resource Cenat the Boon campus of Conestoga College was closed the last week of June for inventory. “It is
basically a week to straighten up our catalogue, to find out what books are missing and to replace books that are out dated or in bad condition,” said library technician Cathy Potvin. “We have close to 20,000
Women, however, continue to be shunted away from technoljobs and facing women
tance of women in technology during her address at the 18th convocation of Conestoga College, held June 14.
moved, McTeer
“Employment
opportunities
gy,” she said.
the
barriers
must be
re-
said.
She cited an example of a young girl who was a great mathematician but was denied entrance into her school math club because she was female.
“What are the penalties and prices we (women) will have to
education
clerk
Barb Dietrich said that last summer, 729 people were enrolled in part-time and continuing education courses, including carryovers from the spring. She expects a similar turnout this year. Paul Matresky of the registrar’s office said there are currently 148 diploma students on the Boon campus, in journalism, drafting, numerical
machine
apparatus, and the electrical engineering technician program. Except for journalism, these courses are offered as part of the 52-week Canada employment control,
program. Registration for this summer’s courses began June 16. Because class sizes are limited, those
who
registered early
minimized the risk of not being accepted.
By July
tion to real estate,
2,
introduc-
some com-
ties,”
said Colleges and Uni-
versities Minister Gregory Sorbara in a press release.
Although the college does not yet have the money “it’s already all spent,” said Conestoga’s financial administrator. Jack Williams.
The money will be allotted throughout the college as follows: $120,658 will be spent on a microcomputer lab package;
to catalogue takes time.”
tre
By Dan
ogy
Williams added that the council had been “steadfastly in support” of student representation on college boards of governors “since 1978.” He said that “to that extent, there were good elements in the report,” but said he disagreed with the recommendations for greater local control over pro-
gram development.
summer courses
books
By Gerry Schultz
barriers for
Lawyer and writer Maureen McTeer emphasized the impor-
Williams, chairman
findings.”
puter literacy classes, and
all
the bookkeeping classes were full. Others such as effective
supervision-communications were within five places of being full. Courses were to be cancelled July 8 if there was insufficient demand for them. According to registration in-
formation, courses without specific requirements are “open to those who have a real continuous learntypes of are more common
interest in ing.” But
students
certain
than others.
“We get a lot of senior (citzens), Dietrich said. “The weather is nice, so they’re more apt to come out. ’’Dietrich added that business people who wish to use their holidays for quick courses, and young people who want to upgrade their academic standing for the fall are among the most common entrants.
$94,426 will buy updated equipment for the radio-broadcasting program; $84,873 will assist the audio-visual department at the Boon campus; $45,000 for
Five-Axis software; $32,100 will be spent on A-B computer terminals; $28,320 for electronic typewriters at the college; and $19,020 will go to the college’s learning resource centres in Guelph, Waterloo
and Cambridge.
Library closed during inventory
Remove
have been transformed and changed because of technolo-
was
made
circle
Myakka Favory,
Schiller
of $10 million
“Individual colleges selected the equipment to be purchased
members. For security, the trailers and campers were parked in a
Norman
of the board for the Council of Regents, said the council is preparing a response to Pitman’s report. He called the report “a simplistic solution to
a very complex system, long on recommendations but short on
College to receive $424,937
stallions, two semi tractortrailers to transport them and
made
25, Herrmann said. If well treated and cared for, the stallions can live 40 or 45 years. It takes between seven and 10 years for a Lipizzan to eventually turn white, but not all Lipizzaners change color. A rare member of, the royal Lipizzaners, Baron Favory, is a throwback to its ancestors. The nine-year-old stallion will
weeks. Some, such as introduction to real estate, are scheduled for 30 hours over one week.
volved a large tent for the
the 300-year-old family tradition with about 60 horses in his stables. The oldest stallion, is
sociations. Most of the courses were to begin the week of July 14 and run through the week of Aug. 18. Many of them are scheduled for two nights per week, for six
available to Ontario’s 22 colleges of applied arts and technology.
house-trailers for the staff
vincially.
Continuing
lege’s
Sor-
bara said that a two-level approach to negotiations might be adopted. Issues such as teacher workload could be bargained locally, while overall wages would be negotiated pro-
offers
By Bruce Lacey
Greg
Colleges Minister
president of support
is
planning,
The books have
to be placed order on the shelves and compared with the master book list to make sure the records match. All of the books at the centre have to be recorded, Potvin said.
in
“After the inventory is finished the Learning Resource Centre will be in order. We will have a list of books to track down or replace and our mas-
ter list is updated,” she said. The last inventory of this size was done in the summer of
1982.
Throughout the year,
staff will periodically do a light inventory of various sections of the centre to maintain an updated catalogue of current
resources. Books the centre wants to discard are usually placed on a cart outside the Learning Resource Centre and are available free to the college population.
women, says McTeer
pay if institutions can’t come grips with the problem?”
to
Most men who enrol in adult courses take full-time jobrelated courses while
women
tend toward the part-time courses.
McTeer
and that
week
said of 391 potential Conestoga graduating students in technology, 362 were men and only 29 were women. In the arts and health courses, of 263
possible graduates, 231 women and 32 were men.
were
On an optimistic note, McTeer said she is happy to see housewives going back to school and people returning to learning institutions for training in technology, especially if it has eliminated their job.
McTeer frequently takes time out of her schedule to address groups on issues of
relevance to Canadian women.
She was named
Woman
of the
Year in 1984 by Chatelaine magazine and has written a book called Residences;
Homes She
of Canada’s Leaders. a lawyer and a mem-
is
ber of the Canadian Bar Association and the Carleton Law Society.
McTeer’s
husband
is
Joe
Clark, the minister for external affairs.
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Monday, July 14, 1986
Children gain skills at By Glen Parr ence
A summer sports expericamp open to ages 10 to
is being offered at the Conestoga Recreation Centre June 30 to Aug. 22, running four different sessions of two weeks
17,
each.
The camp operates from
9 a.m. until 4 p.m. weekdays and costs $90 a child per session.
The sports camp will hold supervised lessons in badmin-
groups. A 12 and under group receives instruction in badminton and volleyball or tennis and basketball, while those over 12 are instructed in the other two sports. After about an hour and a half the age groups alternate sports with each other. “By participating in a sport, skills are developed that can be used to help them develop personally. They can make use of these skills in school sports and later in their lives,” said
ton, volleyball, tennis and basketball using the double gymnasium, tennis courts, squash courts, a fitness trail, outdoor running track, baseball diamonds and a soccer/football
opment with recreational
field.
tivity.
The first two week session of the camp now has 36 participants, with only a slightly higher ratio of boys than girls. “This year there’s even more kids involved than last year,” said Rosalind Fuller, team leader of the program. Sixty youngesters have already been signed up for the second camp session, starting July
14.
The
day begins with the leader-in-training conducting an exercise session for the campers. Participants are then led into the morning recreational activity session.
Games
such as spud and king’s court remain with the camp’s theme of sport
and exercise.
After lunch the sport instruction period begins, with a warm-up before every activity to avoid injury. Because of the age span, the youngsters are divided into two
summer sports camp
Fuller.
Special events are also scheduled throughout the camp to
keep routine from setting in and to combine physical devel-
Theme days
ac-
such as logger
day and western day involve the campers in contests of nail driving, tug of war and log tossing. Proper costumes will be required, adding to the fun of the events.
Western day participants will experience. hiking and orienteering ^with map and compass. A tennis tournament is also on the agenda. The second Thursday of each session features a camp out with guitar playing and singing
around an open campfire. Of the seven sport camp staff two have graduated from Conestoga College’s recreational leadership program, two were on college varsity teams, three play for community baseball
teams and most have played on high school teams. These leaders have been chosen for their ability to teach and work with young people.
Young/^poke
Sherri
Summer
sports
camp
youngsters take time out during lunch break to roughhouse Left to Chris McFarlane, Steven Buss, Matthew Gallagher and Paul Hutchings. .
right
are
Summer camp an adventure for youngsters By Glen Parr
The Centre
It’s
summer and
children that
for some means summer
camp.
Conestoga
Recreation
the site for the summer fun camp offered to children six to 10 years of age. The camp runs four different is
weeks each, beginning June 30 and ending Aug. 22 and operates from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Mornings get going with a fitness session led by the counsellors followed by active and passive games such as dodsessions of two
geball,
volleyball,
toss, or
bean bag
whatever the
kids, as a
group chooses. Although the youngsters are encouraged to participate, they are not forced. The idea of the summer fun camp is to learn in an enjoyable environment. “There is a lack of usual order, but it’s good for the kids to get away from home and just have fun,” said camp director Jennifer Machel. After lunch, arts and crafts are offered as well as more active and passive games. An adventure down the nature path brings the youngsters in close contact with birds, insects and small animals. It’s good to see them develop a love for nature, Machel said. “Sometimes they will bring a
spider back in a jar and just
Place and Canada’s Wonder-
watch it.” At the end of the day the children are grouped together and led through a round of ‘sing
land.
songs’.
Various days during the
camp have
designated by the counsellors as theme days, fitting the youngsters’adventurous nature and imagination.
Crazy
Starting Mon. July 7, there will be a power skating school, Tues. to Thurs. evenings. This school will be broken into two classes an average group and an elite group. The fee for the average group is $70 per person and $85 for the elite group. Also
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Youngsters compete
in
water relay race at fun camp.
Day
fea-
beach day and animal crackers, day when they can emulate animals of their choice. Activities for the campers do not end at the Conestoga Centre. Throughout the summer,
group excursions are planned for Bingeman Park, Ontario
Lots to do at The Conestoga Recreation Centre is far from being idle during the summer months.
Olympics
tures sports such as a relay race where participants carry water in a small cup and arrive at the other end with enough water left to help fill a bucket. They are able to test their co-ordination and teamwork. Other theme days include backwards day, Hawaiian day,
Although the five counsellors deal with the young campers there have been no major problems. “One of them cried the first day but since then, there have been no problems,”
Machel said. The “basic concept of the camp is socialization and communication,” Machel said, when commenting on her ideals of child care. All five counsellors
some experience
in
have had working
children. Two of them their bronze cross in swimming proficiency and all of them have St. John’s first aid certificates. Machel also is qualified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). So far none of the counsellors has had to use any of these skills at the
with
have
camp. The
fees for each session at fun camp are $80 per child, $156 for two children and $225 for three children from the same family.
the
summer
campus centre
attending the school will be a few N.H.L. players. Also scheduled at the centre are various hockey schools and leagues, all beginning in August and running approximately one or two weeks.
A figure skating school run by Kerry Leitch operates from 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays. The tennis, squash and bad-
minton courts ana gymnasium are available to students and the public. Students with cards that expired in April can usei the facilities free until the end' of August. For the general public there is a $2 day charge and the squash court fee is $3. The outdoor tennis courts are free for both students and public, but they cannot be reserved.