SPOKE Government cutback to affect 1 5 teachers By Gerry Shultz
A decision by Canada Employment and Immigration centres to move training programs in the next three years to the private sector and away from educational
institutions 15
mean approximately
will
teachers at Conestoga College will be transfered or reassigned.
This recent federal governdecision will affect seven government-sponsored courses offered at Conestoga College
ment
campuses.
“The training programs we offer are always in the process of being reviewed,” said Gary Green, acting manager of the
employment centre
in
Kitchen-
er.
look at a number of dealing with various programs such as do the programs meet the needs of the community or is the cost of delivering these programs fea-
“We
factors
Sherri
Young/Spoke
Day
Green
of the reasons given by government for the cancellation and cut-backs of gov-
student teacher Carolyn Gledhill helps Natalie Proctor, age 3, become a clown during Circus Childhood Education Centre, at the Doon campus on July 23. The children
games
manpower,”
the
at the Early
enjoyed a day of costumes, stories and
to
Some
Circus Day ECE
sible said.
ernment-sponsored courses include changing job markets,
programs outliving their usefulness and budget cuts.
related to the circus theme.
“This year there will be a 20-per-cent reduction in the number of training seats purchased by the federal government at the Doon, Cambridge and Guelph campuses a reduction of 134 seats from the original 680 seats that were purchased,” said Green. The reduction is the result of a nine-per-cent reduction of federal funding for local programs imposed at the same time the college increased its daily rates per course. “Teachers in programs that
have been terminated will be shifted to various programs within the college. We are talking about approximately 15 teachers who will be transfered to other areas of the college. In addition, the college this summer has hired 24 new teach-
ers,” said John Podmore, director of personnel services for Conestoga College. “My understanding is that the total affect isn’t as serious as first predicted. Quite a few of the teachers will be transfered to other departments within the college,” said Hubert Wesseling, vice-president of OPSEU local 237. Dave Putt, director of the Doon campus, said the recent
See Cutbacks, page 3
Co-ordinator looks forward to being student By Katherine Brenner Magazine,
degree and a PhD. “This is a wonderful opportu-
ter’s
Magazine
“I
said.
am
Joan and co-ordinator services at Doon, is going back
nity,”
to school.
professional development.” At age 43, the thought of being a student again is “scary,” but the experience will provide a good insight to what it is like for students returning to school, she said. “You can intellectually understand what it is like but you have to go through it to really
Effective Aug.
counsellor of student
1,
Magazine
was scheduled
to begin a oneyear sabbatical leave to do graduate work in counselling at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Ga. She will work
an educational spewhich requires 45 credit hours in a field of study and is recognized as a level of study between a mas-
towards cialist
certificate,
New
pleased the college supports and recognizes the need for
empathize.”
Magazine said she
is
also
The new driveway connecting Doon Valley Drive to the gravelled parking lot beside the college’s Doon campus, recreation centre will pay for its $18,000 building charge in 10 years, with input from parking fees, said Jack Williams, Conestoga College’s financial administrator. The $18,000 was taken from
Conestoga College’s parking revenue, with collection of college parking fees fueling this revenue.
The driveway under normal use should require no repairs for its first three years. After
four years it will need about “$500 every year to fill rot cracks,” said Williams. In 12 years he said it will have to be resurfaced due to detiorization.
The connected parking will remain gravel topped
lot
be-
cause the cost of asphalting it could not be fit into this year’s budget, but is planned for next year. “Its
more important
money where education
to is
gia State resulted from a process of elimination, and in
put con-
cerned, ’’said Williams.
The parking revenue is financially provided for after other interests dealing directly with the quality of education have been paid off.
the end it provided the options Magazine was looking for, she
By Bruce Lacey
its
meeting July year is April
fiscal
March
28. 1,
The
1986 to
31, 1987.
Although operating come exceeds operating
inexpenditures, the net loss for the year is caused by capital
and repairs-alterationsmaintenance (RAM) expenses of $921,557. Coupled with the previous deficit balance of $1,322,205, the projected accumulated deficit on March 31, 1987, will be $1,552,615.
Total operating fund expenditures in the next year will increase 18.9 per cent
Michael,
He
She wanted to go where there was “nice weather,” to be near people she cares about (she has a brother living in Atlanta), to find the right program of study
deficit
from the
Conestoga College faces a
and a place where her husband
said.
$230,410 deficit of $230,410 in the fiscal year 1986-87, according to a budget ratified by the Board of Governors at
entrance open
By Glen Parr
looking forward to seeing “how another school does things,” and to sharing the benefits of her experiences with the college when she returns. The decision to attend Geor-
1985-86 final
to $41,771,882. Included in is
$4,839,516
budget
43, could work. an applied mathema-
professor at the University
Waterloo and will be on sabbatical leave at Georgia
of
Tech University.
See Co-ordinator, page 3
planned 1986.
• Provisions for Hay-rated
expenditures in
direct
em-
ployer-centred training expenses, a 135.9-per-cent increase over last year’s allocation. The increase is attributed to the opening of Futures program centres at the Guelph, Stratford and
Waterloo campuses. Also included
is $340,280 in electrical skills expenses for the Doon campus, a 56.8-per-cent increase attributed to the Detweiler Centre, which opened Oct.
direct
25, 1985.
Among
tics
is
the provisions for salary increases: • Academic staff provisions include an increase of four per cent from April 1, 1986 and a further increase of three per cent Sept. 1,
(non-unionized management) staff allow for the
new
1986 scale plus a further five per cent Jan. 1, 1987. • Provisions for part-time staff allow for a five-percent increase effective Sept. 1, 1986, except for continuing
education teachers, whose increases are included in cost centre budgets. Operating income will increase 20.2 per cent from the 1985-86 final budget to $42,398,029. This consists of $38,199,529 in grant income, $3,863,500 in tuitions and $335,000 in other income.
Other income includes items such as interest income ($225,000), locker rentals ($25,000) and late, transcript
and incidental fees ($15,000).
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future husband and
“I never watched it at all. just too busy with other things.”
my
I
was
tension.
Needless to say, during the important parts, good ole Father Steve did manage to get the name right. A word of advice to people thinking of being really trendy for their wedding and opting for the turn around and face the congregation while saying your vows routine. Don’t do it. There were those 200 pairs of eyes again, and this time I actually had to do something. As I began stammering through my vows, I heard my mother (not again) saying none too softly, “Speak up dear, we can’t hear you.” I think that was the most totally embarrassing moment of
“I was up early, absolutely. I’m a royalist to the bone. I’m British so it’s always been a fascination for me. The whole fascination around the royal family I am really intrigued by it all.”
—
Monte Dennis - electronic engineering and technology
Hilary Gillespie
teacher
ECE
resource
centre staff
My husband taped it for my (daughter and I. We watched the whole tape last night. My daughter is nine and she was extremely fascinated by it I
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life.
you are wondering how the honeymoon went, well, that’s another story. If
By Katherine Brenner
“I didn’t watch any of have no interest in the monarchy.” Aubrey Fowler - electrical machinery and apparatus
(the wedding).”
Lynda Carmichael - central control attendant at the
Conestoga Recreation Centre.
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student
Boycott proves politics and sports don’t mix By Gerry Shultz
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney it up best when he stated boycotting the games would not end
summed The recent boycott by
31
Commonwealth countries of the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland proves once more that politics
and sports do not mix.
These countries boycotted the
games
stand on the issue of economic sanctions against South Africa. Prime Minister to protest Britain’s
Margaret Thatcher is opposed to full economic sanctions against South Africa for its apartheid policy. This split of Commonwealth countries seems to have gained more attention than the Games themselves.
apartheid. Sports Minister Otto Jelinek is opposed to apartheid, but strongly felt that a boycott would not change the situation in South Africa. He is right.
Did the American-led boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow end the occupation of Afghanistan? The Soviet Union is still fighting in that country six years later. Although none of the countries boycotting the
Commonwealth Games
world athletic power, their presence no doubt was missed by the in 1986 is a
those athletes competing. Boycotting diminishes the quality of the event and also the spirit and goodwill that is a valued part of international competition. It must be tremendously frustrating for these athletes to train so hard for so many years and then have their
dreams crushed by who wants to make
their governments a political statement by pulling out of the
competition. Jelinek has called on the Commonwealth Games Confederation to introduce penalties for boycotting countries. He said he hopes for some policy that would punish countries, financially or otherwise, who use the
Games
for political reasons. He has the right idea but it should be expanded to all international sports. Such a rule should apply to all countries in all international
competition. Each country should have to put up a bond to be allowed to compete in the competition and when the event is over the bond would be refunded. If the country pulled out of the event for political reasons then it would lose the bond to the organizers of the event. The best thing to do, is to get on with the sporting events and ignore the world of international politics. Let the athletes decide the outcome, not politicians.
Spoke, Tuesday, Aug.
Co-ordinator Continued from page
1
The upcoming year will mean many changes for Magazine and her family. While her ^2-year-old daughter, Jill, has ^lixed feelings about the move,
^^er
son Roger, 17, is off to the University of Virginia in Charlottsville, Va., to study biology.
Magazine and her husband
are no strangers to the United States. They lived in Raleigh, N.C., before Michael’s work
brought them to Canada in 1975. Although they are American citizens, Magazine is hoping that at some time they will be granted dual citizenship. Magazine has worked in student services for the past seven years and sees it as “a very up job.”
She said
it is
“very exciting”
to help students solve problems and to make decisions. Most of
5,
1986
3
her time is spent helping students with academic and personal problems and career planning which involves working within the community. “Certainly we are kept busy seeing students.” And as the needs of students change so does the focus of students services, she said. More time is being spent assisting special needs students, mature students and co-ordinating services such as peer tutoring.
“Sometimes you can do
College awarded training contract 1988-89, $1 million in 1989-90,
By Bruce Lacey
The provincial government has designated Conestoga College as the training agent in the agreement between Ontario and the Toyota Motor Corp. Toyota is building a new plant in Cambridge. Under terms of the agreement the irovince will subsidize the Eraining of Toyota personnel. The provincial governjmemt has allocated $15 million for the training activity.
According
training
to
administrator
contract
Norm
Johnstone, the breakdown is expected to be $500,000 in 1986-87, $7 million in 1987-88, $6 million in
move
Office
quarters in Japan. Conestoga will approve the training plans, and evaluate the
Joe Martin, Kevin Mullan and Jack Williams will join
Johnstone on a contract ad-
ministration team. The team will report to Conestoga president Kenneth Hunter on budgeting and compliance with the terms
A
report on the program was distributed at the July meeting of the college’s
Board
of Governors.
$40, (XX)
is
Doon
means
Cutbacks
munity colleges and local Canada manpower centres,” said
at
campus involving management teams,
the continuing education department and the law and security administra-
program will cost an estimated $40,000, says Doon tion
campus
Continued from page
1
of training courses by Canada Employment and Im-
cuts
migration
will
not
seriously
affect the Doon campus. However, some programs will have
fewer seats purchased by the federal government.
gory will assume the co-ordinating responsibilities and
Barb
Kraler has been added to the counselling staff. “I like the people I work with,” Magazine said. “I will
miss them.”
Katherine Brenner/Spoke
Co-ordinator Joan Magazine to take one year sabbaticai.
New
teleconferencing room to open at Doon in the fall
By Bruce Lacey
A teleconferencing room at the college’s Doon campus will allow a single teacher to hold classes at several campuses at the same time this fall. And within a few years, the wires might enable the teacher and students to see as well as hear each other. The teleconferencing room in the new continuing education facilities under construction at the Doon campus should be ready for use Sept. 8, said Eleanor Conlin, manager of continuing education programs
—
—
director David Putt. Putt said he believed the costs fell in the repairs-alter-
shuffle
sure the student services office was operating smoothly before she left. Counsellor Carol Gre-
of the contract.
that the $275,858 allocated for capital projects by the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities will not be used to defray the expenses. “That (the $275,858) is to supplement internal capital,” said Putt. Capital projects includes new equipment, such as oscilloscopes and typewriters.
office
During her last week at the Magazine was busy tying up loose ends and making college.
training.
ations-maintenance (RAM) category of expenses. This
By Bruce Lacey The
and $500,000 in 1990-91. The contract provides for training at the Cambridge plant, and at Toyota’s head-
things (to help), sometimes not,” Magazine said.
at
Doon.
The system enables teachers give lessons to groups of students in distant areas, such as Goderich, London and Wingham, by means of audio tapes or live presentations. It will be used by students in coronarycare nursing, human growth
to
Green.
and development, family
“The recent cancellation of programs and program cut-
lence,
vio-
registered nursing re-
fresher programs, and registered nursing critical-care. In the future, gerontology students may also use the facilities, said Conlin. Teleconferencing is useful when “a lot of people are spread out and it’s hard to get the numbers together (at Conestoga College) or for the experts to go out there,” Conlin said. With teleconferencing “you can make as many connections as you want.”
Teleconferencing also saves “It becomes very expensive to reproduce everything when students in several different areas need access to the same learning materials,”
money.
said Conlin.
each site to set up the equipment, adjust the volume and act as a liaison. The students
provide the with Polaroid snapshots of themselves, so the teacher can match the voice to the face. In some cases, the teacher will visit the locations once or twice during the semester.
teacher
In September, only the audio of the teleconferencing system will be available for the students. With the video component, students and teachers could see each other.
component
The teacher could use an
electronic blackboard as a learning tool. Several groups of students could watch the same video-
tape simultaneously. Usually, groups of four to 10 students gather at the various locations. The teacher and students use the teleconferencing phone to communicate with
each other.
A
facilitator is at
“Looking down the road,” said Conlin, “I would like to see it (the video component) in 12-15 months, (but) it may be two years.”
backs for the next three years will
cost
the
college
a
fair
amount of money, said John Clow, manager for continuing education programs and acting director
of
all
the
‘Dirty dishes,
colleges
except Doon.
“Some
courses, such as basic
electronics, had for some time failed to generate enough people to fill all of the seats that
Canada Manpower had purchased. Other courses had served their purpose and needed to be replaced by courses which the community needed,” said John Gee, supervisor of counselling at Canada Employment and Immigration’s Kitchener
“Students in these programs be allowed to complete
will
their
(while) others will be looked at closely,” said Clow.
People taking the programs usually receive unemployment insurance benefits or government training allowances.
office.
Green said for the
The government-sponsored
money
last 10 for institutional
courses affected by the recent
has
gradually been
government decision include:
transfered to the private sector for employer based-plans. Another problem Gee pointed out is that government training
training
years
training
to compete for a Jimited amount of people against other programs such
courses had
as Futures and Youthstream. “All colleges are affected by these cuts. Courses will be dropped or courses will be
added
depending
on
yearly
negotiations between the
com-
phone home’
programs. Some existing
courses will be revamped
basic job readiness offered at all campuses; introduction to non-traditional occupations at the Guelph, Waterloo, Stratford and Cambridge campuses; the welding fitter course at Stratford; basic electronics offered at the
Wa-
campus; academic upgrading, which will now be offered as a part-time program at the Clinton campus; and focus for change.
terloo.
By Gerry Shultz “It is very frustrating the staff works hard cleaning up the kitchen and then out of nowhere we discover a pile of .
.
.
dirty dishes brought to us by either the cleaning staff or a member of security,” said Jackie van Trigt, unit manager for Beaver Foods at Conestoga College’s Doon campus. Van Trigt was referring to a pile of dirty dishes found sitting on a cart in the cafeteria
Friday morning, July
18.
She
know where the dishes came from or how long they were missing but what she found really upsetting was the doesn’t
condition they were found
in.
Some of the bowls had dried ink on the inside of them while others were covered with globs of wax and glue. In the past, van Trigt said, she has found dishes being used as ash trays and paint bowls. “People are using the dishes for their own purposes. Don’t they realize that people have to eat off of these dishes? “It is a small part of the college population that does this and I wish it would stop,” she said.
Another problem van Trigt
when
food trays are taken out of the cafeteria and not returned. “With the cafeteria as small, as it is I realize at times during finds frustrating
is
the school year there is a limited amount of room. People will often take their trays and eat someplace else. That really isn’t a problem. The problem is when they don’t return the trays to the cafeteria,” she said.
Van Trigt
said Beaver Foods not responsible for trays outside of the cafeteria and her staff doesn’t have the time to chase after them. “The dishes and trays belong to the college and when we is
have to replace missing cutlery, dishes and trays the cost is then passed on to the college population.
What we need
community
effort to stop this,”
she said.
is
a
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Spoke, Tuesday, Aug.
Condors By Monty Kersell The completion this month of a joint project between the City of Kitchener, Conestoga College and two other clubs means soccer, touch-football and softball teams at Doon campus finally have their own home
f
turf.
The entire project includes construction of three standardsized softball diamonds, a soccer pitch and, completed
1986
5,
home
get
finally
field
last year,
a 400-metre speedskating oval around the tennis
son Boulevard. The varsity rental budget for
courts.
the 1985-86 fiscal year
Grass-covered mounds have also been built for seating spectators beside the soccer field and the diamonds.
said Phil Olinski, business
Having
means
the
new facilities Doon Student Asso-
the
manager
was
$700,
for the association.
While the amount saved per year is not significant in a varsity budget of $52,000 it still helps, Olinski said.
“The
money
be
ciation no longer needs to rent ball diamonds or a field for
persed to other areas to see
soccer and touch football. Previous games have been played at Budd Park on Homer Wat-
that the students get the best possible benefit from it.” Olinski said the additional
will
dis-
advantage ensure a healthy be cut back.
dance.”
The college had soccer uprights with wheels made last
The college provided the land and the city of Kitchener did
work for the project, with funding coming from different the
sources. Scott Konkle, supervisor of
design and development with Kitchener’s parks and recreation department, said the 1985 budget for the project was $74,000. The $78,000.41.
final
was
cost
The Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Recreation gave a $15,000 grant with $17,000 given
by the Sertoma Speed Skating Club, $3,000 by the Southwest Kitchener Optimist Club and $9,000 by the college, Konkle said.
Monty Kersell/Spoke
Large shade tree stands
in
the centre of the baseball
Come on Staff at the Conestoga Recreation Centre are not running any specific programs for stu-
dents this summer but are available to help them with their own fitness requirements, says Duane Shadd, recreation
program
co-ordinator. “They’ve got enough activi-
ties in
summer
keep them
to
going,” he said.
With fitness consultant Elizabeth Mask-Wessel off for the summer, there is no fitness testing done but anyone who
at rec
like to
have advice and
direction in setting up a fitness routine can get it, he said. In the summer “people will get outside and exercise more. They don’t need a lot of encouragement from us.” During the other seasons the
can make students aware what fitness is, Shadd said, and the students themselves
staff
of
can get ready for the months.
The tained
Shadd
summer
fitness trail is well-main-
during said.
the
The
summer,
fitness
gym
more practice. The National Pairs Centre
is
of
Canada, run by figure skating coach Kerry Leitch, is currently in its fifth
summer
at the
centre. The figure skating school offers an extensive training program and attracts skaters from Canada and other countries. “At least 60 per cent or even more come from out of town, or even from another country. We
By Dan
have skaters here from England, Finland, and other European countries. Most stay in boarding houses,” said Leitch. Most of the skaters are carded athletes, Leitch said, which means their education and most of their living expenses
Kerry Leitch.
Schiller
Summer
brings to mind images of sun, fun and relaxation, but for about 150 young athletes at the Conesusually
toga Recreation Centre
means
it
practice, practice and
grow
to
centre
for
two seasons
to
is
right
to
where
it
should be,” Neath said. g The three backstops and th^ players’ benches are included in the 1986 project budget of ••
$12,000,
Konkle
said.
year, Neath said, which will be rolled into place when needed.
The diamonds will be limed every Monday, Wednesday and Friday while the soccer pitch will be limed for games as required, he said. A sign, which will cost $3,300, is supposed to be erected to credit the contributors to the project, said Konkle. The city has asked the college to share the cost of the sign. Neath said there has been no decision made on that request. The city will not be using the ball diamonds until next year, Neath said. At that time, it will be primarily for slow pitch
games and tournaments, mostly
during evenings and week-
ends.
The city’s parks and recreation department will be handling all the bookings, Neath said. The college will simply inform the department of the timess which
An
it
needs.
opening
will take he said, though no date has been set and
place
official in
the
fall,
no specific program been planned.
always open and students can sign out squash equipment or horseshoes for the new horseshoe
pits.
The
tennis courts are lit until' 10:30 p.m. every night of the week and are used on a firstcome, first-served basis. The summer hours for the
Monday through a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; centre
are
Thursday,
8
and Saturday and Sunday, 12 noon to 5:30 p.m. “The building is open,” Shadd said. “Come in and use it.”
Dedicated skaters spend
Coach
The City of Kitchener agreed to provide the remaining $30,000 and to pay any cost over-runs. “It makes a nice package,” said Bob Neath, manager of college recreation services at the Conestoga Recreation Centre. “It’s a great joint project.” The backstops and players’ benches are to be installed in mid-August and the grass surfaces, which have been allowed
“Growing
turf,
says Shadd
in, would
By Monty Kersell
diamonds
need
are a definite plus for the varsity program. Players will benefit from not having to go off campus for practices and students will be able to relate more easily to varsity teams, he said. “I would also hope it would result in increased attenfacilities
are paid for, much the same way as a scholarship. The school operates from 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily and provides the skaters with training in both theory and practical skills. Skaters attend a lecture
summer
class, a group instruction session and private lessons with one of the coaches. During the lecture classes,
which
are
usually
given
by
Leitch, the skaters are given technical instruction and learn to improve their physical appearance on the ice by using certain make-up techniques. The skaters are also taught
how
to
handle themselves with
the press and during television interviews. Group instruction also involves a few lectures, but most of this session takes place on the ice. The skaters are divided into groups of about 15 or 20 and work with a coach doing various exercises as well as trying the technical moves they learned in the lecture session. There is no age or skill limit in the groups and Leitch said quite often the better skaters help the beginners. Another important part of
training
the training is what Leitch calls “competition simulation.” During this exercise, each of the skaters performs a routine while the others watch. Leitch said this helps give the skaters exposure to the pressure they may face in competition.
Among the skaters training summer at the centre are
this
two Canadian world class pairs champions. Cynthia Coull, from Montreal and Mark Rowsom, from Tillbury, were the Canadian pairs champions last year and finished third in world competition.
Denise Benning, from Wind-
and Lyndon Johnston, from Manitoba, finished second in Canada and fifth in world competition. Both skat-
Lyndon Johnston and Denise Benning
sor,
ers said they are looking forward to their first competition of the year in October and have their sights set for the 1988
winter Olympics. For now the skaters spend their days endlessly practising and perfecting their routines. “The week goes (by) quickly but the days are long,” Johnston said.