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SPOKE Conestoga College, Monday, January
#
Temporarily paralyzed In a game Dec. 1, Condor goalie Marc MeCallum hopes to return
Being a volunteer 7 fireman is just one of the ways a Guelph campus welding apprentice fills his day. See page 4,
^
Jan.
A
Parking
tickets issued at
Doon
campus could be defeated in provincial court, according to Ken Carmichael, Services. “If a student can
prove that the
college has oversold parking decals in accordance to the number of parking spaces available, the ticket
who
is
“We don’t exceed the number of
revoked, students and faculty have questioned why they have been ticketed for “parking on private
spaces. What if everyone was there at
property” instead of “parking in other than a parking space” when
evaluated the parking situation to determine what percentage places
they have parked on the grass.
such as Conestoga can oversell their lots. He explained there is nothing the department can do because there is not a by-law stating
According
to
for three things:
is
Carmichael, the
•
parking on
by the college
•
parking in designated handicap
pervisor
route
space. “It is private property, so
it is
not guarantee the availability of a
parking space. The college should have their own tickets to issue rather than the
michael.
However, Gilberds
Barry Milner, manager of physical resources at the college, contends there are only 1,923 spaces available. Gilberds said he was unaware of how many daily passes are dispensed in parking lot number one. However, he explained security officers do not ticket illegally parked cars
The security employee who
michael.
“People are understandably confused,” he added: “Especially with meter parking."
same hours. “People are parking on the grass when there are still parking spots available further down,” the
employee said. “They just want to be closer to the school.”
Softball
champs honored
By Andrea Buckley
honored with a luncheon held
Conestoga College’s championship women’s softball team was
the Waterloo
Overcrowded parking
lots
Carmichael explained the meters
on Doon campus are owned by the
—not
the municipality. Therefore, tickets are issued under
college
campus dining room
Dec. 13.
the charge “parked on private property,” with a $10 fine, rather than the municipality violation
‘There are no immediate plans to issue college tickets,” said Gilberds: “Maybe in the future.”
“parked over time limit,” which is a six dollar fine. Although, the tickets are issued by the college, it does not receive any percentage of the fines.
He said he gets the odd person wondering about the ticketing system, but added: “If people realized this was private property, they
would know why.”
luncheon
at
at
are a problem at Conestoga (Photo by Brian Shypula/Spoke)
municipal tickets, said Car-
wished to remain anonymous said the college did not expect everyone to be at school during the
full.
the lots are
pamphlet distrubuted by the college, states a permit to park does
up
to the college how they wish to regulate the parking,” said Car-
Bob
Gilberds.
when
cannot be oversold. an unfortunate situation,” said Carmichael. “Parking Regulations,” a “It’s
been issued 1,935
not
lots
parking on private property fire
one time?” he asked.
He added the department has
only permitted to ticket
college
its
permits as there are spaces available.
Approximately 2,100 parking decals have
spaces, said security su-
court
is to
have tickets
In attempts to
•
in
same number of parking
the
sell
closer to 3,000, excluding daily
out in court,” said Carmichael.
for
Traffic and Parking Services
passes.
would probably be thrown
^
Carmichael said the policy of
re-
quested to remain anonymous, estimated the number of decals sold
traffic technician for
Kitchener’s Traffic and Parking
security employee,
See page 7.
1990
8,
Campus tickets may be defeated By Terra Crowley
9.
/
The women won the Ontario Colleges Athletics Association championship Oct. 22 in North York after
romping through an un-
defeated season. Board of Governors chairman Carl Henigar was on hand to con-
team and made spemention of coaches Ron Taylor, Bev Brubacher and Lynn Thompson.
gratulate the
cial
College president John Tibbits told players and guests about his experience in post-secondary athletics programs, saying these programs are not only important for the college, but important for
each individual.
“You rest
will
remember
this for the
of your lives,” he said.
He also gave special congratulations to tournament all-stars Sandra Moffatt, Tracy Snedden, Michelle Drury and Jenny Van-
DerZwaag. Dan Young, Conestoga’s supervisor of athletics, presented the team with sweaters crested with
the college logo and
“O.C.A.A
champs”.
He said they had planned to hold the luncheon earlier in the year, but the strike delayed plans because
many team members were town during
out of
this time.
felt that it was a real honor have the team win a champion-
“We to
ship,” said Young. “With the amount of all-stars on the team and their perfect record, we thought they deserved some recognition.”
Dan Young congradulates Tracy Snedden luncheon honoring the
at
a Dec. 13 champions.
Ontario college softball
(Photo by Andrea Buckley/Spoke)
Young said they will try to recognize any of Conestoga’s winning teams in this fashion in the future.
...
Start
your engines!
Kiernan (front) and Buzzer Lirusso make last-minute adjustments to "the Shark," their entry in the annaul racing challenge between first- and second-year electrical enweek. gineering students. See the full story next
Tom
(Photo by Brian Shypula/Spoke)
^ January spoke, Conestoga College, Monday
1990
8,
OPINION
SPOKE Editor; Brian Shypula Associate Editor; Terra Crowley
Advertising Manager; Cindy Madill Circulation Manager; Jill Keeling . Mike Matthews, Jennifer Motz, Staff; John Freitas, Shari MacMullin, Slater Claudia Zuniga, Andrea Buckley, Sharon students of Conestoga published and produced by the journalism-print and to April by the DSA. The views is financed from September necessarily reflect the opinions expressed in this newspaper do not Advertisers in Spoke are not endorsed by the lege or the Doon Student Association. DSA unless their advertisements contain the DSA logo. ^ out of errors in advertising beyond shall not be liable for damages arising
Spoke
is
Collie. Spoke
,
Spoke the amount paid
for the space. Doon Valley Address: Spoke, Conestoga College, 299 4 M 4 Telephone: (519) 748-5366.
Dr., Kitchener, Ont.
N2G
.
Get a
list,
check
it
By
twice
Jill
Keeling
to start dispensing Christmas advice, I realize that it’s a bit late for presents in future year s: shopping when mind in but keep this MATTER SOMETHING, DOESN’T LIKE IF
NO SOMEONE THEM. FOR IT BUY DON’T DO, YOU HOW MUCH
myselt, sounds logical, however, many people, including to purchase gifts decide we Instead, advice. this ignore choose to which appeal to us personally. would get my Case in point: last Christmas my father decided he my mother) mother a microwave oven. The entire family (except I bought her evety and sister My bug. microwave caught the know at the microwave accessory we could find. What we didn t It
hints to my father time was that my mother had been dropping subtle for weeks that she wanted a mixmaster. downstairs amid finally came and we all assembled
The big day our gifts, my mother heaps of presents. After we had all opened addressed to her. present large the on paper began to peel back the confident that this was the best present any
We
Death and GST a certainty
blissfully
all sat
As
the paper
came
mother had ever received. MICROWAVE OV EN appeared on the box
,
words
off and the
my mother went white.
This was not the long-awaited mixmaster. At this point, the mood began to change.
My father wisely coffee. and upstairs go to time decided that this was a good at each other, a sick feeling nervously glanced I and sister My replacing our confidence. j As my
By
m^e
mother pried open the box and saw the microwave
Did the federal government kneel to public preswhen they cut the new goods and services tax
inside,
sure
from nine per cent to seven per cent? It seems doubtful. To compensate for the two per cent cut, Canadians and in particular middle- and low-income earners now face having to make up the $6 billion shortfall through government spending cuts and additional taxes. There has been no promise
she began to tremble. ‘Take IT back,” she
commanded. “I have no use for IT. There’s IT back!” With that, she retreated upstairs for Take no room the rest of the morning. There seemed no need for her to open the somerest of her microwave accessories now. Christmas Day was what awkward. She packed IT neatly back into the box, ready to be returned. for IT.
There IT sat for days, untouched. A battle of wills ensued. My refused to return IT and my mother refused to use IT. A stony silence lay over our house. There would be no sleep in the Keeling home
forthcoming that the
father
until
Jennifer Motz
cent after
it is
GST will not rise to nine per
introduced Jan.
1,
1991.
Under this plan: $1.2 billion in sales tax credits for low income individuals will be lost, $600 mil-
IT was gone.
lion a year has
day, the microwave quietly disappeared and in its place appeared a shiny new mixmaster. Nobody has commented on this
One
been
lost to small business in tax
collection payments, personal
income tax
for
mid-
dle-income earners will not be cut to 25 per cent from 26 as promised and $400 million in rebates has been lost for Canadians purchasing new homes.There will also be a $700 million increase in excise tax on gasoline, alcohol and tobacco and the GST will be applied to an expanded list of
incident since then. Please, take what warning you can from our mistake. It doesn’t matter that the mixmaster has only been used once, or that that my mother has recently been seen pricing microwave ovens. The fact is, last year she just didn't want one, we did. This year, Christmas was blissful. My mother gave us a list.
prepared foods.
A paltry $200 million tax hike is planned for upper income Canadians and for large corporations.
Surely big business will continue to benefit from the billions of dollars given in grants yearly. Some critics have suggested the government in-
tended to proceed with a seven per cent tax regardless
and the cut was bureaucratic subterfuge
in-
tended to make the other measures more palatable. Others contend that Treasury Board president Robert de Cotret’s announcement to cut federal spending by $1.4 billion over three years is more of the same. They say the cuts are only pstponements and that many of the expenditures the government plans to eliminate were never planned
anyway.
Whe^er
or not the critics are right, certainly
Canadians will never know for sure. One thing is certain, when you begin robbing Peter to pay Paul everyone loses.
Preserving Scotch not the only use for a bottle symbolic of our lives, the age we grew up in and our time as friends? What have, and what will we accomplish with our lives? Some things were easy. I couldn’t help but
either.
kids etc. etc.
deal was we could put anything in the box vve
notice everyone had the front page from the Toronto Star the day the Berlin Wall opened. As an aspiring journalist, a few more newspaper clippings made my time capsule. Who could forget Tiennamen Square? And we’ll all have forgotten Meech Lake by then. Some of us enclosed a few photos. Others wrote letters to themselves and some of us
wanted.
dared
tempt fate and make predictions for ourselves and our friends. Soon the night (morning) drew to a close. The next day left us to think about what we
ways have time
and bury a time capsule. The agreement was we would meet, no matter where we are or what we are doing, on New Year’s Eve 1999 to crack open our
we would build,
fill
concrete box.
Erroneously, we thought this date would be the beginning of the21st century. It isn’t, just as this year is not the start of a new decade, despite what most newspapers would have you believe. Oh well, whaf s a year anyway? Besides the obligatory bottle of Scotch, the
By Brian Shypula
Somehow,
there
came
to
be a cruel twist
to
Having known about the date for several months, most of us ironically waited until the this.
Jim Croce once sang about what he would do if he could put time in a bottle. Recently, I had a chance to do just that. No, thankfully I didn’t have to sing; what I did do was put time in a bottle. Actually, it was a
mason jar. group of friends, some of whom I’ve known nearly 20 years, and myself decided
A
minute for our chance to preserve time. You’re probably thinking we’re all a bunch of procrastinators. Well maybe, but from the discussions I heard at the burial ceremony, the problem was a fun event had suddenly
last
turned serious.
What could each of
us bury
that
would be
to
had done the night before. We didn’t talk about it much. There seemed to be a certain gravity about the matter. Well, at New Year’s Eve we were all back together for another night of boozing. Some of us hadn’t seen each other since the
day
we
buried time.
We didn’t talk about
it
Maybe because I’ve known them for so I knew they were thinking about it. Who would be married? Who’d have a few
long,
How similar would our party be this year to one 10 years from now? As we counted down the seconds to the big
the
90,
1
glanced around at all of them and realmost important lesson from the time
ized the
capsule weekend. I
made a
silent resolution;
for
my
I
know
I’ll al-
friends.
Barring any unforseen circumstances, you of Spoke will have the option of reading what I manage to scrawl down as
faithful readers
deadlines approach. I’ve had a chance to learn from the past two editors of the paper and I hope I can match the insight, wit and
emotion that Andy and Andrea earned your following with.
Spoke, Conestoga College, Monday January
Gradvisor response positive we will be getting
By Jennifer Motz
a response from
them soon,” she added,
The response from Conestoga College alumni to the “Gradvisor” program has been positive, according to alumni officer Mary Wright.
“We
have
sent
out
2,500
sur-
college.
veys and 60 people have written back
The alumni office is receiving survey responses on a daily basis and a graduate from as far away as Surrey B.C. has offered to help.
indicating they are terested
in-
in
Wright
helping,” said Wright.
“W e have about
1
20 who have said
they would act as resource people
be called on if needed.” “Also, we have just tracked another 560 graduates so I expect to
Trial
to
asked to be a keynote speaker or to speak as a member of a panel. Besides assisting the college in its recruitment of students, being a gradvisor allows alumni the opportunity to remain in contact with the
remanded
Wright explained the gradvisor program was adapted for Conestoga from a similar model used at Sir Sandford Fleming College in
of our alumni are
Jill
and depending on
their
geographic location, are asked to speak to prospective students at
Doon
said.
If
During the recent VIP day held Dec. 5, eight alumni spoke to some of the 900 high school student who visited the college.
“Several of them took the day off
work
to
come in and
help with
it’s
nary hearing on Oct. 29. The first-year student appeared
pus was built in 1967 when the blind and wheelchair users usually
had previously been trial remanded twice. The student was discontinued from his program following the Nov. 20 incident, when he allegedly threatened another student with a pellet gun in the Doon campus cafeteria. He will be allowed to
re-apply in January.
didn
’
t
attend colleges, but now that
they are, “it’s not in the budget,” said
Burkmann.
Forced
to use the freight elevator to get to his second floor classes,
Burkmann has a hard time reaching up and lifting the split doors. “Sometimes I help Roly with the doors,” said Isaac Cabrera, firstyear computer program analyst student who has used a wheelchair
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Cabrera: “I don’t
at 4:30
ramps
the
main problems the lack of
Captains are asked to attend
in the college. Currently,
schedule the following
Burkmann
finds
is
ramps at doors one and three but none inside the college. The bottom half of the student
lounge isn’t wheelchair accessible and when the top half is crowded, both Burkmann and Cabrera are forced to go elsewhere. “A new ramp would cost around
$200,” said Burkmann. “The school said they would work on it, but who knows?” The college asks for complaints and new ideas annually, but Burkmann says that nothing changes.
The college is always receiving same complaints, he said, but
the
Although Burkmann doesn’t mind using the freight elevator.
with the budget the way it is, they say they can’t afford big changes.
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One of
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death threats will face a prelimi-
His
work
it
“I hate it,” said
More people with a disability are
engineering technology student. Conestoga College’s Doon cam-
in provincial court Dec. 20.
left
Cabrera disagrees.
Madill
the schools to
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Nursing
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January Spoke, Conestoga College, Monday
8,
1990
get on the right track
Conestoga welding apprentice moonlights as volunteer fireman tions, it’s
By James Macgowan Early in December, Conestoga College student Tom O’Hara was lunch at his Elmira home eating
when
a call came in on his pager: Old Order Mennonites had
way, he is not sure. “Some people can handle it and some people can’t,” he says. “I can’t tell this
the path of a transport truck. As a volunteer firefighter with
you why that is.” The next day he sees himself on the front page of the KitchenerWaterloo Record. The reward is the photo is taken from fleeting
27the Elmira fire department, the
behind, and in his
year-old has been answering abrupt calls like this for three
can tell who it is. Reefing or not, Tom wouldn’t have time to savor the moment anyway. Not only is he a firefighter, he also works full time Millwrights in Elmira as for
three
just been seriously injured when their horse “spooked” and ran into
years.
O’Hara said the calls are not new his to him, but he still feels stomach tighten in anticipation
—
fire gear,
only he
M&G
welder. In addition, he’s employed by the Keg Restaurant in
every time he goes out to respond. Arriving at the scene, he quickly
a
surveyed the damage and went to work. He had to put the human suffering out of his mind and con-
Kitchener as a bouncer, a bartender, repairman, bar assistant
what he was doing. That is what he has been trained for and that is what he is paid to do. If he does not, the suffering will overwhelm him and people may
centrate on
die as a result.
this particular
managed to shut him-
afternoon he self off
On
and helped save a
cause of
be-
life
it.
“You go into an alert status,” he says. “You forget about everything and
else but your medical training
you become very clinical. It’s the same at a fire scene: your mind is not going off in 10 different direc-
customers and the staff and he also learns a lot about people and life. Still, as a bouncer he’s had his
likes the
very focused.”
On the suggestion that it takes a special gift to be able to function
and cocktail waiter.
He also attends Conestoga College part time, taking a welding apprenticeship course at Guelph campus.
And he is a Scout and Cub leader. All told, he squeezes anywhere
from 65 to 80 hours of activity into his week. “I get bored easily,” he says, “and I hate being bored. I can count on
share of physical confrontations, but he insists that is not what the
job
is
about.
“The whole job is attitude. You don’t have to be 10 feet tall anymore, you need to be diplomatic.
When
pressed,
Tom
will admit
that of all his activities, being a Cub and Scout leader is the most
important thing to him, although just barely ahead of being a firefighter. He used to be a Scout
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and he always appreciated the time his leaders
took to teach him the
things they knew.
He
Assistance?
also realizes
working with young kids because he can instill in them a strong sense of right and
the significance of
If so,
you
our are invited to attend one of
wrong.
“You he
are forming small minds,” “And these kids are the
Resume and Interview Clinics
said.
adults of tomorrow.” When he was an “adult of tomor-
row” his mother gave him this sense of right and wrong and he wavered from it. “There is only one person in this world you have to answer to, he
Come to Placement Services Doon Campus Portable 8
said he has never
Mondays and Wednesdays between 10
a.m.
and 12 p.m.
home
says, adding, ’’and that’s the person you face in the mirror every
and done nothing but watch T.V.” He stays at the Keg because he
morning. I have to be able to look myself in the mirror."
Tuesdays and Thursdays between 1 p.m.
two hands
the
number of times
the last five years I’ve sat at
in
and
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3 p.m.
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why?
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“Robert Redford. He’s very handsome and would be an interesting person to spend an evening with. He cares about the right kinds of
First-year management
causes.”
studies
Joan Magazine
“Christie Brinkley, because she
looks good modelling beside elephants.”
Co-ordinator, student services
“My
husband would dream date, always.”
“Paulina Poritskova. Because she’s just simply beautiful.”
still
be
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“Tom
He
across as a good, total package.”
has the cutest smile and a nice body.”
Ric Last
Michelle Curry
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First-year computer programing
Cruise.
Co-ed Volleyball $100/team
One open for hockey
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Attention Readers: Need Help? Student services, in conjunction with Spoke, will soon be publishing a weekly advice column in the newspaper. Pat Trudeau, a student services counsellor at Guelph campus, will be the columnist.
Trudeau is prepared to give answers about any social or emotional problems a student may have. Examples include: suicide, poor interpersonal relationship skills, stress management, dealing with
teachers etc.. Letters should be dropped off at the
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April 6
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Spoke, Conestoga College, Monday, January
8,
1990
5
THANK YOU to everyone
who
contributed to the
Army
Salvation
Toy Second -year nursing students Donna Foster at the nursing bake sale, Dec. 19.
(with hat)
and Cathy Belton
selling
goodies
We Collected 2 boxes of toys and
(Photo by Cindy Madiii/Spoke)
$100
Nursing students don oven mitts By Cindy
ly
Madill
$ 100 by noon but raised $250 by
11 a.m.
Neatly decorated Christmas cookies, muffins, brownies and farm fresh honey were among the items tempting students and staff at the nursing students’ bake sale Dec. 19. “We had a great turn out,” said Donna Foster, second-year nurs-
“We
had a
lot
of co-operation,”
staff
and
member.
know other members unless
often difficult to get to staff
and faculty
“We would everyone
there is an informal gathering such
“From that point of view, the draw was disappointing,” said
Madill
The Doon Student Association collected two boxes of toys and $100 cash for their annual Salvation
Army
toy drive.
Although the DSA promoted a compact disk player prize as an incentive to give to the toy drive,
were only 30 donations. Cheryl Davenport, DSA activities co-ordinator and organizer
there
of the toy drive, said she thought more people would contribute be-
who
like
to
thank
contributed,” said
Foster.
letic
event or other get-togethers
during the year. Last year staff and faculty organized a snowball fight
and a game of baseball in the snow. “We all froze and it only lasted about half and hour,” said Kraler. “But we had fun.” The participation is usually good and “it’s a nice way for faculty and staff to connect with one another,” she added.
CD draw
could handle that” Baseggio, who has never been interested in stereo equipment but
I
Because only 30 ballots were entered, the odds were good for Jeff Baseggio, a third-year market-
compact
CD
“I just got my OS AP cheque and
Cheryl asked
if I
could give two
discs in the
new
year.
& Staff:
QUESTION: WHAT'S YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION?
ANSWER: TO JOIN THE NEWLY FORMING FACULTY & STAFF TEAM FOR INTRAMURALS.
A NEW YEAR - LET'S GO!!!!
The following
dollars,” said Baseggio. “I figured
shop, said he will start buying
the
Faculty
IT'S
knows someone who owns a stereo
who won
(Lucky Guy)
year. In addition, the informal committee tries to arrange an ath-
added.
ing student,
CD Player Contest.
as the luncheon, said Kraler. Usually luncheons are held at Christmas and at the end of the
Davenport. “For the amount of people that entered, they gave a lot,” she
player.
the
do lunch
Only 30 contribute toys despite By Cindy
won
Feb. 14.
faculty
Madill
Usually students are on holidays during the annual luncheon, but
3rd year marketing
’
because of the teachers’ strike and changes in semester dates, it was Approximately 50 Conestoga held with school in session. College staff and faculty members A section of tables in the exchanged holiday wishes at their cafeteria was reserved for the Christmas pot-luck luncheon, held luncheon. in the Doon cafeteria Dec. 21. “I felt funny eating in front of the Trifle and home-cooked, hot- students,” said Barb Kraler, a stubean casserole, cold cuts, jelly dent services counsellor. “But besalads and homemade shortbread cause of exams, there weren’t cookies made up the meal. many around,” she added. “There was no want for food,” Because Conestoga is such a said Myma Nicholas, a support large organization to work for, it is staff
Jeff Baseggio,
the sale will
V alentine s Day party at The Twist
“But we can always make a
By Cindy
we
sold for $3.50 each.
make approximate-
College
as
and second-year students did the baking and one student, whose parents own a farm, contributed 20 tubs of fresh honey, First-
The nursing graduation committee expected to
“As long
go toward the nursing graduation formal and the pinning ceremony to be held in November. The committee hopes to have one more bake sale before their
said Foster.
The cookies sold for 25 cents apiece or one dollar to a $1.50 for a plate.
ing student.
deal,” said Foster.
make something.” Money raised from
Drivel!
activities
starting the
week
are
of
January 8
He
plans to listen to them on his
Co-ed Basketball
father’s stereo.
The association will hold the toy drive next year because “it is something we would like to con-
Co-ed Broomball
tinue,” said Davenport.
Co-ed Volleyball
cause of the draw.
LASA Chocolate Drive
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Correction The Dec. 18 issue of Spoke carried an advertisement stating Kitchener Transit bus
passes were selling for $1 13.
The price was Spoke regrets
in fact
"^can
be purchased
at
4th floor
$133.
the error
any inconvenience have caused.
almonds and chocolate bars
it
and
may
LASA offices or from any LASA student for only $2.
If interested call
or Barb
Jack Fletcher
McCauley
ext.
ext.
386
478
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6
8,
1990
VARSITY
HOMECOMING
PUB
Ruby’s
Waterloo Motor
m
Inn
Friday, January 19, 1990
8:00 p.m.
-
1:00 a.m.
Tickets: $5.00 in advance
Metal Mike kicks at
Damaged Goods during
was lacking. Hopefully, the next show will nail it all down,”
nically
The
latest
Slater version of broadcast-
ing-radio and television students’ self-produced Metal Mike variety
show helped put Conestoga College students in the
Christmas
Hodsdson added the
cast didn’t
notify the radio station to inform
the it
spirit.
it
said Roth.
them
to stop broadcasting during
show so they
through
The show, produced by Mike Coughlan, Jeff Hodsdon, and Steve Roth, has become popular with students atDoon campus. The latest version was a Christmas spe-
$6.00 at door
...
(Photo by Sharon Slater/Spoke)
may go suntanning
Metal Mike By Sharon
rehearsal for his variety show.
didn’t broadcast
CXLR.
Available
‘We have to let them know because they have to reschedule commercials and advertising,” he
at the Athletics Office.
For more info
call
The crew is working on some new ideas. Possibilities include a Winter Carnival week and Metal Mike goes to a suntan shop.
Age
of Majority Required.
••rC:
'J'-'
cial.
Two monitors were placed in the cafeteria
and two others
in the
hallway near the student lounge, ensuring the technology wing access to the production. The show lasted 45 minutes and featured Damaged Goods, a live band. Gayle O’Brien read the rock
news again
this time.
Also included in the show were reports from Hodsdon and Roth’s regular
movie review.
Special guest was Denise McKeever, trainer for Conestoga College’s varsity team. Metal Mike read his rendition of
tfrveUS^
the Night Before Christmas,” gave gift-wrapping lessons and called Santa Claus at
“Twas
the North Pole.
The
highlight of the
show was a
Towne Bowl in Kitchener, where Metal Mike tried to bowl a
%
trip to
few frames. Coughlan, producer of the show,
was pleased with the production. “Next time we will run it earlier because a lot of students had to go to classes,”
he
said.
He added that the Christmas special
was funnier than the
Cto 23
show. “There is a lot of enthusiasm towards the show so we know it will keep getting better each time we do it,” Coughlan said.
BRT faculty. Roth, the audio director, was also pleased with the show.
‘The content was
better but tech-
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8,
1990
7
SPORTS Goalie temporarily paralyzed If he
has his way, Condor hockey
Marc McCallum
goaltender
’
the
new
first
year, in
will
hospital.”
by Jan.
Condor hockey coach Scott Long
home game of
referred to the incident as being the
return to the varsity lineup
9 for the team s
over half-an-hour, as the medical staff took great care in getting me onto a stretcher and to the ice for
By Mike Matthews
what can only be
described as a remarkable feat. It’s remarkable in the sense that
some five weeks earlier McCallum on the ice, temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. He had been hit while corralling a loose puck behind his own net in a game at Penn State Dec. 1 The injury occured after a Penn State player dumped the puck into the Condor zone and McCallum went behind the goal to retrieve it. lay motionless
Condor defenceman Terry Goldsworthy yelled to his goalie to play the puck and McCallum shot it around the boards. Just as McCallum released the puck Goldsworthy was knocked into his
team mate by the Penn State The force of the contact flipped McCallum over, causing him to hit his head on the ice. “As I lay there I was really cold and was thinking of all the years
player.
“ugliest” he had seen in
all
his
aid in his recovery, the Penn
State trainers
some
showed McCallum
exercises he could do to
strengthen the muscles in his back.
He
also completed three weeks of ultrasound treatments at the Waterloo sports medicine clinic
McCallum
is
during a 15-minute session. “It was kind of weird,” he said.
6
kind of a blur,” he said. I faded in and out of
State Dec.
Leaving
consciousness and remember some things clearly and others
1.
his net after a lose
McCallum was knocked
puck,
down and hit his head on the ice,
vaguely.”
suffering temporary paralysis
“Deep down I knew that there was something really wrong,” McCallum said. “I was down on the
below
Up
the waist.
to that point in the season,
McCallum had played Conestoga’s 16 games
in
12 of
(includ-
at
first
Hockey League (ICHL), McCallum played in the Midwestern Junior B league for both Elmira and Brantford. “Playing college hockey is entirely different than Junior B,” said McCallum “as in this league you can face as many as 40 shots in a game while in junior you’ll only see 25 or 30.” “Another big difference,” he said, “is that the college season is only 19 games, which means that every game is important.” One of the biggest adjustments McCallum had to make in his
with Coit forfeit
against average.
own
By Brian Shypula Santa
may have been
late,
league games McCallum allowed 14 goals for a 2.80 goals against average, earned assists on two goals and tallied 18 minutes in penalties. Before playing for Conestoga in the International College
but he
was listening to the Conestoga men’s varsity basketball team wishing for a win.
The Condors were 0-7 (won-lost) Christmas break but now stand 1-6 without having played
at the
another game. Adam Boissonneault, a rookie
forward wth the team, said Conestoga gained their first victory when Centennial College had to forfeit a
game they won Nov.
the
Condors
70-50 but had an ineligible player on their roster. “He wasn’t declared on the roster,” said Boissonneault, a first-
yea* broadcasting-radio and television student.
“A lot of us (team)
find
it
kind of
funny,” he said, adding it should be
an interesting game teams meet again.
when
the
Boissonneault said the Condors should be an improved squad in the new year as they have had a lot of
new
players trying out.
The Condors resumed play Jan. 5 and 6 at the George Brown Invitational tournament. Their first
league for the second half of the season is at Mohawk Jan. 9.
Conestoga will meet Centennial Feb. 7 in a re-match.
the
By Mike Matthews overall lack of size coupled
with a faulty scouting report contributed to Conestoga’s 75-37 loss to
Seneca
in varsity
women’s bas-
ketball action Dec. 13.
“Seneca had a great height advantage over us as they are a fairly big team,” said Condor coach Fred
Humphrey. “They wisely use
it
to
puck
“In Brantford, the coach encouraged me to play the puck every chance I got in order to help get it out of our end,” he said “But here we have defencemen such as Dean Darrigan and Steve Donnelle that have played Junior B and know how
move
the
to loss
“We picked up our defence in the second half and played fairly well, as we outscored them 23-21 in the
4:30 p.m. Intramural Captains' Meetings at recreation centre.
Co-ed Volleyball Co-ed Broomball Co-ed Basketball Co-ed Ringette
^NOTE:
must attend with entry forms and performance bonds.
All captains
Intramural Contact Hockey:
Tuesday: 4-30 p.m.
vs Busters
Devils
22
5:30 pjn.
23
Woodtechs
6:30 p.m.
24
Liquidators
vs
Maniacs
vs Individuals
Co-ed Basketball begins
4:30 pjn.
Intramural Contact Hockey:
Wednesday:
20 minutes.” “Going into the game we had heard from some of the other teams in the league that Seneca couldn’t shoot from the outside,” said
4:30 pjn.
25
LASA
5:30 pjn.
26
Devils
630 p.m.
27
Liquidators
Woodtechs
vs
11
Individuals
vs
vs
Busters
Varsity Hockey:
final
Humphrey. “So we started the game playing a compact zone to
8KX) pjn.
Condors
Buffalo State
vs
at Recreation Centre
8:00 pjn.
-
11:00 pjn.
Co-ed Volleyball begins
force them to shoot from the out-
Thursday:
“They also have some really good outside shooters, contrary to what we had heard about them from some of the other teams,” he added.
wrong.”
Seneca got off to a quick start in the game and led 54-14 at halftime. “Defensively, we just didn t keep up with them and they blew us out early,” Humphrey said, adding he
scoring attack with 15 points, while Karen Auld scored eight points and Tracy Snedden chipped
nervous and uncomfortable before the start of the game.
12)
puck out.”
‘They then started off the game by sinking a couple outside shots and then a couple more and we knew that what we had heard was
team was somewhat
Monday:
in his
side.”
thought his
(Week of Jan. 8 -
game
their advantage.”
’
WEEK
ATHLETICS THIS
end.
Poor scouting leads An
30.
The Colts outscored
was handling
to
before Friday, January 19
season
winning drought
in
DSA Office
I’ll be back 1990 on Jan. Niagara College and for our home game on Jan. 9.”
transition to the college
that counted. In five
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in
minutes and had given up 34 goals for a sparkhng 2.83 goals
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eager to return for
“I’m very sure for our first
Injury interrupts
guess that
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explained.
game schedule.
my
Bus Trip
Midwestern league.
in uniform team picture Dec. 13 and surprisingly took shots in goal
McCallum was back
Blue Mountain
“The key thing is that I’ve grown more accustomed to my defenceman and their style of play, while at the same time they are getting more familiar with me,” he
for a
toes.” “It’s all
seasons playing Junior B hockey
the second half of the
shortly before Christmas.
thing from
“I
said he felt
the local
To
Conestoga goaltender Marc McCallum was having an impressive season statistically when it was interrupted by an injury in a game against Penn
to
play before
four hours.
By Mike Matthews
down
own
McCallum
In assessing his
the injury,
he was having one of his better years and was growing more accustomed to the International College Hockey League style of play, after spending the two previous
I had played hockey,” said McCallum. “The players that had gathered around were telling me not to move. I couldn’t feel any-
waist
My movements were pretty slow and I felt a little odd out there. But I have done some skating on my own since then and am feeling a lot better now."
years in hockey as both a player and a coach. After undergoing X-rays and a battery of tests at the hospital, McCallum began to get the feeling back below his waist after three or
that
my
Ski
Dhana Clements led Conestoga’s
in six.
Angel ita
Elliot
was
4:00 p.m.
-
5:00 p.m.
Co-ed Broomball begins Friday:
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exams!!!
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the top
scorer for Seneca with 20 points.
Humphrey said Clements played a strong game for Conestoga.
Varsity:
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8
8,
1
990
Literacy program aids aduits By John
Applied Learning Canada, the
Freitas
world’s leading supplier of training services and products in technology management, computing,
adult literacy program offered at Conestoga College's “Fu-
An
tures”
campus
in
Cambridge
human resources, and manufactur-
will
The agreement allows Cones-
adopt a learner-based method to
ing.
meet the immediate needs of
toga to market Applied Learning courses to local businesses and industries through employer centred
its
students.
Co-ordinator Helen Watt said the program will feature informal tutorial instruction with a focus on
what students want to
The computer presence
in the
helped one student learn to read the
ing words from
workshop
isolat-
basic need.
in-
structional method, students gain confidence to advance into other literacy programs. Adult literacy has been an expanding field since the United Nations declared 1990 the International Year of Literacy. To avoid duplicating existing literacy services. Watt has organized a consulting committee
community
which includes representatives from Conestoga’s faculty, the Waterloo literacy coalition and the Waterloo Separate School Board. Bob Mclver, chair of the preparatory programs, identifies Conestoga’s role in the community literacy effort as an umbrella group of the literacy coalition, providing referrals and resources for
com-
Literacy.
They
are written
“Learners” (adult literacy
fidence to confront his or her literacy
il-
The program began in October and is made possible through increased Ontario Basic Skills literacy funding
from the Ministry
March whether it fund the program.
will continue to
an effort to increase public awareness of the program offered at the 1425 Bishop
benefit from this program, please
group is doing,” explained Watt. Meanwhile, students enrolled in Conestoga’s graphics program will design promotional pamphlets for the program while woodworking students will construct book-
call
Helen Watt for information
ficulties confronting literacy
by
stu-
dents).
One of the books tells the story of a girl who was abused and lived on the streets, but eventually found an
escape from this situation through the agency. Earlier this year, Conestoga signed a three-year contract with
agen-
cies is reaching their clientele.
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Watt said intelligence is not a factor. “Can you imagine the kinds of skills required to cover up the fact that you can’t read?”
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Super
tually
varied.
a.m. in the
problem.
can read," said Watt. While the cause of adult illiteracy
*
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Many adults won’t admit there is a “People put up walls. ”If someone was to sit down with them, they would discover that they ac-
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at
653-2940.
Watt has attended workshops,
Watt said one of the greater
hotline;
you know of anyone who can
If
shelves for the facility. During the last several months
learner-based program.
you have a news tip, or anything else that you think should be in Spoke, call the If
of Skills Development. The ministry will assess in
in
News Flash Spoke
problem publicly.
Watt will address social agencies, churches and
is
munity. Recently, the college acquired a series of books published by East
End
Watt added arrangements can be for in-home visits if the student is home-bound or lacks con-
made
St.
portant thing with people is to give them permission to read.”
“literacy delivery” in the
hopeful
devices in
campus. ‘There are many literacy groups in Cambridge and it’s hard for citizens to understand what each
“She thought she couldn’t read but she was reading her child’s report card,” said Watt. “The im-
personalized
is
settings.
womens’ groups
develop an entire lesson around a
this
its
In January,
their context, find-
ing rhyming words and creating new sentences. Watt was able to
Through
community. Watt
the college will share
manual and her
By
is
grow-
ing in the communication field but with the lack of adequate resources
learn.
daughter’s report card.
the week.
training.
For example, Watt recently Ontario driver’s
Conestoga’s literacy program is made available to the public all day Tuesdays and at other times during
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