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Penn State claims victory over Condors By
Bill
John Gray and the netminder went down like he had been shot. Referee Mark Riffcr, who’s consisuuicy was questionable throughout the game, thought Gray’s dive was worth a penalty and the Lions capitalized 19 seconds into the ensuing power play. Rich Filar took Ross Cowan’s pass from behind the net
for the Condors.
Filar.
when
Penn State defenders played well,” said Condors’ coach Scott Long. **We were a little light on forechecking and we went in spurts. Consistency and discipline are the two key elements (we need to work on).” Penn State (6-2) opened the scoring in the first period on the power play when McLaughlin beat McCallum along the ice with a slapshot. The Condors (4-4-1) tied the score 15;45 when Darryl Desbarres’ slapshot from the blueline went off Gray’s glove and bulged the twine, .^fter Dave Murphy gave the Lions the lead on a
nudged Lions’ goalie
breakaway, Stu Schneider replied
C entre.
Doucet and Joe Melo
Fans of the National Hockey League in the ’70s still remember ice wars between the Broadstreet Bullies of Philadelphia and the Big Bad Bruins of Boston. Fans of the International Collegiate
League
in the ’90s
may
Hockey
never for-
get the bitter battle between the
Conestoga Condors and the Penn State Lions. In a rough and chippy game, the Lions clawed there way to a 4-2 victory over the Condors on Jan. 9 in
ICHL
action at the Kenneth E.
Hunter Centre. the score tied 2-2 in the
With
second period, Penn State poured on the pressure and took the lead.
Condors’ Jason Braendle rams Penn State's Ross into
Marc McCallum.
The Lions’ Mike Messner completed a three-on-two when he took
Cowan
(Photo by
Bill
Doucet)
Andy McLaughlin’s drop
past and
comer past Condor goalie Marc McCallum. The Condors showed spurts of offence but couldn’t put the puck in the net. Hopes of a comeback were deposited in the top
Conestoga
offers
women’s *
technology program
dashed
Greg
late in the the third
Steeles
initial
Gray stopped
shot from the slot but
puck bounced
went
up,
Schneider’s arm and into the net at 19:33. That
c
was the end o
Condors offence. The was rough in the sec period, with minor scrums
pushing and shoving becoming' and shovelled past McCallum, who center of attention. During on was down and out of the play. those melees Kevin Flanagan **I thought we played well and the tossed from the game for spea
was
**(The major penalty)
game,” L said. **Not only were we a short, but couldn’t get up after turning point
in
the
ing the penalty off.”
McCallum played anotlier 5 game between the pipes. The L outshot the Condors 33-25,
McCallum
facing an abundanc
good chances and turning bad opposition 29 times.
The Condors’ next gam against Erie College on Jan. Erie. Their next
I
home gam
against Buffalo State on Feb. f
p.m. at the Kenneth E.
Hl
By Leah Shier The program women into trades and technology (WIT) is once again coming to an end. This course
Doreen
offered in the Detweiler Centre at
Duffus
the
Doon Cam.pus,
is
an eighteen-
week program designed
to give the
students a closer look at different trades such as plumbing,
automo-
uve,electricaJ,and carpentry.
\VIT started a year and a half ago.and was set up to try and get
women
more
involved
in
can continue with after this program but several of this graduating class the students have headed into carpentry, industrial maintenance, and some into welding. Students in
program only learn the basics
trades. Students in this course
this
spend time touring different industrial centres around the area, such as Pacific Patterns, Schneider’s, and many different cabinet shops to give them a feel of a real work sctting.They also spend about 60per cent of their time
of different trades to give therh an
how
understanding of how different trades work and help them find out which program would be best for them. Duffus,
attended Conetoga
several years ago taking the car-
work with
pentry program at the Waterloo and
hands-on experience. Students will
Guelph campuses enjoys teaching this course because “so many women are now U^ing to change
learning
learn to use
things
blow
torches,
how
to
sauder, fix light switches, learn
about basic plumbing, as well as how to use different types of machines. This program started with two intakes a year and a very long waidng list, and so far, interest in this course has not weakened. Doreen Duffus, teacher and coordinator for this course finds that there is quite a range of women interested in this course. “I’ve seen
wom.en in this course between the ages of 20 to 50 years old. .Vlany women would like to get into a trade
’.
their career paths.
were even a couple of years ago. “ This program builds confidence. If you look at how much they have changed, in themselves and their skills it amazing”, said Duffus.
Not only does
the
welding
Some
stu-
find that they enioyed
-.vill
men apply
the
to
voiding program aider the completion ot diis one. In the latest
WIT
iraauaiion class most of the -omen will continued on in other ro|r-am.s.
Dierc
is
uuite a variety of
n.cmnt -rca.mms
that studetns
program give
students and idea of
how
things
work it also teaches them life skills, resume writing, math english, and the students to as
in the college.
a
their
certain job
who
is
women heading into the trades than
usually head into other specialty
dents
This course
good for anyone wishing to change. But it is a fairly big change,” Duffus said. Their are even more
This program can have a maximum of sixteen students who later
programs
will
wages
in
By John Volmers Higher salaries and increases in dental, vision and hearing benefits are
among the demands the Ontario
Public Servants Employees Union will have when they go into
negotiadons with the committee of presidents for a new contract,
which
who
,
skills.**
We try to expose much
as
we
can
while they’re here so they can decide where they want to go. They spend a lot of time looking at themselves to see what they really can do. Skills they already had and
never thought they could put it to use in a trade. Soon they’re doing thing they never thought possible,”said Duffus.
demand higher new contract
Union
will take effect in
September
of 1991.
Hubert Wessling, president of the union’s local chapter and a welding
and engineering teacher
at
Conestoga’s Guelph Campus, said he feels these negodadons will go smoother than they went last year. Last year’s negotiations led to a teachers strike. **I think this time around the atmosphere will be quite different,” he said. “Pardcularly with the new
Head
NDP
government because they’re
with negodations
more
labor oriented.”
been
During the interview, from his office, Wessling talked about the wage increase part of the demands. The union wants teachers
Guelph
up the Committi
Presidents report to the
Regents which
Coun
turn re
in
directly to the Ontario
govemi
salaries to increase to the point
Any
where their wages will be somewhere between that of a high school teacher and a university teacher. At this time the average college teacher earns less than a high school teacher. Wessling said the union has been fighting for higher wages since 1973. **We had it (higher wages than
direedy from the government ’’Eventually the money h;
high school teachers) for a fleeting moment,” Wessling said. **We got a good raise in ’74 and ’75, but they
increase in funds has to
'
come out of the ministry,” he The union also wants an inc in
the retraining period af
teacher
teacher
period
is laid-off. is
At
this
d
given a 90-day retra
to take courses,
from v
or outside their college, that
help them gain employement.
didn’t keep up with the high school
Other demands that will be by the union are a reductic teaching weeks and a preferer
raises.”
full-dme teachers over part-
Wessling said the main problem
The 40-week program
Nancy Hamacher, head of applied arts at Conestoga College’s Doon campus, has resigned her posidon so she can go back to teaching. Hamacher said she missed teaching and will now be involved in a “really neat” program. She will be teaching electrical skills
in the
women on
Det-
social
will help
comthe women leam municadon and math skills. They will also be involved in five weeks of on-the-job expenence. The program begins Jan. 21 and the college hopes to have a 20-woman intake. basic
assistance.
who make
the pas
in
23 college presi
i
teachers.
of applied arts resign
By Jodi Crawford
weiler Centre to
that the
life,
“I’m really looking forward to it,” said about teaching
Hamacher again.
Comparing her administration job to her faculty position.
Hamacher said.’They are
both
valuable jobs.”
She said she has not taken t back by resigning her posido has progressed.
There is no replacement fc head of applied arts as ot time. But Sharon Kalbfeisct dean of applied ans, will hand work load until a replacemer be found.
2
Spoke, Conestoga College, Monday, January 21
1991
,
aPIIMIOIM
Spoke
BBBB Editor:
Bill
Doucet
Associate Editor: P. Hohnholz Gesiarz Production Manager; Andy Dugan Advertising Manager: Judy Willan Circulation Manager: Nicole Isard Staff: Coleen Bellemare, Marianne Brooks, Jodi Crawford, Angie Hill, Joe Melo, Karen Neath, Leah Shier, Mike Stumpf, Mel Taylor, John Volmers
spoke is published and produced by the journalism-print students ot onestoga College. Spoke is financed from September to April by the DSA. The views and opinions expressed in this newspaper do not necessarily reflect the views of the college or the Doon Student Association. Advertisers in Spoke are not endorsed by the DSA unless their advertisements contain the
DSA
logo.
Spoke shall not be liable for damages beyond the amount paid for the space.
arising out of errors
in
advertising
Spoke, Conestoga College
299 Doon Valley
Dr.,
Kitchener, Ont.
N2G 4M4
A second chance for
Ben Johnson
Mohawk problems are still there
<
By Mike Stumpf
Once again
the
Kahnawake Mohawk reserve near it into the news. Any outbreak of
Montreal has made
By now, every person in Canada has heard of or has an opinion on the continuing story of Ben Johnson. The thrilling rise of a skinny Jamaican-born kid living in Toronto to the title of the “world’s fastest man” with a world record in'Rome
-
tion.
only goes to show the people of Canada that
the natives’
still
summer;
this past
Keith Spicer’s Citizens’
remain.
several police officers were injuried in a
conflict with the
Mohawks. Metal
baseball bats and
metal bars were used by the Mohawks. Reports also
summer police have been harassing Mohawks. Regarless of the stories that come from
state that since the
the
or try to tread
inquiry in the spring of 1989, which
government done
the
down
lately to investigate
a path to find a solution to the
problems between the native people of Canada and the government? No smoke signals of messages wanting to talk fill the skies above the mighty hill. Once again the Indians have been set aside to more pressing issues, but shouldn’t the people of Canada come first? Un-
revealed what most Canadiqoa feared^ (but secretly hoped wasn’t Ben Johnson had indeed cheated ancl was going to pay for true)
—
it.
later, Johnson has returned to comand field after serving his suspension imposed by .Athletics Canada. Claiming to be wiser, slower, and cleaner, Johnson’s first meet at Hamilton Spectator Indoor Games Jan. 11 was hyped to the ’T.^treme and Johnson could never have lived up to the expectations put upon him by the media. If he won, Johnson would probably have been still confronted with the question that will dog him for the remainder of his com-
years and three months
petitive track
native concerns, but
GST
an acronym being tossed around frequently After ail, the Goods and Services Tax came into effect only three weeks ago and everyone from students to store owners must deal with it and get used to it. The GST is a seven per cent charge on all goods and services offered across Canada. There has been much resentment in the form of complaining and anger towards the new tax. Most people, including students, view the tax in an unfavorable light. At Conestoga College, the GST has also been applied.
The GST hits students coming and going. It has been
athletes.
most nodceably implemented
Ben Johnson. made a mistake and paid his dues. A price more than most of us can only dream of. The constant media scrutiny and
in the cafeterias
and the
bookstore, as well as parking permits. In the cafeterias,
problems with the police only highlight what Johnson has endured in the two years since that black September day in Seoul. But the past is the past. A new chapter is beginning for Ben Johnson and his new advisors, who hopefully will give him better guidance that those before them. Only time will tell if he has what it Lakes to make it back to the top
same holds
most of the
his. Don’t Hamilton did), but as a human being who made a mistake. It seems rather ironic that at the same time Ben Johnson is trying to resurrect his career, his arch-nemesis Carl Lewis (who received the gold medal after it was stripped from Johnson) was getting
people
(as
in
himself arrested for drunk driving in Texas. Maybe Mr. Lewis should take a hint from Mr. Johnson (not even you, Carl)
is
— no one
perfect. Ironic indeed.
A If
you have a beef
or
an opinion to express, drop us a line at 299 Doon Valley Dr., Kitchener, Ont.,
N2G 4M4. <-
with the
-By Judy
Willan
but
Because
it
is dif-
is it
charged on fees such as
activities, athletics,
and graduadon? If a student requires a transcript of his or her marks there is a charge of S7 for the transcript and on top of that charge is the GST, making the new cost of a transcript inter-collegiate, identificadon
total
S7.49.
The government
is trying to reduce the deficit by charging tax on things previously untaxed and receiving money from new sources. Perhaps they think that people will not nodce their money going toward this
goal the
GST is charged on everything. The
true for the bookstore.
extent to which the GST will be applied is not known. For example, it is not applicable to tuition
The yet
if it is
derived from other sources. However,
when
GST is charged on items that effect our daily lives,
ranging from hot water to postage stamps, the government has got another thing coming.
-By Coleen Bellemare
Working class needs daycare too daycare
Is
god
in
showing before their resentment and frustradons once again escalate and cause a repeat of this past summer at may be an even more inappropriate dme. Nadves are Canadians just as Canadian as the rest of the people in this country and deserve the same rights and consideradons as any Canadian new or old.
ficult to put Si. 07 into a machine, all parking permits except the daily one are subject to GST.
clean.
like a fallen
consider the
concerns of all other Canadians. The native concerns are an issue on their own. They are special people with needs like every other Canadian that should be ad-
Everyone deserves a second chance and the Canadian people
him
is to
with the native issue being mished mashed
is
these days.
On the other hand, if he lost (and he did, placing second after misjudging the finish line), Johnson would face the uphill struggle to regain his world status as a sprinter in an arena that many say is stacked against him. Despite the evidence presented at the Dubin inquiry, many athletes are still using performance enhancing drugs. It will also be interesting to see the impact of the recent changes in eastern Europe which for years has been the centre of steroid use among amateur
treat
Forum
will this help to find a cure
GST is almost everywhere
petitive career: Is he running clean this time?
should give him
how
dressed immediately with a solid, strong effort and
either side, the issue runs deeper.
What has
The subsequent Dubin
problems
week
Last
sports.
—
It
nothing was solved by the standoff
and at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea. For three days, he captured the imagination of an entire nation, who finally had a hero they could believe in. The jubliation, as we all remember, was short lived. We remember the tremendous media circus following a simple test for the use of anabolic steroids, which is illegal in amateur
Two
violence involving this reserve will spark media atten-
employment, education, poverty, living conditions and many other problems are very apparent on the reserves of Canada. If the problems in these isolated areas can not be solved how can the government conquer these problems on a national scale.
in
Ontario only for an
elite
group of
It
seems
that only the very
poor or the upper middle
classes can afford this luxury that should be available
hard-working Ontarians. Welfare recipients make up a majority of the poor people who receive subsidy for daycare. But what do they really need subsidized daycare for? .A majority of them are not working or even attempting to find work. to all
Single students also m.ake-up a fraction of the subsidized population, tions.
group should be allocated the available subsidized who arc not working. Then there is the lower middle class. If there income
this
spots before people
people.
if
Lhey meet the right qualifica-
.And students deserve to be subsidized, they are
attempting
to
better themselves
and make them
per child for daycare. So the poor working
Does it not pay and make a better life
stiffed again. to try
single vomien'
iuxur/ of senaing
mem
.-^.re
they ailowea the
iniidren :o daycare? Surely,
stiff,
gets
ahead, for yourself and your
in
Ontano
to get
family. in Daycare should be made a priority in Ontano and daycare Affordable ail other provinces in Canada. be should be available to everyone. People should
rewarded for trying
to
children, for getting out
make
monthly cheques.
their a better future for
and trying
thing, instead of sitting at
children proud.
What about
too high they can not receive subsidy. And many working-class people can not afford to pay overaSlOO
is
to
acomplish somecollecting them
home and
.
_
_
-By Marianne Brooks
r
%
Spok©, CoriGstoga CoIIgq©, Monday, January 21, 1991
Tech students rev engines annual car race
at their 3rd
Nelson says often done
By Nicole Isard
is
this type of exercise
The
at universities.
material for the is
get
cars, she said, arc easy to build, but
uniform the car
, u ,4 These words can be heard every
does take thinking and planning. Nelson said she hasn’t heard of anything like the ctu races at any
Racers ready? set,
On your mark,
it
go!
engineering year, as the electronics tech’nician/technology students hold their annual ctu races. Nancy Nelson, a taculty member, decided on the idea of having the car races when she was co-ordinator of the program. She said and the first car races were in 1988 well since doing been have they then.
"The race is an exercise in being able to work through the engineering/design process. The students paper, first have to design the car on and then produce
it.”
otlier community college. The students start planning
to
make
sible,
is
not
go as fast as posmake them go as far as
possible.
Nelson said the cars vary, from helium balloons, to a hovercraft, which was made last year. There are also
some
to
cars that split in two,
from three feet three inches. The most common
and they vary
in size
Spoke welcomes letters to the editor If
tlie
the cars
but to
you have a beef or an opinion to express, drop us a 299 Doon Valley Dr.,
line at
in their
more
is
make,
straight line.
The
cars are worth
She said
it
is
interesting for the
students because they do not have
much background
experience.
“The students all started with the same problem, but they ended up with difference results
when
they
were finished.”
The
cars are raced in the hallway,
after school,
and Nelson said her is they need some-
biggest criticism
where bigger to race the cars. This year they had 34 cars racing, and some cars were banging together. She said the cars may have to be raced in the gym. Nelson said everyone seems to be in support, and both faculty members of the college and students turn up to watch and take pictures. Nelson said she has had local
A
competitor awaits the green
Ministry of
Colleges and
The AIDS Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and area is offering a pubhc and volunteer orientation session. The series begins Monday, January 21, 1991 and last for three weeks. To register or get more information,
for
40 per cent of
Nelson said the exercise is both frustrating and fun, but they end up with something they made at the end of the course.
Community Event
Thank you
and
and even some news coverage. Nelson said within the next two years, a variation of the course may be included in robotics and automative technology.
N2G 4M4.
Cindy
light,
likely to travel in a
television stations cover the event,
Kitchener, Ont.,
call
said Nelson,
the students’ term.
cars in October, and they receive 15 to 20 hours of in-class time. She said the object of the exercise
tires,
old 78 records, because they are
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4
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1991
Shannon ihniK.
BUSINESS STUDENTS:
Mon. 4 p.m. on you can eat fish & chips
all
9 p.na.
til 1
Are Your Marks
in a
RECESSION?
a.m.
1/2 price natchos Tues. Wing Night 4 p.m. on 15 cent wings (no take out)
in (Tf^
9
Wed. burger & fries $3.99 p.m. on all menu items 1/2 price
—
Thurs. Conestoga Student Night Shooter Night special shooters,
—
special prices Fri.
steak
wild
4 p.m. on
& shrimp $9.65
I
& wacky game night—Win
Get out of the slump with assistance from a
prizes! Sat.
luei
Ladies Night
featuring 4 different male maL dancers (not strippers)
Sun. open til 1 a.m. Live Entertainment different local artists each
week
4 p.m. on Lasagna dinner $4.99
Information and applications available from Student Services
SUPER BOWL SUNDAY 6 p.m. Jan. 27, 1991 Give away prize!
The Doon Student Association and Awards Banquet 1991 will be held on
Athletics
Tutorin' CortrtxAlan
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Thursday, April 18, 1991 at the Edelweiss Auditions wil be held for a Student for the Annual Awards Banquet.
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photographs of various objects iocated somewhere on Doon Campus. See
Identify
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up
for the Auditions
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page
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Submit entries to DSA
Barb
OR
all six
Activities office
by
Friday,
Jan. 18, 1991 at noon.
McCauley Rec Centre
be drawn and posted the following week outside the activities office.
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Spoke, Conestoga College, Monday, January 21
GST hurting
Tech students have edge on
bookstore By Angie
By Nicole Isard days of computers and robotics, people are starting to wonder whether or not they will be replaced by computers. For the students in robotics and automative technology, the job market is wide In these
Remember
all
those useless pen-
seemed to get used? Now, saving them will be harder than ever due to the Goods and Services Tax being put on all purnies that never
chases from the bookstore. ,A.nne Rektor, bookstore co-ordinator, said that this semester it
seems
be business as usual
to
around the bookstore, things really have not changed. The only thing that has changed however, is now students will be paying out an additional seven per cent tax on every item that is purchased at the bookstore.
The
program ‘Their
Hill
reason:
when
the
GST was passed through the senate December, books were one of the many items that were part of the in
legislation.
open
for their skills.
Brad Nelson, teaches the course, which recently transferred to the Doon campus from the Guelph campus. Before the course was split into hydraulics and the mechanical aspect, but the two could not be combined. Nelson
numbers started to was needed. Nelson said the faculty was in a “pro-active”mood, and they
mon.
into a co-op. first
year
In time,
slightly, but
it
it
is
currently
will
was made
to simplify things.
com-
be modified this
way
Someof the first
year courses are engineering fundamentals, structures, metallurgy, basic computers, two levels of
mathematics, and mechanics. People have enrolled in the course with a specific option, and we’re trying to keep them together as a group,” said Nelson.
second year of the program, the students specialize in an area of interest. Nelson said they have high In the
said the class
expectations of their graduates, and
decrease, so a change
he also said their
decided not to just make another technology program but make the
is
a good cross-
thrust of the
ness related
skills.
t
is that
If
motivator, because the students
to
and
paid,
a chance for the
it is
He
situation.
the student
said
tlie
is in
dents will
come back
May, then
perience, but there are
the first year,
st
for the
f;
is
durii
the winter term. “I think
our attempt is to
make tJ
a gre opportunity, with sheer entliusias
The student may also be involved in making maintenance schedules,
who
of the people
who
It is
helped to set
will help
as Peterborough will
know abo
the program.
Nelson said attendance is taken in and it is used as a
my
think
I
I’m enthusiastic ar enthusiasm is shared t
the others.”
items bought on the Conestoga campus, such as books from the bookstore, should not be ta.xed. “
Students’s should not have to pay the tax on school supplies pur-
MCE
chased at the school. Off campus, I can see being charged the tax but not on things bought from the
TO PACE WITH A
school’s bookstore.”
Kerry Davidson, bookstore cashier, said student complaints to
her about the tax are many. “I phoned in and voted no for the tax,” said Davidson. “I just tell them it’s not my fault the tax has been added and it’s something they are going to
CMA “With so many people graduaung
have to live with.” Gary Fitzgerald, 22, a third-year marketing student, said charging the GST to students is stupid and unecessary because students cannot be refunded the money like
from universip' each
needed
I
succeed
knew
A
wasn’t enough.
A
professional
designation was necessary to
thought our
was high
before,
now
that
GST
mv
achieve
illiteracy rate
career goals.
is
second-year
to public auditing.
a
accounting.
19, first-
she said,
arts,
as
“Give us a break, we’re only
I
discovered, alter
an auditor, that
As
Certihed
a
Management Accountant, I’m on
tactical
and operational
decisions. I’m using m.y skills
to
able
recommendations and
to provide
direction
I
management accounnng
work
accounnng
strategically to
the companv's
when
year graphic
work term
preferred
Richardson also said that not only will the every'day person be unable to afford to buy books, students can hardly afford to spend lui additional S8 on every S120 worth of books. Those same words were almost
echoed by Shelley Saul,
and working
“I enjoy accounting
with people. But
bottom
meet
line objec-
ti\-es.
“The C\L\ designation has prome with more opportuniues within and outside the management
stu-
vided
dents.”
GST is
The
I
in the business world.
going to be charged on books, the number of illiterates will be even higher,” said Janet Richardson, 22,
really
year,
competitive edge to
a
universip' business degree just
others.
“We
something nobody is impressed by, but it may be
accounting held. As well
here to stay.
ing valuable
mv
Upgrade
as acquir-
management
designation gi\ es
me
skills,
who
are, increasingly,
C\L\s themselves.” Linda Yeh-Robinson, C\L\,
Manager Minicom Data Corporauon Client
English
For rurther informanon,
Writing
call
or wntc: “0 Universip' Avenue, Suite 300, Toronto, Ontario
Call
.M5I2.M4 '416i 977-7“41 Toil free 1 -800-387-2932
Peter McIntyre Professional
CMA
Teacher
ernriod M.;nai:cmcnt \ccounranr
1 - 837-1741
r:?c '''rjnajrc:
The
Society of
Management Aweeuntanrs of Ontario 55i£&.
the
credibiiip' in
dav-to-dav dealings with other
execuDN'es
Your
Evenings
th
up. ..hopefully, people as far aw;
Steve Avclar, 20, and Dianna Selgrad, 19, both in first- year law and security, mutually agreed that
“It’s not fair at all,” said Avelar.
fi
the
and the second work tenn
a llagship operation.
him.”
students
work term
keep them operating.
There are not only students with strong hands-on mechanical ex-
i
si
dents to apply what they ha learned in tlie classroom to a wc
goes into the servicing sector, he is to maintain existing sys-
expected tems and
or hiring personnel
stu-
c
students must have strong design and problem solving skills, and they learn to become part of decision making teams, as to what materials should be used, etc.,” Nelson said. ‘They must be able to communicate, and have good busi-
section of students in the course.
some
program
future benchmark. It shows effort and thusiasm on the part of the stude However, marks are not deduct for attendance. Nelson thinks work terms will be the re
dents who are fresh from high school and have a strong mathemaucs background.
“The
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Spoke, Conestoga College, Monday, January 21
WINGS: By
Bill
and
artsy
1991
,
cultural
Reminder
Doucet
Summer
is
Quebec Winter Carnival Final Payments are now due!!
the season for sailing,
and recreation. All these activities can be performed and enjoyed in the WINGS program at Conestoga College. WINGS is Wonderful Ideas in Need of Great Support and will be travelling, sports
Some
space
in its inaugral year in the summer of 1991. The course will run from
May
Sign
still
available!
up now!
to .August.
^VTNGS
isn’t just a run-of-the-
course to leave you longing to get outside. .According to .Ann Wine, co-ordinator of Conestoga Summer, it is an opportunity for .flill
See Cheryl in the
DSA Activities
more information.
office for
students and faculty (or anybody who wants to be involved) to suggest to Conestoga Summer a course they want to take and one staff,
they think others will be interested in,
and suggest
offered.
that the
course be
to play tennis, sailing or interior
“If we can afford
we’ 11 advertise our budget we’ll hod it over until the next year,” she said. the program. If
it
it
isn’t within
describes the programs as
“artsy and cultural related.”
She
said learning should be new, different
co-ordinator of Conestoga
Summer. (Photo by
The course could be how
decorating.
Wine
Ann Wine,
and fun.
It
helps
when
the
people take a course that they chose
and wanted upon them.
to take, it
Two courses,
wasn ’t forced
and a trip to Europe, are already set up and 100 people in total have enrolled. The sailing course will be on Georgian Bay and will last for a week. People sailing
on the boat, learn how to and how to navigate a boat. The cost will be approximately S850 in total. That includes food, six nights on the boat, lessons, etc. The trip to Europe will include the study of food and wine, Mozart and the reconstruction of Europe after the Second World War. The total cost for the trip is approximately SI, 650 for two weeks and S3, 600 for three weeks. The cost includes airfare, accomodation, hotel, tours and food. will live
on the
sail
will take place
Wine
also said Joe Gold, a bestselling author, has offered his services, as has Pierre Berton.
Bill
Doucet)
A sketching course
activity.
on Saturday’s so the
students can draw old historic houses. If a student needs help though, theyh can call the instructor for advice. For tennis lessons or sports, the times can be arranged by
TAVERN
the student.
“We are looking at the student or learners needs, not those of the colWine Wine said
lege,”
she didn’t expect any
courses to be cancelled due to cost problems. “The cost are low so can’t see them being cancelled for that.
We
Featuring Great Meal Deals
said.
won’t cancel because of
low numbers either (unless they are
The course times vary depending
NICHOLSON'S
extremely low),”
Wine
Hamburgers Fish'n Chips.
By Marianne Brooks
Babcock
and
Wilcox,
of
Peter Murphy, in a ceremony at the
the
Doon campus. The ceremony was
college or
Cambridge, presented SI, 250 the
wimessed by fellow
highest scholarship available at Conestoga College, on Dec. 6.
dents.
"^e scholarship was awarded
to
man Pratt and John Van Vuuren, third-year mechanical engineering
technology-design and analysis students for being outstanding students in their program.
The students received the awards, from the vice-president of en-
lence, leadership skills exercised
third-year stu-
program and contribution
community
.
.
Club House.
.
.
.$3.75
$1.85 Pork Chop Dinner. $4.00 Pork Schnitzel Dinner. .
lOoz Steak Dinner... $8.75
said.
Technology students awarded highest scholarship gineering at Babcock and Wilcox,
$1.45
Homemade Soup.
Also Available m Dinners and Specials
to
life.
Candidates are nominated by the college but final selection of the
The scholarship, which presented for the first time
was
recipients are
made by Babcock
this
and Wilcox
year, will be used to cover tution
candidates.
fees for third-year students.
Another advantage to winning the award is that the students are then
Another selection ship will be
made
for a scholarin
May
of this
year after second semester
The criteria needed for students be eligible
is
high academic
to
e,xcel-
offered
Live Entertainment
after they interview the
Thurs.--Sun.
Band
TBA
summer employment by
Babcock and Wilcox and are considered for future employment once completed the program.
Doon Student Association I
Activities Passport Correction
Winter Carnival
Week is
Feb.
4-8
not Jan. 28
-
Feb.
1
Winter Carnival Nooner
Feb. 4
Winter Carnival Dinner Show
Feb. 5
Winter Carnival Pub
Feb. 7
.
.
.$4.00
.$4.00
i
c
spoke, Conestoga College, Monday, January 21
idea
training,
WINGS?
in Need of Great Support! you read this sheet. Consider the kinds of learning, growing, useful and entertaining courses and activities you think your fellow citizens would enjoy at the College this coming Summer.
What
The
New ideas
are
is to
will
Well, the
letters
stimulate your thinking about
Wonderful Ideas
stand for
Summer as
augment our existing summer programs
in
an effort to broaden the range of activities and
better use of existing College facilities
make
and resources.
Please take a couple of minutes to help us think about and plan Conestoga Summer â&#x20AC;&#x2122;91 by forwarding your thoughts and this form to the address at the bottom of the page by January 25, 1991.
Come on
A
-
on your
try
WINGS!
Course/Activity
A Would this course be for credit?
Yes
O
O
No
A Do you know of an instructor who could lead or teach this course/activity? Name
Yes
Can be contacted
O
No
O
at
Qualifications
A
Please provide a brief description and/or outcome of the course/activity (paste catalogue copy
an existing
if this is
activity).
A How long would the course/activity last? i)
once only for
hours
ii)
repeated
hours for
iii)
weeks
iv)
other
A What method of instruction do you envision for this course? lecture
A
O
hands-on
O
seminar
O
field trips
o
group discussion
O
lab
O
other
Other suggestions/comments:
Your Name
Tel.
Plewe
No. (B)
(H)
Contact Address
Postal
Please return by January 25, 1991, to Conestoga Summer, Centre For Continuous Learning, 400 CoUier-MacMillan Drive, Cambridge, Ontario
Many, many thanks
for your interest
& support.
Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;U
be
in
Code
NIR 7H7
touch with you soon to follow-up on your suggestions.
^ S O ^2.
Summer
Co-ordinator
,
1
991
7
Spoke, Conestoga College, Monday, January 21
8
991
1
,
The
Students wait
OSAP
for By Angie
Hill
Anxious students crowded around the bulletin board in hopes of finding their student number posted under the “cheques in” column.
Laura (who's dead).
Coop
used my cheque for buying my books, and paying my tuition. The biggest problem I have with the OSAP procedure is all the paper work. Hundreds and hundreds of papers have to be filled out and that
aids students in funding their
makes it very confusing.” Long lineups are inevitable thing but has to be dealt with. Even to
educational costs. The OSAP office has allowed many students to
check the bulletin board to see if your cheque is in is a waiting
make
process.
Ontario Student Assistance Pro-
gram
special arrangements to pay
when their financial aid cheques come in. Susan Miller, their tuition
19, of the nursing
program, says that her cheque mainly pays her rent.
my OSAP, November to apply so
“I applied late for
I
waited until
I
had
to
wait a while to receive
it.”
Miller also said because of waiting for her
money she had
row money from
to bor-
relatives to
pay
her costs, and then paid them back
when she
received her funding.
“Besides rent,” said Miller. “I
Yo Nagle, 22, said that waiting outside in the freezing cold and rainy weather is the worst thing about collecting her cheque. The lineups are long, but the bad weather can make the wait seem even longer. Nagle, said she also used her funds to pay her tuition,
buy the necessary books, and also to pay her rent. “The OSAP evaluation process is so long, and the standingdn line in bad weather are the only real problems I have,” said Nagle.
Flatliner
Sarah,
will eventually
have
to
face himself at the Black
Lodge and the you-knowwhat will hit the fan. put my panties on one leg at a time. You know what mean? The Owl (who's not what it 1
Mike home)
(I
don't have a
Laura
Brother Jake
way To Vanilla
What
To Joe
the Leaf fan, Toronto's showing their true losing colors. Tom Watt can cry some more about bias
The Owl (who's...) Not really.
I
jeez!
I
seems)
do without you? will bare your children as payment. I
Thanks for the disk and nice work on the contents page,
Ice,
is an Ice Ice Baby? Get some talent and write your own music! Stop blatantly stealing from Queen (with David Bowie) and Jour-
the hell
ney.
referees, thafi s a sore loser.
Under
too
much pressure
A Habs man
(who's...)
Stitch,
We miss you so we'll give you some
advice.
Steve Roth,
Wear some
gloves to protect your fingers. Don't want them to get red or anything like that. The Owl (who's not...)
Thanks
for the advice
about
not going to the Gulf. I was about to make reservations on the Bagdhad United
just
Terrorist Airline.
To Steve Roth, What do Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Bagdhad have in
What would
common?
Nothing much yet. The Jokeri s evil assistant
NEED EXTRA CASH?
Docners expanded By Angie
last
semester.
The Dooners wing was expanded over the holidays from 47 seats to 94. The construction was complted for cafeteria located in
the tech
the return of the students
on Jan.
7.
Renate Rathwell, supervisor of the Dooners cafeteria, said the expansion will benefit the cafeteria by creating more sales, and relieving the
main
cafeteria in the
basememt
Rathwell also joked with the expansion comes,“
of crowding. '"'‘at
tore work for us.” The only complaints heard from students about the newly enlarged cafeteria was the fact that it has no
New program By Leah Shier .Are you a female interested m a career in repair and installation of
industrial electricai
equipment, ap-
prentice electrician or engineering?
New programs the time for
ested
in
are opening up all
women who
are inter-
having a trade. The
latest at
Conestoga is an electrical skills program designed for women interested in entering a career in electronics. This 43-week program sponsored by Canada Employment receiving fantastic response as interviews are already getting is
staned for the Jan. 21 intake. Skills co-ordinator George
Woods
feels this program will be a good stepping stone for women who plan to conunue a career in
from the main cafeteria, and two doors were taken out and opened The wall into another room. remains except for two double doorways on eitlier side. If the entire wall would have been taken out, it would feel more like one room instead of two separate rooms with two adjoining doorways. Paul McDonnell, 18, and Paul Papenfuss, 19, both first-year mechanical engineering students
more room said
if
in the
the wall
designed to teach students to use; standard snop machines, tools,
equipment, repair electrical machines and equipment, as well as .eac.aing the t'undamentais of xctching, eiectneal circuit draw'ts. .CM muernni rcacing.
cafeteria.But they
was opened
up, so
Plan
expansion was inevitable.
For acceptance into this program students must be women over the age of 19, with a grade 10 or equivalent and a basic ability in practical mathematics
munications.
first
Outside the cafeteria Feb.
7,
1991 at 12 p.m. (noon) in the
POND!
at
electrical services, and the selling of electrical equipment. The
EASA,
POLAR PLUNGE!
discussed
an Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA) meeting. The EASA deals with all
in
DSA's wildest event!
.
This program was
1987
and com-
to Participate in
The Winter Carnival
begins Jan 21
as well as the federal
government
felt this
program was
an excellent idea as more trained
people were needed in the field of electronics. ‘They asked us when the college was going to start a program because they needed
Otrly
Pick
30 participants will be accepted!
up your pledge
sheet in the
and sign up! All proceeds Needs Elevator Fund.
will
DSA Activities Office
go towards the special
All participants will receive a "I survived the Polar Plunge" sweatshirt!
trained workers. But they didn’t
have time
people themsel-
to train
when Conestoga said Woods.
involved,”
electrical
FOR MORE INFORMATION APPLY AT THE RECREATION CENTRE
cafeteria can get quite full, so the
jobs such as electneal sales, electri-
motor repair and
RELATION SKILLS ESSENTIAL
you can see the entire room, it would make it look larger. Students are making use of the new room, and at lunchtime, the Dooners
ves, so that’s
manufactunng. This training and employment readiness program is
GOOD ORGANIZATIONAL AND PUBLIC
said they really liked the having
eiectneal engineering, or head into cal
REQUIRED
windows, completely opposite
Hill
The cafeteria in the technology wing can now accomodate twice as many Dooners this semester as it could
PART-TIME CONCESSION ATTENDANTS
got
Students attending this hands-on
program
be required to find a five- week work placement at the end. The work term is designed to give the students some ex-
Prizes for 1.
Top Pledge Amount
2.
and Best Costumes
will also
perience in a work setting.
There will be 22 students attending the course. This program
designed to help
women
electneal trades,” said
was
get into
Woods.
Don't Delay - Sign Up Now!!
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Eastwood
1991
,
9
no rookie
is
more
than a few occasions.
By Mike Stumpf
skin on
For over 25 ye:trs, Clint Eastwood has been one of world’s most popular movie actors (Fist Full of
material that has been covered
Much of the film is typical “Clint” numerous times before and yet
Dollars, Pale Rider) and has
Eastwood knows what want and gives
and innovative director (Bird). The public has fashioned an image of what a typical “Clint” picture will be about: a variation of the now ledgendary loner fighting in-
tle.
justice, car chases, plenty of violent
the first half of the picture before
gun play and witty
taking complete control in the final
The most in
Callahan
Bronco
some
After
Chtirlie
fine job of play-
Eastwood
role to
seriously ques-
moves
in the past
push him back up
to his
status following Platoon.
Predictable plot aside, the stunt
Eastwood returning to his established image in his new film. The
sequences
(particularly
freeway chase
Rookie, (which could have been called Dirty Harry Gets A Partner.)
at the suirt
film), are fantastic
Eastwood
any Oscar nominations for The Rookie, and rightly so. Per-
will recieve
haps he just wanted to do a
responsible for
his partner’s death.
rookie detective
David Ackerman (Charlie Sheen), Pulovski gets deeper into trouble and eventually relies on his wet-behind-the-ears partner to save his
strictly
commercial action picture to show the world that Clint can still be “Clint”. If that’s what he set out to do, he has succeeded.
Lots of action,
little
intelligence.
That sounds like something Dirty Harry might have said.
Community Event
A crowd of about 100 got the new
Reg and Pat’s present of a departure from their former band. With Crackers they did a lot
9.
of original songs.
The
Warden
minded
said the
Everyone
band was more underground and
were turned down low and by Reg and Pat, was
did not recieve a The gig they played at Conestoga Wednesday afternoon consisted of
the music,
rocking.
Reg Denis and Pat Warden are veterans of the college circuit. They have played together four years as a duo and before that were
lot
of airplay.
a many cover songs and fused with humor.
was
definitely
appropriate for the
in-
seemed
just recently at
dark guitar.
Inn that evening.
Warden have begun their first stints colleges and universities since
ago, but Denis and
starting out as a duo.
They
They are touring for the next three weeks to colleges, universities and
They both play
a
said they enjoyed playing
for a college crowd,
dents
seemed
to
and the
call
Thank you
information,
Cindy for
at 741-8300.
your support.
more suggestive
myriad of instruments, ranging from bass to fiddle, mandolin to keyboards, and Reg’s glow-in-the-
Denis and Warden have had
”.
more
songs.
limited formal training, but Warden admitted they “ basically
learned by ear
or get
to
enjoy the lewder songs. The masks of Denis furthered the rowdiness, the phallic nose and glasses being
By the end of the evening the crowd had slowly dwindled but the atmosphere was still charged in preparation for the hockey game against Penn State. Reg and Pat packed up to travel to Guelph to play a gig at the Desert
with a band for 14 years. Their former band. Crackers, played at Conestoga about 10 years
The AIDS Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and area is offering a public and volunteer orientation session. The series begins Monday, January 21, 1991 and last for three weeks. To register
they’ll like the next set ” It’s a bit more risque.
Conestoga
lights in the
cafeteria
The audience began to get more receptive by the end of the first set. Warden said, “ if they’re open-
act is a bit
year off to a good start at the first mini-pub of the semester on Nov.
at
them.
We
“ play anything, bars. anywhere,” said Warden.
Ry Jodi Crawford
it’s
stu-
enjoy watching
are
booked
Get ready for the best Winter Carnival Feb. 4
Their schedule seems hectic, but this is their full-time job and they until 1992.
Week ever! -7,
1991
Highlights will include: •
DOON STUDENT ASSOCIATION »
Activities Passport Correction
Molsons Dinner Show featuring Corky and the Juice Pigs Labatts Pub featuring ''Sticky Fingers" - Rolling Stones tribute
band
Winter Carnival
Week is
Feb.
4-8
Winter Carnival Nooner
Winter Carnival Dinner
Winter Carnival Pub
not Jan. 28
-
Feb
1
’’
Polar Plunge
and
Feb. 4
Show
reo. j-ec.
5
manv
the
of the
and some of the
best of the year. No one is predicting
Eastwood plays veteran L.A. cop Nick Pulovski, hot on the trail of a vicious car-theft ring led by a man named Strom (Raul Julia), who
where
for
couple of years (Courage Mountain, Men at Work), this may be the
from the public has been less than overwelming. It comes as no surprise to find
Teamed with
comes from
who does a
tionable career
Billy,
Hunter, Black Heart, the response
is
fans
his
full throt-
third.
Honky Tonk Man and White
Pulovski believes
them
ing second fiddle to
one-liners.
in films like
to
it
surprising performance
the film
Sheen,
has dared to go beyond his persona of Dirty Harry
is
is
garnered a reputation as a gifted
When EastwOod
Reg and Pat
it
at times exciting as hell.
still
orher ereat events!
W atch for more info!
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spoke, Conestoga College, Monday, January 21
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,
1
991
Helpers direct night students By Coleen Bellemare Service, of-
The Peer Helping
Conesfered by student services at appropriately
toga College, named. Students employed as peer such helpers perform many jobs, is
directing night students just
as;
classrooms, starting classes to their to
name
was quite a success. The peer helpers wear red pullover, V-necked sweaters with name tags so they are easily identified.
The number of peer helpers and the hours they work Ouctuates Irom campus to campus and week to week. Last week there were seven aterpeer helpers at Doon two at
W
,
and two at Guelph. Since peer helpers are committed to work two loo,
just one.
Peer helpers have been directing
students enrolled
in
courses
through the Centre for Continuous since Jan. 7, and
Learning (CCL) 24. will continue to do so untilJan. This is the second time that CCL helpers has enlisted the aid of peer
hours a week, the number of helpers vary.
.\lthough the
CCL
outreach
is
only a small part of the services that peer helpers provide, it is still a All the students in-
good one.
first
volved think it is beneficial. CCL students appreciate the help and the
diploma/certificatc health and dis-
peer helpers enjoy their work. Bill Gauley, a peer helper for
a semester. The
beginning ot time was in September 1990. Eleanor Conlin, chair of post
at the
tance learning for CCL, approached Valerie .A-llen, peer helping administrator tor student services, and asked her if she would helpers to direct
CCL
and a third-year
three years
civil
engineering student, said, I enjoy you to it,” Gauley said. “It forces ‘
learn
more about
the college and
organize peer students to classrooms from main
the system.”
entrance ways at the Doon, Water-
third-year mechanical engineering
Guelph campuses. was students working pairs for approximately two
loo and
The in
result
hours a night from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Monday to Thursday, for the first ihree weeks of classes. The plan
Ganley and Kent Dickie wait Doon.
Bill
at
Kent Dickie, peer helper and student, agreed with Gauley.
“You
get the opportunity to learn
of what the college has to offer. It’s fun to meet the people and they
all
really appreciate the help,” said
Dickie.
for the arrival of night students (Photo by Coleen Bellmare)
Doon Student Association Certificate of Appreciation
community whose
Award
The
now accepting nominations for the following Awards: recipients of these certificates are
contribution to college
of Distinction
whose contribution
Award
-
is
-
The
life
recipients of this
to college life
members
of the college
has been significant
award
are
members
of the college
community
has been outstanding.
The highest award presented by the Doon Student Association in recognition and appreciation of outstanding leadership and involvement in college life. To be
of Excellence
-
r resented at the
Annual Awards Banquet Thursday, April
18,
1991 at the Edelweiss
Tavern.
Mominatnr.n forms can be picked up at the DSA Activities and Administrator Office. Deadline for nominLations is Friday, March 22, 1991 at 12 p.m. noon.
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Are you immunized? lifedme, but
Apart from report cards, few documents sent home from school
Td
quired every 10 years.
Conestoga College students in nursing and health-related
parent permission slips for immunization.
programs are most likely to seek adult immunization, since strict
more
Any child will tell you that once you have outgrown your fear of the bogeyman, needles promptly take his place. Parents just have to hope their children will thank them later in life. But it is unlikely the gesture much appreciated at the moment
is
it.
student
who
it
fact is that those
people are potential victims of fatal diseases.
Tetanus bacilli (lockjaw), which can be contracted through soil by way of contaminated wounds kill six in 10 people afflicted.
The Diphtheria
which
bacillus,
and throat, impedes breathing as well as causing possible heart failure and nerve damage, killing one in 10 people infects the nose
who contract it. Many people assume
and Dad’s” responsibility
to force
Many dog and
that
one
cat
FOR MORE INFORMATION
owners take
their pets
lated.
It
is
just as important that
APPLY AT THE RECREATION CENTRE
people get their shots updated. The subject usually comes up when planning a vacadon outside the counuy, but many people ignore
it
unless their
work environ-
ment potendally exposes them polio, rabies or hepatitis
Td
B
to
virus.
boosters are free and, as they
like to say
business, a
Conestoga
in the immunizadon gram of protecdon is
College
worth a kilogram of cure.
As last
in-
RELATION SKILLS ESSENTIAL
“Mom
was
annually to the vet for boosters without thinking twice about getdng themselves innocu-
The sadder
GOOD ORGANIZATIONAL AND PUBLIC
has not thought about
immunizadon since
may sound
or trypanophobia, into adulthood.
ATTENDANTS ^ PART-TIME CONCESSION REQUIRED
Conestoga Health Services staff are concerned about the average
the issue.
children carry that fear of injection,
i>
standards set for the health industry
demand
they sign on the dotted line. Tetanus-diphtheria (Td) boosters
unpleasant to a child. But the fact is many of those
1
boosters are re-
fear in a child than
instill
991
NEED EXTRA CASH?
jection in public school will last a
By Mel Taylor
1
,
a matter of fact,
dme
when was
the
I
your parents were im-
munized?
LRC: new books and Mandarin By Mel Taylor
p.m. to 4 p.m. as of Jan. 13
1
few minutes pracdce can open up a wealth of infor-
terminals, and a
Conestoga’s Learning Resource Centre began offering Sunday afternoon circuladon services from this
madon.
The following is a list of new LRC; Computers and Their Applica-
year.
materials at the
Although no reference librarians be available for this extended service, students can sdll take advantage of the LRC’s wide rangeof
Parker, Charles dons A Death in the Family
will
Guide vices Tax
Students visidng the LRC may be wondering what a Mandann is, if it
»CrC
spordng buttons
boosting their new computer catalogue system. Mandarin. Students need no longer fumble
about with an obsolete micro-fiche catalogue, and Mandarin’s usercomfy capabilides should appeal to the least computer-literate
among
us.
User guides are available
to the
Goods and
Ser-
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1991
Men’s basketball team; lots of heart but no luck By Joe Melo There’s a saying,
j
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it’s
lucky' than rich.
better to be
Because
rich
men can lose their fortune but lucky ones can always get
it
back.
Unfortunately the Conestoga Condors men’s basketball team seems to be rich at heart but have no luck. It was extremely apparent in their game against the George Brown Huskies (2-1 1-0) on Jan. 10. In the battle for last place in the
Ontario Collegiate Athletic Association the
Condors lack of scor-
cited poor shooting, numerous turnovers and the Huskies’ zone
was only
defence as key points
situations in the second half.
to their loss.
Conestoga couldn’t penetrate the Huskies’ zone defence, which George Brown’s coach Albert DaSilva instituted late in the to
first
half
and contain Conestoga’s
try
Wayne
Johnson,
who
diird in
is
scoring in the league. “We had a tough time cracking
We
their zone.
weren’t patient
enough to work the ball around. We wanted to shoot it the first or second shot.
You
got to
make
die zone
ing touch, especially early in the
rotate by passing six or seven
game, cost them as the Huskies defeated the Condors 72-62. Conestoga (1-11-0) came out
times,” Kings said.
Hying, grabbing an early
1 1
-4 lead,
which could have been 25-4 for
some easy lay-ups
that
if
not
were
The Condors took a 35-30 lead room at half time.
into the locker
quickly dissipated as the Huskies came storming back. Conit
estoga showed lots of hustle as the score kept on going back and forth.
Conestoga coach Marty Kings
Women The women’s
we
played
man
to
man (Con-
would have beat us,” DaSilva said after the game. The Condors have managed to score on more than 40 per cent of their shots this season, attaining an
missed.
But
“If
estoga)
Conestoga
average of more than 80 points per
game. But against George Brown they managed to score on only 28 per cent of their attempts. Kings said that it was the worst shooting game he had seen all year. The lack of finish around the hoop
intensified by the
many
turnovers, especially in crucial
“We
had too many turnovers
tonight, our guards got a
little
to
excited and gave the ball up.”
“This school has been losing
in
basketball for 20 years, you don’t turn that
Kings
around
in
two
.seasons,”
said.
While George Brown found
way
a
slow down Johnson, the
to
Condors couldn’t contain Huskies’ Kevin Taylor, who scored a game high 27 points, 21 of which came in the second half. Johnson who is considered to be the most naturally gifted player on the team had 25 points to lead the Condors. Jim Harley also had an impressive performance with 15 points and Brad Osborne, a rookie from St. David’s high school, played well in what little action he saw.
He
collected seven points,
Condor’s James Kenny gets a shot by three George Brown players.
off
surrounded
while
(Photo by Joe Meio)
all
in the first half.
The Condors go on play at
the road to
Mohawk College on Jan. 22
before returing to play toga against
St.
at
Cones-
Clair College.
cagers lose to Huskies
Condors
basketball team suffered
a 49-39 loss on Jan. 10 to the George Bro'vn Huskies.
but couldn’t keep Debin check in the second as she scored 15 of her game high 22 points. at the half,
bie
The Condors were behind 23-21
Grannium
Dhana Clements
led the
Condors
with 14 points and Karen Auld
added another
nine.
The next game for the Condors ishere at Conestoga against the Lambton Lions on Jan. 24.
Plan to Participate in DSA's wildest event!
Conestoga's men's basketball team walk loss to George Brown.
off
court after 72-62 (Photo by Joe Meio)
The Winter Carnival
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Athletes of the Outside the cafeteria Feb.
7,
1991 at 12 p.m. (noon) in the
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and sign up! All proceeds Needs Elevator Fund.
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go towards the special
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2.
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•
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Jim Harley Harley of the Jim men's basketball Con-
was
dors
campus, of the women's basketball Condors is
male
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the George
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.
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