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SPOKE Financial boost for college New system slows OSAP
Board Briefs The following
arc
high-
of the Jan. 24 board of
lights
governors Conestoga’s
Conestoga receives $1 .3
meeting at Doon campus.
cess for elections of student
and administrative representatives to the board would be
The current incumbents’ terms end in Au,
gust 1994 and elections for
new
/
*
The money
announced
the
Association of Colleges of
Applied Arts and Technology of Ontario (ACAATO) conference will be held in Kitchener- Waterloo on Feb. 9, 10 and He said it would be a good opportunity for Conestoga siatY and faculty tO attend the event and exchange ideas with others without incurring I
I
added costs
to the college be-
cause the conference held
/
commit-/ upcoming
the board executive tec.
Conestoga’s
is
being
in this city this year.
academic and student affairs board sub-committee presented an approval request for the implementation of a law enforcement and investigation certificate program. Lynda Davenport said there was "a demonstrated client
demand
is
job creation
initiative
at
$84 million
part of
received by Waterloo Region
in
a
launched by
Cambridge
MPP
Mike Farnan
the federal and provincial govern-
Farnan explained
government
that
under this
invest
will
over the next two years
$722 in
initiative the
Ontario
million, provincially,
public works programs
intended to kick-start local economies and put people
back to work. capTTie investment will come from the JobsOntario ital program and will be matched with funds from the federal government and local partners such as the specific recipients.
Conestoga’s president John Tibbits said the money will be used to help finance the new school of business building which will cost almost $4.5 million. “We have already raised $2 million through our capfund-raising campaign, ’’Tibbits said. explained to Farnan that the project could be
He
"If started immediately, the project by May be completed no later than September 1995.”
started will
1
one
at the
new system
be constructed so people
John MacKcnzic, the college’s
ment and human resources, said problems in the application and implementation process increased after the program changed from a grant and loan system to a loan-only
board as well as Conestoga, should be used to repair or expand existing
system.
That change caused adisruption
.
all
in
said,
tified
Even small changes
com-
was made
why
Twenty per cent of
place
V
'"
...a-x
said
package.
now move ahead
Conestoga’s financial aid because they were unable
* facilitator of the prior
The
food and transportation, and is looking for answers we can’t pro-
rent,
board outlining her
vide.”
The problems have been brought
She said there have been some difficulties meeting the upcoming deadlines for implementation of PLAs. All college courses must be available for challenge under PLA by September 994, and
to the attention of both the college’s admini-stration and provincial officials.
Conestoga’s registrar, Betty Marhas been working to correct the problem by networking with other
tin,
1
50 per cent of all certificate/diploma programs must be ready for challenge by that date.
Timing, workload, financial costs and other difficulties may make those deadlines hard to meet.
office, to give
“The person standing in front of you is worrying about next month’s
department’s progress. '
of
students proper answers.
(PLA)
department, Eleanor Conlin, made a lengthy presentation to the
one out
The problems have also caused major disruptions tor staff at
to im-
plement the program.
learning assessment
result,
and the extent to which they were being assessed,” MacKenzie
The motion for approval was passed and the college will
was not in was im-
the policy
every five students was unable to find the status of their loan application
certificate
when
plemented. As a
to offer a
decision
to the appli-
applicants for
loans system. “The infrastructure
'
the
in
assistance were seriously inconvenienced as a result ot the changes to the administration of the
for additional offer-
is
sit
cation, such as address or name changes, may cause major delays.
ings in the field (law enforce-
ment),” and that
and applications may
limbo.
Ontario saw a net
gain of 24,000 jobs and all the other provinces bined saw a gain of 7,000.
in
“The application
part of the big system. If discrepancies are found in the application, the local financial aid office is not no-
North America.”
December 1993, Farnan
the structures.
fomi system, assessment and the whole infrastructure were all affected by that change.” Under the new .system, alt adminsent istration and apptications arc directly to the main OSAP office in Thunder Bay, MacKenzie said. Once the application has been received by that office, it becomes
Farnan said they have already established a wish list. “My hometown wants to upgrade its oldest arena, undertake some work in the river basin, downtown core and in much needed road repairs.” These are examples of the kind of municipal projects that will be approved. He stressed that the JobsOntario strategy has become “the single largest and most successful job creation In
Ontario Student
vice-president of student develop-
“The education sector in Ontario will receive $200 million over the next two years, ” Farnan said. The works program will create long and short-term jobs. “This program will promote projects that are community-based and community driven.” The City of Cambridge will receive $8 million and
program
in the
Assistance Plan (OSAP).
facilities.
ments.
ital
The advisory committee on
Mike Farnan, Doon campus.
to the
in the nursing wing won’t lose their windows,” Tibbits .said. The education funding, which will go to Wilfrid Lauricr and Waterloo universities, the Waterloo County board of education and Waterloo Region separate school
25 by Cambridge MPP and associMinister of Education and
Training,
planned for March.
David Hollinger, chair of
“It will
ate
representatives arc
C
students
Student-Client Services building.
Canada-Ontario Infrastructure Works Program. The announcement was made Jan.
starting soon.
Recent difficulties experienced by when applying for and awaiting financial aid arc mainly because of the implementation of a
would be conwing of the college
by a spine, similar
Conestoga College has received a $1 ,380,900 financial boost from the
By Omar Welke
structure
nected to the
Mullan announced the pro-
the
The
By Laura Nahls
Secretary treasurer Kevin
million grant
financial officers in the college syspe-X
.said.
Although 80 per cent of students
Water, water everywhere ... just outside of Door physical resources departmeht tries to free up a sewer closed after a freak been had college The 28. Jan. campus Doon #5 at Conestoga College’s by Sean McMmn) (Photo icy. overnight freezing-rainstorm made local roads treacherously
tem, he
are getting efficient service, the
number of problems experienced
A member of the
:
^
W-
by 20 per cent is unacceptable and will have to be rectified, MacKenzie said.
2 Spoke, Monday, February
1994
7,
OPINION
SPOKE Omar Welke
Editor:
Associate Editor:
Jeff Brinkhof
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Telephone: 748-5366
Programming we would like to see
G
number
iven the high
of lousy “real-life” TV dramas clogging the airwaves, I decided to com-
By Craig McLay
pose a list of some of the ones I’d like to see.
“A Few Woodmen”: A paleobotanist
hotshot
(David Suzuki) must defend two California redwoods (Keanu Reeves, Pauly Shore) from the clutches of an evil acting coach (Richard Simmons).
Children ate not supposed to die
“The Fugitive”: An alderman accused of running off with city funds (Bob Rae) must find a tax shelter before he is caught by a unionized civil servant (Sheila Copps) with only one paid vacation
always difficult when we lose love. It is one of the most difficult things in life. Death I mean. At times it can seem so simple. You live and then you die. End of story. The scenario becomes difficult to the people you leave behind who spend countless hours
day.
trying to figure
t
“The Crying Shame”: Two
lesbians
(Tammy
Bakker, Jerry
Seinfeld) on the run from a brutal sheriff (Macaulay Culkin) decide
when
to drive off a cliff
they discover one of them
is
really
John
Bobbitt.
A washed-up star (Cher) is suspected of endorsing a lethal line of self-improvement tapes that turn the viewer (David Letterman) into a Beavis and Butthead fan. after
“Geriatric Park”:
A
megalomaniac (Ted Turner) who plans
to
get rich cloning dead celebrities (Michael Jackson) fails because he
make
can’t
the color look realistic.
“The Infirm”: A
rookie guidance counsellor (Will Ferguson)
must choose between
and a career as a breath mint salesman when he discovers the people he works for are crooks.
An
actor supposedly fired because he got a bad
haircut (Kevin Costner) takes his studio to court it
was
on the grounds that because he badly faked an English accent.
really
“Gilligan’s Alive!”: The skipper of a shipwrecked boat (Rob
Lowe)
ostracized from the other survivors after he
playing a
little
too enthusiastically with his
“little
caught buddy” (Pee Wee
one
who can
An
“Kill Barney!”: Coulier)
when
is
A no-talent sitcom star (Bob Saget) is the only getting their
own
talk
they realize he
is
it,
aggravating dinosaur impersonator (Dave
Bram)
a complete idiot.
follow her eldest
we
to
in.
will
.say
Spoke reserves
the right to edit letters to
Your
when
like
we
all
1
Spoke, Conestoga College, 299 Doon Valley Dr., Room 4B15 Kitchener ,Ontario, N2G 4M4 Telephone: 748-5366
I
drive by her high school and liv-
I
see the tired look in her mother’s
do.
way to prevent it. Maybe that’s the
1
5-year-old will die but Paulina
of other young kids
lots
hardest thing about
The
will.
it.
to
before Christmas
The second was that word “never”. It was the following week when
I
spent
noticed the
first
the top of
my
in
I
have known for
of the discussion topics that
my
was
friends
hair color.
bemoan
1
the
input
was requested,
feeling quite
I
smug when
I
suppressed another smirk
one
woman
in like
said her grey hair
have grey hair
managed listen
friends’
to tune out the
voice
sympathetically to
dilemma.
my
when came
a skunk stripe, and another
said hers
was similar to
the bride of
was my
turn,
and
I
gave a
little
speech on being content with your
who you
was
are. It’s
that counts, not the I
assured them.
wish I could rewind the tape and have someone stick a chunk of alum in my mouth. I said, “I really like the color of my hair and even if it turns grey I’ll never try to hide who I really am.” It
at that
my
hair
was not even
other hairs and
After the
initial
point
I
an army
the texture
wasn’t a
it
shock
I
plucked
the offensive hair and took a long
hard look
in the mirror.
There was
another one, and another.
want grey hair and
Frankenstein. It
The of
stuck out of
like
shimmering highlight.
color of your hair,
all
head
mering highlights.
A demon voice sang gleefully in my head, “These women are younand you don’t!”
It
salute.
appearance and your personality
ger than you, they
one.
The general consensus was that grey hairs just do not grow in the way you want them to, like shim-
informed them that this was not a problem I had to deal with. I
and
use of the word
“if’ instead of “when”.
it
Niagara-on-the-Lake with
remember
I
my
haunt
memorable afternoon carolling
When my
fit
was
I
A week a
thing that angered the
first
hair gods
I
appearance of grey hair and the methods they were using to disguise this simple fact of aging.
must be signed, and include your program and year for verification. Send letters to the Spoke office. Room 4B 5, Doon campus. letter
didn’t feel as though
There’s no one to blame for something like this and no
her such a hard time that she
never, because
always come back
listened to
you have a beef, or an
libellous statements.
when
No one ever thinks a
We
the Christmas holidays.
learned never
hi.storic
Letters to the editor it
loss
learned an important lesson
particular Sunday,
remove any
I
Why worry about a few grey hairs?
One
space, and to
do feel
feel loss
—
her
would lock her in pitch-black basement until she
to get even.
we never gave
group of women over 20 years.
opinion, please send
I
Michiels did and I’m sure
a closet or leave her in a
a
the editor. If
different.
knowing how much she misses Paulina and knowing she wishes things had happened differently
Tammy, and I around. WherAnd the minute we did to
Nothing seemed lost anything.
eyes,
her point to
it
something we shouldn’t have, Paul ran straight
But
weren’t a part of each other’s lives when still alive in my childhood mem-
ing.
went, she was there.
mom to squeal. We did our share
had But
I
made
younger, Paul sister,
we
see her friends standing outside smoking, talking,
should be.
girl
.
she died. Paulina was
—
have
you have any script ideas of your own, send them Aaron Spelling c/o the Spoke office.
all letters to
family,
I
When we were
.
don’t feel the loss of Paulina because, unlike her
you.
the best that our worst television writers
to offer. If
Spoke welcomes
.
I
ories.
I over
show.
assassinated by his followers (Sharon, Lois and
So there you have
as
I called her) as a kid. She few years younger than me. She giggled at the silliest things, wore her hair as high as she could get it and made sure everything matched her eyeshadow. everything a She was boy-crazed and immature
stop a group of itinerant terrorists (Rush Limbaugh,
Howard Stem) from
came
Just a
teenage
didn’t see Paulina any-
is
Herman).
“Mrs. Housefire”:
It
was
cried. is
1992.
She wasn’t sick. It wasn’t don’t know what the hardest thing
still
I
I
more. All I had were memories. Tons of memories. Memories 1 didn’t pay much attention to because I didn’t think they were important.
to all of us.
And
didn’t like her.
These days, I see those memories over and over. It is as though they are on a reel in my mind like a movie.
about her death is. I saw Paulina (or Paul, as
ever
hou.se of ill-repute.
“Philislexia”:
huge shock
expected.
A
porn star accused of faking orgasm (Madonna) a convent and uses her quirky charm to turn it into a
“Sister Acts”: hides out in
jail
a
arate ways,
By Sheilagh McDonald
all out.
it
we
When Tammy and I went our sep-
My friend Paulina died in December
“The InfoMurders”:
murder
thought
is
I someone we
way I
1
I
I
didn’t
didn’t like the
looked.
thought back to
my
words
in
knew as surely as Raisin Bran has two Niagara-on-the Lake and
I
scoops that grey hair would indeed affect my personality. It was time for action. 1
have since eliminated the word
my vocabulary. In its place are words like Clairol, Nice never from ’n
Easy, L’Oreal ....
.
Spoke, Monday, February
7,
1994 3
Guelph firm hires 40 through JobsOntario
Students trade
By Laura Nahls
their
exams
for fundraising
The government of Ontario is inmore than $320,000 in Hematite Manufacturing in Guelph to hire and train 40 long-term unemvesting
By Monika Greenan
ployed people.
Nineteen Conestoga social
ser-
The announcement was made by Guelph MPP Derek Fletcher and
vices students exchanged exam writing for a fund-raising project
associate Minister of Education
that raised
and Training, Mike Faman, at the Guelph campus of Conestoga Col-
(Reaching Our Outdoor Friends). Some students asked to do a proj-
lege.
ect, said social services co-ordin-
The college
is
the JobsOntario
date
is
to refer
techniques involved
program participants
Fletcher said. date, the
create
MPP Derek Fletcher (left) holds a JobsOntario Training Fund Contract. Looking on are Hematite Manufacuring’s director of corporate planning Jerry Jean (right) and Mike Farnan, (centre) Associate minister of education and training, (Photo by Laura Nahls) Guelph
province, he said, will save approx-
problem
imately $135 million in social as-
recycling, they have earned a repu-
sistance costs.
tation for innovation,” Fletcher
quality of the applicants,” he said.
Tibbits said he
said.
“They
playing an important role
“It’s far better that
someone receive
a paycheque in-
stead of a welfare cheque.
It
helps
restore a person’s dignity.”
Hematite manufactures sound from
barrier materials for cars,
scrap automotive trim.
“By
turning
what was once a costly disposal
into a
model of profitable
train appropriate
“I
personnel
was very impressed with
past,” he added.
the
had a positive attitude towards work and training and a
Most of
the company’s producexported to automobile manufacturer^in the United States.
tion
all
good skills base.” “The financial support provided
is
Hematite’s Director of Corporate
the
rights and responcan relate to students. In
counselling sessions
it
comes out
like this;
Most of the above
refer to behaviors which will rarely end up in a court of law and are seldom registered as formal complaints; they are conten-
on
theirs (even friends).
that
What can you do?
ItlsO.K
as protection when rights are violated. At the college level we have The Student Proce-
to protest
rights extend well beyond the mythical status of pathetic peon. So too, responsibilities for appropri-
what one faculty calls “good beyond the notion that “I paid my tuition; I’ll do whatever I like.” This year, Marg Smith, Conestoga’s Employment Equity Officer working with? Debra Croft of Human Resources intends to expand the College’s harassment and discrimination policy. We have a pamphlet available through
Human
Resources, Student Services, Health Services and the Doon Student Association which outlines the current policy in a readable form. With all of this in place, surely we can relax since we are covered. Not so! We all bear responsibility to make it work as well as the right to be protected.
rights are violated by will
and must be
heard. *
to
approach someone
in
order
to establish
contact *
to
* *
*
speak up
in class
may differ from
about opinions or ideas others' views.
to
hug a friend or hold a door open
to
make a joke confront someone who has offended know-
to
ingly or unknowingly
president said.
Letter to the editor "1 can’t
hear you.”
Theses are famous words in the second-year labor relations class with Bill Harri.son.
are situated
a
in
large
Because of
a class
this,
represenative wrote a
memo
to
Jim Drennan requesting that a speaker system be installed in larger classrooms in the college. We were given assurance that this matter would be looked
However, two weeks following this memo, these familiar words can still be after immediately.
heard echoing through “I can’t hear you!!!”
We
the class,
hope these infamous
words
will
still
disappear
in the
It Is to
$200 each.
and hand in a group report. The group report gave students
Brad Martin and Harold Lawrence,
2B02
istration
on
ion
management
strengths
the
unexpected posand negatives. “Generally speaking they did very well. Two groups specifically caught my attention," he said. One group went to employees of an agency and asked if contributions could be made from the bar at the agency’s Christmas dance. “That worked very well. They (the group) received amajor contribution. Another group combined two types of events,” Parker .said. “They set up donation boxes at King’s Centre and at the same time had a 50-50 draw for store employidea, as well as the itives
ees.” ideas that did not
work
in
schools.
By
the time they received the as-
signment and started working on it, students were on Christmas break. “Other groups encountered another problem,” Parker said.
“The public may be financially burdened during Christmas. Despite the nature of Christmas, not
everyone looks beyond themselves, therefore, the result was negative in terms of people’s generosity.”
studies
fundraisers to help offset expenses for a two-day retreat at Crieff Hills
community, in
a Presbyterian church
Puslinch Township, near
Not O.K. to silence
another through
threats or intimidation *
to persist
or to follow that person after they
have expressed a desire *
to
be
left
alone.
slanderous, sexual and salacious remarks which demean another. to
make
to hit, wrestle or push anyone even if it is “just a joke" or to touch without permission * to make jokes based on gender, race, religion or sexual orientation (that includes “blonde
*
and "men" jokes) to bad-mouth someone without even letting that person know that offence was taken * to create a scenario of good guys vs. bad guys - we all need to work together. *
Pat Trudeau
is
a counsellor with Doon student services
On
the top of the hour
Listen for Dorn's Entertainment File 9:30 a.m.
as
well as the others were fund-raising
Guelph.
be silenced or
and
their fundraising
Students arc also planning
very near future.
feeling guilty.
*
to rai.se
also required to evaluate their peers
The
tion suffers.
Second-year Business admin-
to apologize and to accept an apology without
*
citizen-
ship”, extends far
when your
.
anyone within the system you
dures Guide which is our legal document. What may look like more dry “bottom of the heap” reading is actually useful material because it is written in terms of rights and responsibilities. Many students are surprised to learn that their
.
.
*
that
Most recently Bill 79 which deals with employment equity was passed and will become law this year. These laws provide us with standards as well
and prepara-
new Jobs as well as helps economy move forward,” the
Obviously, hearing becomes difficult and hence our educa-
others in the classroom.
tody, stalking.
helps
vidual to maintain a positive environment. That means monitoring our own behavior as well as
means screening Jokes and not ignoring sexual comments made about myself or
asked as a counsellor in Student Services regarding issues of harassment and sexual assaults. We are, after all, a society that cherishes law and order at all levels of governance and, therefore, have legal recourse both as the offended and the offender. Canadians are fortunate to have laws in place (more needs to be done) that deal with sexual assault, harassment, discrimination, parental cus-
skills
It
classroom with poor acoustics and there are 76 people in it.
For myself
“How would this be treated in court?” and “What can I do about this?” are questions that I am often
the
in
Having systems and people in place to deal with them does not lessen the obligation of each indi-
calling others
By Pat Trudeau
the college
.sees
tion for
We
tious.
marks, students
full
weaknesses of
address training needs on a much broader base than we did in the
I
receive
purpose of the program.
ing program will enable the company to expand more rapidly and
terms that
To
were required
the opportunity to give their opin-
people develop
Not being a lawyer, I put these
others ran raffles.
economic well-being of the region. “We at Conestoga appreciate the
by JobsOntario has given Hematite Manufacturing the opportunity to
sibilities in
ROOF or writing the
Christmas exam. Five groups were formed. “Ten (students) opted to write the exam. Each group did their own thing,” Parker .said. Some groups did 50-50 draws, others set up donation boxes and
Students within each group were
Conestoga’s president John
Planning, Jerry Jean, said the train-
Counsellor's Corner
ate conduct,
1
ing project for
employees can receive a training credit of up to $10,000 per new employee,”
Farnan said
community
groups and working on a fund-rais-
private sector
This year’s placements across the
to practice in
gave them an option.” The option consisted of fomiing “So,
“Under JobsOntario Training,
program has helped more than 36,000 jobs for long-term unemployed people throughout the province, more than 800 of these in the Guelph area.”
ROOF
organization funding.
to employers who are partners of JobsOntario training, such as Hematite Manufacturing.
"To
Dick Parker,
ator,
broker for the area and their man-
$3, ()()() for
and 11:30 a.m.
4 Spoke, Monday, February
7,
1994
Student receives award for logo slogan,
By Wladimir Schweigert
Hookumchand
It
Volunteers don’t make money. their efforts they might get an appreciation dinner once a year or
of Citizens on Patrol, a circular logo with a blue background. In the
perhaps, just a handshake. More than likely they’ll receive nothing.
For
Some
doesn’t bother her any more
now, she
said, but
it
call
emblem
has a multicolored
District high school
letter
"W”
The drawn to
is
tended for 2
it.
painful as
her names; especially at Paris
Waterloo regional
police
written over
was
a non-white to hear schoolmates
centre, a white
letter’s centre stroke
people even have to pay to
and equitably.
fairly
created, in
consultation with other volunteers
She
still
1
which she
at-
/2 years.
objects to people some-
volunteer, and the only testimony
depict a female figurine that rises to
times assuming she comes from
a hastily drafted
the same height as the outerstrokes. This symbolizes "equality,”
Asia.
Hookumchand said. The slogan "Make
"Are you from India?” she prefers
that they serve
is
thank you note on green recycled paper.
But a law and security administra(LASA) student from Con-
at the
estoga College was publicly honored Jan. 20 by Waterloo re-
right out of
gional police with an award.
It
people
in
distre.ss
with the police. in
It
patrolling the
After
many
at least
10 hours of "cut
community
and
Hookumchand
volunteers every
challenge.
eight-hour shift assisting staff and
tion holds
But
Hookumchand,
in
estoga, said she
would
like to
where people of all races are
Guyana is
the
also the prestige the posi-
policing.
Con-
"I look
up
to
them
(officers),”
Hookumchand said. And she does it in spite of her knowledge that many people these
make
the world a better place to live
in
it’s
in
who are police
and the authority the uniform confers that attract her to
her final stages at
cousins
Another reason
officers.
weekend at the Cambridge Memorial Hospital, putting in an
of law enforcement training
designing the logo and writing the
many
Florida (U.S.)
in
other
comforting patients.
.streets.
know what I’m going against in life and I have goals to reach,” said the devout Michael Jackson fan. One reason she enrolled in law and security administration is that she has
involve-
ment.
also helps police
attempts
Hookumchand uses her experiences to become more assertive. “I
her community.
But many hours of work also went into another
1993 to assist in conjunction
initial
took
in
together.
bridge. in
involved
ground.
desire
Galt resident, just to put the logo
your volunteer efforts in designing a logo for Citizens on Patrol.” Citizens on Patrol, a pilot project initially planned for Kitchener, is a volunteer organization in Cam-
was formed
Hookumchand’s
and paste,” said the 21 -year-old
The student designed and produced a logo for which she received a plaque that reads: "Joanne Hookumchand, in appreciation of
It
people to ask about her ethnic back-
a difference,”
bottom of the logo, comes
tion
to get
Instead of posing the question;
in,
treated
Bursaries available to leant French next summer in Quebec
LASA Student Joanne Hookumchand displays the award she received. (Photo by Wladimir Schweigert)
Journalism photo labs require modifications By
Being able to speak both Canatja’s official languages can be a tremendous asset throughout one’s life. George Brown College currently offers an opportunity to learn French and the French-language culture in an immersion setting.
Julie
allowing water to leak. "You don’t want water running
Cooper
The journalism program at ConDoon campus is
estoga College’s
hoping
have
to
photography
its
fa-
renovated and upgraded by September 1995 when an articula-
cilities
Students spend six weeks in La Procatiere, immersed of
in
the language and the culture
Quebec,
tion program with the University of Waterloo is scheduled to begin. The new program will allow uni-
versity students to obtain both a
The program
will
be offered from July 4
-
Aug.
UW
12, 1994.
bachelor’s degree from and a journalism diploma from Con-
.
estoga
Conversational classes afternoons, academic
week-ends are
will
and
take place socio-cultural
free, but social, cultural
in
the mornings from 9
workshops
and physical
will
-
noon.
In
the
be held. Evenings and
activities
a
in
"Even
if
we
didn’t have the artic-
selection to receive a bursary,
you need
to apply before
Feb. 18, 1994
“I feel badly that students are coming here to a professional jour-
able and have to
be renovated
at
ris,
chair of applied
ment ”
isfy the entire col-
—
Mon &
Thurs -
5:00
-
6:00 p.m.
Steve Finlay, photography instructor
and
McGregor
facilities really are bor-
coming here
Shawn Wade, Black Master Chung W.
to a professional jour-
nalism course and then getting stuck with really mediocre equipment.”
Consultant: Cost: $ 65.00
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ojit.
[imagine
how
far
$400,000 goes,” Harris said. "I could spend $|400,000 in a few
a day steadily. They’re just not de-
signed to stand up to
exist there.”
At present, about 80 journalism one person using
five or six hours a
week
at
the
most, Finlay said.
Yet they are being "used
1
0 hours
it.”
Moreover, the plumbing "is not up to scratch,” according to Roger Y oung, another photo teacher. “We have leaks and you can’t turn certain faucets on.”
Forward payment to Recreation Centre: All Cheques Payable to Conestoga College
library,
in some departments.” Receiving money to upgrade the photography facilities will be a “matter of trying to persuade the dean and others who prioritize the demands that this should be at the top of this list as opposed to the bottom,” Harris .said. “At this point I don’t even have a complete picture of all the problems that might
them
Belt
pointed
"Yqu cpuld
badly that students are
are designed for
Instructor:
school, program
journalism pho-
students share nine enlargers that
April 7, 1994
every campus,
Finlay said the
“I feel
Jan 27
sat-
lege, including
dering on pathetic.
CONESTOGA COLLEGE
subsidy
which must
arts.
tography
* *
(RAM)
really
instructor Steve
IN
renovations, alterations and
then getting stuck with mediocre equip-
the college’s
Photography
NOW
equipment grant and a $400,000
nalism course and maintenance
some point,” said Fred Har-
For more information contact the French Centre, 416’867’2435.
"The question of course, is whether the college can come up with the money to do it,” he said. Grant McGregor, Doon principal and dean of applied arts, said the college has used all of its capital budget for this fiscal year. Conestoga receives an annual
$406,000 academic capital
less than desir-
first
ers doubled, Finlay said.
UW,
the facilities are
Full-time students may be eligible for a bursary provided by the Department of Canadian Heritage, that covers tuition fees, accommodation and meals. To be in the
over the floor,” he emphasized.
The journalism program would like to see the darkroom expanded, a developing room added and the number of print stations and enlarg-
ulation agree-
ment with
are organized
over three years
little
time.
all
Young said he is concerned about hazardous puddles that form on the print icals
room
floor because the chemhave eaten away at the drain.
hours
More information from
the jour-
needed before he can submit a recommendation in the next few weeks. Harris added that he would like nalism program
is
the modifications to be in place as
of September, 1994, so the incoming students will have access to revised equipment.
Spoke, Monday, February
7,
1994 5
Visiting Finnish students receive tour Give the gift of life! Blood Donor Clinic Wednesday Feb. 9
of Woodworking Centre of Ontario fast as
By John Cinezan
you can you
He was happy
A
group of seven busy woodworking students from Jurvan, Finland toured Conestoga’s
Woodworking Centre of Ontario Jan. 27, as part of a
week-long
formation-gathering
visit.
in-
The group, accompanied by two and three guests, was and
fur-
niture factories across southern
On-
what opportunities were available to them in Canada. "When we get back we will make tario to see
Johan Wiklov, one of the students from the Jurvan Handcraft and In-
The presentation
will include a speech,
photographs
and videotape.
The students were especially inhand carving and were given a demonstration of European chip cutting by Peter Findlay, tour guide and program co-ordinator of woodworking techterested in the art of
nician.
"In Europe, we’re in
more
interested
carved furniture. ” Wiklov said.
"Here,
it’s
more
like
that
hand carving was still being kept alive in Canada by European immigrants who are teaching the craft younger to
Sami
Tiisjarvi, a visiting student,
very good here.
’’
— Johan Wiklov,
Finnish student
you do
it
as
varieties of
'Fhe students financed the trip
also
wanted
to
know
from and old
an average woodworkjourneyman could make in Canada. Findlay told them that wages ranged from $8 to $20 plus per hour, depending on economic conditions and the type of work
being done. Findlay said Conestoga offered
art
museum
in
Lenin-
Mantyamma, another visiting student, was amazed at how big Conestoga was compared to his Pasi
which only has 200
"Our school
an old wooden
is
pointing
modern
the
at
skylights
and glass doors of the Woodworking Centre of Ontario. With over 4,000 students you have a small town, he added. As for the cold weather, the students said they were used to it
it
Nominations open Executive Positions
Monday
It
sucks doesn’t
it?” said
Feb. 14
-
for
Doon Student Association
Thursday Feb. 24
For more Information on the positions available. See Jenn at the DSA Administration Office
and
was nothing special. "It’s the same in Finland, always
cold.
Conestoga College woodworking
stu-
building, not like this,” he said,
courses plus an eight-week apprenthe field.
Government
dents.
two- and three-year woodworking ticeship course for those already in
Get involved in Student
grad, Russia.
how much ing
by
restoring several antique doors
.school
The students
You have
wood, very
cheap.”
terested in carved furniture. Here it’s more like you do it as fast as you can and sell it.
3 p.m.
practices. "It’s
Europe we’re more in-
-
Student Lounge
was impressed by Canada’s cheap lumber and reforestation said he
generations.
“In
10 a.m.
cent job placement rate.
the art of
a presentation to the school,” said
dustry school.
though
many
instructors
visiting technical schools
graduates, he added, have an 88 per
sell it.”
to hear
GOOD-BYE BIG CHILL
one
of the students.
COUBc^
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fast...
we need people for the following positions:
Camp directors Camp leaders for:
*
*
summer Fun Camp summer Adventure Camp summer Multi-Sports Camp Leader-in-training positions available
*
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-
We will be accepting applications for all above
positions during the
month
of Feb-
ruary
Applications Johan Wiklov (right) and woodworking centre at Doon campus. woodworking the
-innish student
nade
at
instructor Peter Findlay
examine a chair
leg
(Photo by John cmezan)
can be picked up
at the
Rec. Centre.
Other positions
may become available
as program registrations take place.
Conestoga’s RNA program to get
new name
in
protected under the
A new title
for registered nursing assistants is in the works. They will soon be known as registered name change practical nurses (RPNs), but the will have no effect on Conestoga’s nursing pro-
RNA
grams, says a health sciences official. Under the Regulated Health Professions Act (RHP A), registered nursing assistants will have the new title, registered practical nurse (RPN)The new act is expected by the end of the year.
Nancy Hacking, of
the college’s health sciences
program, said the new label “won’t change anything as far as the programs go.” Although there is a conversion in title it does not a change in the actual role. RNAs who are currently registered will not require any additional
mean
preparation or training.
Registered practical nurses will be expected to meet the same requirements for registration and standards of practice as they did as just
RNAs.
workers in the field are concerned, a name change,” Hacking said.
“As
far as
it is
For
near future
With the proclamation of
By Venus Cahill
Watch
new
the act, the
legislation
new
At
the
more
information
Information call Barb
McCauley
at 748-3512 ext. 386 title is
and only those
holding current registration with the college of nurses may use it. A three-year transition period is provided through titles the legislation, during which time either of the
may be
for further
used.
end of the three years, however, the
title
Incredible Rental Incentives!
RNA will no longer be protected. RNAs will be able to use and sign their is
new title
as
soon as
the
new
act
in effect.
The 1994
Certificates of
will continue to display the
for this is that certificates
title
RNA. The
needed
reason
to be ordered in
renewal period. Because of the uncertainty over the timing of proclamation, 1 994 certificates ran the risk of being
July for the
fall
invalid if proclamation did not occur. All 1995 titles will carry the new title.
Hacking emphasized that the modification in title would have no effect on the college nursing programs.
“This
is
strictly a
Two or three bedroom town
Competence, however,
name change,”
she said.
homes close to
college, with large
rec room, appliances and a half baths.
one and
and ask for Phil or leave a message on voice mail. Call 748-9678
1
6 Spoke, Monday, February
1994
7,
Residence council transition completed ceedings against him. He said the first time he heard about being im-
By Robert Gray The impeachment of former residence president Richard Moravec is completed and Bob Pettit, the new president, said the procedure
peached was about one hour before the meeting on Monday Jan. 7 in which he was voted out of office.
followed was correct.
tions upon me, gone tob far.’
Moravec was impeached
for fail-
ure to perform his duties as presi-
1
"When
they brought these allega-
point out
said, ‘fine, this has
1
If
they’re going to
things about what
little
council.”
"There’s been someone from management trying to keep things calm,” he .said. "We don’t want any yelling matches going on or any-
concerns for Beaver Foods Ltd.,
on behalf of the council
according to dietician Susan Cornish.
better cost, ” she said.
council’s been doing wrong.
going to have growing pains.
wrote a
"We
down and
pre-
feel that
a
young council, they’re
because
we
management and it was agreed with management that stu-
activity fee
dents will decide
best interests of the students are
sented
to
it
at the
end.”
There were plans for a referen-
dum
tution.
of things
list
remove council but
to
we should
that
act,
make
sure the
conserved.”
had one meeting and there was a vote taken and he (Richard) approached me and Jason after the meeting and asked us to let the students decide. We said okay and we
minute di.scussions with the people involved cleared up misunder-
issues have not been dealt with.
standings, said Pettit.
been dealt with with management and the council, or what you could
did the petition.”
as
Moravec
said council misinter-
preted him. "I
way back
remember saying
let’s let the
students de-
cide,” he said.
"What really got me was that the members interpreted that as
council
fine, we'll
let
the students decide’
and within a day or two they were going around getting a petition. Is getting a petition letting the stu-
dents decide?
"No. What the council did was influence the students to decide,
because a number of students came
“The referendum never went through. They’re going to leave
They were not
it
any of our meetings except for one and that was during the impeachment. is.
"They
said
at
had never been voted in and yet we told them it had. That was at one of the meetings that every council member was present for and we it
Ted
Patfield (concerned residents),
and everything went really well.” Paul Holowaty, a manager at
Rodeway
Suites, said
management
forward saying, ‘they’re twisting my arm, they’re saying all these things about you and they’re only giving one side.’” Moravec was surprised when
council’s affairs.
council started impeachment pro-
and they should have the entire say
has been trying to stay out of "It’s a student council. It’s
the students.
run by
for the students
is
It
looks like
like the council
is
everything’s
me
going
1
versities since 1981.
Cornish said the current health
Moravec. they’re not
thing.
It’s
they’re afraid to
let
decide
this
almost as
if
the students
decide.
"At the beginning of the year Cola
Buscombe (DSA
and different cooking methods to improve the nutritional value of gredients, special recipes
their products.
The main goal
company is to lower the fat and sodium found in foods. Jackie von Trigt, manager of the Beaver Foods outlets at
was a night to remember good times, take minds off the cold It
weather and forget about school. Rodeway Suites kicked off the .second semester with a party for the student residents Jan. 27, that lasted
from 8 p.m. until around 5 a.m.. This was the third successful residential party organized
Rodeway
by the
Suites student residence
council. "It
was
a
welcome back
party
launching the college’s .second semester,” said (residence council) president
Bob
Pettit.
The licensed party was held the students at
Rodeway
for
but guests
could attend for $2. Beer and shots were $2 each. The common room
may have made a profit from the party,” Pettit said. For the party, student council hired professional DJ Danny Smith from Hamilton for the party. Smith played a wide variety of dance and rock music. People crammed onto the dance floor wh ich was occupied most of the night. “The DJ was pretty good. He played a good mix,” said one student
who
attended.
is
Nancy Murray says the company has always tried to give its customers as much information as possible.
“Beaver was the first food management company to install health programs in schools. Since
1
to help
977 we have always tried people learn to make bet-
ter choices,”
she said.
nothing dated.
"Those are some key factors that must be done for a constitution to be agreed by council. Otherwise anyone can mess around with the constitution
if nothing is
recorded.”
Suites
Pettit said the council hired
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from the
was a huge success and about 150 people showed up. "It went great. People were from all over the place. There were people from Wilfrid Laurier, from Conestoga and Hanover. The student
into
It’s
Geoff Pearson wrote
(a friend of his) at a reasonable
it
Von
much
are very
It was brought up, mentioned, there were no official votes taken, there are no official
Rodeway
start.
“We
healthy foods.
activities co-or-
Rodeway, which holds a maximum of 220 people, was packed Pettit said
dents nutritional foods.
this constitution.
in
By Sean McMinn
for
the
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Students party at
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looks toward using healthier in-
know how
dinator) and
and program services years, at Beaver Foods for said the company has had health programs in colleges and uni-
weaseled their way
to let the students
whole
has worked in
promotion, Healthier Eating,
real issues,” said
don’t
"I
who
Cornish,
seerns
it
into not letting the students decide
on the
in at that time.
"Myself, Geoff Pearson and one of the managers, Brian Wilson, had a meeting with Chris Hindy and
it
call a council, but to
(the constitution)
it
verbally voted
"What
may
nutrition
But Moravec said some important
last
ant to the
We
thing like that. They’re inexperi-
enced,
more votes than we needed. We went through the meetings. It takes two successive meetings of the council with two different votes to impeach the president in our consti-
Doon campus, said it is importcompany to sell stu-
By Sheilagh McDonald
did collect an
I’m doing wrong. I’m going to point out to them what the whole
it’s
list
one of the top priorities in the company. “The head office mails us newsletters each month detailing how we can produce our food better and sometimes at a
"There was a petition done on Richard, and we got far
1
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dent and for unethical behavior. Pettit said,
Nutrition at top of
what goes on,” said Holowaty. "But there has been a small group of .students that have expressed concern about the legitimacy of our in
Smith
"He did a real deal for us. We room for the night and
at the Workstations in the
Doon Learning Resource Centre?
paid him his his gas
money.”
There was also a pool tournament. Admission was $2 and the money went towards paying for the table, Pettit said. "The winner got the remainder of money after the pool
was paid for.” There were no problems at the welcome back party, he added. As for the mess after the long table
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(PersMctiv Domm vows he will continue to defy publication ban By
Matthews
Blair
Guelph police department, ahead of time that was doing it,” Domm
don
OPP officer Gor-
Guelph
Retired
Domm said he will continue to
bannncd infomiation related to the murders of St. Catharines-area teenagers Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French. Domm has been charged with two counts of contempt of court after he distribute
defied a court-ordered publication
ban issued
last
summer by Ontario
Justice Francis
Kovacs. crusade began months ago when he first heard a broadcast of a U.S. television show, A Cur-
Domm’s
rent Affair,
because
it
Karla Teale
Domm
would be blacked out
featured a story on the trial.
said he
saw Ontario’s
at-
As
said.
Domm
a result,
publicity that
was
According
to
Domm,
smoothly. “I didn’t just told selected
could
tell
media
prove) that
did
I
"She was threatening a criminal prosecution to anyone who copied and that has nothing to do with copyright laws,” Domm said. this
Domm
distributed
50 copies of the
Current Affair broadcast, "perhaps To see what (the police’s) reaction would be.” to test the waters.
Though
Domm
wasn’t charged admits he was
after that incident, he
discreet in his actions in order to
do
further research on the ban and
what
it
would mean
Domm
he defied it. the decision to sub-
made
if
supported by
is
that
I
According
knew
Leslie Mahaffy, voiced strong protest
"1
said
all
Domm
the people
on the
when
they heard to do.
said his rea.sons for buck-
concern
major must be held in pubis
“Even though they say
that
(the publi-
cation ban)
is temporary until the end of Paul Teale’s trial that’s not good enough.” Domm contends it may take two
—
or three years before Paul Teale’s case comes to court, and the public
know now. claims that Canada
has a right to
Domm
Domm
moving towards
is
doing.
ban for his
in the
said in the article.
Domm
of "profiting personally and politically by the high profile of this case
and
find that very obscene.”
1
Domm
said he still wishes Mahatty would clarify how he is profiting from the Teale case because to
in the last
Domm
.said
four years of his
he has spent close
$50,000 of his own money
ing for what he believes
lic.
gradually
Mahatfy
life,
ing the system are simple.
trials like this
do believe
(Teale’s) sake and for a fair trial,”
has approxi-
contacted him request-
initially
against what
Mahaffy also accused
mately 325 people on his mailing list that he has sent banned information to.
Domm
to a recent Kitchcncr-
Waterloo Record story, Debbie Mahatty, mother of slain teenager
I
it.”
Domm
date,
"My main
charges.
the police,
I
list
Domm
tion.
—
what he was attempting
could face criminal
second
"They came out and covered it there was no point in me sitting at home and telling them after did it. They’d want some footage (to
who lite
his
trust.
ing information
tribute the tape
Tliough
many, he has faced .some opposi-
mailing attempt went more
To
two years on escorted
passes.
crucial for his
torney general on television the night before and she said anyone
picked up the show via sateland attempted to copy and dis-
created
cause.
I
parole after serving only four
full
years, and
1
in.
fight-
He
has
not asked for any solicitations from
anyone.
According to Domm, he hasn’t even secured a lawyer to represent
him at the court appearances he’s already had. He has defended himself in court, and has not retained legal counsel. "To say what I want to say, and do what
I
want
to
do
after I’ve
been
charged, a lawyer would not counis
me,”
sel
Domm said.
"A lawyer cannot
a dicta-
torship by having trials and publi-
one
cation bans that exclude the public.
uing to break
to break the
counsel some-
law it,
... I’m continon their terms, sending out this
sequently distribute copies of a
"That’s the extreme, and the ex-
because I’m
newspaper article containing banned details of the Teale trial. In his first attempt to mail the 200
treme doesn’t come with a bang. It comes a little at a time until you
on request. I don’t feel I’m breaking the law.” Despite Domm’s claims, two charges of contempt of court are still pending at his March 30 pre-
British
envelopes,
Domm
was intercepted
by Guelph police officers, as he knew he would be. “I told Insp. Davis,
who was
charge of the investigation
in
at the
wake up some morning and you find out you’re living in a dictator-
ship.”
Domm
also said that the 12-year
still
literature
tribute
sentence given out to Karla
Regardless of the outcome,
Domm said he will continue to dis-
Domm details
sits in front of his collection of articles featuring
about the Teale
banned information him to stop.
until the
didn’t get one?”
Domm
"If I’m not suppo.scd to be
doing didn’t the court recom-
why mend a restraining order against me on my first trial date, when I told this,
them
in
open court
continue to defy
I
was going (the ban)
it
(Photo by Blair Matthews)
trial.
court orders
liminary court date.
Teale means she could be out on
jail
Gordon banned
to
if
1
all
said he has no regrets at about passing out banned infor-
mation, even
if
he goes to
jail.
maybe waken society up to what’s really wrong with our criminal justice "It ’s a
small price to pay to
system.”
The survey says: Conestoga opposes the Teale ban they had picked up information through computer bulletin boards.
By Craig McLay
A
survey conducted on Conestoga
In
some
cases, respondents admitted that
College’s Doon campus Jan. 26 found most
the information they had
and faculty disagree with the publication ban imposed on evidence
with was second-hand rumor picked up
students, staff,
for the trial of Paul Teale.
The informal survey of 20 people found 45 per cent of respondents disagreed with the ban,
narrowly edging out the 35 percent
who thought it was a good
Twenty per
idea.
Domm
believed
The margin was slightly larger on the issue of whether the ban was working or
the publication
Sixty per cent of respondents said they didn’t believe that the
ban was working
effectively to stop the spread of information
about the case before
trial.
Only 35 per was work-
cent said they believed the ban
in
contact
from friends. Support for Gordon Domm, the retired OPP officer charged with contempt of court for illegally distributing banned information, was strong at the college. Seventy per cent of respondents said they
cent were undecided.
not.
come
was
justified in breaking
ban on principle. Thirty per cent of respondents said Domm was not justified on the grounds that he was breaking the law. Only five per cent of respondents claimed to have received illegal trial information
from Domm, who mailed out a banned Newsweek article with his Christdirectly
Five per cent were undecided. preventing the spread of information before trial is the key goal of the ban, then
mas cards. Beyond the numbers, though, most peo-
by Con-
voice their opinions on the subject. “You either have freedom of the press or
ing. If
it
certainly
seems
to
have
failed
estoga standards.
A
whopping 75 per cent of respondents
said that they
have heard information about
the trial that
is
ban.
Of those
supposedly covered by the
respondents, 20 per cent said
ple responding to the survey
were eager
to
you don’t,” said Andrew Jankowski, co-ordinator of the journalism program. “People are asking for and getting publication bans
now for frivolous reasons.
It’s
crap.”
Jankowski .said he believed the main reason for the ban was to keep the public in the dark about the reason for Karla Teale’s lenient sentence. lieves
He
also said that he be-
Domm is fighting more than the ban.
“I guess he feels that there’s a principle
“He was breaking the law, but the only way you can change a law involved,” he said.
is
That sentiment was echoed by Gary Weeks, an elective teacher at the college whose course roster includes Social Problems, which deals with legal issues like the ban.
“He (Domm) has create change, that he’s
do
it
effectively broken the
when you’re
trying to
you do break the law.
doing
it
for society,”
“What you’re
It’s
not
personally, he’s trying to
Weeks
said.
weigh is a fair trial against freedom of the press and information. If you suppress information, you’re opening the door to more and more censorship. If you let too much information out before trial, maybe the guy gets off.” Weeks said it was hard to decide on the trying to
issue without having the information nec-
essary to do so. “It’s (the
Amer-
How can
you be 100 per cent decided when you don’t have all the ican newspapers.
information?”
The flow of information through computer boards, including an Internet link the college,
ing to
is
at
impossible to control accord-
computer programmer/analyst
teacher John Scott.
to challenge it.”
law, but sometimes
haven’t driven across the border for
ban) working for me, but
“Computer access cannot be policed,” he said.
“Fortunately, only a small percentage of
have that capability.” Kevin McIntyre, the computer services technician re.sponsible for .setting up the Internet connection, .said that there’s no way to totally control what people use it for. “The only way you could eliminate it (banned information) would be to take the Internet connection away,” he said. “And I the population
don’t think you’re going to sec that happen.”
Some ation
people, like
(DSA)
Student Associ-
Becky
Boertien, are just plain tired of the whole thing.
“I’m so sick of hearing about the whole thing,” she said.
I
Doon
activities co-ordinator
“Shows
Affair are just thriving on
like it.”
A
Current
.
8 Spoke, Monday, February
1994
7,
25 years and lots of Hart
needs
at the special By
There
do anything ... but as their three years go by, most of them are as
Cooper
Julie is
a special person
working
"It
Hart
and is known around campus as a person who genuinely cares about the welfare and needs for 25 years
1
for about five years
now. Hart said
most rewarding
part of her cler-
Job
ical
•sonal
"Many
students
come
said Hart often gave singing telegrams to people on their birth-
day. "She would call them up and,
with her voice disguised, sing Happy Birthday to them.” Aside from this Joie dc vivre. Hart
is
one to get the Job done. "Give me any task in the world. I don’t care how difficult it is. There are 0 or 2 people around here that I would pick to get it done. "Judy would be on that list; that’s how much respect I have for her,” Cleminson said. Celebrating her 50th birthday on Feb. 8, Hart sees herself working at Conestoga until 2001 "That’s when my age and service add up to 90,” she laughed. Until then, "I wouldn’t want to work anywhere else.”
harder.”
lot
is
the call of duty, taking care of
everybody as much as she can.” Winegarden said Hart and his seeing-eye dog Kore "loved each other
When Winegarden
to bits.”
1
re-
leased the dog’s harness, Kore
would Jump all over Hart and sniff desk drawer where Hart kept treats for the two seeing-eye dogs at the
.seeing the students’ per-
is
in
"re-
yond
and academic growth.
he said.
trar,
Hart always goes "above and be-
who doesn't get enough credit around here.” Cleminson said. Having worked in special needs
it,”
Betty Martin, the college regis-
needs office. of those students, Mike
helluva
the kind of person
to see
the registrar’s office.
in
Without her, my life at Conestoga would have been one
Hart’s friend and colleague. Cleminson. student services admissions counsellor. "She’s a very important person at
go
For several years. Hart worked
ally the glue that holds the office
Bill
the
graduated
college
together.
.said
—
who
Winegarden, 28, said Hart
there’s a student here
the college
entire
in the special
One
needs help, she’ll just stay,”
that
as Judyland. "She has her house decoratd for Christmas. Groups of people from the
to see the
993, as being the highlight of her
time
"Judy is the kind of person that you can never tell what time she starts and what time she finishes, if
known good
feel
blind students
of students.
becau.se
makes me
growth and how they can succeed.” But Hart considers the close friendship she developed with two
Her name is Judy Hart. has worked at Conestoga
fice.
She’s always in for practical Jokes at Christmas time her home is
and
confident as can be.
college’s special needs of-
in the
office
at the college.
Hart has a "delightful sense of
in the first
year and they are really shy or don’t
humor and
have any confidence that they can
Cleminson
view of
a fun
life,”
said.
1
First university/college job fair
helps students find employers dents, she said. cross-section of
By Monika Greenan If
you think finding
like finding a
attend the
needle
first
A
a Job today in
Companies
employment
have banks, insurance companies, sales and merchandising, and high tech companies, like NCR, setting up booths.” Admittance, and transportation to and from Bingeman’s conference cen-
Univcrsity/Collcge
tre, is
available to
all
Therefore, Job opportunities are available for first- and second- year students, as well as, graduating stu-
their lost
list
of
Human
company names
up to a year.” stemming from
Resources Development providing some financial assistance. The balance of the costs will be covered by the fees eharged
fair.
will
to
them
from a student
ca.scs, for
booths. All four insti-
must
be reaehed for the event to con-
be
tinue,
lost
ROCK N’ BOWL
books
most anything that’s portable comes in here. Right now I have a driver’s license I’d love to get back to the person but they’ve never come back,” Brady said.
The
written complaint continues that little
bored in that
"...
often ”
office...
but Brady takes no offence, “1 work nine hours a day and get paid for eight. I don’t know how much more they (the writer) want from me.” One of the possible solutions the mysterious the found items to the program’s co-ordinator.
studenLs find their lost books.
that co-ordinators
"If a .student of the college
security could find
them
the unsigned letter.
the Jan.
owed is
it
.sale
money, money,” reads
security
to get that
"Why
12
then that security
cannot show the same effort to return a lost book?” Brady says in most ca.ses security does make an effort to find the owner.“I think if
you wait months
and months and the person doesn’t show up, that’s fair enough. If the person really wanted it, why aren’t they looking for it?”
The
security office
is
home
letter’s
author suggests
Brady dismisses
is
this solution as impractical
do not want
saying
number
is
in the
certainly try to find the owner.”
we
will put a note
unfortunately
many
numerous
lost
or
misplaced items ranging from pens to rings. "Al-
1 1
p.m.
-
1
a.m.
the extra burden of
returning countless recovered items to their owners. "If the student’s
Thursday, Feb. 24
for security staff to deliver
Brady
book, said.
I
will
Frederick Brunswick Lanes
"Often
on the student’s locker,” but students do not use lockers
Tickets $7
assigned to them.
Brady’s advice to anyone hoping to be reunited with their lost possessions: “Take advantage of the fact that we’re*here, stressing that people should
to
DSA & CRKZ PRESENT
Smith added.
by security of unrecovered books, expressed concern that security was interested in profit by not helping letter,
Asking $140,000 or best offer phone 619-935-2931
is
company
security people look a
letter
home.
tutions are financially strapped,
posted adjacent to Job fair posters
concerning the selling of their misplaced books, Brady said, "Those books have been sitting here, in
some The
said.
Canada
Small offset printing shop and retail postal outlet in Saubie Beach area, plus four bedroom
it
event,” she
therefore, a breakeven point
A
books are not returned
anonymous
successful,
become an annual
spective employers.”
college security officer Jim Brady. to a
it’s
Water-
for
they .should be angry with themselves, says
Responding
the first Job fair in
is
any questions the students may have about how to approach pro-
Students should not be angry with security person-
when
resume package, worth
loo Region. "If will
career services booth, for stu-
By Dan Hebert
—
This
when times
Anger over profit from nel
for a
$25.”
"Staff will be on hand to answer
will offer full time,
Buy a Job!
information. There will be a free
draw
students free
dents, will be set up at the Job
summer employment.
in the
students to ask questions and gather
have been arranged.
A
DSA Activities Promotion Co-ordinator, Cola Buscombe, fulfills her obligations by tacking up a poster which promoted the polar plunge. Buscombe was also a participant in the plunge. (Photo By Alan Horn)
college, prior to the Job fair, for
of charge. Smith said. The bus schedule will be posted
around the
"Tables will also be set up
"We
a haystack,
fair
contract and
bulletin boards college. Smith said.
opportunities will be featured.
is
on Feb. 15 and you may change your mind. Over 38 small to medium-sized companies from throughout .southwestern Ontario, and the Toronto Region, have been confirmed for the Job fair being held at Kitchener’s Bingeman Conference Centre, said Debbie Smith, the college’s co-op and placement manager.
Job
now on
come
in and check for their possessions, not Just once but several times. They Just give up too soon.”
Don’t miss your chance to win great prizes
Spoke, Monday, February
—
is
Conestoga’s
connection with the outside world of electronic information is threatened first
by selfish users
Review
dent would have to have a secret account number to access the
part three of a series on the Internet system. This
who
system. In addition, there would have to be space made available
on the server’s hard drives for each student to receive electronic mail or E-mail.^
ignore the
Until then students arc asked
needs of other students, say sources at the Learning Resource Centre.
to be conscious of other students
The Internet computer work
is
net-
a veritable goldmine of
information, resources,
humor
and casual distraction, but the hook is sometimes tex) strong and people forget there are oth-
waiting to use the
and
LRC’s system
to access Internet during off
hours.
While the Internet
is
library staff agrees
a valuable resource
.should, for
now, take a back
in a limited
ers waiting to use the stations.
the
According to LRC rumors, the college’s whirlwind romance with Internet may soon be over. LRC sources, who asked not to
computer network
be identified, said that although the connection to Internet has
been interesting, they are looking at asking computer services
remove
to
the temptation.
Because of a lack of available terminals, the connection on two of the eight systems may have to be suspended. “This is a library first and foremost.’’ said
it
scat
LRC,
version at
the multi-million user is
packed
magic of phone lines, a user at the LRC can receive, in a matter of minutes, a 200-pagc book or a full-color picture, biographical data on a favorite band or an answer to a biology ques-
The LRC came online in November and, initially, the Internet connection was not widely known. Lately, during peak periods, the wait for terminals is
other possible selections.
extended by students using the system. Browsing Internet can easily take several hours and get you seemingly nowhere. Staff recommends students
example, will allow the user to choose from any of a thousand other gopher links around the world.
of students waiting to find a
Compounding the confusion, whenhalfway through amaze of connections, a choice will sometimes reset the system back
book.”
to the beginning
wait until the library clears out
before occupying the valuable space.
“We
have line-ups
now
One possible suggestion for alleviating the strain is
to
make
on
the
LRC
on network server.
Internet available
the school’s
This would involve handing out
—
user to return to where they
now.
If
access was available
of "non-col-
money” on energy last
we
did just less than a year ago, the corridors, the
only one of
is
on energy Conestoga’s
Putt,
director of physical rc.sourccs.
$5,()(X) to
“With
is
$50,000.
most recent budget it was about time to do something about this and the
we decided
actually look at said. this
“Now
it
.seriously,” Putt
the time to
is
go with
energy plan.”
The college has been energy congot a whole bunch of
and they looked
when
I
sat
engineers and went over the reports they said, ‘we’ve been doing this for 10 or 12 years now,”’ Putt
.said.
Things like turning off the schools fan systems late Friday for the weekend. They are not restarted
One of
the costly items the
college has recently replaced with the funds is three comto
in the
kitchen, used
keep the freezers and
T-X systems are ights that use less energy than other lights. Using
open-ended.” This means the college paid for the water and, when finished,
electromagnetic or electronic bal-
dumped
up and keep the lights running, the energy efficient T-X system u.scs 32 watts instead of 40 watts. Further electronic magic can drive the wattage down to 2X watts. “D-wing, the business wing at the end of the cafeteria, that was put in with T-X lighting.” Putt said. He
placed those three compressors with air-cooled and figured we’re saving almost a million litres of water a year.”
I
lasts to start
said
money that could be used by was not used to install the
lighting.
with our
out of our
“They were water-cooled and
Hydro reports
down
come
sack.” Putt said.
put T-X systems there," he
students
like real interesting
money is returned government but “it
fridges cool.
LRC, we
“We
scious for more than a decade.
financed by these
is
tunds. All extra
resourses
said.
completed the “rubber hits the road” and the college pays for a full engineering study, which costs anywhere from the audit
the project
pressors Putt, director of physical
example, safer
night lighting in ptirking lots, then
to the large-cost
”
—
the college can use the
It
to install, for
doesn't
items. Dave
lege claiming they can help
Once
money
to the
now we are down
seven or eight companies per year that approach the col-
Dave
the
re-
The money comes in the form of government funds earmarked for special projects and is offered to the
as a college, have been doing a fair bit for a number of years, but
operating costs.
“Honeywell
main office and
ronment and energy has been corded by Putt.
college.
three to four
The college has allowed the company to perform its “energy audit” which estimates how much the campus could save “We
“Because we put in a new buildit makes good sense to put energy efficient systems in it.” The college has spent $250,000 over the last three years on ways t(r save energy, and in return is saving about $100,000 a year on energy. Since 1991, all money spent on
Under
it
down
the
the drain.
Honeywell
college plans to do
“We
re-
offer, the
away with most
remaining inefficient equipbeen eating away at energy. Some relic equipment has already been replaced, while others are too expensive to replace withof
its
ment
that has
out outside help.
“We,
ing,
doing a
as a college, have been fair bit
years, but
for a
now we
are
number of
down to the we couldn’t
large-cost items that handle ourselves and there are no government funds available,” he said.
Table Tennis Ladder Board of Directors Meeting
called “netiquette,” but
it
Date: Feb. 7 The top 6 players
will
-
25
advance
to the
Championship Tournament
Tuesday Feb. 8 4 p.m.
bound to certain codes of behavtruly
guaran-
tiollars
tees the college substantial savings.
ties but, like all
ior,
throughout the campus each stu-
years. “All of the corridors that
The network can be used for hundreds of positive possibili-
censors on Internet. Users are
for
an engineering survey
left
a task that computer services
—
has invested .several hun-
efficiency in the
that
special needs students, safety, envi-
is
saves
it
lege operating
off.
good things, it comes with a price. There are no
consuming
going to be damn cold, but a lot of energy." Putt said.
Doon
you
if
leaving the
personalized account numbers, said is too time
"so.
the place
dred thotisanil
stuff, but
Selecting “other gophers,” for
Monday,
on Sunday,
has agreed to meet with Honeywell Limited later this year, to examine
crunches
tion.
in
con.servation project. 'Hie college
the school save
the hidden
by
as an energy dinosaur, will soon embark on its latest energy
costs,” said
Through
criticized
some
with things almost unimagin-
Simply wading through the massive amount of information is a formidable task, easily consuming hours in what seems like minutes. The opening menus consist of only five choices but choosing one of these opens up the floodgates to hundreds of
sources.
Conestoga College,
able.
electronics and
5 a.m.
until
cttme
in
Doon campus
offers alternatives for
By Dan Hebert
to traditional library resources.
Offered
1994 9
Energy Audit
Internet a goldmine of information By Dan Hebert
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1994
SPORTS mar
Penalties
on Jan. 18, the Mustangs, led by Marty Feijo’s four goals and one assist, defeated the Chiefs 8-4. Other Mustang scorers included Paul Obermeyer, two goals, three assists; Jamie Vanderburg, one goal, two assists, and Chris Morris, one goal and one assist. Replying for the Chiefs were Mike Hastie with three goals and Marc Gruber with
battle for first place in the
intramural contact ice hockey league turned into a penaltyfilled affair
on Jan. 26.
Thirty-six minutes in penalties
were called as the Water Buffaloes defeated the
Wrecking Crew
4-3 to take a three-point lead in
Chad McLeod of
the standings. the
Crew
By Brad
Condor sharpshooters
Hilderiey
In action
By Gary Wiebe The
Hockey Condors silence the Thunder
intramural battle
collected 18 minutes in
one.
On Jan.
penalties including three minutes
19, the
Water Buffaloes
Inclement weather did not keep
Algonquin Thunder from a Jan. 29 men’s hockey game at Conestoga, but the visitors found conthe
ditions inside the
Doon campus
recreation centre even less hospitable.
The host Condors blasted the Thunder 9-4 in a lopsided game watched by a crowd of about 75. With the win, the Condors climbed back to within two points of the Seneca Braves for top spot in
Kirk Sharkey brought the Thunder to within four shortly after. Long
personal pressure on him to get high point totals.
Thunder head coach Blake
Algonquin responded with goals from Taylor Wilson and
Callaghan called the Condors “a
ute later.
Kevin Francis to make it 7-4. But Condor goals from captain Darren Kinnear and forward Rob Trussler in the final
Conestoga
0-minute miscon-
see-saw contest. The Individuals, on goals by Peter Scandlan,
the Costello Division of the Ontario
Colleges Athletic Association. The
Algonquin
fighting penalty resulted in
Duane Freer and Jason Smith,
Condors have two wins and a
Thunder
opened up
in three
McLeod
being suspended for the
3-0, but the Buffaloes
They took a 4-3
remainder of the season, plus
battled back.
playoffs, and a team fine of $25.
on two goals each from Jamie Hislop and Curtis McCone. Craig Johnson tied it up but two goals by the Buffaloes’ Dave Graff
The game was tied at three with two minutes to play, when Buffalo player Shannon Gilbert Ux)k a pass from Randy Huitema to put away. Other Buffalo scorers included Jason Baier with two goals, one assist; Curtis McCone with one goal and Jamie Hislop tallied two assists. Scoring for the Crew were Jim McPherson with two goals and one assist while Terry Martin had one goal. In the preceding day’s action, the Cement Heads’ Tony Cengarie, with one second left in the game, broke a tie for a 3-2 victory over the Individuals. Jason Shular netted the Heads’ other two it
goals.
Paul Balliu and Duane Freer scored for the Individuals.
With
lead
sealed the Individuals’ fate.
minutes into the third period when
place in the Parker Division.
several players collided in front of
Conestoga outshot Algonquin 323 in a game which saw 55 penalty minutes given to the Condors and 30 to the Thunder.
the teams’ benches and a pile-up developed. Game officials sepa-
in first
tie,
trick.
team league. teams, the Resident Posse
minutes into the
and Mostly Hockey, have folded. Both teams lose a $200 bond put up at the beginning of the season. The bond pays for Kitchener-Wa-
first
period on a
Hockey Referee Association officials regardless of whether teams show up to play or not.
paid off with 7:39 to play
VS Quebec
Woods
score 5-
MondayFeb.
he
“Long
said.
on the ice forever. Long hockey player in the league. I don’t have enough talented hockey players to compete.” Callaghan said hockey is played differently in the Ottawa region than it is in Kitchener. “The amount of stick work” is greater here, he said, because the Condors use the hockey stick as a tool “to do things is
is
the best
rated the players and issued
game
that
game we’ve had two games
we’re getting our
legs back,
where we’re more in shape.” The Condors’ top scorer, whose five-point game had once again
well, refereeing
“a lot
is
Ottawa region because officials want to impress Hockey Canada, located in Ottawa, in order to some day make it to the
National
misconducts to Allen Kruiderink of the Condors and Craig Stewart of the Thunder. Following the game. Long said,
“Now
As
stricter” in the
Hockey
League,
Callaghan said. “They (the Condors) take advantage of the refereeing, and we don’t.”
The Condors, who were next seen action at
to
home on
have
Feb. 2
against the Niagara Knights, will travel to Cambrian College games on Feb. and 2. 1
1
for
two
1
when
game. Conestoga’s offence exploded with four unanswered goals before the end of the period, making the Brent
*
ers,”
power play during which the Condors showed excellent puck movement in the Algonquin end. Condor goaltendcr Scott Ballantyne looked sharp midway through the first in twice stopping Thunder skaters moving in on him. However, Algonquin’s pressure
terloo
Buffalo Sabres
re-
Teammate Chris
hockey team. “They’ve got more good play-
better
that really shouldn’t be done.”
Short tempers surfaced about six
but they remained
losses and a
Ottman got two goals, and Joel Washkurak added six assists. The Condors have scored a total of 20 goals in their last two outings. Ottman opened the scoring 5 1/2
serious problem for the eight-
4
Thunder saw
Condor forward Dave Long
lack of players has been a
9
January.
their record fall to five wins, six
corded a hat
credited with a 3-0 victory.
Two
the loss, the
in
Condors
loss
1
Two other scheduled games, were forfeited when the Chiefs and Mostly Hockey couldn’t ice enough players. In the case of a forfeiture, the winning team is The
home games
1:27 of the
second increased the lead to 9-4.
fighting and a
The
at
clinched his hat trick about a min-
defeated the Individuals 6-4 in a
duct.
moved him
atop the provincial scoring race, said the race places no
for instigating, five minutes for 1
about the
five-minute mark, and teammate
1
.
The
tied the
highlight of this bar-
rage was Long’s two goals scored
21, 1994
six
seconds apart.
Tempers
$32.00 includes transportation
the first
flared with 1:10 left in
when Conestoga’s Steve
Allen and Algonquin’s Hal Clay-
Cash Onlyl
ton got into a fight.
Forward Kevin Warner increased Conestoga’s lead to 6-1 about a minute into the second period ashis
Bus departs at 4:30 p.m. from Door #3
blistering shot beat the outstretched
up
Sign
at the
DSA
Activities Office
glove of Thunder goaltender Robin
Condor forward Kevin Warner scores Conestoga’s
Barkhousc.
Barkhouse repeatedly denied
Spokesports
Male Athlete of the
Week
for
Jan. 23
-
29
Jan. 29 victory overthe Algonquin Thunder.
sixth goal in
Scoreboards and Schedules (As of Jan. 30, 1994)
NEXT HOME GAME:
Ontario Colleges Athletic Association
OCAA HOCKEY SCORING LEADERS Men’s Hockey
Joel
Washkurak
Costello Division
W
TEAM
L
Seneca Braves 10 Conestoga Condors 9 2 Cambrian Gold Shield 7 5 1
Washkurak, a forward on the Condors men's hockey team, assisted on six of the Condors' nine goals
win over the Algonquin in their Jan. 29
Thunder.
Niagara Knights
5
4
T GF GA PTS 0
0 0 2
86 70 82 76
28 40 60 67
20 18 14 12
Parker Division
TEAM
W
Algonquin Thunder Fleming (P) Knights Fleming (L) Auks
6 3 2 2
St. L. (B)
Schooners
L
T
6
1
8 8 1
0 1
0 0
GP G A PTS PIM
PLAYER, TEAM Dave Long, Con.
GFGAPTS 69 42 48 55
79 80 79 95
13 6 5 4
14 23
37
24
Troy Gleason, St.L.(B) 12 10 22
32
18
Tim Favot, Cam.
11
11
21
32
16
Tom
11
15 16
31
2
Chris Ottmann, Con. 11 19 10
29
25
Brent Jones, St.L.(B)
12 14 14
28
62
Derek Etches, Cam.
11
13 14
27
16
Kirk Sharkey, Alg.
10 16 9
11
Jack, Sen.
Joel Washkurak,
Con 10
8
16
25
0
24
49
Other scores around the league:
— Niagara 4 — Fleming 4
Jan. 28: Algonquin 6
Jan. 29: Niagara 9
(P)
a
(Photo by Sean Mcminn)
Wednesday, Feb.
16, 7:30 p.m.
Conestoga Condors
versus
Sandford Fleming (P) Knights
Sir
spoke, Monday, February
7,
1994 11
Movie/Book Reviews
movie that should not be crossed
Intersection is a By Alan Horn
Movie Review
Some movies are best seen in the theatre, some on video and some, well, in the trash can. Intersection falls comfortably between the trash can and video options. The film stars Richard Gere as an architect caught between two
loves: that of his ex-wife Sally
Matters are complicated for Vincent (Gere) because he works closely with Sally at his architectural firm and has a 3-year-old daughter (Jenny Morrison), while on the other hand, he wants to get on with his life with Olivia, who iseager
move
with him into a
new
public re.spect, a
house.
By choosing
wants.
woman.
Gere portrays his character convincingly, while Canadian gives a respectable performance as his
The
plot,
he
however,
pathy for Vincent,
is
flimsy
in its
is
attempts to evoke sym-
Her
After hearing so much about John Grisham, The Firm and the movie of the same name, I decided to see for myself what about.
seems
The Pelican
it
wife
split.
The flashbacks he has of
'Hiere
Brief is also a novel by Grisham, so I started to read.
The novel begins with the assassination of two Supreme Court justices. Justice Abe Rosenberg is shot in the head as he sleeps. Two hours later Justice Glenn Jensen is strangled, possibly by the same assassin. There are no clues and the FBI is perplexed. After days of digging in the law library’s
and she narrowly
^^at follows
is
Book Review
es-
her
Title:
She eventually hooks up with reporter Gray Grantham, and they try to find evi-
The Pelican
Rating:
starts slowly,
is
fast parts
is
seem
terest
why Julia Roberts was cast
up
in
for
Is
The biggest fault is
book
is
the hurried
I
It is
have heard, from people
who have
read
Firm and The Pelican Brief are so similar it would be better to read either one or the other. But basing my review on just The Pelican Brief, I would have to say it was enjoyable, if not mo.st of Grisham’s books, that 'ITie
completely original. As far as mysteries go, this is not The Murder on the Orient Express, but it is
of the brief are
his
own law
would recommend it to anyone looking book that isn’t too taxing on either the brain or the emotions.
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I
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almost as if Grisham realized the book was drawing to a cIo.se and he rushed to tie up all the loose ends.
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suspenseful and entertaining.
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Date:
For
in
The book contains just the right amount of overwhelming the
tice to write, life
involved
is
more impact than
legal intrigue without
170 pages into the
until the contents
Grisham,
it
portrayal they usually receive.
if
written in the brief
Ringette Players
formed
sounds as
revealed.
to
An extramural team
It
forgive Grisham because there is enough
the
one of the characters
that .shouldn’t be crossed.
going on to occupy them. The writing is good enough to keep inHowever,
one of the climactic
worthy of the hype
(out of five)
even out the slow places. reading the description of Shaw, it
easy to see
movie
book. But readers will
places drag, but other
nection between the justices. She writes
tion a
^^1/2
too fast and force
in
might have had and the facial expressions the character manages in this scene arc priceless^ To its credit, the film has an interesting ending, which breaks free from many of the trite Hollywood fairy tale endings. The price of this, however, is a deflated ni(X)d. In the end, the movie’s schizophrenic nature, along with its efforts to get one to empathize with Vincent make Intersec-
movie
until
whole is a pretty fast paced book. A couple of
the reader to re-read them.
camera work
was filmed gives
reader has no idea what
but on the
move
it
major drawback of
the
Grisham
The Pelican Brief
When
In the .scene,
Grisham had a picture of her in his mind while he was writing Shaw’s
A
Author: John
ulation in the brief.
also the clever
character.
Brief
dence to prove the spec-
is
The way
little
Brief is
life.
spots in the book
her beliefs in a speculative brief that builds a ca.se against an ambiguous suspect.
his ex-wife reveal
capes death.
computer, Darby Shaw, a young law student has come up with a little-known con-
down
movie, which
the film.
wrong hands
fight for
some breathtaking scenes of B.C.’s mounwas shot in the Vancouver area
last spring).
—
once or twice might be forgivable, but the become .so annoyprevents the viewer from being .swept into the
brief soon falls
into the
all
it
this
ing that
has virtually everything going for
By Venus Cahill
scene director Mark Rydell robs
scenes, which turned out to be one of the best.
the overall flow of the
John Grisham’s The Pelican
was
.so
movie’s general flow. What adds to this, is that even in light of all the flashbacks, one is left with no clear indication as to why Vincent and his
him: wealth, talent, good looks, a vintage Mercedes Benz,
the excitement
—
interrupted continuously with flashbacks Gere has of each
Doing
left.
who
to reveal this
spots, llicrc arc
flashbacks persist throughout the film and
for Stone, she adjusts well to the unlikely role
whom
career and his choice
.solid
Far more annoying,
bom Davidovich As
is
what may have been a surprise later in the movie. Instead the viewer knows what to expect. None of this is to say the movie didn’t have some bright
of two gorgeous and talented women. is
of the wife
a blatant premonition
tainous landscape (the film
Throughout the movie Vincent finds himself locked in an inward struggle, not totally convinced which of the two he
girlfriend.
when
he winds
to the film
the audience of
1
to
drawback
love with Olivia. Another
in
revealed.
Starring: Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Lolita Davidivich Rating: (out of five)
(Sharon Stone) and-his
in love, yet
up falling
takes place at the beginning
Title: Intersection
live-in girlfriend Olivia (Lolita Davidivich).
more than how passionately they were
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1994
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12 Spoke, Monday, February
1994
7,
Blue Rodeo rocks A hot set heats up a cold night other standards from the band ’s pre-
By Jason Schneider
vious albums.
On
when most people
an icy night
The highlight of the set was a monstrous version of Diamond Mine complete with the usual key-
would have been wiser to stay at home. Blue Rodeo made the trip to Bingeman Park worthwhile by putting on a hot, if at times uneven,
board wizardry and psychedelic touches.
* performance. From the opening strains of Hasn’t Hit
Me
Yet from
their latest release
tics
Five Days In July, the band stirred
ing
crowd of about
the near-capacity 1
,000 to
feet
its
James
Wiseman by
off
the
nearly
fall-
Victor
stage,
Blue Rodeo did have elecin, it was band has ever
instruments plugged
tric
the heaviest the
sounded. Looking haggard
in
a po-
and beard, Keelor careened about the stage as he tore off Neil Young-like guitar flourishes and nytail
archives regularly, including a
robotic, but highly-energized ver-
Mine from
of Bob
When
end of the night. While most of the set focused on tracks from the new, acoustic-based album, the band reached back into
sion of Heart Like
keyboardi.st
lived up to the legendary an-
Borge-style.
and kept them there
until the
its
new
This time,
Gray
drummer Glenn Milchem (who
their
debut. Outskirts.
honed his skills
With a minimum of lights and only some furniture to keep them company on stage, bandleaders Greg Keelor and Jim Cuddy gave
scene) drove the band fast and hard
their usual re.st
0 per cent of the band lively. 1
1
to
show
at
Yourself.
Meanwhile, Cuddy could always be counted on to bring the band
keep the
back down
bogged down
Toronto metal
on such tunes as Restless and Trust
to earth
by delivering a
heart-wrenching ballad. While there was no Try this night. Rain Down On Me and After The Rain were tailor-made for the weather
Unfortunately, the pacing of the .song selections
in the
the
times as several of the qui-
from Five Days In July such as Bad Timing and Til I Gain Control Again, passed over an unin-
outside.
terested audience.
tremendous night of music and the
eter songs
However,
Despite the conditions,
jestic reading
May was and
fit
was
a
Doon Student Association should commended for putting on an-
the band’s latest single
Five Days In
it
given a ma-
be
other great show.
right in with
Band: Blue Rodeo When: Bingeman Park, Jan. 27 Rating:
1/2
(
Blue Rodeo’s Greg Keelor, rocks the stage at Bingeman Park on (Photo by Colleen Connachan) Jan. 27 for Conestoga’s pub night.
out of five)
Brave new blues from Big Sugar By Jason Schneider They look
in their matching dark, cropped haircuts. They also play like demons as they carry on the tradition of the blues, a musical form that has become stagnant and redundant in recent years. Fortunately, the expectant Blue Rodeo fans got an earful of brave new blues from Big Sugar when the Toronto-based trio opened the Jan. 27 show at
baggy
suits
Kitchener’s
like
and
gangsters
clo.sely
Bingeman
Park.
Led by tried and true guitar hero Gordie Johnson, Big Sugar bulldozed its way through an hour-long set of blues standards and songs from its recently released album, 500 Pounds. ITe new album is a far cry from the band’s roots as sidemen for Jazz chantcuse Molly Johnson during her days of crooning in Toronto’s Queen Street clubs. 'Hie songs on 500 Pounds arc as heavy as the title suggests and harken back to the classic late 1960s blues-rock sounds of Cream, Ten Years After and Mountain.
But instead of aping the excesses of those bands, Johnson, along with drummer Al Cross and bassist Jason Mercer (from the recently disbanded Bourbon Tabernacle Choir), has created a unique style with a look reminiscent of 1940s Chicago.
While they alists
arc often
grouped with other blues reviv-
such as Colin James, Jeff Healey and George
Thorogood, these
artists
sound
like
Top 40
radio
com-
pared to Johnson’s frenetic style and knowlcdgablc
how
songwriting skills (it is rumored he knows every blues .song ever written).
The audience was quickly stunned
to play
submission
into
but responded politely to stellar versions of Sleep In Late,
No Sugar
In
My
band’s current video It
Coffee and Ride Like Hell, the on Much Music.
hit
was obvious that after a few songs. Blue Rodeo had work cut out for them to top Big Sugar’s over-
their
powering performance. Hopefully, the experience of playing
in front
of a
mainstream following earned Big Sugar some new fans, but the blues is suppo.scd to be played by struggling musicians, isn’t
it?
TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS VS ST.
LOUIS BLUES
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Band: Big Sugar
When: Bingeman Jan.
Park,
27
Rating: Wf
^
^
(out of five)
Gordie Johnson of Big Sugar
warms up
the audience on Jan. 27. (Photo by
Omar Welke)