— No. 38
28th Year
November
Kitchener, Ontario
11,
1996
Six-member delegation speaks at provincial hearing
Conestoga recommends reform for student loan repayment plan By Ross McDermott
investment in their
own economic
Conestoga’s
future.”
Reform by the Ontario government to the student loan repayment plan was a recommendation made by Conestoga’s roundtable discussion
participants
during
London on
provincial hearing in Oct. 30.
Headed by college John Tibbits,
member
president
Conestoga’s
six-
delegation presented the
recommendations at the University of Western Ontario to the advisory panel on the Future Directions
for
Post-Secondary
Education. Paired with the University of
Guelph, Conestoga was allowed 10 minutes to present its recommendations. The presentations were followed by a 20-minute question period by the advisory panel.
Psychic Jeff Evason and first-year business student Stella Sava to levitate a table, during a Halloween performance in the
Sanctuary. See Levitation on Page 5
(Photo by Jennifer Dougaii)
In a
document
recommended
Conestoga private funding tops in system, says ministry ^y
Scott
more than $25,000
Nixon
radio station
Conestoga was Ontario’s top
is
Kitchener
funds.
Training.
DSA gave to the learning resource $1,514,592,
equivelent to 2.5 per cent of Conestoga’s total operating budget.
Wayne Hussey, Conestoga’s director of development, attributed most of the fund-raising to donations
to the college’s school
made
of business. Fund-raising began in 1991, said Hussey, and will continue in 1997.
Funds raised for the school of business, said Hussey, are “one of most significant reasons we were rated so favorably.”
the
Of
all
the
donations
made
to
Conestoga, Hussey said the largest was the Keith Pritchard Award, which is an endowed fund of
He
cited the
^^unds
raised
^P^ie from
for
the
be
college
corporations, individ-
\ials and alumni, Hussey said. The majority of the funds, however,
come from
corporations.
Corporations that donated more than $25,000 to the college had
rooms pledged to them and their names appear on plaques on room doors.
One such
corporation to donate
cies
evaluation
qualifications;
program
costs,
quality
she
said,
receive loans for programs
where
link student loan repay-
limited and those
ments to earnings after graduation and analyze program costs to develop a system of differ-
Students,
employment
is
in that situation
could find the re-
payment of loans
difficult.
Advisory panel chairman David C. Smith said, in an interview following the presentations, the consideration of the students’
entiated tuition.
“absolutely critical” in the recommendations the panel will make to the Ministry of Edu-
create an accreditation council to institute a process enabling colleges to grant associate or applied degrees.
well-being
is
cation.
“Our higher education system are
universities
Smith
is
said.
what the colleges and have been established,
largely, to satisfy.”
See Reforms on Page 2
encourage
flexibility in
institution’s use of
an
human and
capital resources.
improve accessibility
to
higher education by changes to the number and variety of institutions, redundancies in pro-
grams, management structures, and streamline the system.
a reasoned
Wicked
jester
Conestoga’s alumni association
One
project to
which alumni
donated money was the Adopt-ATree program, in which over 70 alumni adopted trees. In this proindividuals who donated ject,
more than $50 had plaques in thennames posted in front of trees around the campus. The purpose of fund-raising, said Hussey, is to improve Conestoga’s ability to provide education in the
of government cutbacks. “The funding from government
face
appears to be either stable or in a period of decline. I cannot see any indication that the government is going to provide radically greater
technology
will
increase accountability by developing performance indicators dealing with: students’
also donated over $6,000.
award.
money
be
reviewed.
“They
make
quality
to
reviewed
comparison to available jobs in the field is an area that must be
president
April-Dawn Blackwell said programs being offered at colleges in
tion.
allow students to
comparison
of and teaching methods; measures of placement rates when programs are keyed to job vacan-
question period,
there for the students,”
This, states the document, “would allay current student fears of unsustainable future debt and
quality indicators be put in
place and education costs in
centre last month.
amounts of money for education.” Hussey said most donations go towards improving equipment and
The
DSA
recommendations
$10,000 the
invested risk-free and the earnings will be given out as a student
$70,000.
ments” of the actual costs of program delivery which would force the institutions to examine human resource and capital allotment and form the basis for a “differentiated tuition mechanism.” During the advisory panel’s
student loans be aligned to match a student’s earnings after gradua-
Hussey also credited the Doon
Ministry of Education and raised
the repayment of
colleges to “refine their assess-
KOOL-FM, which
Student Association with donating
according to figures released Oct. 28 by the college. This figure is
Conestoga
calls for
donated $47,000.
fund-raising college for the fiscal year 1995-96, according to the
Conestoga
titled
College’s Response to the White Paper, authorized by college principal Grant McGregor, the college
The recommendation
lege
at the college.
also hopes
money
The colmore
raise
to
for scholarships and bur-
saries.
Conestoga
is
also doing well this
year, in terms of fund-raising, said
Hussey. Since April, the school has raised almost $300,000. “Until the college tells me ‘we have all the equipment we need, we have everything we want’, I imagine we’ll be doing
more
fund-raising.”
of an evil business administration studies student, wears the guise McDermott) Ross (Photo by campus. Doon the jester while attending classes Halloween day at
Thomas
Muller,
a
first-year
He
By Peggy Sue Ironside
Gary
In his address to the students,
Pundsack said
on Oct. 28 as a guest
He Pundsack, 34, said he as a speaker to show of
result
and which he
with
experiences
Bob Baker,
the
required to choose a class research project that will be carried through
to research
Pundsack chose
in their design
gram.
bicycle and went a step farther
Baker said the students
with the project by having it built. He brought the constructed
people
why
whelmed with “Trying
to
I
the research,” he
work through
that
told the students not to
be intimated when calling an engi-
They
are willing to talk, he
said.
“I
still
— Gary
Pundsack, a mechanical engineering technology graduate, displays the (
photo b y Pe 99y Sue lronside >
find that networking
is
very important,” Pundsack said. “It’s not what you know, but who
you know.”
Kickin’
go
balance,” he said, “because you
Pundsack bike was built from scratch using
resistance with the potential to faster.
can’t tip
ten-twenty
He said recumbent bikes have set world records for speed. “I think the recent record is about
know
said
his
recumbent
steel.
A
machinist in Kitchener then cut all the material that a friend later wielded together. Pundsack said with the recumbent bike the rider’s feet are not beside the body, but instead are on
same The result of the
plane as the rider’s torso.
the
recline
is
less air
back
68 miles an hour,” he added.
The
ride
Pundsack time for
very comfortable,
is
said,
although
some people
it
takes
to get accus-
tomed to riding the bike. “You have to rely on steering
for
your weight.” Pundsack said he wanted
Continued from Page 1 He said the post-secondary
Baker said the students put a of time and effort into their
to
any of the students in the audience would be interested in furthering the design of his recumif
bent bike. “I’ve taken the design this far,” he said, “And I would really like someone to take the design farther make changes to improve it.”
—
Reforms recommended
year
at the college.
They research material and
much
and suggested that
is
of the of no
try
different ideas during the first part
of the year, he said, while the last semester is spent producing a report that contains detailed draw-
and
ings
including
paperwork
finalized all
selected materials to
be used.
repayment
to student loan
research being done
lot
last
addressed
estoga’s
the
entire
post-secondary system.
“The
universities
system, universities and colleges, performs a research function. “There are some very important
value.
Mordechai Rozanski responded
doing a great job and everything
applied research centres in col-
to Tibbits’ suggestion. “TTie role
is fine,”
leges.”
crisis
Because of that, he said, the advisory panel has a dual role
of research in universities cannot be diminished,” he said. “The competitiveness of Canadian
when making their recommendations. They must ensure the
dependant on the research done at universities.”
province has a
first-rate post-sec-
University of Guelph president
question
period,
Tibbits
ex-
pressed
concern
about
the
estoga because
in general
through solid research programs.
During the
advisory
panel’s
Andrea Ryde, a third-semester early childhood education student, enjoys a warm autumn day studying by the Doon
funding of research.
CampUS pond.
research universities in Ontario
He
we
feel there are
bigger issues.”
questioned the need for 17
he said. “But there is a and a need for change and I don’t think the answer is to pour
on Dec.
thought the University of
“I
Guelph was very focused on themselves and the fact that they need more money,” he said. “We didn’t want to talk about Con-
knowledge of society
that
they’re
tions to the Ministry of Education
“reasonably pleased.”
the
feel
—
was
point of the students’ learning
must advance
fine
is
In an interview following the
is
presentations, Tibbits said he
it
everything
more money in.” The hearings began Sept. 5 and ran until Oct. 31. The advisory panel will make its recommenda-
society
ondary system from the standprocess, and
(Photo by Doug Coxson)
“They can talk to me and if I feel something is too complicated or too much work, I’ll tell them.” He added that he offers suggestions and negotiates with the students on the projects.
was over-
process took time.”
Pundsack
RIDING
recumbent bicycle he constructed.
industry for his research. “I think that’s
ideas.
LOW
the
in
are wel-
come to discuss their projects with him and that he is open to all
recumbent bicycle to the college on his visit. Pundsack said he was interested in the class project, but one of the things he found difficult, at first, contacting
and be used and analysis pro-
to their last semester
and
design a recumbent, or reclining,
neer.
beginning of their
third year, technology students are
In his last year at the college,
said.
everything.
of the mechanics fac-
ulty, said at the
class.
was
is
years ahead.
completed in his last year at Conestoga, and to share his postgraduate
work
students not to worry
told
about the amount of incom^fc|y will start at, because the e^Prience gained will pay off in the
design
his
analysis program report,
practical experience
in their field of
third-year-technology students the
end
to
wheel.
speaker.
returned
inter-
may want
move the seat back because too much weight is carried on the front
A 1993 Conestoga graduate and second-place winner of the 1993 Mastercraft award for mechanical engineering technology returned to the college
suggested that anyone
ested in the offer
was
roundtable
par-
Tibbits,
included:
ticipants
McGregor, Jacqueline Mitchell, chairwoman, board of governors; April-Dawn Blackwell, DSA president; Walter Boettger, fac-
union president, local 237; and Ann Wallace, support staff union president, local 238. ulty
Tibbits said Guelph’s presentation
15.
Conestoga’s
self-serving while
Con-
College system financially fragile, treasurer warns By Ross McDermott College
secretary-tresaurer
Kevin Mullan said, in his report at the board of governors meeting Oct. 28, that the entire post-sec-
ondary system
Ontario
in
a
in-line with the budget.” Currently,
was
Conestoga has a $66,000 surplus. “Which really gives you very little room for manoeuvring,” he
is in
“financially fragile situation.”
Mullan
said
the
college
operating, during the last fiscal
year (April
1995
$900,000 surplus, but because of down-sizing costs of $69.5 million, was actually operating under a $61 million deficit. Mullan said for the 96-97 period that “expenditures were tracking
March
31,
said.
1996), with a surplus of $582,000,
He
1,
to
but because of down-sizing costs
of
$4.9
was
million,
operating
with
a
$4.3
actually
million
deficit.
In comparison,
Mullan pointed
out that the entire post-secondary
system
was
operating
with
a
said the college has
come
through the previous year quite well but still has another year or
two to recover. The big issue, Mullan is
Funding cuts are responsible for a reduction in first-year enrolment in the entire post-secondary system by 2.3 per cent. In contrast, Mullan reported that Conestoga’s first-year enrolment was up by almost four per cent. College president John Tibbits said the reason for Conestoga’s enrolment growth, while the rest of the system is experiencing a decline, is fundamental restructuring and the college’s policy to
operate cost effectively. said in an
interview following the meeting,
down-sizing. “The cannot handle
system
down-sizing.”
college further
“We’ve
put
in
differentiated
staffing,” said Tibbits.
“We
used to
have almost 100 per cent professors, and what we’ve done over
the past few years is put technician and instructor categories into the
Oct. 15 to 25.
labs.”
campaign had raised $18,516, just $6,484 short of their $25,000 target, and three quarters of the pledges were still to be collected.
Tibbits
said
the
college
has
added some alternate curriculum in which students do a certain amount of work on their own. “This allows us to cut our oper-
Hoover
In an interview following the meeting, Hoover said the United
ating costs and, With the
Way
saved, train
minimum
wise,
we
money more people. Other-
couldn’t
afford
other matters, United
set the
recognition.
Way
year before
“We
campaign co-ordinators Janeen Hoover and Eleanor Conlin presented a report on the success of this year’s campaign. The campaign, The Life You Are Changing Could Be Your Own, ran from
so
we
$25,000
target as a
goal for comer-sto^
the
growth.” In
said, as of Oct. 28, the
achieved
it
last
we were
figured
it
year and the really close,
was a goal we
could attain.”
1994 and 1995, Conestoga the United Way’s Outstanding Campaign Award for the In
won
education division.
"
—
M'OKE, November
In-line skater
~
*
is far
from
The means by which to travel came after someone dared her to skate to her home in Kitchener from Guelph. She said she used to bike back and forth from Kitchener
over.
to
Guelph,
native finished
biking
across
her 8,000 kilometre trek across ^ Cr Canada in John’s, Nfld.,
daring
and
—
15
her
19th
birthday.
However, she still spends a good portion of her day trying to raise more money for her Canadian
that
was
And
Cure Campaign. She hoped to $300,000, but ended up with around $50,000. Her ultimate goal is $5 million, which she hopes to
in-line skating.”
difficult
became
sors.
her long voyage.
Her journey began eight years ago when her mother was diagnosed with leukemia. Ichim and
my
reading medical journals, attending conferences and talking to sci-
Their research into the effects of vitamin C on the body’s entists.
immune system
led
gold at the Canadian National Science Fair and fourth place at to
a
medal
Bums,
faculty recreation and
member of
the
leadership program, to help her coordinate her plans
to
skate
in-line
across
Canada.
—
IN-LINE Christine Ichim, back from her 8,000 kilometre trek across Canada, continues her endeavour to raise money for cancer. (Photo by Peter Marval)
the
International
Engineering
Science
and
Fair.
The Batu Center, named after their mother’s maiden name, has made an agreement to finance a
The two then teamed up with Lisa Smith, a Brantford scientist
small
who
Margaret Hospital
also working
is
ment
for terminally
on a
treat-
leukemia patients, and founded the Batu Center for Leukemia. ill
clinical
trial
at
in
Princess
Toronto,
own immune
using a patient’s
The
trio
want
as an
them she would gladly give them away. At the end of her presentation Ichim asked the students for their help, saying that now is when the fund-raising begins.
Bums
said the recreation and
She said the idea to raise money by voyaging across Canada came
cancer.
to
Bums
sors.
said
of the first-year management and
800 foundations
in
almost $3 billion
in
who
is
now
only
19,
business practices.
He wanted
the
returned to Conestoga and spoke
students to hear first-hand from
about her trip to a roomful of mostly recreation and leadership
the person
students.
somebody who dreamed
a
Using her unique style of humor and emotion, she told the students about the best and worst points of her journey. From being attacked by a Rottweiller in B.C. (she got a donation from the owner) to
and lived
said.
finally
reaching
the
Atlantic
Ocean (even though she had been plagued by mononucleosis since riding through Quebec).
During her presentation she also 700 rice cakes and 150 litres of Gatorade she consumed on her trip. And as she talked about the
— and
her
August.
last
who
fund-raising.
The
that
actually did the
“She,
in
dream,” he
fact,
is
dream
major fund-raising assignment as part of their course and Burns said he asked Ichim to speak to his class because he knew they would want to help out. About seven or eight have already decided to help Ichim raise money by developing proposals for a fund-raising cam-
raised
Ichim crossed Canada, she
money by
through Kitchener,
went and saw a physiotherapist and he told me to quit. The next day, I was back on the road.” Her trip included meeting cancer patients from across the country.
One
of them, whom she stayed with for a few days and got to know well, died two days after she left for the road.
“That was pretty hard for me.
We became pretty close,” she said.
Clowning around
into a trust account for specific
and have
He
says the
Canada have bank accounts
to give at least 4.5 per
cent annually.
The students
that
have chosen to
help Ichim will have to develop
sponsor medical research and then send their proposals out tions
to these foundations.
Bums
collecting from
people or from corporate spon-
figures
there will be well over 100 pro-
posals sent out.
Ichim has applied for foundation and collected letters of support from politicians along her ride to give her cause credibility. status
Even though she has
paign.
the letters
from Gov. Gen. Romeo LeBlanc) Burns said it can take (one
is
over a year to achieve status.
CORRECTION Way
on page 3 in the Nov. 4 issue of Spoke, Cynthia Singh and Cynthia Livingstone were incor-
donations to the United
rectly identified.
tion
Bongani Dube, it was incorrectly man in Botswana trained in program. In fact, the materials management DeBeers has been sending people to Conestoga for the program for the past 1 6 years.
Boettger said only that he was not aware
In a photo
In die story about
stated he
was
not
I
proposals, find out which founda-
students have to complete a
When
“When I came
it’s
“amazing individual” when
Ichim,
the
companion on
corporate
charitable purposes.
Bums
In
too late to get sponsorships because Ichim has already completed her journey. The key area to raising money now would be through foundations. Bums said foundations take private or public money and put it
more
introduced her
30,
to initiate several
cancer related projects, including a pilot study on terminally ill leukemia patients. The cost of the study is over $300,000.
system to slow the progress of
leadership students are taught a unit on revenue generation as part
On Oct.
a familiar
see blood on the socks
passed her skates around the room she jokingly said if anyone wanted
Christine Ichim came to Conestoga a year ago to ask Greg
was.
just a bit, but a lot,” said Ichim.
Students help skater raise funds By Bryce Wilson
it
“Whenever I took my socks off, blisters were so bad I would
promised they
would do everything in their power to save their mother. The siblings amassed a wealth of knowledge on the disease by
wasn’t
bold
achieve through corporate spon-
Tom
thought
middle of her second week, she suffered a vicious fall, having to get seven stiches on her elbow and spending an hour picking rocks out of scrapes and cuts. Pain
raise
her brother
but
Canada
enough. “I wanted to pick the most difficult thing I could think of, and for me
on
St.
Oct.
P;
1
to find a cure for cancer,
The Kitchener
—
"*
1
Even though Christine Ichim has spent the last six months in-line skating across Canada to raise her work
1996
raising funds for cancer
still
By Peter Marval
money
11 ,
the only
In the Oct. 28 issue of Spoke, a story about
OPSEU
quoted Local 237 pres-
ident Walter Boettger as saying there to
workfare
of any faculty
was no opposi-
among Local 237 members.
member opposing
at that
time
the workfare con-
A figure of 3,000 volunteers working for the United Way, mentioned in the same story, should not have been attributed to Boettger. cept.
Spoke
regrets these errors.
Junior pre-school teacher Nada McKinnon, right, and Brandon Thompson dress up for Halloween festivities at the
Doon
child
care centre.
(Photo by Trish Jackson)
5
— SPOKE, November
Page 4
1996
11,
COMMENTARY Scott
Editor
News
editor
Student
Issues and activities editor
Trish Jackson
Photo editor
Bryce Wilson Rick
Production manager
Sara
manager
Circulation
Jerry
Faculty supervisors
K ew
Maxim
Kitchener,
Frank and Dick Scott
I
just finished reading the article
Jennifer Dougall,
The federal government in Canada recently revealed
—
The reason, Citizenship and Immi-
levels in 1997.
Lucienne fear of “social
Minister
the Liberal captains of
this ship called
Canada
Look Inside Yourself Any God.
believe
I
am God!
I
Anybody that knows me
backlash.”
Are
1
written or typed; a WordPerfect 5.0 tain
file
may
any libellous statements and
would be helpful. Submissions must not conbe accompanied by an illustration (such as
?
photograph).
fi-
aware of the real threat of mutiny? The economic state in this country is far from stable and Canadians, in general, are growing weary of the rigid competition for employment that already exists without the influx of new imnally
migrants.
cheaper operating costs is drawing big business south of the border, and the tyrannical of Premier rule Mike Harris has Corporations leaving placed much of the for countries with fipopulation on a
is the only one change last and be fulfilling. A person must be happy with themselves and their actions. I do not practice any sort of religion (I
change. The individual
who can make
that
—
chants of “blasit now phemy” from all over the world) and I
can hear
though).
to practice a religion or
When times are tough and appear to be insurmountable, where is the first place family, someone turns to for help
fore a meal. But,
when they hear
look
my
at
beliefs
—
close friends?
They can provide
support,
give direction and ideas, (as will reli-
gious belief) but that
is all it is
—
sup-
And
change comes from
real
individuals true desire to
do not and would not hold unpleasant views on anyone who did have a desire
am
I
inside.
make
a
have a prayer be-
do not ever tell me that walk on the path of dark-
sinful or
ness. I am a firm believer in the Golden Rule, “Treat others as you would have
them
am
port, direction’and ideas.
evil, there is
a difference.
do something wrong is it because I’m weak and the Devil is guiding my actions? As if! Simply put, I erred in my judgement and acted on that judgement, If I
it, but when you and at what Jennifer wrote, people would have thought I wrote it (my grammar ain’t that good
chuckle
The
In Ontario, especially, the enticing, corporate
usually gets a
and
Letter to the Editor
by
My hat off to you Jennifer. My wife says I’m a very religious man
plans to freeze immigration
is
Dr.,
Phone: 748-5366 Fax: 748-5971
Before Turning To
Robillard
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advertising beyond the
We are gods responsible unto ourselves
has to decrease
said
reflect the
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ation
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Advertising manager
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SPOKE
Jennifer Dougall
editor
life
Nixon
Doug Coxson
Does
it still
mean that I
sinful because I don’t practice reli-
gion? I
treat you.”
I
don’t think so!
believe in
good and bad
— not God
nothing more, nothing less. I just plain old screwed up. If 1 am a good Samaritan is it because the grace of God is guiding me? I don’t
made a decision and as Very simply, if you look inward to yourself an individual and find yourself to be honestly happy with yourself and your actions towards others, I can’t see how any amount of prayer or any god will be able to lift your think so. Again, “I”
acted
upon
—
it.
—
spirit higher.
As
Jennifer says in her ending para-
graph, “Start looking into our to find out
who we
own hearts
really are.”
— Wayne Derbyshire
lure of
tightrope without a net, the strain of increased competition for
lower operating costs and increased competition for jobs puts an added strain on the
jobs could be
existing population.
nancial
the
rock to sink this to the Liberals’
1997 plan released
Oct. 29, total projected immigration next year will
be be between 195,000 and 220,000
same projected numbers
—
the
for 1996.
Robillard said the projected figures comply
with the Liberals’ tain
on to start families and lead new lives. These immigrants are now called upon to pay for crimes they have already paid for. Such deportation practices not only
Deportation, develto put a stop to repeat offenders, is unjust, biased and unsympathetic.
oped
Canada may
deport,
example, a 40year-old male who has lived in Canada since the age of four. This is unfair. That man may have learned his criminal behavior in Canada, not the country he was for
floundering ship.
According
Deportation lacks sympathetic guidelines
Red Book promise
to
main-
immigration levels of one per cent of the
bom
in.
But can Canada absorb the same level of immigration it has in the past? Is an attempt to do so fair to the citizens of this country already
no acknowledgement of the Canadian society itself probably contributed to the man’s behavior. Jamaica has asked Canada to stop deporting people who have lived in Canada for extended periods of time into Ja-
struggling to exist?
maica.
population while considering the country’s ability to
absorb immigrants.
Though Robillard and the Liberals insist that 60 per cent of all immigrants next year will be of the economic class (those who are financially stable) and 35 per cent will come from the family class (those who are sponsored by relatives), the fact remains that the already stiff competition for the few existing jobs and opportunities will become even more rigid, and a strain will be imposed on the frayed and tattered social nets.
Rigid
is
a
word
incorporate in
its
the federal
government should
vocabulary
when
setting poli-
on immigration policies are required to reduce the number of people entering Canada. This would relieve some of the pressure on a straints
country whose citizens are already subjected to an intensely competitive job market, dwindling opportunities, and rapidly diminishing social
programs.
Immigration Canada even deports imwho committed crimes in
migrants
Canada
a ship aground with a
crew
that’s
close to mutiny. “All aboard,”
is
young
at a
age, but then
moved
The day A
little
more than
we
As
had
having tainty
whether she
wanted
me
it
me
to
be
uncer-
with her, there.
Drop us a
line
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boy only moments before
my
A
boy? We were told by the doctors she was having a girl. Doctors make mistakes, but the idea, “It’s going to be a girl,” stuck.
The possibility of it being a boy, for some unknown reason, never occurred me. It was not because it was imporwhich sex it was. It was only important that the baby and my daughter were to
tant
if
Gayle had been deported
to
Jamaica when originally ordered. But not all immigrants are Gayle. Immigration reacted badly to the public outcry that arose from this case and began
making them by
on deportees, deporting
calls
around our cities. An acquaintance was deported after spending a year in prison. He told officials that he was ready to go after numerous appeals, and yet he still sat waiting in prison.
His crimes had been committed when he was younger and he had already served time for those crimes.
So why waste taxpayers’ money and let someone who is willing to be deported sit in prison? Is there any purpose to such
procedures?
These deportees have very little chance of making it through an appeal in a de-
It would appear that Immigration Canada needs to fine-tune such procedures and stop acting on impulse to con-
portation case.
trol
the handfull.
in prison than
necessary while attempting to appeal an
unwavering immigration board. Tremendous amounts of tax dollars are
I
public outcry.
Not every immigrant turns to crime and possibly some of those that do should be given a second chance before more lives are ruined and more mistakes are made.
became a grandmother They were.
you, and you alone, are responsible ;for
my
daughter
The nurse
left
me
alone
with him.
arrival.
a call best left unspoken.
prevented
the nursery.
the trip to
Hospital to find she had given
birth to a
was a
She was so white, so pasty looking. She was exhausted. She needed to sleep. I went to visit my new grandson, wondering what to say to his mother if he really was funny looking. He was the only baby in that area of
was important
made
it
said.
been
was
I
in 1994,
“He’s funny looking,”
difficulties
there
to
Todd Baylis
devastating tragedy that could have been
healthy.
my
years ago
daughter had a baby.
but
lice officer
They spend more time
K-W is
is
five
cies regarding future immigration. Rigid re-
Canada
There
fact that
punish the individual, but also the children of immigrant parents, who may be left without a mother or father. When Clinton Gayle shot Toronto po-
wasted on such lengthy jail terms and would be better spent if used to capture the wanted criminals still wandering
There
must
be
some
thought. Are they sure this
mistake, is
I
the right
this
kid no longer exists.
This time you can share the responsibilities, while bearing the least of them.
A reward for a job well done. You can have fun, and a lot of good stuff that money
can’t buy.
There may be something nicer than a two-year-old climbing up on your knee because he wants to be with you, but I don’t know what it is. Yes, grandkids do play both-endsagainst-the-middle by asking for something after their parents have said “No," and sometimes, when that pleading little face looks at you, it’s tough to support
baby? All three of my kids have blonde hair. My hair is blonde. This child has dark hair, were my first thoughts. The questions were fleeting. But when he grasped my forefinger, there was no doubt he was my grandson, and he wasn’t funny looking. Being a grandparent is easier and a lot
me at the birth of each of my four grand-
more fun than being
children,
a parent. Stress
lessened significantly.
The
is
feeling that
the parents. It really is a miracle. A life that wasn’t, and suddenly is. Those same thoughts also occurred to
Sarah.
Steven,
Scott,
and
Marc,
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1996
11,
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STUDENT LIFE Levitation, mind-reading By Sara Maxim
crazy?” Evason then asked with a smile.
Jeff
Evason and
Tessa
entertained
.near iiearly
300
ooner l&°°
in
31.
the
Amazing crowd of
a
during
the
DSA
Sanctuary
the
on
He
Evason
began
show
the
by
asking for a show of hands in the
who
had extrasensory perception (ESP) or knew of anyone who did. audience
“Who
of
those
revealed that before the
thinks these people are
show
he had been told there was a student in the audience
who had
psy-
chic abilities. a
first-year
general arts and science student,
was that person. Evason said, was cards and selves.
on
Ferzanovic was given a glass and a piece of wood to inspect. Students from the audience were also asked to inspect both items. The bottle was set on one of the Sanctuary’s tables and the piece of wood was placed on bottle
Rada Ferzanovic,
T)ct.
duo involve audience
tell
Ferzanovic,
Ferzanovic was given two black-
to read
board slates held together by elastics with a piece of chalk between
able
people about them-
He asked
top of the bottle.
her to
come up
them. Evason asked her to think of an event
stage.
in
her
life that
meant a
He
lot to her.
the
crystal
only their fingertips touching the
and think of a filled with smoke,
ball
then to picture in that
month and
smoke
the
table.
One
the year of the event.
Evason
“Focus,”
Then
The
who
itating table.
was asked
to roll the slates
on
the
— July 1984.
inside
Evason asked Ferzanovic to tell what event she had pictured in her mind. She said it was a car accident that she was involved in. It happened in July
a toothy grin,
“We year
at
won
carve
applause, Evason was on to his next act. Stella Savva, a first-year
hand.
first
my house,”
and
allow
to
for
teered to help.
ence, asked the volunteers to con-
Savva was asked to inspect a table Evason said he would use like a Ouija board in his next act. Savva went over the
centrate
surface of the table with a magnet.
In one case, Tessa not only guessed that the item one student held was a necklace, but that it was a Medic Alert necklace and it
wooden
place.
said Marks, a
education student, as she began to carve her winning pumpkin. Sheridan, first-year construction
engineering technology students,
their fingertips
and
Barabas
Matt
and Gerry Cleaves and Bryan Bambrick, first-year business administration
The
Barabas said he entered the contest to get himself into the festive spirit of Halloween. He
scarier.
Evason and Tessa have travelled with their psychic entertainment show to nearly 28 countries and have appeared on the Fox Network’s World’s Most
on the table. began to slide across
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For more
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(206)971-3550
munications co-ordinator; and Angelene Atwal, a third-year marketing student
Marks received a knapsack with perfume and make-up samples from the Bay, and a
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Oktoberfest
T-shirt.
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studies students also participated
it
student their
A
sheer cloth, inspected by Savva, was placed over the table and Savva and Evason placed
on
one, a blindfolded Tessa told each
There were no magnets or metal hidden in the table. Savva then examined Evason’s hands to make sure there were no hidden strings or gimmicks.
first-year early
Csaba
Tessa, with her back to the audi-
general business student, volun-
pumpkins every
table lifted into
Inch by inch, the table rose
the stage.
After only a brief pause to thank
on Oct. 31. The pumpkin she carved, a small orange and green pumpkin with
air.
After a blindfold was examined by audience students, it was used to cover Tessa’s eyes. Evason selected students from the audience and asked them to stand up and hold a personal item in their
Ferzanovic,
the Sanctuary
faster.
Gently, Evason helped Savva lower the table back to the ground. Afterward, Savva said Evason had not approached her before and that she was surprised and shaken by the levitation. The Amazing Tessa then took
thinking of the
written
move
Evason and Savva each removed one hand. Still, the table floated. Evason let go completely. Only Savva was touching the lev-
the audience
entered the contest in
whole
the audience. still
to
higher.
1984.
tants
the
the
blackboards
Rachel Marks said she decided to enter the Doon Student Association’s pumpkin carving contest because she loves Halloween and enjoys carving pumpkins. Marks was one of five contes-
began
with
leg lifted off the stage, then
month, the year,” he repeated. The piece of wood fell off the bottle. The table that held both items was not on stage and had not been knocked by anyone in
clearly
By Sara Maxim
It
still
it,
a second leg lifted off the stage.
instructed.
“Picture the month, the year.
back and forth. When the two slates were opened, a date was
carving competition
Evason and
slowly.
Savva moved with
event,
pumpkin
stage
to close her eyes
Ferzanovic,
DSA holds
then instructed her
in act
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One
11,
1996
Faculty books Roost to avoid noon crush
student beats teacher
20-match chess tournament
in
By
decision
By Eric Whitfield
Trish Jackson
is not getting prefertreatment by having the Condor Roost to themselves, said
The
faculty
ential
conquer mechanical-engineering instructor Stelian GeorgeCosh in a 2 1 /2-hour chess tournament in the cafe-
Only one out of 20 players was able
to
Roost manager Duane Donaldson. The Roost has been reserved for about 100 faculty members from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 13, Don-
teria Oct. 30.
Todd Mclver, a second-year recreation leadership student, said he “did a little dance” upon his victory against George-Cosh, who played up to 12 students
Workshop teachers for the Visitor Information Program College Information Program Day will be
one time during the tournament. “When he lost to me he was only playing two others at the time. He made a mistake and I caught him,” said Mclver. “He (George-Cosh) nodded approvingly when I made certain moves. That actually built my confidence.” Mclver said he took up chess in Grade 9 and just played for fun. This was
game
able
avoid
to
the
lunch-hour
expected because of the 3,000 high school students who will be occupying the cafeteria. If a restaurant owner thinks he or
traffic
in four years.
would
better serve the college
down
(the Roost)
and take
care of our customers that way,”
he
said.
The Roost doesn’t have ities to
the facil^
serve the 100 faculty
men^'
bers and the students, too, he said. also able to
time,
book
Donaldson
the Roost any
said.
“As long as they can guarantee about 100 people and a certain amount of dollars, we have no problem closing for private parties,”
As
he
said.
for the regulars
who come
to
or
the Roost at noon, he said the situ-
make customers more comfortable, they sometimes make the
ation will be explained to them in
make more money
she can
Mclver was the last person to enter the tournament, he said, and had watched George-Cosh play for about 10 minutes before joining. For his victory Mclver won an Oktoberfest T-shirt.
“It
to close
Students, not just faculty, are
aldson said.
at
his first
down, Don-
close
to
aldson said.
George-Cosh has been holding the tournament at hopes of creating awareness of chess for young people. He said chess develops spacial memory and logic. “Over the years I probably lost four or five times,”
a delicate manner.
the college for the past eight years in
he
said. “I
am
always glad when there
is
CONESTOGA
a student
COLLEGE
who
wins. I hope they will continue to play.” George-Cosh began playing chess in Grade 11, and won a scholarship by playing on the chess team at Romania’s University of Brasov. Second-year LASA student Derek Stahle, another tournament participant, said of George-Cosh, “It was a great challenge to play someone like that. It was an honor and a pleasure.”
ATHLETICS &
—
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RECREATION
(Photo by Trish Jackson)
Oct. 30.
High percentage of trades taught at Conestoga’s Guelph campus now,” Zawada
By Wendy Cummins
an
But by April 1, 1999, there will no longer be financing for apprenticeship programs. The next two years will involve finding ways to
Almost 80 per cent of activity in and development programs is offered at the college’s Guelph campus, the chair of technology trades and apprenticeships
industry
raise funds for apprenticeship pro-
for colleges to offer higher levels
grams, he said. “Apprenticeships will never go away.”
Zawada
the activity
is
in
the
trades or industrial skills areas,
Hans Zawada
said.
Two new
courses, the renovation technician
diploma program and the general machinist program, began in September.
They replaced
three courses
—
machine shops.”
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said
increasing
there
demand from
is
of technician programs. In
said recently.
Most of
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said.
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training
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“Apprenticeships are very strong.”
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11,
— Page 7
1996
Easdale returns from speaking tour in Czech Republic By Jennifer Dougall During his
first visit to
communist country,
a post-
Bill
Eas-
dale, Conestoga’s vice-president
of business, found
many exam-
ples of the Czech Republic’s eme-rging capitalism set against the country’s early-European
Czech Republic was
agement
studies
University.
When
him how
“He
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100 kilometres from any other Easdale found a castle and marketplace surrounded by modem department stores. “It is such a strange feeling when you are standing there and looking at the market square where people for centuries have bartered and traded and you look over to your right and here’s the new Thomas Bata shoe store.” Easdale was in the country on a speaking tour of universities and factories where he discussed productivity with educators and senior businessmen. He made three presentations in Prague and Zlin. The Czech Republic was occupied by the Nazis in the 1930s and then by the Soviets until about four years ago. There is a lot of reconstruction in the republic, Easdale said, because properties owned by the Czechs before the occupations are being given back to the original owners, complete with their 65-year-old plumbing and elec-
*
* sj(,
.
— Pete Schlei, a maintenance worker assigned
at the rear of the recreation centre Oct. 31
to the recreation centre, (Photo by Rick «ew)
.
Groundskeepers prepare for winter On
By Rick Kew
those occasions they col-
lected the leaves in barrels and
them
Once
The Maple Leaf
is
and
the middle pole
.
flown from flies
higher
Just like any family makes changes to the landscaping surrounding its home and prepares for the changing seasons, so does the college. That includes planting trees and getting leaves off the
carried
the college to plant trees, found
tion’s
grass.
himself pushing a blower, clearing
the college.
pathways and grass between the registrar’s office and the col-
Higgins said when he was told to take down the United Way’s flag
lege Oct. 30.
and
Head groundskeeper Peter Higwest end of Parking Lot 9, said eventually gins, planting trees at the
to the grove.
the leaves reach the grove, nature
takes
its
course and the leaves
decay, he said. Similarly,
Ryan Barron,
hired by
the
He
was
would act as a windbreak against the snow that blows into the lot from the top of Pinnacle
that job because the groundskeeping staff was concerned the
Hill to the southwest.
leaves
the trees
Pete
a
Schlei,
maintenance
worker assigned to the grounds around the Kenneth E. Hunter Recreation Centre, said if the college does not get the leaves off the
lawns they will ruin the grass and create an eyesore. He said the maintenance staff use mechanical blowers that they
said he
transferred to
would become wet. Barron said blowing the leaves when they are wet is impossible, so maintenance wanted to remove them before any bad weather arrived, he said. Higgins keeps tabs on things
.
wind
is
so high
that
blowing the leaves
is
not pos-
the
sible, said Schlei.
fund-raising campaign at
to raise the college flag,
he
replaced the Maple Leaf and provincial flags since they were starting to tatter.
He
said he usually changes the
flags twice a year.
He
estimated the total replacement cost of the flags to be about
$300. Higgins said the college used to fly one flag at a time until 15
when
.
.
tricity.
Easdale visited many nist countries during
the three flag
poles were installed.
nism’s heyday, but his
commucommu-
trip to the
said’That’s coincidental,
because
1998
in
we
will
be 650
years old.’”
Since
communism
republic,
fell in the
unemployment
has
become a concern, Easdale said. The country can’t move too fast into democracy because of the many people who would be jobless.
As
a result, the government
has been creating unneeded jobs to keep everyone working.
The country
is
very aggres-
sively trying to catch rest
up
to the
of the world, Easdale said.
The Czech people
see them-
selves as being oppressed by
centuries of marauding armies.
“They’re behind and they it
know
and they know what they have
to do.”
In the new capitalist society, an automobile is seen as a status symbol. There are foreign car dealerships, like Toyota and Hyundai, in the cities. However, most of the rural
area cars are very old and pollute the environment.
When
the Russians
left,
they
abandoned ammunition dumps and chemical spills that needed to be cleaned up. The environment was never considered in
any of the Soviet satellite counEasdale said.
tries,
For example, he monitors the
lawn between the registrar’s office and Doon Valley Drive. Higgins said the college normally flies the school flag, the provincial flag and the Canadian
Sometimes
rep-
Recently, however, the college had been flying the United Way’s flag to symbolize the organiza-
years ago,
grounds into the grove of trees across the road from Parking Lot 12
it
resents Canada, said Higgins.
college grounds.
condition of the flags that fly, year round, from three flagpoles on the
like
than the other flags because
other than just the condition of the
lawnmowers to blow the leaves from the recreation centre
push
of about
city
20,000, located approximately
5 v•r^*-
one small
Charles dean asked old Conestoga was, at
the
Easdale replied that in 1998, the college will be 30 years old.
buildings. In
his first to
any post-communist country. During his time in Prague, Easdale spoke to the dean of man-
flag.
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November 11-29
Walk Safe Volunteers
Required
Wish Tree
is
located in
The Sanctuary
Gifts will be donated to Children of
Conestoga College Students who are experiencing financial difficulties
Applications Available at the DSA Office
Students
may
Wish Tree by November 15
register their children for a
at the
DSA
Office
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Page 8
11,
1996
Natural windbreak
Low-cost fine dining available at Waterloo campus By Wendy Cummins
Although there has always been of moving the program to Doon, Esenbergs said she is happy at Waterloo and the finantalk
The food and beverage management program at the college’s Waterloo campus offers those
who
to eat out with
like
fine
room
dining
licensed
requires reservations and
Monday and Tuesdays
is
open
for dinner,
and Wednesday, Thursday and seating
for
up
is
C
the
and a regular clientele dining
room
are just
in
some of
ther develop their skills once they
benefits.
gram, both first- and second-year, have four hours study lab in the kitchen as well as four hours in the dining room. Each section alternates every other week, she
Beth Esenbergs, the
nestoga school of business, said.
the
are in the field.
are kind of the forgotten
part
program co-ordinator. Food and beverage is the only college diploma program offered at the Waterloo campus. And it is also the only co-op program in Esenbergs
the
at
jewel.” Every student in the pro-
of the learning experience provided for food and beverage students, said
the
Instructor
of advantages
35
to
room
patrons, the dining
lot
bergs said.
Diane Cudney said program shows students the basics of food and beverage management. This allows them to fur-
high.
Waterloo, she said. Easy access
“We
Friday for lunch.
With
involved in moving to
There are a
dining at low cost.
The
cial costs
Doon would be
dents to gain hands-on experience while developing the business skills behind food and beverage management,” Esen-
“You
learn by doing, but
you
have to have the basics,” she said. By teaching students the basics, they are prepared for most still
work
situations in the industry,
whether it be in fast food, roadhouses or high-class dining estab-
said.
lishments.
Students are also involved in two co-op placements during their two years in the program. “The best part about the pro-
Esenbergs said 75 per cent of who graduated in 1995, found work in the industry. “It’s a great field. The sky is the
gram
limit for opportunities.”
is
the opportunity for stu-
the students
right, head groundskeeper, and Ryan Barron an ash tree behind Parking Lot 8 in an effort to create a natural windbreak for the lot. (Photo by Rick Kew)
Peter Higgins,
plant
Health fair focuses on prevention
IS
BEING REPRESENTED?
By Colleen Cassidy The
semester Conestoga nursing students held their biology and health fairs, respectively, during the last week of October at the college. fifth-and-sixth
On Oct. 29, the sixth-semester students’ health fair included displays about quitting smoking, aro-
Does your class have any suggestions, ideas, complaints or concerns? Elect a Class Rep. to act as the voice of your class.
matherapy, vitamins and minerals, foot care, stress, drinking and driving, AIDS prevention, fitness and health, naturopathy, heart disease,
sexual
health
and
YOUR CLASS
street
drugs.
The aim of many of the displays was to make people aware of preventions to health problems.
At some displays, people particin quizzes and experi-
ipated
ments.
At
the sexual health
prevention
displays,
and
AIDS
condoms
were given as prizes to people who gave the correct answers to questions about sexuality and
ORGAN LESSON
— Teresa Roberts, a fifth-semester nursing
student, holds a pig’s lung, which tation at the biology fair.
was
part of
an asthma presen-
For more information and meeting schedules see
Becky
at the
DSA
Office.
(Photo by Eric Whitfield)
AIDS.
Denny Bauman, whose display was heart disease, said not as many people would have heart topic
problems if they ate the proper foods and exercised.
The focus of some displays was promote a new, healthier
to
lifestyle.
A naturopathy display invited people to sample a small selection of foods with no additives. Bill Matthews to look at
living,
said, “We want people naturopathy as a way of not an alternative
lifestyle.” It was a different focus for the fifth-semester nursing students’
biology health
fair Oct. 31. It targeted
problems including iron
Todd Mclver
Board of Directors Notice of Meeting
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Of 20
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Todd was
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The
students
whose display was
about lung cancer used a cake to a healthy and an unhealthy lung. The myocardial represent
infraction
and asthma displays
made use of animal organs visual aids.
Chess Tournament
as
You
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semester to challenge Stelian
If you are unable to
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SPOKE, November
Aerobics demonstration
11,
— Page 9
1996
Determination
promotes women’s fitness By
Trish Jackson
Junghans, a fitness instructor and consultant, said they were there to
customer service representative, and Poppy Ruetz, a fitness consultant and promotions agent, ran an
Kitchener women transformed the cafeteria into a stepaerobics class during lunch Oct.
promote the club encourage overall
women.
between workouts.
30.
“Everyone makes time for food, school and social activities,” she
The booth provided information brochures and guest passes for a
Wom-
said.
free
performed
“If
Lanee Junghans and Melanie Capling, of the Exclusively en’s Fitness Centres,
two three-minute step-aerobic roupromotional demonstra-
tines in a
tion for students.
as
well
fitness
you don’t have your
as
for
health,
information booth in the cafeteria
you have nothing. You can’t enjoy those other things.”
any of the Exclu-
at
Women’s
Fitness Centres.
They also collected 65 ballots in draw for a free one-year mem-
a
Junghans, along with Capling, a
workout
sively
bership at the club of the winner’s choice.
Ruetz said the equipment Exclusively
Women’s
at the
Fitness Cen-
was designed in California woman’s body. The equipment, she said, was made to help shape a woman’s body the way it’s supposed to be tres
specifically for a
shaped.
Exclusively
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Centres chain has six locations in Ontario, including the Waterloo
Women’s Club, and
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— SPOKE, November
11,
1996
STUDENT LIFE Tears of a clown
Students discuss ups and downs of resident By Sara Maxim Although Melissa Wilken has had a lot of fun meeting new people at isn’t sure
Rodeway
much
of parties. You sleep,” Wilken, a
first-year early
childhood educa-
“There are don’t get
lots
tion student, said.
too
said Paul Holowaty, general
.
a Beaver Foods employee, gets (Photo by Ross McDdfinott)
urday
would probably
live in res-
Blokzyl,
would not
ness administration marketing stu-
a first-year
dent, said living in residence
it is
first
“There were a
lot
examples
of extra ex-
didn’t
too expensive,
room comes
considering
the
fully furnished.
Davies said the part she
likes
best about living in residence
have a guest stay over.”
and
is
that’s a fact.
talk to.
showing more responsibility than any generation
So now
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Because some
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derstand
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living in residence,
Rodeway has always had an
money
in here
people.”
the
the night, she said.
paid a lot of
moved
anybody,” she said. “Living in residence is a good way to meet
$5 fee charged to guests when they spend is
is
good for first-year students. “I’m from Brampton. So when
live in resi-
penses involved that I didn’t have a clue about,” she said.
to
month,”
think that’s
“I
pretty reasonable.”
too expensive.
pay
said.
Liz Davies, a second-year busi-
Amanda
An
each
night,
Holowaty
here,” Blokzyl said. “I don’t un-
administration accounting student,
stay
phone, table, fridge, microwave, sink and full bathroom. Cable and telephone voice mail are also in-
“We
Chris Bach, a first-year business
may omy
in a row, 10 nights a
month.
overnight charge, Holowaty said.
ager of Rodeway.
said he
two nights
fully furnished with
dence again next year because
man-
HolowatAjid.
the time,
all
to dissuade
“Basically guests could stay every weekend, Friday and Sat-
said she
There is basement level available for students to use. There is also a common room where students can smoke, drink or play music. Students can file a complaint if they feel too much noise is being made,
meant
a bed, closet and desk for each roommate as well as a television,
early childhood education student,
is
enough.” a quiet lounge on the
Seyler,
room
is
Further, guests
in-
student, said the residence
quiet, it’s not quiet
Spirit
Rodeway. This
at
cluded.
“I’m only here to study. Sometimes when I want it to be
loween
over
costs a student $1,675 a se-
Clarence Lenting, a first-year ambulance and emergency care noisy.
Jeanne
college.”
cludes a
she will live in residence
The charge
students from having gues_ts stay
mester to live
again next year.
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idence again next year. “The price is reasonable and it is close to the
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SPOKE, November
Coach blames By Eric
surprising
end of the
was
the worst he
against Centennial, the Condors
,|een in 26 years, said Geoff
won 1-0 in overtime. One Centennial player handled
field to the other.”
game Nov.
In Conestoga’s first
«
iTstone,
coach of Conestoga’s
box, resultig
teams for Conestoga’s second-
the ball into the top comer, he
place
finish
in
provincials
the
The Condors
lost to
making nine
said played superbly,
volleyball teams.”
who
stopped
Kesselring,
During the play which lead to Fanshawe ’s goal, Fanshawe was offside two separate times, and neither was called, he said. Despite the bad officiating and
penalty shot and several direct
team didn’t play and passing game, which they had all year, the team worked hard and battled, Johnstone said. “They should be control
the
proud.” Also, the conditions affected
games
four
weekend, he “It
was
played
on
all
the
like a gale
wind from one
players per team, she said, but the
a
recreation
OCAA
The gymnasium
is booked for from 7:30 p.m. to p.m. on Wednesdays, which allows each team to play about two games, she said. “If there were 24 teams, they would only be able to play one half-hour game.” 1
1
The other
Conestoga’s hockey team has a head coach Tony
lot to learn, said
—
SPIKE! Marlene Ford, Conestoga’s said she was surprised by the number
athletic
of
program
people
murals.
assistant,
who joined
intra-
(Photo by Eric Whitfield)
when he scored the first goal for Conestoga against Seneca at the 7:01 mark of the first period.
Conestoga’s
Martindale.
The Condors, who lost their first game of the regular season 5-2 to 1 in Toronto, have a of young players, including
Seneca Nov. lot
There are eight contact hockey teams with 20 players on each team, 12 ball hockey teams with 10 players on each team and six soccer teams with 10 players on each team. The second session of intramurals will run until the second week of December.
potential
Whitfield
other
came
goal
from defenceman Jason Snyder who joined in on the play and scored from close in on the net. Snyder’s goal was scored at 8:26
sports offered are also
well attended, she said.
all
game
doesn’t
volleyball
stars.
in penalty-filled
staff
to run a league of
that size.
Conestoga’s other all-star from the tournament was fullback Stephanie Den Haan. Johnstone said Den Haan was the best player of the day and her performance was the best of the weekend. Johnstone also received accolades when he was named coach of the year. Joanna Mills and Claudette
Youthful Condors lose By Eric
centre
have the time
kicks.
Amaral were named
said.
The volleyball league could have had close to 24 teams, with eight
The all-star goalie for the tournament was Conestoga’s Amanda
Johnstone.
the fact that the
athletic
who Johnstone
or 10 really good saves.
game. linesmen was drinking coffee and talking to the fans while the play was on, said
Marlene Ford, the school’s program assistant. “I can’t remember the last time we had 18 said
just out of reach of the
One
the
The second session of intramuon Oct. 28 with a lot more people than were expected, rals started
said.
was
away four or
five volleyball teams.
Forward Jodi Brezinskie booted
1-0 in the gold-medal
of
centre had to turn
in a direct kick.
Centennial goalie,
Whitfield
Attendance for intramurals was high enough that the recreation
the ball just outside the penalty
It
Fanshawe
By Eric
1
women’s soccer team. Johnstone blamed referees, bad weather and mugging by the other
held in Belleville on Nov. 1-2.
— Page 11
for volleyball
Whitfield
e officiating
1996
Enrolment
officials
gold-medal defeat
for
11,
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Conestoga
^
i
t
at
of the second period.
twelve rookies.
Goalie Devin Steubing played well against Seneca, despite the five goals, which Martindale said were because of a lot of break
aways and out-numbered
situa-
“The game was said Martindale,
full
of penalties,”
“which
is
usually
when we play Seneca.” What made the difference in the game was the Condors were the case
Tll?e
L$t ic
playing as individuals and Seneca
tions.
Chris Palubeski
showed
his
was playing
as a team, he said.
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Page 12
1996
11,
ENTERTAINMENT Michael Collins an epic
an end to a truce that, for a short time, had brought peace into Ire-
the roots of the Irish Republican
half-decent version of the Irish
Army and
that
force his guerrilla tactics along
land.
tionary country.
with his companion Harry Boland,
The
was subsequently
jailed
and upon his release began
to en-
By Wendy Cummins
Collins
Michael Collins is a compelling and riveting drama about passion and betrayal in the heart of the Emerald Isle.
The movie as
tionary attempting to free Ireland.
Michael Collins
the story of a
is
who
film
is
able to portray the pa-
through
played by Aidan Quinn ( Legends
triotism
Of The Fall,
blood of the Irish while still telling the tale of the violence and con-
Frankenstein).
After a violent beating during a
Liam Neeson
stars
Rob
Roy, Schindler’s List) Michael Collins, a revolu-
(Nell,
of Ireland’s revolutionary hero
tale
that
runs
the
land that focuses on Irish history.
historical events in the history of
Although, at the beginning of the movie she is able to carry off a
movie
played by Julia Roberts
Woman, Mary
who
Reilly), a
(
The
Pretty
woman
was written and
film
rected by Neil Jordan
A
(
di-
not impress the leader of the Irish
orated with Jordan in Interview
nationalists,
begins during what has
been called the Easter uprising in Dublin in 1916, when Irish revolusurrendered to British
tionaries
forces after a six-day stand-off.
With
captures the hearts of both
Collins and Boland. Collins’ revolutionary tactics
Eamon
de
With
Valera,
played by Alan Rickman ( Sense and Sensibility, Die Hard). Valera was Collins’ mentor until a dispute about the future of Ireland tore them apart and brought
A
The
Vampire,
Vampire.
film
is
soning behind the violence that
It
Michael Collins
the
is
& &&&
for you.
Review Guide fcfc&toto
Classic
fctofcfc
Excellent
not consumed by vio-
lence but rather depicts the rea-
still
Ireland,
Interview
British rule. tale
you have any “fighting Irish” you or are interested in lea^Vg about one of the most devastating If
in
troversy in Ireland and accurately
Ireland forever by releasing his
The
easily pulls off the role
of hero and has audience support.
depicting Ireland’s history.
Boland Kieman,
country from over 700 years of
tempts to change the history of
Neeson
The only disappointing performance in this movie is by Julia Roberts. Her American accent is distracting in a movie based in Ire-
are introduced to Kitty
do
at-
lilt,
soon fades.
protest rally, Collins and
The Crying Game), and was produced by Stephen Woolley who also collab-
hero and devout patriot
the history of a revolu-
is
Good
happening in Ireland today. aims to invoke curiosity about
Poor Turkey
Concert Review
Young and Crazy Horse rock Hamilton’s Copps Coliseum Neil
By Doug Coxson
It
When Neil Young and Crazy Horse rolled into town for their Halloween gig in Hamilton, two things were evident to the near-capacity audience:
Good rock
is
age-
and bad rock can never sound when book-ended by a surprisingly competent unknown and a rock ‘n’roll legend. Copps Coliseum, filled with freaks who were either dressed for Halloween or wearing their everyday costumes, proved to be a great venue for the 4 1 /2-hour show. There wasn’t a bad seat in
less
good, even
the place.
Of
course, with free seats near
the floor,
brother,
I
really didn’t care if
whose $40
the balcony, or
damn
seats
anybody
my
were
in
else could
up
for Young and Crazy come on stage and wipe
was time
Horse
to
gone on beThe coliseum darkened
With tars,
My My
solid rock, highlighted
Petty’s
it
by pow-
and tongue-incheek lyrics. It almost seemed too bad that, by squinting hard enough, you could imagine Petty on stage. Droge played for 45-minutes, stopping only twice with some obnoxious plugs for his CD. The audience was pumped and ready for Young and the Horse after hearing Droge, but Canadian favorites Moist had yet to play. The band performed a few of
clude,
Conestoga College
and
among
others.
C
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S
K
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Sport Karate
Powder-
Young’s latest album Broken Arrow, and the closer Roll Another Number.
Mondays and Wednesdays 4:30 pm in
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Rec. Centre
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Young three times now was his best, most re-
I’ve seen
and
this
laxed, energetic and thoroughly enjoyable performance. Since he
Crazy Young and
tapped
that spi-
Welfare Mothers, the 15-minute-long Slip Away, from
Pocahontas,
Young
Flexibility!
finger,
After wrapping up an electric
Child,
Up
World, during which the audience was showered in red, white and blue lights while fans waved Canadian flags from the balconies. The encore lasted an hour to in-
quickly forgotten.
A
Tom
Fitness!
feedback, and Rockin’ in the Free
started the
started things off with a set of
Pete Droge, a musician with vocals so similar to
in’
ralled into a fury of guitars
descended on the veteran rocker and his band. Fans on the floor fired up sparklers, among other things, and began waving them in the pungent air. Ripping straight into Cowgirl in the Sand, Young and the Horse set the pace for the evening and the night’s earlier embarrassment was
of
F
version of
set as spotlights
version
Fun!
Highlights included a 10-minute
the familiar grind of gui-
Hey Hey,
Crazy Horse reGirl and The
Cinnamon
Loner.
and silhouettes of the band moved into place amid the glowing light of huge candles that were scattered around the stage.
will probably limit his success,
thing.
turned for
the crap that had
fore them.
Horse left the stage to his harmonica and acoustic guitar. Playing The Needle And The Damage Done, Helpless and I Am
see a
career before
doesn’t play from a set
most wish
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the
he’ll
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some of
be around again soon.
acoustic core of his 31 -album solo
erful guitar solos
their forgettable hits
while the lead
and the whining vocalist postured for the five people who guitarist
Toronto Maple
presents
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