.
Election
Student killed
on way By Lynne Thompson
exam
to
services and Rick Casey
from speneeds spoke to the students about the mourning process and about remembering Semeniuk. Higgins said the counselling was cial
The life of a Conestoga student ended tragically in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Feb. 26, as she was on her way to
especially
the college.
Semeniuk’s death occurred imme-
important
Jody Semeniuk, RR, 4
23,
Waterford,
H
oncoming vehicle around 7 a.m. The accident, which occurred on Regional Road 24
difficult.
near
Students
isolated
the
making ing
second year computer pro-
grammer analyst (CP/A) student, Semeniuk was an excellent student and wonderful friend.
Jane Hutton Perry, who taught Semeniuk’s systems analysis and design course,
woman was
Ten people, seven
management and support
staff employees are being offered buy-out packages for their con-
college
president
John
Tibbits told college council
March
tracts,
10
port-staff positions
in senior sup-
and three
cal workers, are affected
cleri-
by the
cuts.
The Ministry of Education wanted lay-off notices to go but March 14, Tibbits said.
on Trillium Drive. Its employees mainly developed training plans for industry and funnelled government subsidies to office is located
After telling the ministry lay-offs were unacceptable, the college
With a manager involved and “some uncertainty in the budget”, the buy-out package was neces-
was given until March 14 to devise
sary, Tibbits said.
Ontario Ministry of Education to the Ontario Skills Development
a
office, Tibbits said.
He
age will be savings for the college,
was expectannouncement
said the college
ing the cuts, but the
had come suddenly. not totally surprising, but disappointing is the short time-frame. We were given about “It’s
what
is
“human resources plan” instead. The criteria for the buy-out pack-
Tibbits said.
“This
not waiting to retire early and run off with a bundle of is
money.”
,
will
allow
Jody
Semeniuk’s
name
young
the
“always very friendly, very personable.”
Hutton Perry said Semeniuk was a good student who was always willing to help others. She said she
students are in the process of raising money in order
up an award
in her name, classmate Sesheeka Selvaratnam. As it stands now, the award will be presented to a second-year to set
said
CP/A student this year and a thirdyear student next year, said classmate Halina Rekret. Selvaratnam said the award will be given to “the type of person who would be helpful, friendly and have good marks, someone like Jody.”
In deciding who will receive the award, faculty members will give
on the academic aspect and students will give their input on the personality aspect because they were the ones who knew their input
Semeniuk
best,
ting with her classmates explain-
Donna Gross. The first award
ing the class material to them.
at the
frequently noticed
Higgins,
Semeniuk
coordinator
who
sit-
Kristin
described Semeniuk
as a “very, very bright student, certainly
one of the top
five per
was particubecause it was so sud-
cent,” said the death larly tragic
den. In order to help Semeniuk’s classmates deal with their grief,
Higgins cancelled an exam which had been scheduled for the morning of Feb. 28 and replaced it with a counselling session.
Roger Mainland from student
The
second year CP/A
said
classmate
is to be presented program’s awards banquet
on April 1 0. Selvaratnam said the class was also planning on either adopting or planting a tree on the Conestoga campus in memory of Semeniuk. Selvaratnam said he will “miss her as a person. She was a really happy person. She was smiling every day all the time.” Hutton Perry echoed his sentiments: “She was just a great student and we’re going to miss her.”
—
Although the budget is supposed break even, one per cent is designated for computer systems improvements.
Vice-president of student affairs
Cleaves unofficial choice
to
“There’s another three per cent we’re not sure of,” he said.
“We’re expanding
The offer will be available until March 3 1 he said.“After that we’ll
the
in
business.
The offer is being made to make up for “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in funding cuts by the
.
said
bubbly,
CP/A
All
more
to be forgotten.
Jody Semeniuk
of
driver
ers.
have to consider our options.” The Ontario Skills Development
thus
the griev-
process
not
other vehicle
very
their
CP/ A program
to
escaped with minor injuries. Semeniuk is survived by her spouse Wesley Pasek, her twoyear-old son Shane Semeniuk Pasek, her parents Ted and Lola and her sister Alicia. She will also be missed by her Conestoga classmates and teach-
A
from
classmates,
Oakland,
The
eight days notice.”
She
being away for a week they would be
an
ditions.
By Tim Kylie
break.
after her car slid
be a result of slippery road con-
College will offer buy-outs rather than lay off 1 0 workers
before the
March
said with students
was believed
Alison Campbell (left) and Jason St. Amand take votes for vice-president of student affairs Feb. 24 in the cafeteria. St. Amand is the chief returning officer. (Photo by Matt Harris)
diately
died
into the path of
mm
since
programming areas it,
in a
number of
that will
but even so we’re tight.”
cover
Gerry Cleaves has been unofficially elected as
dent of student
The
official
not be
made
DSA
vice-presi-
affairs.
announcement until after the
will
DSA
board of governors gets a chance to meet on March 25.
Upon results
acceptance of the election
by the board, Cleaves
will
take his post
as vice-president of
student affairs
May
Cleaves
1
a first-year businessadministration management studis
ies student.
Student-industry forum
Teacher says she sees herself
Local representatives cessing program, but business
By Jennifer Dougall Nine local business representatives, including three Conestoga graduates, spoke to a group of about 30 women Feb. 26 to dis-
sentations.
Patterson was asked how someone should update her computer skills she said, when she graduated the program in 1988,
When
and Wordstar knew she Multimate. At her first job, she learned WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, then upgraded to 5.2 for Windows.
and Karen Electrohome Patterson, who works for 5D Computer Systems and Supplies. Hardcastle and Patterson are office
She then upgraded
ates.
gram
five
systems
literature, the office
administration program combines
human
technical skills with
rela-
microcomputer adminApproximately 57 per cent of the 1995 graduates or found parttions in the
istrative field.
“The best advice
of graduation. The first ques-
the
program
prepared students for the outside world.
still
to
“The
it
is
to
network.”
company and ask She said she
gave her
She answered advanced knowledge of what she would be asked to do. What she learned in school
said,
they give you
interview, an she said it is Dorothy Pflug very important
forum
that
is
If
network.”
asked Hardcastle
how
She
best advice
within six months
tion of the
write a resume in an hour.
-
jobs
full-time
Microsoft
She said it is important to courses, taking by upgrade because a one-day class can save a lot of time that would be spent trying to figure the program out. Pflug was asked how people could prepare for a job. She said people should look at their resumes as 30-second marketing tools. She said people shouldn’t think they could go home and
women were Shirley Meyers, Sharon Pinter, Dorothy Fisher, Martha Lewis and Susan Murphy. According to Conestoga’s proother
to
Word for Windows, Word for Windows95 and is now using Word for Office ’97.
gradu-
applies, but,
“You’ll always need extra train-
make
who
woman seconded by
first
ICI Canada
as a labor-relations counsellor. Nummelin said, as a woman,
she has lived her life being the first or the only. There were no role models, she said. She said although she was one of few women through most of she
career,
her
thought about
it
never
really
as being a prob-
lem. If
students are professional and ethic, it doesn’t
have a good work matter, she said.
“If
you portray those
traits,
peo-
ple don’t look at whether you have a skirt or pants on,” she
“You’ve got to do what you want to do. If you are good at what you do and focus on the right priorities, it is not going to
said.
be an
issue.”
Nummelin has consulted in many different male-dominated
a struggle to get
KPL
and the
discuss, in greater detail, software
human
and the program.
resource and
graduating
from
She said it is where students want to be but they have to make compromises to keep all “the balls in the air.” To keep current material in the
26
$ 2 000 books to be used towards tuition, .
.
,
Recipient must have been a Little Brother with the Big Brother Assn, of Burlington and
Hamilton-Wentworth.
Documented
By Tim
MOTOR SPORTS
,
acceptance as a post-
secondary student. Transcripts of last semester to be submitted with application.
APRIL
30,
1997
Kylie
Alumni services has received 26 nominations for Conestoga’s inaugural Alumnus of Distinction Awards, alumni services manager Mary Wright said March 6. The new awards are similar to the Premier’s
Awards, instituted
provincially in 1992 to recognize college alumni for career success
and outstanding volunteer work. The awards will be handed out spring convocation, she said.
Winners around the
will first
Nominees
Demonstrated need.
Wendy Cummins)
classroom Nummelin still consults a few select clients and is completing graduate work at the
going into the workforce. Nummelin said she sees herself as more of a developer than a
University of Toronto. “I want my students to be ready
trainer and she thinks teaching is one of the best jobs in the world because teachers arc making an impact on people just when they are making a very important
now,” she said.
Some students may think she tough, but, she said, the world tough these days. One management-studies
is is
choice in
stu-
Ogg, who is in her Nummelin, or students call her, knows
dent, Krista third
year,
said
“Mo” as how to relate
to the students.
“She puts herself on a personal level and makes herself available for students,” she said.
Ogg said that most of the mateNummelin brings to the class
rial is
relevant material for students
life.
She also sees her job as being an opportunity to mentor young
women
going out into the busi-
ness world. They can’t be afraid of a challenge because they are
women, she
said.
“If that’s the rules of the
game
and you want to play in that game, put the shirt on,” she said. “You can’t change the rules of the
game
overnight.”
at
week of April.
are
for outstanding
alumni in four categories: applied arts, technology and trades, business, and health and community
7,
Premier’s
kinds of community volunteering they do, she said. “It’s very dependant upon what
candidates
the
to
Awards. Conestoga had nine nominations Premier’s the for submitted
Awards last fall. credits Wright response
might work the
greater
Alumnus of Awards to more comthe
to
and different
munity
interest
itation
methods.
solic-
Alumni services sent a brochure faculty,
to all
their individual interests are.
advertised in the
Record, wrote letters to other local papers and announced the nomination call in its alumni news publi-
in
one
field but
They
volun-
teer in a totally different area.”
A nomination committee is being established
to
choose the
final
winners. Wright said the committee will use the evaluation system Premier’s the for established
Awards. The committee will award points to each candidate for meeting certain criteria.
day for
parents and children of alumni,
was March
other alumni, and faculty have sent
Alumnus of
cation.
The last
and she was pleased with the
response to date.
and faxes every day since the nomination call went out in early February. She also received letters. Nominees range widely in the
The system was devised for “lack of a better system,” she said. The winners of this year’s
services.
receiving nominations
nominated
The Alumnus of Distinction Awards are meant to recognize outstanding alumni on campus and create more interest in sending
Distinction
announced
be
Wright said the
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After the panel discussion, the
Patterson said Microsoft Word was the most popular word pro-
,
around the industry, as well. One of a handful of women to graduate from Queen’s University
chemicals, mining, engineering, manufacturing, automotive, tool
University of Waterloo are good places to research companies.
in business,
VALUE:
has been around the world, travelling to every continent but Australia, and has made her way
and die and pulp and paper. Her background as a consultant is very broad and she said she sees that as a benefit to her students, both male and female.
of software were needed.
L
full-time instruc-
Nummelin, a
questions.
the extra effort.
The next question, addressed to Patterson, dealt with which types
BY_j
classroom.
fields including chemicals, petro
likes people
women formed
SPONSORED
instructor
Conestoga
Maureen Nummelin brings more than management studies to her
to re-search the
Hendley said the
ing,” she said.
From guarded tours through during the Red Brigade era compounds in escaping to
tor,
often
Ltd.
The
Liberia,
easier to create professional pre-
Waterloo; Dorothy Pflug, the human resources manager at
administrations
Lotus and AccPac for Windows. She said knowledge of desktop
packages are an asset. Because of printer quality, it is
Products; Margaret Hendley, who works at the University of
systems
Italy
tion
The forum included a panel discussion with four members from the program’s advisory committee, including Karen Hardcastle, who works for Waterloo Concrete
By Wendy Cummins
still
used WordPerfect and Corel WordPerfect. Other software she mentioned was Microsoft Excel,
publishing software and presenta-
cuss Conestoga’s office systems administrations program.
young women
as a mentor to
offer business advice
results
have been
in their nominations,
positive as
Wright
She said she has received
said.
calls
Distinction Awards
be Conestoga’s nominees for Premier’s Awards. next the
will
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17,
1997
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uncertain future
$1.7 miUion set aside to study role of nurses in Ontario, says dean of health sciences
wmmsm
By Helene Beaulieu
While Ontario Premier Mike Harris does some verbal back-pedalling comparing health-care workers to hoola hoop makers, those immersed in the issue say they’re closely monitoring the future of the health-care system and nursing. Bill Jeffrey, dean of health sciences, says the issue has focused on for
hospital restructuring but hasn’t provided insight into other elements of the system, such as community home care, that are also seeing significant changes.
“The hospital is not the only resource within the health care system,” “You can’t reduce beds in the hospital and have acutely ill patients going home without follow-up care. What you don’t hear about are the types of continuing care going on in various domains to said Jeffrey.
keep people
at a
Jeffrey said
maximum level
it is
now
the province
more
of wellness,” he said.
difficult for graduates entering the
good
to find a
full-time position.
He
going to the United States or entering the international Britain currently has a critical shortage of nurses.
system
in
some are market He said said
Jeffrey said the previous trend may have seen 78 per cent of graduat ing nurses receiving jobs in hospitals but, be said, nurses today have to be more entrepreneurial then ever before.
“Nursing graduates are going to be working part-time and in contract positions,” said Jeffrey referring to
Comcare, Para-Med and
home-care organizations
its
ng program
said Conestoga’
curriculum in resp
has, over the years, adjusted
^
’
Jeffrey said courses in
j
n health-care
as well as training for
tings
where
expected they will f He said plans are al
program
it
•
ncate
in preparation
“The average nursing age years of age,” said Jeffrey.
right
now
Jeffrey said
in the province of Ontario fs
43 He said between the years 2000 and 2005
there will be a significant exiting considered to be baby boomers. lot
in a peculiar situation; she had been working at a job she enjoyed for seven years, but she had to
make
when loo
“There are a he said.
Three years ago Linda Goff was
is
chiatric hospitals.
Jeffrey said
By Rick Kew
delivery.
care are being offered
t
1
r»f
m.mc
a change.
With two growing children, Leonard and Lonnie, and being a single parent, she said the job was not going to meet her family’s needs.
of them that will be retiring in very large numbers,”
passed away as a result of heart problems. “He was a very smart man. And he was thrilled about every little detail of my going to college.” She said she then felt even more incentive to succeed in the program not only for herself, but for her father as well. After she began the course she said she became overwhelmed with the responsibilities of being a
Goff said the couple who owned
parent, a student, and a part-time
the restaurant where she worked-
worker and she thought she had taken on more than she could han-
were
he
like family to her, but she
unable to predict what the future of nursing will be. “The only thing we know right now is that we’re under radical and very critical changes in the health-care system ” he said. “My concern right now with the current ministry is that if you ask them for a vision-
realized there
would be nothing
they could do
if
ary plan or strategic planning direction for the next five or six years, I’m not sure you would find one.”
said she decided to upgrade her education through the Ontario Basic Skills program, at
satisfied the needs of her family, her studies and her part-time job.
Conestoga’s Stratford campus. While she was in the OBS pro-
the Stratford
He
is
said colleges like Niagara, Algonquin and Sheridan have
jcesponcied to
mbbut
gg'""' i
Jeffrey said in 1987 first-year intake for nursing at
Conestoga was 240. Today it sits at about 120. He said colleges have a moral obligation to not produce large numbers of graduates if there are no jobs for them. But, this in turn, said Jeffrey, raises
new questions.
With enrolment down and many programs discontinued Jeffrey said he is unsure if the supply of nurses will meet the demand after the year 2000 ,
Jeffrey said he is pleased that Health Minister
aside $1.7 million for
McMaster University
Jim Wilson has put
to study the role
of nurs-
ing over a three-year period.
“We know where
all
would influence human said Jeffrey, “But we don’t know the
the variables are that
resource demands of the future,”
numbers.”
When you
she asked for a
substantial increase in pay.
With
that thought in
mind she
gram, personality tests, job suitability tests and other tests pointed toward a career in management. Looking at the results of these tests and her success in the OBS program, she said she decided to continue her education in a food and beverage program. Goff, investigated the program at
when you look
at
nursing
now it’s not terribly favorable.
look at nursing in the future,
it is,
at best, uncertain, but
dle.
However,
after
taking
a time
management course she was able to structure her time in a way that
She also found time to enrol in YMCA and begin a
program. During the first half of her foodand-beverage program, she said she decided to focus her energy on fitness
getting a job
with a corporate
restaurateur, rather than a family
owned She
business.
Photo by Rick Kew
researched
Corp., which
is
the
the parent
Pepsico
compa-
ny of Taco Bell, and found their management style to be just what she was looking for.
going
1994.
Stratford, she said she set goals
program, one on Goff’s biggest supporters died.
Mac MacGregor,
Goff’s father,
When
she heard Taco Bell was to
food-
and-beverage program she was studying and to secure a co-op
work
her the co-op position.
She said academic goals were always near the top of her list and she completed the program with “As” and “Bs”.
She also won two awards, the Canadian Hospitality Foundation Merit Award and Canadian Federation Chef de Cuisine, which included a combined total of $ 1000 .
After graduating in 1996, Goff
began working for Taco Bell in Stratford as a shift manager and within 6 months had been promoted to assistant general-manager. Currently, she is running the franchise, as the previous general-
manager has been
of
open a franchise
in
for herself; to find out who was going to be running the franchise, to get an interview with that person, and to tell him about the
any new
GM
transferred,
March she has an
in
and
interview
with her marketing supervisor.
She to
is
confident this interview
promoted
general-manager.
As she thought about her possinew position, she smiled and
ble
said, “If
anyone had said
to
me
five years ago, ‘You’re
going to be working in a fast food restauraunt,’ I would have laughed at them.”
Goff
said,
“Anyone planning on
returning to school should not
let
anything stop them, not age, not money, not anything.”
ANOTHER REWARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Get $750 towards the purchase or lease
position.
Goff said Taco Bell management were impressed with the research she had done and agreed to give
will result in her being
Fanshawe College and Conestoga; deciding Conestoga offered the better program she enrolled at the Waterloo campus in the fall of Just prior to actually starting the
Jeffrey said,
1996.
Student realizes her goals through time management
and health pro-
J*
He
in
like
VON as viable employment options.
Jeffrey said trends in the area of disease prevention
Linda Goff holds her Conestoga diploma, which she received
vehicle.
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17,
1997
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cloned ewe in Scotland.
is
Association (DSA).
photograph).
stop
of medical breakthroughs and the birth of a has sprung fro
journalism students of Conestoga published and produced weekly by from September to May by the Doon Student
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Although criticized as a unethical completely experimentation, cloning could supply an end to
when
anguish
parental
By
In an informal survey Feb. 25, eight out of 10 students said the college weekly student newspaper. Spoke, could use
need of a blood transfusion or marrow donor. their child is in
Guaranteed, the movie Jurassic Park led audiences could be devto believe that such experiments astating to civilization, as most likely not the case.
it
is
known;
this is
first Dolly, the most recently cloned ewe, is the scientific study for its kind to survive such
some improvements. The most common comments involved putting in more crossword puzzles and word searches, and expanding the sports section to include statistics. Shawn Dietrich, a second-year general business student, had the most contro-
recommendation, suggesting that newspaper include a “Spokeshine’
of
versial
any lengthy period of time. Others have failed. Such as the last experimentation at the Roslin clones were Institute in Scotland, in which, 48
the
created and only
two embryos survived
the
as in 1993
when
Jerry Hall and Robert
Stillman, researchers from George Washington University, attempted to clone human embryos
no
to
— a tongue-in-cheek reference
girl
to
the Toronto Sun’s daily photo of a scantily
clad
woman.
Dietrich said
if
the
newspaper featured girl, I d pick it
a weekly “Spokeshine”
experiment.
Such
Trish Jackson
avail.
up more
often.” First-year general arts and science student Jason Snyder said he would like to
see
sports coverage in
more intramural
very best, but no, we won’t have identical twins any time soon. But what if we did?
Spoke. “There’s nothing on intramural sports,” he said. “They also should have weekly
turn into such fictional disasters as
updates and stats.” Brad Martin, a second-year business-
So, yes, this
Would we
science at
is
its
not. the characters in Muliplicity? Probably beings But, the opportunity to create human
donor of dying children around the world should not be banned or
who can match stopped.
the
The cloning of humans
glorification
is
for scientific
of no use to anyone anywhere
and yes, should not be tolerated. So where should the line be drawn?
have created is a way of can not only reproducing marrow and genes that way a also, but world the save humans around produce the right to provide women who do not amount of eggs to reproduce those eggs and betscientists
her chances of becoming pregnant. Understandably, the reproduction of
ter
humans
had only one suggestion, “Put more
in the sports section,
crosswords in.” Brian Straus, a second-year business-
you should put in national standings for hockey, basketball, etc. I know the guys
administration materials management student, also wanted to see crosswords
would
or
national sports news. “If
Forget cloning altogether? Pretend that scienup all the mess tists made a mistake and clean beings in like the supposed extraterrestrial
Hanger 13? No. What
administration marketing student, said he regularly reads Spoke’s opinion page and the sports page, but would like to see the sports section expand to include
you have room
really like
it.”
Steve Vansteendelaar, a second-year law and security administration student, said he reads Spoke weekly but is sometimes annoyed by the opinion columns. said he has found incorrect informafacts tion in some columns. “Make sure
He
are checked,”
he
said.
Alana Mowbray, also a second-year LASA student and weekly Spoke reader,
each issue. Second-year electronics engineering technician student Matt Kreutze said he
word searches
in
only reads the reviews on the entertainment page of Spoke. Of the reviews he said, “I think they’re a tad harsh.”
also said he
would
like to see
He
more
reviews and a comics section. Joy LeBlanc, first-year civil engineering technology student, had no sugges-
tions for the newspaper, but “I read entertainment torials, especially
and
when
commented,
I it
like the edi-
deals with
raising children and going to school because I’m a single mom.”
Darryl Sinclair, a first-year general business student, said he is a regular reader of Spoke and is happy with Uie newspaper. “Honestly, I enjoy reading Spoke. I give it 'A’ for effort!” he said.
Although first-year nursing student Angie Lebert said she only reads Spoke about once a month, she had a suggestion:
that
“You could put horoscopes would be cool.”
in
it,
really into clones is a scary situation that should warbe controlled by government forces and
rants
some
in
Letter
criticsm.
something that two weeks or a month.
But,
It
it
isn’t
is
going to happen
Student objects to apathetic label ’
‘
has taken scientists years to
come
as far as
they have. the So, instead of complaining and throwing most disastrous situations that could arise into the airwaves,
it
is
what humans can
time to
sit
back and watch
create.
apathy ramlike to address the editorial, Students’ issue. 24 Feb. the in McDermott Ross by pant, written apathetic or uncaring! I find this statecall I
would
Please do not
ment
to
me
does not be an insult and a gross generalization that
address the real issues. I would like to provide
Spoke welcomes
Drop us
a line.
personal perspective as a fourth-
semester nursing student. During my time at Conestoga,
I
have continued to address anatomy course from
the issues of the self-directed learning
was first proposed. observe and listen to the comments of my fellow stuThe adminisdents, the typical comments are: “Why bother? the nursing within Specifically isn’t listening.”
the time
your comments.
my
it
When I
tration
the program, the further I am on the road towards graduation, more I have a vested interest in completing the program. jeopardy. Therefore, “rocking the boat” would put me into
The
autocratic “top
ages dialogue
down” management approach discourasking many needed questions.
or even
as I Therefore, I have experienced my voice being silenced that I risk impression the get I semester. each progress through voice. The being “turfed out” of the program if I exercise my
power
differential that
I
have experienced on many
different
to occasions forces me to gather extra energy and strength make my voice heard. a diaMr. McDermott, please encourage students to begin the logue with one another and with management, addressing manof attitudes the and differentials issues of the power real
agement.
Thanks again for your opinion. Marion Willms
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in
17,
1997
— Page 5
charge of residence since 1993
Manager with Rodeway
Suites since
By Sara Maxim Paul Holowaty has worked
Rodeway
Suites since
it
at
opened
four
Now
years ago. ager,
he
on in from the basement
—
man-
a general
responsible for every-
is
thing that goes floor
He began his post-secondary education at the University of Waterloo in the general arts and science program, but transferred
that
is,
the residence, to the fourth
until recently.
Holowaty is now also the regionmanager for Rodeway Suites’ parent company, Campus Living al
Centres.
As
dences
being
regional manager, he consults on a number of new resibuilt
across
the
province.
Because of this, Holowaty is out of the office a couple days each
Guelph
one year because the course wasn’t what he wanted to
after
to do.
Holowaty ’s first managerial position was at the Holiday Inn in Kitchener where he worked as the dining room and lounge supervisor. He worked at the hotel for nine or 10 months while attending the University of Waterloo.
When he decided to transfer to the University of Guelph, he quit his job at the Holiday Inn because
tant manager, is taking care of the day-to-day operations of Rodeway
he couldn’t devote the time needed to the job. Two months into the school year at Guelph, Holowaty got bored and applied for another job, this
Suites.
time
week and Jason Buick, an
“Jason and
I
assis-
at Cliff
and Mario’s Place, a
opened
it
restaurant in Kitchener. After six
months at the Holowaty became
restaurant,
the manager.
He stayed at the restaurant until January 1993 when it went out of business. In February of the same year, he applied for the job of assistant
manager
Rodeway
at
Suites. In
June he got the job. By September he was the general manager. During the summers of 1983 until 1 996, Holowaty worked at a golf pro shop at Rockway Golf
Course in Kitchener. For the past few years he has worked at both Rodeway Suites and the golf pro shop during the summer. He said the job at Rockway was more of a hobby because he loves to golf. Holowaty is married. He and his
wife, Angela, have a one-year-old son, Benjamin.
share responsibility
for this building,”
Holowaty said. keep my hands in it because this was the first property “I
I
still
had.”
Holowaty
Paul Holowaty, general manager of Rodeway Suites, graduated from the University of Guelph in 1993 after studying hotel and food administration.
(Photo by Sara Maxim)
graduated with a bachelor of commerce from the University of Guelph in April 1993. His major was hotel and food administration.
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STUDENT LIFE
m
College cabinet makers spend Saturday
woodworking contest
in apprenticeship
certificate
gift
By Colleen Cassidy
from Lee Valley
Tools.
“You can’t
win
all
De Sousa
a prize, but
could win the contest but decided
each of you worked on your prowith pride,” said Hans ject Cullman, when he announced the winners of the Apprenticeship
Woodworking
Cullman, one of the judges of the the by hosted Woodworking Centre on March 1,
between
certificate
this one for the challenge and to see what other woodworkers were
this type, there are
doing.
that
said he
De
five fin-
was pleased
AWMAC
cabinet
cabinets.
nology apprenticeship contest on March
1
(Photo by Colleen Cassidy)
.
5:
15 p.m.
apprenticeship
Students are being challenged to redouble their recycling efforts as
both a cost- and environment-saving initiative.
Barry Milner, manager of physical resources, says the challenge was given to the school of business which was the recent focus of a waste-audit report. Issued Feb. 12 the report states D-wing diverted 56.7 per cent of
waste from landfills, a figure it says is “on par” with the college as is a whole. This is above what required under guidelines from the Ministry of Environment and Energy.
Milner said three Rs legislation (reduce, reuse, recycle) brought per forth in 1988 requires that 50 cent of total waste be diverted
by the year 2000. “When we compare D-wing with
from
landfills
other areas of the college,” said
closely aligned with
its
is
American
counterpart.
He ship
expects to see the apprentice-
woodworking
contests
become
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student
Simon’s Home and owner Improvements in Cambridge, was $300 the first-prize winner of a of
D-wing challenged to try to
AWMAC
complete their
Simon de Sousa, an intermediConestoga’s woodworking techCarl Smith, a recent graduate of during the woodworking figuring some does program
now
right
sponsored contests are Canadian
contest started at 8
The
a.m. and ended at ate-level
in
the
good job.”
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contestants had nine hours
and 15 minutes
entered
will
a
said
at the
contest. to
and did
IMPORTANT DSA NUMBERS
was given a
Woodworking Centre, said the cabinet was not designed to be
The
and
no clear-cut
winners. All the guys worked hard
North American competitions.
package of materials and the plans for a cabinet that was designed especially for the contest by the Architectural Woodworkers and of Association Millworkers
it is
Sparling said, “In a contest of
He
Sousa’s cabinet became the
Each
up when it became clear they would not complete their project by the time the contest was over. Nine men spent their Saturday
functional, but
might enter next
be sent to Edmonton, Alta., to be judged in a national competition on May 29, 30 and 31.
to see
Canada, the contest sponser. A1 Sparling, an instructor
said he
property of
none of the contestants gave
building cabinets. Each contestant
He
year’s contest.
ished projects were so close a second tally had to be taken.
He
winner of a $100 gift from Lee Valley Tools.
He has entered other woodworking contests and said he entered
contest
AWMAC
design. John Alves, a level-three apprentice from Toronto, was the secondprize
to try.
Contest.
said the scores
said he wasn’t sure he
the specifications of the
Milner, “It ranks very favorably.
we’re doing.’
recommendations included in the report Milner said have 18 additional recycling bins
for the gusto”
In response to
installed in
been
D-wing: six for
newsprint, five for glass, five for aluminum and two for fine paper.
The
report says the recycling rate
could be pushed to over 60 per cent
if
current
programs
are
enhanced. Milner said $27,750 was spent over the past year for waste man-
agement (excluding sewage ment).
He
said
this
treat-
figure
represents the cost to haul what people typically call garbage” from the college to a landfill or costs less per tonne
Milner said send waste to be recycled than to send it to a landfill. “We are achieving beyond what
to
we
are expected to achieve
by the
year 2000,” said Milner. “It doeswhat n’t mean we should stop
when
it
comes
TIME!
to
recycling and they can start by of using both sides of a piece paper.
Fine paper ranked third in the 1 4.6 per cent of
audit comprising overall waste.
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Milner said people should “go
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at
considered an
to the original
that time the college’s diversion cent. rate was found to be 55.4 per
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— Page 9
17, 1997
Disney disappoints:
Dam Cat
That
dam bad
that
By Lynn Jackson For producer Robert Simonds (Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison), and British director Bob Spiers That Dam Cat, Spier’s first American feature film, is nothing
Addams
Unfortunately, the characters they play and the lines they must deliver do not allow them to demonstrate the quality of acting that
short of a disappointment.
Christina
(“Faye” from Wings) who owns and operates the town’s Candy Cane Soda Shop.
Family)
stars as angst-
ridden, 16-year-old Patti Randall, who is bored with the small town
her parents have
moved
sleepy,
Conestoga
Room
humdrum town
Randall ment.
serves
little
in effect, boring.
vinaigrette. I wasn’t sure if I like this;
On
Feb. 26 never thought
I
did something
would do.
I
my liver, and I actually
I
lentils
—
of my
favorite courses.
I ate all
liked
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday each week. first
I
at
arrived
Conestoga’s Waterloo campus; I wondered what kind of dining experience I was about to have.
The main when Randall’s
and judging from the poor
the only one
I finally
found
room I was pleasantly surprised. The servers, also food and beverage management stuwere very professional and welcoming. The room was cozy, with the lights dimmed and
dents,
Vivaldi’s
Four Seasons playing
in
the background.
what really got my approval. Only $5.25 buys a quality full meal made with fresh, ingredients, prepared with care by But the food
is
the students and presented with style.
The Conestoga Room
is
real
After dinner ty
The main course was sauteed calf’s liver. This is where the surprise comes in. I thought I hated
room made me even more nervous. the dining
expresso.
to
I
had the opportuni-
speak with
Miller, the teacher
attendance at the meal,
who
I
wasn
t
way. seven people
felt this
There were only
were
have to admit that by the time dessert rolled around I was too full to eat much of it. I have a personal bias against the taste of coffee but I’m sure most people would have loved the tiramisu parfait with
right away.
liver
roasted pota-
parisienne,
chef Tyrone
who was
kitchen helping the students prepare the meal. He said that next
room serve more
year the
dining
expanded
to
dents, are often filled
are 35 to 40.
advance.
apples and drunken prunes which had been soaked in red wine until they were sweet and chewy and delicious.
Along with the liver there was a mixture of zucchini, squash, carblend rots and peas that was a nice crispiness. and tenderness color, of
be
people.
Right now the lunches and the dinners, served Monday and Tuesday stuat 5:30 p.m. by second-year
there besides myself; usually there
The amazing thing is, I enjoyed the dish. The meat was tender and the red-wine sauce was tangy. It was topped off with caramelized
in the
will
up well
in
Miller also said that the $5.25 for lunch and $9.25 for dinner covers
only the cost of the food.
He
cat,
D.C.
Once
scene which seems to never end. By the end the criminals are caught, not by Kelso and Randall, but by D.C. and about 50 other cats.
Novice FBI agent Zeke Kelso, played by Doug E. Doug (Cool Runnings), is assigned to investigate the clue found by Randall’s
Let’s get real, please!
Also unbelievable, D.C. and a female cat manage to have kittens within a couple of days, and who was an outcast at Randall sudthe beginning of the movie denly has tons of friends. Time and time again members of the audience are forced to stretch
—
cat.
Kelso, basically a bumbling idiot who is not taken seriously by his colleagues, is sent with a team of other agents to cover the case on location in Edgefield. at first the
predictable
lines
lengths.
Although it is meant to be a movie for both children and par-
and
ents, the slapstick
forced slapstick humor. strong actor, Ricci gives a solid performance which is one of
seem
A
the
few redeeming
more than
movie.
John Ratzenburger (“Cliff” from a Cheers) who plays mechanic, and Rebecca
at
range (a Big Mac McDonald’s, for exam-
ple.)
When freshly
I first
made
was given Covered in
arrived, I rolls.
sesame seeds, the rolls were crispy on the outside and soft and warm on the inside. It was a perfect way to
poppy
and
pumpernickel
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elements will
the grown-ups,
said a
meal like the one I had just eaten would cost $20 in a restaurant. would I thought to myself that I a such for $20 paid have gladly meal if I had been in a fancy restaurant on a special occasion. Then I patted myself on the back for getting the same meal at only a
price
Combo
to
Hopefully, for Simonds’ sake, this production is not an example
recognize
value for your money, especially if you consider the alternatives in that
idiotic
while the younger audience may not understand the dialogue in
qualities of the
The audience may
—
their imaginations to unbelievable
movie seems
promising, from this point on, it becomes a mixed-up mess of cliches,
to a close.
escape almost immediately and what follows is a ridiculous chase
onto a clue
case.
Though
worse as the movie
are caught by Kelso, Randall and her cat, but due to Kelso’s clumsiness they
she realizes what her beloved pet has found, Randall contacts the Boston FBI, who is handling the
I
and green salad leaves, but I didn’t have much time to notice - 1 ate it all
pommes
unbelievable
ridiculously
draws
movie
for a missing-persons case.
also good.
vinaigrette was made with garlic and cider vineroasted fresh gar and the salad contained walnuts which gave the dish an interesting contrast in texture. It was attractively presented on red
fact that there are no signs pointing the way to the dining
The
However, when
toes,
The
it.
The location of this amazing feat was the Conestoga Room, the restaurant where first-year foodand beverage-management stuon lunch prepare dents
When
I’m not the biggest fan of but it ended up being one
that offers
begins
The accompanying
would
The
plot only gets
The criminals
(“Dam Cat”), stumbles
By Ellen Douglas
whose
actions are easily predictable and
in terms of excite-
action of the
lovely liver for nice price
stereotypes
unrealistic
Boston. Edgefield, a fictional town located in Massachusetts, is a Shull.
taken to
is
develop the characters, including Randall as the lead, they become
from
to
representative of them.
is
Because no time
Ricci (Casper, The
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— SPOKE, March
17,
1997
STUDENT LIFE
Drug Education Centre seeks support — By Bryce Wilson
op
students.
Irvine has
from the Family Awareness and Drug Education Centre were promoting their programs in the Sanctuary Feb. 26. Volunteers
Donna
Irvine, fund-raising pro-
motion and marketing coordinator, said the group set up a display during the Safe Break Awareness Week activities to let people know about programs offered and to look for volunteers or possible co-
It
worked
at the centre
for about a year.
could have been better
I’m
satisfied.”
Irvine said she sets up displays about three times a month at various colleges, high schools, malls
She was joined by Kris Raby, a co-op student with the Ontario Business College, who has been working with the centre for approximately two months. Irvine said there were plenty of
possible through various organiza-
students looking at the display but
tions.
programs
The
little
interest
in
the
offered or in volunteering.
“I’m not displeased,” she
and markets in the area. She said the goal of the centre is to try and help as many people as
centre has four organizations
to help different people: said,
Awareness
&
Family
Drug Education
Centre, Youth Against Substance Abuse, Parents are People too and Street Kids in Preventative Programs. There is a $75 annual fee to join
a group, however,
Raby
money
someone
and Raby were also selling coupons for $3 to students in the Sanctuary.
She said the centre is beginning to get busier and is currently starting a new youth group at the Cambridge facility. The centre was formed about 1 years ago in Kitchener and Irvine
local merchants.
said there are currently about 10
SI
for the centre.
Irvine
is unable to pay, they ask for volunteer services instead.
people on
staff.
The coupons were
valid at 12
But Irvine said they didn’t
Irvine said they had originally planned on staying two days at Conestoga but decided just to leave pamphlets for the various programs in the lounge for stu-
of volunteers for fund-raising and anyone interested can contact her
licensed as charities and
at the centre.
Raby
said
dents to pick up. Irvine said the centre
is
YOUR CLASS
suggestions, ideas, complaints or concerns? Elect a Class Rep. to act as the voice of your class. For more information and meeting schedules see
¥ 2^: Promotions assistant Steve Harris displays one of the posters given away Safe Break Awareness Week.
in
the lounge druing
Becky
at the
DSA
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Office.
(Photo by Bryce Wilson)
DSA’s Safe Break Awareness Week
common
By Bryce Wilson
sense for students
awareness week just an effort to promote
although few students participated in the games, which included a prize for the best drinking story. “We always have a hard time getting the people to get up and actually participate,” he said, “Once you get a few people actually doing it (participating), you get a few more.” More people want to be entertained than taught, said Harris. Students are taught all week.
sense for students during the hiatus. Students were served free non-alcoholic beer and mixed drinks and various prizes were given out.
Bev Cutone, vice-president of student affairs, organized the event this year and set up the pyramid of 50 empty beer cases in the cafeteria.
The Doon Student Association held a party in the lounge Feb. 26 with an “open bar” for students as part of the Safe Break Awareness Week. Steve Harris, promotions assistant for the DSA, said the
DSA
promoted
the
prior to the spring break in
common
Harris said the
DSA
wanted to show that students don’t need alcohol to have a good time, but the events in the Sanctuary dealt with more than just alcohol awareness.
With many students going away for spring break, Harris said the DSA wanted to promote common sense and responsibility. The awareness week also dealt with such topics as sun protection and safe sex. “Spring break kind of ties all of these elements together,” he said. Harris said the open bar was a crowd-drawer that had some students confused because posters didn’t indicate the bar drinks would be non-alcoholic. He said he thought the event was fairly successful
need
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up the equivalent
tuition in beer cases to
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cafeteria, Sanctuary,
library,
of fee shop
one year’s make people think about to
money being
spent on alcohol. She said she had no problem finding enough empty cases, which came from three student households on the spur of the moment. Cutone said many people think school is really
expensive but don’t think about spent on alcohol.
how much money
is
DSA president April-Dawn Blackwell, who organized the event last year, said last year’s reception was “pitiful” compared to this year. The DSA raised $17 from donations given open bar. The money will go to MADD.
at the
sell
any.
Other facilities are located in Cambridge, Hamilton, Mississauga and Ottawa. All of the organizations are
IS
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Laurier University help to raise
said they
don’t turn anybody away. Irvine said if they find
they don’t receive any funding from the government. Fund-raising events such as the Synergy fashion show at Wilfrid
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17,
1997
Students skate in national competition By Pat Craton
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March break is a week most students look forward to for rest or an opportunity to go off to wanner climes. For three Conestoga stu-
r
dents, it was neither of those things because they were participating in the National Precision
Skating Championships from March 5 - 9 in Halifax. The three are members of the
KW
KWeens on
precision-skating
Ice, the senior
team and
this
year’s defending national champions, from the Kitchener- Waterloo
Skating Club.
The
students
are
Chigdem
Sherifali, 21, a first-year student in the early childhood education pro-
works around the school schedule,” she said.
Gardiner has no problems accommodating precision skating with her school work.
"You have
be organized,” she
Like Kerr, Gardiner
tomed
is
accus-
to fitting in sports into her
school schedule. Last year, her year at Conestoga, she did no skating, instead, she played soccer with the Condors as a half-back. first
She said she missed precision skating too much so decided to return to it. She tried out for the
KWeens
because they were the
nearest local team.
gram; Nancy Gardiner, 20, a sec-
Sherifali finds
it
more
difficult to
ond- year student in the business administration marketing program; and Jenni Kerr, 19, a firstyear student in the
she also has a part-time job. “I have to be organized. I need to work to help pay for skating; I also
micro-computer programming program at the Waterloo campus.
need to go to school. I love precision skating so I am willing to
This the •
to
said.
is
Sherifali ’s sixth year with
KWeens
but
the
first
for
Gardiner and Kerr. In fact, this is first year skating precision.
Kerr’s
She was a single skater up till a year ago. Gardiner had previous precision team skating experience with her home-club teams in Glencoe.
The three skaters train nine hours a week with the team. Gardiner and Kerr do not have trouble fitting the activity into their school
schedules.
The courses
aren’t too
demanding, said Kerr of her program and besides, she’s used to putting in
1 2 hours a week of pracof figure skating both at Listowel and Wingham skating
tice
clubs
prior
precision.
to
her
joining
keep up with everything because
make
the
effort
to
accomplish
both.”
All three are thoroughly enamored of the sport. Kerr said she will definitely return for a second year with the KWeens, regardless of whether she will be returning to
Conestoga next year or not (the micro computer program is a oneyear course).
KWeens
like to
next year but
a question of whether or not she can afford to. If she can’t, she will concentrate on school. Sherifali plans on making next it’s
season her seventh in a row. She she was accepted at the
said
University of Guelph for fall ‘96 but chose Conestoga because of the
ECE
closer to
The
th th
na t
home and
nal pre
dsiclS
th°
skating.
three students were
all
excit-
ed to be in Halifax. Even though was Sherifali ’s sixth year par-
this
Gardiner said she would return to the
3
program and because
it’s
ticipating at the national level, she was as excited to be there as Kerr
and Gardiner. In an interview in Halifax prior to the start of the competition, Kathy Mackowski, coach of the KWeens said, “For Nancy and Jenni, the job is to keep their focus on the skate rather than the event because it’s their first Canadians experience.
As
for
because she is experienced at this of competition, she is a help
level
to the
newcomers
in this situa-
tion.” If the KWeens place in the top three in the senior category, they will represent Canada at the World
Challenge
Cup
competition from 7 in Finland. Kerr and Gardiner said taking the
March 29
week
to April
off school to participate in
that event will not affect their school work. They have it worked out.
Chigdem,
Sherifali also has
been organiz-
ing her work. She said the instruc-
have given her extensions where necessary. “They were all proud to know that I am to repretors
sent Canada,” she said.
Precision team skating is a specialized branch of skating distinct from free skating, ice dancing and pair skating. It involves teams of skaters (from 12 to 24) performing a variety of types of footwork,
group formations and skating manoeuvres. Heads, legs, arms and bodies must be synchronized and in unison.
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