— No. 29
33rd Year
Project to benefit rural youth
What’s Inside
By
the Rural Job Strategy fund was started after many public
Julie Porter
A
new
initiative
Affairs,
by the private government
sector and the Ontario
aimed at creating graduates
is
will bring
new
skills to the
who
work-
need
employment
You can
for
obtain
nomic growth. The Rural Youth Job Strategy
‘This
ing youth in rural areas
technology
are on equal par with
diploma/certificate training pro-
their
grams and 10 courses at Conestoga College developed for students in and Region Waterloo the Wellington, Perth, and Huron
Food
and
Web
Affairs
Rural at
site
gov.on.ca/omaffa, the Rural Youth Job Strategy will pave the way for and entrepreneurs businesses, entire communities. It
will allow rural youth to get
of agriculture, food and rural affairs
student exhibits his photographs.
home,
at
your college e-mail or listings from your
mark
computer.
It’s
LeBeau. “If a teacher is going to be absent for a class, instead of the whole class showing up, the teacher can
them
let
know,” said LeBeau. John Tibbits, Conestoga College allowed
was important because
it
students to stay in their
communi-
ties
and contribute
He The
project will
work
to
make
and partnerships for Ontario rural youth aged 15 to 29. alliances
Through
initiative,
the
Conestoga College will expand information technology program-
ming
to allow students to access
said
it
to the high-tech
was valuable
in rural areas,
the country
is
to invest
and that the future of dependent on creat-
ing a strong technology base.
“This is how Canada will move forward,” said Tibbits. “We need to provide
keep
to
wise have access to,” said Tibbits. Tibbits also said that the
our
programs like
booming
this to
economy
“They (CSI) recognize is
that there
a tremendous opportunity for
growth,” said Tibbits. At the press conference, Ernie
Hardeman, minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs, quoted author Alice Walker, famous for writing The Colour Purple, saying that we must keep in mind that the present is
we
are constructing today
the future
Hardeman
we want
to live.
said that the rural
youth job strategy and Conestoga College will create the skills sought after in the future, and will greatly enhance the opportunity for learning. He said it was an incredible opportunity for students.
“This is not just about creating jobs but ensuring youth in rural areas are on equal par with their
the skills to contribute to their
the school through the Internet.
strong.”
communities, and will allow them to seek jobs closer to home. According to the Ministry of Food and Rural Agriculture,
Conestoga Students Inc. contributed $625,000 to the project. CSI president Phil LeBeau said that he felt the initiative was
program will develop new Web-enabled programs that will be available to all
urban
Ontario citizens.
workforce.”
Tibbits said that the
CSI had
an enormous role in getting the initiative started, a role he said was even bigger than the Royal Bank’s.
a great oppor-
tunity for students,” said
industry.
Surprise death claims student
Former Conestoga
take classes
president, said that the initiative
conference at the college. According to the Ministry of Agriculture,
at
sometimes home, and the
e-mail the students to
Ontario minister
The announcement of the programs was made Aug.l at a press
PAGE 4
PAGE
urban peers.” Ernie Hardeman,
counties.
tree-planting event in Waterloo Park.
home
not just about
creating jobs but ensur-
project will include seven full-time
KWCC holds a
is
how
arises to access the college.
access
rural youth.
force and contribute to rural eco-
information
“You know when you are
consultations which resulted in participants raising concerns about
opportunities
“Rural citizens will have access programs they might not other-
worthwhile for students.
peers,” said Hardeman. “Ontario as a whole will share in the dividends of a highly skilled
Keeping watch
6
40-year-old dies of heart-attack both of them entered Conestoga’s
By Tracy Ford
general arts and science program at
The name of another Conestoga
the Sanctuary after he suffered a
neering/robotics
a 40-
year-old student in the engineer-
later graduated.
ing/robotics and automation pro-
ten about
gram and was completing placement
this
his co-op
summer before
returning to college in the
fall,
according to Casey Johnson, a
and boring watch.
PAGE 7
COMMENTARY What \
the
close friend of his for six years.
“He
did nothing but bend over
backward for me,” Johnson said. She described an incident where he lent her his computer after she was accepted into York University. She was a struggling single mother and
when
came at was most needed. She said he figured it was better if she had it because he could do his work at the college. “He never asked anything
the computer
a time
it
Page 2 bill
deal about pot?
and automation Johnson was accepted into the journalism program and
program.
on July 27.
A father of four, Logan was
Crowd a shallow
After completing the program, into the engi-
Logan was accepted
heart attack
In
Doon.
College student, Ralph Logan, will be added to the memorial plaque in
in return,”
Johnson
said.
Logan and Johnson met while attending upgrading classes at the Waterloo campus in 1994 and then
In an article writ-
him by Johnson
in
Spoke
June 1998, he said he would be happy with any job as long as it enabled him to work with machin-
in
ery.
Logan suffered attack in 1997 and
his
first
heart
had a learning
disability associated with attention deficit disorder
“A lot of people at the college knew him,” Johnson said. She also said his family loss.
one
“He
is still
grieving his
did everything for every-
else.”
he could help someone he Once Logan would,” she said. drove to York University from “If
Mount
Forest, a two-hour trip, to
take Johnson to see her
mother.
me
“He knew
it
ill
grand-
was upsetting
that I couldn’t see her.”
Andrew Jozefowicz, from
security services, sits beside a
barricade that blocks the colleges main road while workers
complete maintenance work on Aug.
3.
(Photo by Tracy Ford)
— SPOKE, August
Page 2
14,
2000
High gas prices help wrong people Someone is making money off the increase in gas prices and you can be sure it isn’t someone who really needs it. It isn’t
as
if the
gas cartels are a lowly lot - they aren’t the ones
make ends
meet. They aren’t single mothwork on time in the morning. No. They are the ones driving the swanky cars, living it up in first-class seats on flights bound for Madrid, Morocco, or the
working two jobs to ers trying to
make
it
to
Bahamas.
own
Just look at the Maritimes’
- the
masters of the monopoly
one of the Maritimes’ richest families who own just about every gas station from the New BrunswickQuebec border to the farthest tip of Newfoundland. Do you board
Irvings,
pumps has them
think the price hikes at the
eating half-price
bologna from the local comer store instead of their usual prime cuts of beef. Think again.
In St. John’s,
In
motorists paid a whopping 87.9 cents per litre for regular gasoline in June. have
left
standing in
St John’s,
Nfld., motorists
paid a whopping 87.9 cents per
Nfld.,
litre
of regular gasoline in June.
This, in the poorest province of
Canada, where an unstable fishery has led to the saddest of all economies.
whom the federal govern-
Those
ment’s moratorium on fishing welfare lines and living in outposts that
look at best like shanty towns are always,
Seems
are paying the highest gas prices.
it
seems, the ones
strange
mously successful Hibernia Oil platform
when the
lies
just
who
enor-
off the
province’s shore.
But bureaucracy and
political
debauchery have seen to
it
that
only a very small margin of Newfoundlanders see any of the benefits of the country’s largest oil refinery and the massive
of Hibernia are certainly not reflected in the prices of
profits
Newfoundland’s gas
One
bars.
oil analyst attributed the
increased
What’s wrong with pot?
demand during
the
Don’t
high price to consumers to an
summer
season. Truckers in
Ontario have faced a 60-per-cent increase in the cost of diesel
afraid
since February. Premier
Mike
he’d look into
that
Harris responded to the problem
it,
but added that the public might
as well just give up on trying to change the 14.7-cent flat tax the government scoops up from every litre of gas. Oil companies are blaming the spike in prices on a worldwide drop in oil production that has depleted inventories. Others think that perhaps gas and oil bigwigs are taking the humble consumer for the ride of their lives. Shell Canada reported that it reaped second quarter profits of $168 million. It reported that its earnings were up 90 per cent in the quarter that ended in June. Right about the same time that Newfoundlanders were paying 87.9 cents a litre. Prime Minister Jean Chretien replied to pleas to the federal government to put a cap on the rising pump prices by passing the issue off as a problem that no one has any control over. Chretien said, “We live in a market economy. These prices have increased around the globe. In fact, the level of taxation by the federal government on these products is the lowest in the
Deverell expects that Canadians will be happy about
in
gas prices by car-pooling, but that didn’t
happen. People kept driving single-occupant cars. Truckers created blockades, activists gas stations, but nothing created any a perfect example of
how
this
Chretien extols the virtues of makes
simply
Generation Xer
clear thinking
up
the
much
tried to
boycott certain
in a while. It is
‘60s
a
has-been
richer, but a lot
And
use of alcohol and ages
and
more
it.
to
We
wind
who
find themselves on the
wrong
side of the law.
Deaths caused by the combination of alcohol and a vehicle have anti-drinking and
dollars are used to float. like
Groups
MADD (mothers against drunk
driving) have formed to stop the
people so intoxicated and stupid
Often
one
in
cab home.
domestic assault cases
hears the phrase “alcohol
involved” uttered, and ly
in
one high-
the pain of terminally In
use
it
up, all the while
their
to bars to drink
know-
(paying
ers
cabinet
liquor
the lives of the suffer-
tolerable.
down
yet while the uptight
gin and tonics after
to
make up a “jungle juice” to get them wasted on a Friday night. Which
make
more
And
and children raid
prices)
parent’s
it
120,000 people
from cancer, 280,000 suffering from epilepsy, 50,000 suffering from HIV and AIDS and 50,000 suffering from multiple sclerosis, all illnesses where marijuana can be used to
go obscene
people.
suffering
water.
We
ill
Canada, according to medicimarijuana lobbyist Bernard
Bigras, there are
even encourto wind down
it
could get us into some very hot
violent
Instead of poisoning one’s body,
marijuana has been used to quell
nal
and destructive
the
behaviours of members of society
because they regularly
body’s head off?
yet our culture condones the
ing that the use of the magic liquid
alize
children
of high-school and college kids.
hears alcohol being used to ration-
market economy that Jean
some
simply
lost in a haze. It is
message from someone who is confused about what all the hoopla and fear is about marijuana. Listening to the news, one often a
someone? Were
smoked a joint and then blew some-
aren’t so foreign to the vocabularies
a
once
that they don’t take a
poorer.
and makes us throw
the next day.
from
joint
kill
the flower children called flower
poisons
not a message
good
they wanted to
in excess, alco-
at the liver,
“He got so drunk he didn’t know what the hell he was doing” and “She was so wasted that she passed out in the cab on the way home”
of
virtues
senseless slaughter of children by
results.
away
extolling
driving campaigns which our tax
this.
Environmentalists hoped that Canadians would react to this
summer’s increase
When consumed hol eats
lost
spumed massive
world.”
It is
from a
juana makes nobody angry or bitter. Did Cheech and Chong look like
used intoxication as others use temporary insanity as his plea.
be this is
not another diatribe
by saying
—
work
to “take
off the edge” and then get into their cars, another set
demn
brings us to the lowly mar-
of the uptight con-
the use of marijuana as an
ijuana leaf. When was the last time you heard of someone smoking marijuana and then becoming violent? When was the last time you heard of someone getting into a car
evil
under the influence of marijuana and then ploughing down a family
pot-smoking' to mellow out
of four. Probably not recently
intense nausea and vomiting that accompanies many serious illnesses
most probably, not
publicized rape case, the accused
It is
fairly well
gal
ille-
While alcohol is rampant and it seems hardly fair that
lethal,
those
who wish
to indulge in a little
way
non-destructive
—
ever.
known
drug which should be kept and in the ghettos.
that mari-
or stop
in
a
the
are considered criminals.
SPOKE
is mainly funded from September to May by a payment from Conestoga Students Inc. (CSI), formerly called the
Keeping Conestoga College connected
Doon Student
Association, in exchange for the insertion of
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SPOKE
is
published and produced weekly by the journalism students of Conestoga College. Editor: Tracy Ford;
News
Editor: Petra Lampert
address
Phone: 748-5220,
is
ext.
CSI
logo.
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shall not be liable for
out of errors in advertising beyond the
any damages amount paid
arising for the
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or
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file
would be
helpful.
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Submissions must not con-
may
illustration (such as a photograph).
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SPOKE, August
Project
—Page 3
2000
14,
Coffee Break
work
Cafeteria
may
lose business to
Tim Hortons and McDonald’s
\»
By Tracy Ford The
construction
Hortons
coffee
McDonald’s
much.
difference.”
fast
across the street
of
a
Tim
and shop food restaurant from the Doon
John Kast, food service director for Conestoga’s cafeterias, said he hopes the effect of a closer Tim Hortons and McDonald’s to the school’s cafeterias
“We
already have very competi-
campus could mean more students will be venturing off campus for lunch and coffee during class
tive prices,” said Kast, “ so our
breaks.
places.”
lots
prices are already in line with those
Kast said the types of food avail-
of students bring coffee onto
able in the cafeteria are different
I
engineering
When
much
“I’d
summer
half
she has a three-hour class with robotics
a kilometre
at the
Tim Hortons
coffee chop in
the Pioneer Park Plaza
Watson
on Homer
cup of regular coffee
Bugescu, a robotics engineering student, works on his third-year project in room W9 in the woodworking (Photo by Tracy Ford) building on July 28. Florin
'
to
Jay Connely, student
of choice (in the cafeteria),” Charles said. “I am sure it (a closer Tim Hortons) will make a big lot
to find out in September.”
student
Charles’s
in
should be open
said he feels the cafeterias
much
choice
expensive. “I think
he (John Kast) needs to
rethink his
than those offered
at
“We
major food have a wide
variety of deli sandwiches, wraps,
a different line
than what they would carry,” said
isn’t a
“We’ll just have
open, said Kast.
He
and a medium cup of coffee at Tim Hortons cost $1.10 for 10 oz.
summer there
There is no way to tell how much two restaurants will affect food
the
during the summer.
stir fry.
“I find in the
is
will
Kast.
class, said Roasters
in the cafeteria costs $1.10 for 12 oz.
more students
and he said he finds the prices
service chains.
blvd.
A medium
or
engineering
food.”
three hours she finds a lot of stuto grab a coffee
some
don’t leave students
minute break in the middle of the
campus
go
rather
get good, cheap
students.
she gives her class a 20-
dents leave
nice,
Jay Connely, a third-year robotics
campus,” said Anne Charles, a politics teacher at Conestoga. Charles said during the
it,” he said. suppose while the weather
services at the college until they
find increasingly
“Certainly,
“I
venture across the street,” said
minimal.
is
“Roasters will be affected, no
doubt about
It’s really
Kast.
He said the students who love Tim Hortons coffee will travel to get it no matter how far it is, so a closer Tim Hortons won’t change
situation,
especially
“I’d with the prices,” he said. much rather go half a kilometre to
get good, cheap food.”
who
Connely,
grabs a coffee
from Tim Hortons on his way to the college and then another coffee during his break, said he only goes for a hot chocolate. “Their (Roasters) coffee isn’t that
to Roasters
great.”
Choclair to perform at
Conestoga College By Petra Lam pert Hip Hop to
at the college’s recre-
During the meeting the CSI also its clubs policy. At present, the CSI does not sanction any
on
cultural,
artist
perform
ation centre
raise funds for the cause.
Choclair
is
booked
Sept. 13.
Conestoga
of supporting cultural or religious groups. The CSI allots $800 for a
at
Students
Doon
Student
Association) board of directors meeting on July 26 in the Cross
club budget.
Roads Room.
teered to tend bar for a
Choclair fellow
is
artists
perform with
set to
Kardinal, Jully Black
and Baby Blue Soundcrew
at the
annual
if
CIBC bank
they would be
Run
in
the
for the Cure.
The run would take place on the college’s campus on Oct.l and money raised would be used to support cancer research.
Student
volunteers will be needed to help
^ ^ j 'www.paguide.com
-
college on Aug. 12.
the
CSI
CSI
are not yet trained in
program were to be It’s mandatory that
servers
receive
training
before legally serving alcohol at college events like concerts and banquets. In order to fied in smart serve,
become certiCSI members
must watch a video and complete a test marked by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission.
The next board of directors meeting will take place Aug.
16 at 8
p.m.
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In the July 31 edition of Spoke, in the front page story titled, Print shop may be contracted out, print shop employee Vince Alviano was quoted as saying production increased from five million copies in 1995-96 to seven million copies in 1999-00. In fact, Alviano said the increase was from five to 1 1 million. Also, Michelle Pfeiffer’s name was incorrectly spelled on page 7 in the review of
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members who
trained July 31.
interested in participating
m
held
the smart serve
has asked the CSI
the
quet which was scheduled to be
advance and $15 at the door. $10 In other meeting business, Brad Whiteford, the CSI’s vice president of operations, said the
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Members from
licensed event. Tickets will sell for in
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political
clubs but discussed the possibility
Inc.’s (formerly the
it
or
religious,
Final concert details were dis-
cussed
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discussed
Spoke
What
Lies Beneath.
regrets the errors.
Page 4
— SPOKE, August
14,
2000
Winners announced awarded
Keith Pritchard scholarship
who
exhibit strong motivation
By Tracy Ford
keen students
to
and a desire
Jeremy Ladan of Waterloo, a
to learn
stu-
following year of study, as well
dent in electronics engineering
as the student’s demonstration of
Conestoga College has named
technology - telecommunications
creativity
year’s winners of the Keith
systems, receives the $700 runner-
peers.
this
up award
Pritchard Scholarships.
The awards usually
are presented
that will
go toward
his
third year of study.
annually to one first-year student and one second-year student, but this year three students were chosen to receive cash awards to be used for further tuition. “We did have some extra money in the fund, so we decided to have a runner-up,” said Carol Walsh,
sarily high
academic
achievers.
What we
are looking for
is
a
administrator offinancial aid, student scholarships
and awards
program),
- computer systems
won
the
first-place
award of $2,000 to be put toward his second year of study in the 2000-01 school year.
Mark
Peeters of Zurich, a student
The scholarship was
memory
established
of Pritchard, a grad-
engineering technology program, after his
The award, which was created by company along with the
sudden death
in 1996.
Pritchard graduated in 1971 and
began
won
(formerly the electronics engineering technology
rounder.”
uate of the college’s electronics
Carol Walsh,
David Poidevin, a student from Cambridge enrolled in the computer engineering technology program
demic standing. “They are not necessarily high academic achievers,” Walsh said. “What we are looking for is a good
in the
rounder.”
administrator of financial aid, stu-
dent scholarships and awards.
The winning student must show a need and have good aca-
financial
‘They are not neces-
good
and leadership among
his career in business.
Pritchard’s
S-S Technologies, an international-
money
ly
received from the Ontario
Student Opportunities Trust Fund, is
presented to Conestoga’s elec-
tronics students
who
demonstrate
recognized firm in communica-
tions
and simulation technology for
the control automation industry.
“He
(Pritchard)
had a keen
in the, computer engineering tech-
creativity in the learning process
est in learning,” said
nology - telecommunications program, received the $700 runner-up award to go toward his second year
and leadership
that the winner’s qualities
ty of the
of study.
student’s promotion to the
.
He
Canada Award for Business Excellence - Innovation. In 1992 he became president of a
The
qualities.
decision,
made by
program,
is
inter-
Walsh, adding
resemble
the facul-
the qualities Pritchard possessed,
based on the
including strong motivation and ability to obtain
Richard Hoover from maintainence does some weeding flower bed by the recreation centre on duly 25.
good marks.
(Photo by Petra Lamport)
"
...V
V
Quality Policy Conestoga College continually seeks opportunities for improver/, ent to Conestoga College rm
meet and exceed the needs of our students, employees
in
a
and communities.
SPOKE, August
14,
2000
—Page 5
Tree planted to recognize youth employment support By
Julie Porter
city councillor
To give recognition to the community that supports
Ward
Wettlaufer, Kitchener South
it,
the
K-W Career
Galloway, and
MP
Centre
Kitchener
Redman
Tom
Karen
attended the event.
Connections (KWCC) planted a maple tree in Waterloo Park on July
About 20 youth from local summer programs were there to witness
27.
the planting of the tree and eat pizza
This
new
tree-planting event
was
at the picnic afterwards.
Nova Scotia branch of
Wettlaufer began the ceremony by
Career Connections to show appre-
asking the assembled youth what
started
by
the
ciation for Canadians
who
support
the goal of increasing opportunities for youth.
their parents’
He
parent
Several local dignitaries, including Kitchener Centre
MPP Wayne
job were.
anyone present had a in the plumbing or electrical fields. He went on to ask about teachers, doctors and finally computer work. “High-tech is the future. The asked
if
who worked
future of this country lies in the
technical
trade
said
area,”
recommend that you consider technical work and that Wettlaufer. “I
you develop your communication incredibly important to
skills. It is
your community that you know how
communicate.”
to
Galloway,
who was
representing
Kitchener mayor Carl Zehr, said
he
that
opportunities
felt that great
for youth
were available in the
K-W
From
He
employ 40 students every sum-
mer,” said Galloway. “
minimum
wage, so he knows what it is like to be a student looking for work, and wished the youth good luck.
Redman stantly
said
Canada must con-
support initiatives to find
good employment
employment
officers,
for youth.
Chris Bates, co-ordinator of stu-
dent employment for Kitchener-
Waterloo,
address
said
that
the
KWCC
elected to participate in the tree-
the crowd gathered at the
planting because
KWCC’s
event that represented Canada’s
July 27.
tree-planting event on (Photo by Julie Porter)
it
young people and
was a symbolic
their future.
tree in
to visit the
Waterloo Park and remember
future’s opportunities.
his youth, including a
Kathyrn Verhulst, Kitchener
that those in
come
dents.”
job at a golf course for
Kathyrn Verhulst, student
he hoped
it
summer of
and
said
attendance would
can attest to the benefit of employers hiring stuI
Galloway said he worked every
Kristi Griffiths (left)
Griffiths,
city councillor
Tom
Galloway, Kitchener Centre
Karen Redman and Kitchener Centre MPP Wayne Wettlaufer, plant a maple tree for KWCC’s tree-planting event in Waterloo Park July 27. (Photo by Julie Porter)
area. “I
left, Kristi
MP
was planted Kathryn
to
symbolize the
and Kristi Griffiths, student employment officers, planted the maple tree after the speeches and then started the group Verhulst
in the singing of
O Canada.
According to Griffiths, the tree planting was important to draw attention to student employment. “Having a tree-planting event is a
way of getting nity
and
out into the
being
commu-
visible,”
offices across Ontario participated
We have 20 computers with Internet
and that in planning the event, organizers looked for something that could be done on a
cializing in
national scale.
work in everything from lawn mow-
“The event needed to be something that could be easily adaptable and done just about anywhere in Canada,” said Griffiths. “The Maple Leaf was chosen because it is easily
ing to a job as an administrative
recognizable as Canada’s national
who
in the event,
KWCC
offer students looking for
is
register
Job Squad that
work
for students
with the service. Once
KWCC will
dent can follow up. Often, Griffiths
you come
into the office lookfirst
thing
said, these
we’d do
said Griffiths.
Griffiths said
you
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14,
2000
Former student exhibits photos Local photographer By
Petra Lampert
A
former
Conestoga
College
journalism student’s photography is on display at the Kitchener Public Library.
Darko
Zeljkovic,
Kitchener,
is
month’s guest
this
artist at the library.
of
36,
The
exhibit, his
month’s guest
is this
Zeljkovic.
other places in town.
hear anything about the Gypsies.”
good place for local artists to showcase their work because there is a wide spectrum of people coming into the library
is
Zeljkovic said he hopes his photo
pretty amazing.”
artist series.
“His photos are pretty amazing,” she said.
Green was the
first
person
library to see Zeljkovic’s
brought
it
other staff
at the
work and
to the attention of the
who
decide which
artist
they will feature.
Green said the guest
artist series
library
began
its
a couple of years
planning at the
awareness
increase
will
among Canadians and
co-ordinator of events
guest
hosted
opening night of Zeljkovic’s exhibit, said she admires his work.
essay
semester transferred to the photojournalism program at Loyalist College in Belleville. He graduated in May and is now freelancing at the London Free Press. Georgina Green, co-ordinator of events planning at the library, said she likes Zeljkovic ’s work and a great addition to the
graphic
who
the
“His photos are Georgina Green,
it’s
senior
the Gypsies’ story well with his
after his third
.thinks
a
at the library,
portraits.
Zeljkovic studied print journal-
Conestoga and
Pat Fiskvatn,
designer
She added Zeljkovic has captured
library.
opened Aug. 1 and will hang in the Concourse Room, in the lower level of the main library, until Aug. 30. at
them. They’re hated. In 10 years of conflict in Yugoslavia you never
a
first,
ism
“A lot isn’t known about
ago because staff realized that there were wonderful local artists who don’t get a chance to exhibit in
She added the
Kitchener Public Library
artist at
that
it
will
help people see beyond the existing stereotypes about Gypsies.
He
KPL
said he took
the photo-
all
graphs for his exhibit in three weeks and used almost 100 rolls of Zeljkovic said his exhibit library is only
“This
is 'just
one step
at the
the beginning,” he
said.
During
December
film, including slide film.
Zeljkovic said his ultimate goal
in his goal.
and
1999
work
to
for National
magazine, or a similar publication. “I’m a journalist before anything
he
January 2000, Zeljkovic travelled to Bosnia and Yugoslavia where he
else,”
photographed Gypsies.
Zeljkovic and
He
said the crushing poverty
and
the colourful misfortune of Gypsies shocked him so much that for the first time he wanted to try to help someone with his photographs. “I
wanted
to tell their story,” said
is
Geographic
said.
Equinox
has
approached
shown an
interest in
publishing his photos and a 5,000-
word
story
Darko Zeljkovic stands
in front of
one
Gypsy photographs
of his
at his exhibit at the Kitchener Public Library. (Photo by Petra Lampert)
on the Gypsies.
Zeljkovic said he also wants to do
book on Gypsies and track them from their place of origin. He said his main interest lies in documena
want
“I
myself as a war at least one
to try
photographer, shoot
December 1992 and has
war.”
Zeljkovic
tary photography.
Bosnia, but immigrated to Canada
during the Bosnian civil war in
originally
is
from
Kitchener since
1
lived in
996.
Conestoga turns
down
the heat
By Petra Lampert
All the other buildings on
cam-
pus have rooftop units that supply
Changing the college’s air system over from heating to cooling
summer
for
flicking
In
is
simple as
not as
on a switch.
resources manager Barry Milner,
an involved process that can
it’s
two weeks. He said the changeover from heating to cooling was done in May this year and is normally done the same time each year, depending on the temperature and the longtake up to
range forecast.
Milner said
week
or
more
it
usually takes
“It it
a
just for the water in
down.
the system to cool
depends on how warm or cold Milner. “It depends on it’s
the water will cool
He on
it
said
once the
usually takes
cooler outside,
down
faster.” is
turned
two days
for the
chiller
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down
same water
used.
is
first,
since the
Milner said there’s about 30,000 gallons (about 120,000 litres) of water in the heating system and about 15,000 US gallons (about
US
60,000
litres) in
the air condition-
“There’s a great amount of water
down,” he
to cool
out of the water and the
need
to
and other work like snow clearing. Water is cooled or heated at the boilerhouse, across from Door 5, and pumped over to the main building. classrooms
adding that
pumps
also
be changed over.
The same process
is followed in around the second week in October, except reversed, said fall,
water
changeover
said,
the heat has to naturally dissipate
The physical resources department keeps track of the weather, especially from mid October to
air to
change from maintenance must allow the pump
workers
Milner.
Fans circulate the
pumps, boilers
the
said in order to
staff
The
boilers are fired is
up and the
brought up to temperature
to heat the building.
He
said
cool
water
can
go
through the boiler and by that time the water temperature has risen.
Milner said in a year the college spends about a quarter of a million dollars for utilities.
From 1998
to 1999, the college
in the college.
spent $1 17,278 on water; $834,384
There are three large boilers for whole building that heat the water and one chiller that cools it.
and $243,175 on gas. major part of our budget,” he said.
and offices
BETWEEN HARVEYS & BURGER KING
He
all
chiller are inspected.
heating to cooling,
the
felt.
April, for the heating
CANADIAN TIRE PLAZA
Each year and the
ing system.
is,” said
the weather. If
be controlled somewhat easier in these buildings.
according to physical
fact,
and heating. Milner said the temperature can
the cooling
the
for hydro;
“Utilities are a
.
Kim Stockwood rocks Elora Quarry with songs By Jes Brown
of eating bugs on stage.
bilities
She Canadian singer
Kim Stockwood
also said she thought the
liked Off and
wondered why
says that the strangest venue she
couldn’t smell like strawber-
ever performed at was playing pri-
ries.
vately for 12 millionaires but the
most intriguing venue had
to
be the
Elora Festival.
On
27, Newfoundland Stockwood and her band
July
native
were
anchored floating stage in the middle of the Elora quarry to play for the assemferried out to an
started off with her current
and went through
single, Still,
The ated
hit
throughout the night.
after hit
with
Then she looked up
Stockwood confided that was just what
at
the audience, sitting over
30 metres above her at the top of the quarry, and said “You guys are gonna go home tonight and say
she
humor
as she told stories,
teased her band and swatted mosquitoes.
After singing her hit
great but
when
since,
You and
Me, Stockwood took a break to get “Offed again” - one of her band members sprayed her with bug spray - and she commented that she’d been warned about the possi-
she’s
nervous she will still follow his
So
advice.
her
in
short,
purple
tight
dress,
her
Stockwood
was
Suspicious Minds.
have been out of her mind between songs but each one was as good as the last and her segues kept everyone laughing and excited. She relayed one story
The
venue of the quarry
was
interesting
but
made
difficult
it
Stockwood because she was 30 metres or so below the audi-
to see
Kim
about her gig playing
Way.
fine, as there
Before playing the song that skyrocketed her career, Stockwood
reverberation off the
little
quarry walls.
Stockwood wore her bathing
told another personal story about
suit
how
under her dress for the performance and was quite pleased that it gave her a place to put her guitar pick, though she asked that no one tell because her mother might find
The band was almost
all
Newfoundland. She asked God for a sign, something to keep her in the business. Not long after that, Stockwood’s best known song," Jerk, began climbing the charts. “All I can say,” said Stockwood, “is thank God for each and every
in
bathing suits under their concert
Foxy
clothes and guitarist Kevin
was the
first to
show
the audience
Jerk.”
To end
why.
Stockwood gave Foxy sing a solo or
ry.
she was about to give up on
Toronto and music and go back to
out.
sang —
may
She
ever
she’s
of
out
and
did
Kim
‘yeah,
songs.
Elvis
sing
The sound was
ence.
She asked her father what she should do and his advice was to wear a tight dress and
mind.’”
music was punctuStockwood’s quirky
fantastic
sense of
it
for 12 millionaires.
Stockwood was
bled crowd.
She
bugs
Foxy
the choice
jump in the quardown to his
formed on
bathing suit and chose the water
made him
I
Bachman and
per-
New Year’s Eve 2000 in with her father
St. John’s, Nfld.,
Stockwood
Stockwood
Ever, a song she wrote
with Randy
stripped
over the microphone.
the concert
sang Will
playing accordian.
Then she and
sing anyway.
Stockwood made every member of her band sing and each of them had to come up with a popular song to add to the growing medley. The audience was serenaded with everything from Jingle Bells to Sexual Healing to I Want It That
all
but two
bers of her band stripped their bathing suits,
water and
swam
jumped
made an encore
ble
but definitely as
to
into the
to shore.
It
impression,
mem-
down
pretty impossileft
a lasting
does Stockwood
herself.
Shallow teen movie won’t impress anyone By Tracy Ford
these types of movies
Morgan Creek movie producdone
tions has filled its
it
again.
It
has
niche in the motion pic-
is
minimal
and the producers seem
to bring
them together quickly, but moviegoers would be better off not seeing these poor excuses for films.
ture industry
Not only
except
flaw but the lack of believability of the situations and the decadence of
by creating another shallow teen flick with no merits the
characters’
fashion
is
the plot’s dullness a
these children
sense.
a
The In Crowd movie about
woman,
Scene
a
scene
Adrien,
played by Lori Heuring, who is brought into an exclusive social of
circle
students
these at
their
rich kids half the age.
who is the boyfriend of the girl who brought her into the in-crowd. And so, like
ter off
a tennis professional
teenage suspense
thrillers,
from the in-crowd begin show their darker side and seek
the girls to
while
effort
trying to portray
Raving jealously ensues when Adrien begins dating
all
and
showing no actual
country club.
in
cast
in
out of character,
high
while working
after
this
wanders
university
class
is
hard to ignore.
is
revenge.
The plot, which contains no originality, is dull. The success of
If
whiney
actor’s
actual
This movie would have been bet-
being produced directly for
cable or video rental stores,
if
made at all. The cast, a bunch of dreary-eyed and lip pouting girls, barely succeed in bringing this horrible script to life, and give terrible performances to complete the never-ending stream of pathetic teen genre
(left), Nathan Bexton (middle) and Mathew Settle star decadence but the script is unbelievable and shallow.
Laurie Fortier of lavish
life
movies.
There
is
nothing worse
empty performances.
The
in
entire
The
Crowd, which shows a (internet photo)
special
than a group of wanna-be Jennifer
cast should look for another line of
dollar
Love-Hewitts and Drew Barrymores parading around a ritzy set acting like they should be given an academy award for their
work.
isn’t
The merits of this movie are minThe cinematography is fair-
In
effects
movies
and multi -billion this
recent release
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