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Much
Life after
Conestoga College, Kitchener
36th Year
— No. 22
priority fee
nets college
$490,000 RYAN CONNELL
By
and
tive
CSI Conestoga College has added a
new
fee to students’ tuition
year
in
this
order to offer more servic-
es to the students.
each
also
with the priority fee
financially,
assisting in funding their advertis-
CSI plans
ing.
to
spend $10,000
in
advertising on Conestoga’s radio
The college decided that
what CSI can offer.” be benefitting
that’s
will
last
May
station
be
Spoke.
would
student
CJIQ
and
$15,000
in
required to pay a mandatory fee of $40 per semester or $80 per annum that would be collected as a stu-
got out of the business of funding
dent priority fee.
Falconer said.
“We have
advertising for
CSI
The
fee
is
part of a partnership
formed between the college and Conestoga Students Inc. (CSI) to
how
decide
bring
to
and
life
support student success.
The
However, students
tising
vice-president
of
they had hoped to do for students
because of the lack of funds. "Despite the fact that the college
(Photo
it
will
be coming out of
fees that students also
CSI
Harris said the $25,000 in adver-
was a small amount
spective to how much they were helping with the fund. “It was simply something they (CSI) wanted, and for us it
($25,000) was a very minor thing,” he said.
The monetary support
traditionally provided peer sende-
that
we
think
fee.
many changes
year.
this
seen at the college
year such as CSI’s
space and
the
new
identification card
new
office
professional
system
that stu-
dents received.
donate $2,000
to
how
plans on
priority fee
many
things
he thinks the
should be spent.
the college that
skill
Some
centre at
would help
By ALEXANDRA MASTRONARDI
A
stu-
with writing, reading and
dispute between two students
living in residence lead to threats
weapon
involving a
earlier
this
semester.
A
going
McDonald
returned
the
to
Conestoga
Residence and Conference Centre after having a few drinks at the Toga Party held at
what
Cornelius, 21, said he
was
Cornelius coming again.
room
his
ombudsperson or extra
with writing alone, would go a
part-time
counsellors for Student Services.
An
executive director of Student
Services
is in
the process of being
hired through a hiring committee
and the expense of his or her hiring will be covered through the priority fee. The college will be assuming the entire expense of the position once cash flow is resumed.
CSI president
swearing
“He was
at
By DESIREE FINHERT
offered. “It takes
people and people cost
meetings Review.
to
discuss
meeting
at
ly
and
the voice of the students. it would be immature to management wouldn't know where to invest in the college,” Falconer said, “but I do think in the same way that it’s a one-sided perspective with management
“I think
say
looking
at
n’t hurt to
it wouldhave another perspec-
every thing, so
it’s
services,
end it’s staffed by professionals, and its not inexpensive.” he said. Despite the $500,000 deficit that the college
“It
it
experiencing, Harris
know who
‘You don’t
you’re mess-
ing with.’”
Cam
Sacret, a witness to the inci-
said
from
shoved
Cornelius
McDonald and
the situation esca-
“I think the
is
is
real-
a profile on the 25th,” said
“McDonald approached
The University of Guelph town
hall
town
the resi-
become involved in situations where someone’s safety is in jeopardy or if problems arise that cannot be controlled by residence staff. “This doesn’t happen often,” he said. The incident shouldn't have escalated
the
to
point
it
did,
said
Continued on Page 3
This
hall
is
due before the round-table
meeting and a round-table discussion on Oct. 29, 18 board mem-
discussion on Oct. 29
bers pulled out their post-second-
after the
ary review
workbooks and penis
a
70 people in the and Kitchener-
at
Wilfrid
Laurier University, only five days
board of governors’ meet-
ing.
“We knew
The round-table discussion
a review but
there
we
was going
didn’t
to
be
know what
private event for
format,” said Tibbits.
educational
But the board was positive. Board member John Keating said the review process was exciting. “The fact that the government, government, has the Liberal appointed Rae is amazing,” said Keating. “The first documents we see out of the Rae Commission
will
issues outlined in the post-second-
ary review workbook. Ten representatives from
Conestoga
will
be
versity.
regarding the Rae Review work-
can-
The general manager of
dence, John Kobylnik, said police
book.”
In preparation for the
Tibbits.
it
Cornelius.
Oct. 25.
and corporate secretary Helena Webb said the commission knew one meeting would be held at a uni-
not go into the operating budget.”
was
to police,
book. “It’s unfortunate we’re scrambling. We never thought we’d have to complete a work-
goes towards services that
enhance student success, so
to control
gave the other to us,” said Webb at the board of governors’ meeting on
Director of the president’s office
down.
came
Conestoga
to
meeting
on Nov. 24.
staff
who took a statement from both McDonald and made
us with a
Waterloo community to discuss the
Tibbits.
also be hosting a
Residence
the situation again and a call
cils.
whole process
an opportunity for us to give
them
really drunk.”
Cornelius.
there.
to
said the
pay
is
money cannot be used
Rae
Conestoga on Nov. 25
better for students, in the
public
the
College president John Tibbits thinks that the decision to hold the
tant
is spent is imporbecause they are considered
said.
“So, to be politically correct, they
Conestoga College will be hosting one of the town hall
the priority fee
how
my
with writing.”
an excellent one.
Falconer
opened
each other and making
money so it’s not ‘things’ that we’re talking about to make things
Justin
said their involvement about
“I
hall
threatening me, saying,
Rae Review coming
way in helping students overcome the problems they are having long
Harris said the college used to have a learning lab for a brief period that was successful and they need to consider bringing it back and expanding the services that it
we
the
and were pushing
each other around," he
returned
was just trying to threaten Cornelius. “It was still wrong and I am not trying to justify what I did,” he said. “I wasn't thinking and I was
my room
McDonald said he had just home from the Toga party and was on his. way to bed when he
lated
think this particular centre, starting
down
into
kept yelling and
Cornelius said they both started
such as a
“He came
and began yelling.
dent,
staff
I
steak knife hidden up his sleeve,” he said. "He was threatening to stab Cornelius in the throat.” McDonald said he was never planning on using the knife and that he
to control the situation
McDonald) came out of
door and saw a couple of kids including Cornelius and that's when the yelling started,” he said.
hiring additional
said.”
stumbling down the hallways knocking on random doors when all of a sudden a guy (Curtis
part-time tutor
creation of a student centre, and
until a
and sent the students to their rooms. McDonald said he was heading back to his room when he saw
heard the knocking.
one of the biggest problems that students have in college is the ability to write,” he said. “I
I
came
the college.
tutoring centre
“I think
said he didn’t recall
After hearing the yelling, staff
numeracy,
to tutor in various subjects.
‘I
race.’”
I am not racist at he said. “I was talking like a drunken idiot and I didn't mean
enhance student retention, working to centralize student services, a system to identify high-risk students who might be failing,
enhancing the by bringing in a on an ongoing basis
your
all,”
intended use,” including services
and
yelled at me,
to eliminate
making the racial comment few friends confirmed it.
dents
security services to the college, the
eat fish
“Just to be clear,
student
Devon
“He then
threats.
that the fee is being "envisioned as
to
I
res despite knife threat
in
am
this
Harris said he has a lot of his
own
of his plans include a
Harris said there are
the
peer services and they were
supposed
to
coming out of
Last year they donated $3,000
needs to be done,” Harris said. The fee has already helped with
Student stays
CSI
that
es will also be
all
When
Ashley Sheppard (left) and Connie Vanderknyff sing a song they wrote called When Eat Fish at the Musical Mocktails event at the residence Oct. 19. See Page 7 for additional photo. First-year students
in per-
into various services, there’s insuf-
funds to do
Mastronardi)
pay each
already invests millions of dollars
ficient
by Alexandra
will, in fact,
the priority fee rather than the
$490,000.
Conestoga's
secured
free of charge
be charged the cost of adver-
still
year.
student affairs Fred Harris said the college is underfunded and they haven't been able to do everything
station,”
and therefore, for the students free
beginning of September was 6,130 which means the student priority fee about should generate •
radio
of charge.”
tising, but
college's enrolment at the
and
paper
the
services
in
enhance student
that will
important that CSI
“I think it’s
attending. “It’s
an
open-book
referring
to
test,”
a
said
handout
with Conestoga’s official position
,
encourage me enormously." Continued on Page 3
Page 2
— SPOKE, November
1
,
News
2004
Now deep thoughts Conestoga College
...with Random
CSI
questions answered by
underage
restricts
students from events
random students
CONNELL
By RYAN
residence are underage, accounting for 40 per cent of the resi-
What
celebrity
do you look like?
Some
students are unhappy with
Conestoga Students decision
(CSI)
Inc.’s
make some of
to
their
events restricted to students 19 and over.
The choice was made
“Prince William,
because
what
that’s
all
my
friends say.”
Dan
Zybala, 19,
to restrict
underage drinking and to reduce congestion in the Sanctuary so that there would be less students turned away from attending the events. CSI will be alternating between making their events 19plus only and all ages. The Halloween blow-out bash was restricted to students who were 19 and over only. Eighteen-year-old Rob
advertising
Boomsma,
second-year marketing student, says he feels it’s disa
crimination
from an event "It’s simply people who because CSI’s
“Where’s Waldo
because
I
when
have been
and
and
19
concern wasn’t even
who were
couldn’t
18 and
get
in,”
looks.”
the people
who
Dan
was just about making more money
advertising
was
just about
could drink and
it
As of
Sept.
2003, there were
1,
5,943 full-time students enrolled
at
the college, with 17 per cent of the
population under the age of 19.
“I
look
like
George from
Seinfeld it’s
There were 6,130 enrolled in the college this year as of September 2004. Information won’t be
...
maybe
until sometime this November about how many under-
released
the glasses.”
age students are currently attending
John McMahon, 22,
human
the college.
Students
services
the
foundation
who
on campus at Residence and
live
Conestoga
Conference Centre are some of the most frequent students to attend CSI events because they live so close to the college. This year, approximately 205 students in
“Elaine from Seinfeld it’s
the
...
By JON YANEFF 1 7,
business management studies
Three business administration operations and materials manage-
Conestoga College relumed from San Diego,
ment
students
at
Calif. Oct. 18 after
winning schol-
Taye Diggs because have I
the
GQ
look.”
Abdulah Zamel,
consecutive
year
that
my
since look
Rob
I
longer hair but
cut
like
it
Tom
I
tend to Cruise.”
Trihey, 18,
broadcasting radio and television
Harrow
College
Clair
student
a
If
Windsor
in
caught drinking
is
underage, a copy of their student card is kept on file and they are banned from any events for about
underage students get an “x” on their hands.
Confederation
who
are 19
and over and couldn’t get in (because the Sanctuary was filled to capacity),”
she says.
“It’s a bal-
ancing act so
we thought we
would
time with 19 and
try
this
it
is
and see if we still get similar complaints from people standing in line and complaining about (underage students) taking up the like,
place.”
Boomsma
not
says
of the
all
underage students should be penalized because some students are not obeying the rules. He says CSI should be creating better methods to avoid underage drinking or
should
be heightening
security
way except
College
suggested
selling
cheaper tickets to the event in advance so that they could estimate how many students would be
and know how much
attending
in
same
the
they require students to
sign a waiver saying they won’t
drink underage. If the students do not pick up their identification
at
end of the evening, it is then assumed that they were drinking
the
underage.
Centennial College
and
Mohawk
require
all
College
Toronto Hamilton be legal
in in
students to
age to attend alcohol pub nights, with the exception of their entertainment events which have guests such as hypnotist Tony Lee. They do hold dry events that the underage students are able to attend.
Boomsma have fees
instead.
Boomsma
their
keeps students’ identification cards at the doors of their alcohol events.
Thunder Bay operates dating those students
at
alcohol events.
a month. At their all-ages events,
conference presentations and personal and professional development sessions. They met with
feels he should only pay a portion of his CSI he is not welcome at all of
to if
the events they hold.
“Why
should
be paying
I
for
somebody else to go to have a good time when I’m not even eligible to go?”
Boomsma
says.
speakers, networked with confer-
ence attendees and visited
they
and educational session
general
APICS
the
was also they serve as room
exposition.
It
assigned conference said
helped her grow professionally. “I
learned
a
new
trend
the
in
operations industry, radio frequen-
cy identification (RFID),” she said.
These systems are used
(www.apics.org). They
website
filled
out a
form that included a section that asked why they thought they should be chosen to attend. More than 80,000 individual and corporate
members
arc
affiliated
with APICS. They promote professional awareness
and develop and
agers in business, industry and the public sector.
During the conference Oct. 1013,
the
three
students
attended
members chapter
student
world. Conestoga’s
of the the
in
APICS
student
chapter.
management teacher who recommended Pattison. Harrow materials
and Donkersgoed all apply for the scholarship, said going to the international conference is a tremendous opportunity. “At the conference you have
or smart labels on book spines
best speakers in the field and
in
such at
a
Old Town San Diego trolley tour that went to different places throughout the historic gas
city,
lamp
it
including the
ly,"
said Lopers.
for positions.”
Mary Kitchener,
district.
Overall, the three students had a
Ann who
ent of a
side the classroom and to see
how
companies run,” said Harrow. “You get to meet professionals from around the world such as Italy. South Africa and India," said Pattison. “I definitely
recommend
a
2004 graduate at the
con-
named the recipi$500 US APICS Student
San Diego. of learning out-
of
Groothuis is
of the program, wasn’t ference but was
way
“The students can
make networking contacts across Canada and when job opportunities come up the students are thought of
great time at the conference and in
“It's a great
the
impacts the students professional-
local library.
about San Diego. They took the
APICS ’s
are active
items as the gas station speed pass
Donkersgoed originally applied the
all
largest
Tracey Lopers, an operations and experience
the
ference the students learned a lot
online on
students apply for the program.”
and Harrow Pattison, Donkersgoed are all in their final year of the program and, in addition to having academic success,
and
educate materials resource man-
Smile Conestoga, you could be our next respondent!
eligible
In addition to learning at the con-
the scholarship.
Pattison,
with
even
...”
Rob Boomsma.
Pattison
gram won
to look like Elvis
I’m not
sessions.
fifth
used
I
at
Conestoga students from the pro-
“I
“Why should be paying for somebody else to go to have a good time when
workshop
Societies Control (APICS) scholars. This was the
accounting
accommo-
St.
monitors
man-
Inventory
19,
underage drinking
dling
a matter also of
“It is
conference of APICS. the educa-
Karen Pattison, Ashley Harrow and Bonnie Donkersgoed each received a $350 US award, naming them American Production and
like
take different approaches to han-
to control the illegal drink-
ing.
necessary that
agement.
look
way
arships to the annual international
tional society for resources
“I
If the
Students win conference scholarships
hair.”
Becky Thorne,
the door.
at
CSI’s general manager Judy Dusick says they had to remove many students from the past Toga Party event who were drinking underage so they needed to find a
over to see what the turnout
the bar.”
higher price
Sanctuary reaches capacity, the rest of the people in line would be turned away because they didn’t jump to purchase tickets beforehand. Other colleges' student unions
plus events.
over,
says. “It
at
are
favouritism for the are
Boomsma
Silveira, 18,
from attending the 19-
second-year marketing student
because of his age.
about the people
under
blessed with good
population
restricted
excluded
he’s
who
dence’s
is required to monitor the underage drinking. Leftover tickets could then be purchased at a
security
Voluntary Service Award.
It
recog-
nizes that, while she was a student,
she was an active participant
in the
student chapter and in regional parent chapter activities, school organizations,
and
civic or
community
organizations.
i
.
News
SPOKE, November
1
2004
,
— Page 3
Education system ‘medieval’ Continued from Page 1 Former premier Bob Rae was commissioned by Premier Dalton McGuinty to do a post-secondary review after the May budget was released.
needs of the 21st century."
The
private round-table discus-
sion
is
town
hall
a precursor to the Nov. 25
meeting. There are a
of 17 scheduled town
total
meet-
hall
which began across Ontario beginning of October when a discussion paper. Higher Expectations for Higher Education, ings,
Conestoga has been labouring under a substantial deficit as a result of no increase in per-student funding, no funding for recently
at the
was
support staff contracts and chronic under funding. Conestoga’s deficit is cur-
released. Town hall meetings have already being held in Ottawa, Hamilton, Sudbury, Thunder Bay. North Bay and Niagara-on-thc-
rently $500,000.
Lake.
negotiated
and
teacher
The review
ondary education system will recommend changes both to structure and funding. Tibbits said colleges and universities arc feeling the
pinch and no
one would argue that the education system doesn't need more funding. ‘‘We have a vision and believe I
community and students best. And Rac has, in fact, pointed this out. The universithat vision serves the
how
ty vision is
best to serve the
institution.”
Tibbits
said
previous
meetings between Rac and Ontario college presidents have been very tense and have turned into shouting matches.
"The
battle
system needs
to
60s by
hall
findings and answer questions.
Ontario residents are being encouraged by the review board to attend the public meetings or submit their opinions by mail or email.
Conestoga Students
Inc.
president Justin Falconer
is
(CSI)
making
plans to transport students to and from the town hall meeting in
Guelph on Nov. 24. The town hall meeting on Nov. 25 will be held Recreation Centre.
The Rae Review
We
scheduled
is
was designed
ings and
participate
college and university,
in
fact
is
is
to
dark aged.” vision
increase a student’s ability to trans-
from a college to a university and have the university recognize credits gained at the college. "This system is honestly medieval. It does not reflect the fer
Student
in
all
on how
to
available
at
www.raereview.on.ca, or by calling 1-866-392-1261. The workbook
can be completed by anyone, and is available online. It can be filled out online, or a hard copy can be requested from Postsecondary Review Secretariat. 2 Bloor St. W., Ste. 700, Toronto, Ont.. 3R1 It can be returned by fax to 416323-6895 or mailed to the above
M4W
"It
stupid." he said.
Sports bar
"I’m sure he had his reasons for
what he did but
it
could have been
worse. Luckily no one got hurt."
McDonald
said he wrote a letter
of apology to Cornelius and they
met
in person and shook hands. "At the time I was just being stu-
pid. There's no problem or tension between us now," he said.
Cornelius said he
McDonald
is
suiprised that
removed from
wasn't
residence or
moved
to a different
floor.
"He
lives
down
right
from me. thought weird," he said. I
In
situations
that
the
hall
was kind of
such as this one,
where a student could be evicted, an incident report is completed and reviewed by residence staff and security
staff
at
the
college.
Through consultation with both
experience
the
Inc,"
he said.
"Eve been very pleased with my experience so far," he said, sitting in the office previously occupied by A1 Hunter, who retired in October.
the
situation,
school.
the
"I
attended two sessions so
far,"
Brown
away work involved with
shift
new
The SIU is a branch of the attorney general’s office that investigates cases where a person is killed or seriously injured,
member
of the
and a
force
police
is
involved.
was
said the position
ing, but involved a lot
of
interest-
travel.
“You get a page and are told to go to Napanee as soon as possible,’’ he said.
When
opened
at
in the health
and
position
a
Conestoga
May
in
safety office, he signed on.
Conestoga'
halls of
was
granted interviews with the centre forensics
science,
the
police
Brown
tem works
said, noting this sys-
better for investigations
into accidents
es
is
also address-
Brown said he regularly deals with CSI and Conestoga Residence and Conference Centre committees with good interaction. “It has been a very positive overall experience. You can feel the energy when you come into this
general
and safety
was
plan
Brown
I
started with
was
area,
to
the
incorporate
health and safety and security and
parking as one,” he said.
said
it’s
too soon to say
tough to really make a com-
mitment to any changes right now, you need to get a better idea of operations,” he said.
He said security will probably have more areas for growth coming
said he accepted the position
with the SIU, and worked there
bined under safety and security
dents.
Cold and
flu
bation, or the student
may
receive a
fine or a suspension.
said the
By JUSTIN BASTIN
more
is
hoping
interaction with
to
CSI
have
to pro-
vide a positive experience for stu-
nothing to sneeze at
With cold and us again
punishment can be confusing. "We're trying to correct something
the
it
flu
season upon
has become essential
measures protect themselves and others. students
that
take
Whether you’re healthy
as
a
are
still
measures you can take to
ensure optimal health. Trish Weiler, a nurse
at
health
said students are at a
“In
a
community
setting
it’s
without punishing the person," he
cially
up diseases, espewith colds and flus because
said.
they
are
that is not an accepted
The student
still
behaviour
has a program to
decisions,
it
doesn't
bad person," he
said.
make you
a
transmit-
and intermin-
clove form. Pills can be bought any pharmacy.
The
almost
at
ly runs
defence against the is, of course, to limit exposure to others while
peaks
sick.
The cold and
flu
season typical-
from October to April but December. This is danfor people writing gerous midterms and especially exams. As most students know, it is next in
best
spread of illness
who are home and rest,”
“People stay
sick
should
said Weiler.
ety of cold and flu medications on
“Taking time to let your body recoup is the best medicine.” There are certain symptoms to look for which let you know it’s time to get outside help for your
the market.
illness.
to impossible to obtain a decent
grade while battling a bad cold.
There
As an
easier to pick
respiratorily
travel
gle at large.” she said.
high risk of getting sick due to the nature of their living situation.
are
a high populace of
who
students
to
horse or just plain hoarse there
services,
whole concept of
“They (residence students) living with
ures,
is,
of course, a huge vari-
alternative to these
why
not try
some
meas-
natural
If
you have
a fever
above 38
Garlic, an herb found in
most
Flu shots will be available in
Room 2E04
from Nov. 16-18 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m and on Nov. 19 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Health
She also said students in residence are at the highest risk of infection because they tend to travel a lot and live with people
peoples’ kitchens,
range of infections such as a cold.
services
who
Garlic can
across from Student Services.
travel extensively.
is
anti-fungal
and anti-microbial meaning is
effective
at
that
it
helping a wide
be taken
in
C
or are having difficulty breathing
you should see a physician.
cold-fighting techniques?
ted,” she said.
pill
or
if
the security aspect of Conestoga.
up, and that he
He
it
the deficit the college faces.”
Now, rather than having two management level positions, security and health and safety are com-
tions unit (SILT),” he said.
because the offices
work so closely. “One of the issues
“It’s
“One of the reasons the health
I
areas,”
there will be any major changes to
student
and safety issues.
resumes, and
"We’ve found a lot of areas between heallh and safety and security that had overlapping
Insurance Board claims,
work placement, and general health
“I sent out
services.
building.” he said, adding he works with exceptional people.
However, he left after a cutback in hours, and began searching for another job.
face
His job entailed keeping track of of accidents, reports, dealing with Workplace Safety statistics
policing.
said the great thing about
code of conduct is a specific action by a student may be a criminal offence but the college can deal with it under the code. "It leaves it a lot more open to try to deal with the behaviour and not just punish the individual," he said. A student may be punished under the code of conduct in several different ways including a conduct agreement, which is a form of pro-
abide by the contract, he will be
Rob Brown, head of
—
the
of conduct panel meeting where it was decided he would be put on a behavioural contract. If he does not expelled, said
;
he
complete and a diploma to get and it's the job of the college to make that happen, said Brown. "People on occasion make bad
a student code
college
the
as an opportunity to get
said.
Brown
As a result of McDonald attended
with
position
have
at
V,
be watching the
will
the
He
college, and the special investiga-
monetary
strong input," he said.
policing
in
McDonald said under his conit recommends he take anger management and alcoholism counselling
He
security services.
2003, before taking a position Doon campus of Conestoga as health and safety co-ordinator.
es.
for
tract
made, Kobylnik said. "Everyone has input but the residence is college property so if the college wanted something to go a certain way, they would have is
OT
the
recreation centre
at the
'
until
ranging from uniformed work to crime scene investigation, is Conestoga’s head of safety and security servic-
from the
and from attending any licensed events held by Conestoga Students
residence and the college, a decision
banned from
MURPHY
opened up a few years ago with physical resources at the Waterloo campus of Conestoga, and he took
safety and security services. is
and
of safety
Conestoga College has a new head of security. Rob Brown, who has 25 years
A
counselling
"He
new head
at
address.
making threats
Continued from Page 1 was just two drunk kids being
»
(Photo by Tim Murphy)
the
is
By TIM
it
after
-
Security gets a
to
January.
in
instructions
are
Rob Brown
recommen-
a final report and
Davis, which
— .
Conestoga’s
at
The discussion paper, information on upcoming town hall meet-
think the
separate worlds with almost no transferability between
of Tibbits’
town
the
to explain the task force's
"We
created
Part
meetings
dations to the premier
be redesigned. Bill
advisory panel
be attending
be over the
will
think the system, that the
will
make
vision." said Tibbits.
in
A seven-member
of Ontario’s post-sec-
is
located in
Room 2B06
— SPOKE, November
Page 4
1
Commentary
2004
,
Hate shouldn’t be tolerated The president of
the
Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC), who offend-
ed many people with his comment about adult er
making
Israelis,
should consid-
a public apology.
Mohamed Elmasry
appeared on the Oct. 19 Michael Coren Show, an
Ontario current affairs show, as part of a panel discussion on terrorism
and said any
over the age of 18 was a legitimate target for
Israeli
Palestinian suicide
bombers because
adult Israelis are required to serve
in the military.
“They
are part of the Israeli army, even if they have civilian clothes,”
he said.
who is also a professor at the University of Waterloo, many people from the Jewish and Muslim communities who
Elmasry,
offended
were concerned
such a prominent figure would condone the
that
killing of civilians.
news
In a
Elmasry
release
and "misunderstood" and
insisted his
that
remarks were “regrettable”
he was just simply relaying the views of
most Palestinians, not his own personal
beliefs.
Critics find this hard to believe since he
made
similar
comments
in
an interview with the Globe and Mail.
“The use of
word
the
regrettable
is
shameful.
He was
clear in promot-
ing hate and supporting terrorism,” said Frank Dimant. executive vicepresident of a Jewish advocacy group, in an article in the National Post.
The offended groups
are dismissing the explanation as half-hearted
and insincere. They say
demanding
was not an
it
now
outright apology and are
he resign as the president of the CIC.
that
member of the Muslim Canadian Congress, comment “an act of cowardice” in the article.
Tarek Fatah, a founding called Elmasry ’s
"This
his terrible
‘Well,
blame of and he said,
offensive to the Palestinians that he has shifted the
is
mistake and immoral attitude towards Israelis
I’m not saying
this, this is a
sounds like Elmasry
it
Ed Morgan,
national president, is
suggesting
all
said
Palestinians sup-
port terrorism.
Perhaps Elmasry should have thought twice before making those
He
the president of a very influential
is
what he did could
those
comments because
it
of
terrorist activities.
rorism while
its
is
just not
some-
How
can the
CIC
that
CIC, said they adopted
does not permit any form
convincingly endorse anti-ter-
is
so adamant that his
comments do
not reflect his
views, then he should stand up and apologize to the Palestinians also
do not share
have their
own
Or, perhaps
He wrongfully spoke
that belief.
for them.
They
voices and they should be allowed to use them.
CIC’s reputation through the
someone who doesn’t
resign.
alienate a
group of people and go against his
own organization's policies. Hatred between people is bad enough and when someone, especially an influential leader like Elmasry, makes a hateful
comment,
it
department of the largest
corporation in the world, and
for I
I
am
love
Not pushing dogs into
am 20 years am not “a
I
many would
label
me.
jobs and
is
Why am and
getting a college educa-
punk? I
the
young children It’s
bane of the elderly
of
because
I
impressionable
alike?
have a
Yes, despite the fact tain a positive n’t include
Clearly for
try to
baggy jeans, chains and still
bagging
tests,
video
games, or supplying you with the
weekly news important the region,
I
to
my
next dose of heroin and
I
down
anybody would pierce replies, as
I
that’s
and telephone number contacted
name
of the writer. Writers will
and beating
book by
body
she
is
on the
is
amount
the
in
to dress
tattoo
their
body modifica-
about recognizing
inside, regardless of
of
impaled
metal
through their face.
the 1960s could provide.
So, the next time city
self
council, I’m quite regularly inter-
and the
preppy,
engage
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a complicated
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an employee
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He has already dragged the mud. Maybe it’s time for a new president,
Elmasry should
occasional inane question regarding
at
anybody label such an outstanding young man who holds down two
not the view of
leader says something that supports the very opposite?
Since Elmasry
own who
am
tion a
1
am.
Elmasry
is
thing he has the authority, to do. Valiante, national vice-president of the
I
But why, oh why, you ask, would
every Palestinian and speaking for every Palestinian
an anti-terrorist policy statement after 9/1
that
student
group and saying
affect people’s perception of Palestinians.
made
should not have
Wahida
I
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"The explanation doesn’t seem satisfactory at all. He’s now saying he’s summed up the views of Palestinians, not his own. That doesn’t seem fair to the Palestinians.”
a journalism
Conestoga College.
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The Canadian Jewish Congress
remarks.
am
I
”
does he know?
in the article
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widely-held Palestinian view.’
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2004
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Majority of students lather
Although study shows proper techniques are not being used By
ALEXANDRA MASTRONARDI
This
to be
is
sure bacteria
is
A
carry hundreds of germs.
being washed away and not trailing
handle
your hands after going to the bathroom? Fifteen per cent of girls and 7 per cent of boys
up your arm, said Vanderknyff. "Also make sure hands do not come in contact, rinse your hands
tributors in public settings.
who
separately."
Do you wash
1
use the college washrooms
don’t.
Spoke
compiled the
staff
observing people
tics after
statis-
“Make sure
washrooms the week of Oct. 18. It was noted that 62 per cent of girls and 6 per cent of boys wash their
germs
really like to collect
there.”
hands using soap and water after
Connie Vanderkn yff,
facilities.
The remaining 23 per cent of and 22 per cent of boys rinse hands using only water.
girls
their
scary enough, the sur-
If that isn't
vey also shows
that
zero per cent of
sample washes
the
their
hands
using the proper germ-killing techniques.
Connie Vanderknyff, student
ing
19. a nurs-
was
college,
the
at
trained on proper hand washing techniques used in hospitals to protect doctors and nurses from microorganisms. Approach the sink and adjust the
recently
temperature of the water to luke
warm,
is
too hot or too cold
moistening
hands,
15 seconds.
Interlock
and rub the front, back and side of your palms, wrists and forearms five times, said the first-year nursing student. sure to also clean under
your fingernails, germs really
like,
to collect there,” she said.
When
ward motion
Many
public
washrooms today
offer toilet scat covers and automat-
sensor flushing and taps but few have touch-free automatic doors. ic
Vanderknyff said she has wit-
mits bacteria,” she said. is
It
important to avoid touching
tap and door handles because they
HANDWASHING FACTS More than 60 per cent of Conestoga students use soap and water after using the washroom • More than 20 per cent rinse with only water •
100 per cent don’t follow
proper germ-killing
techniques
away make a down-
rinsing soap
washrooms, including the students who didn’t wash their hands. Gross!
nessed students leaving the college
•
lath-
lingers
sure the water
made contact when exiting the
survey
your elbow and also use your elbow to dispense paper towel. Pat your hands dry, dispose of the paper towel and then use your elbow again to retrieve a fresh piece of paper towel to touch any door handles, said Vanderknyff. "The paper towel must be dry because a wet paper towel trans-
said.
er using plenty of friction for at
"Make
in the
with the handles
After rinsing, turn the tap off
with
wrists
and forearms, apply soap and 10 to
and bathrooms in the college, you have to come in contact with door handles. One hundred per cent of students Ironically, in order to enter
bathrooms without washing their hands properly or at all. With all the germs floating around it can be extremely dangerous. “It
would take only
three days for
a pandemic disease to affect the entire
is trailing in
off of your hands.
with
world, especially
air
travel,” she said.
"Now
that’s scary.”
Ashleigh Latimer,
19, said a lot
of students wash their hands but
most of them
just rinse with water.
“Some people walk
your hands,” she
will dry out
After
least
nursing student
said Vanderknyff.
"If the water it
clean
fingernails,
dis-
exit all the
observed
under your
1
using the college
to
the
in
door
one of the top germ
is
out without
washing their hands at all but they try to do it unnoticed,” she said. “Sometimes it’s hard to get to a sink.”
Whatever a person’s reason for not washing his or her hands, everyone in the public can suffer the conflus
and other
contagious diseases are
commonly
sequences.
Colds,
spread through contact
in
public
places.
So, the next time you use the washrooms, remember, something as simple as washing your hands can greatly reduce the risk of spreading germs around the college.
(Photo by Alexandra Mastronardi)
washroom isn’t the only time you should wash your hands. Experts recommend you also scrub up after handling money and before eating. After using the
Psychic offers glimpse
into future
students given answers that range from sarcastic to surprising By JEN
I
pressed.
Have you ever wanted to know what lies ahead of you? Who you’re going to marry?
gram
in
How many
if
complete your pro-
“He
college?
Allison
“I
where he Sanctuary answered any three questions students wanted to ask him. I was one
stage with Valkos.
on the waited and
As
I
watched him give other students their psychic readings,
I
noticed he
never asked to hold students’ hands or personal possessions to get a
sense of their energy. l
been
I
had never
to a psychic before but
didn't think Valkos
I
just
seemed very
professional.
During
my reading, Valkos, wear-
Simpell,
guess he’s
another
maybe
However, Leanne (Photo by Justin Bastin)
to get
else.” first-
if
she
for real, but
I
don’t know.”
of those students.
was able
anything
She also said she wasn’t sure
Valkos, a psychic entertainer,
I
me
believes him.
the
utes before
tell
have been guessed by
year public relations student, said she thought Valkos was too vague.
answered for free. Conestoga Students Inc. invited
waited in line for about 30 min-
Valkos and what
didn't really
someone
tions
I
in
her.
that couldn't
the opportunity to have their ques-
to
she believes
he said to
Many people have questions about their future and on Oct. 19 students at Conestoga College had
Dan
first-year public
Brenna Flynn, a
relations student, said she isn't sure
children you will have? Will you
successfully
my psychic reading. However, wasn't the only person unim-
with
GALHARDO
First-year journalism student Leanne Stelker gets her fortune from visited the Sanctuary on Oct. 19. ing
all
black,
was almost slouched
practically
danced around my compliments and
in his chair
questions with
to joke with
very broad answers. The three questions
and immediately began me. This set me at ease, because I was a little nervous that he might know what I was thinking
at the
moment.
During my reading, Valkos was very vague and never really
answered
my questions directly. He
Valkos were: Will
What
will I
do
I
asked I be successful?
after college? Will
there be any big surprises in
my
Valkos, a psychic that
didn’t give
me
any answers
any of you reading this couldme. He also gave me some answers as a joke that actually that
n’t give
scared
me
half to death.
They
defi-
were not answers a young girl like myself wanted to hear, since they were about an unplanned nitely
As
She said Valkos told her she was on the right path in her career. “I was pretty convinced,” she “He seemed to really know said. what he was doing.” ing.
pregnancy.
life?
He
Dan
Stelker, a first-
year journalism student, said she was pleased with her psychic read-
a result,
I
was disappointed
may be the real thing, but wouldn’t go to him for another reading. I think I’d rather wait and Valkos
I
see what
my
opposed
to
future holds for
me
as
going to some stranger
for answers.
— SPOKE, November
Page 6
1
News
2004
,
Conestoga’s got a star Business management student By STEPH BAULK
finals in
he was absolutely speechless after
London.
Adam
management
Conestoga College's
student,
good singer, but I think Sachi also had what it took to win the competi-
doing two different types of genres,
first
ever CSI
Sachi
Idol winner.
than 200 students crowded
when
into the
Sanctuary to watch the two
Franklin, then slowed
Idol finalists battle
first
place in the competition on
it
this
testants
CSI
event, the
two con-
sang two songs of their
hopes of impressing the judges and winning the grand prize of $500 of recording time at Cyber Audio Studios, a trip for two to Quebec City and a chance to reprechoice
sent
in
Conestoga
at
the
I
down
it
with
got a
Will Always
said.
had
other competitors in order to into the Idol final.
worth
it
But
for Fridenburg,
it
who
to
is
what
“I’ve
chance
Fridenburg said he plans to use his
time with Cyber
recording
Audio Studios
to
Torn Between,
who
take his band.
he has been
“I
apart in
everybody else’s eyes. Jiminez said she thought the event went really well.
was very surprised at the numwho were interested, since it was the first time we ever did this, but I was really happy with "I
ber of people
audience was really
Jiminez said she was not only happy with the participation of those
the fact that they did
involved in the competition but with
you just you want to
Idol said
be confident
to
if
real-
you can sing and you’re I think you should give it
if
a lot of respect, he said.
“I think the
good with
really respect
were coming from,” he said. Master T said he thought it was Fridenburg’s song choices that gave him the slight edge over
competition.
their first song.
Master
T
got on
stage and talked about what he
was
it was like MuchMusic. The VJ said it was hard to judge the competition coming into it at
doing now, and what
working (Photo by Steph Baulk)
the CSI Idol
for
the very end, but the judges did a
of the first-ever
good job paring two vocalists.
I
it
down
to the last
was surprised with it just shows we mature crowd of stu1
but
spirit,
have a really
dents this year.” it
was
really difficult
“There was so much talent," she said. “And honestly, going into it and right until the end, didn't
something
presenting
is
more unique,” said the was a really close com-
that’s a little it
and
that’s
the thing that
everyone has to understand.” He said he would definitely come back to Conestoga next year to help
judge the next CSI Idol
competition. “I think the Idol
final
good
Adam
petition
After the two finalists performed
“Personally, the
judging the competition right from,
a try.”
Conestoga.
audience participation as well.
tough to do what Adam did without a full band, and I think
VJ. “But
for the competition
she said.
Jiminez said
Keller.
confident,
at
where the performers
“It’s
with yourself as well,” he said.
speaker for the
ifi
anything else though,” he said.
him
set
it,”
Master T, a former MuchMusic video jockey (VJ), came to Conestoga as a guest judge and
i;
of every-
what
showed
dent
FjISEpiE;
in front
the intermission then
think that's
said Fridenburg. “It’s going to be
Nichole Jiminez, CSI events programmer, Steve Wagner, of Cyber Audio Studios, and Trudy Kowan, a dance teacher and stu-
Idol winner.
was probably more nervous
performance across the board,
never wavering," said Wagner.
College or university crowds are
The judges
CSI
a nice
from
he has given a consis-
traditionally tough crowds, but they
included
title
was
it
title.
lines, but
with some pretty catchy stuff,”
"But
on Oct. 20. Fridenburg took home the
his first
few
a
now and we’ve come up
istic
final
“I
body during
be a singer and performer. “I mean, you also have to be
in
was
change.
record a couple of their songs.
have
place
“He flubbed
time being a judge for a competition at a college so
was consistency
it
brought him the CSI Idol
tent
said this
about speaking
The new CSI
first
said
start to finish
with for about two years now, and
things started.”
out for
Steve Wagner,
T
that long.
Fridenburg’s performances that
in
Cyber Audio Studios
Master
tough to get a lot of songs recorded in the time we have, but at least we’ll get a demo out there and maybe send it out to a couple of producers or venues and get
it
board.”
to get
out there.”
it
But if he’s got the determination and the drive then I think he can be successful.”
performance across the
been with a band and
of this business and
spit out
haven't even been in
Wagner
“I’ve been with the boys for a
Fridenburg, 20, battles
he
start to finish
we’ve been practising and practic-
while
Adam
“From
a couple of years now,” he
for, for
all
said
up and
been looking
I’ve
takes a lot of determination,”
“It
I
has given us a consistent honoured
success.
the recording time.
ing, just looking for a
make
was
won
is
ing, said if he sticks with it he might have what it takes to be a big
he said. “Tve seen people chewed
but both were really great.”
second
places, she’s
of talent," he said. “I’m just
lot
"This
to audition,
and then compete against eight it
go
Fridenburg said he
it
finalists
for her to get
so happy to have won.”
ner of the competition.
end,
And even
think she’s going to
have
in the
The two
regional
tion. I
was Fridenburg who showed he was no loser, after it was announced he was the winBut
Oct. 20.
For
singing Respect by Aretha
Whitney Houston’s Love You.
out for
a
her stuff
Keller strutted
More CSI
"I think
to
is
thought they both had very
unique and distinct personalities,” he said. “They were obviously
the competition
offer when he sang Loser by Three Doors Down, and That’s Life by Frank Sinatra.
Fridenburg, a 20-year-old
"I
Idol winner
was over. I’m a good performer and
Fridenburg showed what he had business
CSI
first
just going to
competition
grow and keep
is
get-
and bigger and that’s something I would like to be a part of,” said Master T. Wagner, of Cyber Audio Studios, said as soon as he saw Fridenburg and Keller perform he knew they would be in the finals. “They have an amazing presting bigger
“Adam’s got a voice
ence,” he said. that projects ty shines
and Sachi’s personali-
through into her music.”
Wagner,
who
will
help
Fridenburg with his studio record-
the
start.
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know who would
win.”
Jiminez said since the event went so well this year CSI has decided to
make
it
an annual event.
“Next year I'm pretty sure we’ll have more people audition now
how it works,” we can only get
that they’ve seen
she said. “But
so I’m hoping to have more people participate so we can better,
have
groups
bigger
in
Nichole
Campus
said
regional
week of March,
held the third the
the
Idol competition will be
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of
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know
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soon as
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it
1
the
News
Much By
RYAN CONNELL
and
wife
his
ried to for
One of Canada’s most wellknown VJs continues to leave his mark he's
in
today's pop culture, even
no longer standing
in front
if
of
the camera.
Tony Young, known by today’s youth as the dreadlocked Master T. has played an important role in opening Canada’s eyes to the world of urban music. Young was one of
MuchMusic’s tape operators go on
air as a
VJ
in
1990, where,
became the host and producer for shows such as RapCity. Da Mix and X-tendamix. Young visited Conestoga College as a guest judge for the CSI Idol competition on Oct. 20. Halfway through the competition. Young did he
a
later
half hour question-and-answer
period
with
the
audience
1
he has been mar-
5 years.
months after left, felt really depleted and exhausted but just had to pick myself back up and six
I
1
1
in
MuchMusic.
that’s
institute
College
in
for “x’
time," he said. his
Spice
ly asked r
him
for
prior
to
being interviewed.
However, he said
when meeting
his
most
her,
my
the
at
son was
two and her daughter was two," he
from
departure
to
music indus-
said during his speech to students in
“You could
the Sanctuary. a change in
really see
Madonna because when
experience
great
left,
I
months
felt really
after
I
depleted
for
me
because
she’s such a high-profile person.”
However, Young hasn't enjoyed of the interviews he has done
all
and exhausted but just had to pick myself back up and focus.” I
and remained at the station until August 200 when he bid farewell 1
such as
over the years.
“My least favourite had to be Mariah Carey because I have never seen anyone with so high mainte-
Tony Young,
nance,” he laughed. “Her manage-
former MuchMusic VJ
Mariah wanted me her and talk before the interview, and she has this thing where you can only shoot her on
a blow-out goodbye bash with
the then-pregnant
Lauryn Hill. Young said there are two very
'
you have kids, your life is not about you anymore, and I think it was a
“For six
his job at
artists
Janet
Eminem and the Girls, who specifical-
'Jackson,
time,
a year after graduating
performances from
made him pop-
artists like
over to a larger audience and
Hamilton for television
for
was
he
known After
to
memorable interview was with Madonna. “I think it was what crossed me
try.
Kitchener collegiate graduate went to Mohawk
VJ
a
that
what you've amount of
do
his favourite
being
was
to
to so many different genof music. His relaxed method of
mcHi
43-ycar-old
in
about
ular with
Moving to Kitchener from England when he was young, the
He landed
become a VJ. Young said one of
res
stay connected to the
his past at
interviews and a
interviewing artists
the
ment said
to sit
dif-
that
down with
ferent stories about his departure
In 2002. he signed with Virgin
from MuchMusic but he essentially felt the station was going through a transitional phase in seeking a younger audience. “It hurt at the time (when I left), because you've been there for 17
her ‘good side’ so she wouldn’t look at me straight on.” Since Young has left MuchMusic, he admitted he doesn’t watch the
years but that doesn't necessarily
Music Canada to release two Master T-branded compilation albums with reggae and urban vibes. More recently his company, Fullstedd Productions, produced and directed a Sean Paul DVD called Duttyology that was released
mean
in
August. Young has also pub-
because of his intelligence, confidence and his ability to handle him-
they can't get rid of
you" he
VJ
exposed
your
tions about himself
MuchMusic
high-profile
breakdown of 10 things
MuchMusic
MuchMusic, Young continued
broadcasting.
his
way that's
— Page 7
book written by artist Shaggy. The book includes some of
things
because been
for
2004
1,
to his
focus. It’s as if you’re going through a rebirthing process in a
Sanctuary, answering various ques-
and
word
for six
years before he ever had the chance to
"For
Much
after
life who
SPOKE, November
said.
lished
Leaving MuchMusic gave Young more time to spend with his family
ECW One
his
own biography from Much Master T:
Press called
VJ’s Journey, with the fore-
much anymore
station
favourite
VJ on
George
self.
the
but
station
his is
(Photo
Campanelli
predicts that will
VJ Rick
leave the station
Connell)
.
by the end of the
year, after being
ers
Since
Young
he’s said
MuchMusic,
left
he doesn't miss the
intensity of the job
and
that lie’s
very comfortable where he
now
is
right
enjoying the admir-
in his life,
he
still
“One of
there for 10 years.
Stroumboulopoulos
Young
By Ryan
Former MuchMusic VJ Tony Young, known by many as Master T, hasn’t stopped working in the music industry since he left the station in 2001 He has since produced two albums, a Sean Paul DVD, and has written his own biography. has.
the biggest things that
me when
kids say to to
me
is
that they
they walk up grew up watching
me,” Young smiled, “and
I
say to
them. 'Look, well you turned out alright.’”
Get cheap seats from the alumni By BRE NT
GERHART
"It raises a little bit
Williams, “but
The Alumni Association of Conestoga College is helping students, staff and alumni save money by selling discounted tickets. They include Cineplex and Galaxy theatre tickets, which cost $7.50 for adults and $5 for children, and Ontario Science Centre tickets, which cost $15 for adults, $1 1 for youth and seniors and $8 for children. Chicopee ski lift tickets will be available soon as well. Margie. Williams, development and alumni relations assistant, said the Chicopee Ski Hill tickets should be coming within the next
tickets
for as
$55 gate
They
little
during
as $29,
the
which
price.
also sold tickets for Ontario
Place and the African Lion Safari
over the summer.
at the
theme
Musical Mocktails event held
in
Williams said the money from ticket sales
c
a
i
l
i
goes into an alumni assoo n
Although the alumni association has sold tickets for many years, on Sept. 1 they hoped to start benefiting from their success by implementing a new source fee of 50 cents or $1 per ticket, depending on which is purchased.
ticket prices
“The
by $1.
theatres
now have
war going on
ticket
said
Williams,
ours,
it's
a
in
movie
we lowered
“so
little bit
a
the city,”
of a better deal
and from there it can go to sup-
than
port
bad weather increases the movie tickets. “It seems that if there was a crummy weekend, we would sell a lot of movie tickets on the Friday," said Williams, “but they do seem to
account
the
alum-
association
Williams
supports.
the
who
be pretty steady.”
has been with the
weather has
impacted
the
sales.
"The weather was this year," said
crummy “We did-
pretty
Williams.
have that many hot days, so people weren't dying to go to Ontario Place or Wonderland.” n’t
Williams said the Cineplex and Galaxy movie tickets have become the most popular item. “Wonderland used to be the ticket,” said popular most Williams, “but
Galaxy
I
movie
think
now
tickets
they’re year-round, and pretty
good
the
tickets,
Home Award
Williams,
unlike
said
sales of
and anything ni
was.”
Wonderland and Ontario Place
Welcome else the
it
Williams
2003, said she thinks ticket sales were higher last year and believes
the
First-year student Justin LeClair plays the Mario Bros,
commu-
Williams said the alumni associalowered their movie
tion recently
on different things.”
Last year Chicopee tickets cost $18 for a four-hour lift pass. The alumni association also Canada’s offered Paramount
w^s sometimes $25 cheaper than
song on the bongo drum residence on Oct. 19.
alumni and the college
nity to get a deal
alumni association since January
Wonderland
Bongo boy
of money,” said
mostly a service
few weeks.
summer
(Photo by Alexandra Mastronardi)
for
it's
deal.”
it’s
the
because you get a
The alumni association sold 459 Paramount Canada’s Wonderland Lion Safari Bingcman's Water Park tickets and 1,279 Galaxy and Cineplex tickets, for a total of tickets,
175 African
tickets, 18
1
,93
1
tickets this year.
Tickets can be purchased
Alumni Association
<at
the
office on the
second floor of the Student Client Services Building or the CSI office and can be paid for by cash a cheque made out to the Alumni Association of Conestoga
or
College. If students, staff or alumni have any questions they are asked to phone Margie Williams at 748-
5220
ext. 3463, or e-mail mwilliams@conestogac.on.ca.
at
:
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1
,
2004
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Inc. Presents...
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News
Bringing
SPOKE, November
1,
2004
— Page 9
warmth
people
to the
on the
street
Students hand out care packages to help the homeless this winter By JENNIFER
HOWDEN
one who wanted to donate items and by p.m. many people had 1
When
snow begins
the
to fall
most people head inside to avoid the cold. But what about those people who don’t have a place to go-
Christina Marshall, a secondyear broadcasting student, is determined to help those people.
Marshall,
has
23.
goes to show what you such a short amount of lime. You can have an idea, put it into motion and have so many people supporting it. It’s amaz“It just
can do
ter.
ing," Marshall said.
so cold.
I
show what in
amount
such a
of time.
can have an
You
let
idea, put
it
motion and have so
into
many people it.
supporting
amazing.”
It’s
don’t like standing
and freezing
outside
to
you can do
collecting blankets
is
and warm winter clothes to make care packages and then personally hand deliver the packages to the people living on the streets. “It kind of sucks out there and it's
goes
just
“It
short
Marshall
in
started
Warmth to help homeless warm this win-
Project: Pass the
keep the
already signed up.
(Photo by Jennifer Howden)
Marshall
alone
people stay
Marshall got the idea of handing
around
Toronto
with her People would come up to her asking for money but the concern that they would spend the money on unhealthy things stopped Marshall from giving
boyfriend
them
ing
last year.
Each care bundle
will
have
in
it
a jacket, a sweater or other articles of clothing
and a few cans of
food.
Marshall also plans on getting toothbrushes and toothpaste from the dollar store and adding them Instead of just handing the care packages out in a box, each package will come in a backpack made by Marshall. The backpacks will be made out of rope which,
year after three of her classmates
things with
decided to do a documentary on the homeless. Working on the
go,” she said.
documentary really opened their eyes to the problem and Marshall decided to put her idea into
supplies to dles
but
action.
make
20.
really
toOAYWAV C
according to Marshall,
is
an old
“This
way
they can take their
remembrance
In
The goal
is
to collect
make
enough
at least six
bun-
Marshall thinks they might even get enough supplies to
Nov.
This is not the first time Marshall has been involved with a charity project. She helped organ-
Fees:
thought that
maybe
idea that
I’ve
ize a toy drive for the Salvation
the
had could actually work. all
pitched
my
in,
come
idea could
Army which had more
always
to
If
little life.”
Christina Marshall,
“I
was inspired and thought
maybe
the
little
idea
that
that I’ve
always had could actually work,” she said. “If little
we
idea could
all
pitched
come
in,
my
to life.”
Her classmates were
all
for the
idea.
On Oct. 21, a sign-up sheet was posted outside the broadcasting classrooms
at
donated within the first week. She has also volunteered her time with the Girl Guides and helped pick up garbage. Marshall hopes to get in contact with Reaching Our Outdoor Friends (ROOF), a non-profit
committed
to
lunchtime for any-
care of the homeless this winter. Donations of old clothes, blankets,
hats,
mitts
Project: Pass the
dropped off
and food
for
Warmth can be
at the television stu-
Room 4B18. anyone has any suggestions of what to put in the care bundles or if they just want to get involved, dio in If
they can contact Marshall through
at
12,
2004
reflections
of support, kindness, harmony, peace
tolerance.
None Prizes:
$150— $100—$50. Rules:
realm_37@hotmail.com.
must be the original work of the Each entrant may submit 2 photos.
All photographs
Submit your entries,
entrant.
“Photography Contest,”
based on the photograph’s Judging emotional impact as well as composition, originalwill be
the
well-being of homeless youth, to see how she can help them take
student
at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal
than 600
toys
organization
second-year broadcasting
1989
Current students of Conestoga College may enter photographs promoting the theme, Positive Relationships, and all it encompasses, including
kets.
and
Dec. 6,
Entries:
and
inspired
women who died
Deadline:
help the better,” she said.
and second-
of the
them wherever they
ing in their old clothes and blan-
told her classmates
as well as the first-
we
rvamrp
hiker’s trick.
year broadcasters about her idea and asked them to help by bring-
little
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“There are more than six people living on the streets right now who can desperately use the packages and the more people we can
She quickly
was
to collect
this winter.
a blanket, a toque, a pair of mitts,
wanted to do was give them food and a blanket to keep them warm. "I mentioned to my boyfriend that I really wished I could just make up care packages and give them instead,” she said. That idea came up again this
“I
warm
to the bundle.
any.
What she
Pass the Warmth. Marshall hopes
Project:
sleeping out there,” she said. out the care packages while walk-
shows off some of the items donated to enough items to help at least six homeless
Christina Marshall, a second-year broadcasting student,
ity
and technical
quality.
and white or colour, and taken must be submitted as 4” x 6” prints. All entries will become the property of the Women’s Resource Group and winning entries will be published in Spoke and announced on CJIQ. Entries can be black
with a
35mm or digital camera, but
clearly labelled to:
Student Services
Room 2B04 All entries must include the student’s
name, student ID number, Program, e-mail address and phone number.
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the
is
of
part
Jennifer's travel series recounting
of her summer vacation to
tales
When
Eastern Europe.
she
left off,
her tour group was departing from
Moscow.
I
coat and coke-bottle glasses
would have found scene
entire
comical
if
I
the
was
quite
say
would be an understatement
my mood was
Ukraine.
viewed
1
her
homeland.
During
in line.
the
drive to our
The
stop
first
she
official
spoke into a
Kyiv,
into
destinations,
from
Ukraine, nor was
I
about
my
1
cursed myself for forgetting
allergy pills, generally reserved
for Ontario’s
my
focus back to the
cathedral,
the
white and hunter
green building looked more like a
overly interest-
my
And.
if
lied
was
father
rattling
was disappointed
I
sound
the
currency.
you
neck, feeling
to smell the fresh scent of
my
where nearby.
although
on
until
I
did not recognize
I
of
the
instrument
was vaguely reminis-
it
cent of a harpsichord.
excess of $2,000 would be con-
fiscated.
its
pink
heard music faintly playing some-
Ukrainian law, cash
to
my
my
head.
about,
to declare their
and
the lush
shaded by
tightened
I
13
roof of course.
its
heavily
trees,
foliage
into the country.
Each person had
than a typical
the onset of a nasty cold brewing in
could have cost us our entry
According
home
pashmina around
1
the
again, customs proved to be
medications
ragweed season.
Turning
many
an obstacle for our tour group, one
in
With watery eyes and a runny
nose
Unable
that
hunted through
pointed to a blossoming chestnut
ed.
Once
I
As we wandered around
Chornobyl
much
While
purse for some tissues Larissa
premises,
the
know
my
like
nuclear disaster and chicken Kyiv, didn't
was overcome by a sneez-
I
gold domes on
Budapest and Prague.
Aside
1
house of worship, minus the
merely a stopover on route to more exciting
— Page
2004
,
large country'
sojourn as
this
Kyiv,
ing attack.
tree.
indifferent as our
descended
plane
to
pas-
about
sionate
had
been
not
woman,
a kind
surly It
1
A STOP WORTH MAKING
KYIV, By JENNIFER
SPOKE, November
We
on your
to
followed the melodious tunes
man
a clearing where an old
declaration form and unauthorized
with dishevelled ivory hair sat on a
medicine or money was found
park bench, his fingers plucking
one
of
frequent
the
through tourists’ luggage,
in
searches it
be seized immediately.
No one vast
in
sums of
we were
cash; however, with in
various age groups,
heavily
stocked
with
Fran Condon, a 50s.
was
New Yorker in her
the first to
She admitted pain
reliever.
walk the plank.
to carrying Vioxx, a
The
gruff officials
her to display the
forced
pills,
which they poured on the counter, rubbed between their fingers and
Although Fran
tried her best to
explain the necessity of the ication. the
Women
Larissa told us
decla-
al
ration
form
and
smugly
asked.
med-
language barrier made
crackling
m icrophone
“Do you any
gifts
from
I
was
slightly
I
to the bribery- attempt
don't
played
and
official,
have any friends I
dow Finally,
time more forcefully.
Ukraine,”
excitement,
said, “I
was
I
in the
said with wide eyes and
Our
local
early 60s, put
all-business
ground
guide,
Sviridova, a dour
an innocent smile. ‘Tve never even
burial
through,
member of the group
although each
been here before.”
monastery, which have served as a deceased monks for more than 700 years.
let
woman
Larissa in
her
on the facade of an
attitude,
but under-
I
gant,
my
peered from
to see a beautiful
church
1
unlike
the
win-
1th century
was
in the distance. It
coloured
experienced similar hassles.
ornate,
cathedrals
ele-
multi-
scattered
As we emerged from St.
was a
tradition-
by blind travelling min-
played strels.
The bandurist displayed deep emotion as he performed. With
hummed
his
the tunes
and swayed back and forth
to the
rhythm. After listening for a while, enjoying a break
from the quick pace our
group
was
placed
some crumpled hryvnya
keeping,
everyone
(Ukrainian currency) in his ban-
across Russia.
eager to see
it
the bus,
Sophia’s Cathedral,
one of the most famous
sites
in
dura case and then headed for the exit.
Continued on Page 12
(Photo by Jennifer Ormston)
are required to cover their heads before entering the
at the
had
Ukrainian bandura, historically
eyes closed he
As her voice hastened with
dumb
know what you mean."
“Are you sure?” said the this
front
foreign accent obscure.
confused
although not naive, so
the
seat of the bus, her
for
your Ukrainian friends?”
“1 don’t
even went so far as to smell.
caves
my
have
drugs.
I
never seen. reviewed
our group was carry ing
seven people
the strings of an instrument
would
for
Above, the breathtaking Assumption Cathedral is on the grounds of the monastery, Top photo, a musician at St. Sophia’s Cathedral enthralls passersby with his bandura playing.
— SPOKE, November
Page 12
1
Travel
2004
,
KYIV IS A HISTORY LOVER’S PARADISE Continued from Page 1 Near the church there was an obscure cement statue; the shape of a cross was hollowed at its centre and the silhouette of a body within a larger body filled the empty spaced was astounded when
were forced to make the journey we had embarked on, knowing
Larissa explained the significance
memory
of the monument, erected
each step they took brought them
one step closer
in
an
1932 to 1933. The Irish Potato Famine I had heard of, but this was new to
from
famine
artificial
From
afar
menorah
at
showed us where
forced
upon famine by restricting
a
Ukrainians access
the
my
again,
their
thereby killing
grain,
to
eyes welled with tears,
but this time
knew
I
it
was not
because of the chestnut blooms.
approximately seven million peo-
As my group trudged towards
ple.
snapped a few pictures Larissa herded the group back onto the bus. We were on a tight schedule and she clearly had no patience for my dawdling. An ancient
While
dating
immobile
my
were
women
our group
required to cover their (Photo by Jennifer Ormston)
ground and pray in the beauteous Assumption Cathedral. did not think the monastery’s
gender-discriminatory rules were fair, but I complied, eager to see what lurked in the caves.
we made
our way
shrouds
An
monks at
when
remains
wrapped
in
of
I
saw the
skeletal
and
skulls
hands
through the flickering candlelight.
When we
finally
re-emerged into
the open, the fresh air
come
relief
was
a wel-
from the musty cata-
combs.
The monastery
Liberty.
rupted sleep.
unbeat-
able views of the Dnieper River
clutching
stretched
a
My “We
My head cold began
in
my
I
and the
began to
to
the
lightheaded as
slightly
felt
ears,
I
very spot only a half century
down
residential area.
I
ing
bubble bath,
slipped into
I
heard
I
glanced
who
Instead of soaking in a bath though,
an hour to hear her say we were about to walk down the path more than 100,000 people took to their deaths during the Second World
War.
Instantly
my mind was
cleared of self-indulgent thoughts
lay in bed, rested
my
tired eyes
and contemplated how interesting my day had been.
My
thoughts turned to gratitude
had been granted many others had incomprehensible pain
for the security in life,
I
while so
endured and sorrow. I had a restless sleep
that night.
My
stomach tightened as Larissa recounted a tale of gruesome genocide. Jews, gypsies and others undesirable to the Third Reich
Pick up a copy of next week’s
Spoke
as
Jennifer
arrives
in
Budapest.
we
realized
middle of a
the sidewalk,
dull, run-
-
I
I felt
my
eyes water-
could not escape the dread-
ed chestnut trees!
the scent of lavender soap filling
Next
as
window and
in the
30,000 Jews
While the group reconvened on
daydream about returning where I envisioned
in a luxurious
was not enthused
of the
about allergies and head colds.
be making one more
were
I
hotel
the room.
will
out the
was
sinuses
the
Larissa say in a muffled voice.
bringing on an acute headache. I
from
bus’s microphone system.
long
after the
to take a debilitating toll
congestion
was abruptly cut
stop today at Babi Yar,”
was exhausted
day of touring.
fantasy
short by deafening static
shield
children below.
myself offered
my
My usually bubbly cohorts were somber as we retraced our steps back to the bus. Just as planned I spent the evening quietly in my room. I
warm flannel pajamas, snuggled under the sheets of my roomy kingsize bed and had a long, uninter-
I
my
memory
of Kyiv, in
and the imposing Mother Ukraine statue, which was vaguely reminiscent of New York’s Statue of
and sword instead of a torch, towered over Kyiv from a hill, guarding the
went down
chill
lost
Mother Ukraine, her hands out-
nearly every turn.
eerie
spine
lay
menorah stands by Babi Yar, a ravine outside their lives there during the Second World War.
giant
light
uneven rocks and through narrow twisted corridors. The remains of ancient
A
down
were our only
Candles source as
of birds and
ago.
heads.
Today, the monks reside above
chirping
the
in this
enter this sacred area
to
into the
echoed had trouble grasping the enormity of what had happened in
day in May because on the grounds of the monastery were caves where the monks originally had lived and, subsequently, where members of the brotherhood were buried;
rejoined
rustling of leaves underfoot
chilly
women were
I
down
ingly undisturbed and peaceful.
sporting scarves on that
all
the
heavy,
like
bricks. Curiosity finally
group, staring
As in
felt
leafy ravine that appeared surpris-
next on the itinerary.
Luckily the
legs
prevailed over fear and
was
1051,
to
my
gorge,
I
monastery,
the
Nazis ordered the prisoners to remove their clothes and jewelry before heading for the ravine. Once
an attempt to
erode Ukrainian nationalism, had
I
of the Jews
Larissa Stalin, in
could see a giant
I
the
fire.
me.
She said
brutal
end of the path in who had perished. Behind the religious symbol a forest concealed Babi Yar, the ravine in which the victims were shot by systematic machine-gun
mem-
in
ory of Ukrainian lives lost
their
to
demise.
Half-heartedly
my
I
turned
my
tion to Larissa for the first
atten-
time
in
(Photo by Jennifer Ormston) (Photo by Jennifer Ormston) St.
Sophia’s Cathedral
as a meeting place
is
the oldest church
for politicians
in Kyiv,
dating to 1037.
and was once a school and
The
library.
building
has also been used
Countless monks roam the grounds of Pecherskaya Lavra in Kyiv. “Pechera” means caves and “lavra” describes a large or significant monastery.
!
News
SPOKE, November
— Page 13
2004
1,
Learning more with learning groups Not
just for
struggling students By PAIGE HILTON
group and they can sit and listen," Turner said. “They might not have to be speaking up or putting in their
dents with the problems or con-
own
cerns they have with their courses.
ing process,” he said.
Haskett said he likes helping stu-
feedback, but just listening
and taking
what the group
in
“I know how frustrating it can be when there arc things you don’t
dis-
is
cussing.”
Peer-supported learning groups can be beneficial, not just for stuto
learning groups promote discussion and learn from reviewing and processing course material, Turner
study
pointed out, rather than students
dents struggling with a course, but for stronger students
brush up on some for an
exam.
asking
“What we’re to students is
dents
who need
skills or
who
trying to get across it
isn’t just
It's
for
anyone who just come and review the It’s
wants to
for
who
are struggling with
said, but students
one
is
of
in
Conestoga’s
tireless cafeteria
who
workers
orders throughout the day.
in the
course
who are may also
to go.
“What they can add to the group they do have a good understand-
brow
lift.
the
students think about
how
it’s
free!”
The format learning groups based on
the mate-
arc
very similar to those
is
in universities, Turner said, and have been successful with Conestoga students. Turner said peer services has col-
course can be learned
in their
rial
and
tage. That,
Turner said learning groups help
used
and what study techniques can work for them. Informal study groups with class-
leader with his or her schoolwork
attended
said.
as well.
we’re doing
trained peer tutor tate
is
is
years that has
a
shown
students
who
higher marks than their counter-
there to facili-
and share his or her own expe-
who
parts
chose not to go. a few percentages,
"Even by
riences within the course.
they’re doing better because they
Learning groups can help the
the it,
group. That's
why
so they can do bet-
alter-
Harley Haskett, a second-year
who
business administration and mar-
Peer-supported learning groups
may only need to review the w'ork, who prefer working and learning
keting student, said being a leader
of a learning group has helped him
began running the week of Oct. 4 and finish the week of Dec. 6. They
with a group.
with team-oriented work
“Some people do not want to make the commitment to work
courses.
with a tutor for a set period of time,
interesting challenge
it
them the
gives
flexibility to
as needed. (Others
may)
feel
in his
ter,”
own
also
will
run during
the
winter
semester.
thought
“I just
would be an
it
(because)
For the learning groups schedule,
more information about attending study groups or becoming a peer
it
more of an idea what it’s be a teacher, even though
gives you like to
said Turner.
I’m just here to
and study group leader, peer services in Room 2B04. tutor
facilitate the learn-
visit
Paige
bombarded by images media of beautiful, thin,
Girls are in
casually
attended learning groups achieved
is
they learn from the others in the
need a makeover, and I’m not talking about a nip and tuck or an eye-
talk
to figure out the
peer-supported learning groups
come
models
expertise,” she said.
try
what we're hoping will happen,” said Turner. "Everybody can learn from one another.” Learning groups are aimed at high-risk courses where there are a lot of requests for tutoring. Turner
so role
share their
and
it
which
or
Young women's
they can
about
lected data over the last couple of
so they’re
native to tutoring for students
than skin deep
more relaxed. “You can sit and
(about
adding their perspective on things,
course),
Study groups also act as an
Beauty more
suggestions
handle course material).
know
already
males or friends work, too. Turner said, but the added advantage of
(of the
ing
Duby
their
to
who
prised of people
“That’s probably the main advan-
is
repeatedly rings
each other, making the atmosphere
concept of the problem,” he said.
choose
Carol
(here to help guide,
the
course and
doing well
with that?
peer
and
of
services administrator.
Turner
like fries
how
said.
material,” said Melissa Turner, peer
a course will attend study groups.
Would you
give
lo
is
help
to
he
Although there is a certain level comfort in the relationship between a tutor and tutce, Haskett said study groups are usually com-
questions
“The leader
good
it’s
They have taken the course, they have some background in that
Students
(Photo by Justin Bastin)
understand, so
clarify that with people,”
leader answering them.
for stu-
are struggling.
everybody.
Peer-supported
arc a chance to
FINDING LIFE BALANCE
Hilton
women.
flawdess
These images are used in adverpromote alcohol, makeup and clothing, and condition young
break
women
great
Opinion
"In the vortex of process there are
no
Understanding
fixed points of view.
is
never a
tising to
life if It’s
zines
to think they can’t
enjoy
they don’t look a certain way.
teenage girls pub-
flipfull-
pounds over their ideal weight. don’t want to see pictures of
Cameron Diaz's
But what really hits home for me most is hearing my thin friends say they need to lose weight. There's
a
difference
between
wanting to be healthy and wanting to be thin. I think it’s important for
women fit,
on being healthy
to focus
a friend of
that’s
is,
not
Women everywhere
the
problem.
are getting this
idea that because they don’t look
packages.
of beautiful, suc-
out there
who
are
plus size
is
a 22-year-old
model vying
own words,
“the
first
to be, in her
black, plus
on the reality show America’s Next Top Model. On the Oct. 20 episode of the show Toccara said she wants to supermodel,'’
infinite
in
all
different
needs of work,
finite
things like time, energy, and thoughts with the
family, personal interests,
and the spontaneous; between
Mia
fixed schedules
and obligations. life
and
between the structured flexibility.
* the art of balancing achievements with relationships; balancing things with
Tyler, daughter
front
man
people; balancing 'getting' with 'being'.
Steven
LIFE BALANCE IS ESSENTIAL FOR SUCCESS, not only in academics but also in life.
Tyler.
Mia
a world-famous plus size
is
for Lane Bryant and it’s been said entire clothing lines have succeeded just by having her as
model
their spokesperson.
Queen
Latifah
is
a singer, model
and has been
in
the
entertainment business since
the
actress,
She has a contract with Cover Girl and has recently been in a few movies, including the blockbuster musical Chicago. She recently got a breast reduchealth
for
and
reasons
is
look and be,
women
like
Tyler and
They cessful
is
the “right"
think
I
more
about the Being orderly and organized helps combat anxiety, and
regular activities, you can be
study time you have available. you can earn the right to guilt free non-study time. Studying your whole life.
is
realistic
important, but
way
lo
To make an appointment
for learning strategy assistance, visit the
it's
not
Student Services
Office.
we need more
Toccara Jones, Mia
Queen
A Message from Learning Strategies
Latifah.
are intelligent, funny, suc-
women
and they prove
true beauty begins with is,
Once you have scheduled your
for her voluptuous figure.
In a society where young girls are so affected by the media, and what
son
Managing your time is one way to help balance your life. Time management is about making things happen, rather than having them happen to you. Since college work is a series of tasks, from short weekly assignments to long-term projects, to periodic exams, scheduling time helps you spread out the work so it's more balanced.
1980s.
early
they are told
certainly not skinny.
Toccara Jones
the art of balancing the
you’re a size 12. then
of Aerosmith
tion
lot
If
size four," said
known
women
*
...
you’re not any less beautiful than a
weight.
There are a
BALANCE IS
* the art of balancing attitudes and approaches to
“Beauty comes
perfect in a bikini they need to lose
cessful
LIFE
ing.
and
not bone skinny.
mine wants to start hitting the gym more often to get into shape, I'll support her. But the
size
determined and pas-
is
Mcluhan
Tyler and half-sister of actress Liv
cellulite!
the
fact
that’s a
She seems extremely comfortable in her own skin and will not let the stereotypes of what is considered beautiful keep her from succeed-
at
page ad for a liquid diet. It’s disgusting to watch entertainment shows and tabloids picking people apart because they weigh
If
Now
Marshall
young women
aimed
and being happy, and then ping to the next page to see a
and
Toccara
for
sionate about what she wants to do.
self
I
barriers.
discouraging to see maga-
lishing articles about being your-
five
down
example
point of view".
who
not what they look
that
a per-
like.
Visit
our website httD://www.conestoaac.on.ca/iSD/stserv/index.jsp
— SPOKE, November
Page 14
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News
2004
,
Recycling for a better planet Students can
www.mysterynet.mb.ca/ if everyone on
Project,
recycle/facts. hlml,
do
Earth
their part
lived
Canadian, society would need
DEAK
the
been our brains since we were
This
lid.
instilled in
has
phrase
How many times
children.
school or
in
Rs? Conestoga College students were asked whether or not they recycled, an overwhelming 80
Guelph where
live in
guilty
feel
“I
it’s
not here because
stick to
I
it.
accounting and
I
because I’m in waste so much
would never
is
referring to
your everyday waste that Recycling
foundations student, said he feels
as a society,
accounting student, said he recycles. He has been doing it since he
extremely bad when he wastes
life
paper.
our natural resources, which
Shawn
was
“We
little.
“We work on ry,
a
Cottrill,
Simpsons’ theo-
the
whoever tops
off,
it
drops
it
trees.
more and more
I am going back side of all the sheets
a personal goal
of paper
number of garbage cans outweigh the number of recycling containers. “The school needs more recycla-
pop cans, news-
papers and glass bottles, the basic
most people recycle these
ble bins around the school,” said
days.
However, other items that are essential to recycling and making our world a better place are plastic, -steel, motor oil, conserving energy and using your common sense. Andy Zettl, a first-year law and
However, not
all
pus feel recycling
some
people on camis
important. In
students don’t even care
Zettl.
“Recycling
is
Sutherland,
Neil
recycle,”
recycling was annoying.
said
sometimes
“Well,
important for
our future, our country and our nat-
Sutherland said.
ural surroundings.”
annoying.
According
to
the
second-year
a
accounting student, said he thought
thing to do. I'd feel
didn’t
up more
Mystery Net
we
are
using up quickly. Recycling saves energy, our clean landfill space,
ft
water and
air,
more economy money.
also creates
The future of recycling depends on society’s dedication to the environment and the well-being of the planet.
First-year architecture construc-
If
“I
1
recycle,”
just
find
it
was picked then maybe I would
recycling
often,
tion
“Most people don’t care about
just a big waste.”
fact,
I
Recycling conserves
granted.
It’s
about recycling, or the environment.
if
we,
living
bins filled with recyclable material.
security student, said he recycles
“It’s the right
earth.
if
student, Andrea Diaz, said most people take recycling for
marketing student Nicola
because he wants to keep the envi-
guilty
not
Parkinson. "I always see garbage
first-year
ronment clean and healthy.
on
jobs and saves the
use,” said Arnold.
I
Students have also noticed that the
a force of habit."
Cottrill recycles
items
As
to use the
off,”
said Cottrill. ‘It’s
are killing
is
is a key element want to continue
first-year police
second-year
per cent said yes.
is
Wet/Dry System. In addition to blue and green coloured bags, clear bags have been implemented, which are filled with plasties, and the
recyclable.
paper,” Cottrill said.
James Arnold, a
I
just don’t recycle.”
The system Vyn raised
college wastes.
When
used to
tem,” the student said. “I’m glad
by students was the amount of paper the
summer camp were we
“I
and materials we currently use. Canadians waste more than 250 kilograms of waste in our homes
A common concern
told about the three
dent. said he didn’t recycle either.
they have a totally different sys-
all
every year.
public
in
Jeremy Vyn, a second-year business administration accounting stu-
the energy
and provide
lifestyle
Recycle, reduce, reuse and close
at
four Earths to maintain our
le'ast
By NICOLE
average
the
like
consider recycling more.”
the environment and think that will
last
forever,”
the
it
concerned
student said. “People feel like they
won't make a difference when they will.”
Diaz also said people need to take advantage of the resources available and that
we need
to take care
of them.
“We
We
(Photo by Nicole Deak)
what we have.
can’t abuse
need
all that
we
can get.”
Nelson Boddin, a second-year police foundations student, does his part to keep our environment clean.
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a sing-a-long at Conestoga’s early childhood education
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who
Walker,
insisted his age
is
"big,”
hoping for
is
cake.
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attention to the
Christmas season. You can ponder
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tion centre, n’t take
flat
3, just started ballet
shoes to help her
Kitahna,
you want as to the gifts you would like to see under your tree. You can watch in agony as your bank account drops almost as much as it did at tuition time. But you can’t deny the fact that Christmas is, was, and always will be, for the young (or the young at heart). When asked what they wanted for Christmas, many of all
the preschoolers at Conestoga’s early childhood educa-
Xp
Hannah,
some
promptly replied with “presents.” But little minds to start racing.
it
did-
long for their
Owen, 3, said he wanted would name Cookie Man.
a black horsy which he
When
3, said
so she
in that
is
hoping for
category.
she would like the colour purple.
asked other questions about the seasons, the
wee ones were given even
greater opportunity to
let
their imaginations run wild.
When
so overweight.
how Santa fits down the chimney if he’s Adam, 2, said the big guy just rings the
doorbell
house.
asked at his
Kitahna said Santa is her best friend so she’s got the scoop on what happens if the reindeer get sick. “They just fly away,” she reveals.
As
to
how
old Santa
is,
both
Adam
and Walker
simultaneously said “A-B-C-D-E-F-G...” The jury still
out on this one.
is
Feature
The
Batman
real
SPOKE, November
an environmental hero
is
By CHANTELLE TIMPERLEY
When you these days,
it
vampire bats’ saliva breaks down blood clots and is better than any-
hear about
Batman
thing available
might not be
in refer-
patients.
ence to the super hero. be Ontario’s very
may
It
just
lor
The
heart
treating
University
Washington has started more within the last year.
own environmen-
on a quest
— Page 15
2004
1,
of
use
to
it
to
save bats.
is
the president
bats to determine the location of an
and founder of the Bat Research
object by sending out sound waves,
Foundation (BRF) based
and
hero,
tal
Jeff Bender, 36,
Echolocation
in Sarnia,
Ont.
The organization started in May after Bender came across an injured bat and took it in. He began researching bats and found that nothing was being done in Ontario to help them, and no protection
Volunteer work and membership
lead
him
A
on how
lot
of misinfor-
Another way
(Internet photo)
and founder
Jeff Bender, president
pri-
It
rare
is
working closely with and scientists. Ninetynine acres of land has been allocated to BRF by Sarnia's Dow Chemical plant, with talk of a possible collaboration with the University of Western Ontario. "They have one of the world's leading bat biologists and he's been
of
biologists
Bonnechcrc Escarpment
talking with our biologist in order
pelled.
and
to establish a partnership
research
centre.”
hopefully be
Dow Centre.” Dow wants BRF
to
said at
the
do work on
and has given the organithan SI. 000 for
more
The
research.
Clair
St.
Conservation Authority
in
Sarnia
is
also having the organization build a habitat
in
a cave in one of their
find
bat
together. The Cave and Niagara are two places in
living
in their natural
and that is where they run into problems with people ple’s attics,
In order for conservation
work
where the rainforests are being
person’s property,
said.
animal
or, if the
they’re
“If
to
your
in
attic
down
and
educated on the animals and have
living quarters, or if they’re
some of the common
property, in a tree or in a barn or a
myths
dis-
shed or somewhere,” he
The biggest myths come from
the
widespread beliefs that bats are blind, are vicious, can get tangled in people's hair and often carry rabies. Only one half of one per cent of
all
bats carry the disease,
are
ways
He
stated.
International.
bats are forced to
because they kill the insects the bats eat. And. there so
much
habitat loss
move
now
that
into peo-
that the
and out
in
at
similar to a bird house, except
placed higher off the ground and
more than 2,000
fit
clear that
it
if
mammal and
any
they
the least of any animal,”
humans
“Bats are not a threat
and what the health units should be doing is issuing warnings and statistics for all animals with rabies - not just bats.”
to
at
all,
What should ease
is
if
put people more at one bat has rabies in a
West Nile has become one of the more important ones recently. Although they eat the mosquitoes, they are dead-end carriers for the
They cannot
virus.
contract
it
or die
and are big contributors in helping control it. They can cat up to 1,200 mosquitoes per hour, and that
it,
main
not the
is
part of their
Bender said there with
evidence that
West Nile where
the spread of
has
confirmation
is
factual-based
become predominant
is
it
in areas
risk is
low for com-
contact with a rabid bat.
in
are
animals,”
he
warned. "The. same as any other wild animal, never approach it, never handle it and your chances of getting bit are nil dle
if
you don't han-
“We
where it begins America to where
track
North
he said.
spreads,”
upper-state
and
New
it
started
“It
York
in
in
1997 and
in
anything
wooded
spooky,
such
caves,
as
mansymbols of
areas and haunted
They
sions.
those areas have very low
all
bat populations.”
Lyme
are
one ticks
of the other benefits of bats
the -amount of
is
every night.
What
how
Bender
jobs
and stuff
it
lay
to
eat
damage
that
larva
less
said
that,”
like
think the
more we
get
push farther out, we're going
to
get a better response.”
Bender said he hopes the organization
progresses quickly
in
the
next five to 10 years. “If
we can go
out and find where
the roosts are, then the conserva-
authorities
close
will
those
they’re supposed to be."
Bender said the best way a difference
largely
are
beneficial
to
farmers for this reason. They are saving farmers more than one dollars
how much
year
every
crops alone. That
is
in
bil-
cash
not including
they save on using bat
Guano
is
fertilizer
for
all
to
make
the organiza-
group together for a compurpose and go all over the
world. “If
.
we can make
a difference for
our bats here, then we're ready to
go somewhere else.” BRF’s website can be found
at
http://clix.to/bcrc.
much
nitrogen and better to use
regular
is
tions to
mon
crops.
lion
to
“I
because
BAT FACTS
it
• Nearly 1,000 types of bats account for almost a quarter of
highlighting
including penicillin and antibiotics.
all
is
that bats
harmful
to his cause.
Although people have been misinformed for so long, they should know the importance of bats. They
many
teers,
very slow process getgoing because with volunthey have their careers and
“It’s still a
ting
Halloween
me
on
people's ignorance
serve
of recommendation
letters
produces better crops. There are more than 80 medicines that come out of guano,
a group of
tell
said,
moths they
they eat in their
weight of moths causes the moths
than
night,”
be given
“That alone will allow the bats to start reproducing at a normal rate and start coming back up to where
fleas.
pires.
out
gain field experience with
by mosquitoes,
and
in
came
BRF can
tracking and lagging, and will also
that is carried
as fertilizer.
only
with their communities and communicating with the organization by telephone or Internet. Students wanting to work with tive
areas off from the public,” he said.
higher
kids right in front of
be involved by getting interac-
still
tion
guano
had an adult
volunteers.
another serious
disease
Halloween and are often connected with traditional bad guys like vam“I
welcomes
is
They
because they are associated with
BRF
Volunteers from out-of-town can
out of this base in Sarnia and start
it.”
Bats also have a bad reputation
Building
online.
tions.
One
wild
lined with chicken
wire on the inside.
Bender.
the United States and into Canada,
to stay.
for the bats to get in
is
where there are low bat popula-
allow
it
and
out,
and references.
spread across the northern part of
“Bats
puiposes, both environ-
It
There are many plants that rely solely on bats because of the num-
also breaks
down and
There
is
one cave
•
in
the world
that has an albino fish that
go extinct without from bat guano.
Guano is
the
nutrients
also contains bacteria that
The
species.
Bats are the only
mammals
capable of self-propelled
flight.
would
being used to treat Alzheimer’s
disease.
mammal
detoxifies
industrial waste.
mentally and health-wise.
rehabilitated.
the
in
eases.
characteristics.
(Internet photo)
bat
roost, the rest of the roost will not
Bender advises people to avoid handling them when they are not knowledgeable of bats and their
brown myotis bats he
It
it.
work.
dawn
single
Bats eat insects that spread dis-
“They're the lowest carrier (of rabies) of
ing
little
bats in
it
seeds a night.”
“A
diet.
Although the
of the
by
is
bat house
Arizona desert will spread 60,000
cent of early reforestation,” Bender
from
unnecessary to run out and get
is
it
it
Pesticides have played a part in
made
has also
Bender
are endangered.
said, “there
people see them in their homes, that
spread
that bats
go
bats are able to
than bats.
no myth, however,
on your
night and they're fine.”
vaccinations.
is
A
plans can be found However, the money spent on bat boxes when purchased through the organization goes toward research and conservation
into the
manage them so
to
and the ones that do, die within 24 to 48 hours. Bender says more people die every' year from rabies contracted from domestic cats and dogs is
in Brazil
depleted, bats contribute to 96 per
they’re not getting
bat
been proven now
“It's
Bender advises people to leave bats alone if they are found on a
grow, people need to become more
killing bats off
Bender holds one
volunteer and
community
is
and
ber of seeds they spread.
killing them.
has to be moved, to do so safely.
working with the Organization for Bat Conservation out of the Cranbrook Institute for Science, The Canadian Wildlife Federation, and Bat Conservation also
natural
which can have millions
bats
It
is
their envi-
usually has open slots on the bot-
habitats.
parks.
BRF
to
Ontario to see bats
up
set
mimic to
the
in
tom of the box focused
is
rehabilitation,
zation
bat
is
can
Research Foundation, works on relocating bats from
of the Bat
the roof of a house.
colonies,
their land
design
is
putting up bat houses.
marily on conservation work and
“It will
to better
help out
now all we have here
jeopardy because
The organization
actual
and
for colleges
do
to
ronments.
mation about them."
Bender.
good thing
universities
mal,” said Bender. "Right
an
growth and
roosts, or for scientists to give tips
eight species of bats in
highly valuable and
is
to continue
bring bat populations back up.
to take action.
Ontario are
on
relied
“Canada’s Ministry of Natural Resources doesn’t consider bats to be a priority to be protected because they’re classified as a colony ani-
of pesticides and a
BRF
with
laws were in place.
in
being
currently
researched to help the blind.
2003
It
also
is
the process for
is
anti-coagulates from
•
Though
bats are long-lived
(they can live to be 34 years old),
they
reproduce
slowly
with only one pup per year.
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Race provides challenge and excitement By
consumed only with
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I
felt
during high school cross-coun-
try
meets, and was definitely ready
for this race mentally, although
was another
my
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A
runner completes the eighth annual Oktoberfest race
runners competed
very
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in
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money
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Waterloo on Oct. 17. More than 1,300
in
for the
Grand River Hospital Foundation.
issue
altogether. I
had
resumed running two or three times a week. None of these runs were
long or very
compared
high school, but nans were a
fast,
workouts
to
Now,
nothing
three years after
my
last
weighed 20 pounds more and I had been living on a steady diet of beer and frozen
ran during
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five-kilometre race,
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start.
pizzas for the last month.
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what
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nearly 800 of
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is
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to really concentrate.
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last
daily (at least
5 days of each week)
for the
month.
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could think about was failhad been so long since I had
last run,
couldn't
I
remember how
go out or when to start to slow down. How embarrassing would it be if I went fast and was forced to walk, I wondered. All of a sudden the official yelled go. Runners immediately surged past the starting line that was much too narrow for the number of competitors, and raced out towards King Street. fast to
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in
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months,
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have often drunk
in
larger
amounts
or over a longer period of time than intended.
my
retraced
at
rush
through the
steps, ran
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had
so
felt
my name
again, yes, 21:14.
had placed 62nd out of a group of 782 runners. I walked out of the crowd and back to the arena floor where prizes were being awarded. 1 could only think about how I could have ran faster, how I should have pushed
myself when
was feeling so
I
relaxed.
soon found my stride ... my mind was clear, my legs felt great and could I
I
no longer
feel the rain.
Then thought back to something Lou Seguin. another competi1
that
tor in the five-kilometre race, said after seeing his time,
good
had
barely jogging.
This was horrible.
had gained
1
what felt like minutes on my time. shook off my error and dug in. had no other choice. I had a goal to I
Thankfully, the the race
my
first
kilometre of
was on King
Street and
1 soon found and started passing peo-
partly downhill. stride
felt great,
my mind was clear,
ple.
I
my
legs felt great and
I
could no
weather offered
the
harshest conditions he
*cvcr ran in
remember I
which was not
as he had hoped.
and
that
he would
this race for that reason.
thought about what he said and
realized
he was
right.
I
am
not
going toJook back on this race and think about how poor my time was. I
am
was
going to remember to run
down King
ing not cars,
how
Street
but puddles.
fun
am
I
when I stood at the starting and when I saw the finish felt
I
get the time that
it
dodg-
going to remember the excitement
So did
We
our website
it, I
I
He said some of the
longer feel the rain.
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beside
into the race, but was caught behind what seemed like a wall of
was total
couldn’t believe
good, so confident. I moved closer to the sheets and read the numbers
as
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name, beside
sensors and then tried to get back
kids
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results taped to the wall.
me
to stop and go had not noticed two sensors on the ground and 1 had failed to run through them! 1
back!
1
11.
my
check
to
Just five steps into the race a vol-
unteer yelled
have missed school or work due least once in the last 3 months. 1
went
I
waited as other runners exam-
I
weather,
the
set up,
time.
my
event.
laughing
min-
pizza,
ined the sheets, and then stood on
stretches.
challenging to compete
True
some
with other runners and browsing through the booths that
Competitors were smiling and
O
20-minute goal.
gling
warm-up jog
after taking a brief
and completing Claire.
my
After eating
running the five-kilometre course,
True
a great race.
ment 1 failed to look at the clock showing my time. walked to the recreation centre as I caught my breath. The thought of my warm clothes and the food provided to the runners was now more important than seeing my time, which, 1 was confident, would be close to, if not lower, than
some! ners,
The
a tight
in
1
missed the surge of adrenaline
state
rounded the corner
Unfortunately,
terloo.com.
physical
starting to
onto Father David Bauer Drive, with approximately 200 metres to go. A couple of runners passed me, but that was all I was letting them away with. I started sprinting, the sound of the crowd filling me with energy. My final burst pushed me past the Finish line. I had done it!
1
I
The adrenmake its pres-
travelling.
pack, heading to a great finish to
were popping up in my mind, I would have no problem achieving my goal of completing the course near the 20-minutc mark. This, however, was going to be tough with the present weather conditions, which were less than ideal. However, if had one factor in my it
how
couldn’t believe
I
we were
fast
ran the race as fast as doubts
favour,
had been running with began
1
speed up.
to
Recreation Centre. I
dozen runners
the pack of about a
on a five-kilometre course that began at Conestoga Mall and ended -on Father David Bauer Drive, in front of the Waterloo Memorial If
was rapidly approaching and
tors,
with only a pair of run-
and shorts,
breath and my shoes hitting wet pavement.
off for the five-kilometre competi-
ning shoes and quick dry running shirt
the
Bridgeport Road West, the turn-
of the eighth
annua! Oktoberfest run.
Armed
I was sound of
per cent. For a few minutes
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line
was
I
passed Chapters, the univerand, ironically enough, sities
hoping for? No. But I did feel proud of myself for trying. Would I
McDonalds, but not one of these I was
do
buildings appealed to me.
locked
in
and ready
to give
100
it
again?
You
bet. In fact,
I
am
running
in
a five-kilometre race on
Nov. 28
in
Cambridge.
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By DENISE MULLER
The Christmas season approaching and let
Like a brick wall you are too fast
is
almost time to
it’s
Santa know what you want
Stubborn as you be, you have a soft side as
hard to break.
may
this
long as
*- year.
the right buttons are
all
is
People can’t
misunder-
tell
if
you're
time thinking of ways to become
everyone
like
But your family has probably started prodding you for your wish list. not.
mind
gifted
mysterious or weird. Don't waste
pushed.
OK, maybe
If
Your stood.
else.
That's
way
too boring.
Taurus
you’re having problems decid.
what you want, stores like Future Shop or Radio Shack might ing
”
April 20
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November
-
21
have the solution. Henry,
Neil
manager
store
Future Shop on 580 King
St.
at
N.
Waterloo, said newer technology
always a
hit
DVD sets
mirrors your mood.
is
with students.
The 35-year-old
DVD
players,
The weather and environment
in
have been
listed off
DVD
in
a
bit
of a
rut.
Grey
skies will clear up soon and you'll
portable
players,
players, laptops,
MP3
Lately you
be back to your cheery self again.
box
The horizon will always be disyou limit yourself to only reaching that far. Your sense of timing connects you to success; tant if
just a matter of
it's
when. You'll
be the one to steer that ship.
and gaming consoles as being
possible big sellers this Christmas
season.
Darren Campbell, manager at Radio Shack in Conestoga Mall, in Waterloo, said computer components and electronic toys are also
among
very popular
The
the big sellers in the past. is
not sure yet what
going to be the big draw
is
this year,
because he hasn’t had a lot of Christmas shoppers come to the store yet.
“Hopefully,
the
remote-
small,
controlled market again,” he said.
Campbell said a
lot
of students
are thinking practically, looking for
(Photo by Denise Muller)
Darren Campbell, 36, store manager at Radio Shack, shows off two remote-controlled cars that are expected to be the big seller this year for Christmas. around Christmas.” Campbell said the average purchase at Radio Shack is about
He
routers and network cables for their
$100.
computers.
after rebate,
“A their
lot
Henry
said routers are about
and
the
$39
remote-
little
colder outside. “Really, after the
first
the store
November 22 December 21
}
is
here.”
And
said students always need
from $20 to $100. Whatever you decide upon, you should go out and get it sooner,
der in the stores.
rather than
carries lots of stock,
said.
small TVs and the LCD TVs have been very popular. He said sometimes people don’t know what to get someone on their list, and a Future Shop gift card is
later.
the cost of purchases
always vary. Items range from a $7 CD plasma TV.
in
the
to a
store
$10,000
“You’d be blown away by what some people spend on their kids
T
What
passes as good
you barely tows the
for
line for
June 22
July 22
-
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•
January 19
moment
Although the Future Shop always
Henry advises whatever you want now,
getting
it
same
the
feel
way. Integrity means doing the best at this
too
the
place
best
you
to put
for
the
in
next
Missy This trails
is
that
there'll
might be
More
like
on
fire.
your week to blaze the
and go
Keep
moment.
Elliot says you're really
really hot.
steam ahead.
full
confidence up
and
be no stoppin' ya!
late.
"If
“The store is packed. Standing room only,” he said. “I’m here walking around, ‘Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me.’” Henry said the traffic at Future Shop starts to increase once it gels
notice of your actions because others are.
said.
shohlder to shoul-
before the big rush, or
the store.
the best bet.
it’s
then things will get a
tight in
Cancer is
You and Oprah then
Campbell said things will start picking up in mid-November and little
mind cannot be
others.
snowfall
swamped),” he
A devious
excused by poor memory. Take
“There’s no looking back from
controlled cars can range anywhere
He added
Sagittarius
M
June 21
-
Have you been letting the magic eight ball make decisions for you? Put an end to that this instant. Everyone knows there's no truth to those things. You're ravaging your life.
when we kind of hang on (because
in
of kids do networking
dorms,” he
21
shoppers.
-36-year-old said routers and
said he
May
%
*
(
remote-controlled cars have been
He
Gemini
'
you wait
until
Christmas Eve,
you’ll be taking what’s leftover,”
Henry
said.
XX) early.”
After
open
all,
nobody
their presents
really
wants
to
Aquarius
Leo
"Do your shopping
^
July 23
4*^
'
-
January 20 February 18
August
22
on Christmas to
Open dreams
discover socks and underwear.
Cicero says to go through not
life
knowing what took place
before you child.
is
to forever
remain a
Learn from your mistakes
will bring them to and a stronger reality. Sharing your aspirations will have a positive effect on making your dreams come true. light
and mistakes of those around you.
ft
Virgo
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August 23 September 22
You're only human. Beating up on yourself because of a few simple
You
mistakes
is
way
and with
that
too harsh.
something new comes growth and
are learning
Hi
S‘
pe
Vacation? Already? Yes! You need one and fast. This can be as simple as spending time by yourself for a couple of hours or taking the whole
week
off.
positive energy.
Janet Morris (Photo by Paige Hilton)
Getting carried First-year lifts
away
paramedic students Brian Dwyer and Jessie Bradley were being tested on
on Oct. 22.
their stretcher
-tLA-j.
is
a 2nd-year journalism
student in tune with the universe.
Entertainment
SPOKE, November
‘Surviving’ another holiday By MELISSA
HANCOCK
make an attempt
to redecorate while watching. Put another sofa
With no snow on the ground yet
was
movies
to the eye.
it
already here.
is
DreamWorks
got things started,
may have been
It
the stu-
way of avoiding the upcommovie competition,
dio’s
holiday
ing
however,
may
it
all.
Christmas,
Surviving
starring
soul
at
Drew Latham was
heart.
a
picture perfect sappy character.
Gandolfini did yet another great
job
at
not
a
being the tough guy. typecast
actor
director
please
then
wrong? However, he did a good job
be one of those
Drew Latham
(Affleck), a filthy
in his role
and
his character did
O’Hara seems choice
be
to
holiday
for
a
movies.
sounding
this is
He
who now
Christmas
Tom
$250,000
live there if
show him what a fam-
they agree to ily
realistic already
offers to pay
Valcos
to the
his
is all
about.
(Gandolfini) and Christine
(O'Hara) agree to act as Latham’s parents and be host to the holiday
cheer he
is
problems
for. However, up when the Valeo’s Alicia (Applegate)
searching
stir
daughter,
home
arrives
for the festivities.
The movie was a
cute attempt to
get viewers into the Christmas spirit,
but
trying
to
get
past Affleck's
annoyingly childlike role was the greater feat. A little over the top with
to that
Wonderful Time of the it
Jingle Bell
isn’t,
O
movie
will
holiday col-
Most Year - not
It’s
the
Christmas Tree,
Rock and so
on, were
There were some parts left open which was, surprisingly, a nice touch to the movie. Subtle hints of Latham’s loneliness were a great way to try and keep the audience interested. Latham’s massive apartment was close to empty and could leave viewers to
is
Gandolfini
time for
(left)
— Halloween?
and Ben
a touchdown tumbleweeds rolling between the rundown buildings.
the
As
faulty priorities off the field.
a
Panthers to the state championship, but
it
is
not the sports movie you
was on game night. In Odessa we see the highs and lows of this mentality. The coach is paid more than the principal, the it
would expect.
players get free food at the local
Lights, based on the book by H.G. Bissinger, starts at the beginning of pre-season and goes all the
diner and they
way
game, but along the way we find out what this game means for each of the men, well, boys really, playing it and for the town they live in. Odessa represents hundreds of small towns across America where football is life and a person would
their front
On
own
mother’s funeral
all
have big signs on
lawns announcing their
number and
to the last playoff
miss their
nice, but
can always somehow turn
out to be a disaster.
doesn’t have to be
when
coach
is
the
team
almost run out of
town
(residents put up about 20 for
sale
signs on his
lawn) and the
school comes under
man phones
a radio
when one call-in show
fire
and says the players are "doin’ too
much But
learnin' at that school.”
when game time comes
the
for
players,
there’s
the the
the
cocky running back Boobie Miles (Derek Luke) with an ego the size of Texas. But when he goes down career-ending
with
a
possible
injury
we
see his despair
when he
Affleck star
for
in
the
I
give this movie three out of five
stars.
hit
theatres Oct. 22, just
fans of the
Rounding out the team is tight end Brian Chaves (Jay Hernandez), the only player with good grades and any real hope of getting out of Odessa, and Chris Comer (Lee Thompson Young), the third-string running back who gets his shot when Miles goes down. This movie does a good job of
representing across
the
the
to the state
in’
but play football.”
When coach Gaines tells
the
team
Mike
five stars
because when you find
yourself cheering along with the
you know you’ve found a good movie. fans in the stands
YOU ANTICIPATED ON YOUR
MIDTERM EXAMS?
Winchell (Lucas Black) seems to cany this enormous burden all on his
own
while battling the demons
of living with and dealing with his sick mother.
Don
Billingsley
(Garrett
Hedlund), the hard-partying
tail-
back whose drunk and abusive father (a very good Tim McGraw in his first movie role) dangles his own state championship ring in his son's face and says at one point, “This is the only thing you're gonna have. It will carry you forever.”
(Internet photo)
moment
to
prepare
for the
Billy
Bob Thorton as coach
Gary Gaines Lights.
in
Friday Night
to
the
championship.
are in the business of protect-
ing this town,” quarterback
all
all
This movie deserves four out of
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young men
country
carry their towns’ dreams
way
in
game
EXAMS
championship.
all,
festive holiday season.
Surviving Christmas which
A TUTOR
state
in
movie gave a nice message that family, friends and laughter should always be the main ingredient in the
says to his uncle, “I can’t do noth-
“we
position.
the downside,
loses, the
if
The Permian Panthers take one
All
all.
(Internet photo)
James
on the field to revealing the problems of a community built on
Thorton, leads the 1988 Permian
is
supposed to be that special time of year where everyone is sweet and
it
after
for interpretation
bone-crunching, hard-hitting plays
Bob
against one another. Christmas
way
credits finally rolled.
window reading closed for game and you can almost see
Billy
season can turn family members
the thought that that
numerous attempts at rejecting Latham even though a love spark was assumed before the ending
Friday Night Lights goes from
powerful
the holiday
Applegate can always be counted on to add a little spice on screen and she did just that. It was amusing to watch her character Alicia’s
around again all is forgiven. Every store on Main Street has a sign in
Coach Gary Gaines, played by
how
the
By KATE BATTLER
quietly
did portray, in a dif-
a part of the holiday package.
all
witty
movie
Football
It
are
This movie does leave viewers with
good Her
her role in this movie.
home even though
childhood
isn’t it?
at his
the audience.
Family arguments, feuding parents and siblings and unexpected visitors
have
-
marketing executive, decides
going to spend Christmas
Even though Surviving Christmas was a little disappointing, it did make for some jolly chuckles from
a soft side which he played well.
family does not live there anymore
lie's
typically suitable for the movie.
ferent sort of way, for the
movie
me
prove
humour can always lighten most drab of films. Looking back on her days in Home Alone can also add to the appreciation of
rich
distracting
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Christina Applegate and Catherine to
Latham
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If he’s
some
let's-make-a-holiday-movie-forthe-hell-of-it kind of movie.
was very
of classic songs.
quite yet
Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, O’Hara, seemed
lonely, but
lection
there. Truly,
the point that
be a nice addition gestures and, predictably, a lonely
not prove to be a
clever tactic after
make
did
The soundtrack
opening Surviving Christmas on Oct. 22.
throw rug
there, a nice
and Halloween just over it’s hard to believe the time for Christmas
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