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Nursing building gets the green light Groundbreaking expecteded in spring of 2018, with students occupying the space by 2020 Aidan Grether STAFF WRITER Ω The provincial government has announced it will contribute $8 million towards the construction of a new nursing and population health building on campus, giving it the greenlight for construction.

The remainder of the $30.6million cost of the project will be funded by TRU using its undesignated surplus and private fundraising efforts. An anonymous donor, who will be announced along with the building's name, and the Stollery Charitable Foundation are some of the donors behind the $2 million already raised.

The building will house the bachelor of science in nursing, health care assistant, and the new master of nursing program, with the ability for more programs to be added as they are created and approved.

Located across from the Ken Lepin Science building, the centre will feature classrooms, multi-disciplinary labs and collaborative study spaces, as well as accommodating patient-simulation technology.

Minister of Health and local MLA Terry Lake called the announcement the “worst kept secret” in town. Lake was joined by fellow local MLA Todd Stone TRU president Alan Shaver said he believes that this building, along with the recently announced master of nursing program, will bolster the status of nursing at TRU, which he said is recognized

nationally and internationally.

Dean of Nursing, Donna Murnaghan said this greenlight has been the product of a team effort and a lot of work from the students and staff of the nursing program, and that she is “truly excited” about it.

“The building will provide a sense of ‘place’ for the program, and allow us to bring in more programs in the future,” Murnaghan said, noting that the school has already begun work with the respiratory therapy program and intends to grow from there.

“We haven’t accomplished this until we get the shovel in the ground,” Murnaghan said, presenting Lake and Stone with a silver shovel.

Taryn Christian, a fourth-year nursing student, spoke on behalf of those enrolled in the program.

She said the building will make staff “more effective in supporting student learning and mentoring,” “improve planning and organization in the program,” and give students the chance to learn and practice.

“This building will change the way students learn,” Christian said. “I had excellent education as I went through the program, but this will create an exceptional education.”

Construction is expected to begin in spring of 2018, with the building expected to be ready for use in fall of 2020. The project is expected to create $47 million in direct and indirect economic stimulation, 102 jobs in construction, and 74 jobs in supplier industries, according to Stone.

TOP: TRU's dean of nursing Donna Murnaghan, joined by Kamloops-North Thompson MLA and B.C. health minister Terry Lake (MIDDLE) and Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone for the annnouncement on March 24. (Juan Cabrejo/Ω)

Summer groundbreaking for university village project, The Reach First building will be a four-storey residential "market condominium development" behind Old Main Sean Brady EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ω TRU says construction will begin this summer on a four-storey "market condominium development" behind Old Main.

The new 57,000 square-foot building, part of the TRU Community Trust's university village project called The Reach, will be built by Cape Construction, a Vancouver-based development company that has active projects in B.C.'s lower mainland and north, and Alberta. The company has also completed a number of luxury and boutique housing developments and residential condominium projects in the lower mainland and done seismic upgrades, according to the company's website.

“Cape is an experienced and enthusiastic development partner who has agreed to build exactly what we

envisioned for our first land offering,” said Finlay Sinclair, president and CEO of the TRU Community Trust in a news release. “We couldn’t be happier with this historic partnership.”

The new building, along with construction materials, is expected to occupy approximately 170 parking spaces in Lot A, one of TRU's busiest parking lots, located on the north side of Old Main.

Parking for the development itself will be located beneath it, underground, according to early planning documents.

While no student-specific housing is expected to be included in the building's offerings, the results of a study conducted by the Scion Group looking at student housing demand are expected to be released later this week.

While Building B will be the first development of the first phase of The Reach, plans also include

residential developments behind the International Building and along the north east corner of campus, next to Building B.

Early concept art for The Reach shows Building B located behind Old Main with Kamloops and the North Thompson river valley visible beyond.

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Last three years shows downward trend in how much goes to landfill from TRU Nada Alsalahi CONTRIBUTOR Ω In 2014, TRU set the goal of becoming a zero waste campus by putting into place a system to collect and divert different types of waste materials. From summer 2016 through winter 2017, the TRU sustainability office worked on a waste audit project to estimate the amount of waste generated on campus on an annual and per capita basis.

Over the last three years, the TRU sustainability and facilities departments worked together to develop a waste management plan to improve the recycling and recovery rates while reducing the amount of material going to the landfill. TRU says its overall waste tonnage has been reduced by about 500 tons per year in the last three years.

This year’s waste audit aims to measure the university’s current waste diversion performance, compare to performance in 2016, to determine the composition of waste going to landfill. It will help identify the types and sources of waste generated on campus and identify waste diversion and reduction opportunities within the operations of the university.

“Over the past three years, we’ve gone from roughly 60 per cent of our waste going to the landfill to now roughly 35 per cent going to the landfill. So we’ve reduced by 25 per cent, and we also reduced the amount of waste

coming on campus,” said Jim Gudjonson, director of the TRU Sustainability Office.

“We recycle papers quite a bit, but there is still a lot of paper that goes to the waste stream.

We've gone from 22 million sheets of paper per year down to nine million. So if 20 per cent of those go into the waste stream, that’s 20 per cent of the nine million sheets.” Gudjonson said.

The key part of the audit is to identify areas to improve. Every year they look at the numbers: how much overall tonnage, and the diversion rates. After that, they see if the systems are working, and how to improve them.

“For example, last year we looked at our construction waste, where we hadn't put a lot of effort, and we realized that we need to have giant bins in the place of all the construction projects and renovations, and once those systems are in place, then it’s easy to divert that stuff,” Gudjonson said.

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We are moving to make some improvements this year around composting then we’ll have a look at next year. Overall, the trend is encouraging.”

James Gordon, who is the environmental programs and research coordinator with TRU’s sustainability office, said that, “In 2015, 41 per cent of the material was diverted. And then in 2016 last year, 55 per cent percent was converted. We want that number to keep going up, the diversion rate, but we don’t know the figures of that yet.”

Auditors finished work this weekend, and it’ll be about two weeks until the final audit is ready to be published.

“Our hope is to keep having that number increasing.” Gordon said.

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Twelve students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program are gearing up for their final showcase at Thompson Rivers University. This week, we talked to four of those graduating students to learn about them and their work. The BFA graduating students exhibition will open at 7 p.m. on April 21 and will run until May 5 in the Old Main art gallery.

Stephen Hsiao Stephen Hsiao is an international student from Taiwan and one of 12 graduating students who will exhibit his work in the final showcase.

Hsiao’s piece for the show is titled “Cultural Walker.”

“These are images of silhouetted figures of people walking in different countries and in different cities, as well as having a reference to different cultures,” Hsiao said.

Hsiao’s fourth-year advisor, Donald Lawrence, strongly encouraged him to further research and develop his theories and artistic style.

“That got my interest in Russian constructivism and modernist artistic movements, which lead me into creating this body of work,” Hsiao said.

Hsiao says that this body of work incorporates multi-disciplinary art practices.

“I work with photo etching processes on copper plate to produce these curved

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Amanda Duggan For her exhibition piece, Duggan’s work will incorporate various elements such as animation, paintings and small sculptures.

“I’m doing a stop-motion animation as the main component of my piece. It combines two-dimensional animation, so flat hand-drawn animation, but also 3D stop motion, so making these [small sculptures] move in small increments,” Duggan said.

This short-film style artwork is about emotions and physiological phenomena.

“It looks at a couple of particular characters and how they interact. One character, in particular, is supposed to represent being very restrictive with emotions and the other is supposed to represent being very free with emotions.

And there is some conflict that happens as they interact,” Duggan said.

plates. I’m also working with installation methods. I’m trying to go across from a two-dimensional work to a three-dimensional space,” Hsiao said.

The work starts with photography that he proceeds to edit in photoshop. He then prints out the photo and transfers it onto the copper plate. His final step is to use sculptural elements and install the piece.

“This body of work is kind of a summary of all of the knowledge I’ve acquired throughout my university life, learning from photography, printmaking, sculpture and installation. So, all of these elements come together, and so it makes sense for me to have this as the representation of my graduating work,” Hsiao said.

Hsiao adds that he’s not really sure what life after grad looks like yet.

“As a citizen of Taiwan, I would have to serve in the military but I’m also trying to pursue a master’s education,” Hsiao said.

Duggan adds that in her artwork, she tends to bring an element of seriousness while using bright and colourful abstract techniques. The art she creates tends to be a reflection of her own mind.

“I’ve always been interested in more of the mindset and psychology behind art. I’m very interested in artists like Van Gogh, who’s known to have bipolar disorder,” Duggan said.

Duggan adds that in high school, she saw herself becoming a doctor, but that’s no longer the plan.

“I’m still moving towards art. I’ll probably want to combine a few of my other interests, I’ve always had an interest in fantasy literature, also in music. So maybe try and work more into those, but still keeping with art. I’m planning on moving to England for a bit,” Duggan said.

“My piece is called Phobia, and I am building a house, or the layout of a house. It’s going to be three rooms: there’s the studio, bedroom and dining room. In each room, I am incorporating exterior elements, so there is going to be a wind room, a water room and a fire room. In the fire room, it is going to be blended together with mud,” Bayona said.

Bayona says that she did a residency at the Kamloops Art Gallery (KAG) two years ago, and made a burnt room where she burnt everything in a room.

She was looking for, at that time, places that the public wasn’t allowed in and then kept coming back to that idea.

“For my fourth year, I wanted to explore it a bit further and kind of see how it could bloom,” Bayona said.

This residency with KAG was partially the influence for her final project but it also came out of a desire to give each viewer a varied experience and sense of emotions.

“As an artist, I am very interested in disrupting the viewer’s reality. So, I want to create something that looks real on the outside, but then once they go inside it’s kind of an uncanny feeling and an uncanny experience,” Bayona said.

Bayona adds that she will be staying in Kamloops for a little bit, but hopes to move on to a career more focused on art.

“I am a support worker, and I’m really loving my job. At the same time, I am interested in interior design and I would love to design sets for movies,” Bayona said.

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Nadine Arnott Nadine Arnott is a transfer student from Emily Carr and will be exhibiting a series of plush creatures at the show.

“Each of the creatures have their own individual names, I called them “halfrealin” creatures. It kind of a play on words, half real creatures. They’re based on emotion or psychological states or experiences,” Arnott said.

The creatures pull from not only raw emotion but people's reactions to these emotions.

“Each one I come up with a physical embodiment of emotion or feeling and try to capture it, not in a completely on-the-nose sort of way, but in subtle ways that you don’t pick up on at first glance. Each one of these guys has a narrative that goes with them, a poem for each one that is going to be displayed in the final show,” Arnott said.

Arnott adds that the plush medium adds a unique sense of life to her work.

“There’s definitely a lot of thought that goes into the creation of them, and they come out quite bizarre. There’s obviously very weird foreign aspects, but it always pulls back to a human, realistic aspect,”

Arnott said.

She uses monsters help explain things in a cohesive and easy to understand way while incorporating a sense of storytelling. Arnott adds that emotions such as sadness and realization have varying levels and can mean different things in different contexts.

“The theme I was going for was a monster-based, modern folklore,” Arnott said. “My strategy with certain

emotions and certain phenomena.

Rather than explain them as they are, explain them as a monster. It can put a buffer between it and make it a little easier.”

Arnott says she has been sewing for a long time using creative designs that already existed from video games and other pop culture iconography. She says it was a natural progression when she started creating and designing her

own stuff, adding that sewing is just like a different type of sculpture.

“With sewing, you can change things on the fly and there is more room for customization,” Arnott said.

Arnott’s primary goal after grad is to go into game and app development while keeping up her addiction to sewing.

“If all else fails, I’ll go work on an Ostrich farm I guess,” Arnott said.

Directors Festival features: Anna Dokshina & Erik Stephany Directors Festival gives graduating students a chance to try their hand at theatre directing Jennifer Will ARTS EDITOR Ω The annual Directors Festival from TRU’s Actors Workshop Theatre will give six senior students a chance to try their hand at directing. The festival will be comprised of a variety of original scripts and adaptations with a twist.

Anna Dokshina, an international student from Russia, is one of six directors in the festival and will showcase her play during Night B of the festival.

“I’m doing a play called ‘In On It’

by Daniel MacIvor. It’s a Canadian play. It’s about two people who are trying to make a play within a play.

It also includes some past [events] that they have been sharing together, and also a story that happens in the play,” Dokshina said. “It’s really complicated.”

Dokshina says that she picked In On It as a way to challenge herself with a one-act play that is both interesting and complex.

“I had pretty easy options like comedy or drama, but I didn’t want to go with something easy and simple. So, I picked a play that involves a mix of emotions. There are some sad things that happen in the play, and there is some happy things and it’s all mixed together,” Dokshina said.

One of the actors is a domestic

student, and the other student is also an international student from Ukraine. Dokshina adds that working with another international student has helped give her some cultural context that makes the creative process a little easier.

“After auditions, I picked two actors. They are both really hard working, and the roles that I picked them for are really challenging.

In the play, they are going to play 11 characters by themselves, and I think it’s a really good thing, because they are going to play roles that they are not expected to play.

The point is to challenge them and right now they are doing a great job to fulfill their characters,” Dokshina said.

She says that this production has just been one big team effort and her job as a director has really just been helping the actor to make everything look even better.

“I don’t even know what is the best part because I feel really happy during rehearsal. It’s like we all are part of a team and we are all working on this play to make it even better,” Dokshina said.

After graduation, Dokshina plans to apply for permanent residency and do theatre productions whenever she can.

Erik Stephany is another one of six directors in the festival and will showcase his play on Night A. Stephany’s play is called The Way of All Fish, by Elaine May. This

Student directors Anna Dokshina and Erik Stephany will feature in the coming Directors Festival. (Juan Cabrejo/Ω) one-act play is a comedy full of twists and turns, focusing on a boss and her secretary.

“The best way I can describe it is if Mad Men met Alfred Hitchcock met Charlie Chaplin. That kind of melding of the minds right there is what produces this play. The play covers so much, it completely diverts power dynamics. It looks at professional relationships and interpersonal relationships, how people treat each other on a daily basis,” Stephany said.

Stephany added that choosing the right script was a very important part of this production. He added that it was important that he picked

something he loved so that he could invest himself fully into the project.

“It’s very much like building something up from scratch. You’ve got the idea, the foundation, you’ve got to build the house before you can paint it,” Stephany said.

Stephany says that getting to participate in this festival and explore so many aspects of theatre in this program has helped him to appreciate the whole process a lot more.

“I started back in 2013. It’s hard to think that I’ve come so far from where I started. It’s just been this wide range of possibilities. We’ve explored tech, we’ve explored acting, now we’re getting to explore

directing,” Stephany said.

“This has been an incredible experience for me already, and the show hasn’t even hit the stages yet,” Stephany said.

After graduation, Stephany says he will continuing working with Western Canada Theatre and Chimera Theatre. He also plans to pursue writing his own plays and doing technical theatre work.

Night A of the festival will take place on April 10, 12 and 14. Night B will take place on April 11, 13 and 15 at the Black Box Theatre. Tickets are $14 each for one night, $20 each for both nights, and there will be three shows per evening.

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TRU Entrepreneurs gather to learn from the best Joel Mercer, director of business development with Enactus, spoke about the importance and effect of entrepreneurship and business in every profession, from writing to dentistry.

Between videos, Mercer and the audience would engage in discussions regarding their takeaways from each speaker.

One of the featured entrepreneurs, Satish Kanwar, founder of design agency Jet Cooper and now vice-president of product at Shopify, spoke candidly about his failures, successes and his long journey from messing

Aidan Grether STAFF WRITER Ω Enactus TRU and the TRU Generator combined forces to teach entrepreneurial-minded students lessons about success from some of the most qualified people in Canada. The Generator, a service that provides mentorship and coaching for new businesses, presented a video series called The Naked Entrepreneur, created by entrepreneurship professor Sean Wise of Ryerson University.

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around with computers to starting a business servicing Fortune 500 clients.

Amanda Chan, an employee at the Generator, emphasized how Kanwar wasn’t a tech person but created a huge tech company through his entrepreneurial spirit. MBA student Tatiana Fedotova was also impressed with Kanwar, specifically his desire to develop the “soft skills” involved in business: email, phone conservations, professionalism, etc. because tech entrepreneurs often lack those skills.

Barb Stegemann, a screenwriter and entrepreneur, spoke to female entrepreneurs in the audience and discussed how to overcome adversity geared towards them in the business field. According to Barb, in order to succeed one must hold themselves “to the highest standard possible, and then make mistakes.”

Bruce Poon, founder of G Adventures, spoke to recent grads about how to find success.

Replicating Stegemann’s standard of excellence is crucial to Poon, but he emphasized

the importance of combining a strong work ethic with that.

To Poon, nothing is guaranteed in life, and no one deserves something just because they “have a degree in this or that.” If you work hard and hold yourself to a high standard of excellence, your results will speak for themselves.

Students interested in entrepreneurship who think they can turn their ideas into something more can get in touch with the TRU Generator and take the first steps to creating their own startup.

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Power Rangers reviewed Jonathan Malloy CONTRIBUTOR Ω Initially, I was skeptical when the rebooted Mighty Morphin Power Rangers film was announced. It seemed that even though the series is still running, 24 years later I might add, that this new movie would be a soulless cash grab aimed to pluck that nostalgia string that producers are all too conscious of. So, it is surprising that 2017’s Power Rangers defies quite a few expectations, in that it may not just be a great Power Rangers film, but a teen movie headed by some surprisingly well-executed characters.

Directed by Dean Israelite, previously known for his time-travel picture Project Almanac, the film follows a new group of chosen teens as they must defeat the evil Rita Repulsa and learn the

power of friendship. The inherent cheesiness is dialed down from the original show and, in spite of several off moments, the film sticks to a grounded and worldly take on its protagonists.

Each of the Rangers comes across as unique and interesting, with Naomi Scott and RJ Cyler as the pink and blue Rangers being relatable and varied in a way that I thought would never occur in a movie where robot dinosaurs fight a giant, gold hawk-monster.

The greatest feat that the film pulls off is in its first JohnHughes-inspired act, where each of the characters is displayed and developed to be more than just the fighter or the brain, but as actual people.

Yet, the film is definitely not without its faults. From seemingly undercooked CGI to a rushed last act, the film seems out of place this early in the blockbuster season. This is

A late night for student playwrights A group of students takes on a 24-hour challenge while trying their hand at playwriting Jennifer Will ARTS EDITOR Ω TRU’s Drama and Theatre Club (TRUDAT) hosted a 24-hour playwriting contest last weekend, putting students to the test.

The contest was a way to bring together like-minded individuals while giving them a space to work and the motivation to do it.

Emily Thibert, a fifth-year theatre student who is also minoring in creative writing, had an idea for a 10-to-20-minute one-act play and decided this year she was up for the challenge.

“It’s about these two people sitting in the common area of a mall, waiting for their respective friends, and there is a bird that gets trapped under the skylight.

They are arguing about who should go get the people to get the bird out. There is some deep stuff that happens too and some reflection,” Thibert said.

Thibert says this idea was inspired by actual events and is a very literal play.

“I was in the Sahali Mall waiting for my fiancé, and there was a bird that got stuck in the skylight,” Thibert said.

Around midnight, 13 hours into the contest, Thibert says

that she is halfway done and that things were going really well so far.

“I think right now it’s just coming up with the characters, coming up with their conclusion and how they’re going to change after this. And I know a lot of that is going to come from actors, if and when this should be produced. I think as a writer you have to choose your words well so they can make their own choices with the character.

I think right now that’s the hardest part,” Thibert said.

Thibert adds that the writing progress might slow down around hour 19 of the contest, as it approaches 6 a.m.

“I’m usually a night owl anyway, so I’m hoping I’m not too crazy by the end of it,” Thibert said.

A prize is awarded to students who complete a script, including the first place prize of workshopping their script and having it produced by TRUDAT. “If you do win, the TRUDAT theatre club will actually put on your show. I know they’ve done that in the past for a lot of the other students and it’s been so great and so much fun. Their support is really heartening to actually have that kind of community,” Thibert said.

evident in the editing, which goes from fairly well-structured and clear to confusing choices (Rita’s camera shake whenever she enters a scene?) that give an odd tone for the last half of the film. It’s a movie that seemingly doesn’t want to choose what kind of movie it wants to be, as it transitions from teen film to blockbuster without looking back. The moments of childhood glee bubble up from time to time, with one particular music cue eliciting some fist-pumping, air guitar awesomeness. But, I do think that a director with a clearer vision, or perhaps a loosening of creative control would have shaped Power Rangers into a film of more bombast and energy than what was put into theatres.

It must also be noted that parts of the film were shot in Kamloops and surrounding area and dang, they actually looked pretty rad.

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THE OMEGA

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MARCH 29, 2017

ELECTION RESULTS President

Eriksson, Mattias Gilbert, Tatiana Spoiled

137 468 0

Graduate Students’ Representative Daramola, Emmanuel Yes No Spoiled

518 43 1

International Students’ Representative Singh, Simranjit Yes No Spoiled

530 48 1

Student Caucus Steering Committee Reps (2) Kaunda, Mwansa Yes No Spoiled Miege-Moffat, Mico Yes No Spoiled

470 45 1 348 58 2

502 47 0

231 373 1

Campaigns Committee Representatives (2) Hayash, Brandon Yes No Spoiled

441 39 0

Mogla, Aanchal Yes No Spoiled

351 63 0

Vice President Internal Lapointe, Janelle Yes No Spoiled

474 38 0

Abankwa, Richard Yes No Spoiled

472 39 0

Gohar, Usra Yes No Spoiled

350 60 0

Vice President Services

LGBTQ+ Representative Drozda, Dale Yes No Spoiled

Asress, Zeru Hickson, Cole Spoiled

Entertainment Committee Representatives (2)

Vice President Equity Orteza, Caitlin Yes No Spoiled

Vice President External

495 53 0

Singh, Gagandeep Yes No Spoiled

505 81 0

Visible Minorities Representative

Services Committee Representatives (2)

Ur-Rehman, Inayat Yes No Spoiled

485 62 0

Bains, Inderpreet Yes No Spoiled

419 58 1

Chandi, Saprina Ohama, Emiko Spoiled

238 342 1

Gill, Arjun Yes No Spoiled

401 61 1

Voter Turnout:

9.4%

Women’s Representative

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