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I O C l i ke d D C s i te
BY JIM HUMPHREY
Chronicle staff
FT^hey came, they saw, and hopefully we con| quered. From all accounts the ’International
JL Olympic Committee evaluation team’s visit to
Durham College was a successful one on March9.
The evaluation team took a tour of the Oshawa
Skeet and Gun Club and the Durham College baseball field; Durham’s athletic director Ken Babcock
thought the tour of the college was successful and
that the IOC members were very impressed.
"It went well," said Babcock. "They were impressed
with the facility and how the field is already in place.
According to the IOC we are well ahead of where
Sydney was with their fastball venue." "
puring the presentation Durh^jpjresldent Garv
PolSnsky spoke about .the college, titien’tfie’Toronto"
bid team took over and delivered it^bresentatlon to
the IOC. After the presentation the IOC team gave
the college and the rod committee some suggestions
on how to improve the venues. The IOC would like
toseestf^e entire women’s fastball tournament played
at Durh’an^nstead ofonly the round-robin arid quar..;
ter-final games;";/;’.-;- ^./;’’:’. .’""’;"’. ’’// ’, ,".;’ -’ ’^-:"If that does happen It would be fantastic for us
because of the international recognition we would
receive asa resultof it," said Babcock.
The five’roairi points that were brought lip in the
presentation were; the college’s reputation, for quaiity,.Durham’s excellent track record for hosting: major
athletic events, that, the college is a fasthall power,
that all parties were totally united and that Durham
and the city. are committed to make this the best ever
fastball tournament.
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"We made sure they were aware of everything
Durham has to bffer-and that we were very .enthusiastic about hosting the fastball tournament,"/said
Polonsky. "I never use the word perfect because nothing is ever perfect, but I think we were darn close to
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AT FIRST GLANCE: Toronto 2008 Bid member leads International Olympic Committee
evaluation team off .the bus at Durham College on March 9.
stolen, again
BY AMBER GILBERT
Chronicle staff
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working^Oh;this,case,’and have been secured, there was another theft," said
"Security is doing the best they
Terry Capar, the director of commu- can, but on the other hand, you don t
nications and media. "We’ve now want to turn the college into an
Thecrin^
: Six ;pro)ectQr^^ridJttwo laptops: were engraved all the units, we’ve used armed camp," he said.
With the missing equipment,
taken^ftoni^ the ^audiovisual? depart- welder’s paint to identify them, and
ment^ m^loorii^B&(%^On^Feb4 12, the units have a Security device things have been stressful for media
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another projectoi was taken form the attached:"
"’It’s a bad time of year. We’re getcollege, this^tiiw ft9mU2a. WUhin
Despite the .^college’s attempts at
10 days, oyer$4$;0(}0. worth ofequfp- increasing security after the first inci- ting into mid-semester, with
merit was takeri^’and^ the thief or dent, there were two more thefts. midterms and projects to do. This has
thieves are still HtJarge. r;
Again, the college has upped its secu- been pretty difficult for faculty and
About 90 per cent: of the equip- rity. students alike. It’s )ust been an incon.
"We’ve made security enhance- venience, and 1 just hope it stops."
ment has. been replaced, and the
To put a stop to these thefts, anyments," said Beatson, "We’ve taken a
remainder is on back order.
since<the^irst/incident?tbis^
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lor the third time this semester,
(expensive equipment was stolen
from"the college.
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the evening of Feb. 20,, when. two
more projectors werestolen from the
C-wing; The thief ha^ not been
, caught yet, but the college’s security
has one person in mind.
"We have an individual identified,
but we don’t know If that person will
After the first: break-In, tools were number of steps to protect our assets."
be able to assist In the inquiry," said
Equipment has not been stolen
Brian: Beatson, director of facilities ordered to make the equipment harderto steal.
Since Feb. 20, and Capar thanks secumanagement.
"Before the equipment. was rity for this halt in tile thefts.
The Durham Regional, Police are
one with Information regarding one
or all of these incidents shouldT contact Crime Stoppers or the Durham
Regional Police.
NEWS
B re ak Camp s izzl es
BY DAWN DE 80UZA
Chronicle staff
Each child got to flip the:
own pancake, and for some c
them it was the best part of th
camp.
March Break was In full
swing for elementary and high
schools last week, and even
Durham College had Its share
of the fun.
The college ran Its first
March Break Camp for children between the ages of 5 and
9, and had a variety of activities like cooking, science
experiments, nature walks and
making movies.
On Wednesday the 17 children enrolled in the camp
made pancakes.
.
Abigail Osborne, 9, said h(
favorite part of making par
cakes was eating them.
Aside from making pai
cakes the children have doi
things like making papl
mache piggy banks, and ma
ing their own butter and the
getting to eat it on crackers.
Nicholas Doyle, 6, said th
camp was fun.
"1 met some new frienc
and 1 played," he said.
Avery Masson, 7, said h
favorite part of the camp w
the crafts.
"We made a big sign th<
says March Break Camp, and
has all our hand prints on it,
she said, adding that It w;
one of her favorite crafts.
The camp was run by Kli
Sharpe, who works In the co
lege s Continuous Learnin
Department and Is a gradual
of Durham’s Early Childhoo
Education Program.
She said the camp was a sui
cess and that she thinks it wi
probably run again next year
She said that even thoug
there was a large age group, a
the children got along we
and the older ones helped pi
the younger ones.
.Photo? by Dawn Desouza
ET’S GET COOKING: The children attending
urham College’s March Break Camp make breakfast.
urham College expansion estimates are over budget
Y DAWN DE SOUZA
ironlcia staff
Estimates for the Oshawa campus
(pansion are over budget.
According to Bruce Bunker, the
Project Manager for Superbuild, the
college needs to decide what can be
cut from the expansion to lower costs.
Now the college has to cut down
the quantity; the quality, or find
things that are )ust frivolous and
would be nice to have but are not of the Whitby campus is complete. .
important, said Bunker.
Only minor finishing touches "are
"This is a normal stage to be at."
left, including setting up the new
This is not considered to be a major computer commons.
There has been no date set for the
problem and is not expected to delay
the expansion.
opening, but Bunker thinks it may be
On a happier note, the expansion held in mid-March.
March 20, 2001 3
C ana d a is now hirin
While companies in the
United States are laying off
hundreds of people, companies in Canada are hirfng
people from various fields.
About 60 companies came
to the job fair at Durham
College on March 7 to take
resumes and recruit students
with or without a diploma.
Some of these companies
said they are in a growing
period, and even if the economy slows down in Canada,
they will create job opportunities.
Tim Murphy, a district
manager with Fastenal
Canada, an industrial and
construction supply company, said when the economy
is down the company slows
down too, but not enough to
lay off hundreds of people.
He said in the ’90s, while
the economy was down,
Fastenal grew 35 per cent a
year. Because the company
is always growing, they hire
people on a needed basis to
work
in the accounting and
marketing departments. This
company also hires journalists to investigate the market
and other businesses to find
out what products they need.
Fastenal has 850 branches
in-the United
States.
63 in
Canada, six in Puerto Rico
and one in Mexico. In addition, Murphy said 12 more
branches will be open in
Canada this year.
Starting
salary with
Fastenal is about $30,000 a
year.
But Fastenal is not the
only company that creates
job opportunities when’ the
economy is down.
Lorl Bertola, who works in
the human resources departwith
ment
Trimark
Investments, said the company is in a growing period and
it creates many job opportunities. They are looking for
people to work in various
departments, Including marketing, distribution, advertising design, communication
and customer service, to
name a few. She said that
from September to April,
they hired 90 people to work
in customerservice.
Trimark offers training,
benefits and relocation
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PIPELINE
BY CHRIS GLEASON
Chronicle staff
Campus Pipeline has intro-’,
duced new services that will
allow students to. view their
grades, timetables, transcripts
and’ check to see if their
address is correct.
Students can access’the services by clicking the link
under school services. Like.
The company hires on a
part-time and full-time basis.
Starting salary is about
$12.00 per hour.
Ramadeen said the company gives opportunities to
Durham College students.
Asha Burry, a human
resources manager with the
Canadian Paper Connection
Inc.. said that as the company is growing globally they
are always looking for people
who can buy and sell paper
internationally.
She said that because the
is in a growing
period, she doesn’t think it
will be hurt if the economy
slows down.
"Paper is always needed,"
company
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Burry said.
While paper
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is used by
almost everyone in the
expenses when employees world, food too is eaten
are sent to work in other everywhere.
countries. Starting salary
Debbie Thompson, cowith Trimark is about owner
of
the
Food
$33,000 a year.
Development Group, said
Brinks, a company that the company always does
transports and protects cur- research and develops food
rency and jewelry, also cre- products.
ates job opportunities when
"People need to eat,"
the economy is down. At the Thompson-said.
job fair the company was hirShe said because the coming drivers, and ATM techni- pany is growing, they are
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. always -looking for people.
"We hire 365 days ryear,"; ^Nevertheless,’ they have to
said :Kathryn Ramadeen,"’^ have a minimum of a college
human resources ’administra- diploma and a biology backs ground.
tor.
Students verify info
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"The economy might be
slowing down, but we never
any other web page, said
Diana Wood, director of
administrative information
systems, students can also
print the information.
These services are the first
phase of a new web registration service, said Wood.
Eventually, students will be
able to change their timetables or register for a course,
and possibly in the fall, students will be .able to check
their test and assignment’
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marks.
"Students will have access?
to personal information:
immediately," said Wood.
Students will not have to wait
in..line w wait for the information to be mailed. Students
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can also, access^the. inform’a-.
fion from home ^ :.^
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: If students have ;ri6t^yet.
logged on. to pipeUne( access,
will^ be^ unavailable ^due to:
security ’ reasons.^’.Tcr’.’ gain ^
access, students must .presenf
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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES: Asha Burry explains to
students about career opportunltlea at Trie Canadian
Paper Connection. This took place at the job fair on
March 7.
No longer a jail bird
BY KATE HERMELIN
Chronicle staff
College
Durham
Crime
Stoppers surprised president
Gary Polonsky with a thank-you
gift, for participating in the last
Jail,n’ Bail event last month.
Rahim Jetha and Sarah
’Wilcox,""’; members of the
Durham College Crime Stoppers
presented Polonsky with a
Durham College Crime Stoppers
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golf shirt;-
"The popularity and success of
the-last
Jail’n’
Bail event has
inspired the DCiCrime Stoppers
club to hold a similar event on
March 29,, from 8:30 a.m. until 3
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It’s, still uncertain if Polonsky
is going; to have time to participate in the upcoming event, but
several ^deans from Durham
College :are planning on attend-
Photo by Kattvyn Hermelln
he pricing for bail is $5 for stu- GIFT FOR GARY: Vanessa Fusco, Rahim
Jetha and Sarah Wilcox present Gary
dents and $1( i for staff.
Polonsky with a gift.
goes to the United Way
pancake breakfast being held on Friday, March
23.
Help United Way raise money by attending the
For $3 students will get coffee, a stack of flapjacks, sausage or fruit salad. It will be held at
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Self-re sponsibility is di s appearm
Recently a judge awarded a should be illegal to get drunk
drunk driver $300,000 for without first recruiting a
brain damage she suffered sober, reliable friend to be the
responsible party.
because of a car accident.
There have been many
The woman had been
drinking at a staff Christmas examples in the past of people
party and a local bar. She lacking responsibility for
drove home drunk and got themselves, including the
into an accident which caused woman who successfully sued
the brain damage. She sued McDonald’s for serving coffee
the bar and her employer, that was too hot, and the guy
holding them responsible for who tried to use being drunk
"letting" her get too drunk as an excuse for rape.
and not making sure she got Recently, Stockwell Day wanted Alberta to foot close to a
home safely.
As strange as it may seem, a million-dollar bill that he ran
judge actually ruled against up when he was sued for slanthe employer and the bar. The der. The future will bring
bar is now closed and her more examples if something
employer has to shoulder the . doesn’t change.
People are looking over
entire amount and the responsibility of this unfortunate their shoulders while we all
self-responsibility
incident. The employer is cur- sweep
under the rug. If it continues,
rently appealing this ruling.’
What started as a way to a "mob mentality" fever will
make bars and other public infect all of us.
Mob mentality is a simple
establishments think of something other than making concept to understand, and a
money is now way out of con- dangerous one to accept. In a
trol. Politicians and lawyers crowd, the element of Individtried to force a conscience on uality is taken away, thus givbars by holding them respon- ing people a sense of
sible for their patrons. They anonymity. In past decades,
gave bars an Incentive to serve people knew what was right
responsibly. As if drinking and wrong.
^sn’t.
»;xe\-is»;
isnougVt ioi most
The sVlUt In moral values
people to stop taking responsi- has left today’s society with a
bility for their actions, now problem bigger than anyone
could have predicted. We
don’t seem to know what is
right and wrong anymore, and
that is giving us the freedom
to do everything without taking responsibility.
It is terribly difficult for a
person to look inside and realize something is wrong and
then change. There is no
sweat in pointing a finger at
the .person across the room.
But in the long run it is more
harmful than not.
There is no law, nor will
there ever be, that forces peoaction.
ple to take responsibility for
There is no exception to the their actions. In fact, it seems
rule; people are always respon- there will only be laws that
sible for their actions. People. reinforce people’s need to
don’t need to hear the mes- blame others.
It is up to each of us to
sage that we aren’t capable
enough to be responsible, ignore that message and take
because we are. Without tak- responsibility for our actions.
ing responsibility for our own Blaming others is the first
actions there is chaos, and major step in creating a world
that is where we will be head- that is ruled by mob mentaliing if this doesn’t stop.
ty. We need to start walking
According to the courts, away from blame, not our
drunk people are not responsi- responsibilities.
ble for their actions. Maybe it
Jenn McKay
there is a law that enforces it.
In the Smart Serve program,
it is taught that bars are held
legally responsible for their
patrons for twenty-four hours
after they leave the establishment. In fact, even if a person
isn’t served at a bar, but they
come in drunk, that bar is
held responsible for that person. It’s absurd to hold one
person legally responsible for
someone else’s actions. The
first drink is always a choice,
and everything that happens
after that is a result of that first
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THeCHKWias
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DCSA Election Results
Not j ust fun and games for Tranter
BY RACHEL CRAIG
Chronicle staff
Getting the information out and
getting students more involved.
That’s what the new vice-president of
Student Athletics for the Durham
College Student Association wants to
do for the 2001/2002 year.
Becky Tranter, a first year Business
Administration student and a player
on the varsity volleyball team, was
acclaimed to the position.
Tranter wants to make students
more aware of intramurals and varsity
sports because she found they were
not advertised very well this year.
"1 found this year a lot of the intramurals were lacking. They weren’t
very organized.
I wanted to make athletics for all
of the students better in general.
1999/2000 year.
Her experience for the position
comes from her participation in
leadership camps and involvement
with sports.
She also thinks having the perspective of an athlete .will help her in
her new job.
"Just being on a team I know that
you have to work with your peers to
get stuff accomplished.
I’ve been a captain of most of the
teams I’ve been on and that shows a
lot of leadership qualities that are
going to benefit the position of VP of
Student Athletics."
She hopes to change the way athletics are communicated at Durham
and make a difference to the students.
If anyone has questions or comments for Tranter, she can be reached
at the DCSA office.
I just want to step up and fill in
the gap for next year."
She hopes to offer prizes and Incentives for fans who come out to tne
home games.
She wants to do something like
the $1,000 shoot-out that was at the
basketball games for other sports,
.
especially volleyball.
"I play volleyball and there weren’t
as many fans as I wish there was.
I noticed basketball was getting
more and I figured if you imprement
that into all the sports it’s going to get
the students more involved, which is
my main goal."
Tranter ran for the position to
become more involved with events
happening at Durham.
She first looked into being a peer
tutor and a student ambassador, but
decided to try the DCSA and follow in
current DCSA President Will Ellls’
Becky Tranter
Ellis was the VP of
footsteps.
Sports for the
Bondsfield and the Board of G overnors
SECOND-YEAR
STUDENT
LOOKING
FORWARD TO
WORKING
BY RACHEL CRAIG
Chronicle staff
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Gaining experience is what
Lynda Bondsfield wants to do
for this next year.
’She is the new board of
governors student representative for 2001/2002.
Bondsfield, a second-year
.
Food and Drug Technology
student at Durham, became
interested in the position
after talking to staff around
school.
"They suggested that I.run.
1 got to know them and they
got to know me personally,"
Although she has no experience doing this type of
thing, she is looking forward
to learning about the procedures the board of governors
follows and thinks the position will look good on her
resume.
Besides gaining experience,
people
in different positions
in the community and peo-
ple I haven’t been mixing
with in senior positions."
The board of governors,
with 17 members, manages
the affairs of Durham
College.
Their responsibilities
include recommending the
appointment of new governors to the board, approving
the policies of the college,
approving Durham’s longrange plans, reviewing the
operations of the school and
promoting Durham’s public
Bondsfield thinks she can
represent ’ the students of
Durham.
She is looking forward to
meeting new. people in the
community through this
image.
There are also several committees, such as the excutive
committee and the audit and
finance committee, which
the board members serve on.
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position.
"It will Introduce me to
with opportunities for profes-
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Governors are provided
sional development at the
weekend board retreat held in
the fall and the Association of
Colleges of Applied Arts and
Technology of Ontario
(ACAATO) Conference held
in February.
The student representative
serves "a’ one-year term and
can be re-elected.
Durham
the
Unlike
College Student Association,
student representatives on
the board do not receive any
money.
Bondsfield was a laboratory
technician in England and
came to Canada during a
recession in Britain.
Her parents lived here and
encouraged her to try to find
a (ob here.
She decided to take Food
and Drug Technology after
taking a career test and being
matched with lab production.
She hopes to work her way up
to managing a lab or going
into production.
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Ready for
BY RACHEL CRAIG
DCSA Election Results
one more year Exercising the right
to vote for the DCSA
like another
Christmas party, pub
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nights, movie nights
and skiing events.
Things will be a lot easi"I’d like to continue
er this time around for
what I started this year
Kcri-Ann Keoghan, espewith getting students
cially since she now knows
more involved."
what she wants to do and
This year, Keoghan
what she can do.
feels she will be more
She is once again ready
confident and more
to tackle the job of vicecomfortable with her
president of University
position and will orgaAffairs.
nize events this sumKeoghan, a second-year
mer and have everyEnglish student at Trent,
thing laid out for the
was acclaimed to the posicoming year
tion in the 2001/2002
She was surprised
Durham College Student
she to be acclaimed to
Association elections.
the position this year.
She said she enjoys Keri-Ann Keoghan
Keoghan said she
working with the DCSA and
would have liked to see
could not imagine coming back to school more students get involved and some comand not being involved.
petition In the election. She thinks many
"It enhances my school life and it gave me students are afraid to become Involved and
a chance to get Involved. It’s a gobcTexperl- run for a’position.
ence for after school."
"A lot of people are afraid of the workload
This year, she had fun being on the DCSA that comes along with being on the DCSA and learned a lot, especially in planning and that It takes up a lot of time, especially unirunning events.
versity students - they don’t have that extra
Keoghan started a newsletter and Web tune to get involved."
site for university students and organized-a
Many of the students have families to ;
Christmas party - an event that brought look after and full-time jobs.
together almost 100 students.
Keoghan will also put out a survey in .
This year, Keoghan wants to plan events September to see what the incoming stu- ’
that students will like, such as more bus trips dents want for events and she said she will
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to the Trent and York campuses, and the lee- be open to suggestions and ideas.
ture series.
She can be contacted through the DCSA
More social events are on the agenda as office.
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speaking and she hopes being the new vicepresident of Administration for the
Durham College .Student. Association will
help.
Business
Administration
student
Michelle Barr was acclaimed to the position
for the 2001/2002 school year.
She says she ran for the position to make
a difference.
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DCSA Election Results
DCSA post-election party 200 1
ELUS INTRODUCES DCSA TO
PUB CROWD FOLLOWING
WEDNESDAY’S VOTE
BY MARCUS TULLY
Chronicle staff
Will Ellis gave his advice to
next year’s DCSA during last
located at Rodeway Suites,
the Whitby Campus and at
the pub represented the other
24 per cent (12 per cent, 8 per
cent and 4 per cent, respec-
Wednesday’s
post-election tively).
at EP Taylor’s: It was
"Overall, we had over 600
hard work that Drought them votes, which is good for a
to where they are, and, as school of 5.000 elicible
illglbl stiimembers of the student asso- dents (voters)," ElUs
EHis said,’
ciation, their work has only adding that this figure is In
the neighbourhood of last
just begun.
’"This is a proud day for me year’s count, and similar to
as president, and a proud day results of other colleges in the
for the students here, as we GTA, In total, 664 students
pass on the torch to next voted in this year’s elections.
"Even if you lose today,
year’s DCSA executives." Ellis
told the small crowd awaiting you are a winner for taking a
the results, adding that he chance on representing the
was Impressed withithe intro- public," Ellis said, ; before
duction of on-line voting and announcing Durham’s i two
.
voter-turnout in-general.
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In the tightest race of the
According- to -; statistics
released by the DCSA, on-line MarcK 14 election, .^Scott
voting accounted for 40 per Bradley .defeated ^Justin
cent of tKe’^otes entered this .. 5trickland as.. VP of Student
year, while 36 per cent voted Affairs by 188 votes: 398
on, election ,day: in-the ,Pit,. pared to 21D.,/,.; -y.-i ’1,
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Ballots cast’at’ip^ling stat,lpris, ..", "I’m ’, really,.; really^ happy
party
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Photo by Marcus Tully
THE NEW LINE UP: Will Ellis introduces members of the 2001- 2002 DCSA to a
crowd of students at EP Jaylor’s following last Wednesday’s elections.
8 THE CHRONICLE
March 20, 2001-
US
NEX^S
DCSA Election Results
Students get a look at next year
Continued fr.om page 7
The only other race saw
Jacqui Rivers, a first-year
Journalism student, defeat
Cameron Preyde with 444 of
the 600 ballots cast for the
position of VP of Public
Relations and Promotions.
"1 do feel disappointed,"
admitted Preyde. "1 thought I
ran a good campaign."
Rivers
acknowledged
Preyde as a "good" opponent,
and said she was relieved the
campaign was over.
Ellis encouraged both
Strickland and Preyde to consider running for president of
the DGSA. "We have seven
people set for next year’s
DCSA; one position remains
.open, which is president," he
said. Nominations for this
position can be handed in
until March 23 at noon.
Of the six candidates
acclaimed when no other
nomination packages were
received by Feb. 23, returning
VP of University Affairs KeriAnn Keoghan, VP of Sports
Becky Tranter, VP of
Finance
Budgeting and
Sutandy Morrison, and VP of
Social Affairs Mark Ganhao
were in attendance.
"I’m really excited about
this position, and about
working with all of these fantastic people," Tranter said.
"We have some very big
shoes to fill, and I’m hoping
that we will be able to fill
them."
According to Morrison, she
didn’t decide to run until the
last minute.
"1 ran because I wanted to
do something for the college;
I didn’t want to be only a student," the first-year Legal
Administration student said,
admitting that she was disappointed about not getting the
experience of running a cam-
paign.
Ganhao is an Automotive
student from the Whitby
campus who does not believe
his communication with the
DCSA will be hampered by
his attending a different cam-
pus.
Much
like , Morrison/
Ganhao did not decide to run
for his position until near the
deadline for nominations.
Still, he is glad he did, citing
the importance of the DCSA.
n "I think it’s extremely
important, because it helps
out both the students and’the
school," he said. "In the long
run, it creates Involvement
(between the students and
the school)."
Lynda- Bondsfield, next
year’s student representativeon the board of governors,
and Michelle Barr, next year’s
VP of Administration, were
not in attendance.
Both
were
positions
acclaimed.
2001-2002 VP of
Finance and Budgeting
Sutandy Morrison,
Legal Administration
(top), and VP of Social
Affiars Mark Ganhao,
Automotive, speak to
the crowd at EP
Taylor’s after last
Wednesday’s elections.
THE CHRONICLE
March 20, 2001__9
MPUS NEWS
2001 : ye ar o f go o d Will
DCSA
PRESn30MT;
TEiANKS
i
STUDENIS FOR
GBTnNG
INVOLVED
WITH DC
BY OLIVER FERNANDEZ
Chronicle staff
On a late Friday afternoon
in March, as most of the college was slowly becoming
deserted, seriously loud bass
could be heard beating out of
the upstairs corner office in
the student centre.
The beat was coming from
Will Ellis’s office, where the
DCSA-president was busy listening to pumping R&B
grooves, while doing some
early spring office cleaning.
In about-a month, Elli.s will
be finished with his studies at
Durham, along with his term
Photo by Oliver Femandei
as 2000-’01 DCSA president.
GOODBYE TO THE PRESIDENT: Keri-Ann Keoghan will eerve another term as
But for the man known by
vice-prealdent of University Affair* next year while Will Ellla i» graduating Irom
many simply as Will, there
will always be - everlasting
Durham College and leaving the DCSA.
memories of his year as stuEllis wanted this year’s
dent president and his time ent feeling (becoming presi- before, ElUs served as viceof
Sports DCSA activities to be distinct
with the DCSA. .
dent)." said ElUs, recalling his president
from previous years."! tliink
"It was a completely :dlffer- first day on the job. The year Administration.
we’ve done a lot of different
things this year - the single
date set-up, the stuff we do in
the cafe now, -and our Web
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This job is hard, but I’ve had
fun doing everything that I’ve
done with the DCSA over the
past two years."
One person who has
worked closely with ElUs in
the past two years is DCSA
office manager-Jane Green.
She had many positive things
to say about working with
Ellis.
"It’s certainly been an awesome year, with an awesome
group of students at the
DCSA," she said.
"At the top of ttiat is Will
ElUs. He is a hard worker, and
a very strong supporter of
Durham College. I don’t
think anybody can quite
spread the word like Will can,
Everybody knows Will."
Green also mentioned that
Ellls’s strong leadership qualities and his previous experience with the DCSA made it
easy to accomplish their goals
for this year.
"He’s been a wonderful
leader, a wonderful friend, a
great boss, and I think the college and the DCSA is really
going to miss him. He’s going
to be really hard to replace,"
she said.
Keri-Ann Kebghan, viceUniversity
president of
Affairs, is another person who
will miss Fills.
Keoghan will serve another
term as vice-piesldent ot
University Affairs, and says
that even though she’s looking forward to working with a
new DCSA president, next
year will be different.
"It’ll be a different year
next year, because Will really
caters to the students," she
said. "He’s a really hard worksite is being hit now by a lot er and I’m not sure if the stuof students," he said. "f think dents really know how much
we’re also more approachable he puts into this. organizathis year. I think I’m more tion."
One of the more difficult
approachable, more visible, at
most events that happen at problems Ellis says he had to
face this year was preparing
the college."
For the most part, Ellis for the controversial sex pub
believes the DCSA slogan, and rave. Prior to the event,
"Get involved," was effective the DCSA received many
in promoting student partici- complaints from the community about
pation for this
year.
stu"The
dents have gotten involved at
various
events,"
<
This job is
hard, but I’ve
had fun doing
everything that
I’ve done with
f
the DCSA...
me
puo.
Posters promoting the
pub needed
to be revised.
A disclaimer
was added to
ads,
the
explaining
that no sex
would occur
at the pub,
and that the
A I D S
he said. "Pub
have
nights
been way better
this year than
they were last
year. The students just want
to have fun and
Will Ellis
we’re . giving
Committee
them that."
r\f
rinrham
Ellis ; , also
event.
the
be
attending
would
the
to
successful
a
year
credits
As well as dealing with the
strong teamwork of the
DCSA. But even for someone stress surrounding the sex
whoSees himself as approach- pub, the president had to deal
able, Ellis admits that at the with the added pressures of
beginning of the year, he was preparing for fall convocation
arid studying for five exams.
hard to get along with.
But in the end, Ellis said he
"Over the year I’ve become
a lot nicer, more easy going," effectively dealt with all those
he said. "Things don’t bother problems, and that the conme as much and I’ve learned troversial event turned out to
to step back a bit and ask, be a huge success.
what can I get done, what
can’t I get done? And I’ve
See DCSA page 10
learned to have a lot of fun.
10 THE CHRONICLE
March 20, 2001
QMPIIS NE^S
University
DCSA president says goodbye to DC
Continued from page 9
"The event proved to be
very safe, with no problems
at all," he said.
"We provided students
with so much that night food, glow sticks, .awareness,
free water, free drinks, free
everything, .two floors, two
separate DJ’s. I had people
come up to me afterwards
saying that the pub was the
best pub ever. which made
me feel good."
Another success this year
for Ellis was Shinerama. The
event raised $2,000 for Cystic
Fibrosis.
a black belt in karate. We
prove yourself, and he
wasn’t able to break the
wood, and so his foot
bounced off the wood."
Departing president also
had some words of advice for
"Our goal was $1,000 and
we actually raised $2,000," he
said.
"Students
involved.
again
They
said
got
came
through."
Along with the successes,
Ellls also remembers some of his successor.
"Be prepared to work," he
the funnier moments that
occurred in the past academ- said.
ic year.
"It’s a lot of work. There’ll
"The funniest times are be a lot of days where you’ll
usually the karaoke, the be in a bad mood."
"But in the end," he said,
makeovers, the date auction,’"’
he said with a laugh.
"don’t take yourself too seri"We’ had a guy who ously, and don’t think that
thought he could break you’re untouchable. You
wood. That was the funniest have to help the students,
time, because he said he had and if the students support
.
business
plan for DC
you, you will be a good president."
Taking risks, and offering
students new and unique
activities were other suggestions he had for next year’s
DCSA president.
Bills gave a final message
for Durham College students.
"Thank-you everyone at
Durham College for supporting the DCSA, because without your support, the DCSA
could not offer anything to
the students," he said.
"Students supported us
this year, and I hope that the
support continues from here
on and forever and ever."
BY OLIVER
FERNANDEZ
Chronicle staff_
After a long winter and
many hours of working
around the clock, the university business plan for
Durham College is finally
ready.
,
The business plan was
completed earlier this
month, and is Durham
College’s latest step in the
drive to bring a university
to the region.
Included with the plan
is an accompanying market study document,
along with 300 pages of
supporting data.
’
consent
Following
from the Durham College
board of governors, the
university business plan
will then be sent to the
province for ministry
approval.
Durham College president Gary Polonsky said
he is quite pleased with
the overall quality of the
business plan.
"We’ve done every-1*.
thing that we. possibly
can," Polonsky said;.
"We’ve been working very
hard on It; our personal
’ ; »i
sweat Is there."
Polonsky ’ also
acknowledged the hard
work of Pricewaterhouse
Coopers the company
hired ’by the college to., i
develop the documentWith the plan complete, Polonsky is hoping
for a response from the
province this spring.
"If this new Institution
is going to ready in time
to be approved this
spring, then we can be.ready for .’-the following
spring," he Said.
If approved, the university would start with eight
programs and have an Initial enrolment of 400 students,
according to
Polonsky;: The following
year would havea projected Increase of 800 to 900
students, and in the third
year more than 6,000 students. :
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"That" makes a total :
campus^ of 13,000 to
, students,"^
14,000
Polonsky|said; .".
But before any classes
can b^gin,. he said the
declsion^rests^ with the
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;g6yernment.
; Polonsky .recently met ;
with
Dianne
Cunningham, Minister of
Training, Colleges, and
Universities.
; Gunhingharn visited
Durham late last month
and toured the college.
"I don’t think there’s
’
any,doubt with^regard .to
the urgent need or a unlvei’sity.fo^ our region,"
Polonsky ;’ said ’- of
Gunriingham.
’, Polonsky^ plans to run
;. an advocacy campaign
later this, spring.
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customizing cars
he front end of a car. This
>articular Neon sits close to
he ground. The dark purple
:olor demands attention, but
lothing can take away form
he-appeal of the talllights.
rhe large, bright taillights conrast with the rest of the car.
t looks as though the rims
lave been painted with a thin
ayer of rubber. In the sumner, the tires look even small:r against the gleaming lines of
:hrome that meet in the cen:re of the rim. It is a cusomized car.
Customized cars stand out
n a crowd, have stereos that
:an be heard before the car is
icen, and they are usually dri-
bv younger people. The
:raze has been around forever,
3ut the new version is catchng on with more and more
people.
The college parking lot is lit:ered with custom cars and
:rucks. One of those cars is the
lark purple Neon. Expresso,
awned by Shane Prance.
France, 26, is a first year
/en
tpprentice in the Automotive
[echhology.
.
course
.
at
purhjam’SsWhitby campus. He
works full time at a small
garage near Orillia. Every
Wednesday he drives to school
n his Neon to attend his program.
Having always loved cars,
’ranee became obsessed with
customizing them when he
did up" his "first car, a Dodge
charger. It’s addictive," he
aid as a huge grin appeared
n his face. "It’s a guy thing."
Among the many things
iat drew France into the sport
:
customizing cars/ was the
lance to spend time’with his
>ad.
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"We bonded .when we
orked on the Charger togeth-
." he said.
He feels it’s a better hobby
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than Others he could have an
adrenaline
rush.
picked up.
"It got me out of spending
"All of the sudmy money on stupid stuff," den you forget
said France. "I always love get- about everyone
ting a new part for my car to that’s watching
see how it will make my car you," he said. He
sound or look."
got tunnel vision
France is one of the found- and just began to
ing members of a car club concentrate on
called Grounded Obsessions. getting the best
He and three friends began the time possible.
club in 1995. It’s based in
He said he will
Orillia. The club currently has do
it
every
15 members from all over the month in the
area.He’ said they started the upcoming sumclub to get people with the mer.
same interests together, and
is
"Racing
because there was no club in something I’ve
the area. The members of always wanted to
Grounded Obsessions spend do, and this is
Photo by Jenn Mckay
their summers attending any actually a more
HIS BABY: Durham student Shane France
POSING
WITH
event that has to do with the affordable way to
shows off his pride and Joy, his customized Neon Expresso
do it, as opposed
sport.
"We actively participate in to Nascar."
said. "At least they have magthe car show scene," said
France believes Solo II and azine coverage of that stuff."
France. If no-one in the club other legal,, organized race
Right now, France is conhas a vehicle entered in a com- events are a safe alternative to centrating on boosting the
petition, they go to enjoy the illegal street racing.
performance of his car so he
Lowered 2 inches with
He said that the legal "rac- can get better times in Solo II.
show, he added.
Performance
Grounded Obsessions also ing started to get people off But the way the car looks is
Sprint
holds a car show of their own the streets and into the sport." always on his mind.
springs
16 x 7 Primax Tuner
called Ontario Autosport
He has been to the illegal
Customizing a car is always
Wheels
Slamboree. This year it is from drag races in Florida. There a work In progress.
Nitto 450 Extremes
"It’s a form of art," France
July 14 to 15 at Burl’s Creek were 300 to 400 people there
205/40/16 .("The lower
to race and spectate.
said. "Why do you think they
Park, just north of Barrle.
the profile tire, the less
’-"I was amazed," he said. "I have car shows?"
The club members also
He has big plans for his
attend other car events.
hate to say it, but It was fun
side wall flex," said
"Last year we started to par- rushing for your car so you Neon, which he has owned for
France. "All in all allows
for better handling, betjust over a year. The future
ticipate in Solo II events as a didn’t get busted/’
As much fun as he had modifications will include an,-; ’ ..ter cornering, and better
club," said France.
Solo 11 is a series of orga- watching the races, he didn’t after market exhaust and a ^ ^acceleration)
.Konig strut tower
nized races that happen all feel safe. He; thought, the four inch tip, a turbo .system
over Ontario. The track.is usu-, chances .of.; tielhg hit wern that wllUmcrease the cai’sv ’^biaceH’’Stops chasle tlex
when you’re cornering,
horsepower by 50, an air
ally made out of pylons in; a; high. ;^.7=:.--:.-; ,-’.,^.r\,-...
.said France.)
"Everybody’s standing on intake that will add 10 horseparking lot. That is how It’s
Konig racing petals
set up when they use the the side of the street where the power to the engine, after marAPC Altezza style tail
ket gauges, and clear side
Whitby campus parking lot in cars run," said France.
lights
marker
seen
lights.
he
has
only
Although
the summer.
i
Blaupunkt Muchen
It could look completely difGroundedObsessions, raced the races in Florida, he knows
deck
in Braccbridge last year on an they go on in Toronto and ferent by the end of the sum12 inch Blaupunkt
mer, but that’s what the sport
abandonded Go Kart track. other places in the area.’
subwoofers
trucks
competition
and
cars
on,
of
customizing
goes
racing
"Illegal
and
a
waiver
Participants sign
Six and a half inch
line up off the track in their because everyone wants to be is all about.
midrange
Kenwood
For more information about
cars, waiting for their turn to known as the fastest in the
speakers
the Grounded Obsessions car.
race against the clock. There city," he said.
One and a half inch
France doesn’t think being and truck club, go to their web
are different classes, dependKenwood tweeters
ing on, what is done to the "the one to beat" on the streets site, or Ontario Autosport
Slamboree’s Web site.
JBL GTQ 200 competivehicle, and times are corn-1 is the best title to strive for.
tion amplifier
www.canspeed.c6m/ground
"I would rather be known as
pared to other times in each’
class.,
’">’: : the champion from Solo II or edobsessions/
--’ ’’.:
www.oas2001.cjb.net .
France said his first race was even Import drag racing," he
;.’What
the clothing, but the logo,
"In advertising I’ve
seen too many cheesy
clothing labels that really
represent nothing other
than popularity," he says.
"This
’’;^vvearlng the product.
;;; y^Cunently featured on a represents ; attitude.’: ’It’s
^/Uit&<tf;hats; the birth of the not for the faint at heart,
^Qgp^Stems
from an experi- it’s for people who enjoy
had on a life."
Sehewtschenko, who is ;
his
the chair of the
also
leave
to
asked
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wearing
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"So it;st^ted as no-shirt, committee at the college,
no^h6es,’;klss my ass," says will be putting the KMA
Peters > Sehewtschenko, logo on T-shirts, shorts,
owner and creator of. KMA.. hoodies and underwear in
"From thew, It was short- .late spring or early sumened to a’Togo that encom- mer.
The KMA logo, which
passed the.whole mentality
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SITTING ON THE ICE: You can win up to $1,000 at Elgin Pond In Uxbrldge
An old van waits to crash:
People wait to win prizes
tickets
BY AMY HARRIS
Chronicle slaM__
Every"
year
late
to
December,
Uxbridge ask themselves the
same question when they pass
by Elgin Pond: ’Why is there a
van on the pond?’
For 11 years the van has
spent the winter season sitting
on the pond’s frozen surface,
waiting to go crashing
through, while ticket holders
wait in anticipation.
Terry Porter, an Uxbrldge
Lions Club member, is the
chairman of, the project this
year. He says there ’are still
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"the
idea here is that the
tickets come in envelopes, in
five-minute increments for
every day of the week, from
the day the van is put on the
ice, to late April," he said.
"People buy them randomly;
there is no way you can
choose a certain time slot."
The van is completely
The person with the closest
people with the second and third
closest times win $500 and
time wins $1,000. Those
$250. All, winners are invited
to attend a breakfast at the
Lions Club as well.
The prize money comes
from ticket sales, as well as the
project’s many sponsors.
"Other proceeds go towards
the Cottage Hospital, and
stripped of working parts, Camp Kirk," he said, "Camp
except for a timing clock, he Kirk is a camp for disabled
children, that is -completely
"A timing clock is inserted funded by the Lions Club." r/
Tickets can still be purinto the van," he said. "When
it goes through the ice, the chased for $3 each or $5 for
said.
device is activated. When the
van is pulled out, we know the
exact time it went through."
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March 20, 2000 13
Profe s s ors w ant fund s
ONTARIO UNIVERSITY
TEACHERS ARE
REQUESTING MORE
MONEY FROM THE
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BY OLIVER FERNANDEZ
Chronicle staff
attract new faculty.
"We lose many professors to the
western provinces and to the United
States because the salaries and working
conditions are much better in those
places," he said.
Existing Ontario professors also find
the lure of working outside the
province an appealing option..
"The average Ontario faculty member, who’s 50 years old, can go to the
United States and within two years get
a job at a similar or better university;
get from $30,000 to $40,000 more; and
have much better lab equipment and
better working conditions in general,"
Jacek said.
Dave Ross, a spokesperson for the
Ministry of Training, Colleges and
acknowledges that
Universities,
Ontario is experiencing a shortage of
professors, but so are many other
countries.
"It’s a worldwide shortage," Ross
said.
He also said that Ontario is doing a
enough.
"It hasn’t been able to make up for lot for the universities in terms of
the huge amounts of money that the funding, but the onus of hiring and
provincial government has taken out," retaining professors is on the universihe said. "We’re going to have 90,000 ties.
"We don’t attract faculty," he said.
new university students over the next
10 years and we’]ust don’t have the fac- "It’s the institution that’s responsible
ulty in place or the funds to hire the for attracting their professors.
They’re autonomous organizations
faculty to take care of these students
with their own board of governors who
who want to come to university."
Jacek said that without provincial are responsible for the operation of
funding, the universities aren’t able to their institution.
They’re responsible for the attraction, retention and also the recruitment strategies."
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Ross said the province has provided many incentives for academics to
remain in Ontario.
"There’s the Ontario Research and
Challenge Fund, that’s providing
$550 million over 10 years," he said.
"That helps attract faculty to
Ontario. We have the innpvation
trust fund, which is another $750
million to develop infrastructure to
seen the money."
In the next 10 years, a growing
number of professors are expected to
retire, coupled with the looming concern that potential teachers are being
lured out of Ontario to .work in more
lucrative markets in the U.S. and overseas.
But the situation is even more
urgent, considering that university
enrolment is expected to increase dramatically.
The elimination of grade 13’in secondary schools, and the rising percentage of the population known as the
echo generation who will want a university education, has the McMaster
professor very concerned.
According to Jacek, since 1995, the
provincial government has taken a
total of $1.4 billion out of the university system. Jacek acknowledges that the
federal government’s recent announcement of $750 million for university
research is some relief, but it’s not
Show me the money. That line Is
just about headed to the graveyard, but
for McMaster professor Henry Jacek,
it’s a statement that can’t be buried
and ignored.
Jacek, who is also president of the
.Ontario Confederation of University
Faculty Association, warns of a potential professor shortage for Ontario universities in the coming years.
And without the support of government funding, it’s a problem that’s
going to become bigger.
"No one ever disagrees with what we
have to say," said Jacek. "We keep
telling (the government) the situation
is getting worse, and they keep saying
that the money is going to come to
hire the professors. Well, we haven’t
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support research."
Erin George, the Ontario chairper-
and the Ontario government has
slashed funding by $400 million annu-
ally."
Dr. Marie Bountrogianni, Liberal
education critic, and MPP for the riding of Hamilton Mountain, says it’s
important for the provincial government to provide funding, and to act
soon, before it becomes too late.
. "We’re going to be short thousands
of professors in the next decade, at the
same time that thousands of students
will be corning into our system," she
said.
Bountrogianni said. that while $7.5
million in federal money would help
out, the province should also contribute.
"They need to increase the operating grants," she said. "Whatever
they’re going to give to the universities, they need to tell them now, so
they can plan ahead for the next three
years."
Bountrogianni says it takes money
and time to recruit professors.
"It costs about $8,000 to recruit a
professor from somewhere else," she
said. "You have to pay for their
expenses to come here.
You usually have to pay for their
spouse to come here. And it’s a moving decision, a family decision which
takes time."
Rosario Marchese, NDP education
critic, and MPP for the riding of
Trinity-Spadina, says the government
is currently doing very little in terms of
funding for post-secondary education,
and most Uke\y wVU not do anyth\ns
for the universities in the future.
Marchese cautions that the university problem would become even worse
if a recession were to occur.
"Part of the problem is that Harris
did not spend or invest in areas of
importance like university education at
a time when the economy was good,"
he said.
"He is not going to have the money
when the economy is not that
healthy."
At the college level, Durham College
son for the Canadian Federation of
Students, says government funding president Gary Polonsky says the colfor an anticipated
targeted for infrastructure develop- fege will be prepared
to the eliminadue
enrolment
in
rise
the
for
needed
is
what
not
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tion of grade 13.
universities.
"We’re going to have a complete
"We need stable-base operating
he said.
grants for colleges and universities, plan for the double’cohort,"
of
the
people
"We’ve
promised
each
of
so that the individual needs
institution can be addressed," she Durham and the premier that every
qualified student from within the
said.
region will always have a spot here."
academneed
institutions
"Some
ic space, some need student support
space. Other institutions need to
hire faculty.
The individual needs of each
school are so diverse that targeted
funding is not going to address the
crisis in post-secondary education."
George also says that the quality
of education will be affected by the
looming professor shortage.
"The student - faculty ratio in
.Ontario is already the highest in the
country," she s^id. .
We. think that is detrimentally
affecting the quality of education
because obviously the interaction
between teacher and student is
incredibly important."
The current student - teacher ratio
is 21 to 1, up from 17 - 1 in 1988-89.
George blames both the provincial
and federal government for the
potential professor shortage.
"The root of the problem is that
(both) .have slashed post-secondary
education funding dramatically in
the past years," she said. "The federal government .has cut over $5,2 billion from college and university
transfer payments to the provinces
Correction
In a story about three new
courses in the March 13 issue of
the Chronicle a mistake was printed.
The story dealt with the two
Court and Tribunal Agent courses
and the Public and Private investigators course coming to Durham
in
September.
At the end of the story were
two names for people to contact
with questions about the courses-.
The names were placed with, the
wrong courses.
The story should have read that
people with inquiries about the
Public and Private Investigator
course should contact Geoff
McCombe at extension 2629 or in
office C227.
For questions about the Court
and Tribunal Agent courses contact Stephanie Ball at extension
2270 or in office C315.
Kids carnival
free to staff
and students
on March 25
Smart Serve: a popular course among
students and residents of Oshawa
SMART SERVE
BY MARCUS TULLY
Chronicle staff
The DCSA is presenting
a carnival in the Student
.Centre parking lot from
11-3 on Sunday, March
25.
The carnival, in its fifth
year, is a free event for
staff and students with
children, and will offer
COURSES WERE
SUCH A SUCCESS,
THEY WILL MOST
LIKELY BE BACK
AGAIN NEXT YEAR.
food, prizes; and games,
Some of the attractions
will Include a jump castle
and ball pond. Also, Bob
Cates, a stilt walker from
Comedy in Motion, will
perform a the event.
For more information,
or to volunteer, contact
Kirn in the DCSA office at
721-3083.
BY CHRIS GLEASON
Chronicle staff__
Pholo by Chris Gleascn
SMART SERVE CERTIFICATE IS AN ASSET: Donna Crawford is the director of
Continuous Learning at Durham College, where they are offering Smart Serve
courses for students and Oshawa residents alike.
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"Most people in my generation see
religion as too much of a hassle. We’re
finally starting lives of our ownbeginning
.
our careers, entering relationships,
building our familiesand we’re not
looking for any more burdens or
The Unitarian Universalists
Meeting 10:30 on Sunday’s
45 Cassels Ro^ad, Brooklin
(Brookliri Community Centre)
Telephone (905) 655-8740
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’That’s how I saw religion, until I: ;.,
learned more about Unitarian
Universalism. Here was a religion that
gave me the room to breathe? They offer ’
services that are relevant to my life.
Their philosophy encourages me to
explore my inner spirituality. And their
beUef in activism and social justice
inspires me to look outward.
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"Sure, any religion is something of a
commitment. But until I discovered
Unitarian Universalism, I never knew a
commitment could be liberating."
Continuous Learning and
the DCSA are both offering
Smart Serve courses. But that’s
okay. There’s enough demand
to go around.
Continuous Learning has
no problem with the DCSA
offering the course, said
Donna Crawford, director of
Continuous Learning.
The course teaches bartenders to recognize the signs
of intoxication and responsibility under the law and how
to provide a friendly environment by promoting non-alcoholic beverages and food and
encouraging alternative transportation. It does not teach
;
how to mix drinks.,
The DCSA is offering the
course because many employers In the food industry are
looking for people with Smart
Serve training.
"It gives students a competitive advantage," said Daria
Price, VP of Student Affairs for
the DCSA. Also, the pub had to
ban many under-age students
this year for drinking. ’Smart
Serve will allow these students
to re-enter the pub.
The course is four hours
long. It includes a video, a
question period, and a test.
The cost for the DCSA course
was $25 and it was held in the
student centre Feb. 12 and 13
from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
- All available spaces for the
DCSA course filled up three
days before the date of the
course, said Price. In class one
there were 27 students and in
class two there were 40. Also,
about 10 students asked about
the course’ after it was full.
Price says the best feature of
the DCSA course was the cost.
Continuous Learning offers
the course" at $58.85, said
Crawford, They offer their
course four times a year. Their
first three courses had 33 students. Their course cost more
because they have to pay
teachers and the DCSA does I
not, said Crawford.
;
The
main
difference
between the two courses is
that Continuous Learning is
offering the course to the community and students, said
Crawford. The DCSA only
offers It to students. Also, in
the Continuous Learning
course, there is more interaction with students.
According to Price, the
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preparing
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CANADIAN
PUBLIC SERVICE
SECTOR MAY BE
IN DANGER OF
LOSING OUT TO
INTERNATIONAL
CORPORATIONS
BY KATE HERMELIN
Chronicle staff
The Free Trade Area of the
Amerlcas is the new name of the
expansion of the North. American
Free Trade Agreement. and activist
groups in Canada say that it may
cause a big threat to Canada’s social
service sector.
The FTAA was started by the leaders of 34 countries at the December
1994 Summit of the Americas. in
’Miami, Florida and is to Include all
in ’ the
^Western’
countries
Hemisphere, except Cuba. ’"’..
In a statement from the first summit, the ministers listed a series of
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objectives that included the elimination of export subsidies, barriers and
tariffs amfthat will protect investors
and their businesses.
Trade is a competitive business,
and with the implementation of the
FTAA, government decisions will not
be absolute.
The new policy may remove the
ability for governments in the
Amerfcas to uphold or create new
laws regarding trading and protecting
existing non-profit businesses, said
Maude Barlow, author of The Free
Trade Area of the Americans and The
Threat to Social Programs.
The FTAA will threaten Canada’s
non-profit social programs (such as
child care, public’education, social
assistance) and universal health care
may be jeopardized, said Barlow.
By agreeing to support the FTAA
Canadians may lose the social programs f hat are a fundamental right of
citizenship for all citizens, she said.
In Canada, the_public service sector accounts for 75 per cent of all
jobs. ’
Allowing international corporations to enter the public sector may
dismantle the public service sector by
subjecting them to the rules of international competition that have been
outlined in the eWorld Trade
Organization and the FTAA;
Already, certain . provinces": In
Canada have taken.^he firsi; steps to
introduce privateschools and utilities
commissions, said Jenn’Story, media
officer for the; Council of Canadians.
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"tn their own way, both provincial and federal governments are
introducing the privatization of the
service sector, without really explaining that it’s all in the name of future
trade endeavours," she said.
Perhaps’ the most volatile service
industry in Canada is the health, care
industry, because of the fear of. a twotiered system, said Story.
A March 2000 legal opinion by
Canadian trade expert Steven
Shrybman showed that when Alberta
passed Bill 11, which permits forprofit corporations to compete with
public hospitals for public funding to
provide health care services, it gave
trade rights to the U.S. tor-profit foreign corporations to set up shop not
only in Alberta, but In any province
in Canada and to sue for compensation If denied access.
Health care In the United States
has become a big enough business
that certain corporations are listed on
the New York Stock Exchange, said
Barlow.
Rick Scott, president of Columbia,
the world’s largest tor-profit hospital
.corporation, said in Barlow’s paper
on the FTAA that health care is a business; no different from the airline or
lish a
presence in Canada.
will also have the right, to
fight tor public dollars with public
institutions like schools and hospitals, said Barlow.
"If any government attempts to
resist these developments and tries to
maintain these services in domestic
control, every service corporation of
the hemisphere will have the legal
right to sue for financial compensation for lost revenues under the
investor-state provisions of the
FTAA," said Barlow.
This year, representatives from 34
countries are meeting in Quebec City
to discuss the FTAA agreement and Its
implication .within the next five
They
years.
During the Summit of the
Americas, a three square-kilometre
area of the inner old city of Quebec
will be barricaded with two to three
metre high chain link fences set in
concrete highway dividers, said
Michael D. Wallace, from the
Department of Political Science at the
UniversHy of British Columbia.
This is to keep the heads of state
and the corporate contingent safe
from the protesters.
All those living inside must have
police passes to come and go to their
own homes or businesses, said
Wallace,
ball-bearing’lndustry.
The same report says that he has
vowed to destroy every public hospi-
A massive non-violent civil disobedience rally in Quebec city is being
planned for April 20-22.
tal in North America, claiming they
are not "good corporate citizens".
If the service industry in Canada
turns into a for-profit business, any
company will have the right to estab-
Roads are rising due to
bad weather this winter
ROADS ARE CRACKING
UP THIS WINTER DUE
TO HEAVY SNOWFALL
BY JENN MCKAY
Chronicle staff
The roads are full of potholes this year.
"The roads are not in very good condition, that’s for sure." said Bob Lee, superintendent of transportation for the Region
of Durham,
Lee said the weather is to blame.
"It’s the freeze-thaw, cycle," he said.
"There’s been a lot of snow and melting
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Photo by Jam McKay
MELTED SNOW IS CAUSING
DANGEROUS ROADS: Frozen
water In the crac.ks on roads
causes more potholes
Potholes start with cracks in the pavement.
"The snow gets into the cracks in the the plants that make hot mix.
Although hot mix is available in
then it melts and becomes
pavement,
wster n he said
Toronto, it’s expensive and it’s only used to
"The water freezes over night and push- fix big problems in the winter, said Lee.
Instead, there is a "high performance
es the road up."
Cars travelling on the road drive over cold mix" for the winter that doesn’t work
these areas, crushing the cracked pavement as well, he said;
To help reduce potholes there is a weight
and creating potholes, said Lee.
.
At this time of year, he said, there is only restriction on some regional roads from
a cold mix available to patch the potholes, now until the end of April.
and it doesn’t work as well as the hot mix.
Nothing can be done to properly fix the
"As a rule, we wait until the local plants roads until the weather gets warmer, said
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Chronicle student
A student receives another
disappointment as he gets his
third failing test mark. No
matter how much the teacher
tries to help him, hc’still can’t
understand the material. He
feels that it might be helpful If
someone else goes over the
information with him. What
he needs is a peer tutor,
Tlic peer tutoring program
matches students experiencing
difficulties in specific courses
with second and third year
tutors who have successfully
completed these courses.
Currently about 60 tutors
are helping 80 students, said
Judy Kellar, assistant co-ordinator of peer tutoring. Tutors
may help as many students as
they can handle. There is no
maximum.
Students who wish to be a
tutor must have a grade point
average of 3.0 and 75 per cent
in the subject they want to
tutor. Tutors get paid $10 an
campus.
Being a tutor, looks good on
a resume, said Pelcowitz. "It is
a great way to get experience.
The hardest part of being a
tutor Is finding time to fit it
in," he added. Also, it is sometimes hard to make a Student
understand something. When
that happens, he has to find
other ways of helping the student.
According to the peer tutoring pamphlet, students are
encouraged to combine peer
tutoring with other student
.
success tools. They include
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learning how to improve study
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and creating an Individuskills
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is important to tutors because
it reinforces their knowledge.
The best part of the program
is the satisfaction of being able
to provide additional resources
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The craziest wedding ever
DINNER THEATRE IS
FULL OF MAYHEM
AND MATRIMONY
mony
I’m torn between appreciating the show for its originality
and being disgusted by Its
approach.
Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding
is
an-interactive dinner theatre
where the guests are treated
like members of the family.
This wedding was like the one
family event you wish you
could forget, but are still
haunted by. The noise level is
so loud, the voices and music
bleed into one, and the
colours do the same.
The characters are so believable, so convincing, so able to
set a mood, so obnoxious, so
p^ifu}, so - oh my’ * God will
this never end?
Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding is
the longest running comedy
ever. For 13 years audiences
have been thrilled, amused
and stunned by its stereotypical reality.
.
:
,. ,
We arrived at the Second
City dinner theatre on Blue.
Jays Way in Toronto for Tony
n’ Tina’s Wedding at 6:30. My
mother, her date, my date and
I, didn’t know what to expect.
We waited in a lounge and at
. 6:45 we were herded into the
chapel by a loud and bawdy
,
staff.
The chapel, a sardine can,
painted black, had a set right
out of your high school drama
class. All the guests were
crammed inside and the ceremony was ready to begin.
The wedding party parade
extravaganza followed a hymn
directed by Sister Albert Maria,
the bride’s cousin, formerly
known as Terri. The guests
sang it off beat and out of
tune,; but with a lot of enthu-
siasm none-the-less.
Th.e church doors burst
open at the> sound of the
organ to reveal the groom’s
, father, Mr. Nunzio, sub-,
s .merged in his trampy girl
A friend’s cleavage. Startled by
I" the noise, they came back1 to
and’
moment
the
strolled/bounced down the
aisle and took their seats,
Next came the most
hideous bridal party you can
imagine: a pregnant maid of
honour, two bridesmaids (one
trampy, the other gangly) and
greasy groomsmen
, three
Itripped down the aisle.
1C Then the blushing bride,
laccompanled by her brother,
|inade her way to the alter to
groom.
tnheet herunconventional
cereThe
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foreshadowed the
events of the evening to follow. The priest made crude
jokes and off-hand comments
like, "When Tina’s moustache
is thicker than Tony’s, love
endures." Family members
argued, in-laws pinched each
other’s rear ends and, the wedding party was at each other’s
throats.
With the ceremony at an
end, we guests were again
herded to our destination, the
reception hall. Relatives
grabbed us, pinched our
cheeks and asked us if we’d
seen Vinnie, Pauly or Georgio
yet.
Once all the guests had.
found their tables, we were all
welcomed by Vinnie and
Loretta Black, the caterer and
his wife, who then introduced
the wedding party. They burst
through the doors yelling,
dancing and flailing their
limbs.on their way to the head
table.
Family members and wait
staff mingled with guests,
spreading family gossip- and
exclaiming, "How long has it
been?"
The band was set up in the
corner of the room with a
small dance floor in front of
them, where the bride and
groom had their first dance.
Swaying back and forth to the
music, they made out like
teenagers in the back seat of a
car.
After their dance, the guests
were encouraged, or should I
say forced, to dance as well..
Wait staff and relatives
Photo by Amy Harris
WHATEVERI: Tina. the bride to be, and Connie, the maid of honor, are just two
of the characters participating in Second City’s Tony and Tina’s Wedding.
girlfriend threw herself at
many of the male guests,
including my date. She was
later seen stripping on a table
.top.
.
By this point Sister Albert
dragged, the sometimes Maria was drunk, had lost her
protesting guests up to dance habit and apparently her conto songs like YMCA and science, as she lifted her skirt.
and kissed a man. The bride’s
Staying Alive.
As the night progressed the mother, . Josephine Vitale,
antics continued. At one point chased after the fallen nun
a bridesmaid and her man and pointing to the sky said,
were pulled out from .under : "He’s watching you know!"
The priest was found drunk
the head table, partially
clothed and the other brides- and covered in what looked
maid ;y/as crying over tielhg like war paint, which had to
’stood up; Sister Albert Maria be cake icing, and wearing
.took me away from my ’table some sort of headdress.
Our pasta dinner was served
by the hand and left me with
the hysterical girl. who yelled, to us cafeteria style, thrown
"I don’t care! I’m going stag!" onto bur/plates hastily. My
’Then she turned to me [and mother was yelled at in line
for not moving fast enough.
said, "You can be my hew best
y’
Later Vinnie yelled at me for
friend if you want.^ ;
The bride and "her maid of not eating enough.
When they wheeled out the
honour got into a fight. They
screamed out curses and made, cake I was overjoyed that the
rude gestures. The bride fiasco was almost at an end,
grabbed the microphone and but first the bride arid gloom
yelled,’ "You’re not the maid had to get into a fight. They
of honour. You’re the maid of- smashed cake in each. other’s
trash," then she gave her the faces and argued so much that
the entire room was yelling.
finger.
The father of the groom’s Then the family got involved.
.
BY AMY HARRIS
Chronicle staff
^
An old man lost his hair piece going to be like that."
She thought that the show
and -a groomsman ended up
on the floor reeling in pain
after being kneed in the crotch
by a bridesmaid.
Vinnie the caterer yelled
into the microphone, " Do
Italians know how to throw a
great wedding or what?"
When we were finally
released from the freak show,
our party shared mixed opinions on.the way to the car.
Martin’Gignac said. that for
a middle of the week activity,
it was pretty good and he
would recommend it to his
friends.
"It’s a good thing to do on a
Wednesday night," he said. "It
was a good length, not too
long or too short. It was a fun
thing to do."
Gignac said that the characters played their roles well,
"All the stereotypes were
there," he said. "The characters were very believable."
Sheri Harris was a little disturbed by the show. She wasn’t very comfortable with the
Interaction.
"I think it would have been
better if I’d been drinking,"
she said. "I didn’t know It was
would be better suited to a
younger crowd.
"It would have to be geared
to a certain crowd who likes
that sort of thing,-" she said.
Matthew Coultice, who is a
bit more comfortable with the
interaction, enjoyed the performance a great deal, but
then he also had the benefit of
a few drinks to loosen him up,
"The interaction is an interesting and sometimes fun
part of the play," he said.
He thought the characters
did ah excellent Job playing
their roles.
"Each person in the wedding party was given a part
and they played it well," he
said, "in some cases too well."
His favourite part of the
show was the uproarious wed.
ding’ ceremony.
"It was like so many weddings gone bad, rolled into
one," he said,
When it’s all said and done,
I think my mother’s comment
really put the evening into
perspective.
"Just remember," she said;
"it was $70 a ticket."
20 THE CHRONICLE
March 20, 2001
Gemstones: More than just pretty rocks
BY KAREN COYLE
stone therapist in Toronto.
She has been practising for 11
Chronicle staff
Bright red, smoky grey,
sparkly purple or multicoloured. Gernstoncs come ui
almost every colour imaginable. They are not only beautiful, but powerful as well.
Gemstone
has
therapy
become
very
popular.
Although it is not recom-
mended as an alternative to
medicine, some believe they
can help everything from
emotional to health problems.
The theory behind gemstones or crystals, as some call
them, is they carry vibrations.
If a person places a crystal
within their aura, it supposedly can cliange the aura’s
vibration. The aura is the
atmosphere around the body.
There are hundreds of different kinds of gemstones,
some of which have not been
named yet. Each stone has its
own power, but they could
also mean different things to
different people. For example
the carnelian for some people
protects against fear, envy
and rage. For others it helps
balance creativity. There is no
right or wrong use of a gemstone. It means whatever the
bearer feels it means.
Lorraine Venner is a gem-
years.
"I started to take an interyears.
est in crystals and stuff when
"I wouldn’t say gemstones I met a girl named Mary who
work miracles," said Venner. practises Wicca," said Mills.
"But I have seen and felt "She always wore a moss
them do wonderful things." agate around her neck. She
Venner does not use gems to said it keeps her in touch
cure serious illness, but she with nature. I found that realhas had them work on things ly interesting. Now I have
such as colds and allergies or many of my own stones for
sore muscles.
all different occasions."
Some of the gems she uses
Maureen
of
Jaques
are black onyx, for overcom- Cobourg is a little unsure of
ing bad habi.ts; jade, for relax- the powers of crystals.
ation and reducing tension in
"I have to say I am one of
muscles; chrysoprasc, for spir- the most sceptical yet gullible
itual protection and green persons to ever walk the face
aventurinc for physical heal- of the earth," said Jaques.
ing. Other gemstones can "And while I have seen things
enhance creativity, giving with crystals and such, I am
physical and spiritual energy not sure if it’s the will behind
and almost anything else one the process that does its cure
can think of. Venner recom- or the crystal in itself."
mends using only high qualiWhen Jaques holds certain
ty un-dyed gemstones. They gems, she almost sees where
should have no chips or frac- they came from. "I was given
tures and should not be irra- a drab piece of grey stone,
diated. If a stone has been and when I held onto it I.got
dyed or irradiated, Venner a worm’s eye view of horse
believes it can decrease the hooves, on the corner of a
strength of the crystal. Metal street," she said. "Apparently
can also inhibit the strength the stone was taken from the
of the crystal. It is best to corner of a home In Ireland. I
have the gems strung on silk was told nothing about the
to prevent any obstructions.
stone by the person who
Katie Mills of Pickering has brought it back for me."
been experimenting with Several other times, she has
gerastones for about two seen visions of where the
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gems came from, simply by
holding them.
"I can’t say why these happen," said Jaques. "Some people are real believers. Me, I’m
not ready for rules like that
yet. I guess I like to think of It
more as magic than prescription. As far as telling where
rocks came from, I do believe
rocks hold energy and that
energy can be felt."
Crystals can be used in
many ways. The most known
is to rub the desired gem
between your fingers or wear
them around your neck. But
the oldest technique is to use
them with the chakras.
Chakras are the main energy
points in the human body.
The word comes from the
Sanskrit word for wheel. The
chakras are like wheels of
energy, constantly rotating.
The human body has seven
main chakras according to
Jim Telson, a gemstone therapist in England. Each chakra
branches off into many
smaller chakras. These are the
basis- for acupuncture. The’
first main chakra is the base
of the spine, second is the
spleen or sexual centre, third
is the solar plexus, fourth is
the heart, fifth is the throat,
sixth is the third eye or brow
and seventh is the crown.
"These chakras all play an
extremely active role in all
our crystal healing treat’
ments, said Telson in an
email interview. He believes
the reason people become ill
or become stressed is because
their cliakras are out of alignment. During his sessions, he
has the patient lie down on
their back. He then places
crystals on the chakras.
"If the patient lies quietly
on his or her back for 15 min-’
utes, the chakras should
realign themselves," said
Telson. The chakras can be
healed separately as well as
altogether. Each chakra helps
heal something different. For
example the base chakra
helps relieve physical stress
and tension of the nervous
system. The throat chakra
can be used to help people
with tense back, shoulder or
neck muscles. The crown
chakra opens the mind.
Crystals can be purchased
at many different places such
as Tribal Voices and other
Native stores,
’’When a person purchases
their own crystals, they
should choose the ones that
feel comfortable to them,"
said Venner. "They should
not just take the first ones
they see."
aMVBENT NEWS
Kanker Face and their underground
BY MATT CROWDER
Chronicle staff
"I thought there were 40
people in the crowd in front of
the stage so I jumped. There
says Garrett Wood, singer for
the band Kanker Face.
The local band that has survived for four years and countless line-up changes sat in
their dimly lit downtown
Oshawa apartment, with
smoke heavy in the air, watching a crocodile attempt to eat
a running lawnmower on
Crocodile Hunter.
The current incarnation of
Kanker -Face spawned from
drinking with friends.
.With concerts that can consist of fireworks exploding on
stage and the occasional setting of someone’s hair on fire,
Kanker Face is one of the
bands you see when looking
for fun taken to that special
level of Insanity.
The band laughs at a
Montreal paper’s review that
calls them a pogo punk band.
"Punk is about self-expression, fun... the underground,"
say’s bassist, Nick Martino.
"We don’t consider ourselves
punk."
Could a self-respecting individualized punk say anything
different?
For a band that’s been
. together for four -years_they’ve
grown and evolved. .;.
"Much better music, and
more talent," says guitarists
John "Mad cow."
labeling their music.
’’All ’of us have different
bands we like and it reflects in
.the music," adds drummer
Russ Madill.
Mainly John and Martino.
write the songs,, but .evervpne
^contributes to the baiid.’^S^^
Kanker Faces
song? reflect
urban decay they live’-in.
Themes can range norn drink"We play what we play," ing -with friends to more dis"scoffs ^Wood when it comes to turbing subjects like manipu;-,
Photo by Mat! Crowdo
.
LOCAL BAND KANKER FACE - From left: Russ Madill, Garrett Wood, John"Mad Cow" Nick Martino
lating and controlling the
population.
"I sing about things I don’t
like,"’ says Wood as he contemplates a recently finished
Ex. "I sing about control and
^everything else 1 see." "
’-’^i Kanker Face’s irresponsible
nature belies their serious attitude when it comes to their
music. The band appears on a
compilation put out by Sick
and Twisted Records titled
Sick and Twisted, and their
demo- is filtering around the
local scene.
Band members for Kanker
Face don’t have any grand
Illusions about fame and fortune. Their five-year plan
includes much of the same
playing and partying that has
kept them going for the last
four years
"In five years I see myself
here doing the same thing,
hopefully making $ 9
hour," says John.
As the evening stretches o
the smoke gets heavier, t
case of beer gets lighter a
the
conversation
towards
a
naked
tui
BlUi
Spears.
Kanker Face plays Ma
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warz competition at E
Taylors, $8 in advance a
$10 at the door.
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THE CHRONICLE
March 20. 2001 23
IBRBtiNHENT NEKS
De ath metal eone cle an
BY KAREN COYLE
Chronicle staff
"What is It In my eyes? A
piece of broken glass? Is this
the time I should be on my
knees for you? Is this your
way of telling, another has
been found? Now I know It’s
teargas in my eyes." That is
the chorus of Katatonia’s
newest single, "Teargas",
available on the new-album
Last Fair Deal Gone Down.
The album contains 11
new tracks and is very similar
to their last album Tonight’s
Decision, released in 1999.
.Over the years Katatonia’s
Akerfeldt sang death metal
vocals on Katatonia’s Brave
Murder Day released in 1997
and it was quite an improvement from Rcnkse’s attempt.
However Renkse did some
back up vocals on the album
in a clean voice. That album
was definitely better than
anything released before.
Since then the band has
decided to give up on the
death metal vocals all together. The majority of the songs
on Last Fair Deal Gone Down
have depressing lyrics, written
by Renkse. All the music is
written by the band, which
now includes guitarist Fred
Norrman.
"On the new album the
lyrics are very personal," said
Renkse in an interview with
Terrorizer magazine. "I don’t
see myself as a suicidal person...usually. But I think
everyone of us has’ moments
when you think everything is
shit, and that is when I write."
Since their vocals are no
longer death metal, fans have
accused the band of "wimping out". They say Katatonia
isn’t ’:netal anymore.
’
"We are metal!" Said
Nystrom In Terrorizer.- "That’s
itf It’s just that we’ve developed it. We worked bn’-the
| ’arrangements and adopted
:^"
*; ’:r4b matter what people say,
: Renkse’s vocals are amazing.^
There is no doubt that the.
sound has changed several
times, from a scary attempt at
death metal, to acceptable
death metal to their latest
genre, doom metal.
On their 1992 demo album
Jhva Elohim Meth... The
Revival, vocalist and drummer Jonas Renkse attempted
to sing death metal. That was
a huge mistake. He tried again
on their first real album
Dance of December Souls, and
it wasn’t any better. After
that, Renkse and guitarist
Anders Nystrom enlisted
vocalist Mike Akerfeldt of
Opeth, a technical somewhat
jazzy death metal band.
l^tenftols.^^^
^^
Since it is similar to their
last
Tonight’s
album,
Decision, it is difficult to say
which is better. There are no
particular, songs that .sound
like any of the tracks on
Bury.you,Is fairly depressing",. Tonight’s Decision, it’s the
The title says It all-, jt’s about .album as whole that is comsomeone "he--believes should parable. Last Fair Deal Gone
die. But It still sounds, really Down Is a great album.
Anyone who likes Tonight’s
good.^:;
True Katatonia fans will Decision or doom metal in
appreciate the music, lyrics general would definitely love
this one.
and vocals.
band has come a long way
since their demo. Some people might say the lyrics are
too melancholy^ -\ but that", is’
just the way Katatbnia.js. For
example the song "We. Must
The Mexican shoots
blanks at the movies
BY TARA-LYNN HANSEN
Chronicle staff.
It is number one at the box
office, and stars the highest
paid actress in Hollywood.
The Mexican stars Brad Pitt
as a man named Jerry
Welbach who works for the
mob.
Julia Roberts is Samantha,
his girlfriend who wants him
to quit the mob or she is
going to Las Vagas.
Jerry has a reputation for
always messing up the jobs
the mob asks him to do.
He continues -to tell
Samantha that every job is
his last, but he does it wrong
and is given another.
His ’last job’ is to go to
Mexico and bring home this
handmade pistol that just
happens to be cursed. Jerry found the pistol, and the
spends the entire movie chas- movie is finally going to end,
ing after a pistol he can never
seem to get his hands on for
very long.
In
the
meantime,
Samantha makes her way to
Las Vagas and befriends mobster James Gandolfini, who
also plays a mob boss in the
television show the Sopranos.
They end up going
through ups and downs of
their own, and somehow by
the end of the movie;
Samantha ends up back with
Jerry who is still in Mexico,
and surprise, still looking for
the pistol.
At every turn in of the
movie; I hoped it would end.
It seemed to last forever, and
just when you think that lie
he loses the pistol again.
People keep being shot,
and it is hard to figure out
which people are good guys
and which are not,
The audience did not
know who wanted to kill
Jerry and who wanted the
gun.
Neither did the main character
The only positive part of
the movie is watching Brad
Pitt, for obvious reasons, and
seeing the credits.
My advice would be to
wait until the movie comes
on video.
That way when you are
bored, you can stop it and
start watching it later.
Time is up
BY TRAVIS GRAY
the collection of the money
gets botched up, and two peoAndy Warhol-once. made a ple wind up dead with the
comment about everyone get- whole thing on videotape.
ting their 15 minutes of fame.
Realizing America’s appetite
His comment has now become for strange and brutal crimes,
a part of pop culture, so much they figure they’ve got it
so that the term ’15 minutes’ made. Manipulate the legal
refers to people who are a blip system, work the media, negoon the news reel like Darva tiate a couple of cash settleConger or Dick Assman from ments and they can become
Saskatchewan
(remember rich while gettfng away with
him?). These people come in murder.
After the murders they rig
through the back door usually,
and
become the apartment to explode and
suddenly
famous...and then its gone, make the deaths look accidental,
Enter celebrated police
just like that.
And sudden fame is what officer
Eddie
Flemming
the movie 15 minutes is about. (Robert De Niro) and fire marTwo guys from Europe (Oleg shal Jordy Warsaw (Edward
Taktarov and Karel Roden, Burns). Both De Niro and
one’s a Czech the other’s Burns play well off each other
an
Russian) come to the United creating
unlikely
States to collect money owed mentor/student relationship
to them by a friend. Along the when Warsaw takes a personal
way they steal a video camera, interest in the case. They team
uip to try and find the killers.
Jong the way, our fame-hunAlong
gry killers kill more and decide
to target Flemming, realizing
the death’ of a famous cop
caught on tape would command a high price.
Kelsey Grammar plays news
anchor (and I use that term
loosely) Robert Hawkins, hosts
of a tabloid TV show called
Top Story, whose motto is,
Hard To BelieveWatch.
Hawkins will go to any lengths,.
to get the story and soon
becomes a pariah to the movie
audience.
The killers sell their tape to
him and it Is broadcast for all
of New York City to watch.
Although the situation may
seem improbable, we’ve
already dealt with next best
thing to murder. Remember
Dr. KeVorkian on 60 minutes?
60 Minutes broadcast a suicide
for the world to watch. Suicide
differs from murder, only In
that the person kills himself.
So if a suicide can be broadcast why not a murder? And
that is the scary thing about 15
minutes. It can happen. As
the years go by the ethical
standards of certain people
drop. Although the show Top
Story is more of a parody than
a reflection of tabloid TV, who
knows what sort of crap an
executive at one, of these
shows is cooking up?
Temptation Island and Who
Wants to Marry a MultiMillionaire belittle the standards of marriage and commitment. So think of 15 minutes
as having the same concept as
those twoshows, but 10 times
Chronicle staff
worse.
.
;
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.
Hell I’m.going to go out on
a limb here and say that within the next 10 years, what happened in 15 minutes, will happen in real life. I guarantee it.
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March 20. 2001
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I O C c o m e s into town
Continued from Page 1
Oshawa’s acting mayor Joe
Kolodzie said the city Is 100
per cent behind the bid and
the venue for Durham,
"The city is backing this
venue all the way," said
Kolodzie.
"This is great for the city
and the college. We will make
every effort to ensure Durham
College will be a successful
host to the women’s fastball
’
tournament."
Jackic DeSouza, media representative of the Toronto
2008 bid, thought the visit
and hoped the visit would
have been longer because of
the evaluation teams’ schedules.
"Being able to showcase the
college was great," said
Armstrong. "1 was thrilled to
be a part of it. It was obvious
there was a lot of enthusiasm
about the site for the tournament, and the college and the
city officials should be very
proud of this facility."
The aspect that impressed
the IOC members the most
was how Oshawa has supported the sport in the past.
"Both the college and the
city have always given support to basebafl in the past
and I know for a fact that was
what impressed the delegation
the
most," said
went well and that all aspects
of the bid are pointing in the
right direction.
"We were very happy with
the way the tour went," said
DeSouza.
Armstrong.
During the bid organizers
The bid committee will
presentation they took the have to wait until May for a
evaluation team step by step full report card.;.
through the renovations the
The IOC evaluation tour
venue will go through.
will be visiting, Paris -and
"The renovations to the IstanbuUn the neXt few -weeks
facility will be: a media room, and then they will be making
new change rooms, upgrades Qtheltrec6rrririenaatlbns.^
to the field and. the, lighting .,, ^’It’s;igolng to. tie-as waiting’
standards," said
former game until May because that
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Armstrong.’ ’
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Durham I would have to say it the^ ’ Various ’sites,’*’ ’said
was a fast and furious visit Armstrong.
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tour was very well’organized, sometimes."
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Photo by Jim Humphrey
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organizers arrive by bus. They were at Durham College to look over. the
campus, which would host women’s fastball if Toronto
to gets the 2008 Games.
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THE CHRONICLE
March 20, 2001 27
IgS NEWS
athl ete makes his exit
BY CHRIS FASCIANO
Service came to Durham a up in the world, maybe even
couple of years ago to play bas- being a manager or owning his
ketball, but more importantly own business.
For Quado Service, the to get a diploma.
"I always wanted to do
game against Centennial was
"(Durham has) got some of that," said Service. "Own my
not only the last of the season, the best programs," said own facility, like a gym facilibut the last of his college Service. "Last year they were tycareer as well.
"If not own" my own comnumber one in athletics.
A sports administration stu- That’s what it is all about.
pany then be an executive at a
dent at Durham College,
"It’s not about basketball, major company."
Now that Service is finishit’s not about sports, it’s about
. Service will graduate this year
and will leave the school.
coming to college to get an ing in college he can reflect on
Despite’a rough season for education," he added. "When liow it went.
the men’s basketball team, fin- all that stuff is finished (bas"I think it was alright,
ishing in sixth place and not ketball), your education is all minus the not winning," he
said. "All the guys are fun,
making the play-offs, Service you have."
was one of the Lords top scorHe feels that Ills education meeting all the new guys every
ers, and emitted a unique is what will get him a job, not year.
sense of leadership, helping his basketbaTl. And now that
"Every time I play, I have
the team to get through those he is finishing college that is, fun," he added. "Regardless if
exactly what he is going to try I win or lose, cause that’s what
ugly games.
this has been a trait of and do, get a job.
it’s all about. It would be more
Service’s throughout his career
"I’m planning to get a job, fun if we win, but what are
on the basketball team, as well find a job In my program," he you going to do. You can’t do
as being a player who has said. "(I’ll) work from there." it all by yourself."
come through for his team on
Before college Service also
"Possibly, I’m going to go to
many occasions.
university to get a degree,"
volleyball and soccer in
Service picked up the game said Service. "I’m not sure yet,
Igh school, but chose not to
of basketball while in high but we’ll see how that goes."
play the latter in college
Service hopes to keep play- because of the weather condischool, in Sarnia Ontario,
when his track and Held coach ing basketball, even though he tions.
"It’s too cold out," he said.
Introduced him to the basket- is not sure where yet.
ball coach. He has been play"Maybe (I’ll) continue play- "If it was in the summer, no STANDING TALL: DC men’s basketball player
ing basketball somewhere problem, but I don’t really like
ing ever since."
Quado Service combined skill with leadership.
"I think It’s fun," he said. else," he said: "Not in college, the cold."
His amazing talent, and few short months, Durham
"Itgets Into a lot of things cre- but maybe overseas or some- ’ Now with the season over
and college drawing to a close, love for the game of basketball will not only lose a good play
iatively. You’can do different thing like that."
He hopes in a couple of it Is time for Quado to say will .certainly be missed by er but a good person.
.passes and different things.
; It’s cool."
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years that he will be moving good-bye.
coaches and fans. alike; In a
Chronicle staff
Elayed