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tceProjector RED RIVER COLLEGE Re.5 ROVER COaeC4F, stubents' association przesents: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31 Tijuana Yacht Club - Doors at 8 pm $5 Advance Tickets available from The Ox Store, The Mercantile, & Participating RRC Entrepreneurship Groups $1 from every ticket will be donated to Unicef! OCTOBER 23 2006 News in Brief CAMPUS TOURS: Interested in becoming a student at RRC? Tempt yourself further by taking a pre- scheduled tour of the Notre Dame of Princess St. campuses. Tours usually last around one hour in which you will find out all about college life, courses, programs, services for students and how to apply. The tour covers all corners of the campuses to give you a great idea of what it's like to be a student at RRC and a \\\ heads up on how to navigate your way around. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Groups are limited to 25 and must be booked in advance. If you would like further information about RRC campus tours call Carolyn Burton at 632-2115 or Lisa James Turner Vogt at 632-2402 for booking or general questions. [email protected] (204)-990-7490 THE PROJECTOR WANTS YOU! The Projector is looking for writers from all ends of our college. Every program, from each campus is eligible to express themselves in this paper — it is your voice. We welcome any willing participants to join us at our next story meeting on Friday, Oct. 6, NEWS EDITOR in room W102 (the newsroom) at the Princess St. campus, at Noon. Bring some good ideas for what you'd like to write about, or listen to some of Joanna Fultz ours. If you have an idea and just can't wait, email us! news@theprojectorca NEED TO CATCH UP ON NEWS? HEALTH, SPORTS & Extra! Extra! Read all about it, cheapo! FREE Winnipeg Sun newspapers are LIFESTYLES EDITOR available compliments of the RRC Students' Association at the RRC Notre Dame and Princess St. campuses. Kathryn McBurney At Notre Dame campus, you can find them near the Timmy's, outside the BookZone and outside the Voyageur (access via B building) [email protected] At the Princess St. campus, catch your daily read also near Timbo's, outside the bookstore and in the cafeteria. Now you have no exeuse not to be informed! WELCOME HOME TROOPS! ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR After nearly two weeks in the trenches, a team of eight RRC students who volun- teered their time at the Canadian Maneuver Training Centre in Wainwright, AB were Amie Lesyk back in classes at the Princess St. campus on Oct. 9. In participation with the Canadian military, the students helped in the simulation arts@theprojectorca of a real Middle East war zone by contributing their journalistic talents to the roles of embedded, international and local reporters through television broadcasts and other military exercises. After what many of them say to have been a "life changing experience," Helen Cholakis, Meghan Batchelor, Melissa Martin, Dan Verville, Matt Wright, Andrea Collins, Brant Batterl and Sean McLeod are happy to have had the opportunity to go to Albertistan. LAYOUT & DESIGN EDITOR Welcome home guys! Lynsey Sable [email protected] ca b. m c. @rr Contributing Writers ier ss glu Ally Wand Marta Almeida r LAYOUT & DESIGN Nisha Tuli Matt Urban ie Davina Pessagno Dawn Hinchliffe Matt Wright Michelle Melanson Tyrone Fontaine Melissa Martin Zachary Minuk Luss [email protected] David Smith Allison Hancharyk Shawn Houde Holly Bochurka Guy Drew Kozub Derek Jory jach Rach Dan Verville CT: Britt Novakowski Sean Perkins Andrea Danelak Meghan Delorme CONTA Brant Batters ING LAYOUT & DESIGN Brooke Nelson ADVERTIS [email protected] LAYOUT & DESIGN The Projector Jessica Phillips c/o Red River College Students' Association P110 -160 Princess Street Winnipeg, MB R3B 1 K9 [email protected] i Phone: 204.947.0013 Fax: 204.949.9150 PROJECTING THINGS SINCE 1968 OCTOBER 23 2006 NEWS Are We Safe At Red River College? By Allie [email protected] Graphic Brooke Nelson School shootings have been a recurring event gency procedures just yet. over the past few months. Between Sept.13 and Oct. Jesse Wilson, vice-president of 10, 2006, five school shootings have taken place in the the RRC Students' Association, United States and Canada, the closest in Montreal says, "[Our emergency procedures at Dawson College. The recent shootings have had are] constantly evaluated and have not been a mixed effect on students at the' Red River College proven ineffective." (RRC) campuses. Wilson ensures students there are procedures in Stephanie Lees, a business administration student place in case of an emergency, but explains the infor- at the RRC Notre Dame campus, feels safe while mation is not available to the public because it would at school. She credits her sense of security to the breach the level of security at the college. One thing fact that all of the shootings have taken place a fair Wilson can share is the goal of the procedures. distance from Winnipeg. "The objective of the plan is to minimize the "I might be worried if there was something that expansion of the threat...to vacate the area and get happened closer," says Lees. people to a no-danger zone. There are people in the But Tiana Lo Presti, a business administration college who will help until the proper authorities get to student at the Princess St. campus (PSC), already the scene." worries about something that could happen closer Security manager of RRC, Jim Dreyer, reminds than Dawson College. students that the college takes the safety of the staff "It's kind of scary. You can die at any moment and students very seriously. All security members went security guards are equipped with an without any warning...it shouldn't take a school to a recent meeting regarding the number of school shooting [at RRC] to make [security] changes." shootings this year. They decided there is no need to Emergency Preparedness Manual, which outlines what Hany George, a commerce CNI sales student at increase security actions to take in the case of an emergency. In addition to that, the PSC, agrees with Lo Presti. "There are [extra security guards] available on Darryl Nielsen, manager of Campus Services at the PSC, has "[Security] should re-evaluate their entire sys- short notice for a temporary basis if needed," says a background in risk control. Dreyer adds that if an emer- tem. They should be prepared at all times to expect Dreyer. gency were to occur, Nielsen would "work with security to help anything." Dreyer also points out that there are 50 cameras resolve any incident." But security isn't planning on changes to emer- at the PSC and 24-hour security at both colleges. All Develm It Andme hey may uo Mental Health A Top By Nisha [email protected] Priority The sounds of music from a noon concert float By Devine [email protected] through Old Market Square, people walk up and down Portage Avenue, busses carry commuters downtown, and Portage Place Mall is bustling - it's the middle of Winnipeggers can breathe a the day, in the middle of the week, but come back in a sigh of relief. Earl Joey Wiebe, a 23- few hours and you'll get a very different picture. year-old mental health patient who "The decline of Winnipeg's downtown began escaped from ,custody while at the sometime after 1955 and became recognized as a Health Sciences Centre for psychi- community issue by the 1970's," says Hart Martin, 'a atric evaluation, has turned himself downtown advocate and real estate professional in a into authorities in Victoria, B.C. The recent interview with the Winnipeg Free Press (WFP). advent of his escape raising concerns "Since then, every civic and provincial government and about the incidence of mental health a few federal [governments] have made an open effort issues among young adults. to reverse the decline. Still, it seems, much is left to do." The Winnipeg Police Service It appears that the most important factor to reviv- issued a press release announcing ing downtown is to get people to live there. Wiebe's return to Winnipeg on "With people will come spin-off businesses to serve Oct.11. Wiebe was found not crimi- them," says Stefano Grande, executive director of the nally responsible for the murder of Downtown Improvement Business Zone (BIZ), in an his stepmother in 2000 and has since interview with the WFP on Sept. 15. The BIZ has been been a patient at the Selkirk Mental sponsoring bus tours to promote downtown living, and Health Centre. Grande says that people are noticing a change. "People Mental health disorders have are telling us they're absolutely impressed with what's a wide spectrum of conditions and going on in downtown housing development." diagnosis. The Canadian Mental Three multi-million dollar housing projects are Health Association (CMHA) website, currently under construction or in the early stages of wwwcmha.ca, lists about a dozen development. The Waterfront Drive project will give disorders. These are disorders such Winnipeggers a reason to move downtown, and will as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, provide new and affordable housing to residents who depression to phobias and OCD. wish to embrace urban life. According to a report from the Both civic and provincial government interven- Winnipeg Regional Health Authority tion is fuelling the momentum that Winnipeg seems (WRHA), 1 out of 10 Canadians over to be gaining. Mayoral candidates Sam Katz and Kaj 15 years old have reported symptoms Hasselriis are both citing plans to bring residents into of these disorders. That is approxi- downtown, and the city has over ten different organiza- mately 2.6 million people.