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HAPPY VALENTINE ’S DAY – TH E NEXT NUGGET ’S ON MARC H 4 THE P l e a s e r e c y c l e t h i s Thursday, February 11, 2010 newspaper when you are Volume 47, Issue 19 finished with it. NUGGETYOUR STUDENT NEWSPAPER EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA Ooks win on and off court Lady Ooks, in pink uniforms, raised over $4,000 for breast cancer research and swept No. 1 King’s College 69-63 and 61-53 in weekend action INSIDE: Clubs Corner: Pages 30-31 Dr. CONwisDOM: Page 27 Entertainment: Pages 16-28 Editorial: Page 9 Grapevines: Page 22 Horoscope: Page 28 Hot Single: Page 29 Jamie Anderson-Reid Mouthing Off: Page 27 Ook Molly McMahon takes a shot as Dale-Marie Cumberbatch, 6, waits for a rebound during a game on the weekend against King’s College. For News & Features: Pages 2-8 more, see What’s Hot, What’s Not, page 11. Sports: Pages 10-15 2 The Nugget Thursday, February 11, 2010 NEWS&FEATURES Awards for NAIT media winning an international award was one of the team’s goals, beating out a bunch of stiff competi- tion was gratifying too. “UBC’s site is in there, BCIT,” Stoesz elaborated. “Those are really great sites. We’re in with all the universities, all the other RYAN FLAHERTY colleges in those regions, Issues Editor so it was pretty good to get the award.” Marketing Wherever you go these days, it seems our & digital media also won school has a pretty solid reputation. Whether a gold for the School of the subject is quality of education, tuition rates Hospitality website and a or class size, NAIT has established itself as one silver in the photography of the top schools of its type in Western Canada, and illustration category if not the whole country. These days, thanks for it’s fall brand position- to increasing positive recognition, that reputa- ing campaign image. tion continues to expand and now includes the Adding to the haul, school’s corporate communications, advance- Techlife magazine was ment, and marketing and digital media teams. handed two awards, The latest example of this recognition including the school’s sec- came in the form of several awards won by the ond Grand Gold, which three departments. The awards, handed out by recognized the publi- the Council for Advancement and Support of cation as the best gen- Education (CASE) in a number of geographi- eral interest print maga- cal regions throughout North America, recog- zine. The judges looked nize creativity, talent and a whole host of other at a number of factors, NAIT’s award-winning, revamped website. positive attributes displayed in a number of explained Sherri Krastel, formats. manager of corporate communications. “The magazine. “Winning the award is great but at the end In District VIII (Western Canada and the award submission really focuses on demon- Not to be outdone, the school’s advance- of the day if we’re not serving our readers Pacific Northwest of the U.S.), NAIT won strating in a plan that you have had a goal and ment team won a pair of CASE awards. The we’re not doing our job, so we do a readership seven awards in total, including two Grand some clearly defined objectives with the mag- “SS Benefit NAIT Cruise to Madagascar” event survey following each issue,” she said. “There Golds (the Big Kahuna of the CASE awards). azine – that you understood your target audi- garnered a silver medal in the projects and pro- [are] a few areas that we will try to improve The first of these was for work revamping the ence, you knew who you were writing for,” she grams category, and photographer Amy Bizovie on, but we really do take our cue from our school’s website. Dallas Stoesz, senior manager said. “You put together a strategy that addresses won an award for her photos of celebrity chef readers.” of marketing & digital media, explained that a challenges and opportunities.” Rob Feenie, who was part of the Hokanson Representatives from each department will lot of effort went into the redesign. “There was In addition to the Grand Gold, Techlife Chef In Residence program last year. travel to Portland, Oregon next week to be for- a really big move in 2008, 2009 to really focus senior graphic designer Derek Lue was given In the end, Krastel said, the awards moti- mally presented with the awards. Given the on the website and make sure that it did what a silver award for his NetZero house cutaway vate her department to continually improve work done by all three departments, it likely the institute needed it to do,” she said. While illustration in the Spring 2009 issue of the their product. won’t be the last trip. City TV cuts hit close to home State of the Media But Marshall is staying positive about the case in this situation. mean more job prospects in the future for RTA By AlI YuSuF media job prospects. “For media competition, I don’t think students. On just the second day of his practicum “I can’t speak for anyone else at City, but [the City TV cuts] will have a major Despite losing many employees across the interning at City TV Edmonton, MacKen- I’m remaining optimistic about what’s happen- impact,” Durham said. “City TV, for all its nation, City’s Breakfast Television and Cityline zie Marshall, a fourth semester ing,” Marshall said. valiant efforts to be unique and diverse, has still remain on air. Radio and Television student, “It doesn’t matter what not struck a chord with viewers, ratings- And Marshall believes that as sad as the heard the news that all but two field you’re in, if there are wise anyway.” City TV cuts are, situations like these give of City TV’s news programming cut backs employees are Durham goes on to say that it’s not uncom- broadcasting students like him valuable expe- were being cut. going to be a little worried mon for a television station to bounce back rience that should help somewhere down the Rogers Communications for the first little while.” and flourish after a bad spell, which could road. Inc., City TV’s parent company, And while the loss eliminated nearly all of City TV of a news outlet can programming across Canada often mean audiences in late January, leaving nearly could be getting more 60 network employees without streamlined news, due jobs. to a lack of media com- These cuts were felt by petition, Chris Dur- many City TV stations across ham, a NAIT Radio and the country, including here in MacKenzie Marshall Television instructor, Edmonton. doesn’t think that’ll be Thursday, February 11, 2010 NEWS AND features The Nugget 3 DMIT growing pains The Nugget it could be determined which classes students “Once course-based registration is in place, Room E-128B could enter based on whether they passed or much of these problems will be resolved 11762–106 Street failed the pre-requisite courses. because students will be able to decide what Edmonton, Alberta Student morale has also been low because courses they want, what courses will conflict, T5G 2R1 instructors have been leaving the program, the and how many courses they can take in one Production Office 471-8866 second and fourth semester students said. semester.” www.thenuggetonline.com But Samimi explains instruc- “With so many elective Editor-in-Chief tors have left because they’re ‘With all the courses, it’s just extremely Chris Carmichael-Powell only hired to teach for a specific difficult to manage student scheduling [email protected] amount of time. issues, there are requests and it is just pain- LINDA HOANG “The instructors we hired ful for everybody involved,” Issues Editor Assistant Issues Editor were sectional instructors,” a lot of students Samimi said. Ryan Flaherty he said. “They are here for an who are really Currently only NAIT’s [email protected] Disgruntled Digital Media and Information appointment that they receive degree programs have online flying off the Assistant Issues Editor Technology (DMIT) students approached the from this date to this date and course-based registration. Linda Hoang Nugget last week to bring to light internal prob- then they go.” handle.’ “We came up with a model [email protected] lems within the program. Samimi cited the main that is incredibly flexible and – DMIT student Speaking on promise of anonymity, one source of conflict within the beautiful, but at the same time Sports Editor first year, second semester DMIT student laid program is the fact that NAIT diploma pro- complex to offer by administrators,” Samimi Taylor Pollmann out the issues that he and his classmates have grams like DMIT do not have course-based said. [email protected] recently had to endure. He requested anonym- registration, which means students aren’t able He said it will take at least two years for the Assistant Sports Editor ity, fearing consequences if he were named. to pick and choose their courses online. program to become stronger and problems to Garit Byington “There’s been some turmoil,” said the sec- “All of the troubles we’ve had in the past be sorted out, and that a request has been made [email protected] ond semester student. couple months is because students have not for course-based registration to be available for Entertainment Editor “A good portion of the program didn’t been able to register for courses themselves,” DMIT students. Colleen Nuc receive their schedules this semester until about Samimi said.