Black^ S Back After Tiny Turnout

Coming at OCAA basketball championship you in Campus... coverage in sports.......page 25-26 Emergency Evacuation Exercises The ^^ ^ DURHAM COLLEGECULJUbAjJb; ^ Fake Out ...page 3 and Win! for more information CK^/h ^CW see page 9 Volume XXII, Issue 10 March 14, 1995 Black^ s back after tiny turnout Barely 200 New health students show MARCH MADNESS! ! up to vote - plan for DC Black's back in students? BY ALISON BETTRIDGE as president and Chronicle staff Kehoe takes over '['lie Durham College Student Association is considering a as VP public health plan that would offer full- of time students accident coverage and a discount oft' all prescription relations drugs. "Right now we have nothing," BY ADAM MILLS SA President Dave Black said Chronicle staff during a class presidents meeting What do whales and black rhinos . on March -6. "If we put this in have in common with Durham place, we'll have made a giant College voters and Student leap." candidates? They're all The licallli plan would cost ihc Association SA about $24,000 to $25,000 for list. on the endangered species the total package. It would cost students turned out to Only 211 $7 per student, and the SA is plan- had two positions vote, and they only ning to take this money out of its other six to vote for. The positions current budget. were filled by acclamation. All full-time registered stu- been returned as David Black has dents would be eligible for 24- Darlene Kehoe has president, and hour coverage during the school elect of become vice-president pro- year. motion and public relations. This plan would cover 80 per at With more than 3,500 students cent of each student's prescription 211 votes amounts Durham College, up to $3,000. Students for drugs, to a six per cent turnout. Records would be able to do this in two elections are not voter turnout in past ways, and the SA has to decide available. The largest turnout in which idea will be more benefi- recent memory was two years ago, cial. One way is to have the stu- free T-shirts when the SA gave away dents pay the full prescription voted. This there to anyone who year at the pharmacy counter and offered. price were no such incentives hand in receipts to the VP of Though disappointed by the administration. It would take 15 favor incen- turnout, Black doesn't days for students to receive 80 per it tives for voters. He suggested may cent of their money back. Or stu- a few hundred be better to have only dents would have some sort of care about the people who actually proof to show the pharmacist that thousands who result vote, rather than they arc under the college's health don't care who they elect, and arc from Clironicle reporter. plan and pay 20 per cent of the for the free gifts. wise qualified people avoid running Black said he honestly didn't news a only out Aaron Misseri, her opponent for cost when they pick up their med- Black said the SA may review its because they don't like public speak- know if he was going to win. His of promotion and pub- ication. election process for next year, as the ing and don't want to be interviewed friends told him they would vote for vice-president him, but he didn't know what would lic relations, said he has every confi- CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 current system clearly isn't attracting by The Chronicle. He in large numbers, "An election, possibly, is not the happen outside that circle of people. dence Kehoe will do a good job. candidates or voters the result. elected were best way to choose the best people," As it happened, that group probably didn't appear surprised by Six of eight positions shock for the acclaimed this year, and only two he said. made up most of the voters. "[My reaction was] The first of seconds, then the real- Index people ran for each of the other two Though he's excited about next Kehoe was unable to speak to couple year, and the chance to work with an Chronicle about her victory for more ization that nobody voted, so what did jobs. he said. Campus: Black suggested moving to a struc- almost all new SA, Black's reaction than a few moments. She said she I expect," excited and Misseri was nearly ejected from InternationalTnt**rni>tlrmnl VJfWomen's ture used at some other colleges, to his victory was not the stuff of his- expected to win, and is a.m. the race two days before the election Day................................pagc7Day. where only two or three senior mem- tory books. looking forward to the job. By 11 hadn't because he still had campaign posters EpilepsyEpili Awareness bers would be elected and the others "Well, I felt sick actually," said the day after the election, she the Month............................pageMonth., 9 would be hired. He said some other- Black, who was battling tonsillitis. been told she had won, and got CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Entertainment: Review of Hunted.......page 21 LA Guns...,..................page 22 What's in Entertainment? Sp<Sports: Hockcy.................,pagcHockey., 27, 30 ......SLOAN - page 19 JALE - page 22...... Timeout in sports........page 29 2 The Chronicle, March 14, 1995 UP FRONT, Mint ;oes loonie again with $2 coin Reporter Kate Martin asked Durham College students what they think of the $2 coin to be introduced next year. Brian Duffy Debbie Bedard Geoff Clarke Rachel Heffering JeffMcMackin 2nd year marketing 1st year dental assistant 2nd year human 1st year dental assistant 1st year entertainment resources management administration "I think it's stupid because we "With loonies and $2 coins, you "I think it's a good idea, as long have enough coins." might as well just wheelbarrow "It reduces the paper intake. A lot as I have lots of them." "I have enough problems dealing them around." of countries do it. We're just with the loonies in my pocket behind the times." when I go to a bar and get drunk." Student election shunned Health insurance plan for Durham students CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 on college walls, in violation of SA electoral rules. But he doesn't in the works for 1995-96 believe Ihiil caused his loss. "ll had more to do with students CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 full-time students. In Hie future nol really caring who got in," he said. Black said there is a possibility that R;iy Green, who opposed Bl.ick The plan would also cover up to the plan may cover students' fami- for president, had left (he counlry and $5,000 for a student's hospital bill, lies as well. could not be reached for comment. $1,000 for a student's dental acci- The initial $25,000 cost of the One-hundred and sixty-nine student coverage and $1,000 maximum health plan is guaranteed for the first dents chose David Black for presi- for a student's ambulance expense. two years of the program. After that dent, while 30 voted for Ray Green. All students would have up to 60 the prices may be raised from the For vice-president of promotion and days to claim benefits. initial $7, or the plan may be cut all public relations, 119 voted for This new health plan could also together, depending on how many Darlene Kehoe, and 86 chose Aaron be used as a secondary plan for students actually need this service. Misseri. Some ballots were marked those students who are already cov- "The SA seems to have lots of with a choice for only one position. ered under a health plan of their par- money to spend on stuff," Black These were not considered spoiled, ents. said. "So why not spend it on stuff and were counted. Black Kehoe Black wants the plan to cover all that benefits the students?" New scholarships at DC for next year Graduating nurses provide $500 scholarship for their successors, while new award planned for journalism BY NEESA CHITTENDEN year. in their footsteps. ory of another teacher at the college After graduation he wanted to work as Chronicle staff "These students started raising "It's kind of nice to leave some- who was killed in an accident. a radio reporter, but his health prob- money in their first year," said thing behind," said Smith. "Her family requested that people lems plagued him for about one and a Mathcws Conveyors, Millwork Moretton. "They were really active in The nursing department has two donate money to a scholarship at the half years. Soon after he did land a Builders Supplies and Robin Hood everything." other scholarships funded by staff and college rather than send flowers," said job in radio, a kidney became avail- Multi-Foods. All of these companies The class decided upon the crite- students. Moretton. able. Sadly, Currie died on the operat- sponsor scholarships at Durham ria. Sandra Smith, a student in the The first is the Owen Smith The scholarship is available to stu- ing table during his transplant. College. But not all scholarships graduating class, said there are Memorial scholarship. It was created dents in the practical nursing pro- Letters have been sent out to all come from businesses. already academic and clinical schol- in memory of Smith who was a gram. The requirements of the schol- journalism alumni for donations to The graduating nursing class of arships. They wanted to do things a teacher at the college.

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