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Niagara News Celebrate CheckCheck outout National thethe resultsresults ofof Pasta thethe touch-touch- Month. footballfootball See page tournamenttournament 19 SeeSee pagepage 2121 Come out and join the party, German-style What’s inside Spotlight on: Gun registration Page 14 Sports: Niagara’s volleyball Onkel Hans makes his way down King Street at the 37th annual Oktoberfest–Thanksgiving Day Parade in the Kitchener-Waterloo area on veteran Monday, Oct. 10. See additional coverage on pages 12 and 13. takes over Photo by Amanda Reynolds as head coach Page 20 Niagara wins bronze medal 2006–07, get ready for increase By JEFF FORAN Body & Staff Writer Health: By ROBIN HEALEY from Brampton, is concerned “McGuinty wants to put Niagara College won the bronze medal at the Ping Staff Writer about how he will raise extra tuition back into a natural state, Ontario Colleges Athletic Association Open golf quick, easy “McGuinty is looking for money for tuition. He said he where it increases along the championships at Lakeridge Links Golf Club Oct. 3 and more room to reach into stu- will “probably find a part-time same lines as before,” said to Oct. 5 in Brooklin, Ont. nutritious dents’ pockets,” said Jesse job during the school year,” if Turner. He added this is “not a Humber College, of Toronto, received the silver Greener, Ontario chairperson fees increase. hugely bad thing.” He notes that medal, while Durham College, of Oshawa, Ont., pasta for the Canadian Federation of He thinks he will likely need the government will give post- came away with the gold playing on their home recipes Students (CFS). to “find two jobs” for the sum- secondary education $6.2 bil- course. Page 19 On Sept. 30, Ontario Premier mer. “I’ll need to get a job that lion over the next five years. The best four players’ totals gave Niagara Col- Dalton McGuinty said the provin- pays well,” added Goka, who Bryan Hicks, Brock University lege’s team its final 604 score. cial government would lift the does not receive OSAP funding. Student’s Union president, said by Humber College had 599, while first-place winners current tuition freeze at colleges “People are saying [a tuition phone, “I hope that tuition will not Durham College tallied 591. Music: and universities. He expects fees increase will] unhinge the world rise beyond inflation.” Hicks, 22, Ray Sarkis, co-ordinator of athletics and recreation to increase when the freeze ends around us, and the sky is going to from Belle River, Ont., doesn’t at Niagara College, says it was “very evident” that taking a in the fall of 2006. For some stu- fall,” said Blake Turner, Student expect fees to increase signifi- Durham’s team members were used to the golf closer look dents, that could be bad news. Administrative Council president, cantly next year, but he is unsure course’s fast greens. at the Greener, from Toronto, said Welland campus. He said these of what will happen in the follow- “They had a distinct advantage over everyone Satellite by phone, “[The] tuition people “need to get a little bit ing years. else.” Three of Durham’s golfers also came away as increase is not a done deal.” He more informed.” Although Hicks said he individual winners at the open. State said high fees have damaging Turner, 22, from St. Catharines, believes it is reasonable to see Three-year veteran of the Niagara golf team Page 18 effects and that many Ontarians in his second year of studies as a tuition rise with inflation, he said Andrew Walpole, from Fort Erie, shot 163 over have shown their support for Social Services worker, said it would be “politically unwise to the two-day event, while Andrew Egerter, of keeping fees frozen. McGuinty is following the dead- lift the freeze and increase tuition Thorold, had the best overall score for Niagara Prince Goka, 21, a first-year line of a two-year freeze set in the in the same year.” with 148. student in Police Foundations, fall of 2004. Continued on page 2 Continued on page 20 Page 2, news@niagara, Oct. 14, 2005 Volunteer Opportunity Fair offers opportunity to help By STEVE FRANCIS was the second. Janet Forfar, Broadcasting – Radio, Televi- Staff Writer consultant – graduate services sion and Film program. Niagara College wants to at the Job Centre, says she is For their part, Marlene Ter- help you finish up that volunteer “very pleased” with the fair. signi and Phyllis Bonomi, the component of your program. Forfar added, “Evaluations representatives from Right to The college hosted its now- from exhibitors showed their Life, were good natured about annual Volunteer Opportunity pleasure,” indicating the fair the protest. They said some Fair on Sept. 29. was a success. students apologized for the More than 30 organizations The fair did face a modicum presence of the protesters. set up tables and handed out of controversy when a group Tersigini said Right to Life was information at lunchtime in of five students protested the at the college “looking for volun- the cafeteria foyer and the presence of the St. Catharines teers like every other agency that hallway by the Job Centre at Right to Life organization. relies on volunteers.” the Welland campus. The peaceful protest was “We did not come here for Organizations varied from staged quietly in front of the confrontation.” the Beamsville Strawberry Right to Life table. Still, Forfar would not let the Festival to the Canadian Mike Roy, Janine Klepey, protest spoil her three-month National Institute for the Amy Giofu, Tammy Miluti- project. “I tend to see the rights Blind to the Head Injury Asso- novich and Angel Smith led the of both sides,” she said. ciation of Niagara, among demonstration. In the end, Forfar says the Niagara College hosted its annual Volunteer Opportu- other service agencies and “That’s not knowledge. purpose of the fair was to offer a nity Fair Sept. 29. More than 30 organizations from festivals. That’s a belief,” says Klepey, “broad opportunity” of volun- the Niagara Region were looking for volunteers. The 2005 edition of the fair 19, a first-year student in the teer options to students. Photo by Steve Francis Sustainable Tuition freeze ending by 2006 Continued from page 1 shut out of the system. Greener said the freeze originally Tiffany Nenadovich, 23, from was to be in effect for “at least” two Ridgeville, Ont., a first-year student in years, until the student funding system Law and Security Administration, said College Connection Skills Development was fixed. However, he believes the the prospect of higher fees and large system is flawed. loans “de-motivates some people from In a media release, Greener urged coming to school.” McGuinty to use the $1.5 billion the Grimsby native Lea Bucci, 19, in her project going strong federal government will distribute to second year of Early Childhood Edu- provinces over the next two years for cation, said, “Some of us can’t afford By PATRICIA RODRIGUEZ to take to start small enterprises,” education to keep tuition frozen. college, especially 18-year-olds who Staff Writer said Patterson. Turner worries that the quality of don’t have thousands of dollars.” On Sept. 24 Niagara College Presi- The ECT will develop industry- education will deteriorate if tuition is Nenadovich said higher tuition is dent Dan Patterson travelled to South based training strategies to con- frozen indefinitely: “You pay for “OK for people who have someone Welland Africa to support the third year of the nect education and work, to what you get.” backing them up but not for people college’s Sustainable Skills Develop- enhance individuals’ skills and to He is hopeful that government who don’t.” She said people who wish ment (SSD) project, designed to help facilitate their access to incomes grants, scholarships and bursaries to attend college or university but do reduce poverty in the Eastern Cape through jobs. will counteract a tuition hike while not have parental or other sources of Province of the nation. Vice-President Niagara Interna- allowing the colleges to maintain support are being denied access. By building strategic partnership tional Martha Casson said for sev- quality with the extra revenue from Greener said there is a “greater need networks in education, government, eral years the ECT has worked higher fees. for post-secondary education,” adding, industry and the community, the pro- with the college, and throughout He suggests that if the provincial “75 per cent of jobs need it.” Community ject intends to increase access for bet- the years they have become government were to forward more Greener notes that post-secondary service ter income and employment. Patterson “friends.” money in grants to Niagara College for education is nearly a universal necessi- said the target is to work in an area with “There is a real affinity between every student who attends, effectively ty and that people should look at it like options for high unemployment and social issues. Canada and South Africa.” supplementing tuition, students may high school or health care, not as a students “Our job is to encourage and pro- Patterson said the college is pro- actually pay the same as before or less, commodity. vide knowledge and information, so viding the project with resources in while tuition itself may have increased. He added that there is a “growing they can improve their community.” the form of “expertise” of co-op stu- Turner said the tuition thaw “only sentiment in Canada that there should Students This project, in partnership with dents and knowledgeable faculty will be positive if the government steps be no tuition fees at all.” talk about the Canadian International Devel- and staff members.
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