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Twenty-One Million Blaokmrds Or Eating Crows CJ.T, LIBRARY 600577324 November 8,1995 INSIDE... CFML's listeners page 3 & 5 Broadcast dean cites survey to show The Alcoholic BCIT's radio station does have an Tourist audience. The Darl<side page 4 Entertainment page 6 - 9 To win at the races page 11 A neglected athlete the small jock• ey trains to control 1100 lb. horses News scavengers since 1965 in a quest to win the races. page 9 SA Campus Centre Twenty-one million officially epens blaokmrds or eating crows To hatch a crow A black rainbow Bent in emptiness Over emptiness But flying — Ted Hitches BY GREG NESTEROFF itchcock would have been proud. Early each morning and late every Hevening they can be seen congregating on campus. Then again, they're not exactly invisible during the day either. They Utter the soccer field and pepper the sky — the latter being an especially accurate description since from a distance they look Uke specks of pepper. It is impossible to watch them without thinking of the classic suspense/horror film The Birds. They're city animals, so you get the feeling "They discover it and teU all their friends," she that it doesn't make any difference to them says. They aren't finicky eaters either. whether you're around. They might give you a "They're pigs. They'll go after anything. bad-ass look (they are adept at doing tfiis), but They're meat eating scavengers, so diey're also raUier dian flying away, they'U just walk a few going after mice — they dive bomb for them." paces ahead. They are more eyesore than real nuisance, They're black crows — distinguished of however. Other than arriving in droves. course, from magenta, taupe and teal crows — Themmen says the birds haven't caused an> and there are thousands of them. major disturb.ances thai she's .aware of. No one The reason for their mass exodus here, how• has h.ad their eyes pecked out. ever, is not immediately apparent, and more Also making BCIT their pemKineni home than a bit disturbing. It's the litter. are a gaggle or n^'o of geese The crow's place in die food chain, as wiih "They used lo be by the creek, but thc\ many other birds it seems, is to eat the refuse started wandering," Themmen says. Now the> Dignitaries incluiling BCIT president Brain Gillespie, Board ol of humans. And according to Cmdy Themmen, bide much of their time on the patches of gr.xss Governors chair Arun Garg, MtA Joan Sawicki, SA president Michael the supervisor of custodial services for BCIT, on die cast side of campus. "But they should be Bretner, SA executive director Stephen Miller spoke at the huildings on campus diere's as much garb.age outside as going away very soon for the winter. They've opening ceremonies. there is inside, read the great hall. stayed late diis year for some reason." Speechs were followed hy the unveiling of a donor plaque at the main "We've tried to contend with it, but the sm• Like the crows, they've been behaving entrance to the building and a cermonial cake cutting. dents don't seem to care," she says. "You try to themselvos. No reports to date of rogue geese Another plaque dedicated to students and SA employees was pick up as much as you can, but always around wandering about. No secunty w;imings issued. unveiled later in Ihe evening at a small gathering by SA president diis time of year Uiey arrive." In the back of die mind, however, there is Michael Bretner. WiUingdon Avenue is as near crow heaven one nagging thought: just how much cxcrcmenl PAUIDAVSONPHOTOS as exists. Not only is there BCIT to feast on, do our feathered friends produce? but the giant McDonalds is just down the road. Us something probably best left unchecked. 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