THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER 0 THE BRIIUSH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE • TECHNOIEOGY CONVOCATION AND AWARDS Understanding convocation Convocation Thursday. June 23 - 0930-1130, School of Business Thursday. June 23 - 1530-1730, & nominating for awards School of Engineering Technology BCIT Media Services 1) Academic Awards are sponsored by Fnday, June IA - 1000-1200. Schools The President's Award is presented to a private organizations and individuals. of Heallh, Electrical and A time uf beginnings, endings, and a graduating student with a first class or They are presenied lo students who Electronic Technology and whole bunch of awards... high second class standing who has a achieve die highest academic standing in Trades Training. record of active participation in sludent die final two academic terms of iheir pro• Whether you are a staff member or a activities including ones which bring gram. student, convocation is an important fin- Graduating Awards recognition to die institute. Deadline for ish-hne. It is one of Uiose rare moments in 2) Actiievement Awards are presented to Ceremonies nominations: May 27. life lhat clearly marks the end of one technology students who achieve out• standing marks in specific second-year phase and ttie beginning of another. Lt. Governor's Award is presented each Wednesday, June 22 - 0830-1030, courses or who have demonstrated a com• Every year in January and in June sev• year to one smdent graduating form BCIT Schools of Business and Health bination of high academic standing, lead• eral thousand full and part-time students with an advanced or post-diploma pro• Sciences ership, services and/or aU-round achieve• eam the right to walk across die big stage gram and one student completing a trades Wednesday, June 22 - 1430-1630, ment. Students are nominated by die tech• and receive their diplomas or certificates. or apprenticeship program. Schools of Engineering nology departments, wilh the final selec• In an attempt to clear up a few miscon• Technology and Electrical and Dean's Awards are presented to die most tion being made by die dean. ceptions, here is a quick review of what it Electronic Technology. outstanding student in each of BCIT's is aU about. The Graduating Awards Ceremonies schools. Selected by the Registrar's wdl be held in Office. In the past, convocation has been held the Town Square Cafeteria. in a variety of locations—hotel baikooms, An honours diploma is awarded to any theatres and gymnasiums—any venue graduating student whose average marks large enough to hold the many friends and for the last two academic terms are 80 per• LINK CLASSIFIEDS family memt)ers who wish to attend. cent or greater. Recipients .must have Tlie three convocation ceremonies diis maintained al least a 75 percent course LINK CLASSIFIEDS... are $5 for a 3 line ad and $1 for each line after-except employ• June will take place for the second con• load during the period. ment listings for wtiich the first 3 lines are FREE. To place a classified ad contact The secutive year at the Willinedon Unk at 432-8935. Conference Centre at 4812 Williiiydon Honourary Diplomas are awarded to Avenue, jusl off campus near Willin^jdon individuals who are widely recognized for TUTORS ADVERTISE IN and Moscrop. outstanding and sustained achievements in their areas of expertise. Last year WCB EXP. ESL TUTORS In the recent past, convocation cere• THE UNK CLASSIFIEDS President and CEO Ken Dye and 20/hr. Essay maridng $I.75/pg monies were held in the SAC gymnasium. Chairperson of BCIT's Aerospace Project 435-6125 EMPLOYMENT ADS FREE The rental of carpets, cuitains and staging Marie Taylor were recipients. Staff, stu• cost thousands of doUars every year. The dents, alumni and advisory committee gym was barely large enough and il often members nominate candidates. DeadUne CAMPUS & COMMUNITY EVENTS became very hot and humid. Following for nomination is October of each year. the ceremony, guest would have to walk Wednesday, May 4 Monday, May 9 half way across campus to the reception. Distinguished Service Awards are BCFF Quintathalon. 12- 2pm. Team cap• Gays and Lesbians at BCIT (GALA- In the WilUngdon Conference Centre, awarded to individuals to recognize out• tain. Canoeing (2 persons), Short Distance BCrr). Meeting. 12:30. Usual place Call the facility is provided free of charge. The standing and sustained service to BCIT Run, Swim, Long Distance Run, & Maris: (432-8964) or Gordon (loc. 5301. 1,800 seat air-conditioned conference cen• and/or die science and technology com• Cycling. Registration fee $84Aeam for early 434-5734) for info. tre is equipt with the latest sound equip• munily. Last year's winners were the birdregisitation (b y April 22) $96Aeam for ment and staging. Numerous other rooms School of Heath Sciences' Margaret regular (by April 29) & $105Aeam (up until Friday, May 13 are used for gowning. FoUowing ttie cere• Neylan and Prince George Pulp and May 4.) Fust prize $300, second $150 & mony, die reception is held in the gymna• Paper's David Yarmish. As with hon• diird $75. Also many more spot prizes. ($ Gays and Lesbians at BCIT (GALA- sium in the same building. ourary diplomas, staff, students, alumni, based on 15 entries). BCIT). PoUuck supper. Call Mark (432- 8964) or Gonlon (loc. 5301, 434-5734) for Ample parking is avaUable at the con• and advisory committee members nomi• To reigister contact Rec & Adiletics in location. ference centre as weU as at Uie soudi end nate candidates. DeadUne for nominations die SAC or caU 432-8287. of the campus. is October of each year. Co-sponsored by BC CMA. One student from each of the three cer• emonies is selected by peers to give the The Distinguished Actiievement Award Campus Events is a calendar column open for the advertisement of events and valedictorian address. Students must sub• is presented to a faculty of staff member functions on aU of BCIT's campuses. Subnii.ssions should be dropped off at The mit nominations to the Special Events in the School of Engineering Technology. Link offices or sent through campus mail. Deadline for the next paper, published office by May 30. Candidates are nominated by sludents, Wednesday May 18th, is Thurs. Majl2th. _ colleagues and others for outstanding per• formance throughout the academic year. Awards presented at Nomination forms are available from any ATTENTION ALL JUNE 1994 Convocation SET associate dean's office. Deadline: May 20. GRADUATES The Governor General's Collegiate Bronze Medal Award is presented to die The School of Business Excellence in Application or nominations are now being accepted for studeni who achieves the highest academ• Teaching Award is bestowed annually Valedictorian for the Graduating Cl:i.sses — June 23 & 24,1994. ic standing in a diploma program widi an torn a full- or part-time School of average of 80 percent or greater. The Business instructor for superior teaching June 23: School of Business recipient is selected by the Regisiiar's abUities. Recipients are nominated by stu• June 23: School of Engineering Office based on academic standing. dents, colleagues and other admirers. Deadline for nominations is May 6. June 24: Schools of Health, Electrical & Electronics, The Board of Governor's Award for and Trades Training Citizensliip is presented to a graduating Awards presented at student who has arecord o f active partici• Please submit application with a resume of activities pation in student activities, a reputation Graduating Awards while at BCIT to the Special Events Office, Admin. BIdg. for mature personal relations wiili bolh Ceremonies staff and studcnis and good academic Applications must be received by May 30, 1994 standing. Deadline for nominations: May There are two types of awards present• 27. ed during graduating awards ceremonies: If you would like more information please call 432-8998

2 • May 4, 1994 SPORTS • THEUNI NEWS • THEUNi Canucks in Six? by Trent Houg dilemma on who to put between When the Vancouver the pipes in this series. Andy Canucks left for Calgary last Moog had a record of 3-1 Saturday they probably didn't against the Canucks this season pack enough clothes to last them allowing a 1.97 GAA. So what's a day never mind a week. But the problem? Moog didn't back following their double overtime slop the Stars in the opening victory over the Flames in round Darcy Wakaluk did and Calgary that is exacdy what they looked very strong allowing just were going to need. Instead of 10 goals in the sweep against the winging their back lo the west Blues. coast, the C;mucks found diem• •A :)\'.; Even selves aboard a pltme emoute to Dallas in preparation for the Defence Western Division semi-finals Vancouver made a move just against die Dallas Stars, before the trade deadline to In probably one of the best sirengthen their Blueline with saves of this years Stanley Cup llic addition of former Blue, Jeff play-offs. Kirk McLean single I'lown. Brown is about the only handily dealt ilie Flames their '.ilcnsive weapon the Canucks exit oul Ihe 94 play-offs, when ]Ms.ses at die point. he robbed Robert Reichel of his Defensively Gerald Diduck moment in the spotlight. Early iMui Dave Babych have both into the second OT Captain Kiric played well in the first round of found himself starring Theoroii tlie play-offs. Flury and Robert Reichel in the The Stars Blue Une is certain• eyes as Ihey were streaking ly not the strongest in die league towards him widi what looked to and with Mark Tinordi sitting be the bearers of bad tidings. out (broken leg) Dallas could be Instead of surrendering lo the in trouble in this department. Iwo thieves, MacLean did the ADV.: Canucks unthinkable and pickpocketed Reichel to the dismay of the Forwards capacity Saddledome crowd. Before die Flames allegiance Vancouver boasts the top Nothing but quality. BRIAN RICE PHOTO could catch their breath Dave goal scorer in regular season Repairs have been underv/ay for several v/eeks on the connector Babych collected the puck toss• (Pavel Bure). Trevor Linden is building wh'Kh y/as officially opened ....several weeks ago ing it up to defensive partner once again showing off his tal• Jeff Brown. Brown saw the ents in the post season, as he pushes his game to a new level. Russian Rocket Pavel Bure out Gritty winger Geoff Courtnall of the comer of his eye and sec• who is coming off a great show• New execs elected onds later the mighty Russian ing against the Calgary Flames doused the flames, and the The smdents have spoken and ; the results were announced. OThe Joanna Banks overcame Delia should figure prommendy in this Canucks were on their way to a new smdent association execu- j recount resulted in a 14 vote dif• Roussin for the position of series. the Lone Star state. five prepare themselves to take j ference with Odynsky still cap- Business Chair with a sizable Look to DaUas 50 goal plus Canuck captain Trevor office. niring the majority of the vote. majority of 299. man Mike Madano to add the Linden was in a state of shock Last week on AprU 27, 28 and scoring punch for the Stars. following Bure's goal. "My feel• 29 approximately 1,200 smdents Besides Madano the Stars don't Student Executive Election results ing was disbeUef said Linden. tumed out to vote at a polling have any real offensive threats booth in the SAC. "When the puck went in I didn't Health Total besides CJeoff Courtnall's broth• Polls closed at noon on Friday j Business Engineering know were to go,what to do,who er Russ and Centre Dave President to hug." and a few hours later the results Gagner. Christopher Lee- Yes 381 387 118 886 Hopefully Linden and the rest were announced in Tap's Pub. -No 75 96 15 186 of the Canucks wiU know what ADV.: Canucks Of the executives elected all are new faces to the positions i to do starting Monday when die VP PR & Marketing opening round of the Westem Overtime except returning Vice President \ Peter Odynsky 244 188 68 499 Semi-finals gets under way. of Student Affairs Craig ] The Canucks are playing a Doug ArmeUa 210 221 53 484 Vancouver will play their first MacMillan—the only executive : weU rested team in the Dallas • Recount two games in Dallas Stars. Dallas made quick work to choose to mnn again. j • Peter Odynsky 243 187 68 499 (Monday,Wednesday) before of the St. Louis Blues and have Only two positions on the j Doug Armella 207 225 53 485 returning home for games on been resting in Dallas ever since. executive were contested—the • positions of Vice President ; Friday night,Sunday aftemoon Meanwhile the Canucks just VP Student Affairs and Tuesday if necessary. Public Relauons and Marketing j came off an intensive seven Craig Mac MiUan -Yes 359 467 118 944 Games six and seven if neces• game series with the Calgary and of Business Chad-. i -No 90 103 13 206 sary will be in DaUas. Flames. If this isn't enough the The close race of the election | was for the position of VP PR j How do the two teams shape Canucks have to open the series Recreation & Athletics Chair up? on the road, playing in the and Marketing between Peter i Eileen FitzPatrick -Yes 395 397 134 926 extremely noisy DaUas Arena. Odynsky and Doug Armella. -No 49 63 9 121 Goal ADV.: DaUas After the imtial count the two candiadates were separated by Kirk MacLean has been sen• Prediction only 15 voles in favour of, Business Chair sational in all three of his post Odinsky. Delia Roussin 84 84 ^season overtime appearances. At The Canucks may have final• Pat Herbert, the SA Vice i Joanna Banks 383 383 times he looks Idee the mdlion ly leamed to overcome adversi• President of Finance and : dollar man but is usuaUy good ty. Administration, and Ihe Chief . Engineering Chair for one soft goal per game. Canucks in Six. Returning Officer for the elec- j Steve Pesant -Yes 384 384 The Stars may have a bit of a tion, called for a recount before -No 94 94

May 4, 1994 • 3 SA ENVIRONMENATL CHAIR mr.mmx DO fwnti— VW E CAK PO

Link Wasted in Zero Waste Weeic TNT Stores take the prize

by Dave Humphreys for positions five through one. Points The Week of April I S to 22 deducted here for a couple of full garbage marked the retum of an old coticcpl wiih a cans and some mixed paper in the white new twist. Zero Waste Day has b.come recycling. Zero Wa.ste Week! This friendly competi• 4. Student Associalion Office—The only tion pits leams form various .'^indent points lost here were for the mixing of Association operations against e;ieli other white and mixed paper in the same bins and SA SUPPORT PROGRAMS in a challenge to see who can (ie;il uiih a messy boardroom. Micir wasle most responsibly. 2. (TIE) Copy Centre—Despite all his Last year, prizes were awared to maoning and groaning. Copy Centre Support and Resource the te;un dial had the least non-rccyclable Manager Rod Potis put in a very good garbage, by weight, when the judges made effort; the otdy deductions were for a lack Centre for students Iheir surprise inspection. As some opera• of white/mixed separation. Students using tions are larger dian others, this could lead die Copy Ontre could improve dieir recy• A meeting was held on Wednesday, to some inequities, although last year's meeting/lounging place. This space cle performance, though. "There was a bit of April 6 to discuss die possibdity of hav• winner—Childcare—was full value for would also serve as a central area to post junk in ttie paper-only bin. ing an umbrella support centre for stu• tlieir effort. This year, ttie criteria was more information and provide resources and 2. (TIE) Childcare—Last year's winner dents for students from various interests subjective; the two judges gave points to an referrals for both on and off campus came up short only for the inclusion of groups on the campus. The idea was operation based on tlie amount of non-recy• resources. some non-recyclable materials (tape, stick• developed when two first year students, clable waste Ihey had, the proper use of ers, etc) in the paper recycling. (Remember, approached the Sludeni Associalion • What do you think about having a recycling facilides, and general effort, some , a few staples are OK, but too much junk about the establishment of a Women's Diop-In centre for students and staff? operations were surprised when they were j mixed in widi your paper can make a whole Centre. • Would you use this type of inspected for a second time, but it was nice : bin unusable.) The kdds eamed extra points According to these two first year stu• facihty/service? to see dial they all were continuing to "fol- i for their food scrap worm composting and dents, and to those that diey spoke to low the program" anyways. for good separation of all kitchen waste, BCIT can be an isolating experience due • What other ideas do you have on how including aluminum foil! The final standings, from worst to to the work load and to the "nose to ttie we can provide a more supportive 1. And this year's winner is...(drum first: grindstone" attitude of most students. It environment for shidents at BtilT? roIl)...TNT Stores! Not only was their recy• 6. Recycling and The Link—A spotless is especially difficult for those stiidents clable material separated properly, they Please phone in your feedback by recycling office was offset by a new^aper who don't always fit in with die existing also had a miniimum of non-recyclable calling 432-8549, or drop a note off to office wiUi garbage cans that hadn't been social environment—students from vari• garbage. Special effort was also made to the Student Association office re: emptied in months, improper paper separa• ous subgroups such as: Single Parents, send the plastic flannisters form soda six- Support Centre. tion, and general unkept appearance. (I Adult Returning Students, International packs to a depot which accepts them. beleive ihis is in keeping with traditional Students, Gays, Lesbians & Bisexuals, We want your input! newpaper image, though we didn't check Congratualions to TNT and dianks women etc. Anna-Lisa Jones for bottles of JD in tlie desk drawers.) to all of this year's participants for helping Their idea is to have a "common Student Association 5. Studeni Executives—A pretty tight race to promote recycling awareness. room" for students and staff lo use as a

Tht Unk is Hie Sludent Anna-Lisa Jones, Dia publish material deemed by the LETTERS t>lowipaper of llie Britiifi RicKardson, Kevin Mok, Paul editors or slroring committee to Columbia Inslitute of Johnson ArwJy Smith Vivian Lee, be sexist, racist, homophobic, or Technology. f\jblisfied bi-^^ekly Dav« Humphreys, Claire Webb, in poor taste. Rod Stokes a victim bv the BOT Student Association, Stev^j Everitt and Paul Dayson. Rod Stokes had his right of opinion The Unk circulates 5,OCX) copies The views expressed in Tho LETTERS POUCY: to over 16,000 shxlenh and Manoqjng Editor Unk are not neoessarily tbose of removed the "thought police " of the Tht Link welcomes letters on any Issue. staH. Pauf Dayson BCIT, the Student Association, or BCIT. This was helped by the unctous rec• Letters must not exceed 300 words in the editorial collective. titude of the Liidc "Editor". length. Content which Is Judged to be Conhibuton Shidwit Editors The Rod Stokes Holocaust has occured. libelous, homophobic, racist, sexist, or Damascus Roy, Michael Welter, Dia Richardson, Damascus Roy 3700 Willingdon Avenue factually incorrect will not be published. Brian Rice, James 'Biii' Dittiger, He has been utterly destroyed, removed Bumoby, BC VSG 3H2 Please be concise. Letters may be edited Tim Reevw, Karen Odenwald, Advarlisiiin q R«pr«>«nlatives Tel: 432-8935 and made of no effect. This is what holo• for brevity, but It Is standard policy not to MICIKICI W*/elt«er< , Doug Armelki Fax: 434-3809 caust means. edit letters for spelling or grammar mis• \: a member of Canadian BUl Chandler takes. Please bring them to Tht Link University Press (CUP), T^e Unk Instructor ofnce In the SAC Building. Letters must adheres to CUP's Code of Etiiics. , Drafting Department include name, faculty and signature. To lliii end, The Unk will not

4 • May 4, 1994 THE CHANGING FACE OF BCIT'S RECYCUNG PROGRAM Physical Plant prepares to take over the recycling program from the SA and die SA looks at new forms of environmental education page 3

THE BCIT STUDENTS WORKING TOHELP BURNABY'S WATERWAYS Student's in the Fish and Wildlife program are working to aid the recovery of Burnaby's water ways page 7

HOW GREEN ARE YOU? ENVIRONMENTAL SUPPLEMENT Test yoitr environmental actions with an easy quiz page 8 BCIT's waste is exported to Calgary landfill by BFI

BCIT garbage is going to Calgary, and it's a serious problem for the GVRD and the fumre of recycling in this region. And if somediing isn't done soon to stop it, our whole regional approach to waste man• agement could be in jeopardy.

by Tim Reeve

Browmng Ferris Industries (BFI), the Institute's waste hauling company, has been sending garbage from tlieir waste processing facility in south Burnai)y to dicir own private landfiU near Calgary for Ihe last several months. Apparently, il's significantly cheaper for the company lo expon waste rather than using our rx-ion- al disposal system. According to Link sources, it costs approximately $50 per metric tonne for BFI to send waste to Calgary, compared lo $69 per tonne lo use GVRD disposal faciUties, According to Peter Brady, Project Manager for developing the GVRD's Solid Waste Management Plan, exporting waste out of the region is, " the end of responsible waste management as we know it," Brady also says that BFI is undercutting its waste hauling competitors existing recycling and disposal faciUties assist BFI in offsetting costs to operate The GVRD and the Provincial and will force them to look at similar could be spread across a shrinking waste local recycling programs for its cUents, Government are looking al opportunities export options. stream, resulting in a further increase in Tim Reeve, BCIT's Recycling to mount a legal challenge to the export of The problem is that as disposal options recycling and disposal costs for local Coordinator, sees diings differendy, "BFI waste, however, thus far the prospects becomes cheaper, it creates a disincentive municipaUties, has been charging its municipal and com• have not been promising. Other options for businesses and institutions to consider Gd Moore, Physical Plant's Manager mercial clients a rate that has allowed include a system of availability charges recycling programs. Essentially, BFI is of Support Services and contract adminis• them to make a profit while using local that would be charged on waste that driving recyclables into the garbage. In trator with BFI, said he was aware that disposal faciUties, now they're profiting doesn't go to our regional facilities or addition, the proiits from local landfills waste was being shipped from to Calgary even more. Furthermore, BFI charges all possibly Ucense fees on private waste pro• and Ihe Bumaby incinerator are used to from their waste processing facility but its cUents a fee for its recycling services, cessing facilities. fund local recycling and education pro• wasn't aware whether it was BCIT waste and that fee should reflect the tme cost of The GVRD's Local Solid Waste grams. If sigmficant amounts of garbage or not, Moore believes BFI is probably doing business." Advisory Committee has also recom• are directed to out of region faciUties, the doing it for financial reasons and in any Other local waste hauler's are also mended dial die Provincial govemment revenue being used to create 3R's pro• event " it can't be worse than sending it to concerned about operating on a level issue a waming to BFI and odier haulers grams wdl also be lost, one of Uie (GVRD's) local landfills", playing field. They've been playing by conceming w.aste export, diat it wiU fight A GVRD report on waste management in Moore agrees that we should try and die rales and using Ihe regional system this pr.actice to the end, and through the our region, states that, " the practice of manage our waste locally, but also said and don't currently have the opportutiity courts if necessary. It is hoped that this V exporting waste is undermining the poten• that the savings BFI denves from ship• 10 haul waste to Iheir own private land• will serve as an advanced waming and tial for significant achievements in waste ping waste out of the region is being done fills, although if BFI isn't stopped they discourage BFI and other haulers from reduclion and recycling in the GVRD," for "stricUy financial purposes and for may begin looking into such opportuni• exporting waste. Furthermore, the capital costs for our reasons of cost-effectiveness" and would ties.

THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. 1

Enviroquotes: -What position should the provincial government take on the Kemano Complerion Project?''

"I feel the agreement has to be revisited. "I think the provincial government The agreement as it now stand.s is unac• "I think they .should put a halt to further should conduct further studies to deter• "I'm not at all convinced Ihe project ceptable in terms of the protection of the work and launch an investigation into die mine die effects on die declining salmon won't have negative effect on salmon nvcr and its fish stock." whole process. Il seems to me all the population." stocks. I'd like to see a fair envnonnicn- Mork Angelo, deahngs have been pretty shady." tal review and hear what die federal fish- Vivian Lee Dave Humphreys Department Head of Fish, Wildlife 2nd Year enes scientists determined during their and Recreation Sludent Council - Engineering Chair studies of the project." Environmental Health Tim Reeve Recycling Coordinator

Complaints from a complacent consumer TimTimee , ..ththe illusive factor which runs us all...! Time seems Saviors which I rely on to keep to run our immediate exis• me on schedule. tence...we run around trying to It hits me when 1 realize how fit in the maximum activities, many time units I have lost, how purchase the most toys, have the many energy units have been most exciting hfe...Time creates lost, in proportion to Ihe small a sense of urgency..."so much to amount of papers that I 'tri- do, .so litde time" seems to be the umphanlly" sorted at my desk• modus operandi in ttiis day and side, the few paper plates 1 age. reserved for other committed It seems we all needed to consumers, and the carton of receive some training in "opera• cups that 1 "Lugged A Mug" tions management" to determine for., the irony is that I have a the formula for how to schedule sense of tlie "time lost" as 1 pre• our lives for the maximum out• pare to combat my complacency put, the maximum benefit per with a vigilant revision of my unit of time... outdated "time saving" operating For myself, it is apparent, that procedures. in an effort to address my imme• So my complaint lies in the diale need for more time units, I fact that I must change even if sacrifice the ability to achieve those around me are complacent. the maximum benefits. I find My complaint lies in feeling diat that I get stuck in an operating whatever I do, it will never be mode that favors consumption enough. My complaint lies in rather lhan preservation, impul• the fact that I can no longer con• siveness ratlicr lhan vigilance. sume widiout a conscience of the The impedance is usually fell consequences of my actions...! through a premature need to con• feel a pressure to pause...to real• sume more, a realization thai sided, post-consumer, recycled bin, I would have had a pad of "lords" arxl used that... ize dial the Lords of Landfill ate money is being put out to pay for paper? Why should I be the one paper lo take to die meeting.and It hits me when 1 realize that I really Time Bandits for me and a lack of forcdiought in my con• who spends my allotted leisure I would have saved time units by have lo run to the store lo pick for our aging earth. My com• sumption. time units to wash, de-label and nol having to travel to the store. plaint is dial I carmol be compla• drive die only containers that I up some food for dinner, right in Society reminds me constant• It hits me when I reahze that I cent I must be challenged lo use could find "my favorite brand" the after-work line-ups and ly lhat my consumption is need to create more files in my caution in consumption. 1 must of juice in to a depot when I rush...more time units impacting on its abUity to have cabinet for the many single-sided realize that to use one unit of coidd just leave them al my door gone.when I could have saved more vital time units available reports that I need lo put there thought can mean one more unit for the "Lords of LandfiU" to these time units by leaving the for Itself and for die earth that it when they could have been dou• of maximum output and maxi• pick them up? leftovers in the refrigerator, inhabits. Why then does it ble-sided...more time units gone! instead of being complacent with mum benefit. Then it tiits me...when I go to It hits me when I am running out impose an operating manual consuming more cash to con-, My complaint is that I am no die store to pick up a clean note of time units to get to work and I which so few have read? Why is sume "fresh" food...complacent longer complacent. I am chal• pad to write on which costs me need to find a container to put it dial I should be the one who with consuming energy driving lenged to acl. To be accountable money...if only I had not crum• my lunch in...could have used uses more time units to photo to the store, complacent in giving for my part in preserving units in pled up my draft copies and those time units washing the copy my reports on double my wasted food products to the Global Time. dirown tbem into the lecycling ^ yogurt container I gave to the ^ Lords of Landfill...those Time Anna-Lisa Jones 2 • May i^Wi ~ ti-MiUaKifl mi. [CLEAR GLASS ONLY

The new faces Gil Moore and Anna-Lisa Jones prepare to lake on Tim Reeve has nranaged BCIT's the recycling program. Moore and Physical pfant will be taking Recycling Program for the last over recycling operations at BCIT while Jones' SA Support Services few years turning it into an effi• Programs will be responsible for environmental education. cient, integralea multi-material program.

The new faces of recycling at BCIT The face and the direction of "The Student Association gram. But Moore disagreed, "I don't that il has an funcliomng and recycling initiatives at BCIT is wanted to keep an environmental "It wasn't without its bumps think there is a lack of commit• established recycling program, about to take a change. role on campus," said Reeve, "I along the way," Moore said, "but ment," pointing to Director of according lo Reeve and Jones. At the end of May the just thought that Physical Plant we've supported the program all Physical Plant Walter Watkins "Now the focus should be on RecycUng Program, an initiative didn't have the expertise in pro• along," who is involved in a number of reducing what we use and of the Student Association over motions" and "Physical Plant Among diing the institute — environmental activities. reusing what we consume. We the last five years, wdl be handed thought that we could commum- the SA's partner for the funding He also feels Physical Plant should be aiming lo reduce our over to the Institute's Physical cate with students better than grant — has done was to provide involvement with the institute's waste by 50 percent by the year Plant to manage, ^ they could." capita] funding for some start up Environment Action 2000," said Jones. "Sometimes when an institu• items to get the program going. Committee—on which the Reeve agrees. "The institute by Paul Dayson tion takes on a role lUce this, it's According to Jones, "[Reeve] Custodial Supervisor will sit— should be targeting reuse and better to have students involved made [the SA's Recycling will ensure conscience to the reduce initiatives," tie said. "We in a high profile role," said Program] more efficient and an departments operation of the pro• would see real benefits in terms The reason for the change", Moore. integrated system," gram, of savings on waste disposal and said SA Recycling Coordinator Running the environmental Reeve's organization of the "Environment Committee wUI consumption." Tim Reeve, "is it makes sense education program will be the program leaves a program set up have to play a sigmficant role so "Materials have to be utiUzed i for Physical Plant to handle recy• job of the SA's Support in such a way that it is easy for that issues [on campus] will be to their maximum use before chng is that diey handle the cus• Programs manager Anna-Lisa physical plant to take over, dealt with," he said. recycling," Jones said. todians, garbage pick up and the Jones—one of the originators of according to Moore, Nor does Physical Plant plan "Marketing of reduce / reuse wiU grounds keeping," die Recycling program in 1989. "Recycling is valuable as a to make any changes to the way be a priority." Since January Physical Plant joint operation between the SA the RecycUng Program operates To this end Jones'educational custodians have been responsible The History of and the Instimte," said Moore. for die time bemg. Only at a later endeavors will be promoting for picking up recycUng bags and date when die transition has been ideas like the waste exchange Recycling at BCIT delivering them to pick up The Transition to completed will the Custodial and an awareness of our own points. As of June, die Custodial Supervisor and Moore review the consumption habits. Supervisor, Cindy Thomas, wUl Jones helped put together a Physical Plant process with the view of "mak- "Aesthetics have to be chal• also be responsible for the opera• business plan for a recycling pro• mg it better, more cost efficient lenged in favour of an environ- ' tional aspects of the program: gram m 1989 and got the SA a "What makes sense m theory and possibly centralizing or mentaUy friendly solution," she coordination of the pick up of grant throught the Environmental doesn't make sense in practice," decen&aUzing it," said Moore. said of the example of recyclables around campus, ship• Partners fund to hire Gavin Reeve said of die take over of die Jones said, "What needs to be unbleached paper and double ping these materials to recycUng Davidson, the SA's first RecycUng Program by Physical developed now are feedback sys• sided copying. "The complacen• plants and tracking the materials Recycling Coordinator to put Plant echoing the worries of tems with custodial staff It is cy has to be chaUenged in regard to ensure that diey are recycled, together the recycUng program. some who feel the department important dial we have diese be to our consumption." A recycling assistant will be Jones s?id the goal of the SA isn't up to the job of being die put in place in order to make any "We all have a lot to learn hired to aid her in diese tasks. al llie time was to make students institute's environmental con• education effective in dealing about changing our daily con• Director of Physical Plant Gil more responsible for their envi- science. with contamination [of materials sumption habits," she said. "I Moore said, "The whole plan, i onmenl. "[Physical Plant] haven't in recycling containers with have many changes to make when the program was put into The program initially focu.sed shown much of a commitment to gartiage]." myself and I'm looking forward place, was for Physical Plant to on paper and aluminum can recy• waste reduction and lack imagi• to the challenge of learning take over eventuaUy," cling. nation, " he said pointing to a Learning the together" But Physical Plant won't be Reeve expanded the program recent waste audit he conduaed Reeve believes that the next tabng over aU the duties of the branching out into wood, com• of die department which found next 2 Rs item the institute and the SA SA's program. Environmental puter ribbon, dry cell and other that 50 percent of dieir garbage should examine is the issue of education wiU stiU remain as part forms of recycling to create a was paper diat could have been BCrr has to shift the focus of transportation. of the SA's mandate. multi-material recycling pro• recycled its environmental efforts now

Maya, 1994 • 3 Physical Plant Must Prove Commitment to Recycling l.alcr lliis moiilh Physical Planl •, ill lake over the Recycling Program started by the Sn Jem Association in 1989 and operated by them foi IIK last live years. In theory diis is a positive step forw.inl lor waste reduc• tion and recycling at BQT. In praclicc, Physical Plant still has to prove lo die campus dial lliey're truly com• mitted to the principles of wasle rccliiciion and envi• ronmental stewardship. The tran• sition has been engineered by the SA Recycling Departmeni because inherently it makes sense for the same depart• ment that handles custodial opera• tions, grounds keeping, and the campus garbage hauling contract, to also look after waste reduction and recycling. It's all the same stuff, some just goes out TIM REEVE the back door in a The final different bag. a LAHPflLL What makes sense on paper does not always trans• Laurels to die TnT Staff for winning Welcome to die progam!! late into success in practice. Several campus groups heap the Student Association's Zero Waste have expressed concem about die change in operation. Week competition. Great effort on Landfill to Physical Plant Office staff by Karen Odenwald for dirowing away so much recyclable Some people feel the program will suffer under man• everyone's part. Now what can we do Eight cubic yards of compost paper in your daUy waste. Neatly 50% agement by Physical Plant; diat service will dechne or widi those coffee grounds? Anyone up for worm composting. of your garbage is paper that could malerial tracking will cease. Others feel that BCIT to Tim Reeve, Recycling have been recycled in our program. If won't be as environmentally conscious without an offi• Coordinator, for giving compost• ing a bad name. LandflU to The Link for dieir dTc:Hirul you're planning on running the cial Recycling Coordinator or olTicial Recycling efforts in the Zero Waste Week event. After concerns were expressed Recycling Program don't you diink you Department. Even the total absence of waste in the' by the GVRD about the word ought lo be participating in it also??? Recycling Office couldn't make up for Physical Plant is the departmeni we love to hate; 'Compost' in the Kudos and your overflowing garbage containers. Laurels to all diose candidates in the always criticized when things don't go smoothly, Compost column, steps were Living in a Landfill - just stop by The SA elections lhat used unbleached never praised when things go right. The question isn't taken to come up with a better Link. paper for their campaign posters. Extra whedier they'ie capable of operating ilie program, it's tide. more a question of their commitment to principles of Kudos to those candidates who took The point was made that the Laurels to all those students who responsible waste management: waste reduction before their posteis down and recycled them. concept of composting is in fact a Reached for Unbleached last Tuesday recycling, source separation of maleiials, Iiigh end uses positive one. Using the word and got free photocopies at the SA Landfill to BFI for exporting BCIT for collected malerials. 'compost' to give criticism to copycentre. Something brown is waste to Alberta. This practice has The Student Association has striven lo continually someone for not practising the 3 spreading across the campus - it's made been condemmed by the GVRD as maximize the environmental bcncliis of the recycling R's, would be "potentially inap• from our own waste ... paper Uiat is. undermining its new waste manage• program, even if it has meant a lilile extra effort now propriate", according to Paul Keep up the great work!!! ment plan. How does Calgary feel and again. Physical Plant often :i| pears to be a "lets Henderson, from the City of about getting B.C. garbage??? jusl get it done" kind of group. Vancouver Engineering 8 fluid oz. of Landfill to Clayton Laurels to Claire Webb, Recycling However, die BCTT community must recognize that Department Solid Waste and McKinley, VP Finance, for constandy Assistant, for staying up half of if Ihey want these fundamental elements of the pro• Composting, who also said "it using styrofoam cups. Let's get serious Wednesday night to write the compost• gram to be maintained they must demand that of seems it would be a good thing to about reducing operating costs by ing articles. What did you say you were Physical Plant. Relay your expectations through the have compost dumped on your reducing all those cups in our costly growing in your compost??? campus Environment Committee or through other garden." garbage dumpslers. Lug-a-Mug!! routes. It's your program, not Physical Plant's. Tim Reeve, who originally Laurels to Nabob for saving their old Several recycling bags full of On the other hand Physical Plant must be given a came up with the phrase 'Kudos binders from the garbage and donating Landfill to the students who have chance to prove they're committed to waste reduction and Compost', and after taking the nearly 300 of them to the students of been deposting ttieir moldy sandwhich- and resource conservation, before their unfairly criti• GVRD's concem into considera• BCIT. More free stuff via the waste es in die White and Mixed paper recy• cized. In tum, they must remember that respect is tion, eloquently announced the exchange. One persons waste is anoth- cling bags. Please claim diese items at earnedj_notjiven. new name of our column: Laurels ers treasure. 5 gallon buckets still avial- die Lost and Found as soon as possible. and Landfills. This section of die able from Forster's or the Recycling Laurels to Gil Moore, Manager of Department - Call 8288. Environment Page will continue Support Services, for using to provide regular good natured Laurels to die Physical Plant mainte• unbleached paper for voice mail infor• dumping on and praise to folks nance staff for recycling their old mation sheets. How aboul die internal about die 3 R's. newspapers and other paper wasle. phone directory on unbleached??

4 . May 4, 1 994 The Benefits of "the Brown Stuff" by Vivian Lee with caustic soda, resulting in The problem with the use of Dioxin is highly carcinogenic products because producers still What does unbleached paper dark brown pulp. When Kraft chlorine compounds is lhat it and is also known to suppress die feel lhat there is nol enough (the brown stuff) and Lug-a- pulping is operated with out sub• combines with organic mole• immune system. As well as demand, and consequentiy only a Mugs have in common. Simple. sequent bleaching it utilizes a cules from the wood and is being extremely toxic, dioxin is limiled number of unbleached They're both recycled, they're closed-loop system. The wood dicharged with mill effluent. highly bio-accumulative. This paper products are available. both better for the environment. wastes, which contain highly- This process produces a whole means that it remains in die bod• Become vocal in your demand Let's talk about unbleached toxic chemicals are burned, and array of toxic chlorine com• ies of organisms that ingest it. for these products. Then more paper. I hope you're all using it! more than 95 percent of die pulp• pounds called organochlorines Salmon can accumulate such people ask for them, the more It's diat brown paper that's been ing chemicals are recovered for which are discharged directly high levels that their reproduc• pressure we wdl put on produc• going around the school and diat use in the next batch, into lakes, rivers and oceans. tion is impaired, which leads to ers to make them avaUable. the Recycling Department is pro• Consequentiy. the quantities of The combmed effluent from major fish kill and no more At the present time, moting. chemicals used during the mills producing bleached Kraft sushi for aU you sushi lovers. unbleached paper costs the same The great thing is that 50 per• process are amazingly small. pulp has been shown to severe As one can see bleaching as white bleached paper. It's not cent of it is made from our own The white bleached paper, on harm to fish, impairing their paper white causes grave prob• as bright as the white paper so it paper that we dirow in recycUng the other hand, uses all sorts of reproductive abiUty, as well as, lems to our environment. If there reduces die glare on die eyes. It bags, the other 50 percent is chemicals to make il white. For damaging the Uver and immune was less bleaching and more nat• works just as well, if not better in made from additional pulp. Also example, in the conventional system, and causing skeletal ural paper being made, there photocopiers, laser printers, ink there is absolutely no chlorine bleaching process used for chem• abnomialities in the offspring. would be less environmental jet printers and bubble jet print• products used to make this paper, ical pulp, the Ugnin from cellu• This is why bleached paper is so destruction through toxic dis• ers—and it looks great. So next unlike die white paper. lose is broken down and harmful lo die environnient and charges. Wouldn't you agree that time you'T-each for paper, reach The process used for this is removed with the aid of chlorine unbleached isn't. unbleached paper is belter for for unbleached. called Kraft Pulping and it gas. The pulp is then bleached One of the most potent our environment? Il is importani involves boiUng the wood chips while in several stages using organochlorines fonned during thai consumers voice their chlorine dioxide or hypochlorite. the bleaching process is dioxin. demands for unbleached paper Day at the Landfill The Banterings of an Environmental (Un)Health(ly) Student

by Claire Webb mg. V/>i'U7^ These are just a few of the Have you ever been out to the diings you can do to help reduce landfiU? 1 mean, ready been in waste. If you really want more there amongst our waste, as the information on what you can do stench rises on a hot day, and to solve this problem call the yellow grocery bags roll method- Recycling Hotiine at 732-9253 icaUy in the breeze. One heck of (that's R-E-C-Y-L-E), They a place if you like seagulls, or know practically everything are a seagull, but otherwise a about the 3R's; like how to get a fairly unpleasant place at die best blue box, what goes in it, what of times. doesn't, or who to cad if you still My last 0-ip out to the landfill don't have an apartment recy• was as an Environmental Health cling program in your area. student, (which I still am) to If you'd like even more infor• assess the proper procedures for Place Stadium TWICE, every textile/leather-glass flavored. But you use for your assignments. In mation about upcoming changes storing and disposing the amaz• year! Gross, you say? No kid• I digress. fact, the brown paper at the copy to waste management in our ing diversity of stuff that we ding. The really scary part is So, by now you're asking center, and diat some of the more region caU the GVRD at 451- 6040. This is the Solid Waste throw away each day, I've been that the region is expected to yourself "What can I do to stop intelligent teachers are putting Management Plan Review Office out to landftUs, (that's Sanitary expand by the year 2000 from this horrendous amount of their handouts on, is actually and if you have any questions, LandfiU to you and me), in BC, 1.6 million happy people to 1.9 garbage going out to the land• made from die paper BCIT has they'd be glad to help you get in Saskatchewan, and Alberta, but miUion foUcs, all happUy throw• fill?" (you are asking yourself collected and recycled! So we touch with whatever organiza• I'll tell you, they all look the ing out their garbage. that by now, aren't you?). WeU, have ready made a difference. tion will help you get in touch same!! Right now, about 61 percent let me tell you... First, try being Another great initiative is with other organizations, which less of a consumer. This means, composting. It's fun! It's easy! Now, you may thinking, what of our waste goes to landfiUs, 16 will put you through to other buy less stuff, and if you And the whole fanuly can do it. am I doing hanging out at the percent to the Burnaby offices, who will put you on absolutely cannot live without AcWaUy, if you look at the per• landfill? Maybe I should get a Incinerator (didn't know we had hold...just kidding. life, (you're probably right). one, did you) and 23 percent is this stuff, try buying in buUc, or centage of rubbish that's in the Well, fair enough, but someday, recycled (good for us). But what looking for products with landfill, you wiU see that it made So, next tune you toss a plas• I'U be one of diose people widi makes up that landfdl amount? reduced packaging at least. up mosdy of orgaiucs (32 per• tic sandwich baggie, newspaper, styrofoam cup or textUe/leather one of those "somebody's-got- It can't all be those FYI hand• Next, use recycled paper. If cent). You may ask, "But product (what?) into the trash, to-do-il" jobs. Part of my duties outs your instructors gave you, you're not buying recycled, doesn't that make our landfiUs please think twice about the con• will be to find environmentally can it? In fact, only 32 percent you're not really recycling one big compost heap?" Sure, if sequences. We can all play a kosher places to put all that of the garbage going to the dump (Somebody's got to use all the you want to wait till the year part in waste reduction. refuse we throw away - some• is those tidbits of wisdom. To stuff we're collecting). For 3000 for die material to decom• Remember the 3R's; Reduce, one's back yard perhaps. break it down , 32 percent of the example, when you get some• pose! It's got to do with mois• Reuse and Recycle, Our genera• waste picked up is organic, 32 diing photocopied, ask die guy at ture, oxygen and other scientific Do you have any idea what is tion wiU thank you, so will gen• percent paper, nine percent is die photocopy center to put it on parameters. Idee worms, bul the actuaUy going to the landfill? eration Y, and even die seagulls plastic, five percent metal, four unbleached paper (the brown tmth is the smff just don't break Well, let me explain,,,Did you wdl thank you. ,weU, maybe not. percent textiles/leather products stuff). This is a 50 percent post- down. Apparently, one real know that the Greater Vancouver But you wiU make this a cleaner, (what?), du-ee percent glass and a consumer recycled paper which interested guy went to a landfill, Regional District, including the nicer, planet to live on, and thai dug down 50 feet or so and BCIT campus, generates over 2,4 whopping 15 percent is other, has been made by recycling aU you can put on your resume! brought up a head of lettuce, per• million tonnes of soUd waste although, personally, I don't your bad, chlorine-bleached, fectly intact, circa 1973, The every year? That's enough think other exists, I mean, what dioxin-producing, fish-killing landfill people aren't doing it banana peels, old matttesses and else is there in life if it isn't white paper that some, but not quite right, but, hey, diey're try- discarded lecture notes to fiU BC s organic- paper- plastic- metal- all, of your instiiictois stdl msist May 4, 1994 • 5 rut Q-ca-R-Aq Look who's using unbleached • ^

Michael Harrison Bob Mckenzie David Harvey Lyle Borvin President - Student Association Direaor - Ancillary Services Director Personnel/Employee Relations Dean - School of Business Marketing Management / ASTB Program Length of Time at BCIT: 7 yeais Length ofTime at BCTT: 5 yeare Length ofTimeal BCIT: 5 years Lengdi ofTime at BCFT: 3 years Executive Member - BC Chamber of "I actually like the colour of the Commerce Member - Vancouver Board "We've been using unbleached in our unbleached paper. I find it eaiser on the "Hopefully all my instructors will con• of Trade office for the last couple of months and eyes than the white, especially under Ihe tinue reach for unbleached for handouts regularly make copies from unbleached glare of the overhead lights." and exams. I hope to encourage my originals by setting die copier to the auto• "I can succesfully make copies from employer to also give it a try." unbleached originals by using the auto- matic contrast setting. We've used it for malic setting on the contrast control or by correspondance and had positive feed• manually setting the copier to the liiililest back from our outside customers. Most setting - 9." find it pleasing to read." "1 support die Recychng Program and even bring my recyclables from liome because the Municipality of Burnaby doesn't offer recycling services lo my housing complex." Worm Composting; Dating service for garbage showing Solution for High Rises worm composting, and it's real• leaves (sans the dressing), lea byCkiireWebb ly catching on. Done property is bags, coffee grounds, apple signs of success There are so many ways each odorless, efficient, and because cores, orange peels potato peels of us can contribute to the it's enclosed you don't have to and other food stuffs such as by Andy Smith reduction of waste which is worry about Revenge of the that. You can get a complete Want a free three-ring binder? Need sturdy five gallon buckets for going to our landfills. In fact, Worms. list of goodly kitchen scraps washing or planting. Throwing away old rotary phones, but wonder• did you know dial die amount of Basically you need is a from the kind people at the ing if someone out ttiere could use tliem. The Recycling Department waste produced each year in the Rubbermaid containers with a GVRD Compost HoUine: 736- has got the answer. GVRD could fill BC Place lid. Get a square one, about 1ft 2250. In September 1993 an ambitious projea was undertaken called die Stadium, twice! Yep, that's a X 2ft X Ifl. Add a two inch Add all ttlis wonderful food BCIT Waste Exchange. Quile simply it's a dating service for waste lot of garbage. layer of regular potting soil in carefully to the composter and materials that essentially allows different departments or campus Incredibly, almost one-third the bottom. Moisten it slighdy. let the wigglers do their tiling of diis garbage is organic waste, groups to exchange various materials they no longer need or want Next, go out and buy a bunch of Every now and then, add a litde up to 32 percent. However, you and would otherwise go into the tiash. earthworms, usually found at an water to the soil, but not too The primary goal of the projea is to reduce the amouni of waste can do something about this Earthworm store. You'll have to much. Don't overload your leaving BCIT. However, it also has the potential to save money on waste. It's called COMPOST• ask for "Red Wigglers". Don't composter. In fact, they say you the purchase of new materials and free it for more productive uses. ING. It's interesting, it's easy, laugh, Uiat's really what they're should collect your kitchen We're now in May and the project is showing some signs of suc• and all your roommates can join called and they're the caddilac scraps in a little bucket for cess. A database of available and wanted wastes has been created, in the fun. The end result is of worms for composting. about a week, so it can rot a bit. nice forest-smelling, fluffy, and already many useful items have been exchanged rather than Bring them home. Take them Finally, after several weeks thrown away. For example, most recendy 300 binders were saved black sod conditioner, perfect out of the container and give you will start to see the results from the garbage and are now being distributed to students by the for all your plant growing each a name. Place each worm of your efforts. Lots of nice Recycling Department. Chemicals have been exchanged between needs. Just imagine the eco• genUy into the composter and smelling, organically rich, dark labs, and all year various groups have been making of use of the nomically feasible and recre- cover with a bit more sod. compost. This can be mixed extra five gallon buckets generated at the Town Square cafeteria. ationally enjoyable plants you Now, let them get use to with potting soil. Now you're However, more materials are needed to improve the success of the could grow, like, oh, for exam• their new surroundings. It will ready lo add those little seeds project In early Febmary, various departments were asked for a list ple, tomatoes or herb-like take Uiem a little while to get you've been collecting. Hide of items that would tie suitable for the exctiange, or that they would plants. use to the place; they'll orient the pots in your closet with a If you Uve in residence, you like to acquire if they became available. Unfortunately, very few themselves, leave scent trails, 1000 kW halogen lamp, and may ask the question, "How do responses have been received and the database is going hungry. rearrange their furniture, call step back to watch die fun. By I compost when I have twelve So come one, come all, and tell us what odd things you need or cable... After a proper adjust• fall, you can have all your roommates who may not be as want to get rid of Tlie Recycling Department is anxious to help find ment period, you may start friends over to help harvest your open minded as I?" Well, it a home for your old 'treasured garbage'. Contact us al local 8288 if adding kitchen crap. Not every• crop. Then tum on some music, can be done, and the answer is you've got somettiing suitable for our exchange, or if you have sug• thing, worms prefer lettuce relax and sample, but not too gestions on how die projea can be promoted. easier than you think. It's called

6 • May 4, 1994 raser River A river—and several lakes—rvns through it • Continued assessment and begin a significant clean-up and BQT found itself in the ideal can't swim in the lake anymore position to bring many of these because of concerns about water inventory work. From the air, Bumaby Lake is rehabilitation. Mark Angelo, program head groups togedier - groups like the quality." surrounded by more than a mil• Recently completed projects in Fish, Wildlife and Recreation, City of Burnaby, Greater Besides the FWR program, lion people. include the constmction of a new hnows very well that projects Vancouver Regional District, Angelo says other areas within A freeway hums by its south fish ladder at die Carilmo Dam. like this don't happen only Bumaby Rotary Qubs, Fisheries BCIT such as Environmental shore. Runoff from diousands of During BC River's Day students through the efforts of individu• and Oceans Canada, the Bumaby Chemistry, Carpentry, the homes, driveways, and drain cleaned up a 500-metre portion als, single organizations and Now, the Burnaby News, the Technology Centre, and the pipes quickly settle in the lake. of Stoney Creek and removed an good intentions. Ministry of the Environment, ARCS lab have been or could be Lilies and purple loosestrife Lands and Parks, the Sapperton involved soon. amazing tliree tonnes of garbage gradually clog the lake. Many "Community stewardship", and debris. "leverage", "partnerships", "pub• Fish and Game Club and private connecting streams are now cov• "This project fiits our educa• hc involvement and education", citizens. This summer's projects include: eted over or long gone. tional objectives first and fore• are the buzzwords he uses to The initiative is slated to kick Burnaby Lake, nearby Deer • Improvements to Eagle Creek, j most but it also allows us to do describe a five-year community off sometime in March. That Lake, and numerous streams are on the North side of Bumaby ; somettiing really tangible for the project to protect, enhance and includes a campaign to raise feeling the impact of more than Lake, that will allow coho | community," says Angelo. rehabilitate the system. about $250,000 and a summer 100 years of urbanization. salmon to migrate further "There will be many great Draw a circle on any map and clean-up program. But all is not bleak. Plans are upstream to additional spin offs such as work experi• soon numerous federal, provin• Bob Gunn, a 1993 Fish, well underway to put the sparkle spawning and rearing habitat. ence for our smdents cial and municipal government Wildlife and Recreation gradu• back into these lakes and Work will focus on improve• and the community involvement agencies claim different jurisdic• ate, will be one of the several streams. ments to a culvert at the with this lake system. But 1 tions and responsibilities wittiin people working on the project For the past two years, stu• Lougheed Highway. would also like to think that in the circle. Industry, recreational this summer, thanks to funding dents in die Fish, Wildhfe and 10 years people will look at the groups, and environmental agen• made possible from the • The placing of spawning grav• Recreation program, with sup• lakes and say they are a lot cies take ownership as well. Teclmology Centre. el in Deer Lake Creek to pro• port from the City of Bumaby healthier, more vibrant and pro• Often no single organization "When I was 10 or 12 years vide additional spawning habi• and the Greater Vancouver ductive dian they were in the late views the region as a whole. old I used to live near Deer tat for coho salmon. Regional District, have been car• 1980's. I would ldce to diink diat Most people, for example, do not Lake," he said. "It used to be a rying out a comprehensive • The removal or replacemento f BCIT played an important role in see Branette River, Deer Lake, hangout for all the kids, a place assessment and inventory of the the existing course fish barrier diat." Burnaby Lake and numerous to go swimming. Since then, in lakes and streams in the system. on Deer Lake Creek. streams as being linked together. the past five or six years, you Now all the parts are in place to

May 4, 1994 • 7 JUL ^c^-izAc; How Green Are You? quiz to rate your ^green' habits \00 - 200 poinh

You dcl'iiutely luivc your heart Now is the time to rate yourself on the green thennometre. Find out how your attitudes and in (he right place. And bemg conscious of your actions as actions about the environment measure up. Are they a good natured dark green, or do they have an they affect the environment is unconcerned white tinge? a way of hfe, and a large part The following quiz rates your 'green' habits with regards to your lifestyle. It has been reprinted of your lifestyle. Well done! from an adaptation of a test designed by the Conservation Council of Ontario. Mother Namre salutes you! Answer the questions, add up your score and then see how 'green' you really are.

Do you have a "Bom lo Shop" or a "Shop till you Drop' Making the Most of Garbage bumper sucker. -10

Do you recycle: Balancing Energy Needs • metal cans -1-5 • glass +5 Have you put a flow restnctor in the shower head pipe and • plastic pop botdes +5 aerators in the faucets to cut down on water used? -i-lO • newspapers +5 • batteries +5 Are die lights in your home fluorescent? -t-5 0 - 100 points Do you: Do you tum off hghts and appUances when they aren't • buy recycled paper when possible -i-5 Keep up die good woric. You needed? +S • buy refillable pop containers -1-5 are heading in the right direc• • compost leaves and kitchen scraps +10 tion. Your efforts are com• Are You Drinking Hazardous Wastes? mendable, but why not go all Do you participate in a recycling program in your school, the way? Yes, every litde bit Do you dispose of paints, polishes, cleansers, solvents and office or community? -i-IO helps, but we aU need to con• pesticides: tribute a lot more than just a • wilh your garbage -10 When a household item breaks, do you: litde bit because we are a long • at a toxic-wasle depot +10 • replace it -5 way off still from living in a • down die sink -10 • repair it, if possible +5 healthy environment. Do you use altematives to toxic household cleansers, such When you clean your old clodies and odier items out of as vinegar, borax, baking soda, and household ammonia? your closet, do you: •I-5 • give them to friends or charity -i-5 • throw them away -5 Getting Around • hold a garage sale +5 When you go out, do you: How do you deal with the "I don't know what to do with • walk or bicycle when possible +5 these plastic shopping bags" syndrome? • use public transportation, car pool +5 • re-use them for shopping +5 • drive alone -5 • re-use them as garbage bags +5 • throw them out -5 Bebw 0 points Bits and Pieces • use canvas carry-alls -HO -5 There is definitely a lot of Do you smoke? room for improvement. Being Shopping Choices: Do you donate to con.servalion/environmenlal groups or environmentally friendly is not Are You Paying for Pollution? just another trendy diing to do. causes +10 It is not a when 1 feel lUce it When you go shopping, do you: What will you do wilh this pubhcation when you've fm• thing either, and it is not fair to • choose products witii recyclable packaging -1-5 ished widi it? feel lhat there are enough other • buy the economy size or from bulk bins -t-5 people making contributions -5 • pass it on to friend +10 • buy single serving products +5 that excuses you from your • recycle il • write to manufactiirers to request less packaging -i-lO -5 responsibility to your planet. • dirow it away It ts high lime lo Ihink hard Do you put tiiese items in your grocery cart? Make Your Voice Heord about your future, and that of • disposable razors -5 Ihe children. Wake up and • paper towels and plates -5 Do you write politicians to tell them your views on the smell the fresh air and the • plastic utensils -5 environment? +10 llovvers and the trees and the • disposable Ughteis -5 ocean, because if you don't • disposable diapers -10 Do you encourage: Stan doing your part NOW, the . "environmentaUy friendly" products + 10 gciK'iations aliead of us won't • your municipal govemment to instimte office recy cling, h.azardous-waste disposal depots and collection get a whiff of what a clean Do you use left-overs or only buy what you need? -i-5 planet smells like! of compostable materials +10 • your provincial and federal governments to consider When you buy something, does it matter most diat: the environment in all economic- and resource-relat• • that it is well made -I-5 ed decisions. +10 • it is needed •1-5 • it is advertised on TV -5 • everyone else has it -5

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We raped die planet. We took our nat• LINK: There's a lol of bands who go in ural resources and squandered them away. wilh Iheir first album and reach the top Wc filled the air with chemicals and and are left wilh nowhere to grow, ripped a hole in the sky, allowing the blood of our galaxy to drip imo the CHRIS: You go in and do your best,,, alniosphere. Now Earth is as friphloned and confused as a wet cat that's licen JAG: ,,,and you hope that your next bcalen. Where do we tum? I cried lor my album is going to be better, mother earth and realized thai il's mc; I Mother Earth. LINK: My favorite lune on the album was So Gently We Go: to me it sounds by Steve Everitt like a trip.

Tliis is a b.uid diat beats die message JAG: That's my favorite song too, and il of a .society gone wrong into ynm liead is an acid/esctasy kind of thing. and makes you think about the niongs that have been committed. They do i' •viih LINK: The line that caught me was "I've their lyrics and music that soiin

May 4, 1994 • 5 THE UNK • ENTERTAINMENT PAVEMENT ON THE ROAD

by Sieve Everitt Press darlings of the moment, Pavement, rolled into Vancouver last week, and I was waiting for the show of die year. I had seen them at die Cruel Elephant in 1992 when they had just relea.sed their first album Slanted & Knchanted, and they were amazing. A band from the underground that knew how to put on a show.

CONCERT REVIEW Pavement Commodore Ballroom April 27, 1994

After romanticizing the p;i i. I couldn't wait to hear their latest ni;iskr- piecc. Crooked Rain, Crooked !< in. relea.sed this year. It is a simpler. .:-. m- er album, but Ihey haven't Ins; ili.'ir unique REMish/Velvet UndergKv.in^led .sound that m.ikcs them literally one of a kind. Stephen Malkmus writes the kind of lyrics every writer wishes they had the ability to. From die indictment of long haired band guys in Cul Your Hair, with the line "songs mean a lot/when JAMES "BIZI" DffTIGER PHOTO songs are bought/and so are you", lo r Ihc first "dis" I've ever heard outside of rap on the song Range Life, where Stephen whines "Out on tour with the Smashing Pumpkins/natures' kids/they don't have any funcdon/I don't under• stand what they mean/and I could really give a fuck", he has a causfic wit wtiile ONE WORD: keeping die songs strange yet poppy. So the show. Well from the get-go, boiler lhal proves lhal everytliing they had a problem with the distance Soundgarden plays doesn't have to by Steve Everitt the crowd barrier had been placed from be fast and loud. Ihc stage, citing il was too far. And 1994 will be the year of Soundgarden. I am making this The Day I Tried lo Live opens throughout the show, they seemed to with jangly guitar and steady bass have a problem keeping instmments in prediction because of their latest release, Superunknown, which is and the verses are sung with the tune, and the hghting kept screwing up, patience of a priest. But Ihe chorus and so midway through songs they a hard, crashing, "fuck puberty, I've grown up" record. kicks in and the voice, lhal voice, would just stop and then try and pick rings and rasps. Chris sings "the them up a minute later. Well this kept day 1 tried to live/I wallowed in the ALBUM REVIEW the show at a choppy pace and I just blood and mud with/all the other couldn't get into it, and I think some of Soundgarden pigs" and lets us know that "I the crowd felt die same way. Superunknown learned that I was a liar/just like A& M They dragged out older tunes ldce you". Two States and Summer Babe from They tried a diverse mix of I've read a few things written Slanted and one called Shoot The sounds on this record and they about the new album, and I've Singer from Watery, Domestic, and make them work. Their promo did great renditions. But then ihey heard words like "travelUng a safe sheet refers to Head Down and would ptdl out a slow meandering lime road", and "mellowing out". Black Hole Sun as "Beatlesque and lose the excitement. Bullshit. The problem with some (!?)" which isn't that far off And music critics is that they don'l My disappointment was hard to liide as far as the guitar riffs go, Kim want to let their favorite bands as most of my conversations dial night Thayil may have a degree in grow up, and they want to see involved telhng people, "oh you should Philosophy but I don'l see a them play the same stuff Uiey did 7 have seen them before...they were Jungian influence when he attempts years ago. Well I suggest to diose adults can relate to. The music will sfill wicked." For those members of the to take my head off on die title track. critics that they try and write the same keep the kids hitting dieir heads togedier, crowd who hadn't seen them, which But now for the best part. They are story for 7 years and see if they lUce it. but those of us who'd like to save our cra• was probably 95% of them, it was playing on May 27lh al the PNE Forum nium for better uses will find whal we probably a greal show. I just diiiik lhal Chris Cornell (vocals/guitar), Kim and die tickets wenl on sale last Saturday. need in the tracks. Now I'm not saying untd Uiey solve some of their technical Thayil (lead guitar), Ben Shepherd I've heard rumors lhal it sold out already Uiey're getting old. it's all just a stale of problems, they are better suiieil it, a (bass/vocals) and Matt Cameron (drums) but if that's die case, they may announce mind. room of 150 people Uian 1000. have grown and matured since their first another show (keep your fingers crossed). A song lUce Fell On Black Days could EP, Screaming Life, released back in '87. And keep an eye out for my interview with only have been written by someone wilh And even though Badmotorfinger, them in a future issue. released in '91, was a very loud, angry hfe experience in Uieir pockets. It might album, Superunknown proves lhal the display Cornells' frusQ'ahon with being in last 3 years have been the most important a band when he sings, "whatsoever I've time in their hves. feared has come to life/whatsoever I've They are now adults, playing music that fought off became my life ". It's a slow

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JAMES "BIZI" DiniGER PHOTO by Steve Everitt version of Oh Canada. (Didn't Jimi do a Jimi lives! version of the Star Spangled Bannerl WILD T AND COFFEE Hmnimm...I forget.) CONCERT REVIEW Anyways, T seems to have Uouble holding the attention of a crowd, as he WUd T & The Spirit ad which describes T as a "Hendrix style the-road, average show that most of the sometimes sUps into a self-indulgent Commodore Ballroom blues rocker", the similarity is unmistake- drones lapped up with delight. 1 was funk, seemmgly forgetting that someone AprU 22,1994 able. expecting a real kick ass show because is watching. It might be cool in a gin This does do a disservice to WUd T for some reason I have a lot of respect for soaked, grass high state in a smdio, but Hey T, where you going with that gun diough. He is an extremely talented gui• T. diis is a bar. The album is kinda groovy in your hand? Whoops...sorry man. .1 for- tarist who has a handle on the blues, funk, At one point he broke into Lou Reeds' and worth listening to but live it leaves got...Iimi's gone to a letter place. and rock. His show proved this. The one Walk on the Wild Side, but it ended short me wishing I had been run down io The comparison of Wdd T to Jimi is diing it didn't prove is, as 'Bizi' remarked as he lapsed into an Isaac Hayes type "crosstown traffic" on the way lo the more than just a fleeting comparison of to me, "show that T has his own identity". monologue, in which he talked about his show. two men of the same color; it goes deep• Unfortunate. "crotch-grabbing, hair-teasing" girlfriend, er. From die shiny purple marching band Aside from the middle-class crowd then segued into some song about sex. jacket to die low spoken tone of the lyrics (which scared me) that half filled the His guitar acrobatics are amazing, as to the guitar hcks, and even in die promo Commodore, WUd T put on a middle-of- we were treated to a one-handed wailing

The Commodore BaUroom. May 10. Music West brings weeicend festival MUSIC WEST FESTIVAL The Music West Festival Tons of music and informa• has been running in tion. Vancouver for several years. Various venues. What started as a group of May 12-15. seminars and concerts for 13 ENGINES local musicians has become a Vogue Theatre. major annual event drawing May 13. artists and production profes• sionals from around the THE ODDS worid. Breakers, Point Roberts, WA. May 13-14. MUSIC PREVIEW Fine Arts exhib'ilion PHISH MUSIC WEST FESTIVAL Langara CoUege's student May 12 -15 An Show. The CommodoteBallroom. Ma;, 22. Langara campus Last years fe.stival was the Unlil May 5. BLU^S TRAVElfR breaking point between JIM ROSE circus sideshov/ jimmtxlore Ballroom. hometown, and world class. May .17. This years festival promises May 6. 'Vouge Theatre. San Francisco Bond tbe Reisidents CD-ROM "Freak Show" will be featured as even more with the sched• SOUNDGARDEN port of the Music Show^—a port of Music West. CROWDED HOUSE uled line up of talent. From f'.N.Ii. Forum. Q.E. Tlieatrc. acoustic to hard-core, acid- The seminar / information part out industry secrets, while Chad Ma> 27. May 9, jazz to Celtic foUc, over 200 bands of the festival is almost as varied. Smith (Chilli Peppers), and many 6 GRATEFUL DEAD at 20 venues over four nights. Speakers such as Thomas Dolby, other performers will be running HARAMBE X! June 13-14. SeatUe WA. Wristband tickets for all shows are Steve LUIywhite (U2), and Bmce workshops. Quite a Weekend. Bob Mariey Tribute. June 17-19. Eugene Or. $35. Fairbairn (ACA)C) will be letting For info: 299-9000 ext. 9338

May 4, 1994 • 7 i THEUNK* NEWS

NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN FOR SPECIAL GRADUATING AWARDS

Nominations can be submitted for the following BCIT Graduating Awards to be presented at die Institute's June Convocation Ceremonies:

President's Award Board of Governor's Award for Citizenship Lt. Governors Award for Advanced/Post Diploma Studies f Lt. Governor's Award for Trades

The President's and Board of Governor's Awards are open to both Technology and Trades smdents. The President's Award stresses high standing (preferably first class—at least 8C%) and involvement in significant activities while at BCIT dial have brought recognition to the Institute. The Board of Governor's Citizenstiip Award focuses on outstanding leadership and service at BCIT. requiring a student to have at least a second class standing (65% and over). The Lt. Governor's Awards for Trades and Advanced /Post Diploma Studies require recipients to have maintained excellent records while at BCIT and have contributed in a positive way to Ihe lite of Ihc Institute or the communily al large. Two nomdiators are required to nominate a student, one of which must be an Instructor, Chief Instructor, Program Head or Associate Dean. The second nominator can be a student. Application forms are available at the Financial Aid RecepUon in Student Services, SWl 2300. Deadline for receipt of completed nominations is: May 27,1994 at 4 p.m.

JAMES "BIZI" DiniGER PHOTO BC Blues-rocker's luiii • , ,-:—ijiut tour shows his talent

friends and school buddies. by Jomes "Bizi" Dittiger During his two-hour set, he performed I recently heard "Deep End" on the original material, mostly written wiUi an radio for the first time and il cnnyht my up-tempo blues feel. He also sang a few attenlion immediately, making mc wonder very successfully arranged cover tunes, who this guy is. He has an east coast or among wliich were a slide-blazing rendi• Texan sound. To my surprise, David Gogo .^votd enA.-o^-'Ccr-m jjcncJLcles tion of "highway 61" and a jammed-out is a BC guitar player form Nanaimo and version of Woodoo Chile", where all band the song, "Deep End", is off his debut members stretched out heir chops. hy -rerxxTTtirKj err rcnc^incj album. 1 didn't have to wait long to have a Gogo definitely dominated the show chance to see him hve either... with liis clean, fat guitar sound, handling CLLL Xjhrok.T'Y rrKxZTe-rkxLs CONCERT REVIEW lead vocals with confidence and ease. David Gogo However, such a strong performance The Town Pump couldn't be possible without the back-up Saturday, April 23 of the excellent rhythm section of Todd Sacerty on bass and Toronto veteran drum• The three-piece band entered the stage mer J0m Anderson. just after midnight, in front of a sold-out This was his second to last show on his house who was waiting for a sohd blast of cross-Canada debut tour and Gogo now blues-rock power. Right form the top Gogo heads to his home town, Nanaimo. The 3 look ttie stage with full confidence, obvi• tour firmly estabUshes Gogo as one of die ously feeling very comfortable in front of major blues-rock axe men from the west die crowd, which held of a large number of coast.

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