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Electronics: Last day to withdraw Recreation Council Social. BCIT Spring Convocation Ceremonies: and receive a 'W' on transcript for June 21-23 is the student newspaper of Term B courses. Friday, May 12 the British Columbia Wednesday, June 21 Institute of Technology. Friday, May 5 Published bi-weekJy by Aerobics ends. BCrr Spring Award Ceremonies. the BCIT Sludent Association, The Link circulales 3,5(K) copies Deadline for Valedictorian Monday, May 22 Wednesday, June 21 - 3pm to over 16,000 students and staff. Nominations for BCIT's Spring Marketing Management & instruction Programs Convocation Ceremonies. Victoria Day. BCIT Closed. Thursday, June 22 - 9am Contributors: Monday, May 8 May 23 - 26 Broadcast Communications & Financial Management Carlos Assuncao, programs I.s pannu, American Marketing Association Exam Week for most Technologies. David Lai Meeting. 7am. Call 451-6777 for info. Melina Rousselle, Thursday, June 22 - 1:30pm Cam MacDonald, Monday, June 12 Auto Ci)llision Repair, Operations Management, Tuesday, May 9 & Paul Dayson Human Resource Management, Management Systems, Deadline for Convocation Edition of Business Administration, International Trade & Toastmasters. SA Boardroom, SA The Link. Transportation Campus Centre, 7am. Managing Editor Tuesday, June 20 Paul Dayson Friday, June 23 - 9am ETE: Last day to withdraw and Health Sciences, Computer Systems and Electrical & News Editor receive a full refund (less $200 Convocation edition of The Link Electronic Technologies Carlos Assuncao commitment fee) hits the stands. Arts & Culture Editors Friday, June 23rd - 9am Melina Rousselle ETE: Last day to apply for course Manufacturing & Industrial Mechanical and Process, David Lai credit (exemption) and change Energy & Natural Resources Advertising Representative registration to audit status. vacant

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MAY 3, 2000 2 THEUNK NEWS SA Notes Carlos Assuncao WHEN FINALS ARE OVER SA passes new budget he Student Association budget was presented and passed with little Tdiscussion. Some executives ques• tioned the losses in the copy center and in certain TnT outposts. These losses were explained by the need for maintaining service levels for students over the need to make a profit. Some additional ser• vices will be available in the up-coming year, such as a copier in the SWI foyer. Yvonne Hustins, SA Financial Manager, will be retiring in exactly 59 days, responded to some of the execu• tives questions regarding contracts for space on campus by saying " we don't get nothing for free." The SA did present a balanced budget and the budget was accepted unanimously, with two absten• tions coming from the SA councilors. There were few major budgetary issues to be discussed.

• Roman Sedlack made a small mention to bring SA members up-to-date with the status of the BCIT President THE CRAMMING BEGINS Selection committee. The coming week will bring two selection commit• tee meetings, where they will inter• view the four fmalist candidates. The committee will spend a half a day with each of the finalist. In addition, they will review the late applications for any potentially viable candidates. New SA executive elected The committee wiij conclude the selection process after an additional PAUL DAYSON Christopher Thomas' 196 by who gained 243 votes. vacant on the SA executive. week where they will have follow-up Link Managing Editor 17 votes. Nick Will was elected as The Electrical, Electronics and The other executive position Chair of Manufacturing, Computer Information Chair, interviews with the finalists, then they will make a recommendation on three r I llie voting is over and a races were more clear cut in Mechanical & Processing, and the Transportation & candidates and the administration will ' new executive elect is their results. Energy & Natural Resources Construction Chair, for which For vice president of Public with 22 votes. He beat out Ben no candidates presented them• select one from the group of three rec• JL. poisepo d to take over the ommended. running of the Student Relations and Marketing Claire Rauscher, Roman Sedlack and selves will be elected in anoth• Carlos was elected over Dan Cindnc. er election in September and a Association following the elec• • The new BCIT one card, a unified stu• tions held April 17 through 19. Priscilla Nunez 445 to 189 and Two candidates running Trades Chair is still to be for Campus Life coordinator without opposition, Brian appointed by council. dent ID card, copy card, print card, The most hotly contested was included in the SA council meet• position on the executive was Michelle Matsuo won over MacNeil and Linda Lee as Turnout for the elections Aviva abramovich 383 to 254. president and vice president of was poorer than in recent years ing discussions again this week. The that of vice president of old auto insurance office, near the Brent Morris was elected as Student Affairs respectively, with the largest turnout being Finance and Administration. great hell, will be transformed into the Business and Health Chair with received the students' nod. students in the Schools of Penelope Henriques, who one card head quarters, new students 312 votes defeating Ryan Benn Three positions remain Business and Health Sciences. gained 213 votes beat out will begin having their photos taken there for their cards next year. SA Executive Director, Stephen Miller, responded to executive's queries SA Elections Results regarding the functionality of the new card by stating "We believe the new President Business & Health Chair card will be good for the students, Brian MacNeil 582 Yes 64 No BRENT MORRIS 312 however, the is in the pudding, Ryan Benn 243 and we'll see how the students react in Vice President of Finaace & Administration the coming year." Sukhbir Heerasahota 124 Manufacturing, Mechanical & Processing, Christopher Thomas 196 Energy & Natural Resources Chair PENELOPE HENRIQUES 213 Roman Sedlack 3 • SA Executive Director, Stephen Thorn Grabi 108 Dan Cindric 2 Miller, pointed out to the executives NICK WILL 22 and councilors at this weeks meeting that there has been no valedictorian Vice President of Public Relations & Marlieting Ben Rauscher 6 selected for the graduating class this Priscilla Nunez 189 year, he suggested that any student CLAIRE CARLOS 445 Electrical, Electronics & Computer Information Chair Transportation & Construction Chair interested in being valedictorian apply. Because a suitable candidate has not Vice President of Student Affairs to be elected in September 2000 been found, the deadline for applying Linda Lee 585 Yes 54 No Trades Chair for the valedictorian honors at BCIT has been extended to May 5, 2000. Campus Life Coordinator to be appointed September 2000 Aviva Abramovich 254 MICHELLE MATSUO 383

THE LINK 3 MAY 3, 2000 ARTS & CULTURE Comic piay looics at tlie Male intellect MELINA ROUSSELLE insightful play that both women been in a HUGE state of confu• Link Arts & Culture Editor and men will enjoy. sion. He has an hour and a half left to figure out why is girlfriend ale Intellect: An Theatre Review is mad at him and the name of Oxymoron? Sounds Male Intellect: An Oxymoron? her cat. And of course the ques• Mlike a feministic play Vogue Theatre tion on all men's minds- what do doesn't it. Il's not. It's a play March 31 women want out of a relation• about the relationship between ship. men and women from a man's Two weeks ago Bobby's girl• The stage is divided into two joint of view. This is a hilarious friend left and ever since he's parts. On the left is the woman's brain and on the right is the man's brain. The left is neat and simple and the right is messy and cluttered with everything male. Every time he steps onto the left side of the stage, he thinks like a woman and on the right he thinks like a man. During the play he portrays the five types of male chauvinists which include the colonel who treats women like dirt and lets them know it and Fast Eddie who seems to think he knows all the in and outis of women. The one line that has stuck with me since I saw the play was Beck at the Plaza of Nations. CARLOS ASSUNCAO PHOTO a line by Fast Eddie, "Every woman is perfect, you just have to find the right one for you". That was an instant ego booster. It's renewed the hope that I will Beck Style at the Plaza someday find true love. 1 guess CARLOS ASSUNCAO he's gone from "I'm a loser that means all men are perfect Link Arts & Entertainment baby" complimented by abstract too—now let's not get a head of Reporter lyrical nonsense, to playing the our selves here. top musical award shows with I honestly came out of this ertain artists transcend the more hip hop inspired tracks like play with a better understanding their role of musical per• "two turn tables and a micro• of both men and women. I Cformer to something of a phone". The show displayed all caught myself saying, "That is so pop culture creation. Beck is one the diversity of Beck's talent, any true", many times as I'm sure a of those, his musical integrity, or star who manages to stay on top lot of the other people in the the profound significance of his in the American (split-second audience were doing. The lyrics, these aren't reasons to be a attention span) culture for so long coolest thing was that he interact• fan of Beck, it's because of his has got to be able to dig deep for ed with the people in the audi• style. something new. ence. All Beck's have kept In the end he finds out what Concert Review some anti-commercial slant, women want and the name of his Beck including tracks with so much girlfriend's cat-SECURITY! Plaza of Nations feedback and noise that it makes Saturday, April 29 it impossible for any commercial radio station to play it without The crowd of hip, bucking- the chance of giving some of the the-fashion-trend, style junkies more conventional listeners a reflect the true motive for enjoy• heart attack. For this, I respect ing Beck, 'cause he's cool. The Beck and his music, and his "I Slipknot Pearl Jam Kittle show didn't disappoint. Beck don't give a shit" attitude. Maybe May 3 May 11 May 16 came out and gave the people a this is just some angle used to Commodore Commodore Starfish Room taste of cutting-edge cool, and sell albums but I think listening so-hip-even-rock-stars-envy-him to his albums inspires some peo• Shaggy Eric Idle Exploits 3 Doors Down style. ple to take a little of that "I don't Mays Monty Python May 16 Now, I'm not saying that there give shit" attitude home and Commodore May 12&13 Richards on Richard's is no substance to this performer, laugh at the irony that can exist Orpheum Theater I'm just pointing out what it is in this "you must fit in" society. Slam City Jam Melvins that makes seeing Beck more All in all, I'm glad I didn't May 5-7 Limblifter, Templar May 17 sensational than seeing any one pass up the opportunity to check Pacific Coliseum May 12 Commodore of the other millions of bands it out up close. Cafe Tacuba, the Commodore that are out their, it's a real pop opening act, was well worth the Third Eye Blind Doc Martin culture event. price of admission alone. Their May 7&8 The The May 19 The music is brilliant, when music has a Jane's Addiction Commodore May 13 Commodore Beck first came onto the scene sound and the band performed an Commodore his style was described as some• energetic set and brought an Rollins Band thing like 90's folk-rock, alterna• easy-going, festival atmosphere May 9 tive folk-rock, retard rock, J&M shQw^„____„ ..^ Commodore whatever. Through the years

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The strong complex African beats are enlivening and calming at the same time, with familiar pop influences infused into a magnificent tapestry. A ences real piece of art, are obvious in Youssou's Coco Lee's style andi singing is so rhythms. The song, down to earth and "Before I Fall In Love", soaring like a is so familiar, I'm sure bird, making one Dot Allison it's a cover. She was want to dance. He Afterglow The Piece Maker born in HK and grew sings in African Arista / BMG In the world of Hype, Tony languages as well as Touch is just another casualty. up in San Francisco Music moves in waves, and is now 26. After English and French, The sounds like a Cypress breaking down lan• like everything in the world Hill after a car accident. I'm no releasing six albums we live in. Right now there she has sold mil• guage and cultural expert on hip-hop or rap, is a certain sound that is lions of copies and barriers. Born in although I know what I like and Senegal, he is a well- ^ spreading out, first it is al I'm a big fan of Tribe Called is making her dreams a reality. known and admired the fringes, then it moves to Quest, Public Enemy, MC 900 ft ihe African singer. This is the mainstream in a more David Lai Jesus, and others. definitely one of the bet-! homogenized, mass-con• This guy doesn't sound like dirk ste r releases I've heard in sumer-friendly version. anything new, albeit almost every METHODS a long time. David Lai OF MAYHEM i t Afterglow is some where in song on his album features some• between the cutting edge, one prominent in the industry, SelftUled sound like more out-there-on-the-fringes such as: KRS-one, Big Daddy (Universal) new age than Kane, , and Parental the united roots style and the mainstream, more. Maybe its not the music Advisory, (world and hip mollified version. Explicit hop) music it you make but who can get to be It has all the elements of Content. 1 had intended to featured on your album, I think a style of music that can this album shows more about the to have my be. Many copy, obnox• artists are fea• only be found by being part connections this guy has than the of a deep underground musical talent he has. ious, rude and tured, including offensive, this is Scorpio from musical movement, like Some tracks kick off with a the Methods Ot Grandmaster drum n' bass, trance, etc. good beat, interesting samples, or Mayhem. Flash, yet some how it's tried to cool intros, but at some point Purely shock material, this piece Angelique Kidjo from Benin and they all fall into the black hole of squeeze it into the contem• of plastic is worth nothing and MC Lyte. This album did suc• trash-talking and name-dropping. porary song structure, you money shouldn't be wasted on it. ceed in presenting music as a uni• If your that deep into the world of know: intro, chorus, verse Methods Of Mayhem is an un- versal language with no Toni Braxton hip-hop you'll probably get a one, chorus, verse two etc., enhanced CD, providing you with prejudices or cultural boundaries, The Heat kick out of this album, if your etc. commercialized Slowtime 3.0, but failed sadly in the first num• (BMG Music) just looking for some good Many musical forms and so you can watch the Get Naked ber. The remaining tracks are The Heat is definitely a new music, 1 suggest you keep look• styles lose a lot of their video, check out some footage of interesting and rhythmically off• side of Toni Braxton we haven't ing. Carlos Assuncao the making of M.O.M. and swim beat. All the tracks are sung in seen before. It's more soulful original appeal when it is in some other trash material. It is French or English. Other ele• then her last albums. It's more transformed to a version all heavy guitar riffs with really ments are also present, like R&B sultry, smooth and in your face. that is radio friendly, I'm cool beats. Twisted elements of and trip hop. In track 5, These songs are from Braxton's not saying that Dot heavy rock, funk , DJ, rap, hip vibe.lich, is defiantly R&B and experiences, her good and bad Allison's Afterglow is an hop and crap, stirs the Methods track 6, elements of trip hop are times. Not only was making this example of this, but it is one of Mayhem. This was Tommy prevalent. United in one, this is a record a growth experience per• step along the way towards sonally but also professionally. Lee's amalgamation, with side great effort and a good compila• taking a style that originated artists like George Clinton, DJ tion of different artists with the Toni, in all, wrote eight of the songs, produced five of them, and on the fringes and convert• Mix Master Mike, Crystal same vision. David Lai ing it to a consumer-friendly Method, Kid Rock and many played key• version. more passing through for fun. VOUSSOU boards on one. Who the hell cares, it's just a CD, N'DOUR You might rec• Personally, I like some will love it, some will hate Joko (from ognize some of Afterglow, some songs it. David Lai Village to the other voices breakdown at points, but I coco LEE Town) on this CD: like the music and the Just No Other Way (Columbia) There is Left genre. The problem comes (Epic/550 Music) This album is Eye from TLC when the music tries more The Chinese (Hong Kong) pop a message of on "That's just to be a song rather than just i sensation is budding into interna• hope, the link to a woman asking flowing it's natural course, j tional fame and popularity. She what she something posi• This style of music lends i has been compared to Mariah tive to the wants", and Dr. Carey or Christina Aguilera, with Dre on another itself more to a longer, unknown. It is a unstructured flow, rather her high pitch shrills and incredi• connection that track. I'm not than a song structure ble vocal range. She has toured is linking an an R&B lover between two and five min• Japan, Korea, Australia, Europe African village with the rest of so I'm indifferent and I think this and the US. Her soft voice pos• the world. Youssou N'Dour is CD is all right. Honestly, it bores utes long, wilh a beginning sesses an ecstatic energy and one of Africa's most important me more then anything. It was and an end, designed to be a vibrancy, keeping the drive performers. Youssou loves to hard for me to listen to an entire vehicle for the artist, rather strong and positive. Guest rapper VARIOUS ARTISTS bring people together, and on this song without tuning out. than a showcase for the A-Butter from Natural Elements Rapsody - Hip Hop Meets World release he brings Peter Gabriel, However, as far as R&B goes it's music itself. This album punctuates the first track, "Do (Mercury) Sting and Wyclef Jean to share alright. Toni has the attitude to has a lot of the sounds and You Want My Love". She has This is an interesting concept, their talents and beats. Joko is a pull it off. feels of the style that bore it, also worked with Jackie Chan to combine popular Hip Hop with meeting of the minds of different Melina Rousselle and in the Mandarin-language but it has been modified to the growing genre of World experiences and tonalities. The fit your screen. version of Disney's Mulan. At a Music. It's a greal idea, but I| result is a beautiful blend of tradi• Carlos Assuncao young age, she would listen lo could have done without the nar-; tional and urban sounds that is Whitney Houston, Madonna and ration in the first track, which: flowing musically and spiritually. George Michael and these influ- MAY 3. 2000 THE LINK PHOTO RETROSPECTIVE

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The FRQ Zone Carlos Hssuncaa Is there a way to reduce my Student Loan debt? Yes! There's loan remission.

hat is the loan remis• have been involved in one of sion program? The offi• the specified activities such as; Wcial answer is "the working, volunteering, study• British Columbia loan remission ing etc. as stipulated by the program is designed to help eligibility criteria in the loan reduce your British Columbia remission application. Student Loan debt to a more manageable level upon gradua• These are the general rules to tion", in other words, if you grad• follow if you want to successfully uated and are aware enough to apply for the loan remission, know whal's going on, you can however, Ihere are exceptions to catch a break on your sludent every rule, and in this case there loan payments. are many exceptions. For exam• ple, if you have defaulted loans in the past the application process The facts you need to will and guidelines will vary in know are: our circumstances. You will have to examine the applica• You must success• tion and your own fully complete history to deter• your program mine if you are in order to be F requEntlLj eligible and eligible for what steps the loan you will remission have to take program. to apply. In any You must case, until complete your you have program in a received some timely manor, that CARLOS ASSUNCAO sort of notifica- is if the program is tion regarding the two years you must com• status of your loan remis• plete it in the two years plus a sion application, you are required grace period of one education• to make monthly payments as per al year. the agreement set by the bank/credit union in the case of You have one year after gradu• your individual student loan. ating (your study period end One thing to keep in mind if Open House AwarH Winners date) to apply for the loan your graduating this May, the remission, that's one year after first thing you should do is con• or anyone who wasn't able 2. Electrical & Industrial 3. Fresh Start you graduate to apply, this is tact your bank and make arrange• to attend The Techies Electronic Wiring the deadline. ments regarding your loan, if you award ceremony during 3. Computer & Business Most Futuristic Display don't it's possible the bank will Open House 2000, here's a list of Equipment Technician You cannot apply until after make assumptions regarding your all the winners. Congratulations Program 1. Artificial Intelligence you graduate. status as a student and the pay• to all of the winning displays! 2. Occupational Health & Safety ments which are required of you. Manufacturing & Industrial 3. Robotics & Automation There is a requirement called You can pick up a loan remis• Best Program Display Mechanical Personal Responsibility, i.e. sion application at the financial 1. Robotics & Automation 2. Mechanical Engineering People's Choice Winner during each four month period services desk in SWl on the Business before classes start you must BCIT Burnaby campus. Technology (Systems) for BCIT Open House 1. International Trade 3. Mechanical Engineering 2. Tourism Technology (Design) 2000 3. Communications/Direct Response Health Sciences Congratulations to the 1. Occupational Health & Safety Robotics and Automation Best of luck with your exams Computing 2. Clinical Genetics Technology Technology from Manufacturing 1. Artificial Intelligence 3. Medical Laboratory Science and Industrial Mechanical for and have a great summer. 2. Part-Time Computing being voted the People's Choice, 3. Forensic Science Process, Energy & Natural award winner by Ihe visitors tai Open House! Resources For those returning next Construction 1. Geomatics Dave Lewis and his students 1. Building Engineering 2. Mining created an exciting and interac• Technology year... We'// see you then. 3. Forestry tive display that caught the atten• 2. Welding tion of many Open House guests. 3. Civil & Structural Engineering The Linki Transportation Congratulations from the 1. Automotive Open House 2000 Committee! 1 Electrical & Electronic 2. Auto Collision 1. Automation & Instrumentation

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