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New Com Puter Wi Ll Offer More for G Ra Ph "^ 1 \ / Volume 11 No.4 Tech bui ldi ng sod tu rn ed at cere mony by Neil Van GrootheeatChronicle staff Sod for the'new $3.6 million Skilled Trades and Technology building at Durham College was turned on Friday, Oct 28. Chairman of the Durham Board of Governors Ruth Milne and Sam Cureatz, MPP for Durham East, were on hand for the event The new building is being constructed south of the H-block» just east of the tech- nology wing of the college. Housed in the new building will be eight new classrooms, a robotics two lab, electronic labs, and two i " . , CAD/CAM rooms with a central computer area The machine shop located in the H- block will be doubled in size. A new metal fabrication area and fitter-welder room will also be installed.^ Master of Ceremonies Mel Gariand Arthur Smith, technology division teacher, and his digging party said, "This is a great day for Durham of second year technology students show off Napiers hones. College. We have a reputation of being photo by NeU Van Grootheest advanced, and this new building is another sign of continuous growth." Sam Cureatz, MPP for Durham east, N apie r's bon es exh u m ed brought a congratulatory message from the Minister of Colleges and Universities Dr. Ministry of Colleges and Universities Dr. for new tech bu i ld i ng Bette Stephenson. by Nefl Van Grootheest . Upon their arrival back at the college, Cureatz Chronicle staff jokingly said, "It was a lot of the raiding party hid the bones in a drafting hard work twisting her arm to get money for Poor Napier. Even in death he gets no room until a headstone could be made to the college." He said he was "pleased to see respect His bones were dug up for the properly lay the bones to rest this capital expansion at the college." second time on Monday, Oct 24. The funeral procession was led by Board of Governors chairman Ruth Arthur Smith, technology division teaching master Rod Lee, who acted as Milne said that Durham is "one of the teacher, led the party that exhumed the fastest priest for the service. Students wearing growing colleges in Ontario" Milne bones. white lab coats and paper bags over their also announced that Cooper Construction John Napier invented tK forerunner to heads acted as pallbearers, the rule of Etobicoke carrying was the successful bidder for the slide rule in the 17th century. When the through the lounge and .cafeteria before construction of the building with a bid of calculator was introduced to the math worid, $1,964.970. laying it to rest in the front lawn of the the slide, rule became obsolete. college. , Another $1.6 million has been set to In commemoration of this, a six foot The bones had to cover engineering fees and equipment for be moved in order to slide rule (alias Napier's bones) was buried make room for the new Skilled Trades and the new building. Completion date for the just east of the technology wmg of Durham project is the fall of 1984. Bette Stephenson Technology building, said Arthur Smith. College. The slide rule had been used by Smith also added that a new tombstone will and Frank Miller will be present to open the teachers in the technology division to in- new building. be made up for th6 next burial struct students in use. , Other notables in attendances at the its InNovemberofl976, Durham College ceremony were Gary Herrema, regional played a basketball game Mohawk chairman, Alan Pilkey, mayor of Oshawa, against College, with Mohawk coming out of the nside Bill Mdean, mayor of Ajax, Garnet Rickard, game victor. As mayor of'Newcastle, and William as their trophy for winning Ballinger, the claimed mayor of Uxbridge. game, they the slide rule, taking it with them. to Hamilton, where they buried Campus news Entertainment ' ' ' it \ . pages 2,3 pages 6,7,8 A raiding party from Durham went to the Mohawk campus while the studentslw were at a pub, dug up the bones, and deftly Board of Governors chairman Ruth Milne Sports and MPP Sam Cureatz turn sod for the made their get-away down the '401 back to E ditonal/Opinion new Skilled Trades and Technology Durham College. building as regional chairman page 4 \ pages 1 1,12 Gary Herrema looks on, New com puter wi l l offer more for g ra ph ics __ _ by J.Miedema/epChronicle» «jr; _ « ^__^«l---__l-»- staffA. '^^^ horse of the industry." Images The purchase of a $417,000 computer "We bought this system because it ties are obtained be produced by keyboard command. It can draw effec- which look like watercolor has oeen announced by applied arts director in with our existing system and those systems paintings. outside the college which are hooked into tively, recreate logos, and add graphics to Woody Manery. Maneiy said the same network," he said. charts and graphs. the new acquisition would "Durham College now has one of the meet the Maneiy The imaginator is a recent innovation college's needs in the areas of most sophisticated teaching graphics labs in said that instructors Hugh which Charlebois and John "represents state-of-the-art computer teaching aids, business or graphics and the worid," said Maneiy in a recent interview. Freeman had invested graphics capability," design. It was purchased from Dicomed their whole summer Manery said. He The new computer package consists of in order to learn the showed a film and slides which Corporation in the United and would new system, through demonstrated States one imaginator, three D-38's and six IBM courses given at that the imaginator1 s talents were be processed through the company's Sheridan College. much PC's (personal computers). One D-38 arrived more refined than those of the D-38. Canadian distributor, Ariel of Canada. last week and will be in room C210, he said. The D-38 is a modified PDP-11 (a The imaginator is capable of standard producing The rest of the package would arrive by mid- computer in operation at the 16.7 million shades of color and can produce college for over 10 years) December. and is "the work 124 shadings in a single image. Images can iT-w Paf 2 TTr Chronic)* NovmbT 7.1983 Campus news nt p uts Pl m a ce th ry r e - i p i ^i._i^i^ eo , - . r»_^^2^ _«.««» . i. -.to . ct k» nL«i«n^ n . - ra ce ^V by GabrieUa Braccia Chronicle taff -The students must approach the orga- to co-ordinate the field placement She said Field placement has started early for the students had a successful placement I nizations on their own. Fraser said, "I spent "It is a unique program in sports admini- they some of the Durham College students this want to know whether the students feel "seven weeks preparing the students for field stration. The student's work range from have achieved at a professional level" year. work. They were taught how to write resumes, typing and filing to heading up provincial , Scott Rose, a second year sports A total of 33 sports administration how to conduct an interview, and many conferences or sporting events.** administration student, is working for the students will be working and experiencing other skills needed for student success." Harwood said that placement is a good Ontario Volleyball Association. He said, as professionals in the real world as of Don Fraser has been involved in co- opportunity far students to develop contacts "It's like a summer job. We are looked upon October 26 until the end of April ordinating field placement for nine years. in recreation and sports fields. as professionals." Don Fraser, coordinator of job place- He said, "Part of working as an administrator Don Fraser thinks that success is very The students have to write weekly ment, said, "Field placement is an oppor- means that things will go wrong. The important to the students. He said, "When reports on what they did, and whether they tunity for the students to achieve at a students must solve a lot of problems they field work is completed, I look for whether found it worthwhile. professional level'* have never been faced with before. They will There are 60 different organizations be getting to know the problems of an available for the students to choose from. organization and how to deal with them." Library gets trial computer Each student is required to be inter- There are six different areas of organi- viewed by a minimum of four different zations interested in participating in place- as part of new experiment organizations. Some of the students were ment These are community recreation, interviewed by seven or eight organizations. Ontario government, sports facilities, sports by GabrieUa Breccia Chronicle staff After each interview, the students rank associations, team management and sporting The Durham College library has been , Fanshawe, St Lawrence, Cambridge, the company, and the compan^ranks the goods. given a new computer for a five month Georgian, and Sault College because it is student Then the students ar^^given the Placement is oh a contract system. The period, as part of a tele-communication more economical opportunity to pick their first choice of students are required to work Wednesdays experiment Sue Barclay, college librarian, said, "If where they want to work. and Thursdays for a total of 16 hours a week This program started Sept 1, and it the line charges prove to be inexpensive, we Placement is a good opportunity for the with no pay, and attend school for the involves 14 other community colleges outside can get a couple terminals for student use companies also because it gives them a remainder, of the week.
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