The EndeavourLethbridge Community College Features Volume 39 Issue 12 Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2004 Psychic fair hits Lethbridge Page 9 TheThe longlong roadroad forfor Entertainment Local talent in Dated Delay Nickelback Page 16 Nickelback Sports Hurricanes hockey Page 20 Promotions Show your sweetie you care and be entered to win dinner Photo by Amy Harris and a movie Guitarist Ryan Peake and lead singer Chad Kroeger perform Sunday at the Enmax Centre to a sold-out crowd. See related story Page14 2 • Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2004 Campus News Endeavour Money for brain power Studying pays off with student scholarships Story and Photo By progressing. For example, if a student Sheryl Winczura transfers their courses and continues Endeavour Staff their education at a university they are Around 320 LCC students sighed again eligible,” Sprinkle said. with relief last week, as the long hours Because so many students were eli- of studying paid off and the scholar- gible for the scholarship criteria ship checks began to pour in. changes will be made for next year. The Jason Lang Scholarship awarded “Instead of having a 3.0 GPA a stu- to students with a GPA of 3.0 or higher dent will be required to have a 3.2.” was sent out in the mail last week to The Lang scholarship, however, is all eligible applicants. not the only one available. In March, “The Jason Lang scholarship is by over 300 LCC scholarship applications far the most popular, we don’t give out will be available for students to pick hundreds of anything else,” Linda up. The money ranges from $100 to Sprinkle, LCC Student Awards Officer $1,000 and around $200,000 is given said. out yearly. “I had no idea that I got it until they Students that receive these awards as emailed me. I just received the check well as a few others are honoured dur- last week,” Tyrel Churko, Civil ing the annual awards ceremony in Engineering Technology student said. October. Churko who finished last semester The Louise McKinney from Alberta with a perfect 4.0 average has decided Heritage is one of the larger awards to put the money in savings. presented at the ceremony. It does, however, take more than a “The $2,500 McKinney scholarship high GPA to be eligible for the scholar- is given out to 20 students’, based ship. purely on academic achievements and “Students must be in their second mostly to students with 4.0 GPA’s. year of the program with a full year There are however, a lot of students behind them. They must be full time with perfect averages that don’t receive students with 80 per cent of their pro- anything only because there aren’t gram complete. The award is also only enough scholarships available. I often available for Alberta residents,” receive over 100 applications for just Sprinkle said. one scholarship.” The Lang scholarship, usually only Students and instructors will receive awarded to students once, can be an e-mail informing them of the received twice. upcoming LCC scholarships.There will “A student must be continuing and also be posters around the college. Linda Sprinkle, LCC Student Awards Officer Deadline forces healthcare payment Canada. The plan fee was added to Story and Photo By tuition costs at the beginning of the Carla Girvin semester. The plan is mandatory in Endeavour Staff order to lower the cost per student. The scholarship bulletin board at LCC. More then $200,000 a year is given out Students could also add their spouse Students at LCC that want to opt in student scholarships. or dependants onto the plan by out of the LCCSA Benefit Plan are obtaining a form at the LCCSA too late. Benefits Plan office and paying the The deadline was Jan. 30. In order family add-on fee. The deadline was to opt out, the student would have also Jan. 30. provided proof of comparable cover- The benefit plan does not replace T H A N K Y O U ! age. No exceptions or extensions T H A N K Y O U ! provincial health care, but is extend- To the following sponsors and individuals, who helped make will be made for students that failed ed health and dental coverage for our January temporary lunch program at LCC a success : to submit their waiver forms. students. It can be combined with “If you missed it, that’s it,” said other benefit plans in order to obtain Chad Runquist, who is located in the 100 per cent coverage. Students are • Fairway Plaza and Westside LCCSA Benefits Plan office. issued a care card that can be used at Safeway Many students who wanted to opt pharmacies or dental offices. • Piikani Board of Education out were unaware of the deadline. Coverage begins at the start of the • College Chaplaincy “I had no idea,” said Mark Toone, fall semester, Sept. 1, and ends Aug. • Deborah Berg, Val a student at LCC, “I haven’t heard 31. Goodrider, Steven Healy, anything about the plan.” The care card can be downloaded Mavis Kearney, Marcia Taylor The number of students that met from www.gallivan.ca/studentnet- and a special thank you to all the deadline could not be released, works/members/lethbridge or picked students who helped set-up according to Runquist. up from the LCCSA Benefits Plan and make sandwiches. You are automatically enrolled if office. you are a member of LCCSA in an The LCCSA Benefits Plan office is applicable program, registered located beside the Cave in room CE From the Piita Pawanii Learning Society in 15 or more credits, and residing in 1312. Endeavour Campus News Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2004 • 3 Disabilities committee looks to expand Story By: Anna Weikle Endeavour Staff The LCC Disabilities Committee is planning to add more students to the group. “We wanted to expand our commit- tee. I’d like a blind student. And one other student with a physical disability. I want some people with non-physical disabilities, ” says Doug Patching, who is chair of the committee. Scott Nishi, broadcasting student, has been the only student on the com- mittee but Patching reports that there are two or three perspective students with learning disabilities looking to join the committee. Despite reports that the committee was to meet twice a month, the group has yet to meet since its first meeting of the semester in December. “We had a meeting in December and we are set for the very first part of February... We want (an) average about four each term.” The main focus of the December meeting was to organize the commit- A disabled student is helped into the Lethbridge Handi-bus, last semester. tee; its agenda and mandate. Photo by Larry Fisher “The result of our December meeting was one of our key people, Julie Students with disabilities also voiced cate instructors. together but what I want to do is to do Deimert, was able to do some research some concern about educating instruc- “That would be more of a luxury if good work, to raise the interest and let and get copies of mandates of other tors in the Endeavour’s Dec. 3 issue. we had lots and lots of resources.” the thing grow with the support of peo- committees right across the province.” Patching agrees that it is an impor- “This thing is growing. I could force ple who really want to be there. I’ve Deimert was able to get action plans tant detail. it and I could say we’re having a com- always found that those are the strong from University of Calgary, Mount “Yah, absolutely. That’s next. That’s mittee and just put the whole meal deal committees.” Royal and University of Alberta which Julie’s department and she does that all have their own Disabilities Access already.” Committee. Patching explains that Julie Deimert “That is probably our main focus at will go to the instructors of students this point. To flush out our committee,” who have a learning disabilities or says Patching. physical disabilities (with their permis- Come to SAIT and discover your “We want to give it wheels. You can sion) and discuss how to deal with meet about thing like, as we have up to their problems and why they may be career in: now, snow clearing, make sure the having difficulties. sidewalks are clear of snow, make sure “One of the things that we specify in Emergency Medical Care there are safe sidewalks across roads, our policy is that we want people with to make sure there is automatic door disabilities, whether it be physical or openers but you can only do that for so whatever kind of disability it is, can be Medical Imaging long... I want to see other things hap- a learning disability. If they want pen,” says Patching and specifically accommodation, that is if they want us Laboratory Technologies refers to disabilities counselor Julie to help them, we want them to let us Deimert. know well in advance of them coming Respiratory Therapy “She’s got some pretty good equip- here... Ideally they would let us know ment, but it’s still not enough to in April or May at the latest if they accommodate some of the people with were coming the following It’s a whole new world in health care. High tech, high touch, disabilities. So we need to look at the September.” high demand programs prepare you for challenging and rewarding kinds of equipment and the kinds of This gives the college time to work services that we offer and are they suf- with the future instructors rather than positions.