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Wednesday, January 13,1999 Campus Events. This Calendar column is open for notices of events on all BCfT campuses. Submissions can be faxed to 431-7619, sent by campus mail or dropped off at The Link office in the SA Campus Centre (down the corridor between the video arcade Link 311432-8974 and the vacant store) January 11-15 commitment fee for level 1). Wednesday, January 27 Unclassifieds ENGLISH TUTOR, Bachelor of Intramurals Registration Week. Nursing Level 5: Last day to Faulty Towers. 11:30am - Englsih. Bachelor of Education, BC apply for course credit 2:30pm. Gym. Contact Teaching certificate, ESL.Training, Friday, January 15 (exemption) < Recreation & Athletic Services for S. Bumaby Area. 433-5684 is the student newspaper of the British Columbia more info. Institute of Technology. Nursing Level 5: Fee deadline. Recreation Council Meeting. Medical Imaging Published bi-weekly by Next issue of The Link Technologist the BCIT Student Associalicn. Recreation Council Social. Friday, January 22 published. Permanent and casual opportuni• The Link circulates 3.500 copies ties for individuals with x-ray. ultra• to over 16,000 students and slaff. sound and mammography experi• Monday, January 18 P^ama Jammy Jam. Friday, January 29 ence. CAMRT, ARMDS, CPR required. American Marketing Deadline for submissious to the Electronics: Lasi day lo change Salary rates and conditions of Association Meeting. 7:00am. next issue of The Link. sections for shidents on modified Contributors: employment are in accordance with SA Boardroom, SA Campus programs. the HSA/HEABC Collective David Lai, Greg Helten, Centre. Monday, January 25 Andrew Dennison. Uz Gaige, Agreement. Carlos Assuncao. Erin Garlick, Electronics: Levels 2, 3, 4 and Powell River is a coastal located Lygdcl de Leon, Allan Antonio, SA Council Meeting. 5:30pm. American Marketing Co-Op fees due. 134 km north of Vancouver on the Samatha Tse, SA Boardroom, SA Campus Association Meeting. 7;00am. Sunshine Coast. Vedran Mominovic, Janet Yu, Centre. SA Boardroom, SA Campus Monday, February 1 & Paul Dayson Centre. Interested candidates should reply lo: Tuesday, January 19 American Marketing Human Resources, Powell River General Hospital. Managing Editor Electronics: Registration/ Association Meeting. 7:00am. 5000 Joyce Avenue, Paul Dayson Toastmasters. Public speaking Orientation for level 1 students. SA Boardroom, SA Campus Powell River, BC V8A SR3, club. 7:00am. SA Boardroom, SA News Editor Centre. or fax (604) 485-3245. Carlos Assuncao Campus Centre. Electronics: Winter Term Arts & Culture Editors begins. SA Council Meeting. 5:30pm. INTERNATIONAL FINANCE David Lai Last Day to withdraw from SA Boardroom, SA Campus Positions:Personal Financial Advertising Representative classes and receive a full refund Tuesday, January 26 Centre. Analysts/Management Liz Gaige (less $200 commitment fee). Trainees (Full-Time) Distribution Manager Toastmasters. Public speaking Tuesday, January 26 Positions available: 6 vacant Last Day to apply for course club. 7:00am. SA Boardroom, SA We are NorthAmerica's leading mar• credit (exemption) and/or Campus Centre. Groundhog's Day keter of financial services. We are change registration to audit currently looking for self-motivating entrepeneurs, with integrity, confi• status. Nursing Level 5: Last day to Toastmasters. Public speaking dence and enthusiasm to join our As a member of withdraw and receive refund. club. 7:00am. SA Boardroom, SA team. Must have a strong interest in Canadian University Press (CUP), Nursing Levels 1-4: Lasi Day to Campus Centre. the financial services industry The Link adheres to CUP's withdraw from classes and receive Code of Ethics. Knowledge of Chinese or other lan• To this end The Link a full refund_J^less_^$20S^ guages would be a definite asset. A will not publish material deemed comprehensive training program will by Ihe editors or steering commillee be provided. We prefer applicants lo be sexist, racist, homophobic who are available immediately. or in poor taste. ITS YOUR Please fax your resume with 4 ref• erences to the attention of Melissa The views in The Link are ISOlU Wu at 324-8988. not necessarily those of BCIT. SEVENDAd Website http:\\www.pfsnet,com the Studeni Association, or Ihe editorial collective. SPECIALSINTERNHTIONA L HOSTHLS AlA/Ctl^ J VANCOUVER • NANAIMO A f | EC

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JANUARY 13, 1999 2 THEUNK NEWS

Carlos Assuncao

SA Declares Campus Cleanliness Their New Years Resolution

A president Stephen Diebolt opened the council meeting with a resound• Sing "Happy New Year." Campus Cleanliness started the week of January 4th, to be held once a week on Wednesdays. SA is having trouble round• ing up a sufficient amount of volunteers. A minimum of 45 minutes and all black attire is all that is required to do your part in keeping the campus clean. Anyone inter• ested should go to the SA Office and sign up for Campus Cleanliness.

• Preparations for Winterfest activities are near completion and promotion of the event begins next week. Dunk tank expenses are within budget so it looks as if council executives will be taking a dive (because no one else wants to). The Pajama Jammy Jam is planned for the 22nd of January. A duck race is going to take place in the creek running through campus—if affordable rubber ducks can The portable that has been home to the Brown Bag. LYGDEL DE LEON PHOTO be found in time. If any one has informa• tion on where inexpensive rubber ducks can be acquired please contact Steve Diebolt at the SA Office.

• SA executive director Stephen Miller Brown Bag's future in quesUon made a motion for the SA to purchase a corporate pass to Science World. The CARLOS ASSUNCAO explained Richard. pass would be a service available to all Link News Editor As an instructor, Richard worries stu• dministration has scheduled meet• BCIT students. For $500 the pass will dents will have to take their coffee and ings for January 18 to discuss the entitle five people to enter Science CIT Administration wants to tear lunch breaks at another cafeteria. The Afuture of the Brown Bag cafe. World through the memben's entrance down the Brown Bag Cafe, a added time of changing oul of their cov• SA president Stephen Diebolt and execu• free of charge, free admission to B portable structure housing a eralls and the longer walk to other cafete• tive director Stephen Miller will be meet• Omnimax and free admission to special cafe/diner primarily servicing trades stu• rias will take away from his time instruct• ing with representatives of BCIT admin• events taking place at Science World. dents. However, the students, instructors ing the students. Boilermaker, Heavy istration Terry Milligan and Amanda The purchase was authorized by the SA, and staff who are customers of the Brown Welding, Piping and Automotive are Hill. although exactly how the pass will be Bag feel strongly about keeping facility among the trades whose students and "Administration is meeting with repre• available to all BCIT students was not and vow to fight any attempt to close it. staff (500 full and part time students) rely sentatives from the Student Association arranged at the council meeting. John and Vicky Vasiliadis lease the on the Brown Bag. on the 18 of January to discuss the issue," space and have been running the business Tamara Kurbatoff, an automotive stu• was the only comment Milligan was will• • Computer System Technologies (CST) since 1981. They have created a friendly dent, is eager to show her support for the ing to make. students made a presentation to the SA and comfortable atmosphere for students cafe. According to Miller, one reason for requesting funding for their Career Day. which can't be found anywhere else on "We (trade students) don't feel com• administration's desire to demolish the Ed Finch, Anita Norman and Adrian campus. Vicky recently received a letter fortable in the other cafeterias. People cafe is their directive to rid the campus of Glover presented their case successfully from administration informing her of here are friendly, they'll sit down and portable structures. and a motion lo donate $1,400 to CST their intentions to demolish the structure talk with you. Another reason is the As information becomes available was unanimously passed by the SA. in June. Their reasons as stated in the let• Brown Bag is cheaper than anywhere from the administration on this subject BCIT's Administration promised to ter are the costs of repairing the aging else on campus," said Tamara. The Link will update the story. match the donation of the SA. The structure. Career Day is primarily for students in "We were willing to negotiate to pay computer technologies studies. The for some of the repairs," said Vicky. Career Day includes seminars and indus• "Why June? Thats what I want to try representatives searching for quali• know. We have a two year option on our fied individuals to join their ranks. It will lease and it is unfair to us to tell us we take place at Ihe Robson Square have to close our business and start all Conference Centre on March 23, 1999. over again,...with only a few months notice. We rely on this business as our • Stephen Miller passed on a warning he livelyhood and aren't young enough to received on his e-mail regarding needles start all over again just like that," added being placed in pay phones. Apparently Vicky. some deranged individuals are placing The portable housing the Brown Bag dirty needles in the change boxes of pay is owned by BCIT which leases the space phones for unsuspecting callers to get to the SA. Brown Bag managers John poked. Anyone using a pay phone should and Vicky Vasiliadis in turn have their use caution when retrieving their change. contract with the SA. • The SA is implementing an employee of mong the defenders of the Brown the month program. This month's Bag is Richard Macintosh, a employee of the month is Wendy ATrades instructor at BCIT. Lamott, one of the Childcare staff "The Brown Bag is the only cafeteria Wendy has the additional honor of being where students can wear their coveralls, SA's first employee to attain this presti• it is also the only place that opens at 5 am Brown Bag operator John Vasiliadis and Trades instructor Richard gious award. for the convenience of trade students," Macintosh. LYGDEL DE LEON PHOTO

THE UNK 3 JANUARY 13, 1999 ARTS & CULTURE Nutcracker Narnia's magic comes alive on tlie stage

a bland ERIN GARLICK you know how many dozens of char• Unk Theatre Reporter acters are represented. My friend and I were wary that the full story could reflectien t's a magical mythical land just not be told with only two participants. beyond the wardrobe. The coats tum We were wrong. of Russia's Ito trees and the wooden floorboards Miriam performed expertly as to snow as the children in Uncle Lucy, convincing us she was a young _^j«oes . Digory's spare room make their way English schoolgirl, and a number of through to Namia. other Narnians including the white witch, Asian, and even her own sister Ihe Nutcracker, a Susan. Christmas story known Play Review .Anthony was also very well spo• to all. For the last few The Lion, the Witch and the T ken as Peter, his brother Edmund, Mr. years. The Moscow Classical Wardrobe & Mrs. Beaver, etc. So how did they Ballet troupe from Russia has At the Pacific Theatre do it? With the help of Director Ron come to perform the tale. And Reed, these two thespians retold the with each passing year, it gets Sound familiar? You probably hear story as their older selves, Peter and increasingly worse. But this this CS. Lewis story as a child, the clas• Lucy as college students now remi• year in particular, was the sic piece of English literature, "The niscing about their adventure through worst.; The Nutcracker has lost Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe". the wardrobe and getting so involved its luster with this company. Narnia is the magical land where the White Witch has cast a spell that makes in their storytelling that they reenact the season always winter, but never the story as the true characters. Expert Ballet costume design helped our imagina• The Nutcracker Christmas. It is up to Lucy and her two brothers and sister to overthrow the evil tions believe the characters through QE Theatre simple coat and cape designations. Dec. 9-13, 1998 Queen with the help of many unique Narnian creatures and the good lion For example, we knew Asian was on King Asian. stage when the gold cloak was worn, Russia's economic and and later on it only needed to be held political crisis has definitely This timeless tale has been told and Anthorty F. Ingram and Miriam Brown in The Lion, for us to believe the character was affected the arts. All the retold to generations of wide-eyed chil• present. It sounds confusing, but with dancers in this company look dren, and has been revisited as a play by the Witch and the Wardrobe at Pacific Theatre. DEBRA SEARS PHOTO cleverly simple stage design, subtle famished and grave, with the the Pacific Theatre in Vancouver this costume and sound cues, the audience exception of one whose energy December. was easily led into the adventure. Their were lit up the stage. Alexy Borzov, I was very familiar with this story, the sec• heroic lion king Asian. only minor errors with the actors tripping who played Fritz, was like sun• ond in the C.S. Lewis series, the Chronicles My first impressions were a bit concerning over a few lines, but with almost two hours of shine in a dark room. His boy• of Narnia. This was probably because it was as 1 compared my experience with the new dialogue and opening night jitters, this was to ish charm and excellent tech• the first theatrical experience I had as a child, format 1 was about to witness. Instead of be expected, and easily forgiven. The show nique really stood him out. playing the lead part of Lucy when I was 12 around 45 actors, as was the case with my was well thought out and presented in a Everyone paled in comparison- years old. 1 was looking forward to revisiting childhood play, Pacific theatre presented only delightfully entertaining fashion. , even the International the adventurous land of Narnia, complete two. Miriam Brown as Lucy and Anthony F. Compedtion Laureates, Natalia with its talking fauns, evil white Witch and Ingram as Peter. Now if you know this story. Ogneva and Konstatin Osin. Ogneva and Osin, the leads in the Nutcracker were not all that Legendary Deftones new wave bad, but perhaps their lack of enthusiasm hindered their per• formance. metal sweeps crowd to a frenzy And who could blame SHANNON LENTZ a powerful show and pummel them? The choreography was Link Reporter you wilh every chord that at the bland and repetitive. It was an end, you're too tired and beat for absolute chore to sit through eftones are a "New any more. the whole performance. There Wave" Hardcore Metal The Deftones have moved on didn't seem to be enough going Dband from Sacramento. to another phase of their slow rise on to keep the interest up. If Their career consists of two to popularity. Gone are the small anything, there was a lot of incredibly solid , a couple club shows, now they're playing posing and recycled moves. movie soundtracks and contribu• lo 800+ screaming kids. I 'Tis a pity. tions to tribute albums of artists thought that something might There were however, two like Depeche Mode, Duran Duran become lost in this transition but very good elements to this pro• and the Smiths. Along wilh their alas they still delivered and hard• duction. The first being the studio achievements comes hun• er than I've ever seen Ihem elaborate sets. Those were dreds of legendary live shows. before. beautiful and well presented. This band has been to Vancouver Opening first tonight was They were not overbearing at alone five or six times since '95 Snapcase out of Soulh California all; in fact, it was the only thing and anyone who has experienced who delivered a solid sel slightly that kept me alive during the a Deftones show will tell you reminiscent of Fugazi but more performace! Another ounce of there is nothing but. straight ahead. Quicksand fol• brilliance was of course the lowed and were familiar to music. No matter how unwor• Deftones Deftones fans as they loured with thy the production was, nothing with Quicksand and Snapcase Ihem in '95. Out of New York could hamper the timeless at Ihe Croatian Cultural Center this four piece carried the city's composition of Tchaikovsky. Friday, December 11, 1998 hard and distinctive sound with It's too bad this production them and got the crowd worked wasnit more successful. This There is a notion that comes up for more to follow. On Ihe company has potential; it just along wilh a Deftones show as downside, both of Ihe bands' need a lot of new direction. So well. A 'tones show is like really sound suffered from Ihe dank sadly, if the Moscow Classical good food or even really good confines of the venue. One Ballet Company should never sex. While the act is occurring, thought hung in my mind during rear irs head again in this city, all you want is more. You think the evening performance, "Man, she not be missed. lhat after this song, or this help• this show would be just perfect if ing, or etc you want more. it was in Tbe Commodore". I However, these guys deliver such

JANUARY 13, 1999 THEUNK ARTS & CULTURE ON THE OUTVIOE... Beatle's, by calling it the' "Yellow ", instead : of the "White Album".] With all these references to Rewards for your studying.. from the out-, TRUMYSTIC side, on the inside it's aj System whole different story. Jan. 21 Product Three Musically it should stay on New Radicals (Mutant Sound System) TV, 1 don't need to hear Hip-hop, jungle, urban Bart or Lisa's whining' At the Starfish Room groove and breakbeats, are voices over stereo. The: what make most of the graphics are greatand' sounds of Trumystic. humorous, but the music i Jan.25 Executive producers. just doesn't cut it for me, ; King's X with Galactic Cowboys this one 1 think is only for; Tommy Silver, Dr. Israel At the Starfish Room and Soothsayer are a real the die-hard, severei cool trio, combining their the difkf Simpsons fanatics. There diverse talents of reggae, is one interesting guest who Feb. 11 urban rap and appears with Lisa, singing and with many others, "She's Comin' Out lohnny Favorite Swing Orchestra conscious-hip-hop. Their including Ozzy Osbourne, Swingin'" (track 7), it's the ; At the Gate lyrics make sense and are CAKE Primus, Rancid and the P-Funk All Stars, featuring. easy to listen to. Jungle, Dirty Bastard, they have George Clinton, but it ain't dub, roots, world-beat, all combined their talents and enough warrant to run out Mar. 11/12 in Brooklyn style, these generated a very entertain• and procure this, unless you i The Tragically Hip New York sound scientists ing and ridiculous album are truly a Simpsons addict.; are experimenting with a At the CM. Place based on a twisted cartoon. david lai \ radical mixology of 'elec- Aside from the voices of troculturalized' elements of Stan, Cartman, and Kyle the '90's and roots from (which can get annoying), our ancestors. They're CAKE this album is not the worst considered a cross-cultural Prolonging the Magic to hear, the artists presented The LINK to winning collective of artists sharing (Capricorn) are able to really pull off a common vision of world "Prolonging the Magic" is somecreative or at least enlightenment through beat the the third album from interesting playing and culture and soundwaves. this Sacramento group. It most of all have fun. A The selection of artists follows the album, favorite of mine is WJEAWL compiled here have exten• "Fashion Nugget" that had " sive recordings on labels the radio friendly song, (P.S. I love you)" played by from Wordsound to Axiom. "The Distance." The open• the (), it is BERNARD BUTLER FACTORY Check out Trumystic for a ing track, "Satan is My very demented, perverted People Move On ' wider sense of dub world Motor," focuses simple and sick. Most songs are (Creation/Columbia) ; CONTEST music and conscious elec- music behind the unmistak• demented, like "Kenny's The former guitarist ofj trolyzed jungle hip-hop. able voice of vocalist, John Dead" an twisted cover of Suede, Benard Butler, tries ; david lai McCrea. And 1 think Curtis Mayfield's classic CD Prizes!!! to do it on his own with this' they've pulled off exactly "Freddy's Dead", "Hot debut album and unfortu• what they wanted to do and Lava" (Perry Farrell), nately it falls flat. The^ Simply drop off your doodles, random that is to "focus on keeping "Nowhere to Run" (Crystal album starts off with a, thoughts, drawings, cartoons, creative writ• things simple." Cake's Method, Ozzy, DMX, 01' melodic song, "Woman T ings, etc., at The L/n/coffice. Include the trumpet player Vince Dirty Bastard), "The Know," but it doesn't fare DiFiore says, "We would Rainbow" (), 'Come class that your piece was created in, the very well after that. The lose our creative edge if we Sail Away" (cover of Styx) time, date, your name and a way of contact• title track is extremely let things steamroll into and "Huboon Stomp" siow...veeeery slow, boring ing you to pick up prizes, (tel., pager, some grandiose oblivion." (Devo). So if you are in for almost, as it lacks any sort email). Well put and a lot of bands a cheap laugh this is the of emotion. His vocal try to do the same thing but one that'll spin until you range isn't very wide or few pull it off successfully. lose your lunch or give it Two draws will be made and Fear demonstrated. He doesn't Probably a good album for away, david lai Factory CD prizes will be given away. TOM FIDGEN seem to do anything but up and coming bands to get Human By Trade "whisper-sing" and after a their hands on. Janet Yu (BPPlOO) while it really starts to get a All submissions become the property of The Tom Fidgen is the former bit annoying. My recom• Link, winners will have their piece pub• lead vocalist of a group mendation is to stick with lished, please indicate if you wish to remain called "Sunfish." The Brett Anderson and Suede, anonymous when published. group has played with well unless you like "whisper- known bands including Our singing." Janet Yu Lady Peace and The Tea Stay tuned for their con• Party. This album, howev• er, sounds nothing like the cert coming to aforementioned bands. A Vancouver very folky sounding album soon but not very interesting. -5 and Fidgen, a 26 year old Cape The Yellow Album •* more Breton native is has strong (Geffen) CHEF AID; The South give• lyrical content but the Park Album Here you have a majority music is too "thin" sound• (American) of the crew, the cover aways ing. Not enough there to I have to say this is much resembling the Beatle's from The hold the lyrics above water more musical than the album. "Sgt. Pepper's and instead the music dis• Simpsons CD. The (per• Lonely Hearts Club Band". credits the strong words.J verted) Chef (Issac Hayes), The Simpsons really know Janet Yu how to poke fun at the

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Jerome Hutin (left) in the everglades and one of the trees he has photographed in for Sept 1999 Palermo, Sicily. French tree searcher records to May 2000 the Big Ones in life-size Are you interested in applying ? GREG HELTEN Banyan tree in Calcutta, is projected to climb by 34 SA Environmental India that measures 25 per cent from 1990 levels to Education i meters around and 115 4.7 billion cubic metres by meters tall. 2010. Fifty per cent of that RESIDENCE AD VISORS ARE: erome Hutin is a classic: Hutin says that, "For will be used as fuel, mostly photographer with a' thousands of years, humani• in developing countries. ^Residence leaders Jdream. Actually, two ty has contemplated and Over 7,300 tree species are dreams. regarded trees as sacred documented as globally He wants to document objects all over the planet. threatened including three ^Mature, resourceful and perceptive the world's largest and old• But in our lifetime, trees in BC. Every fourth tree in est trees, and next year he have come to be trivialized Europe's 1.6 million sq. km ^Building "Managers" wants to plant a tree for and demystified for the of forest is sick or dying. every child born to mark sake of the profit of the Among the chief culprits in the millennium. He's on a world economy. Rooted for the death of Europe's ^Actively involved with residence life one-year odyssey to take generations at the center forests are pollutants such pictures of the Old Trees of square of a village, com• as sulfur dioxide and nitro• the Earth and then share memorating a person or an gen oxide from car exhaust WHO'S ELIGIBLE? them in real size with the historic event, the coat-of- and industrial emissions, world. He stopped in arms of a family, or situated which create acid rain. mm^ Students Vancouver last month on at the outer limits of some Hutin believes that his tour. thousand year old forest, humankind shouldn't rav• ^ Alumni Jerome is from France, the tree generously offers age the planet for personal and he's traveling the world us food, fuel, shelter, com• profit, but rather preserve it with a big camera and black fort, coolness, joys, sad• for the children of the entire photographer's sheet to ness, hopes, oxygen, and world, who need nature in WHAT DO YOU GET BACK? make his dream come true. the desire to live in harmo• order to bloom and grow. His millennium project is to ny. Yet, how do we express He's looking for addi• ^ Rent free private apartment see images of the old trees, our gratitude?" tional sponsors to cover the some that are three to four production of his 'grande Excellent personal gro'wth thousand years old, project• ccording to the spectacle'. So far, he has ed onto giant inflated World Resources garnered an agreement by and leadership opportunity screens on or alongside the AInstitute in French publisher, JC. world's tallest manmade Washington, D.C, just 40 LATTES, to publish his structures. In order to focus percent of the world's book about the famous trees attention on preserving the ancient forest cover remains of the world. GEFCO- Application and information VacYaqe^ few ancient trees and intact. About 10 percent of TOUR, a French travel available from the HoueinqOffice, forests left, he wants to cre• the world's remaining agency has covered his air• ate a life-size photographic known tree species are in plane ticket around the located in Macquinna Residence 5W-11, spectacle spotlighting the now danger of extinction. world. French oil compa• or call 432-5677 oldest trees of the earth, An estimated 50,000 ny. Elf Aquitaine, gave him accompanied by three- species of plants and ani• US$10,000 US, and dimensional laser shows. mals are disappearing from Fujifilm France donated all A GENERAL INFORMATION SESSION Right now, Hutin is trav• the planet each year, caused the film he needs. eling the world from France mostly by the rapid destruc• WILL BE HELD TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 to Canada, the US to tion of the world's forests. Jerome can be reached by AT 7:00PM Mexico, India, South The United Nations (UN) email at; Africa, Spain and other estimates that 1.3 per cent [email protected] HOUSING OFFICE (SW-11). countries to take big-frame of our forests have been lost Check out his webpage at: photos of trees as old as the each year to logging, slash- http://www.jhutin- Huon Pine in Tasmania at and-burn farming and arbor2000.com APPLICATION DEADLINE IS TUESDAY, over 20,000 years and as development between 1980 FEBRUARY 19, 1999 @ 4:00 PM young as the 200 year-old and 1990. World wood use

THE LINK JANUARY 13, 1999 NEWS Safe drivers ciiaiienge wortii gening up for Chuck Dietrich jumped into the cars with their Marketing Management instructors at Ihe wheel, each of Student whom woke us up with a movie• like stunt of driving backwards at hat would pull 120 stu• 60kmh, sending the car into a 180 dents from BCIT, SFU degree spin and pointing Ihe car w and UBC out of bed on forward—without ever stopping. a miserable weekend to partic- For the nexl couple of hours, pate in an outdoor activity they we did things they only dreamed knew nothing about? of doing lo their own vehicles Try free Tim Morton's coffee and on the streets of Greater and donuls, a chance to drive a Vancouver. However, driving Dodge Viper, the opportunity to was done under Ihe close supervi• meet race car driver Ross sion of five instructors who Bentley, and rip around in new taught various lips and tech• pre-production Chrysler 300M's. niques on steering, accident The whole package was a part of avoidance, and proper handling the Labatt Road Scholarship's to give us the one-second advan• "Hands-On, Heads-UP Driver tage which could ultimately save Challange" held in BCIT's park• our lives. And given the festive ing lot on November 28 and 29. season, we also got the point about the one-second advantage Youth Crew visils BCIT to see Environmental Technologies. The travelling roadshow start• evaporating after jusl one drink at ed last September in Halifax and the pub. is wrapping up this monlh at Camsun College in Victoria. On We thought we were good dri• the Saturday morning, more lhan vers before we took the SA hosts Environmental 20 BCIT sludenls kicked off Ihe Challenge program. But after first of six weekend sessions by observing the instructors and viewing a five minute video on gaining first-hand professional the dangers of drinking and dri• instruction, I for one recognize Youth on BCIT campus ving and Ihe one-second advan• how liltle I knew. Now 1 can tage drivers need to prevent hun• truly point at Vancouver's bad group of youths aged 16-" Awareness workshops from June Our young people were at the dreds of thousands of crashes, drivers from an educated per• 23 years old visited BCIT; until December with about 15 end of three days of environmen• injuries and deaths annually in spective. Alast monlh lo see environ• participants in each session under tal training when they went on Canada. If Ross and his leam return mental technologies firsthand as Ihe BC Environmental Youth the tour, so il allowed them a The video was great and got next fall for the Labatt Road part of their Environmental Team program in the Lower very tangible look al what they us pumped up to test the make• Scholarship "Hands-On, Heads- Youth Team training. Mainland and on Vancouver had been discussing in theory." shift course and gel behind the Up" Drivers Challenge, jump at Wilh SA Environmental Island. The EcoWorks program has wheel of Ihe 300M's lo show the chance to sign up. It's defi- Education Coordinalor Greg The workshops were designed been around for 5 or 6 years what great drivers we were. We nately worth getting up for. Helten, Ihey gol a close-up look by the Harmony Foundation and working with unemployed youth were quickly humbled when they. at our worm-composting bins based on their Building wilh a focus on helping them (one of Ihe largest in Canada),! Sustainable Societies Program. gain work experience and train• the fihotovoltaic lab at the The workshops focused on exam• ing. The crews do work like trail Technology Centre and a look at ining values and how Ihey relate building, bridge building, stream Ihe greenhouse where the Eco• to the environment, role playing restoration and tree planting Tek Solar Aquatic Wastewaterj to understand and respect the mosdy in BC Parks bul also in a Treatment Project will bej diversity of views that are often few GVRD parks. housed. j involved in resolving environ• At any given time they have • According to Helen Dewar,> mental problems, and designing up to a dozen crews across the team leader on the BCIT tour.j an action plan lo resolve an envi• Ixjwer Mainland with each crew their visit "was the highlight of{ ronmental problem identified as a made up five crew members and the three-day session", \ concern by each crew. a crew supervisor. The EcoWorks program is Tricia Loewen from Ihe gov• The majority of the crews run part of a BC Ministry of ernment's EcoWorks program for 10 weeks and receive a mini• Environment pilot project lhatj said about the tour, "1 received a mum of 10 days of training. has run len pilol Environmental^ lot of positive feedback about il...

JANUARY 13. 1999 THE UNK