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THE LINK NUMBERS VOLUME 16 BCIT STUDENTS'VOICE OCTOBER 15, 1981i Beer cost to rise Monday by Cherie Miitimore raised their price to $1.15. Beer prices are going up Oc• The BCIT pub has suffered a tober 19 at the BCIT pub. The loss in its first month of student executive voted in favor operations this year. Business of the increase because the Manager Phil Henderson blames Liquor Control Board has raised the loss on high labour costs and the prices of beer and the he suspects that beer from the student pub is losing money. pub has been leaking out to The Liquor Control Board has friends and It Isn't being paid for. Increased the prices of all bot• This year more staff have been tled and.draft beer by an average hired to provide table service. of 10 per cent. The BCIT pub will This convenience has Increased increase bottled beer from $1.30 labour costs to 50 per cent of the to $1.45 and draft beer from $ operational costs which Hender• to $1.45 and draft been from son says should be around 24 to $1.15to$1.25. 26 per cent. Figures on the Prices of imported beer and money loss will be released later wines will remain the same this week. although the Liquor Control The TNT store sales are up by Board has indicated a future rise 11 per cent. Store expansion in price. near the Bank of Commerce may Bottled beer at the BCIT pub is begin as early as mid-November. expensive in comparison to the About $3,000 will be spent on' Simon Fraser and University of plumbing and another $3,000 will BC pubs. UBC raised their price be spent on glass for the FT v. of bottled beer to $1.25 and SFU proposed expansion. Library doesn't check out This conversion, planned for the by Donna Johnson '82-'83 budget year, would allow Students who comb the library ori-llne storage of all information for stacks of information are relating to circulation, abandoning armloads of books cataloguing and purchasing. at the circulation desk and When asked about the delay in walking out empty handed. replacing the library system, Roy Saxophone Tom shakes the SAC Saturday night. Photo by Shane Straub. Why this student aggravation? said that money had been the Because they're being told they main Issue. While funding is must fill out a separate loan form available for maintaining the for every book they want to current hardware, the source of R&D for BCIT check out — and a student capital for the complete replace• rushing to class Isn't willing to ment Is still to be determined. waste time in this redundancy. by James Armstrong toward the loentitication, Marketing Manager for recovery, conservation and Discovery Parks, Inc., and over• To find out about this unusual General Motors and IBM borrowing policy, the Link He explained that BCIT Is a spend more on research and utilization of energy and non• sees the promotion of the Park member of the B.C. Union renewable resources." To do to interested R and D firms. He Interviewed Robert Roy, the development than Canada does Library Department Head Catalogue which is a network of as a nation. Countries like that, sites are also planned at feels such a venture by the According to Roy, the manual libraries sharing catalogue in• Finland and Greece spend as U. Vic, SFU, and UBC to further government is vital to both system of checking out library formation through an online much or more than we do. But maximize the inter-twining of educational institutes and the books began this Spring when computer system. SFU. UBC. within the next ten years, the creative thought from the economy; (without Discovery the library's Data Collection Unit and U. Vic. are also members very woods surrounding our adademic world, with that of Parks) ..."students will be unem• failed. In case you're wondering, of this network which has campus will become the home ot private enterprise. ployed like crazy...they'll all go that's the box that records all its central data bank at the capital-intensive high- down 10 the States for Jobs. We High technology operations circulation transactions by using University of Toronto The B.C. technology R and D industry in must get downstream rely on technical and scientific a person's library card and the members are trying to obtain the form of the Discovery Park processing...It can have a expertise to apply their skills to computer card inside the book's money from the Provincial now nearing completion tremendous effect on local government to set up a local produce a knowledge-intensive economies." cover. The 85 acre site stretches network that would serve product such as a sophisticated, The library decided not to fix from the old Cascades Theatre The Vice-President of Educa• libraries throughout the province custom component or the unit, which was the last of Its by Gilmore east to within 100 tion at BCIT, Mr. Drug Svetic, with information about their engineering design, to name type operating in Canada, metres of Willingdon and BCIT. spoke of the benefits of being collections. only two, R and D industries are because the manufacturer no The first building to be finished, closely allied to high technology. traditionally clean ones en• longer supported it. Instead, a If this network comes into ef• planned tor January 1982, is "Let's say they had a first-rate vironmentally and the Board of decision was made to replace fect, Roy says It will largely wholly owned by the Discovery researcher in micro-electronics Trustees of Discovery Park have the unit which has a long record determine the nature of the sof• Foundation and will be a multi- across the way. That would be a established several restrictions of mechanical failures. V2 tware package that BCIT will tenant facility leased out to definite plus and benefit to our for prospective tenants to en• Initially, we should see an need for its new system. And it's private research organizations. faculty. To hear seminars, to be sure that. Leaseholders oper• interim replacement of the the programming that incurs the The Discovery Foundation close so that it's easy to visit and ations must not involve products broken hardware by January '82 greatest expense. was established by the provin• see what's going on; industries designed for the destruction of This means simplified check-out Among the many features a cial government to strengthen that would be hiring our human life nor can they get into once again. Ultimately, the new library system would utilize the economic base of BC by graduates could see that BCIT wholesale product manufac• library hopes to replace the would be a scanner and bar code "encouraging scientific and and Discovery Parks have come turing. whole system by converting to charge-out similar to those technological research directed up with whatever this new thing Mr. Harley Kelsey is the Cont'd on page 8 an integrated circulation system. currently used in grocery stores. CUSTOM LOST AND CEDAR SIGNS FOUND THEATRE 129 Personalized for your home or summer cabin $5.00 base rate plus 25 cents per letter 9-3:30 Trailer 2T presents Beautiful Maple Cutting Boards Perfect for Ctiristivas gifts - $5.00eaci-i local 878 Elephant Man - October 14 Drop by Room TA-189 between 11:30 am and :i:iO pm Wednesdays to have a look! Manual Typewriters for student use Friday the 13th - October 28 Proceeds to forest Products Interior Field Irip available in SA Offices American Gigalo - November 25 Wednedsays -11:45 om No charge for admission Brought to you by the BCIT Student Association, Bill Mottershead, Activities Coordinator GENERAL INFORMATION At present, ALL students pari* tree in scramble areas on a first come, first sen/ed basis. The free scramble student parking areas are sfiown on the attacfied plan Pafl<tng by students anywfiere else on campus is not pemirtted between 0700 and ^730 hours Monday through Fnday all year. The only excepttons are hand• icapped persons who should apply in advance tor special parking pnvileges by contacting the Security Department at 434-S734, local 719 The campus parking regulations are enforced by BCIT secunty personnel. The regulations provide tor improperly parked vehicles to be removed from the campus at the owner's experwe. To avoid having your vehicle towed away, please note the following carefully: 1- Park only in the areas shown on the plan. 2. Some student parkir>g areas are immedtately adfacent to reserved areas- Observe parking sipns and do not park in areas resen/ed for staff, visitors, sen/ice vehicles, handtcapped persons, etc. 3 Do not bkxA off arwther property parked vehtde. 4. Do not park in fire lanes, beside fire hydrants, along yellow curt)s or on yellow lines on roadways or anywhere that impedes free traffic flow to The Municipalrty ot Burnaby also permrts parking on both sides ot Willingdon Avenue adjacent to the Institute. The student parking zones located relatively dose to the main 25 cents off toward the buildings normalty fill up by 0800 Persons arriving on campus after 0600 C will find It necessary to park in the areas further south o purchase of any BC IT does not accept liability tor damage to or tfwft from vehides parked on campus. All parkers are encouraged to ensure ttiat vehicles are locked and that valuables are not left in them 9 Deli sandwich or cheese tray In tf>e event of vehicle mechantcal probtecns or if assistarK» is if) required for any ottwr reason, please contact security staff.