Niagara Wants a Room with a View
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Friday, Oct. 8, 2004 Volume 35, Issue 2 Niagara Wine Festival on pages 13, 14-15 Local sports coverage on page 24 Niagara wants Open wide! more funding By JARRETT POWELL The amount of the grant was Staff Writer $25 million, which was dispersed Niagara College is vying for a among the colleges according to bigger slice of the pie: the the deficits they are running. $25-million pie, that is. Niagara College received Bob Christie, Ontario’s deputy $337,991 from the fund. minister of training, colleges and “It is just wrong. It is very, universities, on a recent visit to very wrong. We need a change,” the college, listened to says James Ryan, vice-chair of arguments from the board of the board. governors as to why Niagara Kingston’s St. Lawrence College needs better funding. College received the largest sum Niagara College received the from the fund, yet did not run the second lowest amount from the College Sustainability Fund. largest deficit. “It is almost as if Niagara The largest deficit was College is being penalized for our incurred by Algonquin College in good fiscal management,” says Ottawa, which received the Darrell Neufeld, manager of second largest sum. corporate communications, at the Alan Goddard, chair of Niagara board’s Sept. 23 meeting at the College’s board of governors, First-year Dental Assistant program students Hayley Hewitson and Jordan Baker encourage stu- Welland campus. says, “While other colleges were dents to get their teeth checked. Niagara College’s dental clinic is open Tuesdays and Thursdays The College Sustainability running up deficits, Niagara 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The clinic, on the third floor of the Simcoe building, Fund was a one-time grant given College was running a surplus, is also open on Fridays 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. to all 24 colleges by the Ontario but it didn’t come without costs.” Photo by Kevin McNaughton government in its spring budget. Continued on page 2 Help those in need A room with a view By MELISSA HUNT “A number of similar services The Niagara College site offers Staff Writer have recently either re-branded or searches for houses, limiting it to Most students going to a school launched as competitors to exactly what a student is looking ... make friends away from home are concerned places4students.com. Given these for in rent, location, type of home about finding a place to live. activities, I’m sure that our and more. It allows the student to In January, the College Student original concept and objectives look for a roommate or at an By ERIN MACGILLIVARY their notes. Alliance (CSA) endorsed around online off-campus housing events calendar and shows Staff Writer They can be paid anywhere www.places4students.com, an have now been confirmed.” pictures of the houses. The peer services office at from $75 to $200 a term online site to find housing in Cappadocia says some As to why it’s better than Niagara College isn’t just depending on how many notes different school areas. institutions appear to be uncom- posting at the school, Newman another pretty door. they are taking and for how In a press release, both fortable about changing their says it benefits people who don’t The services offered behind many credits. places4students.com and CSA off-campus housing processes. live in Welland. that door include notetaking, Scribing is for students promoted online housing. “Change is never an easy thing “Some people who live far scribing, proctoring and peer who require someone to Kyle MacDonald, president of for large organizations, but over away are able to access it.” tutoring, all of which are free write out tests for them places4students.com, said the first time I’m sure that these anxieties Online postings don’t just and beneficial to students. while they dictate the objective was to design an will fade, and as the program benefit students but landlords too. Josie Tremonte, of Thorold, answers, and a proctor easy-to-use program that lets continues to succeed, those institu- Continued on page 2 has been peer services assistant oversees students with students find excellent off-campus tions will also join the program.” at the Welland campus since disabilities while they are taking housing without the hassle. At Niagara College, a similar September 2002. tests in the test centre. The wage General Manager of CSA Frank system exists at index One of her jobs is to match for both jobs is $8 an hour. Cappadocia finished the press www.ontariostudentrentals.ca. students with other students who Tremonte says, in most cases, release backing this statement. The website states the main focus Editorials 6 need help. she likes to hire tutors to do the “When I was in college, access is to make the renting process She says she wanted to work scribing, notetaking and to this kind of information simply easier for students and landlords. in peer services because she proctoring because they are wasn’t available. Now within a Ashley Newman, 17, a first- Columns 7 “was looking for something already on her payroll. matter of minutes, students can year student in the Early where I would have direct Peer tutoring is a service narrow their housing search and Childhood Education program, contact with people.” offered to all students to help focus their energies on the places says not only did she use the Entertainment 18 Notetaking, scribing and them in any courses in which they really want to check out.” Internet to find her house, but that proctoring are services that are they are having trouble. Eight months after releasing it’s important because so many offered only to students with Tremonte says she can match those statements, Cappadocia says others have relied on the site to Sports 22 disabilities. most people with a tutor in places4students.com is continuing find off-campus housing. Notetakers are matched less than a week and almost to grow and develop and is With only 234 spots in up with a student with a “instantly” if it is later in the starting to include American residence, the majority of students disability. They attends their term. universities and colleges as well will need to find a place off Crossword 25 student’s classes and take Continued on page 2 as Canadian institutions. campus. Page 2, news@niagara, Oct. 8, 2004 Co-ops, internships provide experience in field By JANINE WESTERA Co-op students receive guid- ing a co-op but they did help him Christina Oegema, 22, a pro- Staff Writer ance from Niagara College in a in learning how to find a co-op. gram graduate, did her internship Niagara College offers students career planning course for six to “It helped in a lot of ways,” says at the Family and Children an opportunity to gain work expe- seven weeks. Baranieski. “You have to have to Services agency in St. Catharines. rience within their chosen field, in The course teaches skills on job find your own co-op placement, Oegema is one of 32 graduates order to ensure a better chance in searching, preparing for profes- and you have to learn how to net- from the Public Relations program. the workforce. sional interviews, as well as work yourself.” “I contact employers and Niagara College provides pro- preparing professional resumés Another type of job placement inform them about the program. grams with two forms of job expe- and cover letters. program in the college is internships. If the internship is PR (public rience: co-ops and internships. In the winter of 2004 the co-op Internships are different from relations) related, then I would “Co-op programs were put into placement statistics showed a 100 co-ops because co-ops are paid set up an interview,” says place to satisfy employers’ needs, per cent placement rate. placements and internships are Gleddie, who has been at the col- to provide them with employees There are 22 co-op programs in not.The college has 27 internship lege for five years. who have experience, which which students earn an average programs. Oegema says a month was “too makes it a win-win situation,” wage of $11.14 an hour. One program that offers stu- short” and there wasn’t enough says Meghan McCready, consul- Cory Baranieski, 23, of St. dents this experience is the time to learn but it did broaden her tant, Co-operative Education Catharines, a third-year student in Public Relations Graduate perspective and gave her a good works at the Job Centre at the the Electronic Engineering Certificate program. realistic experience rather than Welland campus. Technology program, recently Martha Gleddie, internship learning from a textbook. McCready works with individu- received a co-op placement at development officer for the pro- “It’s one thing to learn it in als on job searching skills and has Lightning Circuits in St. Catharines. gram, says, “I like seeing us help school but it’s a whole different worked at Niagara College since He says the co-op consultants the non-profit sector because it experience when you’re learning it File photo February. didn’t help him “very much” find- benefits everybody.” first-hand,” says Oegema. MARTHA GLEDDIE Fund gives college second-lowest amount Continued from page 1 cant amount of deferred maintenance in the urban centre that does not receive a rural designed to “review the design and funding Those costs are starting to add up and a college system, including Niagara College, grant,” says Neufeld.