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Red River College’s Student Newspaper November 4, 2013 Visit us at theprojector.ca NEWS ARTS & CULTURE sports & lifestyle Helping homeless fish...............P.2 Q&A with beard lovers.............P.10 Soccer ends, basketball starts...P.14 THROUGH CHILDREN’S EYES Winnipeg Women Give kids in Rwanda cameras P. 7 Continuing Education’s Winter Course Schedule is Available Now! Download or pick up your copy of the Winter 2014 Course Schedule today! Visit rrc.ca/coned for more information. Reach beyond with Continuing Education 204.694.1789 or 1.866.242.7073 | [email protected] | rrc.ca/coned pg.2 NEWS 4/11/2013 THEPROJECTOR.CA PHOTO BY ASHLEY FIELD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Meg Crane [email protected] NEWS EDITOR Danelle Cloutier [email protected] ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR Larissa Peck [email protected] SPORTS & LIFESTYLE EDITOR Natasha Woloschuk [email protected] LAYOUT EDITORS Holly Beraro Braiden Watling [email protected] MULTIMEDIA EDITOR Danielle Da Silva [email protected] ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Guy Lussier [email protected] COLUMNISTS Graeme Coleman Sara Shyiak Janessa Wirth Amy Simoes CONTRIBUTORS Marshal Fries Katie Pfeiffer Jade Markus Dustin Pernitsky Dan Huen Kaylene Kessler Fishing for a solution Browyn Fenn Rose Regier Scott Anderson Shanell Dupras Brina Gervais ASHLEY FIELD, CONTRIBUTOR Lindsey Dorie Zach Peters Trevin Thomas Adriana Mingo Homeless fish would die without rescue Jessica Botelho-Urbanski Ashley Field The Millennium Library From 4:30 p.m. to dusk Havixbeck suggested doing Molly Karp pond is a beautiful addition to Cornelius and friends filled something creative next year Eva Wasney Winnipeg’s downtown in the the buckets and brought them where kids could come and take FRONT PAGE PHOTO summer, but come October it back to her Charleswood home, the fish away before they drain Supplied must get drained. planning to return the pool, yet acknowledged … RED RIVER COLLEGE Although signs the following day to Cornelius’s efforts. P110-160 Princess Street are posted, every retrieve more. “She essentially saved these Winnipeg, MB R38 1K9 www.rrcsa.ca year the library “IF I HAD JUST But when they fish.” Phone: (204) 947-0013 struggles with fish STAYED AT arrived the next Cornelius has been adopting Fax: (204) 949-9150 being left without day the few inches them out, ensuring that new HOME I WOULD WHO WE ARE permission. of water had been owners have proper equipment The Projector is the official newspaper of On Oct. 11, Erin HAVE FELT LIKE further drained. and sending them home with Red River College and is published by the Cornelius, a “The fish had all fish care handouts. There are Red River College Students’ Association A TERRIBLE (RRCSA) every second Monday. Opinions 24-year-old animal PERSON,” been swept up and approximately 150 fish left. expressed in The Projector do not necessarily care worker, was thrown away,” said If you wish to adopt a fish, email reflect those of the students’ association or . Red River College. All material is herein sitting at home Cornelius. Cornelius at erin.d.cornelius@ copyrighted to The Projector, when she noticed “I only found fish, gmail.com. its contributors, and the RRCSA. a disheartening 271 of them, because WRITE FOR US post on Facebook. Her friend they were hidden under the Anyone can write for The Projector, and had been walking by the mud.” Red River College students are encouraged Millennium Library when she She picked the barely-alive fish to contribute. Simply pitch or submit an article to the appropriate section editor noticed fish lying at the bottom out of the mud one by one. or join our contributors’ list. Though we of the pond in barely any water. Thirty were dead by the time will consider all submissions, due to space restrictions, The Projector cannot guarantee When Cornelius asked how she got home. Cornelius has that all articles received will be published. many there were her friend said collected 400 fish in total and If you wish to respond to something you’ve hundreds. has since been keeping them in read in this issue, letters to the editor can be emailed to [email protected]. To ensure “If I had just stayed at home I aquariums in her basement. your chances of being published, letters would have felt like a terrible Coun. Paula Havixbeck should strive to be around 150 to 200 words person,” said Cornelius. addressed the issue in the latest in length. The Projector reserves the right to edit all submissions for length, as well as “I couldn’t not go and get city council meeting on Oct. 23. stylistic, grammatical, and legal guidelines. them.” “We know we need to drain The Projector also reserves the right to Cornelius grabbed some that pond every year and people reprint submissions at any time, in both written and electronic formats. The Projector buckets and drove to the keep dumping fish there,” said will not publish content that it deems to be Millennium Library with two Havixbeck. racist, sexist, or otherwise prejudiced. friends. When they arrived “Signs are up all over the place, some fish were in two to three but that doesn’t seem to deter inches of water. people.” PHOTO BY JACKIEMBARR THEPROJECTOR.CA 4/11/2013 NEWS pg.3 Refugee program depends on you MOLLY KARP, CONTRIBUTOR RRC discussing student program but needs volunteers Through World University Service of “leading post-secondary institution in with WUSC to establish the program at As Konrad explains, “This is a program Canada (WUSC) and its Student Refu- Manitoba who is not offering the WUSC the college. Konrad feels strongly that for students made possible by students.” gee Program, refugees from around the Student Refugee Program.” However, RRC has the resources to support and Jok believes that his positive experience world can attend Canadian post-second- plans to create a program are underway. change the lives of deserving candidates with WUSC at the U of W can be attrib- ary institutions and become citizens of Mayom Jok, 24, is in his final year of like Jok. uted to his own involvement with WUSC Canada. economics and finance at the University “Our institution has grown into a place and to the support he received from Every year, over 55 refugees from of Winnipeg (U of W). In 2011, Jok came where sponsorship is now possible...With student volunteers and other refugee countries such as Kenya, Malawi and to Winnipeg from a Kenyan refugee recent changes to refugee sponsorship in students. Thailand come to Canada to study at camp with the WUSC Student Refugee Canada, this program is one of the most “This program relies on students real- post-secondary institutions as permanent Program offered through the U of W. accessible avenues to come to Canada izing that their involvement with WUSC residents. Beyond receiving an education, For Jok, the opportunity to attend univer- as a permanent resident and eventually is changing people’s [lives]. The social these students are supported for one year sity in Canada has been life changing. become a Canadian citizen.” health of the new students is very impor- financially, academically and socially. “You cannot even begin to understand To make this program a reality at RRC, tant in their success [academically].” After that they are eligible to apply for the difference in my life this [program] Konrad and the diversity and immigrant The possibility of a WUSC Student Refu- Canadian citizenship and receive student has made. I would have probably never student support department are working gee Program at RRC is still in the early loans. Since 2000, 40 students have stud- had the opportunity to go to university with the Red River College Students’ As- stages of discussion but if the program ied in Manitoba through the program. and to work towards getting a good job.” sociation. An integral part of WUSC’s Stu- does become a reality it will need student According to the diversity and immigrant Lauren Konrad is the student integration dent Refugee Program is its engagement volunteers to sustain the program. student support department at Red River co-ordinator at RRC. In recent months, between student groups and refugee College (RRC), the college is the only Konrad has been in close communication students. Student mental health high on RRCSA’s list EVA WASNEY, CONTRIBUTOR RRCSA lobbying for funding to mental health programs More students are turning to said MacLean. added. “One of the pieces of a mental counselling services at their college CASA is made up of students from It’s an impressive order and Janzen health strategy is that students or university. 24 different Canadian universities is excited about the impact CASA’s have to be engaged with it, so if For many post-secondary students and colleges. RRC is the only advocacy may have on current government hears from students I the demanding environment of school representing students in mental health policies. think that would only speed things academia can seriously affect their Manitoba. To make sure its policies “If it’s a student association that’s up,” she said. mental well-being. benefit students nationwide,Team Shan CASA’s Ad THREE:Projectorpushing for a 2013framework 9/4/13 that 10:06 would AM Page 1 Laureen Janzen is the coordinator of recommendations are based around be amazing,” said Janzen. counselling and accessibility services the pillars of at Red River College (RRC). accessibility, “Over the last three years students affordability, entering Red River with mental innovation and health issues has grown over 50 per quality. cent. So we know that promoting This year mental good mental health is important,” health is high on said Janzen.

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