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No interest i n SA jobs causes elections to be post- poned. Story on page 3 a Col lege S A office ro b b e d . m isses By CANDIDA THOMPSON gone. The security guards were called office," said Lovelock. "It was an $3,500 was left to pay. Breakaway then the Durham outside job." Tours has said it will not lake $1,200 Chronicle staff _____ in immediately, Regional Police, and the SA execu- Lovelock said any number of peo- commission it would have make from for For the second time this year the tive. ple who were in the office that day the lour. The insurance companies pol i cy and the SA are DCSA was broken into, but this time would have known where the money Breakaway Tours of $4,571 in cheques and cash were The police were able to pinpoint was. She could give no reasons why deciding who will be pay the rest stolen. the time of the break and enter by the money wasn't in the safe. it. A member of the SA came into when the SA members left and came Nothing else in the SA office was The SA has asked the police what deadl ine should the office some time after 7:40 p.m. back to the office. SA president Shari touched including their computers. type of security system they will cost the stu- on Feb. 1. She found the cleaning Lovelock said the robber came buy. The system a and ladies straighten up an unusually through the ceiling by climbing over Earlier reports have said dents $752. It will have key pad By KIM HOSEY the SA offices messy office. She looked a little clos- the lounge wall. Breakaway Tours would absorb the motion sensor. When Chronicle staff over to the new Student Centre, er at the desks and found the drawer At press time police had no sus- whole cost of the robbery, but that move the new holding Breakaway Tours money for pects. has changed. Since there was $1,000 the system will be adaptable Durham College won't be meeting Daytona Beach Spring Break was "I don't suspect anyone in the in cheques that couldn't be cashed, offices. a March 1 deadline to submit an anti- harassment and discrimination policy statement. The Ontario government has adopted a policy of zero tolerance of harassment and discrimination at Ontario's colleges. The government has given them a framework that out- lincs what the new policies must include. Elizabeth McArlhur, equity con- sultant at Durham College, said the college needs more time. "If this policy was being devel- oped by two or three people ... you could probably do that in a fairly light time frame if you had to," said McArthur. "In this type of policy where that (community) consultation is so important it does take time," she said. McArthur said the deadline emphasizes the degree of importance the Ministry of Education and Training is placing on the policy. "Maybe it was a little too opti- mistic in what was able to be done," said McArlhur. "I think what it does say is thai the ministry feels that this is very important." The government is providing $1.5 million to colleges and universities to help develop educational materials and training packages. This will include interpreting what harassment and discrimination mean within the policy, and then providing training. Barry Dcnman, group leader of the education and employment equity unit, said a joint college and universi- ty steering committee will be formed. It will monitor how colleges and uni- versities work together, and will pro- vide system-wide material. "The money allotted is for educa- tion and leaching material, for exem- plary materials,...so that each institu- tion doesn't have to re-invent the wheel," said Dcnman. For years colleges have managed under their own protection of human rights policies. "It's not as if we don't have a poli- cy or there aren't procedures in Please see page 3 ^IL,.^.*,; ’-^i^iuf-Wi^:*^*^ wfv*m-w IIUBW^ 2 The Chronicle, March 1, 1994 Durham students win ( unique ? contest BY TONY DOYLE still believe that there are many Chronide staff things that are uniquely Canadian. One of the first things the four Four Durham students know what thought of was Canada's health care the term Canadian means. system. They believe Canada is a lot The General Arts & Science stu- belter off than many other countries. dents recently won a monthly contest Another was Canada's varying run in the Globe and Mail's climate. They noted that you don't Classroom Edition newspaper. have to leave Canada to find a variety The contest asked students to of weather conditions. come up with a list of 10 things that The students were presented with they believe are uniquely Canadian. their prize - four Glove and Mail Michelle Pace, Dawn Rodgers, World Series T-shirts - at the begin- Dawn Colley and Stephen Welsh ning of class on Feb. 15. Bell was entered the contest in their first class sent a copy of The Challenge book of Canadian Studies in January. which was edited by The Globe's Sheila Bell, who teaches the class, Warren Clements. said the course is used to debate and The following is the winning list. analyze current issues. A Canadian is: 1. protected by the "It teaches students to look Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 2. beyond what they already think about privileged with an excellent health a subject, and the students are expect- care system, 3. part of a unique gov- ed to find facts on these issues," said ernment structure, 4. proud of their Bell. forefathers, 5.part of a bilingual soci- "I have two classes of 45 students, ety, 6. surrounded by diverse and and working in small groups they all beautiful wildlife, 7. aware of the submitted entries to me which I for- contributions of its native people, 8. warded to the Globe and Mail." proud of multiculturalism, 9. able to Pace, Colley, and Rodgers all visit different climates without leav- Photo by Tony Doyle hard to ing Canada, 10. protected by federal, agreed that the list wasn't Mail Contest winners (left to right); Michelle Pace, Dawn Colley and Dawn noted that provincial and municipal police Globe and come up with. They show off their World Series T-shirts. although Canada is changing, they all forces. Rodgers Ex-M P a teac h e r at D C S tu de nt s j o lt e d BY ADAM MILLS Chronide staff It's a long way from Parliament Hill to the technology division at by L A . quake Durham College, but ex-MP Ross Stevenson is excited the change. by here, he said, "I would rather Mr. Stevenson was MP for BY SHELLEY SNOWDON snap been here for that, than for the the second Chronide staff have Durham riding during earthquake." term of the Mulroney government. Design Regardless of the earthquake, Since Jan. 10, he has been teaching Three Durham Interior Leslie for the students carried on environmental technology courses students. Dawn Ward, placement and John Valentini, have as usual. Of course, the offices were at Durham including toxicology, Emerson strewn with toppled file cabinets, regulation, and engineering. returned home from their placement of fallen and the odd smashed Seeming much more at ease in in California's quake-jarred city pictures coffee mug or vase. But generally his new office than when inter- Los Angeles, to Ward things continued as usual. viewed during the election cam- Having been L.A. before. to L.A. natives weren't really scared, paign, Mr. Stevenson said his bitter- thought she knew what expect. as she said Valentini. ness is minimal and he was not sur- Basically everything was "The was just a nui- prised by the Conservative loss in expected, except the earthquake. earthquake to them ... life carried on." October's federal election. "I like it there," she said. "You sance just to Valentini's office, an "After the second day that I was just have to bolt everything the In employee about an ongoing out knocking on doors I knew it walls." spoke regularly the three in her would take a miracle for us to win," Santa Monica, the area money pool neighborhood, was hit with a cash for whoever cor- he said. students were staying in, prize Mr. Stevenson gave several rea- worse than they rectly guessed the measure of sons for the Conservative loss, o r i g i n a l l y the after- including party leadership, the GST, thought. and free trade. "I don't shocks. "A person only needs one reason think we real- With all the hard The earthquake natural disas- not to vote for a particular party," he ized how said. our area got was just a nui- ters that have As the Bloc Quebecois gathered hit," Ward said. occurred in sance to them ... and around strength, voters scattered to other The infa- he said. Most went to the mous house that life just carried on. L.A., Valentini parties, Photo by Adam Mills Liberals as the only national alterna- fell over the said, "it is a but tive left, while others went to Former Conservative MP Ross Stevenson has moved cliff was just hell area, cor- are so Reform to counter the BQ. from politics to teaching here at Durham College. around the people After the election, Mr. Stevenson ner from their laid back kept busy harvesting soybeans and made permanent next year.