HUMBER EtCeTERA JANUARY 27, 2005 HTTP://ETCETERA.HUMBERC.ON.CA VOLUME 35, ISSUE 2 Art by Numbers Urban Tags Collective spirit spawns Graffiti artists claim creativity at Sheridan public space as canvas For rent College Rez loses cash cracks from vacancies SHANNON HUGHES down on NKWS RKl'dR'IKK In the wake of the double-cohort web links frenzy, Humber's North Campus residences are experiencing a bout NICHOLAS J. STONEMAN of empty-nest syndrome. News Rkportkr Ninety out of 725 rooms in the Humber's academic council has old dormitory-style residences are advised to empty, resulting in nearly been update some of $400,000 in lost revenue for the the college's internet policies to college. avoid potential legal problems. "Obviously there's a fiscal loss The warning, issued by library when you've got that many rooms staff Monday night, concerned vacant," said Derek Maharey, asso- 'deep-linking,' a practice which ciate director of Ancillary Services, allows net users to bypass home- the department in charge of the pages by linking directly to con- residence buildings. tent. "I am hoping not to have this That's a problem because com- issue next year." mercial web sites get ad revenue There are 1,066 rooms at the from the number of hits they north campus and 427 new ones receive on their homepages. at Lakeshore. "Deep linking bypasses home- Maharaj said this is the first page-based ad revenue, something year Humber has had to deal with okay for non-profit sites, but not vacancies. He added that 92 stu- for commercial sites," said Lisa dents who would have lived on the DiBarbora, the school's virtual north campus are now at the new Lakeshore residence. services librarian. In an effort to make, up for the According to DiBarbora, an shortfall, Humber allowed part- organization like Humber College time students turning full-time this is viewed by commercial web ov«i- January to enter residence early. ers as a customer who should pay Next year's prices for the old- for the right to use their content. style dorm rooms are unchanged at "Just because it's online does $4,406, but prices for new suite- not mean it's free," she said. style rooms will increase by three Many newspaper web sites per cent, from $5,040 to $5,190. dready force users to log in to college will also The be improv- view an article, effectively closing ing its online residence recruit- the door on a deep link. Publishers ment next month, with a short and content providers sire becom- video promoting residence life. ing more concerned with maximiz- "Our hope is to fill the rooms ing revenue fh)m their online sites. emd have a healthy wait list," Under a college pwlicy prohibit- Maharaj said. ing deep-linking, if a teacher wants Students can begin reserving a student to visit an article at the rooms next week for the uf)coming theslar.com, she must direct the stu- year. dent to access the paper via the homepage and navigate through the site to tlie sp)ecified materietl. According to Ellen Harris, What's Inside author of Canadian Copyright Law, "many web site owners oppose deep linking (because) they want News p.4 to better control, or to direct the their site." HSF opens food bank DAVID lUTZI user on Web Cemada has yet to have a legal case brought against an institution Business p. 14 for deep linking practices, making Carpooling to conserve Faster than a speeding bullet the Humber recommendation a pre-emptive policy. First-year culinary student Stephen Lee whips up desserts in Humber's new state-of-the-art Sports 18 Germany, Denmark, Belgium p. kitchen facilities. The one-of-kind lab, which features mounted cameras, two television screens and the U.S. all have laws V-ball rules the courts and a 54-seat theatre, was recently unveiled at the north campus. See story p.3 govern- ing the practice of deep linking. What's old is new again: Life looks at youth scrapbooking and spring *05 fashion p.l6 & 17 January 27, 2005 News HSF campaign recycles cell phones for food kg. of food across Canada, the dents, 80 per cent of respondents But very few thINK FOOD initiative also com- reported never having heard of the bats environmental degradation. thINK FOOD program adminis- students aware It takes ink cartridges 1,000 tered here by the HSF. years to decompose and cell Since the program started in of cause phones leak arsenic, lead and 2003, six cell phones and almost 300 ink cartridges have been REBECCA GRANT tossed into the HSF drop box. NKWS RKI'ORTKH Tessaro says Humber's frequent "Each cell phone or student turnover makes it diflicult Recycling your old cell phones and cartridge can be to raise awareness about recycling. ink cartridges can help ease the "We've used different vehicles hunger of the nearly one million worth as much as a to let students know about the pro- Canadians who rely on food banks meal." gram." each month. These include posters, banners, "Basically how (thINK FOOD) -Tainara Hberlc, projccl director talking to students on different works is that students bring in campuses and writing memos to their used cell phones and ink car- staff and faculty. tridges," said Sonia Tessaro, the Humber is not the only school HSFs Communications Director other toxins into giound water having difficulty getting the mes- "They then get recycled with pro- thINK FOOD has not only sage out. ceeds going to support the less for- diverted 230,000 cartridges and According to thINK FOOD'S tunate through ibod banks," 50,000 cell phones from land fills, Project Director Tamara Eberle, With all proceeds of thlNK it has also refurbished them so that donations are consistently low FOOD going to Toronto's Daily fewer to.xic materials are manufac- Still, she said, eveiy donation Bread Food Bank, the program can tured in tlie first place. helps. have a big mipact in combating But few Humber students seem "Each cell phone or cartridge hunger to be aware of the beneficial pro- can be worth as much as a meal," In addition to raising 337,500 gram. she said. "It can be a carton of In a recent straw poll of 50 stu- milk, it could be a whole meal." Rexdale school raises $ 1 1 ,000 for South Asian tsunami victims MELISSA MONOSKY Barb Sadoff. curriculum leader she handed her baby to a man on phone NhWS RKl'dliTKK for school-wide initiatives, said the the street. Eventually they found rcll student benefit got coverage from someone with a car and they eill Students from Rexdale's North CityTV, CBC, Much Music, and drove to higher ground and sur- JAIMF. TAYLOR Albion Collegiate Institute have CTV. vived." Second-year public relations student Amanda Moddejonge raised in one week for shows where to donate your cell phone in the HSF office. $11,000 "We had donations from our "When I think about what's victims of the tsunami. local Fortino's, and two restaurants happened ... it's so devastating Gowri Jeyam, a grade 11 stu- sweets. students donated Our actu- that I can barely watch [the news]. dent from Sri Lanka, helped organ- ally cooked and donated food," Disaster hurts tourism I can't imagine what it must be like ize a benefit show of talented stu- Sadoff said. for some of our kids are who DAVID JUTZI dent and professional performers Jeyam has not seen or heard Industry experts, however, directly affected," Sharma said. NEWS REPORTKR ' , don't predict long-term losses to that raised $3,000. any of the media coverage of the ^ Sharma rues the fact that the tourism in Southeast Asia. "We're a school with a lot of show. "We're not doing it for the Rexdale neighbourhood gets such The post-tsunami fallout is expect- "The (global) tourism industry multicultural students ... somehow, fame," she said. "We're just trying negative press. ed to cause a significant monetary has been affected by natural disas- someway, everyone has been to do it for our inner self, to feel "The students ft-om this school hit to the most popular travel des- I can affected," she said. "We did the good about ourselves." ters for as long as remember things," achieve incredible she tinations in many Asiem countries impact is usually immediate," show... (to debunk) the reputation Vanada Sharma, a teacher at The added. "If [anybody] spent even a for months to come. said the of Hospitality, that we have. People from Rexdale the school, was overwhelmed by dean couple of days here they'd see that Canadian-owned travel compa- Recreation and Tourism Alister don't always smoke weed, drink, the student's dedication and com- we have quite an amsizing group of ny Travel CUTS has already begun Mathieson. "I don't believe there (and) do stupid things. (We) do passion but didn't think their kids. [They] are affectionate, hon- to see the effects of the disaster. are any long term implications." good tilings in life to help out one efforts would grow to this magni- est, compassionate and dedicated "It isn't really the high season also co-author of another" tude. Mathieson, kids. I wouldn't teach anywhere now for us," the book Tourism: Most of the remaining $8,000 "We spend our lives as teachers else." says Travel was raised through bake sales and and educators trying Economic, CUTS president Physical and collecting money ft-om the student to provide inspira- "Tourism will Rod Hurd.