Florida Calling: Spring Break Awaits Metis students By Rob Godin Addiction Awareness Week Florida is only $279 away. If you're looking for a getaway Association looks during Spring Break, take note, because the Students' Association sheds light on student drug, has an offer affordable to even the most broke Red River Community to lobbying College student. For $279, busing and hotel alcohol abuse accommodations are paid for. After By Jon Jenkins that, students can enjoy seven days By Lea Hilstrom substance abuse and prevention, Muller has never formally Organizing and lobbying are the an election. The current executive cm the hot, white sand beaches that Red River Community College and stickers and rulers given out as integrated the awareness program two main goals of the fledgling was appointed. line the Florida coast. has jumped on the bandwagon in a constant reminder of what the into her division but she wants to Metis Students' Association, The new administrative structure Jackie Lindal, the SA's program efforts to promote National week stands for. make it a top priority issue because according to president Nathan for the college is also an area of director, has organized the trip, Addictions Awareness Week "Alcoholism is definitely a she feels there is a lot of Guiboche. interest. and hopes it will get an enthusiastic which runs from Nov.15-21, 1992. problem among some of the misinformation about different "There is a real need for this at "We would like to have Metis response. students here," Amy Ho observed. drugs on the streets, and kids can't the college," he said. "We need to input to the new Board of "We're hoping for ninety people. "Abuse is abuse," Students' "We've already started to address tell fact from fantasy. provide a voice for Metis students." Governors," said Guiboche. "If Last year there were only thirty- Association Program Director "Because the ACCESS program That voice is necessary because there is going to be a Dean of five, but two years ago a hundred Jackie Lindal commented. "It's the situation by selling de- alcoholized beer at the pubs and is largely made up of Native traditional aboriginal groups are Aboriginal students on the Board students went," Lindal said. among the student population here. I don't have any actual statistics socials here. Coke, juice, and water students, we find a high percentage not always attuned to the concerns of Governors, then we want to be Last year's trip to Florida and $2 79 are also available free of charge." of substance abuse," Muller said. of Metis, according to Guiboche. involved." Bahamas is something the SA but it's a fact and it's about time The SA is planning a guest "Especially with the new students. Jane Truscott, after a well-publicized fight to appeal her failing He pointed out that Metis do not Before that can happen, though, wants to forget about because of a that we got involved and addressed have access to the same levels of the Association must be formally truckload of problems, including the problem." speaker to address the student body Once they've been here for a while grade last year, has at last won her appeal. on personal drug addiction they seem to get through the initial funding support status Indians approved by Student Council at six people to a room, and difficulty The Department of National have, nor do they share the same their next meeting on Nov. 18. entering Bahamas. Health and Welfare Canada experiences that they will be able storms with the help of instructors To Register or tax-free status. Guiboche said approval in principle "I am aware of all the problems cleared Prime Ticket of officially declared the third week to identify with. In an attempt to and counsellors." For a Brochure Muller will be distributing Truscott wins lengthy of November as National interest everyone, two movies on Guiboche estimates there are 50 has already been confirmed. they had last year," said Lindal, responsibility. Contact: to 75 Metis students currently "Everybody from the president who just started working at the Nonetheless, Lindal said she was Addictions Awareness Week. substance abuse will be scheduled information throughout the The campaign is designed to for Friday, Nov. 20 in the Tower classrooms of her department and enrolled at Red River, although the of the college on down has been college this fall. "That's why we're cautious about returning to them. change the social 'norms' that Lounge. the instructors will take time out to number is hard to pin down. really supportive. We don't staying in one place. Last year they "I was very hesitant but we battle for appeal individuals and groups have come The SA isn't the only department go over all of it with the students. "There are a lot of students who anticipate any roadblocks." had too much going on," she said. couldn't get a comparable price," getting involved in the campaign, "We need to educate people on don't even know they're Metis. The commitment to a political This year's trip is being handled Lindal said. to accept about drugs. The By Dean Pritchard process, aside from the final campaig•promotes the awareness, though. The Health Centre will be such a serious subject. Who knows, You can go back a hundred years, role for the Association is a firm by Prime Ticket Travel, the same Students have until Dec. 18 to Jane Truscott's fight is over. deliberations. putting up a window display and maybe one day a student involved and if there's a little bit of Indian in one for Guiboche, despite the people who arranged last year's make a S75, non-refundable deposit prevention, and treatment of drug After being in academic limbo Previously, students could be donating pamphlets and with drugs will remember your background, then you're demands. trip. But when it. fell apart, last to book their space on the Florida abuse. for nearly a year, the second-year present only during their own information to help make students something they read or heard at a Meas." "It's really hard to find time for year's programming director Cathy trip. Jackie Lindal and SA Vice- nursing student has won her appeal. presentations to the appeals board, more aware of the problems campaign like this and think twice," Guiboche said the organization all the meetings," said Guiboche,• Sudletsky put the blame squarely More information on the trip is SA OFFICE President Amy Ho are working "I'm over the moon about it," which continues to be comprised side by side to make sure that the invulved in substance abuse. Muller noted. "That's all I'm wants to enumerate all the Metis currently in his third year of on the international student travel available in the Students' Truscott said. of faculty and students. Room DM 20 Another joint promoter of hoping for." students on campus and then have Business Administration. company, Intcrcampus. Sudletsky Association Office, Room DM20. weekcaptureseveryone's interests. The decision — the fifth under "Being in the room at the same National Addictions Awareness Jackie Lindal is very positive There will be colorful 1992 the college's new appeals process time as the instructors helped a Week at RRCC is Deanna Muller, about the outcome of the week. National Addictions Awareness — overturns an instructor's lot," Truscott said. Direc tor of Education and Training "I think that most of the students Week posters pinned up advertising evaluation of one of her clinical "It enables he student to come and Community College ACCESS/ will stop and take notice of all the the campaign, display tables with rotations early last year, which face to face with the allegations the Southern Nursing Program. information out of curiosity." an assortment of pamphlets on resulted in her being unable to instructor has made." Harried Ho happy to have graduate with the rest of her class Truscott would not go into any last June. It set her months behind specifics of the decision. in her studies. "It was a unanimous decision in Ironically, it was her own case my favor, and certain her health in hectic hubbub which prompted the changes that recommendations have been made By Jeremy Torrie resulted in the decision, handed by the appeals board to the down the last week of October. department of nursing as a result," Don't ever try to follow Amy Ho four. In 1990, Ho played a role in The appeals process was revised she said. around campus. Chances are, you'll A C & I Sales student, her duties setting up the Used Bookstore and in April by the Deputy Minister of "I always believed injustice, but lose her within five minutes. as VP include acting as an AIDS the Entrepreneurs Club. As well, Post-Secondary Adult Education never had to fight for it before. It But if you need to find her Peer Educator and student advisor, she has been active on several Double and Training (PACE). Under the was the greatest fight of my life whereabouts, just ask aloud if as well as conducting research and committees including the Couch Frame changes, students making appeals and I am very grateful it turned out anyone has seen her. You'll likely investigation into matters that Multicultural Task Force and the are allowed to attend the entire the way it did." end up with enough answers to pertain to students and their Elimination of Racism. track her down. concerns. Her current project is setting up "I am infamous," said Ho.