Taking action to preserve a future
» A look at events at ^ BCIT February 1 to 4 see pages 6 &7
The Top Enviro stories of the 1990s see page S Campus Events Link call 432-8974 This Calendar column is open for notices of events on all BCIT campuses. Submissions can be faxed to 431-7619, sent by cam• pus mail or dropped off at The Link office in the SA Campus Centre (down the corridor between the video arcade and the new Unclassifieds copy centre location) TRAVEL-teach English: 5 The link Last day lo withdraw from Wednesday, January 26 Responsibility, computer opportunities? What are the day/40hr (Mar 20-24) TESOL stations loaded with the constraints? What resources Term "A' courses and teacher certification course receive a 'W' on transcript. Electronics: Timetable & OUEST game on the are needed? How will we (or by correspondence). registration for students on Georgia Basin Futures report it? Who's coming? 1,000's of jobs available Call 451-7060 for more Electronics: Last day to modified programs. Project and the Ecological NOW. 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Deadline for submissions to Fax resumes to 208-730-9959 Contact Rec & Athletics for Sustainability Week: "The the next edition of The Natural Step at BCIT" A Link. Friday, February 18 more information. BUST LOOSE HOLIDAYS Contributors: presentation/workshop by is looking for outgoing Carlos Assuncao, Friday, January 28 Dr. Brian Nattrass, co-author Saturday, February 5 Winter Convocation Kimberley McLean, of the Natural Step for Ceremonies. enthusiastic people to become part lime reps. The fun way to Molina Rousselle, Electronics: Registration & Business. Introduction by Relaxation Massage. Carolyn Donaldson, orientation for Level 1 Mark Angelo. Telus Contact Rec & Athletics for Deadline for submissions to eam free vacations, pub crawl, Lygdel De Leon, students. Theatre, SE6. Noon- 2;25pm more information. the February 23rd edition tix. and extra $$$$. Cam MacDonald, of The Link. Call Michael @ 682-6044 Navdeep Singh. Monday, January 31 Introduction to Juggling. Monday, February 7 L.S. Pannu, Contact Rec & Athletics for Monday, February 21 & Paul Dayson American Marketing more information. American Marketing Association Meeting, 7am. Association Meeting. 7am. American Marketing Call 451-6777 for more Tai Chi Begins. Contact Rec Call 451-6777 for more Association Meeting. 7am. information. & Athletics for more information. Call 451-6777 for more Managing Editor information. infonnation. Paul Dayson Electronics: First day of SA Council Meeting. SA The Link SA Council Meeting. SA News Editor classes. Winter Term. SCUBA Lessons. Contact Boardroom, SA Campus Boardroom, SA Campus Carlos Assuncao Rec & Athletics for more Centre, 5:45 pm. Beginner's Squash. Contact information. Centre, 5:45 pm. is always Arts & Culture Editors Rec & Athletics for more Tuesday, February 8 David Lai information. Thursday, February 3 Tuesday, February 22 Melina Rousselle Toastmasters. SA ooking for Toastmasters. SA Advertising Representative Tuesday, February 1 Sustainability Week: Boardroom, SA Campus Transportation Day, Boardroom, SA Campus Navdeep Singh Centre, 7am. new staff, j Sustainability Week: Transportation exhibits of Centre, 7am. Distribution Manager Think about a Sustainable the Honda Insight electric Recreation Council Cam MacDonald World Day, /gas vehicle; electric cars Meeting. Wednesday, February 23 and bikes from the We need writers to Toastmasters. SA Vancouver Electric Vehicle Wednesday, February 9 Edition of The Link hits the cover campus news, Boardroom, SA Campus Association; Go Green stands. features, to review As a member of Centre, 7am. Choices / BEST (Better Next edition of The Link Canadian University Press (CUP), Environmentally Sound hits the stands, Monday, February 28 concerts, cds, film The Link adheres to Wednesday, February 2 Transportation; and the Jack and theatre. Or just CUP's Code of Ethics, Bell Foundation. Great Hall, Friday, February 11 American Marketing To this end The Link will not Groundhog's Day, SA Campus Centre. Association Meeting. 7am. to give the campus publish material deemed by Electronics: Last day to Call 451-6777 for more community their the editors or steering committee Sustainability Week: Aikido. Contact Rec & change sections for students information. to be sexist, racist, homophobic two cents. Waste Reduction Day. Athletics for more on modified programs. or in poor taste. Opening event & parade. information. Tuesday, February 29 Childcare kids play the Monday, February 14 sustainability game with Yoga. Contact Rec & Remember: It's a leap If you'd like to help Athletics for more Valentine's Day. year. The views in r/ieLmA are executives from the SA; out drop by our information. noi necessarily those of BCIT, presentation lo winner's of American Marketing Toastmasters. SA offices behind the the Student Associalion, BCIT's Earth Apple Award; Friday, February 4 Association Meeting. 7am. Boardroom, SA Campus or the editorial collective. Project launches; Open video arcade in the Call 451-6777 for more info. Centre, 7am. House Sustain-Ability SA Campus Centre. Contest; 10 percent Waste Sustainability Week: Ideas Reduction Target; and Day. Tuesday, February 15
3700 Willingdon Avenue Exhibits from the Recycling " Target 2000" 10 percent Bumaby, BC V5G 3H2 Council of BC, the GVRD reduction in waste Toastmasters. SA Tel: 432-8974 Fax: 431-7619 Recycling Works Program, production by this Boardroom, SA Campus Canadian Business for Social December. Where are the Centre, 7am. renovations at the Burnaby Campus Ubrary given the age of Ihe building and "Ixlensive renovations are study and one for video viewing. alone stations will be in Room 302 and stations wilh internet Ihe needs of the BCIT community •i taking place at the Burnaby At the same time, improvements access will be in Room 301. for better Library facilities, these .^Campus Library. are being made to the staff offices Government funding has made it in the Circulalion Department. When completed later in the year, improvements are long overdue. students will have access to over All regular Library services will I- UNK LETTERS POLICY—t possible to go ahead with these Course outlines have been relo• plans although delays have meant cated to this area. 100 computer workstations continue lo be available. r/ic Link welcomes letters. Letters that Ihese projects will be done The most extensive renova• including an area with personal Look for an information dis• should be typed. dout>lc spaced, under during school term. As well, tions, with Ihe most impact on notebook connections. In addiiion play about the renovations near .^Ot) words an can be dropped off at studenls, will be in the to four study and presentation the Reference and Information TIte Link or SA offices and sent repairs are being done to the rooms, there will be group project Desk. ttirough canipus or regular mail. Your Library's exterior walls with Microcomputer Centre and rooms for presentations and video name, affiliation with BCIT and a tele• completion expected at the end of throughout the Lower Floor. As well, check the latest viewing, and a student resource phone number to contact you (which February. These are scheduled to com• updates about renovations on the room for photocopying and scan• will not be published) must be includ• Renovations began in mence at the end of January. Library's web sile at: ning materials. ed. Anonymity may be granted at the December in the Reference Arrangements have been made to http://www.lib.bcit.ca/renova- discretion of staff. Letters on disk, as a Offices on Ihe Upper Floor and temporarily relocate the The Library appreciates the tions.hlm txt file, with a hard copy would be completion is expected in mid Microcomputer Centre services to disruption all this activity will greatly appreciated. Tfie Link reserves January. Sludenls will have avail• Rooms 301 and 302 on the Upper have not only on studenls but also Ihc right to edit for clarity and brevity. able lo them two rooms for silent Floor. Express printing and stand• on staff and faculty. However, JANUARY 26, 2000 THELINK NEWS SA Notes Kathy Boyce SA acclaims rep to presiilential search committee he SA appointed a member to the presidential search committee which will look for a replace• Tment form retiring BCIT president Brian Gillespie. Roman Sedlack was acclaimed to the com• mittee. Sedlack is working toward his education degree Winning Faulty Towers and plans to become a shop teacher. Happily married, he is the father of one and has another child on the way Team approaches record in the next few weeks. He is active in his church and community and brings with him extensive experience in The winners of this year's Faulty Towers competition in the cate• working with others. gory of tallest tower, Civil and Structural Set B, literally came within inches of beating the record. The tower (right) measured 24' 11". • Prem Gill of CHUM TV made a brief presentation on The record for the tallest tower is 25' 11.5". Chums plan to bid for a new t.v. station in LYGDEL DE LEON PHOTOS Vancouver. An executive summary was handed oul to those present at the meeting and letters of support to the CRTC was requested by council members and those interested. January 27th is the deadline for sup• Scholarship confuses students port letters. Hearings will take place on February 21st and individuals interested in participating in the licensing process are invited to voice their concerns at "Each province signed onto the they're getting an extra couple of DAVE HAZZAN this time. Canadian University Press program with individual ideas," said thousand dollars, when they're not VICTORIA Rapagna. getting anything they didn't know • Concerns about overcrowded classrooms are being f you received a Millennium "It's done within provincial para• about before. addressed by both the institute and the SA. Scholarship and you're from meters." McFayden - like most people in Broadcast students reported overcrowded class• IBritish Columbia be careful The Millennium Scholarship Fund the UVSS and the Canadian rooms. SA executive director Steven Miller has was created by the Federal Federation of Students - believes where you spend it. That's the same looked into this issue and reported that the number of Government in their 1998 budget, both students and tax payers would money as your standard third- and seats in some rooms were not up to code. This issue fourth-year grant, but it's not extra and although the money is from have been better served by a national is being dealt with currently and it was reported that cash. Ottawa it's administered by the program of needs-based grants. recently some seats had been removed in keeping up Many third- and fourth-year stu• provinces. "[The fund] is full of red tape and with the compliance and code policies. dents received letters from the A form letter sent by the heavy on bureaucracy," said Sea Island reps also voiced concerns about over• Millennium Scholarship Fund - an Millennium Scholarship Fund to McFayden. autonomous foundation created by each recipient does not mention once "They sent this letter out to loot population at the sea island campus. SA presidential Ottawa - just before Christmas, that the money had already been their horn about the fund, but it's will be visiting the Richmond campus in the next telling them they had been awarded awarded, or is administered through confused tons of people." week or two. between $2,000 and $4,000. a provincial grants program. McFayden says the UVSS has • Students are reminded to produce their student id But that money was already The B.C. government asked that received more than a few phone calls cards when using the campus recreation facilities. awarded to them through the the Millennium Scholarship Fund be from confused or broke Millennium Intramurals is forming a new wallyball team and province's Grants Program. used to fund their third- and fourth- Scholarship recipients. interested students are needed to join. A one dollar Confused? So are the recipients. year grants, to complement the first- Duncan feels she was lucky in fee applies. "I had heard of the Millennium and second-year grants awarded by that she didn't spend any extra Scholarship Fund when I was apply• the province. money, thinking she was $3,500 ing for my B.C. loan," said Beth "The letter seems to say you're richer. But she knows others who • Three or four full time students are needed to partici• Duncan, a third-year humanities stu• getting a Millennium Scholarship, in weren't so thrifty. pate in focus groups for the BCIT web page. The dent at the University of Victoria. addition to what you normally get "Tons of people I know got this focus group will take place on February 1 between "In the loan package it said 1 was from the B.C. government," said letter, just before Christmas, and four and six pm where a light meal will be provided. applying for a loan, a grant and a University of Victoria Student spent the money," she said. Contact SA executive director Steven Miller at the scholarship." Society (UVSS) Director of Finance A spokesperson from the B.C. SA office if you would like to participate. In September, Duncan found she Summer McFayden. Ministry of Advanced Education did got the loan and the grant but there As a result, recipients think not return phone calls. • Students can now register and pay for courses on the wasn't a word on the scholarship internet via e-commerce. until Dec. 22. • Research is currently underway for a campus hair "I got this letter from the The great millennium Millennium Scholarship Fund and it salon. said I had been awarded $3,400 or so. So 1 said 'great, woo-hoo, I got scholarship robbery • Those using the SA room are asked to make posters, etc. on the floor space as the tables have been perma• all this money!"" she said. CHRISTIE TUCKER $2,000-$4,000. A hefty sum for the nently marked with ink. The SA room is to be left What the Millennium Scholarship Canadian University Press average student and even more for Fund didn't tell Duncan was that the the average student with loans. tidy and in the same condition as it was found. scholarship money was the exact EDMONTON Sounds great, right? In theory, • Residence applications for next year will soon be same money as her grant. After here has been a big deal made yes. doing a bit of research Duncan found in the press recently about the But the problem is this: instead of available to students, alumni and prospective students out there was no extra money - jusl new Millennium Fund. The beefing up the student loan program with confirmed registration. Interested applicants T can obtain registration packages from their set reps. what she had known about since federal government has put $2.5-bil- - lowering interest rates or deducting September. lion into needs-based scholarships some of the debt of already existing When asked whether students had for post-secondary students, with the loan recipients - Ottawa has, like a • April 4th is the deadline for nominations for the SA been complaining about the delivery first round of awards handed out this deadbeat dad, showed up with $50 council elections. of the program, federal Treasury month. for our birthday after missing child Board finance assistant Kim Rapagna Students applying for loans are support payments all year. The nexl SA Council Meeting will be held on Monday, February 7 at 5:30pm in the SA Boardroom in chuckled heartily, "There are too immediately eligible to receive the Since 1994, more than $7-billion the Campus Centre many [complaints] to mention." scholarships, which average between continued on page 4 THE LINK JANUARY 26, 2000 NEWS
According to a representative Every post-secondary sludent The great millennium scholarship robhery of the Ministry of Learning, the in Canada has suffered from the Alberta govemment is putting its educalion funding cuts made in Students continued from page 3 parents are wealthy but won't savings back inlo Ihe financial the mid-'90s, and every student has been cut from post-secondary support them? assistance program. But he did should have a right to benefit and training by Ihe federal Since post-secondary educalion not know how much the govem• from the meagre payback now needed for Liberals. That is why our class is under provincial jurisdiclion, ment was expecting to save from that it's finally here. sizes are getting bigger, that's and many provinces, like Quebec, the scholarships. But Ihere is still $4.5-billion Heart and why our library is cancelling sub• resented the federal government's So if the provincial govern• missing from whal used lo be our scriptions lo important journals interference in provincial matters, ments are pocketing Iheir share of post-secondary budget. and that's why tuition in Alberta the Millennium scholarship con• the extra funds in the loans pro• Until the money goes back Stroke is going up for the 11th year in a tracts had lo be negotiated with gram, how can students honestly into the basic operating budget of row. each province individually. be said lo be receiving as much as every university in Canada, Foundation And now the governmeni is What many governments are we've been promised? where it can directly improve the putting $2.5-billion back in the doing, then, is withholding an An extra $2.5-billion for stu• tuition situation and the salaries form of Millennium scholarships. amount equivalent to their dent loans has tumed out to be an of faculty, students will continue blitz' Sure, that money is going to be Millennium grant from their extra $2.5-billion for the to be haunted by ever-sliding he Heart and Stroke used to help the financially- provincial loan programs. The provinces lo use for their own standards of education, whether Foundaiion is looking strapped studenls who are already Ontario provincial govemment is projects. or not Ihey get a scholarship expected to save between $60-$90 for volunteers from eligible for loans, but what about Whether that extra cash goes cheque. T million thanks lo this devious BCIT to participate in a resi• Ihe studenls who aren't eligible, towards the loan system is up to who work full-time jobs or whose bookkeeping. , dential blitz of Burnaby and them. New Westminster. During February the foundation is hoping to ring six million doorbells across Canada The Burnaby and New Westminister blitz will be car• Strengthen tjour Graduating Soon? ried out over four days — February Sth, 7th, Sth and 9th. Various corporations are pro• career options at viding the blitzers for three of the days and studenls are being recruited for the morn• ing or afternoon of Saturday the Marine Institute* February Sth. Canvassing sessions will Master of Marine Studies Degree Program take about two and a half Provides exposure to all dimensions of modern fisheries resource management. Skills hours and you will be paired developed in ttie management of natural resources will complement tfie knowledge of with another canvasser so you might want to come with a specialists in the natural or social sciences. friend. Contact the Coordinator of Advanced Programs "Almost all of us will find Email: [email protected] our lives effected at sometime Toll Free: 1-800-563-5799 ext: 522, Direct Line: 709-778-0522 by heart or stroke problems whether it is ourself or some• luaculture Advanced Diploma Prog-am one we care about," said Patrick Brophy, the SA's vice Graduates are employed in a range of aquaculture and related fields, including: fish farm president of finance. management, work as scientists and aquaculture technologists, aquaculture instructors, and work on aquaculture projects in both the developed and developing world. For half a century, the Heart and Stroke Foundaiion Food Safett) Advanced Diploma Program has helped to raised money for innovative research that has Designed to provide a strong technical education in the areas of food safety and food saved the lives of many inspection. Graduates work in food production, quality control, food plant inspection Canadians. Today, your services, food analysis laboratories and regulatory agencies. chances of surviving a heart attack are double what Ihey j Technologi) Advanced Diploma Program would have been 2S years ago. With help and generosity, Equips students with the in-depth knowledge and practical skills required to meet the needs the hope is to find a cure in of the food processing industry. Graduates are prepared for positions as technologists within Ihe next 25 years. the food processing industry. Community service also looks good on your resume Coastal Zone Management Advanced Diploma Program and the blitz could give you the chance to rub shoulders Graduates gain an integrated view of the issues and alternative solutions to the conflicts with corporate types or later arising from multiple uses of coastal zones. The program has an international focus. recognition in the eyes of Burnaby and New Fisheries Development Advanced Diploma Program Westminster's business com• munity. Strengthens the management skills and broadens the perspective of students in three Prizes are also being sectors of the fishing industry; aquaculture, seafood processing, and harvesting technology. awarded to canvassers and Contact the Registrar include tickets to clubs, and Email: [email protected] gift certificates to restaurants Toll Free: 1-800-563-5799 ext. 380, Direct Line: 709-778-0380 and other businesses. Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland To get involved or for P.O. Box 4920, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada AIC 5R3 Fax: 709-778-0322 more informalion call Patrick Brophy at S22-6494 or 432- 860S.
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DEREK CHEZZI bid by mining companies to reduce Ihe size prior, Fletcher's children had developed Canadian University Press of Tuktut Nogail, a national park in Ihe skin reactions after spending time in the Northwest Territories, to allow mineral park. Golfers al a nearby course were TORONTO (CUP) development in Ihe Hornaday River valley. beginning to wonder why their shoes were edia coverage of environmental While the move would have reduced Ihe disintegrating - leachates would seep to the issues began to disappear in the overall size of the park by only two-and-a- surface. And to top it all off, the Ontario Mlatter half of the 1990s, as news• half per cent, il would have cut into the government's Ministry of Ihe Environment papers and television stations began to Bluenose caribou's calving grounds. knew about the problems at the park and drop environmental reporters from their The Senate's decision upheld the origi• the cause. In 1997, Fletcher sought Ihe staff Who was left to be the messengers nal boundaries established by the federal help of Ihe Sierra Legal Defense Fund and for Ihe environmental movement, bringing and NWT government and the Invialuit laid charges on the city. these stories to readers and viewers? community of Paulatuk. But just barely. In This case illustrates how citizens can Rick Boychuk, editor of Canadian between the lime the boundaries had been make a difference, and more importanlly, Geographic magazine, says environmental set Iwo years prior, it was revealed that 20 that our governments are nol necessarily reporters have always had a hard time get• per cent of the much-coveted mineral looking out for our best interests and we ting readers interested in these types of sto• deposit was in the park. must remain vigilant if we are to preserve ries. But he suggests lhat cutting back on enviro The Invialuit people and the NWT gov• our land. environmental reporters is not necessarily ernment were persuaded by the companies a bad situation. He says every reporter that mining jobs were at stake, but after should be thinking about environmental careful deliberation, the Senate did not (41 The World Trade issues when covering any story instead of stories relent. After all, wilh 15 per cent of the relegating those duties to a single individ• deposit residing under the Arctic Ocean, Organization ual. thai leaves fully 65 per cent of the deposit "Why not get a beat reporter to write for extraction. Just how much mineral is in global collective of 135 nations about how a business decision will have an the deposit? It's estimated at four times that administers and enforces inter• of the national trade agreements. Some impact instead of ghettoizing environmen• that of the Sudbury basin, the world's A tal stories?" he asked. largest economic nickel-copper sulfide critics argue it is effectively a world gov• ernment. But few people knew about the deposit. With that in mind, here are the top 10 WTO - or so we thought. Nobody was environmental stories of the past decade. 1990s ready for the protests lhat took place this In here you'll find stories of triumph and (31 Kingston Environmental past fall at the WTO summit in Seattle. defeat. You'll also find battles that have Protesters were oul in full force in a yet to be fought. Canada wants the issue to go to Ihe Lawsuit demonstration lhat was affectionately WTO, not surprisingly since this country called "The Battle of Seattle." (11 Genetically Engineered would be an exporter of Ihe product. Those n a case study for hope, Kingston, who would be on the receiving end want it Ontario resident Janet Fletcher won a But what does a world trade group have Foods to remain in the UN's purview so that they suit against the municipality of to do with environmentalism? Well, their I rulings and policies could have detrimental may block its entry into their country. Kingston for knowingly polluting the f you're unfamiliar with Genetically Interestingly, GMO's have only recent• Cataraqui River that flows by the town• effects on Canada's environmental regula• Modified Organisms (GMO), it is the ly earned the public ire, but the issue has ship. In 1997, Fletcher launched her suit tions. Take the furore over Genetically Jmanipulation of food genes that high• been ongoing for several years. Soy was under a little-used section of the Canadian Modified Foods (see above) for instance. By moving the issue into the WTO's juris• light the qualities a producer wants, while one of the first products lo be extensively Fisheries Act. In December 1998, the case diction, countries that do not want the eliminating the undesirable ones. While tested on and produced. And if you don'l was ruled in favour of Fletcher and the think you eat soy, think again - it's the top municipality was fined $120,000. This product will have to choice but to take it or this sounds fairly normal - farmers and face sever trade penalties. livestock producers have been doing this product used as food filler and oil for case is significant because it marks the first foods on the store shelf. lime a private citizen has gone after a gov• It remains to be seen how the global for centuries through cross-breeding - trade organization will impact the 21st GMO is decidedly different because it ernment in Ontario for an environmental offence. century. The next WTO battle: fresh water involves such strange mixes as scientists (ZlTuktutNogait exports, (see below) splicing the genes of fish with those of Through the Freedom of Informalion tomatoes. n December Act, Fletcher, in 1991, discovered the envi• One of the world's largest companies of 1998, the ronmental problems at a (51 The Oceans nearby municipal involved in gene experiments and seed Canadian are Crying produclion is Monsanto. The food giant I dump-turned- Senate has created dead end seeds - which pro• park. Ten rejected years here is a major event taking place in duce crops that do not produce seeds for the North Pacific ocean. For years the following year's crop - which they then now, tons of dead fish have been rent out to farmers who barely eke oul a T appearing on the shores of West Coast living as it stands. communities. What does it mean? There is a public desire in North Scientists studying oceans have been America for labelling GMOs, so con• pointing out for some time that species sumers may be aware of their presence are collapsing and then reappearing, on the grocery store shelves. All Ihis before collapsing again. They note week, Montreal is hosting a United there are long-term changes occur• Nations convention on bio-diversily, ring in the ecological "regime" - a where member countries are debat• term now being coined to explain ing whether lo place the issue of trends in ocean climate, weather food gene manipulation into the patterns and survival rates of organ• hands of the UN or the World Trade isms. Organization (see below). continued on page 8
Summer Camp Jobs in the U.S.A. The Link is always looking for new staff. Lakeside Residential Girls Camp in Maine Visas Arranged Counselors: Combined childcare/teaching. Must be able to teach or lead one or more We need writers to cover campus news, environmental news, educational news, of the following activities: gymnastics, tennis, swim, sail, canoe, water ski, arts (including features, to review concerts, cds, film and theatre. stained glass, sewing, jewelry, wood, photo), dance, music, theatre, archery, wilderness trips, field sports, equestrian. Or just to give the campus community their two cents. Semce Workers Maintenance, laundry, office, kitchen. Non-smokers June 18 lo August 24. Attractive salary (US) plus travel allowance. Send If you'd like to help out drop by our offices resume (C.V) including phone number to: Kippewa, Box 340, behind the video arcade in the SA Campus Centre. Westwood, Massachusetts, 02090-0340, U.S.A. e-mail: [email protected] j tei: 781-762-8291 j fax: 781-255-7167 THE LINK JANUARY 26, 2000 SUSTAIN-ABILITY WEEK SPECIAL mstmnAbility Week
Schedule of Events he world is not working well for a growing percentage of the world's population (including DAY 1 - Monday, Jan. 31 IMAGINE A SUSTAINABLE T most species of plants and animals). Think about a Sustainable World Everyone has heard about the accelerat• ing pace of animal and plant extinc• DAY 2 - Tuesday, Feb. 1 mmNOwnn/ow! tions, increasing greenhouse gas Waste Reduction Day emissions and violent storm events, human population growth, etc., but 12 noon what should be done? What can be • Opening event and Parade in tlie Great Hall done? • The ChildCare Kids play the SustainAbility Game with executives from Administration We're not operating sustainably, and and the Student Association in the Great Hall we need to. It's not just the bottom line anymore - it's the triple bottom line - • Presentation of lasl year's winners of BCIT's ecology, commerce and ethics. We need Earth Apple Award. an evolution - a revolution in thinking, • Project Launches in commerce, in our technologies and in • 10 percent Waste Production Reduction our institutions and BCIT could lead it. Target We owe it to the generations of the • Open House 2000 Sustain-Ability Contest past and the generations of the future. • Earth Apple Contest The consequences of our actions today ' Plus Exhibits from will shape the very future of the planet. • The Recycling Council of BC and their waste exchange • GVRD Recycling Works Program EXPLORE A NEW SKILL-SUS• • Canadian Business for Social Responsibility TAINABILITY Visit the exhibits and displays during • And computer stations loaded with... the SustainAbility Week on the Burnaby QUEST game on the Georgia Basin Campus from Feb. 1 to 4th. Exhibits Futures Project and The ecological foot• open from 11:00 am to 2:30 pm every print calculator day. For more information call 451-7060 11am-2:30 pm or email [email protected] • Displays in Great Hal continue Honda's Insight open
12 Doon - 2:25 • TELUS THEATRE (SE6) Presentation / Win cash prizes for targeting Sustain-Ability workshop: 'The Natural Step at BCIT' by Dr. Brian Nattrass - co-author of the Natural f you've got a major project or assignment to complete http://www.natcap.org/ Step for Business - introduction from Mark before Open House (April 7 & 8), there's money - $1600 http://www.naturalstep.org/ Angelo Iin cash - plus other prizes - available for focusing on http://www.ecobooks.com/ecommerc.htm environmental protection and sustainability! www.rprogress.org DAY 3 - Thursday, Feb. 3 The drive behind the contest, sponsored by both BCIT's Transportation Day Environmental Awareness Committee and the Student Contest entry forms are available at the Student Association, is to help students better prepare for sustainabil• Association office in SE2. For more information, call the ity challenges in their fields of work, and to help BCIT 11 am - 2:30 pm Environmental Education Centre at 451-7060 or email: ghel- improve its performance at the same time. [email protected]. • Transportation Exhibits in the Great Hall • Honda 'Insight' - electric/gas vehicle - "What is sustainable?" you might ask. In general terms, it Greg Hellen Honda Insight means meeting the needs of the present generation without SA Environmenlal Educalion compromising the ability of future generations to meet their • Electric cars and bikes from Vancouver own needs. That's wide open to interpretation, but the intent Electric Vehicle Association is clear. • Go Green Choices / BEST (Better Environmentally Sound Transportation) - With a focus on your particular industry, leaming space or • Jack Bell Foundation the whole campus itself, it could mean investigating ways to reduce energy or materials use, increasing recycling levels or DAY 4 - Friday, Feb. 4 exploring other issues of sustainability and environmental Ideas Day education. Extra marks will go to projects concerning the reuse, recycling or reduction of waste/pollution right here on campus. • EAC Sponsored Workshop - Topic: Target 2000 - 10 percent reduction in waste produc• There are several general areas of BCIT's operations that tion by this December. Where are the oppor• could really use some attention, like reducing the use of tunities? What are the constraints? What paper, the amount of disposables in the cafeteria or the num• resources are needed? How will we report it? ber of cars coming onto campus. Who's coming? Call 451-7060 for more The best displays and projects will be shared with the pub• details. lic during Open House 2000, April 7 and 8 when 15,000 peo• ple visit our school. You can register as an individual, a team Week-long Displays Open or an entire department. If your project is on a departmen• tal or programme level, it could also be nomi• nated for BCIT's Earth Apple Award (a The Tower of Paper staff/faculty award) that will be presented Greenhouse Gas Display on Earth Day. So, faculty and staff par• Wfiat's Your Ecological Footprint? ticipation is permitted and encouraged. „^ Waste and Recycling Display The Sustainability Exhibit Check out the following web sites for * background information on sustainability that may spark some ideas:
JANUARY 26, 2000 6 THE LINK SUSTAIN-ABILITY WEEK SPECIAL EDITORIAL If you want to be realistic
n the inside, some scientists maintain that damage to the environment, our life-support system, will coming to BCIT O cause life to be virtually intolerable within 100 years or so. Estimates are that if present trends continue, Ihe exhaust from the hun• atmospheric carbon dioxide will be double pre-industrial dreds of millions of gas- levels in about 20 years, triggering a global temperature T burning vehicles in the rise of at least three or four degrees world is one of the primary Celsius. Human population will reach 10-12 billion sources of the greenhouse gases that is changing the world's cli• within 50 years, and two-thirds of all plant and animal mate. Car manufacturers are racing species will be extinct within the next century. It's all each other to produce viable guess work, of course, but the trends are clear and measur• options to the C02-belching car of able. So what? the 20th century, and Honda is Arguing about dates is academic, but it is definitely coming to town first. within our capacity to do something about the situation. The Insight is an indicator of Remember the law of diminishing retums? The well-being where automotive technology is of the future is in our hands. That's why the administra• heading as we race into the Third tion, from President Brian Gillespie, Education VP Mal Millennium. It went on sale in Stelck, Board of Governor Members Peter So, Julia North America lasl month, and Blockberger, Mark Angelo and on down are supporting will be Ihe first hybrid-drive pas• SustainAbility Week scheduled for next week. BCIT senger car to reach US and Canadian consumers. It's a two- wants to help students better prepare for sustainability Honda's Insight: an electric car for the future. place coupe lhal achieves 70+ challenges in their fields of work. This will, in turn, miles per gallon in highway dri• trademarked as its "Integrated magnesium, aluminum and special expand their employable market potential. The first step in ving and 61 mpg in the city. Motor Assist" (IMA) system. plastics. For example, the intact working towards this goal is to become aware of the key According lo a report from EV The interior was engineered lo manifold is a rigid, high-tempera• issues and concepts. World (that's Electric Vehicle), meet USA safety standards for ture plastic and Ihe exhaust mani• In the broad sense, being sustainable means that we Honda has married several tech• side-impact and head-injury pro• fold is integrated into the cylinder meet the needs of the present generation without compro• nologies. Hidden beneath the car's tection not sel lo lake effect unlil head. The engine's lean-burn-com- mising the ability of future generations to meet their own palible NOx catalyst helps give the slippery, aerodynamic exterior is Ihe 2003 model year. It also meets needs. In reality, the idea of sustainability can range wide• an all-aluminum body and frame Japanese and European safety car an Ultra 1-ow Emission Vehicle (ULEV) rating in California and ly, from dramatic technology or lifestyle changes to simple based on the Acura NSX sports standards. conservation measures. car, itself the first all-aluminum In addition to assisting during several states in Ihe US Northeast. You're chances of being employed will be improved if mass production car. The Insight's acceleration, the electric To glimpse the future in low body/frame makes use of stamped motor/generator can recapture emission vehicles, you can see the you're well versed in sustainability issues so that they can aluminum sheets, die-castings and vehicle energy during deceleration Insight, Honda's electric/gas help employers save money and actually profit by improv• extrusions, resulting in a car that and braking to recharge Ihe battery hybrid car, on display in the Great ing energy and material efficiencies, taking advantage of weighs in at about 47 percent pack. The Insight is a "charge sus• Hall on the Burnaby Campus from new, 'green' trends and avoiding liabilities. lighter lhan a comparable-sized taining" hybrid-electric, meaning it Tuesday, February 1 to Friday, Ihe So, every step we take matters. Are you in marketing? Civic. doesn't require recharging from an 4lh from 11:00 am to 2:30 pm Why not sell sustainable products and services? Are you Honda says Ihe two-seal coupe external power source. In short, every day as part of SustainAbility in Broadcasting? Why not educate people about issues has a drag coefficient of just 0.25, you don'l have to plug il in al Week. rather than titillate and scare them? If you're a welder, are making it one of the slickest, most night lo recharge its 144 Volt, If you're a real auto buff, a you protecting Ihe environment when dealing with materi• Honda rep will be on campus aerodynamic car currently in pro• nickel-metal hydride battery pack, als? And if you're in plastics, are you looking for a plastic Thursday for Transportation Day, duction. Honda also makes use of which is located in Ihe rear of Ihe made from corn, instead of petroleum products? Whatever rear fender well covers and a rear car below Ihe cargo deck. Instead, along wilh a number of electric technology or program you're in, there's a sustainable side underpan, both fabricated from the Insight relies on the passive vehicles from Ihe Vancouver lightweight plastics, to help cut capture of energy from regenera• Electric Vehicle Associalion and to it. Explore it. Exploit it. You will succeed. drag. Honda engineers filed some tive braking and deceleration to displays from transportation 300 patents on the vehicle and its keep the batteries full. groups like Belter Environmentally Greg Helten components, which also led to the Most of Ihe motive power for Sound Transportation and Ihe Jack creation of yet another definition the car comes from its advanced Bell Foundation. in whal constitutes a hybrid-elec• lean-burn, siratified-charge engine, tric drive system. Honda settled on which itself incorporates various (See htlp:Ilwww.honda2000.com an elegantly simple approach it lightweight components made of /models/insight/ for more info.)
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The top I environmental stories of the 1990s
continued from page 5 wtiat they currently believe is say they have in their possession that entire species will basically genetic material taken from the disappear and reappear from cer• animal when it was captured last tain locations as they travel spring, electronically tagged and throughout the ocean. Coastal then released. While they could communities and fisheries are only produce a female goat at Ihis being adversely affected by these time, once DNA is fully decoded disappearing fish. The scary thing through the genome project, any is nobody really knows where extinct species could conceivably this is headed and what it all be returned lo the face of the earth via a Petri dish. means. ro n - The problem is being exam• howl• ment; ined by Canadian, Russian, ing in perpetual (101 Where's the United Slates and Japanese scien• outrage poverty tists, but they have yet to come to into television where some of WaterP any firm conclusions. What is cameras over the the highest popu• emerging, however, is a model of hunt, and lation growth exists. ater, one of life's pri• the oceans as an evolving ecolog• Newfoundland residents These are just a few of Ihe mary necessities. Our ical system. This is a move away are trying lo make a meagre liv• effects humans have on their Wbodies are made up of from thinking of oceans as static ing oul of seal carcass. ed immediate surroundings. more than 70 per cent of the stuff environment, the same way we The issues, however, are very history. Things are so screwed up The doomsayers would like to It's recommended we drink eight look at outer space. real. There is very liltle money to that at the New York Botanical see population stabilized. glasses of it a day. So it's alarm• ing to discover that we may be in This story has been reported in be made in hunting seals righl Gardens flowering trees sprouted Advocates against population a fight to keep Canada's fresh the West Coast media, while now. The demand for seal-based their while spring blossoms in control argue the world is more water in Canada. The WTO is barely appearing in a national products is low, the hunt is cruel December, a full four months prosperous and that today a child looking at making it a tradable newspaper. But il has serious as people bludgeon the seals to before they would normally. will lead a longer and healthier good in bulk quantities, opening implications about how we look death and there are a lot of seals Scientists attribute Ihe change life than even royalty once the door for companies from the at the fisheries industry and the out on the ice. to a number of factors, but are enjoyed. United impact humans have on the Bul everyone is profiting from still not sure of the causes. In Nevertheless, Ihe fact remains earth's seas. More lo the point, Ihis exercise. The International addition to CO and C02 emis• that the world's population has States and anywhere else to this theory of "regimes" is only Fund for Animal Welfare reaps in sions, we've been hit recently grown exponentially at an alarm• swoop down, drain our lakes and that, a theory. Nobody knows for sizeable donations to fight the with the naturally occurring phe• ing rate. In 1800 the world's pop• take it back to their home. sure whal is occurring, and it's hunt. Without it, they would have nomenon in El Nino and El Nina. ulation was pegged at one billion. Scare number two. Just recent• tough to predict nol only what to find anoiher atrocity to capti• But there is something longer- A century later, in 1900, it was ly, a correlation was discovered will happen next, but if there is an vate the imagination of people to lasting taking place. According to closing in at two billion. In the between the water residents from irrevocably deteriorating trend keep the donations rolling in. scientists at NASA's Jet last one hundred years it has a community near Halifax were taking place. Governments, meanwhile, play Propulsion Lab, water tempera• tripled. drinking and increased rates of political games by blaming the tures in Ihe North, West and The "consolation": ils estimat• cancer. It appears that a treatment depleting fish stock on a bloated South Pacific ocean are becoming ed thai in 2100 Ihe population plant in Enfield, Nova Scotia, had (61 Seal Hunt seal population. more extreme, indicating a will be somewhere between seven a loo-high rate of cancer-causing- change of some sort is taking What will it take for this entire and eight billion and falling. But suspecled chemicals used to ster• place to unpredictable effect and ^or it or against it, the affair to settle down? Probably is lhat too many people for Ihe ilize the water from bacteria in of unknown origin Newfoundland seal hunt when one of the groups decides Earth lo support? the water. F has captured the Canadian they are too tired to keep up this Some scientists theorize this is Officials explained the health consciousness like few other affair and find themselves anoiher a natural shift that occurs every (91 Cloning risk was minimal and there was a issues. This is likely to do with cause lo champion, or when Ihe 20 to 30 years, changing world• higher risk of illness if they had Canada's image on the interna• wide weather patterns. But those nol chlorinating the water. hunters relent and end the annual breakthrough in scientific tional scene as a proponent for slaughter. Until then, it's an who contest the theory say il's Nevertheless, it had some people what some call a senseless and too early to arrive at that conclu• technology took place last wondering: just how safe is our example of symbiosis with each decade, when a group of brutal industry. partner needing the other to con• sion. What we do know, however, A water? As more industrial toxins scientists in Scotland announced The hunt itself seems to be tinue surviving. is that a change in global temper• are dumped into our waterways taking a back seal to Ihe circus atures by even a few degrees Ihey had produced a clone of an and locally used chemicals, such that surrounds it. Cabinet minis• either way can have serious ewe. They named her Dolly. as pesticides and household ters are shooting off at Ihe mouth (71 Climate Change repercussions on ecosystems and With the Pandora's Box now cleaning materials, find their way about the benefits of killing the wipe out entire species. open, it was not long before into our water tables, more atten• seals, environmental groups are ou've heard a lot about researchers began cloning what• tion should be paid to just how global warming. But whal ever they could, starting with much untainted water we have (81 Population mice and other small animals for Yyou may not know, is that left. use in lab experiments. Last Ihis issue only really picked up Recently, a Vancouver scien• Wlio called? Explosion April, researchers in sleam this decade after bans were tist raised the possibility that the Massachusetts announced Ihey Just press to see the last implemented on CFCs in aerosol few seconds after mid• salt we use on our roads lo thaw had cloned goats. Then just Ihis number that called you. containers, one of the elements night Greenwich time on ice and washes into our water• month, scientists cloned twin attribuled lo the greenhouse October 12, 1999, Ihe ways in spring could be carcino• A monkeys, one step closer on the effect. Other factors include earth's population hit six billion. genic. evolutionary ladder to practicing emissions from cars and trucks Is this a positive or negative the technique on humans. Try Call Return today. and industrial pollution. record lo break? That depends on (Sources: Canadian Just 75C per use. Despite your stand on Ihe whom you ask. The environmental impact of Geographic, The World Trade global warming issues - some The number of humans on cloning is huge: recently, govern• Organization: A Citizen's Guide people, notably politicians, still planet Earth has an impact on the ment officials in Aragon, Spain, by Steven Shrybman, The New dispute the CFC-greenhouse link environment that is difficult to announced Ihey might be able to York Times, The Associated clone a rare goat native to the - an American study on global ignore: depleting resources Press, Population Research North of the country afler the last temperatures released late last through consumption; industrial Institute) year revealed thai 1998 and 1999 and private waste that ruin known specimen of Ihe species E LUS' were Ihe warmest years in record- ecosystems and poison the envi• died in early-January. Authorities
JANUARY 26, 2000 8 THE LINK ARTS & CULTURE The sound of Moisf s hits thrill their fans
MELINA ROUSSELLE crowd ready for Moist... Link Arts & Culture Editor They just ripped the place up! From the moment the hether Gob, Matt curtain dropped and they Good, or Moist was on opened with "Ophelia". STUDENTS OF »«« Wstage, the atmosphere The show was so much ASK of the crowd was rockin'. The more energetic then the LILY WHITE entire floor was sold out and the one in Victoria the night .pViCe fOf* THE t,0¥«tOR« blues were almost filled to before. David Usher capacity! It seems though the seemed so much more security at the Coliseum has alive and into the music. ily, our valued advise become more anal. No one could The one thing that columnist, is on a men• get near the floor if they didn't sucked was that they Ltal health vacation this have the correct ticket! didn't come out for week. But did leave some their second encore brief advice for the belea• guered Concert Review like the night before. Their stage crew Moist, The Matthew Good "Simplify. Sometimes we got a work out that Band and Gob all find ourselves over com• night. 1 can't count Pacific Coliseum mitted. You might have to (or remember) how take a break from a part of Kicking off the tour in many times David your life in order to manage Vancouver, Matt Good was non• dragged Mark's the rest. No when to say 'No, stop for his entire set. He had his mike stand around not today,' and get on with home city in an uproar for the with him or what you have to do. It will better part of an hour. He sang knocked some• help minimize your stress lev• hit songs like "Hello time bomb", thing or other els and keep you sane." "Apparition", and "Rico". I love down. At one point how simple he is. He puts off a the band's sound technician had Lily will return next issue good vibe without trying to to come on stage and fix David's Moist played all the hits the to impart more of her sage cheese up the crowd with com• ear set without being hit. wisdom. ments like "I love you guys" and What a night! The big high• crowd wanted to hear including "It's good to play for my home light was when David went into "Silver", "Leave It Alone", Moist on stage. Letters to Lily cart be sent lo: town" and he doesn't jump the crowd and said he would "Breathe" and "Push". The night around the stage and still pulls it ended with a big bang and glitter CAROLYN DONALDSON crowd surf but no one would hold PHOTO [email protected] all off without being boring. He him up. They decided to maul shot out into the crowd during was the perfect act to get the him instead. "Resurrection" and scared the s**toutofme! i Environmental Northern Pikes Brothers Creegan Protection Technology January 28 January 30 Commodore Sonar
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JANUARY 26. 2000 THELINK 9 • HITTING THEATRES SOON 1 JANUARY 26, 2000 10 THE LINH OPINION / FAQ ZONE
The FHQ ZDHE Carlos RssuncBD Roommate Wanted? tudent accommodation is a singularly where else where you mighl spend a lot of unique dilemma that only a studeni lime (as far as I'm concerned, the only Swho has been ejected by his/her par• space that should be shared with complete ents could understand. You can't truly strangers is the laundry room, beyond lhat afford to be independent, yet your life is it's more trouble than it's worth). For stu• too hectic to pul up with anyone else's dents who actually have lo live on the B.S.. funding provided by sludent loans and Everything you wanted to know Most students believe that finding that grants, finding affordable living arrange• roommate that will simultaneously "be ments that meet these requirements can about nothing, hut were afraid to asic there" when you need someone lo be extremely difficult. share the cleaning, give you a In regards to the first he universal answer to any queslion tus as a social outcast. 1 blame them for lift, catch your phone mes• option, finding a room• is the phrase "I don't know" or the bringing me into this hellhole called life. I sages, etc. and then conve• mate, a good tip is to find Tword "nothing". What are you didn't ask to be born. niently disappear • requEntlLj the roommate first, then doing? Nothing. Who are you going out It was my cousin who first gave me the whenever you feel the find the apartment. with? I don't know. What's the capital idea that it was okay to hate your parents. I need for privacy or are You'll find that if you city of Prince Edward Island? Nothing. remember one day when 1 was visiting just plain get sick of the HshEd find a place then try and What are you eating? 1 don't know. How them and we had just come back from the annoying way they gel a roommate, you'll old are you? Nothing. This one word and mall. My cousin had just bought a new breathe. This solution can be under more pressure one phrase are the sole reason I survived pair of shoes and was showing them to his feel like searching for a to lake the first one that high school. dad with enthusiasm, to which his dad needle in a haystack. 0 UEBtinns comes along. Also, being responded with, "You paid sixty dollars for My parents figured out pretty quickly The "roommate" choices can the first one in the apartment lhat?" I followed him to his room, and he that everyone and their dog used that word feel like the extremes between the means lhal you are taking the sal on his bed. 1 asked if he was okay and and phrase to answer every question. And guy who will have fifteen of his friends lion's share of responsibilities, for you he said sarcastically, "Yeah, I love it when they told everyone. You see, I had the joy hanging-out at your place cleaning out the power-hungry types this may sound good, my dad says he hates my new shoes. Don't of being the first born in my family, with fridge and playing video games every day but actually it's a dangerous situation and you?". At lhat moment in lime, I knew if the bonus of being the first born in my par• or the hermit who's only form of commu• requires a lot more organizing than if you he could feel like that about his parents, ents' circle of friends. Naturally when my nication wilh the outside world is a series were to lake in a roommate as an equal. then so could I. 1 also hated his parents. It parents friends saw how cute I was, it of notes posted to her bedroom door, the The up-side with this option is that two seemed only fair, and now they hate me to, spawned a mini baby boom. (My first fridge, your bedroom door, the TV, the students can find a belter apartment than but that's a different story. reaction must have been to roll my eyes ceiling and just about anywhere else you one can, the creature comforts of any liv• and think, "Great. Competition." but I'm On the plus side, my parents did bring wouldn't expect to find reading material. ing space grow exponentially with the not sure because 1 was only two months me into this hellhole called life. 1 have had On the other hand, living alone on a number of roommates you take in. old). This also put my parents in the inter• some fun. We did go lo Disneyland. I got student's budget usually means in some• To go the independent route takes more esting position of reporting to their friends to go to England; it was my grad present. one's basement, garage or some other leg-work, but less diplomacy and negotia• the proper way to do things (now can you Even sitting at home and laughing at little space lhat wasn't originally designed for tion. When renting living space that is see where I got my snobby, do-as-I-say things like the ugly shirt my mom found in habitation. This option is not too far attached to your landlord's home (base• personality?). And this reporting, or Zellers or throwing burnt cookies outside removed from living at home, the differ• ment suite), make sure that the landlord is should I say broadcasting, put me in the lo find that even the birds stayed away ence being that you have lo come up with prepared to respect your privacy and will• spotlight and completely fucked up my life. from them. What the hell does this mean? a cheque at the end of each month for the ing and able to meet up lo the responsibili• The original clichE: blame your parents; It doesn'i make sense anymore. privilege. ties of a landlord in terms of maintenance. it's their fault your life sucks. Why do they still bother? Like + hate + Even for the socially addicted the idea Start looking early and your odds of So when my parents figured out the like + hate = that other four letter word, of having your own living space is appeal• "gelling lucky" and finding a great place, word "nothing" answers most questions love. I hale all this mushy stuff; let's talk ing, let's face it, having the option of at a great price, in a great spol will be and the phrase "I don't know" answers the aboul something different. Check out this going home to get away from it all is a increased. Obviously, the good places go rest, they felt it was their duty to "let the crazy weather. Can you believe it gets good thing. The minimum requirements first. people know". It works out nicely for dark so early now? How 'bout those for a private living space on a student's The people factor is number one, a everyone because the kids are now expect• Canucks? I don'l know. Whatever. budget are; a separate entrance (so you can leaky lap is annoying, but an insane land• ed to say "nothing" or "1 don't know", and the original freak come and go as you please), and a private lord, roommate or neighbour is down-right they don't get questioned in the third L.SJ'annu kitchen, bathroom, living-room and any- impossible. degree. Everyone except me. The fourth degree of questions are fired my way. Now that my parents found the disease, they are working double time to find the cure. They try everything they can think of to get more information out of me than just "1 don't know." They try ridicule,
intimidation, threats, and reverse psycholo• CJ* ^ gy. Nothing works. And nothing will work, now that 1 know what they're up to. 1 intend to beat them at their own game. When I moved out of the house, it cut their impact on me by about seventy five percent. It was harder for them to reach me, and I avoided phone calls as much as possible. But when 1 do get snagged by a phone call, I use "nothing" and other one word answers. 1 know they notice. They feel my coldness through the phone. Why am 1 so rotten to them? Why do they keep calling? Why? SA'S Video Store holds grand opening I'm rotten because I sort of hate them. 1 mean, I sort of like them too, but 1 have to On Wednesday, January 19 the SA held a grand opening for its ne\N video store handing out free pop corn to promote it cheap follow the cliche here. 1 blame them for video rental prices to the campus community. Check it out the way 1 look. I blame them for my lack LYGDEL DE LEON PHOTOS of financial skill. 1 blame them for my sta•
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