. " Celebrating our 20th Anniver sa|^ ^(§£j/ |/g/7^ DUMBER Volume 20 Thursday, April 16, 1992 Number 29 Library scrap paper tells all Personal student information has shown up in the library just months after an earlier privacy scandal. They should not be for public dis- Sheri Williams, also a Humber employees emphasizing the need Dean of Applied and Creative by Kim Cavanaugh tribution," said Library Director student, said she was with DeBono for heightened awareness in regard Arts, Carl Eriksen, said, "I'm Confidential student and faculty Vihari Hivale, when presented on both occasions and had noticed to confidential student informa- quite shocked to see papers like reports that include Social Insur- with documents found by Coven on the papers herself on several recent tion. "We're doing all that we can. this being made available in view incidents of this kind. I ance numbers, student numbers, the library's third floor. His answer visits to the library. 1 do believe this was an honest of recent we're being especially names, programs and campus loca- also came in response to students' Hivale immediately began to error. I hope the division will be know that . tions, have been used in scrap pap- allegations that a librarian had take steps to rectify the situation, more conscientious in the future," careful with er boxes at the North Campus lib- already been informed about the and said he had not been informed said Casson. Eriksen's division along rary. issue, but had done nothing about of any such problem by his staff. Bill Pitman, director of Reg- the Human Studies division were transcripts that Despite the recent scandal over it. However, System Librarian Lynne istration and Records, said that a responsible for the into note- transcripts that were made into Sandra DeBono, a second-year Bentley admitted it had occured process has been put in place to ended up being made notepads. Delinquent Borrowers Business student said, "1 noticed before prevent this problem from hapf)en- pads. to sure Reports have been put out for stu- about a month or so ago that there "It was negligent for the papers ing. It simply involves the collect- Hivale promised make dents to use as scribble paper. The were papers with private informa- to have been put there. We will ing and storing by each division of that all papers of a confidential or reports were originally intended to tion about students on them in the have to monitor more carefully sensitive materials until they can sensitive nature that have already used will be collected and be used by library staff as lists to (scrap) boxes. 1 told one of the what goes in the boxes in the future be shredded. "But I believe that to been the week. He also follow up on students and faculty librarians and she said it was a mis- to make sure this does not happen mandate to other divisions exactly shredded within with overdue books. take and that she would have them again," Bentley said. what they can and can not do, said he intends to carry through process a weekly "This should not be happening, removed. Then I found two piles Martha Casson, registrar, said would not be something kindly re- with this on they should have been shredded. there again last week." that a communique was sent to all ceived," said Pitman. basis. ' " Page 2 Thursday, April 16, 1992 Coven MADD forum reveals scary facts MADD repeated, "It didn't have April 16. "We want to make sure at Collingwood Collegiate Institute Inspector Fordham said this can hy Rick Black . ' to happen our students make it back here two years ago, and it had a pro- be attributed to the pnjsitive effects and Meredith Gardner When Hatherley 's grandaughter safely in the fall," said McKenzie. found impact on her and her that MADD and programs like it One half of all Canadians will be was killed in 1983, the drunk driv- William Fordham, of the Metro- friends. have had. He said the 16 to 24 age involyed in an accident involving er received the stiffest possible politan Toronto Police Central "We just couldn't forget that group has seen the most dramatic an imf)aired driver, according to sentence at the time — four years. Traffic Unit, told the crowd that picture of the baby in the coffin," decrease in impaired driving the Toronto President of Mothers Within two years he was out on over 2, OCX) Canadians will be kil- she said. Her friends now check deaths. The biggest threat now Against Drunk Driving (MADD), parole and facing another impaired led by drunk drivers this year. their car keys with the host at par- comes from the 25 to 39 age group. Dave King. charge. In a question and answer session ties, and the host stays sober and after King brought his message closer Dave King is furious at the sys- the presentation, many stu- controls the situation. King is hoping to reach older to students night dents affirmed Humber Tuesday tem that allowed the man who kil- they do not drink Statistics show that impaired audiences next year by speaking to with MADD's Closer to Home pre- led his son and daughter-in-law to and drive, and they use the desig- driving arrests have been reduced groups like the Industrial Accident sentation. Metropolitan Toronto receive only a four-and-a-half year nated driver system. Jennifer Col- in Ontario, from 10,000'per year in Prevention Association and service Police also raised awareness of the sentence. He compared it to a five lins told King she heard him speak the mid-'80s to 4,500 in 1991. clubs. potentially tragic impact of im- year sentence recently issued to an paired driving by parking a car extortionist. smashed by a drunk driver on the "It's called criminal justice be- residence lawn. cause it's designed to help the cri- Smashed cars, bloodstained minals," King said angrily, "there pavement, a sole from a cowboy are no victims rights." He believes Nightmare for victim boot thrown from a wrecked car that the streets will not be free of onto a train track. These stark im- drunk drivers until penalties for what you're trying to say, and that you are right, ages, presented in a slide show, impaired driving are increased. by Lisa Dunn and they are just trying to shake you up, " she said. were a haunting contrast to the "MADD has four functions," Walking across the street became a nightmare for Aldridge is bitter that the drunk driver who hit her smiling, youthful faces of the vic- said King, "education, public Wendy Aldridge after she was hit by a drunk driver is not behind bars. "He took so much away from tims of drunk driving accidents. awareness, lobbying (for longer on Nov. 17, 1990. me. I was so angry when it happened. I wanted to be The most painful picture was prison sentences), and victim sup- Aldridge, a 19-year-old Humber College stu- in school; I didn't want to be stuck in the hospital. that of a 22-month-old child in a port. All are needed to reduce im- dent, broke the fibula and tibia bones in her right tiny coffin. The grandmother of the paired driving in Ontario." Aldridge thinks MADD is doing some positive leg, a bone in her right arm, and her pubic bone. She child, Ginny Hatherley, spoke to Residence Life Coordinator woric. "It's good they're trying to raise awareness was in the hospital for ten days, missed eight weeks about 70 students at Humber' s resi- Loretta McKenzie invited MADD about it (drunk driving). Someone needs to lobby of school, and was on crutches for five months. dence about her family's ordeal. In to Humber to tie in with the See for the rights of victims." But more damaging was the psychological her speech, the Vice-President of You In September pub at Caps on Almost a year-and-a-half after the accident, trauma. Aldridge, now 22, is still feeling the effects of the "For the longest time, I had trouble walking accident. In May, she will return to the hospital to across streets," she said. "1 would make people have a pin removed from her leg and a plate re- walk on both sides of me. I won't walk where moved from her arm. Doctors have told her she may there's not a crosswalk." be left with a limp. Aldridge attended Mothers Against Drunk Driv- ers' (MADD) "Closer to Home" presentation at Aldridge has also had trouble interacting with her Humber residence Tuesday. She agrees with Dave friends. "For the longest time, I couldn't stand King, president of MADD, that the justice system being around people who were drinking. It just does not work for victims of impaired drivers. scared me so much, to see people getting so out of The justice system seems cold, said Aldridge. At control." the preliminary trial, the defence lawyer of the man Aldridge is now awaiting the trial . Asked about who hit her "tried to make me say I had run out in the driver, she said, "I just want him to feel sorry front of the car. I was almost in tears. You know for what he has done!" PR students raise money to send needy kids to camp back. " It costs about $600 to send around classes," said Metcalf. by Sean O'Connell just one youngster to camp. Most students were new to the fun- Twenty-three disadvantaged About 35 PR certificate students draising game, but Metcalf said children will be going to Moore- participated in numerous events in that "that did not dissuade us." lands Camp this summer because an attempt to raise funds for the She added that "we may have been TONIGHT..