WITHOUT BLOWING YOUR LOAN the Joint Bachelor of Nursing to Alleviate the Long Lines
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tr••+:.! tokit Red River Community College Sept. 16 - Sept. 30 Volume 30 • Issue 2 Uneu from he Annual bookstore wait still aggravates By Darcy Morry before he got inside. Staff Writer "I got my drafting kit, but they didn't have my math book," he isthe start of a new school said. I year and the long RRCC Ron Mattock, manager of the Bookstore lineups prove it. RRCC Bookstore and Print "It's ridiculous," said Rita Centre, said the eight bookstore Spence-Greenwood, a student in employees are trying their best WITHOUT BLOWING YOUR LOAN the Joint Bachelor of Nursing to alleviate the long lines. program. "You have to leave Books for sponsored students your classes early to get your have been moved to the back of books." the store. This keeps crowds Spence-Greenwood's wait on down since these students wait • September 5 was half an hour in a different line. because she got in line at 1110 Fu:ure plans include selling a.m., just before the lunch parking passes at a different photo by Kari Puchala when many more students would location, but this may cause Lineups at the Bookstore forced some people to wait an hour at the cash registers be waiting. other difficulties. students return for clothes. and the Bookstore keeps inven- Crowley said he empathizes with Many students were not as "Students may have a cheque Another way instructors can tory to a minimum and can print the waiting students, but the long lucky, some waiting more than signed by their parents for both help is to use course packs more on demand," he said. line should encourage them to an hour outside the Bookstore their books and a parking pass," A new machine in the print buy their books earlier than the he said. often. and even longer at the cashier's first day of classes. The manager said another This is when relevant chapters centre, the Docutech, facilitates counter. this process. It prints, collates, He also suggested they check Some students weren't given solution to the problem is having of textbooks are photocopied, with permission, and made into a trims and folds booklets. out the used book section at The the opportunity to get to the cash instructors submit their book But just being an early bird Ox. Not only does this prevent register because their books had lists before the summer break in package sold at the bookstore. Beeper Mattock described this as a may be all it takes to solve the aggravation, but profits go not arrived. case a book is no longer pub- problem of the seemingly end- toward a good cause. bargain with Rob Keough, an Architectural lished. Then alternate arrange- win-win situation for students. "If this happened, we could less wait. "The money raised goes back to Drafting student waited an hour ments can be made before free activation reduce the price for the student SA President Michael fund student services," he said. and free Sympatico is a registered trade mark service for of Medialinx Interactive Inc. and CITI DJs return to RRCC MIS Advanced Inc. is a licensed user. 4 months. By Debbie Matejicka "We try to give the listener something new Staff Writer everyday. I'm always jotting down a million different ideas." t's been nearly 13 years and Joe "We take every day as a new day," added Aiello (as in the Joe from "Tom and Aiello. I And while coming to the College may not Joe" of the 92 CITI FM morning be a new idea, both Aiello and McGouran feel Scope out the show), is still waiting to hear if he's it's a worthwhile one. been accepted into the Creative "It's a great time," said McGouran. long distance freebies at the Communications program at RRCC. "And it helps create some awareness about "Yeah, I applied and went through the pro- the College," Aiello added. cess... and I'm still waiting to hear back from MTS Mini Phone Centre them," said Aiello. Annual broadcast Aiello didn't find out the answer last week The two have been doing the annual broad- Red River Community College (in front of library) Sept. S & either, as he and Tom McGouran broadcast cast at the College since they first hooked up photo by Kari Puchala their number one rated show from the front of as an on-air team three years ago. (L to R) McGouran, Projector the campus bookstore. After a less than memorable stint in Offers own e Sept 15;97 "It's the English part he got turned down Vancouver with DOB's Larry Updike, writer Debbie Matejicka, and Aiello for," joked McGouran. McGouran returned to Winnipeg and CITI "He didn't know you had to know English." between the two that has helped them rake in -* FM with a new co-host already in mind. Well, he knows English pretty well now, "We had worked on and off together for the ratings and keep listeners coming back (he's even got that cool Al Pacino way of about eight years," said McGouran of his rela- for more. punching out words) and getting into Cre tionship with Aiello. "We thank everyone who does listen," Comm isn't his primary focus these days. "I knew we could work well together," he Aiello said. Both he and McGouran spend their days said. "We were good friends beforehand." "If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't be thinking up new ways to keep their show Their story, though not one of Chariots of here," he added. fresh and new. Fire proportions, is still one that brings a tear "Hey, if it weren't for our listeners I'd be "I think we try and do new stuff all the to Aiello's eyes every time McGouran tells it. selling pencils on a street corner in time," said McGouran. Aiello agrees there is a certain chemistry Vancouver," said McGouran. • I 1. \ 4 : . 4 ta4t4,4 ••• the Projector the Projector September 16, 1997 September 16, 1997 Frank Landry, News Editor 2 CollegeNews Phone: (204) 632-2479 CollegeNews 3 Crime spree prompts security HRA graduation EXPLORING THE COLLEGE to beef-up late night patrols By Frank Landry want to know about it," he said. reported missing, Dreyer said. dispute settled "Even though the value of News Editor The College is not equipped with video surveillance equip- goods stolen was minimal, their By Frank Landry Sianchuk. C ECURITY IS BEEFING UP ment and relies on the security is a cost factor involved with News Editor He said he was pleased to see repairing damaged property," Crowley had decided to return the 0 exterior patrols following a officers, students, and staff to Dreyer said. dough. recent early morning crime spree. keep a watchful eye out for crim- dispute between some Joan Kunderman, chair of "I'm confident justice has pre- On August 4, three of the inal activity. former Hotel and community service, said the A vailed, and will prevail," he College's trailers and a fenced-off Some areas of the College have criminals were wasting their time Restaurant Administration added. car lot were broken in to. alarms, but not the trailers in breaking into the trailers. (HRA) students and the SA "If I had known there would "Security did an exterior patrol question. About $700 worth of computer "They took some old comput- has finally been settled. have been so many troubles, I of the College grounds at about ers and messed up some files. The students, led by Jason would have just opened up a bank ten that night," said Jim Dreyer, equipment was stolen from a trailer used by the College's day They were looking for stuff, but Sianchuk, were trying to get back account for the money and not head of security. "When the grounds were care centre, said Dreyer. their is nothing to steal (in those funds raised for a graduation even bothered going through the Two empty safes were pried trailers)," she said. party last June. SA," he said. checked again at five in the Michael Crowley, SA president The funds were being held by Crowley said there has never morning, we discovered some of open in another trailer used by agreed with Kunderman. the SA, who refused to release the before been a situation where a the trailers and the fenced-off the SA. Damages were estimated at $700, Dreyer said. "Some safes were damaged in cash because the group wasn't campus club wanted to use area had been entered," he said. The third trailer, he added, was our trailer. There was nothing in going to use it for the original money they raised for a purpose Dreyer said his department is them," he said. purpose- to hold a party. other than originally intended. now making more regular patrols used for storing items seized "The insurance will take care Instead, Sianchuk, president of He added measures are being of the grounds, and is asking peo- from lockers which hadn't been of it," he added. the club formed to raise the funds, taken to ensure a problem like pie to report any suspicious per- cleared following the spring At this time, the criminal(s) are wanted to take the money back this doesn't occur again. sons on campus to security term. It sustained minimal dam- still at large. and divide it equally among the "Campus clubs aren't formed to photo by Kari Puchala immediately. age. A lock was cut on a lot adjacent fundraisers.