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Campus Events 311432-8974 ^fm^l'of d^'n^neT."ff ""'^ ^^""P"^^' Submissions can be faxed ,o 431-7619, sen. by cam• Link pus rna.l or dropped off a. Ue Lmk office >n (he SA Campus Centre (down the corridor between the video arcade and the vacant The link Unclassifieds Wednesday, April 7 Friday, April 16 Thursday, April 22 Saturday. May 1 Have your Dream Job! STUDENT Don't settle for anything Electronics Engineering Earth Day, Intermediate Golf. See ASSOCIATION less. We can crate a busi• Entry (ETE): Last day Rec & Athletic Services ELECTIONS. Campaign for January intake. ness profile for you that is the studeni newspaper of Monday, April 26 for more information. will impress even your the British Columbia Speeches. 11 ;30am. Great Hall, SA Campus Centre. spouse! We have forgotten Institute of Technology. Deadline for submissions Medical Radiography: May 3-7 secrets most services Published bi-weekly by to the next issue of The Practricums commence. the BCIT Student Association, 'My Dick and Other Link, out April 21. haven't even learned yet. Nursing: Exam Week. Fast courteous work call The Link circulates 3.50f) copies Manly Tales' with Electronics Engineering to over I6,(m students and staff. Mass Power Resumes Norman Nawrocki. April 17-18 Entry (ETE): Start day Monday, May 3 North Vancouver, BC Comedy focusing on for April intake. issues of diversity. Great Tel 987-1486 Beginner's Golf. See Rec American Marketing Hall, SA Campus Centre. & Athletic Services for American Marketing Association Meeting. Want to be an more infonnation. Association Meeting. 7:00am. SA Boardroom, World Health Day Entrepreneur? 7:(X)am. SA Boardroom, SA Campus Centre. Contributors: Receive 5 yrs worth of David Lai. April 19-23 SA Campus Centre. Monday, April 12 entrepreneurial skills: idea Greg Hellen, Tuesday, May 4 Liz Gaige, Medical Radiography: SA Council Meeting. protection, brainstorming, American Marketing business planning, market• Carlos Assuncao, Exam Week. 5:30pm. SA Boardroom, Toastmasters. Public Dianne Watkins, Association Meeting. SA Campus Centre. speaking club. 7:00am. SA ing strategies. Volunteer Cam MacDonald, 7:00am. SA Boardroom, Monday, April 19 Boardroom, SA Campus 5-10 hrs/week of secretari• Lygdel de Lyon, SA Campus Centre. Tuesday, April 27 Centre. ' al skills: Internet surfing, Vcdran Monicinovic, American Marketing typing letters, filing, & Paul Dayson SA Council Meeting. emailing, faxing...MS Association Meeting. Toastmasters. Public Electronics: Last day to Word - Asset, Enthusiasm 5:30pm. SA Boardroom, 7:00am. SA Boardroom, speaking club. 7;00am. SA ; withdraw from Term B - Essential. Call Susan at SA Campus Centre. SA Campus Centre. Boardroom, SA Campus courses and recieve a 'W' 961-2020. Centre. on transcript. Tuesday, April 13 Tuesday, April 20 Managing Editor Wednesday, April 28 Friday, May 7 Paul Dayson Toastmasters. Public Toastmasters. Public speaking club. 7:00am. SA News Editor speaking club. 7:00am. SA Quintathalon. 11:30- Aerobics ends. Carlos Assuncao Boardroom, SA Campus Boardroom, SA Campus 14:30. See Rec & SAEXEC. Centre. Centre. Arts & Culture Editors Athletic Services for more Recreation Council David Lai information. Social. EIECTIONS Tuesday, April 14 April 22-28 Advertising Representative Friday, April 30 Sunday, May 9 Liz Gaige Eco-Fair 99 . See events TV Turn-off Week. VOTING: schedule on pg. 3 for more Distribution Manager Last day to withdraw Mother's Day. Cam MacDonald information. Wednesday, April 22 from Term B courses (March 22 start) and Next issue of The Link. recieve a 'W' on APRIL 21-23 transcript. As a member of Canadian University Press (CUP), The Link adheres to CUP's Code of Ethics. To this end TheLink will not publish material deemed by the edilors or sleering committee to be sexist, racist, homophobic or in poor taste. The The views in The Link are not necessarily those of BCIT, the Student Association, or the editorial collective. Unk Sunday, April 11,1999 3700 Willingdon Avenue is always Bumaby. BC V5G 3H2 Tel: 432-8974 Fax: 431-7619 looking for Central Park, Burnaby writers and & In 13 other communities around BC photographers Why not put a team together BCIT show your team spirit! call432-8974 Call 689-3144 for more information www.mssoc.bc/ca APRIL 7, 1999 2 THE LINK ECO-FAIR SPECIAL A look at changes we SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: BCIT'S ECO-FAIR '99 cannot affom to ignor Wednesday, April 14 II a.m. - 6:30 p.m. Ihriving too, of course. It's now a $400 billion-a-year industry lhal GREG HELTENT^^ Environmental technolo• barely existed two decades ago. gies, products, services and SA Environnnental Education In Canada, 4,300 companies generate revenues of $12 billion ideas collective of world scien• a year (1994), employ 130,000 tists, including most liv• people, and they're growing at Aing Nobel prize winners, an average rate of 15 percenl per 10 am Campus Square: issued a warning to the world in year. GVTA/Ballard hydrogen- 1993 that humanity is on a colli• Bul most of all, if people powered bus. Mobile Air sion course with nature. Ihink technology can replace Monitoring Unit We're starting lo see the pre• nalure, Ihen il's going to come (MAMU), electric vehi• cursors of this with severe cli• with a price. And the price, tal• cles, the Sustainable mate disruptions, record- lied by an alliance of ecologists Living Bus and Burnaby's breaking weather events year and economists, estimated the emergency response vehi• after year, the collapse of ecosys• annual value of the services pro• cle arrive. tems, species extinctions and vided by the Earth's ecosystem other threats to our economic at US$33 trillion (1997), or Ham TRADE FAIR & and physical health. aboul twice global gross national EXHIBITS OPEN On an acceleration curve, product. So if you've got a prod• in Ihe Greal Hall including time is short, but there is some• uct, service or angle on protect• consumer and industrial thing we can do. In fact, the ing Ihe environment, il's going to environmental proteclion sooner — the better and bigger sell, because we (the royal we) products, services, organi• effect. tion and protection is an exciting And environmental protection are going lo buy it. zations and information Using widespread environ• challenge. is one of the most promising Join us al ECO-FAIR... mental education, improvements Industry and businesses can growth industries of the next 12 noon official ECO-FAIR in technology, and adjustments no longer afford to ignore that century. The photovoltaic busi• For more information on the OPENING & PRIZE in business practices and behav• protecting ecosystems is a core ness (that's solar energy) is exhibitors at ECO-FAIR visit our GIVE-AWAYS iour, we can help correct the business activity. A healthy, sus• growing at 30 percent a year, for website al: for student Projects and course. As a 'group project' for tainable economy depends on a instance. The environmental www.bcil.bc.ca/-sa/environ- BCIT's Earth Apple award society — environmental educa- healthy environment. clean-up business is growing and ment/ 12:30 SEMINAR: Tiie Big Picture & Tiie Fulure of Worii Examining the convenience addiction Dr. Bill Rees 13:30 SEMINAR: The Business DIANNE WATSON even if we stop! Cars will still responsibility of late, yet the standards were mentioned by of the Environment SA Environmental Education be produced even if we give ours Terminal Street location in staff, and although Ihere was Robert Abbott up and take the bus! And that's Vancouver was visited earlier mention of companies which l verybody knows that our true. The rest of us will have to this year, to find out what types produce lower-than-regulalion- 14:00 Ballard bus & MAMU current uses of technology work on issues like these. As of alternative products were flow faucets as an energy saving leave E/are having a negative government influence diminishes available, and to get a feel for option, Ihese products were not impact on our planet. Everybody proportionate to increasing cor• whether the company would be available al Home Depot. 14:30 SEMINAR: porate power, public pressure to knows there are more ecological• interested in participating in This result, while disappoint• "Healthy Housing: correct socially and environmen• ly, socially and economically BCIT's 1999 Eco-Fair. ing, is less than surprising given A Sustainable Approach " responsible options. Yet we tally irresponsible practices will Floor staff at the store were recent events surrounding the Mark Salerno, Candian choose to ignore the conse• have to shift in emphasis from helpful, but their attitude was store, specifically Ihe demonstra• Mortgage and Housing quences of our actions in favour the lobby to the boycott. discouraging concerning alterna• tions in protest of Home Depot's Corporation of the quick fix. The way we do Those of us who are up to the tive product availability. In Ihe sale of old growth forest prod• things now is easy, fast, and sup• challenge won't have an easy kitchens department, no cabinets ucts, which were scheduled for 15:30 Preparing for a posedly cheap, and we'll take time of it at first. First of all, were available lhal were not March 17th. Home Depot repre• Sustainable Future - easier, faster, and cheaper if we convenience is perfectly legal made from particle board, which sentatives announced on March Cameron Lipp can get it. And why is this? Can and available all over the place. can off-gas toxic fumes from the 16th the company's intent to this be all we're here for? To Sometimes we might backslide a glue content if nol properly offer wood products in their 16:30 SEMINAR: Q.U.E.S.T - expend as little effort as possible little, but we'll make progress.