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Volume 21 Number 25 THE LINK March 25, 1987 BCIT announces joint project Link Staff Report and Dean of Health Science They helped some 10 Studies Brian Gillespie an• million visitors find their way nounced the project John around the Expo 86 site last Wetmore, vice president for summer and now, if a joint IBM, Western Region and Stan project between BCIT and Hagen, Minister of Advanced IBM Canada Ltd. is suc• Education and Job Training cessful, the same also took part in the opening sophisticated interactive com• of the project. puter terminals will help Gillespie said the project health care professionals find "symbolized the bringing their way around the human together of technology and heart. education, and it brings them The 30-month study, an• together for a very special nounced on campus last Fri• purpose - to improve student day, will explore the educa• learning." He said the project tional potential of interactive has two major thrusts: to im• laser videodisc technology in prove the quality of student the health sciences field. Two learning and to improve the specific laser videodiscs will accessibility to that learning be developed - one on the on a provincial basis. human heart and one on us• "It will improve access not ing the medical equipment only in terms of providing found in a hospital's intensive training in places it isn't done care unit. already," said Gillespie, "but Interactive technology' also on campus, letting lohn Wetmore from IBM and Slan Hagen pose The terminals were part of IBM's visitor means that the student can students come at different front of a touchsreen terminal, part of IBM's information system at Expo '66 last year. 20 such interact at will with the times of the day to review and contribution to a ioint study announced Friday. terminals will have a new home at BCIT. course material stored on the repeat the educational oppor• videodisc, repeating, going tunities they would normally back or moving ahead instant• get only in a straight lecture ly through any part of the or laboratory environment" Increased post secondary course One videodisc can Gillespie said developing a handle 30 minutes of motion videodisc on the heart was picture or 54,000 still images important because of the dif• funding still not enough per side. The user interacts ficulty of teaching about the by touching the screen or us• heart and the fact that heart By lames Roberts Association was studying the "This means the real in• ing a conventional keyboard. related problems are a major buget figures when contacted crease in money is not the The provincial budget IBM is providing 20 of the cause of death in North in his office. Waters believes mainline kind of aid you think brought down by Finance touchscreen terminals and America The medical equip• the budget increases will of, said Waters But he add• laser videodisc machines ment vidiodisc will teach the Minister Mel Couvelier pro• mised the provence's three "maintain the status quo" ed, "It is possible an an• previously used at Expo as use of ECG monitors, universities and 19 community He says increases to stu• nouncement will be made in part of IBM's visitor informa• defibrillators and pacemakers colleges and institutions will dent aid are mostly for the next few days for more tion system, BCIT is providing and other equipment concern• recieve an overall increase in employment incentive pro• aid" and this money will likely the faculty and the provincial ed with monitoring and their base budgets of 5.8 per grams including workstudy increase the amount of government is donating stimulating the electrical ac• and teacher assistant posi• money students may borrow cent, or $38.4 million, to $695 money through its "Fund for tivity of the human heart. tions. Of the additional and may possibly rein• million. Excellence" IBM also intends "It's a technology," said money for student aid $5.4 troduce grants in addition to The budget also increased to provide technical support Gillespie, "that is particularly million is for work related loans. student aid by 51 cer cent and and expertise to the BCIT pro• useful in health science train• positions and $2 3 million will Students who are hoping ject Further support will ing It allows the creation of set aside an additional $27 million for as-yet- be spent to increase the stu• the government will introduce come from The Heart Founda• real live situations on video dent aid program. Continued on page 6 tion, St. Paul's Hospital and and it offers students choices undetermined "special higher Simon Fraser University. The or decisions on the best way education initiatives". total value of the study is to handle a given situation. It Post secondary education S.A. reports on 85-86 estimated at $1 million will even check response spokespersons say they BCIT president Roy Murray Continued on page 6 welcome the increased fun• ding but are quick to add the at noon hour ACM increases do not mean an end to the financial problems fac• Link Staff Report Student Association. "The ing the schools. At the Student Association campus centre project was "The increase in student Annual General Meeting on started by then president Troy aid does not bring us up to March 18th, Andrea Bartlett, Nagy. As well, the S.A. lob• the 1982-1983 levels We could V.P. of Administration and bied to increase student aid - require $60 million more to Finance, reporting on the and it was successful in meet the national average," state of the Student Associa• that." said Marg Fartacezk, tion last year said it was Carroll agreed there was ^chairperson of the Canadian "generally a poor year for all some difficulty with the Federation of Students the businesses " merger of the two student Pacific Region Bartlett was reading the unions and that the sale of In addition to her concern bottom line figures for the the Whistler cabin had show• over the numbers Fartaczek Student Association for the ed a loss, but he said the hir• said she is awaiting a further fiscal year ending June 30, ing of a new assistant announcement from Advanc• 1986. She noted that' the SA, business manager and ed Education minister Stan ended that year with a various lobbying activities Hagan expected later this deficit, resulting from poor have turned out well, and that week, Hagan is expected to sales and in part, she said, to work on such issues as a bus announce details on exactly the sale of the Whistler Cabin fare decrease for students is how increased finding will be and to the merger of the PVI stil going on. used in the post secondary and BCPT student unions. The financial report was ac• sector. Pat Carroll, president, cepted without opposition John Waters, the president reported that the year was and the ACM was over In less Forestry students hosted a Loggers Sports Show on campus over the weekend. of College-Institute Educators also a positive one for the than 10 minutes. BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE Of TECHNOLOGY APPLIED INDUSTRIAL COMPUTING ONE YEAR POST-DIPLOMA PROGRAMS Students with a relevant diploma or degree are invited to apply. 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