MDC protest cycling is dope 234567890123I4567890123 45678901234567890123456769012345678901234 national exhibit COVER DESIGN LYNSEY SABLE visit us online @ www.rrcsa.com 1atnLf Ti)eab 1antgOr5 Pu firibatr Cub lembers & uests Welcome! • Can apply for membership at the door Fri. Oct. ut + Sat. Oct. 15 - SET IN STONE Sunday, Oct. i6 - ALL THE KINGSMEN TUESDAYS El WEDNESDAYS ARE: Show suiztcoodweli;tt card Fri. Oct. zi + Sat. Oct. 22 - RUBBER SOUL STUDENT NIGHT - FREE POOL 7pm midnight Hours: Monday - Friday 11:30 am -2 am, Saturday and Sunday 2pm - 2am 120 KING STREET Ph: 957-7710 october 11 2005 theprojector Editor-in-Chief Lillian Brown news briefs editorOtheprojector.ca Would you like to be a part of the inaugural If you are interested in applying please con- season of the Red River College Volleyball pro- tact Ryan Ratushniak at [email protected]. News Editor gram? Remember, all applicants must be available to Mike Uhrich RRC is looking to fill the following positions: work during all home games, however no previ- [email protected] ous volleyball experience is necessary. Admission Staff (2 people) Check Student/Staff cards .crtaintnent Editor Collect $2 from non-students/staff jet) loratti Distributeprograms enrertainment04keprojec ) Ca Wednesday, Oct. 19, North Gym, ND Scorekeepers (2 people) Campus (6:30 p.m. Women, 8:30 p.m. Men) Keep track of score and time clock Knowledge of volleyball an asset Layout/Photo Editor Monday, Oct. 24, North Gym, ND Grant Burr Campus (7:00 p.m. Women, 9:00 pm Men) [email protected] Crowd Control (1 person) Monitor crowd to make sure people are not Saturday, Oct. 29, North Gym, ND Campus sneaking in or that young children are not (11:00 a.m. Women, 12:30 p.m. Men) Layout/Photo Editor using recreation equipment. Justen Vogt [email protected] Advertising and Sales Manager Guy Lussier glussierOrrc.mb.ca RRC enrolment on the rise BY JESSICA HEBERT Friesen believes the public engineering technology • stu- is impressed by the building's dents. The award-winning car ull-time enrolment at esthetic value. She says that raced in July 2005 from Texas to contributing writers & photographers Red River College is people are becoming aware of Alberta in the North American F now at a record high, the different programs Red Solar Challenge. Paul Adair Jack Rach with a four per cent increase River has to offer, making them Red River College President Kyle Bakx Darren Ridgely from last year. According to the more likely to come down and Jeff Zabudsky wants people to Carmen Barnett Laura Ruddock Winnipeg Free Press, Red River's check out the campus. know that the increase in enrol- Mitch Calvert Kelly Rybachuk full-time September enrolment "It's really nice be involved in ment should benefit students, Erin Carter Haide Segura has increased 23 per cent since a unique and intimate program rather than cause enrolment fees Jessica Friedle Nicole Shawnowsky 2001.The programs with the to go up. Joanna Fultz largest percentage increases Krista Simonson "It's really nice "A larger college means that David Gardner Dave Smith include early childhood educa- we are in a position to offer Jessica Hebert Amanda Stephens tion, mechanical engineering be involved in more kinds of services to more Arnie Lesyk Carly Thompson technology, graphic design, and a unique and people," says Zabudsky. Alan MacKenzie James Turner business administration. intimate program, Creating student housing and (hrista Mariash Dan Verville Business administration a recreational area for students Renata Marsden Brigit Waples instructor Jim Hebert believes where the instruc- to enjoy on breaks, is something Davina Pessagno Rudy Zacharias the Princess Street campus tors actually know Zabudsky would like to see in I Aura Power has raised the college's profile, your name." the future. contributing to the increase in KALYNN FRIESEN Zabudsky also acknowledges enrolment. that the college is living down "Students that were not aware where the instructors actually stereotypes that were created in of Red River College, are now know your name." the past. The college was viewed aware of it - it's a new oppor- The college's marketing and as a secondary option to univer- the next story meet,i, tunity." public relations department sity. With help from the college's Hebert says the new Princess affirms that the mechanical advertising campaigns, which for the projector is: Street campus is a work of art, engineering technology program demonstrate the success of col- creating a positive atmosphere has seen a 16 per cent increase lege alumni, public opinion is for the students as well as the since September 2004. beginning to change. 12:00 p.m., Friday, administration. The increase is partly attribut- "We're not a second choice, Second-year graphic design ed to the national media cover- we're a different choice," says October 21 2005 student Kalynn Friesen also age the college received over the Zabudsky. praises the college's Princess Red River Raycer, a solar power n W 102 Newsroom. Street building. vehicle created by mechanical letters to the editor the projector: Phone: 204.947.0013 Fax: 204.949.9150 The Projector Got something to say? We want to here from you. c/o Red River College Students' Association Email your letter to [email protected] P 110 - 160 Princess Street Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1K9 Dear Editor, you guys are making them eat their crappy masthead. What you've got here is a sleek, bal- For advertising information, contact I am a former student of Red River College anced, entertaining publication, and you deserve Guy Lussier at: now a number at the University of Manitoba, I kudos. Easily better than the garbage they churn 204.632.2070 finally had a chance to pick up an edition of this out at the U of M. Keep it up. [email protected] year's projector. I've got to admit, as insanely gifted and creative as last year's editorial staff was, Ambiguously Anonymous october 11 2005 theprojector 103 news from the paying for print BY DAVINA PESSAGNO tem can handle the software. has been taken advantage of. Students can pay the cashier unnecessary costs; however, the Secondly, it is a way to monitor Therefore, the college needed and resolve any problems that overall feeling of the students is s of Oct. 1 a new usage in the labs by staff and to find a solution. arise at both locations. If the bleak. software program called students. centres are not open, there Out of 25 students -asked, the AEquitrac Express was The program was approved "Over the last will be pay stations to accom- majority were displeased with installed at the Notre Dame last year by the Red River modate the students working the colleges' decision to charge and Princess Street Campus. College finance committee. few years, outside normal school hours. them for print. Equitrac is a print manage- The decision was made when there has been At the beginning of the next "If it's an assignment that you ment solution system; it helps concerns were raised about the a tremendous academic year, all programs will have to hand in at the end of to monitor usage and cut excess printing and paper waste be allotted a certain amount of class, then it's not fair to ply," unnecessary costs in the col- at both campuses. amount of usage. print allowance for each stu- says Kelly Rybachuk, a first- leges' print labs. By January 2, Director of campus services, ROB OLSON dent. The amount will be based year creative communications 2006, each page printed will be Rob Olson says, "Over the By January, all students want- on assignment requirements for student. "We don't have the charged to students at ten cents last few years, there has been a ing to print at either campus each program. choice to go home and print per copy. tremendous amount of usage. must uphold a user account. This amount will be deter- it." However, for the first three Where is it going...free service These accounts will be man- mined by the academic dean Donald Bouvier, a third-year months it will run at no cost to students and staff?" aged by the Print and Graphic or chair of each program at the RRC student says, "It's sad to students. It is being run Free print has been avail- Centre at the Notre Dame cam- start of each New Year. for the college to make more cost-free primarily as a security able to students for academic pus and at the Copy Centre at The new program is going money from the students." precaution to ensure the sys- purposes; however the system the Princess campus. to cut down on waste and NO CAR PAYMENTS FOR 2 MONTHS. 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