(was never the question)

-? The Lusitania, coffee, a friend and the peculiar click of cue balls colliding. Plus, a slimy dude in second rate Elvis chic leering at our table. We are the only other table. When my friend gets up to hit the java counter he stares hard at her ass and then smirks at me. | shoot him the finger and, soon, he leaves. It starts me wondering why life’s fine tempo is so easily ruined. | do, it is true, love to bitch. It’s a part of my Irish/Jewish heritage. Allow me to share a few of my latest.

The Board Meeting- why can’t the minutes of the last meeting (with an acknowledgment that they haven't been formally passed) be posted? Then | don't have to feel like a fool (it’s just too painfully close to the bone sometimes) by bringing up an issue covered at the previous meeting.” To all you radical students; is it really appropriate to compare the board to Nazi’s? Isn't being a Socred appointee stigma enough without resorting to such loaded imagery? Finally, if reading week is considered part of ‘normal’ school time, how come the shuttle bus wasn’t running, Mr. Barkley?

Next. Seminar class rules and regulations are soooo confusing! Anybody in second or third year Studio or Fine Art is well advised to spend a little time investigating if a Diploma or Degree is part of the game plan. The current standards from class to class differ incredibly. Rumour has it that one particularly notorious class consisted of the instructor and one of his students discussing their frequent drinking sprees at the Farts = Club. Non-drinking students were not amused.

Feminism rears its head in this reporter’s bosom as | wonder about the bizarre ratio (25%) of continuing contract male to female faculty at a time when 50% of the earths’ population is female. You probably won't be surprised to discover that the majority of the temporary staff ( the great un- benifitted) are women. Why is Sara Diamond’s “Women’s Studies” course in danger of being cut? | think it’s a damned shame that there is a need for a specific course but name the last female artist that showed up on your Art History exam! Guys, don’t get your ginch in an uproar, | just want an Art role model with breasts beside Akhenaten.

Spring brings tulips and scholarship/slide angst. It’s partially the result a spending almost a hundred small ones on some awfully mediocre slides. I’m guilty of taking them and | can’t help but think that a workshop on slide taking would have it’s positive side. If you’re not a photo deity light meters can be as intimidating as a nuclear submarine. The other ele- ment involved is my ego, busily preparing for it’s annual shredding. It stung for over six months the first time | got passed over for a schol- arship three years back. | try to console myself with the obvious ex- cellence of the winners whom | enviously detest for the first four hours following posting. Don’t come running to me with your triumph unless you’re prepared to fork out for a latte.

Coffee at the market has it’s hazards. | am sick of hearing discussions over the price of real estate as | sin- cerely doubt it will ever be personally relevant. | can’t quite figure why the same people who are gleefully selling their homes in the mega-boom market are so busy despising the very people responsible for it. Maybe | shouldn’t eavesdrop on other people’s conversations, They're generally a waste of my time and, if they considered the matter, theirs.

I've exhausted my caffeine tension and venom. The moon is glowing and I'm looking up at Orion like billions of others past and present. For a moment, | ponder how inconsequential all my petty nasties are in the grand context of Creation but, in the very act, stub my big toe...

*During the last Board meeting | was stranded ona train full of football hooligans between Liverpool _ and London.

Karen Opas

Well for the first time ever, | attended the BORED MEETING lastweek, and what a disappointment that turned out to be. Watching ourGuv’nors vote on policy decisions, was about as much fun as watching wet paint dry. But they were notthe only disappointment, I’m afraid some of our fellow student’s arguments and points were weak, and redundant.

It seems the main grumble, as always, is the in- crease in tuitionfees. | for one do not find the increase unreasonable, and secondly | find the tuition fees for the whole year quite a bargain for what | receive. | know |’m getting a hell of a good deal; the facilities are second to none, the standard of teaching is extremely high and frankly | wouldn't want to be going to school anywhere else.A-ha, do we have a rich elitist student amongst our ranks?Nope, I’m afraid not, I’m struggling along just like the vast majority“of us.How do | afford these extra expenses? Quite simple really, | work my butt off in the summer. | don’t have a student loan to help me through school, at the moment I’m making it on my own, although it has got quite tense at times. It doesn’t thrill me to paint houses, to remove wallpaper and any other awe-inspir- ing task that comes to hand. | keep doing it because it pays for my schooling.

So okay, big deal, everybody’s different, we all have our crosses to bear, what’s my point? | acknowl- edge the sincerity of those students in their protests to the board. But your arguments were ineffective, you didn’t speak forthe masses, and how do you really expect to be taken seriously when all around school you pinup notices saying, “Let’s fire Alan Barkley.” Is he the Big Bad Wolf?Or is he the authority figure who is so easy to blame. Yes, we are absolutely rightto question the board, we have aright as a student body to be heard and to hear the personal opinions of the BORED. If they are making policy decisions affecting our future in school, it would be nice if they were up front about it instead of the majority of the decision making happen without us being present. Do they really know who they are representing? We as students are the school. | don’t think they have aclue who we are and for that matter do we know who we are? If you are going to present evidence to support your argument then get it from a reliable source: Us. Some easy task, EH. Why not use one of the most effective communica- tion devices at our disposable, i.e. THEMIGHTY PLANET. Anybody who is even slightly interested in our dearly beloved school, must read this awesome production. Maybe we can inspire a few more disciples to venture forth and speak their minds, instead of just grumbling in the background. If you don’t represent the majority, they are not going to be to interested in what you have to say.

Can we speak as a group? Martyn Hurst

3rd and Pine campus. The prefered approach is to enroll in a design division course. Otherwise, a student would need to

March 8th Computer Studies

Sub-Committee Meeting

Present: Ron Barron, Gary Lee-Nova, Louretta Frolek, Rick Balabuck, Ken Chamberlain (Chair)

Ron Barron presented recommendations for computer resources to

support the Graphic Design curriculum. This was prepared as the result of a meeting with Ron, Jeff Leese, and Michael Agrios. They felt the major problem was with processing power and speed of the computers to run the programs as well as monitor size and the availability of colour. It was suggested that software costs plus the cost per workstation needed to be included in the estimate. It was also recom- mended that a possible printer solution be one that could be used by all computers. It was also mentioned that Graphic Design will be back on the Granville Island campus.

Rick Balabuck presented a brief on access of facilities at the

get approval by the Associate Dean and the Design Division Faculty. This, of course, would need to be a school related project and could not be in conflict with what’s happening there. There is also the concern of funding, security and appropriate equipment use.(Not to use the digital midi sound system only as an audio mixdown system) It sounds a bit on the complicated side unless you’re doing a major project.

There was a discussion of a possible computer instructors meeting. This would be to show student work,see what each other is doing, and hopefully pass on a more integrated and unified approach. Students may be invited. Also, the sharing of information by instructors is a good way of keeping in touch with what’s happening generally with computers.

Animation Club Meetings Every Monday at 12:15 in the Faculty Lounge. Everyone is

welcome. Bring your lunch. It’s a different program each week.

Siggraph Meetings

We've had two great meetings here the first Wednesdays of the last two months. The first one we saw animation by ECCAD students and this past Wednesday some animation presented on the Amiga by Scott Busse and a demo on the iris by Benny from Silicon Graphics. The next meeting will be her again the first Wednesday of April -the 4th at 7pm in the faculty lounge. We'll see how to design computer games as well as a targa board paint system. The meetings have been really well attended - a must for anyone keen to see what’s happening on computers in our city.

Students wanting to give support to the return of Dennis Vance on staff, send a letter to Maurice Yacowar. We have been told that Dennis and his position may be terminated. Show your support and concern in writing to the Dean.

Louretta Frolek

KXILT

TO BITCH OR |

(was never the question)

The Lusitania, coffee, a friend and the peculiar click of cue balls colliding. Plus, a slimy dude in second rate Elvis chic leering at our table. We are the only other table. When my friend gets up to hit the java counter, he stares hard at her ass and then smirks at me. | shoot him the finger and, soon, he leaves. It starts me wondering why life's fine tempo is so easily ruined. | do, itis true, love to bitch. It's a part of my IrishJewish heritage. Allow me to share a few of my latest.

The Board Meeting- why can't the minutes of the last meeting (with an acknowledgment that they haven't been formally passed) be posted? Then I don't have to feel like a fool (it's just 100 painfully close to the bone sometimes) by bringing up an issue covered at the previous meeting." To all you radical students; is it really appropriate to compare the board to Nazi's? Isn't being a Socred appointee stigma enough without resorting 10 such loaded imagery? Finally, if reading week is considered part of ‘normal’ school time, how come the shuttle bus wasn't running, Mr. Barkley?

Next. Seminar class rules and regulations are soooo confusing! Anybody in second or third year Studio or Fine Art is well advised to spend a little time investigating i a Diploma or Degree is part of the game plan. The current standards from class to class differ incredibly. Rumour has it that one particularly notorious class ‘consisted of the instructor and one of hs students discussing thelr frequent drinking sprees at the Farts > Club. Non-drinking students were not amused.

Feminism rears its head in this reporter's bosom as | wonder about the bizarre ratio (25%) of continuing contract male to female faculty at a time when 50% of the earths’ population is female. ‘You probably won't be surprised to discover that the majority of the temporary staff ( he great un- benifited) are women. Why is Sara Diamond's "Women’s Studies” course in danger of being cut? | think i's a damned shame that there is a need for a specific course but name the last female anist that showed up on your Art History exam! Guys, don't get your ginch in an uproar, | just want an Art role model with breasts beside Akhenaten.

‘Spring brings tulips and scholarship/slide angst. it's partially the result of spending almost a hundred small ones on some awiully mediocre slides. 1'm guilty of taking them and I can’t help but think that a workshop on slide taking would have it's positive side. If you're not a photo deity light ‘meters can be as intimidating as a nuclear submarine. The other ele- ment involved is my ego, busily preparing for it's annual shredding. It stung for over six months the first time | got passed over for a schol- arship three years back. | try to console myself with the obvious ex- cellence of the winners whom | enviously detest for the first four hours following posting. Don't come running to me with your triumph unless you're prepared to fork out for a latte.

Coffee at the market has i's hazards. | am sick of hearing discussions over the price of real estate as | sin- cerely doubt it will ever be personally relevant. | can't quite figure why the same people who are gleefully selling their homes in the ‘mega-boom market are so busy despising the very people responsible for it, Maybe | shouldn't eavesdrop on other people’s conversations, They're generally a waste of my time and, i they considered the matter, their.

I've exhausted my caffeine tension and venom. The moon is ‘glowing and I'm looking up at Orion like billions of others past and present. For a moment, | ponder how inconsequential all my petty nasties are in the grand context of Creation but, in the very act, stub my big toe.

*During the last Board meeting | was stranded on a {rain full of football hooligans between Liverpool and London.

Karen Opas

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Well forthe first time ever, | attended the BORED MEETING lastweek, and what a disappointment that tumed out to be. Watching ourGuv'nors vote on policy decisions, was about as much fun as watching wet paint dry. But they were not the only disappointment, 'mafraid some of our fellow student's arguments and points were

‘weak, and redundant

It seems the main grumble, as always, isthe in crease in tuitionfees. | for one do not find the increase Unreasonable, and secondly |find the tuition fees for the whole year quite a bargain for what | receive. | know I'm gelting a hell of a good deal; the facilities are second to none, the standard of teaching is extremely high and frankly | wouldn't want to be going to school anywhere else.A-ha, do we have a rich eltist student amongst our ranks?Nope, 'm afraid not, 'm struggling along just like the vast majoriy“ot us.How do | afford these extra expenses? Quite simple really, | work my butt off in the summer. I don’ have a student loan to help me through school, at the moment making it on my own, although ithas got quite tense at times. It doesn't thrill me to paint houses, to remove wallpaper and any other awe-inspir ing task that comes to hand. | keep doing it because it pays for my schooling,

So okay, big deal, everybody's different, we all have our crosses to bear, what's my point? | acknowl ‘edge the sincerity of hose students intheirproteststothe board. But your arguments were ineffective, you didn't speak forthe masses, and how do you really expectto be taken seriously when allaround schoolyou pinup notices saying, “Let's fire Alan Barkley.” Is he the Big Bad Wolt?Or is he the authority figure who is so easy to blame. Yes, we are absolutely rightto questionthe board, we have aright as a student body to be heard and o hear the personal opinions of the BORED. they are making policy decisions affecting ourfuture in school, itwould be nice it they were up front about it instead of the majority of the decision making happen without us being present Do they really know who they are representing? We as students are the school. Idon'think hey have a clue who we are and{or that matter do we know who we are? I you ‘are going to present evidence to support your argument then get it from a reliable source: Us. Some easy task, EH, Why not use one of the most effective communica tiondevices atour disposable, ie. IHEMIGHTY PLANET. ‘Anybody who is even slightly interested in our dearly beloved school, must read this awesome production. Maybe we can inspire a few more disciples to venture forth and speak their minds, instead of just grumbling in the background. f you don't represent the majority, they are not going to be to interested in what you have to say. Canwespeakasagroup? _ Martyn Hurst

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March 8th Computer Studies ‘Sub-Committee Meeting

Present: Ron Barron, Gary Leo-Nova, Louretta Frolek, Rick Balabuck, Ken Chamberlain (Chait)

was a discussion of a possible computer instructors

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Rick Balabuck presented a brief on access of facilties at the

‘meeting. This would be to show student work,soe what each ster s doing, and hopeuly pass ona mor integrated and Untied approach. Students may be invited. Also, the sharing of information by instructors is a good way of Ke@ping in touch with what's happening generally with computers.

Animation Club Meetings Every Monday at 12:15 in the Faculty Lounge. Everyone is

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Siggraph Meetings

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‘Students wanting to give supporto the return of Dennis Vance on staff, sond a letter fo Maurice Yacowar. We have ‘been told that Dennis and his position may be terminated. ‘Show your support and concern in writing fo the Dean.

Louretta Frolek