Gold on the
reens, again

ouglas College won its third consecutive
BCCAA golf championship in October,
despite a below-par performance on the
season's closing weekend in Parksville.

DC golfers held the aggregate lead by 27
strokes over the University College of the
Fraser Valley entering the final two-round
tournament at Morningstar and Fairwinds
courses on October 8 and 9. At the end of
the first day the Royals’ aggregate margin
had slipped to 17 strokes as coach Gert
Van Niekerk watched his team endure one
of its worst-ever performances. However,
the team rebounded at Fairwinds to win
the final day by seven strokes and capture
the season by 24. In individual results,
Douglas College’s Dave Townsend
finished second behind Cariboo’s Chad
Belbin in the overall aggregate for the
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@:.: Van Niekerk. In addition, the CCCT
hosted several Commerce and Business in-
structors for a series of faculty workshops
in August. One result of those sessions has
been the incorporation of a Douglas
College Business Simulation Exercise into
the CCCT curriculum.

Exchange opportunities are also being
developed with the Ministry of Education
and college system in Thailand. Douglas
College placed its first co-op student in
that country last spring when Business
student Aleen Mawji worked in a hotel in
Surat Thani. We also hosted Thai student
Thaneporn Kunchit in our ESL Program.

Last June, a College team including Bursar
Peter Greenwood, Hilary Cheung of Devel-
opmental Studies and Walter Pickering of
Marketing visited 10 of the 36 colleges in
Thailand to evaluate programs, facilities
and exchange possibilities. A

When beliefs collide

Clay, concerts and conflicts of conscious all combine to provide a fascinating selection of
arts events at the College in November.

Cultural and generational differences, pacifism and clashing concepts of "progress" are just
some of the issues explored in Anne Chislett’s Quiet in the Land, an award-winning
Canadian drama being presented November 12-20 by the Theatre Department.

Set in 1917, events follow a family in an Amish community in Southern Ontario. Jock is a
young man "who wants to join the 20th Century" by heeding Canada’s call to fight in World
War I. His father, Christy, is a community elder who honors Amish pacifist beliefs and
preaches that the war is "an unclean thing”. The confrontations that arise are inevitable.
What makes them so compelling, says director Chery! Matheson, is that the play wright
never lapses into offering easy right-wrong solutions.

"There are no bad guys in this play,” offers Matheson. "Everyone stands into their beliefs
and that is what causes the conflicts."

Quiet in the Land won the Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1982 and the Governor Gen-
eral’s Award for English Language in Drama in 1983. Performances at 8pm on November
12, 13 and 16-20, as well as two-for-one matinees on November 14 and 20. Call 527-5488
for reservations.

At the Amelia Douglas Gallery, the Clay Connection runs November 12 to December 10,
exploring the eclectic work of wife-husband artists Celia and Keith Rice-Jones. Celia, who
studied pottery and fabrics in England, creates wonderfully sculpted kitchen stoneware.
Keith draws on his background as a woodcrafter to produce boxes and sculptures from
"sheets" of hardened clay. The show’s opening reception will be held on November 16,
from 4pm-7pm.

The gallery’s current WomenSpeak Through Art show runs until November 10.

On the music scene, there will be two November concerts in the free Noon at New West
series in the Performing Arts Theatre. A Student Showcase Recital will be performed on
November 18 while The Hammerhead Consort (two pianos and percussion) from the
University of Alberta appears on Novemeber 25. Both shows begin at 12:30pm. There will
also be two 8pm jazz concerts in the Performing Arts Theatre. The Douglas College Jazz
Band and the Night Band perform on November 25; the vocal Jazz Ensemble and Dues
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Angus added that if none of the selected institutions are able to admit a student, the centre
will provide information on alternative program options. Students will also be able to use a
single province-wide publication which will list all programs at each institution.

Major impacts on Douglas College will be the need to establish electronic data links with
the Kamloops centre and to comply with standardized application dates.

To avoid any possible confusion, Angus stressed that the new centre will be responsible
only for applications. All registration procedures will remain the responsibility of individual
institutions.

In addition, not all programs will be served by the centre. Applications for programs such as
Basic Occupational Education, New Directions, Developmental Studies and others for spe-
cial needs students who are best served locally will continue to be handled by the College.
Individual institutions will also maintain responsibility for programs of six-month duration
or less.

The new Kamloops centre will be run by a non-governmental non-profit society funded by
application fees as well as initial provincial government start-up support. The agency will be
administered by an executive director reporting to an elected board representing colleges,
universities and the Ministry of Skills, Training and Labour. &