Trick or Treat not just for kids I So ee Ready, set, carve: Office for New Students Manager Kyle Baillie, right, and student ambassador Gavin Somers show off their pumpkin-carving skills at last year's campus Halloween celebrations. Want to give your Halloween costume a test run? The Office for New Students (ONS) invites employees to take part in Halloween celebrations being held at both campuses on Oct. 31. Staff and faculty who don a costume will get a treat and have their picture posted on the ONS Costume Wall. Prizes are being awarded for the best costumes of the day. Warm and fuzzy mascot Roary will be on hand to give out candy over lunch hour. Creative types, take note, there will be pumpkin- carving contests at noon at both campuses. Faculty and department teams should contact the ONS in advance to register (Eric Glanville at 5814 or Melody Puruganan at 6095). Prizes will be awarded for the best designs. ONS Halloween festivities take place from 9:30am- 3pm in the Atrium at David Lam Campus and in the Concourse at New Westminster Campus, under the big ONS tents. No word yet on whether ONS has any festive tricks up its sleeve. Safety News Getting a flu vaccination every year is the single most effective way of preventing the flu or reducing the severity of the flu. Studies have shown employees who have received the flu shot have decreased absenteeism in the workplace compared to their non-immunized co- workers. The best time to be immunized is October and November. The College and the Occupational Health and Safety Committees are pleased to offer employees flu shots free of charge. Make your appointment soon, quantities are limited! Email mckinleys@douglas. bc.ca or call local 5337 for an appointment. Occupational Health and New Westminster Campus Room 2212 October 21 & 22 8:30-4:15pm. October 23 8:30-12:15pm David Lam Campus First Aid Room October 28 8:30-4:15pm October 29 12:30-4:I5pm Check out the Occupational Health & Safety website: douglascollege.ca/services/ facilities/healthsafety.html | Briefly Douglas College is pleased to participate and offer employees the opportunity to purchase Canada Savings Bonds (CSB) by automatic payroll deduction. Forms are available at the Payroll office in 4002. New application or change forms must be received in the Payroll office no later than October 17. Please note, employees already enrolled in the CSB program need not complete any forms and current deductions will continue. For additional information, please contact Rosemary Small at 604-527- 5375. * The live and silent auctions at the uth annual A Class Act are a great place to start the hunt for that elusive holiday gift. From Canucks tickets to Italian pottery, a gourmet meal with firefighters and Whistler weekends, there is something for everyone. The event also features the sights and sounds of Thailand, along with wine tasting, appies and the popular chocolate fountain, served by HORM students. Tickets are $65 and proceeds from the event return to the department buying tickets or providing auction items for bursaries or equipment. Join us at this College-wide fundraiser, Friday, Oct. 24 from 7-9:30pm in the Atrium at David Lam. For information, call Tracy Green at 604-777-6176. * The Alumni Association will be hosting Marketplaces at the New Westminster Campus (Tuesday, November 4, from gam-7pm) and the David Lam Campus (Wednesday, November 5, from 9am-7pm). Vendors will be selling pottery, African art, jewellery, clothing, native art and crafts and much more. All money raised goes to support students in need. * A new website helps students decrease stress and get their homework done on time. Douglas Self Employment grad Christie Goode developed homeworktree. com with the goal of helping students preplan their readings and assignments. The site provides instant, customized homework plans that balance a student's workload throughout their semester. The site has a free trial planner that a student can use indefinitely, or for $20 per semester, the student can use the full planner to coordinate all their classes. * Single (vision) and looking for love? Come to the Vision Centre to find the right match with eyewear that’s perfect for you. Call Hanna or Wendy at 604-777-6108. . Old batteries kicking around? The Library reminds everyone that used batteries can be turned in at the library circulation counters of both campuses for safe disposal. * David Lam employees looking for something to do on Thursdays from 12:30-2pm are invited to play drop-in badminton at the Pinetree Community Centre. It’s free, it’s fun and it’s healthy. * This past summer, Criminology Instructor Heidi Currie added the role of film producer to her expertise. She and filmmaker Lisa Nielsen, are hoping Asy/um will be part of a series on the human rights of psychiatric patients in BC. In the film, nurse Norma McMurdo recollects working at Riverview Mental Hospital in Coquitlam from 1949-1951. Currie and Nielsen are currently submitting it to various festivals. See Asylum at citizen.nfb.ca/asylum. >* Michael Wilson (Earth and Environmental Sciences) is senior author of a new paleontological article in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. The article deals with Ice Age fossil bison and is entitled, “Late Pleistocene northward-dispersing Bison antiquus from the Bighill Creek Formation, Gallelli Gravel Pit, Alberta, Canada, and the fate of Bison occidentalis.” It is co- authored with Leonard V. Hills (University of Calgary) and Beth Shapiro (Penn State University) and discusses not only the fossil bones but also mitochondrial DNA recovered from an 11,300- year-old skeleton. The study is a follow-up to a fossil bison DNA study published by Shapiro, Wilson, and co- authors in Science magazine in 2004. * Margarita Sewerin, instructor in the Modern Languages Department, attended the 15th International Oral History Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico, held September 23-26, where she presented a paper on oral histories of immigrant nurses in Canada. The stories pointed to the many changes in the nurses’ language, culture and identity over the course of 15 years. * The Faculty of Child, Family and Community Studies congratulates Instructional Facilitator Susan Vincent on obtaining her Master's Degree (Education in Counselling Psychology) from the University of Victoria. * ‘The Communications and Marketing Office’s Web Production and Administration Supervisor Victoria Mitchell and husband Steve MacLean welcomed a baby girl, Samantha Krystal MacLean, ~ on Aug. 29. Little Samantha weighed in at 8lbs 1302. Tracy Green has assumed the role of Douglas College Foundation Coordinator while Sarah Lock is on maternity leave. In Finance, Hiroko Stenberg moves from auxiliary to regular as the new Accounts Receivable/Cashier, replacing Mavis Rey Fallas who has resigned. The Library welcomes Albert Ng, working circulation in the evenings at New Westminster. In the Registrar's Office, Vanessa Bailey-Smith moves from Information Services Assistant to Admissions Officer at the David Lam Campus, replacing Fran Barlow who has moved to Health Sciences as CE Program Assistant I]. Kathy Bromley replaces Vanessa as Information Services Assistant. Lori Hanley moves from auxiliary Records Assistant to permanent Admissions Officer at the New Westminster Campus, replacing Gillian Cowan who moves into the Senior Information Services Assistant role. only files to INside editor, CMO, Room 4700, New Westminster Campus; e-mail to kittelberg!@douglas.bc.ca; or call 604-527-5325. Printed by the Douglas College Printshop. i INside Douglas College is published by the Communications & Marketing Office the first Tuesday of each month. Submissions and story ideas are welcome; deadline is 10 working days before publication. Email text-