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@® Top athletes honored
Two-time All-Canadian, Vern Knopp, of
the Royals basketball team was named
Douglas College Male Athlete of the Year
for the second consecutive year at the
Athletic Awards Banquet on March 25.
CCAA badminton champ Julia Chen is
Female Athlete of the Year.

2@ Coquitlam update

Learn the latest developments in planning
for the Coquitlam campus at the next
Pinetree monthly meeting to be held at
noon on April 12 in Room 1630.

2@ Visit Accounts early
Accounts Receivable requests that college
employees who make deposits to their
accounts with the cashier in Room 4600
try to do so between 8:30am and 9:30am,
before the office opens to the public.

@® Computer for sale

For sale: 386 Turbo SX 16mhz, four megs
of ram, two floppy drives, mouse, 12-inch
VGA monitor. Includes dot-matrix printer,
software and desk set. Call 525-6306
(days) or 524-1943 (eves).

2® Harrison River getaway

For rent: luxury 32-foot trailer (sleeps four
adults) on Tapadera Estates, 1.5 hours east
of Vancouver. Adjacent to boat launch on
Harrison River. $175 per week, $85 per
weekend. Call 435-9877 or 641-5210.

@® Hornby getaway

For rent: fully equipped two-bedroom
home and renovated log cabin on Hornby
Island. Call 526-1956.

2® Sechelt getaway

For rent: a three-bedroom pan abode cabin
near Sechelt on the Sunshine Coast;
kitchen, fireplace, barbecue and canoe. $50
per night or weekly rates. Call 939-5777.

2® Pender Island getaway
For rent: cottage on secluded, 10-acre
cliff-side site on Pender Island. Fireplace
and all amenities. $300 week, $125 per
weekend. Call 527-5419.

@® Denman Island getaway
For rent: two-bedroom ocean-front cottage
on Denman Island. All facilities. $60 per
night or weekly rates. Call 925-1549.4&

Meagher scholarship established

The Douglas College Foundation will begin the Margaret Meagher Memorial Fund to
support a scholarship for students in the Dental Auxiliary Program.

Meagher, a faculty member in the Dental Auxiliary Program, died suddenly on February 5.
The scholarship in her name will be awarded to students both on the basis of need and GPA
performance, said Foundation Director Mark Crozet.

All contributions are tax deductible and become tripled through matching funds from the
College and provincial government. For more information visit the Foundation office near
the Performing Arts Theatre or call Mark Crozet at 5359.

Family sends thanks

Upon their return to New Zealand, Margaret Meagher’s sisters, Beverley and Patricia, sent
the following letter to Douglas College faculty, staff and students.

"We write to thank you for your expressions of sympathy, support and assistance
given by you to the family over Margaret’s sudden death.

We appreciated the opportunity of meeting Margaret’s students and colleagues
while we were in Vancouver and having the opportunity of being able to talk with
you about Margaret and her life in Vancouver.

We consider that Margaret was privileged to have been given the opportunity to
teach and to work with people committed to higher education.

Your messages and thoughts were much appreciated and we thank you all."&

EEE Tr

 

Integrated program probes environment

It really seems to be an idea whose time has come. This summer, students will be able to ex-
plore environmental issues through a variety of disciplines while also earning nine
university transfer credits.

Integrated Studies on the Environment is the first project of its kind at Douglas College. Stu-
dents must register in three courses in English, Philosophy and Geography which instructors
have designed to contain complementary material and assignments.

"T received a grant from the provincial Centre for Curriculum and Professional Development
to work on an integrated studies project. Given the current interest in environmental studies
we decided to start with this area," said Chair of English and Communications, Lorna
McCallum, who is organizing the project.

McCallum added a followup report will be prepared this fall with recommendations for fu-
ture projects of this kind.

Courses involved this summer will be: English 102, Major Themes in Literature: The Envi-
ronment; Geography 130, Human Impact on the Environment; and Philosophy 102, Values
and Contemporary Issues: The Environment.

In the English component, taught by Trish Matson, students will explore environmental
themes in prose and poetry. Readings will include Ernest Hemmingway’s The Old Man and
the Sea, Turtle Diary by Russell Hogan, Selected Poems by Margaret Atwood, and Sisters of
the Earth, an anthology by women writers.

Bob Fahrnkopf’s Philosophy course will begin with an overview of ethical theory before
concentrating on environmental ethics, with emphasis on animals and wilderness. Geogra-
phy’s Katrina Erdos will utilize Andrew Goudie’s Human Impact on the Environment as her
principal text. All three instructors will employ Melissa Walker’s Reading the

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