Events Calendar All events take place at the New Westminster Campus unless noted. Admission: $15 ($12 students/seniors) April 21 to May 26 The Amelia Douglas Gallery presents Barbara Boldt, Paintings and Judy Burke, Ceramics Opening reception April 21, 4-7:30pm For Gallery times, call 604-527-5465 April 24 An Evening with Streetnoize Vancouver Community College and Vancouver Playhouse, 5-9pm. The event is a fund-raiser in support of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Vancouver Drug Addiction Programs and Westminster Women's Recovery House. Food and drink will be served in the VCC foyer, accompanied by the hip sounds of Lesismore. At about 7pm, the event cont'd page 4 President's Writing Contest on Diversity Winners Lubna Auntie and the Monkey by Sajia Kabir In their own Writ CE ae a My mother grew up in Old Dhaka in a yellow house with shuttered windows. A veranda engirdled the house and trees engirdled the veranda. Lubna Auntie was learning how to crawl, practising for the grown-ups’ applause when a monkey appeared in the doorway (this was before all our city simians were exported to America). The monkey jumped on the palm-leaf mat, swept aside the thin quilt and snatched Lubna, who forgot to cry. Ina parallel universe my aunt learnt how to eat mangoes with their skins on, and became innoculated against vertigo, and when the monkey catchers discovered her and tried to return her via an orphanage’s rules to civilization, she walked with a slight stoop and kept scratching at her clothes. In this world, my grandmother shooed the monkey away and got her seventh child back. My aunt’s a respectable teacher now with a husband and two little children. Succinct to the Point of Obscurity by Vanessa Castro CANSIM keeps you up to date Did you use CANSIM (Canadian Socio- economic Information Management System) in graduate school? You still have access to it, but it is an Internet service and is approached differently. The CANSIM data in E- STAT are updated once a I do not believe that I would ever be able to fully express that third part of who I am cultur- ally, socially. There seems to me to be too many factors that have influ- enced who I am. Ultimately, if someone year during the summer months and are free to registered educational institutions. Connect to E-STAT and CANSIM by entering the following address: http://0-estat.statcan. ca.innopac.douglas. be.ca or by following this path from the Douglas College Library homepage http://library. douglas.be.ca: Resources by Subject | Statistics | Canada | CANSIM. rT I looked forward to visiting the country where I stepped into the world. The land where I learnt to crawl, said my first words and grew my first tooth. I wanted to leave. Winners of the President's Writing Contest on Diversity 2005 received their awards on Monday, March 21 -- the International Day for the Elimination of Racism. Back row (left to right): Andrew Akomas, Brent Morley, Vince Yim, Jessie Jakumeit. Front row (left to right): Vanessa Castro, Alina Smolyansky, Sajia Kabir, Ruth Sands and Loyda Arneson. e: excerpts from Diversity 2005 Who Am I? by Andrew Chima Akomas Here they'd often poke My Nose, saying they haven't seen one like mine. Mimics of my voice and tone randomly occur, with jokes and laughter. Unnecessary stares won't leave me alone. I left Nigeria; the land of my fathers. I left with tears and laughter. The light clothing that came along now hides in my last drawer. Clothes of wool, double thickness and fur overload myc loset. I stare at these two long sticks neatly lying by my plate of food. I wonder how I'll use such big toothpicks; then I decide to break them into smaller pieces. Don't blame me for pouring cream into ice tea. Tea needs cream and sugar. Doesn’t it? Stop looking at me like ?'m a bush man. And why do those elders take No offence when I address ‘Them by their first names? were to ask for my one- worded answer to that loaded question, | would skip my three-pronged answer and say, “Canadian.” It seems to be the word that could potentially encompass my Filipino upbringing, my For those who are new to CANSIM, it is database of time series grouped in tables. A time series consists of a number of observations for a given subject at regular intervals. For example, the population of Canada is recorded at quarterly intervals (every three months) for over a period of several years, whereas the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is tracked on a monthly basis. In Euro-centric education, and my multilingualism. To be Canadian, really, is to be potentially any number of things culturally. And any number of things culturally, in effect, is what I am. contrast, the Census is a “snapshot” of data at one specific point in time, taken every five Veats. Tables are grouped under such headings as Health and Social Conditions, Finance, Justice, Prices and Price Indexes, Education and Culture. Users are able to track trends in virtually every aspect of Canadian life. A complete directory of the tables is available as a aa Nine Douglas College students have been awarded prizes in the fifth annual President’s Writing Contest on Diversity, presented by President Susan Witter during a reception on Monday, March 21 — the International Day for the Elimination of Racism. The contest provides students with an opportunity to share their thoughts and experiences of diversity with the greater College commu- nity, have their writing published in booklet form and win prizes of books and book certificates. “The stories are quite wonderful,” said Witter. “| know for some of you it probably took a lot of courage to put your work into print.” ‘The nine winners wrote stories, poetry and personal essays on themes of gender, ethnicity and cultural diversity. DC Board Scholarship Winners: a ‘This year’s winners are: e Andrew Chima Akomas, Who Am I? ¢ Loyda Arneson, What Diversity Means to Me e Vanessa Castro, Succinct to the Point of Obscurity @ Jessie M. Jakumeit, My Mother and My Oppa @ Sajia Kabir, Lubna Auntie and the Monkey @ Sajia Kabir, Nanabhai e Sajia Kabir, Sa/war Kameez e Brent Morley, My black History e Ruth Sands, Ashley's Family e Alina Smolyansky, 7he Fifth Line e Vince Yim, “Jam...” Submissions were adjudicated by a cross- college committee organized by Lorna McCallum, Dean of Language, Literature and Performing Arts. £ | President Susan Witter and Board Chair Diana Miles pose with winners of the Douglas College Board Scholarships. The scholarships are given to students on the Dean's List demonstrating excellence in their studies. Front row, from left to right: Kelly Kompelien, Psychiatric Nursing Diploma Program; Yasaman Mahboudi, General Studies Diploma Program; David Lindberg, Associate of Science Degree Program; Not pictured, Amy Venables, Psychiatric Nursing Advanced Diploma Program. Chui Ling Ang, Early Childhood Education University Transfer Program was the winner of the Douglas College Faculty Association Award. pdf document on the CANSIM page under the image labeled CANSIM Directory. Printouts of this 86-page document are available at the Information Desks at each campus library. For off-campus access to the library’s subscription databases an employee must have a valid Douglas College identifi- cation card and the barcode from that card must be in the Library’s database. If you are having trouble con- necting, call the circula- tion desks at 604-527-5568 or 604- 777-6130 to check that your barcode is active. Alternatively, contact Jean Cockburn, Electronic Resources Librarian, at cochburnj@douglas.be.ca or 604-527-5184 to see if a password is required for off-campus use.