| bd ; wT Douglas College Wrap Up By Matthew Steinbach, News Editor Wash your hands Meredith Pinlac, Melodie Luneza, and Ryan” Liang are raising awareness about hand sanitization stations at Douglas College. They are petitioning Douglas College to install hand sanitization stations at locations across Douglas College. They explained that most people just wash their hands after eating and that hand sanitization stations would be an easy way to encourage hand washing on the way to a class. This initiative is a part of Health Promotion Class that The Other Press reported on last week. The program is ; about finding something unhealthy within the College community and developing awareness about the issue on campus. DSU election taking place this week The Douglas Students’ Union is holding its elections this week. Platforms and other candidates’ information will be available at polling booths in the concourse and atrium, j The DSU has a budget of roughly $750 000, ; which is students money paid in student fees to the college. Students are electing representatives to oversee that budget. Eco-friendly transit initiatives come to New West By Shaylee Pérez, Staff Reporter ew Westminster transportation is receiving a Ne= boost from the Government of Canada this year. The new ecoMOBILITY program as seen already in Alberta, New Brunswick and Ontario will deliver a round of funding and advertising to influence a change in commuter behaviour from personal vehicle use towards greener methods, such as public transportation, car-pooling, bicycling or walking. The ecoMOBILITY program encourages the development of local environmentally friendly transportation methods by funding municipal projects that support this goal. The first round of these projects, which began this year, totalled nearly $3 million in funding from the government. Proposals for the second batch of subsidizing will be accepted until May 1", 2009. The ecoMOBILITY program will incorporate two methods in tandem in order to reduce sulphur oxides, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, ammonia and greenhouse gases. The program will develop local public transit and increase the use of public transit and other alternatives to personal vehicle use while promoting the decrease of private transportation. New Westminster will receive up to $120,000 to promote Safe Routes to School for nine elementary schools, create a new coordinator position to implement the new transport initiatives and other campaigns, and to decrease the personal vehicle use of municipal employees and those employed by New West’s four largest employers. “Our government is committed to investing in infrastructure and greener transportation alternatives for Canadians,” said The Honourable John Baird, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities. “Projects like these will deliver results for the environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and will help to better move people and goods, which is good for the economy as well.” | Cut-a-thon at David Lam to raise money for student bursaries By Shaylee Pérez, Staff Reporter _for services offered by the Centre of he Cut-a-thon to raise money for student aid returns to David Lam campus Monday Attention, and product gift baskets. Students can sign up for a haircut the day of the Cut-a-thon, on a schedule available in the atrium. It is best if hair March 30" with Centre of Attention Hair & Esthetics. Four stylists will be available in the atrium at the Coquitlam campus of Douglas College from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., doing free dry haircuts at fifteen minute intervals each. The haircuts are a minimum donation of $10 and 100 per cent of the proceeds go straight into the bursaries for financial aid. The bursaries are distributed to students on the basis of financial need. “We will be doing dry haircuts by stylists who know how to do so as there is a skill to it. We are encouraging students and faculty to come and donate for even things such as a fringe trim. Sometimes just getting a new fringe can change a look completely!” Said Kei Mamiya, senior stylist at the Centre of Attention. All those who receive a haircut will also receive fifty percent off their next haircut at the Centre of Attention. There will be prizes and draws taking place during this time worth over $600 in total. Prizes include gift certificates is clean. Though the Cut-a-thon took place two years ago under a different salon, they were unable to hold the event last year. A staff member of Douglas College, also a long-time client of the Centre of Attention Hair & Esthetics saw an opportunity for this year and asked them to get involved. The salon said they have received a lot of support from the community, and have been asked to do other events as a result. “I’m sure this event will continue through the coming years and we would love to stay involved and see it grow. We would love to reach out to other shops to join in this mission and have some fun with it. Maybe some sort of competition to see who could raise the most as teams in a friendly environment,” Mamiya said. The stylists, who donated their time and expertise to support the students of Douglas College are Adrianne Konings, Kei Mamiya, Melissa Hieber, and Shannon Ingram.