Sports

FINGERTIPS JUST FAIL IN BADMINTON
CLIFF HANGER

The Douglas College Badminton
Team , host to Junior College play at
Pearson Gym, New West Senior Secondary,
last weekend thrashed away valiantly
for twenty-five matches before succumb-
ing to Vancouver Community College,
Langara, in the final encounter of the
day.

There were two notable sur-
prises, the first being in Men's
Doubles play which we have won stead-
ily of late with the strong performances
of Bob Johnson and Terry Beitel.
However, Bob Johnson was tied to a
ski instruction commitment for the day,
so Ray Wong and Nigel Bowman literally
flew in and swept all their games.

Terry Beitel teamed up with
Wenche Stomperud in the mixed doubles
and all but unseated VCC's Four-West
Province's Champions Robyn Rencher and
Mike Lando.

Buryl Palmer, who hails from
Graphics and White Rock, scored easily
in Ladies' Singles.

Brad Pape played an excellent
game and came in second behind Zahir
Pirani of VCC, the scores for their
encounter being 10-15 and 15-18.

IF THERE ARE ANY FACULTY,
STAFF, STUDENTS INTERESTED IN BEING
A BADMINTONEER PLEASE CONTACT ROBIN :
RYAN AT 588-4411, extension 211, OR
HOME at 530-0118. WE ARE IN NEED OF
WOMEN PLAYERS.

 

Playwright Sharon Pollock will

be on the New Westminster campus in
room 701 on Friday, Feb. 6 from 12
noon to 2 p.m. to talk about her
currently-running play, The Komagata
Maru Incident.

Ms. Pollock also teaches an

evening course at the college on play-
writing and she has been commissioned
by Douglas to write a play which will
be produced at the end of March.

Everyone is invited to her talk.
--Dorothy Jones

 

POETRY READING:
DOROTHY LIVESAY

Dorothy Livesay, who has:
been called the "grande dame of
Canadian letters," will give a
reading from her works Monday,
February 16, at the Surrey campus,
Room 415, at 10:00 am.

Ms. Livesay's first volume
of poetry, Green Pitcher, was
published in 199%, and since then
she has been a powerful force, in
Canadian poetry, both through her
own writings and through her in-
fluence on younger authors. Her
volume Day and Night won the Gov-
ernor-General's Award in 1944, and,
in 1948, for her general contrib-
ution to Canadian letters, she
received the Lorne Pierce Medal
from the Royal Society of Canada.

Her Collected Poems have
recently been published, to con-
siderable critical acclaim. At
present, she is writer-in-residence
at the University of Winnipeg,
where she edits CV II, a journal
of poetry and poetry criticism.

: Anyone interested in Ms.
Livesay's reading is urge’ to
attend.

 

TO: All Faculty
RE: Students with Vocabulary
and/or Spelling Problems

VOCABULARY AND SPELLING DEVELOPMENT

Non-credit 4 session course
Thurs., Feb. 12,19,26 & Mar. 4

7-10 p.m. Rm. S601B

A course designed to enable students
to diagnose their strengths and
weaknesses and to set goals for the
improvement of vocabulary and/or
spelling problems. Word attack skills
and using context clues will be
discussed. Rules and tricks to help
remember correct spelling will be
suggested.
If you see students you think would
benefit from this course, please
suggest they contact Sandra Carpenter
before Feb. 9 as enrolment =will be
limited. 3