The Other Press Have a heart The person across the restaurant table suddently grasps his chest, breathing heavily, with his face turning bright red. Your first assumption is ‘‘heart attack’’. Do you know what to do? February 22 to March 1 is CPR Week at Douglas, and program coordinator Gerry Murphy is bringing back the popular two-session program, the CPR Heart Saver. Over 15,000 people have taken Cardiopulmonary Resusci- tation training at the New Westminster campus, and the number of lives saved as a result are nearly impossible to calculate, says Murphy. ‘We are working with other community groups to creeate an awareness of heart disease,’’ she says. ‘‘If the course helps just one person, we know we’re doing our job.’’ A ‘‘Heart saver’’ certificate will be awarded to all students who successfully complete both sessions. Session one classes are offered at 9:00-10:30am, 11:00-12:30pm, and 1:00-3:30pm on Saturday, February 22, and at 7:00 pm each weekday until February 28. The Saturday, March 1 class is 9:00-10:30 am. All session one classes on Signals of a heart attack are offered free of charge during Douglas College’s CPR Week. The session two course, Action, costs $10. For course times and registration info call 520-5472. Duck out to Peking Douglas College has been offered a student exchange with institutions in Beijing and Shanghai. they have identified students who would like to spend one year here learning English. They are looking for students interested in spending one year learning Chinese. If you are interested, contact Gordon Gilgan, Loc. 4906, or drop him a note indicating your background, and a telephone number. Babes in the woods An information seminar on Tree Planting in British Columbia will be given to interested students of Douglas College at 12:00 noon, Thursday, February 20 in room 3408. The forum, presented by the Pacific Reforestation Workers (PRWA), will familiarize students with the ins and outs of the treeplanting business, and help prospective tree [Planters make informal choices on where, and with whom, to accept employment. The seminar will include a slide show, equipment display, short lecture and a question and answer period. A similar session last spring attracted about 25 Douglas College students. “Hundreds of students are recruited for treeplanting from B.C. universities and colleges each year,’’ says Leslie Hamilton of PRWA. ‘‘It can be a great job. Unfortunately, a lot of them fall prey to cut-rate employers on the look out for inexperienced and easily exploited young people. For example, in 1984, the PRWA was approached by a group of students from UVic who were hired by a large contracting firm in Prince George. Among the equipment they were instructed to provide, inciuding vehicles and cooking utensils, was a ‘‘backrack’’ for bringing boxes of trees into sites with no road access. The students did not even know where ‘‘backracks’’ could be obtained, Hamilton says. Any respectable contractor will also provide treeplanters with transportation, a proper camp and hot meals. “We advised the students that any job requiring inexper- ienced planters to be packing tree boxes around on their backs is probably not a job worth taking.”’ The PRWA strongly urges anyone interested in seeking employment in treeplanting this summer to attend this special seminar. Ways of obtaining treeplanting work, and income expectations will also be outlined. “‘In this business, a little bit of savvy can make the difference between a lucrative job and a dead loss,’”’ Hamilton says. Treeplanting in British Columbia will be presented at 12:00 noon, Thursday, February 20 in room 3408 of the New Westminster campus. For more information, contact the PRWA at 681-5295. Everett e counselr pports the | roup Advising The Group Advising Ses- sions that are offered by Douglas College are of vital importance to the student that by COLIN McKEOWN wishes to start off on the right foot in the competetive world of post-secondary education. All| new or __ prospective students are required to attend a Group Advising Ses- sion for the particular pro- gram they are entering. For those students _currently attending the College who are planning a program change, attendance at the appro- priate Group Advising Session is highly recom- mended. The sessions are held on a revolving schedule. This method allows the student to attend the session which best suits their schedule. The majority of the sessions are held in the mornings and afternoons and some evening sessions are available for business, nursing, social serv- ices, special education, and music programs (the latter two are held in the even- ings due to accommodate those students who work dur- ing the day). Any student wishing to inquire about up- coming sessions may phone the Student Services Depart- ment at 520-5486 or view the posted schedule (on the win- dows and ‘‘sandwich board’’ outside of the Department, Room 2760 on the second level of the main concourse. The sessions offer a comprehensive introduction to the programs and the College in general. The Education Planners will familiarize the students with such areas as prerequisites, admission re- quirements, threshold testing (ie Reading, Writing, and Math Tests(, specific pro- gram testing (eg. Nursing) and perhaps, most impor- tantly, | courseload.Students “Keith Wilson, newly elected (ok, two weeks ago) will also be exposed to time- table structure, (not setting up timetables, as students must peform this task on their own) interpretation of credits and fees and the structure and resources of the Student Society and facilities of the College. These two hou hour information-packed ses- sions are well the time anc effort required to attend, Kevin MacDonald Photo University Transfer rep on the Douglas College Student senate