Events Calendar All events take place at the New Westminster Campus unless otherwise noted. Jan 8 to Feb 10 The Amelia Douglas Gallery presents Nuu-Chah-Nulth art Reception: Jan 9, 4-7pm Gallery times: 604-527-5465 January 9 Noon at New West: Duo Saraste Angela Cavadas, violin Michael Strutt, guitar 12:30pm, Performing Arts Theatre January 16 Noon at New West: Piano Music from Amadeus Mozart to Alexina Louie lan Parker, piano 12:30pm, Performing Arts Theatre January 22 Literature Alive: Timothy Taylor, short story writer and novelist 7pm, Room 1809 January 23 Noon at New West: Kokoro Dance: Chiaroscuro 12:30pm, Performing Arts Theatre January 30 Noon at New West presents A Little Night Band Music: Jazz and Contemporary Arrangements Douglas College Little Night Band Blair Fisher, Director 12:30pm, Performing Arts Theatre Psych department hosts eating disorders seminar The College community and general public are invited to attend the Psychology Department's fourth annual Eating Disorder Awareness Seminar, February 4. Susan Tishler, MA, RCC, will return as a special guest speaker for this event. She works as a child, youth, and family therapist for the Ministry of Children and Family Development within the Tri-Cities. Tishler will speak about eating disorders and their effects on teenage girls and boys. A number of her clients will be coming to speak about their personal issues and battles with eating disorders. A question and answer period will follow the presentation. Handouts and other informational items will also be available. Wilson has rocky ed leave Geology instructor Michael Wilson was on educational leave during the 2002 Winter Semester. During his leave, Wilson undertook research relating to human activities and landscape change, the idea of wilderness, paleoenvironmental change, and vertebrate paleontology. In the past year he presented papers at Briefly The Douglas College Foundation and the general management team from the Hotel and Restaurant Management Program want to thank everyone who attended and supported A Class Act 2002. Four hundred tickets were sold and over $26,000 was generated, with partial proceeds going to student aid. Thank you for your wonderful support. Following last year’s highly popular fundraiser, Event magazine is planning to hold another Used Book Sale during Fundraising Week, February 24-28, 2003. Books can be dropped off any time between 9am-4 pm, Monday to Friday at the LLPA Fieldbase, room 3308A or Event's office, room 3322, both at the New Westminster Campus. * six conferences, bringing Douglas College research to a variety of audiences in international venues including the Geological Society of America (GSA), Rocky Mountain Section annual meeting in Cedar City, Utah; the Transatlantic Studies Association inaugural conference in Dundee, Scotland; and the Philosophy instructor Leonard Angel's article Mystical Naturalism was published by Cambridge University Press’ Religious Studies Journal vol 38, 2002. It shows how straightforward physics supports mysticism. Also, in the current issue of Skeptic magazine, Angel has an article on the empirical evidence for reincarnation, entitled Reincarnation All Over Again. November’s 50/50 winner is Ron Fournier from the Print Shop. Ron takes home $707 and student aid increases by $707. * Education Council has a new student representative. Steve Gadsby joins the council, representing Thomas Haney Centre. * Janice Penner’s Listening and Speaking ESL class students thank all of you who supported their third Instructors are encouraged to bring their classes to this seminar; please contact Gerry Gramozis in advance to arrange seating. This free event takes place February 4, 7-9pm in room B2270 at the David Lam Campus. For more information, contact Gerry Gramozis at 604-527- 5508 or by e-mail at Gerry_Gramozis@douglas.bc.ca. Maastricht Centre Conference on Transatlantic Studies, in Maastricht, the Netherlands. At the GSA conference, Wilson also attended business meetings for the Paleontological Society and was elected as Chair of the Rocky Mouniain Section of the Society. annual fundraising project for the Immigrant Social Services Refugee Children’s Christmas party. Through bake sales, donations anda party, you helped them raise $520 for the 800 newly arrived refugee guests at the party held on December 5. * Spend an evening out with Linda Villarreal, ESL instructor and singer- songwriter and Michael Dunn, husband of the Library’s AV Supervisor Eleanore Dunn and past College guitar-making instructor. They'll be performing at the Thursday Nite Live Coffee House Series, January 23, 7:30-9pm at the West Point Grey Community Centre at Abertheau, 4397 West Second Street, Vancouver. Call 604-257- 8140 for more information. Tickets can be purchased at the door. The spirit of the holidays Each year, the Financial Aid office matches student families who need a little extra help with College employees who provide food and gift hampers. This year, 39 student families (including 76 children) received hampers. “Students were overwhelmed by the generosity of the College community,” says Patty Lewis, Financial Aid Officer. Letters received by Financial Aid expressed what the gifts really mean to these families: “These Christmas gifts are a message for my children about the spirit of giving. I wanted my kids to remember later in their lives that these gifis came from people we didn't know. I hope that my children will do the same for others.” “As soon as we are able, we will pass forward the help that has so kindly been passed to us.” College Library acquires new literary databases Three new literary databases are available in the Library: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. “We have discontinued the print subscriptions for these three products in favour of the on-line versions, but will retain past print volumes at both libraries for the time being,” says Jean Music instructor Eric Hannan has been in the spotlight since taking leadership of the Vancouver Cantata Singers last Fall. Glowing reviews in the Vancouver Sun and Georgia Straight noted that “the choir’s leadership decision was a good bet, and the ensemble has retained all its strength of character” with the Sun’s headline stating “Cantata Singers rebound under Hannan.” Congratulations, Eric! * Centre 2000’s Self- Employment Program has won a NETWERCC (Networking, Education and Training for Workers in Employment, Rehabilitation and Career Counselling) NETTY award for Project of the Year. The award honours a program or service that is particularly innovative and exceptionally successful in achieving measurable client Cockburn, Electronic Resources Librarian. The Contemporary Authors on-line version has every word of all the print volumes and will be updated regularly. Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select is called “select” because in some cases critics did not allow copyright clearance for their work to be reproduced electronically. outcomes. This is the second year in a row that the Self-Employment Program has won the award. Congratulations! * Friday, January 24 is Post- Secondary Day for High School Counsellors, hosted by Douglas College at the David Lam Campus. Organized and hosted by the College’s Academic Advisors, this event provides an excellent opportunity for high school counsellors from the College’s region to gather information updates from post-secondary institutions. Admissions representatives will have displays in the Atrium. Reminders from LLPA: The submission deadline for the third annual President’s Writing Contest on Diversity for students is February 24. Students are asked to submit an essay or a creative work on the The easiest way to find the databases is to go the Library Web page, and then choose either Resources by Subject, English Literature, or Electronic References and make your selection from the Key Links on the left. Comments or questions can be directed to Jean_Cockburn@douglas.be.ca or 604-527-5184. subject of diversity. Applications are available in the Library at the New Westminster and David Lam Campuses. Also, don’t forget to submit your artwork for the In House Arts and Crafts Show, the employee art show opening on PD Day, February 12. Deadline for submissions is January 31; works in any medium welcome. For more information, please call 604-527-5465. * Employee Relations will continue to be open on Thursdays at the David Lam Campus for the Winter semester. They are located in room B3045 and can be reached at 604-777-6170. * Pat Carter moves from auxiliary to Regular as Records Assistant in the Office of the Registrar replacing Marilyn Oliver who has resigned. * INside Douglas College is published by the Communications & Marketing Office the first Tuesday of each month. Submissions and story ideas are welcome; deadline is 10 working days before publication. Send text-only files to INside editor, CMO, Room 4700, New Westminster Campus; email to winterst@douglas.bc.ca; or call 527-5325. Printed by the Douglas College Printshop.