DOUGLAS COLLEGE ARCHIVES

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welfare over this next school year.

The College Board will remember that we have been carrying out a review of administrative processes within the college, that has involved a de- tailed survey of all employees and many students, The Chairman of the steering Committee, Ms. Sue Skinner informs me that the final report will be tabled with me at or before the end of July. I eee to have anal- oar the report and_be in a position O announce intended actions and re- sponses to the report by the end of September.

The first formal retirement luncheon and reception, pursuant to the ROhce approved by the Board at their last pEetind! occurred yesterday, June 20. The afternoon was well organized, and and entirely pleasurable event.

W.L. Day

Study of Urban Lake

For four students of Douglas Col- Sete biology program, getting in- volved in thé community translates into conducting a three month study OE ie ecosystem in Burnaby's Deer ake.

Funced by a $20,000 grant under the federal government's Environment 2000 Pro decks the students will be working with two fisheries biologists to peody the populations and feeding habits of the fish and other lifé- Porms| Lognd in thepopular recreation- a ake.

The college waited three months for approval of the project and later learned that it was one of only forty-five applications approved out of four hundred and thirty presented from B.C. and the Yukon.

Val Schaefer, a peoneay instructor at Douglas who helped make the proposal. for the study, gives credit for the projects approval to Randi Duke, Com- munity Resource peve Topuent Officer at Douglas, and Svend Robinson , the aoe eee of Parliament for Burnaby outh.

"This is not your boring routine | sampling these students will be work- ing on," Schaefer says "This is

really interesting s uff, and when

when the students do pursue a car- eer after school, actual research like this counts very heavily ona resume."

The work will centre around count- ing the populations of the fish, plankton, plants and mammals in what was once a polluted urban lake. The students will also be researching the seasonal changes

in the laké's populations.

Another meee part of the research will be a detailed study of the food chain in Deer Lake and the. way the run-off from ee yes dences affects this, Schaefer says.

Deer Lake is currently over~-fertil- ized and the students will be pre- per ing a list of recommendations

or Burnaby's municipal planners for where run-off from future dev- elopments should or shouldn't be allowed, he says.

The study will be instrumental in Snoue aus Deer Lake remains the community gem it now is and does- n't turn into a community eyesore, Schaefer says.

Admin. Review Committee Report

We wish to inform all College per sonnel that the due date for the final report of the Administrative Réview Committee has been resched- uled to July 31, 1984. We regret that this delay has been necessary.

This, of course, means that the contents of this document should not _be expected to be made public by Bill pay until the end of Sept- ember, 1984.

We wish to take this opportunity to thank all personnel for their valuable input and tremendous sup- port during the last six months.

Administrative Review Committee