VVINSIDER: VOLUME?: NUMBER IS: AUGUST 28,1989
Editor and Chief Cartoonist: Jackie Gelling (local 237)

WHO'S NEW AT V.V.L
SOPHY ZHEUG has joined the Business Department as an Instructional Assistant - Computer Facilities.
Welcome to VVI Sophy!

SO LONG ITS BEEN GOOD TO KNOW YOU DEPARTMENT...
Rea Devakos, our Library correspondent, advises us that SHEILA SINGH is leaving to take a position with
International Education as a Program Assistant. Congratulations Sheila we wish you luck in your new job

and will miss you at VVI.

WERE YOU WONDERING WHAT THE NOISE, SMELL, AND DUST WAS ALL ABOUT?
HANS RERUP tells us that the building permits have been obtained for Phase I and Phase II of the
construction and that the Ministry of Advanced Education and Job Training has agreed to a project budget
of $8,583,000. this includes $300,000 for seismic upgrading. Bids have been received for Phase II and for
all kitchen equipment.
The asbestos in the second level hallway and in the boiler in the former steam lab has been removed. The
removal of the floor in the Meat Processing area is now complete. Shear walls are being installed in the old
machine shop area, the Building Service Worker area, and the area for the new Baking Labs. Demolition

of the fourth floor Bake Shop will begin shortly.
The Sausage Making Program is expected to start at VVI on October 02. The Meat Processing programs

will start on November 20. The Baking Programs will start January 02,1990 and the Cooking programs will
start sometime in March 1990.
The four-party agreement between VVI and BCIT faculty, after twelve months of negotiations, has now
been signed.

K1NCOUI/ER
COMMUNITY
Vocational Institute

SPEAKING OF THE CONSTRUCTION...
GEORGE CLARK has asked us to warn people not to enter the areas that are marked with either No Entry
signs, or Danger signs, or any other sign that might indicate that you shouldn't go there. George reminds
us that the construction area is a hazardous zone and is not to be used as a thoroughfare.

THINKING ABOUT CHANGING JOBS DEPARTMENT...
The following positions are open for applications. Submit resumes to the VCC Employee Relations
Department.

1. DEPARTMENT HEAD : ESL Outreach Department - KEC
Closing Date: 1989 September 15

2. TERM LIBRARY ASSISTANT I - LANGARA
Closing Date: August 31, 1989

3. PROGRAM ASSISTANT I - KEC
Closing Date: August 31,1989

MORE LIBRARY NEWS
The Library has written to ask that we remind you to book Library tours and classes as soon as possible. EVA
SHARELL or RE A DEVAKOS will be happy to tailer tours or classes to your particular instructional needs
- Just give them a call.
The following are the final words from the "Instructors' Guide to the Library", if you need to know anything

more about the Library just give them a call.
The Library subscribes to approximately 300 magazines, journals, and newspapers. Selection of periodi¬
cals is based on instructor and student use. Although funds are limited, the Library invites you to suggest
titles for new subscriptions.

Y ou may read periodicals in the library or sign them out. If you would like a periodical routed to you, please
give them a call and they will add your name to the routing slip. The library does warn, however, that a

limited number of titles cannot be routed because of high demand.
The Library also notes that they would appreciate any gifts: new editions, classics, and current, relevant
materials are always welcome. Tax receipts for donations valued over $25.00 are available.

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The following is a reprint from a Globe and Mail Financial Report article:

I'M YOUR SURGEON, DR. HARDY, AND THIS IS DR. LAUREL
Patients wheeled into an operating room are not the only ones who are taking a risk just by showing up. A
trio of doctors - two surgeons and an anesthetist in Britain, hearing about numerous mishaps among their
colleagues, surveyed hundreds of fellow sawbones and harvested a large anthology ofklutzdom, which they
summarized in The British Medical Journal.
As well as frequently crushing their feet with buckets of plaster or traction weights, orthopedic surgeons
often perforate themselves or each other;
one energetic medic, laboring to put a

pin in a patient's leg, joined the limb to
his assistant's hand. In another case, a

senior staff member was shived when he
moved up for a closer look while a junior
doctor was finishing a slice with a fluorish.
One surgeon was reportedly about to
start work when a mouse skittered across
the floor of his operating theatre, spook¬
ing the nursing staff. The patient, who
had been given only a spinal anesthetic,
sat up an shouted: "There it is!" After the mouse was taken into custody, the surgeon returned to the
operating table, walking directly into a low-handing overhead light. He dropped to the floor.
The researchers conclude that their specialty is "extremely hazardous". Although they praise the example
of a collegue who stopped having accidents when he finally got himself a pair of glasses, they tell surgeons
that the best safety measure is to delegate the rough stuff to assistants. Or, there's always the chance
vaudeville will return.

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