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VVINSIDER : VOLUME 4 : NUMBER 18 : JULY 04, 1986
CAMPUS HOURS
Please note that the cafeteria and bake shop food services are no longer

available on Saturdays and that as of July 19th, there will be no more
Saturday classes for the summer!

LG

HEALTH SERVICES
Dr. Burns is away on vacation and Dr. Norman Hogg will be filling in for him.

Dr. Hogg will be here on Thursday, July 10 and Thursday July 17!

PS

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

The caption on the
card reads:
"Welcome to the

Dirty Thirties"!

QUOTE OF THE WEEK
The future is the past returning through another gate!

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COMMUNITY
Vancouver

Vocational Institute

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NEWS FROM THE COLLEGE BOARD
* The following meetings will be held, at the Central Administration
offices, during the month of July.
- Education and Student Services Committee July 9 at 16:30

- Administration Committee July 15 at 16:00
- College Board July 23 at 19:00.

* The Ministry of Post-Secondary Education has approved planning funds of
$300,000 for a $4,000,000 Renovation Project for Langara.
* VCC has received $60,000 for the Hospitality and Tourism Centre
Feasibility study at VVI.
* VCC has received $307,000 Operating Capital for equipment in 1986/87.
* VCC has received $240,000 in support of its Small Business Centres, of
which VVI will be receiving its share for the work being done by Dr.
Janine Huot.

* The amended 1986/87 Program Profile for VCC (and VVI) has been approved by
the College Board. This includes the 6% reduction in the Vocational and
Adult Basic Education Programs for VCC. The College Board has approved
the VCC Expense Plan for 1986/87 in the amount of $47,072,900 and a
one-time expenditure of $910,000. The VVI has received approval of its
Expense Plan in the amount of $10,123,729.
* VVI will be preparing an analysis and report on its equipment needs, on a
department by department basis. This report will be used to access the
limited operating capital dollars for urgently required equipment.

MEDIA FESTIVAL
In conjunction with the October 1986 Pacific Instructional Media Association
conference in Victoria, awards will be presented for excellence in the
production of instructional media materials. There will also be a showcase of
the winning entries at the conference.

Entries will be accepted in the following categories:
16mm (open reel), super 8mm (open reel), videotapes (1/2" or 3/4" cassette)
sound/fiImstrip (audio cassette), single tray sound/slide (audio cassette)
dissolve sound/slide (audio cassette)
Contact Mikki Herbold, Winslow Centre, 1100 B Winslow Ave, Coquitlam, V3J 2G3,
or call 936-0491.

Province of
British Columbia

Ministry of
Post-Secondary

Education

Parliament Buildings
Victoria
British Columbia

V8V 1X4
Canada

Phone. (604) 387-2026

June 20, 1986

To: Vocational Deans/Directors/Bursars
of Co I Ieges/Institutes

Dear Sirs:
WCB Coverage of Students in Designated Vocational
Programs While on Work Experience

I was recently queried by instructors in Women Into Trades and Technology
programs whether students who were in part-time (3-4 hours/day) or full-

time (6 hours/day) programs werfe covered while they were on work
experience if they were on the work site for longer hours or different
hours than those in which they normally went to school. For example a

part time student might attend classes from 5:30 - 8:30 in the evening
four days a week but may then go to a work experience site where he/she
might work from 8:30 - 4:30.
I have raised this question with the WCB and have been assured that
students are covered from the time they step onto the employer's property
till the time they leave, without regard to the number of hours. This is
of course true only when the student is not a paid employee of the firm.
In this instance coverage would be provided by the employer, not the
Ministry. A copy of the response from WCB is appended.
Yours truly

^J^an H. Mason
Coord i nator
Tourism, Recreation
and Services

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PACIFIC BAKER'S EXHIBITION
For the first time ever, Bakers from Canada and the United States will come
together for an Exhibition in the B.C. Place Stadium on August 11, 12, and 13,

1986. Suppliers will be displaying approximately 200 different equipments and
products from all over the world.
There will be competitions for students, apprentices and journeymen, and
V.V.I, students have entered to compete in all classes including:

Wedding Cakes Marzipan and Almond Paste
Gum

Paste

Breads

French Pastries and Petit Fours Rolls and Buns
Bread Dough-art Muffins and Donuts

Chocolate Danish Pastry and Puff Pastry
Sugar Works Fresh Cream Items
Birthday, special occasion and novelty cakes

** Good luck to all participants and please note
that for the competition days the Bake Shop Sales area will be closed.!**

BAW
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Career Awareness Instructor, Continuing Education. Competition closes
July 14, 1986. Apply to the Personnel Department.
Advisors needed in Construction, Tinsmith, Mechanical Production, Food
Preservation, and Textiles to work on a major project in Indonesia. The
term is for 2-3 years. For information contact: Mr. Robert Ricard,
Lavalin/Econosult, Montreal, PQ, (514) 876-7821. If Mr. Ricard is not
available, contact Mr. Martin Vanlierop at the same address.

association of Canadian community colleges
association des colleges communautaires du Canada

The Association of Canadian Community Colleges is seeking individuals for
its Canadian Services and International Bureaus. All positions require

frequent travel and a fluency in both official languages. The positions
are:
Associate Director, International Bureau
Senior Projects Officer, International Bureau
Fellowship Programme Officer, International Bureau
Member Services Officer, Canadian Services Bureau
Secretary, Canadian Services Bureau
Please forward resumes to Mr. Irv Jacobs, Director of Administration and
Finance, ACCC, 110 Eglinton Avenue West, second floor, Toronto, Ontario,

M4R 1 A3.

LABATT'S 24 HOUR RELAY IN SUPPORT OF THE LION'S SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
The VCC-VVI No Name Runners
The VVI team did much better than in previous years both in mileage logged

(178 miles to place third in the division) and more importantly in money
raised. Our total pledge was approximately $2100 which is 3 1/2 times more

than last year!!!
The total raised by all the 155 teams was approximately $583,000 which is the
highest ever, and the first time that over half a million dollars has been
collected. This relay is the single biggest 24-hour, money raising event, in
Canada and three cheers for the participants of the VVI team.
Your team members were . . .

Running a total of four times over the 2 1/2 mile run:
Kelsey Bamber, Dom Buono, Stephanie Jewell, Rick Kirkham, Trina Petrick,
Frank Simms, and Dalton Kremer
Five time runners:
Petter Chappel, John Wong-Hen, Guy Chung, A1 Barnard, Alec Sandy, Bob
Watt, and Nelson Moreira
And Don Harvey ran for a whole six laps.
Carol Levasseur was able to help out with a lap despite a wicked cold and Dan
Bedard volunteered to run once. Bob Malone, despite being rousted out of his
swimming pool, puffed and panted his way around once and made it only by
muttering unprintable words of encouragement to himself.
The volunteer recorders really helped out with their moral support and they
were: Delores Callaghan, Kelsey Bamber, Dana Fister, Jan Forsyth, Paula
Kremer, and Lee Donaldson.

Also much appreciated were a number of the faculty and support staff who
joined in the stands and cheered along the team members.
What was especially welcome also, was Peter Chappel who conscripted his
neighbours to produce a mountain of home-made muffins and a rejuvinating fruit
salad which was a great finish to a fun event.
Needless to say, our KEC Campus's team will attempt to better our efforts next
year, and a number of runners form Langara Campus may organize a team to enter
also!
Next year we start even earlier, and look forward to greater participation by
everybody in supporting the VVI team.
Once again, many thanks to all!!

TH€ flUTOftiflrcD
OfHCC
By John Soat

contributed to a confused atmosphere
concerning software piracy among
corporate users. It is up to managers

to be aware of the extent of the copy¬
ing problem within their organiza¬
tions, and to protect their companies
by enunciating policy.
American Brands settled out of
court with MicroPro and ADAPSO,
according to a three-part agreement.

Thou Shalt Not Copy
For the last few years, software devel¬
opers have been carrying on a war
against the illegal copying of software

American Brands admitted guilt by
"some Wilson Jones personnel" (and
denied guilt by executives of Ameri¬
can Brands), agreed to establish and
enforce an anti-piracy policy within
Wilson Jones, and paid a significant
amount of monetary damages.

vice Organizations (ADAPSO) to sue

Policy decisions have also been
confused. Many managers feel that it
is the responsibility of the DP depart¬
ment to deal with computer problems,
but few DP personnel have the power
to set organization-wide policy.
Within this heated up atmosphere,
delaying policy decisions could be

American Brands, Inc., and its sub¬

disastrous.

sidiary, Wilson Jones Co., for "will¬
ful copyright and trademark infringe¬
ment" of three MicroPro software
products. Another industry lobby
group, the Software Publishers
Association, has started running ads
in various magazines describing an
individual who copies software as "a
common criminal." Recently, the FBI
began investigating an alleged soft¬
ware copying scheme involving the
client of a West Coast specialty soft¬

ADAPSO publishes a brochure en¬
titled "Thou Shalt Not Dupe," which
outlines the software piracy problem.
The brochure also provides a sample
of a policy statement managers could
use to articulate company policy
about software piracy to employees
and protect their organizations from
covert copying.
The policy statement consists of
five points related to the proper use of
software and the impropriety of copy¬

programs, commonly known as soft¬

ware piracy. Lately, things have
heated up.
At the start of this year, MicroPro
International joined forces with the
Association of Data Processing Ser¬

ware developer.

By now, most people know that
software copying is wrong. "Most
managers are aware of the fact that
this should not be going on," David
Sturtevant, director of public com¬
munications for ADAPSO told me.
What industry groups and software
developers are trying to impress on
people with their recent actions is that
copying is actually illegal.
Except for certain applications, the
copying of software programs is a
violation of U.S. copyright law, as
amended on Dec. 12, 1980, section
117, dealing with "limitations on ex¬
clusive rights: computer programs."
The exceptions to the law involve (1)
copying essential for the running of
the program, and (2) copying for ar¬
chival purposes. Public domain soft¬
ware does not apply to the law
because it belongs to everyone.
There are two developments com¬

pounding the problem of software
piracy. One is copy protection, which
refers to measures software houses

have taken to protect their programs.
Many copy protection methods re¬
quire that the disk remain in the com¬
puter while the program is running,
which limits the user to running only
one program at a time. Other methods
involve the use of programming tricks
to make copying difficult, which also
makes loading programs difficult,
especially on hard disks. Users have
objected, and as a result software
developers are beginning to remove
protection methods from their pro¬
grams. This may give the false im¬
pression that software companies are
no longer concerned about copying.
Another development contributing
to the problem is the increasing use of
local area networks. When a user

buys a software program, he buys a
"perpetual license" to use the pro¬

duct but not the product itself.

ing or employing illegal copies of
software. It spells out the penalties for
illegal copying, and emphasizes the
company's objections to it. The state¬
ment is to be signed by each employee
involved with computer software as a
record of the employee's awareness of
these policies.
This is a minimal step managers
can take to protect themselves and
their organizations from unscrupulous
or ignorant employees. It is not only
ethical and moral, but practical. Free
copies of ADAPSO's brochure are

available by writing ADAPSO, 1300
North 17th Street, Suite 300, Arl¬
ington, VA 22209. (The back of the
brochure contains this message: "We
encourage you to reproduce and dis¬
tribute copies of this brochure") TtlM

"Simultaneous use" of a software

program by several people, as hap¬
pens in a network or multiuser en¬

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vironment, is also prohibited by law,
except under specific agreement with

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the licensor.

Both of these developments have

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