Vancouver Community College ÿ Volume 1, Number 29 ¦ November 12,1993 VCC4rained Now that we know VCC trains the best chefs in Canada we're about to find out how the $50,000. Of the maximum 2,000 tickets printed, 1,982 of them were sold. About $20,000 of the $81,000 total will College's former culinary students stack up chefs chosen go to the purchase of computers for Langara against the best in the world. educational programs. The balance wdl be di¬ to represent You may recall that last spring a team of rected toward equipment for the KEC diesel junior chefs who graduated from VCC placed Canada I first among Canadian teams at the T aste of Canada program. j competition in Toronto.. .in fact, the only teams And "hat's off" to everyone who helped l that finished ahead of the VCC -trained students raise $16,700 for the United Way this year, compared with $ 14,000 last year. Thirty eight per cent of employees participated through were the national teams from Germany, the U S , Great Britain and Singapore. As a result of that remarkable success, VCC has been selected by the Canadian Federa¬ tion of Chefs de Cuisine to field a team repre¬ senting Canada at the junior chefs competition pledge cards. Manera chosen CBC interim President m Norway next June The competition will be Former VCC President Tony Manera has the major event of its kind in the world next been appointed interim president of the CBC, year, and every member of this Canadian team replacing Gerard Veilleux Manera, who was of apprentices will be a graduate of the college's VCC president from 1981 to '85, wasappointed program just prior to the federal election. It will now be Of course they're going to have to raise funds for the trip and what better way than to up to the new Liberal government to name a permanent president. allow contributors to enjoy a real Christmas feast. Consequently on December 3, starting at For 6:30 p.m., everyone is invited to the Christmas daily $30 each and for that you'll be able to choose news updates phone 7099 after 2:30 pm Vuzv I Nov. 19 Planning meeting to tackle hard issues Buffet Extravaganza at City Centre. Tickets are from an extensive menu of traditional Christmas favourites plus many other Christmas dishes that are the newest and finest in Christmas cuisine. For more information and tickets, phone 443- The VCC Planning Team continues to work on preparations for the January Futures Conference, while at the same time continuing to struggle with what appears to be a fairly widespread sense of scepticism about the proc¬ ess. 8487. The Tearn has agreed to a classroom-based Fundraising was FANTASTIC approach that will prepare students to offer their vision of a new VCC at the Futures Conference. This procedure will see each campus, and CE, This year's Educational Foundation truck gather student opinions identifying what's good lottery raised a record profit of $81,000, com¬ and bad about the institution as well what im¬ pared with last year's net proceeds of only provements they'd like to see. The sessions will be handled at City Centre by student facilitators, New Presidents at KEC by instructor-facilitators while at CE the for KESA, CCSA role will beplayedby the Program co- ordinators. The new president of the KEC Student Otherwise, Planning Team member Aphrodite Harris circulated a memo two weeks ago regarding discussions she had with employ¬ ees in student services. Some employees ex¬ pressed distrust of the currentplanningprocess, Association is Dwayne Rhodes, an ABE student who has been at the campus for the last year and previously served as the association's vice presi¬ dent of finance. Rhodes takes over from Manuel Salinas citing past examples of employee input being disregarded. As well, the employees were criti¬ The new president of the student associa¬ cal that the Planning Team will not be involved tion at City Centre is Suzanne Rouse, who fol¬ m separation issues. lows Michael Fergusson in the position. Rouse is studying in the Practical Nursing Program at Copies of President John Cruickshank's City Centre. reply to Harris--which reasserted his support of a credible grass-roots planning approach—were circulated to Team members last Friday. One team member, DonHume, described Cruickshank's reply as "weak" and "not nearly good enough." Withneither Harris, Cruickshank nor Board member Angela Julien in attendance at the Nov. 5 meeting, it was decided to wait Both students will serve on the VCC Plan¬ ning Team as well as the new VCC Council New magazine for colleges The Association for the Study of Continu¬ ing Education will soon publish the first edition until the next meeting on November 19 to of the College Quarterly, a new magazine being thrash out the issue. As Planning Tearn facilitator underwritten by Senaca College. Ifyou're inter¬ John Dickinson of Pacific Leadership Incorpo¬ ested m submitting material, phone Editor rated told the group as he put the matter on the Howard Doughty at (416) 833-3333, extension S077 For subscriptions, the number is (416) 491-5050. next agenda: "This is a problem that we keep coming back to.. If you have any comments or questions, please send them to Chuck Poulsen, Manager of The Exchange, in care of College Administrative Services.