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JUNE 29, 1989

All the best!
VCC's annual retirement dinner was

recently held at Shaughnessy Golf and
Country Club, where a fond farewell was

wished to:

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Jock Denholm, Langara, Sept. 15/88*;

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Art Griffith, WI, Nov. 30/88*; Ruby
Kerr, VVI, Oct. 31/88*; Boen Thee,
Langara, Aug. 31/88*; Kathleen Wotten,
' C, Dec. 31/88*; Harry Pankratz,

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rvifC/Canada Place, Jan. 31/89; Myrtle
Knull, Langara, Feb. 28/89; Jack Scott,'
Langara, Mar. 31/89; Wayne Bottlinger,

KEC, Mar. 31/89; Sam Greenwood,
WI, Mar. 31/89; Betty Leung, VVI,
Mar.31/89; George Whitton, Langara,
May 31/89; Hugh Harper, Langara, June
30/89; Ken Weaver, Langara, June 30/
89; Maria Brown, KEC, Aug. 31/89;
Sylvia Bristoll, Langara, Aug. 31/89;

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Gordon Caruso, Langara, Aug. 31/89;

Fraser Taylor, Langara, June 30/89; Mi
Ying Woo, WI, Feb. 28/89; Barbara
Lowden, Langara, June 30/89; Ellen
Bateman, Langara, July 31/89; Nadine
Delaire, Langara, April 7/89; Jacqueline
Philip, Langara, May 31/89; Kathleen
Quigley, Langara, Aug. 31/89.
* Denotes retirees who missed the 1988
dinner.

l^NCOUI^ER
COMMUNITY

Journalists probe journalism programs
Last Fall, the BCYCNA (B.C. and

For more than two decades, VCC's
Journalism Program has been training
the men and women who help shape and

Yukon Community Newspapers'
Association), to which more than 90 of
B.C.'s community papers belong and the
largest single employer of Langara
grads, formally endorsed the Task Force
concept and contributed funds and other
support to help it along. And at its
annual general meeting in Vancouver

colour your world -- yes, your world.

And in October, when the Task Force on
Journalism Education winds up its work,
the program's ability to continue to train
B.C.'s best and brightest entry-level

journalism graduates will undoubtedly

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be strengthened. In what way, it is too
early to tell. But in the long run the
Task Force will have dramatic impact on
B.C.'s oldest journalism program.
In fact, the Task force's recommenda¬

tions might offer a blueprint for a new
approach to journalism education in B.C.
In this electronic world of ours journal¬
ism has become a power unto itself,
society's agenda-setter. What we know
today, or think we know today, about the
world around the comer or across the
seas, is told to you by a journalist. TV

has made the global village a reality, and
journalists are its high (and low) priests.
More and more they tell us what to think
about, select viewpoints of how you are
to think about it, and exclude things they
don't think you need to know. An
awesome power, equivalent to the power
of the medieval church to censor and
control information. And as the tools
and techniques of mass communication
improve, so too must the talents and
training of journalism grads.

Jerry Porter

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VCC Voice newspaper pester busy
student reps, deans and teachers to find
out what is going on, and why. The
student-reporters do it because they
realize, and are taught to realize, that
their prime role as journalists is to keep
the gates of communication between the
governed and the governors open, and to
keep those in power accountable. That
is the prime purpose of VCC's journal¬
ism program ~ to train the next genera¬
tion of reporters and editors to act as the
eyes and ears of society and, on occa¬

the world? Yes. Take a look at China
television networks telling people that
only soldiers died in Beijing. That's real
power, Big Brother power, wielded by
the state through its state-employed
journalists. Any modem despot knows
the first target of any attempt to seize
power or to consolidate it is not the army
but the newspapers and their shock
troops, the journalist
Closer to home, student reporters on the

two members to serve on the Task Force
steering committee.
After that, the dailies, television and
radio were added. And on Feb. 2, the
Task Force was formally launched at a
press conference held at Langara. VCC
President Paul Gallagher welcomed the
members at a luncheon to mark the
occasion, and wished them well in their
deliberations.
I have the honour to be the chairman, a
duty I share with my co-chairman, Ron
Robbins of Victoria, the former head of
CBC television news for Canada and the
man who built Western Canada's first
degree program in journalism at the
University of Regina.

sion, its conscience.

In March, our efforts were formally

And that's what the Task Force is all

acknowledged and financially supported
by the Ministry of Advanced Education

about, to look at how well B.C.'s
existing journalism programs are doing
and to make recommendations to the
Minister of Advanced Education, Stan
Hagen, on what, if anything, should be
done to improve them.

Do journalists really shape and colour
today, with its state-run radio and

last fall, the BCYCNA formally elected

The seed money came from the Langara
Research Committee, last spring, in the
form of a $400 grant to develop a survey
of B.C.'s news media to determine how
they felt about B.C. journalism grads,
jobs, the future, and what they wanted in
the way of entry level skills. Committee
Chairman Murray Besler helped with the
survey design and encouragement and
eventually helped spin off another two
surveys ~ of graduates and others in the
field - to complement the main survey
work.

in the form of a $20,000 grant and
operating terms of reference.
So far we have surveyed the news
media, more than 450 grads of B.C.
journalism programs, and B.C. members
of the CIJ, the Centre for Investigative
Journalism. We have also called for and
received briefs from the universities and
colleges on their plans for journalism
education. In short, we are taking a
hard, critical look at how the industry
rates the province's journalism pro¬
grams, at what the universities and
colleges feel about it, the grads, and
others.

In early June, the Steering Committee
met to consider what the surveys and the
schools had to say, and to cobble out

initial recommendations on the future of
journalism education in the province.

We will be reconvening on July 10 in
ancouver to hammer put the final rec¬
ommendations.

What has the Task Force found out?
Well, basically that some changes are

needed; that what should be done about
it needs more discussion and debate; that
certain areas of journalism are definite
growth areas; that journalism education

is too important to society to be left
stricdy to the academic, or the industry.

We have had a vigorous debate on which
direction to go, a positive result, because
new light was shed on some of the
oddities inherent in B.C.'s existing
journalism education system. One of

them is: How is it that journalism
education here has been broken into two
neat halves, with print and broadcasting
being taught in two different places, seen
as two separate things, when in fact

KECs Irene Romaniw won the bike raffled off by Domco Food Services, although she was
away on the day of the draw. So just to make certain everything was in safe working order,
Principal Lawrence Fast gave the bike a spin around the cafeteria. Contestants could enter
the draw with an order over $2.

there is only journalism, of which print

Touring your college

and broadcasting are applications.

Many of us have worked at the college

A few other things of interest to emerge:
one of the two Langara journalism
streams (the two-year diploma and the
one-year certificate for degree holders)

for years, but have not had the opportu¬
nity to tour the different campuses. The
tours listed below will give staff mem¬
bers a new insight into what people at
the various campuses do, where they
work and the facilities available. There
will also be an opportunity to meet the
administration at each campus and other

was rated higher than the other by
industry; at least one journalism program

in B.C. received a failing grade from

college employees. Space is limited and

both industry and grads; and...but you'll

seats are allocated on a first come, first
served basis. Request permission from
your supervisor to attend and then call
Human Resources Development - 875-

have to wait for the final report

The Steering Committee consists of

1131, local 337 to confirm a spot

Gerald Haslam, Vice-President of

Marketing for Pacific Press and the
father of the tabloid Province; BCYCNA
members George Le Masurier, Publisher
of the Comox-Courtenay District Freee

Press and a founding member of the
B.C. Press Council, Andrew Lynch,

Publisher of Victoria's Monday Maga¬
zine; Cameron Bell, former News

Director of BCTV; Rand Walford, a
Vancouver lawyer interested in media

( drs; and George Garrett, veteran
radio reporter with CKNW.
- By Gerry Porter

Sarah Rogers

First in first aid

Langara - July 19/89.2:15 to 4 pm
followed by a wine & cheese get
together. Allocated seats: WI = 6,
KEC = 6, CE = 2, CA = 1.

Sarah Rogers, VCC's Program

Co-ordinator for First Aid and CPR at
VVT, will be part of a six-member
Canadian team competing in an interna¬

tional first aid competition in London,
England in October.

WI - July 26/89.10:15 to noon fol¬
lowed by a light lunch at JJ's. Allocated
seats: Langara = 6,
KEC = 6, CE = 2, CA = 1.

KEC - July 27/89.2:15 to 4pm followed
Rogers' team placed first in the recent
B.C. competition sponsored by the
Workers' Compensation Board.

by a wine & cheese get together.
Allocated seats: Langara = 6, VVI - 6,
CE = 2, CA = 1.

Vince Kreiser

Kreiser Honoured
Photo by Stephanie Jewell

Olympian effort by VCC runners.
VCC's "No Name" runners are The Winners in our book. The college's entry in the

Labatt's Lite 24-Hour Relay for Crippled Children raised $4,200 in pledges, $200 over
their goal.
The annual event also exceeds its goal of $1 million by raising $1.1 million.
The No Name roster included: From CA: Dan Cram; From KEC: Peter Hopkinson,
Thome Husband; Langara: Jeremy Dalton, Gregg King Keith Murray, Ken Schmunk;
From VVI: Lilia Cardosa, Curt Gislason, Sheena Graves, Stephanie Jewell, Don
Kazakoff, Dalton Kremer, Liz Lindsay, Greg Miller, Jun Peralta, Barbara Smith;
Alumni: Avtar Brasheda, Harry Wong; Friends: Brent Hunter, Jaylene King, Stuart
Somerville, John Wong-Hen.

Chen leads seminars

Vince Kreiser, Co-ordinator of VCC's
Recreation Facilities Management
Program at Langara, has been recog¬
nized with an award of merit from the
Recreation Facilities Association of B.C.
It is only the third time in the associa¬
tion's 40-year history that a member has
been honoured for going "above and
beyond the call".
Kreiser also received his "keeper
plague" for the R. J. Muir Award he
won last year for outstanding achieve¬
ment.

VCC grad Susan Boeschoten was
awarded the Joe Dukowsky Memorial
Bursary for excellence in the Recreation
Facilities Management Program.

WE NEED YOU!
Update is your

The Centre for International Communi¬

exploration of joint venture opportuni¬

publication.

cation at SFU has appointed Ted Chen,
VCC's Assistant Dean of Administrative

ties with Alcan, this group is being
trained by both SFU and Alcan Pacific

If there is a coming

Services at Langara, to lead a series of
management seminars in Mandarin for

Ltd.

distinguished groups from China.

Mayors, deputy mayors, secretary
generals and senior municipal govern¬
ment bureaucrats, sponsored by the

Twenty senior executives from the
China National Non-ferrous Metals

Industry Corporation in China compose
the first group. In hopes of facilitating

Canadian Federation of Municipalities,
make up the second and third groups.

event you would

like mentioned,
contact

Cathy Nishikawa
at 875-1131
loc. 333