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April 1991

New blueprint for VCC recycling program
!IR.ecycle II—Think Blue1 s ,
VCC has begun a second phase in its iccyclmg piogiam Laige blue contameis
have begun appearing on each campus
foi the collection of waste papei. Em¬
ployees will put waste in the large bins
fiom smallei blue waste baskets now be¬
ing placed m offices 01 neai woik sta¬
tions. VCC will be puichasmg up to
1,000 of these smallei baskets foi indi¬
vidual use It's estimated that we will be

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able iccycle 99 pei cent of the papei
waste geneiated at VCC—if all employ¬
ees co-operate.

The large bins will be sei viced by A-l
Recycling, which has leplaced Golden
West as contiactois foi paper collection.
A-l will begin pick up each week on a
college-wide basis, accoidmg to the fol¬
lowing schedule:
Langaia—Maich 26

KEC—Apul 15
CC—May 1
Twenty mam collection points will be
established on each campus; eveiy loca¬
tion will have thiee boxes, one each for.
* Computer paper. This papei has
longei and stiongei fibies than most. Be¬
cause it can be lecycled foi many differ¬
ent purposes, it fetches the highest letuin—about $200 pei ton
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* High grade mix. This includes such
items as photocopied papei, colouied pa¬
pei envelopes (windows oi labels aie not
acceptable, but staples oi papei clips aie

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okay) High giade mix brings about $70
Langara's Paola Piovesan sorts out the new recycling routine

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Notable Event sold out in third year
The Annual Notable Event, the VCC
Educational Foundation's music scholar¬
ship fund raising event, has become a
remarkable success in just three years.
Tickets to the $100-a-plate benefit
dinner were not only sold out for the first

time, but they had been gobbled up
weeks before the gala was held March
21, with over 30 on the waiting list
This year's Notable Event Committee
consisted of many high piofile members
of business and was chaned by Raymond

Smith, Chanman of the Board of
MacMillan Bloedel.
Musical enteitainment was provided by
VCC's Music Department. The 370

guests heaid a big band tubute to Paul
The Madrigal Singers struck the right notes for the Notable Event

Whiteman, a piano and violin duet,
VCC's vocal jazz ensemble "Soundwave"

and the Madrigal Singeis.
Several guests weie honoured for their

extiaordmary support of the VCC
Scholarships for Music Campaign: Bnan
Disteihest of Yamaha, George Egan of

Imasco, David Geddes of CHQM, David
Holmes of Tom Lee Music, Wally

Lightbody of the Bob Smith Jazz Tubute,
Adrian Popple, Gieg Reid, Maria Brown,
Chris Vaughn-Jones and Bruce Stiachan,
Mmistei of Advanced Education,
Tiaming and Technology.

Music students Ed Maxwell, piano, and Boris Favre, base, team
up for excellent entertainment

Educational Foundation Board Chairperson Bruna Giacomazzi presents George
Egan of Imasco with a plaque honouring the company's generosity

PAGE 2

Langara fast-tracks 10-year plan
By Constance Bnssenden
It's a fast-tiack piocess that may leave
some staff and admimstiatois bieathless.
Fiom its launch on Maich 14 to its
completion on May 27, Langaia's plan¬
ning piocess is, of necessity, wasting no
time.

"Theie is nevei a peifect time to plan for
the next ten yeais," says Pnncipal David
Cane, "and the soonei the plan is final¬
ized, the soonei we can stai t to imple¬
ment it"
Piomising that the planning process
would be "owned by the campus," Cane
has established two coordinating com¬
mittees Committee I, led by Dean of
Instiuction, Careeis, Ralph Ken, will
focus on internal matteis. Committee II,
undei Dean of Instiuction, Aits & Sci¬
ences, Joan Hoisley, will leview exteinal concerns Students, the public and

other VCC centies aie being asked foi
input. Cooidinating the cioss-college
piogiam planning that is now undeiway

thiough the VCC Council of Deans is
also the job of Committee II Both com¬
mittees include faculty, administratois,
suppoit staff and students Sub-commit¬
tees will also submit lepoits On "D
Day", each of the two committees will
file a lepoit with Langaia Council foi
adoption by mid-June.
Richaid Vedan, chan of the Community
Relations sub-committee, compaied the
pievious lack of planning at Langaia
with a condition called "white line fe¬
ver", which he expenenced as a tiuckei
in Ontano. At a ceitain point on a long
haul, his univeise boiled down to the
endless white line on the highway The
destination became of secondaiy impoi-

Says Vedan "I would suggest we have
been suffenng fiom white line fevei foi
the past few yeais Planning leads to ex¬
pectations which cieate fiustiations
when they'ie not met So — don't plan is
the lesult"
The dangei, notes Vedan, is that "if
Langaia doesn't set its own loles, they
will be piescnbed for us As piofessionals, we can determine wheie we want to

be
"What is Langaia's futuie7 That will be
decided by a planning piocess that is not
"etched in stone," says Cane "The plan¬
ning piocess will be multi-level, inclu¬
sive and flexible " Adds Vedan: "It's
impoitant to bieak away and ask 'what
aie we really here for7' — tomonow,
next week and ten yeais fiom now."

tance.

KEC hosts Citizenship Court
been students at Canadiana since they
ailived fiom Hong Kong thiee yeais
ago.

Lai, an intermediate level English
leamei said, "Receiving my citizenship
is very special to me It is the eve of the
Chinese New Yeai, and tiaditionally
membeis of families leunite to lenew

family bonds Today I will start a bond
with the countiy I have chosen I have
been told it is also Valentine's Day, so
the occasion will have double signifi¬
cance'"

Fifty-eight people became new Canadians at the KEC-hosted ceremonies

Fouiteen ESL students, who weie
winnei s of an essay competition entitled
"What I like about Canada", weie
piesented with awaids by Doieen Lam,
daughtei of Lieutenant-Governoi David
Lam Lam lecollected the excitement

she and hei family felt when they
Two VCC students were among a group
of 58 who received then Canadian
Citizenship duung the KEC-hosted
ceiemomes Febiuaiy 14 at the
Canadiana Centie. Located m the heait
of Chinatown, Canadiana is the site of
one of VCC's off-campus ESL pio-

giams. It is also a social and develop¬
ment centie foi Vancouvei's Chinese

became citizens of Canada moie than
twenty yeais ago

community.

Citizenship Judge Angela Kan presided

Among those who received citizenship
status weie students Ada Chow and Lai-

ovei the ceiemony.

Hing Luk Both Chow and Lai have

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Graduation Day:
City Centre, February 21,1991

Two new employees join PR Dept.
Two new people have joined VCC to
assist faculty, staff and management
with then public lelations and advertis¬
ing needs.

They aic David Wiebe, who is Com¬
munications Officer for City Centre as
well as having responsibility foi VCC's
external public lelations.

Wiebe is new to both the college and the
city, having recently moved west from
Edmonton wheie he served in a similar
capacity at Giant MacEwan Community

College Pnoi to that, he did public
relations work for the Alberta Hospital
Association Wiebe is a graduate of the
foui-yeai Journalism Program at
Caileton University, Ottawa He has
woiked as a leporter for a Calgary radio

station and CTV
Constance Bnssenden is the part-time

CO for Langai a Campus She will be

David Wiebe

Constance Bnssenden

responsible for assisting in the prepara¬
tion of posters, brochures and other
piomotional projects. She has joined
Chuck Poulsen, who will continue to
work on Langara Campus communica¬
tions, but will now have more time to
devote to VCC's internal publication,
Spectrum Bnssenden is has a
Bachelor's Degree from the University
of Guelph and a Master's from the

and a posting as assistant editor of
Macleans Magazine She also sits on the
advisory boaid of VCC's Pacific Rim
Magazine

also will generate revenue for VCC, al¬
though it's too eaily to estimate an
amount

Open House

Univeisity of Alberta She is an accom¬
plished magazine wnter, lecturer and
editor. Her work has also included a

stint as publications editoi for Expo 86

Recycle from page 1
* Mixed waste. This is the catch-all for
vntually eveiy other papei
product...glossy magazines, newspaper,
fax papei, juice boxes. If you'ie in doubt
about an item of papei, this is where it

should go
Most of the mixed waste is lecycled for
use as insulation. Food wastes,
styrofoam, napkins and heavy caidboard
ate examples of waste that should con¬
tinue to be thrown into the old waste
baskets.
Signs explaining the types of paper al¬
lowed will be posted on each blue corttainei—and aiea lepresentatives will
help all employees learn the system
As well, the college will be lining a Re¬
cycling Pioject Co-oidinator on a tem¬
porary contiact to stait the progiam on

the light foot
The revenue geneiated by the paper we
recycle is ciucial because A-l obviously
must show a piofit if the company is to
continue making pickups The low value
mixed waste can't exceed 20 per cent of
the total volume It's hoped the piogram

A-l spokesman Addil Karmah ex¬
plains: "We're not able to just haul away
garbage—our business is recycling and
we need everyone's help for the pro¬

We know that this edition of Update

gram to be successful " The 20 pickup

1991 Students' Art Exhibition and Open
House from April 8 to 11 (10 a.m to 9

locations are the maximum allowed by
A-1. If a container is less than 40 pei

cent full, it will be left foi pickup the
following week The company also will

may not leach you in time, but if it does,
please note that the Fine Arts Depaitment of Langara Campus will hold it's

p.m.) and Apnl 12 (10 a.m. to 5 p m ).
Everyone is welcome

provide a container foi aluminum can
collection on each campus.
Employees may soit papei fiom then

small blue baskets at the time they take
them to the mam receptacles Or, they
may wish to sort as the day goes along
by using a cardboard box or boxes as exti a waste baskets to go with the blue
containeis
KEC-CC Pnncipal Lawience Fast, who
is also seivmg as chanman of the VCC
Envnonment Committee, welcomes sug¬
gestions from all employees on ways
that the lecychng progiam may be fui-

All-Campus
Council
Watch for the next edition of Update for
a repoit on the KEC All-Campus
Council.

ther enhanced Happy Recycling!

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