New program starts off campus

Media Training for Native People is a new program
starting November 2 on the Burrard Reserve.
Funded by a $129,000 C.E.1.C. grant to the Chief
Dan George Memorial Foundation Society, the
program will be run by the Media Resources
Program out of the Foundation’s office.

The program was initiated by the Foundation. Jim
Bizzocchi was approached last April on behalf of the
Media Resources Program to develop a program to
train students for doing media work for their bands,
or for a career in the media industry. Approximately
t5 students will be taking the ten month program,
which will incorporate both theory and hands-on
training in such areas as video technology, audio
production, slide/tape production, studio TV,
communications for the media, and career
development.

Come to yet another meeting

The next meeting of PRPAC (the Public Relations
and Promotions Advisory Committee) has been
rescheduled to Thursday, October 29 at 4:00 pmin
roont A112. On the agenda are the PR and
Promotions Plan for ’87-’88 and preliminary results
of the marketing research study. The PRPAC is an
informal committee open to any interested members
of the College community—if you're curious about
any of this, or feel that you have something to
contribute, come to the meeting. For more
information contact Bev Greene at 2903 or Doug
Loblaw, PRPAC Chairman.

COLOPHON

However sporadically the Informer may appear
in your mail, it is valiantly attempting to come out
| at least every two weeks during the Fall and
Spring terms. This scurrilous sheet is produced
_ by the Public Relations Department, room A118,
' local 2903 or 2002, and submissions are
greeted with joy and delight. Photos are
generally taken by Edna Sakata in MPC and
prepared for publication by Dave Sharrock.
Printing is done by Linda Givens and Dave
Callow in the Print Shop and distribution is
handled by the denizens of the mail room/typing
pool. There is a rumour that Donna McMahon is
the editor of all this, but she'll deny it
, vehemently.

Landscaping gets attention

Landscape Horticulture program coordinator Les
Koskitalo has been getting a lot of phone calls lately
congratulating him for the great improvement in the
College’s landscaping that has taken place over the
last couple of months. The calls are very nice, he
says, but since he hasn't got anything to do with it,
perhaps they should be directed to the right place.
Compliments go to Ken Hughes and his team of
temporary employees for putting some much needed
work into the campus—the results are impressive.

What Koskitalo and his landscaping students ARE
doing, is planting bulbs. In the last two weeks they
have planted approximately 8,000, and you'll be
seeing those results in the spring. Among their
projects for the upcoming term is landscaping the
area around the stairs between the two south
parking lots, developing a nursery area on the north
campus, and redoing the lawn by C-2, which has
been sinking rather erratically. Subject to funding,
another project under consideration is a terraced
picnic area outside the South Cafeteria near the
Dynamics lab.

An interesting side note: the view outside of Gerry
Blitstein’s office (east side of B building) has been
enhanced by the addition of a small monkey puzzle
tree. This tree was a gift to Koskitalo and the
College in return for his acting as an advisor for a
North Shore landscaping program for mentally
handicapped adults.

Piano concert rescheduled

The piano concert to introduce the College’s new
Grand Piano, which was scheduled for October 30,
has been rescheduled due to the pianist, faculty
member Gaye Alcock, having been recently involved
in a car accident. Under the circumstances the new
date, Friday, November 13, would seem to be a
daring choice for the initiation of our new piano, to
say the very least. With lucky talismans clutched
firmly in hand, then, come to the concert on Friday
the 13th at 12:30 pm in room H113—admission is by
donation to the scholarship fund.

EDTs set

The schedule for sittings of the English Diagnostic
Test in December and January has been posted.
For a copy of the information contact the Humanities
Division.

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