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November Lectures, continued from page 1

The Year...The Job Market,” took place

Nov. 3. Kunin, executive director of
the Laurier Institution, is one of
Canada’s most noted economists and
job market experts. The Public Rela-
tions Department coordinated her
lecture in partnership with Canada
Employment and Immigration Com-
mission as part of National Career
Week.

More than 700 people gathered at
the Sportsplex to hear Kunin’s
colorful, information-packed remarks.

Kunin compared the labor market
to “a great big, round jelly doughnut
with a big blob of jelly in the mid-
dle.”

The doughnut represents all the
jobs in B.C. The jelly represents what
she calls “dental plan jobs,” career
path positions in large organizations
with benefits. The “cake” part of the
doughnut represents part-time,
temporary and contract work.

People looking for work must set
their sights not toward the total job
market, but toward the vacant job
market, which is mostly in the outer
part of the doughnut, she said.

“The way to get a job is not to look
for the full-time, full-year jobs of the
’70s; it is to take the part-time work, to
take the temporary work and to
consider self-employment,” she said.
With the right mix of education and
foresight, a person can “cobble to-
gether” the beginnings of a career.

Post-secondary education is crucial

to competing for today’s scarce
employment openings, she added.

College President Doug Jardine
agreed and pointed out that Cap is in
the process of developing a proposal
to the provincial government that
advocates the creation of new four-
year applied degrees. The degrees
would be offered by the College in
specialized, career-directed areas.

He also stressed the importance of a
laddered curriculum, to enable stu-
dents to move from college to the
workplace and back again, without
academic penalty.

Violence Prevention

On Nov. 18, the College, participat-
ing in “North Shore Together Against
Violence Month,” held an educational
session entitled Defensive Living:
Coping with Violence in Community.
The focus, which included the con-
cerns of persons with disabilities, was
on the continuum of violence. The
workshop looked at violence from its
most subtle to its extreme forms, and
ways to respond to violence.

Sponsored by the British Columbia
Educational Association of Disabled
Students and the Capilano College
Student Union, the workshop heard
from community partners including
Women Against Violence Against
Women, Women Educating in Self
Defence, Disabled Women’s Network,
Capilano College Office of the Sexual
Harassment Policy Advisor, Capilano
College Health and Safety Committee,
and a victim of violence.

The audience heard statistics about
violence, which hit home when a
student shared her experiences of
violence in public locations. Partici-
pants also watched demonstrations of
self-defense and discussed issues of
violence.

"I was very pleased to be a part of
this day at the College and hope that
the College continues to be a centre for
the spirit of partnership in commu-
nity,” said Lucas Foss, Advisor,
Disability Support Services, and chief
organizer of the event.

Other support and partnership
came from Uprising Bakery, East End
Food Co-op, Food Works Catering
Company and Capilano College
Cafeteria Services.

Statistics on Violence

A second event as part of “North
Shore Together Against Violence
Month” was organized by the Public
Relations Department. On Nov. 23,
Craig Hathaway, member of the Social
Sciences faculty, spoke on Violence in
North Shore Communities: Realities
and Anxieties.

Hathaway focused on Canadians’
misconception of the threat of being
violently attacked. Incidents of vio-
lence per capita have not increased in
the past decade in Canada and are far
lower than the amount of violence
encountered in the States, he said.

The North Shore, except for the City
of North Vancouver, has a particularly
low incidence of violence, and even
the City’s violence is only average for
Canada.

He told the audience that youth
gang violence, although frightening, is
a familiar occurrence that rises and
falls over time. “They (teenagers)
typically mature out of that pattern,”
he said.

Too much police effort is devoted
to violent crime as compared with
corporate crime that destroys the
environment and injures workers, he
said.

After Hathaway’s lecture, which
provoked many questions from the
audience, Janine Carscadden spoke
briefly about the Women’s Monument
project.

A member of the project committee,
she read statistics from the recent
Statistics Canada report on violence
against women. She emphasized that
most women who are sexually as-
saulted do not report the attack to
police.

The Women’s Monument Project
is planning a competition for the
design of a monument to be erected
in Thornton Park.