The Informer Page 2

October 26, 1988

Team members:
Dr. Neil Murphy, Director Health and Human
Services, Camosun College (Chair)
Glenn Johnston, Vice-President, Development and
Instructional Services, Malaspina College
Dr. Walter Wattamaniuk, Director,
Analytical Studies, SFU
Pauline Bennison, Office Admin Program, East

Kootenay Community College

Karen Downey, Douglas College Student Association
Karen Foss, Associate Dean of Students, South
Seattle Community College

James Baker, Anthropology Department,

Okanagan College

Barbara Pinkiewics, Library Technician,

Fraser Valley College

International News
Students

We have 80 international students on campus this
year, up from just over 40 last year. Jon Jessiman,
Associate Dean, Career/Vocational Division, reports
that the International Education Committee is happy to
see the number coming up, and although the College
does not actively recruit international students, it does
eventually want them to represent up to five per cent of
the total population.

Until this year, says Jon, the College’s international
populace was less than 1 percent, and Cap was second
to last of the community colleges. “Now we’re
somewhere around the middle,” says Jon.

The following is a breakdown of numbers and
countries:

England

United States
Iran 1
Tanzania

South Africa
Hong Kong 1
China

India

Japan

Malaysia
Phillipines 1
Caribbean

Peru

Austria

Germany
Netherlands
Portugal

FNoWwWRrNRrrrOWONNEe b&b WD DO

The Malaysian Connection

Capilano College’s Malaysian connection continues
this year with a $25,000 contract from the Association of
Canadian Community Colleges to continue its work
with the Southeast Asian country.

Cap has been working through the Prime Minister’s
office of Malaysia to provide Western business training
to entrepreneurs in Kuala Lumpur since the winter of
1987. Jon Jessiman, Al Oberndorf, and Doug Loblaw (all
of Business Management) worked as consultants in
Malaysia last year. This winter, representatives of
Malaysian industry will visit Canada, coming to the
North Shore Development Centre and the CANASEAN
program, and to centres in Alberta and Ontario.

It glows, but is that good?

The ergonomics VDT task force will report on its
findings at an all-college forum November 30 in A117,
reports Task Force chair, Jon Jessiman. “The meeting
will be to test and get reactions to the
recommendations,” says Jon. (Meeting time will be
announced.)

Six representatives from staff, faculty and
administration have been studying the physical realities
of VDT use since last winter, and have met weekly since
Jon returned from China this summer. The report
focusses on three areas, says Jon: “standards, methods
of implementation, and ongoing training.” A recent
survey by Office Administration students provided the
committee with data from the 112 VDT users on campus
who face the glowing screens every day.

The report will be amended after the November
meeting, then forwarded to Doug Jardine and the Board
for approval.

On a Lighter Note

You hear gales of laughter coming from the outer
office, and you begin to fume, thinking:
a) they’re laughing at you
b) they’re not getting their work done, and
c) they think you’re going to let them get away with
it.
Read this before trying to stomp out the fun.

¢ People in a good mood organize data better.

¢ Humour relieves the boredom of tedious work — and
that aids problem solving.

¢ People in good spirits prove more creative in word
association, categorizing things, and tasks involving
memory.

¢ Humour improves decision making and
negotiating abilities.

¢ Laughter tends to boost performance when it’s
related to the task at hand.

* Humour improves group as well as individual
performance.

— from communication briefings, October ‘88