the

Volume IV No. 9 April 19, 1984

informer

And the recipients of this year’s B.C. Tel Awards are...

A First for B.C. at Cap

Beginning this fall, there is a new and
unique computing program on campus, with
yet another set of initials for everyone

to get straight. S.C.A.T. stands for the

Scientific Computing Applications
Technology Program, and this is the only
two year program in B.C. that is primarily
oriented to technical software development
and applications.

SCAT is the brainchild of Bob Verner, Ted
Bentley and other instructors in the
Natural Sciences division. It is a two
year program, but the emphasis is academic
and the major part of the program is
university transferable. In SCAT students
will learn to use their academic and
programming skills to solve problems of a
scientific nature. Graduates will be
qualified to work in many areas, for
instance as programmers or junior analysts

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Meet the winners of
this year's B.C.
Tel Award, who were
presented with
their cheques on
March 9. From left
to right we see
Donna Lee Johnson
of Music Therapy,
happily grasping
her $500, Ed
Crozier from B.C.
Tel who had the
happy job of giving
out the money, and
Kim Boswell from
Business Management
with her cheque.
The awards are made
to first year
students for out-
standing scholastic
achievement .

Campbell wins writing grant

This is the story of a very interesting
book which doesn't exist yet. ''Demon Rum
or Easy Money: The Evolution of Provincial
Liquor Laws Since World War One'' is the
current title of the popular historical
book to be written by Robert Campbell of
the History department. Campbell has just
received a $10,000 grant from the Canadian
Secretary of State. As it will take no

convincing for anyone to readily belive,
Canadian liquor laws in various provinces
have some very peculiar idiosyncracies and
have had some even odder ones in the past.
A more fundamental issue, however, is that
of government control of alcohol and the
inherent contradictions in it, as typified
In this province where we have the

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