College People in the News Everywhere
from the Campus to South Africa

University Transfer student
Jolaine Percival continues to aim for
success in amateur athletics. Jolaine
took second place for juniors in
Canada with a 41.5-metre javelin
throw at last year’s Junior Canadian
Championships in Quebec. She’s
now preparing for this summer’s
Canada Junior Games, which will
take place in Ottawa. The top two
contenders in her category will go to
the 1995 Pan American Junior
Games in Chili. Jolaine also excels at
Cap as a basketball player. “She’s
truly a talented athlete,” said Athlet-
ics and Recreation Manager Joe
Iacobellis. “She could probably do
extremely well in any sport she
wanted to.”

More than 500 delegates are
expected to attend the general
meeting of the United Church of
Canada, British Columbia Confer-
ence, which takes place at the
Sportsplex May 11-13. Jon Jessiman,
Dean of Student and Instructional
Services and past president of the
B.C. Conference, will assist in the
opening evening. This will be the
largest conference staged in the
Sportsplex.

John Dixon, of the Humanities
faculty, recently returned from
Harvard University, where he was
invited along with former prime
minister Kim Campbell to be a guest
presenter at the Kennedy School of
Government. They also participated
in a special seminar at the Harvard
Business School on monetary and
fiscal policy, led by John Crow,
former governor of the Bank of
Canada. Dixon noted that Campbell
spread Capilano’s name among
Harvard faculty and noted guests by
introducing him as an “Instructor of
Philosophy from Capilano College
in North Vancouver.” He had been

Campbell’s national policy advisor
while she was defence minister.

Dave Brewer, Director of Supply
and Services, will continue as volun-
teer provincial search and rescue
coordinator for the coming year.
College President Doug Jardine ina
letter to A.J. Heemskerk, director of
the provincial emergency program,
said the College is pleased to add its
contribution to the emergency
program “through Mr. Brewer’s
donation of knowledge, time and
energy.”

Reporting on an election is no easy
task, especially when the election
takes place in South Africa, Keith
Watt of the Media Resources faculty
has learned. He recently returned
from South Africa where he and two
CBC colleagues taught 12 reporters
how to cover the election. The black
reporters—seven among the group—

not only had the daunting job of
covering an election when they had
never voted before, but they also had
to fight against newsroom bias. For
example, when a black reporter had
witnessed police shoot seven people,
a white editor revised the story
according to a police statement that
only warning shots were fired. Keith
wrote a lengthy news story on his
teaching experience, which was
published in the Globe and Mail on
March 18. The headline read, “A
bulletproof vest comes with the
microphone.” Indeed, SABC Radio,
where the reporters he taught are
working, buys bulletproof jackets for
its reporters. This served to be
another problem for journalists. One
shipment of jackets bore military
markings of the South African
Defence Forces, which is despised by
many in the black townships.