2002 B.C. baseball champions

Baseball champs

Submitted by
Dave Empey/Milt Williams

The Capilano College Blues won
the B.C. College baseball champi-
onship on Wednesday, May 16 at
Nat Bailey Stadium. Brilliant
pitching led the Blues to a pair
of shutout victories as they
blanked Douglas College 1-0 and
6-0 to sweep the best-of-three
conference final. “We've had great
pitching all season,” said Blues
coach Dave Empey, “but to throw
18 innings of shutout baseball in
a doubleheader is extraordinary.”
The Blues, who are in their

first season of college baseball,
finished with a 27-15 overall
record. They won 12 of their last
14 games, including five out of
six in the playoffs. “These guys
had a tremendous year,” Dave
says. “They worked hard and
made a commitment.” Six Blues
were selected for the B.C. College
all-star game, which was held in
Parksville. They include Mark
Roberts, Aleksi Suo, Sean
Hotzak, Andrew Koop, Jeff St.
Pierre and Phil Kinninmont.

Instructors win
Donner Prize

Capilano College Philosophy
instructors Stan Persky and
John Dixon were recently
announced as runners-up for

the 2001/2002 Donner Prize, the
award for best book on Canadian
public policy. The announcement
was made May 9 by

Allan Gotlieb, chairman

of the Donner Canadian
Foundation, at an awards dinner
at the Art Gallery of Ontario. This
is the fourth year for this distin-
guished prize, which is awarded
annually. The two runners-up
received $10,000 for their book
On Kiddie Porn: Sexual
Representation, Free Speech and
the Robin Sharpe Case (New Star
Books). The Donner Prize, the
largest of its kind in Canada,
annually awards $25,000 to the
winning author and $10,000
each to two runners-up. William
H. Donner established the DCF
in 1950.

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The Educational Technology
Resource Centre’s Chris Gratham
and Al Hovden were presented
May 9 with a Tried and True Award
by the Centre for Curriculum,
Transfer and Technology (C272).
They were recognized for work on
two separate pieces of software,
NotesBuilder and the Learning
Desktop. The innovation awards
honour and recognize post-
secondary educators who test,
implement, and use educational
technologies to enhance teaching,
learning, and/or who provide
greater service and support to
students or staff. Chris and Al
designed NotesBuilder primarily
to allow instructors to post
their instructional
resources, such as
notes and slides, to
the Web. The Learning
Desktop is a Web
portal that allows
students access to
those resources.
] Today, more than
4 172 faculty members
@ at Capilano College
== use the software
for 313 courses.
Anyone wanting a
Al Hovden demonstration of
the software can contact Chris at
local 1780 or Al at local 7833.

Chris Gratham

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