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INFORMER ©

* eee * AUGUST 31, 1979 * * eK

This memo contains information from

tip sheets, new flashes, and an abso-
lutely enthralling piece of filler.

k *& *& & VOLUME | No. 12 * *& * &

FOR THIS WEEK, just for this week mind you, we will be forgiving in the matter of miss-

ing tip sheets. After all, it's

nervous breakdown. That is to say,

alata ateteieteteehatetetatetelatatetetetetaiated NEWS * NEWS
The Biology department has been doing al]
sorts of impressive things this summer

(thanks for the tip sheet). Malcolm Fitz-
Earle and Bill Gibson presented papers on
their research at the joint meeting of the
Genetics Society.of Canada, Genetics Soc-
jety of America and American Society of
Naturalists at the U of Alberta in August.

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Sponsored jointly by ours truly (Cap) and
the North Van. School Board, the VSO is
coming to the Centennial Theatre... For a
light evening of music (at the light cost
of $1.50) check out Community Ed for tick-
ets. The date is Saturday Sept. 8 at 8 pm,
and the program will include  ''The Roman
Carnival'' by Berlioz, ''0n the Beautiful
Blue Danube"! by Strauss J., "Night on Bald
Mountain'' by Mussorgsky and selections by
Bizet and Rimsky-Korsakov. Cart along the
whole family.

ST?iELL MORE

There's good news at Student Housing these
days. Rikki Lucas, to her knowledge, has
settled 84 students and 85 landlords, but
she figures that at least that many again
haven't gotten back to her. There are 180
more places on the board still, and Rikki
is happy with the program. Good going!

Farewell to Bob Camfield, formerly a tem-
porary employee at the college. Don't
worry, though, we didn't throw him out. He
resigned to take a regular full-time posi-
tion in the Biology dept. at Fraser Valley
College.

panic time

* NEWS *

and we wouldn't want to interrupt your

as tong as you don't interrupt ours, we won't....

NEWS

And on the subject of the Symphony, Comm-
unity Ed is offering ''Talks on the Opera",
and ''Talks.on the Symphony"! again this
year. These are two series of informal
lectures that will cover the music, compo-
sers and guest performers in each perfor-
mance of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
and the Vancouver Opera Association. The
14 Symphony sessions cost $50 and start
Sept. 5 and 6, while the 4 Opera sessions
are $20 and start a couple of weeks later.
If you have seasons tickets, this could be
well worth your while--check out loc. 321.

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With the optimistic assumption that you
are pouring over this memo on Friday, we
may say that today there is an Open House
happening in Squamish. The event will run
all day as the staff up there tries to
persuade the natives to sign up for
various courses and such.

EXCITEMENT

According to G. M. Trevelyan in "English
Social History'', ‘Education has produced a
vast population able to read but unable to
distinguish what is worth reading.'' No,
this was not a morale. booster to get you
through the first week. In fact this may
strike you as irrelevant and make you won-
der what it's doing in here. Well, ‘it's
something that in journalistic circles is
referred to as a filler, and as you will
observe it is indeed nicely filling up the
bottom of this page until it has success-
fully fulfilled its purpose in this world.
And you even read it!