Photo by Ken Barbour

Lorne Braun (left), internal chair
of the McRae Institute of
International Management, is
seen here with Dr. Vamik
Volkan, Nobel Peace Prize
nominee in 2005 and 2006. Th
two were at a conference last
November. held in Cape Town,
South Africa. Titled Memory,
Narrative and. Forgiveness:
Reflecting on Ten Years of South
Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation

Commission, the

gether 300 conflict

ent brought to-
theoreticians,

researchers, writers, artists and

Flying through the air with the greatest of ease

‘The ultimate analyst

Computer support analyst, Kelly
Mah, knows a lot about computers,
but he’s the master at Ultimate.
Ultimate is a non-contact sport
played with a Frisbee (disc) by

two seven-player teams. He was a
fixture on the Venezuelan team that
played in the Worlds in Vancouver
back in 1997 and helped his mixed-
division Vancouver Ultimate League
RoShamBo team take a national
title in 2000.

While the game has been a slow
sell in suburban areas such as the
North Shore, it’s been booming in
urban areas—and especially around
universities, where the sport claims
its roots.

“The growth has been phenomenal
in Vancouver,” said the Carson

Submitted by Sarah Goodwin

While many of us were spending
our Christmas holiday relaxing
and enjoying time with family
and friends, a group of Tourism
Event Management students
were working hard to ensure a
fantastic start to 2007.

Eleven students of the TEM
part-time certificate program,
offered at the Squamish
campus, were involved with
the First Night Celebration in
Whistler. This family-oriente
event offered a variety of
activities for all ages and
featured entertainment by B

is College computer support analyst, Kelly Mah.
North Shore News/Cindy Goodman photo.

Graham grad who has been working
at the College since April 2006. “In
the last three or four years we've
had about a 30 per cent growth.”

In fact, Ultimate is currently the
largest recreational organized sport
in Vancouver, with more than 3,000
registered members.

Last November, Kelly travelled
with his team to Perth, Australia
to represent Canada in the World
Ultimate Frisbee Championships.
With about 90 teams vying for
supremacy, Kelly’s team finished
fourth in the Master's division.
Today, the Burnaby resident is

a member of the organizing
committee for the 2008 World
Ultimate and Guts Championship,
which will be held in Vancouver

Swade, DJ Grand Theft, Ne
Foote, and Zacki Ibrahim.

Capilano College students
involved in both paid and
positions, and took ona
toles from event and yout
coordination to operations and
marketing.

jety

“The students were outstanding,
said Sue Eckersley, president of
Watermark Communications I
was a ton of fun to watch
action and if they continu
this career path, they ar
be impact. players in the i

from August 2 to 9. More than 100
teams from 30 countries will gather
on the grounds of the University of
British Columbia to compete for the
world title.

This summer, Kelly and his team will
travel to Toronto to compete in the
Canadian nationals for the right to
play in the 2008 event. He is also
handling coordinator duties for

the North Shore’s Ultimate League,
which starts up again in early
spring. New players are welcome
and clinics will be offered to

those neophytes who want to learn
how to play. Visit www-nsul.ca

for more information, or e-mail
ultimatekelly@gmail.com.

Thousands of revelers enjoyed Whistler's
First Night celebration, organized.in part
by Capilano College students.

With more than 6,000 people

in attendance, the event team
exceeded its lofty goal of a 10 per
cent increase over last year, making
this one of the largest New Year's
Eve celebrations in Canada.

practitioners from 21 countries.

Lorne presented a paper on

conflict management between
Eritrea and Ethiopia. His research
has focused on how the countries’
perceptions of each other impact
prospects for reconciliation.

“This conference was important
in terms of learning from South
Africa's Truth and Reconciliation
Commission as it relates to

Canada’s Indian Residential

Schools settlement process,” [
said.

Dr. Volkan, an American Cypriot

psychoanalyst, presented the
keynote address titled /rauma,
Mourning, Memorials and
Forgiveness.

r. Janet Waters, an instructor
the Psychology department at
apilano College, is currently on
aid educational leave doing a
udy of workplace stress and
burnout among College employees
The first phase of the study will
be a senes of interviews (about
40 minutes long) with College

e mployees about the pressures
and challenges of their work that
can Cause negative or positive
stress. Phase II will be an online
survey directed at employees
(about 15 to 20 minutes long)

n job stress. Janet will be
ublishing her findings at http:/,

nd will also be posting additiona
resources, All results are
nonymo is and completely
confidential. Anyone willing to
participate in Janet's study is
asked to contact her at local 2475;
or jwaters@capcollege.bc.ca.

ogs.capcollege.bc.ca/stressstudy

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