September 13, 1982 Volume IV No. 22

Budget may be tight, but there is an enormous eanely of students

No, it wasn't just your imagination that

registration seemed unusually hectic ‘this
year -- statistics from the Registrar's

office show that our registration is up
21% from last fall, or an increase of 631

students, full and part-time. That breaks
down as a 15% increase in full-time Aca-

demic students, no increase at all in full
time Career (they were full last year and
they're full again this year), a 21% in-
crease in part-time Career students and
a whopping 49% increase in part-time Aca-
demic students. "Many of the people listed

as part-time are there because they could
not get the programs they wanted,'' pointed

out Principal Paul Gallagher. Since we are
running the same number of courses as last

year, this increase means that classes are
larger. ''Courses are over 90% full,'' said

Gallagher, ''and virtually every first year
course is full or over-subscribed.'' Last

fall there were 900 people on waiting
lists for courses -- this fall there are

1600 on those lists, a number which does
not even take into consideration people

who enquired about courses over the phone
and found they were full. The new building

has not opened a moment too soon.

Azaroff heads south

How would you like to be _ in Florida at
Christmas time? If the idea grabs you, the
person to talk to is Paul Azaroff, who is
leading a horticultural tour of South
Florida during the Christmas break -- Dec.
16 to 30, to be exact. Along with David
Bar-Zvi from the VanDusen Gardens, Paul
and the group will be exploring botanical
gardens, cultural events, shopping and
ethnic communities. The price tag is $1500
and includes airfare, tours, hotel, en-
trance fees, bus transportation and Xmas

dinner. For more information call Paul at
local 266.

' addition to

New program for Music dept.

With the recent addition of versatile Van-
couver vocalist Shannon Gunn to the facul-
ty of the Commercial Music Program, and
extensive restructuring of that program,
there is now a curriculum especially for
vocalists--the Vocal Performance Major. In
taking the core courses in
piano, choir, sightsinging, ear training,
harmony and history of jazz and pop music,
students will receive both private ins-
truction in vocal production and class in-
struction in solo and small group singing.
Shannon has developed demanding courses
for her students which will expose them to
awide variety of performance situations
and styles. Aside from the usual live per-
formance requirements, students will take
part in studio recording projects and make
use of video taping for analysis of their
performances.

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