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More than 200 Lower Mainland high school sleuths were hot on the DNA trail of a killer in December at Capilano’s North Vancouver campus during a series of eight Genome B.C.-sponsored Geneskool on the Road workshops.

And while the homicide they were investigating was fictional, the secondary school biology students from Burnaby, Vancouver, Mission, Richmond and Delta employed the same techniques and equipment

used on the popular TV crime drama,

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

“The kids just have a ball at these events,” said Capilano lab convener, Ann Meitz, herself a huge CST fan, who sat in on Capilano’s Geneskool workshops last April and who was one of three facilitators for the fully

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booked day-long sessions. “They do DNA extraction from fruit, as opposed to real crime-scene DNA. But they use the same genetic fingerprinting tools that forensics and biotech labs work with.”

When the culprit’s DNA is finally revealed, many of the students “are totally surprised,” she added, “because the person they initially suspected didn’t do it.”

Genome B.C. medical geneticist, Dr. Catherine Anderson, who founded the non-profit research organization’s Geneskool program two years ago, said the workshops dovetail closely with the province's high school biology curriculum.

Marja de Jong Westman, the

Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences Biology coordinator who organized

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Capilano English instructor, Ryan Knighton, has been selected as one of 13 screenwriters to create a draft script based on his book Cockeyed. Ryan will work with star directors and writers at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab in Utah in January 2008. Past recipients of positions at the lab include Quentin Tarantino for Reservoir Dogs, P. T. Anderson for Hard

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Three students from Burnaby are having fun trying to solve a whodunit at one of Capilano’s Geneskool on the Road workshops held in December.

the first Capilano workshops, said they are also a great way to showcase her faculty's laboratory facilities and programs.

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Michael Thoma, instructor in the Motion Picture Production program at Capilano, has accepted the position of writer-in-residence for the North Shore libraries for 2008.

“This involves a number of workshops on the North Shore in April where I will meet with aspiring writers and give comments on their manuscripts and/or screenplays,” he said.

Michael is also on one of the committees supporting a 2008 conference at Simon Fraser University on Culture, Consciousness and Nature —A Context for Climate Change.

Photo by Ken Barbour

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| Notes from a meeting between Capilano’s principal, Alf Glenesk and two faculty members (FM)

: on April 7, 1970: a FM #1: Has the matter of

computerisation (sic) gone to _ the Research and Development _committee for their instruction _or to the Finance committee? AG: This is provided for in the budget for 1970-1971 and will come up again in the Finance committee. / _ FM #1: Whether it is a greater or lesser expense, it comes under _ budget priorities. | _FM #2: If you have $15,000 _to spend on a computer, who _defends this as an administra-__ ho says that _ computerisation is an adminis- _trative necessity and how do we get to saying that? FM #3: Computerisation can save money. FM #431 do not see why money _for a computer doesn’

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