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Track pI'~pOsed:-foi-- _c-o mplexby BRAD SAVAGE
Staff Reporter

Tony Backler has proposed the
college excavate the area under ~e
gym in the proposed Athletic
Complex to accommodate an indoor
track facility. Mr. Backler, Tech·
nology teacher is President of IJJe
Oshawa Legion Track Club.
The proposal, given as an alterna·
live to the one the college was
already considering, called for the
basement to contain a banked indoor
track, and a central area for other
activities. "You almost ~ouble the

amount or gym space", Mr. Backler
said.
The original proposal called for a
track around the perimeter of a
warm·up room. The problem, ac·
cording to Mr. Backler, is _that the
track was almost an oval.
"You jusl finish coming out or one
comer and you start going into
another" he said. " If you want to
train for ;unning, you could get dizzy
- it would take 28 laps to complete
one mile."
The original track would have
been in a room the size or a

basketball court: Carlton University
in Ottawa, has a facility similar to
the one Mr. Backler proposed.
Mr. Backler said, " If you are just
going to use the track for warm·up
prior to other exercises, then the size
is fine. JC you want to train, it is not."

New SAA constitution
passed by majority·
executive oriented.
The next executive will have the

by RENEE LACASSE

SAC will have $3,000 balance
by JANICE CRAIG

generally agreed that there was not
enough communication between
Next year's Student Administra- new students and those in second
tive Council <SAC> will i:>e starting and third')'ears. They fell that there
out with a balance of $3,000 was not enough personal contact
according to the Treasurer's report with new students to get them
readat the Wednesday, Mar. 26 SAC Involved in orientation.
~neral Association meeting.
' SAC itself was discussed and the
The flna.ncial position of SAC, said question Mr. Hamer raised was, "Is
Steve Hamer, SAC Presldent, is it performing the function it was
better than it has been for the past Intended to do?" He would like to see
several years.
the SAC as a political body as
The new executive was intro- "anyone can put on a pub or a
duced at this meeting. Mr. Hamer dance."
gave the President's Report which
Discussion on this point centered
looked at the faults and successes or on the feeling that the SAC could not
·the SAC.
become a political body unless the
Mr. Hamer said the lack or
involvement at Durhani is the fault
of high schools which lead students
to an 'I don't care' attitude.
The 13 people who attent.led the
meeting discussed the problems in
areas that Mr. Hamer raised. It was
St.ff Reporter

Woman
advisor ·
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in
ministry
A "Women's ·Advisor" was recent·
ly appointed to the Ministry of
Colleges and Universities.
Ms. Jo Ann Poglitsh's principal
responsibility will be IQ oversee the
developmeP.t and implemei:itaUon of
an affirmative action plan to
equalize GpP.>ttunities .{or , \\'.91Den
employees or the Ministry and its
agencies. She will also co-ordinate
the Ministry's program for lnterna·
tional Womep's Year.
Ms. Poglitsh's previous exper·
ience has been at the Ministry of
Community and Social Services,
Civil Service Commission and the
•Women's Bureau of the Ministry of
Labour.

student body backed them.
Mr. Hamer doubted the validity of
winter carnival as there was a large
amount of money spent and only an
average of one hundred people
participated.
The pub nights were found by the
SAC to be most successful. They
were found to have made a profit
and have had more involvement
than any other student activity.
SAC hoped that next year much of
the effort that went into winter
carnival and pub nights could be put
into different areas. They hope to
achieve a variety or activities so that
it is not always a pub night.

Controlling aUdience
is concern of bands
by JOHN ELLIOTr
"The average teenager Is looking
Audience control is still a major for something above them when ~Y
concern for rock-and-roll bands.
Tim O'DoMell, a professional go to see an act", said Mr.
booking agent and shareholder or O'DoMell. "They are looking for
Dram Agency said that If a SOme SO_.
•·• of stimulation."
rock-and-roll band can't control its Mr. O'Donnell also said that the
audience then their success will be musicians must get into their own
music.
short-lived.
Volume is-another major factor in
As a booking agent Mr. O'DoMell audience control. "A loud band can
secures jobs for a large number or get punch Into theli- music that will
rock-and-roll bands in Ontario. He
works wiih employers who just want build up the audience a large
a band for one event tjght up the percentage or the time", he stated.
ladder. to ·bar-lounge owners who He-also said that a band can be loud
book bands for week performances. and still be cleanly loud. ·
Mr. O'Donnell said that most or
In ~ small~r comm~ties. ~r
the· successful acts can come on Ontano, the mam e"!phas1s ~ still
stage and know exactly what an on stage presence said Mr. 0 Donaudience is like and how to control ' neHll.
'd th t "th
g
them.
e sa1 . a , ,e avera .e
April Wine, were sited by Mr. 16-year-old J~t doesn t ha~~ his
O'DoMell as being one of the more head Into music very deeply but,
professio~l bands for crowd con- they're the ones that can make or
trol.
break a band these days.

''Dude-Damsel''
Eric Blackburn, TSE, is a country
boy from Uxbridge, Ontario. He
works In the technology wing when
· he's not down home on the farm.
Eric, 20, also likes to hunt small
game around the countryside near
Uxbridge. He's not all outdoors
though. Eric is also nn amateur
photographer, taking pictures mostly or animals.
After graduating, he plans to go to
work in the tower at Mallon Airport,
in Toronto.
Quiel but deadly.
Justine Matasic, GU is this issue's
damsel. She's a 20 year-old Oshawa
lady who likes to ski. She also likes
swimming in the SUTf!mer.
Justine's interests also run to
reading and travelling-she plans to
go to Europe this summer.
Arter graduating? Justine's going
to'Ryerson to become a chartered
accounfant.

He said that for the advantages,
the extra expense was well worth it.
Access would be no problem, he
said. The squash court, adjacent to
the gym would be belowground level
and the excavation of the basement
would be the only problem.

Staff Reporter.
' Aminimum or 65 per cent average right to contest any aspect of

athletics provided by the SAA.
at the election time is required for Other changes had also been
any person wishing to nm for SAA
.·
executive position. An 60 ~r cent made.
Co-ordinator or women's athletics.
average will be asked to maintain and co-ordfnator or men's athletics
the position.
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are the appropriate terms to use.
This is one of the three amend- This numerical change In the
ments made in the new SAA average required to run or maintain
constitution.
a SAA position is due to the fact that
The constitution had been passed the report system had been changed.
at the SAA general meeting associa- .On the report card the overall
tion held on Monday, Mar. 24.
iverage rppeared in numerical at
A minimum of 50 per cent of the Christmas and will appear numeric·
student body was required to hold al in the future.
the vote and two thirds or the voters
An addition had been made; upon
had to vote for the constitution to failure to attend three consecutive
pass it.
regular meetings of the SAA.
A recorded vote of 478 votes for
Mr. Gates said that the acceptaand three against was registered at tion of thf( constitution was one or
the meeting.
the main objectives or the SAA this
This high level of student Involve- year.
ment is due at the present executive
work. •
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Al Gates, vice president of
finance, said that the constitution is
more student oriented than SAA cour1e

New adult traini"R
in banking

Inflation outstril'MI

Durham College is offering a new

r-- adult training course to instruct

how to become tellers and
financl•al i·ncreases students
cashiers. This 12 week course will

run Monday through Friday from 9
Communitycollegeshav~notbeen a.m. to 4 p.m. starting April 7.
granted eno~ financial •.ncreases Objectives of the course are to
to keep up with the rate of Inflation. ·give stUdents the abillty to follow
How .does this affect Durham? routine cash handling and banking
According to Lister Robinson, Dean procedures as well as assisting
or Academic Affairs, we will have to them in c~tomer relations.
"lighten o~r belts." .
Successful completion of the
Mr. Robinson explamed for ex- course should enable the student to
ample._ the inflatiC>f! rate was 11 per obtain a position with a "bank, trust
cent this year and If~ school was company, credit union, finance
granted a 10.5per cent increase, that company sales office or a retail
woyldn't be too bad. But, what outlet. '
h~ppens ,.In.. a . few ... Y~'1\ ,when The course is in ,three units •
Dutham is conlaoually ,being given Banking Procedures, Business
less than the percentage reported Mathematics and Office Proced·
due to inflation?
ures PrereQuislte to taking the
" I don't think, at this stage, we ~isGradelOorequivalent, and
should worry about teacher lay- a Business Mathematics and Comoffs", said Mr. Robinson.
munications test.
'
"W~ could p~obably cut down on Students may qualify for training
supplies, bu_t 1t would take more allowance through Canada Manpeople to handle the extra work than power They may also take the
it would take to keep track of them," c~ as fee payers at a cost of $48•
he said.