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2 The Chronicle November 29, 2011 Campus Riot held up but not held down Austin Rogers The Chronicle The Riot Radio was set to begin in October. However, with technical and co-ordination difficulties their launch date has continuously been set back. But the staff at the Riot won’t be giving in any time soon and needs to start before the year end. More has changed since last year than the station’s logo. Last year the Riot was in the hands of a trained professor and students who were not trained in radio. The operation area was a very small room and their equipment was less than stellar. This year the Student Association has taken the reins and added more organization and funding to the station’s operation and the station is also set to run as more than an audio station. “It’s now a visual radio station, one of the first in North America,” said station co-ordinator Laura Ferr. The station will broadcast over the Internet with audio and visual aids and will now comply with all CRTC standards. No pirated music will be played on the air, only music purchased legally. Various obstacles have caused significant delays to the station’s start date. “We (Riot Staff and the SA) discovered that what we want to do is more complicated than we thought and more people have more ideas and we try to implement them as well,” said technical director Mat Keselman. Now the Riot faces a serious technical problem. “We have to do a heart transplant first,” said Ferr. Austin Rogers GETTING READY TO RIOT: Mat Keselman, technical director, and Laura Ferr, station co-ordinator, inside the new location of Riot Radio. They have to replace a piece of equipment called a tricaster, a hardware/software combination that digitalizes audio and visual information and sends it via Ethernet. The tricaster they currently have is a simple model that doesn’t suit their needs. Their start date now depends on how long the more advanced model takes to arrive. Other delays include staffing the station. Last year’s co-ordinator Iain McPherson resigned to focus on his teaching and Ferr wasn’t hired as his permanent replacement in the revamped station until August. In the new station the DJs won’t have to worry about handling the technical operation of their shows. A technical operator will always be in the booth to run that aspect. “They get to focus on being personalities,” said Ferr. In their new DJs the Riot is looking for people who can produce quality content and sensible direction on the air. “Whatever you say, know that you have to stand behind that,” said Ferr. The DJs will also be learning while volunteering for the station. “You’ll never get this much hands-on training and prep work from a co-ordinator or a tech person or a news and media director,” Ferr said. DJs will also have the opportunity to learn how to operate the technical equipment if they want. Graduates greet future with excitement Continued from Page 1 Standing out among the people on stage was Don Lovisa, Durham College president, who spent most of the evening with a smile of pride stretching from one ear to the other. After a playing of the national anthem, Lovisa introduced the people behind him, including new UOIT president Tim McTiernan, president of the Alumni Association Lillian Jacoby, president of the Student Association Amy LaRue, and special guest Dan Quinn. He also shared his enthusiasm and excitement for reaching this point with students before handing off the microphone. LaRue, during her turn at the microphone, talked to students about their time at Durham College beyond just education and told them to hold onto the memories from their social lives as well. Whether it be a get-together at E.P. Taylors, attending a sporting event, or getting to know a new friend, Durham College graduates were leaving with an abundance of memories. Quinn, a Durham College graduate from 1984, wished students the best in the future and offered his words of wisdom as a former Durham College student. Quinn had students and guests laughing as he started his speech talking of the growth PROUD PRESIDENT: Durham College president Don Lovisa wished graduates the best in the future. of technology and social media and his plans, jokingly, to create the greatest social media site possible, Youtwitface. Once Quinn had won over the crowd with his social media plans, he began offering his advice to students. “You don’t come to Durham College to learn to do something,” said Quinn, “You come to Durham College to be something.” Quinn has been the managing director of the NFL Canada, established sports clubs for physically disabled children and adults, established the Canadian Sport Awards program, and serves as chair of the Durham College Sports Management advisory committee. Quinn told students that success doesn’t come easy but to never be afraid to dream big. He wished the fall graduates excitement as they walk out of Durham College doors to either pursue further education or start their careers, and to not be intimidated. After the speakers finished and students became antsy in their seats, shifting their weight, tapping their feet, and looking about the stage, they were finally given their recognition. Students of all ages and backgrounds walked across the platform shaking hands and accepting their papers on school at a time, some students laughing and others crying with excitement. Some students received additional recognition as Durham College leaders with president’s honour roll acknowledging students with a cumulative grade point average of 4.0 or higher, student leadership award for students who enhance life on campus, and recognition for the highest-ranking graduates in programs. When they were returning to their seats they were greeted by a mob of excited fans. Spouses, children, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, Kim Moreau friends, and many more were shouting, clapping, cheering, taking pictures and smiling to show their pride. “Love you mom,” shouted one person in the crowd. “That’s my boy,” “You go!”, “I love you baby,” shouted others as they raced to the front barrier in an attempt to capture a quick picture. The excitement radiated off the crowd for the entire 90-minute ceremony. When the ceremony closed, students waved their hands and papers in the air, smiling and laughing as they followed the bagpiper out of the gymnasium and through the doors to the rest of their lives.
Campus The Chronicle November 29, 2011 3 Students learning efficiently Cameron McDonald The Chronicle What better way to learn home maintenance than working on a real home? That’s exactly what Durham College has provided for its students. The school of skilled trades and apprenticeship is planning to unveil its mock homes on campus starting in January of this year. One of the homes is a “newbuild” house, which is currently being built by Durham Custom Homes and their affiliate suppliers, is set to be ready for use by the 2012 fall semester. Ralph Aprile, the vice president of Facilities and Ancillary Services, has been overseeing the new-build project and is confident in Durham Custom Homes’ ability to deliver a topnotch building. “They build all of these cutting-edge energy features into all of their homes, so they are perfect for this job, because we want the most energy-efficient home possible for students to learn in.” The other home was already fully constructed and was moved onto campus earlier last year. The house is a 1970s model and is built up to standards at that time. “We actually had quite a hard time getting the permits to move this house here. It was hard to pass this as a learning Cameron McDonald HOME BUILDING: Energy-efficient construction site awaiting Whitby students. facility rather than a standard home,” said Darrin Caron, the dean of Whitby campus. The older home, although already fully built, has had to be overhauled to be deemed safe for students to learn in. This has included the installation of extra supports and additional fire alarms to make the building safer. The newer home will act as a contrast and comparison to the older home, which is directly beside it, so that students can see the difference in energy efficiency techniques. Allan Martin, the program co-ordinator of Apprenticeship and Renewable Technology, is confident the contrast between the two homes will be useful for many skilled trades programs. “The old home would be best used for energy audits to see where improvements can be made, and the new home can be used to compare the standards and learn how to maintain the current ones. Electricians, carpenters, auditors and plumbers can work on these homes, just to name a few.” The goal is for both homes to be ready for full use in time for the start of the 2012 fall semester. Graduate students offer free conflict resolution Whitby campus growing greener Nicole Patton The Chronicle Nicole Patton RESOLUTION: Valerie Lepik, Virginia Harwood, Bettina Marly, Melissa Hauke, Deena Misale, and Tim Dailley. “Life can be full of conflict – we can help.” That is the pledge of the Campus Conflict Resolution Service. The service is run by the Mediation – Alternative Dispute Resolution (MADR) graduate program students and provides free, confidential conflict resolution services for both Durham College and UOIT. “We provide an outreach service on campus where we will provide presentations to various classrooms across the campus to present on what is conflict, tips on dealing with conflict and also provide students with knowledge about our service,” said Virginia Harwood, MADR co-ordinator and supervisor of the CCRS. “We work with students to create group work contracts. We do some pre-conflict negotiations and we do mediations for students.” The service was built up in late 2010 to give MADR students some learning experiences and to help the campus community with certain situations. The CCRS started operating at the beginning of this year. “It provides the students, our mediation students, with real world learning,” said Harwood. “They really run a business and provide the service. They do all the marketing, the tracking of documentation and we also support our campus community. So it’s really a win-win that our students are getting experience and the campus community can benefit from the services that we offer.” Conflicts the service can help resolve can be between friends, groups, classmates, relationships and teams. Sessions can take anywhere between half an hour to two hours and mediators work with students to schedule a meeting at a mutually convenient time and place. “The participants want a very quiet location, a very confidential location,” said Harwood. Places such as boardrooms on campus or places in the student’s residence building can be used for the sessions. Speaking with the students involved, these third party mediators can help devise an acceptable solution to the conflict that everyone is happy with. “It’s popular and it’s becoming very popular,” said Harwood. “The mediations that we do certainly have a very high rate of success in terms of resolving, in helping students resolve, their conflict.” If you need help with a conflict on campus appointments can be booked with a mediator at CCRS@durhamcollege.ca. Continued from Page 1 This energy neutral zone is due to the over 350 solar panels scattered around campus, the 35 wells that are 350 feet deep, and six wind turbines which all combine to make up the majority of the energy output for the new areas of campus. Martin explained that the solar panels and geothermal wells are the biggest contributors to actual energy output on campus, with the panels generating an average of 78 kilowatts per hour and the wells producing enough heat and cooling for the entire main building. The solar panels also heat the water for the majority of the facilities around campus. On top of these heavy lifters, there are still the small additions, that also contribute such as skylights, which use a mirror system to provide natural light for most of the day, and waterless urinals, reducing the amount of water needed to be pumped through the building. Aprile is adamant about the fact that the environmental additions have been just as useful to the students as they have been to the building’s costs and maintenance. “We have created a living lab environment for students to work on every day.” Allan Martin, the program coordinator for the Renewable Energy Programs at Durham College Whitby campus elaborated on Aprile’s observations, by adding that the students actually get to work on the panels, turbines, and wells to see first hand how they operate and how they can be maintained. There are maintenance rooms for the wind turbines and the geothermal wells, where students of the Energy Auditing program can study and regulate energy outputs, and the solar panels have a website devoted to past and real-time statistics for similar student purposes. “This gives students real-time feedback on the equipment they are learning about. Instead of reading about altering energy levels, for example, they actually get to alter them.” With Phase 3 of the construction plan set to break ground in a couple weeks, and all of the positive results of the first two phases, the future seems bright for the Whitby campus, with more environmental additions slated for the new facility which will house an additional 900 students. As vice president Aprile aptly said, “We need to focus on green sustainability, now and, more importantly, into the future.”
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