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8 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> February 13 -19, 20<strong>18</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Campus<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong> moves to Main St.<br />

Shana Fillatrau<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong> is now on ‘Main<br />

Street’.<br />

The first day of second semester,<br />

second-year journalism students<br />

were surprised to learn they had<br />

their own newsroom.<br />

The Durham College journalism<br />

programs had been putting together<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong> newspaper and<br />

website and a radio program on<br />

the Riot in multiple classrooms,<br />

but now students have a place to<br />

produce news and information<br />

24-hours a day, seven days a week.<br />

The room, formally known as<br />

B138, is better known to those on<br />

campus as the room adjacent to<br />

The Pit, beside the Marketplace<br />

cafeteria. It used to be the old Student<br />

Association’s (SA) Clubs and<br />

Societies room. When the Durham<br />

College and UOIT SA divorced<br />

last year, the room remained empty.<br />

Until now.<br />

Journalism professors Brian Legree,<br />

Danielle Harder and Teresa<br />

Goff, put in a program change<br />

request to the Program Proposal<br />

Review Committee (PPRC). The<br />

PPRC brings recommended program<br />

changes to Elaine Popp, Durham’s<br />

vice-president, academic.<br />

The new room is part of a plan<br />

in which the second-year journalism<br />

students would participate in<br />

an eight-month-long, experiential<br />

learning, newsroom environment.<br />

The professors proposed to use the<br />

vacant room in The Pit as their<br />

functioning newsroom.<br />

It is a ministry mandate, as well<br />

as a goal for the college, to have an<br />

experiential learning component in<br />

every program, said Popp.<br />

She wants the components to<br />

be “robust, meaningful, and truly<br />

prepare students to be career-ready<br />

when they’re graduating from us.<br />

We want our graduates to be sought<br />

after in the industry that they’ve<br />

been trained in.<br />

“ Through the request, it was<br />

also brought to the attention of<br />

Greg Murphy, the dean of the<br />

School of Media, Art and Design,<br />

as well as Durham College president<br />

Don Lovisa.<br />

Murphy said it was Lovisa’s idea<br />

to give the room to The <strong>Chronicle</strong>,<br />

since it is a high-profile spot<br />

on campus.<br />

“It was really Don Lovisa who<br />

made the decision, and he had<br />

to really look at different possible<br />

uses for that room and see that<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong> had a great history<br />

of really representing the school<br />

well.” Students will be more<br />

aware of The <strong>Chronicle</strong>, now that<br />

Photograph by Shana Fillatrau<br />

Journalism professors (from left) Danielle Harder, Brian Legree and Teresa Goff enjoy their new<br />

space in the <strong>Chronicle</strong> room.<br />

it is in a high-traffic area, both<br />

Murphy and Legree, the journalism<br />

program coordinator, agree.<br />

“For several years, the journalism<br />

program team has wanted to<br />

be on, what we call, ‘Downtown<br />

Durham College,’ or on ‘Main<br />

Street,’ much like any major media<br />

organization.<br />

They want to be in the heart of<br />

the action.”<br />

Legree said it will be beneficial<br />

We want our<br />

graduates to be<br />

sought after in<br />

the industry that<br />

they have been<br />

trained in.<br />

for journalism students because<br />

they will not only have more handson<br />

experience, but will be accountable<br />

for their actions.<br />

The front of the new room is all<br />

glass, so students can be seen at all<br />

times while working in The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

space.<br />

Lovisa wants to see a vibrancy in<br />

the newsroom after that space sat<br />

quiet and dark for several months.<br />

“It’s a very public space, a space<br />

where what I am trying to achieve<br />

is that there is always something going<br />

on. There’s life there, and when<br />

students are sitting in the pit, they<br />

see something going on.<br />

So it just made sense to make it<br />

into a newsroom.<br />

”Peter Fitzpatrick, a first-year<br />

journalism student who will have<br />

use of the room all year starting<br />

next fall, is excited to be in a more<br />

professional environment.<br />

“I think it will be very beneficial.<br />

It will give more experience going<br />

into the workplace. Getting into the<br />

newsroom. It will give me the tools<br />

to succeed.”<br />

DC open house just 'fabulous'<br />

Good crowd<br />

for Durham<br />

College<br />

open house<br />

Cassidy McMullen<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

The long awaited open house has<br />

happened.<br />

More than 800 potential students<br />

came to Durham College (DC) Jan.<br />

20 with their friends and families<br />

to tour the school, look at the programs<br />

and extracurriculars the<br />

school has to offer.<br />

Due to the five-week college faculty<br />

strike, the fall open house had<br />

been cancelled and replaced by a<br />

winter open house instead.<br />

Emily Sharp, already a student<br />

at Durham, brought her younger<br />

sister to the open house to look at<br />

her options.<br />

Erica took a year off between<br />

high school and post-secondary in<br />

order to work and is now looking<br />

for her next step.<br />

“Inspiration to do something, I<br />

suppose, find a class to take, program<br />

to take,” says Erica, who is<br />

thinking about taking an art program<br />

at Durham but really wants<br />

to do something that involves writing.<br />

Mikaela Kauffeldt knows exactly<br />

what she wants to study.<br />

“Occupational therapy,” Kauffeldt<br />

says.<br />

Kauffeldt made the two-hour<br />

trip to DC from Haliburton for her<br />

first post-secondary open house.<br />

Kauffeldt hopes that from touring<br />

the school she would see if DC was<br />

the place for her.<br />

“It’s my first time being here,”<br />

Kauffeldt says. “I like the city.”<br />

On the administrative side, DC<br />

president Don Lovisa says the open<br />

house went well.<br />

“Just fabulous,” Lovisa says.<br />

“For a rescheduling of an open<br />

house, because we couldn’t have<br />

an open house during the strike,<br />

just fabulous, great response, we are<br />

very impressed.”<br />

Each year for the last five years,<br />

Lovisa has run a ‘meet the president’<br />

event where potential students<br />

ask him questions about Durham<br />

I get to talk<br />

to students on<br />

'why Durham<br />

College?'<br />

in order to earn some school swag.<br />

“I love it, it’s so much fun, it really<br />

is, it’s a lot of fun,”<br />

Lovisa says. “I get a lot of fun<br />

questions but most importantly I<br />

get to talk to parents and potential<br />

students on 'why Durham College?”<br />

Being asked by prospective students<br />

why they should choose Durham<br />

is usually a popular question<br />

but Lovisa’s favourite this year was<br />

from a young man asking what<br />

Lovisa’s favourite program is at<br />

DC.<br />

“I said that’s like picking your<br />

favourite child, you can’t do that,”<br />

Lovisa says.<br />

Brent Vipond was at DC to check<br />

out the school’s continuing education<br />

program.<br />

He’s currently working in a print<br />

and framing shop in Scarborough<br />

but is looking to return to school.<br />

Photograph by Cassidy McMullen<br />

Lisa White, director of admission and recruitment, joins DC<br />

president Don Lovisa at open house.<br />

“It’s close to home,” Vipond says.<br />

“I’ve been around the area a lot.<br />

Everyone who’s gone to Durham<br />

said they went and got good stuff<br />

out of it.”<br />

Despite the later date for the<br />

fall-turned-winter open house, the<br />

spring open house will be the regular<br />

date of March 25.

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