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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.