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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AGENDA
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 @ 12:00pm in the CNC Cafeteria - FREE PIZZA for members College of New Caledonia – Prince George Campus The Confluence - CNCSU
1. Introduction and Explanation of Voting Procedures 2. Ratification of the Plenary Chairperson 3. Adoption of the Annual General Meeting Agenda 4. Presentation of Annual Report from the Executive Committee 5. Presentation of the Audited Financial Statements for the 2012-2013 Fiscal Year 6. Selection of the Union’s Auditor for the 2013-2014 Fiscal Year 7. Other Announcements
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Order of the Day – Adjournment (1:00 p.m.)
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Room 1-303, 3330 22 Avenue, Prince George, BC, V2N 1P8 Tel: (250) 561-5852 Fax: (250) 562-5884 Email: info@cncsu.ca Web: www.cncsu.ca
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Environment Canada 7-Day Weather Forecast: For Prince George, BC. 4 November - 10 November, 2013
Submissions, inquiries and requests can be made to news@cncsu.ca, in person at the CNCSU office room 1-303, or mailed to “The Confluence c/o CNCSU 3330-22nd Ave. Prince George, BC. V2N 1P8”
Monday, Nov 4: 0°C, Chance of flurries. Tuesday, Nov 5: 3°C, -3°C, Sun and Cloud. Chance of flurries and rain. Wednesday, Nov 6: 3°C, -4°C, Cloudy, chance of rain. Thursday, Nov 7: 0°C, -5°C, Sunny. Friday, Nov 8: -1°C, -5°C, Cloudy, chance of flurries.
The Confluence is produced every two weeks at the CNCSU office on CNC’s Prince George campus by Garett Svensen.
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Garett Svensen, Editor-in-Chief
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All submissions are welcome. After vetting, edited content may be compensated at the CNCSU Executive Board’s approval. Advertisement rates are available upon request.
Sunday, Nov 10: -2°C, -7°C, Cloudy, chance of flurries.
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Saturday, Nov 9: 0C, -5°C, Cloudy, chance of flurries.
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Prizes
The Communication Services team will pick the top 10 photos submitted
between September 3 and April 15 and hand out up to $1,000 in prizes. Who can enter
This contest is open to all current CNC students and employees at any
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campus of the College of New Caledonia. (Employees of the Communication Services Department cannot enter). The Fine Print
By entering CNC’s Share Your Shots photo contest, you agree to the following: By submitting your photo, you give unlimited and unrestricted permission for the College of New Caledonia to publish, exhibit, play, transfer and otherwise use the photos for marketing, administrative and educational purposes. The College also has the right to use and reproduce the image for free in any media for promotional materials. You must have permission to take the photo of the selected individuals in the photo, and have their permission to enter the photo in the contest. Your photo entry must include caption, date contact and location information. Entries must be an original work taken by the person submitting the photo. Colour or black-and-white photos are permitted. Portrait or landscape layouts are both acceptable. Photos must be appropriate for general audiences. The College reserves the right to reject any and all submissions. To be eligible, digital photos must be submitted in JPEG format no smaller than 1 MB but no larger than 10 MB with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. All suitable photos will be displayed online at cnc.bc.ca/shareyourshots Winners will be posted online and will be contacted by email. To enter send your photo to contests@cnc.bc.ca with the subject line Share Your Shots and your name. In your email, include; your full name, email address, phone number, and department or program, and photo caption information.
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Questions? Contact us at 250-561-5859 or contests@cnc.bc.ca Contest Closes: April 15, 2014
The College of New Caledonia Students’ Union (CNCSU) is the collective voice of all students attending the College of New Caledonia. The CNCSU provides services, events, campaigns and advocacy for students’ rights locally, provincially and nationally. The CNCSU is also a founding member of the Canadian Federation of Students, Canada’s national student movement. Your Students’ Union provides many opportunities to get involved: joining committees, volunteering at events or advocating for the rights of students everywhere. Whatever your interest, your Students’ Union has an opportunity for you. If you have any questions or would like to volunteer, e-mail us at info@cncsu.ca. CNCSU Office, Room 1-303 3330 22nd Avenue Prince George, BC, V2N 1P8 Tel: (250) 561-5852 Fax: (250) 561-5884 Web: www.cncsu.ca
Student Advocacy
Advocacy is the primary function of your Students’ Union. The CNCSU can support and assist you through grade appeals, student complaints, provide advice and offer assistance with any issues you might face as a student. The CNCSU also lobbies for fair, affordable and fully accessible post-secondary education on the municipal, provincial and national government levels. Contact us at info@cncsu.ca to find out how you can help.
Faxing and Photocopying
Free faxing and cheapest photocopying on campus: $.05 per sheet B/W $.10 per side Colour.
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Members’ Handbook
- FREE to all members. - Dayplanner to help you keep organized. - Great source of information on your Students’ Union, the College, and the campaign work of the Canadian Federation of Students.
ISIC/Student Saver Card
- FREE to all CNC Students! ($20 Value) - Great discounts on travel with Greyhound, Via Rail and Travel CUTS. - Discounts around all over BC, across Canada and abroad.
Campus Clubs
- Funding is available, with up to $500 per club! - Great opportunity to make new friends & build campus community. - Stop by the office and start a club today!
Extended Health & Dental
- All full-time students at the CNC Prince George Campus are automatically enrolled in the Health and Dental Plan. Students that have pre-existing coverage may opt-out of the program by bringing proof of coverage to the CNCSU office, room 1-303 before September 27th, 2013.
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Your Students’ Union
- Full-time students’ cost works out to $21.67 a month for the full years’ (Sept-Aug) one time charge of $260. - Part-time students’ optional enrollment (Opt-In) works out to $31.49 a month for the full years’ (Sept-Aug) one time charge of $377.88. - For full coverage details see greenshield.ca or stop by room 1-303. - For an additional charge, dependents can be added to the Health and Dental Coverage. - add $233.73 for one dependent. - add $276.12 for two or more dependents. - The Opt-In/Out period is until September 27th, 2013 for the fall semseter and January 2nd31st, 2014 for the spring semester.
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.
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We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.
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Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. -John McCrae, 1915
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Should the NHL Remove fighting from the game?
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By Ryan Fournier, Contributor.
The October 1st Fight Between Colton Orr and George Parros
out to beat up other players and cause season ending, if not career ending, injuries. Just like Carolina Hurricanes GM Jim Rutherford stated in an interview on SportsNet, “If you wanna see a fight then you should go to a boxing match not a hockey game to see a fight.” I have been watching hockey my whole life and I have not seen as much debate about taking fighting out of the game as I have now. It sure is nice to see that the NHL and NHLPA are trying to clean up the game, making it safer for the players, and more enjoyable for fans, such as myself, who like watching a good game of hockey without the fighting. It’s going to be really interesting to see what the league and players will decide on in the coming months of the new season. We’ll see if fighting will indeed be taken out of the game completely. In my opinion, I really think the NHL should take fighting out of the game. As long as there is still fighting in hockey, there are going to be a lot more injuries and horrific accidents, such as what happened on that Tuesday night. There is NO NEED FOR FIGHTING, GET IT OUT OF THE GAME NOW!
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I’m glad to see that Brendan Shanahan, NHL Director of Player Safety, is really looking after the players’ safety out on the ice. Shanahan looks into giving out suspensions based on illegal hits, fighting and other illegal conduct. I believe that Lately, there has been a debate, that I have been hearing and seeing, on repeat offenders should be suspended TSN SportsCentre, about whether fighting should be banned from the NHL, due to without pay, for up to a maximum of the severity of some of the injuries that have occurred over the years due to fighting. 20 games for their first offence, and Such as what happened in a fight during the October 1st game between the Montreal suspended for half the season if they Canadiens and the Toronto Maple Leafs: when Maple Leafs right-winger Colton Orr continue, on their third offence they and Canadiens right-winger George Parros were engaged in a fight, Parros accidently should be suspended for the entire season. got dragged to the ice by Orr and hit jaw on the ice, knocking him unconscious upon The league’s excuse for keeping fighting in impact. After the incident, coaches, players and GMs throughout the league were the game is because the fans enjoy seeing talking about taking fighting out of the game. a good tilt every now and then. I believe that the health and safety of the players NHLPA president, Colin Campbell was at general managers’ meetings earlier should be top priority and that fighting this year and fighting in hockey was one of the major things talked about during the should be banned, period. If you would meetings. In an interview on Hockey Night in Canada, Colin Campbell said that “No one is saying we should get rid of fighting…I’m just saying we should ask the question, like to see a good old fashioned fight, go because before everyone was afraid to ask the question.” I believe that fighting should to a boxing match or take up MMA. NHL hockey is based on skill, passion, fairness be eliminated from the game these days mainly because there is no place for fighting in the game anymore. Hockey should played with passion, respect and skill, not going and respect for one another.
Photo Culinary Team Canada
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An Evening with the Masters
Culinary Team Canada in the middle of service.
hands of five of Canada’s greatest chefs, chosen to compete in Basel Switzerland next month in a world competition against teams from ten countries. PG was the last, and surprising, practice stop for a team that had previously hosted similar events in Halifax and Edmonton –much larger cities. However, judging by the turnout, we were a worthy venue. The competition: All of the world teams must use the same ingredients. The preparation and presentation is what would separate a gold medal from a bronze.
The ingredients: • A combined cold and hot hors d’oeuvre with salmon and crustaceans as the main components. This should be served with the appropriate accompaniments and garnishes. • A creation of veal and lamb. At least two different cooking methods must be used. This should be served with a creative starch side dish and two vegetables. • A creative dessert with hot, cold and frozen components incorporating chocolate, almonds and oranges.
The verdict: These abstract descriptions do not do proper justice to what was experienced. Each dish was meticulously plated with obsessive attention to color, form and proportion. Typically, the dishes would include seven or eight food elements that were designed to create a synergy of intense, unforgettable flavors. Since each plate included diverse elements, there was, at least at my table, a lively ongoing discussion and assessment. Not everything was a smash hit with everyone. One woman wouldn’t touch the veal tongue and sweetbreads -clearly too squeamish, and out of her league. Others disagreed on whether the lobster foam with vanilla oil was overpowering the delicate sous-vide salmon, or even whether the flavor might have been enhanced with a bit of anise… Such is the chatter among foodies. All in all, the dishes were quite extraordinary, especially in the context of this town, not known for 3-star cuisine. The desert was a knock out. I can still taste the light-as-air lemon mousse with the Yuzu gel interior. Absolute gold! Topnotch stuff! Bring it home, Culinary Team Canada!
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On the night of Monday, Oct 21st, about 200+ PG foodies shelled out big bucks to sample a three-course dinner from the
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By Jayna Starr, Contributor.
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Getting Your Ass to Mars (Within Your Lifetime)
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By Garett Svensen, Editor-in-Chief.
The first is money, pure and simple. Putting a robot on Mars, usually coupled with a satellite, can cost upwards of a billion dollars. Putting three or four people on Mars in a self-sufficient habitat is going to be absurdly expensive. Luckily, there are multiple eccentric billionaires willing to devote ridiculous amounts of resources towards the project. Elon Musk, known for co-founding PayPal and Tesla motors, started SpaceX in 2002 with the stated goal of advancing space technology to the point where humanity could become multiplanetary, citing Issac Asimov as inspiration. The company currently holds a contract to resupply the ISS and has conducted two resupply missions, along with multiple satellite launches and test flights. SpaceX has taken a measured approach, attempting to improve technology and lower the costs of space travel (SpaceX has managed to lower the cost of Low Earth Orbit payload from about $8000/kg in the Space Shuttle days to about $1000/kg today) to the point where the Moon and Mars become affordable targets for manned missions and permanent settlement.
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On the other end of the spectrum, there is Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp’s Mars One initiative, which despite a great deal of media exposure and ambition, doesn’t seem as practical as Musk’s: the Mars One proposal focussing more on the business model of a human settlement on Mars, rather than Musk’s focus on efficiency and lowered cost. Lansdorp’s proposal is to fund the human exploration and settlement of Mars through a media framework, pitching the mission as a reality program. The entire process, from choosing the astronauts to landing on Mars and beyond would be recorded and broadcast as an international media spectacle lasting decades. While Mars critics have pointed out that PhotoWikimedia Commons ambitious, this plan fails to really account for the So, last year you watched as Curiosity descended to the dusty technical difficulties of getting people surface of Mars. Maybe you’ve head of the initiatives to create a reality TV series from here to Mars, let alone living there for the rest of their lives. about exploring the next planet out, or you’ve heard Elon Musk passionately talk about leading a pioneer party on a one-way trip to settle Mars in the next few decades. And boy, are there technical hurdles. Considering the rapid growth of private-sector space travel, the seeming ordinariness The first, and possibly most crippling, is and humanity of astronauts aboard the ISS as shown by people like Canadian astronaut the amount of radiation that people would Chris Hadtfield, and the scale and success rate of recent NASA missions to Mars, it be exposed to both en-route and on Mars. seems like people will be standing on the Red Planet within a few years. While it Earth has a very powerful magnetic field, might be starting to look like a reality, there are still major challenges that need to be generated by the hot, moving iron in the overcome to put human feet on martian soil. core of our planet. This magnetic field, the
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decade, like in Lansdorp’s proposal, would require more than a reality show to get off the ground. And, like critics are fond of saying, there are urgent challenges facing us on our own planet.
Climate change, war, disease and hunger all threaten the way of life for huge segments of the population, and there is no question that we should devote resources to fixing problems that plague our planet. But there is also the imperative that Musk alluded to: to survive to the distant future, we need to expand to multiple planets. Because, on a cosmic scale, we exist on a knife’s edge. A single natural or human-created disaster could destroy our knowledge, civilization and species in an eyeblink. Existing on multiple worlds increases our chance of survival exponentially. A self-sufficient Martian settlement would effectively double the chances of humanity surviving some of the worst fates that could befall Earth. Mars is also a great candidate for further space expansion: the gravity is about a third of that of Earth’s, the atmosphere is much thinner, it’s full of resources (water, minerals) and it is relatively habitable compared with the rest of the solar system. While those conditions hardly sound pleasant, they are an ideal compromise between human survival needs and the requirements of space travel. It would be expensive and difficult, but setting up a human presence on martian soil can be done, and there are good reasons to do it.
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compartments with water tanks could help, as would building a “storm cellar” with heavy shielding that people could retreat to in the case of bad solar weather. Heck one of the points against nuclear rockets is the need to build the rest of the vehicle behind a “shadow shield” so that the reactor itself doesn’t fry electronics or people en-route. The proposed method for the Mars One program would be to send most of the inert and non-essential The first solution to the radiation issue is supplies to Mars in separate vehicles from to simply go faster, reducing the amount the people, meaning more space and of radiation exposure by making the trip mass could be devoted to life support and shorter. Which is where the balancing radiation shielding in crewed modules. act comes in between payload and fuel mass: every extra kilogram of fuel used Radiation isn’t the only hazard to for acceleration/deceleration is another crew health, though. Thanks to the ISS kilogram of precious supplies or water missions, we now know a great deal that you can’t bring. There are a few about how a body changes over longinteresting ways around this problem, but duration weightlessness. The human they’re all pretty much untried in real body has evolved to oppose gravity every conditions. day of its life, so when it no longer has to strange things happen. We know The big one that might actually be that in microgravity conditions, like on implementable is a nuclear rocket. There the ISS, people lose muscle and bone were some test firings of a design called density rapidly, blood pressure lowers NERVA from the 1950s to the 1970s, but and many, many people experience space the program was discontinued in the early sickness. Similar to motion sickness, in 1970s. The basic principle behind the space sickness the sensation of free falling rocket is that liquid hydrogen is pumped disrupts cues you get from your other to a nuclear thermal reactor, which senses, leading to a near-constant state of massively heats and expels the hydrogen, disequilibrium and nausea. providing thrust. By eliminating the oxidiser component to the fuel system, The most effective way to combat the the rocket can be built much, much lighter adverse effects of weightlessness, but by than a chemical rocket. NASA makes no means the easiest, is to provide some the claim that a nuclear rocket would be sort of gravity stand-in. The most popular about twice as efficient as a chemical one, solution is a large, rotating section that but runs the risk of releasing radioactive provides a sensation of gravity through fallout in the event of an accident. The centripetal acceleration. Think of the program was discontinued at the close of “graviton” type rides at fairs, where a the space race, but physicists, engineers large cylinder is spun quickly to the point and enthusiasts still make theoretical where you can stand on the walls, except designs based on current technology that bigger. It could work, but the spinning could potentially have higher efficiencies section presents a new host of engineering than earlier designs, and use less fuel. One challenges to overcome. It would also recent proposal would only use about 10kg increase the complexity and mass of any of uranium fuel, or about twice the mass vessel by a large amount. of the radioisotopes that are used to power There are problems, there are proposed the Opportunity rover. The proposal solutions, but the reality is that no one has did, however, run a very small risk of taken on a project like this before. The an accident creating what was termed a Apollo missions started to approach the “nuclear death ray.” So there’s that. scale of Mars missions and settlements, but There are other developments in there is a big difference between sending materials science that could help shield three people to the moon and back and astronauts from deadly space radiation: establishing a permanent presence on certain plastics and composite materials Mars. A manned mars mission appears show promise. Surrounding crew feasible, but to get there in under a
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magnetosphere, protects us from the worst of solar and cosmic radiation. Between worlds, though, the amount of radiation is potentially life-threatening. On Mars, there is not very much internal activity, and the magnetic field is essentially non-existent. And even with significant shielding, the possibility of genetic damage is high over the long months required to get from Earth to Mars.
Free Pizza! Tuesday, November 19th in the cafeteria from 12pm-1pm.
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