Too many teachers, too few jobs

Posted on 29. Mar, 2007 by Archivist in Biz/Tech

Judy McNeil
Business Reporter

Ontario teachers’ colleges face a glut of applicants who will graduate into an already over-saturated job market for educators.

Elementary school teachers fare better in getting full-time jobs if they have the added skill of French, science, technology or mathematics. Others are forced to resort to part-time employment.

“The Ontario College of Teachers does a survey each year on the employment of graduates from all of the programs across the province,” said Kathy Broad, elementary program director of teacher education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). “Their tracking … has indicated that over the last couple of… ... [continue reading]

Counter fits

Posted on 29. Mar, 2007 by Archivist in Biz/Tech

Funny money no laughing matter

Stephanie Sherr
Business Reporter

Humber’s North Campus bookstore will no longer accept traveller’s cheques, after cashing $300 in counterfeits.
“We just got verification from the bank that we received counterfeit traveller’s cheques,” said bookstore manager Debby Martin.

Martin said that the primary reason behind the decision is the difficulty in detecting this type of forged currency. Without easily recognizable security features or special markings that can be detected by the store’s ultraviolet light scanner, staff… ... [continue reading]

Three Hawks declared ineligible due to academics

Posted on 29. Mar, 2007 by Archivist in Sports

Michael Clegg
Sports Reporter

Three athletes have been deemed ineligible to participate by the athletic department due to poor academic standing – one from the men’s volleyball team and two from the men’s basketball team.

“We normally lose five or six athletes and it’s really not a predictable thing as to which sport,” said Doug Fox, Humber’s athletic director. “It’s one of the reasons we didn’t win this year. We work hard at keeping them academically eligible because you can’t win if you lose players due to academics.”

When a player is deemed academically ineligible he or she is allowed to continue to practice… ... [continue reading]

Men’s basketball season over, recruiting begins

Posted on 29. Mar, 2007 by Archivist in Sports

James Sturgeon
Sports Reporter

Despite a respectable third-place finish at this year’s provincial championships a few weeks ago, men’s basketball team is looking to add some critical components for the upcoming season.

Head Coach Darrell Glenn is optimistic that through some successful recruiting this off-season the coaching staff can fill the gaps.

“We certainly have those pieces on paper,” Glenn said while taking in a game at this year’s OFSAA high school championships in Hamilton on Saturday.

Glenn was joined by assistant… ... [continue reading]

Buzzer sounds on season for men’s hockey team

Posted on 29. Mar, 2007 by Archivist in Sports

Hawks conclude year with semi-final loss to Sheridan

Simon Yau
Sports Reporter

The men’s extramural hockey team finished third in its final tournament of the season after being upset 4-3 by the Sheridan Bruins in the semi-final.
The Hawks routed Sheridan 7-2 last Friday at the single-day tournament, but by mid-afternoon the team seemed fatigued, allowing the two goal to lead slip away after four unanswered goals.

“We panicked… ... [continue reading]

Office options online

Posted on 29. Mar, 2007 by Archivist in Biz/Tech

Free software competes with Microsoft products

Will Cottingham
Business Reporter

Downloadable programs are proving a reasonable alternative to Microsoft Office for cost-conscious students.

Google docs and spreadsheets and OpenOffice.org are free software suites for students, said Mark Naylor, chief information officer of information and technology services at Humber.

“If you have a new (computer) and you want an office program, and you don’t want to buy Microsoft or take it illegally, then OpenOffice is a good product,” Naylor said.

But there are some potential problems in the long run.

“There will be some compatibility issues,” Naylor said. “When we considered these products for the school, we found… ... [continue reading]

Ontario lays out new budget

Posted on 29. Mar, 2007 by Archivist in Biz/Tech

Angela Scappatura
Business Reporter

The new provincial budget does not do enough to distinguish and support college education, said HSF president Cynthia Malagerio.

“Colleges are drastically under funded,” Malagerio said. “The government has started to recognize the value colleges provide but more needs to be done.”

Finance Minister Greg Sorbara’s budget last week included a plan to invest a total of $6.2 billion into post-secondary education by 2009 or 2010.

Malagerio said while the government has allocated $390 million to post-secondary institutions this year, the number sounds a lot larger than it is.

“It won’t seem like so much when it is distributed between all of… ... [continue reading]

Cultural changes

Posted on 29. Mar, 2007 by Archivist in Life

HSF’s plans to bring in Human Race Machine intrigues staff and students

Krista Cyr
Life Reporter

HSF has ordered a machine that will be available for everyone curious to see what they would look like as a different ethnicity.

“It would be interesting to see what they might choose,” said Nitin Deckha, teacher of sociology of cultural difference. “Looking at different films in class, predominant people were changing their features with surgery to look lighter, fairer, with straighter noses and it is the mainstream media images that push that kind of fashion and film, where people look Europeanized.”

HSF programming director Aaron Miller said it’s… ... [continue reading]

Nurse heads to Peru

Posted on 29. Mar, 2007 by Archivist in Life

Katarina Ilic
Life Reporter

The practical nursing program is sending one of its second-year students to Peru at the end of March.

“I really have a passion for nursing and I also have a passion for travelling,” said Courtney Miller, who will stay with a host family in Urumba, Peru.

She hopes her trip will give her a new perspective on nursing.

“I really just wanted to get that international perspective. I don’t like the fact that my nursing knowledge is limited to westernized methods,” Miller said.

She also hopes that this trip will make her a global citizen.

“To be a global citizen to me is… ... [continue reading]

Four is the new six

Posted on 29. Mar, 2007 by Archivist in Life

Jordana Stier
Life Reporter

Nicknamed vanity sizing, a new fashion trend makes consumers think they’re thinner by re-working garments size system, Humber fashion teachers said.

Manufacturers are tailoring to the obsession of being thin by providing new scales of sizes that go down to double zero and extra- extra small.

It makes a woman who’s normally a size six fit into a size four or two, said Rose Rutherford, a fashion business teacher at Humber.

She said the trend is a “reflection of… ... [continue reading]