ampus hews EDITOR ETHAN REYES THE VOICE, THURSDAY, OCT. 5, 2015 3 Voice voted continent's best Langara’s paper wins prestigious Pinnacle Award By BEN BENGTSON wo Langara College programs, journalism and publishing, are celebrating after big wins for their publications at the 2015 Pinnacle College Media Awards. Langara’s journalism program won best two-year weekly newspaper The Voice. The publishing program won best two-year feature magazine for it’s annual publication, Pacific Rim Maga- zine. The Pinnacle Awards honour the best college media organizations across North America. This year’s cer- emony took place on Oct. 30 in Austin, Texas and received entries from 252 colleges and universities. Frances Bula, department chair of Langara’s journalism program, said it was “really an honour” to win. She credited the success to the fac- ulty. “We have more [staff] who have re- ally specific areas of expertise.” Bula stressed that Erica Bulman, journalism instructor and _ faculty managing editor of The Voice, also played a large role in the newspaper’s success. Alice D’Eon, a 2015 graduate who both reported and edited The Voice, agreed that Bulman helped make a great newspaper. “[Bulman] made everyone work re- ally hard and held us to high stan- dards,” D’Eon said. “She got us to work quickly and with attention to de- tail and deadlines.” Darren Bernaerdt, the program co- ordinator for the publishing program and publisher of the magazine, praised his fellow instructors for their excep- tional work. Langara journalism students and jour- nalism instruc- tor Erica Bulman working on The Voice, NOTABLE j-school grads ) 1 Simi Sara Radio host at CKNW winner of the 2015 Two-Year Weekly Newspaper of the Year award. BEN BENGT- SON, ETHAN REYES photos Head 36 point Xop 2 George Affleck Vancouver city councillor 3 Gary Mason Globe and Mail columnist 4 Douglas Todd Vancouver Sun Columnist LSU prepares to retry vote Langara’s student govern- ment plans on restarting fall elections By SCOTT DRAKE and RUMANA DSOUZA has announced it is restarting its fall election campaign — while still remaining silent about the “numerous irregu- Va 6 Te Langara Students’ Union (LSU) larities” that caused the abrupt cancellation of last The LSU month’s voting. The official list Goes not of candidates re- plan to mains the same as last month, and make those none of the candi- irregulari- dates have been . . disqualified. ori. les public cial notice of the JARED BRAVER- ‘redo’ election ap- MAN peared on posters around campus and on the LSU website. According to the website, the first attempt at the fall election was de- clared void because of “numerous ir- regularities,” found by the electoral committee. LSU councillor Jared Braverman said, “The LSU does not plan to make those irregularities public.” The campaign period restarts on Nov. 16 and voting will be held Nov. 23 to Nov. 26 in the Students’ Union Build- ing. Braverman explained that to his knowledge “there is no plan to host an- other all-candidates forum,” meaning that students will have no additional opportunity to meet the candidates in one place prior to voting. According to the official notice of elections, any questions about the elec- tions should be directed to the elector- al committee at ec@I]su.be.ca. LSU COUNCILLOR Student gripe: meal areas ‘disgusting The state of eating areas around campus are dis- tressing to students By BEN BENGTSON that they have been avoiding the cafeteria be- cause it’s too messy. An anonymous post last month on the Facebook group Langara confessions sparked a discus- sion about the “of- ten disgusting” conditions in the cafeteria. Students com- plained that tables in places like the cafeteria were of- ten covered in trash or sticky food residue, and that it was at its worst around lunch. “Tsee a lot of stu- dents just leave their garbage on the table,” said Sandra Waldun, a second year family studies student at Langara. “And then someone wants to sit there and they can’t real- Ss" Langara College students say SARAH DRAPER Second-year psy- chology student at Langara 66 I feel like it is our own responsi- bility to clean up after our- selves ly.” Waldun, who was eating her lunch on the floor outside the cafeteria, said she chose not to eat inside. While Langara hires janitorial ser- vice providers, Waldun said that keep- ing the cafeteria and other common spaces clean “goes both ways,” and stu- dents have to take personal responsi- bility to ensure their cafeteria remains clean for all users. Sarah Draper, a second-year psy- chology student at Langara, agreed it’s up to students to keep common areas clean. “T feel like it is our own responsibil- ity to clean up after ourselves,” said Draper. She added that the “bystander effect” contributes to apathy about caf- eteria cleanliness. The Bystander effect refers to the tendency of onlookers to ignore things like garbage because they believe that others will throw it away for them. “Someone doesn’t pick up their gar- bage and then the rest don’t,” said Draper, about groups of friends that eat together on campus. In response to student complaints about consistent messiness in the caf- eteria, Raymond Yeung, facilities ser- vices coordinator at Langara, said that his janitorial staff rely on students to keep the campus clean, especially with how high the traffic in the cafeteria has been this term. “Enrolment numbers are certainly up from last year,” said Yeung. There are 10,457 students enrolled at Langara this year compared to 9,649 enrolled in 2014. Garbage left in most campus common areas is a big problem, but also easily avoidable according to some. BEN BENGTSON photo Workshop to help Students destress November workshop to address stressors of life in a competitive academic environment By MURRAY B. HUNT management workshop to help stu- dents deal with the pressures some college students may feel in school. Tim Charters, a counsellor at Langa- ra, will host the one-hour Stress Man- agement workshop for students who are feeling overwhelmed. Based on the model developed at Vancouver’s Changeways Clinic. “The workshop looks at what is causing the stressors, the physical re- actions and how students interpret these reactions,” said Charters. Langara psychology instructor Dr. Antonia Henderson said college is one of the most stressful situations for stu- dents. “A major life change, living on your own, a new environment, lack of mon- ey, and loss of friends can cause many college students to suffer from depres- sion,” added Henderson. The workshop will be held this Thursday, Nov. 5 between 2:30 p.m. and 3:20 p.m. in room L216. Langara’s counselling department offers short term counselling on man- aging anxiety and stress, dealing with depression, and those who have thoughts of suicide. [verse College is hosting a stress