iol” esmond’s. anada Missing month - Langara College has done Ly nothing in recognition of Black ; ian History Month. P3 PRODUCED BY LANGARA JOURNALISM STUDENTS | WWW.LANGARAVOICE ! © nala! No 'Neigh'sayers Southlands Riding Club prepares for its upcoming season of horse shows. P8 langaravoice.ca Socialist Support 4 A Langara club is raising money for arrested protesters. FEBRUARY. 28, 2019 - Atrican-inspired fashion weaves community, together P4-5 WIN Wy, MDGS y, sn TAY HAAN Any ATS n4 ‘ African Fashion and Arts Movement Vancouver hosts two annual fashion shows to encourage African artists in Vancouver to share their culture in style, through immersive shows with dance and music. Their next fashion show will be held in August. RENA MEDOW PHOTO Measles risk c on campus Highly contagious virus confirmed at Langara, isolated By MISSYJOHNSON espite a confirmed case of measles on campus, there’s no worry of an outbreak, says Langara’s dean of nursing. According to an alert on the college’s website made on Feb. 22, the specific locations where people may have been exposed to measles was limited to the Science and Tech- nology Building on Friday, Feb. 15, from 9:00 to 4:30 p.m.. “You've got maybe one or two people and we've got them and they're isolated,” said Dr. Ann Syme, dean of nursing at Langara. Last Friday, the college sent an email to students and staff on behalf of Vancouver Coastal Health regarding a single case of measles confirmed to be on campus on Feb. 15. The email stated that students and staff without proper documen- tation would be asked to stay home if the virus circulated. She attributes the lack of an outbreak to how quickly staff were able to isolate the infected individual and reach out to everyone they were in contact with on campus while contagious. According to Vancouver Coastal Health, the measles virus can only live for up to two hours outside of the body, but individuals are conta- gious for four days before they show symptoms. The incubation period for the case on campus ends March Even with both doses of the vaccine and the booster shot, about three per cent of the population can still get measles, Syme said. She suggests increasing public education about vaccines, to encourage a higher rate of immunization in Canada. “We'd be dealing with a 100 per cent population who was immu- nized, and we'd only have three per cent who's likely to get the get the disease,” Syme said. Langara student Natalie Pecar- ski, believes people shouldn't come to school if they don't have their vaccines up to date. “If you're making a choice to not vaccinate your children or to not be vaccinated, you're just putting people in unnecessary danger,” she said. “It lowers the collective immunity.” Tiffany Akins, communications leader at Vancouver Coastal Health, said vaccines can be found at public health units, family doctors or walk- in clinics. STP KITSILANO 9. Pp ity Hall Canada Line SkyTrain between Broadway-City Hall and\Langara 49th Ave Pacific Spirit ARBUTUS RIDGE Regional Park Elizabet "Park @ and Techridlogy Building 7s OAKRID o Langara College, Sciencs SUNSET SOUTH lona Beach VANCOUVER Regional Park SE. MARPOLE Man, ser Frasec®™ Sea Island Grant McConachie we 4s wbiuy SportGhek in Richmond Centre Vong Lulu Island Starbucks at Bayview Street and Dave's Fish & Chips... is) on Russel Fitness Steveston Harbour These are the sites of measles exposure confirmed on Friday, Feb. 15 and Sunday, Feb. 17. “ADE WiTH GOOGLE MY MAPS VOL. 51 NO. 03 > VANCOUVER, B.C. Tuition too pricey Students band together to fight against increases By AUSTIN EVERETT L angara students, and others across the province, were urged last week to join the movemet to cap the rising cost of post-secondary education. The “Tuition Freeze Now” campaign started at SFU in October after their latest tuition hike, and is now backed by the student body. All post-secondary tuition fees for domestic students are capped by the provincial government two per cent per year, but international student’s tuition can increase by up to 20 per cent per year, said SFU student campaigner Kayla Phillips. "The consultation process was a total sham," said Phillips of SFU's most recent increase. Last Thursday, students from local post-secondary schools were encouraged to attend an informa- tional meeting about the campaign. SFU campaign organizer Giovanni HoSang said he wants to involve all public institutions even though they increase their tuition independently. “Public education, as the name suggests, should be mostly publicly funded,” said HoSang. Langara’s chair of the physics and astronomy department Bradley Hughes, who spoke at the SFU event, is head of the Langara International Socialists club. The club scheduled a similar strat- egy session Thursday, Feb. 28 at 4:30 p-m., inviting Langara students to fight for lower tuition fees. Michael Koke, Langara’s direc- tor of Financial Services, wrote in an email statement that Langara has not raised international tuition for a “number of years.” The report states that during the mid-1970s, provincial governments were paying for 75 per cent of univer- sity education costs, with the federal government transferring additional funding. Today, both provincial and federal government contributions amount to less than 50 per cent of university education costs. The SFU campaigners and their supporters will rally March 18 in preparation for the SFU board of governors meeting, on March 21.