LocAL FILM | ee South Vancouver film group uses analog to recreate black and white vinatge movies 6 SB yyy TransLink closing stops for faster commute Residents of Champlain Heights could suffer from the upcoming changes with transit By ROSEMARY NEWTON that alter the route of No. 49 to has- ten the commute of students, but some have their doubts. The revision will see the No. 49 bus discontinue ser- vices to Champlain Heights. The new route will be from Me- trotown and straight through 49th Av- enue to UBC. According to Jennifer Morland, the senior communications advisor at TransLink, Langara and UBC students who board before Champlain Heights would save time off their commute. “Students will save five to eight min- utes each way with the proposed change,” Morland said. “The aim is to improve service for customers, there are no proposed cuts.” The No. 26 Joyce Station/29th Ave- nue Station bus would continue to provide service to Champlain Heights. Nathan Woods, president of Unifor Local 111—which represents Metro Vancouver transit operators—said the change would im- pact the area’s students as well as se- niors and people with disabilities, who would have to potentially walk more than one km to reach the No. 26 bus. “The reality is that you’re taking away [the bus but] the community hasn’t diminished,” he said. “The few minutes students save will not ease congestion.” Amber Boychuk, a Langara first year early childhood education stu- dent, thinks changing the No. 49’s route wouldn’t fix its most pressing problem. “When I get off class the buses are full and pass by so I walk up and take the 41,” she said. Kevin McCurrach, a second year so- cial work student who commutes to Langara from Surrey, said he doesn’t think the proposed route change will make a difference to packed buses on the busy route. “What’s wrong with the congestion isn’t necessarily where the bus is go- ing,” he said. “Once classes [are over] at UBC it’s packed straight through, so a lot of us will be waiting in line for a long time.” Tissate: has proposed changes KEVIN MCCURACH Second year so- cial work student &, ue The Yangara Boxing Club packs’a punchitsee P8 = 4 4 a (a4 =) i} 4 KATE RICHARDSON photo Maria Luisa Gonzales gets ready for the next round on Friday at the Langara Boxing Club. Students liberated Trudeau aided by youth voter turnout this week VOTE Vancouver 1 Vancouver South: 1) LIB: Harjit Sajjan 2) CON: Wai Young 3) NDP: Amandeep Najjar 2 Vancouver Centre: 1) LIB: Hedy Fry 2) NDP: Constance Barnes 3) CON: Elaine Allan 3 Vancouver Grandville: 1) LIB: Jody Wilson- Raybould 2) NDP: Mira Oreck 3) CON: Erinn Broshko 4 Vancouver Quadra: 1) LIB: Joyce Murray 2) CON: Blair Lockhart 3)NDP: Scott Andrews Source: Globalnews.ca By JAKE COSTELLO ith the Conservative gov- ernment ousted on Monday night, post-secondary stu- dent voters remain hopeful for the Liberal’s to keep their campaign promises. Voter turnout reports are up by 7-11.5 per cent over the last election in 2011. A significant portion of that bump came from the first-time voters and students, according to David Moscrop, a political scientist at UBC. “They care about ending the bomb- ing mission in Syria. They care about accepting more refugees and doing that quicker than the Conservative Government did,” Moscrop said. While Moscrop said that youth are becoming active on a global level, they also care about domestic issues, such as the economy and middle-class tax cuts. The Liberal Party pledged to rework the existing textbook tax credit in or- der to increase the maximum student loans to $3,000 per year for full time students. The plan is to increase the amount of government grants given to low and middle-income students. They’ve also pledged to ensure no graduate will have to repay those loans until they’re earning at least $25,000 per year. Former NDP provincial candidate and community activist Mel Lehan, is encouraged by the Liberal’s economic plan. “When you run a deficit you’re say- ing people matter more than simply balancing the budget,” he said, “So stu- dents can only benefit from this.” Lehan hopes that Trudeau will fol- low through with his campaign prom- ises, without falling into the trap of having “run on the left and then gov- ern on the right.” Moscrop attributes the strong show- ing of Liberal support to an energetic momentum that starts at the top. “When someone charismatic comes along, especially when they’re youth- ful and positive, that’s going to attract young people who want to be apart of that.” Moscrop expects the Liberals to fol- low through. “With a sweeping majority,” he said. “They have no excuse not to keep their promises.” App design update Tomo Tanaka responds to the story ‘Pupils lose app- etite’ in a previous issue of The Voice on Oct. 8. By MURRAY B. HUNT angara College students have Lise: concerns about the unbal- anced course schedule, long hours and a lack of programming instruc- tions. On the Oct. 8 issue of the Langara Voice, the Web and Mobile App Design and Development was featured on the second page. The program is a two- year diploma, which is offered to post- graduate students. Students of the pro- gram voiced their annoyance with 11 hours on Monday and no classes on Wednesday. Due to an editing error, the Langara Voice did not allow the co- ordinator to defend the program. “The college is crunched for lab space and since most class members are international students, they have Wednesday as a day off so they could work, but it makes for a longer Mon- day,” Tanaka, the coordinator of the course said. “I would rather not have such a long day on Monday but have little choice because each class needs to be in a computer classroom.” Another concern students had was about having no coding experience, Tanaka said coding is not required, but good to have. “We really want our [students] to have good personal skills and [able to] communicate well in a group and as a team as lots of projects are done that way,” Tanaka said. “We are looking at completing a survey in class to address any [other] student concerns.” When planning the program, Langa- ra sought input from two industry fo- cus groups on the structuring of the course. MURRAY B. HUNT photo Tomo Tanaka, coordinator of web and mobile app design program.