6 THE DAILY VOICE, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2013

EDITOR SIMONE PFEIFFER

Langara needs more pop-ups to showcase Student art

ollege students put forth a Coens effort in earning

their degrees —~— it is in the students and the schools best interest to help graduates promote their accomplishments.

Be it for graduate recognition or a semester wrap-up, more effort should be generated in exposing student achievement and work ethic within the college.

The Langara Design Formation graduates, class of 2013, will be hosting their end of term showcase from April 11-19 displaying their cumulative work throughout their time in the program.

The event makes the advance to invite anyone interested in viewing the student’s work or curious about the program to join. It may also a great way for the students to meet prospective contacts for the future.

The showcasing of their time and effort is well deserved. These students are consumed with their work, and being in a visual design program, their projects and hard work deserved to be viewed — and recognized.

Not only does the initiative give the students exposure, it also gives the college a chance to demonstrate first hand what programs are offered at the college.

Schools can distribute brochures in attempts to promote and inform potential students about the studies offered; however, what people can really benefit from knowing is to learn about the student’s experience within their time spent in any given program.

If a school takes the step to demonstrate a student’s ability, not only will it benefit the student’s time and effort, it will also be a step forward for the institution’s credibil- ity.

Furthermore, if a student is aware that their work will be on display or the topic of conversation, they may be more energized to better succeed throughout the term.

The idea of incorporating more recognition events is definitely a situation that could be improved throughout Langara.

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Climate change requires action

andidates in the upcoming Cis: need to take clearer positions on _

where they stand when it comes to climate change and the environ- ment.

The incessant demand for fossil ay

fuels and the OPI N ION

profit that drives

it is creating SIMONE PFEIFFER environmental

destruction the

likes of which have never been seen before.

We are at the precipice of catas- trophe.

B.C. is at the epicenter of one of the most disastrous enterprises of the worldwide economy. The Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline is of course hugely contro- versial.

At the public hearing held in

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Vancouver, speaker after speaker spoke out against the pipeline.

Recent spills have only confirmed the dangers posed by transporting toxic oil across land and water.

At the end of March, a frozen pipeline near Fort McMurray burst, allowing contaminated waste-water to leak into the Athabasca river.

On a larger scale, there’s the 2010 BP oil spill on the gulf coast which is still poisoning the water and killing aquatic life.

Now, fracking, or natural gas extraction from shale rock, is increasing the risk of even greater environmental damage

We are short-changing our children and grandchildren with our addiction to non-renewable fossil fuels and we are destroying the quality of our air and water to do it.

There’s no room for half-measures in this debate: we need to know where our politicians stand and for them to take action.

curred.

My best friend works in Langara Ad- ministration and contacted me this morning about having been mentioned in the article. When I told her that I'd retracted my comment she suggested I let you know.

Ihave spoken to [the reporter] about it and she brushed off my concerns, did not offer any apology, and told me that legally she’s allowed to print what I

Anarchy is not the answer

owntown Eastside diner Save D: Meats has chosen to fight

fire with humour by replacing their storefront sandwich board that was stolen last month by anti-gentri- fication anarchists. The new sign is complete with a face cutout, allowing passersby to snap a picture with it in the same style the vandals posed with the original in a photo posted on an pro-anarchist news forum.

Owner Mark Brand announced that for every photo taken with the sign and posted to social media, a break- fast would be donated to a resident at the nearby Rainer Hotel.

Brand is without a doubt utilizing gentrifi- cation with his savvy business initiatives. First, his idea to sell plastic tokens to patrons to be distributed to the less fortunate and traded in for breakfast sandwiches has fed many that may otherwise not get the luxury of a meal.

Now, Brand is using the misfor- tune of having his diner’s sign stolen by anarchic vandals by flipping it into an initiative to feed more hungry people.

In theory, the ideology behind the attacks on DTES’ businesses would make sense if it weren’t so taste- lessly executed.

While gentrification in some instances can displace impoverished people and cause a plethora of classist issues, Save On Meats seems to be trying to develop their busi- ness in a different way.

While Brand is using the opportu- nity to raise awareness about his restaurant, he’s also using the spotlight to bring attention to the impoverished residents of Canada’s “poorest postal code.”

Instead of going after guys like Brand who are trying to make money while helping the less-fortu- nate, anti-gentrification vandals should be more focused on multi- million dollar businesses within blocks of the DTES who have showed little mercy for the impover- ished residents.

Save On Meats is trying to doa good thing here by implementing initiatives to help the community they’ve assimilated into.

Perhaps if they mimicked other, more successful, franchised busi- nesses who show public regard for the struggles of DTES’ residents, masked vandals would leave them alone.

HAILEY MCDONALD

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Andra Norton

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Classical, Near Eastern and Reli- gious Studies, UBC

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