March 24, 2004

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New Computer Science Equipment Brings Much Joy

By Dana Schwehr

There has been a prodigious amount of building taking
place around UNBC lately. Everyone knows that the com-
pletion of the new medical building will signal the start of
the Northern Medical Program. But what of the extension to
the laboratory building that is being constructed? What can
that possibly mean to UNBC students? Well, it means more
computer equipment for the Computer science program, as
well as some new classrooms in the Library building.

The lab for UNBC’s new computer graphics course will be
stocked with six Intel workstations with Pentium 4 2.8 GHz

processors. These machines will each have one gigabyte of
RAM apiece, and dual 19-inch flat-panel displays. In addi-
tion, the graphics lab will boast two Macintosh G5s with
dual 2.0 GHz processors, and a 20-inch cinematic display
each. Each of the machines in the graphics lab will have 0.5
terabytes of hard drive space, which gives the graphics lab a
whopping 4 TB of storage altogether. CPSC 440, Computer
Networks, will also be getting its own lab in the new build-
ing. This lab will be stocked with $120,000 worth of Nortel
networking equipment donated by CTS here at UNBC. It is
also possible that there will be some CISCO networking

equipment for students to learn with. Not everything had
been verified for the networking lab at the time this went to
press, however.

Not all computer science labs will be moving in the fall.
The PDP-8 hardware lab and the robotics lab will stay in
their present locations for now, according to Robert Lucas,
the Computer System Support Specialist for Math, Physics,
and Computer Science at UNBC. When asked if the new labs
will be up and running in time for the Fall 2004 semester,
Rob said “I hope so. Otherwise I'll lose my job.” He contin-
ued to say, “Yeah, it should be.”

NUGSS Elections: Something That You Should Care About

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Story and Photography By Marlon
Francescini

Yo, man you should listen to me.
I say yo, man. Some music is
playin’. This is your opportunity
to vote on who will represent you
next year. The Northern Under
Graduate Student Society
(NUGSS) are having their annual
elections to select the Board of
Directors for the upcoming fall to
spring semesters. The elections
will be held March 24th to 25th at
the NUGSS table. All positions for
the NUGSS board are up for grabs
and the competition will be fierce.
The speeches were on Monday so
that you would have some know]-
edge of our representative's. plat-
forms.

The positions, and people, that
we are voting on in the upcoming
elections to the NUGSS board will
be:

1) Director of University Affairs,
(Jordie Fraser, John Salewski,
Jeremy Belyea, and _ Ericka
Stephens) 2) Director of External
Affairs(Ingrid Hope, Peyman
Showleh, and Ross Sandwell) 3)
Director of Internal Affairs (Salar
Motahari, Michael Stephenson,
and Amanda Hussey), 4) Director
of Finance and Operations (Scott
Hunyadi, Abdul Mohamed, and
Fabian Sparvien), 5) Director of
Campus Activities, (Serena Hartl
and Annika Gerlach) 6) Women’s
Rep.- Associate Director of

External Affairs (Victoria Redlon
and Lesley Bannister), 7) First
Nations Rep.- Associate Director
of External Affairs (Caleb Behn -
Acclimation), 8) College of Arts,
Social and Health Sciences (Cashs)
Rep. - Associate Director of
Internal Affairs (Angela Sterrit and
Yvan Prkachin), 9) College of
Science and Management (CSM)
Rep. - Associate Director of
Internal Affairs), 10)
Communications Director
(Associate Director of Finance and
Operation), 11) Associate Director
of Finance and Operations (9)
Colin Phillips - Acclaimed), and
12) Associate Director of Campus
Activities, two positions, (Keisha
Morong, Shawn Carl, and
Herpreet Minhas.).

Now, that you know what you
are voting for, you are thinking
why should I vote and this is an
excellent question. Well a con-
cerned student believes that “if
you don’t vote you forfeit your
right to whine.” And another con-
cerned student, when asked, said,
“you should vote to protect your
right to whine if the wrong people
were to get in again.” The current
Director of External Affairs
Tamara Sweet says we should all
vote because, in her words, “It’s
your campus, [so] get involved.”