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Making Time For Memories

Three business grads take initiative to create a yearbook for their peers

By Andrew Starkes and
Taireez Damji

With finals coming up, and
the last of the semester’s
assignments due for marking,
this time of year can be espe-
cially hectic for most every
student. Apparently not too
hectic however, for Angela
Lawson, Taireez Damji and
Daniel Hejcman, three com-
merce graduates who didn’t
want to leave UNBC without
some type of a reminder of
times spent with fellow gradu-
ates, and less than a month
to act upon preparing a year-
book for print.

The idea of a yearbook for
the graduating commerce
students was conceived dur-
ing the reading break by
graduating commerce stu-
dent Daniel Hejcman
(Production Leader)
However, having no previous
experience in the design and
layout of such a project,
Daniel needed someone on
the creative end of things to
promote the idea and bring it
to print while he took care of
the funding and necessary
resources. Enter Creative
Director Taireez Damji, and
her chosen Creative
Associate Angela Lawson. In
just a couple of days, Angie

Did somebody say “Jose?”

and Taireez were able to
complete all of the necessary
forms, questioners and
posters necessary to pro-
mote their project, with only
one week before the photos
of the graduates would have
to be taken in order to meet
the printing deadline (printed
so that the students could
pick up a copy before the end
of exams, after which they
would have had to be mailed
out to many students-too
inconvenient and _ costly).

The next stage of the project
would be the actual pho-
tographing of the
students...this was my job,
and it all started off very well,
with great results after the
first day of shooting. The suc-
cess of the second day how-
ever proved much less grati-
fying when the prints turned
out, or not, for half of the stu-
dents photographed. There
was you see, an electrical
malfunction with my camera,
only bringing itself to my

Daniel Hejcman, Taireez Damji and Angela Lawson wanted

to give their peers a momento ofn their accomplishments

During the promotion of the
yearbook, Daniel was able to
recruit much appreciated
funding from many eager
sponsors including Co-op,
NUGSS, BUGGS and the
president's office, enabling
means to see it through to
finality.

attention the following day.
This little “ruling” in favor of
my good friend Murphy how-
ever, turned out to be less of
a problem than anticipated. |
was, with the fabulous help of
Taireez and Angie, able to
save face with retakes the
next day, and in the end we

were actually able to entice a
few more grads in to partici-
pating. AS my mom would
say...all is well and ends well!
Feeeewph!

So there you have it! Three
eager (and very busy) stu-
dents take the time to insure
their time spent here at
UNBC will live on, and per-
haps set the stage for similar
trends to follow.

|, Taireez Damji, would like
to thank Andrew Starkes per-
sonally for taking the time to
ensure the success of the
Commerce 2001 Yearbook.
He helped us overcome
many different obstacles
through his time, effort and
patience with us. The most
important aspect of this pro-
ject for us was to ensure that
grads were represented in
the yearbook and to offer
grads the choice to have pro-
fessional photos done for
them at the same time. As a
graduating student, | under-
stand how busy students can
be. The Yearbook council
wanted to provide a service
that would “kill two birds with
one stone”. | believe that all
the students that took advan-
tage of Andrews’ photo pack-
ages were not disappointed.
His work was of a very high
caliber and his services were
offered at very reasonable

. grad gowns.

rates. Our Yearbook was
made at the least possible
cost through Andrews’ gen-
erosity.

Angela, Daniel and | would
like to also thank all those
that were involved with differ-
ent aspects of the yearbook.
We would like to thank Sarah
Steel and Gord Brownridge
for their support and help with
our layouts. As well as Ranji
Manhas, Jennifer Choy and
Pam Parhar for helping us
with the photo shoot. We
would especially like to thank
Barry from the Copy Centre
for jumping everytime we
needed an order filled at the
last minute. And_ the
Bookstore for lending us the
This project
would not have been possible
without the generous support
of the UNBC administration
and faculty. | would like to
personally thank Alex Reed
for his help and support with
this project. And finally the
council would like to thank all
the students who supported
and contributed their person-
al photos for the Yearbook. It
is my hope that this book is
just the beginning of what is
to become a yearly event at
UNBC.

Venomous Shane Schepens

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have a choice during last
year’s election since you
were appointed by acclama-
tion.

Mr. Schepens, it is obvious
that the venomous purpose
of your article was to defame
A.J., Emil, and | prior to the
election. Your accusation of
Emil and | of possible using
the office material for our
campaign is _ absolutely
wrong. The fact is that | did
not run. for office, and there
was no need for me to cam-

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paign from the office (as
other people claimed) or to
use any office material to
make my campaign posters.
This fact itself has under-
mined your credibility, and |
do not need to go further to
explain every claim that you
made against A.J., Emil, and
|. Besides, the space limita-
tions of this newspaper would
prohibit it. However, | still
think that it would be a good
idea for NUGSS to establish
a Nobel Laureate of
Journalism to recognize an
exemplary journalist like
yourself. If | had run for

NUGSS last election, | would
have included this in my plat-
form as a part of my strategy
to get your vote. Would You
Have Voted for Me on this
Platform, Mr. Schepens?

Jose Guterres