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A touch—
Whose fingers on
Whose cheek?
Not like a marigold?

Like a marigold?

Poignant?
Not poignant?

Exit parson’s nose

And swastikas?

JCHED?

peasants?

A touch—

Acid prints on
What textbooks?7—

Like death-showers

Melt down belly-gods

And what

bombs?

Leave the gold
For what

For whose

skin?

Touch history

While it’s—what?—still
Warm?

Holy Batman! A BA in comics!

By Kate Heartfield

OTTAWA (CUP) — If you
secretly cherish your
Superman covers and
spend more time doo-
dling than taking notes,
don’t worry, academia
has accepted you into
the fold. The Université
du Québec a Hull is now
offering a bachelor’s

degree in comics
through its visual arts
faculty.

The university

announced the three-
year program at Zone
Internationale des
Nouvelles Arts (ZINA
99), a conference and
trade

show held this past
summer in Montreal.
This September, the

first 18 students began
classes in theoretical
and practical cartooning
and other alternative art
forms.

Sylvain Lemay, the
program’s only instruc-
tor, said the program
developed from the
visual arts professors’
observations. “Lots of
students used a draw-
ing style close to ‘bande
dessinée’ [cartoon
style], so we formed a
focus group to study it
and there was a positive
response to the idea,’
he said.

Although there are col-
leges which offer similar
training, Lemay said the
UQAH _ program is

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unique in North
America and probably
Europe as well. He said
a university degree is
needed because it gives
students an academic
edge over their college
counterparts and_ it
allows them to study the
field in greater depth.

In France and Belgium,
where comics are very
popular, there has
already been some
interest in recruiting
from UQAH’s
program.

“Its the same as for

students in visual arts,” 8
Lemay said. “They have F's

to have exhibitions, and
speak with editors and
publishers.”

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stubby snout.

Tips and Traps when
Buying a Condo, Co-op

or Townhouse.

Robert Irwin
McGraw-Hill

This is an excellent
book for the first time
Condo, Co-op or
Townhouse buyer. It
tells the buyer what to
look for when buying
into a shared ownership
housing development
and gives advice on
insurance, ways to get
financing and possible
problems a buyer can
run into concerning the
board of owners of their
potential shared hous-
ing development.

Irwin, a real-estate bro-
ker with over 30 years of
experience, goes into
great detail about what
a buyer should look for.
Because this book is
written for the United
States of America some
of the specific details
Irwin describes will not
be relevant, but in gen-
eral most of the infor-
mation supplied can be
readily transfered to the
Canadian shared hous-
ing market.

This book explains
which kinds of shared
ownership will be more
expensive than others
and what each kind of

ROBERT
Tiyas & Teas When

September 21, 1999

IRWIN

BUYING A

CONDO, CO-OP,
oe TOWNHOUSE

ownership
entails. For
example, if
you own a
townhouse
you likely
own the
ground
under the
townhouse
as well as
the air .
above it,
but if you
own a condo you only
own the airspace inside
the walls of your unit.

Irwin also looks at all
the details of shared
ownership houseing
with an eye for resalabil-
ity and _ investment
value. For recent gradu-
ates who do not know
how long they will be liv-
ing in one area this is
one of the main adavan-
tages of this book.

For full time students
shared ownership hous-
ing may not be their
best housing option.
However for students
who will be graduating
soon and have a full
time job waiting for them
in the near future this is

The Quote of the Week:

“The Further North You Go The
More North It Gets.”

-Bill Morrison

(Editor's Note: Not everything Bill Morrison says is
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one area they should
look into. Shared own-
ership housing is usual-
ly less costly than sin-
gle-family dwellings and
it has many perks that
single-family dwellings
do not. Tips and Traps
when Buying a Condo,
Co-op, or Townhouse is
not geared toward an
audience of students,
but the information con-
tained within is helpful

‘to anyone who is look-

ing for housing of this
kind.

by Nicole Larson

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