Camosun students named academic all-Canadians
Camosun College Chargers basketball players Jordan Elvedahl and Caitlin Marshall have been named academic all-Canadians. The Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC) and the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) recently announced the 2011–2012 SIRC-CCAA Academic All-Canadian Award recipients, which included 162 student-athletes from across Canada. The SIRC-CCAA Academic All-Canadian award is the CCAA’s most prestigious student-athlete honour and symbolizes both organizations’ commitment to academic success and athletic achievement.
New representatives for Camosun’s Board of Governors
Madeline Keller-MacLeod and Chris Marks have both been elected as student representatives to the Camosun College Board of Governors, as Lansdowne and Interurban student representatives respectively. Keith Todd has been acclaimed in a seat representing support staff. A term of office for a student representative is one year. For support staff, the term of office is three years.
BC Transit restores cut hours to avoid passing up users
BC Transit has restored 7,000 service hours in order to combat the large numbers of riders being passed by full buses. The announcement was made in transit’s 2012–2013 budget. Students enrolled at the University of Victoria and Camosun College recently presented to the Victoria Regional Transit Commission (VRTC), asking for the hours to be restored. Between September 1 and January 31, BC Transit drivers recorded 29,296 transit users who were left behind at bus stops.
Chargers win Bear Mountain Collegiate
The Camosun College Chargers golf team won the 2012 Bear Mountain Collegiate Tournament on March 17–18, with a team score of 598—an impressive 25 strokes less than second place Grant MacEwan University. Jordan Krulicki, a fifth-year Camosun student, claimed the men’s individual low with a 145 total.
VCC first post-secondary in Vancouver to ban bottled water
Vancouver Community College (VCC) president Kathy Kinloch and Students’ Union of VCC chairperson Charmaine Waters recently announced a pledge to make VCC the first post-secondary institution in Metro Vancouver to be completely bottled-water-free by spring of 2013.