{"id":3168,"date":"2012-04-11T14:54:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T21:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2012-06-05T11:23:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T18:23:09","slug":"breaking-news-acp-students-march-to-camosun-president%e2%80%99s-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/04\/11\/breaking-news-acp-students-march-to-camosun-president%e2%80%99s-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news: ACP students march to Camosun president\u2019s office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Approximately 40 students in Camosun\u2019s Applied Communication Program (ACP) marched to Camosun College president Kathryn Laurin\u2019s office on the afternoon of April 11. The students were attempting to get answers as to why ACP has been suspended and wanted to hand deliver letters about ACP and a personal invite to Laurin.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went down to present letters and to invite her to [ACP graduation ceremony] Playback on Friday,\u201d says first-year ACP student Megan Gibson, \u201cto show her what exactly she\u2019s suspending and what the college will be missing out if they lose ACP.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Gibson, Laurin thanked the students for coming. The students wanted answers; they left with a meeting scheduled for Friday, April 13 to talk further.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy is this program being cut?\u201d says Gibson. \u201cAre we going to, in the future, have a communications program in the college? We also want to talk about the fact that the radio station is being cut.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Applied Communication Program students getting ready for action (photo by Ali Hackett\/Nexus).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Joan Yates, Camosun executive director, communications and advancement, says the college representatives were very impressed with how the students handled themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe students were incredibly respectful,\u201d says Yates. \u201cThey presented their position very clearly. They presented their perspective quite well and professionally.\u201d<\/p>\n

As to why the college staff scheduled a meeting for later instead of answering the questions when the students showed up at Laurin’s office, Yates says that part of the reason was so that any other students who want to be involved have time to be informed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt needs to be more of a meeting as opposed to being just sprung upon, for both the students and administration,\u201d she says. \u201cWe wanted students to be aware that the intention was if folks weren\u2019t there they wouldn\u2019t miss out on something important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yates says that Laurin\u2014who had postponed other meetings to meet with the students today\u2014has taken the letters with her to read and is taking this all very seriously.<\/p>\n

As for the invite to Playback, Yates says that Laurin already has other commitments that night and did not receive an invitation until last week. Boraas, however, will be attending, according to Yates.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, ACP students have \u201coccupied\u201d the Young building third-floor studios of CKMO radio, which will be cut as part of Camosun\u2019s 2012-13 budget. The occupation\u2014which has students playing their own choice of music and talking about the suspension of ACP and the cutting of the station\u2014will be happening until Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Approximately 40 students in Camosun\u2019s Applied Communication Program (ACP) marched to Camosun College president Kathryn Laurin\u2019s office on the afternoon of April 11. The students were attempting to get answers as to why ACP has been suspended and wanted to hand deliver letters about ACP and a personal invite to Laurin. \u201cWe went down to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3526,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions\/3526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}