Week of August 14-21, 1995

Golden pipes...After years of coming so close, SFU's
University Pipe Band has piped its way to the top. The band
won the world championship in Glasgow, Scotland over the
weekend. Piper Derek Milloy summed up the band's feelings,
calling the win "a dream come true." It was SFU's 12th
consecutive appearance at the annual event. The band has
taken second place three times and has always been among the
top finishers. They won by a wide margin in the normally
closely-scored competition. History of guns and violence...Dr. Michael Bellesiles, an
associate professor of history at Emory University, will give
a guest lecture tracing the roots of violence and gun
ownership. His talk, Icon of a Savage Civilization: Gun
Ownership and the Origins of America's Culture of Violence is
on Thursday, Aug. 17 at 1:30 p.m. in AQ 6229, Burnaby campus.
Dr. Bellesiles (pronounced "Bells-i-als") is a dynamic
speaker; he's in town Weds. night until Thurs. night. Aboriginal publishers meet...A conference marking the first
gathering of more than 30 Aboriginal-controlled publishing
operations in Canada takes place this week, Aug. 17 - 20 at
Harbour Centre. Conference workshops feature topics from
defining Aboriginal publishing and networking, to marketing
in Aboriginal communities and addressing issues of cultural
appropriation. Presenters include an elite group of authors
and publishers. In the interest of further developing
Aboriginal publishing, the conference is being held to
enhance contacts, provide new information, training and
discussion of ideas, concerns and common issues. It's being
hosted by SFU's Canadian centre for studies in publishing.
Information is also available on the Internet :
<http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/> Understanding media...A group of teachers and students has
just completed a unique university-credit program on how to
teach youths to interpret the media and its'messages.' SFU
communication professor Martin Laba, one of two class
instructors, says the summer institute in media education
fills a critical need as B.C. 's teachers prepare to
incorporate media literacy into their daily teaching. "It's a
first step," says Laba, noting the institute covered
everything from youth culture and globalization to "hot"
issues such as violence in the media, and strategies for
teaching media literacy. "Teachers will definitely be taking
this back to the classroom," says Laba. The institute was
sponsored by SFU's school of communication and its faculty of
education. Ice tobogganing in August?...It requires a sunny day, but
youngsters between 10 and 13 years of age take part in this
cool activity as part of SFU's Science Alive! camp, which
runs until Aug. 25. They 'ride' blocks of ice down the hills
below SFU's Terry Fox field. Youngsters also build submarines
and submerse them in a tub of water Thursdays (11:30 a.m.),
launch pop bottle rockets 200 feet in the air Tuesdays (2:30
p.m.) and build human spiderwebs on Mondays (2 p.m.).

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