Motivated by the BCIT Critical Care program’s three-dimensional heart, the Perinatal Nursing program welcomed a new piece of 3D technology, this time in the form of a pelvis and fetus. The idea came to Perinatal Nursing instructor Nancy Hewer after seeing 3D technology in another BCIT program classroom. She thought having a 3D pelvis and…
Any student at BCIT who uses transit has probably noticed the maddeningly long bus line-ups every Wednesday afternoon in front of the Burnaby campus. On these days, it is not unusual for a student to have to wait in line as two, three, or sometimes more buses pass before being able to board one. It…
Eating disorders may be a private hell for many: victims of disordered eating often find themselves unable to talk freely to potential support networks for fear of divulging their shameful secrets. The resulting isolation may entrench the cycle. That is why The Looking Glass Foundation for Eating Disorders is launching Chat.lookingglassbc.com, according to Karen Wall,…
New plan, new building, same goals. BCIT’s latest proposed capital plan, titled BCIT Renew, could lead to the construction of a brand new Health Sciences Centre for Advanced Simulation (HSCAS) on the Burnaby campus as early as July 2016. The plan was submitted last spring and outlines the institution’s investment priorities for the next five…
BCIT has apologized after mistakenly sending the personal information of 134 students to 22 other BCIT students through e-mail on August 26, 2013. After a privacy breach in June 2012 (unrelated to the incident on August 26) where personal medical records of more than 12 thousand students were accessed by an unauthorized third party, BCIT reviewed security…
Plastic, yellow fish are replacing the barely visible aquatic markings that had previously been guarding storm drains around BCIT’s Burnaby campus. Two students from the Ecological Restoration program worked to revitalize the markings as part of an internship earlier this year. Ken Ashley, Director of BCIT’s Rivers Institute, explained that BCIT is actually built on…
Rape is probably not the first word that comes to mind when you think of post-secondary education. Yet in the span of less than a week, two Canadian universities on opposite sides of the country have come under fire for students spouting pro-rape chants during frosh week celebrations. On September 4, St. Mary’s University in…
BCIT students who park in Lot D will have to temporarily find parking elsewhere to make room for staff as a result of a large construction project in Staff Parking Lot 7 at the Burnaby campus. BCIT Media Relations Coordinator Dave Pinton said he is not sure why the project is delayed. However, as a…
Children at the BCIT Student Association (BCITSA) Childcare Centre could have been served a very dangerous batch of grapes if the deadly black widow spider hidden inside them wasn’t seen as early as it was. Purchased from the Superstore on Scott Road in Delta, BCITSA Childcare Centre Manager kept the grapes in her fridge for…
A new student lobby is on the rise as they transition from a campaign called Where’s the Funding (WTF) to a group representing post-secondary students across the province. The name of this up-and-coming organization is Alliance of BC Students (ABCS) and for the time being, it is primarily comprised of representatives from student unions and…
Tap on, tap off. Those four words sum up how BCIT students will be taking transit in the near future. There’s no set date as to when, but BCIT students will be scrapping their paper U-Pass cards for the new smart card. According to spokesperson for Translink, Derek Zabel, once students have the new Compass…
After the high-profile suicides of Amanda Todd and Rehtaeh Parsons, Canadians on both coasts have learned the hard way that cyber bullying is a virulent issue that, at its worst, can end lives. In both Todd and Parsons’ cases, explicit pictures of the girls were posted online, which led to bullying at school and through…