NSAC E-Bulletin

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NSAC Heritage Contest Launched
Are you a trivia buff? Love to win fabulous prizes? Have that competitive spirit? Then the NSAC Heritage Contest is for you.

Wool blankets, sweaters and framed prints are just some of the prizes you can win by answering 100 multiple choice questions on the history of NSAC.

The questions will be issued as a series of five sets, each with 20 questions. The first set was launched this past weekend during Homecoming celebrations.

Don’t miss out, pick up your copy of the first 20 questions at Student Services, the MacRae Library or on the NSAC website today.

Don’t want to go it alone? Discuss the questions with others and enter as a group. If you’re really stuck, the MacRae Library will establish a reserve reference shelf containing everything you’ll need to find the right answers.

Completed sets of the questionnaires can be submitted until the end of January, 2005. Four groups of prizes will be awarded on the 100th birthday event, February 14, 2005.

Good Luck!

For more information contact Jim Goit at jgoit@nsac.ns.ca or at 7950

News from the Road
This week saw Craig recruiting in Bridgewater and South Shore high schools and next week schools in Metro Halifax and St. John’s, NL will be visited. Here at NSAC a group of students from the East Prince Youth Development Centre in Summerside, PEI visited campus on Friday. These 14 students toured Cox, Collins, Haley, the RAC and had lunch at the cafeteria.

Recruitment is gearing up for Fall programs. The biggest one coming up is the High School Introductory Program. This program brings students to campus to experience what being an NSAC student is really like. They take part in labs, tour campus, eat at Jenkins and talk with current NSAC students. We have found great success with this program in the past, doubling the numbers of participants last year. Many of the participants apply for admission into NSAC programs for the following Fall, so it is very important that we go all out to impress these interested students. We’ve been thrilled with the commitment and innovation that professors, instructors and students have shown in past HSIP activities, so we are putting out the request for NSAC participants again. If you would like to be involved in this program, whether as a student, prof or instructor, please contact Jenna at jtingley@nsac.ns.ca

In addition to the school visits that our student recruitment staff have been involved in here in the region, NSAC has been represented at a number of education fairs around the world. WUSC represented NSAC at a fair in Brazil at the end of September. ILI recently had an agent represent their ESL program and NSAC's programs of study at fairs in Libya, Egypt and Kuwait. Good results were received from these fairs in the mid east. The Nova Scotia International Student Program is currently in Germany and has NSAC materials with them, in addition to their information on programs at the secondary level. An ad was developed last week for the Studying Abroad E-magazine which targets international students looking to study abroad. So as you can see there are recruiting initiatives in many different directions this Fall in order to insure enrollment continues to rise next year.

Instructors Went Back to School
Students returning to campus only in September missed the day in late August that many of their profs and lab instructors headed ‘back to school’ on their students’ behalf. Yes, that’s right; about 35 NSAC instructors volunteered to attend a one-day workshop on Student Advising. This is a new initiative designed to help our university provide better all-around advice to our first year students. The NSAC student body indicated in the Student Satisfaction Survey (February 2004) that good advising was important; we took them seriously and headed ‘back to school’.

Drew Ness (from Noel Levitz) leading NSAC instructors and staff in the Advising Workshop

Rural Studies Fortnight
The Rural Research Centre has organized its 4th annual Rural Studies Fortnight - a sereis of events celebrating and exploring the rural life/realzities/research of this region and beyond. The year the Centre's advisory board has organized the Fortnight around teh theme of global climate change and its impact on rural communitities.

Wednesday, October 20 at 12:30 p.m. Cox 138 - Dr. Peter Duinker, School of resource and Environmental Studies at Dalhousie University will be discussing global climate change and its impact on forestry-based communities.

Friday, October 22 at 12:00 Cox 138 - Dr. David Burton, Climate Change Research Chair and faculty member in the Department of Environemtnal Sciences, NSAC, will be discussing global climate change and its impact on ariculture.

For more information, contact Lauranne Sanderson, lsanderson@nsac.ns.ca or Deborah Stiles, dstiles@nsac.ns.ca

Spotlight on Jamaica
As part of our campus’ fund-raising activities to support the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) in Jamaica, several people at NSAC are coming together to shine the spotlight on Jamaica.

You will remember that a couple of weeks ago Hurricane Ivan passed over Jamaica causing extensive power and water outages. The College that NSAC is associated with lost roofs off buildings and crop land on the college farm was destroyed. To show our moral and financial support we are having a slide show-style seminar on Jamaica this Wednesday, October 20, 2004 at 7:00 pm in Cox 31. There will be Jamaican music, door prizes and a free will offering. All are welcome to attend.

For more information, contact Dr N. Crowe (893-6621; ncrowe@nsac.ns.ca).

Flu Immunization Clinic
NSAC Health Services will be holding a Flu Immunization Clinic on Wednesday, October 27 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the Health Services Office in the Dairy Building for NSAC faculty, staff and students and NSDAF staff.

The clinic is to promote influenza immunization for those at risk and to especially attract those at risk individuals who are not being immunized regularly. The vaccine is free, except for those who do not meet the high risk criteria.

To register please contact Mary Anne Lorette by October 20th at mlorette@nsac.ns.ca or 893-4423.

For more information on the influenza vaccine contact Lugene Young (lyoung@nsac.ns.ca) or Cathy Sharkey (csharkey@nsac.ns.ca) or your local public health office or check the following websites: www.gov.ns.ca/health/opmoh/flu.htm
www.influenza.cpha.ca

Influenza immunization is the single most important way to prevent influenza.

Varsity Results

Woodsmen
Oct.16 NSAC at UNB Meet (results in next week's E-bulletin)

NSAC Oktoberfest 5 K Run

NSAC Student Results

Josh Uhlman 20:00 Emily Fraser 20:21
Mike Akerley 22:24 Kristen Joudrey 22:30
John Langille 22:57 Meaghan MacLellan 24:06

Homecoming Basketball
Alumni vs NSAC

(M) 52 - 75 Top Scorers - Alumni - Angus MacDonald, NSAC - Josh Dillman

(W) 38 - 47 Top Scorers - Alumni - Katherine Bremner, NSAC - Lindsay Tozer