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PROFILE

WEDNESDAY, Ma

College’s
character
evolution

Selkirk College’s tradition of being a commuter
campus is changing with the first tenants of its

on-campus dormitory.

STORY BY JIM ZEEBEN * PHOTOS BY BRENDAN HALPER
Sun staff

UP THE DRIVEWAY, behind the Selkirk Col-
lege gymnasium, a handful of students have
started a revolution.

Well, not really.

Revolution is a pretty strong word.

It’s something a little more subtle like an
evolution—starting with four students who
are the first residents of the school’s new on-
campus dormitory.

Located atop a hill beside the college
sports field, the almost completed building
will hold 100 residents once college recon-
venes next September.

And that’s when some really profound
changes will start taking place.

In two decades of post-secondary educa-
tion at our community college, a vibrant col-
legiate atmosphere has never managed to set.
That atmosphere—a feeling of unity among
the student population—is considered a fun-
damental aspect of education at many other
universities and colleges.

For years students have come for their

before leaving in cars and buses to
pursue a social life elsewhere.

“This has traditionally been a com-
muter campus,” said Selkirk’s Infor-
mation Officer, Joe Lintz, who pub-
lishes the college’s newsletter. “Once
we have dorms with students on
campus 24 hours a day that is going
to change.”

He said a permanent population
raises a number of new issues which
need to be addressed. Everything
from extended cafeteria and library
hours to on-campus social events—
things which Lintz says have to be
brought along and evolved.

“A resident population will foster
the development of a college social
scene,” Lintz said. “Anybody who’s
lived in a college residence before
knows you make fast-friends that
endure for the rest of your life.”

Prices for on-campus accommoda-
tion are fairly comparable to off-cam-

classes, staying only briefly on campus

27 year-old Selkirk College nursing student Paige Good starts the four-

minute walk from her room to class.

David Simms, well into his first year of Selkirk College's forestry program, is
already right at home in the new dorms.

pus housing. At the college, a sin-
gle 130 square foot room with a
shared washroom facility rents for
$330 per month. According to col-
lege officials, rent will be around
the $350 range for their first full
semester next fall.

All 100 units in the residence are
expected to fill up once the new
school year begins in September.

The building includes a common
area where students can socialize.

In comparison, an apartment
complex in south Castlegar, which
has traditionally rented to students,
is a good example of available off-
campus housing.

According to one of the apart-
ment’s owners, the 40-year old
building has different room sizes
and is less than 10 minutes by car
from the school.

A 250 square-foot unit has a
monthly rent of $200, which
includes heat. It has a bachelor
suite lay-out—one main room with
a bathroom. An intermediate sized
room of 600 square-feet rents out
for $400 per month. It comes fully
furnished and has a separate dining
room, bed room and living room.

Selkirk’s new residence admin-
istrator, Eva Varabaioff, said she
thinks the dorms are being listed at
a fair price.

“I’ve had people tell me the
rates are very reasonable,”
Varabaioff said, reiterating that the
dorms are a just-constructed build-
ing within walking distance of
classes.

The four students currently liv-
ing on campus all seem happy with
they’re accommodation.

“It’s quite nice for me,” said
Hiroko Tanaka, one of two new
residents studying English as a
Second Language. “It’s quiet—a
nice place to study.”

In one of the first days in the
dorm, Tanaka and about seven
friends filled her room as they

cooked lunch. She said the unit really isn’t as
cramped as she first thought it would be.

“At first I thought it was tiny,” she said.
“But once I lived here I thought it was quite
proper.”’

The newness of the building appealed to
Tanaka, as did the location. She said she
Saves time in the momings, no longer having
to take a 20 minute bus ride from her previ-
Ous accommodation in Robson.

“Right now I’m loving it,” said David
Simms, about his new dorm room. “I was liv-
ing downtown in a basement suite but this is
a lot better.”

Simms, a 21-year old first-year Forestry
student, said his old home, which he shared
with a roommate, was a 10 —15 minute drive
to Selkirk.

“The dorm room is smaller [than the base-
ment suite] and the rent is a bit more but it
makes up for it in the fact I don’t have to
drive “us

Aside from practical reasons for living on
the school grounds, Varabaioff believes in the
immeasurable social value.

“Students get the benefit of integrating
with people in a community living experi-
ence,” she said, relating her own stay on cam-
pus at the University of British Columbia. “I
know for me, as a student going to UBC, it
was a major advantage living on residence.”

Paige Good is a 27-year old from Victoria
who plans on taking Selkirk’s nursing pro-
gram.

“I asked if there was on-campus housing
when I applied,” she said, adding that so far
she doesn’t mind her new accommodations.

“I hope living here will be fun,” said
Good, who has lived on-campus at other col-
leges.

She said the schools with dorms seemed to
have more character, more of a sense of unity,
than Selkirk.

That will change once the place fills up
next fall. Selkirk will find itself dealing with
problems it hasn’t had to in its 22-year exis-
tence.

Those problems and how they’re dealt with
will give Selkirk College a stronger identity
than it ever has before

“T hope it does,” Good said. “This college
really needs it.””

“Students get the benefit of integrating with people
ina community living experience ”

— Eva Varabaioff
Selkirk residence manager