Business students capture second in B.C. competition

“Our best showing in four years,’’ was how George Mclvor, head of the business

petition. The department’s top business

at Selkirk College categorized his students’ performance at this -year’s B.C. College's Business Student Competition held Feb. 28-March 2 at the Executive Inn in Richmond The Selkirk College team came in second overall against 12 other college teams entered in the com-

students for one month prior to the competition to prepare. for the four-day contest which has been described as a ‘‘pressure ecooker.’’ Representing Selkirk College were Amber Nims of Nelson, an accounting and finance major who served as the team’s vice- president of finance, Tammy Tchir

of Castlegar, also an accounting and finance major, who acted as the team’s operations manager. Ron Negreiff of Shoreacres assumed the role of marketing and human resour- ces manager, while Chris Seggewiss of Nelson acted as chief executive of- ficer of the fictitious company.

All of the teams spent the four days of the competition running their corporate decisions through a business simulation software called

Chris Seggewiss, Tammy Tchir; Amber Nims and Ron N

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“These exercises are known to be number-crunching simulations so we stacked the team with accounting and finance majors,”’ said Nims,

Her primary job was to produce budget and income statements which were used by the team to determine expenditures.

““We kept our costs tight with no deviations on our budget, and we kept our lines of communication open so we were always pulling together. That way others couldn’t divide and conquer,"’ she said,

For her performance, Nims was judged the best overall competitor in the games and was awarded a com- puter. All members of the Selkirk College team won software for their role in the competition. As an added bonus, by virtue of the team’s second-place finish, the college received a $750 scholarship from the Society of Management Accountan- ts.

The Selkirk College team was coached this year by Don Buskas, marketing instructor with the business administration program. The team received assistance in

ping the required to analyse the statistical data from John Breckenridge, math instructor at the Castlegar campus.

Teams were allowed from 45 to 90 minutes between each decision. The

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vance by the “students allowed them to analyse the outcomes of their decisions which permitted them to run several scenarios before deter- mining their course of action.

As chief executive officer, Seggewiss \was~ the -team’s> primary negotiator for the buying and selling of commodities, referred to as “strategic business units,”’ in this simulation. He was assisted by the entire team who used special sof- tware programs to forecast sales, capacity planning and spending.

“*It was really a full team effort,’’ said Seggewiss. ‘‘Everyone could do everyone else’s job.””

The four business. students retur- ned from the competition brimming with enthusiasm and elated with their performance at the competition.

““We would highly recommend this experience for anyone contemplating a career in business,”’ they said.

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Program arrived at the college’s flight line training facility at the Castlegar Airport March 6, with the delivery of a brand new FRASCA 242T ground procedural trainer.

“This model is the most sophisticated by far of the college’s four GPTs,’’ Bob Evans, head of the college's aviation department, said in a news release.

the college nearly Funding for this training simulator came from the capital acquisition funding provided to the colegs by the

is partially modeled on the Beech King 200. The GPT features full IFR instrumentation and controls for two pilots and is equipped with a flight. director. The flight deck of the 242T is representative of an actual aircraft. All equip- ment, instruments, — circuit breakers, switches and controls of training value are

an instructor, working from the free-standing operator station connected to the simulator, may implement or alter various air- craft component or system failures, environmental con- ditions and the navigation data base. Students’

reactions to these

The delivery of the 242T adds a fourth GPT to the program's inventory of training aids. Another unit, the FRASCA 142, simulates the operation of a multi-engine, piston-driven air- craft. Two others, FRASCA 141s simulate the operations of single- engine aircraft.

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igi to crew to procedural and decision- making skills,’’ Evans said.

Each of the GPTs at Selkirk College is fully computerized ‘so

is on a plotter as is the simulated flight path of the aircraft. This way, the instructor can easily monitor how well students react to operational ‘difficulties and navigational challenges.

Adding a fourth GPT will allow students to make more Productive use of periods of in- clement weather, when college aircraft are grounded. These GPTs;together with the college's five Cessna 172s and two Beech- craft Travel Airs, make Selkirk College a leader in B.C. for commercial aviation training, the college says.

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Richmond extends deadline

The Ministry of Forests will give the public another month to comment on two recently released reports on the ministry's Small Business Forest Enterprise program, Forests Minister Claude Richmond said.

The ministry released the two reports — Program Review: Small Business Forest Enterprise Program and the Woodlot Program, and Bid Proposal Sales: A Report to the Minister of Forests — in February.

“The public’s response to these reports has been greater than we expected,”’ Richmond said in a news release. ‘‘Because we are still receiving requests for copies of the reels T want to ensure the public has ample time to submit lam the deadline for input to Tuesday, April 30.’"

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Pacific party hits the road

PENTICTON — British Columbia’s newest political party began actively looking for members in a provincewide tour that began Thursday in the Okanagan Valley.

““We’re here.to meet with some people who are interested in learning a little bit more about the party,”” said Donna Telep, founding director and interim vice-president of the B.

The party’s founding convention will be held April 6 with discussions concerning who will lead the party and the date for a

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“If the (provincial election) writ is dropped those plans will have to be changed,’’ said Telep, who quit March 6 as president of the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Social Credit constituency association.

Law to protect heritage

Victoria — Municipal Affairs Minister Lyall Hanson has introduced a white paper that will form the basis for a new Heritage Conservation Act and allow for major changes to the Municipal Act.

The proposed legislation allows local government to manage and conserve heritage resources; increase protection for heritage sites important to native people and provide a closer working relationship between the province and native community.

The planned law will also contain provisions to address the rights of owners of heritage property. :

Hanson said.the legislation will protect and preserve heritage resources in es of change and development as well as guard and develop the province's historical legacy into the next century.

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VANCOUVER (CP) — A provin- cial election call could be just a few weeks away and the governing Social Credit party is in turmoil, but B.C. Liberals are about as visible as wallflowers at a high-school sock hop.

The party began its annual con- vention here Friday with no seats in the legislature, a provincial leader under fire and a proposal to separate into independent federal and provin- cial wings.

Up to 250 delegates have gathered for the three-day meeting and even. the party’s news release promises “‘high drama and action.”’

Provincial leader Gordon’ Wilson has been battling accusations he ran up more than $250,000 in party debts by approving exenditures outside his authority.

He has denied the claims, drawn from leaked party documents, and promises a full explanation at the convention,

Wilson, a college instructor and former pig farmer who's been leader since 1987, thinks the Liberals could win six seats or more in the next elec- tion, which the government must call by this fall.

The Liberals have been trying to convince voters they are a moderate alternative to the Socreds and favored New Democrats.

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Dissident Liberal Hans Krause, president of the West Vancouver- Howe Sound riding association, prefers no leader at all going into the election, saying Wilson could be a long-term liability.

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