february 2015

Published by the Centennial College Student Association Inc. l Winter 2015, VOL 19 ISSUE 04

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Have you ever wanted to create a viral video on Youtube? This Centennial College student did just that, there’s a twist though, it took him getting punched in the face to do it. He tells us his story and gives us his secret.

Want to know what has been happening at the CCSAI? Here are some photos from events in December and January.

Sleep is something students never get enough of. Here are some fun sleep facts and tips in this month’s infographic.

The CCSAI has an amazing amount of clubs this year. Here is the first in our series of club profiles, the Latin American Club at SAC.

The Music Industry Arts and Performance program at Centennial College is full of exciting students, here is one of those great stories.

At this time of year, many people’s thoughts turn to health and fitness, here are some tips to help you achieve those goals.

Tired of nails chipping or breaking after you just did them? Follow this 10-step tutorial for the perfect lasting manicure.

QUESTIONS/ CONCERNS?Geoffrey Mosher

Communications CCSAI416-289-5000 Ext. 8713

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Editor-In-ChiefGeoffrey Mosher

Art DirectorLeigh Cavanaugh

Graphic DesignersJaime Munoz

Joel Nash

Cesar Augusto Ojeda

Contributors

Joshua Delgado

Alec German

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A great night to compete with students for tickets that could give you a chance to win prizes. Prizes include Maple Leafs and Raptors tickets, movie passes and Scarborough Town Centre gift cards. Time TBA, please check CCSAI.ca for more information.

Casino Night Progress Campus Student Centre Main Events Hall

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$90/student, $105 college community,includes competition support

$75/student, $90 college community

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$75/person for the semester,minimum 5 people.

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AWC FITNESS CENTREMONDAY AND WEDNESDAY11:30A.M. - 12:30P.M. / 7:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.

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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

DEEPIKA GANGWANI

W elcome to the Winter Semester and Happy New Year!

It gives me immense pleasure to write this message to all of you. My team and I are very excited and look forward to serving all of you this semester. We at the Student Association are here to provide you with support, services and enhance your college experience. We have lots of great services and events coming up in February. Please visit ccsai.ca or follow our Twitter @ccsai or Facebook to stay up-to-date with everything at the Student Association.

Come to any of our CCSAI office to collect your free TTC Pass holders and day planner. We want to make your life easier and help you to stay updated in your exams, tests and assignments.

The CCSAI wishes you all the very best for Winter 2015, once again welcome to Centennial and do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions.

DEEPIKA GANGWANIPresident, CCSAI

Henry ToCampus Director Morningside

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The CCSAI Welcomes

Students to Centennial

C entennial College and the CCSAI welcomed a new class of students to their respective campus at the beginning of January. Progress Campus and the

Story Arts Centre hosted orientation events on Jan. 5, while Ashtonbee and Morningside opened their doors on Jan. 6. There were give aways , an overview of services and resources, campus tours and variety of other events to get students comfortable with their new school. Students and the college community were also encouraged by Darryl Creeden, director of student recruitment, to come together and help build a positive community on campus. If you have any questions about CCSAI services please feel free to drop by the office at your campus.

Centennial Welcomes orientations for the 2015 Winter Semester took place at Progress Campus and the Story Arts Centre on January 5th.

Speaker Cameron Hughes (in the green shirt) helped kick off the welcome party at Progress campus. He was joined by representatives from Centennial and the CCSAI to provide information on resources available to students.

CC the Wonder Colt horsing around with Progress Campus Director Divyesh Bhudhrani.

SERVICES INFORMATIONTo find out more information about the services available from the CCSAI please visit our website at CCSAI.ca or the CCSAI office at your campus.

Photos courtesy// Alex Charles

Progress Campus

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MENTALIST & ILLUSIONIST

Shooting From Way Downtown

Photos courtesy// Geoffrey Mosher

Wayne Hoffman can guess what you’re thinking by spelling it out with your reaction.

W ayne Hoffman joined the CCSAI at Morningside Campus to welcome all

the new students to winter orientation. Hoffman is internationally renowned, having performed for Ellen Degeneres, Jay Leno, Steven Tyler and long list of other celebrities. He performed many of his illusions and mind reading tricks for the students and they marveled at his ability to pull thoughts out of their minds.

ABOVE: You might be skeptical of Wayne Hoffman’s illusions and mental tricks, but he always brings the doubters around, even Ellen Degeneres.

Morningside

T he CCSAI hosted a three point competition at the Ashtonbee Fitness

Centre to end the Fall Semester. The final round was a nail-biter, after almost 10 rounds of shooting, with Christopher Yacub narrowly defeating Christian James 7-5. A special thanks to Centennial College Athletics for their support.

ABOVE: Ashtonbee Campus Vice President Tory Harris and the CCSAI hosted a 3-point shootout at Ashtonbee’s Athletic Centre in December. First place received Raptors tickets.

WINNERS

• First Prize Christopher Yacub - First year Aircraft Maintenance

• Second Prize Christian James - Automotive


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Depending on your age you needdifferent amounts of sleeping hours.

The longest sleepingmammal is the Koala.sleeping for22 hrsa day.

Humans are the only mammalthat willingly delay sleep.

The shortest sleepingmammal is the Giraffe,sleeping for only1.9 hrsa day.

The average personspends 6 years of theirlife dreaming.

You strengthen memoriesmade during the daywhile you sleep.

Scientists have determined thatcounting sheep is ineffective forputting oneself to sleep. Evidentlyit is too boring and imagining acalming landscape generallyworks much better.

12% of people dreamonly in black & white.

03 things that can help yousleep better:

Stop using all technology 30 min before bed, no cell phone- no lap top- no kindle.

No caffeine after 3 PM. Sleep only an hour longer during the weekend than your latest weekday wake-up time.

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Every student seems to be striving for a “viral moment” these days. One student, who just graduated from Film and Broadcast at the end of the fall semester, managed to achieve it. Devin Giamou became an international sensation when his social experiment testing

Canadian reactions to prejudice backfired and got him punched in the face. Despite the bloody nose, he says he has no regrets.

By: Geoffrey Mosher

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THE VIDEO NOW HAS ALMOST 3.3 MILLION VIEWS ON YOUTUBE. DID YOU EVER THINK IT WOULD CATCH ON TO THAT EXTENT?

DG: I thought it definitely had potential, right after the first reaction. We filmed the video in the order that we used the clips. So every clip that we used was filmed in that order. So right after that first reaction, when the guy actually said something, I knew for sure that it would get views, but I didn’t think it would get 3 million. I know that it would have done reasonably well, but I think it went better than I thought.

HOW DID YOU GUYS COME UP WITH THE IDEA FOR IT?

DG: Omar, the guy whose Youtube channel it was, he approached me with that video idea the night before at like 3 in the morning. He sent me the whole concept, the whole video idea and before he even got done describing it I told him, “yeah I’m down to do that,” it was just something that appealed to me.

DID THE REACTIONS SHOCK YOU?

DG: No they definitely did. The thing about that video is when we filmed that video, we didn’t leave any of the clips, we used all of the footage that we filmed. There wasn’t anything kept out of it. It definitely surprised me in a sense, I knew Canadians were tolerant, I didn’t know they would be that vocal about their opinions.

DO YOU HAVE ANY ADVICE FOR STUDENTS?

DG: It depends on what they are doing, but I would say that if they want to do it then go out and do it. That’s the thing I found. I know that sounds kind of simple, but it’s just one of those where, for a while I would have these ideas in my head and I would know that it would work out. If I filmed it, it could get views, but I was hesitant to do it, to pull the trigger. I let these ideas just circulate in my brain for a while. If they have these ideas just go out and do it. There’s been times before where I had ideas and I didn’t go out and film them and utilize that and people have taken those ideas on Youtube. It just one of those things, just go out and do it.

GOING VIRAL WITH CENTENNIAL GRAD. DEVIN GIAMOU

VIDEO LINK:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9rFprD_Qf4

WATCH VIDEO NOW

Photo courtesy// Mark Toljagic

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By: Geoffrey Mosher

HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED WITH THE CLUB?

VA- Rodolfo was the founding member and the one who put the whole thing together. He noticed that we had a big Latin population on campus. The original idea was to help new students to adapt and expand the cultural diversity. It is something that is meant for everyone, not just Latin people.

RM- When I decided to do this it was because I saw there was a huge spot with Latin people, but everything starts with the Venezuelans. You know we have a lot of problems, and when we check all the clubs there was only one, and this club was looking to share, or face the problems, so why we can’t do a positive thing and talk about the problems. So I decided to do something more fresh and to give another face to the culture.

So when I started think of the Venezuelan people, I realized there was more people from other places and they can give more ideas and

help us to improve the experience. Also for the new-comers, it is very important and then we got another idea; That if we work as a team, we can get better stuff, better projects, better results.

RK- I got involved after I talked to Rodolfo, because the way he was proposing it was portray the Latin community differently. Not just as people that like to party but also that we are cultured and want to celebrate our culture. It is a great way to expand that through the campuses, having this as a medium to communicate with people about our culture and get involved.

VA- Also we thought it would be a good idea to have this club as place that new students could come to if they were having doubts, or if they were home sick. A place to help and hangout.

RK- It’s a good network and support group. When we tell people it’s a Latin club they say, but I’m not Latin can I still join? When we get an event on, I think they will understand more, it is for everyone.

HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO CREATE YOUR OWN OPPORTUNITIES TO MEET PEOPLE?

RK- Don’t be shy, it’s easy to say, but be self-confident. If you’re going to go talk to the right person show that you are confident in what you want to do. At this point, you’re always going to have to talk to someone with more experience.

RM- You won’t lose anything talking to people… don’t be scared to be refused. If you could accomplish one thing this semester, what would it be?

RM- We have three. We have the theatre class, we have the video that will decide if we keep going or not, it’s going to be our presentation and also we have our events on particular days. We want to try to make small events and be present on the campus to remind people that these days are an excuse to share, to hangout, to be a part of it.

Rosana Khabbaz Broadcasting and Film

Rodolfo Muhlemann CAMF (Communications and Media Foundations)

Maria Jesus Mateo Digital Animation

Stephanie Abrego Broadcasting and Film

Vitor AranhaCAMF

The Centennial College Student Association has just over 50 clubs this semester. Ranging from program specific, to cultural, to hobby clubs here is one club doing great things at SAC.

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Photo courtesy// Geoffrey Mosher

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K unle immigrated to Canada approximately five months ago to join Centennial at their recently opened music program referred to as MIAP (Music Industry Arts and Performance). He arrived to learn about the styles from this country

including, but not limited to, Blues, Folk, and Aboriginal Music. He started out his musical career living on the beach in Ghana, and hitching a ride on a pineapple truck to the main cities in Ghana

in order to busk and pull in extra cash. Since then he has worked with names such as Thibault Cauvin, and Cae The Daughter of the Dust, Kyekyeku, Ko Jo, Ofie Kodjoe and, has travelled through Europe, primarily Germany, expanding his playing style and attaching them to his own blend of percussion and strumming done primarily on an acoustic guitar. He first was attracted to guitar from notable folk and country musicians such as Don Williams, Cat Stevens, Dolly Parton and Phil Keaggy. Then, expanding into rock with notable effectologist “The Edge” and guitar legend Slash from Guns ‘N’ Roses. He is here taking the music course in order to branch out his ever-expanding style of guitar, to learn more about the history of western music and to expand his understanding of music technology. Never one to turn down a challenge he decided to take his unique instrumental style; accompanied with beads worn around his wrist to facilitate his percussive style playing. One can often see him performing in the halls of The Story Arts Centre, learning what he can to increase his versatility as a musician.

If you'd like to know more about Kunle and any projects he may bring to the table in the future, feel free to check out his links. Including the title track on the EP he is working on titled Igba Adare Kale.

In 2014, Kunle released his first EP, Ibga Adara Kale (The Best is Yet to Come). Kunle sings in Yoruba, English, Pidgin and German. He also speaks a little Japanese and is learning French. Look for more from Kunle as continues to pursue his artistic career.

BORN:February 13, 1987

PLACE OF BIRTH:Ibadan, Nigeria

MUSICAL SKILLS:Percussive Guitarist, Singer,

Songwriter

RECENT WORK:Movie score for “The Day after

Saturday” can be heard at thedayaftersaturday.com

Charity work with “Music With No Boundaries”

You can often find Kunle playing by the piano in the front hall at the Story Arts Campus with other MIAP students.

www.facebook.com/kunlechris

www.soundcloud.com/kunle-3

www.thedayaftersaturday.com

By: Alec German


Third-Semester MIAP Student

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TICKET WINNERS

HOW TO WIN:Winning tickets is a breeze! Just follow CCSAI on Facebook, Twitter @CCSAI for contests and attend CCSAI events.

D ozens of students have won tickets from the CCSAI this year to Toronto Raptors

and Toronto Maple Leaf Games. There are so many ways to win, the next winner could be you! The CCSAI has handed out tickets at events, on social media, through the Courier, through classroom visits and many other ways. So if you want a chance to see the Raptors or the Leafs this season, make sure attend all our events, visit our website to check out the services we offer in case we drop into your classroom and keep following us on social media and reading the Courier!


Don’t miss your chance to win tickets for the Raptors and Maple Leafs from the CCSAI. There are lots of ways to enter.

ABOVE: Chloe Kaye shows us how it’s done. She sent in this picture of her with the Courier and won tickets to the Leafs against the Red Wings.

Lucky winnersPhotos courtesy// Geoffrey Mosher

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QUESTION AUTHORITY

Find out how at:www.uregina.ca/arts/journalism

University of ReginaSchool of Journalism

MAKING AREASONABLE NEW YEAR’SRESOLUTION

A s we come to a New Year, we often set resolutions or goals to change our unhealthy habits such as: diet, exercising more or losing extra weight. Although many of these goals can be accomplished, many people tend to lose focus throughout their journey because it involves such a long and strict process. So why not make them reasonable? Below are 5 steps that would guide you towards your future self.

By: Joshua Delgado

Step 2: Rest

Step 3: Breakfast

Step 4: Exercise

Step 5: Dieting

People may believe that 5-6 hours of sleep is sufficient to be well energized. This may be true only if your sleep is interrupted and personally, that never happens for me. While resting and sleeping, that is when your body is undergoing the most recovery also known as circadian rhythms. Lack of sleep will conflict with your body’s circadian rhythms consequently with your hormonal levels such as reduced leptin and elevated ghrelin. This translates into reduced satiety and increased hunger, which cannot be good at all if you are trying to change your diet.

Skipping breakfast is a really bad idea. People may think that skipping breakfast may help them lose weight since they are eating less meals but that is very wrong. Breakfast is the first meal that your body will consume after hours of inactivity therefore it should be a nice nutritious meal. Skipping meals, especially breakfast, can make you feel tired, hungry and more likely to reach for high-fat, high-calorie snacks. This means that you are more open to snacking or that your future meals will be much larger than usual. In the end, your outcome would be a negative morning and potentially weight-gain instead of the opposite.

Small steps are better than no steps. Focusing on dropping to 10% body fat may be great but unless you are on a strict diet and strict exercise programing, without going off track within 6 weeks, how realistic is that goal? Instead of aiming for big accomplishments, take smaller steps such as incorporating even one extra workout during the week in addition to your previous workout schedule.

Similar to the philosophy of exercising above, small steps are key. Instead of telling yourself that you will completely cleanse your diet with just greens, start off with much simpler things such as adding one or two servings of your favorite fruit to your day. After staying consistent and have adapted to the change, you can therefore start changing and manipulating your own healthy diet even more such as adding complex carbohydrates, greens etc.

Without the proper inspiration, how can you drive yourself or someone else to achieve their goals? One of my favorite quotes is from Gandhi: “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Always keep a meaningful phrase that will give you a push whenever you lose focus on your goal. There is no doubt that you will have obstacles along the way but the journey may be as rewarding as the end goal.

Personal Trainer, Fitness Coordinator, CESP


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WHAT YOU NEED

• 100% acetone nail polish remover

• Nail file

• Nail buffer

• Base coat - *Orly Bonder

• Polish of choice

• Nail polish thinner (if needed)

• Flat, thin paint brush

• Top coat - *”HK Girl” by Glisten and Glow

• Cuticle oil

• Hand cream

Remove polish. 100% acetone is the most effective.

File/ shape your nails to desired shape..

Buff the surface of your nails to remove any ridges.

Apply “Orly Bonder” base coat. This is one of my absolute favourites, it helps adhere the polish to prevent chipping and protect the surface from staining.

Apply the colour of your choice, use a few drops of nail polish thinner if necessary.

Using acetone, clean up nail edges with the trimmed paint brush.

Apply cuticle oil and massage in after a few minutes.

Apply hand cream when nails are almost dry (acetone is very drying on the skin). Do not use hand cream before painting or polish will not adhere well.

Wait for your nails to cure.

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RULES:

1. Must be a current Centennial College student

2. Winners are chosen by random draw for every Raptors/Maple Leafs home game.3. Winners will be notified by email.

4. Odds of winning depend on amount of entries received. Entrants may winmultiple times but only once per issue.

5. Winners agree to have their likeness used for promotion, marketing and printing in The Courier.

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Professional LinkedIn Page

By: Leigh Cavanaugh

N ow that Centennial’s Career Week had passed, take time to amass everything you’ve learned and turn it into action. LinkedIn is a great platform to start building your professional identity. Here are some tips:

CREATING A

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Profile pictures are most likely a person’s first-point

of contact while on your page. Thus, LinkedIn is probably not the place

for you to put glammed- selfies, often a standard

head shot works. A profile picture is meant to

represent you to colleagues and potential employers.

It’s important to make the right impression.

2 - A picture is worth a thousand words: It’s important to keep in mind that this isn’t a personal social media page, but rather a way to present your self to the world. Be mindful of what photos you choose.

1 - This isn’t just a paper resume, it’s multimedia: Rather than simply cutting and pasting your resume onto the site, use LinkedIn’s unique multimedia features to show off your experience and portfolio. Videos, images can all be used to your advantage instead of offering just a textual experience.

4 - The pen is mightier than the sword: Proper diction is a powerful tool, be mindful of its use. Maximize impact when explaining your experience by use active verbs and construction and colourful adjectives.

It’s easy to simply bullet-point your experience and sum it up into simple catch phrases. But try to avoid cliches and

make the most of these entries by carefully creating succinct text that highlights your skills and experience.

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in search lists, so it’s imperative to put a phrase that is not

only professional but represents you exactly. It should be simple enough

to be recognized at a glance and reflect your

professional personality.

3 - Don’t forget to brand yourself: Small steps like creating a tag line or customizing your URL can go a long way in creating an online identity for you in LinkedIn. Brands make you memorable and lend credibility. This can lend trust and authenticate your voice.

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