News briefs: LLC Leaks, Comm Majors
April 2, 2008
Water leaks at the LLC
After an unusual winter in Ottawa with over four metres of snow and bizarre thawing periods, the Laurentian Leadership Centre has experienced some water leaks in the Booth Mansion.
According to LLC Director Dr. Janet Epp-Buckingham, the leak is coming from the second-floor deck off a tech room and into the Administrative Assistant’s office, as well as the library. The library, which has wood paneling, “has not yet been affected but we are watching it carefully,” said Epp-Buckingham.
Renovations will involve removing the deck, fixing the roof and repairing brick work after the snow melts. Some of these six-inch thick bricks may have to be replaced. A portion of the third-floor’s copper roof will have to be replaced; this is another leaking location which has left water deposits in a doorway.
Epp-Buckingham said the repair work will allegedly begin in early May, in hopes that summer thunder storms don’t pose a threat to the facilities.
llc now caters to
comm majors
Communications students can now count all of the Laurentian Leadership Centre’s internship towards their 42-hour major requirements.
The change, made official in Jan. 2008, was proposed to the Undergraduate Academic Council by communications department Chair Dr. Bill Strom.
In the proposal, Strom wrote that the communications department “developed the 3 s.h. credits policy in light of other departments’ precedence in the mid 1990s.” This policy, Strom told Mars’ Hill, was adopted because departments did not want to “soften their academic credentials.”
Strom told Mars’ Hill, “We found that we were essentially penalizing Laurentian students because they couldn’t bring back all their [credit] in the way they thought it would come back.”
While LLC students now can count all six semester hours, the standard will remain the same for non-LLC communications majors.
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