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Education Going Buggy at Lord Elgin School Insects took_centre stage last week at the Lord Elgin Public School in BowmanviUe. The students performed the colorful musical entitled entitled "Going Buggy." Shown above are a few of the performers who are portraying honey bees. Trent Offers Non-credit Courses this Summer Trent University is offering noncredit noncredit courses this summer and fall for budding writers, for incoming students students who want to refresh their reading reading and writing and their mathematics mathematics skills, and for those interested in applying to law school, Trent has scheduled. Authors share trade secrets Novelists and sports journalist, Scott Young and children's author John F. Green will share the secrets of their craft in courses for budding writers in May and June. Young, well known for his col- , umns on sports and his hockey- 'centred books, will share his novelist's novelist's techniques in a workshop June 18 from 9 a.m. to ,3 p.m.' in Black- bum Hall lecture hall. Registration is $85.60 including GST. John F. Green has written bestselling bestselling children's books There's a Dragon in My Closet and Alice and the Birthday Giant and several other children's books including a novel for juveniles. Over four Thursday evenings, May 12, 19,26 and June 2, he will talk about writing, publishing and copyright. The classes are scheduled scheduled from 7 to 10 p.m. Registration is $96.30 including GST. • Enrolment for both courses is limited. limited. To register, call 748-1229, fax 748-1655 or visit Julian Blackburn College, Blackburn Hall. Preparing for university To case the transition from high school to university, Trent is offering two courses in academic skills in August. August. A three-week course concentrates on critical reading, thinking and writing writing using texts from the sciences, humanities humanities and social sciences. The course helps students think critically about what they read, discuss readings readings intelligently and write about them in essays. Offered for the first time last year, the course received such positive response response that the Academic Skills Centre Centre is offering if again this year as well as a new course called Mathematics Mathematics for University Success. The two-week math course is designed designed for students taking first-year university mathematics or math- dependent subjects. Students review secondary-school mathematics and solve problems in algebra, equations and inequalities, linear and quadratic functions, graphs, exponents, logarithms logarithms and trigonometiy. The academic skills course is of-, fered August 8-25. Registration is $321. Mathematics is offered August 15-25. Registration is $214. Both courses are offered Monday to Thursday (all day Mondays and Wednesdays, mornings Tuesdays and Thursdays). For more information, call Carol Tomlin at 748-1229 or fax 748-1655, Julian Blackburn College, Blackburn Hall. Practising for the LSATs Seminars and practice tests will be offered at Trent prior to the official test dates for the law school admission admission tests (LSAT) October 1 and December December 3. The preparation seminars cost $185 and covers the cost of a prep book, student manual and practice LSAT test. This fee docs riot pay for the official test. ' The prep seminars will be held September 10-11 and November 19- 20 from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day, followed by practice tests September 18 and November 27. Official test dates are October 1 and December 3. They are offered by Trent in collaboration collaboration with Fairlcigh Dickinson University, New Jersey. Register early by contacting Julian Blackburn College, Blackburn Hall, at 748-1229. Bunny Letters at Waverley School Computer whiz Ian Farzao shows his father, Carlos, what "Bunny Letters" is all about. Ian is a Grade 2 student at Waverley Public School. To prepare for the forthcoming SUBSTITUTE DECISIONS ACT Efficient, friendly service, at affordable rates: * Consultations * Powers of Attorney for Property * Powers of Attorney for Personal Care * Wills Telephone for appointment: (905) 623-4444 Mervyn B. 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SPECIAL SPRING SHIPMENT Three prominent individuals of native origin will receive honorary degrees June 3 to mark the 25th anniversary anniversary of the founding of Trent's Department of Native Studies, the oldest such program in North America. America. Mohawk elder Ernie Benedict, Métis architect Douglas Cardinal and Inuit leader Rosemarie Kuptana will receive degrees along with about 1,000 graduating students. Mohawk educator Ernie Benedict In 1969, Mohawk elder Ernie Benedict helped found the North American Indian Travelling College to teach and preserve the cultural traditions traditions of native people. Based on Cornwall Island, the college college offers courses in native arts and crafts, literature and Mohawk language. language. Benedict continues to work for the college. The elder was a visiting professor of native studies at Trent in 1971-72 and has been invited to give lectures at the university since then. Bom across the Ontario border in New York State, Benedict served in the U.S. Army during the Second World War, then settled on Cornwall Island. Architect Douglas Cardinal Perhaps best known for his design for the Canadian Museum of Civilization Civilization in Hull, Douglas Cardinal's curvilinear, organic designs have been called an indigenous, Canadian style of architecture. A member of the Order of Canada, Canada, Cardinal is the author of a white paper, a Master Plan for Indian Education Education in Alberta, an expert on computer-assisted computer-assisted design, city planning and housing for the elderly. His work has been exhibited in Europe, throughout Canada and at the Museum Museum of Modem Art in New York. Bom in Calgary in 1934, Cardinal studied architecture at the universities universities of British Columbia and Texas. He practised in Edmonton for 18 years and moved to Ottawa in 1985. He established his early reputation in Western Canada with his designs of St. Mary's Church in Red Deer, the Grande Prairie Regional College, the Edmonton Space and Sciences Center, the Government Services Centre in Ponoka, St. Albert Place and other public buildings. Recent projects include the unique campus plan tor the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa F6, N.M. and an entire new community for the James Bay Cree Nations in Northern Canada, Ouje-Bougoumou. Cardinal Has just been selected design architect for the National Museum Museum of the American Indian, to be constructed on the Mall in Washington Washington D.C., adjacent to the Capital Building. Broadcaster Rosemarie Kuptana Inuit leader Rosemarie Kuptana has been a powerful voice for aboriginal aboriginal self-government and human rights for Inuit and other aboriginal people in Canada. President of the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada, the national voice of Canadian Canadian Inuit, since 1991, Kuptana joined the northern service of the Canadian Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1979. She began as host of the morning morning and noon radio shows on CBC Western Arctic and went on to become become president of the Inuit Broadcasting Broadcasting Corporation (IBC), which produces and airs news and features in Inuktitut, the Inuit language. Kuptana Kuptana was instrumental in launching an Inuktitut language children's educa tional television program and the first all-northem Canadian television station, station, TVNC. Kuptana has served as the Canadian Canadian vice-president of the Inuit Circumpolar Circumpolar Conference - the international political organization representing Inuit Inuit from Canada, Alaska, Greenland and the former Soviet Union - from 1986 to 1989. She is the author of No More Secrets, a book about child sexual sexual abuse in Inuit communities, and serves as vice-chair of TVNC. She also co-chairs the International Arctic Council, which seeks the cooperation cooperation of eight circumpolar governments governments on common issues. Rock 'n Roll for Students at Hampton Public School Students from grades 4, 5, and 6 at Hampton Public School performed their spring musical entitled "Rock On" for parents and friends on Wednesday night. Above are just a few of the kids in costumes of the 50's, 60's and 70's during a rehearsal on Tuesday. On show night, everyone in the audience was invited invited to dance along with the young performers. CHEVYASTRO