Joe Zdebiak Ex-president B.S. JOEZDIBIAK Ex-president B.U.S.U. Hi there! Well, it was nice to have had the opportunity to serve you as the prez of the student union. I had a good year and I hope you did as well. As prez, I saw that there was much work yet to be done to help get total student representation throughout the university administration. Through this, you, the students will be the ones who benefit. The responsibility for this falls on you. Only through your support, can the student union function for you. Well, I wish you all luck in the fields of your choice. You'll need it. Good luck. When someone is asked to write pearls of wisdom for the fUlure, in seventy-five words or less, the usual reaction is general panic. What do you say? What is really relevent? What would the students appreciate? Obviously, your fearless leader, in his infinite wisdom, was in a delemma, he had to find out what the graduating students were really like. So he did. What did he find? Hope. The years ahead of us are not going to be particuarly easy, the struggles of our years attest to that, the job market is not encouraging. Despite all this, I found a great deal of hope among the graduates, a sense of confidence and reassurance that they will do something worthwhile for the world. As long as there is hope in youth, there is hope for the world. The Council has had the pleasure of serving you over the years and it is gratifying to realize that we we're perhaps responsible for that feeling of hope. I wish you all the luck of the world in the years to come, and for some reason I know you will all have the best of the future. Keith Poulson, President, Brandon University Student Union. As you read this, the 78/79 term is long past. That time is over and long finished. YOU have a record of the year in terms of solid articles, payslips, transcripts, old textbooks, and diplomas. But you also have other records of the year, as in terms of your added knowledge, your wisdom gained from experience, your personal being enriched by another year of life. Whatever experiences you have had in this year, they should be regarded in terms of benefiting you, either in terms of virtues gained, or in terms of learning from your mistakes as well as from textbooks. The first years are the hard years, they should be cherished because they are usually the best for then you have your dreams, and no one can take or give them to you, but yourself. • God grant me the serenity to accept the things that can't be changed, The courage to change the things that can be changed, And the wisdom to know the difference. We!cOJ#e t'o Brandon University t'his is an Jnstit/ltion of }figher ,Cearnil1g 5 A Place Where VOti Will (jrow ;VO! Onll/ in (;erJf1S ofJ:earninf/ btl! in (;erJf1s 6 ofMaturit!! 'Development in Soda! Skills Receiving a enance to Know Vou Better 7 VO/l will :Do New Activities ;UeetNew People ondJ:itJe 0 £ife :Different/ro/11 One tltot VO/l (lrew Up with. a tlnd Vou will Kel11el11ber (;ltis /or (;lte Keslo/ VourJ:ife So 8njo!l Vourse!f tlnd lJenefil /rol11 lite 8xperience • I shall pass through this life but once. If, therefore, there is any kindness 1can show, or any good I can do any fellow being, Let me do it now! Let me not deter or meglect it, For I shall not pass this way again. J1roJ1doJ1 UJ1iversitl/ JJ1tercollegiote Athletics It was an interesting year of sports a Brandon University with the appointment of George Birger as Athletic Director. George managed to pull off some fantastic recruiting that helped to improve the 79-80 season immensely. The Men's Basketball team just missed a chancae at a shot for G-Pac supremacy and a trip to the nationals in Calgary, and Keith Strieter was named to the All-Canadian second team. The Cats also placed three players on the G-Pac Allstar Ist Team: Jerry Abernathy, Keith Strieter, and Dave Knutson. The Mens Hockey Team improved over the year and posted a 4-4 tie with the Polish National Team. The big loss came in an eye injury to goalie Terry Fishley. The Womans Basketball Team has yet to win a G-Pac game in their last two years, but it takes time to build a strong team. While Womans Field Hockey improved over the year despite many injuries. All in all it was a great year. And, the next is almost guaranteed to be better, especially with the new interlocking schedule with the Canada West Conference. 1978 1979 _ ...tt1 Men sJce ROCKe!! This seasons Hockey Team improved one position in the G-Pac standings under new coach Andy Murray. The Bobcats finished third behind the U of M Bisons and the U of Regina Cougars. The main highlights of the seasonwas a 4-4 tie with the Polish National Team who later went undefeated in their tour. Had the Bob Cats continued to play with the same flair as in the Polish Game, the season might have been much brighter. Much recruiting has gone on since the Cats hung up their skates for the year, and the 79-80 season promises to be an exciting one with many of last years players returning. Jeff Taylor took the MVP Honors while Mike Johnston and Brad White received the MIP and Rookie Awards respectively. Men sISns!