Champlain 2010 - 11 End of Year Video by Khalil

Nicolas Dickner in Le Voir

Et un peu de vitriol - Hors champ

Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates: Who Would Choose Trent?

If Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were university-age, what university would each choose? Which would choose Trent?

From the New York Times:
Career Counselor: Bill Gates or Steve Jobs?

(Thanks to Jonathan Alphonsus for providing this link).


College students want to know what courses and majors will give them an edge in their careers. But the choices are not always clear, even if you are taking advice from Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.

In a talk to the nation's governors earlier this month, Mr. Gates emphasized work-related learning, arguing that education investment should be aimed at academic disciplines and departments that are "well-correlated to areas that actually produce jobs."

If this was not music to the ears of advocates of the humanities, they quickly found a soulmate in Steve Jobs. At an event unveiling new Apple products, Mr. Jobs said: "It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough -- it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing and nowhere is that more true than in these post-PC devices."

What do we know about the relationship between college studies and majors and future employment? What gets you a good first job and what leads to career success?

Read more at: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/03/20/career-counselor-bill-gates-or-steve-jobs

Champlain Alumnus Richard Johnston in dialogue with Students (posted by Mitch Beck)

By: Mitch Beck

Hello Fellow Champlainers!

On Monday evening this week we were fortunate enough to have a distinguished Champlain alumni, Richard Johnston, co-owner of ``By Chadsey’s Cairns Winery and Vineyard`` visit us in residence. When Richard was only seventeen he took the risk of leaving his family farm where he tended sheep on a farm north of Peterborough, to enrol as one of the first students at Trent University. Consequently, Richard was also one of the first Champlainers but back then Champlain was an all-male residence where women were not even permitted to stay after 11pm. Richard spoke of how the residence was quite dreary at this time of year, with little on-campus entertainment. With no clubs, pubs or the usual Champlain mischief and revelry, I personally didn’t have much trouble seeing why that was. However, fortunately this did not stop Richard and our former industrious members of college from getting to work on livening things up about the place.

Engage in Dialogue about the Disaster in Japan: World Affairs Colloquium 16 March in the CLLC

Wednesday, March 16 · 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: Champlain Living Learning Commons
Organized by: Linh Tran Thi Thuy

The world’s focus is now on Japan, where a massive 8.9/9.0 magnitude earthquake and 10m tsunami hit the North Eastern part of the country at around 3:00pm local time on March 11. The earthquake and tsunami has caused an estimated death toll of 10,000 people and left thousands of others homeless. In response to the Japanese quake and so many other natural disasters that have been happening around the world in recent years, Trent World Affairs Colloquium is organizing a talk with Professor Michal Avram and Trent Japanese students on how governments, international organizations and local people are dealing with natural disasters in both developing countries and developed countries. Come to Champlain Living Learning Commons this Wednesday (March 16) from 1-3pm to learn more!

More info at tisatrentu.org

Living in Champlain College is Frickin' Awesome: This Just In

Untitled from Latheesan Sutharsan on Vimeo.

International Women's Day 2011

International Women's Day is celebrated in many parts of the world--more than Mother's Day!