Hiaspire Issue 14

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HIASPIRE does not take any responsibility for any inaccurate information presented within this issue.

Copyright Hiaspire ’10Issue 14 Fall 2010www.hiaspire.ca • For general inquiries, e-mail [email protected]

Cover illustrated and coloured by Jonathan Morrissey

September Activities presented by Student Life

Week of Welcome [10am to 3pm]

Tuesday • Fun Day • Stop by the Mezzanine (Mez) to interact with different booths and get free frozen snack Wednesday • The Surrey Campus Committee BBQ • Come and an enjoy a free BBQ outside the Mez and giant games in the Mez! Thursday • Student Services Fair • Get informed about the resources and services available to you! Friday • Games Day • End off the week by kicking back and enjoying different games in the Mez

Weekly Move Night • Every Tuesday starting at 5:30pm in SUR3090

September 14 • Prince of PersiaSeptember 21 • Robin HoodSeptember 28 • Iron Man 2

The Volunteer and Civic Engagement Fair - SFU Surrey September 29th in the Mezzanine from 10am to 2pm

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Six years ago, a high school friend told me about a local anime (Japanese animation) convention in the lower mainland and asked if I wanted to go. I had only discovered what anime really was that year, and heard about Toronto’s Anime North on YTV, so I was super excited about attending an anime convention in British Columbia.

I started out as a volunteer for the convention in exchange for an admission pass. Since I wanted to help out whereever I could, I started to accumulate more than 24 hours of service throughout the three day convention. I decided to be more involved and became a staff member since the requirement is 32 hours minimum. I ended up being the audio/visual assistant manager because the only requirement was to be able to run around for the entire day throughout the convention weekend and the A/V manager would train me on how to connect devices such as projectors and microphones.

Since all the staff members are volunteers, we plan the convention aside from our daily lives. With over 250 volunteers, there are bound to be disagreements within the planning processes and not everyone will get along. We try to make the events and activities run as smoothly and professionally as possible. There are always technical difficulties or confusion, but it’s hard to keep everyone satisfied when there are over 6000 attendees. I have seen the passion and dedication from each staff member in making the convention the best we can. Everyone in the staff team starts to plan and work on promotions for next year’s convention as soon as this year’s convention has ended.

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“Why do you want to be staff when you don’t get paid?”

There are many benefits to being part of staff, such as skipping the line ups to events and panels, free laminated convention pass for the whole weekend, free lunches and dinners, and a free T-shirt. Also, I have gained work experience in customer service and tech support. It is difficult to stay for a panel or attend the events we, as staff, want to see, but it makes us happy to know that the panels are running so that the guests and attendees are having a great time.

“Do you cosplay (costume role play)?”

I have cosplayed as Train Heartnet from Black Cat for two years. I have to consider what is comfortable and easy to run in because of my job. Cosplay is a lot of fun because the attendees are excited to see their favourite characters in real life and are even allowed to give them hugs. There are many group photo shoots the attendees themselves have set up on the forums.

I don’t think I would have considered studying at SFU if it wasn’t for Anime Evolution. Anime Evolution used to be held at SFU’s Burnaby Campus. I enjoyed the small campus environment and decided to apply for SFU’s Faculty of Business Administration. Since the admission into Business is quite competitive, I enrolled in the TechOne program, intentionally as a back-up. My plans have changed since then and I have decided to continue my studies in a technological field. Currently, I am pursuing a degree in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology program with a concentration in Informatics at Surrey Campus.



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www.hiaspire.ca• www.hiaspire.ca•

HIASPIRE does not take any responsibility for any inaccurate information presented within this issue.

Copyright Hiaspire ’10Issue 14 Fall 2010www.hiaspire.ca • For general inquiries, e-mail [email protected]

Cover illustrated and coloured by Jonathan Morrissey

September Activities presented by Student Life

Week of Welcome [10am to 3pm]

Tuesday • Fun Day • Stop by the Mezzanine (Mez) to interact with different booths and get free frozen snack Wednesday • The Surrey Campus Committee BBQ • Come and an enjoy a free BBQ outside the Mez and giant games in the Mez! Thursday • Student Services Fair • Get informed about the resources and services available to you! Friday • Games Day • End off the week by kicking back and enjoying different games in the Mez

Weekly Move Night • Every Tuesday starting at 5:30pm in SUR3090

September 14 • Prince of PersiaSeptember 21 • Robin HoodSeptember 28 • Iron Man 2

The Volunteer and Civic Engagement Fair - SFU Surrey September 29th in the Mezzanine from 10am to 2pm

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