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Volume 7 Number 15 January 12, 1984

Welcome to 1984; reactions from Concordia By Howard Shrier If only he'd called it 2084. slightest disloyalty is turned in from every man, millions of So your SIN is punched in and Friends with tlie Computer'' is Then our grandchildren could by friends, co-workers or their threads in all. If these threads the computer heaves up your of­ the slo·gan at Computerland (600 have suffered all the doom and children. The Party has absolute were to suddenly become visi­ ficial portrait: ''Bank of Montreal stores worldwide). Hewlett­ gloom. control of the past, present and ble, the whole sky would look 0166 balance $56.00, Mastercard Packard computers are ''Setting But no, 1984 was the inverse of future. like a spider's web, and if they credit limit $1,000. Tested for You Free," complete with but­ the year in which he wrote it. It Winston's revolt is brief and materialized as rubber - buses, social disease three times this terfly logo. was !like 1948) the Chinese Year unspectacular, consisting mainly trams and even people would all year. Rents Russ Meyer's "I'm optimistic that there is of the Rat (remember the rats in of illicit sex and reading. He is lose the ability to move." Beneath the Valley of the mtra technology for computer securi­ · the nasty climax in Room 101?). caught, and tortured until he ac­ In Canada, all the data trails Vixens every Saturday night." ty and decentralization," says And it was within the SO-year cepts Big Brother as his saviour. are linked by the Social In­ McCarthy ,would have loved Professor Gary Boyd of Educa­ limit on royalties, so descendants surance Number (SIN) . Though this. · tional Technology. '' I ' m could cash in on the predictable To most readers, 1984 means Lester Pearson promised it The technology for invasion of pessimistic that there are groups record sales (100,000 in Canada Big Brother. Constant sur­ would never be used as such, it privacy is at hand. Computers of people who do not care to- see alone in 1983, triple 1982 sales, veillance. With a telescreen in has become Canada's unofficial and SIN are like crowbars and them used. and going strong). every room, no word or gesture Identity Card. shivs. " Who dominates society? - Whatever the reason, George is private . We have no Few transactions are possible ''It does happen,'' says Charles Money, corporations. Things Orwell called his anti-Stalinist telescreens yet, but we have without it. Banking, credit, job Giguere, associate dean of happen in ways that serve their tract 1984. The future and the computers and more and more of applications, health records, tax Engineering and Computer interests." burden are ours. us are buying them (Enroll your returns, my video club, an Ot­ Science. "Credit ratings, for ex­ Boyd does agree with the per­ Now every politician paying kids now!). Most Canadians tawa diaper service, junior ample, create a lot of informa­ sonal computer people, though, lip service to human rights can (68% says Gallup) fear for their hockey association - stop me tion sharing. But that's not and feels personal computers are and will refer to it in this year's privacy. when it gets ridiculous (which totalitarianism. It's not control of more a safeguard than threat. "It speech. _ Solzhenitsyn writes in The was back when Pearson promis­ what you say or think." Govern­ keeps records where they are Every editorialist and theorist Cancer Ward: '' As every man ed, and someone believed him). mental snooping, he says, is needed, rather than having them in every field, from National goes through life, he fills in a "technologically there but social­ disappear into some vast, cen­ Review to National Lampoon, is number of forms for the record, ly unacceptable.'' tralized system." clinking' his two cents' worth. each containing a Is Robert Kaplan listening? John Daniel, Vice Rector Could The Thursday Report be number of ques­ The companies that Academic, agrees: "It's the exact still? (Even at the risk of succum­ tions . . . there are sell and service the opposite of the telescreen, which bing to herd journalism?) thus hundreds of computer are trying tied everyone together. The Without further ado or l i t t l e hard not to appear micro-computer and video apology, and with the help of threads the villain in cassette recorder have made us members of the university com­ radiating 1984. much more autonomous." munity - here's our 1984 vs. "Make Anyway, what kind of govern­ Orwell's. ment would snoop so much and try so desperately to control its 1984 is the story of Winston citizens?' Smith's rebellion against If you live in Quebec, you'll totalitarian Oceania (nee wish you hadn't asked. Orwell England), which represses predicted a "new aristocracy" of citizens with Thought Police and ----­ "bureaucrats, scientists; techni­ electronic surveillance. cians, trade union organizers, Big Brother watches over all. publicity experts, sociologists, Language is perverted and purg- teachers, journalists and profes­ ed of words like freedom. sional politicians." Anyone suspected of the See 1984 page 7. Page 2 THE THURSDAY REPORT January 12, 1984

Profiles

Losique questions procedures in choosing new rector

Professor Serge Losique asked ding to Le Devoir, only two can­ built from the ashes by Dr. The Thursday Report to print the didates had been proposed by O'Brien in the most difficult following Open Letter to the Board the Search Committee: Mr. times and not a small company of Governors. Patrick Kenniff (8 votes) and (sic) . As Rector of the University, Del King To the Editor: Mrs. Therese Lavoie-Roux (5 Dr. O'Brien deserves our- full I Normally, when a party or a votes)? respect. That is one of the main Head receiver & shipper, Distribution big institution is getting a new Was this intervention conceiv­ reasons why 400 professors "Wrap it up and charge it" leader, there are celebrations. In ed to stop Dr. O'Brien despite wrote an open letter of thanks to may have been your favorite the case of Concordia, there is the fact that the Search Commit­ our leader and Rector Dr. J. W. phrase this past Christmas sadness and disbelief about what tee did not recommend him? Is it O'Brien. season, but for Del King happened to our University. You true that the members of the The Chairman of the Board of wrapping and charging takes read The Link and Le Devoir and Board of Governors did not Governors owes us an explana­ on a different dimension. gradually the real story is coming know the names of the can­ tion. The faith in this University King is the head receiver out. All this mess must be didates prior to their meeting at is undermined and we cannot go and shipper in the Sir George cleared up, and the Board of noon? If ··it is true, it is into history as having permitted Williams campus Distribu­ Governors should appoint an in­ unbelievable that for such an im­ a "small group" (as Le Devoir tion department, and he's one . dependent committee im­ portant job, the members of the said) to act in such a way in the busy man. mediately to see how it Board were not allowed time to name of the "University com­ After the holidays before happened. study in depth the values of the munity". ·without this approach, the semester is to begin, Once the popular name of Dr. proposed candidates. The we are destroying all the values Distribution is the centre of J.W. O'Brien was leaked in The University community should and principles of higher activity in the University: Link, the Search Committee know if . there was a pre­ education. moves, incoming shipments, should have been disbanded and meditated set up. Finally, I insist that I am not in cataloguing of each shipment, if not, all other candidates' If the procedures followed any way criticizing the can­ designating the workload, it names should have been made were fair, why did the Board didates who applied for the Rec­ all happens at once. he's proud of the efficiency of public too, that is simple fairness decide at the same meeting to tor's job because I do not know In his position, King does his department and the to ·all concerned. create a committee to review all them, I am simply questioning more than push papers, he cooperation among his team, Did anyone question the im­ the procedures for future Rector the procedures and morality of coordinates the services in his whom he refers to as "a great partiality of some members of nominations? Why is it so sud­ my University. section, including the man­ bunch of guys". the Search Committee when all denly urgent when a new Rector To brush aside these and other power, eleven workers. Del has been married for 13 these leaks came out? Many is appointed for the next five questions will be detrimental to King started at the Universi­ years and has an eight year other questions must be years? Why did not the Board or Concordia University. ty in Mail Services, and was old daughter to whom he answered. Is it true that a non the Chairman of the Board (who Serge Losique transferred to Distribution in devotes a lot of time. He takes member of the Board of Gover­ was also Chairman of the Search Professor in Cinematographic 1968. her skating and also likes to nors was brought to deliver the Committee) ask Dr. O'Brien if he Art After 15 years on the job, go to movies. most articulate speech at the was interested in resigning secret meeting on November 3? before it was "decided" to look We would like to know if such for a new Rector? - things happened before at the This is a University that was meetings of the Board of Gover­ Edge & Image exhibition at Art Gallery nors. And why was it necessary to bring this outsider in if accor- The Concordia Art Gallery and life. Canadian Art History. The ex­ (formerly the Sir George Edge and Image is prepared by hibition will take place from Williams Art Galleries) presents Guest Curator Reesa Greenberg, January 11 to February 4. For an exhibition of Canadian art en­ an Art History professor, with further information, call titled Edge and Image. The 37 the assistance of MA students in 8789-5917. works, including photographs and prints, explore the idea of the frame or framing device as an inseparable part of the mean­ ing of the image. NormanCohn The exhibition demonstrates the variety of framing devices us-· pleased with Library ed by contemporary artists, and how the traditional notion of the To the Editor: comodation for staff and frame as a neutral element is After two semesters spent at students than is now available; now being challenged. Concordia (the first in 1982, as and I trust these plans will be The many uses of the frame in Social Science and Humanities· carried through to a successful this exhibition is as pluralistic as Research Council Visiting conclusion. But for my part I the issues in recent Canadian art. Fellow, the second this year, as should like to express my very Artists such as David Bierk, Canadian Commonwealth real appreciation of what the Sorel Cohen, Sylvain Cousineau; Visiting Fellow), I am now-about Library already has to offer - Charles Gagnon, Bill Laing, to return to England. Before do­ and of the helpfulness and Leslie Poole, Michael Snow and ing so I should like to say how courtesy which have invariably Alex Wyse often use framing much I have profited from the been shown me by the members devices that commerrt on tradi­ resources of the University of the Library staff. tional ideas about the frame. Library. Working in a somewhat Norman Cohn John Boyle, Greg Curnoe, Joice recondite field (the religions of Department of History Hall, Gordon Rayner, Franc;oise the Ancient Near East). I have Sullivan, Bill Vazan and Esther found almost everytliing I need­ Warkov abandon the frame en­ ed, whether in English or in tirely to emphasize the self­ French; only in the case of Ger­ Correction sufficiency of the art object. man works have I had to turn to ' On the December 1, 1984 Other artists such as Pierre other libraries - and that only issue of The Thursday Report, an Ayot, David Dorrance, Paul occasionally. error on the notes to the financial Lussier and Rick McCarthy re­ I know, of course, of the plans statements was discovered. The ject the imposed limits of a fram­ for a new Library building, numbering should have started ing device to elim_inate any ar­ which will provide far ~etter ac- with 2 instead of number 1. tificial boundaries between art January 12, 19~ THE THURSDAY REPORT Page 3 Senate deals with Evaluating, Advisory Search Committees

By Carole Kleingrib At the last Senate meeting of 1983, Steering Committee pro­ posed a framework for debate on Procedures for Evaluating Com­ mittees and Advisory Search Committees, consisting of the following points: 1. The need for evaluation as part of the process as opposed to moving directly to an open The Concordia annual Burns chairmen of the Right to search; Night Supper will be-held on Food conference .. .. Barbara 2. Limiting the number of Friday, January 20 in the Sherwin, w h o recently terms in office for a given ~Loyola Campus Faculty Club, received h er P h D in position; AD-308, from 5 p.m. to the Psychology here, has been 3. The question of con­ small hours. The traditional selected as the 1983 recipient fidentiality; program of piping, dancing, of the Kinsey Institute Disser­ 4. The process for selection of speeches and ceremonies will tation Award .. ..Th e Concor­ members to Evaluation and Ad­ be offered, with English prof dia UNICEF Campaign just visory Search Committees. Harry Hill proposing the Im­ keeps on growing. In 1983, it The issue resulted from a mortal Memory. Tickets are collected three times as much resolution first introduced last $13.50 per head, and admis­ as the previous year, which in fall by the Faculty of Engineering sions are strictly limited. turn was twice as much as the and Computer Science asking to Reservations will be taken by year before that. (The figures disband the rector's search com­ Alex Lawrie at local 214 .. .. were $333 collected in 1983, mittee afttr The Link published Change of name: The Sir $105in 1982, and $55 in 1981) (September 16, 1983) informa­ George Williams Ar t .... The Chinese Georgians' tion of a confidential nature con­ Galleries will henceforth be Association will be holding a cerning that same committee. know as the Concordia Art colloquium on the economic Debate on the Procedures item Gallery . . . . Congratulations future of Hong Kong on last December 16, quickly teach-­ to Dagmar Brodie, secretary January 27. Officials from the ed a stalemate as senators ques­ to Vice-Rector Administration federal government and the tioned the usefulness of such a and Finance Graham Mar­ People's Republic of China as discussion. No recommenda­ Gilly Pilsner tin, who tied the knot with well as professors from Con­ tions were made and the item Geology prof D avid cordia are expected to par­ was tabled until the next meeting McDougall. The wedding ticipate . . . . Some changes in on January 27. Moreover, Senate Concordia student wins took place December 10 ... . the languages laboratories: has till the end of January 1984 The next University Writing A new 24 position Tandberg to make any recommendations Rhodes scholarship Test is scheduled for Thurs­ audio/active/ com para ti ve, to the Ad Hoc Committee day, January 26 at 5:30 p.m. cassette was added to video (CESSA) established by the on the SGW Campus. One lab D; a colour monitor and Applying for the Rhodes discovered. Once she had pro­ hundred appointments will VTR was added to audio lab Board of Governors concerning Scholarship isn't easy, as vided six letters of reference, the composition, structure and be given for the English test A; the dial-access i,iudio lab Sociology student Gilly Filsner composed a 900 word essay and 40 for the French. Ap­ was re-organized so that the methods o_f procedure of the outlining her academic inten­ See SENATE page 5 pointment cards will be teacher can sit at the head of tions and submitted to a rigorous available from January 20 to the lab during class situations interview, Filsner could be January 25 in the Registrar and can control the facility, forgiven for thinking that was Services on both campuses .... send audio or video programs the end of it. Concordia profs make their to the students, and have use But it wasn't, as Filsner won opinions known: In the of a blackboard. The lab was ATTENTION: the prestigious scholarship dialogue column on The ' also upgraded from 24 posi­ which will enable her to study at Gazette's op-ed page, Political tions, all equipped with Oxford University this year. She Science prof Harold Angell t elevision . . . . W elcome All Spring '84 is one of two Quebec residents to wrote on Quebec's election aboard t o : Fran~oise win the award, and she is the reform going . too far; and Auclair, secretary, Simone first Concordia student to do so visiting Political Science prof de Beauvoir; Michel-Andre Cert.ificate, · Diploma, since 1979. Shmuel Sandler wrote that Robillard, technician, Elec­ Filsner will begin her two-year Arabs & Israelis should talk - trical Engineering; Diane Bachelor's, Master's stint next October. now . . . . Concordia will host Hastings, secretary, Biology; "I really wanted to ·study at an international conference Francine Kolodychuk, Oxford. I figured if I had a choice on world hunger, drawing copier operator, Printing; and Doctoral Degree · of universities, I would go for the together the foremost experts Bushra Pasha, secretary, best. It's not just the sociology in the field, next May 25-31. Comm Studies; Maggie Candidates department; the whole at­ Prime Minister Pie rre Latucca, secretary, Library mosphere there is so conducive Trudeau and former West Studies; Arlene Parizeau, to intellectual discourse." If you are completing the requ irements for your German chancellor Willy receptionist/typist, Concordia After that, she plans to work Brandt will be honorary Centre for Management Certificate, Degree, or Diploma program during the on her PhD, working on the Studies .... Fall 1983 or Winter '84 sessions and therefore expect "relationship between ideology, to be considered as a graduation candidate next Sp r- structural processes and social , ing, YOU must inform the Graduation Office by sub­ economics." mitting a Spri ng '84 Graduation Application no later She enjoyed her studies at Con­ Senior Students \ than January 15th, 1984. cordia, and particularly liked the opportunity of working as a Students who do not apply by this date will not research assistant for Sociology thank Rector O'Brien professors T ylor Buckner and graduate next spring. 9 As C h airman of the gave to implement lower fees Natalie Kyriazis. 'Sparklers' and as · past and the program,of non-credit Obtain your form from the Registrar's Services When not being a straight-A Department on your camp~s and submit it to-day! Senator of Concordia Univer­ courses for seniors of 60 and student, she likes to lift weights sity, I wish to express, in the over. and has worked as a model. name of the Senior Students, On your parting we wish (Loyola CC21 4) The 20-year old Filsner is also (S.G.W. N107) our gratitude to you Dr. you fairwell and good luck. looking forward to traveling in O'Brien for your help and the For the Sparklers Europe this summer. . , ~.J• • ~ ; _ ! • l .!. \ .,,.J : • ·' la, .I • posit,ive c9i;isic;lei:a.tioan. you .William Schiff.r, . ' ; •.· '' .. ' Chairman J Page 4 THE THURSDAY REPORT January 12, 1984 Student's crunera records quirky images

By Louise Abbott "It's a time to explore, to reex­ Concordia represented by pro­ amine your work, perhaps take a fessors like Gabor Szilasi, and new direction." That's how reasoned that exposure to this Robert Boffa characterizes Con­ mode of photography would cordia's MFA program in make an interesting change. photography. "I also wanted the freedom to Like the handful of other conduct my own research," he Master's students, the 33 year recalls. "I like working on my old Boffa was already a seasoned own." photographer when he enrolled­ Boffa, who holds a graduate in Fall 1982. After earning an fellow~hip· and works part time· undergraduate degree in fine arts as technician for the Art History at the University of Ottawa, he Department, has taken some took Mas ter's classes in theoretical courses in photo­ photography on a scholarship at graphy and other media in the the Banff Centre School of Fine Master's program. At the mo­ Arts, and worked for several ment, however, he's spending a years as a freelance graphic artist lot of time in the darkroom as he and photographer. makes final preparations for an In 1981 Boffa moved to Mon­ exhibition which will open in the treal because he wanted a "fresh Bourget Building Gallery, 1230 atmosphere'', and he subse­ Mountain, from January 25 to quently applied to Concordia for February 3 (weekdays 10 a.m. to much the same reason. He'd 8p.m.). done experimental work with in­ Partly because he's building a camera montages, hand-tinting house of his own in the Lauren­ of black-and-white prints, and ti ans, Boffa has become mixed media. He knew of the fascinated with vernacular ar­ stro~g documentary tradition at chitecture, and that's evident in '' How are you? - How was your trip? - Have you heard from so and so? - Nice weather we 're ha~ing isn't it?" the work to be displayed. Over - All of these ritualized conversations, those questions whose answers no one ever hears, tend to isolate people the past couple of years, he's from one another. The "OK, I'm fine - Not bad.- Couldn't have been better - No thank you, dear - No, I made a series of photographs of didn't see it" and so on replies just scream with boredom. Perhaps I will discover in time that that style-Of talk is houses, storefronts, and other relaxing and comfortable and leaves you free to think your own thoughts. facades in the Maritimes as well as in Quebec. He uses a 35mm camera and isn't concerned with making obsessively fine prints - "I'm not of the formalist school," he points out. What makes Boffa's black-and­ white images interesting is partly the quirky buildings they docu: ment, and partly the text with which they are combined. Underneath every photograph is a handwritten paragraph or two based on the photographer's observations, anecdotes, bits of conversation, or excerpts from books or other documents. Boffa was influenced by reading sociologist Paul Good­ man's journal, ·Five Years, and the journal that he keeps himself is frequently a source for his text. Nonetheless, Boffa's work isn't really autobiographical or diaristic. In fact, the comments frequently appear to bear no relation to the pictures with which they're paired. Yet the viewer finds himself trying to make connections; it's He had been clarity itself for as long as I've known him, radiating confidence in the fact that tomorrow would an intriguing artistic ploy. "I see depart from the path of the preceeding day. See BOFFA next page Taking snapshots of our present A look at photography at Concordia By Louise Abbott Taking a polaroid camera, then the rules of composition differ images, produced with a large­ street photographer. He uses a of personal expression," says going out on the street to use it from the graphic arts ·and format camera, are composed in 35mm camera and creates grainy Szilasi. with a blindfold over your eyes painting." a traditional documentary style; .prints which break pictorial con­ The photography programs may seem like an odd assign­ Szilasi is one of eight people they're finely detailed and rich ventions as they expose the bit­ clearly reflect that view. They of­ ment. But that's something that who teach full time or part time in tonality. tersweet nature of the urban fer a broad-based knowledge of Photography professor Gabor in the BF A and MF A programs in Some -0f Szilasi's colleagues, landscape. the history as well as the Szilasi asks his undergraduate photography on the Sir George however, take very different ap­ What Concordia's photo­ technology of the medium. students to do. "After analyzing Williams campus. He's well proaches to photography. For in­ graphy instructors share, Whether in a course on the zone the photographs,'' he explains, known for his portraits and ar­ stance, Tom Gibson, who's also though, is a strong orientation system method of controlling "they can see how chance is an chitectural studies made in Mon­ director of the graduate pro­ towards photography as art. negative contrast or in a special element in photography and how treal and in rural Quebec. His gram, is a more freewheeling "We see photography as a means topics class on slide-tape presen­ See PHOTOGRAPHY next page January 12, 1984 THE THURSDAY REPORT Page 5

"We need photographers because they express the spirit oftheir times in a personal way. They show us things about our culture, our society that we wouldn't see otherwise. From images formed through a lens, we'll know in 200 years what it was like in 1984. " PHOTOGRAPHY Continued from page 4 tations, students are urged to paper, chemicals, and other develop personal statements in materials, and they're expected their work. to own a 35mm camera; but Szilasi, for example, asks they're free to borrow larger undergraduates to photograph view cameras and lighting equip· their domestic or neighborhood ment from the university. environment so that they'll They're encouraged to experi· realize that "you don't have to go ment, to evaluate and discuss to exotic places to find exciting each other's photographs, and to subject matter." His students visit local photography galleries. must also produce portfolios on a As stimula_ting as this kind of theme of their choice in the last education may be, however, the few weeks of the year. "That question must be asked: How do way," he points out, "they photography students earn a !iv· discover their own viewpoint." ing after graduation? Although Concordia has of­ · If they do opt for commercial fered limited photography in­ photography, they face stiff com· struction to fine arts students for petition from the graduates of Nobody is successful, -one become successfµl. more than a decade, its commit· other more technically oriented ment to photography as an in· institutes or colleges . dependent field of study is Nonetheless, according to relatively recent. The first Szilasi, the Concordia students graduate student in photography receive enough training to registered in 1974. An under· become competent commercial graduate minor in photography photographers. ''They know was introduced in the late 1970s; how to handle the -camera, as a major, in fall 1983. well as basic lighting and Both the undergraduate and darkroom techniques. After that, graduate programs in it's just a matter of practising." photography have seen a steady Katherine Tweedie, a photo increase in popularity, and ap· historian and critic who teaches plications are coming from far­ an introductory and a second· ther and farther afield. Only one year course in photography, in four or five candidates can be argues that the University accepted. shouldn't have to worry about There are 20 students in the preparing students for the job major program of 48 credits, and market. "People know that a nearly double that number in the painter is probably not going to minor program of 24 credits. In· make a living from his art,'' she eluding those from other depart· says. "So if photography is plac· ments or Faculties who are ed in the context of the fine arts. enrolled in a single photography it has different objectives. To use course, there are 150 students the medium in a personal way altogether in the undergraduate takes talent; a program like ours sector. has to bring out that talent." To accommodate them, the Many graduates apparently Department of Cinema and agree with Tweedie's stance. Photography has fully equipped Determined to remain "camera darkrooms, open 12 hours a day artists", they work at various during the week, in the Visual jobs to support their photo· He had been clarity itself for as long as I've known him, radiating confidence in the fact that tomorrow would Arts Building on Crescent Street. graphy and apply for govern· depart from the path of the preceeding day. Students must pay for film stock, ment grants from time to time. They show their work in BOFFA ·Continued from page 4------publications like the Montreal­ based OVO Magazine or the parallels between my work and · because of the ultimate sense of Photography) to introduce a new Toronto. Toronto-based Photo Communi· avant-garde cinema," Boffa satisfaction it brings. "Photo· specialization in Film Production Although the Faculty claim~ que, as well as mount exhibitions explains. graphy is really important for to the Master of Fine Arts (Studio the new program could be in· "It's modelled after an open me," he says. "It's not only art, in parallel or mainstream Art) program. troduced with relatively minimal galleries, even though print sales narrative. 1 try to create an at· it's part of my socialization. It's a Concordia's Faculty of Fine costs, some senators arguee are usually minimal. mosphere, then the viewer is left way of defining myself.'' Arts has an established reputa­ otherwise. In light of budgetary Although they sometimes find to fill in the blanks on the more tion as one of the best Canadian . constraints, the Committee on it difficult to make ends meet, particular aspects of the university undergraduate con­ Academic Development recom­ they persevere because they are -subject.'' centrations in filmmaking. The mended that the proposal be ap· convinced that photographers Even as he finishes one body of SENATE aim of the proposed specializa­ proved in principle, on th€ play an important part as artists. work, Boffa has already begun to Continued from page 3 ---- tion would be the training of a understanding that it not be im collect material fo r another. He . As Szilasi puts it, "We need selected group of students whc plemented until an appropriat€ photographers because they ex­ admits that there's always a would be regarded as "artisl Evaluation Committee and Ad· level of outside funding has been press the spirit of their times in a period of insecurity in beginning filmmakers''. 1 visory Search Committee for ensured. personal way. They show us such a project - "You're not The Faculty of Fine Arts·~ senior administrators. Meanwhile, at the initiative of things about our culture, our whipping out masterpieces justification is that there is nc The other item on Senate's the Ministry of . Education, society that we wouldn't see every day." graduate film production in agenda to spark co~siderable discussions have been initiated otherwise. Froi:n images formed But he's willing to work Quebec at the present time, only discussion came from a proposal with UQAM on possible through a lens, we'll know in 200 through the sometimes painful a more general cinema gradual€ by the . Faculty of Fine Arts cooperation to develop the film years what it was like in 1984." process of artistic creation (Department of Cinema and program at York University in production program. .Page 6 THE THURSDAY REPORT January 12, 1984

Engineering & Cotnputer Science: Forging ahead in 1984 A report on the state of the Facuf-ty By Carole Kleingrib and Minko Sotiron After only twenty years of ex­ jects requiring vast resources and government on providing an istence, the Faculty of Engineer­ such as robotics, hardware and integrated approach to building ing and Computer Science has software development in com­ design answering to specific built itself, and Concordia, quite puter engineering are developed needs such as acoustics and a reputation nationally and on a faculty-wide basis and are energy conservation. abroad in terms of its teaching interdisciplinary in nature. One There are many more ex­ and research accomplishments. such new area of research con­ amples, but according to the According to the Dean, M.N.S. cerns power electronics, and in dean these few demonstrate the Swamy-, the Faculty's main particular the development of impact of this faculty's yet un­ strength rests on its staff VLSI (Very Large Scale In­ tapped teaching and research members. They are all actively tegrated Circuits) which are used potential. involved in activities aimed at to build more powerful micro- When asked how he feels improving the overall quality of about all the current talk of teaching, in applied and scien­ industry-university linkages, tific research, and in profes­ Swamy said that "university pro­ sional and learned societies. fessors used to be accused of liv­ "Each year they publish in ex­ ing in an ivory tower; now these cess of 120 articles in learned same people are accused of con­ journals, acquire patents on flict of interest when they get in­ technological innovation, p:-e­ volved in contract research. I sent papers at international don't want to minimize this pro­ scholarly conferences and act as blem'', Swamy continues, ''but a chairmen for various sessions at faculty such as ours cannot func­ these conferences,'' Swamy tion in a vacuum. It must be in­ says. The Electrical Engineering dustry compatible if it is to play Department, for example, will an active role in the country's be hosting the 1984 Institute for development. Electrical and Electronics In light of the recent conflict of Engineers (IE.EE) International interest scandal involving Symposium on Circuits and McGill University's Micro­ Systems, and the International biology Department, Swamy and Conference on the Strength of his chairmen feel that Concordia Metals and Alloys will probably needs a clear policy on such be held at Concordia in 1985. issues as secrecy, patents and "All faculties must be teaching ownership of ideas to ensure that and research oriented, and ours processors . . According to both the university and its in­ is certainly no exception", Swamy, Canada trails far behind dustrial partners mutually . Swamy says. "But in addition to the United States and Japan in benefit from any future that our faculty is very involved such high technology fields and cooperative ventures. A student works in an Engineering lab. in applied research, meaning we can thus expect for more in Since becoming Dean of that we teach our students sub­ the way of government and in­ Engineering and Computer ty, an inter-university Master's microprocessor laboratory as jects that are relevant to industry dustry grants to develop such Science in 1968, Swamy has ap­ programme in aeronautical part of its computer engineering and which will benefit the projects. plied a planning strategy that is engineering has been created. programme. It has also been economy of the country." Activity at the department complementary to the economic The first students were admittP.d awarded a $275,000 grant from Although it is difficult to level is just as intense. Electrical development of Montreal. this fall . - NSERC fo_r the purchase of a equate excellence in research Engineering, for example, is Duplication, both in teaching A few years ago the Electrical super mini-computer. The Civil with the amount of funding working on underwater com­ and research programs are Engineering Department was the Engineering Department will received for this purpose, it is munications, electromagnetic always avoided. "We do, first in Quebec to introduce an soon open a geotechnical nevertheless worthwhile to note compatibility and electronic cir­ however, offer more electives at option in Computer Engineering. laboratory and is improving its that both government and in­ cuits - partly in cooperation the undergraduate level than any ''Because of the tremendous suc­ water resources laboratory. The dustry have seen fit to invest with Northern Telecom Ltd. other university in the country, cess of this option", Swamy Centre for Building Studies is substantial amounts of money to Civil Engineering is involved in a and all our courses are lab inten­ notes, "we decided to convert it making improvements in its support the Faculty's various joint research project with sive. This is what distinguishes into a programme leading to a Building Aerodynamics, Build­ research activities, ranging from Hydro Quebec. The department us from other engineering Bachelor of Engineering degree ing Enclosure, Energy Conserva­ $153,000 in 1969-70 to more of Computer Science is very ac­ faculties", he says. in Computer Engineering, again tion, and Building Materials than $3 .3 million in 1982-83. tive in hardware and software ''There is more'', Swamy adds. a first in Quebec." laboratories . Mechanical "And we'll probably surpass that research, and is collaborating "Two years ago, we introduced In addition, a new programme Engineering is now developing amount this year", Swamy adds with Canada Post on the an Industrial Engineering option leading to a Bachelor of specialized laboratories for the proudly. development of an automatic within the Mechanical Engineer­ Engineering in Building Industrial Engineering Option. One can hardly accuse him of reading system for postal codes. ing program that is the only one Engineering was introduced in And lastly, Computer Science is too much optimism, because Mechanical Engineering has of its kind in Quebec." the Fall of 1980. After approx­ developing its laboratories in im­ operating grants awarded by the been actively involved in The Mechanical Engineering imately two years of study, age processing, speech process­ Natural Sciences and Engineer­ research for Canada's aerospace Department has also been in­ students in this programme have ing, computer applications and ing Research Council (NSERC) to industry, developing flight volved in two other innovative the opportunity to enter a com­ computer graphics." Concordia's Electrical and simulators for such corporations curriculum developments, both bined degree programme leading But despite all these measures, Mechanical Engineering depart­ as CAE Electronics and Spar designed to meet the needs of to a Master's Degree in Building Swamy says the efforts to date ments are among the highest in Aerospace. The department is Montreal's Aerospace Industry, Engineering. are insufficient if the Faculty is the country. The Faculty's com­ also working on vehicle suspen­ by producing engineers qualified There have also been to maintain its growth. " If our mitment to industrially oriented sion systems for Bombardier. in various aspects of aero­ developments in the faculty's curricula are to keep pace with research has been recognized The Centre for Building nautical engineering. laboratories associated with the ever accelerating computer through the receipt of more than Studies, established in 1977 to First an existing under­ these improvements in cur­ revolution, it will be necessary to $1 million from various sources provide academic programs in graduate option in thermo-fluid riculum. Swamy cites the follow­ update and develop a large for this purpose. Building Engineering and and propulsion engineering has ing examples: "the Electrical number of our laboratories and The list of applied and scien­ Building Studies, and to under­ been revised in consultation Engineering Department has in­ the courses associated with ti{ic research projects underway take fundamental and applied with Pratt & Whitney. Second, in vested significant resources, ob­ them." in all departments is impressive. research in the area of building, cooperation with Ecole Poly­ tained mostly from outside agen­ In a time of overall budgetary Often large-scale resea·rch pro- has been working with industry technique and McGill Uhiversi- cies, in the development of a See ENGINEERING next page January 12, 1984 THE THURSDAY REPORT Page 7

1984 "I'm not optimistic, not with or totalitarianism. Rather, the the people I see in positions of enormous disparity of wealth Continued from page 1 authority," said Andy Melamed between the West and the Sound familiar? Orwell con­ of Urban Studies. "All three ma­ underdeveloped nations; the tinues:-"Less tempted by luxury, jor powers are run by crazy men, threat of nuclear war; and the in­ hungrier for pure power, and, all capable of pushing the creased adventurism of above all, more conscious of button." American foreign policy." what they were doing and more Some other comparisons: In And some other final thoughts intent on crushing opposition." the novel, anyone out of favor from the Concordia community: If this still hasn't spelled PQ, disappears. Wiped from all of­ ''With our macho system of recall that the torture chamber ficial records, never existed. This competition instead of coopera­ where they' threaten to feed does not happen in Canada, ex­ tion, we could wipe out every Winston to the rats is called cept possibly at CFCF radio. species but the cockroach, and Room 101. And you thought Newspeak, official language of there would be enough radia­ , Camille Laurin had no sense of the Party. A kind of malevolent tion, I suspect, to get them too." humour. Esperanto, stripping the - Andy Melamed. . The current American govern­ language of all abstracts. Wipe "The next step, not envisioned ment also suffers some com­ out radical ideas like freedom (or by Orwell, will be a relegation of parisons with the Party. smoked meat) by wiping out decision making to computers. Reagan's puritanical Moral Ma­ relevant words. Any totalitarianism will be one jority power base, for one thing. While our language remains of machines, not people." - In 1984, led by the Anti-Sex theoretically intact, Newspeak is Charles Giguere. League, good party members are making gains. Leaders speak in '' A large central computer is chaste except for reproductive tongues and write in octopus ink. more of a threat to privacy than Theoharis Stanjofski in Historical Bliss duty. Orwell, like Falwell, saw Al (I'm in Charge here) Haig is a the closed circuit television of that repressed sexual hysteria major talent. Jean Drapeau can Orwell." - Gary Boyd. makes for good political energy. talk forever and never say a "Journalists, newspapers and And what actor could possibly thing. all news media have to have the Historical Bliss, After the be better cast as Big Brother than Gallup reports that 53 per cent courage of their convictions. I Ronald Reagan? Somewhere bet­ of Canadians believe their have no particular feeling that Film to be performed ween Stalin and Christ, symbol government uses false words they are less adventurous than of repression, ·forgiving inspirer and statistics to hide bad news. they were before. I don't see "OK. Head up. We'll begin Childs, both members of the Theatre Department. of born-again fervor. Big Brother The children of 1984: Proud lit­ Orwell's Big Brother being that again. But this time - clumsy tle Spies, turning in their parents GESTUS 4, subtitled After the is Ronnie's role. His avuncular, close." - Lindsay Crysler, movements, exaggeration. Don't trust-me manner and media for a word uttered in sleep, a Journalism. Film, is the result of a collabora­ wony, it'll come naturally." mastery (best one-two since Hitler Youth serving Party "If we dig into reality, it's pro­ GESTUS 3, subtitled Historical tion by Michael Springate and Cronkite retired) barely masks before Family. bably not so scary. Rather than Bliss, was written by Theatre Elizabeth Langley. Langley, who "As for our children turning in Orwell's 1984 where the in­ is the head of the Dance section, his pathetic nostalgia for what professor Michael Springate History professor Fred Bode their parents," said John Daniel, dividual had no role, we've gone will be performing solo in a rare specially for Theoharis Standjof­ calls "the ancient, hoary myths "one might wish they cared the other way. There's too little public appearance. ski, a former Theatre student. of American exceptionalism." collective will, rather than too Music was commissioned from enough to bother." Standjofski, one of the city's Reagan should not command But kids today, from the time much." - John Daniel. , most powerful young per­ Franklin David, and recorded at anything more than ~ car with "Liberty and freedom of ex­ Silent Sound Studios, Lighting is they're old enough to demand formers, was recently seen in fins, but he is leader of a pression have made remarkable by Don Childs, direction by Intellivision, get their kicks from Brecht's Manual of Piety and in superstate (Oceania). With Michael Springate. (quoting George Plimpton) The progress. I don't see them being Leopard 6 ·_ Client O at The Spec­ Eurasia (USSR) and Eastasia - Destruction of an Entire Planet! eroded in any significant way. Perfoqnances are on January trum. He also played the lead (China), it forms a global Ber­ And pluralism has made great 13, 14, 15 at 8:30 p.m. at the Hall These kids are being prepared role in Springate's production of muda Triangle. gains since 1948. Totalitarianism Building's D.B. Clarke Theatre. for the future. Macbeth. "Geopolitically, 1984 is more has been rather thoroughly Admission is $6. For more infor­ Costumes are by Valerie real than ever before," says John Poet Gary Geddes thinks our discredited." - Taylor Buckner, Kaelin, lighting design by Don mation, call 934-4972. Daniel, ''what with Reagan, fears about 1984 typify a fin-de­ Sociology. missiles, and China flip-flopping siecle malaise and anxiety that "A hundred years ago, there ENGINEERING continued from page 6 in its sympathies. We as Cana­ recurs every century. He also wasn't the technology for constraint the Faculty is faced actively encouraging them to dians probably feel more sees it as a positive force, that totalitarianism. Today, there is. with a tremendous challenge if it consider a career in engineering. Orwellian abou,t it because we could jolt people into positive ac­ Used properly, technology can is to remain at the forefront of According to Swamy, the most have no control." tion. 1984 became a symbol of provide the progress it was in­ academic excellence. popular programs, in descending Henry Habib, head of Political loss of individual rights, Geddes tended for. Used improperly, in At the invitation of the Quebec order, are Mechanical, Elec­ Science, agrees that the super said, but society as a whole is the hands of political groups Ministry of Education, Concor­ trical, Civil and Building states are more polarized than threatened more than with no-respect for individuals, it dia, McGill and the Universite Engineering. ever. "But there's enough in­ 'individuals. is dangerous. We have to keep de Montreal have prepared a The graduate programs first dependence in Europe and the Fred Bode agrees: "I don't see respect for individuals." proposal which will lead to the established in 1968 have greatly Third World to balance it." the principal problems in 1984 Henry Habib. establishment of a Montreal expanded, too. The Department Will there by anything left to being Big Brother, bureaucracy Centre for Research in the Com­ of Computer Science has 80 full­ balance? puting Sciences. The Centre was time graduate students and 70 incorporated two months ago; part-time ones. It has applied for and Engineering and Computer a PhD programme which will Science Associate Dean Charles likely be approved by next year. Giguere is busy looking for Prospective students and funds. member of the public interested Although he admits that jobs in the engineering profession in for engineering graduates were general, and Concordia pro­ scarce two years ago, Swamy grams in particular will be able says that the situation is con­ to learn more about both again stantly improving. Unfortunate­ this year by attending the ly, the increasing demand for en­ Faculty's Open House which try into -engineering and com­ will be held in the third or fourth puter sciences programmes far· week of February. exceeds the university's ability Swamy says the Faculty will to cope. also be running its ever popular These pressures have led. to the engineering assistants program imposition of severe quotas. The this summer. This valuable pro­ strictest one is in Computer gram is designed to provide Engineering and Computer outstanding CEGEP and senior Science, which only accepts 30 high school students with the op­ students a year. 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