February 28, 2014 Volume 21, Issue 12

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IN THE CLUB As University Club manager for the past 25 years, Donna Cram has gotten to know the U of S community over lunch, dinner and other special occasions like weddings and anniversaries. Fabulous food, great wine and all the relationships she has made over the years are the reasons Cram said she has one of the best jobs on campus. Read the full story on page 5.

 KRIS FOSTER Fall break week set for 2014-15  COLLEEN MACPHERSON

Thanks to the agreement of most “gave students a mental and colleges and some judicious Because we can’t reduce the number of academic break. Now, almost rejigging of the schedule, the teaching days in the term, there had to be a all of our classes are single term University of will so a break seems as logical for be providing students with a fall trade off with the exam schedule. the first term as it does for the break in term one of the 2014-15 Russell Isinger second. The pressure is equal in academic year. both terms.” The idea of matching the The only colleges that will February break with one in the student interest and found 67.85 will come from the final exam not participate are dentistry, fall was first proposed by the per cent of the 6,469 students period. The final day of classes medicine which includes University of Saskatchewan who responded felt a fall break in the term will move to Dec. physical therapy, nursing and Students’ Union executive would support their academic 5 from Dec. 3, and final exams veterinary medicine. Isinger in the fall of 2013, explained success. That motivated Isinger will be compressed into a period said the particular schedules Russell Isinger, registrar and to “crunch the numbers” to see from the day after the last day of and clinical requirement of director of student services in if a week off could be found classes to Dec. 23. Fifteen days these colleges make it difficult to the Student and Enrolment without a reduction in teaching for finals is “more than suffi- include a fall break but nursing Services Division (SESD). days between September and cient,” said Isinger. Every effort will consider participating in Discussions were held with the final exam period. will be made to not schedule Isinger 2015. associate deans of all colleges In the end, it proved exams on either the first or the More and more universities and with the University possible. The break is scheduled last day of the defined period Labour Day falls on Sept. 6 or in are recognizing the Students’ Council but the for Nov. 10-14, incorporating “but because we can’t reduce the 7, classes will start in the week need to provide students with a academic calendar for 2014-15 the Remembrance Day statutory number of teaching days in the prior in order to accommodate fall break, said Isinger, “and we was approved by Council’s holiday. The fall break day, Oct. term, there had to be a trade off the fall break. felt we needed to get in step with Academic Programs Committee 10, will be eliminated in favour with the exam schedule.” The February break was that trend.” late last year without a fall break. of a full week break, and orien- Scheduling exams on instituted many years ago The Academic Programs Isinger pointed out however, tation for new students will be Sundays, an idea included in when the majority of univer- Committee has approved an there was strong support on all reduced to one day from two, the discussions and the student sity classes went for an entire amendment to the 2014-15 fronts to pursue the option. making the first day of classes survey, is not currently being year, he said. Most major calendar implementing the In December, SESD Sept. 3 instead of Sept. 4. considered. assignments were due in the changes needed to allow for a conducted a survey to gauge The additional two days Isinger added that when second term and the week off fall break week. 

INSIDE IN THE VALLEY 6 MAN WITH BROOM 8 2 February 28, 2014 

DANCE STEPS Delvin Kanewiyakiho, an educator, dancer and the First Nations cultural leader for Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools, was on campus recently for a half-day workshop to teach the basics of the hoop dance and its history. The workshop, entitled Dancing Particles: Introduction to Indigenous Dance, was organized as part of the Aboriginal Student Achievement Program but also included senior movement students from the Department of Drama.  COLLEEN MACPHERSON Bringing humanities to the OR  LANA HAIGHT

Walking into the office of the ities Program, launched in the Department of Surgery, it’s fall, aims to involve surgeons, hard to miss the paintings and residents and medical students sculptures, not to mention the in art, music, literature and enthusiasm of department head philosophy. Dr. Ivar Mendez. “Having an understanding “This oil painting is called of philosophy, of expressions of The Brain Flower. It was done the mind or poetry will sensitize by one of my patients who you to see that a person is not had Parkinson’s disease,” said only a liver or a lung but this Mendez, gesturing to a four-foot individual is poetry, is music, is by six-foot painting. philosophy. There is this added “He wanted to express what dimension that this is not just was going on in his brain. It is my patient but a human being a picture of something that is who has tremendous potential,” Dr. Francis Christian, director of Dr. Ivar Mendez with a painting of the brain by Mi’kmaq  LANA HAIGHT beautiful and colourful, but at said Mendez. Surgical Humanities Program artist Alan Syliboy. the same time, there are some Surgeons, residents, students, disruptions. These parts are surgical nurses and others don’t think they have time for can, however, find time for best attended grand rounds. He shrunk and there’s degeneration involved in surgery are being them anymore, said Dr. Francis these essential pursuits, which spoke to us about the impor- of cells.” encouraged to re-connect with Christian, the director of the make us better doctors and tance of story telling and The artwork in the reception their creative selves as artists, Surgical Humanities Program. better human beings. Some of narrative as well as the creative area and in Mendez’s own office writers and musicians. Many “It’s a fallacy that doctors the greatest scientists and even process,” said Christian. are physical reminders of a new surgeons give up these interests have no time for anything else. surgeons have been great artists It’s the creative process emphasis within the depart- soon after they begin their It’s a matter of prioritizing our as well,” said Christian, who has involved in sculpting that ment. The Surgical Human- medical training because they time. We are very busy. We published a novel as well as a Mendez said is invaluable to him collection of poems. as a surgeon. A central component of “Doing bronze sculpture the program will be a quarterly has given me the added skills journal available in print and of being able to see objects in online that will showcase three dimensions. When I look the talents of surgical team at the human brain and I have members. The multi-mediato remove a brain tumor in the journal will publish written middle of the three-dimen- works as well as digital reproduc- sional structure, it allows me to Review of tions of paintings, photographs, conceptualize that tumor better. sculptures and musical numbers. Not only that, the skills and the Submissions for the inaugural dexterity that I use in sculpture Vice-President Research issue are still being accepted. and removing a tumor comple- The first event sponsored ment each other,” said Mendez. by the Surgical Humanities While medical humanities In accordance with the board-approved Search body of the email. Every email submission will be Program was a huge success, programs are common at other and Review Procedures for Senior Administrators, acknowledged by return email to confirm the said Christian. Surgery grand universities, the University of a committee has been established to review authenticity of the author’s identity. rounds, typically a time when Saskatchewan is the first in Dr. Karen Chad, Vice-President Research. The a surgeon explores and presents Canada to offer such a program. review committee invites members of the All submissions received through this process a specific surgical topic to For Mendez, who arrived at the university community to provide feedback will be considered by the review committee other surgeons, residents and U of S in June with the vision of on Dr. Chad’s performance. in raw form. All identifying information will be medical students, departed incorporating the humanities removed to protect the confidentiality of the Submissions can be made by letter or email. from tradition in January when into the Department of Surgery, respondents when the feedback is shared with Respondents are encouraged to use the Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi it’s an opportunity to put his the incumbent. framework of accountabilities (expectations) and winner of the Man Booker stamp on the department and and competencies (skills) from the position Prize, joined rounds and read influence a new generation of Please make your confidential submission profile to provide feedback, although the review from his book 101 Letters to a surgeons.  by noon on March 14, 2014, to Julian Demkiw, committee recognizes that not everyone can Prime Minister. Lana Haight is a Saskatoon co-ordinator of the review committee, comment on each area. The profile is available “It was probably one of the freelance writer. by contacting [email protected]. Office of the President (by email to julian. [email protected]; in hard copy to When making a submission by email, respondents 212 Peter MacKinnon Building; CLARIFICATION must include their name and affiliation in the or by fax to 306-966-4530). The article about One Health initiatives that appeared in the Feb. 7 issue of On Campus News implied the University of Saskatchewan had secured a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Infectious Disease Prediction and Control. In fact, the CRC oversight committee has just approved recruitment for the chair, and final confirmation must come from the CRC Secretariat in Ottawa.  ON CAMPUS NEWS  February 28, 2014 3 IP3 extended by one year Promise and Potential projects need more time

 COLLEEN MACPHERSON

With so much left to accomplish early, leaving it as a four-year in the plan so the new president to Council and the Board of and an agenda dominated by cycle or adding an additional could have some influence over Governors for approval in the TransformUS, the prioritizing of year. “Where PCIP landed was the process and now, more time spring of 2016. That timeframe academic and service programs, they wanted the opportunity is needed to accomplish what we now stretches to early 2017. the Provost’s Committee on to give the third integrated set out to do.” Melis said moving toward Integrated Planning (PCIP) has plan (IP3) the best chance to be There will be connections 2015, PCIP and her planning made the decision to extend the successful and to allow some between the TransformUS office will finalize the planning University of Saskatchewan’s connections between the plan implementation plan and the expectations for colleges, current integrated plan by one and TransformUS,” she said. objectives of IP3, she said, “and schools and administrative year, to 2017. The development of IP3 from a planning perspective, units for the fourth plan. She Pauline Melis, assistant coincided with the arrival of we need time to figure out all of added all future integrated provost of institutional Ilene Busch-Vishniac in the pres- the implications. There are lot plans will likely extend over five planning and assessment, said ident’s office, said Melis, and with of moving parts and we need to years rather than four. changing the time frame of the identification of a projected catch our breath.” “In the university envi- the plan, called Promise and $44.5 million deficit by 2016 if no Without the one-year Melis ronment, four years is a very Potential, has been a point of changes were made. “We said at extension, “we would now be small window to accomplish all discussion for some time, the the beginning we would only start turning our attention to the next framework,” Melis said, which of the initiatives we identify as options being wrapping it up a few of the projects identified plan and the multi-year budget would have been presented important to the institution.”  Enrolment stable at winter census Stable is the word the registrar while the number of Aboriginal graduate students in part by 94.3 per cent from 93.6 per cent. number of those coming from uses to describe the total number graduate students rose by 39 or the fact there are fewer students For international students, the (see related story on of U of S students recorded in 27.5 per cent. graduating from Saskatchewan rate climbed to 94.2 per cent Page 7). There was also a 16 the winter census, but efforts Isinger cautioned that the high schools. We also need to from 90.1, and for Aboriginal per cent increase in students to encourage self-declaration climbing numbers do not neces- focus on the fact that retention students, first-to-second-termfrom Manitoba, and seven of for Aboriginal students and sarily mean the university is is just as important, if not more retention was 93.5 per cent those eight students came from streamline business processes attracting substantially more important, that recruitment.” compared to 92.1 per cent in Winnipeg. to better collect self declara- Aboriginal students but rather is The retention rate from February 2013. A full report on the tions continues to show positive “making it easier for Aboriginal fall to winter term for first- Also of note is a 29 per cent February census results will be results. students to self declare.” year students in direct entry increase in first-time Alberta presented to University Council According to the Feb. 10 Total enrolment for the programs was up slightly this students, the equivalent of in March and to University census, there were 1,999 self-de- term is 20,306, down 42 students year compared to last year, to 51 students, with the largest Senate in April.  clared Aboriginal students from the previous February but enrolled in the winter term, an undergraduate three-credit-unit increase of 16.1 per cent or 277 enrolment is up 0.3 per cent and from the archives over last year’s February census. overall credit-unit enrolment is Russell Isinger, registrar and up 0.2 per cent. director of student services in “There really is not much Hot and cold the Student and Enrolment difference between the fall Services Division, said this census numbers and these,” is the highest term total ever. said Isinger “and the fact our First-time Aboriginal students total enrolment is down slightly in direct entry programs rose is no reason to panic. We can 33.5 per cent, or 79 students, explain the decline in under- Huskie support

For the fourth straight year, with running 15 elite Canadian PotashCorp has made a $150,000 Interuniversity Sports (CIS) donation to the University of teams, adding donations help Saskatchewan Huskies. the Huskies recruit and retain Two sporting events were the best student athletes. used to celebrate the dona- “Our accomplishments tion—a basketball game Jan. in sport, in the classroom and 31 and a hockey game at Credit in the community could not Union Centre Feb. 1. The funds happen without PotashCorp’s will help supplement Huskie support,” he said. Athletics team budgets and will PotashCorp is a long-time provide support for student supporter of sports at the Univer- athletes in the Huskies Sport sity of Saskatchewan. In addition Health Centre. to its annual gift, the corporation “Huskie Athletics is very contributed $5 million in 2005 grateful once again for this to upgrade Griffiths Stadium in contribution from PotashCorp,” PotashCorp Park. The company  PATRICK HAYES, U OF S ARCHIVES  A-1860 said athletic director Basil also sponsored the 2006 Vanier Hughton in a media release. Cup on the U of S campus and, Pictured here is the Heating and Ventilation Laboratory in the College of Engineering. The image is “The generosity shown over the for the second straight year, is undated but appears to be from the late 1950s. The students are working at the Air Conditioning Test years has been tremendous and the title sponsor of the CIS Men’s Apparatus, which was designed to replicate large-scale industrial and institutional heating and cooling truly appreciated.” Hughton Hockey PotashCorp University systems. A class in heating and ventilation offered through Mechanical Engineering consisted of two noted the rising costs associated Cup presented by Co-op.  hours of lectures and three hours of laboratory work per week.  4 February 28, 2014  Provost asks can universities change?  COLLEEN MACPHERSON

In an environment of resource tual freedom, “and it brings our pressure, calls for universities values into conflict with one to prove their worth and a new another. Change will feel like a generation of students with new loss of identity. It will feel like expectations, post-secondary it involves loss of power. It will institutions need to change, be especially unsettling because but how? it will never be clear in advance For the U of S provost and that it will succeed.” vice-president academic, the But there are reasons to answer lies in talking openly consider change now, he said. about how current flaws in struc- These include learners who tures and processes are signals today are career focused, prefer that change is urgently needed, to work in groups and who in raising the collective gaze to expect digital technology to play “keep in mind where we want to a big role in their education. The go,” and in exercising leadership Gen Y student also questions at all levels of the organizations. information, has less regard Can Universities Change? for rules and is more willing to was the title of Brett Fair- accept risk. “Perhaps … these bairn’s fifth academic address, characteristics at most require a delivered Feb. 24 in Convoca- few small adjustments in how we tion Hall. He began by noting teach in the classroom. I am not SCIENCECARTOONSPLUS.COM that universities have changed so sure about that.” over time, some examples being There is also pressure the process of change, the first medieval student-run institu- coming from the changing The goal will being recognizing the signals tions, universities like Oxford research landscape, said the be to find solutions that change is necessary, those built on the collegiate model, provost, in particular increasing signals being “fundamental and the systems of universities complexity in research and the that produce good flaws in existing ways of doing of the more recent era. But the need for universities to demon- outcomes. things in our university.” The evolution was, in large part, strate the impact of knowledge. second is to “keep our heads “driven by state intervention,” Added to that are growing Brett Fairbairn up, our gaze elevated ... and not he said. “Do we change only constraints on public resources just focus only on what is right when other people force us to?” where “the trends are clear and nistic, cumbersome and insuf- in front of us.” This is already Universities face a number the possibilities for increasing ficiently oriented to the needs underway at the U of S with of problems when consid- that support (government of students and the labour the drafting of a new vision ering change, Fairbairn said. funding) are limited,” he said. markets.” statement. Change puts stress on the Another reason to pay Change for universities There must also be leader- values universities hold dear, attention to change, he said, in is in the cards, said Fairbairn, ship at all levels of the organiza- Fairbairn including stability, respect for public attitudes that see univer- “and we would be ill advised to tion, he said, defining leadership people, fairness and intellec- sities as “out of touch, anachro- wait for others to rescue us from that would result in new, flexible as personal accountability for it.” He went on to describe one and efficient interdisciplinary collective outcomes. example of where universities structures, and departments “I believe that, more than might change—their structure. that break away from the current ever, the people who make Organizational structure linear structure. up our universities are self- is a particular research interest “I tentatively believe that aware, experienced in working for the provost, and he has changes in universities will together, … and able to exercise ON CAMPUS NEWS concluded such structures are involve new interdisciplinary leadership to read the signals mental constructs that “exist in program units, more varied and and the vision of where we need On Campus News is published 18 times per year by University of Saskatchewan our minds (so) to change our flexible meanings of the word to go. 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Even Advertising rates are available online or on request. disturbing process. produce good outcomes. though change is confusing On Campus News aims to provide a forum for the sharing of timely news, information Fairbairn said interdisci- The provost then offered and disturbing, we have what is and opinions about events and issues of interest to the U of S community. plinary research and teaching three “practical steps” to begin needed to be successful.”  The views and opinions expressed by writers of letters to and the university’s current the editor and viewpoints do not necessarily reflect those of the U of S or On Campus News. department model are examples The text of Brett Fairbairn’s academic address as well as a of places in the institution where Editor: Colleen MacPherson video of the presentation can be accessed at Writers: Kris Foster, Michael Robin change may be necessary, and Designers: Brian Kachur, Pierre Wilkinson beneficial. 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Donna Cram has been a part of everyday moments on campus— I’ve gotten to like eating lunch or dinner—but know so many also of many once-in-a-lifetime moments like weddings. It’s all people. I’ve planned in a day’s work for Cram who is weddings for club celebrating 25 years as manager of the University Club. members, their kids “It’s the relationships I’ve and now their made over that time that are most special to me,” she said. “I’ve grandkids. gotten to know so many people. I’ve planned weddings for club Donna Cram members, their kids and now their grandkids. I’ve planned anniversaries, and celebrations of life. That’s something special.” It was a career path that Manager of the University Club Donna Cram  KRIS FOSTER almost didn’t happen, said Cram, who followed her husband to London when he was accepted to me and the class to the first food but before that happened, I took “The morning of theproud of is that we endured. do his PhD at the London School show I ever attended and I totally this job and 25 years later, blink, wedding, the bride and her When I started 25 years ago, there of Economics. fell in love with it.” here we are.” mom dropped off the wedding were 29 faculty clubs in Canada, “Before that, I was doing From there, Cram enrolled Many special events have cake that the mother had made. now there are only about nine.” marketing at an insurance in Le Cordon Bleu culinary filled the past 25 years, said They handed it off to the chef in Built in 1912, what is now agency. When we were in school that was down the street Cram, including about 750 the walk-in cooler and it slid off the University Club wasn’t orig- London, that’s when I got inter- from where she lived in London, weddings that have been held at the base and hit the floor,” she inally a club at all, but rather the ested in cooking to fill my time,” and the rest, as they say, is history. the club. While she doesn’t have recalled. “The chef at that time home of the university’s dean she explained. “I took a class “When we came back to any tales of Bridezillas to share, quickly scooped up the cake and of agriculture who used the called basic cookery from the Saskatoon, I planned to a she does have one near disaster assured the bride that she could basement to house students just chef at the Savoy Hotel. He took bakery that would serve lunch that occurred during her watch. fix it. It was fixed and redeco- back from the First World War. rated and no one was the wiser. Since the switch from residence That was the worst thing that to restaurant, a number of other happened.” changes have followed including Cram more readily replacing Faculty Club with remembers the good times, like University Club, furniture Wasan appointed dean the note-worthy diners that have updates, renovations and perhaps passed through the club over the most controversial of all, Cram Pharmaceutical researcher and hospital settings, and maintains years, including Sons of Anarchy said with a smile, “removing educator Kishor Wasan has a pharmacist license from the star Kim Coates, CTV news the billiards table to make more been appointed dean of the State of Texas. anchor Lloyd Robertson, Buffy room for private dining. That U of S College of Pharmacy and “I am very excited to join Sainte-Marie and “all of the one is still brought up by some of Nutrition, and will take up his the College of Pharmacy and premiers of Saskatchewan during the older members.” new position Aug. 1. Nutrition at the University of the past 25 years.” Other than never surpassing Currently a professor and Saskatchewan and work collab- Another highlight for Cram, the 1,000 paid members mark— associate dean of research and oratively with the great faculty in addition to the weekly roast “that’s the one goal I always graduate studies in the Faculty and staff to lead the college to be beef and Yorkshire pudding hoped to achieve”—Cram has of Pharmaceutical Sciences amongst the best pharmacy and buffet that happens at the few regrets and even fewer at the University of British nutrition schools in Canada,” University Club place every complaints. Columbia (UBC), Wasan is also said Wasan in a media release Thursday, “which along with our “I have one of the best jobs director and co-founder of the announcing his appointment. homemade soups, is everyone’s on campus. Who gets to go to UBC Neglected Global Diseases Wasan “I see a huge opportunity in a favourite,” was her involvement work everyday, plan parties, be Initiative (NGDI). He completed college that is energized and in the re-opening of the Atrium around fabulous food and great his undergraduate pharmacy cology at the University of Texas poised for change and a univer- cafeteria at Innovation Place in wine, and get paid for it? I just education at the University of Medical Centre in Houston. sity, community and province 1996 and the opening of Boffins love my time here and anyone Texas at Austin, and a PhD in Wasan has been a practicing committed to seeing the college Club in 2000. who gets to say that has won the cellular and molecular pharma- pharmacist in both retail and succeed.”  “But I think what I am most lottery.”  please join us to meet the University of Saskatchewan Board of Governors and learn more about their role at the U of S.

The 2014 Board of Governors are, from left to right, Lee Ahenakew, Grant Isaac, Susan Milburn (chair), David Dubé, Grit McCreath, Linda Ferguson, Max FineDay, Greg Smith, Blaine Favel, Kathryn Ford March 18, 2014 at noon and Ilene Busch-Vishniac. Convocation Hall 6 February 28, 2014  Great Rift Valley research aids wildlife, knowledge of early humans

 MICHAEL ROBIN

Sunlight sparkles among a sea “The ecology of several to get back to normal,” of pink birds suspended on stilt lakes has changed because of Our aim is to Renaut said. legs, the scene stretching to the flooding,” Renaut explained. provide a detailed, Meanwhile, soggy horizon. “Lake Nakuru is normally saline conditions have “I’ve seen it many times so and alkaline, but with the heavy high-resolution disrupted research I’ve become somewhat accus- rains it has become fresh.” environmental to literally dig into tomed to it, but it’s really one of This freshening has led to humankind’s deep the most awe-inspiring sights in steep declines in the cyano- context for human past by drilling into the world,” said Robin Renaut bacteria (formerly named evolution for the lake sediments. The of the spectacle of more than blue-green algae) on which the Great Rift Valley is a million lesser flamingos that flamingos feed. The cyanobac- areas where our home of the oldest once gathered at Lake Nakuru teria, whose reddish-orange early ancestors fossils and artifacts in Kenya. pigments give the birds their ever found of Renaut, professor in the distinctive colour, grow best are known to hominins, precursors Department of Geology, has in saline waters rich in sodium have lived. to modern humans. travelled to Africa’s Great Rift carbonate and other minerals. Renaut is a principal Robin Renaut Valley frequently in the past 35 High waters have also inundated investigator and one years to study the geology of lakeshore roads and pushed of about 40 interna- the valley’s lake system, both the lake’s shoreline inland as High water has also inundated tional researchers on as they appear today and in the much as two kilometres. This local farmers’ homes and fields, the Hominin Sites and deep past. What he is learning has flooded high-end resorts and heavy rains have carried Paleolakes Drilling is informing modern wildlife and government facilities that much more silt into the lakes Project (HSPDP), led management in Kenya. It may cater to the more than 250,000 from over-grazed hillsides. Robin Renaut in Kenya  SUBMITTED by Andrew Cohen also shed light on the ancient tourists drawn to the lake’s star These worrisome events from the University of environmental pressures that attraction – its flamingos. prompted the Kenya Wildlife Arizona. pushed genus Homo to take “Almost all the flamingos Service to gather together inter- 60 years. For example, records One of the project’s aims the first evolutionary steps that have left,” Renaut said. “Many experts at a symposium show high water in 1961 and a is to further test the savannah eventually led to Homo sapiens have moved to Lake Bogoria, in late 2013. Renaut, with his photo from the turn of the 20th hypothesis that postulates – modern humans. another saline, alkaline lake extensive connections and expe- century shows lake levels similar hominins were forced to adapt Today’s humans in Kenya 60 kilometres to the north. rience in the area, was invited as to today. as the climate became drier and have more immediate concerns, It’s also high and more dilute keynote speaker. His research “It’s reasonable to assume the forests were replaced by broad foremost among them the highest than normal, but still provides has revealed a cycle of high lakes will go back down, although water levels in the past 50 years. enough food for the flamingos.” water that comes every 50 to it will take at least five or six years See Wealth, Page 11

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usask.ca/bookstore ON CAMPUS NEWS  February 28, 2014 7 Ad campaign designed to get people talking, students enrolling

We could have done the same old standard university ads but our feeling was we should push the envelope a bit and get people talking about us. Dan Seneker

A series of snappy ads have of undergraduate recruitment popped up around Calgary in the Students and Enrolment encouraging high school Services Division (SESD), the students there to attend the ads “are completely different U of S. from anything we’ve done “If only we had a nickel before. We could have done back for every Alberta student the same old standard univer- that chooses us” reads one of sity ads but our feeling was we the posters installed in strate- should push the envelope a bit and get people talking about us.” He added his favourite of the ad series reads, “When you want to move away from home … but not to Edmonton.” The U of S has typically Mock up of one of the U of S recruitment ads in Calgary transit terminals.  SUBMITTED done well recruiting in the Calgary market, said Seneker. Engagement, the ad series was “There’s lots of interest about us installed in 37 transit locations The Interdisciplinary Centre for Culture & Creativity in that market, we have a lot of around the city. Seneker said and the Broadway Theatre present ties with high schools there and the sites were selected based on high school counselors and it’s proximity to the University of a huge market in terms of our Calgary, various high schools alumni base.” and even malls, “places where While student recruit- young people gather.” They will Seneker ment is the main goal of the remain in place for a month. ad campaign, Seneker said a Each ad encourages gically selected bus shelters and secondary objective is “to attract potential students to explore CTrain stations around the city. the attention of our graduates a unique website set up for the Others include “No cowboy hats who live in Calgary and get campaign. “This allows us to required,” “Join the stampede of them working as our ambassa- track hits on the site and to students applying to the U of S,” dors.” follow how that translates into and “Dinos are so 200 million Created by the marketing inquiries, applications and ulti- years ago.” and communications group in mately to how many of those For Dan Seneker, manager Advancement and Community students join us in the fall.”  New option for SIIT students

A new agreement between the “We are committed to Starting this fall, the U of S Edwards School of Business and creating new opportunities will recognize a SIIT business the Saskatchewan Indian Institute for educational achievement diploma as two years towards a of Technologies (SIIT) will lead of Aboriginal students,” said four-year bachelor of commerce to more Aboriginal students Edwards’ Dean Daphne Taras. degree. Prior to the agreement, earning business degrees. “This agreement establishes a SIIT business grads had to pursue The partnership, signed Feb. clean and clear route from SIIT a commerce degree at the Univer- 4 and the first of its kind for the to the Edwards School that will sity of Lethbridge if they wanted business school, means graduates develop the next generation of credit for their prior courses. of SIIT’s two-year business Aboriginal business leaders. We Taras said the university diploma program are now half know there is appetite for this wants to eliminate as many a public lecture by the way to completing a four-year route and we look forward to barriers as possible for Aborig- award-winning U of S Bachelor of Commerce welcoming SIIT graduates into inal students to obtain a business performer and activist degree. our program.” degree. 

Respect, Reconciliation and Renewal: Exploring the Future of Indigenous / Christian Relations A ONE DAY CONFERENCE Saturday, March 8, 2014 8:30am - 5pm Tuesday, Multi-Media March 11, 2014 An opportunity to open doors and invite Elders, church leaders, community 7:30 PM members and academics to speak and be heard on how to build ongoing The Broadway Theatre | Doors open at 7 PM relationships of respect and the role of the church and universities. Life Admission is FREE

Register at www.stmcollege.ca For more information contact: We gratefully acknowledge Gertrude Rompré support from the University Director of Mission and Ministry of Saskatchewan Visiting St. Thomas More College 306-966-8929 Lecturers Fund for this event. artsandscience.usask.ca/iccc broadwaytheatre.ca 8 February 28, 2014  Bound for the Brier

 COLLEEN MACPHERSON

By day, is a soft-spoken compensation specialist in the Human Resources Division at the U of S but after work, you’ll find him calling the shots— loudly—for this province’s very best men’s team. Laycock beat defending provincial champion Brock Virtue Feb. 2 in Shaunavon to earn the right to represent Saskatchewan at the highest level of curling in Canada, the which will be held March 1-9 in Kamloops, B.C. For Laycock, it will be his fourth attempt at the national title, having curled on Saskatchewan’s Brier team in 2007, 2008 and again in 2011. Shortly before heading to Kamloops, Laycock shared his thoughts on his history in the sport of curling, on what keeps him returning to the ice and on the perfect ending to the 2014 Brier.  CCA/MICHAEL BURNS

On learning to curl takes. You can actually achieve that people want to stick with it. There is still an old guard out I started working at the univer- victories by out thinking your there, guys who are in their 50s, sity in 2007. I started curling when I was in opponent. You need to always On curling at a world level but an 11-game round robin Grade 4 with my mom, dad and remain calm but you also have takes physical endurance and On the most memorable rock my brother in a family league in to be strategic. In 2003 we won the World Junior you have to be in good shape. Saltcoats. I remember that I’d Curling Championship in Swit- It was the final stone of the throw my two rocks and go back On putting together a team zerland. It was a lot of pressure On training to curl world juniors against Sweden. inside to play because it was but actually, I found the provin- It was just an in-turn take out cold out there on the ice. Then What I look for in teammates cials tougher. I’d spent my whole We all have individual trainers in extra ends and all I had to do I’d come back out, throw my is really work ethic. Talent only career up to that point trying and a team trainer. When I’m was hit and stick. It was not the two rocks and go back inside. gets you so far; you need people to win provincials as a junior training I work on legs, cardio, most exciting rock but I think it I was lead but I moved up to who can reach their potential, so when we actually made it to core strength and balance but I was the most rewarding. pretty quickly, which was not just have potential. On the worlds, the expectation part also do yoga, which is really about good for my learning although team we have now, I actually wasn’t there and we just went out preventing injury and main- On coaches and sport my history of sweeping is pretty raise the average age quite a bit and performed. (Laycock also taining flexibility. The breathing psychologists limited. My interest was really and I’m only 31. The others are represented the U of S at the 2007 you learn in yoga is also helpful piqued when my older brother 22, 23 and 26 and we really have Winter Universiade in Italy) for handling pressure. Our coach is great at helping made it to the Canada Winter a bit of a family feel because two with organizing schedules and Games final. are bothers (Kirk and Dallan On the Olympics On curling and work team meetings. It’s important Even before I went to high Muryes) and their dad’s our that we’re all on the same page school, I was invited to practice coach. (The fourth member of I’ve been in two Olympic trials, We do about 20 events a year and about rock selection, ice condi- with the Yorkton high school the team is .) in 2009 and this past fall, and maybe three are in Saskatch- tions, our game plan. Our team but I was ineligible to play. You also need people who my name is out there but I’m ewan so there’s a lot of flying sport psychologist focuses on In high school, I played football can balance their personal and really looking at the 2017 trials and driving. I do some work on our on-ice communication and and baseball but curling was my professional lives. Curling is kind for the 2018 Olympics. the road and make up for days team dynamic. No one player passion. of tough—you’re able to win a bit away from the office at other can know everything going on of money and have some spon- On the athletics of curling times of the year. Almost all of out there so we really need to On the appeal of the game sorships but it’s not enough that my holidays go toward curling; work as a collective and that’s any of us could consider quitting I think people could poten- I’ve taken some extra-long where communication on the I think what I like most is the our full-time jobs. tially have said curlers weren’t weekends in the summer but I ice is so important. combination of skill, strategy Then, as a team, you have athletes before curling was haven’t had a chance to take an and mental toughness that it to have enough fun and success admitted into the Olympics. extended summer holiday since Continued on page 9

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In broad terms, mentoring is said. “We thrive when we grow said Mezo-Kricsfalusy. The“Many have said, ‘Wow, I wish benefits to participants, a mutual learning partner- in the presence of those who Student-Physician Synergy I had this when I was in med Mezo-Kricsfalusy hopes the ship, usually between a senior have gone before.” (SPS) program, currently in school.’” programs promote mentorship leader and a younger profes- The mentoring programs its first year, matches medical Newer programs on the as a fulfilling, mutually bene- sional in the early stages of office was established in 2011 students with established physi- horizon will extend mentorship ficial relationship that inspires their career. However, Gabriella by former dean Dr. William cians to give mentees a realistic opportunities to international others to keep on giving. Mezo-Kricsfalusy prefers a Albritton to provide students perspective of the workplace. A medical graduates transitioning “We’re really building a more philosophical approach and junior faculty with academic total of 80 students applied, and into residency programs in culture of mentorship in the when defining and describing support and career strategies. each was paired with a mentor. Saskatchewan. Also, a faculty college. Those who have expe- mentorship. The first initiative, Program to “The students are happy to mentorship initiative was just rienced the value of a mentor “A tree planted in the Engage and Exchange Resources have someone to bounce ideas launched to support junior relationship are eager to pass it clearing of an old forest will fare for Students in Medicine off of and ask, ‘what will it be faculty as they adapt to a new on.”  far better than one planted in an (PEERSiM), was launched for like when I graduate?’” work environment and assist the 2012-13 academic year. The physicians involved them with processes like grant Lesley Porter is communications The program pairs first-year are also reaping the rewards of writing. co-ordinator for the Council of medicine students with their medical mentorship, she added. Besides providing direct Health Science Deans Office. upper-year counterparts, allowing guidance and lead- ership from someone who has literally been there and done NEW TO that. US The initial intake had 40 mentor-mentee pairs, including several based out of Regina, explains Mezo-Kricsfalusy. The 2013-14 cohort saw a substantial increase, matching 110 mentors with mentees. Not surprisingly, Mezo-Kricsfalusy 70 per cent of current PEERSiM Clayton mentors were mentees the open field,” she said. “Its roots previous year—a statistic that Bangsund are able to follow the pathway keeps Mezo-Kricsfalusy very created by former trees, thus optimistic. embedding itself more deeply.” “This is a clear indication, As the director of mentoring as several studies have shown as programs in the College of well, that previous experience Medicine (and a biologist by as a mentee positively relates trade, hence the tree analogy), to future willingness to mentor Mezo-Kricsfalusy sees many others,” she said. Clayton Bangsund was working on his PhD at the Univer- in securities. He returned home to Langenburg, to a young professionals, particu- PEERSiM alum are sity of Alberta when the U of S College of Law came calling, boutique law firm specializing in agricultural secured debt larly those in the competitive also involved with a youth offering the chance to work with one of his mentors, law realization, then moved to a regional firm in Edmonton, field of medicine, who need an mentoring program held in professor Ronald Cuming. where his focus shifted to secured lending. unbiased advisor when it comes collaboration with Big Brothers “He’s our senior commercial law academic, and one of the “One thing I bring to the table is practical experience, to career and personal develop- Big Sisters of Saskatoon, which world’s leading minds in this area, so I was keen to join the which I can relate to my students,” he said. ment. matches medicine students with fray,” he said. Bangsund completed his master’s degree at Columbia “Mentoring relationships elementary school students in Bangsund took his seat as an assistant professor in January Law School in New York, and is currently balancing the have the capacity to transform the community. 2014. His path led him through Regina, Calgary, Edmonton demands of his PhD research with the needs of his students individuals, groups, organiza- Other mentoring programs and New York before bringing him to Saskatoon. in contract law. tions and communities,” she in the college are also successful, A native of Langenburg, a small town near the Manitoba “I want them to understand doctrinal ‘black letter’ law,” he border, Bangsund was intrigued by the law even as he said. “They should understand the theory underlying it, but pursued an education degree at the University of Regina. I also want them to understand alternative perspectives and Continued from page 8 third for Alberta so that would He taught high school math and phys ed for a year. appreciate how contract law works in the real world.”  be a lot of fun, and it would be an entertaining game for the fans. “I really enjoyed it,” Bangsund said. “In fact, teaching is a big reason I came back to the academic side of things, to On the Brier NEW TO US highlights the work of new faculty On wearing a microphone get back into the classroom.” members at the University of Saskatchewan. If We’ve seen the draw and we’ll during national broadcasts He followed the lure of law to the U of A, then articled and you are new to campus, or know someone who is, please email [email protected] play a couple of teams that worked for a major national law firm in Calgary, specializing wouldn’t be labeled favourites We’re all mic’d at the Brier early on in the week so I think and you get used to it. 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Kenderdine Art Gallery Library Researcher Series: • Spoken English, Tuesdays and Thursdays,  Miscellany Showing in the Kenderdine Art Gallery Learn some literature searching strategies April 8­-May 29  Seminars/Lectures is Rita McKeough: The Lion’s Share, an and research productivity skills. All • Writing and Grammar, Mondays and Meet the Board immersive experience that includes a sessions will be held in the Collaborative Wednesdays, April 7-June 2 Law Lecture The U of S Board of Governors will hold its visual array of materials and the sounds of Learning Lab, 1st Floor, Murray Library, • Graduate-Level Writing, Mondays and • March 13, 11:45 am-12:45 pm, Room annual public session March 18 at noon in a lion eating, all within the space of a faux from 1-2pm. Sessions are free and no Wednesdays, April 7-­June 2 30 Law, the chair of Indigenous Rights Convocation Hall. This is an opportunity to in Constitutional and International restaurant. The artist describes the instal- registration is required. • Reading Skills, Tuesdays, April 8­-May 27 meet the members of the board and gain lation as a 3D version of a Looney Tunes Law at the U of S presents John Carpay, • March 4 – Literature Searching for • Listening and Note taking Skills, Thurs- a better understanding of the board’s role restaurant in which things have gone Systematic Reviews president of the Justice Centre for in university governance. A short presen- days, April 10­-May 29 terribly awry. The exhibition, curated by • March 11 – 10 Government Research Tips Constitutional Freedoms, who will tation will include background on some • English for the Workplace, Saturdays, Josephine Mills, continues until April 26. You Need to Know give a lecture entitled A Constitutional of the items on the board’s agenda, and April 5-­June 7 Right to Private Health Care? a brief update about the U of S financial College Art Galleries • March 18 – Citation Searching position and TransformUS. Everyone is The group exhibition Ecotipia, circulated • March 25 – Overview of Patent Searching USCAD Classes DeBrou Lecture welcome to attend. To learn more about by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery • April 1 – Research Data Management • Watercolour I/II, April 4-6/11-13 • March 4, 7-8:30 pm, Frances Morrison the board, visit the Board of Governors’ and on view in the College Art Galleries, • Digital Camera Basics, March 7, 8, 21, 22 Library, Erica Dyck, Canada Research website. explores environmental conservation, Managing Your References Series: • Stained Glass: Focus on Foil work, Chair in the History of Medicine, destruction and the cacophonous blend Learn how to get started with some April 25-27 will deliver the sixth annual Dave DeBrou Aboriginal Achievement Week of architecture and decay in a technolog- popular citation management tools. • Glass Fusion II, March 22, 23 Lecture in History entitled Facing A number of activities, presentations, ical age from the perspective of a number Sessions are free and no registration • Experimental Fiber Art and Design I, Eugenics: Reproduction, Sterilization, and meals and celebrations will be held March of artists. The show runs until May 7. is required. March 28-30/April 4-6 the Politics of Choice. For more informa- 10-15 to mark Aboriginal Achievement • Feb. 28 – RefWorks – 2:30-3:30 pm, tion contact [email protected] Week at the U of S. Visit students.usask.ca/ On Stage Murray Library, Room 161 ICT Training Services Greystone Theatre will present Our current/aboriginal/week for details. • March 7 – RefWorks – 10-11am, Murray For information or to register, email us at Drama Lecture Country’s Good March 19-29. Directed Library, Room 161 [email protected] or visit training.usask.ca. • March 6, 5:30-6:30 pm, Room 161, John CLS Tours by Pamela Haig Bartley, the play, set in • March 14 – Mendeley & Zotero – 1:30- • Adobe Illustrator – Inter, March 4 and 6, Mitchell Building, Dione Joseph, theatre The Canadian Light Source is offering New South Wales, Australia in 1789, is a director, arts reviewer, free public tours of the facility most frequently funny exploration of the trans- 2:30 pm, Murray Library, Collaborative 1:30-4:30 pm, $125 students; $150 staff journalist and writer, presents Standing Thursdays at 1:30 pm and at 7 pm on formative potential of theatre and the Learning Lab and faculty; $185 others Up and Speaking Out: Engaging withthe March 20 and April 17. Reservations are civilizing power of the arts. Details and • March 21 – RefWorks – 12:30-1:30 pm, • Adobe InDesign – Inter, Apr. 15 and 17, [his]tory of Indigenous Australian perfor- required. An online form is available on tickets available on the Dept. of Drama Engineering Building, Delta Lab, 1:30-4:30 pm, $125 students; $150 staff mance. For i‑nformation contact moira. the CLS website under the education tab, website. Room 2B04 and faculty; $185 others [email protected] or call 306-966-5193. or email [email protected], or call • March 28 – EndNote – 1-2pm - Health • Adobe InDesign – Intro, March 18 and 20, 306-657-3644. Sciences Library Meeting Room 1:30-4:30 pm, $125 students; $150 staff Spinks Lecture  Courses/Workshops and faculty; $185 others Saturday Pet Wellness Clinics Centre for Continuing and • March 21, 3:45 pm, Room 107 Physics, • Adobe Photoshop – Inter, March 25 and James Liao, Ralph M. Parsons Founda- The WCVM Veterinary Medical Centre Gwenna Moss Centre for Distance Education 27, 1:30-4:30 pm, $125 students; $150 tion Professor and Department Chair, will hold Saturday Pet Wellness Clinics For more information, visit www.ccde. Teaching Effectiveness staff and faculty; $185 others Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, from 8:30 am-4:30 pm March 8 and 22, For details visit usask.ca/gmcte/events usask.ca or call 306-966-5539 and April 5 and 19 for pet checkups or • Adobe Photoshop – Intro, March 11 and University of California at Los Angeles, vaccinations. Call 306-966-7126 to book Indigeneous Voices Programs Business and Leadership 13, 1:30-4:30 pm, $125 students; $150 presents the J.W.T. Spinks Lecture an appointment or for more details. The • March 6, 9-noon, Shared Ground with Programs staff and faculty; $185 others entitled Exploring Biotechnology for centre offers a 10 per cent discount for Colleen Charles and Sylvia McAdam • Leadership for Managers & Supervisors, • ArcGIS - Intro, March 18 and19, Sustainability Saysewahum March 19-20 6:30-9:30 pm, $0 students, staff, faculty; U of S students and staff. Remote Presence • March 10, 9-noon, Whiteness and Privi- • Building an Effective Team, April 3 $185 others • March 5, 12:30-1:30 pm, Room 1130 E lege with Sheelah McLean • Blackboard / U of S Course Tools Funda- • Developing Your Presentation Skills, Wing, Health Sciences, Yulun Wang,  The Arts April 7 and 14 mentals, March 5 OR 14, 2:00-3:30 pm, $0 Winter Workshops staff and faculty chair and CEO of InTouch Health, Santa • The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Produc- Barbara, Calif., presents How can Remote Aboriginal Achievement • March 3, 2-3:30 pm, Preparing and • Blackboard / U of S Course Tools Ques- tivity, April 8-9 Presence solve our Health Care Delivery Across the Arts Personalizing the Course Syllabus Using tions/Grades Wkshp, March 21, 2:00-3:30 the New U of S Template with Heather • Understanding Self and Others Using Challenges? This lecture is part of the All Peoples University Collective presents pm, $0 staff and faculty Ross and Kim West MBTI Step II, April 24 Remote Presence Forum presented by Aboriginal Achievement Across the Arts • Blackboard / U of S Course Tools Instr. • March 4, 1-4 pm, Building Relationships: • Train the Trainer: A Short Course in Adult the International Centre for Northern March 13, 3-5 pm, Room 102 Murray Wkshp, March 28 OR Apr. 7, 1:30-4:00 The Foundation to Community-Engaged Learning, April 28-30 Governance and Development, and the Library. Three Indigenous writers-Mika pm, $0 staff and faculty Lafond, Tenille Campbell and Andréa Learning with Debbie Pushor, Curriculum • Leading Innovation, Inspiring Creativity College of Nursing. • MS Outlook – Intro, March 19, Ledding-will read from their work, Darwin Studies, Education in the Workplace, May 1 1:30-4:30 pm, $0 students, staff, faculty; Vaccinology and Gardypie will perform his monologue Idle • Introduction to Group Facilitation, Continuing Education for Nurses $125 others Immunotherapeutics Seminar No More, and Carol Greyeyes and Angus May 9-10 For more information visit usask.ca/ Ferguson will offer a sneak preview of • Technical Writing, June 24 • MS PowerPoint - Tips and Tricks, March • March 6, 12:30 pm, VIDO-InterVac nursing/cedn Dancing Sky Theatre’s Operation Big Rock. 12, 2:30-4:00 pm, $0 students, staff, Lecture Theatre, Sathya NarayananThu- Students from three English classes have • Foot Care Modalities for the Elderly Crucial Conversations for faculty; $75 others lasi Raman, PhD student, presents Role Person, March 6–7, registration required also been invited to contribute visual or U of S Employees • Faculty Workshops: contact a training@ of DDX3 in Influenza mediated Innate live presentations. For more information • March 13-14, Introduction to 12 LEAD • March 20 and 27, Room 224/225 Williams usask.ca or 306-966-4866 for more infor- immune response ECG Interpretation; registration required Building, fee $490 mation on workshops geared to faculty. contact [email protected] Johnson-Shoyama Lectures • April 11-12, Optimizing Health for Older • IT4U – Tech Help for Students: Community Music Education All events in the Prairie Room, Diefen- ICCC Film Series Adults conference; registration required http://it4u.usask.ca Parenting with Music and Suzuki Early baker Building The ICCC Film Series presents Buffalo • Enroll in many courses from off Biomarker Development Childhood Spring classes start May 3 and • March 4, 1:30-3 pm, Chief Perry Belle- Calling March 19, 6:30-9:30 pm at the campus. Go to training.usask.ca for Workshop registration is open for summer music garde, chief of the Little Black Bear Broadway Theatre. The experimental more information. documentary, written and directed by • April 10, 8 am-5 pm, Exeter Room, camps. For more information, call Nicole First Nation, presents Saskatchewan Tasha Hubbard from the Dept. of English, Marquis Hall, a day-long Biomarker Wilton at 306-966-5625 or visit www.ccde. Edwards School of Business, First Nations and the Province’s will be followed by a discussion with Development Workshop will be held usask.ca/community-music Executive Education Resource Future Blackfoot historian Narcisse Blood, retired to promote information about newly U of S Language Centre For information call 306-966-8686, • March 5, noon-1:30 pm, Saeed Moshiri, Grasslands National Park warden Wes developed techniques in the area of associate professor of economics, St. Multilingual conversational language email [email protected] or visit Olsen and Hubbard. For information biomarker development with a focus Thomas More College, presents Oil Reve- classes, April 7-June 2: edwards.usask.ca/execed contact [email protected] on nuclear biomarkers, nanoprobes and nues and Macroeconomic Performance: April 7 to June 2, 2014 • March 20, Spring Forward: Grandey infectious diseases. This free workshop Does Institution Matter? David Braid Lecture and Concert features speakers from across North • French levels 1 to 6: $205 (GST exempt) Leadership Luncheon • March 25, noon-1:30 pm, Ken Ludwig, Juno-award winning pianist David Braid America Open to all faculty, graduate • March 24-26, The Project Management • Italian level 1 and 2: $215.25 (GST executive director, organizational effec- will present a free talk and master class students, postdoctoral fellows, under- Course – Saskatoon included) tiveness, Public Service Commission, and on Feb. 28 at 2:30 pm in Education Room graduate students and technicians. • March 28, Edwards Seminar Series: • Spanish levels 1 to 5: $215.25 (GST Reg Urbanowski, special advisor to the 1031. The David Braid Octet, including Registration deadline: March 13. To included) Unpacking High Performance Dean McNeill, professor in the Dept. of register, contact [email protected] deputy minister, Ministry of Advanced • Portuguese level 1: $215.25 (GST • April 2, Edwards Seminar Series: Music, on trumpet will also give a concert or 306-966-7161. Education, present The Power of included) Relationships that March 1 at the Bassment. For more infor- Meaning in Organizations • April 2-4, What the Non-Financial mation, contact McNeill Breast Cancer Rehabilitation • German level 1: $215.25 (GST included) Manager Needs to Know About Philosophy in the Community at [email protected] Symposium • Japanese levels 1 to 3: $215.25 (GST Financial and Managerial • March 12, 7-9 pm, The Refinery in the • Feb. 27-28, Travelodge Hotel, Continuing included) Accounting - Regina basement of Emmanuel Anglican, A Queen and Her Country Physical Therapy Education will hold a • Japanese for the Traveller: $236.25 formerly St. James’ Church, Eric Dayton The Diefenbaker Canada Centre is hosting Breast Cancer Rehabilitation Symposium (textbook and GST included) • April 7-9, The Business Analyst’s Course - Regina presents Life As Art A Queen and Her Country, a travelling to provide an evidence-based update • Cree level 1: $225.75 (textbook and GST exhibit from the Canadian Museum of on management of breast cancer, and included) • April 29-May 1, Digital Marketing Law Lectures History, until June 8. The exhibition marks promote interprofessional treatment Program: Social Media and E-Marketing Textbooks and workbooks are extra, • March 10, 7 pm, Convocation Hall, the diamond jubilee of Her Majesty Queen of breast cancer and other cancers. The Certificate except for Japanese for the Traveller and Cindy Blackstock, executive director, Elizabeth II using artifacts and images format will include plenary sessions, Cree 1. If you have not yet taken multilin- • May 22-23, Process Mapping and Process First Nations Child and Family Caring to recall her many visits to Canada and interactive group workshops, and gual classes, call 306-966-4351 or email Improvement Course - Regina Society of Canada and associate her connections to major events in the interprofessional case discussions. [email protected] for a language • May 26-27, Analyzing and Improving country’s history. For program details, visit the course professor, University of Alberta, assessment. Office and Service Operations presents the Wunusweh Lecture in calendar at www.usask.ca/cpte or email (Lean Office) Course St. Thomas More Gallery [email protected] Part-Time English Classes: Placement Aboriginal Law entitled The human On until Feb. 28 in the St. Thomas testing and registration for the spring • May 28-29, Process Metrics, rights case on First Nations child More Gallery is Pressing Matters, Library Research and Reference term is on now. Call 306-966-4351 or visit Management and Controls Course welfare and the associated social an exhibition of new works by For more information, search by series ccde.usask.ca/PTESL • May 30-June 6, The Effective Executive movement for equity for First Nations Ink Slab Printmakers. name on the university homepage. • Pronunciation, Thursdays, April 3-­June 5 Leadership Program – Waskesiu children and their families ON CAMPUS NEWS  February 28, 2014 11

on pharmacotherapeutic initiatives for the  Conferences benefit of the patient as well as provide a forum for the discussion of a current social Respect, Reconciliation, issue in medicine. For more information, Renewal visit usask.ca/cme St. Thomas More College is holding a one-day conference March 8 entitled St. Andrew’s College Respect, Reconciliation and Renewal: Winter Refresher Exploring the Future of Indigenous/Chris- St. Andrew’s College annual Winter tian Relations. The event, which takes Refresher takes place Feb. 28-March 1. place from 8:30 am-5 pm, will explore This continuing education event will how to build relationships of respect and feature Andrea Smith, a Native American the role of the church and universities. anti-violence activist and scholar and Register at www.stmcollege.ca associate professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the Academic Research Day University of California, Riverside, who The Dept. of Psychiatry is holding a will present Confronting Racism with Psychiatry Update: Addictions and Mental Solidarity: Untangling Colonial Webs and Health event March 28 in the Rependa Creating New Contexts. More information Theatre, Saskatoon City Hospital. Among and a Winter Refresher 2014 brochure the presenters are Dr. Robert Milin, head, are available on the college website at Up to 1.8 million lesser flamingos gathered at Kenya’s Lake Bogaria in August 2013.  SUBMITTED Division of Addicions and Mental Health at standrews.ca or by contacting the general Many of the birds left Kenya’s Lake Nakuru when it became too fresh. the University of Ottawa; Dr. Tony George office at 306-966-8970. with the Centre for Addition and Mental Health and the Division of Brain and Ther- apeutics at the University of Toronto; and Detective Inspector Jerome Engele and Wealth of new data expected Sergeant Dean Hoover of the Saskatoon Police Service. More information and the registration form are available on the SUBMIT at the same location where explained. Lake Magadi, for department website. From Page 6 early hominins lived, they example, has sodium carbonate Zbeetnoff Drug Therapy Coming Events grasslands. These environ- should reveal what climate and deposits 40 metres thick, indi- Conference mental pressures led to adap- environmental pressures they cating dry periods that lasted The 11th Annual Peter and Anna Zbeetnoff Next OCN: Friday, Mar. 14, 2014 Memorial Drug Therapy Decision Making Deadline: Thursday, Mar. 6, 2014 tations and behaviours such as presented. thousands of years. However, Conference takes place March 7-8 at upright walking, tool making “We’re drilling the lake the geological record also shows the Saskatoon Inn. The conference will Email [email protected] and increased intelligence. sediments very close to where the lake was sometimes fresh provide an evidence-based perspective “The hypothesis has been the hominin fossils were enough to sustain healthy fish around for at least 40 or 50 found,” Renaut said, adding populations. years, but nobody thinks it’s that that each core will take about “HSPDP will produce a simple anymore,” Renaut said. three years to analyze fully. “It’s wealth of new data to help One of the missing pieces a long-term project.” test hypotheses about some of of the puzzle is just what the Cores have also been drilled the factors that drove human Publishing Schedule climate was doing hundreds of by another team from the Smith- evolution,” Renaut said. “Our millennia ago. To find out, the sonian Institution in the U.S., aim is to provide a detailed, No. Issue Date Deadline Date researchers are drilling cores which provides more informa- high-resolution environmental deep into several lakes and tion as well as a crosscheck for context for human evolution 13 March 14, 2014 March 6, 2014 ancient lake sediments in the the HSPDP team. for the areas where our early 14 March 28, 2014 March 20, 2014 Kenya and Ethiopia rifts. Since Some information is already ancestors are known to have the sediments were laid down known about the lakes, Renaut lived.”  15 April 11, 2014 April 3, 2014 16 April 25, 2014 April 17, 2014 17 May 9, 2014 May 1, 2014 18 May 23, 2014 May 15, 2014 live & learn Centre for Continuing & Distance Education University of Saskatchewan Language Centre

Crucial Conversations gives you the skill-set to have di cult conversations MORE STORIES, PHOTOS by focusing on the facts, allowing you AND COMMENTS ONLINE to move forward and deal e ectively with the situation. news.usask.ca Susan Blum, Director of Research Services, U of S

Programs for University of Saskatchewan Employees Recognized as professional development for Exempt, Faculty, ASPA, and CUPE sta . Crucial Conversations Rose Brook, CUPE 1975, Sept. 19 Are you avoiding talking about an issue or problem with a coworker, employee or your boss because you’re not sure how to hold the conversation? Are you feeling stuck? Taking a Crucial Conversations Carolyn L. Carruthers, WCVM, Nov. 11 workshop may help. Johnny Ilungo, Industry Liaison Office, Dec. 3 This two-day workshop will help you address di cult topics candidly and respectfully as you learn Barry G. Lucas, Education, Dec. 10 how to hold conversations that are honest, forthright and mutually respectful. To learn more Dale P. Clark, FMD, Dec. 12 about Crucial Conversations, visit our website or contact Karen Hayward at [email protected] or at 306.966.7384. Susan Peters, Facilities Management Division, Dec. 14 Susan J. Fjeldstrom, WCVM, Dec. 21 • March 20 and 27 Howard A. Klein, Education, Dec. 28 Upcoming 2-day workshops 2014 • June 17 and 24 Peter A. Scott, Library, Dec. 30 Paul D. Ferguson, Arts and Science, Jan. 5 To register, call the CCDE Registration O ce at 306.966.5539. Online Registration Dr. David R. Popkin, Medicine, Jan. 7 is not available. For more information about these and other Employee Development courses visit ccde.usask.ca/employees. 12 February 28, 2014 

Room This year’s back-page feature explores the view of campus from various office windows, and the people who enjoy them. Do you with a View have an interesting view? Let us know at [email protected]

 KRIS FOSTER New view of old sights Fiona Haynes has only been in her office on the west side of E Wing of Health Sciences a few months, through fall and winter, “but it’s been glorious to see the transition of the seasons.” The research facilitator in the College of Nursing looks out on some remarkable Saskatoon architecture—the original Royal University Hospital, the Little Stone School, stately St. Andrew’s College, the Memorial Gates and the Delta Bessbourough Hotel downtown—all framed by “the fabulous prairie sky.” When she first moved in, she said it was interesting to watch people below her window discover that parking meters had yet to be installed in the loop behind the building. “People found out and parked there all day, for free. I think it was the best kept secret on campus for a while.” As spring comes on, Haynes is adjusting to increasing sunlight in her office “but they’ve equipped us with special blinds that filter the light. The light is a bit more problematic as the days get longer but I do make a point of working facing the window when I’m reading or editing because I’ve got one of the most stunning E-Wing views you could have and it would be criminal to waste it.”