Concordia University - Montreal, Quebec IN THIS Courses for Convicts By Beverley. Smith ISSUE: "It takes a tremendous amount of drive fo r someone to take these courses," says Nellie Sharpe, her voice Happy Birthday Blair! tinged with admiration. Political science professor and Sharpe is a volunteer teacher involved in an Principal of the new School of unusual program co-ordinated by Concor­ dia's Centre for Mature Students, with the Community and Public Af­ help of off-campus personnel. fairs, Blair Williams, had In the spare time left over from some birthday surprise for his her regular teaching duties, soci­ fortieth. See page 7. ologist Sharpe gives ·courses in "Introductory Sociology" and "Statistics" to inmates of one Don't let smoke get in your of Quebec's maximum security eyes ... prisons, the Archambault In­ Get a smoke detector for your situte at Ste-Anne-des­ Plaines. home or apartment. That's the It's not the " average · advice of Concordia security friendly individual you're which is selling detectors at a dealing with, says John Fiset, Concordia's director discount. Details on page 3. of off-campus operations, who acts as liaison between Hold on to ·your native university and prison of­ tongue. ficials. The students are in for So counsels an Education armed robbery, assault, mur­ Dept. study on immigrant der or attempted murder, children. Read about the have nicknames like "the ter­ minator" and arf usually do­ study, which shows that ing long stretches in the pen. children who retain their . But, says a spokesman for the native language while inmates, "some of them are quite acquiring French or English do sharp. Their natural talents just " keep getting snowed under by menial· better academically, on page labour such as sweeping fl oors or working 4. in the prison shop. They just get bitter and use their talents to get back at society, to get revenge." More than just a beer bash. To change this situation, two English-speaking in­ Commerce Week '79 is ·a week mates at Archambault put pressure on pri~on officials Continued on page 7. of seminars and guest speakers. It's Reed Scowen, Bernard Finestone, Richard Jean Gascon: Lafferty and more. Page 6. Universities have public A life in the theatre support, but ... By Mark Gerson biographer and Concordia theatre first director of the Nat:onal Theatre The public is concerned about The dream of all my /if e was to professor Philip Spensley, "one of, if School. He was artistic director of the the cost of higher education. be in a cowboy movie, to gallop not the, most significant personalities Stratford Festival from 1968 to 1974, across the plains on my faithful in the development of comtemporary an important period of growth for the The Council of Ontario horse and shoot from the saddle. Canadian theatre." Festival. And he now heads what Universities recently published But in the end, I didn't do anything Gascon's credentials are impressive. might become Canada's first national· a report on the public image like that. He founded Canada's first con­ theatre company, operating out of the of Ontario universities. For a -Jean Gascon, 1969 temporary professional theatre com­ National Arts Centre. Instead, Jean Gascon M.D .. became pany, Theatre du Nouveau Monde, 'The man has dedicated his life and look at the report, see page 2. one of Canada's most respected actors and remained its artistic director and being' to the theatre," says Spensley. and directors and, according to guiding light for 16 years. He was the Continued on page 5. PLEASE FILL THIS OUT AND RETURN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE ,,, Please foll in and c,rcle i tems. or squeeze in the right word. Universities 1nust jus~ify ::, a. 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The need to explain the >< (.) ::, Q) (.) education. the arts. history. 0 Their concern is that the universities, . mission of the contemporary university Cf) 0 >- as well as other public service provides a natural focu~ for organizations, spend their tax dollars You'll find this card in the current issue of Concordia University Magazine. We want cooperative activity which can un­ to know what you think of C.U. ~ag., so please fill it out and return it to either in a responsible way and are held derpin efforts at the institutional level." Information Office. If you haven't picked up your copy of the magazine, it's available accountable." The report suggests that COU in the lobby of the Hall Building, at the main entrance of the Administration Building The report comes from a special produce "on a regular basis, timely and at both Information Offices (BC-213, AD-105). committee of the Council of Ontario information about the university Universities. That committee, chaired system for use by the individual in­ by UW's president, Dr. Burt Matthews, stitutions and for direct distribution to To1n Allan worked over the past year finding out the general public." what the universities do now "in That could range from fact sheets dealing with the public perception of. and press releases to films, it says. R.I.P. the current role of universities" and COU should also produce "in­ Prof. Tom Allan, a pioneer in Philosophy from the Universities of figuring i>ut what individual univer­ formation on Council reports and Educational Broadcasting in Scotland Cologne, Freiburg and Vienna, and a sities and COU, which represents them policy statements specifically for the and one of the first professors in the Diploma in Education from the all, could start doing. information of members of the Graduate Studies in Educational University of Edinburgh. His varied "Despite the criticism about the university community", says the Technology, died on December 14, career included English teaching in effectiveness and/ or relevance of report; and COU leaders should meet 1978. Professor Allan came to Con­ Scottish schools from 1934 to 1941, universities that is voiced from time to regularly with politicians, set up an cordia in 1970, giving up tp.e post of and serving as Squadron Leader with time in the media and by opinion advisory committee "composed of Head of Schools Broadcasting for the Royal Air force during the Second leaders in business, industry, and · senior executives from business, in­ Scotland. He served as Associate World War. After the war he joined government, there seems to be general dustry, labour and the public service", Director of the M .A. programme and the BBC as an educational radio basic public support for universities and provide "direct regular personal Director of the Diploma programme in producer. Later he produced the first and for higher education," the com­ contact with representative members of Instructional Technology. In addition, ETV series in Scotland. In 1961 he was mittee has reported. ·Toronto and the national media". he taught several courses in script­ appointed Head of Schools Broad­ "Most people continue to support Staff at the COU secretariat will writing and radio and television casting for Scotland. His professional substantial public investment in have to reshuffle their priorities, the production. qualifications were well received by the education because they want high report says, but the committee thinks Prof. Allan's academic background fledgling programme in Educational quality institutions and broad that is worth doing. included an honours M.A. in Mental Technology in 1970 and the substantial university-level educational op­ The report also has a number of Philosophy from the University of contributions he made are sincerely portunities to continue to be available suggestions for individual universities: Glasgow, graduate courses in acknowledged by both faculty and to their children and to themselves. • Carry on with secondary school students. "Although they may not understand liaison work, especially involving much about it, they are prepared to professors and students, and "em­ accept the importance of research in phasize the values of university Dollars/or the universities." education and the career opportunities So the first conclusion reached by that are available for graduates". the committee is that the universities, • Become more involved in "special Scholars "individually and collectively", have to programmes that can enrich the "inform all segments of the public education of high school students and Concordia's 1978 development fund about what universities do, why such support the work of high school campaign has received a record work is important, and how the costs teachers" -contests, science fairs, amount of $658,000.