October 7, 1976 FYI CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

Volume 3, Number 5 October 7, 1976 FYI CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY Chancellor Writes For Centraide Help India Scholar Begins The following is an open letter to Concordia faculty and staff. Passage Through Dear Colleagues: not a world breaker. Those who do give, Canada I recommend to you as a worthy cause however, do so generously and it is my meriting your full support, the annual hope that we can increase the number of The man who wrote the well-known Centraide Appeal which is taking place this ge11erous contributors over the next few "Autobiography of an Unknown Indian", month. weeks. N!rad C. Chaudhuri begins his cross As you know, this is a united appeal Canada lecture tour at Concordia today. Quite apart from the good feeling that which has replaced such appeals as those The subject of his talk is "The Impact of comes with giving, I would like to suggest formerly conducted separately by the the West on India" and he'll be speaking in there is another reason for giving that Combined Jewish Appeal, the Federation of the Hall Building on the Sir George campus people who perhaps feel they have Catholic Charities, and Red Feather. in room H-762, at 8: 30 tonight (Thursday). over-indulged the tax collector might Centraide now raises funds for some 100 All who can squeeze in the room are appreciate. Donations are of course different social agencies in the Montreal welcome. deductible and we are faced here with a region, providing assistance (to name only History prof and Asian Studies teacher tremendous opportunity to raise our a few) to such groups as Red Cross, John Hill describes Chaudhuri as Montr~al Diet Dispensary, Weredale deductions beyond the humdrum standard diminutive, lively, argumentative (reflect deduction. House, University Settlement, and Y.W.C. ing perhaps his background as a magazine A. I appeal to you to not only show up ·the and .broadcast journalist), and "often In a short time, you will receive .a request tax collector, but more seriously to show incisive". for a contribution to Centraide. I would the needy citizens of Montreal that our He was born in What is now Bangladesh solicit your serious and favourable con university wants to help. in 1897. After graduating from Calcutta sideration. Our objective this year at University, he entered government service Concordia is to raise $20,000. Sincerely, but later left to work as a journalist and . To be honest, the record of giving at Harry J. Hemens writer. He now makes his home in Oxford. universities, and this includes Concordia, is Chancellor · Besides his autobiography, he has written "A Passage to England" a title not far removed from E.M .. Forster's "A Passage to India", "The Continent of Circe", "The Intellectual in India" and "To Live or not to Live". The. visit is sponsored by the Shastri Inda-Canadian Institute, a cooperative venture designed to foster Indian studies in this country. Concordia is one of the , 10 member universities. Chaudhuri's lecture series closes at the University of British Columbia -in early December. · Again, everybody's wel~~me. \ Inter-Campus Shuttle Bus DEPARTURES : Loyola Campus: on the half hour, starting at 9:30 A.M., last trip at 3:30 P.M., from the Administration Building parking lot. SGW Campus : or the hour, starting at 10:00 A.M., last trip at 4:00 P.M., from the Hall Building, de Maisonneuve Boulevard. Service Monday through Friday, except Holidays, until further notice. r I exclusion of non-Canadian theatre ... but . Performing Arts we must be aggressive in our search for new Rector Speaks Canadian theatre. Starts Season ·. "Universities q m make a large contribu To Faculty tion and the potential for Concordia to · With N~w Head become a centre of Ca n adian a r t is Last Thursday afternoon Rector John O'Brien addressed Concordia faculty in a There has been a lot of fuss recently practically unlimited given adequate gov ernment support." kind of state of the university open concerning the hiring of American faculty meeting. He reviewed the university's at Canadian universities. But New York "I feel too new and humble .. I must learn more," confessed Cazelet when asked financial situation, enrolment outlook and born/ Joe Cazalet, far from forcing his physical expansi,;m plans. American background on reluctant Canad '1 A question period followed. Concerns of ian students, is anxious to learn all he can faculty ranged from the effect of Quebec's about Canada and Canadian art and political situation on Concordia, to the expects to reflect this concern in his new government's new financing formula to the position as he d of Concordia's Performing establishment of the new office of Arts Division. Vice-Rector, Research. While the govern A graduate of Brooklyn College and the ment's role in higher educatio~· is firmly Yale School of Drama, Cazalet has taught established, the Rector noted ' that he in, the New York High School system, been thought it fair to say that Quebec has involved in professional theatre, and most i~tervened less than many other jurisdic recently, intitiated and developed the tions have over the last ten to fifteen years. theatre program at Wheaton College. It The ma}n points made by the Rector can was/ an exciting position for Cazalet, who be found in last week's FYI Senate notes. was able to shape the department 1and watch it grow. A similar challenge· has brought Joe Late Notes Cazalet to Cocordia. Performing Arts, a Weighty Problems new division in an equally new universitr wide Faculty of Fine Arts, a~ain offers him The Sir George Health Cen~re tells FYI the opportunity to create. The uniqueness that the Weight Watchers program, mentioned last week, starts up Wednesday, of Concordia's Performing Arts program Performing A rts Head Caza/et also acted as a strong magnet. According to October 20th, beginning at 5 p.m. and running through 7. , Cazalet, most Canadian and American to comment on the state of Canadian · The Health Centre is located at 2145 universities have distinct Music and theatre and on c~anges which ought to be Mackay. More information from the centre Theatre Departments. At Concordia, they made. "English speaking theatre seems to at 897-4010. are integrated under the banner of be slower in developing than other art Phone Listing Performing Arts (with the possible addition fo rms,_" he said cautiously but quickly of Dance in the not too distant' future). added that he was impressed with two of W.J. Cozens, Loyola Arts and Science Cazelet sees promising possibilities in this the Canadian plays he saw at Festival Academic Advisor, at AD-116, asks those with previously published phone listings in approach which will become apparent in Lennoxville this past summer. early December when Performing Arts will "If we do our job well and contribute FYI to include his number under Loyola feature members of both the theatre and enough to the development of our students, I Student Services- 482-0320, Joe.- 708-9. music sections in the serious musical theatre they will generate work for themselves piece "Marat-Sade." 1 when they graduate. Our students ~ ill have "I would like to see Concordia develop a to be pioneers!" The next few years will stronger more supportive role toward be exciting on s for the performing arts in Writing Help English theatre in Canada; not to the · Canada, if Joe Cazalet has his way. Available direc or Philip ~pensley had to consider The Loyola Evening Students Associa Live Like Pigs seve al variables before finally deciding on tion has again set up the popular Writing "Live Like Pigs." The cast had to be large Labs (tutorial service for the improvement At Chameleon enough and the range of roles broad of writing skills) for those students who Concordia's Theatre Arts opens ·its new enough to ensure a valid learning eweri experience difficulties in organizing and season of student productions this week ence for the drama students. Another writing term papers. with British playwright John Arden's important consideration was that there be a The Writing Labs will run from contemporary comedy "Live Like Pigs." sufficient number of interesting female September to April, and are being held in It's like trying to fit a round peg into a roles, a condition which "Live Like Pigs". Hingston Hall (Loyola campus) on square hole when the nomadic Sawney had no difficulty fulfilling. Although John Tuesdays and Thursdays between 6 and 9 family is moved from the broken-down Arden is not well-known in Canada, Dr. p.m. 1 tram car they have called home into a Spensley felt that Arden was a playwright Loyola English prof. Harry Hill is in council house in a middle class neighbour of note to whom the students should be charge of the labs and should be contacted hood. They simply won't fit and nothing exposed. Finally, Dr. Spensley felt it was for appointments at 482-0320, l'ocals 534 or the well-intentioned social welfare system important that he, as direct<Dr, should'enjoy_ 538, between 9 a-.m. and 5 p.m . can do will change that fact. The directing the play so that his enthusiasm The1 labs are open to all part-time disruptions, both to the Saw1;1eys and to the would reach the stud.en.ts. students free of charge. Books on the neighbouring middle class Jacksons, in "Live Like Pigs" runs Wednesday, Oct. improvement of writing skills are available crease dramatically when a group of 13 through Saturday Oct.

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