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February 13, 2003
Decisions rendered in seven student hearings BY BARBARA BL AC K cedural bias. of the hearings was Of the seven decisions ren fair and thorough. s of publication time, deci dered, charges were upheld The charges sions had been issued by against four people, ranging from stemmed from a A the hearing panels for 50 hours of community service to protest against a seven of the 10 students charged Elatrash's sentence. scheduled speech under the university's Code of The students concerned have by ex-Israeli prime Rights and Responsibilities 15 working days to appeal to a dif minister Benjamin regarding the disturbance on ferent panel of students taken Netanyahu on Sept. 9 and its aftermath. from the hearing pool. The only Sept. 9 and its Although the hearings and grounds for appeal are serious, aftermath. When names of those charged are confi prejudicial procedural defects or violence broke out dential, some students charged new evidence. in the Hall under the Code have talked open At a meeting of the university's Building, the ly about their cases. It was report board of governors yesterday, speech was can ed in The Gazette on Feb. 8 that Rector Frederick Lowy indicated celled. Samer Elatrash had been sus that while two student panelists Charges have pended for three years. He was have reportedly claimed that in also been laid SURF'S UP: Student volunteers Leanne Martell (left) and Mickey Donovan catch a wave with found guilty of all five charges one case they were coerced by against some stu Buzz, the Stinger Bee, at Surf @ Concordia. The Information session, which took place on Feb. against him, including creating a university representatives to ren dents by the police, 1 In the Library Building, was aimed at prospective students and showcased Concordia's hostile environment and harass der harsh sanctions, he had been and those cases are onllne resources. Over 25 volunteers, 1,200 potential students and many Concordia staff ment. He said he would appeal assured that there was no validity still before the members made the event a huge success. For the full story, please turn to page 5. the ruling on the grounds of pro- to this allegation, and the process courts. Engineering teachers congregate at Concordia
BY SHANN ON S MI TH HOU LE on things we don't talk about as • in this much as we should, and bring in acing an auditorium full of people from different universities Fstudents can be daunting, but to exchange teaching techniques:• issue two Concordia engineering assis The main focus of the confer tant professors like teaching so ence is on teaching, grading, much, they've organized an inter accreditation issues and other 2 Black solidarity: national conference on the sub aspects of education, but there Students say they ject of engineering education are several panels on other. sub need united voice from Feb. 16 to 18. jects like aerospace engineering "There is so much dynamic and women in engineering. In one change [in engineering] right panel presentation, for example, now;' explained assistant profes industry leaders will discuss what 3 Loud and clear: sor Nadia Bhuiyan, one of the skills they look for in graduating Catherine Kidd conference organizers. The con students. performs poetry ference is "an opportunity to talk The link between engineering Nadia Bhuiyan (left) and Paula Wood-Adams and share information:• in school and in the real world This is the first ever isn't always clear to students, and their personal experiences in Adams joined the Faculty of International Conference on the they don't always see the interdis engineering;' Bhuiyan said. Engineering and Computer 6 Concordia writes: Future of Engineering Education ciplinary nature of the profession, Part of the reason Bhuiyan and Science in May 2001, and Bhuiyan Authors discuss (ICFEE), and it has already the organizers said. Wood-Adams are organizing the joined last January. Both work in attracted 30 papers from engi Of course, the conference conference is because of how they the Department of Mechanical recent publications neers and engineering professors guests won't just talk about stu feel about engineering and teach and Industrial Engineering. as far away as Austria and China. dents - they will also be talking ing. "Someone told me an engi Bhuiyan said enthusiastically, The conference was the brain to them. Both professors are neer made more money than a "There is so much you can do [in 11 Winning coach: child of Nadia Bhuiyan and Paula encouraging students to attend chemist;' Wood-Adams said, engineering], and teaching is so Les Lawton wins Wood-Adams, who spent the past the conference. They've even laughing. "Now, I can't imagine rewarding. It's like second nature year organizing the event. invited high school students to doing anything else:• to us now:• 500th match Wood-Adams said that it's attend. "We've asked them to give Both professors are recent For more information, visit important to "open up discussion a technical paper or to talk about arrivals at Concordia. Wood- http://www.me.concordia.ca. Black students promote education, unified voice BY ME L ANIE TAKEFMAN "People need to know how to manoeuvre in a society;' Cassell Black History ducation, unity and sus said. We "don't have a sense of tainable development are belonging, a sense of home:• activities 2003 Ecritical concerns for black She attributed blacks' spiritual students, according to the organ disorientation to the "horrific Open to the public izers of this year's Black History holocaust" that occurred when Month events at Concordia. Africans were forcibly removed Feb.14: from their countries hundreds of Black History Month, a cele Poetry reading, 2030 Mackay St., bration of the history, culture years ago and dispersed around first floor, 7-10 p.m. The and identity of black people the world. "We are paying every Graduate Students' Association around the world, is being day for that crime:• Cassell said. presents a poetry reading with marked throughout the month of Likewise, Cassell supports the Benadette, Ophelia and Serena. February at Concordia by events creation at Concordia of an Light refreshments served. For Information, call Celine at 848- including a scienc;e exhibit, a fair African Studies program headed 7900. of art, poetry, food and dance, by black educators. Black people and a lecture series. can teach their own history effec- Feb.15: The emphasis of this year's 1 tively, she said. "We need to find Celebrating the Richness of -1 out about our own history before Black Culture, Hall Building events will be on education. Ina g Cassell, the president of UMOJA, '" other people teach us about it." Mezzanine, 11 a.m.- 8 p.m. Black Women on the Rise present an the African Student Union of ------"------! Another element of the afro Faye Cummings, secretary of Concordia's National Society of Black Engineers ~ art exhibition, story reading, Concordia, said that black juve club (left). Guled Hussein (middle) and Nayab are in the background. centric village would be links to poetry, mask-making, dance, nile delinquency stems from a Africa, like sustainable projects food-tasting and more. lack of positive role models and However, three black students, one of your kind, you feel alone;• with AIDS children. Public lecture by human rights promotion of education among who are not varsity athletes, as Cummings said. "'It's very hard to While black students at activist Imam Khalid Griggs on black youth. Because of the well as two staff members and learn on your own:• Concordia don't always work •What They Didn't Teach You prevalence of negative portrayals one professor are featured in Moreover, there is a lack of sol together, organizers of this year's About Black History: 6 p.m. Hall of blacks, young people "don't see other advertisements. idarity at the university as a Black History Month events have Building, H-110. Presented by themselves having a future," Thus, the goal of the "Visions whole. Because no central black demonstrated "a good deal of co UMOJA and the Muslim Students' Association. Cassell said. of Science" exhibit, which includ association exists at Concordia, operation;• according to a mem The black person as athlete or ed a display of African inven students have little leverage, no ber of the Muslim Students Feb.21-23: entertainer is a common stereo tions, on Feb. 9-10, is to foster one to advocate on their behalf Association {MSA), who gave Iced in Black: canadian Black type, said Faye Cummings, secre self-esteem and expose youth to and no support system. only her nickname, Nayab. Experience on Alm, a festival co tary of Concordia's chapter of the career opportunities in science. To remedy the situation, Guled Hussein, Black History hosted by UMOJA and QPIRG National Society of Black Jobs in the sports and entertain Cassell envisions an "afrocentric Month co-ordinator for UMOJA, McGIii. Chocolate Qty, a film by Concordia alumnus Stefan Engineers {NSBE) . .As a result, ment industries are not necessar village" that would support black hopes that this year's activities Verna, will be screened on Feb. many young people believe that ily sustainable, but "science is students at Concordia in the pro will serve as a "road map" for 21. For film schedules and addi· this is the only way that they can something that will always be motion of their rights, academ future student organizers. In fact, tional Information, visit succeed in life. there," Cummings said. ics, and other aspects of campus this year's multitude of activities http://wwwkedlnblaclc.ca. For example, both black stu She added that there are very life. The centre could also extend is an improvement over last year, For general information, contact dents featured in Concordia's few black students in her engi to Montreal's black community. when only a few lectures UMOJA at 848-3530 or visit public transit advertisements are neering courses at Concordia. She pointed to the Centre for acknowledged Black History http://umoja.concordia.ca. identified as varsity athletes. Generally, "when you're the only Native Education as a model. Month. UN peacekeeper Innes ·investigates Liberian r~dio propaganda
BY FRANK KUIN area told us the story of how 53 Taking a cue from the conflict people had been unearthed. in Rwanda, where radio broad ,\ cademically, Michael Innes "I remember standing around casting played an important part flbas examined the effects of it, looking down, not really being in inciting ethnic hatred in the mass murder from written able to see the bottom. We had run-up to the 1994 genocide, sources; as a soldier, he has wit not been witness to the actual Innes decided to examine the role nessed some of them first hand. event, but it served to anchor our of radio propaganda in the 1990- Innes, a graduate student at interest for the tour." 1997 civil war in Liberia and the Concordia, has been studying the It also fired up his academic decade preceding it role of radio br<;>adeasting ,in.the- ... interest ui the subject Back in He analyzed years' worth of civil war of Liberia, a conflict that Montreal, Innes, now an army transcripts of Liberian radio raged through most of the 1990s reservist, took history professor broadcasts kept by the U.S.-based and cost an estimated 200,000 to Frank Chalk's course, The History Foreign Broadcast Information 250,000 lives. and Sociology of Genocide. Service, as well as the BBC The master's candidate in his- "I've always been interested in Worldwide Monitoi: Michael Innes tory at the Montreal Institute of security-oriented subjects," he Although he found that Charles Genocide Studies has analyzed said. "Since coming back, the Taylor, a Liberian warlord who is propaganda use in that war, focus has been mainly on the his now the country's president, was national intervention force to sta ing tow: He'll be heading for the which saw "troops of one faction tory and dynamics of genocide, a "master manipulator" of the bilize the country organized by Balkans in April for six months or another slaughtering their eth- especially. looking at post-Cold media, his efforts were "not as ECOWAS, an organization of and wants to complete his work nic enemies on a huge scale:• War incidences, like in Rwanda in overt in terms of driving a wedge West African States. This force before then. As a UN peacekeeper, he has 1994 and in the Balkans through between groups using media stood in the way of Taylor's domi "My field experience is in seen evidence of genocide in out the 1990s." images:· Innes said. nation of the country. Bosnia and my academic focus is another part of the world: Bosnia, Innes sees "a real role for histor "He did target ethnic groups, "The propaganda would target on Africa,"· Innes said. '½.t some where he served a six-month tour ical research in documenting but it was not of the same variety the Nigerians, try to discredit point it would be interesting to of duty in 1997. While enforcing occurrences of mass human that you saw in Rwanda:' The eth them, question their legitimacy, switch the two." the Dayton peace accord in the rights abuses. The process of dis nic mix in Liberia is much more and impute all sorts of abuses to Michael Innes will be present Balkans, his team came across a covery and analysis of evidence of fragmented. them:• ing his paper, "Scorched Ether: pit that had been a mass grave. relatively recent cases gives this Rather, Taylor's propaganda Innes is under some pressure to Radio Broadcasting in the "It was after about a week in kind of work a contemporary rel was primarily aimed at foreigners finish his thesis. Several weeks Liberian Civil War;' on Feb. 14 at theatre;• Innes recalled. "One of evance that I think is extremely in Liberia, such as Nigerians and ago he was called upon to return 12 p.m. in LB-608, in the J.W the locals who had been in the satisfying." Ghanaians, who made up a multi- to Bosnia for another peacekeep- McConnell Library Building. 2 Concordia 's Thursday Report I February 13 , 2003 , . '. Star of spoken-word sc;ene Catherine Kidd hears voices
BY JAMES MARTIN India, the more it seemed absurd to be Since she grew up with a father writing about these eso who spoke in tongues and tran teric things when the scribed heavenly messages, it's no physical landscape surprise that Catherine Kidd is demanded a response. Joanna White (E guided by voices. In India, there's an "The pressure of ghosts at my intensity of having the back compels my work," Kidd said most beautiful smells Roberto Materassl (BSc '93 , GDip '02), a recent graduate in the Graduate in an interview. The occasional and the most hideous Diploma in Sport Administration (DSA) who is now working for the National Hockey League in Montreal, was interviewed by Robert Burnett Concordia writing instructor is a smells at the same time, of Hour about the legal case launched by the minority shareholders of the longtime fixture of Montreal's the most beautiful Montreal Expos against the majority owner. spoken-word scene. things to look at and Irene Tschemomor (BAdmin '85, GDip '91), a part-time instructor in the "Nothing moves me more than the most hideous things Graduate Diploma in Administration (DIA) health care option, and execu the attempt to speak, and with - you just have to tive director and CEO of the Queen Elizabeth Health Complex (QEHC), writing and performing, I think engage with the physi- Catherine Kidd during a performance was interviewed on Daybreak, the CBC Radio program, about the variety I've finally hit upon the thing that cal at the visceral level:' of services offered at the QEHC. She informed listeners that although makes me happiest:' It's a balance Kidd returned to Canada to do about family secrets and the some of the offices are private clinics or are staffed by private practition- that's been a lifetime in the mak a BA in creative writing at recognition of metaphorical ele ers, many of them were covered by Medicare. · ing. Concordia, then an MA. After phants in the middle of living A feature on Concordia's Community Lecture Series on HIV/AIDS and its Born in Quebec, raised in writing and performing a chap rooms. Since completion, the organizer and founder Tom Waugh (Cinema) appeared in•the Mirror of British Columbia, Kidd spent "the book (everything I know about love book has shuffled between pub Jan. 23. On the 10th anniversary of the series, Waugh said that people ignore the continuing ravages of the disease, particularly since the intro first 20 years of my life just want I learned from taxidermy), she was lishers (not unusual for the pub duction of new medications. "The scariest thing is that ... the situation ing to act:' But theatre school pretty sure that's what she wanted lishing world), but Kidd is opti with AIDS has actually gotten worse. .. People are not waking up to this." frustrated her with its emphasis to do - until a publisher floated mistic that Thomas Allen will Martin Martens and Marylene Gagn,, both in the Department of on body over mind. the idea of tackling a novel. finally release Bestial Rooms Management, wrote an article in The Gazette. Under the headline Kidd rebelled by pursuing "the Calling it "one of the hardest sometime this yeu •catching it before it hits the fan; they looked at "toxin handlers; people furthest possible extreme:· mov things I've ever done;• Kidd She is currently concentrating who help their organizations function efficiently by helping workers who ing to India to pursue philosophy worked for six years on what her efforts on live performances are undergoing emotional stress. and religious studies. Living in a would become Bestial Rooms. The of Sea Peach, a CD-book collabo- Jordan Le Bel (Marketing) was interviewed on CBC local television on tiny, 1,500-year-old meditation novel tells the story of a single ration with DJ/mastering engi Jan. 16 by business correspondent Shari Okeke about the lacklustre per cell overlooking the Ganges, she mother, living with her own neer Jack Beetz. A sort of Bestial formance of the recently opened Les Ailes de la Mode store in downtown became what she now laughingly mother, revisiting her past with a Rooms re-mix, Sea Peach reworks Montreal. Le Bel highlighted the fact that the company has made no major changes to its original concept since its opening and was quick to dubs "a floating chess game: all newfound compassion. various passages into a audio dismiss the importance of the arrival of the discount store Winners in mind and no body." There she In keeping with Kidd's interest visual "bonsai performance ver nearby Place Montreal Trust. began writing fiction, using char in voice, the novel is about the sion" of the novel. It is a project Michel Magnan (Accountancy) was interviewed by La Presse on Jan. 17 acters to work through her heady spoken and the unspoken; about born out of frustration with the under the headline "Parfum de conflits d'interet.• Magnan, who holds the philosophical preoccupations. characters locating the stories Lawrence Bloomberg Chair in Accountancy, was questioning how a "But the longer I stayed in they want to tell {and confess); Please see Kidd, page 10. board of governors can impartially judge the management of a company when some members hold a personal interest in the company. In anoth er La Presse article, he discussed the fact the top three executives at Gildan had obtained stock options as salary even though they were the Scholar speaks on Ainu of Japan principal stockholders of the company.
BY BARBARA CASTROVILLO Women. Ainu traditions suffered and the In The Gazette on Jan. 20, under the headline "Fine line between friendly and flirt; Robert Soroka, a lecturer in organizational behaviour in the SEASHOLTZ Addressing the 25 students and Ainu themselves began to move John Molson School of Business, discussed combining social and work professors who gathered in the away from their native land in the interactions. He said that co-workers may cross into dangerous territory olanda Munhoz had always Dragonroot Centre on Mackay early 20th century. It was only when flirting at the workplace, even if it is only intended as friendly con Yfelt a pull towards working St., the champion of indigenous decades later, through the persist versation, because it may be interpreted as sexual harassment. with indigenous populations in and disabled rights summarized ence of Ainu women in putting Alumnus and set designer Christine Jones made the front page of the her native Mexico, but when her presentation "Representation their oral literature to paper, that January issue of Entertainment Design, a distinguished magazine in the tragedy struck and she could no versus Counter-representation: Ainu culture was revived. field. The article focused on Jones's unconventional style of set design for longer walk to visit the native Resistance Literature of Ainu Munhoz said, "The Ainu made the current off-Broadway production Burn This, by Lanford Wilson. Her communities she had been help Women" with one glaring fact. the Japanese realize that they method consists of collecting written materials for inspiration-bits of ing. she turned in another direc "The Ainu of Japan are not recog were not homogeneous." She dialogue, quotes, notes-before visual images. Jones studied English lit erature, but completed her undergraduate degree in Concordia's Theatre tion. nized and they do not have writ believes that this is important for Department, which she described as "phenomenal" in the profile. For the She travelled half-way around ten rights" in Japan, she said the Japanese because it creates a full article, see http://entertainmentdesignmag.com. the world to connect indigenous Located primarily in the north "construction of plurality within Lisa Walsh, a client of Concordia's Centre for the Arts in Human Mexicans' struggles with those of of the country, in the Hokkaido society." · Development, will sing in a fundraising concert at the Oscar Peterson the Ainu, a Japanese indigenous area, the Ainu once possessed· a However, the Ainu still have Concert Hall with jazz great Duke Ellington's son and daughter. The 24 - group. rich culture but experienced a much more ground to cover, since year-old singer was featured in The Globe and Mail of Jan. 11 in an article Munhoz, a PhD candidate at El steady decline after their land they continue to struggle for even about Williams syndrome, a rare neurogenetic disorder that fosters Colegio de Mexico who holds a was annexed by the Japanese. the most basic rights within a extraordinary musical talent but underdeveloped IQs and reasoning skills. The concert, which will take place in June, will benefit the Centre master's degree in Japanese stud Munhoz, showing slides of the very conservative society that for the Arts in Human Development. ies, spent six months recently at Ainu, drew parallels between hesitates to recognize them. the University of Tokyo studying their fate and that of many A discussion period followed, !,.oic TUN (Political Science) was invited to share his academic perspec tives on several programs dealing with international current events last the Ainu people. On Jan. 30, she Mexican indigenous populations. with students pointing out the month. On Jan. 22, he appeared on RDl's show Le Quebec en Direct to dis was · invited by Concordia's Impoveri,shed by the dominating relevance of Munhoz's findings in cuss North Korea's weapons possessions. The next day, he spoke on Simone de Beauvoir Institute to culture, "the Ainu were consid~ · relation to First Nations groups in CJMF's Franc-Parler about the economic ramifications on Canada in the share her findings on resistance ered barbarians by the Japanese," Canada. case of a war with Iraq. and change among Japanese Ainu similar to how the conquering Munholz's talk on January 30. The Gazette interviewed former Executive Director of Advancement and women. Spanish saw native Mexicans. was the first in a series ofspeakers Alumni relations Tamas Zsolnay, direct from Ethiopia, where he has been Munhoz had previously worked "The Japanese then tried to in Dr. Sima Aprahamian's seminar collaborating on a UN peacekeeping mission since September 2002. In for the Mexican government's 'civilize' the Ainu by teaching on Women Organizing Resistance the Jan. 3 article, Zsolnay admitted that he had mixed emotions: "I've indigenous radio broadcasting them the Japanese language and and Change. The next seminar seen ... soldiers with guns who just looked like they wanted to go home and towns that were intentionally demolished by withdrawing forces. I've ·system, the President's Office for culture," she continued, and grad speaker will be Allison Griffith, seen the most beautiful scenery imaginable. I've seen monkeys in the People with Disabilities and the ually the Ainu found that identity leader of the Craft Church, on Feb. wild and every shape, size and colour of bird.• Mexican National Institute for more beneficial to their survival. 13. 3 Ft bruiry 13 , 2003 I Concordli 's Thursdiy Rtport .r Board asks CSU for Taverns deserved h6ft'il:lmr re were included on this junket, particularly since says former historl ost" of the visit "was the Academy of Chinese Opera," representing as it does an ancient art form financial Regarding James Martin's recent sto an amalgam of our Western arts of music, dance and the- Anouk Belanger and Lisa Sumner ( CTR, ments Montreal taverns"): · It would have been particularly valuable for some our theatre statement Taverns catered to adult males, from
BY MATT HEW WA LLS Concordia's creative writing pro Canada's rugby team at the 1986 gram in 2001. When he was Commonwealth Games. DG is not a neighbourhood turned down, he reworked them "I still maintain to this day that Nlikely to breed urbane poets. and resubmitted them in 2002, I'm the only writer who could lift Urban, yes, but hardly urbane. but again he was unsuccessful. 400 pounds;• he said. Neale McDevitt, a graduate of Then, he says, speaking much McVie's grandfather tells him Concordia in English, has been an like McVie, "he busted his ass to early in life that "the world is NDG resident for all his 39 years. polish these stories and show mean as hell, boy. You'd better His first collection of short sto those pricks." It worked Since its buckle up:' ries, One Day Even Trevi Will publication last November, He doesn't always manage to, Crumble, is set in the NDG neigh McDevitt's short-story collection but he never gives up on his bourhoods he has known, and its has had favourable reviews in The search for that state of grace. It mixture of the profane and the Gazette and Hour. was something that Hemingway poetic is what has kept him there. Finding a voice as a writer was sought too, but for McVie, As the book's main character, one of the toughest battles of his "Hemingway can have the blatant McVie, says in one story, "NDG life. "I'd never been able to find a gush and roar of the bullfights, I'll love isn't high art or idyllic devo voice that was comfortable. Then take Venice and its slow descent tion. It's visceral and sad and, in I read Bukowski and it was really into the sea:• many ways, it's based purely on a moment of true epiphany: You Writing does not yet pay his white-knuckled survival:' can be gritty and beautiful:' bills, so McDevitt has had to work That could be said just as easily Like Charles Bukowski, at other jobs, one of them at about McDevitt's own efforts to McDevitt writes about those on Chapter's bookstore. get published. the margins - homeless people, Having now put '.Autographed First written as a novel three hookers, taxi drivers and bikers. by author' stickers on his own years ago, One Day Even Trevi Will Most of the stories are told in the books, he jokes that he needs one Neale McOevitt Crumble was the work of several first-person, narrated by a charac more appropriate to his case: years. ter who is not exactly McDevitt, 'Shelved by author.' He turned the chapters into but who shares a lot of his senti to the rough-and-tumble. He's successfully enough to become stories and submitted some of ments and interests. been a regular at his local YMCA the Pan-Am weightlifting cham Even Trevi Will Crumble is pub them in his application to McDevitt himself is no stranger since childhood, where he trained pion in 1985 and a member of lished by Exile Editions, of Toronto. 6 Concordia 's Thursday Report I February 13 , 2003 Travel, trope and Drowning in sorrowful success spoken word devices BY S COTT M c R AE Autobiography, pop culture, pens t might be infuse Corey Frost's literary works enough to make Ieven the notori ously morose poet BY SCOTT M c R AE projections. Jon Paul Fiorentino This interest in multimedia happy: Mirror has he cleverly-designed gar stems· from his understanding of named him a 2003 lic press, the Japanese gel presentation. "I believe context Noisemaker, he had T ink pen, the semi-colon, is all-important, so I've always two books of poetry the alphabet - these are some of paid close attention to the published in 2002, Corey Frost's favourite devices. design of my publications and to namely Tra nscona The Concordia creative writing the sound and look of_my per Fragments and graduate and award-winning formances. Resume Drowning. member of Montreal's spoken "The writing process isn't over both received glow word scene has gadgets on his until the writing is delivered, ing reviews and, to mind. whether it's on paper or through top it off, by the They appear everywhere in his the air:' time this is printed first book, My Own Devices, In fact, this idea fascinates he will have handed whether in the shape of answer Frost so much that he is basing in his thesis and be ing machines, eyeglasses or his PhD dissertation at the City finished his master's books by Vladimir Propp. University of New York on the in creative writing Although he borrows from topic and is, for his next publica and literature at Jon Paul Fiorentino Japanese pop culture, collage tion, creating a multimedia CD Concordia. arrangements and multimedia ROM of his performances Although Fiorentino admits Home has been an important Fiorentino warns, rejection is a techniques, Frost's devices are entitled Bits World: Exciting that he does occasionally feel concept to this native of fact of life for poets. ''I've been mostly literary. His writing is a Version. content and that his melancholy Transcona, Manitoba. "I was so rejected approximately 80 to 90 mixture of autobiography sea Although Frost cites influ is sometimes tongue-in-cheek hopelessly attached to that per cent of the time:• Even still, soned with fabulations, post ences ranging from Roland hyperbole, he believes that too place;• he says. he continues to write. "You keep modern wit, and literary sleight Barthes and Kathy Acker to gum much happiness can be detri However, moving to Montreal doing it because you believe in of-hand. wrappers and Gilligan's Island, mental. Depression, he says, is a to study under Mary di Michele, it," he says. For example, Corey Frost one aspect of his life weighs prerequisite for poetry. "It's a Concordia English professor He is now working on a manu names every protagonist in the particularly strongly on his writ important to feel dissettled. You and poet, gave him some much script entitled Hello Serotonin, short stories in his book Corey ing. need to feel a sense of urgency to needed perspective. "I was trying due out in 2004. "Half of this Frost. In fact and in fiction Frost is a write, and you don't feel this to understand what home manuscript will revisit territory "The Corey Frosts in the sto traveller. when you're excessively comfort means. You can only do that with from Transcona Fragments, the ries are not always the same "The stories in my book are able:• a certain distance:• other half will be a linguistic {they have some commonality) about trying to understand peo Fiorentino's writing reflects His book of poems Transcona response to synaptic activity." but they all represent aspects of ple in other places when travel this discomfort. It is sometimes Fragments was the result. In other words, the syntax of me, good and bad, so in that way, ling, but they are often also lyrical, sometimes anti-lyrical Although Fiorentino's poems the text will emulate neurons fir 'Tm also playing with the idea of about leaving room to re-evalu but almost always embedded have an intellectual vigour, they ing. fictional persona as identity, ate yourself, rather than simply with sadness and cynicism. For do not stray off into what he "It's more ambitious than any which is a major component of observing and judging:• example, he writes: "life begins terms "the existence of knowing thing I've done before;• much spoken word;' Frost said This is a lesson that Frost's when the vial is empty/and in an but not living." However, he Fiorentino admits, looking in an interview. audience would do well to apply unremarkable office/ somewhere struggles over deciding how vul almost pleased. Frost describes himself as fill to his craft, for he and his spo in the city/a therapist can feel nerable he should allow himself Resume Drowning, by Jon Paul ing the brainy narrative and ken-word peers are forcing us to me coming:• to be in his poems. "We, as poets, Fiorentino, is published by Broken multimedia niche of the spoken re-evaluate how we perceive the He describes his particular often come up a bit short Jaw Press ($15.95, paperback, 96 word community. literary arts. brand of poetry as "miserablism;' because we're often not willing to pp). His spoken-word performanc and identifies strongly with the be not only emotive but emo Transcona Fragments, also by es are often accompanied by var My Own Devices, by Corey Frost, post-prairie school, a genre that tional:' Jon Paul Fiorentino, is published by ious forms of multimedia, from is published by Conundrum "subverts its prairie home but is Perhaps this is a natural pro- Cyclops Press ($14.95, paperback, intricate soundscapes to video ($14.95, paperback, 159 pp). still tethered to it:' tective mechanism; as 96pp). What ho, Mercutio: Ben Kalman starts up literary press Master's student publishes chapbooks with Web site and photocopier, including his own poetry
BY S coTT M c RAE told the group that publishing and poetry writers who might not business, an undertaking that into a well-recognized press that chapbooks is deceptively ~asy; all get published otherwise. Some taught him that any new venture attracts good writers. en Kalman, an English it takes is a computer and access writers have already submitted requires an initial investment of "I want someone, sometime in BMaster's student at to a photocopier. their work to him. time and money. the future, to raise an eyebrow Concordia, first thought about Inspired, Kalman decided last "I did this because it is a venue He expects his press to be self and say, 'Mercutio? They put out starting his own publishing com September to carry through with for people to share their own sustaining by its fourth or fifth crazy good stuff" pany more than two years ago to his dream. He set up a Web site, writing, and for me to share my publication. Mercutio Press will launch two fill a gap: "There were no chap ran off 60 copies of a collection of own:' While the idea of publishing new chapbooks, Five Muses, by book presses in Montreal:' A his own poems, and distributed His peers, his professors and and writing professionally Michelle Tracy and Marlene chapbook is a small book of them to friends and bookstores. the publishing community have appeals to him, he acknowledges Malenfant, and Possession, by poems and ballads. Mercutio Press, a name borrowed been quite supportive, and that it is probably not realistic. Concordia student Patrick de Moss, As an executive member of the from his favourite Shakespearean Kalman admits that his extensive Instead, he plans to earn a PhD on Feb. 16, 2 p.m. at Nicholas English undergraduate society, character and chosen to lend lit connections have made his work and teach university-level English Hoare, 1366 Greene Ave. There will Kalman invited small-press pub erary respectability, was in busi much easier. while writing and publishing on be readings by the authors and spe lishing legend Rob McLennan to ness. Past business experience helps, the side. cial guests Stephanie Bolster, rob Concordia to give a workshop. Kalman says that he hopes the too. Kalman, 26, has already In the meantime, Kalman will mclennan, Susan Gillis, Harold According to Kalman, McLennan press will be a showcase for prose established a successful e-Bay concentrate on building Mercutio Hoefle and Ben Kalman. 7 Febru ar y 13 , 2003 I Co ncordi a' s Thurs day Report Fraternities, book sale Concrete toboggan team brings volunteers give back home top award without racing· t the end of January, mem annual Concordia Used Book Sale A bers from Delta Phi Epsilon, raised about $7,500 this year. The Tau Kappa· Epsilon, Zeta Tau book sale was held Feb. 3-4 on the Omega and Omicron Mu mezzanine of the Hall Building. Omicron Zeta dr?pped in on the Organizer Susan Hawke says Concordia Multifaith Chaplaincy that $1,000 will go to the newly with a cooler full of coins. established Concordia University When the counting was done, Used Book Fair Scholarship and they had collected $669.50 for the the balance will go to the Mother Hu~bard's Cupboard pro Multifaith Chaplaincy Student gram and the Student Emergency Emergency Food Fund. Food Fund that supports it. The Special thanks are due to the money was collected at their "Jail wonderful guys in Distribution, 'n' Bail" activity on the Charity Suzanne Dragffly and Ken Day of their Greek Week. Bissonnette of the Bookstore, and Chaplaincy secretary Bernard Judy Appleby, Helen Eng, Elaine Glover said, "It is incredibly Bruce, David Brown, Sharon . /, I . I , ,. : pleasing to see that this kind of Morrison and Jean Doehring. .,, .,. •I" • t ,.
spirit continues to thrive at The Book Fair people are now ! ( '( 4'.'' Concordia." accepting donations for next Also, participants in the third year's sale. , 10 t . , tlu ".,, ,, ~/ Epilepsy Canada awards Epilepsy Canada has under the care of a Canadian Left to Right: Rector Lowy, and team members Laureano Becerra, Raymond Chu, Ahila Pathmanathan, Daniel announced a new scholarship physician for the treatment of Kassis, Marie Dugue and Alexandru Tatar. Missing from the photo is Sharon Nelson. program to help 30 young people epilepsy may apply. The awards oncordia's entry in the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race never made it to Edmonton for the with epilepsy across Canada con will be announced in March 2003. Crace, but the seven-member team walked away with one of the event's major awards and a $2,000 tinue their studies at the college For more information, please cheque. or university level. call Michele Kaplan, Epilepsy After a month of intense work building a concrete toboggan and fundraising to attend the race, the Students aged 15 to 29 and Canada, (514} 845-7855. seven-member team was deeply disheartened when their sled did not arrive in time to compete. However, they were exhilarated when they won the Engineering Excellence Award, which is based on professionalism, innovation, presentation, application of technology in building the toboggan, and Art will Matter in March teamwork. Art Matters is going in to high rations so far. The jury of engineers and engineering professors honoured many aspects of the team's design and gear in preparation for next Venues will be around campus presentation, which included AutoCAD drawings of the toboggan and a slide show of the construction month's opening. The festival, plus such downtown locations as of the toboggan in the Library Building atrium. The award is sponsored by Read Jones Christoffersen which will take place from March the Belgo Building, the lobby of Ltd. and comes with a $2,000 cheque. 7 to 21, is celebrating its third the YMCA, a women's shelter and The team will donate their prize money as well as an anticipated refund from the shipping compa year. possibly the Salvation Army. ny to the Shuffle, once unforeseen expenses (such as car rental} are covered. The team raised $7,600 This year's festival will show A program listing all events, from the Rector's Cabinet, the Office of the Dean ofEngineering, the Building, Civil and Environmental case the work of more than 100 including art shows and parties, Engineering Department, and private sponsors Sika Dessau, EEAC, CSCE, and Kiwi. Acier Ouellette artists, with the help of more than will be available March 1 through donated the steel for the frame of the boot-shaped toboggan. 70 volunteers. This year's organiz the CSU office, libraries and About 25 teams from 15 Canadian universities participated in the annual event. ers, Craig Dessen and Emily tabling. -Debbie Hum Pearlman, are pleased with prepa- - Craig Stein Engineering students go from Concordia to Kenya Engineers Without Borders welcome students from other faculties to join African village project
BY M EL ANIE TAK EFMAN stone project, a graduation auspices of EWB, have been intently on the technicalities of villagers can be self-sufficient. requirement for all engineering undertaking projects like the one the biosand structure, their prior While they continue to design ark Matunga left his students. in Mauta in the spirit of humani ity is on promoting long-term the water purification system and island village of Mauta, Mauta, located on Mfangano tarian aid and sustainable devel usability. raise funds to build it in Mauta, MKenya, when he was a Island on Lake Victoria, is a vil opment. "As a whole, a lot of people are EWB members are already plan boy and was educated in the lage of 600 residents, who for gen Founded last year at Concordia, interested [in new technologies], ning other endeavours, like a West. Because he was so privi erations survived on fish and the chapter's executives and but traditions are hard to break," biogas purification system in leged, he has dedicated himself to local crops like green peas and members began working at the said Chantal Gauvreau, EWB's Cuba and a solar-powered com improving the standard of living maize. -However, in recent years, beginning of the fall semester, vice-president (resources). puter. in his native village. Thanks to e large European fishing corpora recruiting new students and Vukadin Seidah said that they Just back from a second meet mail and a non-profit organiza tions have infused the lake with dividing into teams responsible want to make sure that residents ing with Matunga, Sarhan said, tion called Engineers Without Nile perch, a foreign species that for projects such as soil and water . don't just discard the innovations. "It's unbelievable how much we've Borders (EWB}, a group of now almost exclusively populates testing, technologies and a train Members of EWB are actively learned from him:• He hopes that Concordia students are helping the waters near Mauta. ing program for operation of the seeking students from other fac their "excellent" rapport with Matunga fulfil his mission. Despite the presence of modern purification system. ulties to contribute to the social Matunga will mirror their rapport This summer, Concordia EWB industry, Mauta remains "as basic From Jan. 29 to Feb. 1, six mem and educational aspects of their with the residents of Mau ta. co-founders Hany Sarhan, Mark as you get," according to Sarhan. bers of EWB attended the nation projects. Eventually, they would The learning process is two Vukadin Seidah and Patrice There is no electricity and the al conference in Waterloo, where like to see a high school and way. Building the water purifica Desdunes will travel to Kenya to corporate ships have damaged they met with professionals like vocational centre built in Mauta. tion system will be strongly influ install a biosand purification sys the subsistence lifestyle. Villagers former Minister of Foreign Affairs They are also researching inter enced by what they see in Mauta, tem in Mauta. carry water in large jugs on their Flora MacDonald as well as engi national development theory to Sarhan said. They are designing the appara heads from the lake to the village neering students who shared learn how to best introduce tech We want to "feel how people tus with the help of Concordia and boil it for purification as they their experiences in development nologies into other cultures. For live" and understand their daily EWB members. Both Sarhan and cook. projects and budgeting charitable example, Sarhan said that it is needs, he added, and "achieve a Vukadin Seidah will receive credit For several years, engineers activities. essential to use materials that are certain humility when we go for the design as part of their cap- from around the world, under the Though EWB members talked found on the island so that the there:• 8 Concor dia 's Thurs day Rep ort I Feb ru ar y 13 , 20 03 New company premieres play by English teacher
BY ( L ARE BYRNE and inanimate objects" in a tragi Indeed, the Still Once team pos comedy that "visits our world and itively teems with Concordia con regrettable feature of then leaves it behind." There's nections. Kathryn Cleveland, the modem society, according mention of bicycle rides, and bal production stage manager, and A to Thomas Morison, play loons tied with the wishes of chil Stephane Zarov, who plays wright and teacher in Concordia's dren, of a woman who waters her Howard's anxious neighbour creative writing department, is flowers in the rain and inappro Vern, are both former students. that we are "constantly giving priate flirtations. Michael Springate has also taught each other permission to be bor "It's adventurous," Morison acting at Concordia in the past. ing." admitted. This is the first chance they He sees it in theatre all the Harry Standjofski, a familiar have had to all work together, and time: disengaged audiences figure in the city's theatre scene their enthusiasm is palpable. "It's yawning politely, held hostage to and one of the few Quebec actors a family thing," said Standjofski. the self-indulgent ramblings of to perform in both English and "We can almost finish each the writer. A far cry from French, plays Howard. Michael other's sentences." Shakespearian times, when dull Springate, former artistic director Too often, Canadian theatre texts were met with a volley of of Playwright's Workshop, involves dropping a bunch of peo vegetables. directs. ple from across the country into a From.the cast of Still Once, Harry Standjofski and actress Diana Fajrajsl. He takes pains to impress upon Their presence "made all the room and expecting them to get his playwrighting· students that difference in the world" when it on together and create art, he about maintaining interest." Finally, the production itself is whatever goes up on stage must came to applying for grants to said. The best theatre is produced Acting poses a different set of in the hands of a new English the be interesting. It's all about help stage the play, Morison said. when the actors "don't have to challenges. Standjofsky's advice atre company. Founded by engaging the spectators, said He and Standjofski go back a sniff each other out." to budding thespians is that they Thomas Morison and Michael Morison, without specifically long way, all the way to Both· Standjofski and Morison believe in their own originality. Springate, it goes by the tongue catering to them. Judging by the Concordia's theatre department concur on what it takes to make a Don't copy anyone else, he urges. in-cheek name of the Nouveau synopsis of his own play, Still in 1980, when they were both stu great playwnght. Playwrighting is Who you are is what we notice. Theatre Anglais. Once, which premiered in dents. Theirs was a good year. all about honing the craft, they Still Once promises originality Montreal last night, it's a maxim "The fact that a whole whack of say. It's not like writing fiction. on several levels. Still Once will play February 12 - he applies to his own work, too. us are still doing it [theatre] testi Technique is all-important. What starts off as a realistic March 2 at Theatre La Chapelle, The central character, Howard, fies to that," said Standjofsky, who "Most students are surprised at story ends up quite fragmented, 3700 St. Dominique. Tickets $12 - is a "domestic tyrant who rails has been teaching acting and how difficult it is to write a play," according to all accounts. $18; Tuesdays are pay-what-you against the failings of all things, playwrighting at Concordia since Morison said. "They get caught V1Sually, too, we can expect a very can. For times, please call the box including other people, insects 1986. up in telling a story and forget striking play. office, 843-7738. Printmaking on the edge UNCC fuses competition and fun oncordia artists Cfeature strongly in a new exhibition at Gallery 418, organized to showcase growing ties between major Montreal professional printmaking studio Atelier Circulaire and the Studio Arts Department. The show is the result of an initiative last April by studio arts technicians Lyne Bastien and Stephanie Russ to foster greater interaction between Concordia art students Rarely Seen Works of Public Art (Colborne, Forty business students from ten universities congregated at Concordia on Feb. 6-8 for the and artists in the field. Ontario), 12x18 inches 2002, by Luke Painter, a Undergraduate National Case Competition (UNCC). Participants faced off in two rounds of case com Concordia is repre print media graduate student. petition and participated in several networking events and social outings. Two industry leaders, sented by works by Vincenzo Guzzo, CEO and vice-president of Guzzo Cinemas, and Frank Trentadue, regional manager of graduate students Ericka Palma artist exchange. Export Development Canada, were invited to give their perspectives on contemporary market issues. and Luke Painter and undergrad Since January, two professional Concordia's team, Jessica Lalonde, Alexis Robin, Vic Arora and Jennifer Coiteux-Valero, finished in uates Katie Lyle, Andree-Anne artists from Atelier Circulaire fourth place, Queen's University placed first in the case competition and Universite Laval won the Peer Labelle and Lauren Bunkei as - have been working in Concordia's Recognition Award for team spirit and congeniality. well as Kiki Athanassiadis, studios, and three students will Pictured above are (top left, clockwise) Alexis Robin, Arif Igdebeli, Catherine Fini, JMSB Dean Jerry Nadine Bariteau and Maria have access to Circulaire's studios Tomberlin, Jessica Lalonde, Angali Pradhan, Rahima Somji, and Christine Sexton (UNCC organizers). Chronopoulos, Concordia gradu and professional equipment over ates who volunteer as monitors in the next three months. the department's workshops in Access to a pi:ofessional shop exchange for use of facilities. gives students important expo Call for nominations Called La gravure contempo sure to contemporary printmak raine, the exhibition is a diverse · ing artists and practices, helping Concordia Council for Student Life Awards display of three-dimensional, bridge their transition from stu Outstanding Contribution Award: Four undergraduate and two graduate students for extracurricular ·book, photographic and digital dents to artists in the profession contributions to student life. works, as well as art made with al art world, Russ said. Media Award: Maximum of three awards, for contributions through the media to student life. traditional processes. "It's v_ery Merit Award: Maximum of five awards, to students, faculty or staff, for contributions to student life or varied and shows a lot of what's La gravure contemporaine runs services. happening in printmaking today," from Feb. 8-22 at Gallery 418, in the Teaching Excellence Award: Maximum of six awards, to faculty members. Russ said. Belgo Building at 3 72 Ste. Catherine Nomination forms are available at the Hall Building, H-653 or AD-12 at Loyola. Nomination deadline Further to the exhibition, Russ W., with a vemissage on Saturday, is Wednesday, March 26. and Bastien. have arranged an Feb. 8,from 3-5 p.m. 9 Februar y 13, 2003 I Concord i a's Thursday Repor t Controversial immigration policy debated at SCPA "Safe third country" principle denies refuge. to any person who previously applied to selected nations
BY JAMES STAIRS Immigration Services Canada skeptical audience. "I've been to too much, that they are morally ing. Refugees become associated began the debate with a passion refugee camps, and we should be obligated to ask for the mini with words like illegal, illegiti anada's commitment to a ate defence of the safe third coun helping those people:• mum:• mate and terrorist:' controversial immigration try concept Janet Dench, executive director Refusing applicants from the Yaya Yao, an activist from Cpolicy was up for discus "Our [immigration] policy is of the Canadian Council of United States is problematic. Montreal, representing the No sion last week as three panelists way out of kilter," he said. "We Refugees, received a decidedly "There are areas of [American One Is Illegal advocacy group, presented their views on the con have become an incredibly soft warmer welcome from the audi immigration policy] that do not also expressed her opposition to cept of the "safe third country:· target for illegitimate asylum ence as she offered her responses. meet international standards." the safe third country agreement. About 60 people attended the seekers." "My organization is opposed to Dench was referring specifically Yao suggested that the policy is panel discussion, organized by Bissett explained how Canada, Safe Third;' she said. "It is an to the detention of refugee nothing more than a "racist reac students as part of their course in the 1980s, was flooded with cit agreement that harms refugees:• claimants as waiting for a hear tion to September 11;• and that work in Concordia's School of izens from other countries who Dench presented numerous ing. "the rhetoric of safety and securi Community and Public Affairs realized that the country's system arguments against the implemen The argument that the policy ty" used by supporters of the idea (SCPA). of evaluating refugees was both tation of the policy, joking that contributes to homeland security is really a ploy by the government The safe third country princi easy to sidestep and ineffectual in she needed to, because "it seems is also inconsistent, she said. to hide its real intention of con ple denies refuge to any person "weeding out obviously frivolous the rationale [in support of the "Once people realize that they trolling refugee claims more who has previously applied for claims:· agreement] is always changing." can't get in at the border [by closely. asylum in another country The evaluation process, he Refugees often have legitimate claiming refugee status], they'll After the debate and an often deemed safe by the nation evalu claimed, is expensive, inefficient reasons to claim asylum in a third just sneak in:• Human smuggling raucous question period which ating the claim. and easily manipulated by people country she said. For example, will become an even bigger prob had Bissett repeatedly defending Proponents of the plan argue who do not have justification to they may cite language, the prox lem as a result of the agreement. his support of the policy, that it helps prevent "asylum claim refugee status. The non imity of family members and the Dench said that one of the observers seemed split regarding shopping," while critics suggest adversarial nature of the refugee inability to find employment. biggest dangers the safe third the level of debate the panelists that it is a tactic to filter out hearings, he argued, makes it too Implementation of the safe third country agreement poses is that it presented. potential immigrants. easy for claimants to circumvent country agreement would deny fosters a climate where "the SCPA student Alexis Deschenes Canada and the United States the system. these claims. moral legitimacy of refugees is said, "The discussion showed the recently agreed to jointly enforce "We must save our resources Dench argued that Canada put into doubt and we create an two extremes [that mark] the the safe third country principles. for the people who are genuinely should also resist the implication environment that doesn't give issue. It really offered some food James Bissett, former head of in need," he told the increasingly "that refugees should not ask for people a dignified way of claim- for thought:' Weight Watchers bond to get slim Catherine Kidd's show Dina Tavares (Rector's Cabinet) is an active member of Concordia's Continued from page 3. she does. "In retrospect and, Weight Watchers group. She con sadly, posthumously, I realized ducted an interview with the group. novel's prepublication limbo, as what a chip off the old block I well as Kidd's desire to re-con am," she said What inspired you to join and nect with other people. "One of the things I try to teach stay with this program? "Writing a novel is a shamanis is the importance of finding an "I want to lead an active, tic journey, an exile into the authentic narrative voice. If you healthy life, especially in retire wilderness. The fictional land hit on a narrative voice which is ment The only way to achieve scape I was making was just as true and wants to tell a story, the this goal is to adopt a healthy compelling to me as the more reader will follow you anywhere. lifestyle. For me, that means los diurnal one which I hardly saw Then you allow the story to be ing weight and maintaining the because I was in my room typing told rather than force it weight loss in addition to increas away. "I feel that my position as a Some of the Weight Watchers gang: Clockwise from left: Wendy Hedrich, ing my physical activity." Kathy Hedrich, Julie Cadham, Marla Marreca, Kathleen McAleese, Dina "I love the book, but by the performer is more of a vessel Tavares, Marie-Anne Cheong Youne, Francie Beresford, and in front, leader time I was finished I really want than a decrier of things. The story What do you get out of the Judy Goddard. ed to go back to performance and is already written, so I have to be weekly meetings? community. That's the thing the vehicle for it to work in this "Support There's a strong sense What are some of your chal "Time to prepare meals accord about performance: you bring a room full of people. So what on that we're rooting for each other. lenges? ing to the program. With a fami story to a roomful of people, and earth is it that I do if not go into We understand when someone "Incorporating healthy eating ly's busy schedule, meals are often it's almost like their energy facili trances and speak in tongues? has a tough week and we cele habits into a lifestyle where eating picked up in between activities, tates ~e story. It's not the lonely That's pretty much my job:' brate our successes together. out and entertaining at home are so it's a little more difficult to writer-in-the-garret kind of Catherine Kidd performs from We've had some pretty memo the norm. The constant bombard keep to the plan. Dinner often thing, which can feel more like Sea Peach at the Voix CL4.meriques rable meetings so far. We've start ment of television ads that sell happens around 8:30 pm, so the you're studying life than partici festival on February 15 and 17, and ed a tradition where we have a food loaded with fat and little period after work is a challenge pating in it." will debut a new piece at the potluck lunch at the end of each nutritional value is annoying." (snacking instead of eating a Kidd says that writing Bestial Canadian Centre for Architecture session. Everyone brings in a dish, "Finding recipes that achieve a proper meal, because you are Rooms helped her reconcile with on Feb. 26. She will also perform at along with the recipe and the balance between tasty and hungry by 6}." her late father, giving crucial the Blue Metropolis festival in amount of 'points' per serving." healthy. Also, realizing that this is insight into why she does what April "Hearing other people's stories a lifetime commitment. The What inspires you? of success encourages you to keep things I like to do have always "So far I've lost over 50 pounds, Loyola International College presents on going. I'm impressed with the been of a sedentary nature, and so I'm more than halfway to goal positive atmosphere of the meet Weight Watchers encourages weight Losing weight made me ings and enjoy spending time members to be involved in some feel more positive about myself. Michel Souchet, Global Finance Chair, with the members. It's a wonder form of physical activity. Even It's given me more energy and I CERAM Graduate School of ful group of people." walking is good." can fit into nicer clothes, plus I'm Management and Technology, France more motivated to exercise." on How does each session work? How many people are involved? "I would not have been able to "There are 12 to 16 weeks pre "Now, there are about 15 people lose 28 pounds so far without all "The Risks of Globalization: The Regulation Challenge" paid for each session. There are involved. Most meetings are the encouragement" weekly meetings at noon on attended by at least 12 people." Tuesday, Feb. 25, at 4 p.m. Wednesdays at work where mem For more information on the bers weigh in and discuss issues What are some the challenges Weight Watchers itt Work" , call Vanier Library, Room 126, Loyola Campus with the leader and each other." of the program? Dina Tavares at 848-4834. IO Con cordli's Thusd1y Report I Februuy 13, 2003 Adventures in pinhole photography Stingers roundup BY SU SAN FON T Lady Stingers upset he Greeks dabbled in it. The Concordia Stingers women's basketball team were upset 63- TLeonardo da Vinci used it. 46 by the McGill Martlets last Saturday night. The win snapped an Many a painter employed it to eight-game losing streak by McGill. Maria-Jose Raposa led Stinger find central perspective, and scorers with 14 points. Christian Knudsen, mesmerized The Concordia men fared better, beating McGill 84-74 and end by it as a boy, is an expert. It's ing the Redmen's playoff chances. pinhole photography. "When I was about 11 or 12, I Hockey squad misses playoffs worked on a farm by the The men· s hockey team dug themselves into an early-season Richelieu River;• Knudsen said. It hole and found the mountain too high to climb as they were elim was dark in the country, but the inated from the playoffs, losing a home game to the Ottawa Gee headlights of cars would beam Gees two weeks ago. into his room as they passed by. The Stingers failed to make the playoffs for the second straight ''I'd pull the shade down to season. block out the headlights, but "Our division is the toughest in Canadian university hockey," there was a tiny pinhole in that head coacll Kevin Figsby said recently. "We have a young team, but shade and I'd have a pinhole we have been very competitive." extravaganza on the wall. Cars Ronda Rowat tries her hand at pinhole photography. moving past left to right - Concordia releases football dates upside down. I thought it was like back of the box, facing the hole; teaches at Concordia. The shape Are you ready for some football? It may be only February, but that magic:• this will be your negative. The of the box or cylinder will change hasn't stopped the schedule-makers, who have just released the Knudsen, a part-time professor inside of the box should be paint the range of view; you can make a dates when Concordia will battle their foes on the gridiron. at Concordia who has taught here ed black, to prevent the light wide-angle camera and a zoom The eight-week schedule features seven games versus Quebec since the '70s, gave a pinhole pho coming through the pinhole from lens effect also. conference opponents and a trip to Sackville, N.B., where the tography workshop on Saturday. bouncing around and clouding Workshop students spent the Stingers will face the Mount Allison Mounties as part of the cross Feb. 8, in the Leonard and Bina the image and the seams of the rest of the day between the out over with Atlantic University Sport. Ellen Art Gallery to pass on some box covered in black tape. The lid side city aiming their camera The season opens with Concordia hosting the Bishop's Gaiters of his expertise and passion for must fit tightly. boxes at well-lit views and the on Saturday, Sept. 6. The Stingers will play home-and-away series this combination of science and Once a scene is chosen, the pin darkroom. "This light is perfect," with two of their arch-rivals, the McGill Redmen and the Laval art. hole is aimed at it and exposed said Knudsen in reference to the Rouge et Or. Early Saturday morning, for between 20 seconds and a blue sky and vivid sunlight. "I The latter will be the opponents at Concordia's annual Knudsen kicked off the workshop minute. It depends on the light ordered this day." Homecoming game. The 2003 regular season campaign wraps up with a lecture on the history and outside. Then the negative will be Two Concordia students, 24- with the fledgling Sherbrooke Vert et Or visiting Concordia principles of pinhole photogra developed, and can be exposed to year-old twins Clarisse and Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 25. It will be the first season for the phy. There were nearly 10 of us, become a positive, or photograph. Audrey Octemadu, attended the Sherbrooke entry. and more arrived later. Each Pinhole photography offers sev workshop enthusiastically. Negotiations are under way with RDS for a television package attendee had brought a home eral benefits to using a more Students of translation and featuring all the QIFC teams. Also, the dates of the Shrine Bowl and made pinhole camera along, modem camera with a lens. It is computer science respectively, Shaughnessy Cup will be~ shortly. made according to Knudsen's relatively inexpensive, portable, they said that a teacher had high For a complete Concordia football schedule, visit the Recreation tips. rather novel and it gives fast ly recommended the class and an4 Athletics Web site at http://web2.concordia.ca/Bec_Ath. All manner of boxes and tins results. urged them to secure places in had been transformed to cam Knudsen also emphasized how the workshop. Athlales el the -- eras. Several had to be patched up these cameras have an unlimited Ronda Rowat, a psychologist, Philippe Langlois of the men's basketball team and M.J. Raposo or improved for the shooting depth of field. This means that a said, "I was curious when I saw of the women's basketball team were recently named Concordia ahead. blade of grass in the foreground some panoramic pinhole photos Stinger athletes of the week. Pinhole photography - or will be as focused as a building in that were so beautiful. [The con ~. a second-year guard, was the Stingers' leading scorer in sometimes called fotography - is the background. cept] seemed so simple, I each ~t two games last week.end In a 73-48 win over McGill, she a simple and lensless way of tak We saw examples of some of thought, 'I want to do this!'" collected i3 points and five rebounds. Then. in a tough 82-63 loss ing photos. A box or tin is upgrad Knudsen's photos, which were The workshop was a compli to Laval, Raposo had 18 points and five rebounds. The Montreal ed to a camera by a few modifica recently part of an exhibition and mentary part of a two-month native is a sociology major; tions. A tiny hole is drilled in a the clarity and scope of the educational series at the gallery. Langlois, a native of Varennes, was a .force at both ends of the piece of aluminum or very thin images was impressive. He also The program includes an ongoing court on the week.end He had 17 points, 10 assists and five steals sheet brass at one end of the box; showed us some of the choice exhibition of Tim Zuck's photog in an 88-84 victory versus McGill. In his team's 69-67 loss to Laval, this is the aperture. pickings of photos that his stu raphy, tours, workshops and he chipped in with seven points, seven rebounds and seven assists. A piece of light-sensitive, emul dents have taken from the two offered painting and photography He is a second-year sociology student. sion-coated paper is put at the photography classes that he classes. -}ohnAustM
500 victories for coach Les Lawton It's time for a rematch: BY JOHN AUS TE N The game was initially close, won the National Championship but the Stingers had a 4-1 lead by in 1998 and 1999. es Lawton, the winningest the end of the second period and "I was paid about $300 during hockey players wanted Lcoach in women's hockey his chipped in anqther two goals in my first season as coach of tory, reached another milestone the final 20 minutes to seal the Concordia," laughed Lawton. "I ast year, a team of faculty If you are interested in join last Friday night in Trois Rivieres. victory. Scoring for the Stingers probably thought it was a lot of Land staff competed against ing the faculty/staff team, Lawton won his 500th game as · were Dominique Rancour, M.C. money at the time." John Molson School of please get in touch with Lissa head coach of the Concordia Allard, Sue Kaye, Leanne Martell, The last puck of the game and Business graduate students in Matyas at the MBA Office, at Stingers when his troops beat the Genevieve Dupuis and Catherine the jacket worn by Lawton at the both a hockey match and a soc 848-2716, or [email protected] host squad 6-2. De Abreu. historic event will be sent to the cer game. The faculty and staff cordia.ca. Players and coaches poured Lawton began his career as Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. team won the hockey game, Ten players and one goalie onto the ice at game's end to con Stingers coach in the 1983-84 sea The Concordia community will but were sorely defeated on the are needed to form a complete gratulate Lawton for his incredi son. Since that time he has a 500- also celebrate Lawton's illustrious soccer field. team. Enthusiasm and team ble accomplishment. An enthusi 157-63 record for a .739 winning 20-year career on Saturday, Feb. This winter, the CGSA is spirit count as much as physi astic crowd that included at least percentage. He was named CIAU 15, with a ceremony before the again organizing a hockey cal fitness! 50 boisterous Concordia support Coach of the Year in 2000 and has Concordia-Carleton matchup at game along the same lines. The Let's show those MBA stu ers witnessed the milesto_ne been named QSSF Coach of the the Ed Meagher Arena. Festivities place and date will be set soon. dents what we're made of! event. year six times. His Lady Stingers begin at 2 p.m. 11 Febr uary 13, 200 3 I Con cor di a'. ! Thu rs day Repor t 8p.m, Feb. 16 at 3 p.m. Vlage Theatre West, Graduate Communication and ResouKe night through Fridily inclusive), $400/ 28Whirflload.lbl!on. Mmissionis$18. For Center at 848-7904 or by e-mail at month. Ideal for grad student or instructDr . Jebruary 13-27 more nonnation, call (450) 458-5281 . [email protected]. on semester contract who returns home on Wfflfflls. Caff 937-9047 (weekends) or e lheYigillManalops Oiefll!bmngOllklrwamd mail ~ib.oig. Abenefit peifulmn! in honOII' ct V-Oiy, a The Gradualt Sludeds' Amodatioll is seslng globil i1ICMllltl1l to sblp ¥iolern ilgiinst ipplicJtiollsfor aOitf flmll1ing Ollic!I; to be C...iSIIG'ltrlp - ind gils. Feb. 13 at. 8p.m., Feb. 15-16 md in at the 2003-2004 general elections. Maid! 22 - $22.00 includes tJansportlition & at 7 p.m. leilJd Bulding. IIIOIII 132, 8S3 This is ii piid posillon l'leilse apply with aJlle' knit Tulips Ftstival, OtliWa - May 18 & 19 - visit lett!r ind CV in astalederM!opetothealt!n Sheibnlollle St W. For more infonnation, $25.00. Milltia483-4139. httpflssnwnajl.a,/.-lwnontJloguts. tion ct the VP Alhocacy, Gradualt Sludenls' Association (GSA), Annex T 2030 Macby Furm1tfara lladlllmryManlli Events, notices and dassified ads must reach the Internal Relations Department (BC-120) in writing no later than 5 Stlffl, 2nd floor. Tel: 84&-7900 Deacline for flj lenglh woman's raaoon