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Vol. 26, NO 2 September 27, 2001 pr.concordia. ca/ctr

Concordians respond to the tragedy in United States Counselling, experts and a commemorative service provide insight and solace to the community

BY BA RBAR A B LACK transfusions, although it was soon The speakers included the rector, were from frightened parents, and for academic experts to comment on determined that for various reasons, full-time chaplains Peter Cote and from members of the public who the attack and its implications. he Concordia community react­ notably the fact that there were few Rev. Ellie Hummel, volunteer associ­ had heard a false news item on CJAD Christine Mota said she got 37 media T ed to the Sept. 11 attack on the survivors , this kind of aid was not ate chaplains Imam Salam that some Concordia students were calls on Tuesday alone. She and her World Trade Center and the Penta­ much needed. Elmenyawi and Manjit Singh, and seen celebrating the attack. colleague Evelyne Abitbol organized gon quickly, and with full hearts. However, an opportunity to student Josh Margo, from Concordia The university acted fast to correct interviews for political scientists Dean of Students Donald Boisvert donate to the New York firefighters Hillel, who spoke extemporaneously this mistake. Executive Director of Henry Habib and Norrin Ripsman, acted quickly to respond to the pos­ and police, who lost about 400 offi­ and with emotion. Chaplain Daryl Communications Dennis Murphy aviation management experts Dale sibility of reprisals against students cers in the collapse of the buildings, Lynn Ross and the dean of students went on air to point out that the Doreen and Mick Carney, Islamic by making available counsellors and was included with the Shuffle gave readings, and solemn music was report had no foundation, and may scholar Lynda Clarke, Adjunct Pro­ other support. A special effort was fundraising drive, held last Friday. provided by Gary Russell (cello) and have stemmed from orientation fessor Rabbi Howard Joseph, and made to reach out to Muslim women About 125 people attended a com­ James Chou (violin). activities going on around the down­ historian John Hill, among others. and to others particularly affected. memorative service at the downtown Concordia's Public Relations town campus. From staff, there were offers of Faculty Club on Friday, Sept. 11 , Department had a steady stream of The media were calling the Public International Students Office material assistance, including blood organized by Campus Ministry. phone calls after the disaster. Some Relations Department, too, looking responds, see page 7. Welcome to Bill Vorn' s apocalyptic world of Bedlam BY JAMES MAR TI N off the neat trick of simultaneously responses to unseen stimuli from existing in three separate p\aces - Room B. Confusion shall reign. ,, I t's the only room like this in but for now, it doesn't physically "The viewers will know the robots the school," says Bill Varn exist anywhere. The robotic installa­ are communicating with another with dry understatement. tion, for which Vorn and collabora­ location," explains Vorn, "so they'll The assistant professor of new tor Simon Penny recently received try to decipher the reactions and fig­ media (known as Yves Bilodeau in $80,000 from the Daniel Langlois ure out if the reactions are local or academic circles, Bill Varn to the art Foundation for Art, Science and remote. " He pauses a beat. "Or world) sits at a large table covered Technology, is still in its "virtual" maybe they won't figure it out at all." with Powerbooks and soldering infancy. Completion is two years To put this strange new project irons, amidst a basement jumble of away. into artistic context, Vorn pops a pneumatic compressors and drill Vorn is understandably stymied tape into a nearby VCR. A monitor presses. Welcome to the Interactivity when asked for an easy sound-bite flickers with images from The Trial, a Studio in Electronic Arts "project description of something so large nightmarish sub-performance within lab." (and, for the time being, so intangi­ a 1999 multi-media staging of Robert The fall semester is fresh enough ble), but the gist of Bedlam is as fol­ Lepage's Zulu Time. that Vorn's summer projects have yet lows: Quick bursts of cold electric light to be displaced by student work. There will be two identical rooms cut the darkness, allowing brief Half the room is dedicated to an (one in Montreal, one in Irvine, Cali­ glimpses of mechanical madness. audio-visual installation called fornia) each containing robotic tor­ Twitching humanoid fo rms bounce Evil/Live, several massive metal sos, robotic legs, and a "virtual in midair, like tortured C3P0s matrices lined with SO-watt light head," all hooked up to a system of strapped into malfunctioning Jolly bulbs. On the other side of the table sensors. The two rooms will be Bill Vorn, aka new media professor Yves Bilodeau. Jumpers. Writhing robotic arms sit the motors and mirrors which will linked via a high-speed internet con­ strike out with serpentine menace. become the robotic-video project nection, creating the project's third and light "events" amongst the robot­ but they don't have any control." The air crackles with industrial Stele 01, but Vorn's most ambitious "home," as it were: the cyber-ether ic body parts. However, says Vorn, Adding to the, well , bedlam will noise, and a freaky time is had by all. work-in-progress, Bedlam , is between Quebec and California. "the idea is to not have the viewers be the internet connection between Some of Vorn's work, like The nowhere to be seen. Visitors exploring either room will controlling anything. They will influ­ the two rooms, meaning visitors to When completed, Bedlam will pull unwittingly trigger sound, motion ence what's happening in the room, Room A may witness robotic continued on page 11 Violence and vigilantes entrenched in South Africa "People learned that the only way to get justice was to take it into your own hands," says Gary Kynoch

BY FRANK KUIN out of the past four years, ships was not a priority for the white said, "people learned that the only knows South Africa's cul­ city governments of Johannesburg's · way to get justice in the townships n his several years as a volunteer ture of violence well. early days as a mining boomtown. was to take it into your own hands." Ihigh-school teacher, PhD student Along with Colombia and "White organized crime was brought lndeed, South Africans have very lit­ and postdoctoral fellow in South Russia, he pointed out, under control" during the era when tle faith in the police officers. Africa, Gary Kynoch has become South Africa has one of mining labourers from all over the "They're not seen as responsive to intimately familiar with the immense the highest rates of violent continent were flooding in, as well as community needs at all," Kynoch problem of violent crime plaguing crime in the world. Europeans. "But violence in black said. "And the police themselves are that country. Now, he hopes his "You can't live in townships wasn't addressed, as it did bitter and paranoid because so many extensive research project will Johannesburg and not be not impinge on white lives." of their officers are killed every year. " become part of its solution. aware of your violent sur­ This neglect gave rise to a culture Aided by research assistants in Kynoch, a new full-time professor roundings," Kynoch said of solving problems by violence, he South Africa, Kynoch wants to exam­ in the Department of History, is of gang warfare, armed explained. Self-policing movements ine why relationships deteriorated, in examining the impact of violent robbery and other preva­ appeared which, as they gained order to help reverse the process. "A crime on the lives of residents of the lent forms of violent influence, became engaged in crimi­ different culture of policing has to townships around Johannesburg. crime. "Everybody has nal activity themselves. These vigi­ emerge, where police act with their Ultimately, his findings about the been intimately affected. lante movements would then clash communities instead of against historical development of attitudes of Either they themselves with police, and a spiral of violence them," he said. "lt's going to be a both citizens and police might play a have been victimized, or developed. long-term process, and I hope l can role in efforts to break what he called they have friends who As the violence escalated, Kynoch contribute to it." "a very firmly entrenched culture of have been victimized. lt's violence." Gary Kynoch during his time in Lesotho, just the reality of the Through 500 interviews with South Africa. His little friend is a green lizard South African situation." township residents, mostly with law­ he picked up near a waterfall. Kynoch's research pro- Concordia conference follows Durban abiding people, but also with those ject, which should contin­ A conference on the rights of minorities of African descent in the involved in gang crime, Kynoch dynamics of the relationship between ue for the next three years, seeks to .l"\.A.mericas is underway at Concordia. It follows on the UN World hopes to gain a better understanding communities and police," said clarify the historical reasons for the Conference Against Racism held late this summer in Durban, S.A. of the hostility between police, resi­ Kynoch, a postdoctoral fellow at situation. Having examined police The Concordia event, scheduled for Sept. 27-30 in the downtown dents, gangs and vigilante self-polic­ Johannesburg's University of Witwa~ archives and newspapers, Kynoch is D.B. Clarke Theatre, was convened by the United Nations Working ing groups. These insights may then tersrand. "We will show them that asking why criminal violence in Group on Minorities, and is organized jointly by the Association for be used in workshops with police antagonism was not always necessar­ townships around Johannesburg Canadian Studies, the Concordia branch of the Concordia-UQAM Chair officers. ily the relationship that existed.'' developed to higher levels than in in Ethnic Studies, and their partners. "Hopefully, to look at the history While he has never been a victim any other colonial African city. For more information on this conference, please call Servine Labelle or of a culture of violence in the town­ of violent crime himself, Kynoch, His tentative explanation is that Mathias Olivia, at 987-7784. ships will help police understand the who lived in Johannesburg for three restoring order in the black town- Our views on campus tolerance were aired at Durban

BY BARBARA BLACK "We interviewed the dean of stu­ his reactions to the by Hedy Fry, Canada's secretary of dents, Rector Lowy, the student conference. (He and state for multiculturalism, who was wo students from Concordia's councils, a Palestinian group, a ran­ Sajnani attended the the senior government representa­ T Graduate Students Association dom group of students and faculty Youth Summit and tive, because she didn't answer most (GSA) went to Durban, South Africa, members," Luppici ni said . They the GO Forum, of the questions put to her, and fell this summer for the World Confer­ taped the responses, transcribed which ran parallel to ·back on generalities. ence Against Ra cism. While they them, and grouped them by theme. the official UN confer­ On the other hand, he was exhila­ were there, they presented a study When they wrote up their project, ence.) rated by some events that got over­ they did this summer on the level of they included a number of recom­ The experience was looked by the media, including "a tolerance at Concordia, and what a mendations. gruelling, full of logis­ wonderful peace march," and a panel cross-section of the university com­ "What surprised us was how far the tical glitches such as discussion with charismatic partici­ munity feels about the subject. respondents went beyond the idea of long waits, sudden pants, including U.S. leftwing intel­ Nisha Sajnani and Rocci Luppicini in Durban "In fact, " said GSA president Rocci tolerance. They said things like: We changes in schedule, lectual Angela Davis, Winnie Luppicini, "we were the only repre­ deserve more than tolerance - we grabbed the headlines were opposi­ unwieldy procedures, poorly assem­ Mandela , and aboriginal leader sentatives of a North American uni­ deserve respect and acceptance.'' tion to Israel and its support by the bled panels and a disappointing lack Matthew Coon Come. versity to present a project." He went The racism conference, which took United States - which caused the of true dialogue. Many panelists The students' trip was financed with GSA vice-president external place Aug. 26 to Sept. 1, was a huge American delegation to walk out - would only answer questions based partly by the GSA and partly out of Nisha Sajnani, who originated the and tumultuous event. It got a lot of and demands for reparations for slav­ on their own grievances, and discus­ their own pockets. They are hoping idea for the study last year. media attention around the world, ery, much of it centuries past. sions degenerated into "yelling upon to get some funding after the fact Sajnani, who is a practicing psy­ much of it negative. The issues that Luppicini finds it hard to simplify yelling. " He wasn't impressed, either, from other sources at the university. chotherapist currently doing a mas­ ter's in community economic development, conceived the study as Fxcerpts from the Concordia Tolerance, Acceptance and Growth project a GSA project, not for academic credit. That appealed to Luppicini, "Tolerance is empathy, sympathy, understanding, No one deserves to be 'tolerated.' I teach my students lence or tactics of intimidation. The university should acceptance, flexibility. It is being in touch with your­ that the way to a more enlightened and equitable soci­ be the epitome of an open forum. " who is doing his doctorate in educa­ self, knowing what your values and beliefs are, and ety is through understanding, acceptance, and -Dean of Students tional technology and was looking being able to accept the opinions of others." respect. " "Tolerance has to do with the acceptance of other for an outlet for his background in -Graduate student -Professor psychology and philosophy, and his points of view. Unfortunately, the world is full of inci­ "Tolerance is when I look inside myself where "Tolerance is an attitude to life, a way of behaving dents of intolerance, where people are unwilling or interest in human rights. truthfulness and compassionate performance are and seeing life. [It] means that differences do not make unable to see beyond their own values." They worked for a year on TAG together. It is not only physical, but is a concept that you take sides, or tum you off because you belong to a -Rector and Vice-Chancellor (Tolerance , Acceptance and lets me know what is happening around me so I do certain category." ■ The Graduate Students Association will continue the Growth), basing their survey ques­ not blame [anyone] ." -Dean of Graduate Studies TAG project, talking with other universities, supponing tions on a model developed by the -Graduate student "While the university should be a welcome place for student projects, promoting the establishment of a race­ United Na tions for the coming "I believe 'tolerance' to be a condescending notion. bringing up issues, it does not excuse threats of vio- relations office, and sponsoring a conference on the subject. racism conference.

2 SEPTEMBER 27 , 2001 Co n c o r d i a •s Thursday R e port Missile shield is still relevant ®t Julian Schofeld on tactical retaliation against terrorism at a BY FRANK KUIN glance he terrorist attacks in the United This column welcomes the submissions of all Concordia T States have provided a new rationale for the Bush administration faculty and staff to promote and encourage individual to go ahead with its controversial and group activities in teaching and research, and to National Missile Defense Shield, says encourage work-related achievements. Concordia's Julian Schofeld, who has been involved in studies into such a Geologist Judith Patterson presented a paper, "A Predictive Tool for shield at the U.S. Pentagon. Annual Aircraft Emissions at Airports," at the SCAN-UK international Allowing that a missile shield conference on Environmental Capacity at Airports, held April 2-3 in Man­ "won't help" against attacks like that chester, England. On May 4, she attended by invitation a one-day meet­ of Sept. 11 , Schofeld, a new full-time ing of AERONET, the European Union Atmospheric Research - Aviation professor in the Political Science Network. Department, argues that "it will help Clarence S. Bayne (Decision Sciences/MIS, Graduate Diplomas in retaliation, which will deter funner Ad ministration and Sport Administration) presented a paper, "Social attacks." Cohesion in a Culturally Diverse Exchange Economy," in May at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, held at Universite Laval, on the theme of smaller societies and globalizatio n. He recently Rethinking defense needs had a paper published in the spring issue of L 'Annuaire Theatrale 29: The debate about a missile shield Revue quebecoise d'etudes theatrales. The paper was called Le Black has been repositioned since hijacked Theatre Workshop: un nouveau bi/an . Dr. Bayne was elected for a sec­ passenger jets slammed into the ond term as vice-president of the Canadian Cultural Research Network at its annual general meeting, held in May. World Trade Center towers and the "Nothing has changed" in the missile defense shield issue, says Julian Pentagon two weeks ago, prompting Schofeld, a professor in the Department of Political Science. Susan Magor, director of the Environmental Health and Safety Depart­ U.S. politicians and analysts to ment, accepted an award for innovative programmin g (" Concordia rethink orth American defense U.S. ahead in the race for freedom of the Russians, a 1972 product of the Cares") from the Campus Safety Health and Environmental Manage­ ment Division of the (U .S.) National Safety Council, in July. The project needs. The hot-button issue of a 'Star military action, Schofeld explained. Cold War. "I still think a national brought together Security, EH&S and Facilities Management, and was Wars' project has suddenly been "Whe n you want to go retaliate missile defense is a good idea from a promoted and supported by the Central Adv iso ry Health and Safety Com­ overshadowed by near-unanimous against these people, they can't stop tactical perspective," said Schofeld, mittee. Congratulations to them all. calls for an American-led "War on you," he said. "You land off their who achieved the rank of captain in Dorothy Markiewicz (Applied Human Sciences) won an award for best Terrorism." shore, they fire missiles, you shoot the Canadian army. Vulnerability to paper submitted to the Journal of Managerial Psychology in 2000. The Disagreement has raged about them down and you bomb them. So so-called "rogue states" remains a paper, co-authored with former Concordia student Dana Kausilas and whether a multi-billion-dollar missile it does in fact contribute to security." concern, as well as a potential stand­ Irene Devine of Ryerson Polytehnic University, was entitled "Friendship shield, designed to intercept hostile off with China in the coming of Women and Men at Work: Job Satisfaction and Resource Implica­ missiles headed for the United States, Pentagon consultations decades. "A terrorist attack is not tions." is of any use in facing down emerg­ Schofeld should know. The MA going to derail that," he said. Lisa Ostiguy (Applied Human Sciences) was a recent recipient of the ing threats to continental security. graduate in public administration at Besides, critics of the missile shield Tommy Wislin Award, presented by the American Association of Some commentators have claimed Concordia has returned as a faculty are looking at the terrorist attack the Leisure and Recreation, for her significant contributions to recreation for people with disabilities. that the scheme, until recently a pri­ member after completing his PhD at wrong way, he added. "At least these ority of the Bush administration, Columbia University, a six-year terrorists decided to attack us with David Paris (Exercise Science) has been named medical co-director for would have proven worthless during undertaking that included consulta­ airplanes and not b y firing a the 2002 North American Maccabiah Youth Games. The games are expected to attract more than 1,500 teenaged athletes from around the the terrorist attack. tions at the U.S. Pentagon about the [nuclear] missile," Schofeld said. world to Montreal in August 2002. But according to Schofeld, an plans for a National Missile Defense "There are options that will be fore­ expert on arms races and arms con­ Shield. closed by the presence of the sys­ Christine Jamieson (Theological Studies) has been asked to prepare a report for Health Canada on genetic testin g for late-onset diseases. trol, "nothing has changed" in the Schofeld was the only Canadian in tem." These include social and medical issues, ethical and psychological im pli­ missile sh ield issue. ln fact, the a group of academics hired by the Yet, he added, implementation is cations, and political concerns. scheme "is very complimentary to Pentagon to analyze scenarios that years away because the technology is Congratulations to Michael Montanaro (Contemporary Dance). who is the need to retaliate against terror­ might result from not building a not yet ready. "The Americans will spending this year designing the next touring show by the fabulously ism ," h e said, explaining that it shield, building a small one and not have a working system for at successful Cirque du Soleil. enables the Americans "to project building a large one. Specifically, he least 10 to 15 years," Schofeld said. Suresh Goyal (Decision Sciences/MIS) has joined the editorial board of themselves into other countries with­ addressed the question of what a "Anyone can sti ck missiles in the the Journal of the Operational Research Society oHndia . He and Dr. out having the threat of nuclear decision to build would mean for the ground. But you're not going to be Majidul Islam (Accountancy) recently published a joint paper on "Value retaliation." existing Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) able to shoot one missile, let alone for Money Auditing : An Aid to Total Quality Management in the July Thus, a shield would keep the Treaty between the Americans and 10, for the next 15 years. " issue of the Industrial Engineering Journal (India) . A paper co-authored by Mrugank Thakor (Marketing) won Best Overall Conference Paper Award at th is year's American Marketing Associa­ tion's summer educators' conference, held August 11 -14 in Washington D.C . The paper was entitled "Music-Brand Congruency in Radio Adver­ Kudos for theatre department's students and grads tising, " and his collaborators were Anne M. Lavack, and Ingrid Bottaus­ ci. This conference is one of the largest in marketing, with international oncordia's Department of Theatre won a number (Facilities, Theatre Department), . Heather Markgraf partic ipation . Cof awards recently from the Montreal English who won an award for "special distinction'' for her Critics Circle Association (MECCA). remarkable achievement over eight years in building Linda Dyer and Christopher Ross (Management) received the Best Paper Award in the Entrepreneurship and Family Business Division at Recent graduate the Village Theatre, in Hudson, Que. the annual conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Joe Cobden took the (We pro£iled Heather in the Thursday Report last Canada, held in London in June. The title of their paper was "Growth award for best actor, June.) and Ethnic Enterprises." At that conference, Ross was also appointed male, for his perfor­ Robin A. Paterson, an alumnus of the department, review editor for the Entrepreneurship and Fam ily Business Divisi on for mance in After the won the MECCA award for best lights in the design the 2002 conference, to be held in Winnipeg. Dance, a production category, for his work on Repercussion's production Hugh McOueen, distinguished professor emeritus in mechanical engi­ by the Montreal of Twelfth Night. neering, was awarded the Canadian Metal Physics Medal at the 51 st Young Company at The best ensemble award went to Soulfishing, Canadian Materials Science Conference, held in Sudbury in June. In the world nickel capital, he presented a lecture on the hot working of stain­ th Saidye 13ronfman which is comprised of Concordia theatre students, for less steels (which contain much nickel) . At an ·ASME workshop in San Centre. He's one of their performance of Judith Thompson's gritty drama Diego, he presented an invited lecture on deformation at high tempera­ several Concordia The Crackwalker at Geordie Space last year. tures and rates. With colleagues, he presented five papers at the nation­ theatre grads in the The best new play was This 1 Know, by recent grad al conference of metallurgists (CIM). in Toronto. He presented three company. John Mountsteven . It was performed at the Montreal papers at the metallurgical society, AIME, in New Orleans and one at Heather Markgraf Congratulations to Fringe Festival. CANCOM in Montrea l.

co n co rctia· s Thursday R epo rt SEPTEMBER 27 , 2 0 01 3 enate . . n Qte S A regular meeting of the Concordia University Senate, held on September 14, 2001. Commemoration: At the suggestion from those clamoring to use them right ers would have been thrown out. ferent way of education" that is as valid two or at most three courses; this was of student senator Sarni Nazzal, there away. The rector also reported that career as conventional classes. He added that rejected on the grounds that they are was a moment of silence in memory of Student union: The rector report­ fairs organized by the Commerce Place­ since the attack on the U.S. , some Arab not sufficiently committed and integrat­ those killed in the terrorist attack on ed that a meeting between legal repre­ ment Centre and the Engineering and and Muslim students have been singled ed into student life to decide on serious New York on Sept. 1 L sentatives of the Concordia Student Computer Science Students Association out for hostility: "Some professors have cases of cheating. Another would have Re ctor Frederick Lowy gave the Union and the university earlier in the had been marred by withdrawals on the made unbelievable comments." given students parity with faculty on an address he had delivered at a memorial day, at which the administration offered part of companies due to insults in CSU Academic policies: The APC (aca­ academic hearing panel; this was reject­ service earlier in the day, and empha­ to set up a three-person fact-finding publications. Business Dean Jerry demic programs committee) presented ed on the grounds that the chair would sized the need for mutual tolerance at group, did not result in a settlement. Tomberlin added that in the wake of a set of recommended changes to the have to cast the deciding vote in a tie, the university. Senator and CSU president Sabrina Stea the U.S. disaster, they also had fears for establishment of tribunal hearing pools, and this would change how he or she Growth: The rector reported a rise said this was because the CSU wants their safety. revisions to the academic code of con­ approached the task. in enrolment "almost to the bursting the two banned activists .to be allowed Student senator Patrice Blais asked duct, and academic re-evaluation pro­ Reflecting on the amendments and point," and an influx of almost 70 new to register as students fo r this term. for a definition of a student; the rector cedures. the way the voting split, senator Arshad professors; 150 in the past two years. (CTR, Sept. 13, page 10.) said there are five definitions at the In each case, amendments were pro­ Ahmad (Business) reflected that there Construction of the new buildings is on Student senator Mistie Mullarkey moment, depending on the context, posed by Blais that were aimed at seemed to be an us-and-them mentali­ schedule, and he paid tribute to the obj ected to a phrase in the report by the and the only written one is in the acad­ increasing student participation in the ty . "You should trust people to do an Departments of Communications Stud­ Advisor on Rights and Responsibilities emic code of conduct. A student sena­ process, although, as the APC chair [academic] evaluation properly. We ies and Journalism for their relocation (see CTR Sept. 13) in which the Advisor tor took the rector to task for telling a (Lightstone) noted, similar amendments should be building bridges here." All efforts over the summer. Downtown refers to a student hearing board tri­ reporter that students should not bring had already been discussed and defeat - three documents were passed as pre­ construction awaits financing. bunal last term at which the respon­ international quarrels to the university, ed in committee. There was much dis­ sented by the APC. IT upgrade: ProvostNice-Rector dents "mounted a purely political to which Lowy replied that there is a cussion of these amendments, 'but Shuffle: Lightstone issued his annu­ Research Jack Lightstone reported that defense." The rector replied that he difference between what is said and ultimately, all were defeated. al challenge to donate $1 for every fac­ the effort to equip owned classrooms of couldn't speak for Sally Spilhaus, who what is reported, and in any case, the Two examples: One amendment ulty member who made a pledge, over 50-plus capacity by January has gone so wrote the report, but she was probably university must preserve an atmosphere would have called for the inclusion on and above his own pledge to the Sept. well that it is ahead of schedule, and referring to their disruption of proceed­ conducive to learning. tribunals of independent students, who 21 walkathon for scholarships. smaller and suitable rented classrooms ings, and that if the tribunal had been a Nazzal said that students who choose have been exempted from normal will be included. He asked for patience court of law, the respondents' support- political involvement are getting "a dif- admission procedures and take only Next meeting: October 5 Board strongly supports Rector Lowy

BY LAURIE ZACK university supports genocide and the voted against the motion supporting the encouragement of illegal activities such as rector, appealed for the opportunity to tell stealing and non-payment of rent. He also his version of the events that he wimessed Il ector Frederick Lowy set the tone for Too many university publications? read excerpts from The Unabridged, a CSU which led to the exclusion of the two CSU ftthe year at yesterday's first Board of publication, that have led some compa­ individuals, and pointed to certain provi­ he Faculty of Arts and Science seems to have found another way of dissi­ Governors meeting, with a frank overview nies to pull out of student job fairs. sions of the University's fact-finder propos­ Tpating money to no good end. The glossy publication called Panorama of both the positive developments that A long discussion of recent CSU activ­ al that he found unacceptable. duplicates that which is found in the Thursday Report. If the publication served have strengthened the university, and ities followed, culminating in a motion of Vice-Rector Services Michael Di Grap­ any unique purpose, no one would complain. As it is, Panorama serves the egos recent negative publicity that threatens to strong support for the actions and lead­ pa concluded by asking for a clarification of the few and nothing else. damage the institution's reputation. ership of the rector. Several board mem­ about a statement made to him by a CSU Our departments are constantly reminded by the dean of Arts and Science On the positive side, he pointed to a bers added details about an ongoing executive that he interpreted as a veiled that there is no money. It is not funny that money can be found for frivolous continued increase in our student popula­ petition in Engineering and Computer threat to either himself or the university. purposes but not for things that are serious: cleaners, people in the shops, facul­ tion and improved retention rates, closer Science, informal and formal gatherings CSU president Sabrina Stea was asked to ty, offices, laboratories, invigilators, graders, and all things related to students. to the goals set by the performance con­ of business and graduate students, and a look into the matter. We were told years ago that the dean was going to reduce the number of peo­ tract with the Ministry of Education. Sixty­ CUFA council meeting where recent Pointing to the small number of votes ple in the deanery and increase the number in the departments. So much for five new professors have been hired since events were discussed and the negative cast in the last student election (1,855 hollow promises. There is money for the upper echelons but not for the troops. Jan. 1, 2001 , and in the next two years, impact of recent CSU actions were out of 21 ,000 eligible voters) and the fact Jack A. Kornblatt, another 65 to 70 will be hired each year. denounced. that only 853 voted for the current CSU Adjunct Professor, Biology Over 90 per cent of our professors These actions included accusations slate, community representative Jonathan now hold PhDs. There are now 44 class­ against the rector in the exclusion of two Wener expressed the hope that more stu­ rooms that are Internet-ready; there will CSU representatives and a set of CSU dents would now get involved in their Falun Gong prisoners tortured, says member be 94 by next January. The accumulated proposals advocating the repeal of the student government. debt of $38 million in 1995 has been student capital campaign contribution or the past two years, good people intent on improving their physical and eliminated, and we continue to work and the banning from campus of several spiritual well being through exercise, meditation and following the princi­ with a balanced budget. companies. F Lightstone said that the executive ples of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, have been subject to some of the Our research profile and success with granting agencies have iip.proved, and group at the CSU had a defined ideologi­ cruelest treatment mankind has ever seen. the internationalization of our student cal position that neither reflected the Millions of innocent lives have been devastated by government -sanctioned body and international agreements with broad mass of Concordia students nor violence, tort\Jre and hate. As the Chinese government, led by president Jiang other institutions are expanding. lent itself to open, critical debate of valid Zemin, has invested billions of dollars in a campaign to demonize the practice Speaking of ongoing tensions on cam­ issues. He accused the CSU of lending its and mask their crimes, hundreds of thousands of people continue to be held pus linked to the Middle East situation, political and financial support to the for­ captive in prisons, labour camps and mental institutions across China. the rector announced a proposal for a warding of a sole point of view, and mis­ Many have not died by "refusing medical treatment or suicide," as your article Concordia "dialogue committee," an ini­ representing and smearing the valuable states (CTR, Sept. 13, page 10), but by vicious torture aimed at having them relin­ tiative to be led by Provost Jack Light­ work being done at the university. quish their beliefs. Many cases have been documented by reputable organiza­ stone and Dean of Engineering and Mirroring these comments, William tions such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Incidentally, the Computer Science Nabil Esmail. Byers questioned wh-~ ther the CSU teachings of Falun Gong, which can be read at wwwjalundafa.org, do not pro­ The rector then spoke frankly about actions constitute a direct threat to the hibit practitioners from seeking medical treatment, and suicide is strictly forbid­ disruptive events that have resulted in openness and academic freedom that the den. many calls to his office from concerned . university cherishes. We have all felt the depths and evil of a force that does damage to humankind parents and university supporters in the Community-at-large representative in the New York tragedy, an assault on humanity that is much more clear than the community. He read several excerpts for Alex Potter insisted that the CSU must be one against Falun Gong practitioners in China. This act of terrorism, hate and vio­ the CSU agenda, Uprising 2001-2002 , held responsible for its publications and lence is rooted in the same force that wishes to persecute Falun Gong. including attacks on the Office of Rights declarations that damage the university. The Concordia Falun Dafa club consists of four students, who out of our own and Responsibilities, accusations that the Student representative Patrice Blais, who initiative have taken it upon ourselves to let more people know about the exis­ tence of Falun Gong and the truth about what is happening in China. Jennifer Nadeau ■ Corrections Contrary to our report in the Sept. 13 issue (Appointments, page 4) it is Robert Kilgour, not Robert Roy, who is the new vice-dean of stu­ dent affairs in Arts and Science. Our apologies to both. We welcome your letters. opinions and comments. Letters must be signed, include a phone number. and Also, in our brief tribute to David Eley, SJ, who has moved to a post in be delivered io the CTR office at BC-121/1463 Bishop St.. faxed (514-848-2814). or e-mailed Saskatchewan, we incorrectly said that the Loyola Peace Institute is no longer ([email protected]) by 9 a.m. on the Friday prior to publication. active. In fact, Marc Gervais, SJ, is the current director.

4 SEPTEMBER 27, 2001 co n co rdia ·s Thursday R e port New tenure-track facuity in Engineering and Computer Science

Javad Dargahi Rabat, Morocco, and has just Havhannes Harutyunyan language generation at the U de M, 1975, and his MEng from Philips (Mechanical/Industrial) received his PhD in computer sci­ (Computer Science) after completing a bachelor's in com­ International Institute, Netherlands, ence from the Universite de Mon­ puter science at Concordia. in 1977. He started his teaching Javad Dargahi earned his creden­ treal. His research interests include Havhannes Harutyunyan has a career at Tehran University in Iran in tials, including his PhD, in the U.K. protocol and software engineering PhD in theoretical informatics from Shiri V. Nematollaah 1977. He received his PhD from He was a research assistant at Glas­ and real-time systems. Armenian Academy of Sciences (Computer Science) Concordia in 1990, and has been gow Caledonian University, and an (1992). He comes to us from Bran­ performing research and teaching assistant professor at the Amirkabir Thomas Fevens don University, in Manitoba, and has Shiri V. Nematollaah got his PhD graduate courses in digital communi­ University of Technology, in Iran. He (Computer Science) taught and done research at Simon in computer science from Concordia cations. He has worked in several was a senior post-doctoral research Fraser University, Armenian State in 1997; he also has an MSc from fixed wireless companies, including associate with the Micromachin­ Thomas Fevens has a BSc in astro­ Engineering University and Armen­ McGill and an undergraduate degree SRTelecom, Spar Aerospace, Harris ing!Medical Robotics Group, Simon physics, MSc in physics, MSc in ian Academy of Sciences. He has also from the Sharif University of Tech­ Microwave Communications and Fraser University, and has worked in computer science and PhD in com­ done research at Swiss Federal Insti­ nology in Iran, where he taught a BroadTel Communications. several companies in North America. puter science, all from Queen's Uni­ tute of Technology, University of number of graduate courses. The versity. He was an adjunct professor Bielefeld (Germany), and Catalan focus of his doctoral work was on Wei-Ping Zhu Rachida Dssouli at Queen's in 1999/2000, and held a Polytechnic University in Spain. declarative manipulation of uncer­ (Electrical/Computer Science) (Electrical/Computer) postdoctoral position McGill in tain knowledge. 2000/2001, working in comput·a­ Mojtaba Kahrizi Wei-Ping Zhu has degrees from Ra chida Dssouli has advanced tional geometry and computational (Electrical/Computer Science) Ramin Sedaghati (Mechani­ Nanjing University of Posts and degrees in computer science from physics. He works in computational cal/Industrial/CONCAVE) Telecommunications, and his PhD is the Universite Paul-Sabatier of and combinatorial geometry, numer­ Mojtaba Kahrizi obtained his PhD from Southeast University, also in Toulouse, France (1981), and the ical analysis, micro-manufacturing, in physics at Concordia in 1985. Ramin Sedaghati received his BSc Nanjing. He was selected for a joint Universite de Montreal (1987). She geographical information systems, After five years at St. Francis Xavier in 1988 and MSc in 1990 from doctoral program between Concor­ taught at the Universite Mohamed and computational physics. University, he has returned to partic­ Amirkabir University of Technology, dia and Southeast, and pursued his ler, Oujda, Morocco, from 1981 to ipate in the development of the Iran, and his PhD in from the Uni­ post-doctoral research from 1991 to 1989, and at the Universite de Sher­ Dhrubajyoti Goswami Microelectronics Device and Fabrica­ versity of Victoria. His doctoral 1992 here. From 1993 to 1996, he brooke from 1989 to 1991 , and was (Computer Science) tion Laboratory. He has been research, which offers a faster com­ was an associate professor at Nanjing a full professor at the Universite de involved from the beginning in the puter-based method of structural University, and returned to Concor­ Montreal until May 2001. She also Dhrubajyoti Goswami has degrees establishment of a MEMS research design optimization, has been pub­ dia as a visiting scientist in 1996, spent a sabbatical year at Nortel. Her from the University of Delhi, the program in the faculty . lished in numerous journals and will serving as an adjunct for three years research is in communication proto­ Indian Institute of Science, McGill be nominated for the NSERC Doc­ while working in the telecommuni­ col engineering, requirements engi­ University, and a recent PhD in com­ Leila Kosseim toral Prize in 2002. He has been a cation industry, for companies neering and multimedia applications. puter engineering from the Universi­ (Computer Science) post-doctoral fellow at the Canadian including Sigpro Wireless, Nortel ty of Waterloo. His current research Space Agency (CSA) in Saint-Hubert. Networks and SR Telecom, all in Abdeslam En-nouaary includes patterns in parallel comput­ Leila Kosseim is an expert in com­ Ottawa. (Electrical/Computer Science) ing, parallel and distributed comput­ putational linguistics. She was a Yousef R. Shayan ing systems, and high-performance researcher at the Universite de Mon­ (Electrical/Computer Science) Abdeslam En-nouaary attended scientific computing. treal, and before that, a post-doctoral Paula Wood-Adams the computer science and systems fellow at Druide informatique. She Yousef R. Shayan received his (Mechanical Engineering) analysis high school ENSIAS in did her master's and PhD in natural BEng from Tehran University in will be profiled soon in CTR. ENCS Faculty names 11 more research chairs

he Faculty of Engineering and Net-centered software comprehen­ ■ C.-Y. Su, Mechanical Engineering, T Computer Science has named sion, CRC Tier II in intelligent control of non-smooth · 11 more Concordia Research Chairs, ■ A. Seffah, Computer Science, in dynamic systems, CRC Tier II bringing to 13 the total of these . human-centered software engineer­ "The decision by Concordia Uni­ internal appointments. ing, CRC Tier II versity to award Canada Research The designation Concordia ■ F. Khendek, Electrical and Comput­ Chairs only to external candidates Research Chair was adopted late last er Engineering, in telecommunication and to establish Concordia Research year, when the Faculty announced software engineering, CRC Tier II Chairs to recognize our internal can­ the appointments of Professors ■ L. !vi. Landsberger, Electrical and didates is an excellent decision," Ching Y. Suen and Suong V. Hoa. Computer Engineering, in micro-sys­ Dean Esmail said in a message to the Here is the complete list of 13 Con­ tems technology, CRC Tier II Faculty. "lt recognizes that the avail­ cordia Research Chairs: ■ M. R. Soleymani, Electrical and able number of CRCs is insufficient. ■ S.V. Hoa , Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, in wireless On the other hand, it reflects Con­ in materials and composites, CRC multimedia communications, CRC cordia's determination to support its Tier I Tier II research excellence in spite of limited ■ S. Rakheja, Mechanical Engineering, ■ S. Tahar, Electrical and Computer resources. in vehicular ergodynamics, CRC Tier l Engineering, in formal verification of "McGill University followed the ■ C.Y. Suen, Computer Science, in microelectronics systems, CRC Tier II same policy, except that the internal artificial intelligence and pattern ■ C. Wang, Electrical and Computer McGill chairs benefited from a siz­ recognition, CRC Tier l Engineering, in low-power very large able endowment of more than $60 ■ M. N. S. Swamy, Electrical and scale integration circuits, CRC Tier II million [while] Concordia University Computer Engineering, in signal ■ R. Ganesan, Mechanical Engineer­ and our Faculty will use our regular Job fairs and fairness processing, CRC Tier l ing, in high-performance composite operating funds to finance Concordia Adi Saade, a student in mechanical engineering, applies for a job at CAE, ■ J . Rilling, Computer Science, in machine components, CRC Tier II Research Chairs." the leading manufacturer of flight simulators in the world. He was one of many students who attended a job fair organized by the Engineering and Computer Science Students Association on Sept. 21. Search is on for John Molson School of Business dean A job fair was also held by students in the John Molson School of Business on Sept. 13. CASA president Cristelle Basmaji said that despite he search is on for the post of (chair), Peter Kruyt (board member), Masterson (staff, JMSB), Mathieu last-minute withdrawals by two big companies in the wake of reaction to T dean of the John Molson School Professor Christine Jourdan (board Amin (graduate student, CASA), the CSU handbook, the job fair was "the most successful in a long time. of Business. The start date of the member/JMSB), Dean Martin Singer Cristelle Basmaji (undergraduate, We went into classes and told students that the CSU is trying to sabotage term is June 1, 2002 , and it is a five­ (non-JMSB), Professors Steven CASA). this event, so show up." year term. The application deadline Appelbaum, Michel Laroche, Michel The secretary of the search com­ Basmaji also urged business students to turn out at a general assembly is October 15, 2001. Magnan and William Taylor (full­ mittee is Heather Adams-Robinette, called for Sept. 26 by the CSU. "It's about time [business] students took The members of the search com­ time faculty, JMSB), Samuel Clement Assistant to the Secretary of the an interest in student politics, because it's affecting them." mittee are as follows: Jack Lightstone (part-time faculty, JMSB), Shirley Board of Governors and Senate.

Co n co rclia ·s Th11rsday R ep o rt SE PT EMBER 27, 2001 5 0 ) • 1 ") '1 ; · '. .- • * INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS RECEPTION -~

A magnificent tumout from around the world

ABOUT 400 INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ATTENDED THE ANNUAL WELCOME reception held in their honour in the Hall Building on Sept . 14.

Although it was only three days after the multiple hijacking and large-scale destruction in t he U.S., there was a magnificent turnout of consular officials, including t he consul-generals or their representatives from the Unit ed States, Colombia, France, Brazil, Venezuela, Libya, Greece, t he Netherlands, Ch ina, Egypt, Argentina, Korea, Germany and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

A number of our students also attended the reception held on Mount Royal several days later by t he City of Montreal, at which the emcees were Claudette Fortier, coordinator of Concordia's International Students Office, and Ali Mohammadi, of Concordia's International Students Association. Photos by Andrew Dobrowolskyj

International students face dramatic headlines 'let's fight terrorism in our own way. . .. We may not be in a strategic position to influence the big powers of this world, but we do have the power to influence in a positive way." - Claudette Fortier

BY BARBARA B LACK a dangerous group of Mislim terrorists, but "I saw it with new eyes, please remember that this marginal group does the eyes of a new student," mmediately after news of the attack on Sept. not represent the Muslim and/or the Arab com­ Fortier said, exasperated. I 11 , International Students Office coordina­ munities. "Concordia is not 'arabo­ tor Claudette Fortier sent an e-mail message to "let's fight terrorism in our own way ... . phobic.' If we were, why the listserv for her constituency, telling the stu­ We may not be in a strategic position to influ­ would we be recruiting so dents that her office would stay open until 8 ence the big powers of this world, but we do actively and so successfully p.m. have the power to influence in a positive way in the Middle East?" This However, it was the emotional message she our own life and the lives of those around us." year, the university has sent out the following Monday that got the Particularly vulnerable, Fortier said, are the 245 international students most reponse from students ln it, she said, in incoming students from other countries who from 16 Mid-East coun­ part: don't yet realize how safe and welcoming Mon­ tries. "I have, like you, been shocked and horrified treal and Concordia are. Concordia also has 149 by the monstrous events that happened in the One student from Oman, aged 17, had no American students, and United States last Tuesday. Now that a few sooner arrived than he turned around and they have been brought somewhat closer by goes out to [them, but it also] goes out to those days have passed, I find myself concerned by went home, partly at the urging of his alarmed the calamitous event in their own country. being blasted by violence in the Democratic the discourse on revenge, retaliation, war, and parents. Another foreign student, a Sikh who They hope to organize a U.S. students associa­ Republic of Congo, in Angola, in Palestine, in the absence of the word 'peace.' wears a turban, was so nervous that he didn't tion on campus. Israel and in my own violence-wracked moth­ "I am encouraging you as an ambassador of go to class for several days after the disaster, Even for U.S. students, studying in Canada erland, South Africa ." your country to Canada to keep an open mind, and only returned after a talk with Fortier. is an eye-opener. One student had responded Fortier said that this kind of opinion was a to take the time to explore the issues at stake in What was particularly disheartening, Fortier to Claudette Fortier's e-mail with thanks, and a jolt for some students. One, who had never this major event in history and to seek the said, was that scant days after the event, she plea that violence not be added to violence. been outside the United States before, was truth for yourself, to be tolerant and most saw expelled Student Union activists laith She added that the outpouring of grief made deeply shocked by her first encounter with importantly, to refrain from making judg­ Marouf and Tom Keefer standing outside the her uncomfortable. "It is such sad and blind sharp criticism on the part of some Canadians ments. Hall Building with a big sign that said "Stop folly to believe that American lives are worth toward the U.S. , especially American foreign "Some facts seem to point in the direction of arabophobia at Concordia." more than other human lives .... My heart policy.

6 SEPTEMBER 27, 2001 Con ordia •s T h ursday R epor t * S H U F F L E ';ff

$38,000 plus raised for scholarships

THE APPROXIMATELY 250 SHUFFLERS WHO TURNED OUT ON SEPT. 21 enjoyed unseasonably warm weather for the annual inter-campus walkathon. They raised more than $38,000 for scholarships, and had a great time socializing afterwards at the Rector's Reception, held with live music and great food in the Guadagni Lounge.

Major sponsors this year included Pepsi, Air Canada, Kayjon Graphiques, Delsan Environmental Services, Distinction Maintenance Services, Concordia Computer Store and Concordia Printing Services.

The organizing committee comprised Irvin Dudeck (chair), Heather Adams­ Robinette, Amber Asif, Ann Bennett, Perry Calce, Tanya Gates, Lynda Hyette, Dorothy Massimo, Chris Mota, John O'Hanley, Murray Sang, Mich Sardella, Nancy Sardella, Hilary Scuffell, Nancy Stewart, Randy Swed burg and Elana Trager.

The awarding of prizes was emceed again this year by radio personality John Moore. One highlight of the post-Shuffle festivities was an appearance by two students who received Shuffle scholarships last year, Lisa Cipriani and Donna Pinsky.

The Shuffle Spirit Award, given for help above and beyond the call of duty, went to the employees of the bookstores, computer store and auxiliary services, and were accepted on their behalf by Lina Lipscombe and Bob Maciver. There were a lot of prizes - the biggest was a trip for two anywhere in North America from Air Canada. It was won by Miko Eshee.

There's another big prize, for getting pledges fulfilled by Oct. 5. It's a Panasonic Home Theatre Sound System - so go for it!

* HOMECOMING 2001 * Stingers suffer first loss as Laval gets revenge

BY JOHN AUSTEN ing," said Wendy Gratton, 32, of Ottawa. "I saw some people I hadn't hen your offence doesn't seen in years. It was great to see a W score any points, you're not big crowd here too. I'm sure the likely to win football games. And if team is good this year and just had your opposition is the Laval Rouge et an off game." Or - Well, forget about it. The Rouge et Or finished a perfect After upsetting Laval 20-18 two 8-0 last year before being upset by weeks ago in Ste. Foy, the Concordia the Ottawa Gee-Gees in the second Stingers were no match for them last round of ~he playoffs. The Stingers Saturday, losing 25-2 to put a finished 2-6 last season and were a damper on Homecoming weekend. perfect 2-0 heading into action last "They ruined our party when we weekend. played them at our place so we had Tyrone Frolick, 28, who was to give it right back to them," said wildly cheering on the Stingers last Laval kicker Nicolas Racine. "We week, noted that it's a short season, knew we were better than we but "despite this game I think they'll showed in the first game. Don't be OK" worry - Laval is still Laval." The The Stingers and Laval find them­ result would have been a lot closer selves atop the division with 2-1 had the Stingers kept their discipline. records, while McGill and Bishop's Homecoming 2001 was held September 20 to 23, and It was a full extended weekend, starting with a Concordia was assessed 10 penalties are at 1-2. The Redmen won their cocktail party for alumni at Samuel Bronfman House on Thursday night. Friday was the Shuffle, and in the evening, the launch of an MBA alumnl chapter at Newtown. for 92 yards. In the first game with first game season last weekend win­ Saturday was the big football game, and that day began with a pancake breakfast, and went on to Laval, it was the Rouge et Or that ning 24-7 over the Gaiters in Include a barbecue lunch and a post-game party. Seen here are Stingers running back Jean-Michel was penalized time and time again. Lennoxville. Paquette (11) and some excited fans. "It wasn't a great game but it was The Stingers travel to Bishop's on On Saturday night, the Rector's Reunion Dinner was held at the Ritz. On Sunday morning, a special great to come back for Homecom- Saturday for a game at Coulter Field. mass was held in the Loyola chapel.

concord i a•s Thursday R e port SEPTEMBER 13, 2001 1 Cheap housing for students in Montreal becoming a myth

BY LISA HARDING gy has worked. "Last yea r, they have a connection . "Everybody l AND AMANDA TACCONE would come in panicking after each know who found an apartment got it try and each failure , now they're not through knowing somebody who ack of housing in Montreal getting as discouraged." lived there before." This year she Lmade headlines this summer, Another option is the Concordia took over her brother's lease in a six­ and many students were among Student Union Off-Campus Housing and-a-half, and splits the reasonable those left scrambling. and Job Bank. The office acts as a $710 rent with two other room­ Most new students start with Con­ free resource centre, assisting hun­ mates. cordia's student residence, Hingston dreds of Concordia's approximately "Landlords can do whatever they Hall, on the Loyola Campus. Howev­ 27,000 students and faculty with job want, because people do not have er, with over 600 applicants for only and housing queries. any other options." She knows of 144 beds, the odds of their search The coordinator of the CSU Off­ apartments less than a block away ending here are slim. Cam pus Housing and Job Bank, from hers where tenants are paying Coordinator of Residence Life Jeff Wendy Crolla, said she gets about 60 $1,300 for five and a half rooms. Peters has been on the scene for over inquiries a day at this peak time. For Nadia Drapeau spent two years in eight years and said the typical calls her, the so-called housing crisis is residence and wanted to stay in he receives are from desperate par­ not new. "Last year was pretty bad; NDG . She found the $625 four-and­ ents who say, "I need my son or this year is worse. The gap is getting a- half she shares with her sister daughter in here ," and students say­ smaller and smaller between the quickly. "I think that I was very ing, "I can't find anywhere else to number of listings versus the num­ lucky because l had a contact and live. " ber of students looking." called the landlord before the sign Crolla said that if students start we nt up. I think that a lot of stu­ International students isolated early, move quickly, are flexible and dents start late - some are still look­ Adam Lambert gets settled in his new digs. Peters recognizes that international are willing to share, there are a lot ing now." students are at the greatest disadvan­ more possibilities. "Persistence is so to live in all of Canada, and cheap," more." Jeff Peters, of the residence, cited a tage. "Of all the people, I feel most key. You can't approach it in a casual he said. First-year students generally try to recent horror story: "We had a kid for them. They must feel isolated." manner." In June he began looking for a live downtown, although many sea­ last year who slept in his car for a ln answer to this need, the Interna­ However, many available apart­ place for under $300 close to Loyola. soned students want the Plateau, if month and a half because he had tional Students Office and Concordia ments are not accessible to students. Of the 50 places he called, he saw they can find something affordable. nowhere to live ." International Students Association "They can't afford to live there, eat 10, and none were suitable. He even­ Others prefer Notre Dame de Grace, Need help finding housing? Try the have taken steps to help new stu­ and pay tuition at the same time." tually found his apartment with the St. Henri, Cote des Neiges, Little CSU Off-Campus Housi ng and Job dents, through a workshop that This was the experience of 20- help of six or seven people, one of Burgundy, Verdun and then further Bank, 848-7476 or http:l!alcor.concor­ brings students together with student year-old Adam Lambert, a second­ whom saw an a louer sign in a win­ outside of the city. dia .ca/~housjobl. If you're an interna­ volunteers to look for housing. year history student from Ottawa. dow. He found many places for over Shelley Pretli, an urban studies tional student, the ISO can help you, at Pat Hardt, assistant coordinator of "There is a myth out there that Mon­ $400, and said "it would have been student, has always wanted to live on 848-3943. Another us eful site is the lSO , said this teaming-up strate- treal is the easiest city to find a place easier if I was willing to pay a lot the Plateau, but believes you need to http://www.u-swap.com/.

2001 JOHN HANS LOW-BEER MEMORIAL LECTURE Native life with an ironic twist: Moses The Lure of Suicide: When Wanting Out Wins Out Martha Manning, PhD - Clinical psychologist, author and advocate on BY JAMES MARTIN Moses, a Delaware, raised on the specific ideas for a new play, but the mental health issues, from Arlington, Va. Six Nations lands on the Grand River muse had other plans, and he found Thursday, October 4, 7 p.m. t was a case of too many people, in Ontario Voice, is a prolific play­ himself inexplicably fixated on some H-110, Henry F. Hall Building Itoo few chairs, as 75 people wright, particularly about native Old West characters he'd created Free admission crammed into H-762 to hear this issues. He told an anecdote about years earlier. Sponsored by AMI Quebec Alliance for the Mentally mand Concordia University year's Concordia writer-in-residence, Coyote City, his 1988 play about dis­ Fourteen hours later, Moses com­ NOTE: THURSDAY, OCT. II, IS DEPRESS IO SCREENING DAY. Toronto playwright-poet Daniel placed natives struggling to with­ pleted first drafts of The Moon and GET A IO-MINUTE TE T AT SGW LIBRARY ATRIUM OR LOY AD BUILD! G, FROM 10AM -4PM. David Moses. stand the challenges of materialism Dead Indians and The Angel and the Starting with poetry, the soft-spo­ presented by city life. Medicine Show , two one-act plays ken, bespectacled Moses selected a During rehearsals, an actor's per­ later collected as The Indian Medicine L'lnstitut Simone de Beauvoir very personal sistent questions - "But what hap­ Shows (1995). CLAUDINE MONTEil poem from pens to my character after the play7" He set the scene for Th e Moon and last year's col­ - made him indignant, then Dead Indians . On the porch of a lone­ Simone de Beauvoir et Jean-Paul Sartre, ces amants de la liberte: Un temoignage lection, Sixteen amused, then inspired. He wrote a ly cabin in the foothills of ew Mexi­ Jesuses. sequel, Big Buck City. co, inl878, a widow cradles a rifle le 27 septembre 2001, 19h30 l'lnstitut Simone de Beauvoir, 2170 Bishop, Salle MU-101 One of sev­ The opening scene comes from a while quietly singing hymns. Her 514-848-2373 eral poems scatological/theological epigram in son appears, fresh from visiting a Claudine Monteil, PhD en histoire, a ete, alors qu'elle etait encore toute crafted around Milan Kundera's novel The Unbear­ travelling medicine show. The two jeune, com pagne de lutte de Simone de Beauvoir aux debuts du MLF. Daniel David lunar imagery, able Lightness of Being, especially the converse about Civil War ghosts and Elle est l'auteure de plusieurs livres, dont deux sur Simone de Beauvoir Moses "Breakdown phrase, "He is not responsible for vanished natives. et le dernier sur. Beauvoir et Sartre. Moon" is the man's crimes ... . The responsibility like the Big Buck City excerpt, La conference se fera en franrais mais la periode de discussion et de poet's meditation on his sister's for shit, however, rests entirely with their brief exchange hinted at bizarre questions pourrait se derouler en anglais et en fra nrais. schizophrenia, an illness fraught Him." things to come. Moses let it hang in with uncertainty. "So you say Good­ Big Bu ck City opens with a con­ the air. "Well," he said, closing his bye I to the Moon instead," he read. fron tation on Christmas Eve between book. "That's kind of a weird begin­ CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY "That's easier done. / She loses her a street preacher and a package­ ning, isn't it?" PENSIONERS ASSOCIATION - CUPA head/ right on schedule." laden shopper. Reading both roles, Concordia 's writer-in-residence, Annual General Meeting Moses jumped from dark to dawn Moses drew laughter with his darkly Da niel David Moses, is available for Thursday, October 25, 10 a.m., H-767 with a second family poem, "Aubade comic dialogue. one-on-one student consultations and SGW Faculty Club, Henry F. Hall Building About Dad ," followed by the elegiac The piece was born at a 24-hour guest lec ture s. Bo ok appoi ntments "last Blues," dedicated to the late playwriting contest in Whitehorse. through the English Department, 848- dancer Rene Highway. Moses had gone into the contest with 2340.

5th Annual Concordia Used Book Fair CONCORDIA SCIENCE COLLEGE PUBLIC LECTURE October 3 and 4 • Mezzanine of the Hall Building How Animals Think & What They Think About Something for everyone, from textbooks to Marc Hauser, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University mysteries to cookbooks! Thursday, October 11, 8:30 p.m. Hall Building H-110 All proceeds _this year go to the Campus M inistry Emergency All animals are equipped w ith a set of mental tools, specialized devices in the brain have been designed to solve adaptive Food Voucher Program for students. • problems. Some are universal, shared by all species; others are specialized, present in only a handful of species. By exploring the minds of animals from this perspective, we gain a richer understanding of what it is like to think and feel like them.

8 SEPTEMBER 27, 2001 C on c o rdia •s Thursda y R epor t '_, 1 I Growing demand for prayer space CSU and university talking

BY BARBARA B LAC K lege, which was run by the Society of annex, at 2090 Mackay St. Peter niversity administrators continue to deal with problems raised by the Jesus. Cote, the current coordinator, said, Uexecutive of the Concordia Student Union over a number of issues. n a university that doesn't have However, by the 1970s, when "We insisted that suitable facilities be Here's a synopsis: Ienough space for classrooms, it's Loyola merged with Sir George built into renovations to continue the bound to be difficult to find space Williams University (whose 19th­ existence of the prayer room." In Board and senate Business and engineering student representatives have for prayers. For nearly 20 years, century roots are evangelical Protes­ fact, the university is under no oblig­ charged that CSU members are appointing themselves to the student slots prayer space has been provided to tant), both schools were . quite ation to provide religious facilities for at university senate and the board of governors. ln the past, CASA and the Muslim students by the university secularized. Campus Ministry not any of its students, but "there never ECA sent their own elected representatives. Since the CSU won provincial for daily and Friday prayers. only became non-sectarian, embrac­ any question in our minds but that accreditation last year, they contend that they have exclusive rights in this However, the numbers of Muslim ing a broad range of spiritual expres­ we should respond to this request." matter. students have grown greatly over sion, but it took on community However, the numbers of users Dean of Students Don Boisvert disagrees. In a strongly worded letter to that time, due Lo a wave of immigra­ issues, such as feeding needy stu­ soon exceeded the limits of this CSU president Sabrina Stea, he invoked "university traditions of collegiali­ tion from Muslim countries. dents, visiting prisoners, counselling, space. "In 1995, we began to advo­ ty and dialogue which you seem intent on undermining," and said he was There may be as many as 400,000 and exploring social issues. cate with and on behalf of the MSA "dismayed by reports of the types of interviews to which candidates for Montrealers of Middle Eastern ori­ Campus Ministry has three full for better facilities for the Friday these seats have been subjected, with an apparent requirement that they gin, although only about 60 per cent chaplains and an associate chaplain, prayers." With the help of the dean adopt a politically correct line of thought." are Muslim. In 1999, the president all of them Christian, but there are a of students, the former Reggie's on of the Students' Association for Mus­ number of volunteer associate chap­ the sixth floor of the Hall Building Exclusion Rector Frederick Lowy sent a letter to the general university lim Awareness (SAMA) said there lains who supplement their work. was secured. community last Friday explaining in detail his reasons for excluding CSU were 8,000 Muslim students at Con­ Particularly active are Myokoyo Last year, the then coordinator of executives Laith Marouf and Tom Keefer. He added that the incident in cordia, although others have said Judith Mclean (Buddhist), John Campus Ministry, Daryl Ross, saw an which security guards were roughed up and a death threat was uttered, that estimate is too high. (There is no Tkachuk (Christian, Orthodox), T.S. opportunity when the Women's allegedly by Keefer, were witnessed, in part, by Vice-Rector Services official tabulation of religious, ethnic Rukmani (Hindu), Rabbis David Centre vacated the P annex for reno­ Michael Di Grappa. or linguistic data on Concordia stu­ Merling and Shlomo Mahn Qewish), vations. This space, at 2020 Mackay Lowy reminded members of the university of his offer of an independent dents.) Manjit Singh (Sikh), Ray Drennan St., is large enough to accommodate fact-finding team which, to date, has been rejected. Like adherents to the world's other (Christian, Unitarian) and Salam the men, and the usually smaller major religions, some Muslims pray Elmenyawi, chairman of the Muslim number of women. will use the Z Tribunal As the result of a separate incident, the overturning of tables by regularly and others don't. Ho_wever, Council of Montreal, who has acted annex prayer room. exhibitors at a job fai,r last term, a student tribunal is in progress to hear the devout are called to prayer five as volunteer chaplain to Muslim stu­ For Friday prayers, which draw charges against Keefer and Christina Xydous. Since neither is now a stu­ times a day, which means that they dents at Concordia. several hundred worshippers, the dent, University Counsel Bram Freedman has said that the tribunal is now must pray in the midst of their day­ In the early 1980s, a small group university has offered use of a class­ of no value. to-day activities. The main obser­ of Muslim students asked Campus room belonging to the Department vance is communal prayer at midday Ministry for a prayer space. At the of Applied Human Sciences on the General assembly A CSU general assembly was planned for yesterday on Friday. time, Campus Ministry was housed seventh floor (where Reggie's used to (Sept. 26) at which students were to vote on the rescinding of the adminis­ By a historical anomaly, the only on the third floor of the Hall Build­ be) from noon to 3 o'clock, guaran­ trative fee and capital campaign contribution, the reinstatement of Marouf permanent place of worship at Con­ ing, and the Muslim students used teed for three years. When a new and Keefer, and the "expulsion" of a board member and three companies cordia is the Roman Catholic chapel the meeting room as a prayer room. student centre is built downtown, an with links to the university. None of these recommendations would be that was built in 1933 and was part In 1988, Campus Ministry left the open multi-faith space will be binding on the university, even if adopted by the assembly. of the original campus of Loyola_Col- Hall Building and moved to the Z included in the design. Handbook The rector's office has been bombarded with complaints about the CSU handbook, called Uprising 2001-2002 . Lowy has written a strongly A warning to us all, and a glimmer of hope worded letter about the publication. It says, in part: "The CSU is an independent and wholly autonomous corporation Henry Habib calls for non-belligerence in the Middle East accredited under provincial legislation. As a result, it is legally separate from the university. Somewhat like a labour union, the CSU is the organi­ BY BARBARA BLACK about the attack and what it meant. His plan calls for a declaration of zation that legally represents all of our undergraduate students with He refers to an influential book, mutual recognition and non-belliger­ respect to university-wide issues. As such, under Quebec law, Concordia istinguished Professor Emeritus The Clash of Civilizations by Harvard ence, and an administration of Israel University has no authority over the activities of the CSU. DHenry Habib has been speak­ professor SamueL Huntington and Palestine Territories by a loose 'The CSU student handbook does not at all represent the views of Con­ ing and writing about the tensions of (1996), as a "a book of the future ." confederation of the two entities. cordia University. In addition to information of practical use to all students the Middle East for many years, but In it, Huntington points to the West­ Jerusalem, which both sides see as that one expects to find in most university student handbooks, Uprising never more so than over the past two ern, Judea-Christian character of the exclusively theirs, would become a 2001-2002 contains a great many inflammatory and possibly libelous state­ weeks. U.S., and the danger of imposing its "co-capital." The settlers on the West ments about the university, university officials, and some of the companies His message has been a wake-up values on non-Western societies. Bank would continue to be Israeli that employ our graduates and support the university. call on a crisis of values and identity "There are two currents in the citizens, and Palestinians would have 'The university disclaims all responsibility for this publication, dissoci­ on a global scale. "I say that it's a cri­ world today," Habib said. "One is free passage to and from home if ates itself from its content, and will take appropriate action where neces­ sis of civilization that goes much fundamentalism, in which people are they worked in Israel, "as free as sary." deeper than people may think," looking for a lost identity, and the moving between Ontario and Que­ Habib said. other is moving the world closer, the bec." Job fairs The CSU, angry at having part of a submission rejected for publi­ "A phenomenon is taking place 'global village' phenomenon." This This would settle the problem of cation in The Bridge, aimed at new students, published their own newslet­ not only in Islam, but in all religions, trend, driven by technology, com­ frontiers; the other issue, of the right ter, The Unabridged, in which they made charges of warmongering against in which extremist groups are trying mercialization (the 'McDonaldiza­ of return for four million Palestinian several companies. Copies of the article "Making a Killing" were faxed to to take over. You see many manifes­ tion' of the world) and popular refugees, would have to be settled some companies and as a result, some of these companies withdrew from tations of this, as people try to figure culture, is unstoppable, he said flat­ through compromise, probably job fairs organized by engineering and business students. out where society should go." An ly. involving financial reparations. example is U.S. "moral majority" However, he has always been opti­ Habib even sees a glimmer of Rally After a pro-Palestinian bazaar and rally scheduled for Sept. 15 was preacher Jerry Falwell, who called mistic about the conflict between hope as a result of the shocking cancelled in the wake of the U.S. disaster, Concordia senior administrators the World Trade disaster "divine Israel and the supporters of a Pales­ attack of Sept. 11 , because it seems got a request from the student group Solidarity for Palestinian Human judgment" on immoral Americans. tinian state, although his optimism to have brought the leaders of both Rights to hold the event on university land today. For many years chair of Concor­ was shaken by the past year of vio­ sides to a renewed realization of Dean of Students Donald Boisvert refused the request, saying, "It is our dia's Department of Political Science, lence. One contributing element to what they stand to lose. sense that both the internal and external communities would welcome a Habib retired two years ago, but he the unrest was the end of Bill Clin­ "For the first time, these horrific period of respite. The safety of all participants, both your own members is currently teaching in McGill Uni­ ton's mandate as U.S. president, events have pushed the negotiation and others, also remains of paramount importance to the university. versity's Institute of Islamic Studies. which took the steam out the peace process. Both Shimon Peres and "In addition, and as I again mentioned when we met, the fact that you As recently as last spring, he gave process and let the extremists on Yasser Arafat have just unilaterally were seeking to hold the event on Sept. 27, which is Yorn Kippur, the holi­ a six-week course to a group of Jew­ both sides move into the vacuum. declared that the talks would start est of Jewish holy days, is a source of grave concern." ish senior citizens on terrorism. In Habib has developed his own again. They seem to want to get back the days since the U.S. attack, he has peace plan aimed at addressing the together. They could make of that Petitions A petition is being circulated by the CSU executive to reinstate heard from some of his former stu­ outstanding issues on the table, and land a great country, building on the Marouf and Keefer, but at the same time, another petition is going around dents who wanted to talk to him he feels it's more relevant than ever. special qualities of both peoples." denouncing the CSU executive, their politics and their tactics.

' ' Concord i a·s Thursda y R e port SEPTEMBER 27 , 200 1 9 Human Resources and Employee Relations goes digital

BY BARBARA BLACK tion or company to go live with this of your contributions to the Concor­ product. IITS has customized it to dia pension plan, telling you what mployees will soon have suit Concordia's needs." your bi-weekly deduction would be Esmoother, quicker and more Going hand in hand with the ESS if you chose to become a contribut­ specific communication with the is a phone information system, a ing, as opposed to default and university's Department of Human pilot project undertaken by Rick mandatory non-contributing, mem­ Resources and Employee Relations, Bisaillon It will be available Monday ber. thanks to information technology to Friday from 9 to 11 a.m. and 3 to A second calculator helps you fig­ and some good old-fashioned per­ 5 p.m. at 848-4177. ure out your life insurance premiums son-to-person. "More and more, we're encourag­ and benefits. A third calculator gives The department is transferring ing people to go to our web site, and you the payroll deduction for the much of its routine information­ we're constantly increasing what's optional (i.e., supplementary) insur­ response servi.ce to the web, in effort there," Bisaillon said. Some employ­ ance plan, and a fourth calculates ,, to improve efficiency and accessibili­ ees don't have access to a computer your pension contributions to date, ty. One element is the "Employee at work, he acknowledged, but IITS with your allowable RRSP contribu­ Self-Servi.ce Facility," or ESS , which will install computer terminals in tion. will be up and running Oct. 9. locations that are accessible to the If you are a full-time or part-time most likely users. employee, read your explanatory Up-to-the-minute information Michel Leduc and Rick Bisaillon. The latter has literally worked his way information from HR carefully for a Last week, full-time and part-time from the mail room to the ranks of faculty. He started as a part-timer in Still person-to-person service fuller explanation of the service it employees received their login ID Distribution Services in 1975, worked for many years in Audio-Visual, For those who still want to use the provides. and password for the site, which may earned a master's in public policy, and just starting teaching statistical phone, Bisaillon will be at the other Right now, the ESS site can only be accessed at http:!!flamingo.concor­ methods in the Department of Political Science while working on his PhD. end of the line. He vows to answer be accessed through Microsoft Inter­ dia.calpublixlhtml, or through the Throughout the years, he has been an active union member. every call in person, or if necessary, net Explorer 4.0 or higher. "U pdate Your File" link on the refer it to HR receptionist Jane Scrib­ lf you have trouble signing on, e­ department's home page. Other address, telephone project are HRIS Sys­ ner. "You'll get a live human being," mail [email protected] employees (part-time faculty , contin­ number and emer­ •:. staff vvorks tems Manager Michel he said. for help. uing education faculty, retirees and gency contacts. Leduc and HRIS Sys­ Bisaillon says the ESS system is Gilles Bourgeois, executive direc­ casual/timesheet) will likely be The idea is to dras- tems Analyst David key to providing dynamic, interactive tor of HR, said that in the coming phased in. tically reduce the load on the front­ Thivierge. service to employees. Because it's weeks, you 'll see more detailed ESS will provide up-to-the-minute line service personnel in HR by Thivierge said, "ESS is an add-on tied to Payroll, the data is up-to-the­ announcements of new information information about your pension, taking care of the easy-to-answer application from NOW Solutions, minute. servi.ces for employees. health and drug benefits and payroll queries and allowing them to deal the makers of Ross , the human As part of a comprehensive bene­ "They will help employees who deductions, with a link to job post­ with more difficult requests from resource and payroll application fits information strategy, at least four have complex issues to get the kind ings. You'll also be able to update employees. used by the department. To our more "calculators" are being added to of assistance they want and HR/ER your own information, such as your The staff responsible for the ESS knowledge, we are the first institu- the system. One works out the status wants to provide." Meningitis C Concordia students build bridges to Montreal's poor vaccinations

BY SIGALIT HOFFMAN habit at home, and continued the tradition in university. "lt's very rewarding to do something offered by ichael Nimchuk and Cristelle Basmaji are to help other people," she said. M on a m1ss10n. Nimchuk agreed. "l try to do as much as l can Health Services They are this year's student representatives to interest other students in taking part. I think on the Concordia Centraide committee, and it's great that we can add that much more to the ngie Trubiano, clinical coordi­ they're competing against other Montreal uni­ Concordia community as students." A nator in Concordia's Health Ser­ versities in the umbrella agency's annual Thibodeau-DeGuire said that Centraide is vice, says that the Quebec fundraising campaign, which starts tomorrow vital because of the links it builds between Mon­ government is initiating a free mass and runs until mid-December. treal communities. Without it, smaller charities vaccination campaign for meningitis "Last year, we planned it in a week," im­ would have to spend between 50 and 70 per C. chuk said. The president of the Engineering cent of their donations on fundraising cam­ "The reason for this campaign is and Computer Science Students Association paigns. "The agency is a symbol of social cohe­ that this year in Quebec, the number (ECA) organized a loonie line that raised sion, of solidarity," she said. of people affected by this serious dis­ $1,800, more than any similar activity in the The students are trying to bring this cohesion ease has increased considerably. Montreal campaign. "This year, we are hoping to the campus. Basmaji is planning another "The number is abnormally high that we can do even better." fashion show, and will continue with initiatives among people under 20 years of age, His enthusiasm is matched by that of like barbecues, food and clothing drives. especially adolescents," she said. Cristelle Basmaji, president of the business stu­ Nimchuk is hoping for an even more success­ "Experts predict that there will be a dents (CASA). Like Nimchuk, she has been ful loonie line this year - McGill has just held steady increase in the number of involved since she arrived at Concordia· three theirs, and raised $2,555 - and he might plan cases of meningococal infection. A years ago. Michael Nimchuk and Cristelle Basmaji another fundraiser in the spring among the large proportion of these cases Basmaji first joined the CASA Cares Founda­ engineering students. involve serogroup C, which is the tion, which organizes activities to raise funds for be used for the agency, but you have to con­ A former engineer herself, no one under­ most virulent strain." charities like Centraide, Les Oeuvres du Cardi­ vince them to give it." stands the need for cohesion better than Thi­ Those at highest risk are those nal Leger, and the Cure for Breast Cancer Foun­ Centraide funds 324 charities and projects on bodeau-DeGuire. "I used to build concrete between the ages of two months to dation. Last year, she organized the first CASA the Island of Montreal, and helps over half a bridges," she joked. "N ow, I build bridges 20 years of age. Health Services fashion show, and brought in $6,000, half of million people in many ways, from after-school between people." holds a vaccination campaign from which was donated to Centraide. programs and women's shelters to citizens' Join Concordia's Centraide committee at the October .to December. "All the money from our events this year will advocacy and community groups. March of 1,000 Umbrellas at lunchtime tomorrow, For those who wish to be immu­ go to Centraide," Basmaji said. The agency has about 65 000 volunteers. Thi­ at the comer of Ste. Catherine and McGill College nized but do not fall within the age Centraide raised over $37 million last year, bodeau-DeGuire said, "We could do nothing Sts .. For more information, ca ll Hel ene Cossette, at group for free immunization, Health but despite all the goodwill, campaign president without them. They are the essence of the orga­ 848-4883. Services will purchase and offer at Michele Thibodeau-DeGuire said, "Our goal has nization," she said. You should receive your Centraide form in the cost price. been going up from year to year. We know For Basmaji and imchuk, volunteering is mail on Oct. 4. The first raffle for prizes - only Please make an appointment by call­ there are sufficient funds in the community to second nature. Basmaji learned the volunteering donors are eligible - will be on Oct. 12. ing Health Services at 848- 3565 (LOY) or 848-3575 (SGW).

SEPTEMBER D , 2001 concord ia •s Thursday Report Chemistry grad students at the forefront Art Matters up for a prize

BY SYLVAIN COMEAU students. Especially for first-year stu­ Hughes said that the key are the ongratulations to the organizers of Art Matters, an ambitious and suc­ dents, this is a chance to show their industry representatives who show Ccessful student-organized arts festival held at Concordia last winter. ehind every discovery or break­ research without being overwhelmed up to meet the students, particularly It won a special award for initiative at university convocation last spring. Bthrough from a university lab, by a large international event." in the pharmaceutical and biotech Now Art Matters is up for another prize, from Forces Avenir, a consortium there are graduate students. Although last week's event is industries. of government and business that encourages young talent in Quebec. While grad students may have unique in North America, graduate "The founding premise of the con­ Prizes will be announced at a banquet in Quebec City on October 11 , been largely unsung heroes in the student conferences in other fields of ference is to develop academic ties and we wish the Concordia entrants the best of luck. past, they are getting more of the science are starting to proliferate. with industry, to help students make spotlight. A day-long chemistry and Wright feels that grad students are industry contacts, and to foster biochemistry conference last week finally starting to get some of the research collaborations. Industry is put them front and center. credit they deserve. "Grad students always interested in where new, au­ Concordia soccer player named The fourth annual Chemistry and have been under-appreciated for courant research is going, and uni­ Biochemistry Graduate Research some time , so we are addressing that versity researchers want to know Canadian athlete of the week Conference was held at the DeSeve and giving them a little ego boost." where industry is going. So we can Cinema on Sept. 21, featuring pre­ Sean Hughes, a third-year PhD make ties and move toward the same ongratulations to Kelly Hemsley, of the Concordia Stingers women's sentations by 67 graduate students student, agreed. "We talk about the goals. " Csoccer team, who was one of two students named Athlete of the from across Canada and a few from 'unknown grad student' who is an The conference enjoyed the sup­ Week by Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), for the week ending Sept. the United States. afterthought when a professor port of a number of corporate, insti­ 16. They presented research papers to announces a discovery, but when tutional ·and Concordia sponsors, Kelly is a second-year education student from St. Bruno. She helped the peers, professors, industry represen­ they leave here with a master's or including Merck Frosst, Biochem Concordia Stingers vault into first place in the Quebec Conference of CIS tatives and a panel of judges. Prizes PhD , they might be supervising their Pharma, the Concordia Chemistry women's soccer with three goals and three assists in two victories that were awarded for the best presenta­ own labs in academia or industry, and Biochemistry Department, the week. The Stingers are in first place in the QSSF, with an undefeated score tions, but John Wright, a fourth-year and they'll be the ones who will have Concordia Chemistry and Biochem­ of 2-0. PhD student and one of the organiz­ to defend their results. A conference istry Student Association, the Cana­ The other athlete of the week named is another soccer player, Damir ers, says that this was not a high­ like this is a learning experience for dian Chemical Society and the Jesic, of the University of Alberta Golden Bears. He's a fourth-year student pressure event. "This is a conference them. They get a lot of feedback Canadian Society of Biochemistry originally from Sarajevo, Bosnia. organized by grad students for grad from the experts here. " and Cellular and Molecular Biology.

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BY ANNA BRATULIC Strike up the band or attend a class on Mondays at 7:30 FOOTBALL WOMEN'S RUGBY If you've got a flute or violin or in the Concert Hall. Concordia@Bishop's- Sept 29, 1:30 p.m. Bishop's vs. Concordia-Sept 30, 3 p.m. Bishop's vs. Concordia-Oct 6, 1 p.m. Sherbrooke vs. Concordia-Oct 8, 1 p.m. This is the second of a two-part series cello, you can challenge yourself by Concordia @McGill-Oct 11 , 8 p.m. on new and interesting courses at Con­ joining the Orchestra, which is both Cou rse on Jewry is open to all WOMEN'S SOCCER cordia. a course for registered students and Scholars, Identities and Commu­ Concordia @Sherbrooke-Sept 28, 7 p.m. WOMEN'S HOCKEY an ensemble that anyone with nity, offered by the Institute for McGill vs. Concordia- Sept 30, 1 p.m. Concordia @Providence College Concordia @ UQTR-Oct 6, noon Digital relationships online proven ability can join. Canadian Jewish Studies, examines (Exhibition)--Oct 6 UQTR vs. Concordia - Oct 8, 1 p.m. Concordia @ UNH To save time and improve efficien­ In the first class, students will do a facets of Jewish presence and identi­ (Exhibition)--Oct 7 cy, many corporations conduct cold sight-reading of a selected ty in Canada as seen by a selection of MEN'S SOCCER group meetings over the Internet. As piece, after which Monique Martin, scholars. Concordia @Sherbrooke-Sept 28, 9 p.m. MEN'S HOCKEY organizations in the arts and educa­ the conductor, will evaluate the Each class focuses on one author McGill vs. Concordia- Sept 30, 3 p.m. Concordia @York tion become multi-national, th ey, group's skill level. and his or her work. Here are some Concordia @ UQTR-Oct 6, 2 p.m. Tournament in UQTR vs. Concordia-Oct 8, 3 p.m. Toronto-Oct 6, 7 too, are using virtual communica­ "From there, we improve a little sample topics: the debate surround­ tion. each time - the speed, the tempo, ing Esther Delisle's study on anti­ This course trains students in the the nuances," Martin said. Martin, Semitism and nationalist ideology in online communications skills they who also conducts the Chamber 1930s Quebec; the report on Jewish Submissions invited need for this brave new world. Choir, is hoping to combine both culture presented to the Royal Com­ The course Interpersonal Commu­ courses for one of the concerts that mission on Bilingualism and Bicul­ The Committee to Recommend on the Future Development of Recreation and Athletics invites the university community to submit nications and Relationships has been the Orchestra must perform each turalism; and the controversial book written comments or suggestions. taught for several years by part-time school year. None ls Too Many, which looks at professor Mia Lobel, in the Depart­ The Orchestra is available for official Canadian attitudes to Euro­ The Committee was established in September 2001 by the Vice-Rector, Services, with a mandate to propose measures leading to im proved ment of Applied Human Sciences , credit for music and non-music stu­ pean Jewry in the 1930s and 40s. services and facilities for students, staff and faculty . but this year, for the first time, she dents as well as members of the pub­ Taught by Dr. Richard Menkis, a Written submissions may be sent to Allyson Noftall, Comm ittee Secretary, will also teach it online. lic. However, they must be able to v1s1tmg professor from the at BC-101, or via e-mail to nafnaf@vax2 .concordia.ca. The deadline for Co nsidering the content of the play an instrument fairly well in University of British Columbia, this receipt of these submissions is October 26, 2001 . course, this is likely to enrich the order to participate. Those interested course is open to graduate students For more information regarding the committee and its mandate, learning experience. can contact the Department of Music as well as members of the public. please contact her at 4829 or by e-mail.

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Info: Ray Tutor ava ilable. Experienced and with uni­ Department of Psychology offers confiden- is a voluntary, confidential counselling $75. Marianopolis College, 3880 Cote des at 875-7535. versity science degree. Could also tutor tia l psychotherapy and assessment for Retreat In Daily Life and information service for full-time, per- Neiges, Rm . 102. Information: Shan at some non-science courses and help with adult s, couples, famili es, children and Ideal for the busy person who does not manent university employees and their 489-3685 or yog ishan@hotma il.com. Administration Programs term papers and research projects, lan­ teenagers. By appointment only. 848-7550. have the time to get away. Opening and families. 24 hours a day - 7 days a week. Information Sessions guage translation courses. Ca ll 408-0247. closi ng gatherings bracket four days on 1-800-387-4765 (English/ Appreciative inquiry workshop (DINDSA) in the John Molson School of which participants will be asked to put 1-800-361 -5676 (French/ A two-day workshop October 19-20, on Business are holding an Information Parking spot Art aside one hour each day towards their the theory and method of appreciative Sess ion on Thu rsday, Oct . 4, 6pm , in Park ing in my driveway or unhea ted own spiritual development. Oct. 30- Nov. The Concordia Employee Assistance Pro- inquiry, particularly as it applies to change Room GM 403-2, 1550 de Maisonneuve garage, $50/month. Near Loyola . Call Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery 6. Further details to fo llow soon. gram (EAP) has a new and improved Web agents trying to create cha nge in organi­ West. Sign up: 848-2766 or emai l: diad­ 481-9461. Monday to Friday 11am-7pm; Saturday site. Full-time, perm anent employees of zations. Dr. Gerva se Bushe will lecture on [email protected] . Upcoming dates: For rent 1pm -5pm; closed Sundays. 1400 de Eucharist in the Loyola Chapel the university are encouraged to access "Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Process October 18 and Nove mber 15. Maisonneuve W. Free. Info: 848-4750. Daily at 12:05pm and Sundays at 11 am, the site to find helpful information about 3 1/2 semi-basement in a duplex for rent. fo r Transformational Cha nge in Social Working group on discourse, theory • Raymonde April: Tout Embrasser. Until the Eucharist (RC) is ce lebrated in the Loy- co unse lling services, lunch seminars, Very qu iet neighborhood , two minutes Systems." Contact Susan Dinan at 848- and interpretation away from Snowdon Metro. Includes Oct. 20. ala Chapel. Everyone is warmly welcomed. newsletters and much more. Visit us at 2273. The second discussion of the year will be heating, hot water and hydro. Perfect for a http://eap.concordia.ca. led by Chanta l Nadeau on Oc t. 19, student or teacher. Available immediately, Building Bridges Frontier College Students for Literacy An eight-week program of group visits 2:30pm, Hingston Hall, room 334. More ideally until May 31 . Price $ 435/month. ... CPR classes at Concordia with inmates at the Federal Training Cen- dates and speakers to follow. Information: Ca ll 867-2169, ask for Mak. Are you interested in promoting and tre in Lava l. The group leaves from Annex Legal Information [email protected]. Environmental Health and Safety improving literacy in the community? We Home for rent Z at 6pm on Mondays. Advance registra- For more information, contact Donna Concordia 's Legal Information Services are recruiting university students to be Visiting scholar St Lau rent, furni sh ed, all app li ances tion is required. Contact Peter Cote - 848- Fasciano at 848-4355 or visit our web offers free and confidential legal infor- part of this non-profit, volunteer-run team The visiting scholar of the Institute of included. 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Box office hours: Saturday, October 27 Thursday, September 2'l Would you like to be a successful, confi­ contact Dr. Menkis, c/o Dr. Norman very well situated - Jeanne Mance near Monday-Friday, /Dam-noon, 2-5pm. Heartsaver The Concordia Community Lecture Series dent communicator? Learn to conduct Rawin Dept. Religion, Concordia Universi­ Laurier. Looking to rent it furnished and Reservations through Admission at on HIV/AIDS presents Mark Heywood business meetings, motivate people, _do ty, FA-101, H3G 1MB , or phone 848-2005. fully equipped from September to the end 790-1245 or http./!www.admission.com. (University of Witwatersrand). on "Front- job interviews, sell ideas or products, and of May (flexible). Ideal for visiting profes­ For more listings: http.//oscar.concor- sor.Tel. 278-3547. line South Africa : Treatment Access on solve problems in an informal setting. campus Ministry dia.ca. Trial. " He will address the recent legal Contact Lucy Wong at 848-4952, or e-mail Office of Rights & Apartment to share http.//advocacy.concordia.ca/ministry/ agreement between transnational phar- [email protected] .ca. Responsibilities Room in a two-bedroom apartment in Loyola: Belmore House, L-WF 101, 2496 maceutical companies and the South NDG , for another female . Bounded by Counselling and The People's Potato W Broadvvay, 848-3588; SGW- Annex Z African government for access to medica- The Office of Rights and Responsibili­ Fielding, Somerled and Walkley avenues. rooms 102-106, 2090 Mackay, 848-3590 Development tion, the major AIDS media story of 2001 . The People's Potato is delighted to ties is available to all members of the Included are furniture, heating, electricity, announce the opening of our new kitchen university community for confidential hot water and occasional snacks or break­ Mother Hubbard's Cupboard SGW- H-440, 848-3545, Friday, October 5 and serving space on the 7th floor of the consultations regarding any type of fasts . Shared living room , kitchen and Thursday nights from 5-7pm in Annex Z Loyola: 2490 W. Broadway, 848-3555. Edward Mansfield (University of Pennsyl- Hall Building. See you there ! E-mail: peo­ unacceptable behaviour, including dis­ bathroom . Laundry in building. Bus 10 (2090 Mackay), room 105, Mo' Hubbs vania) on "Democratic Transitions and [email protected]. crimination and personal /s exual minutes (N o. 51 ) to Loyola. SGW via No. serves up delicious vegetarian meals. All Smart Start War." 11 am , H-763, 1455 de Maison- hara ssment, threaten ing and vi olent 102 to Vendome Metro then No. 104 or Concordia students, their roommates or Attention new students: Get on track for Lyric Theatre Singers neuve W. conduct, theft, destruction of property. 138 express to Atwater Metro. fam ily welcome. The suggested donation university success. Stop by H-481 to make Seeking singers for the 2001/2002 sea­ 848-4857 , or drop by GM-1120. $400/month, no lease. Marcia 485-1836. is only a looney or two. your appointment. Thursday, October 11 son. Monday evening rehearsals are held The Science College presents Marc in Snowdon. Under the musical direction Downtown condo for sale Dreams & Our Journey to Wholeness Smart test-taking strategies Hauser (Harvard University), on "How ani- of Bob Bachelor. Call 934-6026 for infor­ On Drummond St., 11th floor, two bed­ A seven-week workshop on dreamwork: Learn strategies for taking multiple- Ombuds Office mals think and what they think about. " mation. room s and bathroom s, balcony, indoor Learning or deepening skills to "tend" and choice, essay and problem-solving exams, Hall Building, H-110, 8:30pm. The Ombuds Office is available to all ·garage and pool, sauna, rooftop sundeck, understand your dreams, the vital window as well as ways to manage exam anxiety. Mary's Recovery members of the University for informa­ river and mountain views, 24h doorm en to the soul and psyche. Wednesdays 2:30- Monday, Oct. 1, 5:30-7 :30pm. Register in Friday.October 12 Engli sh/ French non-profit self-help tion, confidential advi ce and assistance and video security. Call 282-0338. 4pm. Michelina Bertone SSA - 848-3591 . H-481 . Dr. Sonia Sikka (Carleton University) on groups for women seeking help in deal­ with university-related problems. Ca ll "Why was Heidegger a Nazi?" Hall Build- ing with fear, anger, stress, depre s­ Kathleen Business Services Buddhist Meditation Stop procrastinating now 848-4964, or drop by GM-1120. ing, 1455 de Ma isonneuve W., H-415, I type quality term papers, essays, thesi s, Includes meditation instruction and sit- Discover why you are just keeping up sion, anxiety, pan ic atta cks, and 3:30pm. Sponsored by the Department of reports, etc. , $1.25 per page. Call 487- ting. Beginners always we lcome. Annex with ye sterday. Learn some strategies ph obias. Meet weekly. Call 933-1904. Ph ilosophy. Information: 848-2500. 1750. Also produce resumes and more. and tec hn iques to help overcome your Z, room 105, Wednesdays 5:15-6:45pm. Free meditation classes Peer Support procra stination . Don't wa it - regi ster Friday, October 12 Taught by Devaki Groulx, leader of the Sri Literary editor wanted The Lunch Bunch now ! Thursday, October 4, 11 :30am- Centre Professor or student needed to revise a J. 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Oct. 12 - Nov. uni versity re so urces, bei ng pa rt of a enced cooks, drivers, grocery shoppers, __.:1-, The annual Leisure in the 21 st Century gro up and lots more. It's challengi ng , Everyday Life 30, 2-4pm. Call 848-3545 to reg ister. Seff-esteem through assertiveness and visi tors for seniors in hospitals or in conference is plea se d to invite you to Join our weekly sessions of visualiza- A support group downtown to discover often fu n, and a way to be helpful to their homes. Must be available during the "Leisure and Youth." Dr Linda Caldwell lion/ meditation on God 's word in the Are you thinking of graduate school? your inner strengths. Call Gail at 937-5351 other students. Drop by the Peer Support day (visits can be done on weekends). (Penn State University) and Dr. Brenda psalms and gospels. Tuesdays, noon to It is never too early to start thinking about ext. 240. Centre, 2090 Mackay, or call 848-3590. One day per week (minimum two to four 1pm. Annex Z, room 105. Michelina the possibility of grad school - come and Robertson (Acad ia University) are the hours). Contact Anna at 933-7351 . Bertone SSA - 848-3591 . learn about the process. Friday, October keynote speakers. Registration begins at Single again 12, 9-11 am. Register in H-481. 8:30am in Room AD-308. Call 848-3330. A support group downtown for separated -Unclassified Van for sale Reflections or divorced men and women. Call Gail at 1997 red Grand Caravan Sport, fully A time to build community with like-mind- Student Success Centre Friday, October 19 937-5351 ext. 240. For sale loaded, four captain seats, mags, double ed people, be introspective, reflect on the Drop by H-481 and speak to a success Dr . 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Student Success Check-Up. Services and Office of the Rector. at 937-5351 ext. 240. support for a crib mattress. Prices nego-