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February 27, 2003 New buildings· are on track

BY BARBARA B LACK town to the Georges P. Vanier budget. While the intense cold Library at Loyola. These will be has slowed things down a little, his June will see movement materials in biology, chemistry, structural work is well underway, towards occupying the physics, psychology, agriculture, and once again, it is on budget. Tnew Science Building on and the health sciences. The tentative date for partial the Loyola Campus, and by David Thirlwall, head of the occupation by the Faculty of September, the facility should be Vanier Library, said, "The materi­ Engineering and Computer fully operational. al selected to be moved occupies Science is December 2004, and for The building will cover 33,000 the equivalent of 15,020 feet of the visual arts component of the square metres spread over seven shelf space. Seven thousand boxes building, August 2005. floors, five above ground and two will be needed to pack the materi­ The side of the immense build­ below. This will include modern al, and when stacked, these boxes ing will boast a public work of art laboratories and other facilities, will occupy about 13,000 square (For details, see page 5.) as well as offices for graduate stu­ feet. This will be not only one of The planning phase is winding dents and postdoctoral fellows. the largest events in our libraries' down for the new John Molson While the construction of the history, but also one of the most School of Business, to be built on building is privately financed and complex." the west side of Guy St. As with therefore exempt from a require­ The Drummond Science the engineering/visual arts build­ ment to include new art works, Building at Loyola, which dates ing, parking space has been elimi­ display cases will showcase part from the 1960s, is being examined nated. This was done under of the university's art holdings. with a view to major renovation. agreement with the city to maxi­ The move will take several Meanwhile, downtown, excava­ mize academic and recreational months and careful co-ordina­ tion for the Engineering, use of the space and take advan­ tion. For example, 200,000 vol­ Computer Science and Visual tage of access to the metro. The richness of black culture fi lled the Hall Bu ilding mezzanine on Feb. 1s in umes will be moved from the R. Arts Building at Guy and Ste. The new JMSB is expected to honour of Black History Month. Above is Ina Cassell, president of Concordia's Howard Webster Library down- Catherine Sts. is finished and on open in December 2005. African Student Union, UMOJA. For details on the event, please see page 7. DreamCatching catches on for native students • in Third annual conference promotes synthesis of native and Western science this

BY ME LANIE TAKEFMAN within a hoop that people place in their windows to filter out bad issue 'l A ]'hen Darren Googoo was dreams and retain good ones. In a V V growing up in Cape Breton, culture rich with metaphors, a 2 Mind journeys he would stand around a fire dreamcatcher is a fitting image Scholar of ideas before going fishing. He never for teachers, particularly those of questioned the purpose of the rit­ native children whose parents' Dana Dragunoiu ual, but now, thanks to the infu­ generation is poorly represented sion of indigenous knowledge in the science and engineering ( shortened to IK) into science professions. Of Canada's 165,000 3 Appelbaum's aims curricula, he understands that engineers, approximately 100 are Management prof smoke neutralizes scents that native. deter fish from humans. The third edition of Dream­ assumes new chair Googoo, the director of educa­ Catching was inaugurated with a tion of the Membertou First broadband multimedia presenta­ Nation community in Cape tion called Web Portraits: A Day in 6 Art and culture Breton, was among over 50 dele­ the Life of an Engineer. The inter­ Book on working gates attending DreamCatching active Web site portrays the daily Clifford Paul explains a method used by students in the University College of 2003 at Concordia, a conference routines of three native engineers Cape Breton's Bachelor of Science Community Studies program to identify women, study of designed to foster an interest in who achieved professional suc­ rocks and plants in a forest usi ng cue card s. Indian deathbeds science among native youth. cess without compromising their From Feb. 19-22, educators and ties with their communities. Each Portraits is aimed at youth, the through a network of roads and scientists from Whitehorse to sequence features visual and data is easy to navigate and full of determine where to erect road 9 Exchange student Kahnawake took part in profes­ audio clips and shows how these didactic games that showcase signs. sional development workshops in engineers contribute to society. how engineering is integrated Robert Deom, a Mohawk civil in Colombia: math and science. Sara Morley, the director of Web into everyday life. For example, as engineer from Kahnawake fea- Fun despite danger In the lore of several native Portraits and a Concordia gradu­ an illustration of a civil engineer­ tribes, a dreamcatcher is a web ate, pointed out that because Web ing task, users must manoeuver Please see page 10 Essential English thoughts, from Dan-a Dragunoiu Professor is passionate about Nabokov, Descartes and teaching-and she keeps on learning

BY SCOTT M c RAE "It was terrible;• Dragunoiu words, we are all Descartes' said about the government. The orphans. hink-O2 sits on English country was corrupt, totalitarian Descartes believed mind and professor Dana Dra­ and mired in hardship. "You matter were separate entities and T gunoiu's bookshelf, just would have to stand in line for was puzzled by why they interact­ above several library books on toilet paper." ed. philosophy. It is just the brand Canada was a great change. The Hegel later conflated the two, name of a· dietary supplement, first question she was asked when and proposed that matter was a but one could be excused for she arrived was, "Do you know degraded form of spirit, a view making more metaphorical con­ who Michael Jackson is?" She had which had brief currency until nections. Thought seems to be an not. Marx turned Hegel upside down essential part of Dragunoiu's Nor could she understand the and argued that mind arose from everyday existence. Ontario school system. · In matter. Most intellectuals now Since arriving at Concordia last Bucharest, she had been learning subscribe to Marx's materialist fall from a post-doc at Princeton, trigonometry and political econo­ conception. this affable young professor has my ("which was all political prop­ To determine how this materi­ been busy with teaching and aganda;' she added). In Windsor, alization of the mind is affecting research. She is an expert on the her fifth-grade classmates were modern culture, Dragunoiu is writings of Vladimir Nabokov, learning their multiplication rummaging through everything author of Lolita, and talks pas­ tables and had independent read­ from William Gibson's science fic­ sionately about his work. ing sessions. "School felt like play­ tion and the nascent scientific She admires his bizarre and time:• field of consciousness studies to a unprecedented narrative struc­ In a sense, school is still a place novel by an author whose entire tures, his innovative use of where she plays. She took an body is paralyzed and who dictat­ Russian and English, and the undergraduate' degree out of a ed his book I by blinking (The utter aplomb with which he love of reading and a master's Diving Bell and The Butterfly, by writes. degree out of a love of the aca­ Jean Dominique Bauby). Her interest in Nabokov led to a demic lifestyle. It is a lot of work for a new pro­ dissertation that examines his Now her enthusiasm for teach­ fessor. 'Tm wedded to my job;' work in the context of turn­ ing keeps her going. "I love being she said with a laugh, then admit­ of-the-century Russian and at the front of the classroom:• ted that she does find time for European philo~ophical tradi­ One of the courses she con­ other activities. "I swim. I go tions, and she is currently in the ducts is a master's seminar on on tobogganing in my neighbour­ process of turning this work into her current research interest, an hood:' a book. interdisciplinary exploration of She is happy to be living in Like Nabokov, Dragunoiu's first the mind-body problem. This Montreal and says that she Dana Dragunoiu language is Russian, but she, problem, given its modem formu­ admires its diversity and cosmo­ adopted English as her primary lation by Descartes in the 17th politan nature. "I like the culture them [of their history and cul­ It is also an ideal place for her tongue when she and her mother century, has left four centuries of immigrants that we all are ture]:' This is an ideal environ­ to nurture both her professional abandoned Ceausescu's Romania worth of philosophers in an intel­ committed to. We are absorbing ment in which to nurture stu­ and academic goals. "I love it in 1983. lectual quandary. . In· Dragunoiu's [immigrants], but not cleansing dents: "They won't feel alienated:' here:• Centre for Teaching and Learning Services celebrates 30th anniversary Course will offer teaching skills instruction to doctoral students who want a hiring edge oncordia's Centre for fields." This means developing the full range of teaching and attended. be surveyed about their views and Teaching and Learning specific goals and using a variety learning. The new CTLS Web site at experiences. The results of the CServices is collaborating of methods to cultivate and Just before classes start in the http://ctls.concordia.ca includes surveys will be made available, . with the School of Graduate assess learning. fall, the CTLS co-ordinates four many resources, and the CTLS is and the issue of academic integri­ Studies and _the Department of As envisioned now, the new orientation days for all newly­ working with graduate students ty will be explored at a special Education to develop a new non­ graduate course will be offered in hired tenure-track faculty, one for from the educational technology symposium planned by CTLS on credit graduate course for PhD two sections to respect the disci­ each faculty. program to produce a series of Mays:· • students. plinary differences between sci­ Then there's the popular three­ videos on teaching at Concordia, The workshop will present "The proposal is going forth ence and engineering on the one day Instructional Skills Workshop which can be viewed on the Web recent research on academic mis­ this month and we hope that we hand, and the fine arts and (ISW), which enables faculty to site. conduct, and provide participants will be able to run a pilot next humanities on the other. experiment and strengthen their Janette Barrington, teaching with the chance to reflect on what September;• said Director Olivia There will be no prerequisites, teaching skills together. It's consultant at the CTLS, was hired steps they might take in both Rovinescu. The title of the course but students will be expected to always good to know you can talk as part of the McConnell their own courses and in the uni­ will be University Teaching & complete a formal or informal to others about the challenges of Pedagogy Technology Project, versity as a whole. Learning: Theory into Practice. internship while taking the the classroom. and is co-ordinating this video The person conducting the Graduate students interested in course, so they will need either a Some faculty members prefer project, among others. workshop is Julia Christensen pursuing an academic career teaching assistant contract, or to improve their teaching skills in "The scope of our involvement Hughes, who recently undertook would do well to take this course, written agreement by a faculty ·private, and take advantage of the has changed as well over the years a study on academic integrity at because hiring institutions now member to teach part of their CTLS's consultation service, to encompass issues that go the University of Guelph, where look for good teaching skills, she course, in order to gain experi­ which is confidential and volun­ beyond pedagogy, such as the she is an associate professor and said. ence in teaching, grading, lab tary. issue of academic integrity;• director of teaching support serv­ "Faculty searches are attracting supervision, and/or tutoring. Each year, CTLS gives a half­ Rovinescu added. ices. large numbers of applicants, and They will also begin to develop a day orientation for new teaching "This month, Concordia will search committees are able to teaching dossier. assistants, followed by a week­ take part in a North-America­ Workshops entitled Fostering the concentrate their attention on Originally, the CLTS was called long series of lunchtime work­ wide study of academic integrity Climate of Academic Integrity will those applicants with teaching the Leaming Development Office, shops. Here, TAs can meet their in higher education co-ordinated be held on May 8, and Graduate experience and with evidence of and primarily administered colleagues, and become acquaint- · by Advocacy and Support Student Supervision, on May 15. effectiveness;• Rovinescu said. course evaluations, but it has ed with the university's resources, Services. Register online at the CTLS Web "Increasingly, faculty members become much more proactive, rules, and regulations regarding ''.As part of the study, Concordia site, http://ctls.concordia.ca. are expected to do more than working with individual depart­ teaching. This year, a record num­ students and faculty {possibly simply cover the content of their ments and the four faculties on ber of 120 graduate students teaching assistants as well) will -Barbara Black 2 Con cord ia's- Th ursd·ay R,po·rt I Februa ry 27, 2'08 3 Steve Appelbaum honoured with a major research chair

BY B RA D H UNTER

teven Appelbaum will be honoured Feb. 27 for his Srecent appointment as Concordia University Research Chair in Organizational Dev­ elopment Appelbaum, a professor of management in the John Molson Congratulations to Derron Bodell, one of eight Canadian journalism School of Business, will use this students to be awarded CBC Newsworld's Joan Donaldson bursary. It five-year appointment to contin­ carries a $2,000 award and a four-month internship with CBC News. ue studying client-consultant Clarence Bayne (DIA/DSA, Entrepreneurship Institute/Minority relationships, an area he said has Communities), is featured in a photo exhibit sponsored by the City of renewed significance in light of Montreal and the Quebec Ministry of Citizen Relations and recent downsizing and merger Immigration in collaboration with Images lnterculturelles, entitled trends. Noirs du Quebec: quelques mode/es asuivre . The exhibit was first present­ ed in Quebec City in 2002 and has travelled throughout the province. "There's nothing more enigmat­ ic than the relationships between David Ketterer (English, retired, and honorary research fellow, organizations ~nd their consult­ University of Liverpool) recently published a paperback edition of his The Science Fiction of Mark Twain (1984) under a new title, Tales of ants;• he said. "The whole area of Wonder by Mark Twain (University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books client-consultant relationships is Frontiers of Imagination series). Long a member of the editorial board very significant today, because as of the journal Poe Studies, in November 2002, Ketterer accepted an invi­ organizations are downsizing, tation to join the editorial board of The Edgar Allan Poe Review. they are contracting out more and Karin Doerr (CMLL and SBI) and Kurt Jonassohn (Sociology) published more for professional help, so the "Germany's Language of Genocide at the Turn of the Century• in The consultant becomes a critical Steven Appelbaum Century of Genocide: Selected Papers from 30th anniversary Conference of component:• the Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, 2002. Doerr also wrote on methodology, co-authorship, and content of Nazi Another reason to continue an organization manage itself. at the types of outcomes that are Deutsch/ Nazi German: An English Lexicon of the Language of the Third studying client-consultant rela­ The study will also investigate expected. We can then go back to Reich in the German journal Forum Deutsch: Canadian Association of tionships is that little literature ethical standards used in organi­ an organization and with some Teachers of German, 2002. exists on the subject. "This, for zational development, an area ideas of what the organization Danielle Gauvreau (Sociology and Anthropology) and Diane Gervais me, was the stimulus to continue that has come under increased should be doing." (adjunct assistant professor in the same department) presented the working on this issue, because scrutiny because of recent scan­ A research paper series based paper "Religion et population• at the conference of Societe de much more needs to be done." dals at companies such as Enron, on the work being done in the demographie historique, in Paris in January. Gauvreau's article "La tran­ Appelbaum was dean of Nortel and WorldCom. centre will also be launched. sition de la fecondite au Canada. Bilan et essai d'interpretation• was Concordia's Faculty of Commerce ''.All these organizations used Appelbaum said the series will published in the Anna/es de demographie historique (Vol. 2, 2002). and Administration, as it was consultants, and I think the con­ enable faculty to receive feedback Corinne Mount Pleasant-Jett, (Technical Writing, Native Access to then called, from 1983 to 1990, a sultants all helped to exacerbate before papers are submitted to Engineering Program) was co-chair of the National Working Group on period in which the number of the problem;• Appelbaum said. "If journals, feedback he hopes will First Nations Education. As reported in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science quarterly, the appointment by Indian and northern faculty members nearly doubled, they're good, they should be improve a paper's chances of affairs minister Robert Nault was the direct result of her 10 years devel­ and several innovative programs smart enough to look around and being accepted oping· the Native Access to Education Program at Concordia. The were launched. say, 'These organizations aren't Appelbaum believes that the appointment was made in June, and the group put in six months of He has written 18 textbooks being managed properly. When series of business research chairs work before putting their recommendations to the minister. and instructors' manuals, and do I blow the whistle?"' established over the past two Enn Raudsepp, chair of the Journalism Department, sat·on a consulta­ over 100 articles for major publi­ One of the goals of the study years are good ways of recogniz­ tive committee on media quality and diversity at the invitation of cations and journals, and investi­ will be to establish an organiza­ ing those with proven research Quebec's minister of culture and communications. Set up in gated topics as various as team­ tional development centre. Appel­ records who can use their experi­ September, it presented 12 recommendations to the government early this month. Among them were suggestions that the Quebec govern­ building, the survivor syndrome, baum said that this centre will ences to assist other faculty. ment monitor future media transactions, encourage editorial inde­ managing stress and conflict, enable graduate students and fac­ "As research chair, I would like pendence of media outlets belonging to conglomerates, and draft an mentoring and downsizing. ulty to simulate what goes on to serve as a mentor for some of information charter of ethical principles. Raudsepp was one of several In 1998, Appelbaum was award­ when an organization undergoes the younger faculty members who academics on the body, but was the only anglophone. ed the Leaders in Management change. could use some of the work I'm Raymond Marius Boucher, a lecturer in the Theatre Department, was Education Award, sponsored by "Those of us out there doing doing in order to get more funded the set designer for a successful production last fall of Savannah Bay, by The Financial Post and Bell consulting can bring in actual projects from government fund­ Marguerite Duras, mounted by the Theatre du Rideau Vert. The pro­ Canada, one of only four cases and the actual problems we ing agencies, and also possibly duction was notable for its outstanding performance by 81-year-old Canadian academics so recog­ worked on, and have the students pursue external contracts," he actress Janine Sutto, and Boucher said he worked specifically to create a comfortable environment onstage for Sutto and her younger col­ nized each year. He is also a two­ work on solutions after the fact, said. league, Monique Spaziani. time winner of the Outstanding or even during an intervention, to "I think this research chair is Teaching Award presented by the see what they come up with," he recognition for something I start­ Rkhard Dlubaldo, formerly of the History Department, the Centre for Continuing Education and the Recruitment _Centre, contacted CTR John Molson School of Business, explained "It becomes sort of an ed over 30 years ago," he contin­ from Guadalajara, Mexico, where he has been for a few months. He in 1994 and 1999. applied laboratory where all of ued "With this position, I've real­ gave a paper at the North American Studies Center at the Universidad Appelbaum not only brings his this can be tested. ly returned to my roots in organi­ Del Valle De Atemajac entitled "Canadian Sovereignty and the United extensive academic background "We can look at problems and zational development after all States: Historical Perspectives." in organizational development to have students role-play and look this time:• Va"rle de Courville Nicol (Sociology/Anthropology) published "La the study, but also considerable production de l'homme moderne: ou le passage de la peur a l'in­ work experience, having served as Nominations for medals and awards terieur• in Socio/ogie et Societe. a consultant to many large organ­ Steven Woloshen's short film Camera Take 5 opened the recent izations over the past 30 years. Spring 2003 convocation Rendez-vous du cinema quebecois festival. He used a style he devel­ He explained that the study will oped when he was a student in Concordia's cinema program some 20 examine 13 components of the The Concordia Medal • The Malone Medal • The O'Brien Medal years ago. client-consultant relationship, Lieutenant-Governor's Award • The Stanley G. French Medal Greg Nlelsen (Sociology/ Anthropology), with Yon Hsu and Louis Jacob, covering everything from when has published "The Dialogics of Democracy: Reading the debates on and at what level a consultant's All submissions due on March 28 at the Office of the Registrar, LB-700, atten­ the Montreal and Toronto Amalgamation• in !he Canadian Journal of expertise is needed in an organi­ tion: H. Albert. Forms and criteria are available at the Dean of Students Offices, Urban Studies. Nielsen was also invited to join a 10-person Ford Foundation think tank on Human Rights and Latin America. zation, to when the consultant H-653 or AD-121 , and the Birks Students Service Centre, LB-185. should end a relationship and let 3 Febru.ry 27 , 2003 I Concordia's Th,ursday Report Online Journal-s Opposing view on Middl Concordia students and student researchers now have dramatical­ As a student of both journalism and Middle ly expanded access to online sci­ am well aware of the circumstances surroun · de fy disappointed to see the level to which Concordia's entific and social sciences jour­ tion of the West Bank (including East Jerus ,,..-.-=s-J Report would sink to demonize the Concordia Student nals, thanks to a new licensing Golan Heights during the Six-Day War. Mr. Stiv Union. The article entitled "Board asks CSU for financial state­ agreement by the Canadian appears to be seriously misinformed (Lette · CT.1l.....:. __. ments" (CTR, Feb. 13) was false, misleading and misrepresented the National Site Licensing Project 1. Despite Mr. Carter's assertion (which h makes no , but events that it described. (CNSLP) with the publisher twice in his letter), neither Jordan nor Egypt d Israel during First, it neglected to mention that the CSU is a company incorpo­ Elseviei: the Six-Day War. In fact, it was Israel who initiated hostilities, justi­ rated under Section III of the Quebe<; Company Act, and as such, is The CNSLP, of which Concordia fying their actions as a "pre-emptive strike" (which, Mr. Carter under no obligation to provide its financial information to the is a member, is a consortium of might want to take note, is illegal under international law). Not board. The resolution made by the board of governors withholding Canadian university libraries. even the Israelis themselves dispute this. payment to the CSU would violate An act respecting the accreditation Their aim to bolster the research 2. Mr. Carter states that, "Since Israel took back their land that and financing ofstudents associations. and innovation capacity of was originally populated by Jews years ago, most people who know While all CSU budgetary information, including audited finan­ Canadian universities through the facts think Israel deserves to keep their land." Leaving aside Mr. cials, is available to its membership, the board has no standing to the coordinated services and Carter's tenuous grasp of the definition of a fact, a large percentage demand this information, nor does it have the right to withhold fee expertise of academic libraries, of Israelis (somewhere in the neighborhood of half) think that Israel payments to the CSU, which the university is obliged to collect and working on a national scale to should relinquish control of the Occupied Territories in exchange pay according to a timetable codified in law. license electronic versions of for peace. Furthermore, if Mr. Carter believes that possession ofland Concordia's board of governors is clearly attacking the right of scholarly publications and in ancient times qualifies as a legitimate legal and moral claim in students to free association, much as if the university's manage­ research databases in multiple modem times, then I assume that he also advocates returning all of ment were to make similar demands to one of Concordia's accredit­ disciplines. the United States and Canada, not to mention Central and South ed labour unions. Until now, 11 of the CNSLP America, to native American rule. Requests by the board for CSU budgetary information did not member institutions had access 3. The United Nations has·affirmed repeatedly, and in no uncer­ come, as the CTR stated, in the context of increased fee levies for the to Elsevier journals through tain terms, that Israelis occupation and colonization of the West· CSU. In fact, this demand was brought in the context of increased Elsevier's ScienceDirect online Bank (including East Jerusalem), Gaza Strip and Golan Heights are fee levies to student services independent of the CSU, The platform. The agreement effective illegal according to international law. Concordian newspaper and CJLO radio, approved by students in a January 2003 through 2006 4. Israel is currently in violation of literally dozens of UN resolu­ university-wide referendum. expands access to over 1,500 tions (about 60, I believe) and its "Jewish-only" settlement program While the CSU is afforded legal protection in regards to the col­ Elsevier journals to 61 institu­ is a serious breach of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, lection and payment of its fees, student groups and projects tions, giving unlimited access to which states that "the Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer autonomous of the CSU have no such security, and indeed, an estimated 650,000 students, parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies." Concordia's board chose to delay approval of funding for these inde­ researchers and academic scien­ 5. While it's true that many Palestinians enjoyed more economic pendent student media projects. tists in the Canadian consortium. opportunity in the early days of the occupation than they had previ­ The article regarding CSU finances in The Link, cited in CTR, was For complete information on ously, since the signing of the Oslo Accords, the vast majority of in fact an opinion piece by Mr. Adam Spiro, an executive member of this new deal and details of how it Palestinians (especially in Gaza) have seen a precipitous drop in Concordia Hillel. It should be known that Mr. Spiro is a complainant impacts on researchers, we refer their incomes due to severe Israeli restrictions on their movements in a lawsuit against the CSU, for which he personally stands to gain readers to click on "What's New" and on their economy. Their situation has worsened dramatically a share of $100,000 from student fees. on the Library's Web page, at since the outbreak of violence in September, 2000. It's now so bad Mr. Spiro's article was printed as an opinion piece rather then as http://library.concordia.ca/news/n that UN officials are warning of an impending humanitarian disas­ a news item, as he had initially requested, since neither the author ews.html tei: nor The Link were able to corroborate any accusations made there­ Moreover, whatever financial gains some Palestinians may have in. CSU councillor Patrice Blais has rebutted Mr. Spiro's accusations, ■ CTR malling error made living under Israeli military rule were more than offset by and this response can be found at http://thelink.concordia.ca. massive, grave and systematic human rights abuses, which have It is shocking that the board would base such a legally suspect res­ To readers of CTR who get their been thoroughly documented by Amnesty International, Human olution on the weak foundations of a student newspaper opinion issues by mail: Rights Watch, the UN Commission on Human Rights, the US State piece. Do board members honestly feel that they have made a case Due to an error on the part of Department, as well as Israeli groups like B'Tselem and Physicians to set aside accreditation law? Automatic Mailing our maess for Human Rights, to name but a few. This has been more than obvi­ Furthermore, CTR fails to mention that the rector and chair of the mailing supplier, apartment and ous since well before the beginning of the first uprising against board of governors had already accepted an offer by the CSU made office numbers were omitted from Israel's occupation, more than 15 years ago. in the spirit of accountability and transparency. The CSU is still the labels on the Jan. 30 issue of more than willing to follow through on that agreement even if the the Thursday Report. We apologize for this. If you didn't receive a Christopher Hazou board seems to be getting cold feet. copy and would like one by mail, Journalism The CSU will hand over its budget if it can have equal access to the budgets of two private companies affiliated with Concordia, the please let us know. Concordia University Foundation and eConcordia.com. The CSU Performing arts represented in China Council has explicitly approved this agreement with an additional request for the divulgation of all donations made to the Foundation In response to William Reznicek's letter to the editor (Letters, or the university by board members, or moral persons to which CTR, Feb. 13), we would like to clarify that two of the six members board members are affiliated, on a semi-annual basis. of the Faculty of Fine Arts delegation to China, Dean Christopher The board has yet to officially accept these terms of open and is published 18 limes during tilt acadffllic year on a bl-Wttldy basi! by !ht lntmial Relations Jackson and Associate Dean Liselyn Adams, are members of the transparent university governance. and Communications Department of Concordia music department. Adam Slater University, 1455 de Maisonn•IM' Blvd. W., As well, during the July visit to the faculty by the Academy of Montreal, 0ul!bec H3G1MB (514) 848-4882 Chinese Traditional Opera, meetings were held with the chairs of Bram Freedman, Assistant Secretary-General and General Counsei E-mail : [email protected] Fax: (514) 848-2814 music and theatre as well as with members of the dance depart­ replies: Mab!rialpdshed in ther-i,aper ment. A member of the dance department also participated in a I am writing to confirm that the article published in the last CTR was ma>/ not bt ~ without permissicn number of activities with the Chinese delegation. completely factual and simply reported what had transpired at the last ISSN 1185-3689 All discussions were very fruitful. The possibilities for collabora­ board ofgoverno rs meeting. While I understand that Mr. Slater does not Publications Mail Ag rttment No.: ~ 2804 Editor tion with the performing arts were ·high on the agenda and have agree with the decision taken by the board, there was nothing 1alse or Barbara Black been included in the formal agreement of co-operation. misleading" about the CTR report. Editorial Assistant.1..,out ind Plodu

BY MELANIE TAKEFMAN is becoming a valuable asset for into three panels: policy, research students entering the workplace. and governance. Each theme will occi Luppicini and Abigail Also, the proliferation of voca­ consist of a plenary talk followed Colby Shorter are not talc­ 'tional colleges and co-operative by panel spealcers and discus­ Ring the passive approach to education programs indicates sions. Intellectual property as education. Instead of simply get­ that the delivery of higher educa­ well as the idea of technology ting a degree, the two graduate tion is at a crossroads. replacing faculty are among top­ students are creating a forum to The increase in different uni­ ics to be debated. maximize the higher learning versity models "suggests that we Spealcers will include Quebec's experience for students, faculty, should be embracing this shift;' Minister of Education Sylvain administrators, and industry. said conference co-chair Colby Simard, Maria Peluso, president It is because these diverse play­ Shorter, a master's student in of the Concordia University Part­ ers within universities rarely public administration and public Time Faculty 'Association and a communicate or collaborate on policy. political science professor, and the rapidly changing state of The industrial and non-profit Concordia's rector, Frederick higher education that Luppicini sectors (known collectively as the Lowy. Abigail Colby Shorter and Rocci Luppicini and Colby Shorter will unite them "third sector") are permeating The conference will also hon­ in the Millennium University con­ higher education more than ever our sociologist Charles Tilly of moment, she added, "there is a Because the conference's organ­ ference on March 14-15. before, and shifting the balance Columbia University's New disconnect [between] training izers worked under the title of a "Getting people together who between public and private fund­ School for Social Research in New and education and their applica­ graduate and researcher consor­ don't normally associate with ing that has long sustained York City. tion in the workplace:• tium, the Millennium University each other is a challenge;• said Canadian universities. Some dis­ Despite the prestigious roster The conference is free for all Lecture Series could easily be Luppicini, co-chair of the confer­ ciplines benefit frnm new of spealcers, Luppicini and Colby students and will talce place in mobile. "It's an opportunity that's ence and a PhD candidate in edu­ resources more than others, and Shorter are determined to reap various venues at Concordia and open. It's not embedded in any cational technology. However, it is this inequality can cause tension. concrete l;>enefits for students at McGill. institution;• Colby Shorter said. necessary given the increasing To make the most of these the conference. One idea is to Being that the conference is the She added that she would like co-operation of government, changes, Luppicini and Colby develop a mentorship program first of its kind, Luppicini and to see the conference become a industry, academia and adminis­ Shorter will encourage members for all students that would give Colby Shorter hope that it will regular forum for the analysis of tration in higher education. of the three sectors to bring their them access to professional draw positive attention to higher education in the future. While researchers have tradi­ distinct perspectives to bear on resources like an editing job Concordia's academics, and there­ For the conference schedule, visit tionally stayed within educational their ramifications. banks for journalism students, by better job opportunities for the Millennium University Web site institutions, practical experience The conference is organized Colby Shorter said. At the graduates. at http://millennium.concordia.ca.

WATCH THIS SPACE Biodiesel shuttle bus The new Integrated Engineering Computer he Sustainable Concordia then performs like regular diesel Science and Visual Arts TProject (SCP) has started a fuel. Complex will include a campaign to introduce biodiesel Biodiesel has many great qual­ public work of art, show­ in one of the universitiy's shuttle ities; it is biodegradable, non­ cased on the glass sec­ buses. The SCP is asking stu­ toxic, non-hazardous, renewable tion of the #curtain wall# on Mackay St. at the cor­ dents, staff, and faculty of and can be produced domestical­ ner of Ste. Catherine St. Concordia to demonstrate their ly. Greenhouse gases, such as W. At roughly 6,000 support for the use of biodiesel carbon monoxide and sulphur square feet and a cost of in the shuttle fleet by signing a oxides and particulate matter about $42S,OOO, it will be letter of support being circulated are reduced in bus tailpipe and · the largest commission around campus. There will be a lifecycle emissions, leading to ever under the province's art integration program, table on the mezzanine of the improved air quality. Biodiesel which requires govern­ Hall building starting this week. furthermore cleans fuel systems ment-funded buildings Last year, Concordia's shuttle and prolongs the longevity of to incorporate works by service transported an average of vehicle engines. Quebec artists. Of 50 2,300 passengers between the The Sustainability Concordia applicants, five artists are on the shortlist, and four downtown and Loyola campuses Project's goal is to malce the uni­ of them are Concordia every week day. The 76, 525 litres versity more ecologically, eco­ graduates. The jury's of diesel consumed from nomically and environmentally decision is expected to September 2001 to August 2002 responsible. be made in early March equates to approximately 205 A sustainability audit is being watch for the tonnes, or the equivalent weight carried out to examine the announcement in one of our spring issues. of 41 elephants, in carbon diox­ impact of our university's opera­ ide emissions. Use .of biodiesel tions, under the leadership of will reduce greenhouse gas emis­ Geneva Guerin, Sustainable sions. Concordia Project co-ordinator, Biodiesel is made of oil-con­ and Melissa Garcia Lamarca, Undergraduate art show at Ellen Gallery taining crops, virgin or recycled Sustainable Concordia Project vegetable oils and is used in vehi­ auditor. ndergraduate students in drawing, video, and installation. Finalyson, Nicolas Grenier, Catto cles with diesel engines. It can be For more infomation, contact UConcordia's Faculty of Fine The exhibition is organized by the Houghton, Zoe Kreye, Vincent used as fuel when diesel engines Stephanie Watt at 525-4586, or Arts will hold their annual exhibi­ VAV Gallery and juried by a com­ Lafrance, Tuulia Law, John are retrofitted to burn hotter. It email [email protected]. tion of work under the title mittee of undergraduates who are Londono, Hoang Nguyen, Mark green/vert from March 11 to April also responsible for the design Andre Pennock, e. Dawit L. 5, continuing a tradition of more and printing of the invitations Petros, Marie-Claude Plasse, Tom Jackson in concert than 20 years. and the preparation of biographi­ Alana Riley, Ned Schwartz, ctor, singer and philanthro­ Conference Exploring Career and To launch the show at the cal materials that accompany the Alexandre Seguin Dores, Beth Apist Tom Jackson will per­ Life Opportunities. Leonard and Bina Ellen Art show. Stuart, Jean-Marc Superville form on Feb. 27 at the Oscar Today, at Kahnawalce, issues of Gallery, 1400 de Maisonneuve Here are the artists: Haig Sovak. Peterson Concert Hall, as a spirituality, culture and tradition Blvd. W., a reception will be held Aivazian, Kiki Athanassiadis, The exhibition is presented fundraiser for a youth conference are being discussed, and tomor­ Tuesday, March 11, at 5:30 p.m. Lorna Bauer, Julie Boivin, with the assistance of the organized with the Kahnawalce row, at Concordia, the focus will The exhibition will include art­ Stepltanie Chabot, Cal Crawford, Concordia Council on Student Survival School. be on career opportunities, the works in a variety of media, Michael Doerksen, Michael Life and the Dean's Office, Faculty The two-day event is called social economy and personal including photography, sculpture, Farnan, Andrew Duncan of Fine Arts. The Gathering: A Native Youth development. 5 Huneault on working women and visual culture BY DANA HEARNE "that she would be outstanding­ the 19th century; at construc­ followed the academic ly successful. Her research was tions of Victorian femininity; route straight through , , She is a star. And I expect meticulous and her writing up of women as passive, domestic, from kindergarten. her to become one of the research lucid and com­ maternal, dependent, sexual­ "Unfair as it is;' she said. Canada's most respected art pelling. She was a brilliant stu­ ized. She wondered what hap­ "I do think that students historians.n This is how Janice dent:' pened when artists wanted to and scholars who have Helland, professor of art history These qualities are amply dis­ represent women who didn't fit interruptions to their and women's studies at Queen's played in her first book Difficult into those constructions. "It careers are at a disad­ University, describes Kristina Subjects: Working Women and seemed to me that there was a vantage when it comes Huneault, scholar, author and Visual Culture, Britain 1880-1914 disjuncture between labour on to grants and awards.n assistant professor of art history which appeared in December. the one hand and femininity on But her success also Interestingly, the othei' stems from a passion for she says she In Canada, there was a mas­ what she does. It's not ended up in art sive influx of women into the just the privilege of being history acciden­ work force during the First able to play with the tally. "I loved World War. Huneault found that complexity and unex­ writing essays a discourse of patriotism pectedness of ideas, it's and a teacher emerged to make women's new what she thinks about. suggested that roles more palatable. Women's "I care about how peo­ art history would work was presented as a sacri­ ple become the people be the perfect fice for the nation. "It was they are, and I think Kristina Huneault subject for me as accommodation to social_struc­ visual images have something to female artist as a subject within it combined tures, so not an awful lot had do with that process. More and Canadian history?" looking at art changed:' more I'm seeing how creative Loren Lerner, chair of the and writing A Commonwealth scholarship scholarship is, and I realize that · Department of Art History, essays. So that's and a SSHRC doctoral fellowship what I'm doing is often creating describes Huneault as "an what I did.n enabled her to spend three years interpretations that can stand as extraordinarily gifted scholar;• From then on at the University of Manchester artworks on their own.n and notes that her current she never looked under the direction of art histo­ Huneault said her interest in research is already being recog­ back. After she rian Deborah Cherry. Her focus justice has shaped her academic nized as "a vital, innovative con­ finished her BA shifted to British art and the rep­ studies. It was when she realized tribution to the history of The Madonna and the Charwoman: A Sketch on in her hometown resentation of working women how much injustice had been Canadian women in art and Cleaning Day at the National Gallery, by Paul University of in art. attendant on being a woman visual culture:• Renouard, published in The Graphic in 1898. Huneault Windsor in 1991 She did her final PhD year that she became interested in Huneault, for her part, calls sees this characteristic hand-on-hip gesture as a she came to {1998) back in Montreal and feminist issues. Concordia her intellectual home. metaphor of the working woman's position - assert­ ing independence, yet being socially circumscribed. Concordia to do immediately got an appoint­ Her current research is taking "We now have the Institute for her master's in ment at McGill and one year her back to Canadian art. She Studies in Canadian Art at at Concordia. art history. Her MA thesis later, tenure-track in Concordia's hopes to develop a theoretically Concordia focusing on Canadian Helland was a teacher at explored images of working Faculty of Fine Arts. informed analysis of women art, and I want to be part of that:• Concordia in 1991 when women in Canada during the Looking back. she reflects that artists working in Canada dur­ She wants to give back to her Huneault came to do her mas- First World War. her success had a lot to do with ing the 19th century by address­ students the generous support ter's here. "It was obvious from She noticed that a lot of femi­ diligence, luck and the support ing the question "What differ­ that sustained her over the past the beginning;• Helland says, nist art history looked at art in of others and the fact that she ence did gender make to the decade. Sharman takes methodology of material culture to India

BY ( LAR E BYRNE whether Muslim, Hindu or designers to make everything last Christian, in a country often torn a generation;• she said. ome 60 years ago, Ahmedabad by religious tensions, all shared The emphasis on durability in Swas the nerve centre of the an underlying Indian culture. India contrasts with what she Indian freedom movement; now l'he Hindu deathbed was one of calls the planned obsolescence of it's the textile capital of India and the objects examined by the stu­ products in the Western world. showpiece of Indo-Islamic archi­ dents. Built entirely of bamboo, it Our obsession with having the lat­ tecture. Concordia's Lydia takes the form of a ladder when it est version of things makes us Sharman, now an adjunct profes­ is stacked. Death, then, is por­ consume more and generate more sor of design art, spent seven days trayed as a stairway to another waste. India is anxious to avoid there in December teaching world. Hindus of all castes are these pitfalls of the consumer cul-· Indian design students about the cremated in a five-hour ceremony ture. metholodology of material cul­ on a deathbed as a reminder, Sharman's area of specializa­ ture. Sharman said, that "in death, tion, Islamic geometric design, Material culture is based on the everyone is equal." For Muslims, particularly interested her coun­ history and narrative of products, too, the deathbed is significant. terparts in Ahmedabad. She stud­ A Hindu deathbed Sharman explained. Every prod­ Muslims make the ladders and ied Islamic architecture exten­ uct tells a different story. Part of tend the cremation, work consid­ sively as part of her PhD at the To further investigate the simi­ based on the elements. It would her mandate from the National ered unclean by Hindus. Royal College of Art in London, larities in patterns across cul­ also help curators in establishing Institute of Design (NID) in The symbolism of the deathbed and continues to write and carry tures, she has launched a project the origins of artefacts. Ahmedabad was to assist 52 stu­ appealed to Sharman's strong out research on the topic. to develop a "shape grammar" Sharman acknowledged that dents, all graduates in different social conscience. The fact that "A lot of cultures have a rich software. Islamic design study promotes branches of design - industrial, the bed is completely biodegrad­ tradition of pattern and orna­ The project is funded by integration and understanding furniture, clothing and lifestyle - able spoke also to her ecological ment," she said, "particularly cul­ Hexagram, an independent insti­ in mixed-culture environments. to "read" the objects around them awareness. Likewise, Concordia's tures with a strong artisan tradi­ tute established by Concordia Having taught in London and for their cultural significance. Department of Design Art places tion:• and UQAM to fund research in New York before Montreal, she's Each student had to choose an particular emphasis on ecological Morocco and India are two fine arts and new media. no stranger to cosmopolitanism. object that was important to him design. such cultures, and the geometry When completed, the software It's important for students from or her in some way and relate its Indian designers share that upon which the tradition of will be able to analyze Islamic different ethnic backgrounds to story to the class. "It was a win­ awareness, as India becomes Moroccan zillij mosaics is devel­ geometric designs, and categorize study their culture, she conclud­ dow into their culture;• Professor increasingly industrialized. oped is found in ornaments in the the elements. This would allow ed. "It's a way of getting students Sharman said. The students, "Manufacturers are telling Indian subcontinent, she said. artists to develop new works back to their origins:• 6 Concordia 's Thursday Report I February 27 , 2003 Black culture Hiphopping 101 BY Scon McRA E ed last year's talks, Leger said that rocks the mezz they attracted a wide cross-sec­ oncordia offered a course tion of students, from serious in the history of rock and fans to a woman who was trying hythmic African vibes and. children Croll. The music depar~­ to figure out why hiphop Rwith colourful hand-made masks ment teaches jazz. English teach­ appealed to her boyfriend. took over the Hall Building mezzanine ers assign readings on the Beat This year, said Dufieux, the on Saturday, Feb. 15, in an event called Generation. Now, a group of response has been almost over­ The Richness of Black Cultures. Concordia students and alumni whelming. Several Americans The fair celebrated Black History want to bring hiphop into acade­ plan to take part in the sympo­ Month with a multitude of literature, art mia. sium and a hiphop fan in Brazil and jewelry displays. Visitors were The group, Students for the inquired about it. Both the offered dishes of African origin, like cur­ Advancement of Hiphop Culture, Montreal hiphop community and ried chicken and Haitian cornbread, is hosting their second annual the Concordia student body have between performances of capoeira, a symposium on hiphop culture. expressed interest. In fact, stu­ Brazilian martial art invented by African Hiphop culture, according to dents groups like the Concordia slaves, and nubialite, a dance used to Diegal Leger, a Concordia inde­ Student Union and the Graduate express women's sensuality in Haiti. pendent studies student and one Students Association are giving Younger participants enjoyed story­ of the symposium's co-ordinators, financial support to the sympo­ telling and face painting while their par­ is both a mode of expression that sium. ents browsed information booths hosted includes spoken word, music and Last year, workshops on the by organizations including the Nation of physical art, and Islam of Canada. the "latest man- The Richness of Black Cultures was ifestation of organized by UMOJA, Concordia's resistance cul- African Student Union, in association ture and oral with local groups like Black Women On tradition:' the Rise, the Jamaica Association and the SAHC sees a Boys and Girls Club of LaSalle. place for hiphop -Melanie Takefman almost every­ ' •···.··.' · ..·· "_·.. ~ ' " A mask on display at The Richness of Black Cultures fair. where in acade­ mia, from politi­ cal science and Recent publications by Concordians anthropology to ' performance art t"·. ·""' . ~. ~ · lo. Management Professor Rick on several months spent teaching Greg Nielsen (Sociology and and manage­

Molz, with Frederic Will, has writ­ and touring in China. He is also Anthropology) has written The ment. ·.· .. ·. ..• ... \).... ~· ,:,,"·. ten Field Research in North working on a novel set between Norms of Answerability: Social Eventually, American Agricultural Commun­ 1929 and 1945 in Germany, the Theory Between Bakhtin and the group would ities: Products and Profiles from the years of his own youth there. He is Habermas (Albany: SUNY Press). like to see the ._'-,{'),; ... J North American Family. Mellen, "humanist-at-large" for the publi­ He took part in a IO-person Ford university estab- Diegal Leger the book's publisher, describes it: cation The Humanist in Canada, Foundation think tank on human lish a program for the study of role of women in hiphop and "The book is based on field and has come back to Concordia rights and Latin America whose hiphop. hiphop's African roots generated research in agricultural commu­ this term to teach writing for chil­ first meeting was held at the Some American schools have the most interest and discussion. nities in Chiapas, Quebec and dren in the English Department. American University in San Juan, already begun to take hiphop This year, Leger expects the pre­ Iowa. It is both an academic and a Puerto Rico, Dec. 5-6. seriously. Harvard has a hiphop sentations on Islam and hiphop, warm-hearted study of the social Vered Amit (Sociology and archive that stores documents, and hiphop and entrepreneurship .and human factors embedded Anthropology) was the editor of a Jean-Philippe Warren (Socio­ videos and sound recordings. to be the biggest draws. within the three agricultural com­ book published last February and logy and Anthropology) and co­ Berkeley (University of California) According to Leger, language munities making up the North called . Realizing Community: author E. Martin Meunier have offers a course on hiphop in black remains a dividing factor in the American Free Trade Agreement." Concepts, Social Relationships and published a book called Sortir de popular culture, and Boston hiphop community. "Ther's a sep­ Sentiments (Routledge). In la 'Grande noirceur': L'horizon 'per­ University gives lessons in hiphop aration," Leger said. "The gap Poet and Concordia alumnus August, she published another sonnaliste' de la Revolution tran­ dance for credit. needs to be eliminated." To Sharon H. Nelson has a new book book co-authored with Nigel quille, Quebec. The symposium is about bring­ address this, the symposium will out, This Flesh These Words Rapport, called The Trouble With ing hiphop to the academy and have a multilingual, multicultural (Ekstasis Editions). It reflects on Community: Anthropological Ref A.K. Athienitis (Building/ the academy to hiphop. show and Dufieux will lead a friendship, loss, community and lections on Movement, Identity and Civil/Environmental "Hiphoppers are coming of age;• workshop on international influ­ language. If you are interested in Collectivity (Pluto Press). Engineering) has published a Leger said. "We want to bring [the ences. Myriam Laabidi, a SAHC her work, visit http://www3.sym­ book entitled Thermal Analysis hiphop] community into the uni­ member, will be hosting a hiphop patico.ca/sharon.nelson/. Christine Jourdan (Sociology and Design of Passive Solar versity setting so that industry colloquium in French at UQAM and Anthropology) has published Buildings. It was co-authored with can blend with academia." on March 6. Professor Emeritus Henry a book, ·Solomon Islands Pijin: A M. Santamouris, and published by Louis Dufieux, a hiphop emcee "We want to use hiphop as a Beissel is publishing The Dragon Trilingual Cultural Dictionary James and James, Science and symposium organizer, has muscle, and use it the right way," and the Pearl (BuschekBooks, (Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Publishers (The Cromwell Press, done just that. While earning his said Dufieux. "This is all about Ottawa), a book of poems based Series C). U.I<.). graduate diploma in translation promoting the advancement of at Concordia last year, he ana­ hiphop:' lyzed the idiomatic equivalencies FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE amongst the hiphop originating The Second Annual Symposium in New York, Havana and Paris, on Hiphop Culture takes place from Call for nominations and showed that songs from one Feb. 26 to Mar. 1. Presentations will urban centre could be translated be held in Room H-762, beginning 6th Annual Teaching Excellence Awards into the street language of anoth­ at 4 p.m., and shows will take place Recognizing excellence in teaching, sustained commitment to the improvement of teaching, and er without losing any of their his­ every night at Reggie's from 10 p.m. creativity in the development of teaching materials and approaches. Full-time and part-time torical or cultural connotations. until 3 a.m. Presentations and faculty members teaching in the Faculty for at least five years are eligible for nomination. Last year, approximately 150 panel discussions are free; shows Students and faculty members may pick up a nomination form from any of the four academic people attended the four-day cost $5. For details, visit the Web units ofthe Faculty or from the Dean's Office, LB-1001. symposium. This year, the organ­ site at http://hiphop_academix.tri­ izers expect up to 300 or 400 pod.com, email hiphopsympo­ Deadline for nominations: March 21, 2003 attendees. [email protected] or phone Although no professors attend- 845-609Z 7 February 27 , 2003 I Con cordia ' s Thursday Report Myths of the Metropolis play Art Matters moves to the city BY CRAIG STEIN ence watches visuals through 3D glasses. The F.C. Smith lobby will showcases great local writers rt Matters was launched be a performance space for origi­ Athree years ago to mark the nal plays. Student films will be 25th anniversary of Concordia's screened at the de Seve Cinema, BY BARBARA BLACK of plays about Faculty of Fine Arts, and this which will also be the site of a Montreal to year's foray into the cityscape, spoken-word event by 14 creative tudents in Anna Fuersten­ Fennario on the scheduled for March 7 to 21, writing students. Sberg's latest theatre produc­ basis of Mont­ shows how quickly the festival An exhibit on art and activism tion are getting a bird's-eye view real's image as a has found its stride. will address matters such as the of the creative process. Myths of glamorous, and It offers a wide scope of works GS summit in Ottawa, the the Metropolis is made up of three hedonistic city. - theatre, dance, music, film, killings of aboriginal women in plays by established playwrights, "I asked him, visual art and creative writing - B.C., and issues relating to 9/11. and the plays have been fine­ What does this by more than 100 artists. The fes­ There will also be an exhibit tuned in workshops attended by myth mean to tival organizers are Emily addressing the body, held, appro­ the student actors and designers. you?, and what is Pearlman and Craig Dessen. priately, at the YMCA. The three playwrights comrnis-. its other, dark The original Art Matters was The 70 festival volunteers are sioned for the project are David sider• intended to provide fine arts stu­ already reaping rewards from Fennario, Harry Standjofski and As a veteran dents with a forum for their their involvement. Mostly first­ Fuerstenberg herself. playwright who work, but that concept has been year students, they are learning Fennario is an institution, a lad is Quebec's rep­ extended, as proposals are now public relations, marketing and from Verdun who wrote the enor­ resentative to solicited from non-fine-arts stu­ arts administration hands-on. mously entertaining Balconville the Playwrights dents as well. Dessen and Pearlman hope that back in the 1970s and never lost Guild of Canada, "We are adding a community will get them thinking about his working-class edge. she knows David development aspect to the making their own submissions Now, still only in early middle Fennario well, event:' Pearlman said. for next year's show. age, the playwright and activist and has a great As an homage to B-movie Programs listing all events, has a disorder of the nervous sys­ rapport with soundtracks, Les Angles Mort~ including parties, will be avail­ tem, and his play for this produc­ him. She said he Anna Fuerstenberg will perform live while the audi- able beginning March 1. tion, called Skeleton Staff, is set in has been coming a hospital emergency room; in adapted transport to the Montreal's finest saw some cut­ Standjofski is Montreal the­ rehearsals with his wife, who is a ting-edge theatrics. Interstices unites art and body atre's Renaissance man - actor in nurse. Fuerstenberg went on to do nterstices is a research group in the perspiration level of the both English and French, director, The workshopping process was degrees in linguistics and peda­ Iof artists, many of whom are participant. and playwright. He joined this naturally exciting for the young gogy, including an MA from the associated with Concordia, who project at the last moment, and actors, designers and technicians, University of Colorado, Boulder, explore the aesthetic and poetic March 12 to 15: Concordia's contibuted An Unlucky Man, an and dire_ctor-playwright Fuer­ and started her PhD in rhetoric at implications of human-machine Adad Hannah presents Still, a elegantly poetic play about music stenberg is making some discov­ Berkeley. interfaces in the media arts. In project that tries to slow technol­ that includes Mount Royal as one eries of her own. She gave up work at McGill in association with DARE-DARE ogy down a bit, by using audi­ of its locales. Told by her stage manager that translation and metalinguistics (Centre de diffusion d'art multi­ ence response to explore the Fuerstenberg decided last a student who wasn't strictly to take on this Concordia produc­ disciplinaire de Montreal), they notion of stillness. Manon De spring that she W

BY HOWA RD BO KSE R Howard Bokser, acting director of ations Conference was aimed at and president of the Montreal opportunities valuable and the advancement communications, experienced professionals in advertising firm BCP, gave a well­ spectacular setting an asset. rom February 9 to 11, more co-chaired the event, the first media and public relations, gov­ received talk on the secrets of For CCAE, the conference was a Fthan 50 communicators and mid-winter conference focusing ernment relations, marketing successfully managing creative success in terms of participation other professionals from the field on communications for CCAE . communications, publications, people. His message was: Let and finances. Our thanks to of university and college advance­ The association, which alumni and development com­ them know their role in the big Concordians Irvin Dudeck, Jean­ ment met at idyllic Mont inc~udes advancement profes­ munications and Web communi­ picture. Philippe Roy and Jocelyne Sultan Tremblant for the CCAE (the sionals from Canadian universi­ cations. The co-chairs selected Participants came from more for their work. Former Concordia Canadian Council for the ties, colleges and private educa­ topics such as ethics in advance­ than 30 schools across the coun­ staff member Leisha LeCouvie Advancement of Education) Mid­ tional institutions, has previously ment, business principles and the try, from Memorial to Simon (who's now at McGill) secured a Winter Communications Conf­ held mid-winter conferences cov­ impact of diversity on communi­ Fraser and parts between, includ­ number of sponsorships to help erence. ering such topics as alumni rela­ cations. ing a group from Concordia. the cause, and everyone went Concordia's Chris Mota, co­ tions and fundraising. John Parisella, vice-chair of Reports were that the conference home with some new and valu­ ordinator of media relations, and The Mid-Winter Communic- Concordia's board of governors topics were relevant, networking able insights. 8 Co nc ord ia's Tbu r~dH R.e poft . l.Fe bcu,a r,y 27, 20 03 Letter from Colombia: Exch·ange student Irish festivities Ryan Rowe is a Concordia busi­ The International Exchange letters of reference in Concert Hall ness student currently studying in program at Concordia University (from teachers and/or Cartagena, Colombia. He sent us is well organized, and any student employers), and I had BC Radio and Concordia will this article by e-mail willing to meet the requirements to show adequate Cpresent a lively evening of and submit an application to financial resources to entertainment with an Irish am the first exchange student study abroad can do so easily. support myself {this flavour on Thursday, March 13, in that this university has ever You're probably wondering how needs to be certified). the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Ihad , and I would like to tell much money I needed to do this. For the exchange bur­ on the Loyola Campus. people in Canada, the United Did you know that the Quebec sary, I had to write a On the program are the CBC States, and elsewhere, that ministry of education will give letter explaining why I Radio Arts Choir under the direc­ Colombia is a safe place to visit, you money to study abroad? They chose the exchange tion of Cathy Richards; readings work, and study. are supplying me with $750 a program and how I by CBC Radio personalities, and Before leaving, I was warned by month to cover my expenses. intended to spend the songs and music by Beverly many people that Colombia was a Remember that Colombia is a money. McGuire, Linda Morrison and very dangerous country, that I developing country, and you can It took me about five Alan Jones and his ensemble. was crazy to go there, and that I easily get by on this monthly days of 24 hours to Come and enjoy yourself - and should pick another country to amount and still have a bit left apply (it involved a lot then listen all over again when study in, but I have felt as safe over. It will cover everything: a of legwork and long the show is broadcast on CBC here as I have in any other Latin furnished apartment, your gro­ hours on the telephone Radio on St. Patrick's Day, March American country I have visited ceries, transportation costs, and and computer). Ryan Rowe, on the road again. 17. (Mexico, Brazil, Nicaragua, etc.). other minor expenses. Quebec After CUTB finally Proceeds will go toward sup­ Cartagena and the entire will give you $1,000 a month if approved me, I had to co-ordinate Francis, Deputy Director of porting the activities of the Caribbean coast are virtually you're heading to Europe. There is communication between them,• Concordia's Centre for Internation­ Centre for Canadian Irish Studies, untouched by guerrilla wars, and also no barrier to getting a stu­ Concordia, and the Colombian al Academic Co-operation: based at Concordia. These the big cities are safer than most dent loan (you are still considered consulate in Montreal via fax and The · International/Student include new courses in Irish stud­ people think. It is generally in the to be studying full-time in a telephone so that I could obtain a Exchange Programs (I/SEP) are ies, community outreach events, countryside that the guerrillas Quebec institution). foreign student visa. It was a wonderful opportunities for lectures (see the Backpage for the roam, and with any degree of The application process to get bureaucratic process, as they all Concordia students. While all facul­ latest speaker), library materials, common sense, a foreign student involved with the exchange pro­ are, but in the end I finally got it ties and schools at Concordia publications and scholarships. can have an incredible learning gram is a lengthy one, so don't be {with a little help from a sweet actively promote these opportuni­ Tickets may be bought through experience in Cartagena, or in the shocked. First, you need to meet Colombian girl I know). ties for students, we are also aware the Foundation, at 1590 Dr. rest of the country. the GPA requirements for your Being involved in the exchange ofthe potential risks. Penfield Ave., SB-119, Montreal I would particularly like to program and have at least 24 program is a rich and rewarding With this in mind, Canada's H3G 1C5, or at tjle door for $10 reach Concordia students to tell credits completed of your degree. experience, and I highly recom­ Department of Foreign Affairs and (or more, if you'd like to make a them about Cartagena, and espe­ Then I had to pick three schools mend it to everyone. Pick your International Trade (DFAIT) regu­ donation). Hurry to buy your cially about my school, (in order of preference), research country and your school for the larly issues travel advisories of tickets, there is a limited supply Universidad Tecnologica de their course plans and select right reasons, and make the most those countries where there is a available! The concert will start at Bolivar (CUTB), which is very courses which were transferrable of the culture while you're there. I potential of greater risk. Colombia 8p.m. modem, and well equipped for credit to my degree at guarantee it will be truly benefi­ is one of those countries. We are Speaking of things Irish, You won't be completely isolat­ Concordia. My actual letter of cial in the long run. ve,y pleased that Ryan Rowe has Concordia can proudly claim the ed when you come here. Many application to each school had to In the past few months, I have had an "uneventful" sojourn, but grand marshal of the St. Patrick's speak English, and there are even be in the language of study been using a Web site to educate would caution him and other stu­ D_ay Parade this year. a few at my university that speak (Spanish) and I had to pass an people about countries in Central dents that we take the DFAIT advi- The parade takes place along French. The International Center online test from the Department America, as well as Mexico. I plan sories ve,y seriously. Ste. Catherine St. on Sunday, at CUTB hires canucks, gringos, of Classics, Modem Languages to do the same thing with Visit the CTR Web Site at March 16, and Concordia's own kangaroos and Brits to teach and Linguistics to demonstrate Colombia during my five-month http://pr.concordia.ca/ctr for a list Michael Kenneally, director of the English if you want to make some language proficiency. sojourn abroad. of Web sites recommended by Canadian Irish Studies Centre, money on the side. I also needed to procure two A postscript from Frederick Ryan Rowe. will be the leading official. Risks to students in study abroad programs increase

BY SARAH BIND ER any experiential learning. We and other Quebec universities, ize their safety. What is the atti­ co-ordinates faculty-departmen­ need to know about the hazards including McGill, Laval, Univer­ tude towards gays, for example? tal briefings and contacts partici­ he tremendous growth in and calculate the risk we want to site de Montreal, Universite de What are the transportation pants when disaster strikes. It is a Tstudy abroad programs at take:• Sherbrooke and UQAM. rules, what is a safe way to change centralized unit, serving incom­ Canadian universities in the past More than 1,000 of Queen's There is growing preoccupa­ money? They need to make sure ing and outgoing students. decade is exposing a greater num­ 18,000 students will study abroad tion with institutional liability in they have proper insurance cover­ Fred Francis, deputy director of ber of students to the risk of acci­ this year, compared with fewer Quebec, where out-of-country age. CIAC, said in an interview that dents, illness, death, assault, than 25 some 15 years ago. Last study has gained popularity due Yet a recent survey concluded Concordia currently has "a dog's kidnapping, or acts of war, year, the university faced 23 inci­ largely to generous bursaries the that "only 60 per cent of Canadian breakfast" of policies on its inter­ warned Wayne Myles, director of dents, including three deaths. provincial government has made institutions are doing basic pre­ national programs. He had invit­ Queen's University International No Canadian university has yet available since 2000. departure preparation of stu­ ed Myles to Concordia to raise Centre. been entangled in a messy lawsuit "You can talk all you want dents;• Myles said awareness about the need for a "When you increase the num­ due to a mishap abroad, Myles about student health and safety, Queen's established its Emer­ more unified approach. ber of students going abroad, you said, perhaps because issues of but it takes the threat of institu­ gency Support Program (ESP) in The University Secretariat is in increase the number of inci­ redress tend to be settled out of tional liability for an institution 1997. The ESP now includes an fact working on a policy that dents;' Myles told a seminar at court in this country. to act;' said Myles, who has exten­ emergency protocol, a 24-hour would "centralize the infrastruc­ Concordia on Feb. 7 organized But tragedies such as the ava­ sive experience in travel and stu­ telephone hotline, pre-departure ture of student travel;' said by Concordia's Centre for lanche that killed seven Alberta dent services. "It's a sad fact:• orientation briefings, information Heather Adams-Robinette, co­ International Academic Co-oper­ 15-year-olds on a school ski trip While bad things happen on forms, and a contact database. ordinator of university policies. ation {CIAC) on the risks and earlier this month show how a campus domestically, Myles said, The university aims to make The process is still at the fact­ responsibilities associated with respected school and its officials the risk to students abroad may students partners in sharing finding stage, she said in a tele­ study abroad. can suddenly find themselves in be compounded by unfamiliarity responsibility for their health and phone interview. "We're still try­ Rather .than cancel these pro­ the harsh public limelight, their with the surroundings. safety abroad. "We don't hold ing to categorize the different grams, universities would do well actions and policies scrutinized Students should be aware prior their hands," Myles said. kinds of trips." Adams-Robinette to learn to manage risk, he said. for error, their reputation possibly to leaving Canada of social, polit­ The International Centre which said the aim is to have a draft pol­ "Students learn through experi­ tarnished. The seminar drew ical, cultural, environmental and he heads administers the ESP, icy ready by the end of this aca­ ence. Risk is an essential part of about 45 people from Concordia other factors that could jeopard- offers pre-departure orientation, demic year. 9 F,brua ry 27. 2003 I Concord ia•s Thu rs day R, port Activists, bureaucrat debate city's housing crisis

BY S YL VA I N COMEA U unintended consequences. on the island of Montreal versus better control of housing costs, "Today, 19 per cent of renters in "These regulations are intend­ 50 per cent for the region. For the forced savings and asset apprecia­ Montreal are paying 60 per cent of s better access to property ed to protect tenants, but have province of Quebec, 58 per cent tion. In the case of rental unit their income for their rent. People ownership the magic bullet • had the perverse result of discour­ are homeowners. In addition, ownership, it provides an income on welfare and social assistance Ifor Montreal's ongoing hous­ aging people from investing in there continues to be urban stream:• are poorer than ever because of ing crisis? Panelists debating that real estate. Even today, the vast sprawl; people are moving out of Wexler noted that home owner­ cuts in their cheques, and there question at a student-organized majority of landlords in Quebec the city, often to become home ship programs have been are· more single-parent house­ debate on Feb. 4 failed to agree on are small investors, and many owners, and promoting home launched in the past, and a key holds:• many aspects of the thorny prob­ small investors prefer to place ownership for modest-income component is always loaning The final word went to Daniel lem, including the cause. their money in more lucrative families would, in turn, liberate families the amount of the down Gill, a visiting professor of urban Pierre Desrochers, research investments:• rental apartments:• payment. "Generally, corning up studies at the Universite de director of L'Institut Econornique Desrochers contended that Wexler described property with the down payment is the big Montreal. He drew an analogy de Montreal, an economic think Montreal and Quebec need more ownership programs as part of "a problem for first-time homeown­ between housing and transporta­ tank, argued that popular myths rental properties available to ten­ multipronged approach the city is ers, so we provide that for them tion, another basic need of city­ about housing are muddying the ants, rather than more tenants adopting to respond to the scarci­ up front:• dwellers, many of whom cannot issue. who become property-owners. ty of rental housing:• These Frani;ois Saillant, co-ordinator afford cars. "One myth is that the housing "I don't believe that it's a good include the construction of 5,000 of the activist housing organiza­ "No one is saying that we won't crisis is caused by poverty, house­ idea to give people a boost to help social housing units, subsidized tion FRAPRU (Front d'action fund public transport to help holds who don't have access to them have access to property. For private-sector rental housing at populaire en reamenagement them out. Similarly, there are [ownership of] property. That's people in a precarious financial market or below-market rents, urbain) called for more social excluded people who won't be false; in fact, the ~conomy has situation, that can easily cause and renovation and revitalization housing. arguing that "access to able to afford property without improved and incomes are up by problems if they lose their job or programs for existing housing. property is not a panacea. Thanks help. Helping someone have 12 per cent. The number of people have other financial struggles:• Wexler said that about eight to low interest rates, those who access to property is like helping on social assistance has dipped. Government programs to help per cent of the 2003 municipal have the money shouldn't have them sell their used car so that Thus, Montrealers are in much people gain access to property housing budget is earmarked for any problems. But there are many someone else can buy it:' better financial shape than five or ownership was one of the solu­ aid to aspiring homeowners, people who will never be able to He pointed out that we tend to six years ago:• tions presented during Montreal while the rest will be spent on afford their own home, no matter have a narrow understanding of The real problem "is that the public consultations on housing social housing and revitalization. what you do for them; the median the concept of affordable housing. demand for housing has gone up, in June 2002. Martin Wexler, a While the former commands income in Quebec is $21,000:• "It doesn't mean just cheaper but the supply has not kept pace:• manager at Montreal's Services de only a small per cent of the total Saillant strongly disagreed with rents; in many countries, it also He said that supply bottleneck !'Habitation, explained why the budget, "it is not just a response Desrocher's contention that means access to property:• was caused largely by well-inten­ city of Montreal is in favor of such to the lack of rental housing. but Montrealers today are richer. He The panel discussion was tioned government restrictions home ownership programs. is considered a wealth-creation suggested that Desrocher man organized by students from the on rental property owners that "The percentage of home own­ tool. That is because home owner­ the phones at FRAPRU for a while School of Community and Public have fallen prey to the law of ers in Montreal is low: 36 per cent ship promotes financial security, as a test of that belief. Affairs. New science curricula focus on native knowledge and languages Continued from front page Mount Pleasant-Jette, the founder reach programs like a summer of NAEP and a professor in camp for high school students. tured in Web Portraits, was Concordia's Faculty of Like Darren Googoo's fishing exposed to engineering at an early Engineering and Computer tale, Mi'kmaw knowledge pre­ age through his father's work Yet, Science, believes that engineers dated Western science in many he knows that many native youth contribute an essential function respects. The ancient Mi'kmaw are not as lucky. to aboriginal communities word for "world;' wskitqamw, was He views projects like this as "a because they stimulate economic formed from "sphere" and "crusty long-term investment:' development, which leads to self­ surface" at a time when "The more role models you sufficiency. Europeans thought the world was have, the more ·people will be One of the underlying themes flat. Also, Buckley's Mixture enticed [into the profession] and of the DreamCatching conference cough medication is based on the the more people that are enticed was how to integrate students' "god awful tasting stuff" that into the profession, the more role identities into the educational Darren Googoo and other Cape models you have;• Deom said. 'It's process, instead of suppressing Breton natives concocted for cold a virtuous cycle, but it has to get a them. One way is to include native relief. The case competition team with their trophy (back row, from left): Joel certain amount of momentum:• languages in science curricula. In its fourth year, the BSCS pro­ McConnell, George Kanaan (Associate Dean, Academic and Student He added with a smile, 'Tm look­ Languages like Mi'kmaw, which gram is gaining popularity and its Affairs, JMSB), Nicholas Bell, Alfred Davis. Front row, from left: Seanna ing for people to hire." is spoken on Cape Breton Island, students are being heavily solicit­ Miller, Anastasia Serebrianaia (alternate), Margarita Tcherednitchenko While high-speed Internet con­ contain references to scientific ed for employment, largely with (alternate). nections are not widespread, the phenomena. "If everyone had a the government poand in Inukshuk Internet Fund, which knowledge of Mi'kmaw, they research. While native scientists JMSB teams excel in provided a large part of the fund­ wouldn't have to learn about sci­ often leave their homes, many ing for the project, specified the ence;' said Clifford Paul, a fourth­ contribute their knowledge to international competitions development of broadband con­ year student in the Bachelor of their communities. tent. Furthermore, according to Science Community Studies "You've got to go away to get oncordia's team took first place in the Bombardier Case Dawn Wiseman, NAEP's co-ordi­ (BSCS) program at the University experience;• Robert Deom said CCompetition hosted by the State University of New York nator, many remote native popu­ College of Cape Breton. during a plenary session. He (SUNY) at Plattsburgh on Feb. 7-8. The five-member team was lations possess cutting-edge Paul presented an overview of added that he is a better engineer among five from across North America to compete in the two-day Internet technology because "it the program at the conference as for having observed various meth­ event. lets people move beyond their a model for synthesizing Western ods without cutting the strings to communities:• and native perspectives of sci­ his native upbringing. "You bring L'Oreal E-strat Challenge Four Concordia teams of JMSB students are also competing in the The conference was organized ence. The BSCS curriculum is those strings with you and they L'Oreal E-strat Challenge, an international competition that allows by Concordia's Native Access to based on the concept of MSIT, pull you back:' participants to manage a virtual cosmetics business. In the second Engineering Program (NAEP), a which means "everything" or "all­ For more information on NAEF session of this year's edition, Concordia ranks sixth in Canada, 12th project that services educators of encompassing" in Mi'kmaw. or to view Web Portraits: A Day in in North America and 110th worldwide. Five thousand six hundred native students through online Students in the program must the Life of An Engineer, visit teams from 80 countries are currently involved in the Challenge. and hard copy resources. Corinne participate in community out- http://www.nativeaccess.com. 10 Concord iais .Thuoday, R.,p.ort I hbruu,y 27 ,. 2003 One hundred poets against Stingers roundup Stinger winger a scoring machine the war and on the Internet Concordia left wing Chris Page has became the first Stinger in more than a decade to score 25 goals in a regular season hockey Graduate Todd Swift publishes from Paris to the world schedule. The 24-year-old Drummondville native scored 25 goals and added 17 assists for 42 points in 24 regular-season OUA games. BY BARBARA BLACK The last Stinger to eclipse the 25-goal mark was centre Richard Laplante, who notched 28 goals in 23 games in the 1988-89 season. odd Swift is nothing if not Laplante was a three-time OUA all-star, a Guy Lafleur Award win­ ambitious, and when ner and 1988 Concordia Male Athlete of the Yen He went on to T ambition is applied to enjoy a 12-year professional hockey career in Italy, Britain and poetry, possibly the modern Austria. world's most humble calling, look Page is also making his mark. In three seasons with the Stingers, out. he has scored 57 goals and 56 assists for 113 points in 88 career Swift had already established games. But 2002-03 was his best campaign to date. He was the sev­ himself as an outstanding and enth-leading scorer in the CIS and the second-leading marksman in original spoken-word performer the OUA. He·was named QSSF Player of the Week on Nov.18. by the time he graduated from The history major played in the QMJHL with Baie Comeau before Concordia in 1993. He went on to joining the Stingers. . live in Hungary for several years and now lives in Paris. Poets have Quiet times at arena always been transplants - think Despite Page's heroics, the Stingers failed to make the playoffs for of James Joyce living in Trieste the second straight yen and Robert Louis Stevenson in The Lady Stingers were also upset by the Ottawa Gee-Gees in a the Pacific islands - but the one-game sudden-death playoff and were eliminated from the play­ Internet makes a worldwide liter­ offs, making the Ed Meagher Arena a rather quiet place these days. ary career 'easier still. McGill and Ottawa are now playing fo11 the championship, with Now Swift and Val Stevenson, McGill taking a one-game-to-none lead into game two tomorrow of Nthposition.com, have night. launched 100 Poets Against the The Stingers finished the QSSF season in second place with a 14- War, an electronic blast at Bush 6 win-loss record. The Gee-Gees took third spot in the five-team and Blair and others who would conference with a 9-11 record. Top players for Concordia this sea­ attack Iraq. The project started son included centre Dominique Rancour, the leading scorer in the Jan. 20 - Swift is nothing if not QSSF with 16 go~ and 20 assists for 36 points in 20 games; and precise - by Nthposition.com, Todd Swift centre Marie-Claude Allard, a 2002 All-Canadian who collected 15 and has attracted poets and goals and 19 assists for 34 points. peace activists from around the Almost all mid-career and estab­ Pound made his mark, "discover­ world, though mainly the lished poets pay their rent from ing" T.S. Eliot and Joyce. Football team honoun sws English-speaking world. The lecturing, or writing reviews, or "There's a newly revived renais­ The Concordia Stingers football t.eam gathered to celebrate the anthology is presented online at reading their poems - indeed, sance of English/ American expat bighlighbJ from the 2002 season at its annual banquet recently at http://www.nthposition.com as a everything but the actual writing writing again, so it's a good time the John Molson reception hall in Montreal Graduating seniors PDF file. of poems its~lf. to be here, after the fairly mori­ addressed their teammates for the last time and individual honours Among the contributors are "I manage by working as a free­ bund '80s and '90s. Having dis­ were handed out. George aowering, Canada's first lance writer of TV scripts and tance from North America, espe­ Popular running back Jean-Michel Paquette received several and current poet laureate, articles for journals and newspa­ cially at a time of political crisis, acknowledgements. The fourth-year administration major was the Charles Berstein, Michael Redhill, pers like the National Post, En is fascinating. Europeans really Stingers' leading rusher. receiver and retumei: He collected three Sinead Morrissey, Sarah Maguire Route, The Dubliner and Books in do have a different perspective on major trophies: the Warrior Trophy as t.eam MVP, the George Dixon and Ruth Fainlight. Canada:' the world and news. I am becom­ Memorial Trophy as offensive MVP and the award for special teams Poet John Kinsella has arranged As a student, Swift didn't excel, ing sympathetic to that view. player of the yen for Salt Publishing, a poetry press he admits. "I dropped out for a "Basically;• he continued, "I First-year linebacker Mickey Donovan was named the MVP based in Australia and the UK, to few years, then was part-time for have always believed that poets defence and awarded the Pat Davis Trophy for rookie of the year publish a version in March for several years. I graduated with a matter, that struggling poets defence. Other honorees from the defensive unit went safety David $13.95 US, with the profits going double major in English and cre­ should be encouraged, and that Aileen, Russ Blackwell Memorial Trophy for most dedicated player; to Amnesty International. ative writing, but along the way, I poetry must be truly global in Ryan Woosley, outstanding defensive lineman, and cornerback This kind of enterprise is noth­ was enrolled in political science, scope and outlook. I believe that Chris Giguere was the top academic on the team. ing new for Swift. He has been too. my activities as an agent for poet­ A1so honored were: quarterback Jon Bond. Pat Davis Trophy for writing poems since he was 14, "I was Concordia's top debater ry promotion, and all my other rookie of the year offence, and Brad Collinson. outstanding offen­ and was published in The for a few years, and ranked ninth work as writer and performer, sive lineman. Fiddlehead when he was 18. In in the world on the college debat­ have established me as one of the The football t.eam continues to gather regularly for winter wodc­ 1991, he was accepted into the ing circuit, so I spent more time leading literary figures of my gen­ outs. The 2003 season will kick off with the Stingers hosting the League of Canadian Poets. on that than my studies, in some eration (the under-40s), and I am Bishop's Gaiters on Sept. 6. In an interview by e-mail from cases." very proud of that role. I want to Paris, Swift explained how he Swift is obviously thrilled to be inspire the next generation of Con U wrestlers qualify makes a living. "Poets don't earn in Paris, visiting his fiancee. "Her writers to continue to push the Five Concordia student athletes are heading to Brock University money directly from selling their job chose it for us, but I am natu­ boundaries of what it means to be in St. Catharines, Ont., where they will compete in the 2003 CIS poems, unless they win Nobel rally not likely to complain. It is, a Canadian poet in the 21st cen­ Wrestling Championships this weekend. prizes or have remarkable luck. of course, where my hero Ezra tury:• The wrestlers qualified by finishing in one of the top two spots in their weight classes at the AUS/QSSF qualifying tournament host­ ed by University of New Brunswick in Fredericton last Saturday. On Kick for Montreal Children's Hospital the women's side, Martine Dugrenier, 70 kg., finished first in her division. She is the defending CIS gold medallist. soccer tournament to benefit ment for their Fitness and Sport face off for awards at the end of On the men's side, Tony Ronci, 65 kg., and Tyler Marghetis, 76 kg., Athe Montreal Children's Management class, taught by the tournament. Refreshments finished first in their weight classes. Elvin Dewarder, 57 kg., and Hospital Foundation will take George Short. will be sold and every participant Jason Chen, 72 kg., finished second in their divisions. Chen is a place on Saturday, March 1, at the The cost to register is $100 per will be entered to win door prizes three time medallist at the nationals, having won a silver in 2000 Loyola gym, starting at 11 a.m. team of at least five players. in a raffle draw. and bronze medals in 1998 and 2001. 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