guelph ISSN 0229-2378 UNIVERSITY NEWS BULLETIN Volume 26 Number 11 82 03 18 The MacKinnon Building Masse shifts ClDA priorities There is a great deal more to providing values of the people we wish to help. effective aid to the Third World than just "Development should be a positive develop­ buying goods and shipping them overseas, mental action that transforms a society and Marcel Masse' president of the Canadian permits it to make the large adaptations to International Development Agency (ClDA) a changing environment that are necessary," told a campus audience last week. During a he said. public meeting and subsequent conversations, Although such an approach is both he outlined a significant change in the oper­ complex and difficult to evaluate, and ating philosophy of the body that channels requires that local society adapt to change, much of Canada's foreign aid. it is just as important that we understand Over the past two years, the emphasis the values of a developing country. Too has shifted away from large, high profile projects to aid programs that mesh with the often in the past, he implied, countries pro­ needs and aspirations of the recipient people, viding assistance have failed to grasp this but always after consultation with, and last point. approval from, the government of the recip­ We in the wealthy countries must ient country, he said. learn to make adaptations, too, Mr. Masse As an example, he noted that buying said. "The ultimate theory of development is and shipping a fleet of railway locomotives a global, long-term one that applies to us as to a needy country is easy and straightfor­ well as the Third World. ward, and it is also easy to justify to the auditor-general and to the public. But if "If we start to challenge the values of those locomotives sit idle much of the time our society, and the need for North-South because the railway and rolling stock are in interdependence, we must establish rules poor repair, it won't be very helpful. It that permit both sides to live together, would be preferable to spend the price of a because we have not in the past." single locomotive sending experts to teach He concluded by saying that just as he had had to question what Cl DA was about, The Arts building has been renamed the better railway maintenance. so we must question what the universities MacKinnon Building in recognition of English Effective aid involves much more than are about and what Canada is about. On the Language and Literature Professor, Murdo simple economic support. Decisions on answers to those questions rests the future. MacKinnon, the first Dean of Arts. Guelph assistance programs must depend on an President Donald F. Forster made the assessment of social, political and religious Continued on page 4. announcement at a special recognition dinner for Prof. MacKinnon and his wife, Elizabeth, March 15. Prof. MacKinnon will be retiring in April from the University. (See News Bulletin 03 11). Speakers at the recognition dinner were: Dr. William Winegard, former chairman of the Ontario Council on University Affairs and former President at Guelph; Professor W. Earl MacNaughton, former Dean of the College of Physical Science; Nicholas Goldschmidt, O.C., Artistic Director of the Prof. John Cairns, Guelph Spring Festival, and Professor Prof. Dennis Howell, Elizabeth Waterston, Department of English Mr. Masse, President Language and Literature, and President Forster, Andre Forster. □ Gingras, of CIDA. LRS study refutes Hydro line proposal VISITING PROF Land Resource Science Professor Bev Kay was resist and zoning by-laws in practice prove S. Karlin and R. Rosen attending what he supposed to be a routine to be ineffective. The Department of Mathematics and Statis­ meeting at the Ontario Ministry of Agricul­ The construction of the Bruce Gener­ tics is hosting two visitors under the Short- ture and Food last year when the Deputy ating Station is one example of a short-term Term Visiting Professor Program. Professor Minister, without warning, asked him if the project having a long-term effect, notes S. Karlin of Stanford University and Profes­ Ontario Institute of Pedology would under­ Prof. Kay. There has been a major shift in sor R. Rosen of Dalhousie University are take a crash program to evaluate proposed the availability of farm labor throughout here to April 2. Ontario Hydro line routes from the Bruce the area. Land values have been affected Prof. Karlin is world renowned as a Generating Station to Southwestern Ontario and services developed which cater to the leader in both mathematical and statistical — and deliver the report to him within six construction community. When the construc­ research. His interests also range to problems weeks. tion phase of the Bruce is finished there will in genetics, biology, and economics. After That was on a Friday afternoon at the be tremendous pressure to attract industry receiving his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1947, he end of November. The Ontario Institute of into the district in order to make use of held appointments at Cal. Tech., Princeton, Pedology, a campus group of which Prof. these services. In other words, the future and the Weizmann Institute, before going to Kay is acting director and which consists of agricultural development of the whole area Stanford in 1978. Among his many honors, representatives from Land Resource Science, is influenced. he was president of the American Statistical the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and "The committee's recommendation" Association during 1978-1979. Food, and Agriculture Canada, accepted the concludes Prof. Kay, "was that nothing Prof. Rosen is a leading researcher in challenge and placed their findings on the should be done which would impair flexibility mathematical biology and has published Deputy Minister's desk at 4 o'clock on the in the future use of our best agricultural land. numerous articles and several books in the We only have a limited agricultural land base afternoon of the deadline date. field, including Dynamical System Theory in in Ontario and we have to think in terms of Their report, which now provides the Biology in 1970, which was one of the classics keeping it productive for centuries to come; basis of the Ministry of Agriculture and that led to the last decade's interest in the to retain its ability to produce different Food's participation in the present public field. He received his Ph.D. in mathematical crops and be accessible to the agricultural hearing, describes Hydro's first choice as the biology at the University of Chicago in 1959, technologies of the future."□ worst of all six of their proposed routes. and was associate director of the Centre for "Our mandate," explains Prof. Kay, Theoretical Biology at SUNY Buffalo, before "was to look at Hydro's recommendations Review committee becoming Killam Research Professor at and assess their impact on agriculture. Hydro Dalhousie University in the departments of has a source of power up at the Bruce Gener­ for Secretary of Senate physiology and biophysics and of mathe­ ating Station and a need for power in South­ matics, statistics, and computer science. western Ontario. The six routes that they The term of the Secretary of Senate, Both visitors are presenting lectures offered as possible choices were not detailed Walter Vaughan, concludes June 30 and while at Guelph. See "Next Week at Guelph" line maps — that comes at a later stage — but a review committee has been established for details. broad corridors, perhaps 18 kilometres wide. to consider whether reappointment Our study, therefore, had to assess the poten­ should be recommended for a further tial threat to agriculture on a broad scale." five-year term. Dr. Lloyd Davis Comments should be submitted in In the view of the study group, the writing by April 16 to the office of the A professor of clinical pharmacology at the actual land lost under the towers is of less chairman of the review committee, Vice- University of Illinois, College of Veterinary significance than the damage over a much President, Academic, Professor Howard Medicine, Champaign, Illinois, Dr. Lloyd E. wider area that results from the compaction Clark, or to the members of the review Davis, was a short term visiting professor in of soil by heavy construction equipment. committee: FACS Dean, J.M. Wardlaw; the Department of Biomedical Sciences. This is known from previous experience to Psychology professor J.L. Mottin; Botany A member of the department of veter­ be far from easy to correct. and Genetics professor, W.G. Barker; inary clinical medicine, Dr. Davis has pioneer­ Another consideration was the possibly Biomedical Sciences professor, H.W. ed the area of clinical pharmacology and is a restricted potential for aerial spraying Chapman and Tracy Bock, student world leader in the field. He was co-founder imposed by power lines looping over crop senator.D of the American College of Veterinary Phar­ areas. Yet another was the need for irrigation macology and Therapeutics. which is likely to increase substantially during Dr. Davis presented several seminars to the next 20 years in order to serve a growing PSA established OVC faculty members and graduate and market for cash crops. If this involved The Professional Staff Association of the undergraduate students. spraying water over large distances, the University of Guelph approved its constitu­ presence of power lines could be obstructive. tion and bylaws and elected its first executive Grants But perhaps the major concern is the at a general meeting held last week. socio-economic impact of running a power The executive is as follows: president, Professor Kenneth Dorter, Philosophy, has grid through prime agricultural land where Gerry Davidson, Office of the Registrar; been awarded a Social Science and there is at present no industry.