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http://ctr.concordia.ca Richard J. Renaud Science Eomplex opens in style

BY BARBARA BLA CK

The sun shone, the wine flowed, and the expressions of gratitude were heartfelt as the Concordia community and special guests celebrated the opening of the Richard J. Renaud Science Complex on Sept 22. Premier Jean Charest spoke with warmth and informality about the year he taught polit­ ical science at Concordia in 1994-95, which he called "an absolutely marvellous experience:• He said he has been intensely interested in universities as the result of representing the riding in the Eastern Townships that includes the Universite de Sherbrooke and Bishop's, and added that "now it's our turn'' to find the funds to support universities. Richard Renaud, the donor after whom the building is named, said that he started study­ ing at Loyola College 40 years ago this month. At that time, only five per cent of Canadians had post-secondary education; now, it is four times that figure and rising. With government budgets stretched to the limit for health and education spending, we must stabilize univer­ sity costs. On a happier note, he said that he and his wife Carolyn often walked their dog Logan past the Loyola Campus as the new building was going up, and marvelled at how Concordia has leapt ahead in the past decade under the leadership of Frederick Lowy. He paid tribute to Lillian Vineberg, who chaired a committee on the revitalization of the Loyola Campus, and to Jonathan Wener, head of the board's real estate committee, who researched the original 1916 design of the buildings and did everything possible to make the PREMIER JEAN CHAREST greets young Rahentes (Tall Grass) Bush, 7, who danced at the opening. 0 new building harmonize with the old. He also praised the work of Vice-Rector Services Behind them is Ka'nahsohon Kevin Deer, principal of the Mohawk immersion school at Kahnawake, Michael Di Grappa's team. -Continued, please see page 7 who gave a prayer of thanksgiving. The greening of Mackay Street - five storeys high Design by Montreal artist Nicolas Baier chosen for new building's glass curtain

BY BAR BARA BLACK art work will be on the Mackay Street side of the building, which houses the visual arts, and will be visible looking A glimmering, leafy glade is the arresting image that west along Ste. Catherine St. from a great distance. will fill the huge exterior east wall of the new Engineering, Baier said in a phone interview that he has been work­ Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex, now under ing on his design every day since last November, and gives construction on Ste. Catherine St. between Guy and credit for his achievement to two collaborators, Hans Mackay Sts. Brown and Bruno Braen, who together make up the The artist is Nicolas Baier, who attended Concordia and is design firm Cabinet Braun Braen. making a name for himself. His work is in the collections of The work involves scanning tiny bits of about 10 pho­ virtually all Quebec's public galleries, and just last night he tos of a houseplant, and manipulating them. Originally, launched a show at the Musee d'art contemporain de Baier said, he wanted to have people in the design, but to Montreal (MAC). reflect Concordia's diversity, he would have had to include His m.onumental design for the Concordia building is one too many individuals to be practical. He decided on a of the largest commissions ever made under the so-called plant in his own home, and calls it "a unifying image:• one-per-cent program, the Politique d'integration des arts a The Concordia work is typical of Baier's earlier work. I'architecture et a I'environnement , according to which Visitors to his show at the MAC will see more recent buildings financed by the Quebec government must include pieces that are quite different ("and weird"), but they are a work by a Quebec artist. In this case, the budget for the art also sophisticated photo manipulations of everyday work is a record $420,000, higher even than that earmarked things and people. for the new Bibliotheque national du Quebec. The jury who chose Baier's design for the new building The design fills an immense curtain of glass that is 22 comprised Concordia stakeholders, government repre­ metres, or about five storeys, high. Applied to one of several dering of the new complex's sentatives and external art consultants. layers of glass, its components are translucent, transparent Mackay St. exterior. The new building is steadily rising and is expected to and reflective, changing constantly with the natural light. LEFT: Designers Bruno Braen, be ready for occupation in September 2005. Excavation The design will not block light entering the building; at Nicolas Baier and Hans for the new John Molson School of Business, on the oppo­ night, it will be artificially illuminated. Frederick Brown take a break site side of Guy St., is expected to start this winter. A striking design that evokes Concordia's diversity, the from their work.

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History is what we make it · · Ronald Rudin finds messages in our views of icons

BY FRANK KUIN "Both the people who were celebrating Laval and the By contrast, Laval, the first bishop in all of North people who were celebrating Champlain had early-20th­ America, was presented as a Catholic hero at a time Public celebrations like memorials and commemora­ century messages;' he said. "The ideologies were certainly when Catholicism played a central role in French­ tions can be at least as influential in shaping people's per­ in competition with each other." Canadian society. The implicit message of the events ceptions of past events as books and articles written by Champlain, a secular figure, was portrayed as a founder of around him was that "the empire that French-Canadians professional historians, says Ronald Rudin, chair of might be loyal to was the Catholic empire." Concordia's History Department. _ Although for many people, there was noth!ng contra­ Moreover, historical figures and events have long been dictory about being a good Catholic and supporting the used on such public occasions to reinforce contemporary British Empire, "there was an issue in the early 20th cen­ messages - a tendency that is still evident today in prepa­ tury as to whether Canadians were prepared to support rations for next year's celebrations of the 400th anniver­ military activities overseas in support of the British sary of the beginning of European settlement in Canada. Empire;' Rudin said. Rudin, who has received a grant to examine the prepara­ Like professional historians, organizers of commemo­ tions for next year's events, has recently analyzed histori­ rative events always reflect their own time, Rudin elabo­ cal views of two important figures in the history of Quebec. rated. "Whoever is involved in presenting the past to Samuel de Champlain, the French explorer who founded whatever public is involved in an exercise in editing, and Quebec City in 1608, and Monseigneur Frans:ois de Laval, is going to choose, for better or for worse, what it is they the first bishop of Quebec, were celebrated with big events want to present:' about a century ago. Indeed, "there is presumably some message that they In his new book, Founding Fathers: The Celebration of want either the reader or the observer at a spectacle to Champlain and Laval in the Streets of Quebec, 1878-1908, come away with, because otherwise, why would you write Rudin describes four large public spectacles to commemo­ the book or why would you stage the spectacle?" rate these men in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, The same is true for next year's celebrations of the · looking in particular at the aims of the organizers. 400th anniversary of the beginning of European settle­ "Both [Champlain and Laval] were celebrated, but they ment in Canada. Rudin is following the preparations for were celebrated by different people with different agen­ these events, which gives him an opportunity to do what das;' Rudin explained. He added that these celebrations The monument to Samuel de Champlain, unveiled in Quebec he could not in his previous research: talk to organizers, had enormous potential to shape people's views of the past,. City in 1898. Photo courtesy of the Mu see de la Civilisation de participants and spectators. He will examine to what and were attended by tens or even hundreds of thousands Quebec, Fonds d'archives du Seminaire de Quebec. extent the lessons learned by visitors match the aims of of people in Quebec City. the organizers. Laval, often seen as the religious father of French Canada, Canada, a country where the French and the English got One of the celebrations sponsored by the federal gov­ was remembered in 1877 after his bones were rediscovered, along and lived happily under the umbrella of the British ernment will actually be held in France next year, with the while a monument to Champlain was unveiled in 1898. The Empire. This was a remarkable twist, considering Champlain aim of reinforcing trade ties between the two countries. celebrations of both figures culminated in 1908, the 200th had sailed in the service of France and died more than a cen­ Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the anniversary of Laval's death and the 300th anniversary of tury before the English conquered New France. celebrations, Rudin said. the founding of Quebec by Champlain. This view of Champlain was influenced by the need to "It would suggest that it's still the case that if you have The organizers of these large commemorative events, shore up French-Canadian support for the British Empire a message to communicate about the past and you com­ which included processions, re-enactments and dedica­ as the threat of war loomed. "What they wanted to do in municate it effectively, you can still attract large num­ tions, were to some extent competing for the hearts and this celebration was to make French-Canadians feel good bers of people who presumably are interested in learning minds of French Canadians within the context of contem­ about a history where French and English were getting something about the past." porary issues, Rudin explained. along;' Rudin said. Anita Rau Badami: She's a· writer on the move

BY A NGIE GADDY she said. ''And there's always that excitement of finding a new voice:• The stories we tell define us, linking families to places Her own voice was developed by a mobile childhood. and people to each other. They can traverse continents and Born in 1961 in India, she was the daughter of a mechani­ can land, sometimes with mythic proportions, in our own cal engineer who worked for the railway company and was back yard. transferred every two to three years to another city. Such is the story of Anita _Rau Badami, one of Canada's . Badami credits that lack of rootedness for her writing. It most talented storytellers, and Concordia University's new takes her to a place that is only hers, where she can set up writer-in-residence. Only two novels into her writing career, shop, put out a welcome mat and call it home. she is the youngest recipient of the Marian Engel Award. She is fascinated by myths and the tales people weave. "I After her first book, Tamarind Mem, the Globe and Mail grew up with these mythologies. I never learned them as said, ''A new and exciting talent [has] borne its first fruit on such in class. They were just in the air;' she said. "When I the Canadian literary scene:• Critics summed up .her second moved away here, I found those mythologies were really novel, The Hero's Walk, more bluntly: "Read it:' powerful:' The soft-spoken author reacts with humility, joking that At age 18, she wrote and published her first short story she's never been a writer-in-residence before, "except at my for 75 rupees, and for 10 years after, she worked as a free­ own home:· lance journalist. In 1991, she and her young son moved to Since moving to Montreal two years ago when her hus­ Calgary, following her husband, who was pursuing a mas­ band, Madhav, got a job teaching at McGill University, she ter's degree in environmental science. has been working quietly on her third novel. A year ago, she They later moved t? Vancouver, where he earned his received a call from Concordia offering her the position. doctorate in planning, and she published her two novels. It "I was quite excited about it, actually, because I lead a was there that she began working on her third novel, Can lonely existence;' she said, laughing. "You know, very self­ You Hear the Night Bird Sing, to be published next fall. absorbed, because I'm sitting in my room all day:' In the meantime, fan sites have appeared on the When not teaching her advanced creative writing class, Internet. Last year, she participated in the Salon Etranger Badami will look at manuscripts, works in progress and fic­ in Paris, which focused on Indian writers. tion from writing hopefuls. She has been contacted by her publishers in India and i "I love the idea of reading excerpts from other people's England to republish her children's stories, and she has had works in progress. There's something so intimate about an idea for book number four. The working title is The AUTHOR ANITA RAU BADAMI is Concordia's new writer-in-resi­ that writing. It's somebody's mind exposed. I'm curious Guest, an appropriate one for an author who makes a home dence. While juggling teaching and editing her latest novel, she about what's on that page - mind and soul and heart;· wherever she lands. wants to meet aspiring writers and find that "new voice." • 2 .Co ncordi~•s,Th4r1da y, R,epo rt I ,S~ p,tem,b~r ,2j, 200)

_J This column welcomes Sense of touch reproduced faculty and staffto PW and group activities in endoscopic surgery encourage work- e ' New professor Javad Dargahi puts micro-machining on medical frontier at a

BY JANICE HAMILTON

A good surgeon's hands are not only steady, they can feel Congratulations to graduate student Gary Chateram, who received a subtle differences in biologi­ Jackie Robinson Scholarship when Montreal's black community held its cal tissues to detect the pres­ annual awards ceremonies in the spring at a downtown hotel. ence of disease or blood ves­ William Curran, Director, Libraries, spoke in April at a Finding Our Future sels, for example. conference on succession planning. The conference, held in Ottawa at the. However, surgeons don't Library and Archives of Canada, had the subtitle Fac;ing the Challenges of Aging Workforce: Succession Planning Strategies for Libraries and Information even touch tissues when they Management Organizations. use increasingly common min­ imally invasive surgery tech­ Concordia was well represented at the annual conference of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies, held May 21-24 at the University of New niques. They simply insert Brunswick, in Fredericton. John Donahue (CMLL) gave a paper on endoscopes - long, thin han­ "Teaching Irish to the World; Michael Kenneally (English) on "Landscape, dles equipped with tiny cam­ Exile and Identity in the Poetry ofThomas D'Arcy McGee; Brad Kent, who eras and grasping and cutting is doing a PhD in Humanities, on "Shaw's Everyday Emergency: tools - into the body through Commodification in John Bull's Other Island; and Carole Zucker (Cinema), on "The Reception of Neil Jordan's Michael Collins." small incisions. Javad Dargahi, an assistant Daniel Cross (Cinema) had a great spring. He and Mila Aung-Thwin, of professor of mechanical and EyeSteelFilm, won the top prize of $50,000 at BANFF, the. CTV Canadian industrial engineering at Documart held in Banff in June. Also, S.P.I.T., his documentary about street kids, made in Montreal, was held over in Toronto for several weeks. Geoff JAVAD DARGAHI is working on a device that would re-create the feeling of force Concordia, is developing a Pevere, of the Toronto Star, called it "enlightening, urgent and funny" and surgeons need to have when operating. device that would replicate gave it four stars. the hand's sensory capabili- Roy Cross (Cinema) also screened his latest film, So Faraway and Blue, in ties in endoscopic surgery. and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) to work on the third Toronto. Matt Hays, of the Mirror, said it"plays out like a tormented David "With his hand, the surgeon can measure the generation of the device. Lynch dreamscape." force he exerts, and the position of the exerted Precarn is a Canadian consortium of corpora­ Kara Blake, a student in the MFA Studio Arts (Film Production Option), force;• Dargahi said in an interview. "He also meas­ tions, research institutes and government part­ won a 2003 Carole Fielding Student Grant for work on her thesis film, ures the softness, hardness, temperature, and tex­ ners in the intelligent systems industry. It man­ Now Hear This. These grants are awarded by the U.S.-based University ture of the tissue. All that is missing in endoscop­ ages IRIS, a Network of Centres of Excellence that Film and Video Association, of which Concordia's cinema school is a ic surgery. The idea is to design an electromechan­ focuses on the essential elements of intelligent member. Kara will probably be featured in an article in the next Kodak ical sensor to do this, and integrate it with the systems - the ability to perceive, reason and act. Campus Beat magazine. grasping tool." With this generation of the device, Dargahi Karin Doerr (CMLUSimone de Beauvoir Institute) was invited by the Dargahi has been interested in robotic tactile plans to fabricate a miniaturized prototype, using University of Vermont to deliver the 14th Harry H. Kahn Memorial Lecture. sensing for a long time, and completed his PhD ~cro-machining techniques, and to integrate the The event took place in March. thesis in this field 10 years ago. A native oflran, he sensor into the endoscope. The sensor ~will be Palmer Acheson sent a fond farewell to his friends at Concordia, having did all his university studies in the United encapsulated, or insulated, so it won't be damaged retired from teaching on June 1. He added, "Now that the TESL Centre is Kingdom, then returned to Tehran to teach. He by body fluids, and won't produce any side effects part of the large, powerful Department of Education, under the able direc­ tion of a dynamic director, and with new faculty to reinvigorate it, I am went to Simon Fraser University to do postdoctor­ on the patient. more optimistic for its future than I was a few years ago." al work on micro-machining techniques in 1997, Since the device will be micro-machined (a tech­ then worked for private industry and at the nique used to fabricate MEMS, or micro-electro­ Vice-Rector Services Michael DI Grappa, Patricia Poslus and Enza De Cubellis made a presentation at the eastern conference of the NACAS University of New Brunswick. He came to mechanical systems), it can be produced cost­ (National Association of College Auxiliary Services) on "Service 1: Bringing Concordia in September 2001. effectively in large batches. It will be disposable. Service to the Organization; and report that it was well received. He has already designed and fabricated two pro­ Micro-machining also means the device can be Several alumni of Concordia's theatre program have been mentioned in totypes, and has just received a $35,000 grant from made in different sizes for use on different body the newsletter of ACTRA, the Association of Canadian Television and Radio Precarn Incorporated and the Institute for Robotic organs. Artists. Marla Bircher has been a professional performer and active Dargahi expects the.sensor to be able to meas­ ACTRA member for more than 15 years. Vlk Sahay has been in CBC TV's ure force, position of the applied force, and soft­ Our Hero, YTV's Radioactive and the film Good Will Hunting. He will be in a ness of the tissue. In his research, he has been able stage performance ofTom Stoppard's Indian Ink in a co-production by the CONCORDIA'S to measure the softness of human fingers. Canadian Stage and National Arts Centre. Eventually, he intends to test the device on sam­ Jean-Fran~ois Warren (Sociology/Anthropology) has written a book with THURSDAY REPORT ples of other types of tissues, such as samples of Gilles Gagne, Sociologie et valeurs. Quatorze penseurs quebecois du XXeme prostate glands. Tissue softness is an important siec/e (Montreal, PUM). factor in surgery since some malignant tumours, Ira Robinson (Religion) was a member of the Canadian Scientific Publication Dates for example, are harder than the surrounding Committee for the exhibition Archaeology and the Bible: From King David to September 11, 2003 healthy tissues. the Dead Sea Scrolls, seen this summer at the Musee d'archeologie et d'his­ toire de Montreal (Pointe a Calliere). September 25, 2003 From the surgical standpoint, Dargahi has been October ·9, 2003 collaborating for several years with a colleague at Award-winning poet Stephanie Bolster (English) read from her work in Vancouver and at the, Leacock Literary Festival in Orillia, Ontario. She will October 23, 2003 the St. John Regional Hospital in New Brunswick. be featured in an episode of The Writing Life, to be aired on Bravo in 2004. November 6, 2003 He has also recently begun to make contacts with November 20, 2003 individuals in Montreal's medical community. Donato Totaro (Cinema) made a presentation on Sept. 25 at the sympo­ sium on the aesthetic theories of 19th-century Swedish philosopher Henri . December 4, 2003 Once this prototype of the device has been Bergson at the Musee d'art contemporain. January 1 s. 2004 designed, fabricated and tested, he hopes it will January 29, 2004 eventually become commercially available. He said Robert Tittler (History) delivered a paper in July at the National Portrait Gallery in London entitled "Civic Portraiture and Local Memory in February 1 :Z. 2004 researchers in many other large universities are Elizabethan Provincial Towns." In addition, his edition of The Blackwells March 11, 2004 also working in the field of tactile sensors. These Companion to Tudor Britain, co-edited with Norman Jones, is now in press March 25, 2004 devices promise to have many applications, espe­ for publication by Blackwells of Oxford in June 2004. April 8, 2004 cially when combined with robotic devices. The American Statistical Association has awarded Yogendra P. Chaubey Dargahi said he is taking a different avenue from Aprll .+t~P" (Mathematics and Statistics) the 2003 Chapter Service Recognitioi:, his competitors in the design of the sensor, and he Award for his service and leadership to the Montreal Chapter of the feels that the way the device is integrated in the Association and to the Montreal Regional Association of the Statistical endoscope is unique. Society of Canada. 3 In memoriam Stanley George French, 1933- 2003 senate notes Concordia lost a valued teacher and friend when Professor Emeritus Stanley French died Sept. 15 at the Hotel-Dieu de St-Jerome. He had retired in June A regular meeting of University Senate, held Sept. 12, 2003 from the university, where he was professor Procedure: Speaker John O'Brien said that based on last year's experience, under all but the most unusu­ of philosophy as well as al circumstances, items for the agenda should be submitted to steering committee, and the chair would dean of graduate studies be mo~e scrupulous in observing the 15-minute limit for question period. Increased representation for for many years. graduate and part-time students is being considered; in the meantime, visitors in these categories would His work in philoso- be given speaking rights as needed. . phy was much grounded Rector's remarks: Dr. Lowy said there's a new spirit on campus, and he congratulated the CSU for a suc­ in the realities of the cessful orientation. He reminded Senate of the call for nominations for the Loyola Medal and the Shuffle world he lived in. As a Professor Stanley French with proud family walkathon. Enrolment is at an all-time high, as is the average mark of entering students, 82.1 per cent. The doctoral student at the members, who attended a celebration of his university is still working to achieve its hiring goals in a competitive environment. University of Virginia, he long career at Concordia on March 14 this year. took part in public sit-ins to contest racial segregation. Possessed of a Appointment challenged: One of the three appointments to the student tribunal pool, Patrice Blais, was strong sense of justice, he wrote many articles dealing with Quebec's challenged by a faculty member on the grounds that Blais, having graduated from Concordia in June, is role in Canada and other political issues. In recent years, he wrote enrolled full-time at the Universite de Montreal's law school. The secretary of Senate replied that Blais ful­ about and taught courses on violence against women. filled the eligibility requirements set out in the bylaws. The Rector said that the principle of sitting on gov­ Our sympathies are extended to his widow, Leena Sandblom, and his erning bodies of two institutions will be looked into. children, Shona, Sean (Marion) and Ewan {Leslie), and Lina French, Lonergan College: Dean of Arts and Science Martin Singer traced the history of this body, which started and his grandchildren, Ryan, Lyssandre, Matthew, Maxine, Keane and in 1978 and was named after a Quebec-born Jesuit theologian. The decision to close the college was "dif­ baby Lara, and stepgrandchildren Stephanie and Christal. ficult emotionally, but not academically," Singer said. It had never had its own program for students, but A memorial service will be held at the Loyola Chapel of Concordia was intended mainly for faculty to focus on a particular think1:r each year. Most of the founding genera­ University, {7141 Sherbrooke St. W.) on Saturday, Sept 27, at 11 a.m. tion had retired, and the college's inte,rdisciplinary courses had been taken up by Theology and the new Donations may be made to the Canadian Diabetes Association. Loyola International College. Amendment to Code of Conduct (Academic): As part of a reorganization in his office, the Dean of Arts and Singer: ·Apply academic rules fairly Science has created the position of Code Administrator to handle cases and appeals. Danielle Morin, Dean of Arts and Science Martin Singer has told his department chairs Associate Dean of the John Molson School of Business, said that some professors who file incident reports that uneven application across the Faculty of the policies in the under­ might balk at the ruling of an administrator who was not on the faculty, to which Singer replied that the per­ graduate calendar is unfair and must be stopped son chosen had in fact taught on the faculty of another university earlier in her careei: Carried. "There are two cultures side by side;• Singer told his first faculty coun­ Tribunals: An amendment was proposed to increase the maximum number of people available to chair cil of the year on Sept 12. "I've had it, and I have come up with a solu­ hearings from 10 to 15. The names and CVs of members of this pool to be appointed or re-appointed was tion." submitted. One faculty member suggested that experience in commercial law might be inappropriate for the Starting in Octobex; the rules laid out in the calendar will be strictly cases they were likely to encounter at the university, to which several other senators and General Counsel enforced There will continue to be special provisions for compassionate Suzanne Birks replied that the important things were that the candidates not have the potential for a con­ cases, such as a death in the family or serious illness. flict of interest and that they have experience in litigation. The amendment and appointments were carried Delinquent students find some professors easy to persuade, and over Academic Hearings Panel: A report was tabled on charges handled between Sept. 1, 2002, and Aug. 31, time, this becomes the practice of the department Singer said that this 2003. A total of 316 incident reports were filed, of which 218 were upheld at the faculty level, and 54 hear­ is potentially dangerous: A student could claim that a professor has ing panels have been or will be scheduled to haandle them. made a promise and then, in the absence of the professor, hold the uni­ versity responsible. Appointment: Dean of Graduate Studies Elizabeth Sacca announced that Professor Nina Howe had He has looked at 450 cases since July, and while he admitted that the agreed to serve as Vice-Dean, Student Affairs, for one year. Sacca also said that graduate students' admis­ transitional period was difficult, he rejected a plea by student represen­ sion and advising services had moved into the Birks Student Services Centre. tatives on council to extend it to the end of this term. "If you've made a Engineering Week: Dean of Engineering and Computer Science Nabil Esmail announced that six of the promise to a student:' he told the faculty members, "bring it to a conclu­ seven programs had been professionally accredited, and Engineering Week would be observed Oct. 7-9 sion:• ·(not Sept. 29-Oct. 2, as previously reported in CTR). The relevant section of the undergraduate calendar is 16.3, titled "Evaluation, Grading System, Examinations, and Performance Research: Provost Jack Lightstone announced that.preliminary figures for research revenue for 2002-03 Requirements:• totals about $5 million more than the previous year, and a great deal of work h,as gone into preparing hir­ Singer also announced a major reorganization in his office that will ing proposals for Canada Research Chairs. professionalize many of the tasks previously carried out by faculty mem­ New building: Dean Singer thanked Professor Bob Roy and Vice-Rector Services Michael Di Grappa and bers. Donald Chambers is now Director of Student Academic Services, all the others who had worked so hard towards the construction of the Science Complex, and invited and will head a staff of eight admissions officers. Serge Bergeron is everyone to attend the official opening Sept. 22. Director of Administrative Services, and Rose Fedorak is Code Administrator, handling cases under the academic code of conduct Next meeting: The meeting scheduled for Oct. 3 has been cancelled.

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BY BARBARA BLACK letters he has got from students who received bursaries. He's stunned by the enormous need out there, and he Rick Renaud thinks of Concordia as "the most under­ would like to see his wealthy friends, and maybe some of told story in town;' and it's hard to interview him without the rest of us who are just comfortable, take a needy stu­ getting an extended commercial for the university. He's a dent under our wing to support their education. tireless Concordia booster, giving money for scholarships and bursaries, donating to the university's capital projects, A modest philanthropist and persuading other Montrealers to support the cause. Renaud is a graduate of Loyola, both the high school and He joined Concordia's board of governors in 1989, but the college (BCom '69). He became a chartered accountant it was the Fabricant crisis of 1992 that really piqued and taught part-time in Concordia's business school in the Renaud's interest. He has been more active since then - mid-1970s. He describes himself as a merchant banker spe­ on the Rose Sheinin Committee, on the board's advance­ cializing in restructuring, ment committee, on the advisory board of Engineering, and made his career by buy­ and as board vice-chair and vice-chair of the Concordia RICHARD RENAUD and his wife, Carolyn, in a building's science lab. ing companies and re-selling Foundation. them. Now he probably He's personally modest, even shy. He rarely gives speech­ $77 million raised in the capital campaign, and another $40 spends about half his time es, doesn't want to chair the Board of Governors, and he million pledged afterwards. The largest contribution from being creative with his phi­ caused university staff some mild consternation when he an individual was $13 million, and another $10 million lanthropy. declined media interviews at the opening of the building donation went towards the naming of the John Molson He gets his biggest pay­ named after him. School of Business. back out of helping needy He made a speech this summer in England at the invita­ Renaud also told his audience about the $200-million young people, from the tion of the Oxford Round Table, a conference on university bond issue that was crucial in raising money for the science exceptional Concordia grad­ administration. In it, he pointed. to the need for philan­ building. He said he happen~d to be reading a history of the uate he is putting through thropists to close the widening gap ,, McGill School of Medicine, 1829-1885, medical school to the hot­ between inadequate funding and ''Sure, we had a lot ofchallenges and it gave him an idea he could apply meals program he started for increasing need. - big community donors were at Concordia. RICHARD J. RENAUD teens in Verdun. He related Concordia's own _expe­ "We were able to get a 40-year com­ rience: ''.An initial hurdle to over­ affected by the Netanyahu affair mitment whereby the interest [on the Looking to the future come was psychological. Concordia - but the tide is changi,ng:' bond issue] is being paid by a $4-mil- University and its predecessor insti­ lion levy against the budgets of three People who think business people are conservative tutions did not have the strong tra­ -Richard Renaud of our faculties. It is interesting to note might be surprised at how forward-looking Renaud is. dition of fundraising of older that 70 per cent of these budgets are "Sixty per cent of university graduates are women - 85 per Canadian universities and both private and state universi­ actually salaries of the professors. [Through this means,] the cent in some countries. The 21st century will be about ties in the United States. Concordia Foundation will pay $2 million per year for the women [achieving power through devices like] micro-loan next 40 years based on the capital raised from the capital programs:• Growing endowments campaign. He also thinks Concordia has been an innovator, but a "The Quebec government has agreed to contribute $4.5 practical, prudent one. "Big-name schools are spending "In 1995 Concordia's endowment stood at a very modest million of the annual cost based the rental properties, which billions on e-learning programs, but Concordia has been $8 million. The university had contact with and received allowed us to move from 73 civic addresses in Montreal to doing this for about $500,000. Our consumers fore-learn­ regular donations from fewer than 17,000 of its then 90,000 10. The balance of $2.5 million annual payment will be cov­ ing will be baby boomers, and it's not something that's alumnae and alumni. These donations amounted to barely ered by the annual giving program. The $200 million princi­ elite-driven. We can deliver education electronically to $1.5 million per year, the funds being applied largely to pal will be paid, we expect, by a donor who will purchase a remote places like Lesotho [South Africa], and e-educa­ support student scholarships, " Renaud said. 40-year zero coupon bond, at a cost of$15 million, on behalf tion will lower our costs:• "What is our current situation? The [Concordia] of the university:• Renaud can even see a silver lining in the hard times of University Foundation now stands at approximately $100 While he has no special affinity with the sciences, the idea the past decade. "The funding and political slump [in million, including $20 million in pledges which are being of the new building thrills him, particularly the effect it will Quebec] positioned us for future fundraising. Our capital paid off over the next three or four years. Annual giving has have on the gracious but sleepy west-end campus he knew campaign put us on the map. Sure, we had a lot of chal­ doubled to $3 million:• as a student. lenges - big community donors were affected by the He went on to describe the current construction projects, "It makes a statement about excellence;' he said recently. Netanyahu affair - but the tide is changing:• for which funding started with a three-year capital cam­ "It's the most modern building of its kind, in an unbelievable One thing that drives Renaud is the album of touching paign. Individuals and corporations contributed most of the location. Concordia is really poised to go forward now:•

Pressure Vessel Fabrication Manager of the Regie du · John award, he invited Jean to be a special guest at this In brief batiment du Quebec. spring's graduation ceremonies in Regina, and put an Michele Thibodeau-DeGuire, who is the president and RCMP plane at his disposal for the trip. By a happy coinci­ executive director of Centraide of Greater Montreal, also dence, the son of a close friend was in the graduating class. Passionate engineers meet here happens to be an engineer. She will give the workshop on The Order of St. John is an international ·charitable social commitment, on Oct. 8 at 2:30. organization whose roots go back 900 years. It is focused Engineering: A Profession, A Passion! is the compelling As part of Engineering Week, CASI (the Canadian on training and community service, notably through. St. title of a conference jointly organized by Concordia and Aeronautics and Space Institute) will sponsor a talk by John's Ambulance, which provides first aid and CPR cours­ the Ordre des ingenieurs du Quebec to will take place in NASA engineer Scott Higginbottham on Tuesday, es to the public and patrols large-scale public events. the D.B. Clarke Theatre of the Hall Building, Oct. 7 to 9. October 8, from 5-7 p.m., in Room H-763. The conference will be launcheg at 9 a.m. on Oct. 7 by JMSB faculty to reclaim soccer name Minister of Natural Resources, Wildlife and Parks Sam Jean Brisebois made knight of St. John Hamad, who is himself an engineer. Another guest of_ Assistant Professor Kai Lamertz, with the help of . honour will preside over the closing ceremony: Gilles Congratulations to Jean Brisebois, director of Security, alumni associations, is organizing another soccer match Briere, an engineer who is a contract management officer who was elevated to the rank of knight by the Order of St. between MBA students and the JMSB faculty and staff. for the United Nations. John at a ceremony at Christ Church Cathedral in May. He Last year's match was an enjoyable one, but unfortu­ Individual conferences will focus on each of the funda­ is a past president of the Quebec Council of St. John's nately for professorial dignity, the students won by a mental values of an engineer. Ambulance, and an active volunteer. score of 5-1. The workshop on competence will be presented Oct. 7 He is also a longtime volunteer for other causes, includ­ "We have booked the newly renovated outdoor field at at 10 p.m. by Passi Kafyeke, Manager, Advanced ing the Air Cadets League and CAFAT, a group in Laval Loyola campus on Oct. 3 for the match, which will take . Aerodynamics, Bombardier Aeronautics. The one on that helps people with dependencies. He started an place between 11 am and 1 p.m. We will play 11 players responsibility will be presented on Oct. 7 at 2:30 by awards program for young people who conquer their per side with unlimited substitutions, and we are also Reginald Weiser, chairman and CEO of Positron addictions. The award is linked to the Royal Canadian hiring a certified referee to arbitrate the game:• Industries. Mounted Police, in which Brisebois served before coming If you are interested in playing for the faculty/staff The workshop on ethical conduct wili take place Oct. 9 to Concordia in 2001. team, contact Lamertz at [email protected], or at 2:30 under the direction of Madiha Kotb, -Boiler and When the commissioner of the RCMP heard about his St. just come out and watch the game. 5 September 25 , 200 3 I Concordia •, Thur,da y Report

,l .•. j.. ,. J l . \ • • • •·• I More students than ever coming from far away

BY BARBARA BLAC K each from Turkey, Bahrain, the United Arab The number of students from the U.S. and abroad Emirates, Saudi Arabia attending Concordia continues to grow. and Syria, and 11 from In fact, the total has increased by more than 64 per cent other countries. in the past two years, and by more than 200 per cent over About 400 out of six years, to 3,200. That's nearly 10 per cent of the univer­ approximately 870 appli­ sity's total enrolment, a record for a university that has cants to study on always depended heavily on the local market. exchange have been Balbir Sahni has just retired from teaching economics accepted, Sahni said. This to become full-time director of the Centre for means that they are International Academic Co-operation, but he has applied enrolled at their home his statistical rigour to assembling a profile of interna­ universities rather than tional students enrolled in September at Concordia in Concordia. However, he each of the past three years. finds that some of these The results show that international students are up in each students opt to come of the four faculties and among graduate as well as under­ back to Canada to finish graduate students. In fact, the proportion of graduate stu­ their degree or to do dents in the newly admitted cohort has increased successive­ another one. ly over the three years. A government bursary "The outcome pleases everyone;• Di: Sahni exclaimed, "and has been established to

it;s the faculties who have done it" , encourage Quebec stu­ Where the highest number used to come from France, dents to broaden their STUDENTS AND CONSULS from many countries enjoyed the annual reception, held this year in the big because of a special low-tuition agreement between minds with an exchange tent on the Loyola Campus. As of this month, Loyola will have its own International Students Office. An advisor will be available on Wednesdays in Advocacy & Support Services, AD 131. The phone number is Quebec and France, China has taken the lead, with 683 year, but it's still a hard 848-2424, ext. 2990. students this fall to France's 429. There are 302 students sell. However, last year, from the U.S. and 139 from India, between 50 and 100 this number increased from Egypt, Jordan, Mexico, Iran and Japan. from only 29 in 1999-2000 to 128, and is likely about the exchange students as it sends to other countries. This Breaking down countries by region shows that same this year. Thanks to exchange agreements, could have a serious effect on Concordia's intake. Concordia has 1,142 students from Asia, 688 from Concordia students are studying in France, the U.K., Dr. Sahni was pleased with the attendance at the con­ Europe, 559 from the Americas, 482 from the Middle East, Australia, the U.S.A., Mexico, the Netherlands, Denmark, sular reception for international students held in the and 257 from Africa. Austria, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Argentina, Finland, tent at Loyola on Sept. 12. This has become a fixture of International students are those who are in Canada on Hong Kong, Japan and Spain. Concordia's social calendar, and the consuls look forward a student visa. In the light of recent political conflict on , Dr. Sahni said that his office will promote bilateral to meeting students from their countries in a convivial campus, it is interesting to note that there are only 17 stu­ exchanges between Concordia and other countries as atmosphere. dents from Israel and 11 from the Palestinian Authority. opposed to the general Quebec exchange agreement, as The annual party given for all Montreal's new interna­ The other students from the Middle East are from he feels that the government will eventually require par­ tional students, hosted by Mayor Gerald Tremblay, was Lebanon (93), Jordan (80), Iran (61), Egypt (50), about 30 ity, i.e., Concordia will only be able to accept as many held at the chalet on Mount Royal on Sept. 17. Shuffle raises $53,000 plus for needy students

he_re was a great turnout for the 14th annual Shuffle walkathon between campuses on TSept. 19, and at least $53,000 was raised towards the Shuffle Scholarship Fund. More faculty members than usual took on the 6.5-km challenge, and as always, the sup­ port staff turned out in style to run, walk, skate, cycle, walk the dog or push the stroller. Professor Rama Bhat couldn't join them, but so as not to let down his sponsors, he did the Shuffle on his own the next day. Board chair Alain Benedetti won a laptop in the draw for prizes following the walk, and plans to donate it to a needy student. Thanks to everyone, walkers, commercial sponsors, and media supporters, including Mix 96's Ken and Cat, who launched the walk downtown, and Comedy Nest funnyman Ernie Butler, who emceed the post-Shuffle party at Loyola. Results of the Chartwell Challenge, a competition for teams of walkers, will be announced on Shoptalk and on the Shuffle web site.

Despite dire expectations about Hurricane Isabel, the weather was great and spirits high. Darcy Sowden (Bookstores) and Pierrette Bilodeau (Custodial Services) show good form. 6 Con cordia ' s Thu rsd ay Report I Se pt em ber 25, 2003 New Science Complex given a festive opening Decouverte host Charles Tisseyre emceed

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Dean Martin Singer said that the new building gave everyone "a tremendous sense of accomplishment;' and it had already enabled the Faculty of Arts and Science to attract new researchers, grants and students. He paid tribute to the teamwork of the 27 departmental chairs. Sebastien Fournier, a fourth-year psychology student, gave a glowing tribute to the Science College, of which he is a member. It has moved from one of the Mackay St. annexes to the new building, where promising undergraduate science students will have a rare opportunity to use the latest facilities for original research. Dr. Lowy summed up everyone's mood when he said, "it's a wonderful time to be here:' The proceedings were emceeded by Charles Tisseyre, longtime host of Radio­ Canada's science program Decouverte. The ceremony, which included a native blessing and a ceremonial tree-planting, was preceded by a stand-up lunch for about 150 guests.

Richard Renaud and Premier Jean Cha rest

Kevin Deer leads Tehoniata rahthe (Bright Stream) Diabo, 10, and Rahentes (Tall Grass) Bush, 7, in a traditiona l dance.

Vice-Rector Marcel Danis, Dr. Lowy, the premier and Dean Singer tour the building. Rector Frederick Lowy, Premier Charest, Mr. Renaud and Dean Martin Singer plant a tree to mark the occasion.

7 Septe mber 2S , 2003 I Concord ia's Thu rsday Rep ort L Faking Death: a complex look at art and identity

BY BARBARA B LACK However, it may also be a comment on the evo­ lution of the Canadian identity that in Faking It took her 20 years, but photography critic Penny Death, Cousineau-Levine treats francophone and Cousineau-Levine has published a book that identifies the anglophone photographers together, because she remarkable threads that run through Canadian art photog­ finds that they share many of the same preoccu­ raphy, including themes of bondage and death. pations. The germ of Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and Cousineau-Levine was a student of the Loyola the Canadian Imagination (McGill-Queen's UP) was her College communication arts program, which she gradual realization that Canadians had their own recalls as "fabulous:• With an English lit degree approach, and perhaps this was an important key to the from the University of Manitoba, she was intrigued elusive Canadian identity. by the McLuhanesque offerings of Loyola College, Cousineau-Levine did her MFA in Rochester, N.Y., in and took no fewer than seven courses in the aca­ 1972-74. This immersion in the U.S. tradition and her con­ demic.year 1969-70. tacts with photographers on both sides of the border made Many of the photographers represented in the her realize how the Canadians differed from their better­ book are, in fact, from Concordia, including John known American counterparts. Max, Charles Gagnon, Evergon, Gabor Szilasi, She also became aware that little scholarly work had been Raymonde April, and Clara Gutsche. done on Canadian art photography as a whole: "There really Photography is at an interesting stage, wasn't a vocabulary to talk about it'' Cousineau-Levine said in a phone interview After years of examining Canadian art photography, she from her Ottawa home, because photos can be went back to the critics, including Northrop Frye, John so cleverly manipulated. This makes it a marvel- . Ralston Saul and Linda Hutcheon, and found that the lous medium for artists, but a confusing one for themes they identified in Canadian literature and political the viewer. "In the 20th century, photography life- of disconnection, of looking out to another world - was the gold standard for truth, but that's no,, BEHIND THE GLASS CURTAIN: This striking photo by Concordia artist are also present in the work of many Canadian artists work­ longer the case:• Raymonde April, an excerpt from Debout sur le rivage, 1984, has a woman's · ing with the camera. She added that the commercial and the artis­ head and face covered with an opaque plastic sheet. This theme of being cut In the book, she noted such preoccupations as the tic boundaries _are increasingly blurry, as photog­ off, constrained, or otherwise separated from outside reality is a recurring theme in Canadian art photography, according to Penny Cousineau-Levine. entrapment of animals, the inability of individuals to feel raphers appropriate the imagery of advertising at home, recurring images of windows, "symbolic codes;• and popular entertainment to make artistic parallel "zones of reality;' and especially, "a fascination statements. was very expensive to produce, and getting permission to with the phenomenon of death that goes far beyond that of Faking Death consumed her summers for many years, as reproduce the photos took an average of five or six e-mails any other group:' she juggled teaching full-time at Concordia with raising for each image:• There are about 165 photos in the book. She even compared the Canadian identity conun­ her children. One thing that kept her at it was the prodding Her next project will be about "the female masquerade" in drum to anorexia, in which the sufferer dreads matura­ of her students and former students. art, she said, but she admitted, "I don't know if I'm going to tion and tries to achieve an unworldly state of being. "It represents a large corpus of work, and it took a long feel as strongly about it'' Faking Death, which has already got The title of Faking Death comes from a work by time to get it together;• she said. ''As an academic book, it a lot of attention, notably a big spread in the National Post, Vancouver artist Jeff Wall. had to be submitted to an anonymous group of readers. It was probably the book of her life. Irish American writer, activist says Irish won't disappear

BY SYLVAIN COMEAU young Irish Catholic girls; that the Irish were forced into "The '60s made me Irish. That decade was about chal­ backbreaking labor on the canals and bridges, or into lenging identities. Women were challenging the patri­ According to Irish American author and activist Tom crime in order to survive . . . all of these memories, and archy; blacks and latinos were challenging white suprema­ Hayden, many Irish immigrants, past and present, have more, should not disappear, but be recovered:' cy; gays and lesbians were challenging the nature of man­ attempted to disappear into North American culture. Hayden contends, citing a dearth of adequate Irish stud­ hood and masculinity. Everywhere I turned, I found that In a lecture at Concordia on Monday, Hayden said that ies programs, that the school curriculums in the U.S. are part of the identity that I had been given was being taken the Irish diaspora was met by a relentless drive to assimi­ designed to dampen or eradicate these memories. away. I became vulnerable, or open, to the possibilities of late the Irish in North America. But, for the most part, the If they disappear forever, "we would desecrate the mem­ a new identity:• immigrants themselves shared that desire, trying hard to ory of those who struggled in order to make our opportu­ Hayden said that for his generation, the immigrant past bury the past. nities for a better life possible. We will also be deprived of is far enough behind that many Irish today can embrace "The general notion, over a very long period of time, was a great resource for understanding the identical suffering their heritage. Ironically, the distance of the past may bring to make the Irish disappear: into whiteness, into and struggles around the world today. it much closer. That process has been helped along by a Britishness; anything but Irish. That is a pattern, and one · "Finally, we will make it easier for perpetrators of past recent influx of Irish culture which broke through to the which applies to other national, racial, ethnic groups:• injustices to inflict today the same kinds of suppression of mainstream, such as the rock group U2 and the travelling Hayden said the struggles of the Irish immigrant experi- · human rights and cultural her­ Riverdance show. · ence must be remembered, despite the efforts of the early itage, and [perpetuate] the shame " . · . . , Hayden concluded by calling for a generations to distance themselves it. and self-hatred on the two billion The thzng about the Insh LS that we re society that is increasingly willing "The fact that the vast majority of people in the mental people on this earth who labour dreamers. Modernization has little and able to accommodate the hopes institutions in New York state were Irish; the fact that the for less than two dollars a day:• and dreams of its immigrants, majority of prostitutes on the streets of New York were Such a collective amnesia would room for dreaming; fantasies yes, but rather than submerge them in a tide make the Irish ''orphans in his­ dreams are dangerous:' of assimilation. tory, with no guide as to how to "The thing about the Irish is that navigate the 21st century:• - Tom Hayden we're dreamers. Modernization has Hayden was born in the little room for dreaming; fantasies United States of parents who had fled Ireland to seek a yes, but dreams are dangerous. We need a country that will better life in America. He says that they were also fleeing become more internationalist, by assimilating into the memories, like many Irish immigrants, burying the past dreams of its immigrants, including the Irish dream, which in order to bury the pain. is one of spirituality, poetry, and learning in everyday life:• "The real immigration was from a shame and degra­ As a young man, Hayden worked in the civil rights and dation to respectability. My parents wanted to know anti-war movements, and became the ideologue of the nothing about the past, and to pass on this nothing­ New Left. He famously married, then divorced, actress ness to me. And they succeeded. I was raised uncon­ and fellow radical Jane Fonda, then served several terms scious, which meant that I accepted a mainstream as a U.S. senator. American identity." His latest book is entitled Irish on the Outside: In Search Hayden began to educate himself about his her­ ofthe Soul ofIri sh America, of which th~ paperback edition itage and his family tree in the 1960s, inspired by the was published this year. His lecture this week at consciousness-raising and challenges to the status Concordia was presented by the Centre for Canadian Activist and former U.S. Senator Tom Hayden spoke Monday evening. quo of that time. Irish Studies.

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• , V ' I t. f! I ~ Trade with a twist Fair biz initative is one of four Forces Avenir finalists ·

BY JASON GONDZIOLA

A project co-founded by a Concordia student has won praise from a non-profit consortium of government and business for its approach to international trade negotiation. CommEx Mission, a student-directed non-profit group that organizes trade missions to countries in Central America, is striving to form equitable trade relationships on behalf of Canadian businesses. It is one of four finalists for the 2003 Forces Avenir Awards, given by a non-profit group to reward the initiative and commu­ nity spirit of university students. CommEx, nominated in the Business and Economic Activity category, was started two years ago by McGill student Louis TACKLING ANOREXIA WITH ART: Jennifer Newman and Veronique Brun have been nominated for a Forces Avenir award in the Dorval and Hugues Mousseau, a political science student in the Health category for their art therapy project. They took adolescent girls who had been diagnosed with anorexia nervosa and School of Community and Public Affairs. CommEx now includes had them create artwork to address the causes of their problems. The participants showed favourable results after eight weeks 11 students from the Universite de Montreal, Waterloo, the of treatment. University of Western Ontario, McGill and Concordia. Mousseau got an early start with hands-on trade experience when he CommEx trade missions come at one-tenth of that price. visited Malaysia as part of a Junior Team Canada trade mission in Their first trade mission was to Mexico City in January 2002. Six university students, Mousseau includ- August 2000. "[It was an opportunity] from which ed, went to investigate trade possibilities on behalf of a number of Canadian I've gained experience in the international trade businesses. The mission was a success. Mousseau cited one Outremont-based and international relations field;' he said. "We believe that Canada has a role business that forged a lasting relationship with a Mexican company. A second From this expe~ience he decided to form to humanize this gwbalization. We're trade mission followed in January, 2003 followed, this time to Costa Rica. CommEx, targeting Central America because of the first generation that can experi­ "The main goal of this is for us to gain experience," Mousseau said. "We the tremendous trade potential provided by believe that this is an incredible opportunity for us to apply what we're learn­ NAFTA and the forthcoming Free Trade Area of ence this gwbalization · ing in school to a concrete project." the Americas. first-hand:' This unique experiential approach to trade negotiations ensures that harm­ Unlike their larger, government-organized ful compromises, which all-too-often work against citizens and businesses in counterparts, which tend to focus on large - Cofounder Hugues Mousseau developing nations, are avoided. enterprises, CommEx's trade · missions are "We believe that Canada has a role to humanize this globalization," affordable and advocate on behalf of small to Mousseau said. "We're the first generation that can experience this globaliza­ medium-sized businesses. This is a welcome contrast to Team tion first-hand, so we believe that we have a mandate to encourage companies to export with a partner­ Canada trade missions, which are by invite only and can co~t ship with a local company - not to exploit a market without being linked to a local producer:• between $20, 000 and 40,000, according to Mousseau, who said that Thus far, the group has been successful, having received letters of support from then Premier Bernard Landry, Prime Minister Jean Chretien and International Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew. In a letter sent to CommEx members, president and general manager of Forces AVENIR Francois Gregoire called Byrnes' photo project Commex "a model of engagement that inspires others:• At a gala in Quebec City on Oct. 8 to which all the nominees are invited, Forces AVENIR will award 33 grants totaling $114,000. A finalist in the 00Personality category was Geneva Guerin, for her contributions to political and social i~ 37 years old causes, notably the Sustainable Concordia Project. Also nominated in that category was Louise Henault­ Ethier, who has worked to increase awareness of science and environmental causes. Terry Byrnes, chair of the English Department, has another career that few of his colleagues know about: art photographer. . He was the· subject of a feature article in the issue of Saturday Night Tuition rises - but not in Quebec magazine that came with the National Post on Saturday, Sept. 13. "The Main Street Project;' by Joshua Kneltnan, described how Byrnes has visited the same otherwise unremarkable town of Springfield, Undergraduate students in Canada will pay an 30.9 per cent. Ohio, every year since 1966 to take photos. average of 7.4 per cent more for tuition in 2003. Newfoundland and Labrador is the only province Byrnes came from working-class Ontario roots, but grew up in the Statistics Canada says it's the biggest tuition to reduce tuition fees, and for the third year in a row. U.S. South. He was a shutterbug from his mid-teens, and discovered increase in four years. Average undergraduate tuition there is $2,606. On Springfield, a tough little burg, more or less by accident. After he Nova Scotia, which has a number of well-known the other hand. Dentistry students in Saskatchewan moved to Canada to teach creative writing at Concordia, he continued universities, has the highest average undergraduate face the highest average increase in Canadii {55.1 per his annual trips there. tuition in Canada, $5,557, and the second highest cent) and pay the highest average tuition in Canada Seven of his stunning black-and-white photos accompany the arti­ graduate tuition, $6,898. Ontario has the country's at a whopping $30,178 a year. cle. Most are of ordinary people. Some of his subjects have to be coaxed second highest undergraduate tuition, $4,923 a Ian Boyko, chair of the Canadian Federation of to have their pictures taken, and as Knelman describes it, Byrnes' year on average, and the highest average graduate Students, was quoted in the National Post in approach to them is a combination of sensitivity and bravery. fees, $8,376. August. He blamed the increases on provincial gov­ Compare that with Quebec, where tuition is only ernments that are "ideologically opposed to the $1,862 for the average full-time undergraduate. notion of equality of accessibility" to higher educa­ British Columbia shows the highest increase in tion. 6m ANNUAL CONCORDIA USED BOOK FAIR average undergraduate fees for the second year in a Robert Giroux, president of the Association of row, a rise of 30.4 per cent. Average tuition will be Universities and Colleges, said recently that there When: Monday, Oct. 6 & Tuesday, Oct. 7 $4,140. Tuition for engineering in B.C. will increase has been increased enrolment at universities from Where: Mezzanine of the Hall Building all social sectors in Canada, but an analyst Time: 1 O a.m. to 7 p.m. at Statistics Canada reported that the enrolment gap between rich and poor had All proceeds go to Multi-Faith Chaplaincy's student emergency NEWS@ in fact widened during the 1990s. food fund or scholarships. Something for everyone -from textbooks to mysteries to cookbooks! CONCORDIA Based on a report in the National Post GREAT CAUSE AND GREAT BARGAINS! http://news.concordia.ca/ 9 Sep t ember 25, 2003 I Co ncor di a' s Thur sd ay Re port Sylvia Safdie's ·art is inspired by nature Homecoming 1953; her brother is the well-kno:m gets a new look architect Moishe Safdie. "Out of that displacement comes Homecoming is for recent grads, too the experience of relocation and find­ This year's edition of Homecoming, com­ ing another language;• she explained. ing up Sept. 30-0ct. 5, has more to offer "I did turn to nature, because that is than ever before. what I could feel close to." In response to requests from younger Inventories ofInvention is a collabo­ alumni, it will include a career network­ rative effort between the artist and ing workshop at the Musee d'art con­ curator Dr. Irena Murray, Chief temporain de Montreal, on Tuesday, Curator of the Rare Books and Special Sept. 30. Collections Division at McGill. On Thursday, Oct. 2, there will be a pub Safdie has taught in the Faculty of crawl - only it's a tour of the McAuslan Fine Arts and exhibited across Brewery and Brutopia Brewpub. Also - -- Canada, the United States and new this year, the Homecoming Film Europe, but Inventories is her first Festival, in the DeSeve cinema, all after­ noon on Saturday, Oct. 4. major solo show in Montreal since 1988. It features a rich assortment of The big public events are as prominef!t sculpture, video, paintings, installa­ as ever: a free public lecture by Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire, the CUAA Alumni tio.ns and drawings done by the Recognition Awards, the Homecoming artist since 1972. Cup football game, and the Rector's The emphasis in this show is on Reunion Dinner Dance. the creative process. At the curator's Many people have signed up for tours of insistence, it includes part of her the new Richard J. Renaud Science studio (at left), a large wall unit Complex after a pancake breakfast on housing 1tlozens of rocks, fossils, the Loyola Campus on Oct. 4. large seed pods, tiny bronze statues, Alumni chapters are being launched by pieces of glass, and curls of bark. the John Molson School of Business and Strung overhead are pieces of brush Journalism. Safdie's Inventory and driftwood. TESL (Teaching English as a Second Some paces away is Earth, an intri­ Language) ~nd Varsity Athletes, which BY SHANNON DEVINE cate grid of about 50 tiny bowls filled with soil, dried clay and earth launched chapters last year, are planning of vibrant turquoise, sienna, mustard and other colours; these events, as are the Loyola class of '53 and It was her days spent watching ant hills that inspired Sylvia Safdie materials have been gathered from three decades of travel. the Department of Exercise Science. to become an artist. At a young age, she observed the natural world The artist explained: "I wanted to draw attention, not to what For more details about Homecoming with fascination, and collected bits of driftwood, coral and rock. separates us, not to boundaries, but to what binds us - the earth:' '2003, please consult the Back Page of CTR. the centre spread of the Concordia Decades later, they are part of her latest exposition, The University magazine, or go to Inventories ofInvention , at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery. Sylvia Safdie: The Inventories ofInvention continues at the Leonard http://olumni.t:oncotd.c:olhomecomlngle Safdie, a 1975 graduate of Fine Arts at Concordia, said she feels & Bina Ellen Gallery, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W, until Nov 1. The vents/. our formative experiences are the ones that stay with us. Nature was gallery will be offering an interactive tour of the exhibition as part of one offew constants of her childhood. Born in Lebanon in 1942, she Les journees de la culture tomorrow, Sept. 26, and Saturday, Sept. 27, moved with her family to Israel before immigrating to Canada in 1 to 3:30 p.m. Action Centre-Ville gives seniors an .active voice

Centraide Concordia kicks off today neighbourhood is delineated by Sherbooke St. and the St. annual contribution of $92,000. Lawrence River on the north and south ends and St. "Centraide helps us fund our basic operations, pay Montreal's Centraide campaign starts today at 1 p.m. at Hubert and Bleury Sts to the east and west. employee salaries and buy food. Their contribution is McGill College and Ste. Catherine Street with the annual Jacqueline Trudel is the vice-president of the board of extremely important;' Leonard said. The organization March ofa 1,000 Umbrellas. directors, which is made up exclusively of centre mem­ would be more efficient if employees didn't have to Why don't you join the Centraide Concordia team as they bers. Four permanent staff and a slew always worry about set out from Bishop Court at 12:30 to join corporate and insti­ of volunteers keep things running financial viability, and tutional volunteer teams from all over the city? smoothly on other fronts. A former the money Centraide The Centraide Concordia effort this year is being led by co­ social worker and long-time member, raises on their behalf chairs Kathleen Perry and Miriam Posner. They'll have lots of she said, "It's important for people to brings them closer to information and special events to grab your attention during feel comfortable with their environ­ that goal. the next two months. ment. The centre has a Today we are launching a series in CTR focusing on individ­ Leonard agreed. "Members can play meals-op.-wheels service ual agencies that do great work as a result of the Jundraising the roles they want. They can run and also provides low­ efforts of Centraide's massive annual campaign. There are activities and become active in the cost daily lunches for 325 recipient agencies and projects under Centraide's centre's administration procedures, members and non­ Jundraising umbrella. This is just one ofthem. but they need support to be able to do members. Last year they this. It helps boost their self-esteem." served . 10,160 meals, Most of the centre's 325 members providing not only are between the ages of 61 and 80. nutrition, but a place BY CHRISTINA PALA SSIO Sixty-two per cent live alone, many in for members to social­ subsidized housing. . ize. In an area of Montreal where trendy shops and tran­ To address the inactivity and isola- Alfred Laflamme was sient young students and entrepreneurs are the rule, tion of seniors in the area, the centre organizes inexpen­ one of Action Centre-Ville's first members. He teaches being a senior can prove challenging. sive cultural, social and physical activities, including a line dancing to members, takes a hand in publishing the "It's not very fashionable to be old these days;' said variety of art and language classes, aqua-fitness instruc­ organization's quarterly journal and moonlights as a Daniel Leonard, general director of Faubourg Saint­ tion, discussion groups and even an annual tax clinic. receptionist once a week. The 79-year-old retired teacher Laurent's Action Centre-Ville. "We try to help our mem­ Despite a stream of volunteers and a handful of mem­ thinks it's obvious why the centre plays such an integral qers find a role in society." bers running classes for free, general operation costs at part of many members' lives. Action Centre-Ville is a community centre whose goal the centre still run high. Centraide and the Regie "It's important to create an area where people feel they is to provide a warm, welcoming environment for people Regionale de Montreal Centre fund 45 per cent of the belong;' he said, as he balanced phone calls, membership over 50 living in the Faubourg Saint-Laurent area. The organization's $260,000 budget. The former makes an requests and healthy dose of socializing. 10 Co·ncordia "s Thursday Repor t J Se pt embe r 25, 2003 l~

positions. Production for digital teie'lision with students in English Tutoring Concordia film school and Fine Arts. For more information, · Concordia graduate is offering high quality Moring in contact David KareYicius at [email protected] or English as a second language, and editing of university Stingers rol:lnql.lp: ~'backpage Robert Winters at [email protected]. essays. Please contact: [email protected] or (514) 290-2103. continued. .. Support Groups ForSale Sears Kenmore heavy-duty dryer. Excellent working condi­ Walking the labyrinth: JOHN ,AUSTEN tion. $100. Call 931-8314. This retreat day will offer a chance to experience this Obsessi'le Cornpulshe Disonler Foundation Inc. ancient spiritual tool and connect with the saaed togeth­ AMI-Ouebec Sept. 22, 7:30-9:30 pm. Psychiatry Bldg. Karate Classes After a disappointing road loss to Laval the week before, the Concordia Jewish General Hospital, 4333 Cote St Catherine St W. Stingers football team reboundedj n fine style last Saturday and demol­ er with other students. Sept 28, 2 - 9 pm. Contact: Blie Canada Shotokan Karate - perfect for fitness, stress relief, Hummel-848-2424 Ext 3590. 486-1448. Concordia University Oct 2, 6-8 pm. 2090 and self-defence. Only $65 fur 10 weeks, practices Monday ished the Mount Allison Mounties44-10 in Sackville, N.B.The win gives Mackay St:, basement 624"1036. Friends for Mental Health the Stingers a 2-1 record, good enough for third place in the CIS League. and Wednesday 7pm. To register, contact the Little Retreat Days in the Christian Tracition: W.L Oct. 8, 7:30 - 9:30 pm. 750 Dorval Ave. Dorval. 636- Burgundy Sports Centre, 1825 Notre-Dame West (2 blocks 6885. AQPAMM (French) at Louis H. Lafontaine. Twice The Stingers erased an early 3-0 Mountie lead and were ahead 35-3 at half­ A Time to Give Thanks: A Thanksgiving Retreat Day, west of Guy) (514) 932--0800 For additional infunnation Sunday, Oct 5, 2 - 9 pm. ATime to Wait: An Advent monthly, 524-1728. Experienced facilitators. Heac:t .coach Gerry McGrath .then~. l)'lany of his starting pjayers contact the instructor, Ryan Hill (514) 933-9887. !!me. Retreat Day, Friday, Dec.r 5, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Contact: Blie Confidentiality assured. lnfonnation: R. Hoffman 624- , including quarterback Jon Bond, who gave way to, rookie Scott Syvret. Hummel- 848-2424 Ext 3590. 4036. ForSale Bond completed 10 of 23 pass_es for 164 yards, induding a touchdown Wedding dress. Beautiful gown, size 12, never worn, value toss of 44 yards to Alain Rousseau. Rousseau had four catches on the day Outreach Experience: $650, asking $99. Call (514) 631-5281 . An opponunity to share your gifts, time and talents with for 115 yards. Syvret, a graduate of.the John Abbott Islanders, completed Library Workshops others through wlunteering. Contact: Michelina Bertone House sitting seven of 10 pass_es for 119 yards. SSA-848-2424 Ext 3591 or Blie Hummel-848-2424 Ext Lady recently arrived from France seeks "house sitting" librarywortcshops 3590. arrangement Meticulous, trustworthy, with Montreal ref. Scoring highlights for Concordia induded a 70-yard run from linebacker All workshops indude hands--0n exercises and are offered at Pat Donovan, a Kerry Calhane punt return of 65 yards and a fumble recov­ erences. Will care fur pets and plants as well as house/apt Habitat for Humanity: the Webster Library (SGW) in Room LB-203 and at the ery which Troy Cunningham 60 yards·to paydirt. (514) 274 6729. ran Did you know that Concordia has a chapter of Habitat fur Vanier Library (Loyola) in Room VL-122. Sign up in person at the Reference Desk, by phone (Webster Library at 848-2424 Stingers split under tM Hghts Humanity?To find out more or to get involved contact Blie Room for lfflt Hummel- 848-2424 Ext 3590. Ext. 7TT1 or Vanier Library at 848-2424 ext 77£i,) oron the One blocx from Loyola Campus on West Broadway. Shared It was a good news, bad news situation as th.~ Co~ia Stingers. ~n's Libraries'Web site at http://library.concordia.ca and dick on upper duplex. fully furnished and equipped, ~ngle occu­ and women's soccer teams 111ade history last Friday n(ght. For the first Focusing: "Help & Instructions." pancy, available now. $400. Call Ally, 485-1552. time ever the university hosted soccer games under the lights. The men The Inward Journey Aseven-weeit workshop designed to 6cM!mment Information Sources defeated UQAM 2-0, while the women fell 1-0 to their UQAM rivals. explore the focusing process/ technique of body aware­ ness. Contact: Michelina Bertone SSA - Wednesday 2-3 (90 Mioutes): Today, September 25, at 10:15 a.m. at the Over the fa~ several•J'!\OOths, ,Concordia has tackled a laf:$Je field renova­ p.m. Annex ZRoom 05 PM 848-2424 Ext 3591. Webster Library. Writers Read tion project on Its Loyola ca'!\puS that began May 24 with the demolition We lM! the Way We Pray ... We Pray the Way We LM!: The Writers Read at Concordia Series All readings are free, of the old grandstand. The completed project indudes the Installation of open to the public, and followed by a question and answer two new AstroPlay fields, both with lighting, and temporary stands with A seven-weeit workshop exploring Jesus' teaching on Unclassified prayer. Monday, 12 - 1 p.m., Z--05, beginning Sept 29. period. Copies of the author's work will be for sale at each seating for 3,200. The work will take about 17 '!,lfeeks to completion. , · reading, courtesy of the Concordia Bookstore The events are Contact: Michelina Bertone SSA 848- 2424 For Sale The football team had christened the new stadium two weeks before, but Pioneer car CD player with installation bracket $80. supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. as well as by the Department of English, the Creative Writing program, this was the first night game at the new facility. While there was adequate Mother Hubbanl's Cupboard: Kenwood subwoofer 250 watts $70. Brand new Amok! and Concordia University. ~htlng on Concordia's old practlc-e field, there has never been lighting in. Great vegetarian meals and a welcoming community! Brant leather sport jacxet, made in Italy $150. Call 578- Come for the food; come back beGJuse of the people. the: stadlum.'Soccer and footbaH ~Id never·conslder a night game or 2347 or 722-5439. Thuooay, 7-9pm,in roomZlOS-106.RetumingSept 18. 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The women's team is hoping to buffd on the 2002 season's phenomenal Starting October 7 Contact Blie Hummel - 848-2424 Ext story about Victorian women who travelled the globe. Her success that saw the.Stingers finish in third pl8(e with a QSSF record of 7- 3590. Fllnished sublet most recent collection is The Adlitery Poems. She lives in 4-3 and post a dramatic 1-0 semifinal win over the top-ranked Ms:Gflt Comfortable furnished centrally located 51/2 to sublet for 5 Summerland, BC, and teaches at Okanagan University Video Divina: Martlets. Concordia put up a valiant fight In the conference championsh(p months, Nov. 2003-Mar. 2004. Suitable for one person or College. If you enjoy a movie with real content followed by a lively couple. Oean, quiet, no~ng, responsible visiting fac­ but lost 2-0 to the Laval Rouge et Or. October 23 discussion afterward then this group is for you. The third ulty or grad student SlOOOall inclusive. 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When thinking about making classes more interactive, Tuesday, October 14 Thunday, October 2 common tea~ professoo have are (1) It will cut into lecture Robert Adams. As part of a series, the literary reviewer will The Department of Art History, Concordia University, time and rve got too much to cover, (2) It will create more present The Siege by Helen Dunmore. Information and together with the Departments of History and Studio Arts, wor1< for me, and (3) Idon't koo.v how! It won't wor1< in my reservations: (514) 488-1152. Also appearing at 2 p.m. Oct are pleased to invite you to a lecture by Dr. Keith Maxey, TNCMiay, Scpla111Nr 30 class! This wor1