October 24, 1996

0 N C 0 R D I A~s SDAY ~PORT Memorial to slain professors unveil8d Before the ceremony started, the BY B A RB ARA B LACK families of Matthew D ouglass, J\ bout 300 people attended a Michael Hogben, Jaan Saber and fisombre but strangely comforting Phoivos Ziogas had a private viewing event on Friday, October 11 - the of the memorial, and talked quietly dedication of a permanent memorial with the artists, as students played to the four professors shot to death flute and guitar in the background. four years ago at the University. Vice- Rector Services C harles The art installation, at the west Bertrand presided over the ceremony. end of the spacious lobby of the Fine Arts Professor Robert Parker, downtown Henry F. Hall Building, · who chaired the design committee, was designed by three graduates. It introduced the artists, and one of takes the form of four long, elegant them, Johanne Sloan, spoke briefly of tables, which will be used daily. The how they approached the project granite surface of each table is with respect and sensitivity. inscribed with a motto chosen by the The most moving part of the dedi families of the professors, reflecting cation came with widow Sara Saber their moral courage and devotion to Freedman's quietly forceful address on the pursuit of knowledge. behalf of the four families (see page 5). At the simple, 30-rninute ceremo Concordia chaplain Matti Terho ny, covered by the media from coast and Rector Frederick Lowy both ~ to coast, the friends and families of expressed sorrow for the victims, i the four men recalled the dramatic support for the survivors, and hope ~z events of August 24, 1992, which that the most sorrowful chapter ~ one senior administrator called "the of Concordia's history might finally ~ worst day of my life." be over. ~ Fieldwork·association funds undergraduate field of dreams _With granting agencies focusing BY PHIL MOSCOVITCH their efforts on the work of graduate hanks to the efforts of the and doctoral students, few under TConcordia Undergraduate grads ever get the opportunity to do Fieldwork Association, three stu this kind of sophisticated research. dents spent the summer getting Gearey, George and Andrews hands-on training in their fields of each received a $750 bursary from study. the Fieldwork Association. This was While Classics student James the first summer for which the group Gearey was in England participating awarded grants. in an archeological dig, Elliot The Fieldwork Association was George, from Geography, was in the brainchild of Classics student Paris studying the vitality of neigh Daniele Michi, who is its president. bour hood pedestrian lanes, and While spending the summer in his Gavin Andrews, an Anthropology native Italy three years ago, he was student, was in Panama interviewing lucky enough to participate in the and filming members of an indige excavation of Roman ruins in the nous group opposing mining on southern part of the country. their traditional lands. See Fieldwork, p. 11 Agreeanent signed \Nith Vietnamese university tutions are being consolidated on a Hong Kong chapter of Concordia's BY BARBARA BLACK single campus about 50 km from the alumni association has about 400 oncordia has signed an agree capital, Ho Chi Minh City. members, 50 of whom are quite Cment on academic co-operation Officials were particularly interest active. Many of them are working in with the Ho Chi Minh City Univer ed in what Taddeo, who spent years construction and civil engineering, a ~ity of Technology that could lead to as a school board executive, could tell field that is booming all over Asia exchanges of researchers, lecturers them about Qyebec's recent educa while it has hit a plateau here. and students. tional history - including the for Taddeo was impressed by the high Vietnam was one of several Asian mation of a modern system quality of two brand-new universities countries visited by Engineering and following the Parent Commission of he visited, and how well the crown Computer Science Dean Donat 1968 - and the merger that led to colony is positioning its schools for Taddeo late this summer. He was Concordia in 1974. the transfer to the People's Republic accompanied to Vietnam by Profes Heading East of China in 1997. He envisions an sor Kinh Ha, Associate Director of Taddeo also went to Southeast exchange arrangement that would Concordia's Centre for Building University, in Nanjing, China, with see Hong Koag students doing a Studies, and Nghi Hguyen, a Centre which Concordia has a long-stand year of their studies here, while for Building Studies graduate who ing connection. Mechanical Engi Concordia would provide specific Last March, Concordia signed an Fred Szabo (Mathematics and Sta now heads NDV Project Manage neering Professor Akif Bulgak is preparation for our students who agreement on academic co-operation tistics) recently attended a confer ment Services here in Montreal. involved in a project with Southeast, intend to go to Asia after graduation. with the All-India Council for Tech ence on academic co-operation in Taddeo reports that the Viet and attended this leg of the visit. Meanwhile, the University received nical Education. Guadalajara. namese face massive construction A stop in Hong Kong to meet a visit from a 10-member delegation Provost Jack Lightstone will talk Faculty members can get more projects as they build roads, hospi with enthusiastic Concordia gradu of senior Indian officials interested in tomorrow about possible links with information about the meeting on tals, schools and other public ser ates there convinced Taddeo that improving technical education and Mexican universities. Lightstone and Mexico from Geraldine Ford, Cen vices. The university system itself is there is untapped alumni potential in establishing links with the Faculty of Professors Dorothy Markiewicz tre for International Academic Co in transition: Nine educational insti- this huge commercial city. The Engineering and Computer Science. (School of Graduate Studies) and operation, 848-4987. On-line publication devoted to philosopher Eric Voegelin the late 1930s. His most influential The first issue of Voegelin - together discussants from a variety of Louisiana State University, where he BY MICHAEL ORSINI work was Order and History, a five Research News appeared in February backgrounds and orientations," the taught from 1942 to 1958, there is an olitical Science Professor Maben volume work of interest to political 199 5. The electronic newsletter editors wrote in the inaugural issue. Eric Voegelin Institute for American scientists, theologians, philosophers, "It is not inconceivable, for exam PWalter Poirier has teamed up allows scholars to advertise publica Renaissance Studies, and the Univer anthropologists and sociologists. tions of potential interest to ple, that historians might want to with Professor Geoffrey Price, a col sity of Manchester has a Centre for He is perhaps best known for his avail themselves of this area to dis league at the University of Manches Voegelin scholars, as well as confer work on the philosophy of history. cuss contemporary developments in Voegelin Studies in its Department ter, to edit a newsletter/embryonic ences and meetings. "Voegelin examined not only politi fields such as Renaissance hermeti of Religions and Theology. journal devoted to the political Books reviewed cal institutions but also language cism or chiliastic [millennial] move For more information on the publi thought of philosopher Eric It also gives researchers the chance symbols and the nature of civiliza ments in the Middle Ages, while cation, contact Professor Poirier at Voegelin (1901-1985). to inform others of their recent tion in current and ancient texts," theologians and students of religion [email protected]. You can Poirier called Voegelin the fore Poirier explained. "His work centred work, launch discussions, or test new would perhaps present summaries of reach V oegelin - Research News most political theorist of our time. on the interpretation of the govern ideas. Reviews of books of interest to or reactions to recent work on Gnos by accessing Louisiana State Univer "He is to the twentieth century what ing symbols and myths of political Voegelin scholars have also been tic sects or heretical movements in Hegel was to the eighteenth." society, the understanding of which added. the early days of the Church." sity's Web site. Poirier hopes to make Voegelin was born in Germany, he viewed as basic to the success of "The objective is not only to dis V oegelin has many academic it available soon on Concordia's but moved to the United States in political theory." cuss Voegelin's writings, but to bring acolytes around the world. At homepage. Candidates presented for Vice-Rector, Services The following shortlisted candidates for Charles Emond tion Administration, and a Certificate in the position ofVice-Rector, Services, will be Charles Emond is currently Vice-Chancellor Educational Psychology and Counselling, presented to the Concordia community on of the Royal Military College of Canada all from McGill University. She is fluent in Wednesday, November 6, from 9 a.m. to (RMC), in Kingston, Ont. He has been a English, French and Italian. noon, in the J.A. DeSeve Cinema, 1400 senior executive in aviation, national securi At this meeting, questions may be asked of de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. ty, and education, including aide to the the candidates by members of the executive Governor General, and commander of the Donald L. Boisvert of the Board of Governors, the steering com Canadian Forces Base in Lahr, Germany. Donald Boisvert graduated from Concordia mittee of Senate, and the directors of the He has a BSc from RMC, a Master's in Busi University in 1975, and was active in stu units reporting to the Vice-Rector Services: ness Administration from the University of dent politics.

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