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. He joined the University as a the Bookstore and Computer Store, Confer­ Ottawa, and was in a geo-strategic studies program development officer in the Dean of ence Services and Printing, a representative program at Queen's University. Emond is Students Office, and earned his MA in Reli­ of the Dean of Students, the Registrar, fluent in English and French, with knowl­ gion in 1979. Since then, he has done a wide Computing Services, Audio Visual, Physical edge of three other languages. variety of tasks, including serving as execu­ Resources, Recreation and Athletics, and tive-assistant to the Rector (1989-90) and, Rosalie Fata Security. since 1991, Associate Vice-Rector Services Since 1990, Rosalie Fata has been Deputy Comments may be sent to Marie A. (Student Life), responsible for the six student Director-General of the Baldwin-Cartier Robitaille Brodie, Secretary of the Advisory services units. He was recently named Dean School Board, which covers the western Search Committee, Office of the Secretary­ of Students. Boisvert is fluently bilingual, sector of Montreal. She has a BSc from the General, BC-124, until November 12 at 5 and got his doctorate from the University of Universite de Montreal (1970), and holds a p.m. Comments may also be sent via e-mail Ottawa in 1990. Diploma in Education, a Master's in Educa- (robita@vax2) or by fax (848-8655). Concordia UNIVERSITY

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2 OCTOBER 24 , 1996 CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT 'Sound resonates throughout the whole body': Janet Oxley Giving-voice to dance and vice versa

COMPILED BY BARBARA BLACK BY ALLAN KU N IGIS

ontemporary Dance Professor Concordia faculty, staffand alumni!& pop up CJanet Oxley teaches students in the media more often than you might think! how to "free the body through the voice or free the voice through the body."· . _ Sheila Arnopoulos (Journalism) was on a panel on Radio-Canada Oxley. is involved 'in two months TV's Le Point Media, talking somewhat sa dly about the pugnacious of intense weekly workshops with up Conrad Black's acquisition of Southam News. However, her col­ to a dozen Theatre, Music and league Lindsay Crysler was bullish on Black when the Ottawa Citi­ zen asked him (Aug. 27) about the resignation from The ·Gazette of Dance students -that will result in a editor Joan Fraser, who had b'ee n relatively conciliatory towards CD-ROM for teaching purposes. sovereignty. "A lot of people in the community are angry at This project follows _a -s~rie; of sum­ The Gazette, and the Galganov issue has galvanized it," Crysler mer voice/ movement workshops said. "Many anglos simply aren't buying the newspaper." with a s~all group of community volunteers. The Canadian Jewish News announced t hat a .member of The workshops going on now use Concordia's Board of Governors was in Jeru salem to inaugurate a chair in his name: the Centraide-L. Jacques Menard Chair for the vocal improvisation to provide· a study of not-for-profit volunteer orgar,izations. The same paper also "canvas of sound" in which dance published a profile of Board of Governors member and real-estate takes pla_ce. "Students experience a developer Jonathan Wener. very quick awakening of the body," Oxley. said. "Sound resonates A study by Ian Irvine and William Sims (Economics) got w ide throughout the whole body." play in newspapers across Canada late in September, under such dance forms so that participants can will begin in 1997, and will involve Nathalie, a flamenco dancer who headlines as "Federal plan to cut smoking would cost millions." move together and work with rhyth­ students in a variety of disciplines: The economists did a study for the Health Department, in which participated in the summer work­ mic and spatial relationships. Voices Educational Technology, Design they estimated that effectively discouraging smoking could cost shops, said she had felt she couldn't are added in harmony to bring it all Art, Contemporary Dance,_Music the country $750 million a year in lost tax' revenue and eliminate vocalize while dancing because she together. and Theatre. The Dance students 6,000 jobs. would be out of breath. But the They also use improvisation, mix­ will have a chance to work with a workshops gave her "a lot of energy Recent Theatre graduate Leah Lewis made waves in her home ing simple songs with expressive computer animation program called and confidence to do both together. movement. Throughout the work­ town - St. John's, Nfld. - with Spelunking. The St. John's Lifeforms. Evening Telegram ran a full-length article about the piece, which It feels energetic and fun." shop, their use of sound evolves frorµ The CD-ROM is scheduled to be she performs w ith two dancers. One of them, Wolfgang Vachon, V oca·lizing while dancing has pure sound to articulated words and launched in the fall of 1997, and helped Lewis choreograph Spelunking as her final assignment for helped Oxley deepen her own con­ then to singing. Oxley is particularly Oxley will create new voice and Concordia's interdisciplinary course on AIDS and HIV issues. centration as a performer. interested in getting feedback from dance work for the stage, to be per­ "Developing concentration is an the Psychology Department. You can glimpse a former Concordia football player on the U.S. tele­ formed in 1998. important part of training," she said. "In the workshops, we experi­ vision show Homicide: Life on the Street. Clark Johnson, who The three-year project is· backed "Adding a vocal element focuses per­ mented with text and movement plays detective Meldrick Lewis, is a native of Philadelphia and one- formers. You can see that their together, both improvised, some­ by a Faculty Resean;:h and Develop­ time child actor, but he did study film here in the 1970s. • whole presence is there - they're times by two people working ment Program grant from Victoria film-maker Rick Raxlen, who has taught in the Cinema expressing something very profound. together, sometimes by one person Concordia. Part-time Contemporary Department, was mentioned in the Times-Colonis t. His offbeat art We're looking for a spontaneous Dance Professor Kathy Kennedy will alone. This gave the performer a film, The Strange Blues of Cowboy Red, is out on video. An earlier manage the project's technological presence that performers can use to total presence, I think, because both one, Horses in Winter, was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in focus their concentration, whether hemispheres of the brain were work­ aspects. Oxley and Kennedy took New York. they are singers, dancers or actors." ing on a single task. It would be four days of workshops recently at The movements' influences great to hear a psychologist's per­ Ohio State University to see how Priscilla David (Counselling and Development) was quoted in the include body-mind centering and spective on this." dance experts there are developing London (Ont.) Free Press in a series on job-searching. Many people yoga. Oxley also uses simple social- · The CD-ROM part of the project prototypes for CD-ROMs . make the mistake of sending out hundreds of generic cover letters. "If I were an employer," Da vid sa id, "I'd say, Why are you applying to me? What do you know about [my] company?"

Judith Woodsworth (Vice-Dean, Arts and Science) was inter­ BRIE viewed on CBC's Ri;,dio Noon on Sept. 30 on how well or poorly students are prepared for the cold, hard world. Leaders' Summit, scheduled for Van­ Poster for the globe Gong Show returns Political scientists on ai r: Heriry Habib was a guest on CBC's couver in November 1997. Home Run, talking about the recent U.S. attack on Iraq. Colleague To focus attention on the high cost of For full contest rules, phone 283-6073 Remember when The Gong Show Daniel Salee was on CBC Regional News about the Guy Bertrand a global economy, Concordia's Depart­ or consult http://www.ichrdd.ca put hapless amateur performers on court case against a possible Quebec UDI. Guy Lachapelle was on ment of Design Art and the lnternation­ television back in the 1970s? The mem­ CBC Newsworld's Politics on the same subject. More recently, aI Centre for Human Rights and Classroom learning - bers of Studio XX are holding a Gong Lachapelle was on CIQC's Viewpoint, talking about the prospect of Democratic Development are sponsor­ Show of their own tomorrow night to another referendum, and on CFCF-TV's On Line about the need to Faculty, students and others interest­ tighten up anti-English legislation. ing a poster contest. raise money fortheir activities. "Governments everywhere are ed in education are invited to hear Pro­ Communication Studies Professor caught in a downward spiral of cut­ fessor Angela O'Donnell of Rutgers Danielle Morin (Decision Sciences. & MIS) was on CJAD with Avril Kim Sawchuk and part-time Fine Arts throat competition," the contest adver­ University talk about "Giving It All Benoit, trying to figure out why polls show most women prefer Professor Kathy Kennedy are among tisement says, with the result that Away: Peer Learning and Distributed male bosses. ("None of them are friends of mine."). Meeda Mashal the founders of Studio XX, which gives (Psychology) was on CBC's Radio Noon on the same subject. non-unionized worke.rs, including chil­ Cognition." female artists the chance to use new dren, are being cruelly exploited. Our She will discLrSs how distributed, or Students speak out: Benjamin Paquette (Film Studies) told CJAD's investments and tax dollars may ulti­ scripted, cognition influences the effec­ technology. This show of impromptu local talent, Jim Duff that he let vis iting Hollywood actor Gregory Pe ck know mately support undemocratic, abusive tive use of peer learning in the classroom. he 'd put him in a movie. David Janssen (Engineering) was pushing which organizers promise to be regimes. The talk, sponsored by Concordia's the Pony Push and other orientation events on CHOM's Morning The deadline for submissions is Jan­ Centre for the Study of Classroom "campy, creative and crass," is co­ Show. Andrew Soong, editor of The Concordian, talked about stu­ uary 10, 1997. The winning designer wi ll Processes and the Education Depart­ sponsored by CKUT-90.3 FM. It starts at dent activism on CBC's Home Run. And Nathalie Leveille receive $1,000 and the poster wi ll be ment, will be on Friday, November 8, 8 p.m. at 4532 Laval St. For more infor­ (Women's Centre) told Avril Benoit about the Take Back the Night . widely distributed in advance of the 2:30 -4:30 p.m., in Room H-520 of th e mation, call Tina Verma at 283-7945 or March. Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation Henry F. Hall Building. [email protected].

CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT OCTOBER 24, 1996 3 Priorities list features support for students and researchers, better facilities, interdisciplinary projects Ronald Corey will lead Capital Campaign Concordia's Thursday Report is interested in your letters, opinions and technology. These include plans for a comments. Letters to the Editor must be signed, include a phone number, and BY BARBARA BLACK be delivered to the CTR office (BC-11711463 Bishop St.) in person, by Jax "smart building" that will not only (514-848-2814), by e-mail ([email protected]) or mail by 9 a.m. onald Corey, President of the use the technological expertise of Montreal Canadiens hockey Concordia's Centre for Building on the Friday prior to publication. Ifat all possible, please submit the text on R organization and the new Molson Studies engineers, but will provide a computer diskette. Limit your letter to 500 words. The Editor reserves the Centre, and a winner last weekend of new home for research on how to right to edit far space considerations, although the utmost care will be taken · a La Presse Prix d'Excelle!}ce, has design safe, effective buildings in to preserve the core of the writer's argument. accepted the post of general chair­ harmony with the natural environ­ man of the University's Capital ment. Campaign. 1. Individuals with a full -time job This and other projects reflect the More credit due for Rector Frederick Lowy warmly should be restricted to teachi ng 12 need both to stay abreast of technol­ part-timers: Gallagher credits regardless of seniority. In the thanked him at last week's Board of ogy and to creatively integrate disci­ The administration is renegotiat­ case of full -time CEGEP professors, Governors meeting. He said that plines. They include a school of ing the collective agreement w ith this should be strictly enforced. In a Corey, who joined the Board last the Part-Time Faculty Association. It period w hen CEGEP unions are spring, brings to the task many information, communications and fighting cutbac~s and increased expired on August 31, 1994. years of business experience, an inti­ technology, a laboratory combining Eve ry effort s hould be made to teaching loads by arguing that they mate knowledge of Montreal, expertise in fine arts and computer secure a new agreement that are already overworked, it is uncon­ scionable that CEGEP professors fundraising savvy and enthusiasm science, facilities designed for the favours the hiring of part-time pro­ in the wings, and if the campaign fessors with a doctorate, teaching teach 18 credits at Concordia. Fur­ for a challenge. Faculty of Commerce and Adminis­ raises more than its goal, they also e xperience at other universities, thermore, this time in deference to The Capital Campaign has tration, new Fine Arts facilities, a CEGEP regulations, such professors may be realized. publications and a commitment to already begun to recruit volunteers to language laboratory and several pro­ research. should be restricted to teaching only The biggest category on the list, raise money from the internal com­ jects in the sciences and engineering. However, as currently interpreted, after 5 p.m. and on weekends. earmarked at $20 million, is support 2. Individuals should be restricted munity of faculty, staff, the Board of The Capital Campaign will con­ the collective agreement rewards for students - graduate fellowships, seniority above all else. In fact, it to a maximum teaching load of 12 Governors, students and potential tribute to the effort to consolidate credits at the 200 level. undergraduate student aid and appears to me that course allocation major donors. the University's space in owned has become merely an exercise in 3. A bracket system might be A priorities list for the money was improved recreation and athletic developed such that within a certain rather than rented property, and to which part-timers are allocated compiled from submissions from facilities. Concordia ranks very low courses in order of their seniority. seniority range, choices related to achieve more thematic use of the faculty and service areas. The most among Canadian universities in its The impact of such a regime on the qualifications are recognized. Loyola Campus. urgent priorities, totalling $55 mil­ ability to provide financial help for quality of education at Concordia Stephen Gallagher, PhD The fourth category - that of should be obvious. Political Science (part-time) lion, are organized in five broad cate­ needy and deserving students - it Part-time professors are not gories: support for students, renewal lacks major endowments whose endowments for teaching and equally qua lified , nor are they equal­ of academic facilities, upgrading of investment generates annual scholar­ research - includes a number of ly valuable to their departments. Turnaround at the top? research and teaching technology, ships. chairs and distinguished professor­ Some are dedicated to teaching at endowments for teaching and The next two categories are the ships. The fifth category supports Concordia, some are graduate stu­ This letter is prompted by the rein­ dents who will eventually move on, statement of M.N .S. Swamy, and is a research, and support for library col­ renewal of academic facilities and the library collections and special initia­ and others are moonlighting. call for true leadership at Concordia. lections. Other projects are waiting upgrading of research and teaching tives. Because of their differing qualifica­ By declaring M.N.S. Swamy's tions, some pa rt-time faculty are academic and financial practices only capable of teaching introducto­ within accepted norms, NSERC has ry courses, or because of work com­ confirmed that it will continue to mitments, can only teach at night support questionable scholarship Board presented with a Unfortunately for the quality of practices, and thus potentially fraud­ ulent appropriation of public funds. sobering financial outlook education, the incentives are to Concordia's Thursday Report maximize teaching loads at the intro­ Surely it is not enough to dismiss better than the 4.1-per-cent aver­ is the community newspaper of the ductory level, where the workload is questions about an enormous out­ BY LAURIE ZACK University, serving faculty, staff, lightest This is especially tempting put of publications as the griping of age drop across Qyebec's university students, and administration on the if part-time faculty members are the envious. People have died here. D ector Frederick Lowy told the system. Loyola Campus and the Sir George Who is NSERC comprised of? Williams Campus. It is published a lready employed full-t ime [else­ 1'.Board of Governors meeting on Chief Financial Officer Larry where]. Thus the search is on for Members of the academic commu­ 18 times during the academic year on a October 16 that Concordia's share of English gave details of the final bi-weekly basis by the Public Relations one-day-a-week evening classes in nity it supports. Who are the experts operating budget, with projections Dep;Jrtment of Concordia' University, which students are given as few sitting on its fund-granting commit­ a possible $150-million cut in univer­ into 1996-97. He will present this 1455 qe Maisonneuve ,Blvd. w:, assignments as possible. Depart­ tees? Members of the community sity funding next year may be Montreal, Quebec H3G 1MS ments may have great difficulty find­ who receive the funds. Is it not between $15 million and $16 million. material to SCAPP and Senate. (514) 848-4882 ing qualified individuals to teach laughable for this organization to Despite the gloomy financial out­ Professor Balbir Sahni, CIAC E-maif: [email protected] exonerate one of its own? Fax: (514) 848-2814 advanced courses while all of its look, however, planning is going Director, and International Student introductory courses are completely The only chance of a meaningful well, and other Qyebec universities Office Co-ordinator Claudette Fortier M~terla1 published in th~Jewspaper sewn up. exoneration would be one coming from a public inquiry. Dr. Lowy has have adopted aspects of Concordia's presented an overview of work being may 'not be reproduced w ithout In a period of numerous retire­ permission. The Back Page listings are Thursday done at Concordia towards develop­ ments, budget cutbacks and changed his tune from the planning process. published free of charge. Classified ads increased dependence on contract Report's Senate Notes of June 6, Provost and Vice-Rector Research ing international exchanges. (See Viet­ are $5 for the first 10 words and where he is quoted as saying, "A teaching, the University should Jack Lightstone said.his planning nam, page 2.) Sahni mentioned a new 10 cents for each additional word. ensure that its part-time faculty are formal apology [to Swamy] would Events, Notices, ahd Classified Ads paper, Following a Course Forward, initiative to get international experi­ as qualified as possible, and that require an exhaustive and very public must reach the Publ.ic Relations ence for students involved in co-op -·,, Department (Bishop Court, those most qualified view work at reinvestigation of the entire issue." provoked lively discussion at Senate What about that, Dr. Lowy? (work/study) programs. 1463 Bishop St., Room 115) in' writing Concordia as their first priority. In and has been forwarded to Faculty • no later than Thursday 5 p.m . prior to my opinion, the collective agree­ Incredibly, there are murmurs of an councils and departmental chairs. He Search Committees Thursday publication. Display ad rates apology to Seshadri Sankar in Sen­ ment as now structured does not said that discussion would "lead to The search committee for Dean of are available upon request. Display ads give departments the fle xibility to ate Notes of October 10. The man must be booked by Monday 5 p.m. decision spin-offs appropriate to the Engineering and Computer Science build such a qualified and committed undisputedly worked double the 10 days prioHo publication. times," and he hopes that by early pool of talent number of outside contract days will have a shortlist of candidates ISSN 11 85-3689 To address these proble ms , I allowed by University policy. December, Senate's Committee on within eight weeks. The search com­ would ma ke the follow ing recom­ Nicholas Strathy Academic Planning and Priorities mittees for Deans of the Faculty of Editor mendations: CENPARMI (SCAPP) will provide a "road map Arts and Science and Graduate Barbara Black to resource use." Studies and Research will meet after • Copy Editor ·coRRECTiON...... Lightstone also presented a new their deadlines for applications. The Eugenia Xenos planning initiative undertaken with Board approved the profile of the • Registrar Services and the Vice-Rec­ Design and Production In a profile of the Office of Research Services in the last issue of CTR (October ideal D eans, and will establish an tor Services· to try to find appropriate Christopher Alleyne 12), it was incorrectly stated that application procedures had changed. That sen­ advisory search committee for a Marketing Communications tence should have read : "The University has standardized a number of its research­ space for larger courses. Director of University Libraries. The related procedures, such as management of research funds and travel policy, and Vice- Rector Services Charles search committee for Vice-Rector, the ORS has been supporting the implementation of these changes and their com­ Bertrand reported that enrolment, Services, has prepared a shortlist of ·•' ,' · ConcordiaUNIVERSITY munication to faculty." although down 2 per cent, was still finalists (See ad, page 2).

4 OCTOBER 24, 1996 CONCOROIA'S THURSDAY REPORT Honour them by living fully and with courage Following is the speech made is far easier to focus on drama, on every step we take. by Sara Saber-Freedman, tragedy, than on the everyday Those of us who lived the dark widow of Jaan Saber, at the normalcy of the lives of these four autumn of 1992, who grieved and unveiling of the permanent men. To focus on the nature of quaked and raged through the memorial in the Henry F. Hall their lives forces us to examine winter and spring of the following Building on October 11. the meaning of our own lives, and year, who live still with the to face the harsh precariousness haunting memories of things not hat occurred in this build­ of life itself. said and of stories whose endings Wing on August 24, 1992, When we focus on their deaths, we will never fully know, those of was a great tragedy. It was a we can say, "This memorial is us who grope for the fast-fading tragedy for those who were so about them." But this memorial is memories of a parent taken far brutally killed, for their families, only partly about them. It is also too soon, we know the true mes­ and for the University community about us. sage of these stones. as a whole. The words on these tablets Life is too short., and far too It would, however, be an even reflect the spirits of four men who uncertain, and life is what we greater tragedy if Michael Hog­ loved life, with all its possibilities, make it. ben, Jaan Saber, Matt Douglass responsibilities and risks. These If you seek to honour these and Phoivas Ziogas were remem­ words challenge us to live our men, honour them by living your bered more for the manner of own lives in a way which elevates lives as fully and as well as you their deaths than for the character both ourselves and those around can. Honour them by the courage and quality of their lives. us; to make the world around us a of your actions, by the honesty of If this memorial is to have any little bit better; to value knowl­ your speech, and by the integrity real meaning, it must be, :first and edge, and honesty, and beauty, of your conduct. And honour foremost, a commemoration of and social conscience. them by reconciling yourselves the lives, the work, the values, If we allow it, this meq10rial with the events that took them and the legacy of those whose can be a reminder that none from us. names appear on the four tables among us knows the measure of If you can do that, if the pres­ before you . It must be at least as our days . It can remind us to live ence of this memorial helps to much a tribute to their lives as it each day fully, in appreciation of remind you of these things, then is a reminder of their deaths. the things that truly matter. It can in some measme they will still be To view the memorial in this remind us, as Jaan Saber used to with us. That is the finest memori­ way requires courage, because it say, that we must thank God with al that we can give them.

The lobby ~f the Henry F. Hall Building duri ng the.dedication of a permanent memoria l to the fo ur professors who were shot August 24, 1992.

M.C. PELOQUIN & C. FLEURY

Mark Hogben with Michael, named after his grnndfather; Sara Saber- Freedman; Misha and llya Ziogas and Frances Auerbach-Ziogas; a nd Joyce Douglass, with Rector Lowy, standing. The quotati on is from Nietzsche, and reads, "Whoever is a teacher through and through takes all iliings seriously only in relation to his students - even himself."

M.C. PELOQUIN & C. FLEURY

The arti sts, all recent Fine Arts graduates, from left to righ t: Johanne Sloan, Ed uardo Aq uino and Kathryn Wa lter.

M.C. PELOQUIN & C. FLEURY

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Concordia's writer-in-residence is nominated for the A first book by a Concordia graduate Governor-General's Award for Fiction is hailed for its strength and simplicity Elisabeth Harvor: Let her be the one Benet Davetian writes Her parents were prominent artists BY LILSA D'INNOCENZO working in pottery, and they had about the world in conflict et Me Be the One, the latest col­ transformed the barn into a studio wright, along with a 15-year career lection of short stories by 1996 that looked like a shack from the BY PHIL MOSCOVITCH L as a psychotherapist. He moved to writer-in-residence Elisabeth Har­ outside, but had many interesting Serb sniper who loses his nerve vor, is up for a Governor-General's levels and balconies inside. It was a the United States as a young man to when confronted with an old Award, in competition with books home filled with art, including the A attend college there, then came to woman pleading to be shot. An ordi­ by Margaret Atwood, Guy Vander­ work of her great-aunt, a well­ Canada during the Vietnam era in nary Rwandan turned into a killer by haeghe, Janice Kulyk Keefer and known portrait painter from order to avoid the draft. extraordinary circumstances. A Audrey Thomas. Greenland. The great Danish Davetian began working on The Lebanese immigrant who, to his Harvor was surprised to hear last philosopher Soren Kierkegaard was Seventh Circle three years ago. girlfriend's horror, votes "Yes" in the He weekend that she was in the running a distant relative. Qyebec referendum. wrote a story for a Creative Writing for Canada's foremost literary award. Concordia is one of only four uni­ In The Seventh Circle (Ronsdale seminar called "Pilgrimage," about a "A number of people who read Let versities in Canada that still has a Press, $14.95), an outstanding new Somali family stricken by war and Me Be the One thought I should be writer-in-residence. Other schools collection of short fiction, Sociology famine. More stories on related shortlisted," she said. "But I was sur­ scrapped the program several years graduate student Benet Davetian themes followed. prised, because other books, novels in ago when funding from the Canada goes beyond the headlines and the particular, had much more publicity." But Davetian ran into a political Council dried up. Over the years, soundbites to examine conflicts and A graduate of Concordia's English debate that has raged in literary cir­ aspiring writers at Concordia have social hardship around the world Department, Harvor broke through cles for the past few years: appropria­ tested their work against such people from very personal points of view. to publication after studying here tion of voice - that is, the idea that as Toms on Highway and Michael under Creative Writing Professor Ondaatje, among others. writers from one cultural group Terry Byrnes. "I expect to see a lot of wor~ from should not write in the voices of She read from Let Me Be the One Creative Writing students, but also people from other backgrounds. He at Chapters bookstore recently, those in drama, journalism and other dismisses the notion. delighting the listeners, who leaned areas," Harvor said. "When I was "I don't need to be from there!" he on bookshelves and sat cross-legged teaching in Ottawa, a lot of people recalls telling an outraged student in on the floor. The stories are about outside the university community women striving to reconcile the past book of poetry for publication next his class who suggested to Davetian with the present through self-exami­ spring, and another for next fall. approached me, especially older peo­ that he had no right to write a story nation. While the words "Let me be She also looks forward to her first ple. It was important to them to get about Somalia. the one" never appear in any of the novel, as yet unnamed. It is a love a writer's opinion." The stories in The Seventh Circle stories, the notion is a thread run­ story spanning two decades. "Essen­ This is not by any means are written with a confidence rare for ning through them. tially, it is about what the female Concordia's first connection with the a first-time writer of fiction, espe­ Governor-General's Award. Audrey "The title is really primal," Harvor character leaves out of her journal," cially given the diversity of voices (it Harvor explained. "These are the Thomas, also nominated this year, said. "It is something that everyone even includes a story told from things that she remembers." has been both a visiting professor hopes for. All our lives, we think, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's point of 'Let me be the one to succeed, let me Harvor has taught writing in and a writer-in-residence here. view) in the book. Davetian says he be the one he loves, let me be the Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. She Diana Atkinson, now an honours is not sure where his confidence as .a one to escape."' has been writer-in-residence at Car­ . English student, was nominated last Harvor has won many awards, leton University, the Ottawa Public year for her first novel, and Nino writer comes from, but its sour.ce including the League of Canadian Library, and the University of New Ricci won the award several years may lie in his feeling "pretty rootless. Poets National Poetry Prize and the Brunswick, in her home province. ago for a novel that grew out of his Maybe a few years as a psychothera­ Lampert Award. She is preparing a She grew up, literally, in a barn. Creative Writing thesis. pist has something to do with it." While Davetian has travelled widely - his father worked for the UN and the family lived throughout Michael Bernstein gives English Department's Lahey Lecture Africa and the Middle East - he hesitates to attribute his own success in believably rendering the characters More than one way to depict Jews and situations in The Seventh Circle to his travels. he's more interested in what Jews Against Apocalyptic History, is about BY KEN MCMURRAY wrote about pre-war Germany, and ways in which novels and poetry can Remarkably, Davetian, 48, wrote "I strongly believe a writer of fic­ tion can write a book, and how he alifornia professor Michael A. pointed to the rich history of Euro­ deal with Jewish history. the book while maintaining an comes up with the stuff is his busi­ C Bernstein wants to see a change pean Jews prior to the shoah (Yiddish Joining impressive group exemplary 4.11 GPA as a Concordia ness," he said. "He shouldn't have to in the way Jews are depicted in liter­ for the Holocaust), which has been The Lahey Lecture has been held undergraduate. ature: The alternative, he said, is "a largely ignored. by Concordia's Department of Eng­ "It hit me what a risk I took with prove that he is an expert in an area. cemetery culture." "The Holocaust was transferred lish since 1962, and honours the my nervous system about a week and If he pulls it off, he pulls it off. If it Bernstein, a professor in English wholesale into post-war life," he said, Rev. G.F. Lahey, who founded the a half ago, and I collapsed for two doesn't come off, it doesn't." days," he said in an interview in early and comparative literature at the in the sense that fictional Jews who honours program in English at Loy­ The Seventh Circle is already draw­ aren't immediately recognizable October. "I just couldn't do any­ University of California at Berkeley, ola College. He was also Loyola's mg raves. The Atlantic was don't seem believable. Readers look thing. When you are in the stress of gave the Lahey Lecture on Septem­ Dean of Arts, and from 19 56 to "impressed with the simplicity and for recognition and representivity in it you just do it, and hope you don't ber 25, under the title, "Unrepre­ 1959, its Rector. lucidity" of Davetian' s writing, while Jewish culture, and the most conve­ break." sentable_Identities: The Jew in Many well-known writers and . The Gazette called him "a mesmeriz­ nient ones are as survivor or victim, a scholars have given this annual lec­ He added that while writing the Post-War European Fiction." ing writer." The book has been nom­ phenomenon he described as ture, including Margaret Atwood, book, "there were nights when I inated for several of Canada's top Dealing with history "retroactive foreshadowing." Harold Bloom and Northrop Frye. couldn't sleep, the emotions were so He told his audience that both Bernstein has written four books, "I'm pleased my name has been strong." literary prizes, including the Gover­ Jewish and non-Jewish writers tend including poetry and literary criti­ added to such an impressive list," Born in Iran into an Armenian nor-General's Award. to depict Jews as Holocaust sur­ cism, particularly about American said Bernstein, after listening to family, Davetian's checkered career It is available from booksellers vivors, with no history prior to poet and foscist Ezra Pound. His lat­ English Professor Eyvind Ronquist has included stints as an advertising throughout the city, including the Hitler's rise to power. Bernstein said est book, Forego ne Conclusions: give a brief history of the series. copywriter, a TV writer and a play- Concordia Bookstore.

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PhD student Craig Morrison can illustrate his point in the classroom with a few hot licks Go, Cat, Go! A book and a course about rock's roots Rock has been offered for years at and country. They will also look at BY PHIL MOSCOVITCH many American and some Canadian the genre's evolution into the mid- "Up in the morning universities, and Morrison believes 1960s, when Morrison said that for ii: and off to school; there is no reason to treat it differ­ the most part it ceased to be rock § The teacher is teaching ently from any other kind of music. and roll, and became simply rock. ~ It may seem incongruous because of Since he moved to Montreal from ~ the Golden Rule: 3 American history, practical math ... " · its rebel stance, he said, "but rock Toronto in 1984, Morrison has been § - Chuck Berry, School Days and roll is part of daily life, and it's performing with his band, Craig ~ important to study it closely." Morrison and the Momentz, and :E t Concordia this winter, the Over the past decade, Morrison, a working on a book about rockabilly. A teacher will be teaching Rock student in Concordia's PhD in This fall sees the launch of that and Roll and its Roots. It's the Humanities program, has taught book, Go Cat Go: Rockabilly Music Ketterer's boyhood was so strongly affected course Professor Craig Morrison has non-credit courses on various aspects and its Makers, published by Univer­ dreamed about teaching for years. of rock and roll at McGill, but that sity of Illinois Press. by imaginative popular fiction that it led to After completing an MA in eth­ university showed no interest in "I'm a musician," Morrison said. a prize-winning academic career nomusicology in 1984 (with a thesis offering any of the courses for credit. "That's a great benefit in the class on rockabilly), Morrison, 44, Students in the course, which because I can pick up a guitar and approached several Qgebec universi­ starts in January and is given through say, 'Check this lick,' or I can go to Scholar got his start ties and CEGEPs, but until now, the Music Department, will study the piano and hammer out a boogie­ nobody was interested. source styles like blues, jazz, gospel woogie bass line." Morrison's doctoral research in front of the TV focuses on the development of West Lane, London SW,'' Ketterer told Coast rock music of the 1960s. It's a BY BARBARA BLACK genre he fell in love with as a teenag­ the audience. "A much inferior film er in Victoria. "I was crazy about that nglish Professor David Ketterer version was released eight years later music when it came out," he said. E received the 1996 Pilgrim in North America, under the title At 16, he told his parents that he Award from the Science Fiction Five Million Years to Earth. I still had to go to Vancouver to see Janis Research Association last June for possess a copy of the television script Joplin with Big Brother and the his lifetime contribution to the seri­ that was published by Penguin Holding Company. Recently, as part ous study of a highly imaginative Books in 1960." of his research, he interviewed two genre of fiction. • The electrifying effect on viewers members of the band. "I said to That contribution included a book of the Quatermass story eventually them, 'Do you realize that the last he published in 197 4, New Worlds far gave Ketterer a phrase to describe a time I saw you guys was 28 years Old: The Apocalyptic Imagination, Sci­ science-fiction phenomenon. He ago?"' ence Fiction, and American Literature, called it "the philosophical apoca­ For Morrison, the history of rock as well as many articles along the lypse." and roll is about more than music; way. Now on a sabbatical, he is "I was familiar with the kind of it's about the human spirit. As a per­ studying the many changes that have SF which indicated that things former, writer and teacher, he hopes been made to Frankenstein since the would be different on other planets that "somehow, I'm raising con­ classic's first appearance in 1818. or different in the future," Ketterer sciousness and appreciation for In his acceptance speech at the said. "Here was a story which pre­ what's around us. If you can appreci­ awards ceremony, Ketterer remi­ sented the idea that our present real­ ate human expression, maybe you nisced about the popular roots of his ity was, in fact, very different from can come to appreciate humanity a academic avocation. He grew up in what it was presumed to be. Our little more." England, avidly reading H.G. Wells, understanding of what it is to be a the more contemporary Robert human being has been in error." He Heinlein, and other writers. went on to explore this idea in New "I recall badgering an uncle when Worlds far Old. I must have been about nine years Ketterer's main field of interest is old to take me to see Superman and nineteenth-century American litera­ the Mole Men (1951) and The Man ture, notably that of Herman from Planet X (1951), which were Melville, Edgar Allan Poe and both classified as 'A' for 'Adult,"' Mark Twain, which he has taught at Ketterer said. Concordia for nearly 30 years. On One of his biggest influences was his current sabbatical, however, he is the Quatermass series on BBC televi­ working on various textual changes sion. In that tale, the remains are to the great English classic, found of a spacecraft that arrived five Frankenstein. million years ago from the dying Even after 178 years, the tale of planet of Mars. In the interests of the humanoid assembled from spare survival, the Martians had genetically parts by a reclusive genius is as popu­ engineered the apes they found on lar as ever. In fact, Ketterer said, Earth, giving the new species a belli~ Frankenstein is probably the most­ cose nature, and that specific locality wri tten-abou t English-language a reputation for supernatural activity. novel of the decade, as feminist writ­ "For six weeks over the 1958-59 ers and others discover new ways to [holiday] period, the nation was approach it. He was in New York transfixed, as Professor Bernard last week to study author Mary Shel­ Qgatermass grappled with the mys­ ley's own changes to the first edition terious and terrifying events that at the Pierpont Morgan Library in took place in the vicinity of Hobbs New York.

CONCOR.D. IA'S THURSD4'£ REPORT OCTOBER 10 , 1996 7 ~- . Communications pro~ examines Amitav Ghosh, author of In an Antique Land, speaks here

much-maligned· TV in ne\N book nternationally acclaimed writer Ghosh's first novel, The Circle of Amitav Ghosh will give a talk Reason, won the Prix Medicis. His sec­ the masses, it's like anything else. I BY MATTHEW HAYS titled "Travelling Worlds" next ond novel, winner in 1990 of the You can go to the grocery store and Tuesday as part of the English annual prize of the Indian Academy of /\ fter 15 years of teaching televi­ be selective - or not." Speakers Series. Literature, is a tale of a Bengali family ~ion aesthetics, Communication When some parents ban television Amitav Ghosh was born in Cal­ torn asunder by the 1947 partition. Studies Professor Nikos Metallinos from their homes, they make a mis­ cutta in 1956, grew up in Sri Lanka, Like Ghosh's non-fiction, this novel is has turned his observations about the take, Metallinos said. "If I had small Bangladesh, Iran and North India, about memory and how the past sur­ medium into a book, Television Aes­ children, I would watch with them and now lives in New York City. He vives and underwrites the present. thetics: Perceptual, Cognitive and and explain. If they end up visually has written about his travels in Cam­ The lecture at Concordia will Compositional Bases (Lawrence Erl­ illiterate, they will have enormous bodia for Granta, and about Burma include a reading from Ghosh's lat­ baum, NJ). problems, because 84 per cent of the and the death of Indira Gandhi for est novel, The Calcutta Chromosome. "It's difficult to talk to the layman information, entertainment and edu­ The New Yorker. In the story, an Egyptian clerk in about the aesthetics of television," cation we receive now comes His best-known novel, In an New York sets out on a quest for an Metallinos said in an interview. through TV or the computer." "People tend to think of it as trash Antique Land (Knopf, 1993), tells of old colleague, an authority on Sir on the brain's reception and recogni­ Metallinos made the news him­ - and most ofit is." his experiences in Egypt conducting Ronald Ross, the scientist who dis­ tion of TV images, genre analysis of self with his PhD dissertation at But over the past decade, he and research for his Oxford doctorate in covered in 1898 that mosquitoes programs, and approaches to televi­ the University of Utah in 1975. He five or six other scholars in North anthropology. The result is a fasci­ transmit malaria. sion criticism. He defends the medi­ had concluded that taking the right America have come to the conclusion nating exploration of the interchange Amitav Ghosh will speak on Tues­ um even when others find it and left hemispheres of the brain that "we'd better start thinking about between Ghosh, the Indian anthro­ day, October 29, in the D.B. Clarke destructive. German film-maker into account, the announcer should how we're going to prepare our stu­ pologist, and the rural Egyptians he Theatre, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. be on the right side of the screen dents to improve TV aesthetics." Wim Wenders, for example, has encounters. W, at8:30p.m. · Most analysis of television is con­ argued that the TV aesthetic threat­ and the visual material on the left tent-focused, and Metallinos says ens to infect and ruin film. to maximize cognitive response that improving television means "I disagree vehemently with peo­ among viewers. greater understanding of its form as ple when they talk about TV and "John Chancellor announced the well as its content. "This is not mere­ film in such general terms," Metalli­ findings at the end of his broadcast ly an analysis of the serious issues, nos protested. "The potential of the one night on the NBC nightly news," though they're important, but of how TV is incredible. When TV is done Metallinos said. "He said he didn't students can compose images so that properly and does a specific thing, it want to take any chances, and moved they are faithful [to the subject]." does wonders. When it has to make his chair from one side of the set to Metallinos's book looks at theories money and it's put together fast for the other. I'll never forget that."

The Best of the Fiction Workshops Action Directe: Ultra-Left Terror­ graduate student in the program, 1997, a new anthology from Scrib­ ism in France, 1979-87, by Political Jessica Argyle, has started a liter­ ner's, includes 18 stories - of Science Professor Michael Dart­ ary magazine on the World Wide which two are from Concordia, nell, was given full treatment in Web called, It's a bunny. more than from any other program The Times Literary Supplement from across North America, Cre­ recently. S.K. Hazareesingh dis­ Matrix magazine has hit the ative Writing Professor Terry missed Action Directe as "nothing stands. The fall issue of this literary Byrnes reports. One is Escape, by but a degenerate and paranoid echo magazine includes an interview by Connie Barnes Rose, who is fin­ of the Revolutionary era," but found Terry Byrnes (Creative Writing) lunch. For more information, call Mod­ ishing the program here, and the Dartnell's treatment of the subject with playwright David Fennario, Nigerian women upe Olagun at 848-2337, or Katharine other is Cartography, by Camie "refreshing." poetry by Gerry Shikitani, and a speak here Cu kier at 843-2463. Kim, who just graduated from the memoir by Peter Behrens, who graduate program and is working in Active Trading, the latest collec~ studied writing here and is now a Two academic researchers who are tion of poetry by Gary Geddes Hollywood screenwriter. Scherman show Waterloo, Ont. active in the Nigerian women's move­ (Creative Writing), was given a ment will speak tomorrow at noon in is he/dover full-length review in the Saint John, Oli'(ia Rovinescu (Teaching Room 101 of the Simone de Beauvoir The English Department's The current exhibit at Concordia's N.B., Telegraph-journal. Owen and Learning Services) and her hus­ Institute, 2170 Bishop St. Speakers Series is in full swing. Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Schafer wrote, "In its quiet band, Clifton Ruggles, an Art Grace Osakue is an activist in repro­ Recently, Timothy -Findley read Tony Scherman: Banquo's Funeral, moments, {Active Trading} is Education MA student, have writ­ ductive rights, girls' empowerment, and from his new novella, You Went has been extended to November 9 insightfully critical, and at its ten a book together. _Outsider Blues: legal and development issues involving Away, and Michael A. Bernstein women. Hajara Usman is a researcher because so many people have wanted height, violently painful." A Voice from the Shadows is a collec­ to see it. gave the Lahey Lecture (see story, at Ahmadu Bello University. She stud­ tion of essays on the politics of The show of paintings on the theme page 6). Yesterday, Alexandra W. ies reproductive rights, and is the Nige­ Michel Laroche (Marketing) is exclusion, multicultural education, of Shakespeare's Macbeth by Scher­ Halasz of Dartmouth College ria co-ordinator of Women Living Under one of the four authors of Le Com­ racial representation in the arts and man, a Toronto artist, was curated by spoke on "Early Modern Publicity: Muslim Laws. portement du consommateur, ·now in related subjects. It may be ordered Ellen Gallery Director Karen Antaki. Nigeria is Africa's most populous The Entrepreneurial Pamphlet." its second edition, with a colourful through Fernwood Books, Box country, and is currently under the rule The next major speaker will be cover depicting lively contemporary 9409, Station A, Halifax, N.S., of a military dictatorship. Universities Come to the fair Amitav Ghosh, author of In an Qyebec village life. It is published B3K5S3. are targeted for repression, and recent­ The Centre for Teaching and Learn­ Antique Land, reading from his lat­ by Gaetan Morin editeur, has 696 ly, a protest by professors shut many ing Services and the Audio Visual est novel, The Calcutta Chromosome. pages, and costs $56. Kevin Pask (English) has just institutions down. Department have teanied up to hold On October 29, Governor Gener­ published The Emergence of the Eng­ Women's groups are a key force for Concordia's first Teaching Fair, sched­ al's Award-winning poet Lorna The new fiction editor at New­ lish Authors: Sculpting the Life of the democracy in this political climate. This uled for November 13. At the Fair, Crozier will be reading from her York-based Ms. magazine is a for­ Poet in Early Modern England. It is speakers' tour is partly financed by the recipients of Teaching Development new collection, Saving Grace, at 4 mer Creative Writing student, part of a series by Cambridge Uni­ Canadian High Commission in Nigeria. Grants will share the results of their p.m. in H-769. Sandy Fernandez. A current versity Press on Renaissance Studies. Those who attend may bring their projects.

8 OCTOBER 24 , 1996 CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT Business exchange students promote study in their countries to Concordia students Learning each other's tunes

students to give us a first-hand BY ANDREA D. LOPEZ account of what it's like to go to nternational students in the Fac­ school in their country," Turkenburg I ulty of Commerce and Adminis­ explained. "Through them, we'll be tration started their year in Canada able to recruit more Concordia stu­ with a camping weekend in dents to study abroad. They're our Bromont. best advocates." ~ "All the barriers were broken The CIB consolidated four inter- ::! national offices last December under down, and everyone was learning z~ their administration, and now co- ~ from each other," said Mike Rose, g who is on a year's exchange from ordinates the International Business 1t' Program, the International Exchange ~ 'London, England. "We started ~ -- Program, Development Projects, and singing our national songs, and after Distance Education Projects for the a while, we all knew each other's Faculty. The CIB administers tunes." the International Business major, The Centre for International regulates incoming and outgoing Business (CIB) and its student coun­ Commerce students participating in terpart, the Concordia International the exchange programs, and assists Business Association (CIBA), orga­ higher institutions in developing nized the camping trip to get them countries. acquainted with some fellow Cana­ The CIB also co-ordinates Inter­ dian students and the "wilderness." national Business Teaching Devel­ The students spent the weekend hik­ opment and Research grants, and New digital services make accessing libraries possible from home ing, canoeing and exhausting them­ International Student Exchange selves on an obstacle course. Scholarships for students in the Fac­ CIB Assistant-Director Patricia ulty. Their most recent development Researchers may wear fuzzy slippers Turkenburg said the CIB welcomes project will give two Concordia pro­ -"'-- help from enthusiastic student station was available for a sign-up from home. fessors the opportunity to travel to BY ANDREA HOWICK groups like CIBA. "Rather than just Tunisia, where they will work with period at a given time. Now, as Canadian Database -is made up of being a bunch of talking administra­ Tunisian professors to develop and "l J{ ]ithin a week, two services many as eight users can access ERL three indexes: Canadian Business tors, we try to do what we can to implement new courses. V V were introduced by from any CD-ROM workstation. and Current Affairs, which lists arti­ make it fun." "We are not supported by an Concordia Libraries to make ERL will be accessible to Concordia cles from Canadian newspapers, CIB has also introduced a men­ operating budget," T urkenburg said. research more accessible and effi­ students, faculty and staff members magazines and journals; Canadian tor/friendship program that pairs "The funding comes largely from the cient. On September 26, the from outside the libraries 24 hours a Research Index, which lists munici­ Concordia volunteers with exchange development projects awarded to the Libraries introduced Electronic Ref­ day, free of charge. It is set up to pal, provincial and federal govern­ students. More than 100 students Faculty." Projects for the future erence Library (ERL), and on Octo­ accommodate DOS, Windows and ment documents; and C anadian volunteered to help this semester's include video-conferencing and elec­ ber 1, Canadian Database was made Macintosh interfaces, and can be Education Index, which is a listing enrolment of 80 business students tronic mail correspondence courses, available on CLUES. accessed from Alcor and Vax2 of articles pertaining to education. from other countries, 61 of whom which will enable students in other "These services make more accounts. In the Libraries, the debit This system automatically cross­ are from F ranee. countries to take part in Concordia resources available for people to use card system will be used to pay for searches the three databases, after "Then we recruit these exchange classes. from home," said Judy Appleby, printing, but users may, of course, which time users may focus their Head of the Libraries' Information download to their own diskettes free searches. Concordia's Computing Services. The library has made avail­ of charge. Services has been uploading the able on ERL the most frequently Reference and Instructional Canadian Database information consulted index databases: ERIC, Librarian Melinda Reinhart (which dates back to 1982) since last Geobase, MLA International Bibli­ explained that the process of October, Appleby said. ography, PsycLIT, Social Sciences researching using ERL is similar to To make things even easier, Index and Sociofile. what it has always been. "Users Concordia Libraries have a World (ERIC covers education, while search their topic, download to a Wide Web Homepage (http:// Geobase deals with geography, geol­ diskette, and then look up the journal juno.concordia.ca) and specific pages ogy and development studies. The titles using CLUES," Reinhart said. for ERL (http://juno.concordia.ca/ MLA has citations in language and The other new service, Canadian ler/erl.html) and the Canadian linguistics, and PsycLIT covers Database on Clues, works much the Database (http://juno.concordia.ca/ abstracts in psychology. The Social same way. Formerly available only in ler/candb.html), which guide users Science index lists all the social sci­ the library on CD-ROMs, Canadian through the process. This term, the ences, while Sociofile deals with Database on CLUES now can be Libraries are offering hands-on sociology.) accessed from specified CLUES ter­ training sessions on how to use these Only one CD-ROM at one work- minals within the libraries, and also and other services.

Concordia gives helping hand to the Saguenay oncordians and their friends be passed directly to the relief effort. treal, raised $800 on her own, and C were generous when catastro­ Despite the quiet of a university got sister Jazzercise outlets involved phe struck the Saguenay region of summer, 267 donations of money to raise more. There were eight Qyebec on the weekend of July 19- had been collected by the end of donations of $500, including one 21, causing several deaths, $704 mil­ September - a total of $32,420. from the University of Calgary lion of damage, and the relocation of Many individuals gave $100, but Alumni Association. about 15,000 people. some donations were much larger, In the photo, Rector Frederick John Freund, Loyola Alumni Asso­ including $9,500 from Freund's Lowy hands over a cheque to Claude · ciation President and an insurance employer, Standard Life, and $1,000 executive, immediately started the each from the University's Board of Bedard of the Red Cross (centre), as Concordia fund with the help of Governors, the Loyola Alumni John Freund, SGW Alumni Presi­ Alumni Affairs Director Ann Vroom board, Dunkin Donuts and one dent Barbara Barclay, Nathalie and other staff. Meanwhile, Lise anonymous donor. Villemnure (Red Cross) and ,__ Tavares of Information Services began Alumna Susanne Pranno, who Concordia Alumni President to collect clothing and other items to owns a Jazzercise franchise in Mon- Michael Di Grappa look on.

CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT OCTOBER 24, 1996 9 Slingshot goalpost took the·CFL, NFL by storm back in the 1960s Cedric Marsh built a. better goalpost Trimble and Marsh paired up anq_ University St. for Expo 67. (The BY PHOEBE DEY batted around ideas for safer play on ,Alouettes played in the Autostade "\ ]\ Jithout the help of a the field until they came up with the for a decade, moved to the Olympic V V Concordia professor, the "slingshot" goalpost. Stadium, and then folded in 1987, game of football wouldn't be where "He designed the post, and I man­ but were revived th.is year.) it is today. Cedric Marsh, Professor ufactured, engineered and built it," When the Autostade was used the Emeritus in the Centre for Building Marsh said. "Then Trimble and I following year for the Grey· Cup Studies (CBS), is cited in American managed to persuade the powers­ game, Marsh's original aluminum consumer advocate Ralph Nader's that-be that it was an important goalpost had been replaced with book, Canada Firsts, as having invention." steel. "Even though the material designed the "revolutionary single­ Marsh also came up with the idea changed, the shape was ours," Marsh base slingshot football goalpost." of placing the stand for the goalpost said. When he went out to ·pose for a In 1965, Marsh met Jim Trimble, six feet behind -the goal line. This photo for CTR, Marsh disco·vered· the coach of the Montreal Alouettes. move won ·approval from game offi­ that the original goalpost stand had Trimble told Marsh how a player cials, because it gave them a better made its way to our own. Loyola had lost a match because he ran into view of the goal line, and potential football field. use in the league, and have been on that when you dream up these the goalpost as he was going for a touchdowns. The slingshot goalpost was a -big the field ever since. things, you don't know·if they will be long pass. "My first question was, When the prototype was ready, it hit in the United States. At the As an engineer, Marsh is no successful or not," he said. "Some Why are then~ two posts?"' Marsh was installed at the Autostade, the annual NFL rpeeting in 1967, the stranger to inventions. 'What fre­ will leave you standing and some will recalled. stadium built near the bottom of posts were unanimously approved for quently happens in engineering is take off."

'We're stressing an open environnment' One woman and a Rhodes · period. Really? At Oxford, she said, BY HOWARD BOKSER Meet Nathalie Leveille, "It was sink or swim - you're on reathless. That's the feeling after your own." She did enjoy the social doyenne of the Women's Centre Bspending two hours with Gilly atmosphere - she met all her Lon­ Filsner, Concordia's first Rhodes don friends there - but after com­ making it more accessible to disabled pleting her MPhil and beginning her BY INGRID HEIN Scholar, on one of her rare visits to women. Leveille was born with cere­ Montreal. PhD, she became bored, and left he has two Siamese cats, a scoot­ bral palsy, and needs the aid of Filsner, a former model and body­ Oxford in the late 1980s. Ser, a pair of crutches, a book crutches to move about. She has builder as well as a top student and After a part-time job on London's called Womanual and a lot of energy. found the design of the Women's BA in Sociology (1984), is now a Evening Standard, Filsner worked as Nathalie Leveille took over the Centre, which is in a basement on successful journalist for Bloomberg a financial analyst for five years, then contract as Women's Centre co-ordi­ Mackay St., less than accommodat­ Business News, an international busi­ merged her business background artd nator this fall, and she says she ing. ness news service based in New York interest in journalism, landing a couldn't be more pleased with the job. "I held on to a bookcase I City. Opinionated and full of energy, position at Bloomberg in 1994. - L, With her collection of tools, and a lit­ shouldn't have, and it came crashing she was thrilled to meet two of her She love~ living in London. "I tle help from volunteers at the Cen­ down," she said. "But the Centre is former professors, Joseph Smucker have a little house in Kensington and tre, she has the job under her belt. in a really good spot; it's cozy, and and William Reimer, and eager to be a 1961 Austin Healey," she said. With a background of work with on a storefront site. It would really interviewed about how the Rhodes And here's a shocker: The Rhodes disabled women's groups and volun­ stink if we got moved to the middle Scholarship affected her life. Scholarship, which is probably the teering at Concordia, the 26-year­ of the Hall Building somewhere." Although Filsner spent her first 21 most prestigious scholarship a North old Lasalle nati:ve was a natural But it's not only disabled women years in Montreal, 12 years in Lon­ American student can receive, cuts choice to take over where Emily Par­ that might find the Centre inaccessi­ don have given her a trans-Atlantic no ice in England. adis left off, and she is hoping the ble, Leveille said. ''I remember I per­ accent. "I'm always asked where I'm "That's one reason I stayed in transition is going smoothly. ceived the Women's Centre as a place from," she said. Filsner also has London," Filsner said. "It's nice and "[Paradis] was so organized," where lesbians hang out," she said. changed the pronunciation of her anonymous." The scholarship did "I want people to know that all Leveille said, shaking her head. "She organizing this year's Take Back the first name from Gilly with a hard impress her present employers - women are welcome. It hasn't been left me this terrific book called Wom­ Night march on October 3. This is "G" to "Jilly." they're American. made clear that the Women's Centre anual that explains everything from the sixteenth year for the annual Filsner's fondness for Concordia is At Bloomberg, Filsner reports on is part of the University, now run opening the place to locking up." demonstration of support for a safe remarkable. She actually misses the investment funds and writes a weekly Leveille had been out of work for through Advocacy and Support Ser­ environment for women, and Norris Building, next to the YMCA column about alternative invest­ a year when Advocacy and Support vices. It's no longer a stude~t club, so Concordia's Women's Centre is on Drummond St. - now no longer ments. Filsner was Concordia's first Services Director Ann Kerby let her we're stressing an open environment. always involved. part of the University. "The Norris Rhodes Scholar, although Loyola know about the job opening. Leveille Get involved Meanwhile, the Montreal YWCA had a wonderfµl atmosphere," Fusner College had a Rhodes Scholar before finished her BA here with a double "We want more women to get held a Week Without Violence from recalled. ''In this decrepit building the the merger in 1974. Since Filsner's major in Psychology and Applied involved. At the moment, the Cen­ October 6 to 12, and one of the ses­ [Sociology] Department was arranged award, Carol McG.!ieen won a Social Science in the spring of 1994. tre is only booked on Wednesday sions was held in the atrium of as a community, with professors and Rhodes in 1995. Two Qyebec schol­ The job market didn't look promis­ nights for a lesbian and bisexual dis­ Concordia's downtown library com­ graduate students leading discussions ars are awarded the full scholarship ing, so she kept herself busy by doing cussion group - any other night plex. Maria Peluso (Political Sci­ around the coffee machine in the lab. to Oxford University every year. volunteer work. could be booked." ence) spoke on behalf of the Y, and It was terribly intense." Howard Bokser is the editor of She wants the Women's Centre to As co-ordinator of the Women's Sally Spilhaus (Sexual Harassment) And she found Oxford an academ­ Concordia Magazine, published for be accessible to all, but is focusing on Centre, Leveille was involved in on behalf of Concordia. ic let-down after the ferment of that alumni.

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Concordia I ~~~~~~i~g U N I V E R S I T Y Education Graduate Diploma in Institutional Administration REAL EDUCATION FOR THE REAL WORLD Graduate Diploma in Sports Administration Anyone with a Bachelor's degree who is interested in the administration of not-for-profit organizations should consider the DWDSA program in the Faculty of Commerce and Administration. Specializations available: • Community Services, Public and Para-Public Administration Faculty of Arts and Science • Arts, Culture and Heritage Administration • Health Care and Fitness Administration Academic administrative positions • Sports and Fitness Administration • Principal, Liberal Arts College DWDSA provides specialized courses and seminars in management and administration for the non-prof­ • Principal, School of Community and Public Affairs it sector, plus supervised internships in high-profile, non-profit organizations. • Principal, Science College Applications are now being accepted for admission in January. The above positions are available to full-time tenured (or tenure­ track) faculty members for a three-year term, beginning June 1, For information, please call the DWDSA program office, at 848-2718. 1997. Nominations, applications and briefs relevant to the selection (Fax: 848-2816, e-mail: [email protected]) process will be received until Wednesday, October 30, 1996. For further information about these positions, please contact: Concordia Dr. Enn Raudsepp, UNIVERSITY Vice-Dean, Administrative Affairs, Faculty of Arts and Science R E A L EDUCATION F O R T H E R E A L W O R L D AD-320, 848-2086 Completed applications, nominations and briefi may be submitted to Dr. Raudsepp. ogist and film-maker, but I didn't do it from a classically anthropological Concordia perspective," Andrews said. His time ~ . UNIVERSITY "I learned a lot - much more in Panama has given him a taste for than I would have in class," Michi fieldwork, and he would like to REAL EDUCATION FOR THE REAL WORLD said. "But a lot of students don't return to continue his research there have the money to do it." more formally. While Michi and Schwittay had at In the spring of 1995, Michi first hoped to raise funds from out­ decided to set up an organization side sources, they found that in these that would help fund other under­ tight economic times, companies graduates so they could get a jump were hesitant to contribute. 1996 Fall Convocation on their research careers. He and Concordians, on the other hand, Anthropology student Anke Schwit­ Information to potential graduates were enthusiastic about the associa­ tay, the Fieldwork Association's A University Convocation for all Faculties will be held at Salle Wil­ tion. Dean of Students Donald chair, spent most of last year raising frid-Pelletier, Place des Arts, on Friday, November 22, at 10 a.m. for Boisvert told the Montreal Gazette funds and setting up an information all students whose degree requirements are approved by University that "the students have shown Senate. resource centre for students looking remarkable initiative in setting up for fieldwork opportunities. The ID numbers of approved candidates will be posted in the tun­ this program." All of the money for nel connecting the Heney F. Hall andJ.W. McConnell Buildings on Schwittay, who has done some this past summer's bursaries was the afternoon of November 4. Students who have not met all the self-financed fieldwork of her own, raised internally. requirements for their degrees will be mailed written notification no strongly advocates students becom­ later than November 5. Students who receive funds from ing involved in real field research as the association are expected to give Students are advised to check with the Student Service Centre to early as possible. "It opened my eyes something back to the Concordia ensure that all student fees, library fines and graduation fees have to the practical side of anthropolo­ community by lecturing on their been paid. Students must pay by money order, certified cheque, Are you a gy," she said. "If you only know the experiences after their return. debit card, Mastercard or Visa by November 19 to be permitted to theoretical side, how can you be sure new student? .... · participate in the ceremony or receive their degrees. Schwittay said the group hopes the field is for you?" ultimately to be able to raise enough Get a Smart Start Place des Arts provides assistance and has parking facilities for Andrews, the Anthropology stu­ money to endow the association and wheelchair users. Use the box office entrance off de Maisonneuve A half-hour conversation dent who received a fieldwork bur­ ensure that bursaries will be available Blvd. W ., and inquire at the security kiosk. with someone in Coun­ sary, said he would never have been every year. selling and Development able to go to Panama otherwise. He All undergraduates in the depart­ could make your year. documented the struggle of the ments of Sociology and Anthropolo­ Concordia I Office Make an appointment now! of the Ngobe-Bugle people in their fight gy, Geography and Classics are u N I V E R s I T y Registrar SGW Campus - 848-3545 against the opening of a copper mine automatically members of the Field­ Loyola Campus - 848-3555 on their lands. work Association and are eligible for REAL EDUCATION FOR THE REAL WORLD "I did the project as an anthropol- grants.

CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT OCTOBER 24, 1996 1 1 Monday, October 28 K Information Centre of Montreal Tuesday, November 12 The Far Country, Anthony Mann (1953) Friday, November 1 Dj affar Ait-Al i-Yahia, Mechanical at 6 p.m.; My Darling Clementine, J. Kri sh namu rti video pre sentations. Engineering , on "A Finite Element "What is Communication With John Ford (1946) at 7:45 p.m. Segregate d Method for Hypersonic Others? " 8 p.m., H-4 20, 1455 de Th ermo-Chemical Equ ilibriu m and Monday, November 4 Maisonneuve Blvd. W. 937-8869. Nonequilibrium Flows using Adapted Fort Apache, John Fo rd (1948) at 7 Grids." 10 a.m. in S-01 , 2145 Mackay, p.m. Concordia Irish Lecture Series Tuesday, November 5 School of Graduate Studies. Dr. Richa rd Cave, Professor of Drama & Theatre Art s, Royal Holloway Lectures & Col lege, Univ. of London, on " Questing for Ritual and Ceremony in a Unclassified Seminars Godless World: The Recent Plays of Brian Friel." 8:30 p.m ., H-620, 1455 de Sublet required Department of Art History Mai so nneuve Blvd . W. Free ad mi s­ For the month of November, a fur­ Thursday, October 24 sion. 848-2435. nished 2-4 bedroom apt. o.r house. Dr . Lynne Pearce, Lan caste r University, on "Fem in ism and the Thursdays at Lonergan Preferably in the West End or down­ Emotion al Politics of Readi ng." 10 Novemberl town area . References supplied. 27 1- Frances Leeming, film-maker, Dept. of a.m. VA-323, 1395 Rene Levesque W. 9919. Communication Studies, on "A Thursdays at Lonergan World 's Fair: A Work in Progress ." Roommate needed October24 3:30 - 5 p.m., 7302 Sherbro oke St. W. Female preferred, 2 ro oms avai lable in 848-2280. Joanna Bottenberg, Dept. of Modern large house, use of kitchen . NDG area. Languag es & Linguistics and Fellow of Centre for the Study of Classroom 369-0320. Lonergan College, on "Landscapes of Processes OCTOBER 24 • NOVEMBER 7 War: Artists, Poets and Painters." 3:30 Friday, November 8 CD-ROM project - 5 p.m ., 7302 Sherbrooke St. W. 848- Dr. Angela O'Donnell , Rutg ers "The Voice of Movement." Ja net 2280. University, on "Giving It All Away? Oxley, Asst. Prof. in Contemporary Peer Learning and Distributed Christian Meditation Dance, is looking for a design team K Information Centre of Montreal Cognition. " 2:30 p.m., H-520, 1455 de As taught by Dom John Main, O.S. 8., involving an instructional designer, a Alumni Concert Hall Friday, October 25 Maisonneuve Bl vd. W., 848-2020. Thursdays at 11 a. m. Daily Euchari st graph ic designer and a programmer J. Kri shnamurti video pre se ntations. The ABCs of Will Preparation follows; singers and musicians. Bach Bop & Beyond Series . 22 con­ for the production of a CO -ROM . Of "K now ledg e and Co nfl ict in Human K Information Centre of Montreal Monday, November 4 certs at a low price of $75, $50 for Relation s." 8 p.m .. H-420, 1455 de Friday, November 8 interest to grad students or graduates. Thomas S. Gillespie (BC L. Quebec Bar Volunteers needed for t he Loyola seniors. Call 848-7928 for a complete Maisonneuve Blvd. 937-8869. J. Krishnamurti video presentations. Project funded by FRDP. Approx. 100 64), senior partner of Ogilvy Renault, Cha pel Choir. Rehearsals: Sundays at W. concert list. "What is a Responsible Huma n hrs., with remunerati on, from January will address the ABCs of wi ll prepara­ 10 a.m. For info, call Elizabeth at 674- School of Community and Being?" 8 p.m ., H-420, 1455 de 1997 till autumn. 848-4738, e-mail tion. Th ese inc lud e What if I don't 4147. November2 Public Affairs Mai sonneuve Blvd. W. 937-8869. [email protected] .ca. have a will? , different fo rm s of wi ll s, Joe Sullivan Sextet, program & players "Yo u Won't Need Running Shoes, powers of attorney and livi ng wills, Darling," a film by Dorothy Tod d Condo in Costa Rica for rent proof and probate of will s, and chang­ November6 Henaut. 6 p.m., J.A. DeSeve Cinema, ing the terms of a wi ll after death. 7 to Encore Bra ss Qu intet, featuring Pl anning a vacation in Central Counselling & 1400 de Maison neu ve Blvd. W. 9:30 p.m., Faculty and Staff Lounge , Charles Ell ison, trum pet School of Graduate America? 2 luxurious condos at com­ Admi ss ion: $4. 1455 de Mai so nneuve Blvd . W., 7th Development Studies News petitive price s. Fully equipped. 200 m Floor, Room H-767. $14 per person . No Novembers from the beach . Tranquil area . Call Counselling and Development Department of Communication refu nd s. RSVP: 848-3817. Li selyn Adam s, flute, Hel ene Gagne Get-togethers with Minutes from all amenities . Cal l at 848-3545 or 848-3555 Studies graduate students and Laurie Milkman Martin, 273-6422. Interview Skills (one session) Monday, October 28 Monday, Nov. 11 , 1996. 5:30 - 7 p.m., LOY, Wed., October 30, 9:30 a.m. - 12 Dr. James Winter, As soc. Prof .. Dept. 2145 Mackay. Please ca ll to reserve November15 U.S. work permits p.m. Rainer Burck, piano, play s of Communication Studies. University your place: 848-3803. Art We can help . Canadian citizens SGW, Thurs. , October 31 , 9:30 a.m. - Stockhausen and others of Wind sor, on "Democracy's Oxygen: . 12p.m. How Corporations Control the News." increase their chances of receiving U.S. Until November 10 SGW, Wed., November 13, 9:30 a.m. - work permits. Also. U.S. immigration Photography exhibition by Michelle November23 4:10 p.m., BR-417, Bryan Bldg., Loyola 12p.m. and related business matters. 8. Toben Catherine Widmann , Concordia pho­ Other voices : Kelly Jeffe rs on, tenor Campu s. Special Events Associates (U .S. lawyers) 288-3896. tography student. Location: Exh ibit sax, George Mitchell, acoustic bass, Graduate Career Portfolios: English Speakers Series and Notices Hall of the NFB Cinema , 1564, St. Thom Gossage, drums , and Gary - A Dynamic New Tool (one session) Tuesday, October 29 Denis St. 12 - 9 p.m 523-0363. Schwartz, guitar Dean of Students Fee $5. SGW, Fri. , November 1, 9:30 - Amitav Ghosh, author of In an Antique 11 :30 a.m . Writing Assistants! The centre is now November 1, 2 & 3 Thursday Music Forum Series Land, 8:30 p.m., D.B. Clarke Theatre, administered by the Dean of Students Womin's Agenda (bring your lunch) 12:30 p.m. 1455 de Mai sonneuve Blvd. W. For View from the Roof of the World: The Getting to the Phone (one session) Office. Drop by H-653 or call 848-3517 October24 Tibetan Film Festival. Organized by SGW, Fri ., November 15, 9:30 - 11 :30 more, ca ll 848-2340. for an appointment. Wednesday,October30 Wolfgang Bottenberg, Music Theory. Concordia graduate Jane Gardiner. a.m. Lee Maracle, author of Ravensong and Lorna C_rozier, Governor-Genera l's Location: NFB, 1564, St. Denis St. 496- "Do We Tea ch the Right Stuff the IEEE Computer Society I, Women : A Native Perspective on Right Way?" Award winner, on "A Saving Grace: How to Build Java Applets (Java Part _ y 6887. Interviewing for Graduate Sociology and Femin is m. Noon , The Collected Poems of Mrs. Bentley." II), Thursday, October 24, 3 p.m., H- Students: What Do You Say After Simone de Beauvoir In stitute, 2170 You Say Hello? October31 4 p.m. in H-769, 1455 de Maisonneuve 613. Hosted by Nicolas St. Onge . Bishop. 848-2373. SGW, Fri ., November 8, 9:30 a.m. - Wray Downes and Holly Arsenault Blvd. W. Free admiss ion. 848-2340. Customizing Un ix (Un ix Part II). 12:30 a.m. Campus Ministry Novemberl Centre for Native Education Thursday, October 24, 5 p.m.. H-609. Friday, November 8 Jazz Combo Hosted by Alain Chiasson . Joanne Arnott, author of Breasting the Monday Night Meals Overcoming Exam Anxiety Tuesday, October 29 (one session) Maskisinihkewin: The Art of Waves. Noo n, Simone de Beauvoir This seme ster, Mother Hubbard, in World Wid e Web: LOY, Thurs., November 7, 1 - 4 p.m. Moccasin-Making, a five-part work­ Institute, 2170 Bishop. 848-2373. conjunction with the Peer Helpers and http://www.ece.concordia.ca/ieee-cs shop . 12 p.m., Annex V-304, 2110 the Campu s Ministry Food Voucher Ema il: [email protected] Resume-Writing (one session) Mackay St. 848-7327. Program , cooks a vegetarian supper CPR courses Office: H-716, 848-7913 every Monday night at Annex Z. The Wed ., October 16, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. The following courses will be offered meal is served from 5-7 p.m. and costs Tues ., October 29, 2 - 4 p.m. School of Community and Workshops Thurs., November 14, a.m. -12 p.m. by the EH&S Office in the next few $1. It is open to Concordia students 10 Public Affairs and their families or roommates. weeks. Members of Concordia and the Wednesday, October 30 Ce ntre for Teaching and Learning Getting to the Phone (one session) Theatre Contact Daryl Lynn Ross (848-3585). outside community can take these Prof. Alan Nash, Dept. of Geography, Services, Faculty Development SGW, Wed., November 6, 2 - 4 p.m. courses . Contact Donna Fasciano, on "Immigration and Citizen ship ." Saint Nicholas Hotel, William Workshop Series. Call 848-2495 to Multi-Faith Dialogue Tra ining Co-ordinator, at 848-4355. Noon, 2149 Mackay St. Researching the Employer Donnelly, Prop ., written by James register. Students meet for a brown-bag lunch (one session) Re aney, directed by Pet er Smit h. discussion between members of various October 27- Heartsaver Plus Thursdays at Lonergan SGW, Fri ., October 25, 9:30 - 11 :30 October 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, November Experimenting with New faiths. Wednesdays, noon to 1 p.m ., in November 2- Basic Life Support October31 a.m. 1, 2 at 8 p.m., November 3 at 2 p.m. Technologies in Teaching Annex T (2030 Mackay) 3rd-floor confer­ November 3- Heartsaver Wolfgang Bottenberg, Dept. of Music 0.8. Clarke Th eatre. Box office: 848- October 25 in Ad -308, from 1 - 2:30 November 4 & 5- CSST First Aid and Fellow of Lonergan College, on ence room . Call Matti Terho (848-3590). From Grief to Growth (15 sessions) 4792. (in French) "Mu sica l Representations of War." p.m. Leader: Greg Lipny. Fee $30. SGW, November 11 - March Prison Visit Program November 12 - Heartsaver 3:30 - 5 p.m., 7302 Sherbrooke St. W. 24, 1997, 4- 5:30 p.m. Infusing Critical Thinking into A dialogue program between students November 19 - Heartsaver 848-2280. Instruction and in mate s at th e Federal Tra ining Laughing Through the Stress Thesis Defence October 29 in H-771 , from .9 :30 a.m.- Centre. There wil l be two four-week (one session) Department of Philosophy 12 p.m. Leader: Olivia Rovin escu. sess ions on Monday nights from 7-9 Fee $2 . SGW, November 11, 3 - 5 p.m. Film November 1 & 2 Thursday, October 31 p.m. The next four-week sessi on begins Annu al Symposi um of the Canadian Nehad Tashtoush, Physics, on "SAW Nov. 4. Ori entation meeting: Monday, Building Healthier Relationships The Loyola Film Series Jacques Maritain As soc iat ion , on Humid ity Sensor with an Screen Grabbing as an Alternative Oct. 28, at 3 p.m. , Annex Z. For more (15 sessions) F.C . Smith Auditoriu m, 71 41 "The Uses of Rea son ... Lonergan Env ironm ent al Electronic Nose to Live Software Performance information, contact Matti Terho (848- Fee $30. SGW, Wed., November 13 - Sherbrooke St. W. Tel. 848-3878. Free College, 7302 Sherbrooke St. W. System." 2 p.m. in S-01 , 2145 Mackay, October 30 in H-771 , from 1 - 3 p.m. 3590) or Peter Cote (848-3586). March 26, 1997, 11 :30 - 1 p.m . admission. Complete $20, each $2. 848-2510. School of Graduate Studies. Leader: Roger Kenner.