Loyola Campus Will Be Revitalized

,___,__PORT VOL. 22 SEPTE:\IBER 25, 1997 N ° 2 Lillian Vineberg chairs Jdynamite committee' Loyola Campus will be revitalized been the accidental victim of the BY BARBARA BLACK downtown consolidation of task force has been established Concordia facilities in recent years. Ato give the Loyola .Campus a Users are complaining - notably, at new lease on life. open meetings with the Rector held Lillian Vineberg, incoming vice last week - that too many services chair of the Board of Governors, is have been cut, and classrooms are heading a committee drawn from poorly designed and maintained. across the University community, Fears have been expressed that a and has attacked the project with dangerous downward spiral has begun gusto. that is making the Campus less desir "We have a dynamite committee, able for academic departments, but chosen not for their point of view, V meberg stoutly denied it. but for their expertise," she said. The "People love the green space," she group has already held three early said. "A lot of people want to be morning meetings, and hopes to there. But they also want the Uni present a preliminary report to the versity to make a commitment to Board in December. maintain the campus." The cluster of stately academic Vineberg said the committee will buildings surrounded by grass and work closely with those involved in gardens in Montreal's west end has See Loyola,p. 11 andBuildings,p.8 Course provided as TV/Internet hybrid IN THIS ISSUE Education Department is a distance education pioneer Students will be able to log on and BY KELLY WILTON discuss material from the textbook Changes in tuition for out-of- tudents from around Q.!lebec, and television program, get informa SOntario, British Columbia - tion, ask the professor questions, and even as far away as Barbados - can communicate with other students. some confusion. take an introductory course caUed i§ Students without computers will be Educational Psychology, which is ::! able to do this work at the Page7 being offered this year on television ! Concordia MacLab, in Room H- 511-2. For those who aren't and the Internet. l.)IE EDUC 210/DE, a six-credit ~ computer-savvy, a technical assistant course, is being offered on CANAL, will be on hand for the first few Nader and Watson § Q.!lebec's educational channel, and ~ weeks to help out. 9 so far, 50 students from around the ~ The television broadcasts run until Famous consumers' advocate province are registered. April 14, with the taped shows avail and environmentalist urge Richard Schmid, chair of the I able at the audio-visual labs on both Education Department, calls it an campuses. The only other distance students to get on board. exciting venture with long-term ben education course offered by Page9 efits to both the students and the Concordia via CANAL is Anthro sible from each medium." the course involves a computer University. pology 201. "It will make education more Educational Psychology intro mediated communications system Schmid said that the professor will accessible to students because they no duces students to such topics as how called FirstClass, which is a software be more accessible than usual, Dean's List longer have to go to class, except for children develop from pre-school program that offers chat rooms via because she will be freed from their exams," Schmid said. "This is a through adolescence, why some peo the Internet. The course also has its preparing and giving lectures. "If you Outstanding students in Arts high-quality alternative to teaching in ple are more motivated to learn than own Web site, which offers access to have 100 students in a classroom, a classroom. Dr. Miranda D'Arnico, others, and how to make learning a "dynamic" syllabus, an animated and Science, 1996-97 there is very little interaction with the course's coordinator, has designed relevant to the student. tutorial about FirstClass, and links to the professor. But with distance edu- Page 10 it to get as much effectiveness as pos- The new distance ed version of other Internet sites. See Distance ed, p. 11 Next issue: September 26 • 1:30 p.m. start · Bishop and de Maisonneuve to Loyola Campus October 9 Great prizes • music· radio personalities • followed by Rector's Reception · Visit the website at http://www.concordia.ca/shuffle.nclk • See page 11 for more details! ', I' ~ • How one professor educated himself about the Internet and designed his own cyber-library Online Research Guide to Political Inquiry at your service help students with their writing, and ed Kingdom. The Web has given BY R O BERT SWICK in a section titled "cyberfun," links to that small British university a new . p olitical Science Professor such diverse si tes as the Mars lease on life by enabling it to reach Michael Dartnell has moved part Pathfinder site and the Liberace more students without the overhead of his curriculum out of the class Museum. of larger classrooms. room and into "the largest library on The site also has links to the cata "Britain has the highest per capita earth" - the World Wide Web. logue system of the four M ontreal student-to-computer ratio - higher H e has co nstructed a Web site university library systems and to than the United States," he said. called the Online Resource Guide to other library systems around the "For a yo ung university like Political Inquiry to give students a world, including the U.S. Library of Concordia, it makes sense to use the gateway into the W eb's tens of mil Congress, the British Library, Bib Web. It's inexpensive, and it saves lions of sites. "The Web is moving liotheque de France , and the time." into the mainstream of academic German national library system . W hen Concordia offered a loan research and teaching," D artnell "Much of what is on the Web was plan to staff to buy computers, Dart said. already available. It just becomes eas nell bought one powerful enough to He reflected on how things have ier to reach." run the programs to construct the changed in the few years since his D artnell's site is a "trailblazing 13 site. "I also put myself on a few mail doctoral thesis research. Then, he site," set up by experts in a specific le~ ing lists which I consider essential. I flew to Paris to find someone who area to help others find their way ~ was on one fr om the C anadian had the rare research material he around. On the Web, with its vast ·· Political Science Association, and needed. Now, the Web might pro size, "just getting lost is a problem." ~ they essentially fed me material." vide him with that person or even Dartnell says his site took only a Though Dartnell doesn't think the the documents themselves, in much few months to build. "I'm not a Web will ever replace teaching, he less time, for almost no cost. computer geek," he says with a thinks it is becoming an indispens The Online Resource Guide to laugh. "It's really quite easy." research on the Web. The Tupac his students. "It's taken 20 or 30 years able resource. It is unfortunate that Political Inquiry has thousands of A key event was last winter's had their own Web site. I would see as a culture for us to learn how to read students have to wait in line ;s long links to research centres and scholar Tupac Amaru hostage-taking in something happening in the [main television and to become more as 30 minutes to use the computer. ly journals, to government offices Lima, Peru. stream] media, and then I would go sophisticated in using television." "We need more hardware," he said. around the world, to political groups, "That was what really prodded and see what they said about it." His own site was based on others "But these things take time." and to the Web sites of other acade me," Dartnell said, "because I have At the same time, you have to be he had seen at the University of Illi Michael Dartnell's Online Resource mics with similar researdi interests. friends in the media, and I could see careful who you are talking to, which nois and the University of Michigan, Guide to Political Inquiry can be found It even has links to style guides to that they were doing much of their is one of the lessons he wants to teach and at Keele University in the Unit- at: http://vax2.concordia.ca/-dartnel/ 6t11\(elcome/to'.these .,new tenu~e-track faculty members: elcome to the ·following new lege, London. A feminist cFitic of sci in material, machine systems and Wtenure-track appointments to ence and the scientific method, she composites. faculty. (This is a continuation of the has done research on the African list that began in CTR's first issue, sexual system, and is involved in a Henry Hong (Mechanical Engi September 11.) project on AIDS in Africa at the Uni neering) rece ived his PhD from; Heidi Schnackenberg (Educa versite de Montreal. Conco.rdia in 1995, and has been tion) has just received her doctorate Denise Tanguay (Art Therapy) working here as Senior Design Engi from Arizona State University in is from Rouyn-Noranda, and has a neer since 1990. His research is in educational technology. She does Master's in philosophy and art ther the application of alternative fuels research on the applications of com apy. She worked for 12 years as an and fuel injection systems for auto puter-based technology in schools.

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