Concordia University-Montreal, Quebec Rate hikes attacked Ma Bell taken· to task It will be mid-summer before Concordia considerable.media attention. Although the knows whether its precedent-setting phone company hasn't commented on these intervention last month against Bell requests, Laprade reports that Bell's initial Canada's proposed rate hike has any reaction to the suggestion that Concordia impact. , be used for future field trials of new Thaf's when the Canadian Radio­ equipment has been favourable. This, reads television and Telecommunications 'the brief, might be one way of upgrading Commission (CRTC) is expected to rule on the university's phone system in the long the telephone company's request; a request run. that, if granted, would increase telephone In defending its position, the university costs at the univerisity by some 13 per cent pointed out that: or well over $100,000. • while Bell is seeking approval to charge In its brief to the CRTC, presented May more for its services, Concordia student 19 by Assistant Vice:Rector (Relations and fees are frozen by government decree; Audit) Andre Laprade, the university • Bell claims to be seeking just treatment argued that its position as a non-profit of its employees, but Concordia would organization should entitle it to some relief hardly be doing likewise by· earmarking from the financial hardship that will be part of the 70 per cent of its operating experienced should it be forced to face yet budget that is normally devoted to salaries another increase. to help cover increased telephone costs; There's something about Sergio Leone westerns that sets them apart from all other films Last year's rate hike, Laprade noted, • while Bell insists-that it must maintain of the genre. Discover for yourself what critic Roger Ebert calls Leone's "peculiar sense increased telephone costs by 20 per cent or and expand its network, Concordia can of style" at the Loyola Summer Film Series, Friday_and Saturday evenings through the $175 ,000 and e(fectively wiped out the close neither afford to integrate the different · end of July. You'll be able to catch such spaghetti western classics as Duck, You Sucker, to $100,000 in savings that had been telephone systems on its two campuses nor Once Upon a Time in the West, A Fist(ul of Dollars, and The Long Riders. Check the realized through a tightening of the modernize its equipment; and ~ack page of today's TTR for details or call 879-4336. university's telephone policies. • while Bell sees its fi nancial health Concordia's suggestions that it pay deteriorating beyond acceptable limits, residential tariffs and that it be added to Concordia's financial situation is so bad After three months of meetings Bell's "exempt-from-increase" li st drew that provincial trusteeship regulations will soon apply. According to Laprade, this is the first A & S council time any university has challenged rate hikes before a regulatory board such as the okays curriculum reform CRTC. MG By Louise Ratelle the report's recommendation placing a recommended than no more than 36 and 48 Despite austerity For most Arts & Science Faculty Council credit limit on any si ngle field or discipline credits from a si ngle discipline be allowed members, accepting the special task fore~ within a given program (honours, · fo'r major and honours programs report on curriculum was like pushing an specializations and majors). Argument respectively. In the final version of the Library project elephant through a sieve: difficult and t1me­ ' surfaced most noticeably around fields report, this was upped to 36 and 54 for the consuming. But the elephant finally went where external certification demands a same programs, with a 60-credit limit for through, and a revised version of the report higher credit attainment than those which an honours degree. A rider also states that still looks good was passed by council last month. the document would allow. "exception may be made for programmes The document, first presented to council The Order of Chemists, for example, where external considerations such as By Minko Sotiron on Friday, February 13 , contained 15 requires 55 credits from a university established professional standards require By the end of June, the university recommendations which the task force, program, whereas the report originally See "Curriculum ", page- 7. expects to know whether or not the under the chairmanship of Dean Maurice government will finance the proposed Cohen, felt "should govern the education library project. In an information session of undergraduate students in Arts and & on non-library space held May I 5, J. P. Science at Concordia University." The Pomp circulllstance: Petolas, assistant vice-rector for physical report also recommended "legislative resources, said that such grants action" to incorporate its principles into traditionally are announced through orders­ the universi ty's degree structures. Convocation '81 in-council, usually in June. Bearing in mind Council Chairman Dean It's that time of year again, when colleges and universities the world over pull Petolas was guardedly optimistic about Taddeo's opening remarks that " the out the stops for the big celebration that marks the release of yet another crop of the university's prospects. "I don't expect healthiest conclusion is when all issues have graduates into the outside world. much delay," he said, adding, "Informal been fully aired," Council proceeded, over talks that we've had with the ministry At about this time, faculty members are getting their dusty and often eccentric seven meetings almost exclusively devoted indicate that our plans are progressing.'' hoods and gowns out of mothballs, parents are making certain that their cameras to the discussions, to "air" the issue almost Moreover, there have been two good to death. are in working order and graduating students are starting to feel nostalgic about signs, he said. The education ministry has A reason for what seemed at times the past few years and apprehensive about those to come. requested to see the library building excessive bickering over comparatively The Thursday Report enters into the spirit of the season with a special four­ program, and it wants the university to minor points was a fear that potentially page salute to spring convocation at Concordia. In this issue, you'll find profiles provide it with the proposed library budget disastrous changes built into the curriculum of some of this year's graduates and honorary degree candidates. There's also a in updated' I 981 dollars: structure might later prove difficult, if not light look at graduation by the inimitable Graeme Decarie and a special According to Petolas, planned financing impossible, to alter. convocation edition of AT A GLANCE.- It all begins on page 3. would come from three sources. Of the One of the most contentious points was See "Library", page 2. All in the name of religion: Two Georgetown guaranteeing the free exercise of religion will be University gay groups have won the first stage in tested in court this fall. Georgetown is affiliated their battle against a university policy that has with the Catholic Church. denied them funding. A District of Columbia Please . .. don't sneeze! The patient Texan who court ruled that the university had indeed achieved a world record three years ago today violated the district's human rights act by obviously didn't have hay fever or he would denying the groups formal recognition, hence· never have been able to build .a 51-storey financial support. The university's claim that it is (9½-foot) house of cards! 2 exempted by the constitutional provision FOR THE and the graduate awards committee; • passed an amended and rewritten version of the special task force report on curriculum RECORD (see story page I). LR Board of Governors Commerce & Administration Faculty Council At the open session of its regular meeting on May 21, the Board of Governors At its regular meeting on May 8, the Commerce and Administration Faculty Council • passed a resolution authorizing the replacement of two bond certificates worth $1000 • agreed to invite representatives from the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science each destroyed or cancelled in error by the bank; and from the Learning Development Centre to sit as members of council during 1981-82; • approved structural changes to the Faculty of Fine Arts as well as changes in the • nominated Professor Martin Kusy to the Board of Graduate Studies for a one-year composition of the Fine Arts Faculty co·uncil (see TTR, 81-03-19); term. SAF • approved the 1981-82 student services budget as recommended by the Concordia Council on Student Life (see TTR, 81-05-07). The next regular meeting of the Board of Governors is scheduled for June 18. The closed Arts & Science Faculty Council session begins at noon in H-762, with the open session following in H-769 at approximtely 1:15 p.m. MG . At its May 8 meeting, the Arts & Science Faculty Council • established a study group that will look at " means of providing effective and compulsory academic counselling for all undergraduate students"; Fine Arts Faculty Council • continued the debate on the task force report on curriculum. At its regular meeting on May 25, Fine Arts Faculty Council I • passed a motion urging ·the administration. and Board of Governors to take a public At its May 15 meeting, council stand against the extremely low level of funding Concordia receives and the proposed cuts • approved the creation of a PhD in European Studies, a specialization in actuarial in the university budget and to undertake a public campaign against the cuts in mathematics, a minor in classical archaeology, a certificate in the history of Quebec and cooperation with Concordia's students, faculty and, if possible, other universities.