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Concordia convocation back 'home' in Place des Arts

BY B ARB ARA BL ACK L'Heureux-Dube received an hon­ While the demands of her career at instructors in an impoverished for­ New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and orary degree at the ceremony. The a Hamilton hospital prevented PhD mer black township. Nine students Canadian nationalist Maude Barlow. fter two years at Molson Centre judge, whose liberal views on social in psychology Melissa Lieberman have now graduated from the pro­ Woodrow has just earned her PhD Abecause of a protracted labour justice sometimes make her a lone from attending to accept her gold gram, and six more are expected to with a thesis called Why Are They dispute, Concordia's convocation dissenting voice on the bench, told medal as top graduate, two master's graduate next spring. The program Laughing? The Re-Formulation of Iden­ ceremony moved back to the Salle graduates that "a call to arms for graduates made it all the way from was difficult to administer, however, tity in Canadian Stand-up Comedy, and Wilfrid Pelletier of Place des Arts on equality today is an investment in South Africa. and is not likely to be repeated. is currently working with Sociology Nov. 16 for the single fall ceremony tomorrow." Paseka Maboya and Mohapi Moha­ Professor William Reimer on a pro­ (five take place in June). Approxi­ She had herself faced discrimina­ ladi (above) strode across the stage, Social involvement ject that examines the changing rural mately 1,000 graduates were eligible tion, she said, and she urged them to their faces wreathed in smiles, as pre­ Valedictorian Anna Woodrow said economy in Canada. for diplomas and degrees, and most fight "isms" of all kinds. "Do what is senter Professor Bill Knitter explained that through education, graduates were on hand. right and fair, and affirmation will to the audience that they were part of can make crucial contributions to ■ More on convocation - see page i ■ Rura/EconomyP,r,jed - ,eepage9 Supreme Court Justice Claire come in due course." a special program for education society, and gave the examples of Leading aerospace partnership celebrates its first year

The Concordia Institute for Aero­ Aerospace, Bell Helicopter Textron, .I. space Design and Innovation EMS Technologies, CAE, CMC Elec­ (ClADI) held a birthday party on tronics and Heroux Devtek. These Nov. 19 - a recognition ceremony partners also form the Institute's advi­ to acknowledge the accomplishments sory board, providing information on of the 26 students who are engaged the latest industry and government in research work on aerospace pro­ needs, and articulating the Institute's jects as part of this partnership. strategic planning. Here are the participating students: Seven aerospace companies Bombardier Aero space: Nahida The director of the Institute is Dr. Bchara, Tomer Curiel, Nader Faour, Hany Moustapha, senior fellow and Monalisa Larouche, Carl Petrone, Neil manager of Pratt & Whitney Canada Ristau and Pierre Said Technology. He said that CIADI rep­ Bell Helicopter Textron: Julie Fran­ resents the first time in Canada that coeur, Frarn;:ois Gignac, Tony Lentza­ seven major aerospace companies kis and Hany Sarhan have been brought together to CAE: Carmen Gonzales, Fadi Mansour enhance the education of undergrad­ and Halim Pagacz uate students by providing them with EMS Technologies: Paolo Babino real design and research projects. CMC Electronics: Nick Maglione and "CIADI is a model to follow , and The first class of CIADI students presented a commemorative plaque to CIADI Director Hany Moustapha and Paul Slack the first step towards establishing the Assistant to the Director Zineb Bencheikh (centre) to thank them for their dedication to the project. Heroux Devtek Wassim Bacha Montreal Aerospace Institute, a net­ Pratt &. Whitney Canada: Steven work of industries and interested uni­ opment of engineers through the pro­ than otherwise possible in the regular work environment, experience with Faltas, Nadia Foty, Anthony Jonkov, versities working together to promote vision of skills specific to the aero­ university program structure." real engineering projects, interaction Joelle Lewandowski, Tarek Mansour, the Canadian aerospace industry space industry. For students, the experience is between students and aerospace com­ Nancy Pallotti, Sandeep Singh and among the engineers of tomorrow." "Key strategies in this type of pro­ invaluable. Just listen to Julie Fran­ panies, and concern about the needs Martin Tremblay Bombardier Aerospace Vice-Presi­ gram are the tools provided to the coeur, a fourth-year aerospace under­ of engineering students - this is my dent of Engineering Franc;:ois Caza students combined with the access to graduate student collaborator with definition of CIADI." More on Engineering inside: said that the CIADI initiative makes a aerospace specialists, making the Bell Helicopter Textron: "Excellent The industry supporters are Pratt ■ Digital logic design - $el! page i significant contribution to the

BY ANNA BRATULIC boxes that can be stuck onto a board, or affinity towards digital logic or Kharma would like prospective of the student engineer from scratch. similar to Lego , and which contain programming," said Kharma, who engineering students to play with "Engineering is about building any an engineer got his or her simple circuitry enabling each block teaches programming methodology educational digital design "toys" things. If somebody goes into engi­ Mstart by building things out of to carry out one fundamental com­ and software engineering. before enrolling in university. Many neering and they're interested in the Lego blocks. Take Professor Nawwaf puting concept such as input, repeti­ "Our focus is on introducing seem to have only the most basic spirit of engineering, what he or she Khanna, of the Department of Elec­ tion, arithmetic or other logic building non-trivial digital circuitry knowledge of digital logic, if any, and would want to do is to build things trical and Computer Engineering. He operations. from basic blocks, so it's more like some have hardly done any program­ that work. still has a set he tinkers with at home The blocks can then be wired hardware design. Somebody that ming, he said. Given the amount of "The more stimulating the projects - just because it's a toy doesn't together and configured in different uses this would probably catch stuff information they will have to pick up [done in labs] are, the better, so why mean it isn't useful. ways to create devices such as PIN that that would be useful in digital rapidly in the four-year program, it not try to introduce some of this ear­ Khanna hopes that aspiring engi­ detectors, decoders/encoders, simple logic. would be useful to be able to start lier so that they come ready and neers will also want to play with calculators, and counters. "For example, the concept of dis­ them off on a more advanced footing. eager? The basic motivation is to MagicBlocks, a game he and some crete states; the concept of regular "It's like riding a bicycle ," he said. make engineering, generally, a more students are developing that exercises Augments logic clock; the concept of control. What "If you know how to ride a bicycle, exciting discipline. Very carefully basic concepts in digital logic, the 'Tm thinking of this MagicBlocks does control [in the engineering you can go and try a motorcycle. But built and tested games can help you foundation for any career in digital game as something to augment, sense] mean? Concepts from pro­ imagine you come here and we have do this. " design. either in a lab or independently at gramming that involve counting and to train you to ride a bicycle and, in a The idea for MagicBlocks came While still very much in its devel­ home, a comse that's taught to all repetition [are also covered], so this week, move you on to a motorcycle. from a graduate project that Khanna opmental stage, the game consists of pre-university students, or at least to is very useful. That's what we have to do with some was supervising. He provided the six "logic blocks" - literally, small clever students who have an interest "What we did is not one-tenth as students,.exactly that." specs for the project - the idea for much fun as this," said Kharma, the blocks and what he wanted each pointing to the Lego MindStorms Hands-on engineering one of them to do, and student Leon Web site, "but [the Lego robotics kit] At the same time, he says, games Caro has the challenge of physically has been optimized for fun. such as MagicBlocks would introduce getting it to work. Student Vivek Dawson agreement eases "To tell you the truth, if I was the essential hands-on aspect of engi­ Venkatesh of the Education Depart­ going to teach a robotics course, I neering at an earlier stage. University ment is also in on the development. entrance into engineering would want students to [build their labs with limited resources may not They are now trying to secure patent own play robot] five years earlier." be successful in cultivating that side rights. BY BARBARA BLAC K fficials of Concordia University and Dawson College signed an Rapid growth of Engineering and Computer Science Oagreement on Nov. 12 that should be of benefit especially to prospective engineering and computer science students. he Faculty of Engineering and Formerly, Ecole Polytechnique was research-based graduate programs, a The signatories were Rector 'Frederick Lowy, Dean Nabil Esmail and TComputer Science has seen its thought to be the largest. It had 5,134 historical high for Concordia. Provost and Vice-Rector Research Jack Llghtstone for Concordia, and largest-ever increase in enrolment in students for the same period, while Engineering/Computer Science has Dr. Neville Gurudata and Dr. Ronald E. Spivok for Dawson. a single year - 25 per cent over the the Ecole de Technologie Superieure grown from being 10 per cent of the The agreement, which originated with Concordi.a Provost and Vice­ academic year 2000-01 - and is on had 3,835. Concordia student body in 1990-96 Rector Research Jack Lightstone, facilitates the transitionJrom the the way to doubling its students over Concordia's Faculty also has the to 1 7 per cent this year. The most three-year DEC technical program to a Bachelor of Engineering pro­ a five-year period. highest number of graduate students, spectacular growth has been in grad­ gram. The Faculty now has the largest possibly in Canada, 1,841. This uate studies, from 20 per cent to 40 As it stands now, students who take the two-year Pure and Applied enrolment - 5,863 students - of includes 1,000 students in course­ per cent of Concordia's graduate stu­ Science prograq1 at the CEGEP level come into engineering at the uni­ any engineering school in Quebec. based graduate programs, and 841 in dents are now in the Faculty. versity level for a four-year, 120-credit program. (This may vary from · program to program anywhere between 117-120 credits.) Traditionally, students with a DEC Tech diploma head straight into the workforce, but as Dr. Gurudata pointed out at the ceremony, about Distinguished guests at Concordia's fall convocation 20 per cent choose to pursue engineering at university. However, these students had to add anywhere between three to 15 additional credits as prerequisites to the regular courses in the degree program, since they would not have had these prerequisites in their DEC Tech program, with the whole program coming up to 135 credits. This meant adding an additional semester or two to their studies. Under this agreement, Concordia's Faculty of Engineering and Com­ puter Science will review the DEC Tech curriculum to recognize some DEC credits as prerequisites to the university-Level courses. ln such cases, students would not have to take the university-level equivalent prerequisite courses. The university has also combined two mathematics courses [Calculus 11 and Linear Algebra] into one and is offering it over the summer through its Centre for Continuing Education. This allows CEGEP stu­ dents to enrol in the Bachelor of Engineering program as soon as they leave CEGEP. Professor Rama Bhat, chair of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, said, "The advantages to the students are obvi­ ous: immediate access to a university engineering program and the abil­ ity to complete it over a four-year period. "The advantages to the university and the community are that the students coming out of the DEC Tech program have much more hands-on experience than those in the Pure and Applied program. They are familiar with the design component and have honed their practical skills. They will graduate as well-rounded engineers. ''Further, the benefit of their additional skills will seep to other stu­ dents also through team-based projects such as the Capstone Design JUSTICE CLAIRE L'HEUREUX-DUBE, this year's honorary doctorate recipient, with Chancellor Eric Molson. Project course in the final year of all the degree programs, which will add value to the Concordia-graduated engineer." In the convocation photo on the front page (top centre}: Paseka Maboya and Mohap Mohaladi, graduates of a four­ year project to train 18 teaching educators in Free State, South Africa. Maboya, 46, is rector of a college in Free Patrick Woodsworth, director-general of Dawson College, said he State and has a previous degree, in linguistics. Mohaladi, 41, is a specialist in quality management in the hoped the agreement would be a prototype for similar agreements to Department of Education. The other graduates this fall are Taolo Molebatsi, Nkopan Mphanya and Molefi foster closer harmony of academic content with universities, a goal that Thobileng. Their supervisors at Concordia were Professors Clarence Bayne, Palmer Acheson and Jill Didur. Last was envisaged when Quebec's public college system was established. spring Thabo Letho, Noa Komako, Leteketao Taona and Moroke Sematle graduated. Their supervisors were Mary Baldwin, Florence Stevens, Bayne and Acheson.

2 Co n c o u ;1 i.a ·s Thursd a y R e port Cooperation is the best defence There's room for bargaining on border security: Norrin Ripsman »~ a BY FRANK KUIN mon standards are applied to who glance may enter into the United States and he threat to Canadian sovereign­ Canada. The land border could then This column welcomes the submissions of all Concordia T ty posed by American policy remain open. faculty and staff to promote and encourage individual demands can best be met by actively cooperating with U.S. proposals, says Negotiating continental secu rity and group activities in teaching and research, and to Professor Norrin Ripsman, of Con­ Such American proposals tend to encourage work-related achievements. cordia's Political Science Department. offend the sense of sovereignty of Congratulations to Marketing Professor Michel Laroche, who was pre­ Paradoxically, the most effective many Canadians. But rather than by sented with an honorary doctorate on Oct. 17 by the University of way to keep Canadian policies such resistance, Canadian sovereignty Guelph and addressed the graduating class of the College of Social and as immigration standards under might be best served by ensuring Applied Human Sciences. Ottawa's control is by meeting Ameri­ Canada has a place at the table when Congratulations to Cheng Cao. an MBA student. who won the Robert can requirements quietly on Canadi­ common security matters are dis­ L. Richardson Award for Excellence in International Trade Studies. The an terms, said Ripsman, an expert on cussed, Ripsman argued. "We have to award, given by the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (CME). was national security issues. change our focus from so obviously presented at the group's annual convention held recently in Montreal. His paper was called "Extending RMB Loans Against Security of For­ Speaking in the context of Ameri­ I defending our sovereignty." eign Exchange." can demands to bring Canadian ~ Rather, it must be recognized that 0 Christopher Trueman (Electrical/Computer Engineering) was present­ immigration and refugee practices in i.l Canada has an interest in tighter ed with the IEEE Education Society's 2001 Best Transactions Paper line with American standards in the ~ security as well. "Even in the United Award at the Frontiers in Education Conference, held in Reno, Nevada. wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 3 States did not dictate anything, Cana- His award-winning paper was "Interactive Transmission Line Computer 11 , he argued that vocal resistance to da has an interest in making certain Program for Undergraduate Teaching," and was published in the Febru­ Professor Norrin Ripsman defend Canadian sovereignty is coun­ that our hospitality isn't being abused ary 2000 issue of IEEE Transactions on Education. terproductive. Engagement through border to the same tight controls it for the purposes of undermining our The annual symposium of the Electromagnetic Compatibility Society of diplomacy behind closed doors is a practices at the U.S. border with democratic values." the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers was held in Montreal better approach. Mexico. Thus, participation in continental in August, the first time outside the U.S. Staff of Concordia's EMC Labo­ 'The best way to defend Canadi­ Indeed, the border between Cana­ security talks is the best means for ratory of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering played an active role: Robert Paknys, Christopher Trueman and Stanley Kubi­ ans' interests is through pragmatism, da and the United States, at which Canada to manage its part of any na each chaired technical sessions, and their graduate students provided rather than through defiance," he more than $1 billion in two-way future perimeter. "We can negotiate technical support at the sessions. Kubina was a member of the confer­ said, noting that in the immediate trade normally crosses every day, has best by being cooperative. There is ence coordinating committee, and hosted a delegation from Beijing. aftermath of Sept. 11 , "the Chretien been on high alert since Sept. 11 in room for bargaining behind the William Curran. Director of Concordia Libraries, was a speaker at the government talked boldly about not response to charges that Canada is a scenes, and Canada can decide to annual conference of CORPO, the Corporation of Professional Librarians compromising Canadian values." gateway to the United States for ter­ some extent what measures it will of Quebec. He asked, rhetorically, Y a-t-il une re/eve de bibliothecaires Adopting a confrontational attitude rorists. take - provided that by and large, gestionnaires? to deal with charges that Canada is a Although none of the 19 perpetra­ the American security demands are Ronald Mackay (Education) published, with three co-authors, Evalua­ "safe haven for terrorists," while tors of the Sept. 11 attacks are alleged met." cion def Desarrollo de Capacidades en la Gestion de la lnvestigaction understandable from a domestic per­ to have entered the United States As a model for Canada-U.S. coop­ Agricola, a 91-page research report and CD, through the International Service for National Agricultural Research. in The Hague. spective, might do Canada more from Canada, American politicians eration, Ripsman cited the NORAD harm than good, Ripsman said. and media often portray the country's agreement for continental air defence. Susan Hoecker-Drysdale (Sociology/Anthropology) has published a Specifically, an uncooperative stance supposedly lax immigration and By agreeing to participate in U.S. book co-edited with Michael R. Hill, Harriet Martineau: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives (New York and London: Routledge, 2001 ). by Ottawa can damage Canada's vital refugee standards as the weakest link defence measures for the continent, trade relationship with the U.S. in efforts to keep undesirables out of "Canada was able to retain a say over Sandra-Lynn Spina, director of Marketing Communications has been "If we are going to take a bellicose North America. its own defence," he said. elected to the board of directors of the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education (CCAE) . CCAE is the professional organiza­ Canada's choices are limited in the stand towards the United States, we U.S. critics want to see Canadian tion representing over 1,000 advancement professionals involved in have to recognize that the United immigration and refugee procedures face of American pressure, Ripsman alumni relations, communications, fundraising and development, gov­ States may respond in a bellicose harmonized with American ones. acknowledged. "That's the nature of ernment relations, student recruitment, media and information services, way," he said. For example, the U.S. Some propose a North American living next to the great power of the marketing and public affairs. Ann Vroom, former Concordia director of may react by subjecting the Canadian "security perimeter," whereby com- world." alumni affairs and director of recruitment. has been hired as CCAE's first executive director. Professor Emeritus P. David M itchell gave the opening presentation, "The End of All Our Exploring," to the Association for Learning Technol­ Curator departs amidst well-earned gratitude ogy conference, held in Edinburgh. David Ketterer, emeritus professor of English, now living in London and Liverpool, gave a paper at the University of Ottawa's annual Canadi­ BY BARBARA B LACK search goes on to fill Antaki's shoes through the acquisition of $2.3-mil­ an literature symposium. which was devoted this year to fiction and fan­ on a permanent basis. lion worth of several hundred cultur­ tasy. He also presented a reduced version of the paper, which was on ne day late- this summer, Karen The administrative and curatorial ally significant objects. With the help Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin. at the Science Fiction Research OAntaki gazed around the empty roles will likely be split, a suggestion of an enthusiastic advisory board, the Association Conference in Schenectady, N.Y. In England, he presented art gallery, and realized, with a pang, that came from Karen herself. She Gallery now has a promotional a paper on John (Wyndham) Beynon and appeared on a Wyndham panel that she would miss it. However, she found juggling these sometimes con­ brochure, and has instituted a at the University of Liverpool. left her position as director/curator in tradictory roles difficult, both in "friend-raising" program. Four alumni of the Faculty of Fine Arts recently showed at an exhibition September with a sense of accom­ terms of function and time. Curating - "the choreography of titled Three from Away, One from Here at the P.E.I. Arts Council Gallery plishment. The Gallery has gone through enor­ it all" - is really Antaki's first love: "I in the Guild, in Charlottetown. They are Donald Andrus, emeritus pro­ fessor of art history, Catherine Everett, Bernadette Phan and Myung mous growth in the past few years, believe you've first got to seduce your Antaki was hired as acting curator Jin Yu . in June 1992, overseeing the move including the formation of an adviso­ audience with the space, through the Elizabeth Sacca (Art Education/Graduate Studies) and several col­ into the renamed Leonard & Bina ry board and various committees, a visual and sensory impact of the art leagues made a presentation at Congres AOESAP 2001, held on lie Ellen Art Gallery in the J. W . new visibility, and a heightened pro­ installation. An interest in the con­ Charron, to the Association quebecoise des enseignants specialises en McConnell library complex, which file in the community. It was ironic, ceptual basis of a show will naturally arts plastiques. It was called "Power of Art: Artists' Stories of Transfor­ opened that fall. In 1995, she became Antaki said in an interview, that at the follow." mation," and was presented with Carol Beer (MA Art Education), Arshi director curator. (The Dean of Fine very time it gained splendid new facil­ She's particularly proud of the Dewan (MA SIP) and Deena Dlsuy-Apel (MA Art Education). Arts had been the director up to that ities, its operating budget was drasti­ shows she curated herself over her According to a study of academic business research done by Erhan time.) cally cut, as a result of the general nine years. Of the eight to 10 shows Erkut, of the University of Alberta's School of Business, Suresh Goyal As of last year, the Gallery's official budget-tightening that hit the whole each year, about 30 were her own (Decision Sciences/MIS) is in the top 5 per cent in terms of citation ties to the Faculty of Fine Arts were university sector. projects. However, she regrets not credits and top 0.5 per cent in terms of paper credits among all Canadi­ an business academics who have published papers in the study period dissolved, and it fell directly under the During Antaki's tenure, the Gallery having the money to publish accom­ (1.154 professors). jurisdiction of the Rector's Cabinet. secured some $550,000 in exhibition panying comprehensive catalogues Ollivier Oyens (Etudes fran9aises) was awarded tt:ie 2000 grand prize Lynn Beavis, a Concordia graduate and programming grants, including more frequently. from the Society of Canadian Writers, Montreal section, for his essay who has worked at the Gallery, has several sponsorships. The collection Chair et metal. ■ Antaki continued on page 10 stepped in as interim director while a has grown over the past nine years

C"o' n'c;o•r'cl'i Q •'5 T'h LI r s ct a 'y I R e p Ort NOVE M BE.R '2'2', 2'o' 0 l J senateno t es Part-time teaching sometimes a livelihood A regular meeting of the Concordia University Senate, held on November 9, 2001

n the student newspaper The Concordian Oct. 31 , there was an article on Maria Funding: See "Quebec funding for­ expected. It will cover unforeseen in the Faculty's name-change, and the IPeluso and CUPFA's fight for a better deal in relation to full-time professors. mula concerns Board," on page 5. expenses relating to classroom con­ development of the global aviation As a part-time faculty member, I support this effort. At the same time, the arti­ Library: Questions were asked at struction and repairs to the VA annex MBA program, which is given almost cle reported the comments of Dennis Murphy, Concordia's Executive Director of the last meeting about a professor foundation last year. entirely online. He said that these Communications, who notes that although the university is aware that some who borrowed all copies of his own Operating budget: Chief Financial were one-time-only expenses. part-time professors view it as primary employment: "Financially, it is not a book from the library, and an Officer Larry English presented the Dean Martin Singer said that if his viable way of earning one's living." employee who was subsequently dis­ final results for 2000-01, and traced Faculty of Arts and Science ran up a Arguably, the university should have known this would happen when it ciplined for making this public. their development. In December deficit similarly proportional to its signed the first collective agreement with CUPFA in 1992. Before that, part­ timers were limited to four courses a year at something like $2 ,500 each. Lightstone explained that the borrow­ 2000, a deficit of $17 ,000 was fore­ budget, it would have been $5 mil­ With the collective agreement, the wage rose to something like $4,300, with a ing habits of patrons of the library are cast. In April, the needs of Physical lion. Quoting Tomberlin's description maximum teaching load of six courses. This was a living wage for someone who confidential. However, it would be Resources, lITS and Human of the name-change as a "collective would rather teach, read and write than work in the private sector. permissible for an employee to tell a Resources, plus new information decision," he said that the decision What should the university do? It could start by working with Ms. Peluso to reporter that he/she had informed regarding the operating grant, pushed did not include him. bring about much-needed reform. It could also introduce hiring practices that his/her supervisor about such an inci­ that deficit to $1.116 million. In Clarence Bayne, a senator from the would make those whose primary employment is Concordia feel more secure. dent, without mentioning names. June, the revised operating grant School, said that the Faculty of Com­ In some departments, people whose primary livelihood comes from Concordia Police procedure: Student senator included new funding of nearly $1 merce was told to raise money, and compete with people who are working full-time elsewhere. Some of these full­ Benoit Desgreniers asked University million for rentals and $518,000 in took these steps to do so. Ughtstone time employees elsewhere can and sometimes do teach six courses a year. Counsel Bram Freedman about the adjustments for out-of-province and said that a few years ago, a decision Concordia could put a limit of one course per semester allocated to people potential for police investigations on international students, at which point was made to give the Faculties a lot of who have full-time employment elsewhere. This is standard fare at other teaching institutions. campus, particularly in light of the there was a projected surplus of autonomy in the interests of sound In addition, Concordia could see that union rules elsewhere are observed here. new anti-terrorist legislation, which $251 ,000. ln fact, the actual surplus academic development, "but no one For example, Dawson College puts a limit of one course being taught outside could be applied to student activists. was $255,462. approved an over-expenditure in that during working hours per semester (if permission is granted). Concordia should Freedman replied that investigations The final tally for 2000-01, which Faculty." Tomberlin said that the respect this rule in its hiring of Dawson teachers. by the police are very rare, and the includes $3 ,848,000 additional FTE School was working out a repayment Of course, Ms. Peluso, or any leader of CUPFA for that matter, cannot be university is kept informed; however, monies which the university was plan with the university, and the expected to support such reform. No organization is quick to accept restrictions the police do not need a warrant to allowed to accrue, and $539,000 School would go on to realize rev­ on the freedom of its own membership, no matter how measured or rational. doso. from the government for energy enue from these investments. As for Concordia, policy is what organizations do and don't do. The university He promised to look into the uni­ needs, brings the surplus for that aca­ Student election: Cristelle Basma­ has known about this situation for close to a decade. Concordia's policy has been versity's policy of notifying those demic year to $4.642 million. English ji, president of CASA, the business one of inaction. Of course, this will eventually solve the problem as those depen­ under police investigation. He has noted that the $3.848 million for students' association, presented a dent on the income fall away. ls this solution good for the university? I think not. Stephen Gallagher read the new anti-terrorist legislation, additional full-time equivalent stu­ motion asking professors to consider Political Science and has found nothing likely to cause dents was in fact only 70 per cent of releasing students from the classroom problems at the university. what we claimed, but the government 15 minutes early over Nov. 27 to 29 CUPFA defended by member Tribunal hearing pools: Four was unable to pay the full amount. to encourage them to vote. Student lawyers' names and qualifications Regarding overruns in expenses, senators from the Concordia Student have been a pan-time faculty member at Concordia since 1989. My experi­ were presented for approval as chairs English noted several cases. These Union tried to replace this with a Ience with CUPFA and its current executive is that they have done much for of these bodies, which hear cases of included the Rector's Office, where more elaborate motion; their con­ the cause of eliminating inequity for all who are employed at the university. I misconduct at the university. The travel for fundraising and recruitment tention that it was in the same spirit believe it is well understood that part-time faculty, as well as the staff and student senators argued against one and a substantial theft of computers as the original was denied by the employees that work along with us, need to have more job security and better candidate, accusing him of incompe­ ran up a deficit of $176,000. The Speaker, John O'Brien. It was working conditions. tence and lack of openness. Freed­ provost's office was $250,000 over reduced to a single amendment, Referring to some of the comments made by Stephen Gallagher, there is no man noted that the candidate had budget. In Engineering and Comput­ namely, that the chief electoral officer injustice being created at Concordia University with the hiring of people who been part of a previous hearing at er Science, an initial outlay for a new of the CSU send a letter to the deans work elsewhere either part-time or full-time . Engineers, journalists, chartered which he had presented arguments off-campus program appeared as part outlining the polling times and other accountants, musicians, CEGEP teachers, artists, and many of Concordia's part­ the same students had not agreed of "tuition collected." Fine Arts has information, but this was defeated. time faculty do work elsewhere. with. He was rejected; the other three corrected "structural problems" in its The original motion was passed. It is often considered quite a coup to have someone who is practising in a pro­ were approved. financial management and is making fession or has become a seasoned teacher of a subject elsewhere to come in and give practical lectures to our students. Hence our motto: Real Education for the Capital budget: Vice Rector Ser­ up a previous shortfall. Next meeting: November 30 Real World. Mr. Gallagher seems to be suggesting that we curtail this practice, vices Michael Di Grappa presented There was a shortfall in the John which would be to curtail one of the selling-points of our university. the capital budget for 2001-02. The Molson School of Business of about Mr. Gallagher is suggesting that Concordia adopt hiring practices that distin­ capital allocation is $5.384 million, $900,000. Dean Jerry Tomberlin Tn'ursaay Report guish between part-time teachers that either do or don't have full-time employ­ or $784,000 more than had been attributed this to expenses incurred Concordia'• 1llunclay Repo,t ment elsewhere. Policies about double employment fall under the purview of the is published 18 times during the unions and not the administration of academic institutions. That is because it academic year on a bi-weekly basis by would be illegal under the Canadian and provincial labour codes for an employer the Public Relations Department Pledges to the university rolling on in of Concordia University, to seek to limit what its teachers do on their own time. 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. w~ Under Section 6 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or articles of dvancement Officer Paul Chesser reports that "the pledges to Concordia MontrNI, Qu6bec H3G 1M8 the Quebec Labour Code, once an employee has fulfilled his or her duties with Acontinue to roll in, as does feedback from our graduates. (514) 848-4882 an employer during the hours required by that employer, that employee is free to "The call centre has secured more than $153,000 in pledges thus far, but we E-mail: [email protected] pursue any legal activity desired. Section 5 of the Quebec Charter of Rights and Fax: (514) 848-2814 have also dealt with a lot of concern over the Concordia Student Union contro­ Material published in the newspaper Freedoms also protects our right to lead a life in private, without policing of what versy. Of the more than 6,500 graduates we have spoken to, fewer than four may not be reproduced without we read, eat, or do for a living. per cent of previous donors said that they will not support Concordia this year. permission. ffle llodt ,,_,,. listings In! pubrished free of charge. and must Most pan-time faculty are indeed working elsewhere, and at three or four "Some have indicated that we should call them back after the CSU elections, other jobs in order to make a decent standard of living. In fact , Mr. Gallagher reach the Publk Relations Department and others said that they'll keep a close eye on Concordia." (1463 Bishop St, Room 115) himself was doubly employed at both McGill and Concordia a few years ago in writing no later than Thursday when CUPFA had a general meeting on the specific topic of double employment. 5 p.m. prior to Thursday publication. I don't recall Mr. Gallagher making his voice heard then. ISSN 1185-3689 Mr. Gallagher's suggestion that Concordia should also enforce the collective Alumni Recognition Awards Publications Mail Agreement No.: agreements of CEGEPs is impractical and unnecessary. Aside from the apparent Nominations are invited for the following: 40042804 singling out of CEGEP teachers, which is discriminatory, the issue of working •Humberto Santos Award of Merit • BenoTt Pelland Distinguished .... Barbara Bladt elsewhere is already stipulated in collective agreements at the college level. These Service Award • Honorary Life Membership • Outstanding Student ~Hum collective agreements are, moreover, province-wide. They are already applied Award• Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching• c...,e ...... with enough policing at the college level. We hardly need more police. Nominations should be sent to: Elana Treger • It is true that there are fewer sections being offered to part-time faculty right Th e Office of University Advancement and Alumni Relations, Marketing Communications now compared to a few years ago. But I don't believe Mr. Gallagher has come up ...... Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W ., pr.concordia.ca/ctr with a practical answer to that problem. CUPFA, on the other hand, is fighting to Montrea l, H3G 1 MS, or by fax to (514) 848-2826. obtain job security for its members. Deadline: January 15, 2002 June Riley, CUPFA advisory council ~ Concordia For more information, please call 848-3820. ~ UN IV E R S I T Y

i d I ' I I I 1 • 1 ) 4 Co n co r ia·s Thursda Re port Quebec funding formula concerns Board

BY LAU RIE ZACK the rest). This defies logic in terms of Code or Rights and Responsibilities the real cost of providing these pro­ The Board agreed to approve a he impact of possible changes in grams, especially the exploding area streamlined Code of Ri ghts and Tthe way Quebec's Ministry of of digital arts. Responsibilities after a discussion Ed ucation funds universities was a Concordia and UQAM will be the about the need to define the term major topic at the Nov. 14 Board of big losers if this happens. "student." Because the university is Governors meeting. Other possible changes will see presently in court over an issue relat­ After years of chronic underfund­ doctoral and master's studies given ed to the definition of students under ing, Concordia University finally felt the heaviest weightings, regardless of the Code of Rights and Responsibili­ on more secure footing with a new major differe nces between the real ties, it was agreed to revisit the issue funding formula based more closely cost of delivering graduate programs. in the future . It was also argued that on the actual costs of deli ve ring Older, established research universi­ there should be a way to underline courses in various disciplines. This ties will clearly benefit, especially the importance of the Code to stu­ may be about to change radically. where they hold a near monopoly on dents entering the university. Stu­ Provost Jack Lightstone explained core-discipline graduate programs in dents presently sign off to a myriad of that government grants to universities the humanities and liberal arts. rules and regulations set out in the Graduate Awards celebrated are divided into three envelopes: aca­ Concordia is also fighting for its fair undergraduate calendar, the Code of he Robert J. Briscoe MBA Award was one of nine new awards to demic (roughly 65 per cent of the share of capital budget grants from Rights and Responsibilities being one T graduate students presented Nov. 7 at the Oscar Peterson Concert total), support services and mainte­ Quebec. among many. Hall, along with many others. nance/infrastructure. There are cur­ Rector Frederick Lowy cited major Lightstone, who is chair of the Lorraine Briscoe (seen at right) is the daughter of Robert Briscoe (BSc rently 11 categories in the academic Quebec building grants to UQAM search committee for a new dean for · 67, MBA 73 SGW), who funded the award. Karim Boulos, the recipient envelope with weightings that corre­ ($400 million) and HEC ($ ll0 mil­ the School of Business, announced (in the center, next to Rector Frederick Lowy), turned out to be the former spond roughly to the real cost of lion) in recent years. Concordia last that the search period will be extended manager and coach of a swim team that included Ms. Briscoe's children. course delivery. received funds 10 years ago for the and the position re-advertised outside Here are the awards inaugurated this year: J.W. McConnell Building. Under the Canada in the hope of attracting more Armand C. Archambault Fellowship/ France and Andrt Desmarais Gradu­ Categories may be downgraded infrastructure program, Concordia candidates. The committee believed ate Fellowship • Power Corporation of (:anada Graduate Fellowships • Renata The rumour is that these categories has asked for matching $25-million that too few applicants applied to give Hornstein Graduate Fellowships • Fondation de Seve Graduate Entrance Schol­ will be cut down to six: three medical grants from the federal and provincial the process sufficient credibility. arship in Cinema • Morrie and Diane Cohen Graduate Scholarship in Art His­ categories and three lower-funded governments and a contribution from Moreover, a second attempt at solicit­ tory • Andrew Murphy Graduate Award in Special Education • Robert]. categories where Concordia programs the City of Montreal. ing candidates would give the eventual Briscoe MBA Award • Romek Hornstein Memorial Awards will fall. The university has assurances about appointee a stronger mandate. The most serious downgrading of the federal and city funds, but cannot Vice-Rector Services Michael Di financial support will affect the fine get a commitment from the Quebec Grappa announced that he has under­ arts. The "interpretive arts" (music, government on its share. This is hold­ taken a strategic planning exercise theatre , dance) will be better funded ing up movement on the other two with his directors in relation to the than the "non-interpretive arts" (all fronts. ongoing academic planning process. Research needs may drive administrative changes Thanks to volunteers at the science expo The key to survival is to get to market early and hire early n Nov. 3 and 4, a Science and Technology Exhibition was organized by OConcordia University. This took place in collaboration with the Pointe BY LAUR IE ZACK development - and not to balance uate students are all key factors that Claire Cultural Centre at Stewan Hall. our budget, as other Quebec universi­ will need to be addressed. This was the 18th year that this event was held, and over 1,200 visitors attend­ oncordia may need to revise the ties have to do. " From where he sits, the Provost ed the exhibition during the two days. There were hands-on demonstrations by Cway it administers its growing thinks that the situation requires a 10 Concordia departments: Biology, Building, Civil and Environmental Engineer­ research profile. New funding reality chief research officer. The position ing, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Exercise Science, Geography, Geology, Mechanical Engineering, Speaking recently to a group of The other factor working towards a already exists in many other institu­ and Physics. departmental directors, Provost and redefinition of university research is tions under a variety of names, often Over 50 students from these departments explained the projects and interact­ Vice-Rector Research Jack Lightstone the new reality of federal research VP Research. Because of cutbacks in ed with the public. The university should be proud to have students of this cal­ outlined the forces that are reshaping funding. The name of the game is administrative positions at Concordia ibe r as its representatives. There we re many other staff and faculty that the research landscape in Canada. competition. over the years , the Provost handles contributed to the success of the yearly event. Since the massive cutbacks in fed­ both the teaching and research I want to thank everyone that worked with me on this exhibition, particularly Fierce competition for faculty eral transfer payments to the responsibilities. This is no longer the students, all of whom did an outstanding job. Thank you very much. Over the next 10 years, Canadian provinces in the early 1990s, the fed­ viable, Lightstone says. Robert Pallen, Associate Professor (Retired), universities will need to hire 35,000 eral government has launched a series "We have one of the best research Chemistry and Biochemistry new full-time faculty members. The of granting programs that are distrib­ offices in the country that does an children of the baby boomers have hit uting millions of dollars to university excellent job with the mechanics of Homo sapiens is not so wise university. Add to that the projected research projects. grant applications, but what we also he report on psychologist Marc Hauser's lecture at Concordia, ("Animals are retirement in the next decade of close Where the old funding formula need is help with the content of Tsmarter than we think: neuroscientist," (CTR, Oct. 25, page 8) ipso facto rais­ to 60 per cent of current faculty, and was based on equity, the new pro­ applications. We need a system in the es the question as to whether human animals are smarter than they think. the competition to hire new teachers grams are on a highly competitive Faculties to aid and mentor young We have yet to live up to our name homo sapiens, or the wise hominid. Tragi­ and researchers becomes ferocious. basis. The type of project funded is researchers to develop and write their cally, the history of the 20th century bears witness to the enormous capacity for In fact, Lightstone pointed out, often interdisciplinary and inter-insti­ projects. We need to coordinate and evil within our species, although fo r its opposite as well. We have yet to deter­ there are not enough candidates avail­ tutional, and may involve large net­ monitor all of this, university-wide, at mine how to eliminate genocide. Its reality (seen as recently as in Rwanda) speaks far more powerfully than any theories we have to explain genocide. able here or in th e U.S. (which is works or consortia of researchers a very senior level." Part of this history has to do with our destruction of other species and of large experiencing the same phenomenon) from different institutions. Lightstone sees this dossier as dis­ parts of our earth life support system. This can even be related to human geno­ to fill this brain pool. A reflection of The challenge facing Concordia tinct from the responsibilities of the cide , as when the Khmer Rouge killed large numbers of animals in the Cambodi­ this reality is the recent announce­ will be to support and develop a new Dean of Graduate Studies. He sees the an rain fo rest to exchange for weapons with China, for its traditional medicine. ment by Human Resources Develop­ generation of young resea rchers, Chief Research Officer position, George Bernard Shaw said that animals are his friends, and so he didn't eat ment Canada of a relaxation of rules often in the first 10 years of their whatever its title, reporting to the them. That is a good approach. The experiments described by Marc Hauser at to allow universities to recruit simul­ careers, as they fight for a portion of Provost or possibly the Rector. least don't entail killing or physically damaging the primates in question, taneously in Canada and abroad. the research funding pie. This new reality of highly competi­ although the future of all non-human primate species is now highly problematic. "The key to survival in this com­ These factors will necessarily affect tive research funding and its impact It didn't have to be this way. We should ponder what Henry David Thoreau petitive situation is to get to market how Concordia manages and sup­ on the university has been the subject told us: "In wilderness is the preservation of the world." early and hire early," Lightstone said. ports its growing research profile. of initial reflection at various levels of Shloime Pere! 'To our credit, because of our excel­ Increased competition, the need for the academic governance structure We welcome your letters, opinions and comments at BC-121/1463 Bishop St. , by fax 1514-848-2814), will lent budget management, we can use inter-university coordination and the and surely be enriched by debate or e-mail [email protected]) by 9 a.m. on the Friday prior to publication. government reinvestment funds for recruitment and supervision of grad- and discussion in the months to come.

C OJl .C,O,r c/ i Q's, T )1 Ur S day f{ e p Or I NOVEftllBE.R. 2.2,, . 2001 5 J 1 ) J \ :.. f } ( I I + Ir ) . . . . ' , . A fond night out with Ciriffintowners of yesteryear

BY DANA H EARNE the Interim Director of the Canadian Irish Studies Centre, said that the story of the lrish ''There was a two-year period when the in Quebec and Canada is not well known, and only food I got was what l was able to that this gathering of Griffintowners was the scavenge out of other people's garbage," fast of what he hopes will be many community recalled Denis Delaney. outreach initiatives. 'TU never forget the first time I ate lobster," he chuckled. "I rooted it out of the garbage Coming of age in Griffintown behind Mother Martin's restaurant. They Griffintown stretches from Guy St. to McGill always had great garbage." St. (just east of University) and from Notre Denis, who was born in Griffintown in 1933 Dame St. to the Lachine Canal. Don Pidgeon, and lived there until he was in his late 20s, was amateur historian for the United Irish Societies, one of a panel of speakers sharing memories of spoke of the people and places that made growing up in Griffintown in the first half of the Griffintown such a special place to grow up. last century at a gathering of former residents. It He told stories of floods, fires , and bombs; was held on Nov. 6 at Concordia's Centre for the building of the lrish jaunting cart complet­ Canadian Irish Studies, in the atrium of the ed in 1887 which has taken part in the St. Samuel Bronfman House on Dr. Penfield Ave. Patrick's Day parade ever since; Leo Leonard's Most people don't know that 40 per cent of "Griffintown Horse Palace;" and, of course, the francophone Quebecers have some Irish blood. story of the ghost of Mary Gallagher, brutally In his opening remarks, Dr. Michael Kenneally, murdered in 1876, who returns every seven years in search of her head. 'The next ghost McDonnell's Store at the corner of Wellington and McCord (now Mountain) Sts., a popular watch is June 26, 2005," he reminded the place to meet friends after Mass or a Tuesday devotion service at St. Ann's Church across the audience. street. Photos courtesy of Richard Burman Fr. Tom McEntee, who was appointed to the Order of Canada for his involvement in romances," she recalled fondly. the ages of 21 and 35 when he turned his life ·comm unity affairs, spoke of the Griffintowners Religion was an important part of the com­ around. "I live in Westmount now," he who made significant contributions to the munity and Betty spoke of Tuesday devotions laughed. He will never forget what a great place civic, business and religious life of Montreal. and monthly sociality meetings: 'The nuns and it was to grow up in - the fun, the great He said that 1967, the year of Expo, marked priests centred us." But the English Catholics friends and great neighbours. the big change for Griffintown. "It was lost to weren't allowed to associate with the French "The memory of Griffintown is a nurturing roads and construction. People moved out and families or Protestants. "You wouldn't dare thing for me," he said, "a place to go, physically that was about the end of it." bring home a Protestant boy," she remembered. and mentally, when I am trying to work some­ Betty Tanney (Bryant) was one of three When she left Griffintown·in the 1950s, she thing out. I am one of the future ghosts. I have Griffintown women along with Annie Wilson went to live in Candiac and later came back to told my wife that I want to be cremated and to (Coughlin) and Rita Savoie (Earle) who shared Montreal to live in NDG. She once found it have my ashes sprinkled all over Griffintown." their memories. "I feel I was very loved and hard to imagine that people lived in houses as The evening was a rare opportun~ty for very favoured to have grown up there," she huge as the houses in NDG, and now she's liv­ Griffintowners to come together and meet old said. ing in one. "So, I've arrived," she said, with a friends and neighbours, in many cases for the Betty was born in Griffintown in the early broad smile. first time in years, and to see the vibrant inter­ 1930s. She was one of two children. "We were Denis Delaney's bad memories, associated est in the community they still hold so dear. poor," she said, "but I didn't think we were with poverty, hunger and the alcoholism in his For more information about the Centre for poor." The neighbours looked out for each family which plagued his father, his brother Canadian Irish Studies, call 848-8711 . For infor­ This Irish jaunting cart was built at the end of other and "through the school and the church and himself, were interspersed with the memo­ mation about the documentary film about Griffin­ the 19th century and has taken part in St. there were debates with the boys' school, ries of great times in Griffintown. town see Richard Burman's Web site: Patrick's Day parades ever since. drama and music festivals, a bowling alley and He counted 200 jobs that he lost between http://ourworld.cs.com!griffintowndoc.

r.,1cQuaig vs. new capitalism Irishman of the Year will chair research foundation

BY LISA HA RDING rian Gallery has been elected chair of courses related to Irish and Canadian Bof the Canadian Irish Studies Foun­ Irish studies continues to grow. t was fitting that Linda McQuaig chose Concordia to launch dation. The Irish Studies Foundation will Iher latest book in Montreal, since it was inspired by the late The former mayor of Westmount and institute an annual fundraising campaign political thinker Karl Polanyi, whose papers form the basis for chairman of CN has been a great sup­ to support new courses, scholarships, Concordia's Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy. porter of this project since its inception, library acquisitions, community outreach At the launch of All you can Eat: Greed, Lust and the New and promises to continue to promote it and other projects. Capitalism on Nov. 7, McQuaig told an audience of about 100 with enthusiasm. that international trade agreements pose a serious threat to He replaces Peter O'Brien, who headed Graduate student meets Gerry Adams education and to all Canada's public institutions. the Foundation since its creation in 1995 Master's student _Claire Delisle, who is "NAFTA, FTA, WTO - all of these are really about limiting and will stay on as a trustee. Brian Casey doing her thesis on the republican move­ the power of government while creating more rights for corpo­ has been named vice-chair. ment in Northern Ireland, was pleased to rati_ons," McQuaig said. For example, UPS is challenging Cana­ Named as new trustees are Jack Bren­ have the opportunity to meet Gerry da Post's right to offer competing courier services because it is nan, Sean Finn, Andre Gervais, Philip Adams, president of Sinn Fein, when he supported by government, and wants $230 million in com­ O'Brien, Dean Martin Singer and William was in Canada recently. pensation. UPS thinks it is unfair competition, but according Wilson. Other trustees based in Montreal Adams launched the Friends of Sinn to McQuaig, the company only wants to be competitive in key are Daniel Johnson, Brian O'Neill, Susan Fein (Canada) at a dinner in Toronto on market areas, such as Toronto and Montreal. Kruger and Michelle Tisseyre. The hon­ Brian Gallery, when he was "Irishman Nov. 3, and Delisle attended as advisor McQuaig believes the UPS case has implications for "our orary patrons are Paul Martin, Jean of the Year" at the annual parade. to the secretary-general of the Confedera­ ability to organize public systems that are most beneficial to Charest and Martin Burke, Ireland's tion of National Trade Unions (CSN) . our own interests, including health care and education. Of recently appointed ambassador to Cana­ butions from the Irish, Canadian and As part of her research, which focuses course, decisions will be made in secret tribunals, and I see da. Quebec governments. The Canadian on the role of the prison experience in that as undermining democracy." The Canadian Irish Studies Founda­ Journal of Canadian Irish Studies is now the democratization of the republican An award-winning journalist, McQuaig writes for the tion was established five years ago to based in Concordia's Centre for Irish movement in the North, Delisle also National Post, and is the author of several successful books on work towards an Irish studies program at Studies. Students in the Faculty of Arts went to Belfast last spring to interview left-wing economics, including The Wealthy Banker's Wife and Concordia, and achieved a $3.3 million and Sciences are offered a curriculum some of the principal players in the polit­ Shooting the Hippo . endowment, including substantial contri- cluster in Irish studies, and the number ical conflict.

6 NOVEMBER 22 , 2001 c o n corclio •s Thursday i;t ep.ort Theatre students explain their craft to young audience

BY B ARBARA BLAC K the students taking part in the pro­ Julia Noulin-Merat, Building Crew seem a small task is in fact a trigger acters to the audience. While the duction were asked to explain to - Props to another one and so on. I can only Learned Ladies are all over-the-top Tfie Learned Ladies, by Moliere, their young audience members what "I am currently studying in wish to the cast and crew: "Break a in their quest for the highest mental .J. is the next production of the they are doing to prepare for this Design for the Theatre. I've learned leg!" prowess, Henriette wishes instead Concordia Theatre Department. It's production. Here are two examples. that we can build almost anything for marriage, children, and making a comedy that takes place with the simplest things - and glue. Amy Loder, Actor - Henriette a home. Both she and Clitandre dis­ in an upper-bourgeois It all has to do with the magic of "This is my first show at Concor­ play more iptelligence than the oth­ household in 17th-centu­ theatre. dia, and I think it's a wonderful one ers in that they understand that ry Paris - what you For Learned Ladi es, I got the to bite into for acting experience. both the mind and the body need to might call a dysfunctional chance to actually build real table The play itself is hilarious. be nourished to achieve stability and family. legs. At first , the designer (in this Moliere had an excellent under­ happiness. Because Moliere is such case Madeleine) gives us the list of standing of humanity and this It will be a challenge to give Hen­ a towering figure among all the props that are required in the shows in the characters he has creat­ riette the genuine goodness which dramatists, the depart­ play. The prop shop crew has to ed and through their relationships she displays. There are so many ment has organized find a low-cost way to build or rent with one another. times when I, as the actor, want her school groups and pre­ these items. These characters all have some­ to stick up for herself and perhaps pared a study guide, We realized that it would be sim­ thing in them that we can recognize express a few biting retorts. Howev­ including a synopsis of pler to build another table instead of in ourselves or in people we know: er, it is important to understand the the plot and some histori­ breaking down an already made one the pompous wits who say a lot and time in which it was written, and cal context, such as why before adding other elements to it. nothing at the same time (Trissotin, see that she is playing the scenes in 17th-century gentlemen First, we had to choose a leg that Vadius), the social-ladder climbers the smartest way. Cattiness would kissed ladies' hands, and was appropriate to the 17th-century (Armande, Philamente, Belise) or only serve to hinder her progress how the ladies used flirta­ baroque ideal. Then we projected the culturally challenged (Chrysale), and make her quest to marry Clitan­ tious gestures with their the image onto a life-sized stencil in who dismiss the importance of dre instead of Trissotin seem less fans to send subtle mes­ order to transfer it onto a piece of books, relegating their usefulness to desperate." sages across the room at wood. The next step is to actually the equivalent of something to iron The Learned Ladies, by Moliere , parties. carve the legs out of it. on, or to hold doors open with. directed by Ralph Allison, will run Dec. Instead of the usual It is amazing to see the metamor­ My character is Henriette, who, 7, 8, 14, 15 at 8 p.m., with general director's notes, in this Costume designs by Eve-Un Leduc, in her final phosis. Teamwork in theatre is the along with her lover Clitandre are matinees Dec. 9 and 16 at 2 p.m. Box case from Ralph Allison, year of the Design for the Theatre program. essential element. Thus, what can probably the most identifiable char- office: 848-4742.

How the telephone linked an anxious family on Sept. 11

BY BARBARA BLACK happening? Where are our children?" "Th ey're out! Ernie called earlier, and Ya cinda just called. They're he terrorist attack on the World Trade Cen­ safe!" T ter in New York affected the Vallejo fa mily at Catherine leaves the Hall Building fo r the park­ its very heart, because Yacinda Vallejo, 28, a grad­ ing lot, waits for all the cars to be removed so she uate of Concordia and sometime employee in the can get out, and drives home to Pointe Clai re, Arts and Science Dean's Office, and her husband, arri ving at about 10:30. The Vallejos' other daugh­ Ernest Dieterle, 30, were working there. ter, Leilani , 26, a nursing student, is already there. Fortunately, they escaped, but it was a day of Their son Brendon, a chef, has just moved to New high drama - not only in Manhattan, but also in Zealand, where his flatmates wake him up to tell Pointe Claire, where Yacinda's mother, Spanish him about the disaster they've seen on TV. Bren­ Professor Catherine Vallejo, was able to link the don stares at the TV and says in disbelief, "My sis­ young couple and reassure anxious fa mily mem­ ter works there I" be rs in at least four countries. What fo llows is • 9:58 Collect call fro m Ma nhattan to Concordia: based on a phone log she compiled of those calls. "Th is is Ernie. Can I speak to Catherin e?" ''Th is is Marilyn [Malofy}, the receptionist, Ernie. Yacinda is a THE DAY UNFOLDS safely out of the Tower, and Catherine has gone home Early in the morning, Catherine, who is chair of to be with her family." "OK, thank you! . .. Oh, my the Department of Classics, Modern Languages God, the building is falling down!" and Linguistics, drives downtown to the outdoor ■ 10:00 Two World Trade Center collapses, burying parking lot on de Maisonneuve Blvd., west of Guy Tower Four, where Ernie worked. St. Since she will be there until after her evening Standing, from left: Leilani, Horacio, Brendon, Yacinda, and Ernest Dieterle. Seated: "Ernie huddled with fo ur other men under the class, she leaves it at the back of the lot, where fo ur Catherine Vallejo and her mother, Greta van der Plaats. The photo was taken at a stairs; he was a bit confused on that call ," Cather­ cars will soon be parked ahead of it. celebration of Mrs. van der Plaats' Both birthday, in 1998. Several months later, Yacinda and ine said. "Then he ran through the dust storm and Ernest got married. • 08:45 A plane hits One Wo rld Trade Center. ashes northeast to the waterfro nt .. • 09:02 A second plane hits Two WT C. Ya cinda Trade Center! There's flam es everywhere. I'm seeing ■ 09:40 Cell phone call from Manhattan to Pointe ■ 10:30 One WTC (North Tower) collapses. Vallejo works for the brokerage fi rm Mo rgan Stanley, people jumping out of windows high up in the Tower, Claire: "Daddy? Daddy? It's me, Yacinda. I'm out. I'm ■ 11 :22 Collect call from Hoboken to Pointe Clai re: on the 70th floo r; he r husband work s on the fo urth and I don't know where Yadnda is! I'm callingfrom a OK" "This is Ernie. I'm across the ri ver in New jersey, at floor of Tower Four. fi re station. . . I have to go. Someone else needs the Yacinda had been on the 70th floor when the Ha rborside Park. I want to stay and help. There is a ln Pointe Claire, Horacio Vallejo, a physician, phone." plane hit the neighbouring tower. She and her fel­ centre here to attend to any wounded arrivingfrom the gets a call from his sister in the Dominican Repub­ ■ 09:29 Collect call from a payphone in Manhattan low workers walked to the 59th floor, and took an city." "Ernie, go home, we need to be abl.e to contact lic. Catherine's mother, in Dollard des Ormeaux, to Pointe Claire: "It's Ernie, Mr. Vallejo. Have you elevator to the 44th floor. At that point, another you to pick up Yacinda when she can get back. We hears about the disaster on the radio, but is afraid heard anything from Yacinda? My cell phone doesn't plane hit their tower, and there was a mad scram­ haven't heard from her since she called from the street, to call , fearing the worst. work." ble down the stairs. with people shoving and and we don 't know how far away she was when the a 09:12 Call from Horacio Vallejo to his wife Cather­ "WTC was a communications hub, and all the yelling. A lot of people lost their shoes in their tower collapsed. • ine, at Concordia: "I.nurdes called from Sa nto Domin­ cell phones were disabled, because a large antenna haste ; others were literally knocked out of their ■ 12:23 From Pointe Claire to Jersey City, where go for me to tum on the TV. Both World Trade Center on One WT was knocked out when the tower was shoes by the impact. lt took her 50 minutes to get Yacinda and Ernie live: "This is a message for Ernie towers were hit by airplanes. They are on fire .• hit.• Catherine said later. down to the street, and then Yacinda phoned from Catherine: Call us when you get home, please. · a 09:22 Collect call from Ernie, on a pay phone in "Ernie said there were long line-ups fo r the pay­ home. Man hattan to Concordia: "This is an emerge ncy! phones, but people were kind to one another, and a 09:46 From Ernest's mother, in Wildwood, N.j., to ■ Sept. n account continued on page 9 Th ere's been a terrible accident. A plane has hit the kept their calls short." Concordia: "It's Barbara, Catherine. My God, what's

Cp n co rdia ·s T hur s d ay R e p o rt NOVUUEl.l .22, U01 1 , Writing Test gets a .stronger mandate

BY BARBARA BLACK As a result, the policy governing classes are often obliged to give mul­ the Test is about to change. Instead of ti pie-choice tests. She asked one young woman came to Eliza­ being able to postpone it until just teacher whether he assigns essays, Abeth Steinson in distress. Bright, before they graduate, students will and he said he did, but he just marks charming and ambitious, she had have to have written it before they them by looking for keywords, words landed her dream job at a pharma­ complete their first 30 credits. Only and phrases taken from his lectures. ceutical company, but her employer two attempts will be allowed, after In the Test, students are asked to was asking to see proof of her which they take a placement test and write a short essay of 300 to 500 degree. She didn't have it, because appropriate corrective courses, for words on one of four or five topics. she hadn't passed the University which they will get academic credit. These are carefully chosen to focus The team at the Centre for Mature Students: From left, Anne Marie Writing Test, which Steinson admin­ The information sent to students on writing ability rather than demon­ Ferrari, Nelly Trakas, Bob Oppenheimer and Brigeen Badour. isters. has always made it clear that the Test strations of special knowledge. The Test is intended to help stu­ isn't to be taken lightly: "The sooner Most Quebec students wi.11 have dents by identifying weaknesses in remedial measures are taken, the already had to write an exit exam as A new director for Concordia's their writing skills, but to be of value, sooner a passing grade can be award­ they left CEGEP. That test is "a little it needs to be written as soon as pos­ ed. Furthermore, the benefits of more complex" than Concordia's test, Centre for Mature Students sible after they enter university. improved writing skills can begin to Steinson said, but as a Vanier College All students are required to take have a positive effect on course teacher pointed out recently in an ssociate Professor of Management Robert (Bob) Oppenheimer has the Test, or its equivalent, as a work." essay in The Gazette, the grading is A been appointed director of the Centre for Mature Students. Bob has requirement for graduation. Many The university offers credit courses generous. When Steinson asked been with Concordia University for 28 years. He teaches a range of manage­ postpone writing it until they're near­ in English as a second language (ESL) another CEGEP teacher about it, she ment courses, including Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Man­ ly finished their degree. That isn't a and a series of composition courses was told, "Well, we want to get them agement, Entrepreneurship, and Negotiations and Conflict Resolution. problem if they pass, but many fail offered by the Departments of Eng­ out [of the CEGEP system]." The Centre for Mature Students is dedicated to providing academic advice the Test. lish and Etudes fram;aises, as well as Concordia is one of the few univer­ and support for the university's mature students, who are defined as those Although it varies from department support from peer helpers in Coun­ sities that requires a test of language who are over 21 and do not have the normal entrance requirements for uni­ to department, the failure rate can be selling and Development. competency, Steinson said, but she versity. Mature students comprise about 10 per cent of the student popula­ around 30 per cent, sometimes high­ However, Steinson says that stu­ feels that more needs to be done to tion, and to provide service and support to them, the Centre has three er - a heartbreaking blow for stu­ dents are not taking advantage of the identify the problem earlier and guide full-time advisors, Anne Marie Ferrari, Brigeen Badour and Nelly Trakas, dents expecting to graduate. help that is available - in part, students to the benefits of elective and a part-time advisor, Steven Clark. The Centre is also supported by Some take the test repeatedly, as because they may not be aware of the composition courses. The Faculty of approximately 40 faculty and staff members who are Fellows of the Centre. many as five or six times - ignoring weaknesses in their writing. Engineering and Computer Science The mission statement of the Centre says: "Concordia University has a advice to take corrective action. Some "Students tell me, 'I can't have has already taken action; new stu­ long history of making education accessible to men and women of all ages simply don't graduate. failed! I'm a really good student,' but dents were told this fall they had to and academic backgrounds. Through mature entry, those lacking the regular "We don't know what happens to when I read them back their paper, take the Test in their first term. pre-university requirements can still earn university degrees and certificates. them," said Steinson sadly. "I get they stop me and agree that they The scheduled dates for the UWT "The mission of the Centre for Mature Students is to facilitate the recruit­ phone calls - 'But you have to do made a lot of mistakes." next term are Jan. 18, Mar. 1 and ment, registration, retention and graduation of mature students and to sup­ something! My parents are coming She feels that in many cases, com­ May 10. port learning opportunities for the non-traditional students within from overseas for the convocation petence in English is not being rein­ For more information about the Uni ­ Concordia University. ceremony!' By then, it is much too forced by rigorous marking of essay versity Writing Test, visit to http:llrel­ Since the retirement of the former director Mary Brian, there have been late to do anything about it." assignments. Professors with large ish.concordia.ca/uwU. two acting directors, Professor Randy Swedburg and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies Jim Jans. Jans commented: "The staff of CMS - Brigeen, Anne Marie and Nelly - should be commended for having kept the CMS functioning at a high level Enrolment of international students at Concordia is up again during the four years that they were without a permanent director. Now, rofessor Balbir Sahni, director of 1,740 to 2,009, out of total enrol­ ty of Fine Arts experienced a 17.6 per with Bob stepping in with his skills and personality, I expect enthusiasm PConcordia's Centre for Interna­ ment of some 25,000 students. cent increase, from 125 to 14 7 stu­ around the CMS will be even higher." tional Academic Cooperation, The Faculty of Arts and Science dents. The John Molson School of We wish Professor Oppenheimer and his team all future success. reports that "thanks to the hard work saw a 16.2-per-cent increase, from Business had a 12 .6-per-cent at all Faculties and Schools," enrol­ 670 students last year to 779 stu­ increase, from 485 to 546 students. ment of international students (i.e. dents this year. In the Faculty of Independent students (not students studying here as the result Engineering and Computer Science, enrolled in a program, taking a mini­ of exchange agreements) has there was an 18.3-per-cent increase, mum number of courses) rose by 7.7 A drop in Maclean's rankings increased by 15.5 per cent, from from 395 to 467 students. The Facul- per cent, from 65 to 70 students.

n the annual ranking of Canadian universities published by Maclean's Imagazine on Nov. 19, Concordia dropped from 9th to 11th in its desig­ Concordia's Annual Food Drive for Montreal's needy is on nated category of comprehensive universities. It appears that once again, the criteria for comparison chosen by the mag­ ise Tavares (Information Ser­ letries (such as soap and toothpaste) The big-hearted guys in Distribu­ azine penalize Concordia for its accessibility, growth and chronic under­ Lvices) announces that the and warm clothing. The clothing tion Services have again agreed to funding Annual Concordia Food Drive is should be separated by gender and pick up donation boxes from your This yea r, the university welcomed the largest influx of students in its his­ under way, and will run until this should be indicated on the offices. Please allow them three tory - admissions are up 12 per cent. However, because entrance require­ Wednesday, Dec. 6. As in past bags. working days' notice. ments in most programs have not been substantially raised, Concordia has years, proceeds will be distributed Drop-off centres for donations are Donations of cash to the Campus dropped in seve ral categories, including average entering grade and the pro­ to Maison Chez Doris, for women, downtown at SGW Information Ministry Student Emergency Food portion of students with an average on entrance of 75 per cent or higher. and Benedict Labre House, for men. Desk, and in the Fine Arts Dean's Fund are welcome all year round. Admitting more students also negatively affects the calculation of several Lise says that volunteers are col­ Office, in Visual Arts Building. On Please make your cheque payable to budget and library resource categories that are based on the budget-per-stu­ lecting non-perishable food (such as the Loyola Campus, donations may Concordia Unive rsity and indicate dent ratio. jam, cookies, tea, coffee, herbs, sta­ be dropped of at the Department of on the description line: Student Because Concordia is renewing and increasing its faculty complement (52 ples and cleaning products), toi- Psychology in the PY Building. Emergency Food Fund. new tenure-track hires in 2000, 68 in 2001), it finds itself negatively affected in several ranking criteria related to faculty. Some new faculty members are in the process of completing their PhDs and beginning their research careers. recital and audition Dance Showcase This again lowers our results in several categories, including faculty with The end-of-term show by students in FRIDAY, NOV. 30, 8 PM• OSCAR PETERSON CONCERT HALL• 7141 SHERBROOKE W . PhDs and external research grants per full-time faculty. the Department of Contemporary PIETRO AMATO• STEVEN HARMELINK • KARINE HOULE• GREG TOEWS Dance will take place Dec. 7 and 8 Nonetheless, Concordia's success in recruiting out-of-province and inter­ The Music Department and the Jazz Studies Committee extends congrat ulations at 8 pm and Dec. 9 at 2:30 pm at national students is reflected in the rankings (first and third), as well as the to these candidates for the 2001 Oscar Peterson Scholarship. A jury composed of Studio 303, 372 Ste. Catherine St. W, attention to the quality of teaching in the class size section and student ser­ members of the Jau Studies Committee w ill evaluate t he participants and near the corner of Bleury St. vices areas (despite limited budget resources). Our strong alumni support is choose one of the participants to receive the prize. For more information, please contact The 2001 Oscar Peterson Scholarship is a cash prize of $2,000. 848-4740, [email protected], or also reflected (third in the overall ranking). Open to the public and free of charge. http://dance.concordia.ca.

-. . , . NOVEMBER '12 ; "l ·o·oT ·-·-·-·-··· ·- · . ·- - - - ~ co·n cardia ·s Thu r~da y R e pon · " : ' • I • • 1• C, • An anxious family linked on Sept 11 Vallejo family account continued from page 7

15 13:03 From Jersey City to Pointe Claire: "This is Ernie. I'm home safe. ls there any word from Yacinda?" II 13:04 Collect call from Manhattan to Pointe daire: «Mom, it's Yacinda. I'm in a hospital somewhere. Just after I called Dad, I collapsed on the sidewalk. We had walked down from the 44th floor. A paramedic came 'fry; they were giving me oxygen when the tower s.tarted coming down. I had to jump into a passing ambulance and l was taken here. l don't even know which hospital - nl have to ask. "I'm OK, they're letting me go. l'm going to try and fi nd transport to go home. Lt's quite well organized; down in the main entrance there is a row of desks with signs giving destinations. They are walking people to various points in Manhattan for ju.rt her trans­ portation. Please call Ernie to let him know I'm OK I've lost my cell phone. Someone was using it when we had to run away from the building.• 11111 13:13 From Pointe daire to Jersey City: "This is a message for Ernie: Yacinda was taken to a hospital somewhere. She is OK, and going to try to get home. We'll let you know when we hear anything.• The Vallejo household in Pointe Claire was "a madhouse ," Catherine said. "Friends on cell phones on the back porch, in the basement. Calls from friends and family in Ireland, Italy, the Dominican Republic, Holland. There were six. Left to right: Stephanie Desjardins, Anna Woodrow, Sara Teitelbaum, Marie-Odile Magnan, Isabelle Lantagne, Andrea cars in the driveway." Sharkey, Professor Bill Reimer, Deatra Walsh, and Mike Burns. Cindy Bryant was absent when the photo was taken. iii 13:24 Collect call from Beekman Hospilal, New York, to Pointe Claire: "Mom, it's Yacinda . I went outside to orient myself. They're gone, Mom! Both towers are gone! This is so awful . . . I saw a woman with her shin hanging loose f ram her body, all burned, Researchers gaining rural insight being carried by firemen . .. I'm going to walk to the docks with a group of people. There are all sorts of boats there to take us where we need to go. It might be a couple of hours. Don'twony.• BY S IGALI T HO FF MAN these communities are becoming ser­ Not only did the experience teach 1\1 15:03 Collect call from Bayonne, N. Y., to Pointe Claire: "Mom, it's Yacinda. I came vice-centred. her about field work, it also piqued across the river in some tugboat. I'm in New Jersey, at the Bayonne subway station. hen master's student Isabelle The student researchers learned her interest. "Although I'm from a Ernie will know where it is. Tell him it's where we sometimes go for dinner. It's only W Lantagne left home to do 10 more than they expected. rural community, that had never been about 10 minutes from home. • days of interviews last summer, she "We had to justify our methodolo­ an interest of mine ," said the Chester­ 8 15:43 From Jersey City to Pointe daire: "Hi, Mom and Dad. We're both home, didn't know what to expect. gy ," Lantagne said of a community ville, Ont. , native. "Through the pro­ safe. But all those people . .. We can still see the smoke across the river in Manhattan. "Being a field researcher is surprise member who helped set up inter­ ject, I realized that it was interesting." My friend Thomas is missing . ..• after surprise," she said. "You have to views. At a workshop last week spon­ Sharkey, who is graduating this year, be open to new things." sored by the project, Lantagne and is studying youth and communica­ Epilogue Lantagne and a team of Concordia her partner Marie-Odile Magnan gave tion in the rural context. Although Morgan Stanley employed about 3,500 people in the WTC, the researchers gathered to share their a presentation called "Confronting the company suffered only 12 deaths, six of them security guards. Thomas was the experiences studying rural communi­ Realities of Rural Field Work: The Strenghtening rural communities only friend Yacinda lost, but ties across Canada. They were part of Education Gap ," in which she Not only did the project help the shock was enormous. the New Rural Economy Project explained what it was like to work on sharpen the Co ncordia team's She saw indelible sights: (NRE) , which is studying 2,000 rural an academic project with a person research skills, it might eventually a man cut by falling glass, a households. Eighteen universities and who did not have a university educa­ provide rural communities with tools man naked irom the waist 22 researchers are involved in the tion. for empowerment. The Canadian down because of bums, the project. This summer, Concordia sent "You had to try to phone [interview Rural Revitalization Foundation woman with loose skin a team of seven researchers to gather subjects] three times. It was part of (CRRF), which initiated the NRE pro­ flapping like a plastic information. the methodology," Lantagne ject, has a history of helping rural garbage bag. She thinks of "What we did across Canada has explained. "To her, it did not make communities. the 91 elevators crammed never been done before," said the any sense. It was not practical to do Six years ago, the CRRF had its with people. She heard project's research manager, Anna that." annual conference in Coaticook, Que. some crashing down from Woodrow. "We are really doing In her presentation, called "Gather­ The town set up a billeting system the 44th floor. In others, groundbreaking work." ing Data: BBQ Etiquette and Other and converted a cow showroom into the occupants hammered on the doors as the building melted and collapsed. Things," master's student Andrea a conference room. High school stu­ Like many who were less intimately affected, she watched television for hours. ,: Rural change Sharkey spoke of feeling awkward dents were trained to wait tables and Talking about it was difficult; there were long silences. However, she wok some The two-year-old project set out to when she met her interviewees in a the meals were prepared in the town counselling, and spoke with her family on the phone twice a day. The Vallejos understand the changes taking place social setting. "When you're dealing high school. persuaded the young couple, with some difficulty, to leave New York and spend in rural communities, and how the with someone in a research !iettjng, When the conference ended, the a week in Pointe Claire. people who live in those communities there's a certain comfort level because town marketed itself as a conference Now they're doing fine, and are both back at work. 'Ernest's office is in Rocke­ are adapting. Rural communities are you know our roles," the 24-year-old centre. feller Center, on the 26th floor. Yacinda feels a strong sense of loyalty to her col­ aging, and that includes their sociology student said. Woodrow said that rural commu­ leagues. "No one else can understand," she says. economies, Woodrow explained. "In a social setting, you feel some­ nities bring to mind close-knit envi­ Yacinda and Ernest did so many things in the WTC complex - they shopped While they used to rely on resource what like you're intruding in their ronments. "It's a part of Canadian there, and met for lunch. Everu.ually, Yacinda's cell phone and other items that industries like logging and fishing, lives." heritage." she had dropped when she was whisked away from the falling tower were returned to her. Among them is a receipt for a skin she exchanged at a store in the WTC. It reads: "J. Crew, 8:29 a.m., Sept. 11 ." The English Department of Concordia University presents its John Molson School of Business From her new office in Jersey City, she can see the Manhattan skyline, and the Annual Lahey Lecture AwarDS OF DISTIIlCTIOil gap that marks the place where she and Ernest used to work. mncHeon For Catherine Vallejo, the experience was an affirmation of the love and Natalie Zemon Davis QUeen EllZaBeTH HOTeL strength of her extended family and the compassion of the people around her. (Princeton University and University of Toronto) NoveIDBer 27 "l can't tell you how many people have quietly stuck their heads into my "The Knot of Slavery: Joanna and Stedman in Suriname" Recipients: ShenyCooper, PhD, office, or spoken to me when I've gone into the Dean's area, and asked me how things weret she said, Thursday, Nov. 29, 8:30 p.m. Senior Vice-President and Chief She is also deeply grateful fo r the technology that allowed her to be the link Hall Building, Auditorium, H-110 Economist, BMO Nesbitt Burns · Christiane Germain, President, Groupe between these two young people, and to find out they were safe directly from Author of a number of innovative books in history, literary and Germain · Paul Delage Roberge, them. film studies and cultural studies, including The Return of Martin President/Director, Les Boutiques San Days after the disaster, a prayer service was held for about a dozen victims in Guerre, Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Francisco· Kenneth Woods, President, New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral. In Holland, a cousin of Catherine was watch­ Lives, Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision and The Gift ing tele~on. He suddenly spotted Yacinda among the mourners, and cried out in Sixteenth-Century France. Coolwoods Investments Ltd .; Director, CICAAccounting Standards Board in recognition. Suddenly, he said, an unreal, unimaginable event, belonged in some way to him. Information: 848-2340 Information, 848-7598

, 4 , I J .- I ' \ l I a Co n co rdia ·s Thursday R e port NOVEMBER 22,t.. loo'l'" 9 The designer as engaged citizen: Declarations of [inter]dependence

BY JAMES MARTIN together the conference along with "Many designers are looking to Dr. Lydia Sharman, PK Langshaw establish a dialogue," says Longford, ommuters may have recently and Rhona Richman Kenneally. "so it's not a one-way system where Cnoticed a fresh blip in their Declarations explored socially the client says 'I need this' and the daily information barrage. A simple engaged approaches to working with­ designer says 'OK, I'll give you that. ' sticker, plastered over the scrolling in the design profession, as well as Designers are in a position to influ­ "info-screens" in several Metro trains, the idea of the designer actually ence the kinds of messages we see obscured the usual lite-brite parade authoring messages born of personal and here." or newsbites and celebrity gossip. belief, rather than commercial need. Students in both the Design Art The innocuous typeface concealed The wide range of speakers included Department's undergraduate and a pointed question: Qu'est-ce qu'ils former Adbusters art director Chris new graduate certificate programs, nous racontent? The query could Dixon, Jean-Pierre Boyer and Jean along with visiting students from stand as an informal slogan for Decla­ Desjardins from UQAM (showcasing Leeds College and the University of rations of [inter]dependence and the images from an ambitious new CD­ Minnesota, put this theory into prac­ im[media]cy of design, a symposium ROM archive of Quebec agitprop), tice during the symposium's ateliers. held by Concordia's Design Art and Patricia Zimmerman, from Ithaca The approximately 70 students Department late last month. College in New York. were divided into three groups: Kim Nguyen (University of Minnesota) in the "We Interrupt the Program" atelier. The first of its kind in Canada, Some guests, like French activist­ "Who Needs a Manifesto?: WD + RU Declarations looked at the ways in designer Brian Holmes, spoke of liter­ Speaks Out," "Design Is Not Enough," work with various international walls as a way to kickstart a dialogue which graphic designers are becom­ ally taking their designs (in the forms and 'We Interrupt The Program." The activist groups to distribute socially­ among the participants, exploring the ing increasingly socially and cultural­ of protest banners, posters, etc.) to the four-day workshops were intense, engaged images. Not surprisingly, idea of graphic design as a democratic ly engaged through their work. streets. Others, like Amy Franceschini whirlwind affairs. Students first met their atelier focused on non-aggres­ medium in which everyone is invest­ "Particularly in graphic design, a of Futurefarmers (a San Francisco on the Monday morning; by Thursday sive street-level activity. ed in the message. lot of what designers do is help design firm set on "cultivating your evening, their collaborative works Students addressed community Chris Heldt, a fourth-year design advertisers communicate messages, conscience"), talked about using initia­ were on exhibit in the VA V Gallery. issues by creating and distributing, student, says the atelier was a lesson and much of that messaging is about tives such as student internships to Teal Triggs and Sian Cook, of the among many items, mock humanitari­ in the value of community, not only selling products," says Associate Pro­ help the workplace better reflect one's Women's Design + Research Unit in an aid drop-boxes (complete with in terms of working with others on fessor Michael Longford, who put political-social beliefs. the UK, guided students through the blindfolds reading "It's Going To Be the project, but in giving him "a really "Who Needs A [Man]ifesto?" work­ OK") and parodies of tear-a-tag "for strong sense of community in design, shop, helping them write focused sale" posters - but instead of offering on an international scale. social-political statements, then pair­ a phone number, the tags posed ques­ "Now I know where to apply my ing their manifestos to appropriate tions such as "Is there a solution?" and energies, without wasting my time graphic forms. 'Where does Evil take a bath?" (Design trying to get a job at some square ad Anne-Marie Beaudoin and Jule ls Not Enough was also responsible for agency, doing slick flyers and pam­ Senzig, both second-year Design Art the aforementioned example of Metro phlets for corporate identity." students, were inspired by the culture-jamming.) Like so many of the other atelier process of transforming personal "The atelier has given me a great participants, Kevin Lo is excited to do views into public work. way to merge energies and ideas, and "the work that I want to be doing" - "It really felt like I was putting a sense of collaboration instead of just and it's a lesson learned the hard way. myself on the line," says Beaudoin, being a designer making things at my A Concordia Design Art alumnus, Lo "exposing what I truly felt. What's little desk," said Laurel Sprengelmey­ spent an unsatisfying year working at personal and what's public - those er, a design certificate student. a Toronto Web design agency before two things play with each other. Collaboration was also crucial to enrolling in the graduate certificate Whether you like to believe that 'We Interrupt The Program," facilitat­ program. you're not affected by what's out ed by Ian Noble and Russell Bestley "I came back to school at just the there, you are. The atelier confronted of the London College of Printing. right time," he says, laughing at the that at a truly deep level." Students were asked to bring photos memory of his ill-fated foray into the Karine Savard with other atelier participants reflect on the organization of Tony Credland, Brian Holmes and of subjects (people, environments marketplace. "I was really starting to T-shirts, stencils, posters, and images for a Web site during 18 hours of production which, along with the work of two other ateliers culminated in Sandy Kaltenborn, facilitators of the and objects) with personal resonance. lose faith in my abilities to do any­ an exhibition in the VAV Gallery which opened the Declarations Symposium. "Design Is Not Enough" workshop, The images were then posted on thing other than cutting and pasting!"

Antaki off to pursue new curatorial adventures Lynn Beavis is appointed Gallery's new interim director continued from page 3 and built up a network of docents and year on an exhibition addressing animal Another obstacle was not having the curatorial assistants, as well as an educa­ rights and environmental issues that will ynn Beavis has been appointed Interim Director of resources to fund truly high-tech exhi­ tional internship program, now three take her another year to finish. Art LConcordia's Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, while bitions that reflect current advances in years old, based on a Canada Council shows, she believes, should be "both a search is conducted for a permanent occupant of the new-media art. "It costs a lot to run an grant, and offered in conjunction with evocative and provocative." position. art gallery," she said, with some resigna­ Concordia's Art Education Department. The Ellen Gallery, with its rich collec­ She brings more than 15 years' experience in the art tion. She also introduced the Ann Duncan tion of Canadian art - historical (pre- world to the job. Conservation is another issue that Award for the Visual Arts, annually 1945), modern (circa 1945 to 1970), Beavis has extensive experience as a curator and must be urgently addressed. Thanks to given to a fine arts student to fund their and contemporary - not only has a teacher, much of it at Concordia, where she organized an idea from one of the board members, tuition and give them hands-on muse­ historical mission, but an educational several independent curatorial projects at the Ellen Dr. Sean Murphy, a cocktail party will um experience in a gallery setting. one, and as such, deserves financial sup­ Gallery and was curatorial assistant in 1997-98. be held at the Gallery on Dec. 6 at Stabilizing the Gallery's support staff port. She was also visual arts director, then artistic director, which guests and patrons will be invited will be especially important as the new 'We always had such great response of Artspace, in Peterborough, Ont. , and director curator to "adopt" a work on display and sup­ director and curator take on their roles. from the public," Antaki concluded, of the Terniskaming Art Gallery. port its conservation. Antaki is enjoying respite from her "whether it was novice gallery-goers or Lynn Beavis holds an Honours BFA in Art History from Storage presents a challenge. The duties after a busy period, and will con­ veteran art-lovers - and the gallery has Concordia. She has taught at White Mountain Academy Gallery has a substantial and important centrate on independent curating. A always striven to serve them all . The of the Arts in Elliott Lake, Ont. , and the University Col­ collection of Canadian art, and its small Concordia graduate, she did her mas­ Ellen Gallery is one of Canada's most lege of the Cariboo in Kamloops, B.C. , as well as doing storage area is absolutely packed. ter's thesis on Henrietta Mabel May, a highly regarded university art galleries. research and teaching work at Concordia. Another challenge is human resources, Montreal painter of the teens, 1920s It has been a privilege to direct its activi­ She has also been active on several arts councils and although _Antaki always had a close rela­ and 30s. ties over the last nine years, a most boards in Ontario and has produced a number of tionship with the Faculty of Fine Arts, She has been working for the past rewarding and memorable journey." brochures and catalogues.

· 1 0 NO.VEMBE·R 22,'-2 0-0 1 . Co n co rdia •s Thursday R e p. o r., Julie Healy: hockey's 'driving force' CSU election from Nov. 27-29 Hockey whiz back after hiatus on ice-making machine debate is scheduled for this afternoon (Nov. 22, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.) Ain H-110 of the Henry F. Hall Building. Polling takes place from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in various locations on both campuses over three days. BY JOH N AU STE N plays a big role in managing the Information posters are numerous. Stingers Web site. uick now, which Concordia While Healy, 44, no longer helps Five referendum questions put to students QRecreation and Athletics staff coach the Stingers, she does coach There are five referendum questions on the ballot of the Nov. 27-29 member has a prestigious level 4 the Montreal Wingstar of the Nation­ Concordia Student Union election. Coaching Certificate and spent her al Women's Hockey l eague. She is One question demands that the university cancel its new policy to exact leave of absence from the university also an assistant coach with the a 1.61-per-cent "bad debt" penalty on the money collected from student driving a Zamboni? If you answered National Women's Under-22 team fees and transferred to student organizations (See CTR, Nov. 8, page 5). Julie Healy, go to the head of the and just returned from a tournament Another would create a parallel, or alternative, dean of students. Here is class. in Vancouver. the wording of the question: "Are you in favour of democratizing the posi­ Healy, the department's adminis­ "We played the Swedish national tion of dean of students in annual ekctions where all students will be eli­ trative services and intercollegiate team-. not the under-22s, but their gible to vote instead of only the rector? ..I manager, is one of only five women national team - and beat them all "The outgoing [sic] dean of students will have his/her name automati­ in Canada to hold a level 4 certificate. three games," Healy said. "We picked cally placed on the ballot and anybody else can run for the position. by There are only 25 coaches, men or Julie Healy 23 players for the squad from a camp filling in the appropriate nomination form. The first election will be held women, across the country who have "Actually, my whole time in Calgary we held in August." in the winter semester of 2002 and the elected dean will be accountable 'to been able to attain that status. was an incredible education for me." The LaSalle native played for the the student body instead of solely to the university administration." After many successful years as a The Alberta experience lasted eight Stingers for five years and graduated in . A third referendum calls on government of the U.S. to immediately player and as an assistant coach to months. "Calgary was nice and l 1983. She started coaching at Concor­ cease all military operations against Afghanistan and refer the Sept. 11 Les Lawton with the lady Stingers, enjoyed it, but l really missed Mon­ dia in 1985, stopping just before the attacks to an international court. The remaining two questions on the bal­ Healy decided she needed a leave of treal," she said. "My family is here 1999-2000 season when she made the lot concern funding for student clubs. absence from Concordia. In the fall of and l had the opportunity to come move out west. She has won numer­ 1999, she headed west to Calgary. back to Concordia." ous medals as a coach at both the Slates of Concordia Student Union candidates "lt was just the right time to do it Healy returned in May 2000 and provincial and national level, includ­ ■ New Organized Way: Luis Diaz, David Lavine, Mindy Eklove, Jeffrey Lerman, - l needed a break," said Healy. "l settled into her job at the Loyola ing a gold with the national team pro­ Christopher Dubois, Lloydic Monestime, Michael Vicentijevic, John Gravel went to coach the University of Cal­ Campus athletic complex. Her duties gram in 1995 at the Pacific Rim ■ The Left Opposition for a Really, Really Democratic Representative Union: gary Dinosaurs and ... um ... drive the include overseeing budget operations, Tournament in Sanjose, California. Tom Keefer, Stephane Desautels, Trish McIntosh, Yves Engler, Susana Vargas Zamboni. helping coaches manage their bud­ 'Tm lucky to be able to do what l ■ Students Who Have an Understanding of Lampoon and Have Tremendous "lt was my choice, and believe it or gets, making sure teams and their do," she said. "l may not be coaching Zeal: Payam Montazami, Phil Jandaly, Michael Imam-Amin, Hovig Yeraz Papazian not, it was hard work," she contin­ coaches get their travel expenses paid, at Concordia right now, but Les and I ■ Representative Union: Chris Schulz, Arielle Reid, Jonathan Laberge, Sean Morrow, Sameer Zuberi , Sharon Koifman, Nili Yavin ued. l really did want to know all and attending or running various still talk hockey all the time. I about ice-making. intercollegiate meetings. She also wouldn't have it any other way." ■ The Umbrella Party: Zev Tiefenbach, Melina Bondy, Anna-Louse Crago, Samer Elatrash, Gary Chatteram For the full referendum questions, please consult the Concordia Student Stingers soccer squad has three All-Canadians Union Web site, at http://csu.tao.ca/news.html#refer. The chief electoral officer can be reached at [email protected]. BY JOHN A U STE N He scored seven goals this past year. coach with the Canadian national senior team at evaluation camps in hree Concordia Stinger soccer Figsby named all-star coach 1995 and 1997. ln addition, he was T players have been named All­ Kevin Figsby, the head coach of co-coach at John Abbott College from UPCOMING STINGERS GAMES Canadians. the Stingers men's hockey team, has 1985 to 1992. MEN'S HOCKEY Laval vs . Concordia­ Fabien Thomas was named first been named head coach of the OUA The All-star game will be played at Brock vs . Concordia-Nov. 23. 7:30pm Dec. 1, 3pm team All-Canadian, while Ammar All-star team. The team will play the the Toronto Beatrice lee Gardens. WLU vs. Concordia-Nov. 24, 2pm WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Badawieh and Stefan Takac were junior national team on Dec. 17 and Concordia@Oueen's-Dec. 1, 8pm Concordia@ McGill­ Concordia@RMC-Dec. 2, 2pm Nov. 24, 1pm named to the second team. 18. last season, Figsby served as an Cagers stung in openers WOMEN'S HOCKEY Laval vs . Concordia­ Thomas, an engineering student assistant coach on the team. It wasn't a great start for the Concordia @ Ottawa-Nov. 25, 6:30pm Dec. 1, 1pm from France, is in his first year at This year, he will be assisted by Ed Stingers men's and women's basket­ McGill vs . Concordia- Nov. 30, 8pm Concordia but in his fifth year of Kirsten from Ryerson University and ball teams as they both lost to Laval MEN'S BASKETBALL Visit the Stingers Web site at Concordia@ McGill- Nov. 24, 3pm www.concordia.ca/stingers studies. As a midfielder, the rookie Kelly Nobes from the Royal Military last Saturday at Concordia Gym. The didn't get too many scoring opportu­ College. Rouge et Or rolled to a 102-80 win in nities, but he did show a lot of drive Figsby has been the head coach of men's action, while the lady Stingers and talent. The 22-year-old played Stingers since January 2000. last year were dumped 72-58 in the earlier professional soccer in his native he led his team to a second-place fin­ game. Concordia UNIVE R S I TY country, suiting up for Estac Troyes. ish in the OUA east with 10-9-5 Guard Ra stko Popovic led the Takac is also a rookie on the record. Stingers, coming of the bench to Stingers and comes from Falkoping, Figsby has 15 years of coaching score 17 points. Philippe Langlois Mission Statement Sweden. He studies commerce at experience at the provincial, national and Gavin Musgrave chipped in with TH E SENATE STEERING CoMMllTEE is seeking suggestions for updating the text of Concordia and is in his third year of and international levels. Figsby is 10 points each. The Stingers were the University's mission statement. The statement has not been revised in a decade, studies. The 23-year-old scored seven perhaps known best for his work out-rebounded 43-26 by the talented and Senate wishes to suggest to the Board of Governors revisions so that goals this season playing at the mid­ with the lac St. Louis Midget AAA Laval squad. the mission statement better reflects the University's current reality, field position. lions. The lady Stingers got 21 points academic plans and directions. Badawieh, from Amman in Jordan, He was also the head coach of the from ex John Abbott Islander Kristina CURRENT CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY MISSION STATEME T is the veteran. The forward is in his Quebec Under-17 team, which won a Steinfort. She was followed by Marie­ fo urth year at Concordia. The 22- bronze medal at the world champi­ Pierre Veilleux, another John Abbott Concordia is an urban university, which is responsive to the needs of a diverse student population as well as to the bilingual and multicultural environment in onships in 1995, and was a guest grad, who had 15 points. yea r-old is studying civil engineering. which it resides. It is a welcoming community where values of equality, non­ discrimination and tolerance of diversity are appreciated and actively promoted. 24-hour study at Furthermore, Concordia is committed to responsible and innovative leadership in Men's Hockey Homecoming fulfilling the mission of universities to develop and disseminate knowledge and Webster Library values and to act as a social critic. The University seeks to achieve this end by FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23 For the convenience of students during the offering its students inclusive and accessible academic programs which stress a 6:30 PM Hockey Lounge - Registration at the back of the arena. exam period, the Webster Libra ry broad-based interdisciplinary approach to learning as well as by a dedication to Beer and food provided. (downtown ) will on ce again be open on a superior teachin g supported by the best possible research, scholarship, creative 7:30 PM Va rsity game, Stingers vs. Brock. continuous ba si s. For th is period, from Meet the players after the game over beverages at the Guadagni Lounge! Dec. 3 to Dec. 14, ac cess will be restricted activity and service to society. Through these means, the University prepares its graduates, at all levels, to live as informed and responsibly critical citizens who are SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24 to Concordia students, facu lty, staff and alumni, Continuing Edu cation stud ents, and com mitted to learning and to the spirit of enquiry. 10:00 AM Alumn i games Library Privilege, OCUL and CREPUQ card­ 2:00 PM Varsity game, Stingers vs. Laurier. holders. ID ca rds must be presente d to 6:00 PM Cocktails and a catered dinner, followed by good times and dancing. Security at the Library entran ce. Please submit your suggestions, in writi ng, by December 31, 2001 , to Danielle Tes sier, Regula r service hours will re ma in in effect. Secretary of the Board of Governors and Senate, by Jax (848-8649) or ED MEAGHER ARENA, 7200 SHERBROOKE ST. WEST email ([email protected]). For more info rmation, visit www.concordia.ca/stingers For information. ca/1 848-7761 from 9am-5pm .

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tl1 e Danse21111 The Ombuds Office is available to all Fun for sale The Department of Contemporary Dance members of the University for informa­ Tecno Pro skis (160 cm) with bindings, presents student works. Dec. 7-8. 8pm, tion. confidential advice and assistance poles and Nordica boots (282 mm); Dynas­ Dec . 9. 2:30pm . Studio 303. 372 Ste­ with university-related problems. Call tar skis (160 cm) with bindings, poles and backpage Nordica boots (290 mm). Each package Catherine W. #303 (corner Bleury). For 848-4964, or drop by GM-1120. 85$. Mireille at (450) 686-6915. Events, notices and classified ads must reach the Public Relations Department infonnation: 848-4740 Services offered (BC-115) in writing no later than s p.m. on Thursday, the week prior to the Islamic Awareness exhibition Peer Support Tutor available. Experienced. with univer­ Thursday pu blication. Back Page submissions are also accepted by fax (848- The Muslim Student Association invites sity science degree. Could also help with 2814) and e-mail ([email protected]). For more information, please contact the Concordia community to an exhibition Centre term papers. research projects and lan­ on the mezzanine Nov. 23 and 27 . The Debbie Hum at 848-4579. Students Helping Students guage translation courses. Call 408-0247. MSA is offering free daily lftar dinners I Peers are students just like you who have during the month of Ramadan until been where you are and can relate. Any­ Computer, Net courses N o Y e Ill b e r 2 2 - I) e c e Ill b e r 6 Dec.16. in H-711 at 4:20pm (sunset). With Word. Excel. PowerPoint. Access. Inter­ I thing you want to talk about - the peers thanks to the Dean of Students Office. are there to listen. It's free and it's confi­ net, Maintenance. Nadia 824-5410 lnfonnation: Bilal Hamideh (514) 817-5477 dential. If you want to talk to someone site: http.//odl-iits.concordia.ca/odl/work- Travellers club or visit www.concordiamsa.com. who understands what it is like to be a shops.html. Wanted : photographer. writer. French Applied Employee student and who may be experiencing the translator. videographer and travel lovers South Asian film screenings same thing, then drop by the Peer Centre. Psychology Centre Show and Tell Assistance Program to form a travellers club. Please phone The Studio Arts Visiting Artist Program We're located at 2090 Mackay. room 02 Recipients of Faculty Teaching Develop- Marcia at 485-9259. The Applied Psychology Centre in the ment Grants will discuss their projects. The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) presents Anand Patwardhan's new film on (downstairs). Monday to Thursday. 11am Department of Psychology offers confiden- Themes include critical thinking. online is a voluntary, con fidential counselling the nuclear build-up in South Asia with to 5pm. 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West Sublet available ence of God every Friday 5-7pm at 2085 Editing in the Montreal community. 1395 Rene 9:30am-12:30pm, H-771 . Lafayette) on '"The Onanism of Poetry': Is there a responsible non-smoker looking Soon to be a graduate in sociology, I am Levesque W. Until Nov. 24. the Victorian Social Body and the Patholo- Bishop, Room 107. For more infonnation for an appt in Westmount from Jan. 1st to Leaming Basic HTM i,__ gizing of the Romantic Poet of Genius ... visit our website at http://alcor.concor­ May 1st? We have just what you're looking editing assignments and tutoring students HTML can be a powerful tool for creating who are not proficient in English. Reason­ and Emily Allen (Purdue University. West dia.ca/--ccf. for. Close to the Metro. walking distance to interactive multimedi-a documents for able rates. Call 009-1838 or 816-9915. Lafayette) on "Staging a Comeback: Mid- dovvntown. 514-938-0591 or81S-327-5350 CPR classes other delivery channels. such as CD-ROM. die-Class Fiction and the Male Genius." Books and notes for sale Emphasis will be on using HTML to create H-769, 8:30pm. Presented by the Concor- Printer repair needed Environmental Health and Safety Notices Biology, chemistry and some non-science documents related to teaching. Tuesday, dia English Department. 848-2340 Please call 529-7594. For more information. contact Donna books. notes and past exams for sale . Dec. 4, 1Oam-12:30pm. LB-800. Print sale and exhibition Fasciano at 848-4355 or visit our web Volunteer in Africa Good prices. Call 408-0247, 7-9pm. Friday, NOIHH1lber 23 Exhibition and sale of prints from the Stu­ site at http.//relish.concordia.ca/EHS/ Catherine Lu (Department of Political Sci- Want to help raise funds to support devel­ dent Printmaking Association's artists' Part