CanoEule de souscription de rl.Jriiversite Concorcia '~

April 12, 1984

Breen rebuts Arbuckle Maag arguDient

By Minko Sotiron In a memorandum to Psycho- at the March 2 meeting of Faculty logy Chairman Tannis Council, of the 51 people l Arbuckl~Maag, Vice­ recorded as present, there were Rector Academic 24 representatives from Divi­ Russell Br~en sions II and III, inclusive of refuted Departmental representatives, CO n · Divisional Deans and student t e n · representatives." In response to Arbuckle­ Maag's charge that the compro­ mise reached on the "Breen doc­ uments" had been breached, Maag mem­ namely, the heading of each aca­ orandum de­ demic sector by a Vice-Provost crying the Senate who would be recognized as hav­ decision to approve ing "decanal" authority both the " Breen docu­ within and without the Univer­ ments" restructuring the sity, he wrote, "the Vice-Provosts Arts and Science Faculty retain still 'with duly delegated (see last week's TTR) . authority' the responsibility for Breen answered her the normal day-to-day operation objection to the omis­ of Departments in their areas and sion of a statement in his convey recommendations on per­ documents giving "a sonnel matters through the Pro­ decanal responsibility". to the vost to the Vice-Rector, Academ­ Vice-Provosts by stating that those ic ." words were implicit in the phrase He noted, however, that "the "with duly delegated authority." Vice-Provosts in some areas are Furthermore, he contended that not Faculty Deans. They do not authority for contractual matters chair Faculty Council nor do they would be delegated down from the have overall responsibility for the Rector to Vice-Rector then in turn space in the Faculty. To interpret to the Vice-Provosts. them as such is to push the Pro­ The In terms of tenure, recommen­ vost into a no-man's land dations are made by the Division­ between Faculty Deans and the next al or Faculty Committees and Vice-Rectorate, Academic, which Thursday forwarded to the Rector through would subvert the principle that Vice-Rector, Academic, who is Arts and Science be headed by a Report made aware of the recommenda­ single authority. tions, but does not alter them. " It is obvious that the Vice­ will He argued that her statement Provosts have much more appearon that Divisions II and III have only 'decanal' authority than the 14 representatives out of Faculty Dean of Graduate Studies; it is June7 · Council's 62 is false. " If you take equally obvious that they cannot into consideration student repre­ have the decanal authority of a sentatives on Council, there are Faculty Dean." 22 representatives ... Moreover, See BREEN page 12 A & S Divisions II, III chairmen oppose new A & S structure All 16 chairmen sign statement

To: J.W. O'Brien, Rector and II and III to · the principle that portant element in your deci­ Board of Governors, we as a powers and responsibilities to Vice-Chancellor Arts and Science be headed by a sion, as must be the recommen­ group of administrators respon­ the Deans of the Faculties of Fine (The chairman requested that the single authority whose rank is dation of Senate, but we respect­ sible for 14 departments of the Arts, Engineering and Computer TTR publish the following equivalent to Dean. fully suggest that any decision on Faculty of Arts and Science wish Science, and Commerce and statement.) We note, however, that while this issue which results in an un­ to bring to your attention our Administration. The Chairmen of Divisions II Council can make recommenda­ wanted structure being foisted concerns. Other reasons for our taking and III are unanimous in their tions on any topic it likes, the on two divisions of the Faculty of We are unanimous on the need this ·position are many and in­ opposition to . the new ad­ reorganization of the ad­ Arts and Science would be con­ for each of our divisions to be clude the sheer size of our divi­ ministrative structure proposed ministrative structure of the trary to the best interests of headed by its own chief ad­ sions (Division II is bigger than for Arts and Science. We deeply Faculty does not fall within its Concordia. ministrative officei::. These ad­ any of the three Faculties listed regret that the Council of Arts explicit jurisqiction (see Univer­ Si nce y ou a r e t he ad ­ ministrative officers must have above; Division III is equal in and Science chose to recommend sity Documents and Policies, ministrative officer who has the the powers and carry out the size to Engineering and bigger this structure in the full Volume A, Document A-32 ). We responsibility for formulating responsibilities of Deans and than Fine Arts); the complexity knowledge that there was recognize that the recommenda­ the recommendation that will must be recognized within the of our day-to-day operations, (in widespread _dissent in Divisions tions of Council must be an im- ultim~tely be brought to the University as being equivalent in See CHAIRMEN page 12 " • f I -' ,I ...... • • I " I "' '! Page 2 THE THURSDAY REPORI' April 12, 1984

I;)isputes Brian's Profiles Loyola argument By R. Bella Rabinovitch

To the Editor: I am reluctant to continue the mine on which campus students public discussion of the relative would prefer to be housed. Even Hall escapes me. merits of the Sir George or could such a survey be devised, I Fortunately, since teaching, at Loyola campuses which has doubt if we would want to or the university level at least, is figured so prominently in recent could run the faculty on this not a particularly hazardous oc­ issues of The Thursday Report in basis. Suppose, for example, that cupation (although some pro­ response to youi interview with our students should reveal a fessors are known to have been Dean of Division I, Donat J. Tad­ preference for the Loyola shot by disgruntled students). deo (March 8, 1984). campus. such emergencies are rare. Pro­ Mavis Nicholls-D'Souza An outsider might conclude Where would we find the fessor Brian's final recommenda­ from some of these letters that laboratory space to accom­ tion is to make the Administra­ Graduate Students' we are still debating the feasibili­ modate them? Suppose, also, tion Building (which he finds has ty of a merger rather than about that our students should express a "deadening effect") "alive Association Secretary to celebrate our tenth anniver­ a preference for one campus,.on­ with students.'' I have usually I n 19 76 when Mavis sary as Concordia Uniyersity. As ly to express a preference for the found this Gothic building, the Nicholls-D'Souza was hired Domenic Pappadia of the CUSA other at some future date. Would most attractive on the Loyola by the University as a Board of Directors notes (March we then move back to the other campus, full of students on the secretary fo r the Graduate 29, 1984). such debates can only campu s? Professor Brian's many occasions I have been Students' Association, her of­ prove disquieting to students, "practical" means of "get[ting] there. fice was located in a cramped leaving them "alienated from the facts" does not bear much One might observe that the corner of the 2145 Mackay St. within their own university." looking into. Norris Building is not exactly building. In her 16-hour work However, I believe that a About half-way through his "user friendly," that there is no w eek she answered. the response to Professor Michael letter, Professor Brian an­ tunnel connecting the Hall and telephone, responding to in­ _Brian's letter (March 20, 1984) is nounces that he "would like to Norris Buildings, that the quiring students who had no in order since he might be read between the lines of Dean downtown campus is afflicted by idea of where else to turn. decorated with mementoes ot thought, as past chairman of the Taddeo's remarks." On the basis the same hazardous weather Her other activities included Concordia English Department of this exercise, he concludes conditions in winter as Loyola both her voyages to the Carib­ sending out newsletters and bea n and co l leag u es' and former, president of CUFA, that Dean Taddeo "seems to be and that the Hall Building also helping to prepare the social · postcards from trips abroad. to be speaking authoritatively on claiming that the Loyola campus has a "deadening effect. " Such activities which were the Her deeply religious nature is the Loyola Campus and its possi­ is in trouble, presu mably criticism coming from a faculty chief function s of the ble fu ture status (at least one because of the problems with member who had never taught reflected in the artifacts that association. grace her working space. faculty member that I -have enroll ment" (Professor Brian on the Sir George campus might Today, the association is In grade eleven Nicholls­ spoken to seems to have inter­ sounds the same melancholy understandably not be well housed in the Royal George. D'Souza became a member of . preted his remarks in this light!. note twice later, almost as if he received by faculty members Nicholls-D'·Souza' s busy Professor Brian professes to be were relishing this supposed housed there. the Pentacostal Church. Since 35-hour work week is spent in that time Christianity has unable to "follow" how Dean decline). However, similar criticisms of helping students take full ad­ become more than label· to Taddeo's plea for "a more However, apparently in an at­ the Loyola Campus, emanating vantage of the important ser­ Nicholls-D'Souza, an actual balanced distribution of tempt at even handedness, Pro­ from a Sir George faculty vices offered by the associa­ resources'' would leave us in a fessor Brian states that there is member are apparently to be -way of life. Her CEGEP train­ tion. She is also responsible ing in graphic arts from rather more "advantageous posi­ still "quite a lot" which might gratefully accepted, expressing a for the secretarial duties that tion" for a future merger with ''be said in defense of Loyola genuine concern for a supposed­ Dawson finds expression in result from approximately 30 ·the posters and cards she McGill. The confusion here is campus." Surprised but en­ ly impoverished country cousin. committees involved in stu­ Professor Brian's rather than couraged by these words, I read The condescension here is more creates for the church and her dying numerous aspects of many friends. Dean Taddeo's, a confusion of ahead quickly to discover what than a little overwhelming. student life. his own making. this "lot" might be only to have Along with his proposed Nicholls-D'Souza spends Nicholls-D'Sousa's patience her free time with her hus­ Nowhere does Dean Taddeo my hopes cruelly dashed. The physical changes, Professor and empathy are appreciated mention a merger with McGill. "lot" proves to be little indeed. Brian also unveils some band of two years and her by graduate students who family. Her husband, a He means clearly in an "advan­ "Better lighting," Professor pedagogical schemes for the sur- · seek her out to book tageous position" to remain Brian informs us at the outset of viva! of the Loyola campus. psychology student and typewriters, the word pro­ fellow-member of the church, separate from rather than become a list of possible specific changes Noting the existence of a cessor or the s,-a-page Xerox one with this institution that might ma~e the Loyola cam­ Catholic college, St. Michael's, at shares Nicholls ­ machine. She is also keeper of D'Souza's enthusiasm for (whatever our differences, I pus more attractive, "would the University of Toronto, he the games. Scrabble and know of no one in the Concordia make it a lot less alarming at asks, "why not a similar college non-rugged camping. Runn­ Trivial Pursuit offer moments ing water and a sturdy tent in community who desires another night'' . Professor Brian is at Loyola?" Unfortunatel-y, of escapism for beleagured merger!. Whether Dean Tad­ needlessly fearful, for there has Catholic colleges of this sort do a pastoral landscape is a sum­ students. mer scene she awaits with a deo's assumption would prove to been no violence on the Loyola not appear to be much in de­ In this home away from be the case is, of course, campus in the 17 years I have mand these days (one such gleeful sparkle in her eyes. In home Nicholls-D' Souza this wondrous world, she is debatable but it is not the il­ been here (apart from a bomb Catholic college, St. Patrick's, presides with calm logical one Professor Brian planted during the more radical associated with Carleton Univer­ more than an onlooker - she reassurance. Her office is is a committed member. would have it appear. sixties in a stairwell of the Bryan sity, closed its doors in the mid­ Professor Brian tells us that Building!. seventies). "several practical things can be " Interconnecting buildings," Even if this were not the case, I In these recommendations, are that there are no problems, in done to get the facts " he continues, ''would make it doubt that such a college would Professor Brian's condescension the English Department at least, (presumably as to whether the. less hazardous in winter." I have much appeal to those is again evident. The members of with enrollment on the Loyola Arts and Science .Faculty should know of no one who has been members of the English Depart­ the Loyola English Department campus. With minor fluctua­ be housed on the Loyola or Sir seriously injured on the Loyola ment on the Loyola campus, do not w:ish to become a tions, enrollments have con­ George campus). the first of campus in the winter (I did none of whom has a Catholic ap­ Catholic, liJiguistic or any other tinued-to rise on this campus for which might be a survey similar wrench my back a few years ago proac;h to literature (whatever sort of college devised by Pro­ the past four years. Lest I be ac­ to the one he administered as when I fell on the ice in trying to this might be). Later, Professor fessor Brian or anyone else. They cused of wanting to close down Chairman of lhe Sir George squeeze through the _chained Brian seems to be suggesting that only wish to continue to teach our operation on the Sir George Williams English Department gate on Terrebonne but I have the Loyola campus English English courses in the Concordia campus, I should quickly add several years ago seeking to find fully recovered from this injury!, Department (no longer in ex­ English Department, courses that enrollments there, especial­ out why students had come to Sir ''By naming the cross street in istence) adopt a " linguistic they are as entitled and qualified ly in the evening, have also con­ George rather than Loyola or front of Hingston Hall,". Pro­ approach." to teach as any of their co-equal tinued to thrive. McGill. I have conducted several fessor Brian goes on, "one could Again, there are problems colleagues on the Sir George At the present time there are similar surveys over the years trust to a taxi finding one in an here; unfortunately, the only campus. over 7,500 students in Arts and and have found them generally emergency." How assigning a bona fide linguist in the depart­ Fortunately, it is unnecessary Science. Even if one wished, unrevealing, often inconclusive street name (possibly Loyola ment is on the Sir G~orge cam­ to consider seriously Professor there is no way all of these and contradictory. Boulevard?! to what is a pus, and there are only a handful Brian's or any other such pro­ students could be accom­ I suspect also that it would be driveway connecting West of students in this area, hardly a posals at the present time. Con­ modated on one campus. As far difficult to come up with a scien­ Broadway and Terrebonne promising nucleus for a separate trary to his reading of Dean Tad­ as I can determine, therefore, we / tifically reliable survey to deter- would attract taxi~ to Hingston department. deo's remarks, the "true facts" See BROES page 9 April 12, 1984 THE THURSDAY REPORf Page 3

10th Anniversary plans updated

ByCa role Kleingrib In August, Concordia will be recognition of individuals who actively from coast to coast as ten years old, and plans are · have made an outstanding contri­ new chapters in Los Angeles, San underway to celebrate the Uni­ bution to teaching and learning at Francisco, Victoria, Vancouver, versity's birthday with a bang. In Concordia during its first ten Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, the works are year-long activities years. Ottawa· and Toronto reflect the AT A GLANCE which should provide a wealth of • A storytelling event that Concordia spirit of the 10th Anni­ Hot off the press: R&D ings in 1980 were $4350" .... amusement and information for promises to be one of the high­ versary celebrations. Strategies in a Competitive Envi­ Anarchy won the day as Con­ the University community and lights of the 10th Anniversary • Cultural activities presented ronment edited by Research cordia debater Alain Lajoie the community at large as well. celebrations. Famous raconteurs by the Faculty of Fine Arts and Services Director Audrey J. and his partner Teresa Scas­ Kicking off the celebrations from across Canada such as W.O. special athletics events are sched­ Williams is now available at sia bested 70 other teams will be a two-campus event, Mitchell are among the invited uled throughout the academic $20 per copy. The new book is from schools in Canada and called the "Concordia Fete" on guests at the Uniyersity next year. the result of the very success­ the U.S. to take top honours at September 13 which will feature . year. In addition, the organizing • A 10th Anniversary logo ful conference of research the 12th annual Royal Military such activities as department committee has been looking for w hich was designed by Fine Arts managers held in Montreal in College International Debat­ open houses and displays; street individuals from Concordia and students in a closed competition October 1983. It contains: ing Tournament. The subject festivals; Concordia student film the Montreal community who will soon be unveiled. international trends in indus­ which they successfully award winner screenings; an are interested in perpetuating the Academic Vice-Rector John trial research and develop­ debated was "Anarchy rules, inter-campus run; a photograph oral tradition, to take part in this Daniel has been the chief orga­ ment (R & D); corporate strate­ okay?" . . . . Mail Services and artifacts display; and exhibi­ original activity. nizer for the 10th Anniversary. " I gies and R & D; managing R & announces that it has made a tions from various student club • A series of eight lectures given deeply regret that I won't be D through tough times; and special arrangement with and associations exhibitions, by distinguished former students around the University to enjoy emerging new technologies. It Loomis Carrier to have ship­ University Services, the Capital of Concordia, Sir George Wil­ tlie celebrations," Vice-Rector also includes a collection of 19_ ments sent by Concordia to Campaign Office and some Col­ liams and Loyola during the aca­ Academic John Daniel confessed. papers by recognized experts anywhere · in Quebec and leges. Some of these activities demic year. The alumni lectures By the time Concordia Univer­ in these fields, representing a Ontario. This new service will will be staged along MacKay committee composed of senior sity starts celebrating its 10th wide cross-section of corpo­ cost only $4 for envelopes, Street (to be closed between faculty members is chaired by Anniversary next fall, Daniel will rate executives, industrial letters, packages or films Sherbrooke and De Maison­ Dr. Jack Bordan, former Vice­ have settled in his new position consultants, science advisors weighing up to 4.5 kg (10 lbs.). neuve) and Sherbrooke Street (to Rector Academic and the first as Rector of Laure~tian Univer­ and academics, drawn from Each additional 4.5 kg. will be closed between Belmore and Dean of the Faculty of Engineer­ sity in Sudbury, Ontario. · Canada, the U.S., Sweden and cost $1 (special stamp used). West Broadway). ing. Daniel's work began a year and Japan. Supply is limited, order Loomis has agreed to pick up Among the other activities • A road show that will tour a half ago when he and a commit­ now from Research Services every afternoon from Distri­ planned are: four of the area's major shopping tee of representatives from Liai­ .. .. Also just published: Live to bution Services, Hall Building • A special fall convocation on centres - Rockland, Anjou, son, the Rector's Office, Public Look Again·: Memoirs of a and Loyola Mail Services, September 23, 1984, for the offi­ Laval and St-Bruno - during four Relations, Capital Campaign, Canadian Pilot with the RAF Physical Plant Building .... cial Installation Ceremony of Dr. weekends in October 1984. Spon­ Alumni, CUSA, CUNASA and during World War II (Belleville. Looking for a job? The Guid­ Patrick J. Kenniff as the Rector of sored by various departments, the Faculties began soliciting the Ont., Mika Publishing - P.O. ance Information Centre Concordia University, to be held the event will consist of com­ University community for ideas Box 536, Belleville. Ont. K8N will put you straight about: at Place des Arts, Salle de puter and robotics displays, Exer­ on possible events. 5B2) by Geography prof. preparing for an interview; Maisonneuve. cise Science fitness demonstra­ "This has been an exciting Donald R. Fraser. Fraser is . writing a r~sume or cover let­ • Presentation of the John W. tion, fine arts exhibits and other experience for me," Daniel adds. donating his royalties to the ter; job hunting through O'Brien Distinguished Teaching activities built around a central "I discovered what a vast reser­ McGrath-Smith under­ employment agencies; discus­ Awards to ten full-time and ten information booth. voir of talent and enthusiasm graduate prize .... Ravi Pra­ sing salary with an employer; part-time faculty members, in • Alumni will participate Concordia really 1s ." kash Ramachandran, a using effective job hunting final-year undergraduate stu­ techniques; finding employ­ dent of Electrical Engineering ers in your field; and dealing Studies, has been awarded the with sexual harassment or dis­ OIQ (Ordre des Ingenieurs du crimination during an inter­ Job Hunters! Quebec) student award for view. For more info, call 879- academic excellence and per­ 4443 (SGW) or 482-0320 Rector O'Brien sonal qualities .... Political Sci­ (Loyola) . . . . The Sexual to be honoured ence student Chris Mostovac Assault Centre has been Looking for a better response?. is running for Prime Minister operating since 1980, but in at dinner at the forthcoming Liberal February 1983, it opened a 24- Employers are more Impressed with an Convention. Of course, he hour, seven-day-a-week Crisis original document doesn't expect to win, but Line. The Centre offers coun­ The University community intends to run on a Youth selling, medical services, self­ will honour Rector John O'Brien Platform to raise youth issues defense courses, public edu­ at a dinner on Thursday, April 26 . ... Psychology prof. Tom cational activities and Compuscroll at 7 p.m. at the Queen Elizabeth Gray has qualified to run in information, all run largely by Hotel. The dinner is a tribute to the Marine Corp. Marathon in trained staff. The Crisis Line, Dr. O'Brien's 20 years (1964- Boston, Mass .... English grad­ however, is staffed b)l. volun­ Wordprocessing 1984) as head of the institution. uate student Milly Charon teers, and the Centre is cur­ He will be introduced by has won a $ 7500 Secretary of rently recruiting concerned, Chairman of the Board of Gover­ State grant to further work on bilingual women for the May provides you with curriculum vitae nor Donald McNaughton. Also her Canadian immigrant saga training session. Committ­ service participating will be Acting Eco­ in part II of her recently pub­ ment involves two nights per • professional, personalized nomics Chairman Muriel Arm­ lished Between '.lwo Worlds .... month and a monthly meet­ strong and Associate Vice-Rector When you really can't get sat­ ing. If you want to help, call • individually typed copies (Academic Planning) James Whi­ isfaction, write to Probe : Cin­ Therese at 842-8576 .... Wel­ • reasonable rates telaw. ema prof. Lois Segal, in des­ come aboard to: Madeline At the same dinner, employees peration, wrote to the Rainville, secretary to legal, Consultation upon appointment who have now completed 20 Gazette's , "Probe" column, Vice-Rector Academic; Marc years of service at Concordia will complaining of a horrendous Poirier, apprentice helper, Contact: be honoured with long · service tax bite claimed by Revenue Physical Plant; Penelope Sharon Lyons awards. Canada, saying that the orga­ Cowie, secretary, Philosophy; 489-771 5 For more information, call nization is "trying to suck the Hazel Thompson, secretary, Michael Sheldon, Executive. blood from a profession Capital Campaign .... Assistant to the Rector, at 879- whose average annual earri- 2863. \

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From 20 years ago to now 20 Year club members reminisce Every year, Concordia there was a big change with the enough to be compared to honours the newest members of merger. There is-a lot more ac­ McGill and in most areas we are its 20 Year club with a dinner, tivity downtown. The communi­ as good or better. It was not just toasting their long service to the ty is not as close as it was. It's the merger, but all the changes university. larger, more spread out. But I did and rethinkng that went with it. This year's celebration, April get to know a lot of people here. Being able to hire good, young 26 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, They're pretty likeable. fac ulty. w ill also be Rector John C . Lynne P rendergast , It has reduced the family at­ O'Brien's goodbye party. Admissions mosphere, but that was a "We thought it would be a In 1964, I was the fifth or sixth necessary consequence. We good idea to integrate the two, employee. Today we have a staff have ,come out of the woods no since so many of the 20 year peo­ of over 30. Applications and ser­ longer a college , but a full­ ple know Dr. O'Brien," said vices provided have increased fl edged university. We get good organizer Michael Sheldon. dramatically. So have the advan­ students, so our courses im­ Guests include former 20 year tages of the computer system . prove, and as the courses im­ people, administrators, alumni, We used to do everything prove, we can advertise to better Governors, Capital Campaigners manually. students. Good scholarship and other Concordians. In 1964, there was great com­ students may now make us their In 1964, Loyola was a quiet petition to enter Arts and first choice. west-end Jesuit College; Sir Sciences. Now it's the profes­ William R. Hooper, Psychology George Williams was mainly sional areas. There are many more people, night school, crammed into the The university was virtually in my department and the nooks of the YMCA. all in the Norris Building then, so university as a-whole, who see it The changes since then: The there was closer contact with as a place to do research more two fused into a university with people day to day, in the halls than anything else. There's little over 20,000 students. The Hall and elevators. Now we're spread commitment to undergraduate Building, graduate programs, out over so many bui\dings, you teaching. They teach graduates, Touring Stratford re search ce ntres, fore ign lose physical and visual contact. if at all. students, shuttle buses. I see more competition and For the seventh year, the English Department will sponsor a bus ,Bureaucracy greater When The Thursday Report ask­ potential for bickering, with the trip to the Stratford Shakespearean Festival. Leading the group will ed the new 20 Year members Da v id Ma c donald , growth in departments, for be Professor Ronald S. Wareham, who has conducted the tour on about the changes seen, many Accountancy resources. That's always been previous occasions and who will be teaching a course in Shakespeare were frankly critical of what The bureaucratic system is here to some extent, but not like at Concordia during the summer session. Those who go will see five they see as growing bureaucracy much greater. Twenty years ago, it is today. plays in four days: Love's Labour's Lost, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and over-administration. you could break a rule easily. Sheila McDonough, Religion Romeo andJuliet , A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Iolanthe by Gilbert One professor said his views Now students have student re- I was on Senate when the col­ and Sullivan. were so sour as to be unprin­ . quest committees and all that leges were introduced, and I've While at Stratford, Wareham will give a lecture on one of the plays, table: "I will mark the anniver­ crap. You need permission for been with Simone de Beauvoir and there will probably be an opportunity to attend an interview with sary quietly, with friends." this, permission for that. I guess since the beginning, so I've seen some of the actors. The bus will leave at 9 a.m. on Thursday, June 21 Others felt Concordia is only that's how it has to be, with so that change. It allows faculty and return late Sunday night, June 24. now coming into its own, that many students. You knew from different disciplines who The basic price, which includes bus transportation, the least expen­ changes in facilities and person­ students then. You taught them share interests to work together. sive tickets to five plays, accommodation in a nurses' residence (one nel have been for the better. three times a week. Now with all It's interesting intellectually to to a rooml, and lunch on the way to Stratford, will be $190, $175 for Some were unavailable due to the three-credit courses, you see examine the role women play in . students. Space is limited: preference will be given to Concordia busy end of year schedules, sab­ them once a week, 13 times. You religions; it has enlightened me students, faculty, staff, and alumni. For further information and batical, vacations, illness and get to know a lot, but a lot you in a way I might not otherwise registration forms, call 482-0320, ext. 534 and 560. concern for privacy. don't. have been enlightened. The Following then are 13 views of Joseph Princz, Reader Services, students are interested. It pro­ 20 years of change at Concordia. Library vides a forum for questions you The library has practically the don't hear often. stead, we've become publishers Merger significant Court. People graduate without same space as 20 years ago, with and grant-getters. Back then, we Better facilities ever seeing John O'Brien or John Noonan , Rector's Office, more collections to hold. The made $3,600 a year. There was a Dean Swami. Secretary of Senate: situation is constantly Thomas Adley, Chemistry litt~e school spirit. The students Unless a . new administration The most significant change deteriorating. The chemistry department has respected us. The community raises standards, consults the was the merger. The unification In other ways it's a different excellent facilities compared to respected us. Today, a professor faculty, and serves the students, of departments and policies, of world. The library used to con­ 1964. It has good equipment, up making $55-60,000 cries blue the community will go down the academic regulations and the tain all the resources, people, to date, and it improves every murder if he teaches two courses tubes. grading system. Then the crea­ books, everything. You had to year. The faculty is better train­ a week, he's overworked. tion of the Fine Arts faculty, and come to the knowledge. But now ed. Because of their research, The huge sums of money More vigorous then the colleges, the grade point it can travel to you, electronical­ they are more aware of sloshing around contract G. David Sheps, English average, competency in written ly. It's becoming a library . developments in their field. But research and grants have cor­ When I first came here, there expression. Possibly a computer without walls. We still rely on the research has led to alienation rupted people. They're after the was a more vigorous, intellectual literacy program in the future. physical resources, but this is between the students and facul­ glory and money, rather than the life among the students, a sense We've gone from 800 full-time just the beginning. ty. There's less interaction. satisfaction of teaching. But just of adventure, that the place Loyola students to 20-25,000 at Howard Perron , Reference This is not only due to faculty's because one publishes, doesn't could grow and do original ex­ Concordia. In those days you Librarian, Vanier other interests, but also the mean he serves the community, citing things. That has not knew most by name. and face; There was a lot of turmoil with students' unwillingness to par­ or that students under him learn happened. , you don't today, not by a long the merger. Any time there is a ticipate in the educational pro­ anything. Students can't relate, The administration does the shot. We went from a personal change, you regret what you lost, cess, to speak out, ask questions, they're numbers, they can't wait safe things. They copy other institution to a very large, two­ but it has turned out for the bet­ respond to questions. There to get their paper and get out. universities, not in substance but campus operation. ter. We are broader than we doesn't seem to be the commit­ Standarcis have fallen to in form. They focus on how Someone once said: ''To were. We have to think of the ment of 20 years ago. A degree ridiculous proportions. Anyone things look on paper, the change is to improve; to change whole university, rather than then, even in basket weaving, · can sit around taking Mickey documents and statements of constantly is to strive for perfec­ just Loyola campus. It's taken a guaranteed a salary. It's a crass Mouse courses, because all the what we offer, so they resemble tion." We have to have the pa­ while to think that way, but motivation, but it worked. To­ administration wants to do is get what other places offer - on tience, stamina, courage and we're coming along. "day, it is not there. the students in so they can get paper. sense of humour to promote the grants. It is immoral, how As good as McGill Publishers and grant-getters Too many aspects are ad­ change. Any institution that does they send dummies into the ministered by people remote ·not change is dead, and Concor­ Manfred E. Szabo, Mathematics Carl Goldman , Civil world, thinking they know from teaching and classrooms. dia is very much alive. At the top of the list are the Engineering something. , They should be concerned that Ronald Allan, Mail Services: changes in graduate studies and Professors were supposed to The administration is out of Concordia be a place where peo- I was formerly with Loyola, so research. We are now big become leaders of society. In- touch, holed up in Bishop's See TWENTY page 9

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Possible Telidon use surveyed

By Danny Kucharsky A Canadian developed three key variables which can in­ follow this pattern. videotex system could become fluence people in their decision - Telidon has now been adopted an extremely popular means whether to buy Telidon: the as the standard North American among students and faculty for possibility of being the first on videotex system, beating out obtaining data, a Concordia pro­ the block to have it (the such competitors as France's fessor has found. desirability of having something 'Antiope', Britain's 'Prestel' and In fact, if the cost barrier were new); its potential to make televi­ Japan's 'Captain'. removed, over 45% of students sion more useful than it is now; Although the Telidon system and faculty would subscribe to and its ability to reduce effort in was developed and tested in Telidon, the Department of obtaining information. At the trials across Canada, its commer­ Communications' two-way in­ same time, data bases must beef­ cial applications are only now formation system that works ficiently indexed, easy to access being tested in the United States Professor T.S. Sankar with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. through television sets. and relevant to their users. - by American suppliers. So says Marketing professor Among other things, videotex In Southern Florida, the Tom Muller who conducted a systems will enable people to Knight-Ridder newspaper chain survey at Concordia last bank, take courses, summon up began marketing a videotex ser­ Profrepresents Concordia at February to measure people's research materials and news vice last September. In 5000 reaction to Telidon as an infor­ stories as they're filed, buy homes, consumers spent $600 World_Engineering conference mation system. One hundred groceries, read novels, order U.S. each for terminals built by By Danny Kucharsky ·and ninety students and faculty airline tickets and play ever American Bell. The Times­ India is suffering under the like Pratt & Whitney used to bor­ members interacted with a more video games. The Mirror company, owner of seven "unfortunate notion" that its row research from the U.S. but Telidon terminal and were possibilities are almost endless. newspapers including the Los enormo_us working force will now can depend on their own interviewed. Research has continually Angeles Times , seven broadcast be displaced if the advanced people. On average, students would be shown that people who use any television stations, and- several technology available in the While in India, Sankar met willing to pay $16.91 as a mon­ information systems tend to be cable systems is expected to Western world is introduced with Prime Minister Indira Gan­ thly subscription rate to Telidon, higher equcated than the norm, launch a competing videotex there en masse. dhi who, he said, was interested while faculty members, who and are economically upscale. system this spring. In fact, if India "channels the in how Indians living in Canada gave the system a· lesser value, Future videotex users will likely energies" of its well over 600 could help her country. He sug­ would pay only $12.61. Current million people, modern gested that a register of Indian start up costs for a Telidon technology can be beneficial scientists living abroad be main­ system would be much higher. rather than harmful to the tained and tapped when The Telidon videotex system, Library tries out Telidon country. necessary. which converts data into an elec­ So says Mechanical Engineer­ Sankar, who is Indian born, tronic medium and presents. . Concordia may not yet have its reference desk will be promoted. ing chairman T.S. Sankar who said that many professionals of graphics in a manner unat­ recently returned from the Sixth Indian origin are willing to pro­ tainable elsewhere, can serve as new library, but its libraries ARE A regularly updated news infor­ participating in the information mation service will inform World Congress of the Interna­ vide their native country with an ideal complement to the tional Federation for the Theory their high technology expertise. home computer. technology revolution: Telidon, students of Concordia events, the Canadian developed two­ speakers, etc. As well, it is hoped of Machines and Mechanisms In addition to being eligible to "Telidon won't make it on its held in New Delhi. Sankar serv­ receive aid from CIDA (the own," Muller said in an inter­ way videotex information that the data base will eventually system, is coming. include floor plans that will help ed as head of the 15-member Canadian International Develop­ view. "There has to be some way Canadian delegation to the ment Agency) India has access to of reducing the cost of Telidon Starting. in April and continu­ decipher the Concordia library ing for a year, Concordia is par­ system to confused students. UNESCO-sponsored event. any of the research being con­ by tying it in with home com­ Although in terms of advanced ducted in Canada, he said, ad­ puters. If the Telidon system is ticipating in a Department of Although Pac-Man will unfor­ Communications funded ex­ tunately be unavailable on the technology even Canada has to ding that the Canadian govern­ marketed in tandem with home play ~ catch-up game with its ment has an "open policy" on computers, students and perimental project which is at­ TV monitors, the Concordia data tempting to evaluate how base will contain what is un­ neighbour to the south, India is this matter. educators will be likely to buy a currently five to 10 years behind During the congress, Sankar videotex system when they pur­ students use the Telidon system. doubtedly the next best thing: a Two television' monitors, one Reference Trivia Quiz. Ques­ the United States, and will be 50 publicized Canada's and, in par­ chase home computers." years behind in another five ticular, Concordia' s high Muller found that there are located in the Vanier Library cir­ tions like ''Where did the word culation area, the other in the 'Bloomers' come from?" will pop years if it doesn't .change its technology research in the areas Norris Library reference area, up on the screen and students policies soon, he said. of mechanical systems, robotics, will be connected via phone lines will be asked to choose between While India has fine resear­ computer-aided design and to the Ecole Polytechnique at the several reference books that chers, they do not have enough manufacturing. Universite de Montreal, site of could contain the correct available work to do and much The previous congress was the computer data base. answer. Both the answer to the of the existing equipment in held at Concordia in 1979, and Students will have access to original question and the listing higher education facilities is the majority of the Canadian the many Telidon data bases of the correct reference source antiquated. papers presented at this congress already in existence at the Ecole will be included in the response. According to Sankar, India were from Concordia. Polytechnique, as well as to a In this way, students will learn should not be overly concerned He said that a high profile sell­ new Concordia data base how to make better use of the with the "brain drain" which ing job of Canada and Concordia developed by a team of library library and have fun doing so, has supposedly seen many of its _ was unnecessary among Indian staffers , says Reference says Appleby. top scientists leave the country students because it would result Librarian Judy Appleby. The Telidon will be available for greener pastures elsewhere. in "_a flood of applications." · In an entertaining manner, the during regular Reference hours.' He says this concept is incorrect Most Indian students are ''very Concordia information package No reservation will be required and stresses India should worry much aware of Canada" and will show students how to find to use it. And a self-instruction more about tapping the brains dream of doing advanced studies periodicals and will delve into · sheet will explain to students that are within the country. in North American universities, the intricacies of the inter­ how to use the system in mere ''If you do not utilize the brains much in the same way that many library loan and circulation minutes. ''The whole idea of that are there, then it's a brain Canadian schoolkids dream of system. Available, but often Telidon is that it's supposed to be drain,'' he said. playing hockey, he said. little-known library services like easy," Appleby notes. Sankar said that India needs to However, among the public computer searches and the have more "in house" develop­ Sankar emphasized that Concor­ ment of advanced technology. dia's engineering department The country should train its own has the "right kind of balance" people to produce and operate between research and needed equipment, instead of technology. He also dispelled the purchasing expertise from the "Iceland concept of Canada" Spring' s here! outside world. that many Indians have and told In this area Canada has learn­ them that C~nada "is not just an ed a lesson in the last 15 years, extension of the U.S." Tom Muller he said, noting that corporations Page 6 THE THURSDAY REPORT April 12, 1984

A look at the English Departtnent

Progre~s, but problems too

By Stephen Maron Concordia's English depart­ Century. People shy away from ed to teachers when it started in ment is a bustling place, as befits Pope and Johnson because they 1965. Over those 19 years a large one of Concordia's larger depart­ appear so dry, and there is a percentage of these teachers ments. Indeed, chairman Arthur surface emphasis on reason. Stu­ were part-time students. Concor­ Broes likens his job at times to dents tend to like the emotional­ dia offered opportunities for peo­ being a "ringmaster" in manag­ ism of the Romantics and the ple who couldn't afford to go to ing th~ different wings of the Victorians more." McGill full-time. This population department. Broes says that some of the is now declining. They represent " Literature is the central "heavies" of English literature only about two or three percent wing," he observes. "Composi­ are still quite popular. "We have of the student population. tion is like a department in itself. maximum enrolment for "Now the majority are full­ Creative writing has its own Chaucer (Middle _English), time graduate students," he says. problems and preoccupations. though Old English is now given "They come to us after finishing The Graduate Program is like a only in alternating years, mainly their BA's from across Canada fourth ring. for specialists. Milton is less pop­ and the U.S. This did not happen "Each ring has tensions within ular than the.Romatics and Victo­ in the early days. There is now itself, and there is external ten­ rians, but is offered on an alter­ much more competition among sion between the wings." nating basis-, usually at the the students and especially for In addition to inter-departmen­ graduate level." funding." tal rivalry, the department also Martin says that there have Sylvie Labelle, who will be graduating this year from the Dance Depart­ faces the problem of aging, Newer areas been new developments in the ment, is seen here in her solo piece from the April 1983 show. In this year's according to Broes. No new subject matter of the program. programme, she will be presenting a lengthy group piece. "blood" has been coming in, and Children's literature and Worn· "The advent of feminism has it worries him that there hasn't en's literature are two newer sub­ made its presence fe_lt. There has been a fu ll-time academic jects which have healthy enrol­ been considerable interest in Student dancers to appointment in 10 years. Broes ments at every registration. courses on women writers. How­ would like to see one or two When asked what the strongest ever, we're·expanding beyond the strut their stuff young scholars in their twenties area in the department are, Broes handful of female writers, who or thirties, fresh out of graduate pointed to Shakespeare and Ren­ are acknowledged by critics and Dance students will perform in several shows choreographed by students school, teaching in the depart­ aissance Studies in general and historians, for reading lists. scheduled for April 20, 21 and 22 at the D.B. Clarke Theatre. There will be ment. American literature as being the "We 've enlarged the canon to two performance~ a day, at·5 and 8: 30 p. m. Each program will be different. Broes, however, does not want most substantial. include many authors who were The 5 p.m show will last about an hour, and will be performed on the to overemphasis this problem, The English Department, excluded because they were stage under worklights. This gives the students an opportunity for stage since it is not as bad as it seems at according to Broes, continues to women or wrote out of a different performance without-being overwhelmed by theatrical devices. first glance. Older people can ·and generate new ideas and direc­ tradition. The department is The 8:30 show will feature dancing of more advanced choreographies do renew themselves, he says. tions. For example, "there are beginning to consider changes of performed in all the formalities of precemium arch theatre. Though some get set in their several faculty members who are the reading lists to reflect this." It is advisable to come early as last year's show was standing room only. ways, others move into new trying to establish an American Another new area is the growth areas. As an example, he points to Studies program in conjunction of the study of radio-drama. The the department's highly with other University depart­ works of Professor Howard Fink Martin feels that the question think more critically of their lives scuccessful E.M. Forster Confer­ ments, such as Cinema, History led to the acquisition of the CBC of the worth and relevancy of the and decisions that they make." ence, held several years ago, and Communication Studies. Radio-Drama scripts - a major study of literature goes beyond which sparked prnch new There's no such program like that collection for Concordia. It repre­ jobs. Moreover, he says "English Teaching of composition research from the department. in Canada now." sents a new, major source of programs shouldn't be primarily Broes is pleased that the stu­ But expansion projects such as material for theses. But Martin job-oriented. The study of Professor Harry Hill, the coor­ d~nt body is as vital and healthy this can only be considered tenta­ says that the changes the collec­ English literature gives people dinator of composition for the as ever. Enrolment. is growing, tive. Broes says that "a lot of tion has brought about are even the ability to analyze and synthe­ department, does not like the and there are now 635 studying people feel this is period of sus­ more far-reaching. "This is non­ size knowledge. People learn way composition is taught. the major. pension. There is a new Rector traditional material which is how to bring together large "What can a student learn in a and Vice-Rector coming in and causing methods to reflect that it amounts of information, draw three-credit composition Decline in specialization people feel not much is happen­ was written to be heard, not seen. important facts from it and make course?" he asks. "Hours are ing at the moment. The authors are not of literary conclusions. ludicrously short. The average At the same time, however, he "There is no immediate sense merit. They more of a pop culture · "Furthermore, it promotes class is two hours a week. This · points to a decline in Honors and of where we are going. The pro­ and social history nature. These greater understanding of the lan­ causes a lot of tension in the Specialization. He attributes the tracted contractual negotiations scripts expand the bounds of tra­ guage and the way language con­ classroom. Progress must be decline to economic factors. created uncertainty and affected ditional English." veys meaning. Seeing the plot is quick, where it should be slow." "Many students do not want to go the morale of the faculty. When not the only important level of Hill adds, "we have 43 teach­ into teaching because of limited these administrative positions What to do with English MA meaning. There is an element of ers of composition, 42 of whom employment possibilities. So , are filled, then I think people rhetoric. In literature we are are part-time employees. They they study English to broaden within the department will feel The question of what students always persuaded. If you are are paid $2200 per three-credit themselves. They have a more better and be able to feel a new do with an MA in English has going to act intelligently in the course. The class size is raised flexible approach and are more sense of where the university is long been difficult one. When it world, you must know how to annually by the administration; pragmatic and job-oriented than going." was put to Martin, he acknowl­ persuade and at the same time, there should be 15 students per students in the 1960s and early edged that the possibility of easy how not to be persuaded." course, yet we end up with 26. 1970s. Important Changes entry into the teaching field is Thus, Martin feels that litera­ "When assignments are read, "There are also many students limited. He ·said that 15% of the ture can be valuable for lawyers, corrected and re-corrected by the from outside the department Despite these difficulties, how­ studen'ts go on for their doctor­ politicians and everyday citizens. instructors, you have extremely who are taking 200 and 300 level ever, the English Department ates immediately or shortly after. He finds it frightening that con­ nasty, short-sighted and ignorant courses as electives. The most continues to progress. Graduate Four Concordia graduates are at temporary people are "specializ­ exploitation by the University of popular are the Romantics and Program Director Robert Martin the University of Toronto, and ing," going from CEGEP into law its part-time employees. the Victorians. Every year, we says that important changes have three at York University, study­ and medicine without any back­ "To expect that these employ­ mount two to fo ur sections of taken place in the program, and ing for their PhDs. Some go into ground in the humanities. ees can give individual tutorials these courses. This is common to one of the major ones lies in the journalism or publishing, and Says Martin, "people are run­ is an absurdity, yet they still do Concordia and most other uni­ make-up of the student body. s9me manage to get jobs in the ning society without any knowl­ it." versities. Says Martin, "The graduate teaching of English as a second edge of literature and history. But adversity breeds strength, "The least popular is the 18th program at Sir George was orient- language. They often lack ·the ability to See ENGLISH page 7 April 12, 1984 THE THURSDAY REPORf Page 7

·ter known. Suddenly being a ENGLISH writer has become a viable strat­ Continued from page 6 egy for life." Shift "W"ork causes and in spite of all rhe drawbacks, With increasing popularity the composition program is "still there are hints of expansion. strong, but not as strong as it According to Geddes, talks have stress, studies say should be - due to a lack of been held about having a sepa­ funds. It costs about $240,000 -a rate department. The Dean has year to run. That's nothing for 80 said no for the moment. But Management's Jamal studies problem to 90 classes. Yet, we've received Geddes predicted it might be a By Simon Twiston Davies fewer complaints than ever since fact in three or four years. So you think you have pro­ the program was tightened. We Geddes described the benefits blems working at a nine to five have thorough testing for levels of separation. "We'd like to have job? Just think of making a as well as a system of final exami­ greater control of who enters into change and doing it from mid­ nations that are common to all the program, and a joint honours night until eight in the morning. sections." in creative writing and theatre. You would soon begin to feel the Hill admits that it is hard to Students could then take advan­ stresses and strains of doing shift think of ways of improving the tage of courses in plays and the­ work, according to Management situation, especially with such a atre. Students should spend time Professor Muhammad Jamal. tight budget. "The morale of in the theatre if they intend to Doctors, nurses, firemen, bus instructors is low, rock-bottom. become playwrights. · drivers, social workers, jour­ Despite all the requests for lower "We'd also like to have proper nalists, policemen and many class size, more often than not, facilities. Some space set aside others all work in what Jamal they are raised without consulta­ for us downtown, where we orig­ calls "deviant shift patterns." tion. Chariman Broes and I for­ inated and most of our clientele These workers, according to ward the complaints, almost is . We're too spread out. We need Jamal, make up some 35% of the always agreeing with the instruc­ physical space fo r our program. workforce. And here in Canada tors, but very little happens:' A place where we can have a they don't get much of an extra physical sense of being a depart­ return for their trouble. Creative Writing booming ment and a program." ' 'There is virtually no In spite of the limited fa cilities, monetary incentive in Canada Creative Writing Coordinator though, Geddes says the program for people who work on shifts Gary Geddes says the program is is getting better all the time. Pro­ thriving with up to 450 people cedures for selecting applicants other than the regular day shift,'' Jamal says Jamal. "In Europe, especial­ enrolled. Geddes explains why in are becoming increasingly rigor­ ly in Great Britain, I _have Most importantly, he says, periods. They don't seem to have such a bad economy, it is under­ ous. Candidates now must apply discovered that if people have to their motivation is affected, the same health prol:\J.ems or standable people are enrolling. with a portfolio, otherwise they work a deviant shift they are especially those who work psychological problems as other He links it to a prevailing sense will not be considered. And likely to be given as much as a 25 rotating shifts, shifts when the groups." of imminenJ disaster. People are . fewer students are entering who to 30% premium. Here in nurse sometimes works days and According to Jamal, who has unwilling to go down with the don't really belong. Canada and in the United States at other times nights. There is a taken surveys in Vancouver as Titanic without at least register­ In the program the study of the highest figure I have been higher rate of absenteeism, a well as in Montreal, the people ing their protest. "Writing is a prose is in greatest demand. able to come up with is .around higher turnover of staff and often who adapt best to shift work are strategy for survival if you are a There are twice as many people seven per cent. a state of depression is mention­ those whose families have a serious person. It is a way to studying short-story writing and "The majority would be get­ ed. "There was a marked dif­ history of regular shift working. share your insights." novels as there are studying the ting around three to five per cent ference in the attitudes and per-­ "They are more willing and they The recent popularity of Cana­ writing of plays and poetry. and if you take the tax out of that for_mance of those working are less likely to be disturbed by dian writers is another reason for There are courses in writing non­ you end up with something close regular or fixed shifts,' ' add.s working irregular shifts. If your the interest in creative writing. fiction as well. to 1½%," he adds. Jamal. mother, father or brother or Says Geddes, "In the 1950s, we Geddes says that the program Jamal has carried out five ma­ Another grouping that Jamal sister has worked regularly as a didn't know our own writers. But is becoming widely known in jor surveys in the last four years has examined recently has been shift worker you will know of since the 1960s there has been a Canada and there are now regu­ to determine the effects that shift some 250 firemen in the Mon­ the advantages and disadvan­ great burgeoning of the artist in lar calls from the U.S. He believes work had on people's lives. treal area. As a rule they work tages and you will probably find Canada. that good things are going to Among those he has looked at in shifts of four days on duty, it a much more acceptable kind "Canadian writers are now result from it. depth have been nurses, firemen maybe for between 10 and 12 of work,'' explains Jamal. going around to schools. While "If one out of ten of our stu­ and a group of blue-collar hours, and then have four days So , when next you feel at 11 they may not be as well-known as dents turns out to be a good workers. off. "However, to our surprise, o'clock in the morning, after a corrupt drug-squad chiefs or writer, there will be quite a crop Shift work, Jamal has found, is they did not complain of the couple of hours' work, that it is sports figures, they are now bet- of them in ten year's time." a very important stress factor in same problems which other going to be a long, long day, hospital work. The way that rotating shift workers mention," remember the fellow on the hospital management treats this says Jamal. "This is probably night shift who is thinking the Come and Find Out has a major impact on the effi­ because, although they are on same thing at 2 a.m . For him it is ciency and morale of hospital duty when at the fire station, probably a lot worse. employees. they are given plenty of rest "Unless this is recognized it HoW to Start a will remain a very strong stress factor for hospital workers of all kinds. It should be remembered Business in that one of the things which Technology & women create job stress is the timing of the hours you work," explains conference to be held Montreal Jamal. • finding the right opportunity His most recent look at the The Concordia Centre for bring together speakers from nursing profession was a survey Management Studies will hold a industry, education, health care • pitfalls to avoid he took of 500 nurses in Lachine. three-day conference on "Tech­ and business, such as Ratna Ray, Two hu·ndred twenty-five nology: Today's Challenge to Director of the Women's Bureau, • how to go about it responded to his questionnaire Women" on June 17 to 19 at Le Labour Canada, Heather Men­ • sources of assistance and the questions included Chateau Champlain. The confer­ zies, author of the report Women queries about job satisfaction, ence will be co-sponsored by and the Chip, and Rosella Bjorn­ Date: Tues, May 15 job performance, loyalty to the L' Association des Femmes de son, first woman airline pilot in employer, mental health, Carri-eres du Montreal Metropo­ Canada and first woman quali­ Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. physical health, and questions litain. fied jet airline first officer in Place: D.B. Clarke Theatre, Hall Building about how shift work affects the Women in all fields of endeav­ North America. There will be a Admission: $6.00 general public, $3.00 students. respondent's social life. our are facing new challenges in four-track feature: health care, "Ninety-eight per cent of the the workplace because of the office automation, industry Includes 1984 publication '' Starting a Business in nurses who replied were swift advance of technology. robotics marketing and educa­ Montreal" female, and I feel that they are Hence, the female worker's tion; so the delegates will be able definitely the most affected roles, opportunities and concerns to choose a subject of their inter­ Organized jointly by the Concordia Faculty of group of all those I have examin­ face continual change. est to attend throughout the Commerce & the Montreal Board of Trade ed so far," says Jamal. This bilingual conference will three-day confe rence. Page 8 THE THURSDAY REPORT April 12, 1984

International syn1posiun1 of Circuits and Systen1s Society to be held

Concordia's Engineering Fac­ equipment by APPLICON, and ulty is determined to make the personal computers by IBM in Institute of Electrical and Elec­ the area of circuits and systems. tronics Engineering (IEEE) 1984 On May 8, the Rector John International Symposium of its O'Brien will host a reception for Circuits and Systems Society, to the symposium participants. An be held at the Queen Elizabeth awards banquet is scheduled for Hotel from May 7 to 10, one of the evening of May 9, when the the most successful and memora­ best paper awards, the 1984 IEEE ble in the 100 year history of the fellowship awards of the society IEEE. and , this year, the IEEE centen­ Approximately 1000 delegates nial medals and certificates will 'lrenton State College Professor Alan Dawley will be speaking on from various parts of the world be awarded to certain members "Immigrant Workers and the American State: 1917-1922" on April 13 at will be attending. Concordia fac­ of the society in recognition of 11 :45 a.m. in room 405 of Central Building of the Loyola Campus. Dawley ulty members are playing a big their exceptional service to the is author of "Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn" part in the symposium's organi­ profession. As an added after­ which was awarded the Bancroft Prize in American History in 1977. For zation. Engineering and Com­ dinner treat, there will be a pro­ more info, call Frank Chalk at 879-4214 or leave a message at 879-5893. puter Science Dean M.N.S. Swa­ gram featuring ethnic entertain­ my is its general chairman , while ment. professors V. Ramachandran is The IEEE is the world's largest vice-chairman; and M. O. Ahman and most prestigious organiza­ is local arrangements chairman. tion of electrical engineers with a Other professors serving on the world membership in excess of Symposium Committee are V. K. 220,000. Its various societies Bhargava, responsible fo r short hold international conferences courses; K. Thulasiraman, each year in different cities to finance; B.B. Bhatacharyya, provide a forum for notable elec­ member of technical control trical engineers to present results committee. of their latest research projects This year, the Symposium and engage in mutual discussion Committee has assembled a bal­ and exchange of ideas. ,mced program of high technical quality representing all aspects of circuits and systems, comprising over 400 papers from 38 different countries. Among the areas included are circuits and systems EASTER in robotics; use of personal com­ ••• puters in Computer Assisted Design; test technology of large systems; speech and image cod­ What does it mean? . ing; applications of signal proc- .. . spring? . essing in communications; VLSI layout design and testing; active, ... end of semester? digital, switched-capacitor, adap­ ... Job hunting? tive and time-varying filters; lin­ ear, non-linear, and multidimen­ sional systems; power system analysis and dynamics; model­ ling and simulation; graphs and network§; and other subjects. The &rghlight of the May 8 opening session will be the inau­ gural speech by the IEEE presi­ dent, Richard Gowen, on the top­ ic Entering our Second Session. · May 7th is exclusively reserved for three short courses on high interest topics: gate arrays; · an approach to semi-custom design; optimal operation of electric power systems; and digital com­ munications by satellite. There are three tutorials sched­ uled for May 9 and 10 on robotics in electronic manufacturing, architecture and applications of a programmable monolithic digital signal processor, and two-dimen­ sional circuit and system theory. SGW Chaplaincy 879-4551 These short courses and tutorials CUSA879-4500 will be offered by some of the leading experts in the field. Another feature that has been Tonight at 8:30 in room H-937 in the Hall Building. introduced at the symposium is • special demonstrations of CAD April 12, 1984 THE THURSDAY REPORT Page 9

Safety expert visits Fine Arts Safety expert Michael McCann The second day McCann was visited Concordia's Fine Arts at Concordia was devoted to Building late last month at the teaching: a seminar in the morn­ invitation of Fine Arts Dean Tony ing was attended by 110 students, Emery and Occupational Health staff and faculty and some visi­ and Safety Coordinator Susan tors from outside institutions Magor. including the Ministry of Educa­ The· purpose of his visit was tion. ,McCann outlined general two-fold: to inform the Fine Arts h_azards associated with the vis­ .community about hazards and ual arts, ways in which toxic safety measures concerning the materials enter the body, and the materials and methods used in acute and chronic health effects their work, and to examine and which may result. prepare a report on work and He also described various safety conditions in the Fine Arts methods of controlling or limit­ community. ing exposure through substitu­ McCann's message was clear: tion of materials, isolation qf par­ art can be a hazardous business. ticularly hazardous procedures, Many of the materials and proc­ industrial ventilation, adminis- . esses used present a significant. trative controls and use of per­ threat to health and safety unless · sonal protective equipment. adequate controls are taken. The During the afternoon, he con­ place to start is with info rmatio11 ducted workshops devoted to about the materials themselves. hazards particular to printmak­ Artistic freedom is no excuse ing, photography, sculpture and Chinese delega tion meets with Commerce & Adminis tration representatives. for working u9safely, particular­ ceramics. He was assisted by Vic­ ly in a school or communal studio tor Royce, an industrial hygiene where one person's poor habits specialist in industrial ventilation can affect others. and controls methods from Canada/China Managelllent He charged teachers with the McGill's Environmental Labora­ responsibility fo r setting an tory at the School of Occupation­ example and stressed the impor­ al Health, and Dr. Serge Gingras, progratn _get~ undeiway tance of building health and a physician of CLSC Centre-Ville safety information and training specializing in occupational into the teaching of art itself. health. The workshops were fol­ The Concordia Faculty of Com-' China at both People's Universi­ cordia Faculty of Commerce and During the first day of his two lowed by a panel discussion, merce and Administration are ty and Tianjin University. In ad­ Administration has had three day visit, McCann toured tlie wrap-up and question period. hosts this week to a four-man dition, some Chinese students Chinese students in the MBA Fine Arts Building paying partic­ delegation from the People's can enter the graduate business program since fall 1983, and has ular attention to the studios; he Well-known exp.ert University of China, Beijing, administration programs in one Visiting Scholar, all from the also met with the Dean, the China. The delegation consists of Montreal. Four MBA courses are People's University of China. Director of Physical Plant, the Although this was his first visit Professor Li Zhen Zhong, Vice­ planned for the summer of 1984 Next year, some will come from Fine Arts Safety Committee - to a Quebec institution, McCann President, Professor Chen Gong, in China. Furthermore, the Con- Tianjin. which gave him an outline of the has visited many schools across Chairman, Finance Department, committee's concerns - and the Canada and the US. A well Professor Che Li, Vice Chair­ Health and Safety Coordina­ known expert on art hazards, man; Trade and Economics TWENTY tor. While he walked through McCann holds a PhD in Chemis­ Department, and Professor Shen each area, he discussed his find­ try from Columbia University Xui Sun, Deputy Director, Continued from page 4 ings and recommendations with and is a certified Industrial English Department. those in charge of each area. Hygienist. Our Faculty of Commerce and pie can acquire a good education. what was almost a Third World In general, he found Concor­ In addition to his work at the Administration has been That seems their last concern. in the city, immigrants and dia's facilities no worse than Centre for Occupational Hazards selected as one of the leading The role Sir George once single mothers - not the usual most schools he has visited and in in New York, which publishes a Canadian Management Faculties played in relation to night people who could afford to go to some areas, namely the metal monthly Art Hazard Newsletter, to part i cipate in the school, adult, and part-time school. · and wood working shops, were he is author of many books and Canada/China Manageme"nt Pro­ education used to be important. It is a more conventional place excellent examples of ventilation articles and is a member of the gram. CIDA and ministries of the It made the place. distinctive. today. There has been a pro­ and administrative safety con­ Canadian Health and Welfare Ad People's Republic of China have Most administrators are no gressive bureaucratization, ,the trols. Hoc Committee on Art Hazards. reached an agreement for finan­ longer comfortable with it. They establishment of a rigid hierar­ Room for improvement cial aid to fund this program, feel vaguely embarrassed by it, chy at the expense of our rela­ But there areas where there is which will link leading Canadian that it makes them look second­ tionship to our students. room for improvement. Although BROES management faculties with eight rate. The Loyola administrators There was an integrity then. it will be a month before McCann Continued from page 2 Chinese universities. don't sufficiently appreciate that We were impoverished, but it issues his final report, it will The four Montreal facilities - role. was a genteel poverty. We knew include the final recommenda­ Concordia, HEC, McGill and will continue to need both cam­ Crowding unbelievable then what level we were at and didn't tions, to wit: puses for the foreseeable future. UQAM - have formed a consor­ pretend we were bigger. • improved fire safety and The existence of a great variety tium which has linked with two Michael Marsden, Geography I think what the students get accident and incident reporting; of flexible programmes, most of Chinese universities: People's The crowding was today is better and better. We've • formulation of a health and them available on both of our University of China at Beijing unbelievable then. You couldn't enriched the total quality and safety program with tighter two very distinctive campuses, and . Tianjin University at change classes when the bell range of teaching. But I don't get administrative controls and more gives us many very real advan­ Tianjin. rang. You shuffled along with the feeling the students have an power to the Health and Safety tages vis-ii-vis our chief rival, Thus, the Montreal consor­ the crowd, your lecture notes objective. Students then weren't Committee; McGill, advantages which can tium is handling a quarter of the doubled up against you. It's more intelligent, but there was • modifications to the ventila­ best be realized by trying to put total linkage in the program. Dr. paradise now compared to then. more desire and motivation. I tion system particularly in the .aside our outdated perspectives Kirpalani is in charge of the pro­ There were· no resources then. was corrected in class, con­ areas of silkscreen and photogra­ and rivalries - ultimately mean­ gram from the Concordia side. A wall map was the budget for a tradicted, told when I was being phy. ingless to our students, most of Dean Stephen Applebaum is year. There was also no hierar­ obscure. I can make a mistake to­ In the case of the latter, if costly whom know little of Loyola Col­ firmly in support of this program chy, but rather a loose, informal day and nobody will twitch. renovations cannot be done, he lege or Sir George Williams and has strongly encouraged its cooperation. You could ap­ I don't want to sound like I'm suggests substituting less hazard­ University and their varied tradi­ growth. proach a dean or rector. They criticizing the present in relation ous materials or limiting expo­ tions - to achieve a truly unified The first phase will run for might answer their own phones. to the past. I'm critical of it in sure to toxic fumes by reducing· university. four years and, all going well, Henry Hall was a very liberal, terms of what we could do. We time spent in these areas and the Arthur Broes there will be subsequent phases. open man , welcoming have definitely gone up in what use of properly selected personal Chairman In the first phase, eight first-year everybody in. The whole objec­ . we can give, .and we give it to protective equipment. Department of English MBA courses will be given in tive was the community, helping many more people. Page 10 THE THURSDAY REPORT April 12, 1984

PhD in HUD1anities starts up

By Howard Shrier Twelve years ago, Concordia's those who want a more struc­ ,., Fidler credits his predecessor, PhD in Humanities program had tured program. John Drysdale, assistant de~n of precisely one student, and "ex­ Social · and Historical Context curriculum, Arts and Sci.ence, perimental" status granted by of Literature and Art, for in­ with establishing the special Queb ec ' s Con s.e i l des stance, featured Brecht's Berlin , theme format, and says no Universites. this past year. Seminars, lec­ radical change is planned for his Next year, up to 30 students tures, films and other activities three-year term. are anticipated, and the ex­ were provided to help examine "The Conseil's review gave us perimental tag is about to go. the creative work spawned by the green light to continue along Conseil members returned in the political and social chaos of the lines developed over the last November to review the pro­ Weimar Germany. three years. For most · of my gram and liked what they saw; The special theme for 1984-85 term, I want to see the consolida­ they have recommended to the is the Bloomsbury group of tion of these themes. And I want Minister of Education that it be British writers between the to attract good students and made permanent. wars, personified by Virginia faculty." "For some reason, we retained Woolf. Students with the ability and our experimental status longer The other two topic areas are scope for such a program should than expected,'' said director Social and Political Thought in take note that the federal Social Geoffrey Fidler. "But they have the Modern West (Special theme: Sciences and Humanities now recommended that we be The Enlightenment and , Its Research Council offers awards made a permanent graduate pro­ Legacy). and Mentalites Collec­ for graduate study, as does gram, and there is no reason to tives (Images of Authority in Quebec. Concordia fellowships The Conservatory of Cinematographic Art will be running a series of films believe we won't be accepted." Time). are also available. by Alfred Hitchcock in May. Along with a steadily expan­ ding population, the PhD in Humanities boasts a new pro­ gram: Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture. Historical Bliss to shoW"case This is not for everyone, but for academically superior students capable of doctoral Concordia talent level work in one discipline, and Masters' quality (at least) in one or two others. Shooting begins next week on tions program. Springate is also Eisenstein's Potemkin; by the been seen this year in Leopard 6 A student's proposal must be the film adaptation of theatre seeking additional funds from 13th century Yuan drama; ·by - Client O at the Spectrum, and so truly interdisciplinary that ex­ professor Michael Springate's public and private sources. Beckett; by Lukacs. in The Manual of Pi.ety (A isting doctoral programs cannot play Historical Bliss. Explorations grants are given "But 'the real source and in­ Brecht/Weill cabaret) at the accommodate it. The 30-minute colour film will only to projects which attempt fluence, " he added, "is the com­ Faculty Club and at the F.C. The Humanities Committee showcase Concordia talent from something new and original. mon but important confusion in Smith Auditorium. .,. (HC) , consisting of six faculty many perspectives. Asked what was new about our society regarding internal "We both like to improvise from Arts and Science and one Like the play, last staged at the Historical Bliss, Springate thought and social relations." and not necessarily write what from Fine Arts and chaired by D.B. Clarke in January, the film replied: ''The language, certain­ The film version of Historical comes out of the improv, but Fidler, must also be sure Concor­ will be written and directed by ly. The use of film? ... No, but Bliss marks the fourth collabora­ allow ourselves to be influenced dia has the . resources, human Springate. perhaps the exploration of cer­ tion between Springate and Stan­ ' by it and go off on our own per­ and physical, to handle a stu­ Theatre department alumnus tain images/language. Not so djofski, dating back to the con­ sonal tangents," he said. dent's planned program. Theoharis Standjofski will much the components, ~ut the · troversial 1982 production of Historical Bliss (The Movie) Each student accepted works recreate his role of a man left by synthesis I seek, conceptual as MacBeth. should be shot, developed and with an advisory committee (AC) his wife and child, who dresses well as sensual." "Michael is the only person edited by late spring or early headed by a professor from the as a geisha and re-enacts his The work was influenced, said I've worked with who thinks like summer. The Concordia com­ major field. The AC's three wife's tea ceremony in trying to Springate, by Mizoguchi's Uget­ I do about work and writing," munity should be able to see the members make a long-term com­ understand why she left. su; by Godard's Passion and said Standjofski, who has also work of some of its fellows mitment to the student, guiding Audio-Visual employee Brian sometime soon after that. him or her, providing tutorials McNeil, whose photo exhibition where listed courses are insuffi­ Cibachromes is now showing at cient, designing bibliographies, Pollock Concert Hall, will be Students start and serving as liaisons to the HC. · director of photography of the "' Concordia faculty have so far 16mm film (McNeil's films in­ been eager to participate, said clude Mark Prent: Overview) . small business bureau Fidler. "They do it almost for the Theatre professor Brian Doubt joy of it, for the intellectual serves as movement coach; stu­ By Teresa Allan reward of working with good dent Ann Stratford is production Entrepreneurs and small community. PhD students." assistant; and the costumes, in­ business people take note: Con­ Small business is Canada's ma­ Dugald Reid, manager; Nora More formal arrangements cluding a stunning, blazing cordia is starting a Small jor business. Concordia's con­ Flaherty, assistant manager; and may have to be made, however, kimono, are by professor Valerie Business Consulting Bureau. The sultants hope that the Bureau is Tim Pepper, Roy Pottle, Therese if the program's demands Kaelin. objective of the Bureau is to pro­ just the beginning of a long and Morin and Bill Kaldis, con­ become too great, or if the new "I believe some of my best vide consulting services of high fruitful relationship between the sultants, have all been working CUFA collective agreement thoughts regarding the interplay quality to small business, as well university and the small with the Bureau's committee to governs workloads too strictly, of historical conceptions of socie­ as valuable experience ,and business sector. The Bureau will ensure · that the Bureau's first Fidler added. ty are developed and juxtaposed employment to Commerce not only be providing services to summer will be a successful one. Students, too, are motivated by in Historial Bliss," Springate students. The Bureau will com­ small businesses in the Montreal To date the Bureau's members intellectual reward, he stated. says. mence operations this summer area but also hopes to be a and organizing committee have "They come here genuinely in­ After two stage productions and be organized within the resource center through offering conducted a logo competition, terested in what they are about (the first at Studio Altaire last Department of Management information on accounting, taxa­ coordinated fund-raising ac­ to do, despite the present social yea·r). he wanted to film (Graduate Studies). · tion and computers, to give a few tivities, and begun to market and and economic climate of 'A PhD Historical Bliss "to push my Six students have been hired as examples. promote the Bureau. in Humanities? What'll you do thoughts and experiences into a administrators and consultants Student consultants are the Concordia's Small Business with that?' '' media which might best repre­ for the Bureau. Their task will be right choice for many small Consulting Bureau will open the Students can design their own sent them.'' to process client enquiries as businesses as the cost of the ser­ week of May 14. A formal. program from scratch, using He hopes the film will be well as generate business on vice is minimal and students ceremony will be held at Concor­ grad courses from most depart­ shown at international festivals their O"(n. To help them in the often have the most up-to-date dia to mark this event. Enquiries ments in Arts and Science and and on the museum and univer­ preparation of client reports will knowledge of technology and regarding the Consulting Bureau Fine Arts. sity circuit. be an advisory committee of procedures. Students- also have should be directed to the atten­ There are also three topic areas Historical Bliss is being funded faculty members and members their enthusiasm. Concordia's tion of Dugald Reid , care of the featuring special themes for by the Canada Council Explora- of the sma ll business consultants are no exception. MBA office (879-4273) .

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Liaising betw-een the University and the cotntnunity

Liaison lives up to its name

By Stephen Maron The word "contact" is one of the "non-traditional learners" have to overcome the fact that features as "Who's who in Liai­ ·charge of the region, "an increas- · the words the dictionary uses to · (mature students), for example, Concordia is a typical institution son" and "Who's who in Admis­ ing number of students are com­ define "liaison," and that word can be quite involved. According with a large bureaucracy and lots sions." Our third issue will deal ing from there to Concordia. certainly describes the, main to Regimbald, that campaign of red tape. We must respond to with the Registrar's Office." "The main reason is that they function of the University's Liai­ included newspaper advertising, students and their needs." Liaison sends the newsletter to are more aware of Concordia." son Office. information sessions at -shop­ "We have to see that Univer­ high school counsellors in Que­ Dobrofsky says that many "We are a two-way communi­ ping-centres and company visits. sity information is written so that bec and Ontario and to selected Maritimes students have shown cation office," says Liaison Coor­ Moreover, "the office published a prospective students can under­ schools in the Maritimes and great interest in coming to Con­ dinator Peter Regimbald. "We brochure, · Lifetime of Learning, stand it. We try to be aware. of Western Canada. It is also sent to cordia and Montreal during his disseminate information about which outlined the programs and their anxiety about choosing a the personnel departments of visits there. the University, and we receive services available for "non-tradi­ program. When we meet them various companies in Montreal. Dobrofsky explaines what he feedback about how the Univer­ tional learners." It was distrib­ face-to-face we advise them Each of the four Liaison offi­ believes is the mission of Liaison. sity and its programs are per­ uted to 900 companies, libraries about which program is best for cers, according to Cobley, is "We -exist to help people who ceived by the community. And and social organizations. them. assigned the promotion of one of want to know about U!).iversity. we relay those perceptions back The Liaison Office relies heavi­ "We talk about even.tual Concordia's four Faculties (this We help them get in, and once in, to the administration." ly on "sheer feedback" - the careers with them. We try to be a includes special functions for the we try and smooth o ut any prob­ Regimbald explains that this word-of-mouth reaction of the person, a real face to them." Faculty such as an open house) lems they may have. stream of communication is public tp Concordia. · It keeps its To this end, Liaison officers and also has a designated geo­ " Everyone should have the maintained in different ways. ''As antennae sharpened by attending place students' career priorities graphical area to cover. chance to develop themselves. As an information office we need a professional conferences where ahead of getting them into Con­ Their activities include visiting Liaison officers we are there to lot of communication from guid­ they can gain the latest insights. cordia. "There are times when high schools and attending career help give students the push they ance counsellors and academic on surveying market needs. The student come to us about a pro­ evenings in their designate areas. sometimes need." advisors. They are the people Liaison team also keep their eyes gram that doesn't exist at Concor­ They sponsor information days at Although the Liaison team has who are working in the high on how the public reacts to adver­ dia. We will send them some­ Concordia for high school guid- done a herculeant ask of getting schools and CEGEPs. _They are tising and publicity campaigns. where else when it necessary, ance counsellors. . the University on the map, some­ the people who inform students Liaison has sponsored several and we will advise the_m about all But they also offer slightly off­ times a little incident shows them on a daily basic about university marketing surveys in the last few the available options. We have a beat activities to drum home how much work remains to be education. We go out of our way.. years. "Seven years ago," Regim­ real concern for them." their main message - Concordia. done. Dobrofsky recalls several to maintain strong contacts with bald said, "we wanted to find out The latest example of this is invit­ such incidents. them. how people came to know about Self-image a problem ing 700 high school students to One man approached him and "And we keep up our own Concordia. Surprisingly, answers see the play The Comedy of Errors said, "oh Concordia. That's a mechanisms for seeing 3500- to our questionnaire showed that The greatest problem that Liai­ at the D.B. Clarke Theatre. "The French school 300 miles north of 4000 students directly each year." people knew about us through son faces is the University's self­ response has been terrific," say Quebec City, isn't it?" The task of promoting the Uni­ word-of-mouth, mostly from image. Regimbald believes that Cobley. "There will also be a Another time, a Hull student versity can be physically stagger­ friends." "the University is always looking short reception for them where asked him whetheF Concordia ing. Last year, the four Liaison Another survey done four behind itself, when it should be they can talk fo the cast. This type was in Toronto. Dobrofsky asked officers - Julia Cobley, David · years ago reaffirmed this finding. seeing itself as the vibrant, excit­ of project creates a favorable him to guess again; only this Dobrofsky, Diane McPeak and The survey, which covered two ing institution that it is. Since·we impression of Concordia:' time, he located Concordia fur­ Regimbald - together averaged groups of students - 1200 thirty­ have proof that the community ther west. Finally, Dobrofsky . 60,000 kilometers on the road. In credit Concordia students, and regards us well, we should reflect Maritimes recruiting pointed to a poster behind him, addition to the approximately 1200 entering students - also that feeling." saying Concordia was in Montre­ 325 institutions they visited, they showed that Concordia was well­ Regimbald has statistics to Liaison has been making al. Naturally, tl;ie student said, also set up inform<;1tion booths at regarded. show just how well Concordia is waves in the Maritimes. Accord­ "That's a French school, isn't it?" conventions, conferences and "People c:ame because of the regarded. He asserts that Concor­ ing to David Dobrofsky, who is in shopping malls. They mailed reputation of our programs; it is dia gets the greater share of 30,000 pieces of mail, from calen­ their excellence which convinced CEGEP students who stay and dars to small brochures, to insti­ people to come to Concordia:• study in Quebec. There is fierce . tutions ranging from elementary competition to get into traditional schools to graduate schools. Concordia vs. McGill Arts and Science programs. In That year was not unusual syndrome some programs, Concordia- has either, he explained, it was a been forced to set quotas, and typical year. But the survey also showed the three out of the four Faculties One of the two student groups persistence of the Concordia ver­ have more than enough students. VACANCIES which the Liaison Office has sus McGill syndrome. "We had a For example, Comtnerce and worked with most frequently are contradiction in terms here," Administration receives 1800 Quebec high school students observed Regimbald. "Everyone applications for 600 full-time Campus Centre Board who are entering CEGEP - "We believed in the strength of a Con­ places, and Engineering and aP.proach them so that the idea of cordia education, yet the respon­ Computer Science receives 1000 of Directors going to Concordia can develop dents felt that the programs at applications for 300 full-time in their minds over a two-year McGill were better. places. period," says Regimbald. The "Mind you, it is a generalized '3 seats for student-at-large are available on the Campus other group is CEGEP students perception, nothing more; yet it Started newsletter Centre Board of Directors. set to enter university. is still there, and we are doing The Board of Directors, the governing body of the Campus something about it." The Liaison Office has just Centre, establishes policy, financing and oversees Non-traditional learners Though Liaison works exten­ started a newsletter entitled Con­ management. sively with statistics and figures, cordia Liaision. ulia Cobley 1\vo new groups to which the it is an office which thrives on explains says the newsletter has a Applications available: office is also giving its attention human warmth. Its staff mem­ two-fold purpose. "It lets the are French CEGEP students and bers work as a team, and depend University know what Liaison Dean of Students Campus Centre "non-traditional learners." on each other for support. Every does, and it keeps Concordia in Explains Regimbald, " we've project is undertaken on a team the minds of the·external commu­ Loyola Campus Loyola Campus made inroads with these groups. basis. nity. 1\vo issues have been pub­ AD121 482-0320, ext 330 Our visits to the French CEGEPs Of necessity, this warmth is lished since last Fall, and a third 481-0320, ext 345 have been rewarding, as is evi­ carried to the c·ommunity at is due in May. denced by the substantial large. Above all, "to do this job "In each issue, we highlight a DEADLINE: April 2q 1984 increase of _Francophone stµ• requires sensilivity, "Regimbald Faculty, telling about it in an dents at Concordia." says. "You have to understand informal way. We also introduced Targeting a special group like the needs of the student, and we the non-academic staff with such . Page 12 THE THURSDAY REPORT April 12, 1984

Montreal not in BREEN Continued from page 1 great shape, say experts Breen wrote that Arbuckle­ making." While he admitted that research. By the nature of its Maag did not give any evidence the Provost is defined as the sin­ being the largest constituency in By Danny Kucharsky to support her statement that the gle authority heading the Pro­ the University, the Dean has A city. Call it proud - City of collective efforts of the two divi­ vost, it is untrue that ''the Vice clout. He cited the University of Montreal promotional slogan. sions were belittled ana and Associate Provosts have been Toronto Arts and Science Dean as A city. Call it dead - Tim Burke, maligned. Furthermore, he was given no specific powers of deci­ being considered more powerful Gazette columnist. perplexed especially by her state­ sion-making. that any bf the other academic While Montreal ain't dead, it ment that for the past 18 months, "How else could the Vice-Pro­ deans. sure isn't in such grea~ shape. At the Division II and II have tried to vosts be responsible for the daily_ He also objected to her "impli­ least that's the impression the make Faculty Council realize that operations in their programme cation" that one Dean would lead Thursday Report got after inter­ they would not served by the one­ sectors and carry recommenda­ to less research resources; " ... viewing two of Concordia's Ur­ dean model. tions on personnel matters that the Department of Psycholo­ ban Studies professors - Andy He argued that the chairmen of through the Provost to the Vice­ 'gy would suffer seriously from Melamed, co-ordinator of the those divisions supported his Rector, Acad.emic? reduced tesource allocations department and a former city statement that no compromise "How else could the Vice-Pro­ under the new structure infers planner and Mark London, an ar­ was possible in this one-dean vosts be responsible for the daily that this University's senior chitect and Executive Director of versus multi-dean argument. "If operations in their programme · administration ... is aware of your Heritage Montreal, an urban opposition to this fundamental sectors and carry recommenda­ accomplishments only because conservation group. issue existed still, it should have tions on personnel matters of the administrative structure Poor planning, widespread been raised at the subsequent through the Provost to the Vice­ currently in place in Arts and demolition, the destruction of meetings of Council. ~gic pre­ Rector, Academic? . Science. This hardly does justice green spaces, pollution, un­ cludes that compromise would "To infer that every decision to the intellectual capacity and necessary highway construction, have this fundamental principle will have to be made by the integrity of the senior administra­ ugly ·architecture and several of a single authority for Arts and 'Dean' is to present a highly cen­ tion whose support for excellence other factors have taken their toll :,... Science to co-exist within a struc­ tralized view of administration I in teaching and research is Uni­ on Montreal, making the city far ~ ture that would have four heads." have never experienced in my versity-wide ..." less attractive than it used to be. 8 Breen also did not agree with years as a senior administrator at Breen concluded that "the Pro­ As London says: "Montreal us­ 1 her depiction of the Senate­ this University, Indeed, no unit, vost is the head of the Arts and ed . to be ten times better than ;:.:: approved restructuring as "an be it a Department, a Faculty, a Science Faculty and from whom Toronto. Now it's only three E' administrative nightmare:' The series of Faculties, could function authority is delegated. I believe times better." § decision-making powers of the in the framework you present, strongly that the devolution of And now, according to Melam­ 0 Vice-Provosts in charge of pro­ devoid as it is of delegated day-to-day responsibilities and ed, there's a further threat to the Mark London gramme sectors will be essential- authority." contractual recommendations to city's well-being: gentrification. ly the same as it is at this . Breen wrote that he believed . the level of vice-Provost, coupled Gentrification is the process in victims of the process have less Illoment, he contended. there were important consider­ with the establishment of pro­ which so-called Yuppies (young and less affordable places to · Breen took issue with Arbuck­ ations which would enable the gramme sectors, does indeed urban professionals), Yumpies move to. Gentrification "helps le-Maag's conclusion that the head of Arts and Science to repre­ constitute a 'genuine com­ (young upwardly mobile profes­ increase the (city's) tax base, but Dean would have to make every sent well the constituency and pomise' ." sionals) and others move in from also increases the pain,'' he says. decision since "the Vice and procure for it the resources nec­ the suburbs, purchase inner city However, according to London Associate Deans have been given essary for the development of housing and renovate it, kick out "it's important to look at (gen­ no specific powers of decision- excellence in teaching and the poor, help jack up housing trification) in a broader perspec­ .values and contribute to the tive." Areas change and, based opening of a countless number of on social pressures, the groups CHAIRMAN trendy restaurants and high tech living within them change as Continued from page 1 furniture stores. well, he says. ''In a basically free Virtually all inner city areas of enterprise society we have to let addition to the '(teaching sup­ ing of these groupings in a proposed structure unworkable. Montreal have been hit by gen­ those changes pass." port" needs common to all of restructured Faculty would in­ While we are unanimous on trification (Carre St. Louis, The cost of subsidizing the Arts and Science, many of our crease the isolation of individual the.need for each of our divisions Shaughnessy Village, Plateau working class so that they can re­ departments have major con­ departments and produce a more to be headed by a "Dean", we Mont-Royal, Milton Park, etc.) main in. areas that are now cerns with respect to mechanical and less efficient are prepared to consider various and "the poor are getting hurt by, ·popular with the middle .class is -laboratories, space, equipment process of resource allocation. In ways of achieving this end. If a it," says Melamed, because the enormous, he says. In our socie- and technical staff); out sizable a period when.the University has solution can be found which will ?,' ty the best housing has to be oc­ inves.tment of time and energy in limited resources, this must be a permit each of Divisions II and cupied by the affluent while at research and the need for strong concern of highest priority. III to have its own "Dean" the same time the government and direct administrative sup­ Elsewhere, to be sure, large within a Faculty of Arts and should compensate those who port for this research; the exigen­ faculties of Arts and Science Science, then this solution would. lose their homes to the "gen­ cies of the new collective agree­ have functioned under a single be acceptable, provided that it trificators", he added. ment and the need for close and Dean, but have done so efficient­ was clear that these "Deans" Demolition of still useful continuous interaction between ly where there is a tradition of were in fact recogrlized as such buildings is less widespread than Chairmen and the Dean in order allocating to departments ·within Arts and Science and in it used to be, but Melamed says to administer the contract with substantial autonomy (including the University at large. that the city has just become .maximum efficiency and major budgetary autonomy). We We prefer that our concerns be "much more sly" and continues minimum friction; and, finally, have no such tradition (nor is met within a unified Faculty of to destroy buildings when it an emphasis on specialization such a tradition consistent with Arts and Science; but if the only wants to. and research which makes the the provisions of the recently set­ way to achieve this goal is to London says that although ten desirability of a unified Faculty . tied collective agreement). create separate Faculties of years ago buildings were of Arts and Science less salient Extensive budgetary Science and Social Science, then demolished without a moment's than the need tor an effective ad­ autonomy for departments we are prepared to petition for thought, a rise in citizen ministrative structure. would, furthermore, prove an such separate Faculties. awareness has helped improve While others have suggested expensive and wasteful means of We urge that nothing be decid­ the situation. While recently that the present structure has operation in this period of finan­ ed immediately on the struct_ure some historic buildings have caused problems, we believe cial constraint. of Arts and Science, but rather fallen prey to the wrecker's ball, that there are functions which it The Chairmen of Divisons II that the Board of Governors like the Dandurand House on performs very well, and we are and III feel that the structure as study all aspects of the issue. We :,... Dorchester Blvd., developers reluctant to abandon its advan­ defined by the resolutions further urge that in its delibera­ ~ now tend to build on unused tages. The allocation of resources recently · passed by Arts and tions the Board seek input from c:s land. has been carried out efficiently Science Faculty Council and all academic administrators, in ;:s As for the Old Port area of Old in the context of smaller group­ amended by Senate do not res­ particular from those ad­ ::0:: Montreal, London says that ings of departments that have pond to the needs outlined ministrators who will have to E' while there is tremendous poten: enough in common in their use above. The resolutions are work within any new structure § tial for the area, not enough has of resources to develop a detailed equivocal on precisely those of the Faculty of Arts and Q been done with it. Not surpris- sense of the working of the issues which most concern us. Science. ingly, public consultation has divisions. Such lack of clarity in the resolu­ Andy Melamed See URBAN page 13 We believe that any weaken- tions will serve only to make the April 12, 1984 THE THURSDAY REPORf Page 13

Detecting pollution with lasers Chemistry team explores new techniques - By Janet Pirie and Noel Meyer In the past decade, everyone sorbed, the medium doing the frequency 6f light absorbed is a has become energy and pollution absorbing is being heated. This qualitative measure. " conscious. These two concerns causes a temperature gradient But he describes that in terms of modern existence became in­ which makes a lens. We are that even the scientifically il­ extricably combined in the measuring light absorption, not literate can understand. Think of minds of some when they used by measuring the loss of energy, sitting on a playground swing. At urea formaldehyde foam insula­ but by measuring the change in first, a fair amount of work goes tion (UFFI) in their homes, with focus of the light path ." into getting the swing moving · sometimes disastrous results. The advantages of laser ther­ and then keeping it in motion. This led directly to a grant to mal lensing are that it does not But at a certain mom~nt, the Concordia's Chemistry depart­ change the sample, its results amount of effort required to m en t to deve l op ne w can be reproduced, it can fi nd maintain the arc becomes much technologies to test air pollution. minute quantities of pollutants, less. This is the point of One part of the two-pronged and can pinpoint the source of resonance, which varies accor­ laser-technology program is pollution. (Since it uses as .little ding to such factors as the length under the direction of Chemistry as one litre of air, samples can be of the chain and the weight of the Chairman Cooper Langford, the taken from various parts of a • person swinging. second under Prof. Steve Daunt. room and the area where Every .molecule has a rate of Langford describes the project, pollutants are most highly con­ resonance that depends on such Analytical Methodology fo r In­ centrated can be located.) It com­ variables as its weight, and it door Ai r P ollutants , as bines wet chemistry with ne_w reaches that rate when it absorbs "evaluat[ing] two parallel direc­ technology, but loses very little laser-generate d light a n d tions for improving the capacity of the original air sample. becomes heated. The light of that to detect low levels of potentially The traditional method of frequency, having been absorb­ Steve Daunt hazardous materials in an indoor analysis is just not nearly so ed by the molecule, does not pass environment.'' reliable and, according to to the end of the testing the basis of amino acids, pro­ the sake of knowledge - and a (In addition to formaldehyde, research associate Don Nadler, chamber. By its absence, the teins, and life itself, ca_n . be spectrum catalogue, an immense sulphur oxides, carbon monox­ " 10 different labs can give you testing team knows what kind of detected, samples brought back undertaking which will list the ide and nitrogen oxides are com­ 10 different results." molecules are present in the from space by NASA vehicles various frequency of the mon pollutants.) Steve Daunt is working on chamber. can be analyzed on earth. molecules to be found in space, When Langford speaks of low high resolution infrared laser "I wanted to be Carl Sagan, but This is working in the realm of is being compiled in the laser levels, he means low levels. We spectroscopy. The advantages of he got there first, " Nadler grinn­ pure science - knowledge for spectroscopy laboratory. are accustomed to hearing of this system include its portabili­ ed when the interviewer ex­ pollutants making up so many ty (it can be taken to a site on a pressed appreciation for the parts per million of an at­ cart) and its ability to pinpoint as clarity of his explanation. (In­ URBAN Continued from page 12 mosphere. Laser thermal lens­ many as four different pollutants cidentally, it also explains how i~g. the technique Langford is in a matter of seconds. But it is microwave ovens work. They been minimal, he says, noting don says it tends to get good developing, detects parts per much more expensive than ther­ emit waves that cause H,O that with little consultation on ideas ten years too late and ex­ billion (ppb). High resolution in­ mal lensing. (water) molecules to resonate the matter, two sheds at the foot ecutes them in a heavy-handed frared laser spectroscopy, Don Nadler, who works with and thus cook the food .) of Place Jacques Cartier (one and counter-productive manner Daurit's baby, deals in parts per Daunt in the Laser Spectroscopy The laser part of this which last year housed a flea with little public consultation. trillion (ppt) . Laboratory, describes the techni­ mechanism is just barely visible market) are being removed so This technique has been par­ The current technique for que: "In high resolution infrared to the human eye, and the pro­ that the view of the river will be ticularly harmful to Duluth St. , checking pollution levels in­ laser spectroscopy, a beam of cess takes place at 10°Kelvin, or improved. "It's a shame," he where a small scale regional volves what scientists call "wet coherent light passes through a - 263 °C. A metre-long observa­ says. street has been transformed into chemistry" . A large amount of sample cell in such a way that tion chamber becomes a long While London believes that a row of restaurants. air (at least 60 litres) is pumped part of the light energy is absorb­ light path with the use of mirrors the proposed Museum of Science Melamed says that any through a liquid that traps the ed by the substance under that reflect the laser beam. and Technology should go in the upgrading the city is doing is molecules of a pollutant, which analysis. The amount of light ab­ The two-part project is-funded Old Port, Melamed feels that the " designed to increase the are then coloured by a chemical sorbed is proportional to the by the National • Science and museum could help revive St. number of well-to-do in the ci­ reaction. A beam of light is pass­ amount of sample present. The Engineering Research Council Helen's Island and that the Old ty." While the city subsidizes the ed through the dyed molecules, (NSERC) under a program called Port area is better suited for middle class in an attempt to in­ and the level of pollution is Project Research Applicable to heritage museums. crease the assessed value of lodg­ measured by callibrating the Industry. Funding covers Publicly own.ed land is freely ings, it pushes the poor out and amount of energy they absorb. operating and capital costs, and available on St. Helen's Island, looks for "new ways to hit the Do we need to know when so far PRAI has given the univer­ Melamed says and the ''terribly public." such small amounts of pollution sity $115,000 for the first two underused" metro station there London says that "economic as ppts are present? This ques­ years of a grant that is renewable could provide direct access to the facts are facts'' and that the city tion has no answer: safety limits for three years. site. must, as architect Jean Claude are really only educated And since the research has an However, the old Expo '67 site Marsan put it, "manage its guesswork and as yet medical industrial application, two com­ already has too much asphalt decline as gracefully as science has little knowledge of panies, Technitrol and Circulai!'.,e and concrete, London feels and possible." the results of long-term exposure Canada, air filter manufacturers; although some of the old The city has lost much of its to low levels of pollution. will develop the final designs pavilions should be kept, the power in the past 15 years due to People who know very well and apply the technology. area is much better suited for the geographical shift of industry that something is triggering their These two techniques are green spaces and recreational ac­ to the west, in order to be closer allergies and other health pro­ pricey, buftheir costs are coming tivities, he says. to natural resources. However, blems are not happy to be told down faster than anticipated, ac­ Recently the city has attemp­ with the growth of the informa­ there is no formaldehyde, for ex­ cording to Langford. A laser ther­ ted to ' '.beautify" some of its tion industry which does not ample, in their environment, mal lensing package will cost in­ streets (Ste . Catherine, Sher­ need to be near natural when all that means is it is pre­ dustry about $30,000, and an in- brooke, Jean Talon, etc.) by resources, quality of the environ­ sent in too low concentrations to frared laser spectroscope would widening the sidewalks, putting ment becomes a big attraction, be detected by current methods. be worth about $75,000. _ up ornamental lamps, flower says London. The primary reason for testing Steve Daunt and Don Nadler pots and fancy garbage cans. "Montreal's greatest strength in ppts is the drive in men of ...,. are working on a related pro­ "It's nonsense," Melamed says. is its character, its physical science to be precise - just for gram that has Nadler very ex­ "It's just decoration to impress strength," he says, and if the the sake of good science. cited. Now that minute quan­ the tourists.' ' · quality of the city is maintained Langford explains laser ther­ tities of such primordal Although the city may finally or improved in the next 20 years, mal lensing as "a neat little swin­ molecules as ammonia, methane be thinking of upgrading the Montreal has a strong chance of dle. If light energy is being ab- Cooper Langford · and formaldehyde, which are quality of the environment, Lon- regaining its foriner prominence. Page 14 THE THURSDAY REPORf April 12, 1984

Bookon theatre published By Paul Serralheiro English professor Harry Hill is a busy man. In addition to his makes the point and quite frank­ English literature at the Univer­ active acting and teaching ly, that he doesn't care about the sity of Aberdeen, and has been careers, he has just had a book on actor's soul, because it's not what teaching at Loyola since 1970. He the theatre published by Holt, the audience cares about. They Rinehart and Winston to be looks after the English composi­ care about their soul. tion program and teaches drama released next month. Entitled A "And it doesn't matter what Voice for the Theatre, the book is and practical criticism. kind of person an actor is, as long mainly an acting manual but it His stage experience ranges as he can affect their soul. You from amateur theatre in Scotland offers much more than that. don't need to spend all that time to the professional stage and his Apart from Una May's Speak finding yourself to act somebody Up, I Can't Hear You it is the only film work includes roles in For else, that's not the point. Bob Burns Canadian voice book, and it out­ Those I Loved, a film coming out "The English method, and the does its predecessor by the soon "about Martin Green, a sur­ European method" Hill contin­ vivor of either Auschwitz or exhaustiveness and thorough­ ued, "the old fashioned ones, ness of its approach. Dachau, who, at a very early age, Bob Burns: portrait were much to the other extreme; Moreover, it is the only book in made his way to North America." very reserved, and highly techni­ existence in English that treats its In that he plays a "German cal. But Lee Strasberg went to the butcher, a very nasty German subject so completely under one of a Governor other extreme, and what is need­ cover. butcher." ed is something exactly in the Harry Hill expl_ained what He also played in a CBS movie middle. . By Janet Pirie motivated the writing of the book_ of the week with Karen Valentine "This is what Geraldine Page called Illusions in which he got a One of the newest members of In 1952 they met through roles in in a recent interview. "I've been says, that now, do you learn to be good part as a Scotland Yard Concordia's Board of Governors a radio play on CJAD for a com­ writing the book off and on, in truthful first, or do you learn how inspector. Before that he was in is teacher/broadcaster/actor/ad­ pany called the Genesians, and my head since as long as I can to be truthful, i.e. to learn tech­ Tulips with Bernadette Peters; ministrator Bob Burns. married in 1955. remember," Hill said. The main nique first? What do you do? Rabid, a horror film with Marilyn A teacher at John Abbott Col­ The fir;t thing Burns did after concept, he noted, was "that you "In music of course, you have lege, Burns graduated from his marriage was take a two-year cannot, ever, in the theatre, Chambers; Oh Heavenly Dog with Loyola in 1953. "But that was 30 paid leave of . absence from regard the voice as an instrument to learn the technique first, but Omar Sheriff, and presently he is you cannot be conceivably be years ago," he points out. " I feel teaching to study sciences only. You cannot think of it with­ working on a film called Deaf to truthful unless you do it! Well! the City based on the work of much more involved with Con­ religieuses; one of the first out the melody it's going to play. That is my view of the stage as cordia as it is today; since in the moves in Catholic education in "That's the whole message of Quebec author Marie-Clair Blais. well." last 10 years four of my seven Quebec towards having laymen the book." Hill also had done many com­ children and my wife have rather than priests and nuns Hill devotes three chapters of mercials. Hill's own favorite actors earned degrees at the new uni­ teach ·such courses. "So there I his book to the actor's "instru­ Born in Aberdeen versity." wa;, a student with two babies/' ment," i.e. his body and his voice; include Gary Cooper, Gregory This desire for finding a middle (His wife, Phyllis, who works he laughs - the broadcasting two chapters to the methods of Peck, Alec Guiness, Ralph ground may mark Harry Hill as a at Marianopolis College, earned career was really important at absorbing and understanding the Richardson, John Gielgud, classicist, and he is aware of the Laurence Olivier and Rod a BA in 1981. Daughter Mary that time. script and a final chapter to con­ conservatism inherent in his atti­ and son Bob both have BF As in temporary actors Geraldine Steiger. He feels that in acting Completely bilingual tude. He is not, however, writing theatre, Louise has a BA in ap­ Page, Fiona Reid, Karen Valen­ "the very first thing to be sought for a conservative audience, but plied social science, Alison a BA In an earlier administrative tine and Douglas Campbell who · is an appreciation of the art itself, for "young Americans" who he and an appreciation of other arts. in communication studies, and job, he was director-g~neral of give their views on various feels could benefit from his book. For him, what acting means is "to Michael is a first-year student in the Dorval School Board from aspects of their art. There is a To do so, Hill has attempted a theatre. Cathy, a daycare 1961 to 1970; and built John progression from chapter to be able to call forth at the precise language which is more Ameri­ educator, studied at Vanier. XXIII High School, "the first bi­ chapter wherein even exercises moment you're asked to call forth can in structure than European something. As Stanislavski said, Chris, already earning a reputa­ lingual co-educational high take on a larger significance, and because, he says, "if using the tion as a musician and actor, is school in the province." Burns much attention is given to even one of the chief secrets of our art language with conservative cor­ finishing high school this year -I himself grew up completely bi­ the smallest aspects of sound pro­ is to produce an emotion at the rectness loses part of the audi­ But it was at Loyola that Burns lingual; his mother is Quebec­ duction and text analysis. hour advertised for the beginning fell in love with theatre, and oise, and has always spoken ence that would be helped by the of the performance.' At half-past book, then that would be an through his theatr\! roles started French with her children. Never dry eight you cry. And feeling you his career in broadcasting. He Burns also served a term on error." want to cry is irrelevant entirely. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, appeared as Brutus in Julius the Superior Council of Educa­ The tradition, however, in Feeling you have to, is what it's Harry Hill took degrees in all about." Caesar and Thomas a Becket in tion under Camille Laurin, a post recent times has had a dynamic Murder in the Cathedral and was he feels has more than prepared dialectical split. There have been in one other play. Don McGill of him for any challenges his duties two main conceptions of the art, CBM was in the audience and for Concordia may present. He one, "method acting," having its wrote the young actor, offering feels, incidentally, that the ap­ origins in The Actor's Studio in him a job as a summer relief pointment of Yves Berube to tl}e New York , where Konstantin broadcaster. As a result, the education ministry "will certain­ Stanislavski's teachings were, in then-20-year-old worked with ly make a difference in educa­ Hill's opinion, misinterpreted, such luminaries as Lorne tors' minds." the other, a long standing Europe­ Greene, Elwood Glover, Max Like all members of the Board an approach which stresses for­ Ferguson and Earl Cameron. of Governors,. Burns serves on mal technical training. Stuck to teaching four committees: communica­ "Lee Strasberg," Hill explains, tion, fund procurement (the "when he founded the Actor's He was offered a permanent Capital Campaign Committee), Studio in New York using the job, but decided to stick to finance and operating services. Stanislavski method, ever so teaching. Fortunately, however, His long career as an ad­ slightly misunderstood he says, he was able to continue ministrator and educator, team­ Stanislavski, it's admitted now, freelance work, earning as much ed with his personable manner, and spent far too much time on weekends as he made as a will make him an asset to the finding what was called the teacher during the early. years. board. And his continuing con­ actor's centre'. Not the vocal cen­ "Teaching seemed more stable," nection with Concordia through tre, not the physical centre, but he says, "and I came from a his family makes him really care finding the actor's soul. teaching family - my father and about the university's continued " Douglas Campbell, whom brother were both teachers." growth and importance in the I've interviewed for this book, a By then he was seeing Phyllis. Montreal community. great modern classical actor, Harry Hill April 12, 1984 THE THURSDAY REPORT Page 15

Prof's play to be produced in Toronto

Coldsnap, a play written by director. Since his work in Mon­ English department lecturer Lin­ treal, he has been teaching in the da Ghan, will be performed at the theatre department of Yorj{ Uni­ Toronto Free Theatre for a two versity. week-run beginning May 22. The Henry Gomez, who plays the play was first performed in 1980 role of Preston, is also originally by the Black Theatre Workshop Trinidadian, with a background as part of the Multi-<:::ultural Fes­ similar to that of the central char­ tival. acter in the play. He first per­ It then played in Edmonton, formed the role of Preston at York representing Quebec in the University in 1982. He is familiar National Multi-Cultural Theatre to Montreal audiences through Festival. work at the Centaur. Coldsn.ap is a one-act, one man Author Linda Ghan teaches play. Preston .(Preston Carlton creative writing, English as a sec­ Andrew McNeal) has come to ond language and other subjects Canada from the West Indies for at Concordia. She writes free­ "a chance in life:' He's waiting lance features for journals like for Kathy - '.'free, white, and Flare and journal of Canadian 21." They ·:getting married. Children's Literature. She co­ Legal. And immigration can go authored a work on anglophone­ hang." francophone interaction to be Excited, happy Preston chats to published by Intercultural Press anything that will stand still - a in Chicago. tree, a squirrel, the Lord. He A short story, The Conversion , imagines and enacts the roles of was a winner in the first Chate­ eight characters - the reactions laine Fiction Contest in 1979. For of Daddy and the boys back three years, she branched into home in the rum bar to his new radio broadcasting as producer escapades in this "snow country" and host of a weekly one-hour with his black Canadian friend program on FM Radio (inter­ Harry; Kathy's Daddy's reaction views, reviews). to the news. But time is wearing At present, she is completing a on, and the mood changes. full-length play Thros' Daughter, The play is being produced by which grew out of her commu­ Scene from Top Girls, by Caryl Churchill, at the Chameleon Studio. See THE BACKPAGE for details. Fountainhead Theatre, directed nity - primarily an immigrant by Jeff Henry, the artistic director one - in Montreal, the charac­ of Fountainhead. Jeff Henry is ters, the stories, and concerns of dirty & dirty, familiar to Montreal audiences that community. Ghan is also How to talk write through his work teaching at the completing a full-length biogra­ National Theatre School from _phy; In My Father's House, co­ or listening to Ge~e Lees 1966-71. He was also a founding authored with Esther Ghan, for member of the Black Theatre which they received an Explora­ Workshop, and the first artistic tions Grant in 1983. ijy Simon Twiston Davies developments through history, there are only four words in the To hear it from Gene Lees, including a thumbnail sketch of English language which rhyme anglos are still paying a price for the development of profane comfortably with the word losing the Battle of Hastings to language. The most profane 'Love': glove, dove, shove and Physical Distribution William the Conquerer and his language, he said, was also the above. There are 51 rhymes in invading Norman army way most poetic - and Anglo-Saxon. French for the word 'Amour'. back in 1066. He said French was the better There is also a difference in at­ Management seminar "The psychological effect on language for lyric writing. titude which often shows up in English-speaking people is felt to According to Lees, English French and American/English to be.held this day," the renowned song children actually learn Anglo­ songwriting. As an example, he lyricist, novelist, dictionary com­ Saxon until three years of age, said that country and western Concordia Centre for Manage­ They will share their ideas on piler and sometime editor of then switch to largely French­ songs often explore a subject in ment Studies in cooperation with how to develop an integrated, Downbeat magazine told his rooted language. Despite the the same way as the French, but the Concordia Transportation optimum approach to profitabili­ Loyola audience. switchover, anglos tend to use the tone is different. Management Centre announces ty improvement and their in­ In English, he said, there are English-based language for In the 1940s Edith Piaf record­ a three-day Seminar on Physical sights into physical distribution two words for everything - one, emoting, and French for matters ed a song called "Jean et Mar­ Distribution Management at systems, gained from their work polite, rooted in the French of the imagination and for tine"'about the worried wife of a Montreal's Chateau Champlain as consultants to senior manage­ aristocracy, the other less refin­ abstraction. A child first learns truck driver waiting for him to Hotel June 4-6. ment of a wide variety of com­ ed, and rooted in Anglo-Saxon words like hand, foot, arm, leg,. come home. There is a current The successful management of panies and industries. peasantry. Lees expanded on his mouth, burn, feel, rain, sun and country and western song about a company's physical distribu­ For further information, pleas€ two-tier view of the English tongue. All of these words are exactly the same situation. The tion system is critical to its pro­ call Susan Long at 879-4014. anguage by offering this exam­ Anglo-Saxon in origin. difference is that in the C&W fitability. In the light of today's ple: odour, he said, derived from "In that sardonic phrase 'use song, God intercedes and brings stiffer competition, the consis­ the French; smell, from the your mentality I face up to reali­ the truck driver home through tent ability to deliver the right · English. ty,' Cole Porter used French, but the storm. "In Piaf's song, the product, at the right time, to the Lees has written lyrics for when he wanted to express guy gets killed. There is often a right location, at optimum cost, Oscar Peterson, Antonio Carlos strong images and emotion he tough reality in French songs is a major reason customers con­ Jobin and Bill Evans, among used Anglo-Saxon-based words, which is absent in American tinue to buy. Finding new and .. . and other jazz musicians. He told his as in the lines 'In the still of the songs,'' explained Lees. better ways • to distribut~ pro­ Summer's listeners he wanted to call his night I as I gaze from my window Finally, Lees stated that the ducts will assure Canadian com­ lecture "How to talk dirty and I in the moonless light / my English language is rapidly ad­ panies' competitive edge. not far write lyrics" but his wife, he thoughts will all stray to you'," ding to its vocabulary, both bor­ Ron Denham and Alan Saipe of said, urged him to come up with said Lees. rowing and inventing new Thorne Stevenson & Kellogg and away!_ something better. He settled for However, for all its advan­ words. A few years ago an Peter Schwartz of CN Rail will "Words and Music: The setting tages, English has some serious English l:lictionary had about give an information-packed of words to music, its process drawbacks as a. language in soo·,ooo entries. Very soon, ac­ seminar. Combined, they have a and history". which to write lyrics. English is cording to the language experts, wealth of practical hands-on ex­ His talk traced language back not a good rhyming language, they will be running towards perience with physical distribu­ to before the Norman conquest said Lees, who has written a 750,000 entrit;s. tion systems in many ind~stries. and touched on various rhyming dictionary. For instance Page 16 THE TH_URSDAY REPORI' April 12, 1984 ...

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Art Book Review on THE ROAD OF Sundown 5 - 6 p.m. Call 482-0320, ext. 257 (AD 304 on THE HEROES: BRANCUSI AND Saturday 14 Saturday 21 the Loyola campus) or 879-4247 THE MASTER-WORK OF 20TH CONSERVA10RY OF CINEMAT­ CONSERVA10RY OF CINEMAT­ (2100 Mackay) on the SGW campus. CENTURY SCULPTURE AT 8:30 OGRAPHIC ART: POUSSIERE Tuesday 17 OGRAPHIC ART: THE DEFIANT The Ombudsmen's services are p.m. in H-937, Hall Bldg. SGW D'EMPIRE (Liim-Le, 1983) (English CONSERVA10RY OF CINEMAT­ ONES (Stanley Kramer, 1958) confidential. campus. FREE. subt.) with Dominique Sanda, Jean­ OGRAPHIC ART: THE CONFES­ (English) with Tony Curtis, Sidney LOYOLA CAMPUS MINISTRY: THEATRE DEPARTMENT: Frani;:ois Stevenin, Anne Canovas, SIONS OF WINIFRED WAGNER Poitier, Theodore Bike! and Lon Loyola Chapel - Sunday Liturgies at 11 COMEDY OF ERRORS by William Hoan Lang, Myriam Mezieres, Le (Winifred Wagner und die Geschichte Chaney at 7 p.m.; GUESS WHO'S a.m. and 8 p.m. and every weekday, Shakespeare, directed by Joe Cazalet Dong and Thang-Long at 7 p.m. ; LE des Hauses Wahn{ried) (Hans-Jurgen COMING 10 DINNER (Stanley Monday to Friday at 12:05 p.m . at 8:30 p.m. in the D.B. Clarke GENERAL DE L'ARMEE MORTE Syberberg, 1976) (English subt.) at Kramer, 1967) (English) with Spencer ANYONE WANTING AN OPPOR­ Theatre, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. (The General of the Dead Army) 8:30 p.m. in H-110, HaJI Bldg. $1.75. '!racy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney TUNITY 10 ATTEND THE General admission, $5; students & (Luciano Tovoli, 1983) (English subt.) SGWcampus. Poitier, Katharine Houghton, Cecil YOUTH RALLY, SEPTEMBER 11, seniors, $2. SGW campus. For more with Marcello Mastroianni, Michel DOC10RAL THESIS: Helen KeJlaway, Roy E. Glenn and Beah 1984: Please give your name before information call 879-4341. Piccoli, Anouk Aimee and Gerard Deresky on AN INVESTIGATION Richards at 9 p.m. in H-110, HaJI April 15, 1984 at the Information THEATRE: WP GIRLS by Caryl Klein at 9 p.m. in H-110, Hall Bldg. AND IDENTIFICATION OF GENER­ Bldg. $1.75 each. SGW campus. booth, Hall Bldg.; or Bellmore house, Churchill at 8:30 p.m . in the Chame­ $1.75 each. SGW campus. IC STRATEGIES AND THE DIFFER­ Loyola campus; or Theological leon Studio, Loyola campus. FREE. THEATRE DEPARTMENT, ENTIAL MANAGERIAL ROLES studies, 322 Hingston Hall Bldg., Limited seating; no reservations. For COMEDY OF ERRORS by William ASSOCIATED WITH THE IMPLE­ Sunday22 Loyola campus. ·information call 879-4341. Shakespeare, direc;ted by Joe Cazalet MENTATION at 1 p.m. in H-769, CONCERT: Student Ensembles · at 8:30 p.m. in the D.B. Clarke HaJI Bldg. SGW campus. CONSERVA10RY OF CINEMAT­ Liselyn Adams and Tom Kenny, Theatre, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. CONCERT: Honoka Inoue, cello OGRAPHIC ART: KAMERADS­ directors in works by Schubert, General admission, $5; students & (student of Helene Gagne in the CHAFT (G.W. Pabst, 1931) (English UNCLASSIFIED Messaien, Schumann, Vivier and seniors, $2. SGW campus. For more Diploma in Advanced Music Per­ subt.) with Alex Granach, Fritz PROFESSIONAL TYPING: others at 8 p.m. in the Loyola Chapel, information call 879-4341. formance Studies) in works by Kampers, Ernst Busch, Daniel Reports, theses, termpapers, etc. - 7141 Sherbrooke St. W. FREE. Loyola THEATRE: WP GIRLS by Caryl Teleman, Beethoven and Saint-Saens MendaiJJe and Georges Charliu at 7 · English,French,Spanish.Also camp•.1s. Churchill at 2 and 8:30 p.m . in the at 8 p.m. in the Loyola Chapel, 7141 p.m.; DUPONT LAJOIE (Yves editing, proofreading, translation. WEISSMAN GALLERY & GAL­ Chameleon Studio, Loyola campus. Sherbrooke St. W. FREE. Loyola Boisse!, 1974) (French) with Jean Quality and punctuality. Near ' LERY I: GOODRIDGE ROBERTS: FREE. Limited seating; no reserva­ campus. Carmel, Pierre Tomade, Michel Sherbrooke/University- 849-9708 THE FIGURE WORKS, until May 5. tions. For information call 879-4341. SGW FACULTY CLUB: Coffee Peyrelon, Jean Bouise, Ginette before 9 p.m .. Thy weekends too. Guided tours of the exhibition will CONCERT: The Concordia Orches­ 10:30- 11 :30 a.m .; Lunch 12 noon - 2 Garcin and Isabelle Huppert at 9 10 SHARE: Beautiful and spacy be given every Wednesday at 1:30 tra and Choir under the direction of p.m.; Tea and Supper 5 - 8:30 p.m.; p.m. in H-110, HaJI Bldg. $1.75 each. 5½, near Loyola campus, starting p.m. Group tours available upon Sherman Friedland and Christopher Sundown 5 - 6 p.m. SGWcampus. May. 486-8756. request, call 879-5917 during the Jackson in works by Borodin, Mozart YOUR HOUSE IDLE & EMPTY week. Mezzanine, Hall Bldg. SGW and Crossman at 8 p.m. in the Loyola THIS SUMMER? US professors, ·campus. Chapel, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W. Wednesday 18 NOfICES students could rent your lofty home GALLERY II: FIGURE PAINTING FREE. Loyola campus. CONSERVA10RY OF CINEMAT­ CPR COURSE: April 28, 1984 - CPR or dingy flat for the summer or the IN MONTREAL 1935-1955, until May OGRAPHIC ART: THE TIN DRUM Refreshe.r course, 8 hours for life. academic year. For further info. toss 5. Mezzanine, Hall Bldg. SGW (Volker Schlondorff, 1979) (English This course is offered to people your address into an envelope and campus. Sunday 15 subt.) with Mario Adorf, Angela certified in the CPR Basic Life mail to: ACADEMIC HOUSING AFRICAN ART FROM THE CONSERVA10RY OF CINEMAT­ Winkler, David Bennent, Daniel Support course that want to renew EXCHANGE, 6186 NDG Avenue 25, COLLECTIONS OF McGILL AND OGRAPHIC ART: SEVEN BEAU­ Olbrychski, Charles Aznavour and their certification and update their H4B 1K8. CONCORDIA on view till April 21, TIES (Pasqualino: Sette Bellezze) (Lina Andrea Ferreol at 8:30 p.m . in H-110, knowledge. For information, please Mezzanine, Hall Bldg. SGW campus. Wertmuller, 1975) (English subt.) HaJI Bldg. $1.75. SGW campus. call Nicole Saltiel at 879-8572. SGW FACULTY CLUB: Coffee with Giancarlo Giannini, Shirley WYOLA FILM SERIES: THE ATTENTION: ALL FALL 1984 10:30 - 11 :30 a.m.; Lunch 12 noon - 2 Stoler, Fernando Rey, Elena Fiore TREE OF THE WOODEN CLOGS CERTIFICATE, DIPWMA, p.m.; Tea and Supper 5 - 8:30 p.m.; and Enzo Vitale at 7 p.m.; VOmGE (L'Albero Degli Zoccoli) (Ermanno BACHEWR'S, MASTER'S, AND TGIT 5 - 7 p.m. OF THE DAMNED (Stuart Rosen­ Olmi, 1977) (English subt.) with DOC10RAL DEGREE CANDI­ Thenext berg, 1976) (English) with Max Von Luigi Ornaghi, Lucia Pezzoli, DATES: Sydow, Faye Dunaway, Oskar Giuseppe Brignoli at 7 p.m. in the If you are completing the require­ Thursday Report Friday 13 Werner, Lee.Grant, Malcolm McDo­ F.C. Smith auditorium, 7141 ments for your certificate, degree, or CONSERVA10RY OF CINEMAT­ well, Orson Welles and Helmut Sherbrooke Street W. Loyola campus. diploma program this Summer and will appear OGRAPHIC ART: LA PALOM­ Griem at 9 p.m. in H-110, Hall Bldg. FREE. therefore expect to be considered as BIERE Uean-Pierre Denis, 1983) Sl.75 each. SGW campus. CONCERT: Michel Gauthier, organ a graduation candidate this ·Fall, onjune7 (English subt.) with Jean-Claude THEATRE: WP GIRLS by Caryl (student of Bernard Lagace in the YOU must inform the Graduation Bourbault and Christiane Millet at 7 Churchill at 8:30 p.m. in the Chame­ Diploma in Advanced Music Per­ Office by submitting a Fall 1984 p.m.; LES Mars POUR LE DIRE leon Studio, Loyola campus. FREE. formance Studies) in works by Bach Graduation Application no later than (Words to Say it) Uose Pinheiro, 1983) Limited seating; no reservations. For (Leipzig Chorales), Reger and July 15th, 1984. (English subt.) with Nicole Garcia, information call 879-4341. Hindemith at 8 p.m., St-Matthias STUDENTS WHO DO NOT APPLY Marie-Christine Barrault, Claude Church. BY THIS DATE WILL NOT GRADU­ Rich, Daniel Mesguich and Jean-Lu~ SGW FACULTY CLUB: Coffee ATE THIS FALL. Boutte at 9 p.m. in H-110, Hall Bldg. Monday 16 10:30 - 11 :30 a .m .; Lunch 12 noon -2 Obtain your form at the Registrar's $1.75 each. SGW campus. CONSERVA10RY OF CINEMAT­ p.m.; Tea and Supper 5 - 8:30 p.m .; Services Department on your . .- HIS10RY AND SOCIOLOGY OGRAPHIC ART: LACOMBE Sundown 5 - 6 p.m . campus and submit it today. LOY­ DEPARTMENTS: Alan Dawley, LUCIEN (Louis Malle, 1974) (French) OLA, CC-214, SGW, N-107. Assoc. Prof. of History at 'Ire.nton with Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clement, AJOB FINDING CLUB will be State College in New Jersey and Holger Lowenadler and Therese , Thursday 19 held from May 7 - May 18 to assist author of Class and Community: The Giehse at 8:30 p.m. in H-110, Hall SCIENCE COLLEGE PUBLIC 1983-84 graduates with their job Industrial Revolution in Lynn, which Bldg. $1.75. SGW campus. LECTURE: Dr. Carleen M. Hut­ search strategies. Details available at was awarded the Bancroft Prize in , LONERGAN UNIVERSITY chins, Acoustical Society of America, Guidance Services in H-440, Hall American History in 1977 will speak COLLEGE: Dr. Sophia Senyk, of the on VIOLIN ACOUSTICS THEN AND Bldg, SGW campus; WC-203, Loyola on IMMIGRANT WORKERS AND Institute of Eastern Christian Stud­ NOW at 8:30 p.m. in H-110, Hall campus, and at Canada Employment THE AMERICAN STATE: 1917 - 1922 ies, Gregorian University, Ro.me , will Bldg. FREE. SGW campus. · Centre -2070.Mackay. -