Concordia University, Montreal Vol. 14, No. 28 June 7,J990

Concordia Psychologists join ·INSIDE 'aging society' excellence-network Network the only one of 15 involved with the social sciences

LAST IN A SERIES

Last October 26,federal Minister ofState for Science and Technology William .

, ___ ,_,,___, __ ._ Winegard announced the creation of 14 na­ ,,_,."'_,_,_I_ tional Networks of Centres of Excellence. About 500 researchers in 36 centres (most­ ly universities) will share $240 million in new federal funding over five years. A 15th network, the only one in the social Several female Concordia scien­ sciences, has just been announced. Concor­ tists contributed to this book, d_ia University is proud to be involved infour which explores the history of of the 15 projects and to play a con°tributing women in science , . . . Page 9 role in a fifth.

Eight honorary degrees are Tim Locke awarded this year. An artist, a poet, a scientist, a political scien­ tist and a researcher are among· the recipients wo Concordia Psychology profes­ . Tannis Arbuckle-Maag Dolores Gold .. : ...... Pages 12, 13 sors ~nd members of the University's TCentre for Research in Human Development, Tannis Arbuckle-Maag and cial sciences. which· fo"ster the independence of older Dolores Gold, are contributing to Titled "Prpmoting Independence -and Canadians and increase their productivity." Nine months into her new position Concordia's growing reputation as a re­ Productivity irr an Aging Society," the Arbuckle-Maag and Gold ~e only two of as Vice-Rector, Academic, Rose search institution by being invited to join the network's research focus will be on normal 24 researchers from 11 universities and.two Sheinin shares her !~oughts in a wide-ranging interview newest national Network of Centres of Ex­ aging and, according tb the grant proposal industrial concerns, from Victoria, B.C. to ...... Pages 6, 7, 8 cellence, the only one involved with the so- abstract, "to investigate the conditions See NETWORKS page 21 Visually impaired and learning T9~9 ,,~ disabled have new ·reading tool ~ -T990 SDS'·s Kurzweil Personal Reader converts te~t to voice-albeit with a Swedish accent . Goodbye, academic year 1989- 90, hello 1990-91 . A look back at tant Co-ordinator of Services for Disabled set for multi-column scanning," says Bis- some of the highlights of the year Bronwyn Chester · Students. sonnette. and a word from the outgoing editor Immediacy of use is one strength of the ...... Pages 22, 23 Machine bought wit~ donation KPR; it's ability to interface electronically or students with limited vision or who The SDS purchased .the Kurzweil last wth other devices used by the visually im­ · have difficulty processing letters or year, usjng about half of an anonymous paired and learning disabled is· its other Fnumbers, negotiating the printed donation of-$30,000; this winter Bissonnette strength, says Bissonnette, himself'visually world of the University is no simple task. began training students. Some of the ap­ impaired. Having literature taped, Brailled or read proximately 10 students who use the· Art Education student Serge Wallis says aloud are some of the means used by the machine want to use the whole range of op­ this aspect of the Kurzweil.could help .him. visually impaired and learning disabled. tions, says Bissonnette, sitting beside the "I could connect my tape recorder to the But, each one of these means requires the machine in the SDS office on the 5th floor Kurzweil and tape the documents I need to help of another person. The Kurzweil of the Henry F. Hall Building, "while others read for Art History," says Wallis, who has {pronounced kerswell) Personal Reader, just come in to read." a learning disability. "I can also hear the Concordia loses one of its most however, doesn't Looking much like a A bas'ic orientation includes learning how pronounciation of words." visible & well-respected . actor/directors photocopy machine, the KPR scans a page to use the 18-key pad and learning how to The KPR can also interface with a Ver­ ...... Page4 . and reads it aloud, albeit with a_ slight handle pages, the hand scanner and different sabraille, a portable Braille computer. "Yoti Swedish accent. "This machine allows the types of layout. The machine, for instance, could hook the Versabraille into the K]:>S, The next issue of The · us.er to read a document immediately. -For can only read orre page at a time so the book then save the document on the Versabraille Thursday Report will be instance, if the person is doing research for or article must be flipped around when the disk. Later the student could read the docu­ published in the fall a term paper, she or he can skim the articles voice says: "page finished." Then the user ment from the Versabraille disk," says Bis- immediately and select which ones are presses the start button. The Kurzweil also . sonnette. The machine has a panel where relevant without having to have them taped has to be set to read in columns if the text is. raised metal rods form the Braille configura­ or read aloud," says Leo Bissonnette, Assis~ "If the student isn't sure, it's always safe to See KURZWEIL page 21 • < Page 2 THE THURSDAY REPORT June 7, 1990

Marconi develops new device thanks to graduate course Engineering course results in device that remove~ noise on radio winter, engineers Michel Bedard, Andre develop a 'device that can take the inter­ Using a digital sig~al processing chip, the Bronwyn Chester Beaudin and Michel · Ethier of Canadian ference out of combat net radios. device senses noise generated by the ~adio Marconi co·. took an evening graduate Now, this may not sound like such a big receiver and its software adjusts to eliminate course in adaptive signal processing, a sub­ deal. After all, aren't practical engineering it, he says, using the comparison of ;1 sound hey say th~ best things corhe in small ject which involves learning how to ~esign courses suppo~ed to result in new or im­ system that could adjust itself to the dimen­ packages. · For the Department of machines which can sense their environ­ proved technology? Yes,. but usuaily you sions and characteristics of a given room. TElectrical and Computer Engineer­ ment and change to adapt to it. By the end don't immediately see the results of how ihe With · any new idea, engineers have to ing, this story niay be a case in pdint. Last of the year, the three had used the course to knowledge is applied, says Concordia convince management that their prodqct Electrical and Computer Engineering will benefit the company, says Beaudin. professor Jeffrey Krolik. "The pilot project we developed in the course lets management see the benefits." IJ11mediate results this time "We think the graduate courses are Marconi likes device beneficial to industry because their en­ Marconi management has been recep-_ gineers keep coming back," he says, adding tive. "They've been v,ery successful at_sell­ that about one-third of all engineers taking ing their idea," says Michel· Cadieux, graduate courses are from industry. "But this rrianager of engineering. "What they've is the first time I've seen the industrial ap­ done is introduce state-of-the-art te~hnol­ plication of course material, while the ogy into a product line; it will definitely find course is in progress. Usually, use of the an application." knowledge is made after the course." Other applications for the technology For Marconi, the development of this . may be eliminating echoes on long-distance technology means that the company may be ph-one lines and getting rid of the interfer­ able to dyvelop and market the 'adaptive ence on car phones. noise canceller' as an attachment to the Krolik is happy with this result from his thousands of Marconi combat net radios al­ course. "This story is much smaller than the .. ready in use throughout the· world. ('Net,' grand-scale co-operative type projects take'n short for network, simply means that all the on in university-industry collaborations. But · radios are on the same frequency.) it's an example of how a course can transfer "We knew that the technology would new knowledge to industry.'' He also says (From left) Michel Bedard (Marconi Group Leader)., Professor Jeffrey Krolik, Andre benefit us but we didn't have the mathemati­ the fact that all of Concordia's graduate en­ Beaudin (Marconi Design Engineer) and Michel Ethier ( Marconi Software Engineer) used cal knowledge to apply it practically," says gineering courses are offerred in the evening a Concordia graduate course to produce a device that can eliminate inte,ference. Bedard, explaining how the technology makes it possible for working engineers to

PHOTO: Spiros Vergados works. attend. "It's a real community service."

New internal grant programme begins .in fall

Programme to help 'the new, the jaded, and the fringe' improve their chances at getting grants. . . .

head · grant from the various federal and for entry .or re-entry into external funding FRDP to help with grants Bronwyn Chester provincial granting agencies, which means systems." . Lightstone hopes the FRDP will change that "three years from now about $1.5 mil­ Too often, researchers who are either this. He notes that having a strong internal lion will be · distributed internally," says "new, have experienced a hiatus in their re­ granting mechanism increases the n what Jack Lightstone describes as "the Lights tone. search or creative·activity or are moving into University's success in receiving external most important endeavour to encourage new radical areas" get discouraged when ap­ grants, pointing to the Universite du Quebec research and creative activity with inter­ Help in writing proposals plying for external grants, says Lightstone. I a Montreal (UQAM) as an example. Two nally allocated grants I've seen in my 14 But there ·is r:nore to the FRDP than "What was needed was an in-house method years ago, UQAM had a total of $1.6 mil­ years here," Concordia is beginning a Facul­ money. Lights tone wants to see mechanisms to support people financially and to help lion in internal grants but was well behind ty Research Development Programme established whereby support is provided in them formulate creative proposals for grant­ Concordia in their external grants. But in (FRDP). the formulation of research projects and the ing agencies either because they'd bee_n af­ 1988-89, says Lightstone, UQAM brought As of next October, faculty members and writing of grant proposals, both for internal feeted by the brutalizing process or because in $15-$16 million in external grants as professional librarians who have had their and external grants. In a letter he sent last they were new to.the process. compared to Concordia's $12 million. "I grant proposals accepted will receive grants February to the Deans of the four faculties, "When you send in a research proposal think, in part, that is due to their internal from the $375,000 internal fund. Lightstone, Lightstone propo_sed workshops, run by the for a grant, you're inviting criticism and programme," says Lightstone. In 1989-90, Associate Vice-Rector, Academic Offic·e of Research Services, and the estab­ rejection and often it comes in the least sup­ he adds, Concordia brought in approximate­ (Research) is quick to point out, however, lishment of Faculty Research Development portive or constructive way.>' ly $14 million in external grants. that the fund will be doubled for the 1991- Groups, if needed. The granting process can also discourage 92 academic year and will reach $875,000 · · The FRDP is in no way meant to replace· the most innovative-_researchers, says The deadline for FRDP proposals for by the third year. There will also be $80,000 other internal or external grants, says Lightstone. ''.if you 're at the cutting edge of 1990-91 is September 14. Results w,iJ,lt>e an­ ~ ,i-.~ ;,. • set aside annually for equipment grants. Lightstone. Rather, it is to encourage facul­ a discipline, the overwhelming problem is nounced on October 22 and the awards made . ·The money wiil come from Concordia's ty and librarians to begin "research or crea­ that you won't get supported and won't get on November 1. For more information con­ operating budget. Th~ University will con­ tive a~tivity with seed or bridge funding, published because of the inherent conser­ tact Audrey Williams, Dfrector of Research tinue to receive its annual $450,000 over- while developing the conditions and tools vatism of granting agencies." Services, at 4888. June 7, 1990 THE THURSDAY REPORT Page 3

Sharon Bishin

... Rector Patrick Kenniff has been named to the editorial board of a new pvblication ing intellectual and cultural resources for.their regions, and provide a forum for those entitled .Metropolitan Universities - An International Forum. Concordia's Rector is the concerned about the shape the university is likely to take as we enter the 21st cen­ only Canadian on the board. Other universities represented include the University of Sao _tury ... . Paulo, the University of Washington, Brown University, the University qf Ulm (in the ... Chemistry's Robert Pallen was elected to serve as a member of the Corporation Fec;leral Republic of Germany) and Ben Gurion University. Urban universities devote sig­ of the University Board of Governors for a-term of three years (June 1, 1990 to May nificant resources to meet the needs of the regions in which they are located, the new 31, 1993) ... journal s_ays. The publication will highlight the role played by these universities in provid- ... Commerce arid Administration Dean Steven Appelbaum has been elected a Fel­ low of the Royal Society of Arts, which was founded in the U.K. in 1754 ...... And on the conference circuit Rector Kenniff joins four other Concordia folk to Violence and Disruptive Behaviour participate at the June 20-23 ARUCC '90. (ARUCC stands for the Association of Registrars of Universities and Colleges of Canada.) The conference focuses on academic year, a "crisis team" - the seeing the student as a consumer and marketing educational insitutions effectively. Kenniff's keynote address is titled "The student as a consumer, reflection of a univer­ Zonia Keywan University Intervention Team - has been in place to help members of the Concordia sity rector"; Anne Kerby (Director, Disabled Services), Suzanne Belson (Om­ community who are victims of abuse or budsperson) and Graeme Decarie (History Chair) present on the topic of enrolment ealing with Violence and Disrup­ harassment. The team members are Suzanne management and student recruitment and Lynne Prendergast (Associate Director, tive Behaviour on Campus is the Belson and Beatrice Pearson from the Om­ Admissions) deals with professional development... Dtheme of a conference which began buds Office, Code Administrator John Rel­ ... Under the heading of 'just published': a book entitled Deaf Canadian -an insight yesterday and will continue until tomorrow ton and Nancy Torbit and Pat Hardt from written by Sir George Williams graduate Martin M. Goldstein, who is himself deaf. · (June 8) at le Centre Sheraton. The con­ Health Services. Other people are called on · The book focuses on deaf people who have m~de a mark in their communities ... ference is the first ever to address the grow­ to assist as rieeded. ... David Cheeke, formerly a professor of Physics and director of the Microelectronics ing. problem in North American universities The help that the Intervention Team can Research Centre at the University of Sherbrooke, will join SIRICON as Director of and colleges of disruptive and violent inci­ offer includes listening and offering sup­ Operations as of July .1st. .. dents, including disturbances in classrooms, port, consulting about protective measures, .. .The Second International Workshop on Conditional and Typed Rewriting Sys­ offices.and residences, assaults, threats and helping develop coping strategies, advising tems(CTRS), sponsored by Concordia University and Centre de Recherche lnfor­ harassment and the presence of weapons on about University resouces and arranging matique a Montreal, is being held next week (June 11-14). Topics will include the campus. The conference is expected to at­ referrals; and informing and assisting with theory of conditional rewriting and its application to programming languages, tract participants from across Cana~a and Code of Conduct complaints and/or legal specification languages, automated deduction, as well as typed rewriting, higher­ the United States, in particular senior ad­ action. ministrators responsible for policy develop. The members of the team point out that orqer rewriting, graph rewriting, combinator based language and their application to ment and people who are actively involved victims of disruptive behaviour are often parallel architectures, etc. Contact: Computer Science's Mitsuhiro Okada, local in the handling of individual cases. reluctant to complain; people may think that 3048 ... Concordia is uniquely suited to host a complaining is an admission of their own · .. . Mechanical Engineering's Richard Cheng accepted an invitation by the Electrical conference on this topic. The University is failure in handling the si!Uation, that putting and Electronic Engineering department of the University of Hong Kong (his alma the leader in Canada in dealing with violent up with harassment is part of their job, or Mater of 30 years ago) to serve as Visiting Professor earlier this year. His seminars and disruptive behaviour. that complaining will make· the situation focused on robotics, image processing and general computer-aided automation tor According to Ombudsperson Suzanne worse. But, they stress, no member of the flexible manufacturing systems. While in Hong Kong he also served as a PhD exter­ Belson, "We tend to have quite a number of University community should have to put up nal examiner and consultant to the newly formed CAD/CAM Automation Centre of problems of this type, perhaps because we with abuse, intimidation or violence. the Faculty of Enginel:lring of Hong Kong University .. . are a downtown university with a very "We are moving from an attitude of-'lais­ .. . Oops! Desktop publishing is great...except when it lobs off the final line in an ar­ diverse population." sez-faire' to one of setting clear limits to be­ ticle containing an address which it did last issue. All comments on the recently dis­ While in many institutions authorities haviour," says Nancy Torbit. tributed Emergency Response Manual are welcomed by the Central A<;lvisory deal with cases of disruption by simply call­ Health and Safety Commi~ee at: S-Ml-301 .. . · ing the police, Concordia has been develop­ Anyone who wants to discuss a problem ... Journalism Professor Ross Perigoe's Advanced Television class was the only ing means for handling most incidents <,>r launch a complaint is invited to call any university group to accept CBC Newsworld's invitation to produce three half-hour internally. Since the beginning of this member of the Intervention Team. forums on how the media covers specific issues. Two of the three installments, "Can Montreal. support two English-language dailies?" and 'Why don't visible minorities Alumni awards programme launched see themselves on the 6 o'clock news?" were aired in April. The third, "Meech Lake vs . Lac Meech" on how the two different language media have covered the same A multi-tiered Alumni Recognition demonstrated an ongoing commitment and issue is slated to air soon on Cable 29 (Videotron) and Cable 11 (CF Cable). The 10 Programme has been launched by the Con­ outstanding service to the Association and students participated at every level of the production, from research to promotion. cordia University Alµmni Association. University. Panelists and moderators included Journalism's Sheila Mcleod Arnopoulos, Through this programme the Association The Outstanding Student Award: Robert McConnell, former Gazette publisher, Francine Pelletier, La Presse colum­ hopes to honour the valuable volunteer con­ Awarded to a student who has demonstrated nist, and broadcasters Pierre Pascau (CKVL, formerly of CKAC) and Julian Sher . tributions of numerous alumni, students and leadership qualities, while contributing to (CBC). . friends of Concordia and its founding in­ student life. ...Claire McKinnon, previously Special Assistant to Maurice Cohen, Vice-Rector, stitutions. The new Alumni Recognition The awards will be presented on an an­ Programme will honour volunteers of all Institutional Relations and Finance, ls moving to the newly-created post of Com­ nual basis and include the following: ages and at all levels of participation, either munications Co-ordinator for the Faculty of Commerce and Administration. Even­ The Award ofMerit: Awarded to an alum­ in Montreal or at the chapter level, regard­ tually, each faculty within the University is expected to create the same position, . nus who has demonstrated a lifetime con­ less of their financial contributions to the which develops strategies for internal and external communication .. . tribution of outstanding service to the University, from retiring directors to ... Speaking of the Faculty of Commerce and Adminstration: two major agreements Association, University and community. lifelong supporters of the Association. This of co-operation were signed between it and important educational institutions in The Distinguished Service Award: year, the awards will be presented at a spe­ Europe; the Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law (International Awarded to an alumnus who . has cial awards banquet in the late fall. Exchange Programme) in Sweden and HEC- ISA (France) .. . Nomination forms are available at the demonstrated an ongoing commil:qlent and ... Are you getting your copy of TTR when and where you want it? If not, or if you outstanding service to the Association and Alumni Office, 1463 Bishop Street, Room have any other distribution information call 4882 ... University. 102, or by calling Gabrielle Korn at 848- The Honorary Life Membership: 3817. The deadline for nominations is June ...Have a totally satisfying summer. Au revoir ... Awarded to a non-graduate who has 29th, 1990. Page 4 THETHURSDAYREPORT June 7, 1990

Institutional Planning: Concordia's 'town planners' are looking at the big picture Con_sultation a key aspect of the Management Information System (MIS) the University-wide MIS model. ments of University managemen! needs. Laurie Zack Some of the decisions that will have to be In upcoming issues, ITR will be speak­ made in the near future concern the types of ing to the some of the "townspeople" about computer programmes that would be most their expectations and how they are reacting uppose that Concordia is a small town useful to particular work units (either bought to the consultative process to date. We will (no, not Twin Peaks). It's a growing as packages or developed "in-house"), and also be looking at the role of the MIS Project. Scommunity with more than 70 build­ how these programmes fit into the require- Manager and Computing Services. ings. Each resident relies on the town for basic services, communications and sup­ port. 'A c.lear voice' is stilled Not only do these services make life simpler and easier (usually), but they are es­ Theatre's Joseph Caza/et dies at 54. sential for residents to conduct their busi­ ness properly. Residents are concerned about their town, of course, and expect to be Donna Varrica consulted about any changes that may affect their lifestyle. ·

The tow.n administration has its needs1 The Montreal English- too. It often requires specific information 1ang u age theatre com­ from residents about what they are doing, munity lost a principle and about their evolving requirements. player last month 'with the Neighbouring municipalities, various levels Garry Milton death of Concordia Theatre of government and various institutions and Professor, actor-director PHOTO: Charles Belanger agencies are constantly demanding informa­ Joseph Cazalet, of cancer. tion about the town - accurate, up-to-the­ parties. The MIS Steering Committee is · Cazalet's life was minute information. responsible to the Office of the Rector (i.e., theatre. He recently told The The town planners are faced with vario1;1s the Offices of the Rector, Vice-Rectors and. Gazette that working on his problems. There are decisions to be made: Secretary-General) for the overall design last project, King Lear: A how to modernize the town's infrastructure and installation of the system. Delearium Parade, kept his to keep pace with residents' needs; evaluat­ The Design and Implementation group spirits up and excited his im­ ing whether the population will be growing under· its direction, headed by MIS Project agination. "Working with or declining over the next decade; deciding Manager Terry Too, develops and installs theatre brings you into such whether it is more cost-effective to rent or the system. close contact with other build new space; and generating funds for Both Institutional Planning and the human beings. That's the special projects, etc ... Department of Computing Services have lure of it," he said. To develop models for the future of the specific roles, and an MIS Advisory Com­ In January, when the town, town planners must not only have an mittee has the special role of representing production opened at the accurate picture of individual buildings, but the user commimity. McGill Players'. Theatre, Pat the vibrant, evolving town as a whole. Garry Milton, Assistant Director, Institu­ Donnelly, The Gazette's tional Planning, has been seconded to the theatre critic, called Cazalet Joseph Caza/et Institutional Planning's role MIS project for its duration. In his new role "a key figure in the develop- The Department of Institutional Planning as Project 9mcer, Institutional Require­ ment of English-language PHOTO: Telescene Productions is trying to deal with the problems of our ments, he consults extensively with mem­ alternative theatre in 'town.' Keeping in mind Concordia bers of the user community in order to Montreal" in her preview of University's priorities, as outlined in its mis­ understand and articulate their needs. the show. his friend. "Joe believed theatre should be a sion statement, Institutional Planning is He then passes on this information to A life spent on stage inspires tribufes, spiritual union, an experience to be shared trying to assure that the Management Infor­ Joey Rawlins, Assistant Director, Institu­ particularly when the legacr is as rich as that between actors, the director, the crew and mation System (MIS) now being developed tional Planning, who ensures th!it the evolv­ which Cazalet left, and few have not been then the audience. Ensemble was a word we will provide decision-makers with the ing MIS model is attuned to these needs. touched by his passing. used in all our work together._ proper tools to adapt and plan for the chang­ Milton is .presently meeting with people At a recent Concert Hall performance, "He had faith in theatre, that it was im­ ing environment, both internal and external .. throughout the University community. Music Professor Charles Ellison began with portant to keep telling our stories, be they in At the same time, it is mindful of in­ He is assessing their needs, what sort of an acknowledgement of Cazalet's work and the words of Brecht, Shakespeare or dividual user and work unit needs, both for information they require to help in decision­ his contribution to the Faculty of Fine Arts. Standjofski. He was committed to giving the present and as the project develops. The making and planning, and the kind of infor­ Theatre Department Chair Philip Spensley struggling young actors, musicians and MIS that is finally implemented must ac­ mation that is not readily available that told The Gazette that · "Joe's clear voice playwrights a shot, sometimes finding commodate the individual needs of any par­ would be of help. As well, he wants to know shaped the department in many ways." projects for these people to enhance their ticular unit, and the overall objectives of the the kind of reporting they are expected to do. To complement his work at Concordia, careers. University - the whole must transcend the . As a result of these discussions, decisions which began in 1976 when he came to "Before he went into the hospital, he half­ sum of its parts. can.be made taking into account the users' Montreal, the Brooklyn-born Cazalet finished a play based on an idea we had been The key to this delicate balance is ongo­ view of institutional information require­ founded the Association of Performing Ar­ kicking around. It was about the endurance ing interaction between planners and users. ments, and individual needs can be looked tists (APA) with two former students who of a young man's faith in humanity, to never The focuses, at this point of the MIS project, at from the perspective of the evolving came back to the University as teachers, stop dreaming and to never stop trying to are the questions and issues which need to University-wide Mis project Jack Langedijk and Harry Standjofski. fulfill those dreams. That was the essence of be resolved rather than the technology avail­ Milton acts as the link between Institu­ The APA's acclaimed production of Kiss Joseph Cazalet. He believed in the celebra­ able. tional Planning, MIS Project Manager Terry of the Spiderwoman, in which Cazalet tion of life." Too, the experts from Computing Services played Molina, had successful runs in New The University will set up the Joseph . Meeting people and their needs and the external community. He assures that York and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Caza/et Scholarship Fund to help Theatre An elaborate structure has been estab­ any product or equipment recommendation Langedijk talked to ITR about the man students. Donations can be made through lished to assure the Input of all concerned will be re-examined against the backdrop of who had been his teacher, his colleague and the Financial Aid Office at -3522. ·June 7, 1990 THE THURSPA Y REPORT ·Page 5 .

Broadcasting Studies Centre helps organize international sound arts festival. Acustica International celebrates radio drama, acoustical 'art' . ' to a sound start earlier this month. Montreal for the first time from May 3rd to (aco·ustic_al art), which are popular in Silvia Cademartori For the first time, Concordia's Centre for 5th. Europe, in particular West Germany. While Broadcasting Studies (CCBS) helped or­ Acustica International celebrated alter­ not as popular in Canada, CCBS co-founder ganize the 10-year-old sound arts festival, native forms of radio arts, namely the and past director Howard Fink says acousti­ Concordia University helped Spring off Acustica International. It was held in Horspiel (radio drama) and Ars Acustica cal art is gaining momentum here. Roughly 1,000 people attended the live performances on May 3rd and 4th at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur on Sherbrooke St., said Fink. . Fink, also a Concordia English profes­ Anna Heich-Polgar sor, explained the Centre's role in the fes­ tival. "We provided the liaison with interested people, mainly in the academic bids Concordia farewell world. The other organizers were the Goethe Jnstitute, a German cultural organization in Montreal, and Radio Canada. We contacted library studies here. She began her career in collection of some 3,000 art slides which people to come and listen and watch the fes­ Donna Varrica the cataloguing department of the Sir were the Slide Library's foundation. She tival and to be on the panels to discuss and George Williams Library where she was put thanked Alfre<;l Pinsky, former Fine Arts criticize acoustical art." · in charge of the art -slide collection. The or­ De$1 and Edwy Cooke, former Art History Panel discussions were held i,n part in the he retirement of Anna Reich-Polgar, ganization of non-print materials was a fled- Chair, for their initiative in allowing the Henry F. _Hall Building at the Sir George founder of the Faculty of Fine Arts . gling science at the time and few Slide Library to grow, as well as present Williams Campus. TSlide Library, after 32 years of ser­ departmental slide collections were ad­ Dean Robert Parker and Art History Chair vice to Concordia marks the end of an era. ministered by professional librarians. ' Don Andrus, who have encouraged its more Festival h~ghlight At her farewe_ll reception, Reich-Pol~ar After examining systems used by the recent development with the implementa­ The highlight of the festival, according · looked upon the assembled crowd and said, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Fogg tion of advanced techniques and new equip­ to CCBS co-founder and · present director "When I leave this beautiful library, Roden­ Museum and Yale University, Reich-Polgar ment. John Jackson, was a live performance by bach, the Belgian author comes to mind, .developed such a sound cataloguing system The Fine Arts Slide Library now boasts two Montreal musicians, Michel F. Cote and who said in his Bruges, la morte: 'Every and authority controls that tl}e recent transi­ 160,000 slides and its reputation for excel­ Martin Tetreault, called Muss Musique, departure i a little death.' I feel that way tion to computer cataloguing was made in~ lence throughout Canada and North which was a parody of radio shows. Jackson now, but the nice memories will keep me tact. America is largely due to the pioneering ef­ called their performance "electrical." alive." . . Reich-Polgar acknowledged a former Sir forts of Anna Reich-Polgar. In the past, San Francisco, Cologne and A linguist, Reich-Polgar came to Canada George Williams University Vice-Principal, With files from Linda Bien, New York have played host to the interna­ from Europe in the 1950s and completed her the late Douglass B. Clarke, for his original Fihe Arts Slide Librarian tional festival. Horspiel, Neues Horspiel, and Ars Acus­ tica, are not terms North Americans are familiar with. Horspiel or 'ear play' in Ger­ . man, is the equivalent of a radio drama. "Imagine a radio drama where you have internal monologues, like streams of con­ sciousness, and at one point, sounds become more important so it's no longer realistic. That's what Neues Horspiel (new ratlio drama) is," explained Fink. "With Ars Acus­ tica (acoustical af!), you get away from a . narrative drama which has scenes and an identifiable place. And you have just sounds and voices, by that time it's indistinguish­ able from music, but it's drama," said Fink. The CCBS itself does not produce acous­ tical art but it is primarily a research in­ stitute. "Our first mandate is to collect and ar­ chive material related to CBC radio drama productions," said Jackson. "The Centre has 15,000 scripts from pi:ivate collections donated by producers, writers and per­ formers." The eight-year-old CCBS is the official depository of CBC ~ocuments. "The second part of our mandate is to carry on re­ search rel~ted to TV and radio drama and Canadian cultural development," continued Jackson.' The Slide Library staff, past and present; surround Anna Reich-Po/gar ( second from right) on her last.day at Concordi.a:.Fromleft,JJonald The Centre is in the process of compilihg Irwin, Joanne Turnbull, who introduced the compµter cataloguing-system to the Library (see TIR, March 30, 1989), Kathleen Perry_, an encyclopedia of radio drama with two now Employment Equity Co-~rdinator, Linda Bien, Reich-Po/gar, and Manon ':' allee; PHOTO: Charles Belanger other Quebec universities. ·Page 6 THE THURSD_AY REPORT June 7, 1990

PROFILE An interview with Vice-Rector Academic·Rose Shein in

Concordia must accept the mantle that is being thrust upon it

The Thursday Report recently inter­ viewed Vice-Rector, Academic Rose Sheinin about her impressions of Con­ cordia after nine months in office. During a 90-minute question-and­ answer session in her Loyola Campus . office, Sheinin spoke.candidly about her . views on the . Vice-Rector, Academic's job, her goa!s, and her hopes and expec­ tations for the future. She spoke with pride about what she has accomplished to date, and· about what she would like Concordia to do to motivate faculty mem­ bers to achieve their full potential. Arespected scienti~t and fe.rninist with an international reputation in the fields of cancer and DNA research, Sheinin

taught at the University of Toronto for 25 For the past several months Vice Rector, Academic Rose Sheinin ha/been holding informal get-togethers to find out what people have years before coming to Concordia last on their minds. Faculty, students and staff gather over coffee in her Loyola Campus office to discuss matters of concern to them. The Thursday evening sessions have stopped for-the summer, but they will resume in the fall. Civil Engineering professor Michael Troitsky September. She taught in the Depart­ ( seen above), shares a laugh with the Vice-Rector during one of last month's sessions, PHOTO: Paul Hrasko ments of Microbiology, Medical develop their own academic vision for Con­ "I find that the Rector is flexible, and that Biophysics, arid Microbiology and Ken Whittingham cordia. he provides terrific stimulus. The crucial · Parasitology, serving as Chair of the lat- "The real joy of being at a university is to challenge is how do you make.the connec­ dream. If you don't give people the oppor­ tion between the ac~demic administration ter department from 1975 to 1982. She The number one challenge facing Vice- tunity to dream, you can't expect them to do and everybody else? How do you make it Rector, Academic, Rose Sheinin. is to their very best. possible for people in all segments to feel was Vice-Dean of the U of T's School of motivate the faculty to play a more active "When people feel. disenfranchised ~hat they,'re actually contributing? Graduate Studies between 1984 and role in defining Concordia's academic mis­ they're not dreaming; they're not providing . sion. · the academic vision that's required for the No response 1989. Nine months after assuming office, University; they just don't perform well. "There's a lot of silence at Concordia," Sheinin says .that she is still confronted by • Without dreams you take the joy away and· Sheinin adds, "and to tell you the honest During her career ~heinin has served as people who feel disenfranchised, who turn jobs into drudge work. truth I don't really understand it." · a Visiting Research Associate at the believe that they have nothing to contribute "I hope to empower people io think As an example she cites the fact that there to Concordia's development. beyond the strictures with which they seem was no response from anyone duting the University of Cambridge and at Britain's "They've been saying to me in a variety to have encased themselves," she says. first six months after the Rector unveiled the National Institute for Medical Research; of ways that they feel they don't have a "There's. a lot of talk around here about . senior administration's view of Concordia voice. And that has really come as some- people not being allowed to participate, but . University's mission. as a Senior Fellow-at Massey College; t thing of a surprise; ifs a problem I didn't an­ I think that's hogwash," Sheinin adds. · "I had expected to see the pages of The ticipate before coming to the job. · "It's normal at universities to have a crea­ Thursday Report justfull of letters, and I was Research Associate Fellow at the On- "It is clear that one of my ma1ortasks is tive tension between the senior administra­ really amazed to see there were none - tario Cancer lnstitute '.s Division of to find mechanisms for re-e1J1powering the tion and everyone else; but the rift seems various sectors of the community: faculty, exaggerated somehow at Concordia," to the Biological Research; and a France- department chairs, and member~ of decanal poini where "it has become almost like a ' ••• I hope to empower people ·t t teams, etc .... " · · caricature. to think beyond the strictures Cana da EXC hange Fe II OW at .th e Ins tI U During a wide-ranging interview at the "Unlike what I hear a lot of people de Recherches Scientifiques sur le Can- · end of a typically long day, Sheinin told The saying, I think that the senior academic ad­ with which they seem to have Thursday Report that she has been working ministration here is terrific. I believe that cer in Villejuif, France. hard "prodding everyone to begin to their vision pf the University is a good one. encased themselves ~-.' . . · June 7, 1990 THE THURSDAY REPORT Page 7

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PHOTOS: Paul Hrasko there were no complaints, no accolades, I'm entitled to present my vision as I see it." Jlrocesses actually ask the same questions, Teaching and research: nothing. and I think they are coming together. a natural equilibrium "I'm told that a lot of people are still a bit A false rift "The important point at Concordia, as it Concordia fails to honour its commitment disillusioned because past planning exer­ Once again, Sheinin says, this negative . -is at every university, is to ensure that Concordia should re-examine the methods cises at Concordia· · reaction is indicative academic planning detemiines budget plan­ it uses to evaluate its professors to ensure never quite jelled. of the "false rift" ning, and not the other way around. that adequate reward·s are provided "But that sort of '... I really did want to test throughout each professor's academic that seems to exist at "The processes for tying academic plan­ nonareaction (refer­ career. some of the ideas I had Concordia - what ning to resource management at Concordia "A university professor teaches, does re­ ring to the Mission she calls "this odd may need honing," she says, "but they are search and participates in the community," Statement) is some­ dichotomy between coming along. "It is something that I feel is says Vice-Rector, Academic, Rose Sheinin, about ho~ to run yet the evaluation criteria in place at Concor­ thing that likely what is considered very important." dia concentrate on one function only - wo.uldn 't happen a university, about how to get 'The Administra­ Although she has been here only a rela­ potential. research ·activity . They ignore the elsewhere. At the tion' and everybody tively short time, Sheinin is proud of her ef­ teaching and community activities (both in­ University of the very best that is possible else." ternal and external) that form an integral part for~s to institute a process of academic of a professor's workload. Toronto, for ex­ out of every individual, As forceful as her review "both as part of the academic plans "Concordia, like other universities, has ample, you'd expect vi:sion may be, ning process and to ensure that we are the been pushed very hard by financial pres­ factions to form - however, Sheinin very best that we can be." sures to place a heavy emphasis on research about how to develop and scholarship, but it's time we brought the for and against; says "I want to as­ pendulum back to where it should be. meetings would be academic vision and leader- sure TTR' s readers Academic review important "Concordla is a university, not a research held; th~re would be that· a Vice-Rector, As to the former, "It seems to me that if institute. Research forms a very important marches and the ship, as w~/1 as some very part of what we do in a university, but the con­ al! Academic, cannot you don't review what you've done, you text is different. At a university we deliver rest, but here there specific ideas about how to change the vision of can't very well plan what you want to do higher education - equal higher·education was just silence." the University all by - and we are, therefore, charged to do Echoing .remarks change the gender distribu- herself, and certain­ teaching. Yet it is quite clear that we are not honouring that commitment. she made to Senate ly . not without the . More is needed ''There is no way that we can continue at in a "state-of-the­ tion and develop program- support and co­ to enhance women's role Concordia without recognizing, honouring union" address on mes for the delivery operation of the Affirmative action does not and rewarding that teaching function. March 9, Sheinin "Having said that, I think I understand after community. · . downgrade excellence many years of working in this area that each told TTR that she in­ of equality in education ... ' "Unless there are "Concordia is not doing all it can to promote one of us (i.e., each university professor) is tends to introduce a . people out there who the advancement of women, either in regard very different. much more proac- to hiring policies, promotions, combatting "Our careers change over time; they don't want the change, sexism in the University, or in terms of deal­ remain static. At any one time someone will tive _process of then it simply won't ing with key issues of academic excellence. be involved more heavily in research, or crea­ academic planning at Concordia. be possible." "People tend to .equate affirmative action, tive activity, and less involved ih teaching ­ "As Vice-Rector, Academic, I have cer­ whether it be for women or other targeted perhaps doing no community activities at all. tain academic visions of the University - To compensate for the· lack of spon­ groups, with a drop in excellence, but that's ''This is particularly so for young people taneous response· to the University Mission really not so," Rose Sheinin says. when they have to establish ·their research particularly · as it relates to the Quebec "If we'rEl going to be really excellent as a ·credentials," she says. "Concordia should be environment- and I am going to seek to in­ Statement, Sheinin has "invited the deans university we 'should be able to deal with all prepared to allow them to do research almost troduce tho,se visions for discussion by the and department chairs to recast the Mission kinds of knowledge - not just the 10% that exclusively at that point, let them begin to Statement within their own units, within we've selected (for study) over the past 1,200 entire Concordia community." years. · develop their teaching skills and do absolute­ their own disciplines, and within groups of ly no committee work. When they reach Surprisingly, she says, she has been told "We should be able to understand that if tenure the thing will begin to shift. that some people feel she is overstepping her disciplines, and then plan on that basis to people are going to collect and disseminate "What you really want to do is look at the bounds·by making.such a proposal. develop objectives, goals and strategies. knowledge, it should encompass knowledge _ potential that people have, their commitment, "There are two processes involving of all kinds- including knowledge of women, and , obviously, their capabilities. But you native people and other cultures in Canada. shouldn't expect any one person ·at any one "It's really .quite bizarre when you think academic planning at Concordia right now," "This should all be part of academic excel­ tlme to be doing all three things equally." about it; it just would never have occurred she says, "and they have to merge and come lence, but unfortunately it isn't often con­ Just as importantly, "if we recognize that to.me that someone would say 'how dare the together. One is from the grass roots up, and sidered so." teaching is what we do at a university, we will Vice-Rector, Academic, engage in ,A feminist who has tried throughout her have to pay attention to it; we should help the other from the senior academic ad­ career to enhance the role of women in all people learn how to teach ... and not penal­ academic issues' ... yet that is exactly what ministration down. educational spheres, Sheinin says that she ize them if they don't teach as well as they has happened. "There's a healthy concern on the part of is "disappointed that Concordia hasn't lived ought to. We haven't.done that up to now ... the grass roots types.-ofwhicjl I have been up to the expectations I had before coming but we are going to have to if we intend being "Well I'm afraid that I'm not going to here regarding its efforts to promote the ad­ a great university." · wait for other people to come and tell me one for many years - that the. process is vancement of women .. . We're not as far -KJW being overtaken by -the top down, but that ahead in this area as I would like to see." what they think my vision of the Un\versity -KJW should be. This is a democratic society and isn't necessarily how it has to be. The two Page 8 THE THURSDAY REPORT June 7, 1990

PROFILE next,". she says. been present at Concordia at various levels, them and have our parameters in order so And regarding the latter, "lf you 're going but I think i t _is important for the Universtty that we have some idea about how this Universities must work to to be a great universi ty, you have to take part to do it systematically. That's why I'm so should be done in the most productive, con­ develop science policy in self-criticism and self-analysis. You can­ pleased that it's beginning to be fonnalized structive manner." Concordia is as well-placed as any not have excellence at any level unless you within the Office of the Vice-Rector, Another priority item on Sheinin ~s agen~ to do the job develop a mechanism to assess your own . Academic. da i s the establishment of "a real academic ''The developmem·of science policy in this progress and the progress of everything •. "Re~ ember now, I am talking about appeal process for students" · ,-- perhaps country is totally lacking in input from you 're doing. ev aluating the total delivery of higher something akin to the Ombuds Office, but Canada's universities." Industry has been. al­ . lowed to dominate policy development so education. In some diseiplines that will strictly for academic matters. " We tend t o do that sort of thi ng completely ttiat "we don't really have a automatically ... and .certainly the idea has mean the opportunity to learn and do lab re­ Concordia already has "a pseudo appeal science policy at all; it's really an industrial search; in others it will be different forms of process," but Sheinin says she would like to policy ~ a policy for moving technology to scholarship; in others it may . be critical· see.a mechanism that would allow students the marketplace." That, in a nutshell, is the view of Vice-Rec­ analysis or the performing arts. Every dis­ to go "to a totally unbiased, unprejudiced tor, Academic, Rose Sheinin, who says that Concordia can be a world cipline has its own set of parameters. • group of people from outside the (student's) Canadian academics must begin to assert " The Ministry _of Higher Education and department - and J)erhaps even outside the . themselves to ensure that their voice is heard leader in ~rtain areas by government. • Science will soon require jt (formal evalua­ Faculty involved" ..:_ to look at their com- . 'People here don't realize how unique One of Canada's leading cancer re­ we really are' tion) anyway, so let's at least be ahead of plaint or complaints objectively. searchers, Sheinin says "the process as it currently exists marginalizes universities and Concordia is extremely well-placed to be­ doesn;t really address issues of human come a leader in Canadian educational resources, which are crucial to any science · circles, but it seems afraid to assume "the po·licy. If you don't have the people, you don't mantle that is being thrust upon it." SEAGRAM FUND FOR ACADEMIC INNOVATION have a science policy. That candid observation from Vice-Rector, PREAMBLE: "There has always been a tendency for Academic, Rose Sheinin describes her big­ The SEAGRAM FUND FOR ACADEMIC INNOVATION was established through a universities to feel that they are -above the gest disappointment since coming to Con­ fray," she says, that ''they are intellectual or­ cordia last fall. generous endowment to Concordia University from The Seagram Company Ltd., rep- · resented by its Co-chairman, Charles R. Bronfman, O.C. Its intent is ·to enable re­ ganizations that shouldn't dirty their hands in "People here don't seem to realize how uni­ such menial tasks as transferring technology que we really are. We have a great deal of searchers, scholars and those involved in other kinds of creative activity at Concordia to the workplace." . potential in areas which aren't typically con­ Uhiversity to undertake new initiatives of national and international significance. Yet Sheinin says that universities - "in­ sidered by those universities which are more PURPOSE: cluding Concordia, which is as well placed as traditional, yet we suffer from an inferiority The pro,;tide seed support for any other" - can make an impact on science complex - both collectively and on an in­ SEAGRAM FUND FOR ACADEMIC INNOVATION will interdisciplinary projects involving research, creation or academic development, which policy development. dividual level. "Each university has its strengths and each "We don't see·m to understand our great will extend the core strengths at Concordia University. It is expected ~hat once initiated has its weaknesses, ·and what one does in a through this programme, projects that are designed to continue beyond the funded strengths" - either in terms of Concordia's competitive marketplace like this is sell one's multicultural reality or its ability to cater to period will solicit financial assistance frol1) the University or external agencies. strengths. non-traditional scholars (i. e. , people who INAUGURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE: . "Fortunately, Concordia has developed a work during the day and have to study at very Wong and quite unique Faculty of En­ night, or part-time, or in special program­ Dr. Patrick Ke.nniff, Rector and Vice-8hancellor (Chair) Dr. Anna-Beth Doyle, Faculty of Arts and Science gineering and Computer Science, and it has mes) . a great deal to offer. Our social sciences are Professor Hubert Guindon, Faculty of Arts and Science It is exactly this kind of education that also very, very strong, and we have an ab­ people are going to be seeking more of in the Dr. Wagdi Habashi, Faculty of Engineering ~nd Computer Science ~olutely first rate Department of Psychology. future, Sheinin says. "We're going to have Mr. John Hobday, Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Limited There are all kinds of things that Concordia more older students, and more part-time and Professor Chris Jackson, Faculty of Fine Arts can do and has done. If you look at the Net­ returning students. · Dr. Christopher Ross, Faculty of Commerce and Administration works of Centres of Excellence Programme, "Rather than trying to copy other institutions Dr. Rose Sheinin, Vice-Rector, Academic you see that Concordia is very actively in­ which are going to be passe in their academic volved, not always as the prime unit, but as mandates," Concordia should "capitalize on CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: an essential component of the network. the experience that we have and develop this Applications are invited from all sectors of Concordia University. The Committee will "Unfortunately, our government doesn't as a major thrust. be particularly interested in proposals which have a potential impact on Canada as a consider humanities as a potential resource; "Concordia also presents a face - in whole. Without limiting the topics or areas which may be encompassed in proposals, they've been excluded," she says, "so Con­ colour, background and culture - which is the Committee suggests the following examples of areas of interest to it: co~dia, which has a large number of very unique in Canada," she says. "I mean, strengths in many areas of the humanities, where else can you ~ee what is really a mul­ • the development of science policy in Canada; • curriculum renewal that is inclusive of women, aborigi(lal peoples and cultural finds itself with no mechanism to participate." ticulturat university? "Yet we don't take ad­ A teacher and researcher in the fields of · communities in Canada; vantage of this fact either. There's an physiology and biochemistry, Sheinin recent­ experience here that would permit Concordia • .promotion of literacy among the general public with respect to language, culture ly closed her laboratory after more than 25 to be a world leader in this area. · and science; years of active research in the fields of "I'm very comfortable with this image be­ • research on higher education in Canada, such as the process of life-long learn­ biochemical genetics and DNA replication; cause I think we've got a really great univer- · i_ng, the emerging needs of the Canadian population, and the changing Univer­ she was also actively involved in biotechnol­ sity. I just wish everybody else·thought so, ogy transfer to industry. too." sity student body; • interdisciplinary research in areas of vital interest to Canada, such as the en- Does she miss the lab work? "No, I don't really miss what I left behind,· she told TTR. Overcoming social stigma vironment, the impact of technology, employment and urbanization: ''The scientific community is changing a lot, Hammering home the point in a recent talk PROCEDURES: and it's no longer my favourite community. It's to the Concordia alumni chapter in Toronto, The Office of Research Services of Concordia University will administer _the being invaded and taken over by commercial Sheinin said that one of .the reasons she programme. The Call for Applications will be issued by the Director of the Office in the pressures; it's become fiercely competitive. came to Concordia was "to work in an institu­ usual way. You can just see the power brokers moving .. . tion that I thought was on· its way up. I think it's not my favourite scene. that many of the more traditional universities DEADLINE FOR APPL/CATIONS: "I've reached the stage where I have ac­ are not on their way up; for various reasons ALL APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED IN THAT OFFICE NO LATER THAN 15 complished a-great deal with my scientific they're either plateauing or th.ey're on their NOVEMBER 1990. career and I'm very happy with that. I actual­ way down. ELIGIBILITY: ly decided four years ago to close my lab in ''Yet there seems to be a social stigma at 1990. I didn't know what I was going to do All faculty members and professional librarians are eligible to apply for an award. play at Concordia" resulting from our "work­ when I closed it, but the eight people work­ ing-class background," she says. "like its two CRITERIA FOR AWARD: ing in the lab have all been placed or gone founding institutions, Sir George Williams The awards made through the SEAGRAM FUND FOR ACADEMIC INNOVATION will on to different things, so this opportunity (the and Loyola, Concordia has never had a rich, be based on.the following criteria: excellence, the potential for obtaining external:sup­ Vice-Rector, Academic's, job at Concordia) elitist or aristocratic image." port at the end of the award, interdisciplinarity and the clear national import of the re­ came at a very good time. Suddenly we find ourselves in a position of "As you know, I started moving into ad­ search programl')le. potential leadership, and no one seems to ministrative work long ago. I was a graduate know how to handle it, she says. SCOPE OF THE APPL/CATION: co-ordinator for many years, then chair of a "We've gotto get over this ; we have to know The budget put forward in the application must be for expenses which emerge from department, then vice-dean of a graduate who we are and be very proud of it. the project itself. Requests for supplements to existing programmes will not be enter- · school. It's been a gradual transition, so in "I mean, we are good. Concordia's Facul­ that sense this opening at Concordia did not ties are superb; its students are good ; its non­ tained. Salary components may be used only for technical assistants and for ad­ ministrative/secretarial support for the project. No funds will be provided for salary for mean any dramatic change in my work. academic staff are extraordinary .. . they work "And I haven't given up research al­ hard and they understand what the Univer- a member of the professor.~ate. together." Sheinin is currently immersed in a sity is. · For the 1990·-91 academic f ear, the total sum available for disbursement is $175,000. research project dealing with the history and "Concordia, no less than any other, is an While no minimal amount for ·each award has been set, it is anticipated that a small culture of women in science and the forma­ important institution of higher education in number of awards will be made. · tion of science policy in Canada. . - KJW Canada." - KJW June 7, 1990 THE THURSDAY REPORT Page 9 'Despite the odds,' women are finally being recognized in science Seven Concordians contribute to a book about women in science whi-ch evolved from Marianne Ainley' s course at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute

school education or their BAs and MAs in hardship and "despite the odds." Ainley Carol Krenz an effort to move up or at least remain bet-. remains positive rather than bitter. She ex­ ter paid 'assistants.' On the whole, Concor­ plains to her students that "generally speak­ dia (Sir George Williams University), was ing, women are now doing better in the hen Marianne Ainley began more flexible and more_open, catering to the sciences and besides, who said things were teaching "Women, Science and student who did not fit into the mainstream easy? It only goes to show how intelligent W Technology" at the Simone de of other notable universities' eligibility re- and resourceful a lot of women were and Beauvoir Institute back in 1987, she quirements," . how much capacity women have to work despaired at the lack of reference materials Through the last four decades, women long and hard. Women have proved just how available. Despite the Odds is the result of have been making strides despite the able they are in the sciences." that frustration. It is a comprehensive collec­ tion of highly readable essays on various aspects of women.in the sciences which was compiled and edited by Ainley. Its con­ Monster-cocktail: toxicants tributors number around 35, seven of whom are associated with Concordia. (These are, in St. Lawrence harm in alphabetical order: Ainley; Kailash K. Anand, Mathematics; Janice Beaveridge, a sturgeon .popul~tion student at S de B; Susan Hoecker-Drysdale, Sociology; Gillian Kranias, BA '88; Bar­ bara Meadowcraft, S de B adjunct fellow; Ugly mix of pollutants in r_iver sediment may lead to 'monster' and Rose Sheinih, Vice-Rector, Academic.) fish, says Ecotoxicology' s Perry Anderson "We wanted this book to be easily acces­ sible to high school students and other intel­ forrnity in the young and embryos is quite ligent readers without being too purely Tim Locke large." scholastic," Ainley says. Sturgeon are ·benthic (bottom-feeding) Spurred on l?Y her friend and long-time fish. It take:, a female 20 years to reach colleague Mary Baldwin, another "in­ t is not "his fault, but Concordia maturity, and during this time significant visible" chemist like herself, Ainley set out search but never sharing in the honour of the Ecotoxicology Centre director Perry amounts of toxicants can accumulate in their to put together a comprehensive look at the published findings. Regardless of their IAnderson is one of the most ac­ bodies. The group's hypothesis is that lives, the attitudes, the accomplishments degrees, women remained mostly in the complished bad news gurus in the country. polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), difurans and the difficulties of women in the scien­ ranks oflab assistants and technicians. Their This is as it should be; it is his job to study and dioxins, which ~e known to persist in ce~ over the past hundred years. "bosses" got and took the credit for much of . tile mess we make of our environment. St. Lawrence sediment, have accumulated "I've been writing about women in their contributions and likewise applied for His latest research project is a case in. in many adult females to the degree that they science since 1984 and at that time I started and received the much-needed grants. Ain­ · point. The project, a study of "The have affected the normal development of with only 24 names. I ended up with well . ley recalls that at one time she was ''a foot­ Teratogenesis in St. Lawrence River Stur­ their offspring: over 100. The trouble is that the information note, rather than a co-author." geon Populations," is examining reports of Anderson suspects that "Vitamin A and is harder to get at than the gol? in Fort incidences of deformed adult sturgeon in like materials are depleted; in the course of Knox." Women for~ed to choose Quebec· waters. In fact the word egg development in the female insufficient There are a number of reasons for the lack Another reason that deterred women 'teratogenesis' means, in plain English, the quantities are stored in the yoke and this of documented scientific accomplishments from advancing further into scientific creation of monsters. leads to abnormal development - that is, by women. For one thing, the sciences them­ careers was that universities forced them to The problem takes on an added important monsters." selves did not enjoy any great popularity nor choose between marriage and their profes­ dimension because Quebec's commercial Thanks to help fro_m experts from the offer anyone - male or female - a chance sion. Their male counterparts,_of course, suf­ sturgeon fishery is the largest in North University of Wisconsin ·and the innovative-· to earn a li¥ing at the beginning of this cen­ fered no such impediments. Despite the · America. ness ofConcordia-UQAM graduate student tury. Science just· wasn't 'in' until the late Odds ill us trates through interesting The study is a co-operative effort be­ Alain Branchard and undergraduate Andree forties, after World War 11. By then, various biographies, this particular struggle. In an tween the Ecotoxicology Centre and Gendron, the researchers have been able to governments had employed physicists in the essay entitled "Harriet Brooks, Can_ada's Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM) create, in the Henry F. Hall Bldg's sub-base­ development of the atomic bomb and other ·First Nuclear Physicist," authors M.F. researchers Philip Spear, Rejean Fortin, ment, the aquatic environment necessary for deadly weaponry. Rayner-Canham and G.W. Rayner-Canham Sam Cooper (who is also a scientist at the the successful hatching of sturgeon. This has Gratified with the results of scientific re­ quote the lively Miss Brooks thusly:" .. .it is Institut National du Recherche Scientifi­ caught the attention of scientists from the s.earch, governments began to fund more a duty I owe to my profession and my sex to que), and Raymond Leclair of UQ Trois­ Northeastern U.S. because they hope to and more projects, thus enabling the scien­ show that a woman has a right to the prac­ Rivieres. reintroduce the fish in a number of river sys­ tist to make a decent wage. Unfortun~tely, tice of her profession and cannot be con­ As is always the case with studi~s of tems from which they have disappeared. the stereotypical scientist emerged, that of demned to abandon it merely because she toxicants in the environment, the group's Now the team is ready to examine eggs the slightly demented genius in the ~terile marries." findings will have broad implications. "The from sturgeon taken from different sites, white lab coat. And science became as­ It was through the struggle of a few brave same evept can occur in other vertebrates with varying pollution levels, for their sociated with destruction more often than women that conditions slowly advanced and (birds, amphibians and mammals) including Vitamin A and pollution content and for ab­ with humanity. Feminists, also victims of. improved, but not without a price. Women humans; it goes right up the metabolic normalities in development. conditioning, shied away from lauding the who persevered as botanists, geologists and chain," reports Anderson. "All natural or­ If the research confirms their suspicions sciences because they didn't want to be as­ the like came to be regarded in a ra·ther ganisms live in a ' hostile' environment," he they hope that appropriate measures can be sociated with a negative image. patronizing fashion as eccentric old maids. continues. "It's very rare for deformed in­ instituted within the framework of the In the meantime, legions of nameless and Concordia's role in the history of women dividuals to survive for any period of time federal-provincial initiative to clean up the voiceless women worked on in chemistry, and education is rather positive, as Ainley as they usually fall to depredation or disease St. Lawrence. zoology, and physics. These "invisible" points out. "Concordia was one of the first or ·starvation. So we can assume that if women, fighting against male dominance in schools to let you study at night: And a lot evidence of terata (monsters) shows up in "We have to save this important science, had to be content with doing t~e re- of women were interested in gett"ing a high the adult population the ,-incide°nce of de- resource," warns Anderson. Page 10 THE THURSDAY REPORT June 7, 1990 /t·you can get students to -enjoy.linear algebra, you have to be the best Mathematics professor Joseph Soric wins CUSA Excellence in Teaching Award

Gabrielle Baumgarniet. His students obviously disagree with his Rachel Alkallay . Award-winner Soric, "Yho began teach­ modest disclaimer, and many forrner stu~ ing at the Loyola Campus when it was still dents have since called to congratulate him . . Loyola College - "I taught everything from "Teaching is my life," Soric says. emei:nber struggling painfully trigonometry to topology," he recalls - through calculus in CEGEP? Or fid­ feels that "a hundred other professors And obviously his dedication and en­ R dling frantically with functions in deserved the award more." Nevertheless, he thusiasm for mathematics is contagious for high school?'It can be a great deal of fun, ac-. is thrilled_with the recognition. his fortunate students. cording to Joseph Soric of.the Departmyrit of Mathematics at Concordia. Soric has the CUSA Excellence in Teach­ Teaching Award winner cares ... and ing Award for 1989-90 to prave his students not only enjoy their classes, but they learn. keeps his students laughing, too Awarded the honour for his course in Linear Algebra, not usually considered the most en­ Ahmad wins Commerce & Adm[nis,tration Teaching Award joyable of university topics, Soric won it on the basis of IO tough criteria: organization­ a I material; ability to communicate Rachel Alkallay (delivery style); flexibility and innovative techniques; o"penne ss to ideas; ap­ s a student, Arshad Ahmad had cer­ proachability and commitment; concern for students; enthusiasm and ability tci create in­ tain beefs against university terest in the. subjeet; knowledgeability; Joseph Saric A teachers. He says some of them professionalism; and overall performance; PHOTO: Charles Belanger "didn't give a damn about students" and were more preoccupied with th.eir research. says Yun Jen, former CUSA Vice-President professors and students from the Arts and . of Education. Soric 's outstanding ability to, "Sometimes I couldn't even understand Science Faculty Council, and one outside them verbally, let alone the material," says i_n particular, communicate his ideas, and his student, this year representi~g Finance. commitment to teaching, gave the mathe­ Ahmad, who obtained a BComm at Concor­ matician, a 26-year veteran of the Univer­ A close race dia as well as a Diploma in Mqnagement and sity, the edge in a close field of 17 an MBA at McGill. "And there were others Nominations must include one letter of who would just fill the board with formulas, nominations from the Arts and Science support, and at least 10 supporting student Faculty. one after the other, and you were flabber­ signatures. Teachers' evaluation results, gasted sitting there." He also had a hard time The award, in its second year of exist­ supplied ·by the Leaming Development ence, presents Excellence in_Teaching pla­ with those who had no time for students · Centre, were included in the-final decision during office hours and had "this air about ques in both the Arts and Science and Fine this year because the nominations were so Arts faculties, but no student nominations them that made them superhumans." close. Nominations are screened for names Today, he says he is "definitely im~ were received this :Year in the latter category. and sex to ensure lack of bias. This year's pressed" that Concordia has been emphasiz- . Arshad Ahmad · Eligible to nominate professors are un­ nominations included an eve.n distribution . ing teaching excellence in the last five or six PHOTO: Charles Belanger dergraduate students who have taken a from all Arts and Science faculty depart­ course, or are cl!rrently taking a course with years. But Ahn:iad, who has been lecturing ments. in the University's Finance department for that." Then, modestly, he laughs. a professor. Written nominations are then The two honourable mentions this year judged by a panel which includes three since 1-982, is more than impressed, he's im­ _were Chemistry's Rahat Khan, and Classics' pressive: he won the 1989-90 Distinguished · Lots of Laughter Teaching Award of the Faculty of Com­ In fact, laughter partly explains why stu­ merce and Administration. dents love to attend his classes, even though Award nominees are subjected to a they don't have to sin_ce every lecture is basi­ rigorous evaluatio·n process'which includes: cally included in a book he wrote in 1987. EusebiusJ. Doedel (PhD- Univer­ theory was published in a sequence of the investigation of how the professor con­ (Laughing again, he says selling Essentials sity of British Columbia) has been papers in leading journals. sults with students outside the classroom; of Finance: A Problems Approach, promoted to the rank of Full Professor in Since 1982 Dr. Buell has been curriculum development, including the in­ published by Concept Press, a division of the Faculty of Engineering and Com­ primarily interested in algorithms and troduction of new courses; and developing Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada Ltd., puter Science. He joined the Department mathematical software for bifurcation innovative teaching methods. is "what Finance is all about!") of Computer Science at Concordia in problems in differential equations. This He credits people who inspired him for' "I joke a lot in class, it's not a formal af­ 1979 and was promoted to the rank of As­ work has found applications in many encouraging him, especially Nancy Adler, fair. We try to have fun, not just learn. I think sociate Professor in 1982. areas of science and engineering and it is the "very dynamic" McGill professor who that's what works for me." Students also like Born in the Netherlands, Dr. Doede) perhaps this work that is best known in­ wanted him to get a PhD from Harvard, and the bonus question he includes in hi~ came to Canada in 1968 and studied ternationally. former Finance chair Cleve Patterson, who Finance exams on how to improve the mathematics at the University of British Dr. Doede) has given a large number told him to "pull up his socks" and teach dif­ course. Marker Marie-Anne Momusse says Columbia. From 1975 to 1979 he was a of invited lectures on the subject at con­ ferent courses following a poor evaluation the older-students know that there is little left Research Fellow in Applied Mathe­ ferences, universities and research in­ at the end of his first year of teaching. to improve. matics at the California Institute of Tech­ stitutes around the world. From 1985 to To Ahmad, the award means his goal has So what does the .son of a former Exxon nology. 1988 he was Visiting Associat.e in Ap­ been attained: that he made Finance under­ tax lawyer in his native Karachi, Pakis~an, Dr. Doede) 's research interests are in plied Mathematics at the California In­ standable and interesting for his students. do after winning a teaching award? Married the area of numerical analysis with em­ stitute of Technology. During this period "It'~ tremendously satisfying to be able to last September to Freda Stolz who holds an phasis on algorithms for analyzing non­ he also gave graduate courses on his re­ influence these young minds who are going MBA and who he used to tutor at McGill, linear phenonema. Between 1978 and search at the University of Utah and the to be choosing careers," he says. "I usually Ahmad says he believes he is "at the 1982 he developed a general stability University of Minnesota. Since 1989 he ·ask them how many are going ~o be Finance crossroads." After teaching for eight years theory for. discretizations of linear and has been an editor of the SIAM Journal majors and usually one or. two hands are and consulting for six, he is considering get­ non-linear differential equations. This on Numerical Analysis. raised. And then by the end of the term, there ting a PhD in ·international business and/or are quite ~ few hands. So I take part credit working in industry. June 7, 1990 THE THURSDAY REPORT Page 11

n Buell created er joins team at h·part of Geography ells found in Modern Professor Emeritus Applied Social Sciences department Languages department

John Buell (PhD - Universite de Bluma Litner (BA Honours French, Mc­ Alan Nash, who taught geography at Antonio Planells has joined the Montreal) has been elevated to the rank of Gill University, MA French, Sorbonne) has C_oncordia during 1984-85, has returned to. University's Modem Languages department Professor Emeritus in the Department of joined1the Department of Applied Social the University as an assistant professor in as a professor. He comes to Concordia from Communication Studies. This caps a 37- Sciences as a full -time assistant professor. the department. · Howard University in Washington, D.C \ year career at the University; he began his Litner taught Interpersonal Relations and Nash deals with the 'human' side of Prior to that, he taught Spanish, Spanish career at Loyola College in the Department Group Dynamics and Introduction to Social geography.-Over the winter term, ~e taught American Literature and Latin American of English. Problems ·in the department during the last a graduate level course on _the changing studies at several American universities. 0 Dr. Buell has always been known as a su­ schoo"I year. The Montreal native also works Canadian population and immigration, and Planells, born and raised in Argentina, perb teacher. Former students continue to as a consultant for the University's Applied next fall he will be teaching an introductory also taught science and humanities courses praise not only his classes and his teaching, Social Sciences department's Centre for course on Human Geography. in his native country before moving to· the but also his capacity to inspire and challenge Human Relations and Community_Studies. He comes to the University from Ottawa, U.S., where he obtained his PhD at the students and instill caring, a passion for Litner has enjoyed a long history with the wh~re he was a research as~ociate at the In­ Catholic University of America in truth, ideas and the visions that lie hidden University. She first joined Concordia iq · stitute for Research on Public Policy. Prior Washington, D.C. in Spanish Language and behind the construct of words. · 1971 as a French lecturer in the Languages to his stint in Ottawa, he taught geography Literature. For years his courses on Media and Cul­ department. She then spent a year as Chair at the University of Sheffield in his native The Modem Languages professor has ture and the Definitions of Media Technol­ of French Studies. She then changed career England for two and a half years. written two published books on literature ogy were the theoretical heart of the gears and between 1976-81, was Assistant · In Canada, Nash has taught at Queen's and language and has three more books in Department of Communication Studies, Dean of Students. In 1981 Litner left the University in Kingston, Ont., and at the the works. In addition, he has published which Dr. Buell co-founded. University to start a human relations con­ University of Western Ontario in London. roughly_30 articles. His major interests are Dr. Buell 's thoroughly developed sulting practice, and pursue gradu~te work. Nash, who earned both his BA and PhD Spanish American 20th century literature perspective is uniquely Canadian and has While a consultant, Litner was named to degrees from Cambridge University in and literary criticism. helped set the Department of Communica­ the 21-member policy advisory board of the England, has edited a book on refugees and . tion Studies apart from other communica­ Social Sciences and Humanities Research human rights as well as authoring articles on tion programmes in North America. Council (SSHRC), a major Canadian body business immigration in Canada. A novelist of international reputation, Dr. that oversees the funding that goes to social Buell has had a Jong and productive career sciences and humanities research. She is the as a creative writer and thinker who has been only representative from the University on especially sensitive to the psychological and the board and was recently appointed to a moral proble_ms of our times. Over the years second three-year term. The SSHRC is a his books The Pyx, Four Days, The major granting body for the University. . Shrewsdale Exit, and The Playground have Litner has studied organizational be­ appeared in 33 editibns, both in paperback havior and human relations at the National and cloth, in nine countries and in seven lan­ Training Laboratory (NTL) in Maine. She is guages. currently finishing her Doctorate degree in · Two of his novels have been made into Education Theory at the University of motion pictures; The Pyx was filmed in 1973 Toronto. and The Shrewsdale Exit was filmed in Paris in 1975 under the title L' Aggression.· In his work Dr. Buell shows a sharp un­ derstanding of the moral conflicts and PHOTOS: Charles Belanger dilemmas created by the crime- and drug cultures of our era. Page 12 THE THURSDAY REPORT June 7, 1990 Concordia to award

Eight distinguished guests will be awarded honorary degrees at Concordia University's June convoca- SQn, Power Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Paul Desmarais, inspirational American tion ceremonies, to .take place from June 7th to June 13th, 1990. high school teacher Jaime Escalante, physicist and educate~ Ursula Frank/In, cinematographer and Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees will be presented to author and women's rights activist Doris Ander- writer_Wally Gentleman, Hurtig Publishers Ltd. Presi.dent Mel Hurtig, Nobel Prize winn~r and peace

Doris Anderson Paul Desmarais Jaime Escalante Ursula Franklin Author, editor, businesswoman, civil A native of Sudbury, Ontario, Paul Des­ American high school teacher Jaime Es­ A world renowned physicist and libertarian and women's rights activist Doris marais is Chairman of the Board, Chairman calante has made an extraordinary contribu­ educa~or, Dr. Ursula Franklin is a specialist Anderson has played a leading role in of the Executive Committee, and Chief Ex­ tion to the development of education in the ih the structure of metals and alloys. Among promoting a variety of social causes in ecutive Officer of the Power Corporation of United States and abroad. H1s students at an her many accomplishments, she pioneered Canada during the past two decades. Epolitan Children's Aid Society, the Ottawa (D.Adm.), St. Francis Xavier neglect to the real potential of young minds. Berlin and the University of Toronto, Dr. Canadian Institute on ~blic Affairs, the University (LL.D.), Laurentian University No other educator in the past decade has Franklin has helped to develop science MacMillan Publishing Company, Maclean (LL.D.), McMaster · University (LL.D.), produced such spectacular results in such a policy in Canada through her work on the Hun~r Limited, the Canadian Institute for Universite de Montreal (Doctorate Honoris difficult setting, all the while offering many Science Council of Canada and the Natural Public Policy and the Canadia~ Film Causa), and Memorial University of New­ encouraging answers to some of the most Sciences and Engineering·Research Coun­ Development Corporation. A former mem­ foundland (LLD). important social and educationai questions cil. She is the first woman appointed Univer­ ber of the Board of Governors of York Mr. Desmarais serves as Chairman of the of our era. By honouring Mr. Escalante, sity Professor at the University of Toronto, University, Ms. Anderson has served as a Canada-China Trade Council, and is.a mem- · Concordia University is honouring the an Officer of the Order of Canada and a tire­ member of the Ontario Press Council and ber of the Business Council on National Is­ noble tradition of teaching, and honouring less advocate for Science for Peace and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. sues, the Chambre de Commerce de all of those whose determination, inspiration equality for women in society. She is a regular columnist-for The Financial Montreal, and the Montreal Museum of Fine and hard work proye very forcefully that one A woman of eclectic interests, Ursula Post and is working on her third novel. Ms. Arts. individual can make a-major difference in Franklin has gathered and analyzed data on Anderson is an Officer of the Order of His directorships include Power Cor­ society. such varied . topics as the accumulation of Canada. poration of Canada, Power Financial Cor­ strontium 90 in Canadian children's teeth as poration, Great-West Lifeco Inc., The a result of fallout from nuclear weapohs test­ · Great-West Life Assurance Company, ing, and the dating of copper, bronze, metal Power Financial Capital Corporation, Inv es­ and ceramic artifacts of prehistoric cultures . tors Group Inc., La. Pre~se( Lteei Pargesa in Canada and elsewhere. No stranger to Holding S,A. ,Fishery Pto'ciucts Intemation- Concordia University, she served as a con­ . . al Limited, Groupe Bm~elles Lai;l).bert S,A., sultant in an evaluation of Concordia's Please contact the Public The Lambert_ Brussels ,Corporation, · Science College. She has been .named the Relations Office at 848-4880 Petrofina S.A., and the.Seagram Company winner of the Wiegand Award, which recog­ for further information Ltd. Mr. Desmarais is also a member ofthe nizes Canadians who have made outstand­ about convocation times, . International Advisory . Committee of The ing contributions to our understanding of the locations and speakers. Chase Manhattan B·ank, N.A. and honorary human dimensions of science and technol­ director of Fishery Products International ogy. In April past she was awarded the Order Limited. of Ontario. June 7, 1990 THE THURSDAY REPORT Page 13 eight honorary degrees

activist John Po/any/, and Acadian.author and playwright Antonine Maillet. Street West. The Convocation ceremonies will be held in Place des Arts' Theatre Maisonneuve and Salle Wilfrid~Pel- · Approximately 3,000 students will graduate from Concordia's four faculties: Fine Arts; Arts & Science; letier and in Concordia's new Concert Hall, located at the University's Lciyola_Campus, 7141 Sherbrooke Commerce and Administration; and Engineering and Computer Science.

PHOTO: WIiiiam Byers PHOTO: Hamm(!nd Studio PHOTO: Guy Dubois Studios PHOTO: Harry Palmer W a I I y G e n t I e m a n. M e· I H u r t i g Antonine Maillet John Polanyi _ During a long career of active film- Alberta-born Mel Hurtig has spent more One of the true giants of the Canadian ar- Nobel Prize winner and internationally­ making on two continents, director, than 30 years supporting and nurturing the tistic community, Acadian author and known peace activist John Polanyi is one of producer, cinematographer, writer, visual book publishing industry in Canada. From a playwright Antonine Maillet has written Canada's leading physical chemists and a effects specialist and systems engineer small b9okstore that he opened in Edmon- · more than 20 works during her distinguished renowned authority on reaction dynamics, a Wally Gentleman has· been involved in · .ton in 1956, Mr. Hurtig went on to build a · car~er, including the internationaily-ac~ · new field of chemical physics. His studies every facet of the art and science of motion major book retailing business. Since the claimed La Sagouine. Born in Ne w ofthe way molecules combine to form new picture production: The special visual ef- early 1970s he has concentrated all of his Brunswick in 1929, Mme. Maillet has compounds helped to revolutionize the field fects he produced during his tenure with the energies on publishing Canadian books. travelled the world teaching, lecturing and of reaction dynamics and has diverse ap­ J . ArthurRankOrganizationinGreat Britain Nam~d Canadian Book Publisher of the 'receiving innumerable hon.ours and prizes, plications in medicine and industry. It is this were used in some of the most prestigious Year in 1974 and 1981 , Mr. Hurtig current- including being made a Companion of the . research, begun at the National Research productions of that era. Later, as a director ly· serves as President of Hurtig Publishers Order of Canada and receiving the Gover­ Council (~C) in 1952, which Jed to his 1986 with the National Film Board of Canada, Mr. Ltd. and President of the New Canadian En- nor G!!neraJ's Award, the Prix du Conseil des Nobel Prize. · Gentleman played a leading role in develop- cyclopedia Publishing Ltd. Arts, Prix des Vo leans (France), Prix Dr, Polanyi 's long and pioneering con­ ing Canada's nascent film industry. . In addition to his business ventures Mr. Litteraire de la Presse, Prix Goncourt and the tribution to science has been matched by his . _His feature film a11d documentary work Hurtig has served as President of the Ed- Chalmers Canadian Plays Award. She is an deep concern for major public issues. For has received international acclaim-for his monton Art Gallery and as a member of the Officier des Pa Imes acadeniiques more than 30 years he has been an outspoken work in both cinema and television. University of Alberta .Senate. An ardent · fran~aises, an Officrer des Arts et qes Lettres anti-nuclear activist and a forceful. critic of Gentleman was appointed special effects Canadian nationalist, he was founding de France, a member of the Royal .Society the state of university research funding in director on the Stanley Kubrick film 2001 A Chairman of the Council of Canadians and of Canada, a member of P.E.N., the interna­ Canada. The distinguished chemist believes Space Odyssey, and he has since worked a founding member of the Committee for,an tional writers associ.ation, President of Ar- · that scientists should involve themselves with most of the major studios in Hol- Independent Canada. A Companion of the tists for Peace (Quebec), a member of the more in publi~ affairs, and the consequen­ lywood. Order of Canada, .he has also served as an Haut Conseii de ·1a francophonie and the ces, impact, and possible repercussions A former research lecturer at McGill advisorto the Canada Council, the Canadian . recipient of more than a dozen honorary which scientific discoveries may have on the University, Mr. Gentleman has lectured ex- Councii on Social Development and the Pol- doctorates. Among her many respon­ health of society. tensively throughout North America be- lution Probe ·environmental group. He is a: ·s ibilities she also serves as Chancellor of The author of more than 170 papers in tween feature film assignments and he past Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Universite de Moncton. scientific journals, plus articles on science remains in the vanguard of those developing Booksellers Asso~iation and a member of policy and armaments control, Dr. Polanyi exciting new technical and artistic concepts. the Association of Canadian Publishers. joined the University of Toronto Chemistry Most recently he and his associates have. Mr. Hurtig has received numerous . · Department in 1956 after establishi~g him- been workip.g on three-dimensional exliibi~ '. awards, i,_ncluding the/ Royal Socie:(y di:, ·. self as one of Canada's pre-eminent scien­ tions of motion pictures and a radically~fu~ .. . Canada's Centenary Meqal and the Alberta: ',. tific rese.archers at the National Research novative production system called· · Government's· Achiev~irient Award. arid/.· Council. He was made a Companion of the "Futuronics." . honorary degrees frorri York 'l.Jniversity( Order of Canada in 1987. No stranger to His many honours .include a Technical Wilfred· Laurier University, the· Univ~rsity ;, . · Concordia University, the anti-nuclear ac­ Achievement Award from the Academy of ·• MI..ethbridge and the University of Alberta.. . ·. tivist delivered the 1988 Consolidated-Bath­ Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, ·several ·· · · · · ·· · = • • hurst Lecture, entitled "The Responsibility Academy.Award nominations, and an Award of Scientists in an Age of Science." of Honour from the Canadian Science Film Foundation. '\ \

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Hardly your 'average' MBA grad

recounts Cowell-Plain, a former athlete. Cowell-Plain explains that he's been in a Silvia Cademartori "People are naturally curious, and they will wheelchair.for IO years, the result of a foot­ look at you and you can't help but stand out ball accident. After three years of rehabilita­ sometimes. When your class- is in one of tion he returned to Daw~on Cqllege to indsay Cowell-Plain considers him- · · those auditoriums that 'seat 100 students, complete a diploma in Civil Engineering self an average guy. Those who you can't sit with everyone else. When Technology. He then received a BA in Civil Lknow him don't. . · you're sitting in your chair on the floor by Engineering at Concordia. Immediately He's hardy, outgoing and makes friends the professor, people are going' to look at after, he entered the MBA programme. easily. Cowell-Plain has just graduated from you." When Cowell-Plain talks about his past, the University with an MBA. Like your Cowell-Plain's road to a University de­ there is no remorse, only a ·well-that's-life average guy, he loves baseball, hockey, foot- gree was a challenging one. He had to strug­ . attitude that is easy to hear in 'his voice. ball, the outdoors and working on.his com- gle, sometimes daily, with 'things most "Lindsay grew here," explains Ann puter. Cowell-Plain is also a quadriplegic.. students take for granted. Just entering some Kerby, Assistant Dean of Students and . Tina Mintz, a Concordia graduate and University buildings was achalleng~. But he . Director of Handicapped Seryices. "Anyone friend of Cowell-Plain, describes him as always found out about ways to get in some who has a debilitating accident in their late opinionated and brash, but she does so with buildings, even· if it meant going .through teens needs a· length of time. to adjust, it's · a laugh. delivery entrances and backdoors. especially hard on them. That adjustrnentfor "It's only because he's so self-assured. Those facts, says Mintz, who met Lindsay was made at Concordia. He learried . He knows what he wants. He's a no-non- Cowell-Plain at the Disabled 'Student Ser­ that he really could be accepted for his per­ sense kind of guy who-shoots straight from vices Centre and who is disabled herself, sonal qualitie~. His disability was number .the hip, and he's intelligent. That's a power- make Cowell-Plain naturally compet_itive, 10 on the list,. not number one." ful combination," says Mintz. which will give hi~ an edge in the business Cowell-Plain has received many' Cowell-Plain, though, says at times he world. academic scholarships, including a Shell wasn't always so assured. Cowel!,Plain looks back at his five years Lindsay Cowell-Plain Canada scholarship •in 1989-90, a Fonds ."University can be intimidating for many at the University as good ones. Thanks in pour la Formation de Chercheurs et i: Aide students, more so for disabled ones," . part, he says, to the University's Disabled · a la Recherche(FCAR) scholarship, and for Student Services. . three years· Cowell-Plain was a recipient of ~·rr I needed a class location ·change be­ an Imasco Scholarship for pisabled students. , cause it was inaccessible, Disabled Student e·A the q_uick way - or how to "Now is going to be the real challenge," ·~ Services would have it changed for me. I says Cowell-Plain about finding employ­ rieed extra time to write exams," adds study __for .2 y~ars without .a break ment. ."Nothing is given tb you. You have to Cowell7Plain, "so they would set up the earn it and I'm confident I'm going to make room and arrange for extra time if it was a . it." Rachel Alkallay really long exam, because I'm. a little slow at writing." If the hurdles Cowell-Plain overcame as Sitting in his St. Henri apartment with his a student are any indication of his deter­ hat do you do if you need to get three cats Tarzan, Snoopy and Cuddles, mination, he will. a degree, but you don't have the W time or money to do it in three ·60--plus: a/good age to graduate years? . You bum the midnight oil-every night; from Concordia University \ spend your weekends in the library, and take 21 credits in the summer. This month's Convocation ceremonies The, shall we say, "mature and wise" That's ~hat Simon Kogo did. Kogo, an will see more than a dozen graduates who graduates majored in such ~iverse fields as Education and Religion student·who came - are over 60 years old. Two of them, in fact, German, Philosophy, Anthropology, to the University by way of sponsorship were born in 1917, which makes them 73 Western Society and Culture, Art History, from the Ministry ofEducation in his native years young. Sculpture ~nd Creative Writing. · Kenya, took 30 credits in Fall '88 and '89, and 21 credits in the summer of '89 to com­ I plete his Bachelor's degree iri (slightly under) two years. Twenty-one continuous months of non-stop study. A high school teacher in of Eldoret, one GRADUATING? of Kenya's largest cities, Kogo, who already SimonKogo holds a diploma from a unh'.ersity college; PHOTO:Charles Belanger plans to continue his studies in Education at All students completing Certificate, Degree o'r Diploma the Master's lev~l in either London or Kenya paper, he began research on the next assign­ . . in the fall. He hopes to recei\fe another ment. He spent his life at the library - and requirements during the summer 1990 session who scholarship in order to do so. for two years,' a social life was non-exis~nt. therefore expect to graduate this fall must apply to do As a developing Third World country, As a ~eacher for over IO years - primari­ Kenya is spending massive amounts of ly teaching Swahili and religion - Kogo so by June.15th, 1990. -~ money and energy in educating hefpeople, had the advantage of understanding assign- Fall 1990 graduation application forms are available at said.Kogo. Eleven other Kenyans arrived in ments fr9m the teacher's perspective. · the registrar's services department on each campus: Montreal when he did to further their educa­ His time in Canada marks Kogo 's first tions. sojourn out of Africa, and While he said the The soft-spoken Kog9, who misses his cultural shock was "different," he finds (LOYOLA: AD-211) (SGW: N-107) several children back home, says Jllat stay­ Canadians to be a very warm, generous, and ing ahead i& the key to qoing a degree i!} such kind people, ·giving him the support neces­ a short time. He would research his papers sary during his highly-pressured stay. for two or three days in the library, then ·He dearly wants to visit Canada again in STUDENTS WHO DO NOT APPLY BY JUNE 15TH spend a maximum of one and a half days the future, after he completes his MA. WILL NOT GRADUATE THIS FALL. writing them by hand. (He has beautiful Knowing Kogo, that will probably be in handwriting.) The .minute he finished one . another year. · June 7, 1990 THE-THURSDAY REPORT Page 15 Climbing the work summit Disabled Summit School stud<:nt Jerry_Annett is proving himself in his job at the Concordia Bookstore

Annett, who can read and write and who outcome. To this end, Summit School can for all service departments at Concordia. John Timmins have a chance at being integrated into the boast a 97-% success rate. Lipscombe admits to a few initial doubts. workforce. This year, 11 students were_ After .two failed attempts at placing An­ "There was a balance to be drawn between placed in factory jobs, restaurants, a law of­ nett in.jobs where he beeame bored quickly, compassion and hard economic realities. We he question: "How do you like your fice and other work venues suited to their the <;onc:ordia Bookstore job became avail­ didn't know what to expect. We gave him job?" The answer: "It's okay, man!" skills, behaviour aµd personality. able. Gurit Lotan, director of the job place­ work that we would have hired somebody to TWhen 19-year-old Jerry Annett The most important component of the ment programme at Summit School, made do. If it had been a busy time and we had to . answers with a thumbs-up sign and a look in programme is a one-on-one (job-coach) in> the initial contact with Concordia through pay him.we might have though differently," his eye that says~ let me get back to work tervention whereby a staff member accom­ Charles Giguere, Vice-Rector, Services, she says. - you know he means it. panies the student on the job and gradually who is the Chair of the Board of Directors at But now chances are that Jerry Annett is .Annett is a developmentally disabled stu­ spends less time there. The jobs are Summit School. A meeting was arranged headed for succes-s. According to his col­ dent who has been attending Summit School thoroughly appraised by the job coach in with service managers at Concordia, a leagues, he is a changed man and very proud in Montreal most of his life. This February order that the student and job are perfectly presentation was made and within a matter of _himself for having earned himself a he was placed in a part-time job at the Con­ matched. A full-time job, and not frustration of days Lipscombe and her staff decided u­ paying job that he enjoys. That, after all , is cordia Bookstore. Since. .then, he hasn't and disappointment, is the desired eventual nanimously to accept Annett in a tria-J case success by anybody's standards. looked back. Under close supervision by Franca Barat­ ta, senior job coach at Summit School, and with the guidance of Bookstore manager Not just news ... but the· BEST news Lina Lipscombe and her staff, Annett has learned job skills in the mailroom and on the Bookstore floor. Summit School goes back to 1963 as a pre-school started by four Montreal families. When _principal Gloria Cherney joined the staff in 1969 there were 39 stu­ dents. Today, Summit School is located at 1750 Deguire in St-_Laurent and boasts 250 · students, ranging in age from pre-school to 21, an of whom are developmentally dis­ abled to a degree. [ It is a private school, independent of any school board,_and there are no fees. Ninety per cent of funding is from the Department of Education, with the balance coming from the private sector through fund raising ef­ forts. A number of Summit School children do eventually graduate into the normal school system, but for many the opportunities out­ side the home are severely limited and Sum­ mit School is one of the few organizations in the city that will provide opportunities and care. Graduating Journalism DiplorrJa Programme student Doug Crosbie is this year's recipient of the $1,500 Al Cauley Award, given for the In 1985, a job placement programme was best radio news and public affairs documentary. The late Al Cauley was a well-known sportscaster with radio station CJAD. Crosbie is created for '.'high functioning" students like shown above with CJAD News Director Gordon Sinclair (at left), who presented him with his cheque. PHOTO: Charles Belanger Twins peak Michel Dionne, 23, an Actuarial Math took the same classes. We helped each other Co-op graduate, nabbed both the Governor out. We didn't want to get beaten (academi­ BUILD YOUR S_ELF CONFIDENCE General Award for highest GPA, and the cally) by another student so we had a friend­ with Mappin award for graduating student with ly competition between us:" Pierre's GPA the highest GPA in a science program, with wu4~. · Dale Carnegie Training® a GPA of 4.26. And he thanks his twin brother Pierre, who was in rhe same Dionne is flattered that people call him r Improve your communication skills "' programme, for that feat: and his brother "two brains," but adds, "We "He's the reason why I won the awards," worked hard for it and when you do, you can Learn tp inspire and motivate people ,. laughs Dionne. "We studied together and achieve a lot." Become a dynamic speaker Manage stress and worry Family matters Enjoy better teamwork The Rothwells have given new meaning programme last May, _but postponed filling to the term 'all in the family.' Mom Lois, an out the graduation form in order to attend the English major, and daughter Melanie, a commencement exercises with her mother convenient downtown location Sociology major, will be accepting their and boyfriend. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL diplomas from the University together this The senior Rothwell resumed her educa­ CARL ABOUD 285-1287 month along with Melanie's boyfriend, tion after putting it on hold for more tpan 30 E.J. GLOWKA & ASSOCIATES INC. Graham Turner, a double History and years, and describes going back to school as 300 LEO PARISEAU #714 Sociology major. "great." But she _says of graduating with her The younger Rothwell finished her daughter, "nothing compares to it." Page 16 THE THURSDAY REPORT June 7, 1990

Letters Non-academic· staff Editor's Note: The f ollowing was sent to . providing a secure place to stay for a short ITR by Claudette Fortier, Concordia's In­ period of time. The programme also aims to ternational Student Adviser, as an "open let­ give families and individuals an _excellent has new bargainers ter" to the Concordia community. opportunity to establish a friendship with Concordia welcomes students from more someone from another culture. than 90 countries. The International Student For further information, or to request an Office is looking for families and in­ application form, please call 848°3514. I Cost of living adjustment on the table as CUNASA reps prepare dividuals who are willing to give newly-ar­ would also appreciate it if you would inform_ to continue negotiations riv~d students a home for a week, providing us of any friends or relatives who might be them with room and board at no cost. interested in the programme. ment (COLA) and the 1989-90 and 1990-91 Homestay will- help these students in Claudette Fortier Sharon Bishin payouts of Job Evaluation Project increases. their transition into Canadian life while International Student Adviser There has been some wrangling within CUNAS A about whether the CUNAS A con­ Answer these questions and you will im-· stitution allowed such a suspension. This, in ~ To the Editor: aspects of growing old. Predictably, the mediately be given a free lunch. tum, motivated the CUNASA Administra­ I was interested to learn from the May 3rd course al ways fjlled its emolment quota. What cost of living increase, if any, and tive Support (AS) Classification Council issue ofTTR thattwo faculty members of the In February 1986 .the Applied Social when - will you be receiving this year? within the Administrative Council to call an Psychology Department are involved in Science Department ruled that the course Who is representing you at the bargain- open meeting for all administrative and aging concerns.under federal sponsorship. would be deleted from their offerings. This ing·table? · " professional staff to discuss the negotiation In 1966, after a 12-year stint as a casew·orker occurred at a time when the subject ·theme Is the Concordia University Non­ suspension. in a local community s~ial service agency - grew increasingly comprehensive and when Academic Staff Association (CUNASA) About 50 people attended the meeting. serving the elderly, I proposed to the Depart- elder concerns were touching, directly and unionizing, affiliating or disintegrating? Some people questioned what they call "the ment of Applied Social Science that a course indirectly, everyone in the Concordia com­ If your salary was.increased with the Job cavalier manner" of suspending the in Social Gerontology be offered as a means munity and elsewhere. Evaluation Project, when did you, or will negotiating team; others recognized the ef­ of sensitizing students to the emerging However presumptuous my hunch did you see all of that money? And how does forts put forth thus far into the negotiations; phenomena of an increasingly aging popula- seem then and now, the students contemplat­ that payout compare to other negotiated and others still felt that a tougher line could tion. ing an orientation of the aging phenomena payouts to unions within the University? be taken at the bargaining table with a new The course, Applied Social Science 411 were the losers by the untimely demise of Don't feel badly if you 're short on team. Taking these reactions into considera­ (later renumbered 321) was offered each the course. answers, but CUNASA says that now is the tion, at the Adminstrative Council meeting year for two decades. It dealt with the Jack Goldner. time to increase your.awareness. CUNASA May 28,.the Administrative Council and the biological, psychological and sociological ·. retired' ' is undergoing a change and your input and executive together decided to put forth a involvement can determine the direction new negotiating team which was later that your representatives will take.on a wide­ presented at the May 30th CUNASA

J \ ranging number of issues. General Meeting: CUNAS A President Wal­ Editor's note: The following letter, ad­ in a unilateral ~anner undermines the spirit ter Wheatley _would be spokesperson, ac­ dressed to Me Andre Gervais, Chairman, of collegi11lity which has governed our past Who is on the negoatiating team? companied by Ralph Carter (Executive Concordia Board of Governors, was for­ relations. Your (the administration's) A week ago, May 30th, CUNASA held a Vice-President), Linda Longtin (Vice­ warded to TTRfor publication. proposal to cap _salaries would only lead to· special general meeting which focused President Liaison) and Pat Verret (Member We, the undersigned members of the discouragement of the faculty in their en­ primarily on tl_le makeup of the new Technic~l Support) with one additional Concordia University Physics Department, deavour towards excellence. We urge the CUNASA negotiating team. member at Administrative Council to be wish to register our objection to the uncom­ University to resume meaningful negotia- The previous team, headed by Liana selected. Liana Howes declined an invita~ promis"ing approach of the University and its tions. Howes, a former CUNASA president, had tion to join the team later. negotiating team. The attempt to introduce S.K. Misra B. Frank been dismissed by the new CUNASA ex­ Their revised negotiating position is built a completely new concept into our contract D. Charlton N.Eddy ecutive which took office in April 1990, upon the previous team's, but they have R. Kovacs J. MacKinnon headed by re-elected president Walter changed certain specifics regarding the S.Morris J. Shin Wheatley. (Wheatley, as president of COLA and the JEP payouts, and included a ~ To the Editor: S. Dubas R. Sharma CUNASA, had always been eligible to sit on proposal for a "step system" which would As of this date I resign from the commit­ C.Kalman A. Kiplin·g that negotiaiing team, but he had not done allow for automatic yearly salary incre­ tees for which I was a CUNASA repre­ M.Frank so.) ments. sentative. I refuse to report to a group of (Please note that all full-time faculty mem­ At the -time the negotiations were The new team has contacted the ad­ individuals, the current CUNASA Execu­ bers in the Department of Physics have suspended, seven items were on the table - ministration to resume talks and will report tive, who support the CNTU/CSN. The lat­ signed the above letter) including a 1990-91 Cost of Living Adjust- back to the CUNASA membership ·as ter has made its political stand on separation developments warrant. very clear and l find this stand personally ab­ horrent. I also do not believe that the current 20-year -veteran.s feted Are the conflicts behind us? Executive is working for the best interests of The positive tone of the general meeting non-academic staff. was in stark contrast to the frictions and con­ Pat Freed at formal reception flicts within CUNASA during recent Faculty Personnel Administrator On May 25th Concorgia held its 25th an­ Diniacopoulos, Irvin Dudeck, Iona Farrell, months. • nual special Long Service Recognition Donald E. Ginter, Jean Gosselin, Hubert Most sensitive was the issue of unioniza­ Reception for Concordia staff members who Guindon, Ernst Haefeli, Judith Herz, Harry tion and affiiiation. Wheatley, a staunch ~ To the Editor: . have been with the University for 20 years. Hill, Joel Hillel, Stephen Hlophe, Julian CSN supporter, was in constant battle with members of his past executive who felt af­ Recent articles in The Gazette ("Unions Rector Patrick Kenniff opened the event, . Korczak, P. Stephen Kumarapeli, Sandra filiation with CSN was not necessary, and promise militant decade," Sun., May 6; and awards were presented by Kenniff, Lafontaine, June Lamb, Dallas Laskey, Sui that he was using his power as president to "CNTU delegates back Quebec inde­ Chancellor Alan B. Gold and Board of Lin, Zeng-Rung Liu, Stephanie Manuel, direct a course of action not supported by the pendence," Wed., May 9) indicate that the Governors Chairman P. Andre Gervais. David M. Miller, Guido Molinari, Dennis CUNASA membership. (See the latest·let­ CNTU (CSN) are in favour of an inde­ Murphy, Rafik Neemeh, Valere Norman­ ters by Freed and Howes on this page.) pendent Quebec. New 20-year veterans include: Donald F. deau, Suzanne P. O'Doherty, Harold W. Given the ongoing campaign to unionize P. Andrus, Arthur Ayotte, Bibhuti B. Bhat­ Proppe, Amruther Ramamurthy, Robert Of the eligible CUNASA membership, non-academic staff at Concordia with af­ tacharyya, Frederick A. Bode, Lise Brault, Raphael, Robert M. Roy, Matthew 61 % cast votes electing Wheatley and his filiation with the CSN, I have to question the William Brender, Leonard Campeau, Seebruch, Harvey Shulman, 0. S. Tee, slate, but the votes were close, with Wheat­ wisdom of such a move. Maurice Cohen, Brian Counihan, Charles Heather Thibaudeau, Marcelle L. Trotman, ley garnering 146 votes over Roslyn Liana Howes, Admissions Davis, Ulrike de Brentani, Denis Florence Urovitch, and Mary Vipond. Yearwood's 119. June 7, 1990 THE THURSDAY ~EPORT Page 17

Gaetan Landreville leaves - Translation Services . . Ghislaine Daoust named Acting Di-rector Gaetan Landreville, Concordia's long­ time Direc~or of Translation Services, has left the University. Ghislaine Daoust, wlio ~,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,~ has been with Translation Services ·since 1979, will serve as Acting Director until November 25, 1990. ~./././././././././././/./././././/././././././~ Secretary-General Berengere Gaudet had this to say about the departing directo~: "During the 15 years that Mr. Landreville was associated with Concordia as Dire.ctor All the world's a stage of Translation Services, the unit evolved Donna Varrica considerably as the demand for translating s~rvices increased from year to year. He has always served the University community in 111 the year or so since I took over the writing of this column, the volume of dippings a very professional way. The University fs naming Concordia and its faculty has been overwhelming. The barrage of briefs grateful to Mr. Landreville for his com­ l:>elow is just a samp_ling of the material to make its way to my desk in the last few petence and his continued dedication to the weeks. institution. I want to thank him personally and wish pim the best of luck in his new en­ The Globe and Mai/featured John Kent Harrison, writer-director of the film Beauti­ deavours." ful Dreamers, in which the former Conco.rdia student credits Cinema Professor Marc Translation Services staffers will miss Gervais with helping him to discover the world of film ... Canadian Press (CP) wired him, too. According to one: "Under a Gaetan Landreville an item about Concordia Film students Anne-Josee Bourdreault who won best ·Quebec film honours for Ex-Cathedra and an honourable mention for Andre Turpin deceivingly reserved appearance, he has a . PHOTO: Charles lkl_langer genuine sense of humour· (a constant joke for Comme hier matin at the World Fil!fl Schools Festival. around the office was his phenomenal a gentleman who shows respect and expres­ The Gazette's Pat Donnelly gave Concordia's Theatre Department collective kudos memory for details, which turned.out to be · ses confidence jn his employees." for its contribution to the Quebec Drama Festival, saying that the Department figures the best back-up filing system the secretaries . The Translation Services Office has also so prominently in the Festival each year because of its "wealth of talent." ever had!)" (as from June 1st) relocated. They are now · "Most of all," said another, "he is a in Bishop Court, Rooms 211, 212 and 214. ·The Gazette had a roundup of shows and exhibitions including one by Concordia profoundly human and sensitive individual, Their local - 3870 - remains the same. faculty members Aleksandra Mancak, Kathryn Lipke, Barbara_Layne, Regine Mainberger, Ashley Miller and Lyn Carter .which explored the various aspects of different materials and processes.:.Ann Duncan, The Gazette's art critic, gave graduate student Lorraine Simms's exhibition at Le Bourget gallery a glowing write­ Job Evaluation Committee up, saying she had "surprising strength, maturity and cohesiveness of vision, both in tephnique and subject matter." announces additional On the political stage, the Washington Journalism Review turned to Journalism Professor Enn Raudsepp for his opinion ,on the ethical question of hidden microphones during the New Democratic Party's leadership convention ... Vice-Rec­ salary increases tor, Services, ·J. Charles Giguere was the guest on CIBL's Panorama discussing Update newsletter out in fall university participation in ttie city's recently unveiled downtown plan. . In the sports arena, the Concordia Stingers' basketball chall]pionship made all the Concordia's Job Evaluation Committee Negotiations have not yet oeen com- big headlines, in print, on the the radio and on television. Key players Nick Arvanitis has released additional figures on the salary . pleted between CUNASA and the Univer­ and Ernie Rosa, coach John Dore , assistant coach Harvey Liverman and Trent adjustments awarded to. date to non­ sity to determine sal·ary raises for the current lillbury, Sports Information Director, .were interviewed during rE!Qular sports academic·staff as ~ result of the Job Evalua­ academic year (June 1, 1990 to May 31, newscasts on most radio and television programmes in the Montreal area. In addi­ tion Project. 1991), including the next instalment from tion, they were featured in lengthier guest spots on Andy Peplowski's CFCF 60 and Approximately ·200 dossiers were com­ the iob Evaluation Project. Ted Lowell's CJAD sports shows. Not to be outdone, the CBC network gave the win pleted since the last report on the subject ap- considerable airtime with guest spots on Radio Noon. peared in the May 3, 1990 issue of ITR. Final 'Update' planned With graduation time around the corner, students shone in th.e spotlight. ..Concordia's Of the 800 or so employees affected by The Job Evaluation Committee·reported the Job Evaluation Project, dossiers for 710 this week that "the vast majority of cases in­ student group, Students Against Youths Drinking Alcohol (SAYDA), made news all of these have now been finalized. Of the volving appeals have been resolved. Only a over Canada for their lobbying efforts to raise the legal drinking age to 21 ... Concor­ 710, 507 (71.4%) received salary adjust- handful remain." dia graduate and former Link news editor Carla Gruodis was featured in both a Globe ments. As reported in the last ITR, employees and Mail article and in The Gazette tor launching Lithuania's first English-language Tne average Job Evaluation Project who still have questions about their final newspaper during that country's bid for independence from the Soviet Union. GP salary increase for the 1989-90 year was salaries should contact their managers. adapted the Gazette story, written by another former Link news editor, Michael Or­ $1,841; the largest was $8,700. There were Managers, in tum, should ensure that allof sini for natio~al publication ... Le Devoirnamed Concordia student Elfriede Gebhard 203 employees who received no Job Evalua- the relevant_information used to determine as having the highest score in .Canada in the financial management portion of the tion Project salary adjustment, although salaries has been provided to the Human · Certified Management Accountancy exams ... Concordia Journalism graduate John­ -they - like ali- non-academic staff - Resou·rces Department (i.e., complete, Thomas Dipowe, a native of Botswana, had a feature in The Monitor about how received a 4% cost-of-living increase at the month-to-month employment histories). Co_ncordia helps international students to adapt to their new and unfamiliar surround· beginning of the academic year. Job grades will be made avapable ings. Of the 710 staff members who received through the Human Resources Department Job Evaluation Project increases, 37.5% as soon as all appeals have been finalized (190 people) received raises of between and the entire grade structure is complete. $1 ;ooo and $2,500; 21.3% ( 108 people) Although the Job Evaluation Committee, received $2,500. to $5,000; 18.3% (93,,, .. ,>l!S presently constituted, will disband soon, Job Evaluation, and for implementing any­ another). people) received $500 to $1,000; 15 .4% (78 a permanent committee will be struck to thing relating to Job Evaluation in the future A final issue of the Update newsletter people) received $100 to $500; 5.1% (26 replace it. (e.g., such things as administering question­ will be distributed this fall outlining, once people) received $5,000 to $10,000; and That committee will be given respon- naires for new hires or for existing again, the mandate of the Job Evaluation 2.4% (12 people) received $100 or less. sibility for any matters still not settled about . employees transferring from one job to Project and summarizing its results. -K.JW .,, Page 18 THE THURSDAY REPORT June 7, 1990

Governors approve revised Code of Conduct (Non-Academic) "Unfair distinction" provision tabted until fall orientation, thereby denying employees ac­ younger age brackets pay less than older tober 1990 at the latest, and earlier if pos­ Ken Whittingham - cess to what are termed same sell. .benefits males for life insurance because of actuarial sible: (e.g., insurance, health or death benefits for predictions of the life expectancy of both In the interim, the wording of Section couples of the same sex). groups. Twelve of the previous Code of Conduct Without some type of provision for so­ (Non-Academic) remains in force. That sec­ four-year-long process to upd~te Premiums may rise Concordia's Non-Academic Code called ']air distinction," there are concerns tion refers to freedom from discrimination .A of Conduct has ended with formal The University Benefits Committee has that premiums might be standardized based on numerous ·grounds, including approval of a revised code by the Board of so far declined to endorse the concept of across-the-board, thereby r~ising costs for sexl_lal orientation. Governors. The new code takes effect Sep­ "same sex" benefits oh the grounds that many people at Concordia. The complete text of the new Code of tember 1, 1990, and includes operating pro­ health and insurance .premiums might rise The Governors agreed to table the· con­ Conduct (Non-Academic) will be published cedures for the Ombuds Office and the for· all Con(;0rdia employees, regardless of troversial section to allow additional time in the fall after the wording of all sections is Office of the Code Administrator. their sexual orientation. for its authors to consult with all sectors of finalized. At that point copies will be made The most significant changes concern the All insurance policies currently make the community on the possible ramifications available at the office of the Code Ad~ penalties and procedures for enforcing the distinctions as a matter of course according · of the wording. It was agreed that the Gover­ ministrator (Loyola Campus Central Build­ code. Many cases that Were handled in the to age and sex, etc. For example, females in nors would consider the matter again by Oc- ing, Room 326). past through formal hearings will now be dealt with by "administrative or mediated Sexual harassmenf office to .open by .the fall resolution." Richard 'Renaud Uniform procedures have also been es­ Vice-Rector Cohen agreed to provide ad­ appointed governor tablished for cases which cannot be resolved Ken Whittingham . ditional information on this aspect of the in this way. Formal cases will be heard by a polity before the fall. board drawn from a 24-member standing panel. All panel members wil) receive train­ oncordia will establish a Sexual ing to ensure as much consistency -/lS pos­ Harassment Office "to actively Gervais re-elected sible in decisions. Cpromote an environment free from A list of sanctions has also been spelled sexual haras&ment," and to investigate c.om­ Board Chairman out to standardize penalties. These include plaints from faculty, students and staff. written reprimands; fines of up to $1,000 (as The position of Sexual Harassment Of: Governors approve budget, l · compensation ' for injury or damage); ex­ ficer and a permanent Advisory Committee establish foundation and clusion from an area or function of the on Sexual Harassment will also be estab­ increase pensions University; community service; suspension, lished as a result of a new policy on the sub­ expulsion or dismissal. ject that was approved by the Board of P. Andre Gervais has been re-elected In light of the increased importance Con­ Governors last month. Chairman of the Board of Governors for a cordia is placing on the rights and respon­ The policy's provisions will go into ef­ further one-year term ending June 30, 1991. Richard Renaud sibilities of all faculty, students and staff, the fect as soon as ·possfble, and no later than Reginald K. Groome and Claude I. .PHOTO: Charles Belanger code also stipulates that the Ombuds Office October 1, 1990. Taylor have been re-elected Vice-Chairmen Richa"rd Renaud, Vice-Chairman and and the Code Administrator must issue an­ The Sexual Harassment Officer, report­ I for the Same period. . Managing Partner of Toronto-based nual reports to the community. ing to the Office of the Rector (i.e., the Gervais is a partner with Mackenzie Ger­ Dynamic Capital Corporation, has been ap­ · AH of the revisions to the code except Rector, the Vice-Rectors and the Secretary­ vais, Advocates. Groome is Chairman, pointed to a a three-year term as a com­ Section Three of the code's Statement of General) has been given a 12~point mandate · President, and CEO of Hilton Canada Inc. munity-a t-1 a rg e representative on· Governing Principles were approved by the that includes: Taylor is Chairman of the Board of Air Concordia's 40-member Board of Gover­ Governors on May 16. • assisting and advising complainants- and Canada. nors. Dynamic Capital Corporation is a funds management company. They_ were based on recommendations respondents involved in sexu;tl harassment The elections were held on May 16 at the Educated at Loyola College and McGill, submitted by the code's Supervisory Board, cases; Governors regular monthly meeting. In Renaud holds directorships in 20 firms in the University Benefits Committee, the Ex­ • providing extensive education about · other business,· the Board ap_pro'ved Montreal, Toronto and Calgary. He is also . ecutive Committee of the Board of Gover­ sexual harassment to increase awareness Concordia's $163.2 million Operating President and Director of CMP Oil _and Gas nors, and the Offices df the Rector, the of the issue on campus; and Budget for 1990-91 (see TTR April 12/90for lnc.'of Toronto. ViGe-Rectors and the Secret.ary-Geheral. · • training University personnel involved in details), the Capital Budget for 1990-91 and A chartered accountant by profession, Renaud serves on the Board·of Governors There was considerable debate at the the resolution of sexual harassment cases. the Operating Budget for 1991-92. (For ad­ of the Montreal General Hospital, the Board Governors' meeting about Section Three. The policy is the result of more than two­ ditional information on. the budget see the . of Trustees of Stanstead College, and the Faculty and staff members circulated years of consultation by the nine-member Senate story on page 19.) Canadian Council on Children and Youth . petitions prior to the meeting expressing ~dvisory Committee on Sexual Harassment The Governors also established t)le Con­ He is also active in the Concordia Univer­ .concern about wording in.Section Three tpat established in A'pril 1988 by Maurice cordia University Foundation, a charitable sity Alumni Association and the Loyola High stipulates Concordia must provide "all 'i.er­ Cohen, Vice-Rector, Institutional Relations body to "raise, receive and manage" funds School Alumni Association. His appo1ntment was announced May 16, vices, benefits, facilities and academic or and Finance. from private sources supporting the 1990. employment opportunities" to qualified per­ · The qdvisory committee attempted as University's development efforts. sons "without discrimination or unfair _dis­ much as possible to marry the sexual harass­ The non-profit, non-taxable foundation tinction on such grounds as race, colour, sex, ment policy 's principles and procedures will be used to finance and rent the four half­ sexual orientation, pregnancy, civil status,. with those of Cpncordia's newly-revised floors of non-library space that will be built age (except as provided by law), religion, Non:Academic Code of Conduct (see the atop the downtown Library Building. The sioners who retired after that date will be political convictions, language, ethnic orna­ accompanying article). foundation will eventuaily transfer the calculated on a prorated basis. · tional origin, social condition, family, status Concerns were raised by two Governors, property to Concordia; allowing the Univer­ In keeping with revisions to Quebec or h_andicap." community-at-large representative Peter sity to assume ownership without. having to government legislation, the University will The petitioners argue that the term "un° Howlett and Marketing Department As­ pay capital gains or income taxes. also amend its pension plan June 1st to in­ fair distinction" would allow the University sociate Professor Brian Barbieri, that the The Governors also approved a series of clude coverage for all eligible non full-time Benefits Committee (which is composed of procedures established under the new policy pension increases for retirees and thefr employees. Quebec law requires that elected faculty and staff representatives, and might not provide sufficient guarantees of beneficiaries. A 5.2% increase takes ·effect eligible non full-time employees be given administrators) to make what it · considers confidentiality in cases where individuals June 1, 1990 for pensioners who retired on pension benefits similar to those provided to legitimate distinctions based on sex!Jal are unjustly accused of wrongdoing. or before January 1, 1988. Increases for pen- full-time employees. - KJW

• June 7, 1990 THE THURSDAY REPORT Page 19 SCAPP report on budget; academic materia_ls fee focus of May Senate sentative Yun Jen suggested that each Facul­ quest, saying that given the nature of ad­ MUSH institutions (Municipalities, Donna Varrica ty set up a committee to monitor expendi­ vanced courses in the programme, the B­ Universities, Schools and Hospitals). The tures with equal representation by students rule would benefit students participating in extent of exemptions has not yet been and faculty. Several faculty members were small workshops where a "certain degree clarified, but it is known that tuition fees wo Senate IIJeetings last month opposed to the suggestion as being redun­ of innate talent" is required. for successful and the purchase of all goods and services produced animated discussion about dant. Sheinin pointed out that the fees were completion. The request raised questions directly related to education are exempt Tthe impact of academic planning and not imposed to raise money but to comply of grade inflation from the student repre­ from the GST. priorities on the budget process, and about with government-set standards and that the sentatives and from Sean -McEvenue, • McEvenue told Senate that the Conseil des the application of the Academic Materials policy had been put forth to safeguard stu­ Chair of the Ac.ademic Programmes Com­ universites is studying a plan to remi-t a and Services (AMS) fee. dents against not getting the materials and mittee. portion of the loan debt owed by stud~nts At the \'vfay 4 meeting, th~ Senate Com­ services to which they are entitled. • The shortage of classroom space, par­ if they complete their graduate program­ mittee on Academic Pl~ning and Priorities In other business: ticularly in the peak 6:05-8: 10 p.m. slot, mes within the allotted time. (SCAPP) submitted a report endorsing the • Sheinin outlined the details of the Seagram has become_ an ac1:1te problem. Several • The creation of two new convocation 1990-91 operating budget presented by Fund for Academic Innovation, which will senators suggested that more classes be medals ·was approved. The Governor Maurice Cohen, Vice-Rector, Institutional provide suppor~ for interdisciplinary scheduled on Frida_y, and poss.ibly Satur­ General's Gold Medal will be awarded at· Relations and Finance. The budget was later projects involving· research, creaticm or day morning as well to alleviate the the Fall Convocation to a deserving adopted by the Board of Governors at its academic development. For more informa­ shortage. . graduate student to complement the exist­ May 16 meeting. tion, see advertisement on page 8. • Cohen called imposing the proposed ing Governor General's Silver Medal Finance_Department Chair Mohsen An­ • The English Depa~ment Creative Writing f

Concordia and Loyola High School trade land and buildings Recycling update

There are many ways to participate

Michael Hogben

The Concordia Recycling Committee has restructured itself into a planning com­ mittee and two campus-based committees. For the moment they are concentrating on " - paper, plastics, bottles and compost.

PAPER finished with the usual landscaping, flower­ N~gotiations continue as to which paper planting and sports field rejuvenation recycling company will be honoured to projects, an enclosed site has been set aside receive our waste paper; more than one is where compost bins will receive vegetable being tried out. All coin-operated photocopy refuse from the Loyola cafeteria together machines at Concordia now run on recycled _with garden refuse (grass clippings, etc.) for paper and each copy centre will have at least future use as fertilizer. one machine running on recycled paper, available by request. One of the driving for­ SUGGESTION BOX ces is, of course, economics; the premium The best ideas often come from those on recycled paper has been steadily drop­ nearest the problem. Written suggestions are ping and is now not very different from vir­ encouraged from all 25,000 faculty, staff gin paper. and students at Concordia. Drop them in the specially marked boxes at the Information The Loyola High School Building, built in 1916, is viewed from the south. The'High School PLASTiCS Desk in the Hall Bldg. and the Security Desk extension, erected in 1969, is in the foreground; Conco_rdia' s Hingston Hall is in the back0 The committee is wondering where used at Loyola, or mail them to . The Recycling ground. cafeteria plastic plates and cups go and is in­ Committee, c/o Room H-115, SGW Cam­ vestigating the alternatives. pus. owned by the Jesuit Order. BOTTLES HAZARDOUS WASTE J Donna Varrica The acquisition of High School land and We had asked that the CitY, of Montreal On June 9 the City of Montreal will once classroom space will enable the University provide us with a few of their "green bells" to realize a dream that has been nurtured again hold one of its hazardous waste pick­ but, sorry folks, they have been so success­ . An agreement in principle between Con­ since the 1974 merger _of Loyola College up days for those of you harbouring awful ful the city cannot keep up with public things under your kitchen sinks, at the back cordia and Loyola High School announced and Sir George Williams University. response (lopk around and you will find they last month unveiled plans for the two institu­ The 74syear-old High School building .of your garages, or wherever. For more. in­ are all overflowing). The city is reconsider- formation, we are advised that you can tions to exchange land and buildings on the (and a three-storey extension buBt in 1969) ing the problem. • 35-acre Loyola Campus. The agreement stands in the very centre of the Loyola Cam­ . phone 879~JUIN but your intrepid cor­ respondent (me) tried it at the time of going wifl allow both institutions to consolidate pus and is connected to three existing . COMPOST to press and received "U n'y a pas de ser­ holdings on two distinct sites _so each may University buildings, forming an integral Good news! After spring cleanup has vice .. . " Oh well. forge a more i;:ohesive identity. part of the campus design. By virtue of the agreement, Concordia The new High School building will con­ will now own all the property north of tain classrooms, offices, a cafeteria and Sherbrooke Street, with the exception of the other needed facilities - all connected to South African educator visits Jesuit residence. This area constituted most the gymnasium under a single roof. Loyola of the original campus of Loyola College. High School is the only remaining school in The High School will vacate its existing Quebec owned and administered _by the facilities north of Sherbrooke Street once a Jesuit Order; the school will celebrate its new building is erected on land now owned 100th anniversary·in 1996. by Concordia, south of Sherbrooke Street. · Besides the land exchange, Concordia The new site, adjacent to the gymnasium will pay Loyola High School $3.5 million which Loyola l:ligh School built in 1978, ex­ and provide it with the perpetual right to the tends north and west from the gymnasium to use of a playing field owned by the Univer­ the comer of West Broadway Avenue and sity. Sherbrooke Street. The pro·perty includes The · agreement in principle was an­ land that is currently occupied by three nounced by Rector Patrick Kenniff_and Rev.­ University buildings (the Cloran, Hackett J. Winston Rye, S.J.; President of Loyola and WA/AB Annexes). , · High School, following lengthy negotia­ The High School building will not open tions between the two schools. The other until the fall of 1992 at ~e earliest, so there Concordia members of the negotiating teain are no immediate plans to relocate the were ·Board of Governors Chairman P. people currently housed in the annexes. Andre Gervais and former Chairman These include the P'tits Profs Day Care Donald W. McNaughton. Centre and many of the Loyola Campus The Rector said the agreement would operations of the Faculty of Commerce and benefit both institutions. "From an architec­ Administration. tural and administrative point of view, the For its part, Concordia will acquire the addition of the historic High School build­ Rector Patrick Kenniff met with Professqr J. V.O. Reid, Deputy Vice-Chancellor ·of the existing High School building and the play­ ing means that Concordia University has, at University ofCape ·Town, on the afternoon ofMay 18th. The Deputy Vice-Chancellor hopes ing field located between Concordia's last, achieved the long-awaited consolida­ to increase educational opportunities for black students and thus contribute to the further L Hingston Hall building and the residence tion of its Loyola Campus." development ofAfrican society. PHOT0,c11ar1n861anger June 7, 1990 THE THURSDAY REPORT Page 21

Toshiba gives second major gift KURZWEIL from page 1 to University in two years tions. The visually-impaired person reads by Social Science student, "but you can adj ust moving his/her fingers along the moving it to the speed and sound you like." rods. Bissonnette says there is no single solu­ Heather Green used a Versa braille to take tion. "You need a multi-media approach," he lecture notes and uses tapes for her readings. concludes. " It's the successful disabled stu­ She prefers the Kurzweil to tapes, however, dent who can take a range of choices and because it will spell out words. "The voice figure out the appropriate medium for the is a little unusual at first," says the Applied situation."

Concordia recently received more than $40,000 worth of new computer equipment for en­ gineering research from Toshiba of Canada Limited, which marks the second time the University has received a major donation from the compaf)y. Just two years ago, Toshiba donated $30,000 worth of laptop computers to help disabled students overcome some ofthe difficulties they face in obtqining university degrees. Pictured above at the recent presentation ceremony on the Mezzanine of the Henry F. Hall Bldg. are (from left) Mechanical Engineering's John Saber, who first approached Toshiba for the donation, Toshiba Eastern Regional Manager Pierre Gauthier, and Strategic Ac­ count Sales Executive Lorraine Lamontagne, both of whom are from the Information Sys- terns group. PHOTO: Charles Belanger

Student Heather Green uses a Kurzweil Personal Reader to aid her in her studies. Though Technicians' Union elects Executive Committee SDS' s Nelly Trakas lends a helping hand, the visually-impaired can operate the KPR The Concordia University Union of Support Staff- Technical Sector (CSN) recently without assistance, unlike traditional devices available until now. held elections for certain positions on the Executive Committee. • PHOTO: Charles Belanger The names, positions on the committee and internal mailing addresses of the newly elected members are: NETWORKS from page 1 Michael Brennan - Second Vice-President, Mechanical Engineering, S-H 0029-1 Loni Cornax - President, Audio-Visual Dep't, L-CC 203 Montreal, who are involved in the five-year, Maag, "We're looking at the whole." Wesley Fitch - First Vice-President, Mechanical Engineering, S-H 0017 $5-million-plus network, which will be She elaborates. "We are studying the James Gregson - Secretary, Audio-Visual Dep't, S-H 421 spearheaded by Sociologist Victor W. Mar­ demographics; how you maintain the Marie-Josee Morel - Treasurer, Audio-visual Dep't, L-A D 105 shall, the incoming director of the Univer­ elderly's contribution to society in an in­ sity of Toronto's Centre for Gerontology. creasingly technological society ... how they Taking advantage of several years' past (the elderly) can maintain job skills. With research and utilizing major databanks the changes in .cognitive abilities which BEGINNING JUNE 1, 1990 which they have assembled on both the naturally come with age, how can, say, a 65- general population of Montreal and specific year-old learn new computer skills?" asks The office of the Secretary-Genera/ assumed groups such as Canadian war veterans, the Arbuckle~Maag. · responsibility for administration of policies of Concordia researchers will be part of the Other research groups in the network will group of participating cognitive researchers general application throughout the university examine the relationships of social support under the leadership of University of Toron­ As of June 1, 1990 the Office of the Secretary-General took over, from the Depart­ mechanisms (family, friends, neighbours, to Psychology professor Fergus Craik. The ment of Human Resources, responsibility for ttie administration and distribution of workplace mechanisms) and health factors. group will be particularly concerned with in­ internal University policies of general application. This includes policies and regula­ vestigating a range of conditions in the cog­ tions currently in Manuals A and C, but does not include personnel policies found in Industrial input important Manual B. It has been decided that Human Resources will continue to administer nitive environment as they affect the "That we are getting together with two and distribute these policies. performance of intellectual tasks. industrial partners is important," stresses Following' are the new responsibilities of the Secretariat. According to the research description, Arbuckle-Maag. "What we discover can be "Basic research on individual differences in transferred to the workplace; the problem of A. To co-ordipate and administer internal University policies. cognition in relation to age and the social en­ ' transfer' has been an unfortunate constant B. To ensure that all policies are written in normative language. vironment (including work environmerit) for the social sciences generally." C. To notify the University community of new and revised policies. will be brought into relationship with more D. To distribute policy manuals and make policy information accessible. applied research examining competency in Arbuckle-Maag is quite pleased about relationship to work and retirement, and the the collabora~ive aspect of her and Gold's We will contact all academic and administrative units in the near future to provide in­ relationsbips of cognitive competency to in­ participation in the network. "We will be formation about new administrative procedures, and to outline our plans for review stitutionalization .... " developing pools of data for sharing and of existing policies. Questions may be directed to Marie-Andree Robitaille, or Amely "We are in fact one of the few groups comparing," she explains. "That will be a Jurgenliemk, assistant on_the project, at 848-4811. working on intellectual abilities in relation major gain. The collaboration will enrich ..: to a broad range of factors," says Arbuckle- everybody's research." Page 22 THE THURSDAY REPORT June 7, 1990

Goodbye

Dear Readers, This is my last issue as Editor of-The Thursday Rep~rt. After three years in t_he weekly hot seat I'm donning a strictly public relations hat to develop a travelling public rela­ tions seminar at Concordia and further strengthen media ties (more about that in a moment). I've had a great time learning about many, many parts of this complex and fascinat­ ing University. I could be here for many more years ar d still never completely cover all the researchers, projects, personalities and issues that make up Concordia. It's been a challenge to try to accommodate the various TTR readerships. It's been satis­ fying to watch the Letters to the Editor pages grow as readers began viewing the pa per as a legitimate forum for communication. And it's been a tremendous amount of fun being employed in a Public Relations of­ fice that is staffed by the friendliest group of aliens with whom one could hope to work. One of them, Donna Varrica, will be taking over as Editor. I can't wait till her first Tuesday. That's production day when all the copy has to be in (hah!); the facts have to-be right (is it assistant professor, associate professor or adjunct assistant professor????); the computer desktop publishing systell), has to not have crashed; and all the material has to fit on about eight or twelve pages in a visually ap­ pealing way ("Who's got that page one picture?!"). The humourous Ms. Varrica has loyees perspica<;iously noted that at those times I occasionally develop a harassed-on-the­ phone 'venom voice'. '1t must be 4 p.m. on Tuesday," they say, as they back slowly away from me. CDI CAPS PUT FACULTY IN TIZZY Sorry to any who have been on the receiving end of that voice and thank you to the countless others who've made the past three years enjoyable and stimulating. With is­ The University's plan to institute a sues like the Job Evaluation Project, salary capping, CUNASA, unionization, new Career Development Increment (COi) buildings, new courses and n~w -people to cover ... there hasn't been a dull moment. So, good luck, Donna. cap to bring CUFA members in line with Meanwhile, I will be travelling to each and every unit at Concordia, presenting a semi­ - nar on "Everything you ever wanted to know about public relations but were afraid other Quebec universities met with a to ask." I'll have tips on how to promote yourself internally and externally; how to or­ vigorous response. ganize a publicity campaign or deal with the media; in short, how to get the word OUT about your unique unit or project, etc. Like the other members of the PR department,, I'll also be keeping in touch with the media, so I will be needing information that I can pass on to them. If I don't contact you soon enough, please feel free to get in touch PAY DAY with me at 4884 (now in room BC-118). We are also preparing plans for a call-in phone Non-academic staffers received a first line which will list important daily messages and a possible radio spot. As I've often said at the end of the A!-A-Glance column: keep those cards and let­ installment on their salary increments ters .. . and story ideas ... and reactions ... coming. After all, The Thursday Report is YOUR paper, and the more it reflects all of YOU, the better it will be. · resulting from the Job Evaluation - Sharon Bishin Project, instituted to make University

salaries more competitive.

emic RESEARCHERS "EXCELLENT

Concordia researchers are directly in-

volved in four of 15 national Networks of TO CSN OR NOT CSN

Centres of Excellence as well as playing This spring's election of a new CUNASA

a contributing role in a fifth. The federal executive was the culmination of an at

programme will bring researchers $240 times heated contest between pro- and·

million over four years. anti-CSN affiliation groups.

HINDU CHAIR A FIRST

Montreal's Inda-Canadian community

raised more than $500,000 to endow

North America's first Hindu Studies YOU WROTE TO US

Chair, occupied by eminent scholar The year saw a major increase in the

Krishna Sivaraman. The Federal number of letters received by TTR.

Government also contributed $400,000 Major concerns: COi capping; union cer­

towards the establishment of the Chair. tification; the Job Evaluation Project. June 7, 1990 THE THURSDAY REPORT Page 23

ting our Quality ·of Life

WEEDED OUT Beginning last fall the University's dedi­

cated smokers were in for a rude awakening. Smoking was prohibited in

all but a few designated areas of the -,990 University.

HIV AIDS POLICY IN PLACE

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome truction (AIDS) has become one of the great

health concerns of the era. Spear­ headed by HIV/AIDS Project Co-or­

dinator Marlene Daley, Concordia was one of the first universities in the ·country

to implement a binding policy to protect

HIV:positive Concordians from dis­ • .

crimination. [ WE WENT DIGITAL

Last month saw Concordia take a giant

leap forward into the information age with our $2.4 million purchase of com­

ponents for ·a sophisticated Manage­

ment Information System (MIS) from ------Digital Equipment of Canada Ltd. The company will, also help Concordia re­

searchers with up to $250,000 yearly in

matching equipment purchase grants and with software licensing arrange- ·

ments.

WASTE NOT This year saw. the burgeoning of a dedi- cated effort by staff and students ·to

recycfe paper. Recycyling bins can now . be found at several locations on both

PHOTO: Spiros Vergados campuses. ...

The Thursday Report is the community newspaper of Concordia University, serving and notices are published free of charge. Classified ads cost $5 for the first 1 o·words, faculty, staff, administration and students at the University's downtown and west end 10¢ each additional word. Retail rates on request. Events, notices and classified ads campuses. The newspaper reports on Concordia news and research and also con­ must reach the Public Relations Office (BC-115) in writing no later than Monday noon, tains the most comprehensive listing of on-campus events available at the Univer­ prior to the Thursday publication date. • sity. It is published weekly during the academic year by the Public ,Relations ISSN 0704-5506 - Department, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, Editor: Sharon Bishin Quebec H3G 1MB . (514) 848-4882. Material published in The Thursday Report may Typesetting: Richard Nantel, Productions Pica be reproduced without permission.Credit would be appreciated. University events CirculJ1tion: 8,000 copies ·

~ ·;FAX:848-2814 THE BACK PAGE Kevin Leduc848-4881 ·_,_· -~ ~- , EVENTS -

THURSDAY JUNE 7 CONSERVATORY OF Ripstein at 9 p:m. in H-110, Henry F. Hall Catholic Religious Education in the English­ -CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART Bldg. (1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.). Ad­ Catholic Public Schools of Quebec. " CONSERVATORY OF X(1986) Oddvar Einarson, at 7 p.m. and OR­ mission: $2.50. Information: 848-3878. CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART PHEE (1950) Jean Cocteau at 9 p.m. in H- FRIDAY JUNE 29 PETE R IBBETSON ( 1935) Henry 110, Henry F . Hall Bldg. (1455 de WEDNESDAY JUNE 20 DOCTORAL THESIS DEFENSE Hathaway, at 7 p.m. and CHAMPION Maisonneuve Blvd. W.). Admission : $2.50. DOCTORAL THESIS DEFENSI; Mr. Andre Bergeron at 10:00 a.m. in H-769, WITHOUT CRO'{YN (CAMPEON SIN Information: 848-3878. CORONA) (1945) · Alejandro Galindo at 9 Mr. Spencer Boudreau at 10:00 a.m. in H- Henry F. Hall Bldg. (1455 de Maisonneuve 769, Henry F. Hall Bldg. (145(:> de Maison­ p.m. in H-110, Henry F. Hall Bldg. (1455 de MONDAY JUNE 11 · Blvd.). Thesis title :"Psychophysiological and neuve Blvd.). Thesis title: "From De Jure to . Maison!1euve Blvd . W.). Admission : $2.50. Attentional Response Patterns in Hypotheti­ De Facto: the Identity and Viability of Information : 848-3878. CONSERVATORY OF cally Psychosis Prone Adolescents." CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART FRIDAY JUNE 8 KAMILA (LOPERJENTEN) (1981) Vibeke. Lokkeberg, at 8:30 p.m. in H-110; Henry F. ,_,_ NOTICES CONCORDIA CAMPUS MINISTRY - Hall Bldg. (1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.). Admission : $2.50. Information: 848-3878. The Loyola Chapel presents "VOX AUREA." LEGAL PROBLEMS? PEER. HELPER PROGRAIIII The Jyvaskyl~ Music Class Choir from Fin- WE CAN HELP!!! The_ Peer Helper Program is a student-run land at 7:30 p.m. For information call Matti TUESDAY JUNE 12 listening and r.eferral service. Applications Terho at 848-3590. Freewill Offering. The Legal Information Service can help with information and counselling. We are located are now being accepted from students wish­ Sponsored by Canadian Friends of Finland . . CONSERVATORY OF -~ ing to become Peer Helper Volunteers in CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART in -Room CC -326, Loyola .Campus, CONSERVATORY OF telephone 848-4960. Office hours Monday to September. Application forms are available ..,...,. GOODBYE SOLIDARITY (ADJO CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. This service is at the Applied Social Science Department, SOLIDARITl;T (1985) Svend Warn, Petter ISLAND OF THE LOST SOULS (1932) Erle free and confidential. and at Campus Ministry, Health and Vennerod, at 8:30 p.m. in H-110, Henry F. C. Keaton , at 7 p.m. and MACLOVIA (1948) Guidance Services on both campuses. For Hall Bldg. (1455 de Maisonrieuve Blvd. W.). OMBUDS OFFICE Emilio Fernandez at 8:30 p.m. in H-f10, information call Daryl Ross at 848-3585. Admission·: $2.50. Information: 848-3878. The Ombuds Office is available to all mem­ Henry F. Hall Bldg. (1455 de Maisonneuve bers of the University for information, advice Blvd . W.). Admission : $2.50. Information: . WOMEN'S CENTRE ART SPACE ·and assistance with University-related 848-3878. WEDNESDAY JUNE 13 "Call to Artists, "Women artists of Concordia problems. Call 848-4964 or drop into 2100 University- faculty, students, staff or alumni CONSERVATORY OF Mackay, SGW Campus. Services of the Om­ are inyited to send proposals for solo exhibi­ SATURDAY JUNE 9 buds Office are confidential. CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART tions at the Concordia Women's Centre Art CONCORDIA CAMPUS MINISTRY WIVES TEN YEARS AFTER (HUSTRUER HEALTH SERVICES Space. Due to space limitations, the gallery The Canadian Friends of Finland presents Tl AR ETTER) (1985) Anja Breien, at 8:30 Health Services 'We're Different, "personal­ is unable· to accommodate sculpture. Sub­ 'The Winter War," a fi lm by Pekka Parik~a, p.m. l n H-110, Henry F. Hall Bldg. (1455 de ized, compr~hensive & confidential services, missions should include up to 20 slides, slide at 7 p.m. in the F.C. Smith Auditorium, 7141 Maisonneuve Blvd. W.). Admission: $2.50. with an emphasis on education and good identification list, artist's.statement, C.U. and -,; Sherbrooke St. W. Admission: $7. Information: 848-3878. consumer practices, Nurses available for S.A.S.E. Deadline: July 26, 1990 at 2020 consultation without an appointment, or by CONSERVATORY OF Mackay or send to: The Women's Centre Art THURSDAY JUNE 14 telephone. Doctors appointments available Space,· P-03, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blyd. CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART (booked by Nurse). Walk-in MD clinic every W. , Montreal, H3G 1MB. Call : 848-7431 . LA BELLE ET LA BETE (1945) Jean Coe- CONSERVATORY OF Wednesday and Friday afternoon (SGW teau, at 7 p.m. and THE WILD ONE (HUD) CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART only). rJ ours: 9 to 5 daily, closed 12 to 1 :.30 COMPUTER SCIENCE (1986) Vibeke Lokkeberg at 9 p.m. in H-1 10, THE ILLUSION TRAVELS BY STREETCAR p.m. Location: 21'55 Guy St. room 407 DEPARTMENT Henry F. Hall Bldg. (1455 de Maisonneuve (LA ILUSION VIAJA EN TRANVIA (1953) (telephone 848-3565) and 6935 Sherbrooke The Second International Workshop on Con­ Bl vd. W.). Admission: $2.50. Information: Luis Brunuel, at 7 p.m. and GROWING UP St. W., room 101 (telephone 848-3575). ditional arid Typed Rewriting Systems­ 848-3878. (LITEN /DA) (1981) Laila Mikkelsen at9 p.m. CONCORDIA ART GALLERY CTRS 90, will be held from June 11 to 14, in H-110, Henry F. Hall Bldg. (1455 de 1990. Sponsored by Concordia University SUNDA Y JUNE 10 The Concordia Art Gallery is" hosting an ex­ Maisonneuve Blvd. W.). Admission : $2.50. hibiton entitled "Eleanor Bond: Work Station" and the Centre de Recherche lnformatique Information: 848-3878. CONCORDIA CAMPUS MINISTRY until June 30, 1990 at the Art Gallery (1455 de Montreal with the support from the Nation­ al Science and Engineering Council of =J"here will be a Baccalaureate Mass at 11 de Maisonneuve Blvd.). Information: 848- Canada. Information: 848-3000. -, a.m . in the Loyola Chapel to honour the FRIDAY JUNE 15 4750. graduates. Students, their families, staff & ..,._ faculty are all welcome. Our guest homilist is CONSERVATORY OF Antonine Pare-Howlett, LLD. (Concordia CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART '81 ). Fr. Bob Nagy presiding. Refreshments MAGARIO (1960) Roberto Galvadon, at 7 Attention WordPerfect, dBase and Lotus users!!! will be served on the lawn following the p .m . and BLACK CROWS (SVARTE Mass. FUGLER) (1983) Lasse Glomm at 9 p.m. in • You've taken a course and now what? . .. H-11 O, Henry F. Hall Bldg. (1455 de Maison­ • You need help setting up specific or specialized applications? neuve Blvd. W.). Admission : $2.50. Informa­ • You need to become unstuck? - UNCLASSIFIED tion : 848-3878. . - • y ou need alternatives to taking another cours~? SATURDAY JUNE 16 ANALYSING DATA? . Your answer is On-Site Statistician will do. $28/hour. Call Todd at CONSERVATORY OF hourly, half-day or 931 -07 45 (Work) or 937-5694 (Home). CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART . full-day help MOVING? . THE BIRDS (1963) Alfred Hitchcock, at 7 935-2105 r ruck/Van. Local or- Lorig Distance. 7 p.m. and THE REALM OF FORTUNE (EL •· - days/24hrs. Call Steve at 735-8148 . IMPERIO DE LA FORTUNA (1986) Arturo