Saving the Trees

0 N C 0 R D I A,S SDAY ~PORT

Osama Mose/hi has designed a better hydro pole Saving the trees

next generation of poles. requirements, aesthetic considera BY SYLVAIN COMEAU Moselhi points out the obvious: tions (Hydro-Qyebec wanted the rofessor Osama Moselhi, of the plastic poles can be made without poles to look as good as wooden PCentre for Building Studies, is depleting forests . "Wooden poles ones) and public safety. doing his part to save the trees. are also treated with chemicals "Underground electric cables are The expert in construction engi so they can last longer. Once they're currently attached to the outside of neering and management, working embedded in the ground, some of wooden poles. But our poles are hol with a team from Concordia, the chemicals seep out and pollute low, so the cables can be housed Hydro-~ebec and a fibre compos the soil." inside." ites manufacturer, has developed a There are also financial incentives, Another issue for the utility is set of performance specifications for Moselhi said. If they are mass pro control over the final product. a new type of distribution pole which duced, the cost of the new poles Attempts to control tree growth will eventually replace many of the might be competitive with that of have resulted in lower quality, com wooden poles used in ~ebec. wooden poles. pared with naturally grown trees. Distribution poles carry the cables "The life expectancy of our pole is But now, Hydro-~ebec will be able which transmit electrical energy 40 to 80 years, while wooden poles to build poles according to precise from one place to another. For the tend to last 40 years or less. And specifications. most part, hydro and telephone poles ours do not have to be treated to The plastic poles will not only be have been made from trees, but the make them last that long." customized as to size, but they will prototype of this new pole is made Moselhi worked with engineers be hollow, and therefore much from a fibre-reinforced plastic com from the pole manufacturing compa lighter, though just as strong. 'We posite. Although Hydro-~ebec has ny, the Hydro-Qyebec Research don't have to carry a dead weight. no problems with its current net Institute, and the end users of these That's the beauty ofit." work, environmental concerns have poles. The team had to take into Although the plastic pole is Osama Moselhi with the kind of pole he'd like to see replaced. prompted the utility to develop the account environmental factors, code See Moselhi, p. 7

Students from around the world compete, and U of Calgary wins Case Competition draws a crowd

Competing this year were Anne BY MATTHEW KERBY Vivian-Scott, Ludo Segers, Marc he highly successful 1995 edi Lemoyne and Reena Atanasiadis. Ttion of the Concordia Interna Every year, the team is chosen early tional MBA Case Competition in December from students enrolled wound up last Friday at the Chateau in the case competition course Champlain hotel with a big banquet taught by Jan Meyers (Manage and awards ceremony. ment). Thirty teams from Canada, ''In past years, we have often start the United States, Mexico, New ed off extremely well and then had a Zealand and Europe had competed setback," said Meyers, who coaches the team. "In this case, we started for more than a week, figuring out solutions to real-life business poorly, and I think it was a mark of the strength of the team that they problems. were able to overcome the disap Memorial in 2nd place pointment at the beginning and The University of Calgary cap score beautifully in the third, fourth tured the top spot for the second and fifth encounters." year in a row. Memorial University, Competition organizers Claire de of Newfoundland, placed second, Passille, Sabina Kuepper and Ari and ~een's University third. It was Papas worked for almost a year to the first time that ~een's had made ensure that the event ran without a it into the top three. hitch. They saw to it that over 150 Jaye Portlgal never thought she'd see her work here, on the Metro. The Concordia's team finished first competitors and 200 volunteer Cinema student won a competition in Lynn Smith's animation in Qyebec and second in East judges were well taken care of by 60 storyboarding class to design for the popular electronic visual-display board. Her 2C)-second sequence, which shows a couple gazing down on ern Canada, behind Memorial. volunteers and support staff. They Montreal from the mountain and ends with this message spelled out in Although they lost their first two obtained the cases, made the book lights, ran for a week. The actual animation and operation of the board is cases, they came back to win the next ings and ran the show. done by a thriving young company called T61ecit6, whose president, three, and in the end, came second One of the advantages of the case coincidentally, is Concordia grad Marshan Moreyne (BEng, 77). .to Calgary in their grouping. See Case, p. 7 Computer programme allows Marketing professor to free students from the tyranny of the notebook No flies on Greg

BY SYLVAIN COMEAU The next natural question: How them, much like a database, so that does it work? the programme is updated for every "Don't worry about taking "With a computer in the class lecture and downloaded into the stu notes. The class material will hooked up to an LCD tablet," dent Mac lab. This allows students all be loaded into the Mac lab." Lypny's written introduction to to explore and experiment with the Most of the students dropped . NFOF explains, "we present lecture material that was covered in class." their pens as Finance Professor Gre material, which is displayed by Frank gory Lypny changed the overhead as cards, onto the wall or on a pro Personal touch projector image with a click of a jector screen. NFOF also incorporates comput computer mouse. "In its simplest use, a card may erized auction markets, which Lypny Welcome to Lypny's computer display a graph or bullets with sum has used in his classes in the past. He age MBA class. With the help of mary points. Its power, however, lies also peppered the programme with Finance Professor Arshad Ahmad, in the fact that each object on a card, personal touches, such as pithy Lypny wrote his own software pro and the card itself, can be pro quotes on market behaviour like, gramme, using the Macintosh script grammed by the instructor to do "Anyone taken as an individual is ing language Hypercard. No Flies on things." tolerably sensible and reasonable. As Frank (NFOF) is designed a member of a crowd, he at to act as a kind of high tech once becomes a blockhead." taking dictation, and that completely Some students prefer the venerable blackboard, interactive (Frederic Von Schuller) detracts from learning. blackboard, while others find the teaching tool and home Once the students get used "I'm trying to reassure them that programme far superior to hastily work aid. The first question Ji Teaching to using NFOF, Lypny most things which are pertinent will written notes for reviewing class that springs to mind is, hopes that they will over appear in the programme, so they material. Who on earth is Frank? Any instructor will be able to use throw the tyranny of the notebook, don't have to kill themselves taking Lypny expects certain growing "The name of the programme is a NFOF for any kind of class, Lypny and learn to take notes selectively. notes in class." pains for his new teaching tool. He is quote from John Lennon's 1964 said, once he designs a more generic "After I become well versed in Lypny's students have had only a exploring uncharted territory, since book, In His Own Write. The phrase version of the programme. using it in the classroom, and the few months to take stock of NFOF 'no flies on Frank' or 'no flies on me' "Many of the screens do calcula students grow confident about using while Lypny worked to smooth the he has found that "no one else is has come to mean being active, mov tions; they can be programmed to it in the lab, they will be inclined to transition to a more high-tech class doing this. But I would rather create ing ahead, getting on with your life. animate things, such as a graph take fewer notes in class. Students room. A random sampling of stu my own programme than search for In the classroom, it is intended to changing in real time. The screens tend to take down every word spo dents in Lypny's MBA class a few something that may not exist, or if it mean: We can try new things." also retain information typed into ken by the prof. Essentially, they are weeks ago produced mixed reviews. does, not fit the bill." •

Seagram Fund project to examine management philosophy Taking the trouble out of TQM

gram Fund for Academic Innova TQM via four disciplines, manage effects. Many companies want the BY MARLENE BLANSHAY tion. His research team comprises ment, marketing, decision sciences bottom line in five months, and ince the early 1980s, North two fellow members of the Faculty and engineering. when that doesn't happen they say SAmerican companies have been of Commerce and Administration, The first phase involves data col it's because ofTQM. The problem is trying to emulate the Japanese by Decision Sciences and Management lection, which includes interviewing that they have no game plan or strat using one of the keys to their success, Information Systems Professor customers and managers of compa - egy." Total Qyality Management (TQM). Mohan Gopalakrishnan and Mar nies who have used TQM. With this A TQM company emphasizes co While TQM has worked for some keting Professor Mrugank Thakor, data, the team will try to create bet operation, and achieves this by blur companies, such as Ford, others have plus Mechanical Engineering Pro ter implementation methods. ring levels of management. fessor Akif Bulgak and several grad abandoned it, complaining of poor Customers at top "The barriers often spring back results or even a decline in produc uate students. A TQM company is conceived as up," said Thakor, who will conduct tivity. Over.the next two years, they will an inverted pyramid, with the cus the research on marketing. "Many Management Professor David examine the internal processes of tomers at the top. This should allow companies are comfortable with the Waldman believes that these failures employees to contribute criticism old way. That is a crucial problem." are caused by m'anagers who don't and ideas. But for many companies, The Japanese had decades to make understand fully TQM before they the change to a philosophy of inclu TQM part of their corporate culture, implement it. He thinks that TQM sion and contribution is not easy, but the philosophy itself was created has a bad reputation, and he's deter and managers often give up. by an American business teacher, W. mined to rehabilitate it. 'We want to "TQM has to be implemented Edwards Deming, who believed in find out if this bad rap is deserved," co-operative thinking. After World he said. from the top down, and there has to War II, he was invited to Japan to TQM stresses customer satisfac be a commitment from upper man meet with the country's top industri tion and continuous improvement of agement," said Waldman. "It's a alists, who were eager to rebuild the products and services. A TQM com change in culture, and there has to pany is always receptive to what cus be leadership involved. You can't just economy. tomers want, with goals of higher dabble in it." The Concordia project will slow productivity, reduced costs and satis Gopalakrishnan, who has been down a little, because Waldman is fied employees and customers. involved in previous research projects spending this semester teaching "It's well established that TQM ffi with Waldman, said those compa TQM at Arizona State University in principles have merit," said Wald- ~ nies that were not satisfied were not Phoenix, so he'll have to stay in con man. "Leadership, seiving customers ! prepared for a radical change in their tact with his team by telephone. better - all those things improve ~ corporate culture. However, he has high expecta the financial end." 0" "It's a gradual process," said tions that this project will dispel Waldman is embarking on a study ~ Gopalakrishnan, who teaches cours some of the myths about TQM. of the problems raised by TQM, "- es in TQM. "You can't just do it to "How can we say it failed, if we don't with $46,000 awarded by the Sea- improve profits, but to get long-term understand how it works?" •

2 JANUARY 19, 1995 CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT Renowned playwright gives a public reading next Monday Tomson Highway: HE Concordia 1s Writer-in-Rez COMPILED BY B ARBARA B LACK staccato are all there. The rhythm of remoteness of many reserves means BY TRISH SNYDER the human voice is music-making," that few Indians get to see his stage Concordia faculty, staff and alumnilt.e pop up in the media more omson Highway has just he said, tapping his finger on the celebrations of them. Temerged from hiding. Too desk to the beat of his own smooth Highway is secretive about a third often than you might think! many tempting calls to go for a drink ly-spoken words. project, saying only that we will or shoot pool and too little time But at age 23, Highway decided a know more about it before the end career in music could only satisfy Guy Lachapelle (Political Science) participated in a Washington confer spent working drove one of Canada's of the term. ence of the American Council for Quebec Studies in December which one of his passions - Chopin could most respected playwrights to a hotel As his mouth curls into a mysteri was addressed by both Premier Jacques Parizeau and Cree leader do nothing for the plight ofnatives. in Ecuador. ous smirk, the edges of his eyes crin Matthew Coon-Come. He told La Presse that the conference turned into . For seven years, he worked the something of a .federalist-sovereignist batt.leground. He ha s also been "I like having a good time too kle behind glasses and he disappears streets, the prisons, friendship cen quoted in the press about federal by-e lections scheduled for February 13. much, so every once in a while I have for a moment into his mind. His tres and treatment centres, getting to lock myself in a hotel in an exotic thoughts are neither on having a cof to know Canada's Indian people The work of Jane Stewart (CSBN Psychology) and her colleague, post place to get a project done," admits fee or a game of billiards but on his Highway, a full-blooded Cree with intimately. At 30, he decided to doctoral fel low Yavin Sha ham on addiction withdrawal' was described work, and T omson Highway is obvi recently in the October 4 issue of the influ ential publication New an easy smile. write about them. ously having a good time. • Scientist. Until April, Tomson Highway will TV movie in the works check into a fifth-floor office with a For the past few years, Highway Tomson Highway will give a public Readers of Le Devoir were reminded in Normand Baillargeon 's educa hissing ventilation system in exotic has had three major projects on the reading on Monday, January 23 at tion co lumn that Concordia was the first Quebec university to hire an Montreal as Concordia's Writer-in go. A musical called Rose is the third 4 p.m. in H-435 (1455 de Maison ombudsperson, in 1971 . Residence. Linked to the Creative instalment of his cycle of plays, and a Writing programme, he will be visit TV miniseries called Kiss of the Fur neuve Blvd West) . H is play, The Rez Queen should be out by next winter. Sisters, will be performed by Karen Ward, industrial hygienist in Concordi a's Environmental Health ing workshops, giving readings and and Safety Office, was interviewed for an interesting article in The The television movie is an experi Concordia's Theatre Department from criticizing student manuscripts Gazette about how to avoid repetitive stress injuries when working at throughout the semester. ment in bringing his work to the March 31-April 9. Call 848-4742 for the computer. He's more than qualified. His people who inspire him. The more information. plays The Rez Sisters (1986) and Dry Der Aprahamian, a student volu nteer at the Women's Centre, wa~ Lips Oughta Move to Kapuscasing interviewed on several local radio stations about a petition protesting the (1989) both won Dora Mavor Supreme Cou rt decision to exonerate a rapist on the grounds that he Moore Awards for Best New Play in was too drunk to know w hat he was doing. Toronto. They've played to sold-out audiences and heaps of critical praise Norma Joseph (Religion) is the subject of a profile in a recent issue of across the nation, earning nomina Jewish Women 's Forum. tions in 1988 and 1989 for the Gov ernor-General's Award for drama. Diane Bellemare (Health Services) was quoted in the October issue of But Highway's roots were dug far the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Concordia's interdisciplinary from the stage. Born in a tent on an HIV/AIDS course. Tom Waugh (Cinema), the co-ordinator of the course, island in remote Maria Lake, Man., was quoted in a Gazette World AIDS Day article about the impact of AIDS on the arts. he spoke only Cree until he started school. At age 6, he was sent to a boarding school in The Pas, where Lewis J. Poteet (English), an expert on slang, was quoted on the deriva tion of "cool" in a Gazette story on "The art of cool and how to spot it." he stayed until he was 15; he was allowed home only in the summer. He went to high school in Win Conco rdia' s first Aviation Master's of Business Administration gradu nipeg, living in a string of white fos ating class was given full feature treatment in a recent iss ue of the IATA (International Air Transport Association) Review. ter homes until graduation in 1970. After high school, Highway stud ied piano for two years at the Uni Marika Pruska-Carroll (Politica l Science) yVas interviewed by Melanie versity of Manitoba. He attended the King on CJAD about Russia 's problems in Chechnya. She provided back ground to the conflict, and said she feared that conditions are ripe for a University of Western Ontario until coup in Moscow. 1976, earning Bachelor's degrees in music and arts. A trained classical Dino Gerbasi (Centre for Building Studies) and John Zacharias (U rban pianist, Highway credits his music Studies) w ere guests on different editions of CF Cab le TV's Your with breathing life into his drama. House ... My House, with Marilyn Harrison. "For me, writing a play is like composing a symphony - the ele Student Paul McIntyre, who works at CUTV, is associate producer of a ments of rhythm, phrasing, harmo- feature film ca lled Le Cuckoo. He directed a sequen ce of the family ny, counterpoint, augmentation and Tomson Highway - drama in his parents' home in Apple Hil l, Ont., and the local Glengarrv News wrote about it. McIntyre, referring to his "roots," ca ll s himself "an apple who rolled to Montreal."

Harold Chorney (Political Science) w rote an article for the Winnipeg Free Press in w hich he blamed the tight-money policies of the Bank of Canada for the country's high employment and crippling deficit. He has also been quoted on the subject in other media.

Dan Otchere (Economics) was quoted in a Maclean's feature on cash and its relative popularity as a medium of exchange.

Bill Reimer (Sociology and Anthropology) was quoted in an article in The Western Producer, out of Saskatoon, calli ng farm women much neglected "managers of uncertainty" in ag ri cul ture.

CONCOROIA'S THURSDAY REPORT JANUARY 19, 1995 3 Concordia's Thursday Report is interested in your letters, opinions and comments. Letters to the Editor must be sign,ed, include a phone number, and be delivered to the CTR office (BC-11711463 Bishop St.) in person, by fax (514-848-2814), by e-mail ([email protected]) or mail by 9 a. m. on the Friday prior to publication. Ifat all possible, please submit the text on computer diskette. Limit your letter to 500 words. The Editor reserves the right to edit far space considerations, although the utmost care will be taken to preserve the core of the writer's argument. Letters disparaging the behaviour or decisions taken by an individual which are not of a public nature, letters quoting exchanges between two or more parties in private conversation or personal correspondence, and letters venting an opinion about the integrity of colleagues will not be published.

batical leave information session for Student films to be Reveal cost of IN BRIEF ... all faculty members and librarians Universities who are planning to take such a screened sabbatical leave. Telephone Frize speaks at A group of Concordia Cinema stu Participants will find out, among dents will present some of their latest Directory leave: Goyal Concordia other things, what sabbatical work tomorrow at 8 p.m. I have followed the recent contro allowance they can expect and what An Evening of Concordia Films fea versy generated as a resu lt of large Monique Frize, one of Canada's 1994-95 it will cover, how to be reimbursed for tures about two hours of student films scale denial of sabbaticals by the most prominent women engineers, travel expenses, how to order and on such contemporary issues as The Universities Telephone Oirect.ory is administration with considerable will speak at Concordia on January buy books, software and equipment, racism, war and AIDS. About half of Canada's only guide to: interest. Our faculty association 23 and 25. (CUFA) has questioned the assertion and how to apply for a leave research the two dozen films are animated, • more than 6,500 senior academics Frize worked as a clinical engineer and university administrators of Concordia's administration that grant from the Office of Research while the remainder are experimen for almost 20 years before she • academic associations cutting back on sabbaticals will save Services. tal, documentary or docudrama. • government departments the University a significant amount. became the first holder of the North Several sessions have been orga Cinema student Charbel Aoun, one and agencies We have been informed by CUFA ern Telecom-NSERC Women in Engi • federal research granting agencies nized on both campuses from Janu of the organiiers, said the evening is that the administration has even neering Chair at the University of • faculty and student organizations acknowledged that they have done ary 30 to February 2. A registration a chance to showcase student talent New Brunswick in Fredericton. In no financial cost of sabbaticals. fee of $8 allows for the session to be Updated annually to ensure reliability, as well as an opportunity to raise the Universities Telephone Directory Moreover, CUFA informed its mem 1990, she was named chair of the self-funded. If you wish to attend, money for the wildly popular Year gives you: bers through the CUFA Newsletter Canadian Committee for Women in contact Rosa Cerone, at -3689. The End Screenings, which will be held • names that the University might even save Engineering, which makes recom • titles money by granting sabbaticals. deadline for registration is January May3-6. mendations on how to encourage • phone numbers I find it surprising that with the 26, but call soon, as seating is limited. A $2 donation is requested. Doors women in engineering. • fax numbers expertise available within the office -BB open at 7:30 p.m. The screening will For more information, call.848-3073. • E-mail addresses of the Vice-Rector (Institutional Rela take place in the Alumni Auditorium, -MO tions and Finance), simple informa on the first floor of the Henry F. Hall Price: $17.95. Please add 7" GST tion such as the cost of a sabbatical (GST# 129987301); Ontario Building. For more information, call residents add 8'f. PST. is not made available to the senior Spirit of Christmas Aoun at 933-7407 or the Cinema Stu Purchase orders are accepted from AUCC administrators for defending their exceeds last year member institutions and government policy of larg e-scale denials of sab dents Association at 848-4668. departments. All others must prepay. We accept payment by cheque, VISA, batical leave to save money. Campus Ministry's Peter Cote - MO MasterCard and American Express. In my opinion, a rough estimate of Send to: AUCC Publicatlons/pr reports that the 1994 Spirit of Christ 350 Albert Street, Suite 600 the cost of a sabbatical leave can be Ottawa ON KIR 181 obtained in a few minutes. The cost mas fund-raising drive was a great Phone: (613) 563-1236 ext. 323 or 200 of a sabbatical leave for a facu lty success, both in money from and Poster contest for native Fax: (613) 563-9745 member depends on the sa lary as involvement by the University com Association of ~ Association well as the normal teaching load of students Universities and des Unlvwsltes et munity. So far, $9,075 has been Collages of canada Colleges du ca.- the faculty member during an acade raised, about $700 more than last mic year. My analysis of the cost of The Faculty of Engineering and a sabbatical leave for a faculty mem year. Computer Science wants to get ber leads me to the following con Donations from individuals contin native students thinking about the 1HVRSDAY REPORT clusions (for a faculty member ue to make up most of the total, to role science and technology plays in Concordia's Thursday Report is the earning $70,000 and teaching four which various seasonal fund-raising their lives. But it doesn't stop there . courses per academic year). community newspaper of the projects are added. The Faculty is encouraging these stu University, serving faculty, staff, 1. Six-month sabbatical at 100 per "What are particularly appreciat students, and administration on the cent salary: cost of approximately dents to put their thoughts on paper, Loyola Campus and the Sir George T. S. Rukmani $12,000. ed," Cote said, "are the individual and in the form of a creative poster. Williams Campus. It is published 2. 12-month sabbatical at 85 per departmental initiatives which result The contest is part of a joint cam 26 times during the academic year on cent salary: cost of approximately Rukmani teaching a weekly basis by the Public Relations in the bake sales, raffles and other paign by the Faculty and l'Ordre des Department of Concordia University, $13,200. Hindu Studies projects, such as the Concordia Tree, ingenieurs du Quebec to increase the 1455rle Maisonneuve Blvd. W ., 3. 24-month sabbatical at 50 per the Rector's Skating Party, neigh number of aboriginal engineers. The Montreal, Quebec H3G 1MS cent salary: savings of approximate Professor T.S. Rukmani, the Chair (514) 848-4882 ly $13,000 per year ($26,000 for the bourhood caroling, Craft Sale and first initiative was a successful one E-mail: [email protected] of Hindu Studies and Indian Philoso two-year leave) . departmental collections, all of which week summer science camp called Fax: (514) 848-2814 phy at the University of Durban-West 4. 12-month leave without pay: become a significantpart of the drive. Engineering Explorations. Material published in the newspaper savings of approximately $50,000 ville in South Africa, is teaching Hindu "This year we added a line of The poster contest is open to all may not be reproduced without per year. Studies this semester at Concordia. Christmas and Hanukkah cards. The native students aged 14 to 25. Entries permission. The Back Page listings This year, by denying sabbaticals She then plans to return to South are published free of charge. to 52 app li cants, I suspect that our enthusiasm, energy and concern is should be in ink, charcoal or _pencil , Classified ads are $5 tor the first Africa to fulfill the remainder of her 10 words and 10 cents for each un ivers ity will save somewhere in clearly there." and should be illustrations only; there contract with that university. additional word. Events, Notices, and the region of $600,000 to $800,000. The Spirit of Christmas drive sup should be no text in the poster. For Classified Ads must reach the Public Concordia's Religion Department ports Campus Ministry's emergency more information, call 848-3073. Relations Department (Bishop Court. 1463 Bishop St., Room 115) in writing S.K. Goyal hopes that she will assume the now food voucher programme for needy Entries should be postmarked no Decision Science and MIS vacant Chair in Hindu Studies here. no later than Thursday 5 p.m. prior to students. Cote says that needs later than March 31, and sentto: Thursday publication. Display ad rates Holder of a double doctorate, Ruk increased in 1994. are available upon request. Display ads ma ni has specialized in Hinduism, must be booked by Monday 5 p.m. "Over the summer, the depressed Engineering Explorations Poster 1O days prior to publication. Indian philosophy and the Sanskrit job market kept demand high at a Contest ISSN 1185-3689 language. She is the author of seven time when we normally experience a Faculty of Engineering and CLARIFICATION books and many research papers, Editor significant drop in requests for assis Computer Science Barbara Black and a regular contributor to several tance . The tightening of regulations Concordia University journals. • The winner of the Howard B. Rip at Financial Aid for emergency loans, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Copy Editor -MO LB, 1005-1 M ichael Orsini stein Award was announced at a and delays in government loans and bursaries for many students, meant Montreal, Quebec Diploma in Accountancy reception in • increased numbers of students at our H3G 1M8 Design and Production December, as reported in CTR's Jan Christopher Alleyne Sabbatical info session doors throughout the fall semester." Marketing Communications uary 12 issue, but will not be present -BB -MO The Faculty Personnel Office is ed until Spring Convocation. ~ Concordia pleased to announce its second sab- ~ U NIVERSITY

4 JANUARY 19, 1995 CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT Protest, march planned forJanuary 25 Students gear up for strike SE TES up tuition fees and force students to According to Lana Grimes, CSU's BY LAURA GREER shoulder a greater share of the finan VP administration, organizers are COMPILED BY BARBARA BLACK rganizers are hoping that 3,000 cial burden of attending university. realistic. '1t's a symbolic strike," said In Montreal, a protest march will OConcordia students will join a Grimes, the former co-president of Regular meeting ofthe Concordia University Senate, nation-wide student protest sched start at Complexe Guy Favreau (cor the Concordia University Students' held Friday,]anuary 13, 1995. uled for next week against proposed ner of Rene-Levesque Blvd. and Association. 'We're just hoping we reforms to post-secondary education. Jeanne-Mance St. at 2:30 p.m. can have an influence on the final The reforms are contained in (Concordians will gather at the Uni proposals." versity at p.m.) About 20 local Human Resources Minister Lloyd 1 Concordia Political Science Pro groups will take part, including the Code of ethics: Interim Rector Charles Bertrand reported that the Axworthy's green paper on changes fessor Harold Chorney is speaking to Canada's social safety net. 01iebec Public Interest Research steering committee of Senate continues to make progress in its exami on Wednesday at McGill University A motion in Concordia's Senate Group, the McGill Post-Graduate on his view that the Axworthy nation of the proposed code, and hopes to present its findings to Sen to reject the Axworthy proposals was Student Society, and various reforms are fuelled by hysteria over ate in February. tabled; however, another motion to CEGEPs. At Concordia, the Grad the deficit. postpone all exams and assignments uate Students' Association (GSA) Sabbaticals: Bertrand and representatives of the Concordia University Information tables have been set on January 25, was passed. and the Concordia Student Union Faculty Association (CUFA) have had a series of meetings described as up in the lobby of the Henry F. Hall Student groups, spearheaded by (CSU) are mobilizing the Concordia amicable. (CUFA filed and then agreed to suspend a grievance against Building, and an information meet the Ottawa-based Canadian Federa community for the strike. the University's refusal of a number of sabbatical applications; see CTR, tion of Students (CFS}, are joining Brad Lavigne, the GSA's VP ing will be held tonight at 6 p.m. at Jan. 12.) forces with labour, women's and external, said this will be the "most the GSA (2030 Mackay St.). For anti-poverty groups to protest the ambitious campaign in Canadian more information, call 848-7900, or Senior administrators' salaries: When pressed to reveal the senior proposed overhaul, which may student history. It is an impressive the CFS toll-free number at 1- 800- administration's recent recommendations to the Board of Governors on include the elimination of transfer display of student activism, especially 567-0868. • allowing senior administrators to retain their salary levels when they payments to the provinces for higher when we've been described as the -Additional reporting by Barbara return to teaching, Bertrand refused, preferring to wait for the Board's education. Critics fear this will drive apathetic Generation X." Black and Michael Orsini January 18 meeting. Resolutions from the Faculty Councils of Arts and Science and Commerce and Administration denouncing the Board's pol icy were passed without discussion.

COM MA in APSS: Dean of Graduate Studies Martin Kusy extended congra tulations to the Department of Applied Social Science for government Phase out tenure, streamline operations, be accountable acceptance of a new Master's programme. Research: Vice-Rector Academic (Research) Tien Bui tabled guidelines The AxlNorthy reforms: for the distribution of research funds via the Faculty Research Develop ment Programme (FRDP). These were developed by a task force led by Office of Research Services Director Erica Besso. Bui also drew Sen Time to clean house ate's attention to recent changes in funding policy by the Natural Sci opportunities. This older, self-indul ences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). BY BLAIR WILLIAMS phased out in favour of an employ gent generation is held responsible ment system that encourages respon Provisional Supplementary Operating Budget, 1994-95: Interim "l ~ 7hen Lloyd Axworthy pub for deficit spending and the national sibility and commitment to V V lished his long-awaited dis debt. education. Tenure has evolved into a . Vice-Rector Institutional Relations Hal Proppe presented a revision cussion paper on reforming Canada's What can we say to these young system that entrenches people who of the 1994-95 budget, which had been presented to Senate on Decem social security system, I distributed people? Many of my colleagues will are unresponsive at best and incom ber 9. A saving of $800,000 must be realized as the result of a cutback copies to my undergraduate students, claim that the proposals are simply petent at worst. It contributes to an in government funding last May. Some of this, $300,000, will be and we discussed the matter in class. wrong-headed, and the onus is on academic culture that is narrow, self absorbed by unused academic development funds. Th e remainder, the federal government to continue Three things became abundantly serving and wasteful. $500,000, will be saved by the academic and services sectors. clear. or even increase current funding. 4. Research (knowledge develop First, most students realize that However, much of the bluster ment) must be inextricably linked to Proppe further announced that the tuition revenue for 1994-95 has been although post-secondary education from university administrators and teaching (knowledge dissemination), revised, requiring that $700,000 more be saved . This will be done the professoriate is posturing on the falls within provincial jurisdiction, and the idea of purely "notional" through a freeze on hiring in the services sector, though urgent hires will the federal government commits part of a community that is privi research should be given less weight be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. The revised budget was accepted leged, pampered and out of date. some $6 billion annually to it, and in university policy. Personal curiosi such funding must be seen in the Academics should try to come up by Senate, but only after an amendment to delete a passage stating that ty is an important driving force in context of a massive federal debt and with ideas that actually help solve appointments of new faculty will also be treated case by case. Registrar scholarly activity, but in the context crippling annual deficits. underlying problems. Bruce Smart, who, like some other senior directors, sits on Senate as a of a modern post-secondary system, They understand that one of the 1. More emphasis should be non-voting observer, strenuously requested that it be recorded in the it should not be seen as a superior objectives is to reduce federal trans placed on good teaching, and there form of academic activity. minutes that the services sector had no votes in Senate. fers, and that a good part of this lost should be an end to practices that 5. In the development of their revenue will be passed on to them in debase teaching. For example, course Government funding proposals: Students passionately defended two prograrnrnes and the deployment of the form of higher university fees. remissions (freedom from teaching) motions related to a national student strike planned for January 25 to their resources, universities should be Second, although students are should not be seen as the major protest the Axworthy social services reforms. These include a massive more aware of their obligation to the annoyed at the prospect of the rules means by which academics are redirection of university funding from the provinces to individual student "rewarded" for scholarly and other wider community. Universities are of the game being changed, they loan s. The students claim that this would make higher education less accept that along with rights, there activities. The practice of putting the sustained by the resources of society, accessible. Some facu lty members expressed doubt, and reminded are obligations. They recognize an "burden" of teaching on part-time and they must be prepared to show element of fairness in "income-con and untenured faculty should be seri that they are responsive. Senate that some Canadian universities had asked for this reform. tingent" loans that allow students to ously addressed. If academics refuse to seize the Other faculty pleaded ignorance of the proposa ls. Bertrand said that the repay in accordance with their earn 2. The rationalization that has opportunity to change, fundamental Quebec universities had asked CREPUO, their umbrella organization, to ings after graduation. swept through many business and reforms will be forced upon them by speak for them, and that the issue was politically delicate. However, and this is my third public-sector institutions should be students and provincial governments. point, students are deeply resentful seen as a model for streamlining uni The motions, stemming from discussion in the Concordia Council on that they will have to pay for a situa versity administrations. This would Blair Williams is a Professor of Student Life, cal led on Senate to reject the Axworthy proposal, and to tion they are not responsible for. entail the devolution of authority, Political Science at Concordia. This postpone all exams and assignments on January 25. The first motion They feel the Axworthy educa less paternalistic bureaucracy, more abridged version if an article published was tabled until the next meeting, and the second was passed. tional reforms were imposed by a empowerment of individuals, and on November 30 in The Ottawa privileged generation that had virtu more departmental responsibility. Citizen is reprinted with Professor Next meeting: February 3. ally free education and ample job 3. University tenure should be Williams' permission. •

CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT JANUARY 19, 1995 5 Non-native studies little-known aspect of Iroquois culture Graduate student enters field of dreams In the past, dreams were acted out at an BY PHIL MOSCOVITCH annual dream festival which took place in mid adeleine Lajambe had a dream which led winter. Six native nations, including the Mto her Master's thesis on dreaming itself. Mohawk, made up the Iroquois Confederacy, During the summer of 1990, when and all held similar, though not identical, Mohawks near the Qyebec town of Oka took dream festivals, where people would act out up arms to defend a tract of land against devel their dreams in order to reveal what their soul opment, Lajambe, a Concordia student who is desired. When the meaning of a dream was not native, felt devastated by the crisis. She had guessed, somebody would present the dreamer had a powerful dream during a personal crisis with a gift that would fulfill that desire. Jesuit missionaries were outraged by the fes which helped her a lot, and wondered if there tivals and by the centrality of the dream to Iro was a connection between dreaming and the quois culture. native search for a modern identity. Her Dream festivals don't happen any more, but research suggests that there is. that doesn't mean dreams are any less impor Lajambe believes that in a culture where tant to contemporary Iroquois. Many residents dreams are taken seriously, authority will come of Kahnawake and Kanehsatake spoke to more from one's self than from an external Lajambe about dreams and dreaming, and source. "People who are very aware of their when she took Mohawk lessons at Kahnawake, dreams tend to be self-reliant and self-direct she heard several intriguing dream stories. ed," she said. That same inner authority, "There, in class, anecdotes would be related Laja~be believes, helped sustain the Mohawks about dreams or mythological figures. Even during the Oka crisis. tually, people were telling me about visions or In-Euro-American culture, dreaming is a rel dreams that they'd had. All the things people atively insignificant event, of concern only to said related to the background work I'd the dreamer. For the Iroquois, on the other already done." hand·, dreaming is "an act of supreme generosi Lajambe holds several part-time jobs at ty, because it is a giving and a sharing of the Concordia, as a research assistant for Professor best that emanates from within the self," Russell Gordon in the Department of Painting Lajambe writes in her thesis. Instead of being and Drawing and as co-ordinator of the just the business of the dreamer, dreams help Employee Assistance Programme. She received solidify the community. her MA under the Special Individualized Pro Songs, for example, may come to someone gramme in 1994, taking courses in mythology, Preliminary for national competition challenges in a dream "and become part of their waking symbolic and psychological anthropology, students to use their heads life experience and the experience of the com drama therapy, and dream psychology (at the munity," Lajambe said. The result is a culture Universite de Montreal). "Now," she said, 'Tm that's "fed from this endless stream of creativity just waiting for a big dream to lead me on to Quebec engineers to which is the dream." my next project." • compete here liminary to the Canadian Engineering Compe Off-campus courses help BY CAROL-ANN HOYTE tition. Robert Turriciano, president of the natives regain control oncordia will hos·t the 11th annual QEC organizing committee, said the first- and CQyebec Engineering Competition (QJ<:C) second-prize winners from each of the four flow into one another. The notion of extended next month, and Concordia's own Engineering competitions' five categories qualify for the BY B INDU MATHUR family is stronger than in the south," explained students are working hard to organize the national event. ative people are taking a more active role Shirley Walker, instructor for the Cree Family event. The competition is divided into two design and Nin their own communities, but in remote Life Certificate. Persi Gesanidis, a fourth-year Mechanical three communication categories. "Strong design and areas; the skills and training they need are Walker worked with Robert Vallee, head Engineering student and vice-president of the communication are skills that make up a good engi sometimes hard to find. guidance counsellor of the Cree School Board, organizing committee, said that the QJ<:C is an neer. If he or she knows how to do a lot of things but can't communicate that knowledge, then some Concordia's Applied Social Science Depart who started the programme for guidance coun ideal opportunity for Engineering students thing is lost," T urriciano said. ment offrrs two off- campus certificate sellors isolated in small communities. Their to establish industr;' contacts and display their In entrepreneurial design, participants pro programmes for First Nations students, one goal was to offer a practical programme that work. The last time it was held here was pose a marketable good or service in the form in Community Service, the other in Cree incorporated elements of native culture. in 1986. Concordia students have done very well in . of a display booth and oral presentation. Par Family Life. WalkeF said students use native legends in past competitions. For example, in 1987, a ticipants solve an engineering problem, such as, The certificate programme in Cree Family their presentations. In a counselling course, an team of our Mechanical Engineering students say, redesigning the interior of a Bombardier Life began in May 1989 in Chisasibi with 18 Ojibway faith healer was brought in to intro won second prize for a design related to the jet to create more space. students, most of them guidance counsellors duce the teachings and myths of that culture. with the James Bay Territory School Board. pulp and paper industry. It went on to win first This year, three $750 awards of excellence Pauline Patterson and Libby Monaco, The Community Service programme was prize at a national competition. "And then they will be given in addition to first ($1,200), sec instructors in the Community Service pro established in June 1992 with 23 students at sold their design patent for $50,000," said ond ($750) and third prizes ($500) in each cat gramme, have found that without the services the Loyola Campus, but now takes place in Gesanidis triumphantly. egory. The national competition will be held available to on-campus students, they act as Cornwall, Ont., closer to the students. The QJ<:C was founded in 1985 by a group March 3-4 at the University of Alberta in counsellors, tutors and librarians. "The work is coming at a special time in our of McGill University students to link Qyebec Edmonton, and more than 100 students from history," said Susan Gabriel, a Kahnesatake Students, they say, sometimes find it hard to undergraduate engineering students with pub Qyebec universities will take part. Mohawk student in Community Service. 'We discuss personal issues in the classroom. lic and provincial industry leaders. So fa r, The Qyebec Engineering Competition will are getting control back, and now is the time to "They have to go back home and work with Hydro-Qyebec, Northern Telecom, Ordre des be held from February 9 to 12 in the Henry F. change the institutions and structures that these people in the class," Patterson said. "The ingenieurs du Qyebec and Pratt & Whitney Hall Building. The deadline for entries is Janu haven't worked for us." complexity of interrelationships of people in Canada have been patrons of the Qyebec com ary 21. For more information, contact the Gabriel, who works with family violence, the communities makes it difficult." petition. Previous sponsors have included CAE QJ<:C organizing committee, at 848-2893. was part of a panel organized by APSS, in Both programmes will continue, and the Electronics, Canadian Marconi Company, and And even if you're not an engineer, you'll be which instructors from both programmes dis Department has introduced a BA (Major the Qyebec Ministry of Higher Education and intrigued by the entries. Drop by the mezza cussed working with native students. APSS) for the graduates of the Cree Family Science. nine or the seventh-floor Faculty Club, both in "There is a different perception of family; Life programme. All APSS programmes are The QJ<:C, along with its Western, Ontario the Hall Building, on Friday, February 9 or although there are definite roles, they tend to co-ordinated by Professor Pauline Gross. • and Atlantic counterparts, is the regional pre- Saturday, February 10, to look them over. •

6 JANUARY 19, 1995 CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT Gerry Weiner to speak January 26 Centre for Community and Ethnic Studies fights prejudice

The Centre, located in the J.W. McConnell BY SAMAANA SIDDIQUI Building, also holds lectures and conferences, "we all have a tendency to be ethnocen- and is home to the Concordia-Universite du tric," says Efi Gavaki, director of OlJebec a Montreal (UQAM) Chair in Ethnic Concordia's Centre for Community and Eth Studies, whose research focuses on immigra nic Studies. "This programme opens students tion, multicultural and ethnic relations, dis to cultural variety and cultural interpretation, crimination, racism and human rights. rather than imposing their own point of view." One of the Centre's associate members is The programme she's talking about is the Gerry Weiner, who was Minister of Multicul Certificate in Community and Ethnic Studies, turalism and Citizenship between 1984 and a one-year, 30-credit certificate programme 1993. Weiner will give a speech at Concorp.ia 'What we do here is church every day' offered jointly by the Centre and the Depart on Tuesday, January 26 called "Be Like Us or ment of Sociology and Anthropology. Else: An Alternative to Multiculturalism? The Community and Ethnic Studies pro Multiculturalism and How It Contributes to gramme, now in its third year, studies how Nation-Building." It will begin at 6 p.m. in the Students learn inter-ethnic boundaries emerge and are perpet Faculty Club Lounge in the Henry F. Hall uated over time. It tries to provide students Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. with theoretical and practical tools to correct The day before Weiner speaks, the Chair in about life as they stereotypes. Ethnic Studies is sponsoring a lecture at Students are made aware of research relevant UQAM by Micheline Milot, of UQAM's to ethno-cultural issues, then introduced to a Department of Religion, under the title, specific ethnic comi:nunity. Finally, they are help homeless "L'influence du facteur religieux clans les atti placed in a setting where they implement what tudes interethniques et l'integration sociale." Concordia, and Annette Wijcik (Computer they have learned. BY JACQUELINE HENNE KEN The discussant will be Concordia's Suzanne Science) and Anne Gilchrist (Biology), from Putting theory into practice Dube (Sociology and Anthropology). It will be here wasn't much left of the huge casserole McGill University. "We place them in social services and in . at 12:30 in the Pavillon Hubert-Aquin, 1255 of macaroni when, at 6:30 p.m., Benedict Working and living next door to Labre community places where they deal with peo T St. Denis St., Room A-2860. • Labre House was about to close. "Take the House has made a difference to all of them. ple," explained Gavaki. Aida Mirshak, a warm air with you," said student Derek Tannis "It's an eye-opener. I realize more and more Concordia alumna and Gavaki's assistant, calls to one of the men who was leaving. He got a how little is known about the people who come this placement the highlight of the certificate big smile. here," said Wijcik. programme. Gavaki has been at Concordia for The Labre House provides about 700 hot "It is nice to philosophize about God's the past 20 years and, in addition to being work," Kocken said, "but what we do here is meals a week to anybody who drops in. This director of the Centre, teaches in the Depart church every day. I think it is useful for stu fall, four students moved in next door to the ment of Sociology arid Anthropology. dents who might be in powerful positions later three-storey old house on Young St., in what There are only eight students in the pro to know what it's like to be at the end of the used to be called Griffin town, just west of Peel gramme now, but Mirshak and Gavaki hope to receiving line." competition is that it mimics real life, present St. below Notre-Dame. Then they started attract more, including people who already Beside being educational, Kocken figured ing Master's of Business Administration stu helping out, putting in about 10 hours a week have degrees in the social sciences or who work having young people at the House would make dents with tough situations that demand serving, cleaning, chatting with the visitors and in CLSCs and social and community service the institution's work better known. The solutions in a pressure-cooker atmosphere of organizing social events. agenaes. $65,000 in private donations it receives annual competition .. Most of the clients are older men. Some are ly is just a fraction of what keeps the House David Goldman, executive vice-president of homeless, and many have drug problems. John going. The four students are among many vol Noranda Metallurgy, was both a judge and an Scrimshaw, 53, is a regular. "This is a relaxed unteers who work there. Teams of people.from advisor to the organizers. He has attended the place," he said, "not the usual eat-and-run stuff schools, companies and parishes bring in competition for the last 12 years, and felt that you find in other soup kitchens. I know most home-cooked meals for 40 people during the this year's was the best ever. of the people here and feel as if I belong some week and up to 150 people on weekends. If no "The organizers had everything on track," he where." team can be arranged, the meals are prepared said. "Everybody here thinks that it is profes Gabrielle Kocken is the director, and the from food donations. sional and surprised by what the students can unique in Canada, some U.S. utilities use their only one of an army of helpers who earns a Because of its tight budget, Labre House is do within so short a time. salary. A student in the Department of Reli own designs, so why did Hydro feel the need constrained in what it can do for its guests. "It is always a kick for us older guys in busi gion, she suggested the idea of getting young to build one? Sometimes, however, Anne Gilchrist said, ness. The amazing thing is that we don't think people involved to the Theology Department 'We do intervene, like with a guest who really "You could say, 'If they build a car in Japan, that we could do that much work in three when she was a student there. worried me after I saw him directing the traffic why build a car here?' But if you believe you hours." Students came together from several institu in the middle of Montreal. He turned out to be can build it better, and you can account for MBA programme director Derek Acland tions, and funding for the first year was provid schiwphrenic, and we took him to the hospital." your own needs and requirements, then you said that the event has three important ele ed by Theology. The four students currently If you're interested in the programme, call can build here, too. And since this is a relative ments: the organization of the event by stu involved are Derek Tannis (Education) and Gabrielle Kocken at Labre House, 937-5973,far ly new technology, it gives Hydro-OlJebec an dents, the showing of Concordia's own team, Glen Laviolette (Philosophy), who study at more information. • opportunity to be at the cutting edge." and how it draws the business community The first poles based on the Moselhi team's through the large number of unpaid, extremely prototype will not go up for at least a year and a experienced and genuinely committed judges. "They all get really involved, and want to come hal£ The pole may also be used to support tele back," he said. phone lines. It is a round-robin tournament of six divi- Moselhi commends Hydro-OlJebec for their . sions of five schools each. Each school com foresight. "Companies decline by standing still. petes against all other schools in its division, They are working on this now because they and in one interdivisional match. Divisional don't want to have to rethink their winners advance to the semifinals, and the strategy at a desperate time when there are no finalists compete for the Concordia Cup. • trees left." • Additional reporting by Barbara Black

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• and Themes ." Time : 8:30 p.m. Centre, 4410 Westhill , Montreal. beginning January 25. For information Location : H-507, 1455 de Regi stering now. Information: Ann at or to pre-register, leave a message for Maisonneuve Blvd W. Free . 488-9634 or Mary-Lou at 727-4576. Anet at 848-7431 . Information: 848-2435. CLUES Body Image Support/Discussion Concordia-UQAM Chair in Ethnic Library Information System, how to. Group Studies find boo ks, how to identify Are you preoccupied by feelings of Thursday, January 26 magazine/journal articles through new dissatisfaction with your body? Maybe Gerry Weiner on "Be like us or el se: periodical index databases. Webster talking about it can help . The An alternative to multiculturalism? " Library, LB-212, Jan. 19, 20 at 2:45 Concordia Women 's Centre offers a Time: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Location: Faculty p.m . Jan. 21 at 10:30 a.m . and Vanier group where women can discuss the Club Lounge, H-767 , 1455 de Library, VL-122, Jan. 19 at 5 p.m. personal and political aspects of body Maisonneuve Blvd. W. image and self-esteem. Meetings will Parents Without Custody Ham Radio Class A support group for separated or be held on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m., January 28 & 29 divorced parents who don't have cu s beginning January 24. For information Learn to be an amateur radio operator tody of their children . This will be an or pre-register, leave a message for Events, notices and classified ads must reach the in one-weekend seminar. Introductory opportunity to meet with other parents Susan or Myrna at 848-7431 . Public Relations Department (BC-115) in writing no later cla ss for beginners. No Morse code . in the same situation to discu ss issues Includes study guide, question bank, such as coping with painful feeling s, Women and Safer Sex than Thursday, 5 p.m. the week prior to the Thursday publication. free exam . Cost is $50 for Concordia how to avoid conflict with the former Is safer sex really as simple as know students, $75 for others. Time: 9 a.m. - partner, how to communicate effec ing how to use late x? For many For more information, please contact Kevin Leduc at 848-4881, 5 p.m. Location : H-644-1, 1455 de tively with your child/children . Call women , it's much more complicated by fax: 848-2814 or by e-mail: [email protected]. Maisonneuve Blvd W. Information : Nancy Montgomery (Catholic than that. Thi s seme ster, the 848-7421 . Community Service s) at 937-5351 Concordia Women's Centre will offer local 48 to regi ster. a series of two-hour workshops to help women explore some of the issue s International Students Office that affect our choices about safer sex, Meetings Thursday, February 2 including self-e steem , sexuality and JANUARY 19 • JANUARY 26 Upon graduation, International stu body image . Workshop dates: Self Arts and Science Faculty Council meet dents are allowed to work in Canada esteem , Monday, February 6 from 7 - 9 ing will be on Friday, January 20 at 2 for one year, in their field of study. p.m.; Body Image, Monday, February management of the obstructed airway Sunday, February 12 p.m. in DL-200, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W. Organized by the ISO and Counselling 20 from 7 - 9 p.m. ; Sexuality, Monday, Art Gallery and infant and child resuscitation. Financial Planning for Women I: and Development, this workshop will Budgeting March 6 from 7 - 9 p.m. For more infor Student caucus of Senate meeting, on provide students with practical infor The Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery CPR Heartsaver Plus course Leader: Dora Moquin. Time: 9:30 a.m. mation, leave a message for Leah or Friday, January 27 at 2 p.m. in H-773, mation about immigration, as well as is located at 1400 de Maisonneuve Saturday, January 28 - 4 p.m. Location: Loyola Campus. Fee: Diana at 848-7431. 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. job-hunting and interviewing skill s. 6 - 8 hours for life: This course Blvd . W. Information: 848-4750 . $56.98. Information: 848-4955. Time : 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Location : H-771 , includes rescue breathing, one-person Free films for (Metro Guy-Concordia) 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd W. To reg resc uer CPR, management of the Women/Wimmin/Womyn ister, call 848-3515. Until February 11 obstructed airway and infant child The Concordia Women's Centre will be presenting free film s on Monday Faculty of Fine Arts Exhibition. Time: resuscitation. Lectures and School of Graduate Write on the Edge Monday - Friday from 11 a.m. - 7 p.m . Studies News Playwrights ' Workshop Montreal and nights this semester. Enjoy a selection and Saturday from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m . seminars CBC Radio Performance are looking for of film s - commercial or independent, Get-togethers with the Dean Hollywood or non-Hollywood - that Thursdays at Lonergan short radio drama scripts to be pro celebrate women . For date, time and Film January19 School of Graduate Studies duced and aired on the CBC-Radio Dean Martin Kusy would like to meet title of the next screening , call the Rosemary Hale, PhD, Department of show Morningside. Send us your origi Campus Ministry Conservatoire d' Art Religion on "Masculinity in images of St. with graduate students this year on an nal scripts of any length, any subject Women's Centre at 848-7431. Cinematographique de Montreal Joseph." Time : 3:30 - 5 p.m. , 7302 informal basis from 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. but never profes sionally produced, Cinema J.A. DeSeve , 1400 de Big gals and goddesses, want to talk? Prison visits will run for eight consecu Sherbrooke St. W. Information: 848-2280. at our Graduate Administration maximum 2 scripts per entrant . tive weeks on Tuesday afternoon s, Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Concordia offices, 2145 Mackay St. , on the fol Winners will receive $100 . I am starting a discu ss ion group for beginning January 24 . Contact Matti University (Metro Guy-Concordia). Department of Art History lowing dates: January 31, 1995 and Submission deadline: February 6th. For all big women . Whether you wear Terho , 848-3590 or Peter Cote 848- Admission: $3. Friday, January 20 . _ Mooday, February 13, 1995. Space is more information, call 843-3685. dresses or overal Is, nylons or not, 3585 for further details. James Miller, Faculty 'of Arts profes limited . Contact Ms. Kali Sakell at you can come and hang out in a Friday, January 20 sor, University of Western Ontario, 848-3803 to reserve a date. We look supportive atmosphere. If interested, A Journey of Di scovery: Using guided After Separation at 7 p.m.; Lover Boy will lecture on "AIDS Terrorism : The forward to seeing you . leave a mes sage for Anu ska at imagery, meditation on the Word of as Happy as Larry at 9 p.m. Vengeance Motif in Po st-Activist Art Unclassified 848-7431 . God, creative expre ss ion and other and Literature." Time: 7 p.m . Location: Saturday, January 21 technique s, participants can discover H-937, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd W. French Speaker Secrets of the City, Palace Cafe , the unity of mind, body and spirit, to French speaker wanted for exchange Return Home at 7 p.m.; A Confucius Special Events and form new bonds with others and deep Engineering and Computer Science of French/ Engli sh conversation. Call Family at 9 p.m. Workshops en their relation ship with God . For Association Notices 421-5827 . information call Michel ina Bertone Monday, January 23 Monday, January 23 Cinema Concordia India Myths and Culture: A S.SA 848-3591 A lecture by Monique Frize, Northern House for Rent La carrosse d'or at 8:30 p.m. Friday, January 20 weekend at Lacolle Telecom Chair in Women in In Lachine, by prof on sabbatical (June "An Evening of Concordia Films" will January 20-22 Multi-faith dialogue: Students meet Engineering , University of New 1995-June 1996). Three bedroom s, fur Tuesday, Jan11ary 24 offer two hours of hard-edged films The Hindu epic Mahabharata, lndjan for a_'brown bag' lunch discussion that Brunswick, on "Equity in Engineering: ni shed and equipped ; 15 minutes from Resonan ce, Miss Tauru s, Nirvana that deal with contemporary issues. food, art, music, dance, lecture and is designed to promote understanding Building on Success." Time: 2 p.m. - 4 metro by train; sunny, private garden, Street Murder at 7 p.m.; Full Metal The screening will include some of the discu ssion. Cost: $50 for students, $70 and dialogue between members of p.m. Location: H-110 , 1455 de garage; 10-minute walk from Lake St Jacket at 9 p.m. best experimental, documentary and for others. Includes accommodation, 6 va rious faiths on Wednesday s at Maisonneuve Blvd W. loui s. $800/month plus utilities. Call L. animated films in Engli sh and French meals and transportation. Call Prof. noon, in Annex T (2030 Mackay St.) Lewis 343-7721 or 634-8633. Wednesday, January 25 produced at Concordia in the past two Those interested should call Matti Department of Communication Ron Wareham at 848-2334 or Eira Rome, Open City at 8:30 p.m . years. A $2 donation is requested . Terho 848-3590 Studies For Rent Miller at 848-2320. Wednesday, January 25 Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: H-110, 1455 Thursday, January 26 4 1/ 2, electric heating not included. Howard Fink and John Jackson on de Maisonneuve Blvd W. Information: Learning Development Office Women's Spirituality: A series of Pleasure Dome s, Pale Black . Near Vendome metro, renovated .. "Concordia's Centre for Broadcasting 933-7407, 989-7577 or 848-4668 Thursday, January 26 videos and discussions will explore Memorie s and Dreams at 7 p.m.; $360. Call 484-2100. women 's perspectives and experi Studies: Resources and Ongoing Effective lecturers require careful Bloody Morning at 9 p.m. Office of MITE ences within various religious tradi Research." Time: 4 p.m. Location: BR- Success to all students attention to content, organization, and Monday, January 23 tions . This is an eight-session series, 209, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W. 848-2555. WordPerfect 5.1 . Term papers , delivery. The purpose of thi s workshop The Loyola Film Series Demo Day: Open House at the MITE held on Tuesdays from 4:15 - 6 p.m., resumes, applications. 28 years' expe is to show how these elements affect F.C. Smith Auditorium, 7141 Lab, Concordia's Media Lab. Sound beginning on January 24, Anne x Z, Concordia-UQAM Chair in Ethnic rience, both languages . 7 days a student learning . Time : 1 p.m.-2:30 Sherbrooke St. W Tel. 848-3878 and Image Processing, Video Toaster Room 105. Call Daryl Lynn Ross, 848- Studies week . 175 oblique, double spaced . p.m. Location: 2490 West Broadway, Wednesday, January 25 and 30 Animation . MITE staff will be 3585 for more information. Wednesday, January 25 Just two streets away (Peel). Paulette Loyola . Call 848-2495 to register. Micheline Milot, Department of on hand to demonstrate Multimedia Vivre Sa Vie, Jean-Luc Godard (1962) or Roxanne. 288-9638/288-0016. Religion, UOAM on "L'influence du workstations from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m . at 7 p.m .; Jules et Jim, Fran~ois Health Services facteur religieux dans les attitudes Location: H-333, 1455 de Truffaut (1961) at 8:30 p.m. Experienced Editor Thursday, January 26 interethniques et !'integration Maisonneuve Blvd W. Information: Student papers, etc .. Transcript. of Nutrition Workshop, "How to Feed the 848-3461. CPR Courses sociale." Time: 12:30 p.m . - 2:30 p.m . tapes, preparation of resumes, trans- Student Body. " Bring your lunch and Location: Pavilion Hubert-Aquin, 1255 1at ion Spanish / English . Tutoring The following CPR courses will be learn about balancing nutrients, eating St. Denis St., Salle A-2860, 400. Centre for International Academic English. 7 days/week. 10 minute walk. offered by the EH&S Office in the next Cooperation on the run , and cooking for one . Time: Lacolle Centre for Marian 288-0016. 12 p.m. Location : H-653, 1455 de few weeks. Members of the Concordia Thursdays at Lonergan The CIAC will be holding information and outside communitie·s can take Educational Thursday, January 26 sessions on student exc hange pro Maisonneuve Blvd W. these cour ses. Contact Donna Innovation Panel of four Lonergan Fellows on grammes on Friday, January 20 from Fa sciano, Training Co-ordinator at Interdisciplinary Issues in Art and 10 a.m . - 12 p.m . in H-773, Tuesday, Learning Development Office 848-4355. Saturday, February 11 Ae sthetic s. Time: 3:30 - 5 p.m ., 7302 January 24 from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m . in AD- Concordia Women's Monday, January 30 Perfect Angels Sherbrooke St. W. Information: 848-2280. 131 and Thursday, January 26 from 10 Centre In "Teaching Adult Learners, " we will Basic Life-Support course This workshop will introduce a peer a.m. - 12 p.m./2 p.m. - 4 p.m. in CIAC examine some of the re search on January 21 & 22 based anti-violence programme for Concordia Irish Lecture Series offices, AD-207 . Women's Empowerment Circle adults as learners and di scuss the 10 hours for life: This course includes elementary and high school students. Thursday, January 26 We are meeting thi s semester at the implications for cla ssroom practice . re scue breathing, one-person cardia Leader: Brenda Henry. Time : 9:30 a.m. Seamu s Connolly, Irish Studies Parent-infant support group Concordia Women 's Centre . Come Location : H-771 , 1455 de pulmonary resuscitation and two-person - 4 p.m. Location: Loyola Campus . Fee: Programme at Boston College to lec Meeting Mondays, January 23 - share support and empowerment with Maisonneuve Blvd W. Call 848-2495 cardia-pulmonary re suscitation (CPR), $56.98. Information: 848-4955. ture on "Traditional Irish Music: Forms March 13 at the Monkland Community other women . Wednesdays at 7 p.m. to register. ~ . •