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Biology Professor Luc-Alain Giraldeau was quoted in New York Times The case of the laggard lionesses

Concordia Behavioural Ecology Pro­ Experts have recently begun territory. (Males aren't studied, in BY JACQUIE CHARLTON fessor Luc-Alain Giraldeau has been noting the intriguingly "altruistic" this case, because they have no terri­ s every biologist knows, altruistic trying to answer, and so far at least, behaviour of lions, one of. torial rights in the pride.) A behaviour is an evolutionary cul­ he hasn't found anything to contra­ Giraldeau's areas of expertise. The Behavioural ecologists have been de-sac. But how can we explain appar­ dict Darwin. What appears to be New York T imes science section trying to explain why the parasitic lionesses are not punished or driven ently selfless behaviour in animals? altruism, he says, is often only an (September 5, 1995) quoted out by the harder-working ones. And why do human beings often act elaborate structure of behaviour Giraldeau commenting on work on They're wondering if it could be the purely out of concern for others? established through the ages to help laggard lionesses, those who shirk on elusive example of altruism in ani­ These are some of the questions individuals survive. their share of hunting and defending mals that might turn evolutionary theory on its ear. Not quite, Giraldeau says. Lions' behaviour corresponds more to a "producer-scrounger" scenario, which dictates that as long as an opportuni­ ty for scrounging exists, someone will take it. The "producer lions" will overlook a degree of parasitism in the pride as long as it is sustainable. A ltruism, Giraldeau explains, doesn't really come into it. "It's like asking, How many bank robbers can the city of Montreal sustain?" See Giraldeau, p. 11

Women's Y protected moral, religious well-being of girls coming to the city T~e girl problem: Diana Pedersen explores.e .arly years of YWCA

their imperialistic bent and their mid­ maiden. In fact, Pedersen said in her reform circles as "the pre-eminent BY JOANNE LATIMER dle-class agenda of controlling boys. I paper, the organization's initial goal authority on Canadian girl-life," hildhood has its own history, argue that the girls' organizations was to persuade unaffiliated young Pedersen wrote. Cand when the International shared a lot of those values, but they women to attend church regularly. "Underlying all its activities was a Congress of Historical Sciences con­ were also promoting young women as The YWCAs set up boarding­ vision of young women as the future vened in Montreal in late August, its a valuable national resource, which houses for these young working mothers and cornerstones of the discussions included that topic for was progressive." women, who were between 17 to 25, Christian family home, guardians of the very first time. The topic has a strong religious and lobbied for public and private the morality of the urban community component, Pedersen said. The money for summer camps and recre­ and the nation. In fact, the YWCA History Professor Diana Pedersen mainstream Protestant churches at ation facilities such as those enjoyed identified the young women of delivered a paper at the conference the turn of the century were evangel­ by boys. Canada as "the key to national called "Constructing Female Adoles­ ical, reformist, and highly influential, Gradually, the Y succeeded regeneration and the redemption of cence: Canadian YWCA Girls' and the YWCA defined in establishing itself in Canada's cities." Workers, Religious Education and the -~=- its elf as religious and At about this time, the new science New 'Girl Psychology,' 1909-1921." Severa I Concordians reflect on hand- social of developmental psychology (and the "Childhood has been an active their time in China at the recent recognition that "girlhood" was a United Nations conference. field of study for over 20 years," she legitimate stage of growth, with its Page8 said in an interview, "but almost all own needs) were giving birth to a of the attention has been focused on specialization called Girls' Work. boys." Her paper addressed what This approach was geared specifically Chomsky talks turn-of-the-century social activists to working with young women, and America's favourite dissident. called "the girl problem" - the it stressed that girls should actively Noam Chomsky, gave full influx of young, unsupervised participate in social and religious life. value when he appeared women to Canadian cities - and The YWCA experimented with · at Concordia. how the Young Women's Christian summer camps for girls, high-school Page9 Association responded to it. . girls' clubs and girls' conferences, "Historically, people don't recog­ and helped the Protestant churches nize that the YWCA and the YMCA organize the Canadian Girls in NEXT ISSUE: [its male counterpart] were distinct Training (or CGIT) for girls aged October 26 organizations," Pedersen said. "Histo­ 12 to 17. The program still exists in rians have stressed how conservative YWCA girls' workers at a CG camp m Knowlton, Quebec, in 1916. many communities. the boys' organi_zations were, with (Photo courtesy of the National Archives of Canada.} See Pedersen, p. 11 This column is compiled by Lee Harris, Webster Library (LB-285, 848-7724, e-mail- lharris@vax2)

Ailie Cleghorn and her colleagues in Education are working to improve .quality of instruction at all levels Concordia project helps Zimbabweans develop early childhood educators

Surf the World Wide Web in the Libraries in Zimbabwe, as in many other Until now, most early educators in BY SYLVAIN COMEAU African countries," Cleghorn said. Zimbabwe have worked without the Great news! The Concordia Libraries are caught in the web. As being caught in a web is rarely described as great or even good o many people, international The project team is made up of fac­ benefit of a university education. news, some explanation is in order. Tdevelopment means building ulty members from both universities, They need a career track, as part of including Professors Larry Prochner, You will now find a Home Page for the Concordia Libraries on the roads and digging wells, but the world-wide trend towards the Sandra Weber, Gina Walker, Miran­ World Wide Web (WWW). The URL (that's Internet jargon for the Concordia's Ailie Cleghorn (Educa­ professionalization of teachers. tional Studies) believes that the ben­ da d'Amico and Sara Weinberg from address) is: http://juno.concordia.ca. The WWW is probably the The project is now entering the most powerful way to search for information on the global Internet. efits can also be intangible. She and a Concordia. It has also caught the last of its four years. As well as an Home Pages of institutions or even individuals, are starting points colleague at the University of Zim­ interest of several graduate students for finding electronic information by following hypertext links to babwe (UZ) are the co-directors of a who have helped out as project assis­ early childhood education depart­ other Web pages. Instead of just informing you of what is available, tants; a few have found their thesis ment at UZ, an observation nursery the WWW software allows you to make the link directly by clicking project aimed at early childhood the mouse on or moving a cursor to a highlighted portion of the ed4cators (ECE). topics in the project. school may be developed on campus Home Page or another Web page. By the time you are through Although the faculty at UZ hold Each year, two or more Concordia which would provide a site for train­ clicking from one site to another you may be quite far from the Master's and PhD degrees in educa­ team members spend a few weeks in ing and research. Libraries' Home Page but don't worry, it's easy to get back home. tion, they wanted to address the uni­ Zimbabwe helping to teach some of There is no doubt the World Wide Web is aptly named. Concordia hopes to keep its hand versity's lack of specialization in the program's courses. "It really in by applying for a second phase of The Web can be searched using two types of browsers, graphical or makes us take a close look at West­ young children's education. funding from the Canadian Interna­ text-based. Netscape is a graphical browser which allows you to see Of the eight Zimbabwe faculty ern notions of early education," all the images which may be contained in files you find on the Inter­ tional Development Agency members who have already spent· a Cleghorn said. net. Lynx is a text-based browser accessible on many Concordia (CIDA), which has been supporting computer systems. Lynx can't show you the images which are part semester at Concordia, four c~e for For example, the current philoso­ of Web documents but as most of the information on the World ideas about maths and science learn­ phy says that children learn in a the project. Wide Web is in text form, you won't be missing much. ing in young children. holistic way, not broken up into cat­ Netscape is available in the Reference areas and Media Centres of "Now they can not only train egories like maths and reading. But the Vanier and Webster Libraries. It can be used to access the teachers for the secondary schools, an integrated teaching approach Concordia Libraries Home Page which includes a link to the "Virtual but they are able to relate to chil­ built around class · projects is har~ to Library Tour" complete with floor plans, photos and directional dren's conceptual development in sustain when the materials that we signs. Library users can tour either Concordia library from either take for granted - paper, glue, campus at any time that is convenient. The Libraries' Home Page these subjects," Cleghorn said. IN BRIEF ... also links to information about library hours, policies, services and They also report new insights into magic markers, scissors, books and collections as well as other Internet resources and search tools. some of the math and science prob­ so on - are in short supply. With this problem in mind, the Like most other Web pages, the Libraries' Web pages are "under lems that seem to emerge at the sec­ Tonight at 10 ondary level. "We hope that project plans outreach programs and construction." The construction workers for this project are Social worker Lenore Vosberg and Concordia librarians who are actively navigating the Internet to eventually there will be a spinoff for materials for rural Zimbabwe teach­ Theatre Professor Stephen Snow were locate more resources which can be linked up to the existing the quality of instruction at all levels." ers who normally do not get much interviewed last spring about their pages. These links will make it easier for people who don't want to This term, Peggy Siyakwaze is vis­ institutional support. As there are spend a lot of time exploring on their own to find relevant sources unusual collaboration on an original iting from UZ's Department of more than 10,000 rural early child­ of information. musical production. Teacher Education. When she goes hood playgroups or centres, this is a Oh! That Alla din ... , which brought Maintaining these Web pages will be keeping us very busy. Within back, she will co-ordinate the prac­ challenging task. the next few weeks the Libraries' gopher will be retired. The intellectually handicapped people tice teaching of the first group of Professor Cleghorn says that mak­ gopher served us well, but the Web will allow us to serve the together on stage with Concordia The­ Concordia community much better. If you would like to learn more new BEd ECE students. The new ing an ·educational investment in the atre students, was produced on cam­ about the Internet, make a point of attending one of the Libraries ' BEd started in March, a year earlier young child can actually produce more p us several times to enthusiastic Internet sessions which are listed in the pamphlet The Library than expected, with 35 students who results than at the secondary or uni­ audiences and media reaction. Experience 1995, and on the Libraries' Web pages. had been selected from more than versity level: "Infusing the lower levels The interview will be seen tonight on 2,000 applicants. "This gives an idea of education with more professional­ channel 40 on Vision TV's Skylight pro­ of the demand for higher education ism can have an enormous impact." gram at 10 o'clock.

2 OCTOBER 19 , 1995 CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT Edmonton-based Eileen Sproule returns to her alma mater to do gender-bending Shakespeare

A feast of females in COMPILED BY BARBARA BLACK

This column welcomes the submissions ofall Concordia faculty and Measure for Measure stajfto promote and encourage individual and group activities in teaching and research, and to encourage work-related achievements. costume shop. Sproule is a duced one to two shows a year there BY PHILIP FINE Concordia Theatre grad (1985) who - most notably, an award-winning Daniela Savin, a graduate student at the Centre for Building Studies o Shakespeare play has roles for went on to do an MA at Leeds Uni­ production called The Tit Show. under the supervision of Professor Sabah Toma Alkass, was awarded Na dozen actresses, with some of versity, in England. She co-founded the Prix d'excellence 1995 PMI on June 20. It was given by the Project them doubling as musicians. Generic Theatre in Montreal, and Measure for Measure, by William Management Institute for achievement in construction management, Nevertheless, Eileen Sproule has mounted Lunch in 1988, a female Shakespeare, runs from tonight (Octo­ and consists of a commemorative plate and a bursary of $500. managed to put that many women Waitingfar Godot in 1989, and Jitter­ ber 19) until October 27 at 8 pm. No into the Theatre Derartment's pro­ bug Perfume (which she also adapted shows on Monday or Tuesday, with a 2 Michel Despland (Religion) has published a book, Romantic Religion and duction of Measure for Measure, from the original by Tom Robbins) pm matinee on Saturday, Oct. 28. D.B. Literary Aesthetics in France. It is an examination of five writers who wrote about religion at the end of the 18th century in a way that broke which opens tonight. She "flipped" in 1990. Clarke Theatre, Henry F. Hall Build­ with tradition. They include Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Chateaubriand, things, giving the five female roles to Since then, she has moved the ing, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd West. Charles Nodier, Alfred de Vigny and Gerard de Nerval. men and the 12 male roles to company to Edmonton and co-pro- For ticketreservations: 848-4742. women. Caroline Markolin (Modern Languages and Linguistics) presented a The biggest surprise for her, as she paper, "Walking as an Aesthetic Metaphor in Peter Handke's Prose" at watched the experiment unfold, was the International World Congress for German Studies, held in Vancouver how few questions came up from the in August. Her new publication, Modem Austrian Writing: A Study Guide actors. At rehearsal, what counts is for Austrian Literature, 1945-1990, is being published this fall by Peter making sense of the words and situa­ Lang Publishers, of New York. tions. That's not to say that finding the emotions while looking like Ulrike de Brentani (Marketing) had her paper, "Firm Size: Implications you're in a Kids in the Hall sketch for Success in New Industrial Services," published in the May 1995 Spe­ hasn't been a challenge. cial Iss ue on Services Marketing of the Journal of Marketing Manage­ ment. Also in May, she presented he r.paper, "New Industrial Sproule has directed her actors to Professional Services: A Classical and Structural Model Analysis of the play down the camp element. Factors that Determin e Success," at the annual conference of the Euro­ She described one actor's adjust­ pean Ma rketing Academy (EMAC), in Pa ris, France. ment to "serious" drag. At the begin­ ning of rehearsal, he'd been playing Maria Peluso (Pol itical Science) has been elected to the board of direc­ for the laughs. tors of the non-profit fund-raising orga nization Ce ntraide (k nown outside "I told him he was commenting of Quebec as the United Way). on his character, playi ng her as a girly-girl," said Sproule. "It's the idea John Fiset (I nstitute for Co-operative Education) was part of a CEGEP­ that people are people. You are what university team that presented a bri ef to the Estates General in August . you do." He spoke about the advanges of co-operative (work-study) education in In fact, reversing gender is one the business and science sectors. way to show more clearly the defined gender roles of Elizabethan society, The University, and particularly, the TESL Centre, recently were hosts for in which a person could go only as a three-day visit by Sujaritlak Deepadung, professor of linguistics, and her far as the society would let her. 'Juli­ husband, Attanjinda Deepadung, professor of philosophy. They are from et is as powerful as she wants to be, Mahidol University, in Salaya, Thailand, where they hope to develop an applied linguistics program. They met with Bruce Mahley (Centre for but never will she be a duke," said International Academic Co-operation) and Ron Mackay, Alex Sharma Sproule. and Gwen Newsham, all from TESL. Although this production may see some fairly bulky female characters Congratulations to Mahesh Sharma (Decision Sciences and MIS), who on stage, getting large Elizabethan gets better as he gets older. Sharma ran the 42.2 metres of the Montreal dresses was not a problem; every­ Marathon in three hours and 44 minutes, his best time in five years. He thing was found in the Department's says modestly that light rain and good temperatures made it possible.

Two students in Communication Studies recently won National Appren­ ticeship Awards from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. Concordia's own television programs look to a national audience Denise Woo, whose apprenticeship is in script-writing, will probably go to Toronto, and Tally Abecassis, whose apprenticeship is in multicultur­ alism, will be in Montreal. Also in the department, the Kayleigh Award, CANAL goes Canada-wide given for the best script by a student in advanced scriptwriting, has been awarded to Nicholas Fodor.

On September 7, CANAL signed able to register and evaluate the. stu­ BY DIMITRI KATADOTIS an agreement with Cancom (Cana­ dents. CANAL has _been doing it A chapter of a thesis by Gerardo Acerenza (Universita della Basilicata, July 1995) was devoted to the literary and hi storical contributions of Fil­ dian Satellite Inc.), which owns and he educational television chan­ successfully for years." ippo Salvatore (Modern Languages and Lin guistics ). Sociological Tnel CANAL (CFTU 29) has operates an Anik E satellite with a CANAL's current programming Abstracts, an international database, has selected for its 1994 edition Sal­ signed a three-year agreement with a transmitting arc that covers North includes a half-hour anthology of vatore's article, "Multiculturalism or Soft Apartheid in Canada ?" , w hich telecommunications company which America. short films from the Cinema and appeared in La Critica Sociologica, 107, Universita La Sapienza, Roma . could extend its reach across Canada, Mark Schofield, head of The abstracts are sent to scholars in 55 countries. Also, an article co­ Communication Studies depart­ authored by Salvatore and Sister Prudence Allen, " Lucrezia Marinelli and even to parts of the United Concordia's Audio Visual Depart­ ments, and Concordia Today, a half­ and Women's Identity in Late Italian Renai ssance," has been translated States and the Caribbean. ment, is Concordia's representative hour news magazine produced by into Italian and published in Prospettiva Person? (Universita di Teramo) . CANAL is a consortium of on CANAL's administrative board, the Communication Studies and Qjiebec universities, including and its vice-president. Visibly proud Journalism Departments. The Barnes and Noble (New York), in collaboration with Colin Smythe Pub­ Concordia, which for 10 years has of the s_tation, he said that its many expansion of the station's audience lishers (England), has recently published Poetry in Contemporary Irish Lit­ been delivering credit courses, art years of service to home-based stu­ erature, a col lection of 23 essays commissioned, edited and introduced and information programs to almost dents attracted Cancom's interest. may require some changes, but by Michael Kenneally (English). The collection is the second in the four­ 1.4 million homes across the "There is more to an educational Schofield said that shows like the volume series, Studies in Contemporary Irish Literature, which Kenneally province. Over 10,000 students are channel than programming," he said. cinema series will broadcast particu­ is preparing. currently enrolled in credit courses. "Learning institutions have to be larly well across the country.

CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT OCTOBER 19, 1995 3 Concordia's Thursday Report is interested in your letters, opinions and comments. Letters to the Editor must be signed, 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

Theft is theft: Thanks for Publishers shuffling Lowy interviewed on On behalf of the member compa­ On behalf of the Office of Univer­ nies of the Canadian Book Publishers' sity Advancement, I would li ke to council (CBPC), post-secondary group, thank the members of the 1995 national, local radio I would like to respond to a recent let­ Concordia Shuffle organizing com­ ter to the editor, which I read with mittee for their efforts, en thusia sm The following are excerpts from don't offer, and strengthen those for Concordia than fo r more estab­ great interest, written by En glish stu­ and commitment to the Shuffle. recent interviews given by Rector Fred­ areas. Areas of excellence need to be lished universities. [Concordia is dent Ken McMurray (" Lower book I was fortunate to inherit the job erick Lowy. One was on September 27 strengthened. There are other fields committed to] wide access, so raising prices to sell more," CTR, Oct. 5). of Shuffle co-ordinator from Laura by CJAD radio 's Melanie King for that attract students, which [provide students' fees is exactly the opposite If, in fact, Mr. McMurray is speak­ Wells. I was also fortunate to inherit ing on behalf of all or most students the services of her secreta ry, Andrea her local morning show, On T arget. revenue] and service; those also have of what we would like to see happen. at Concordia Un iversity, the student Segal , w hose assistance went above The other was by Peter Gzowski, and to be strengthened. Then there are At the same time, the budget is profile he has painted is most dis­ and beyond the ca ll of duty. heard coast-to-coast on CBC radio's things that are valuable and interest­ being compressed tremendously. turbing. Mr. McMurray casts a very Under the expert guidance of Irvin Morningside, on October 6. ing, but don't fall into these other Last year, Concordia lost $10 mil­ dark light by implying that if you Dudeck as chai r, the Shuffle com­ can't afford what you want, you can categories; some of them may have lion out of its base budget, and over mittee reached new heights in spon­ On being here: to be abandoned. always go out and steal it. sorship, recru itment and, most the next three or four years, [it may Regardless of the justification, important, in the amount raised for I l;iave been absolutely over­ be reduced by] another $30 million. theft is theft, no matter w hich side scholarsh ips and bursaries. This whelmed at the warmth of the wel­ On the needforincreased Tuition fees account for about 10 of the coin . sixth Shuffle (not fourth, as reported come. In a sense, I came here exactly financial giving: per cent of universities' operating Ron Munro last week in CTR) rai sed a re cord at the right time, when the expecta­ One of the things that is clear to fees in Qgebec, compared to 13 per Canadian Book Publishers' Council $52,643 in pledges. tions are high and there is a readi­ me after all these years in various cent in Ontario, and in the U.S., 20- To all of you, and to the many vol­ ness to give [me] an extended universities is that the difference Board tour was unteers w ho helped on Shuffle day, 25 per cent in public and as high as thank you! honeymoon to do what needs to be between competence, which the gov­ 80 per cent in the private universi­ an eye-opener Th e committee members were done. ernment assures by providing the ties. So you can see that tuition fees Michel Bujold (Security), Perry Calce base budget, and excellence, which is On Saturday, September 30, an in Qgebec are very, very low. impressive number of governors and (SCPA), Jonathan Ca rruthers (CSU), On Concordia's relationship with what we all strive for, is the amount There are other things that can be Jackie Chegrinec (VR Services), Irvin se nior administrators of Concordia, other universities: of giving from the private and the done to make sure that access is not including Rector Lowy and his wife, Dudeck (Committee Chair), Robert All of us [Montreal universities] corporate sector. Those universities compromised; for example, loan pay­ Mary Kay, were welcomed by sever­ Fox (Engineering and Computer Sci­ ence), Catherine Grace (Athletics ), are going to give up some things and that have good machinery for getting back schemes that are graduated, so al members of the faculty, student retain some things. The sector is donations - McGill is superb in body and staff, w ho gave us a most Pina Greco (Rector's Office), Carole that people who earn more money going to be leaner, and, hopefully, this regard - are able to do things interesting tour of the University's Kleingrib (Advancement), Javier Lee more quickly will pay off their debts (Fine Arts), Kathleen Perry (Fine kinder, with joint programs [to share that otherwise they could not possi­ facilities, w hich were totally more quickly than people who don't. unknown to some of us. Arts), Patricia Po siu s (Computing resources]. bly do. Don't forget that Concordia It was really an eye-opener, and I Services), Pat Rae (Fa culty Person­ We have a shrinking anglophone is only 21 years old (as Concordia). nel), Melinda Reinhart (Library), Mur­ feel compelled to say, "Concordians, community. The question can legiti­ We have not had time to accumulate I am proud of you!" Not only proud ray Sang (Continuing Educa tion), mately be raised, Do we need two alumni in such numbers and in such of those who received us, but of all Sam Tabar (CSU), Lise Tavares of you, because I am sure that simi­ (Information Services), and Laura basically anglophone universities in wealth as to really give us a lot of larly exciting programs exist throught Wells (Advancement). the same city? My answer is, Yes, donations. the University, and I look forward to Chris Mota indeed we do, but we do not need I would hope that the Loyola Col­ discovering them in upcoming tours. Shuffle '95 Co-ordinator carbon copies of each other. I think lege and Sir George Williams Uni­ As we start a new chapter in our the distinctiveness of these two insti­ versity graduates recognize that history, there is a sense of an upbeat mood, and I urge everyone to join in tutions can be accentuated for clearer Concordia really is a continuation of on this positive attitude to ensure definition of what each one is sup­ their history. I do hope that we get that Concordia continues to deliver IN BRIEF ... posed to do. more support from our students and "real education for the real world." our graduates. Again, thank you to those who On defining core courses and values: received us on this first tour, and Appointment "see you soon" to the others. Best The University has to determine On tuition: wishes to all. Professor Georgios H. Vatistas has what it can offer that other people Budget-culling means a lot more been named Associate Dean, Student Humberto Santos B.Comm '75, MBA '79 Affairs, in the Faculty of Engineering Member of the Board of Governors and Computer Science. He succeeds Douglas Hamblin in the post. Vatistas has been serving as Associ­ ate Dean in the School of Graduate CLARIFICATION Studies. In an article about the unveiling of six bronze busts (CTR, October 5), informa­ tion was unfortunately omitted. CORRECTIONS Frederick Owen Stredder was named Vice-Principal of the Montreal There were two errors in the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Associa­ story on Professor Jane Stewart's ISSN 1:185-3689 Wi.::: tion) Schools in 1924. In 1926 the col­ research in the October 5 issue. The Editor lege program was renamed Sir George Centre for Studies in Behavioural Bctrbara 'Black Williams College, in honour of the Neurobiology received $1 .2 million in • founder of the YMCA. Stredder served funding in 1995-96, and appetitive func­ Copy Editor as Principal of the College from 1928 tions include maternal (not materian Michael. Orsini,, until 1935. Under his leadership the first behaviour. Faculty of Arts, Science and Commerce In the Names in the News column, was organized, and the evening pro ­ Professor Jean-Roch Laurence 's gram, originally established as part of department was wrongly identified. the YMCA Educational Program, was He is in the Department of Psychology. further developed. CTR regrets the errors.

4 OCTOBER 19, 1995 CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT SE TES

COMPILED BY BARBARA BLACK

Rector Frederich Lowy fielded questions from about 40 students, A regular meeting of the Concordia University Senate, held on Friday, October 13, 1995. faculty and staff at the first of these informal monthly meetings with senior administrators, which was held in the seventh-floor Reorganization of senior admin­ directly to the Office of the Rector. "Setting the Course for Our cafeteria of the Henry F. Hall Building last Thursday (October istration: Rector Frederick Lowy Future": Thi s document, prepared Lowy told Senate that the pro­ 12). Here's a brief account of the discussion: presented for Senate's information by Lowy and Lightstone in consul­ posed restructuring is open to fur­ organizational proposals which he tation w ith the five deans, was pre­ ther change, but that sin ce a Sports facilities: A student complained about their quality. said would restructure the Univer­ sented for discussion at future sity's se ni or administration in the search must be started as soon as Rector Lowy agreed emphatically, especially regarding the possible to fill the slot currently Senate meetings. It sets out five interests of efficiency and better downtown site, and said that attempts are being made to find communication. occupied by the Interim Vice-Rec­ principles which should guide the tor, Institutional Relations and streamlining of the University in better downtown facilities. Finance, he planned to present the the light of reduced funding: 1) Budget planning would be split proposal to the Board of Governors Smoking: A staff member said that the ban on smoking any­ off from day-to-day financial admin­ • maintain and foster teaching and on October 18, and hopes to put it where in Concordia buildings is not working. Students agreed, istration. (Both are currently under into effect this academic year. "research programs of of recog­ the Vice-Rector, Institutional Rela­ nized academic excellence, by citing frequent violations in the Hall Building cafeteria and Reg­ tions and Finance. This post would Retirement of the Registrar: Vice­ the standards applicable to any gie's Bar; a graduate student added that some faculty and staff Rector Services Charles Bertrand be renamed Vice-Rector, Institu­ contemporary university in Cana­ are smoking in the privacy of their offices. Discussion included tional Relations and Development.) paid tribute to the long and dedicat­ da and North America; The Executive Director (Finance) ed service of Registrar Bruce the viability of a smoker's lounge and fines for being caught and Internal Audit unit would report Smart, who has accepted the early • maintain programs which make smoking. Poor ventilation in the library complex and the Visual directly to the Rector. Thi s would retirement package and leaves money for the University, provid­ Arts Building was also mentioned. help to ensure that academic policy Concordia at the end of the month. ed they are of acceptable acade­ decisions drive the planning of the mic quality; budget, the Rector said, and not Financial picture: Hal Proppe, w ho Budget and CQI: A staff member questioned the fact that there is the Interim Vice-Rector responsi­ vice versa. • maintain, foster and develop pro­ are too many faculty members on the steering committee of the ble for finance, said the situation is grams with evident potential to organizational reviews project, which is aimed exclusively at 2) The functions of the Dean of the "quite grim." Th e government cuts draw to Concordia more stu­ School of Graduate Studies and the to funding next year may be even streamlining the work done by support staff. The Rector said he Associate Vice-Rector, Academic larger than anticipated. Over the dents than we currently do, pro­ would look into this, and added that the current phase of the (Research) would be combined in next five years, the University will vid ed they are of acceptable project, called continuous quality improvement (CQI) is specifi­ one post, to be called the Dean of lose roughly one-qua rter of its academic quality; cally designed to facilitate participation by everyone in solving Research and Graduate Studies. funding. Th e early retirement pack­ • foster partnerships with other work problems and avoiding waste. Vice-Rector Academic Jack Light­ age re cen tly offered to older stone reminded Senate that the employees was more successful Montreal-area universities; He added that five principles have been devised which could two roles are intimately connected; than anticipated (more than half of guide decisions about what academic programs and services can 80 per ce nt of the University's • encourage programs w hich "are them accepted it), but it is not like­ be cut or saved. (See Senate Notes, page 5.) Not only will cuts be research fund s directly support central to our sense of w ho we ly to be offered again for many graduate students. However, this are as a distinct institution considered, Lowy said, but efforts can be made to keep students years, as it incurred some costs. All proposal engendered much discus­ among other large comprehen­ who might otherwise drop out, and to increase revenue through positions vacated by the retirees sion. Some senators suggested have been closed, at least for the sive universities. " increased donations and research grants. that the University might be seen time being. as downgrading research by lower­ The nine-page document Inter-university negotiation: Dr. Lowy said he has talked ing the status of the administrator Code of ethics: The Rector describes Concordia values which from vice-rector to dean. announced that an ad hoc commit­ should be preserved and nurtured: with McGill University Principal Bernard Shapiro about the pos­ ethnic and social diversity, accessi­ 3) Institutional Planning and tee has been appointed by the Sen­ sible rationalization of services between Concordia and McGill. Research will be included in the ate steering committee to advise bility, interdisciplinarity, service to responsibilities of the Vice-Rector, Senate on conflict of interest the community and the choice of Responses to issues raised by Exchange for Change will be guidelines. It comprises two faculty Academic, and renamed Institution­ two campus ambiances. published in an upcoming issue of CTR and posted on al Planning and Appraisal. (Institu­ members, Frederick Bird (Religion) The document bluntly warns that concordia.announce. tional Planning is currently under and Jane Stewart (CSBN Psycholo­ indiscriminate cuts will damage the gy), and Board of Governors mem­ the Vice-Rector, Institutional Rela­ teaching and services offered to The next Exchange for Change session will be held on Tuesday, ber Ronald Lawless. tions and Finance.) students, the quality of research, November 7,from noon to 1 o'clock in the Hingston Hall cafete­ 4) The Secretary-General would be Commerce and Administration the morale of employees and the ria on the Loyola Campus. responsible for a group of units curriculum: Senate approved reputation of the University. It called the Office of Rights and major changes to the Faculty's urges "not mere downsizing, but Responsibilities. These include the undergraduate curriculum which renewal and transformation." Code Administrator, Ombuds, Sta­ keep it abreast of changes in the tus of Women, Employment Equi­ professions and have the full IN BRIEF •.• ty, and Sexua l Harassment endorsement of the students' The full document is included in Offices. They currently report association. this issue of CTR as a supplement. Rector Lowy clarifies University Principal Bernard) Shapiro's idea that the two universities can con­ Gazette story solidate some faculties and graduate departments where duplication exists. Rector Frederick Lowy has issued a "Writer Henry Aubin then lists engi­ memo to the deans of the Faculties of neering, commerce and music as Commerce and Administration, Fine examples. Arts, and Engineering and Computer "I am writing to assure you that the Science to assure them that he did not 'examples' of 'fa culties and graduate single out Faculties or departments at departments where duplication exists' Concordia where duplication exists with those of McGill are those supplied between Concordia and McGill. by Mr. Aubin, not by me," Lowy wrote A Gazette interview with Lowy pub­ in a memo on Tuesday. "Absolutely no lished on Tuesday quotes the Rector as significance should be attached to the saying that he "agreed with [McGill statement quoted."

CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REP "ORT OCTOBER 19, 1995 5 (~· · H O M E C O M ·1 N G ' 9 5 .· ,.. ' ~ . ·~ Celebrating 20 years of Journalism Keeping pace with a fast-moving business The Globe and Mail, was the pro­ Loyola School (the TJ annex), while BY CYNTHIA SHANNO N gram's first director. He left in 1978 the elementary school continued to . "'\ ]{ fnen Concordia started teach­ to start a journalism program at use the first two floors, enabling at V V ing journalism, it was consid­ King's College in Nova Scotia. least one student, Craig Pearson, to ered a subject like any other; all you A major in Journalism was first graduate from university and Grade needed was a classroom and black­ offered in 1980, under former Six in the same building. board to teach it. But the galloping Gazette managing editor Lindsay The move toward electronic jour­ computerization of the media Crysler, who was director from 1978 nalism began with the acquisition of requires a lot more than that now. to 1993, and first-year enrolment four AES word processors in 1981. ''You cannot teach journalism any increased from 40 to 60 students. These were replaced by IBM-com­ more the way we started off," said Two joint specializations with Com­ patibles in 1986, when the depart­ director Enn Raudsepp. "You need . munications were added the follow­ ment moved into its current quarters state-of-the-art equipment or you ing year, and the Diploma program in the Bryan Building. might as well pack it in. began in 1987. Since then, the department has "But to a great extent, the basic Journalism moved in '81 switched to Macintosh computers substance of journalism hasn't About 600 Journalism graduates and added an on-line database, Lexis changed. We are teaching an intel­ Nexis. The current curriculum There was a happy capacity crowd at the Journalism reunion dinner last currently work in almost every news­ includes courses in desktop publish­ Friday night. Seen above are recent graduate Jacklin Lu, Professor lectual process [of gathering and dis­ room across Canada. At The Gazette Lindsay Crysler, Paul Gott (now at CFCF-12I, Jennifer McGuire (CBC seminating news]. That was the alone, there are 22 alumni. ing and computerized data accessing. network radio), Kathleen Hugessen (editor of Concordia University premise 20 years ago, and it has been When the joint programs began in ''You can't teach journalism using Magazine and dinner organizer), Lina Dib (Radio-Canada, Toronto), maintained." 1981, Journalism moved from its stone-age technology," Raudsepp Wayne Hiltz (freelancing), Bronwyn Chester (freelancing) and proud The department started in 1975 by cramped quarters in one of the said. He feels that innovative courses department chair Enn Raudsepp. offering a 30-credit minor in Journal­ Mackay St. annexes, on the Sir put Concordia's Journalism program ism, with three year-long writing George Williams Campus, to the ahead of other schools. This is a workshops, and lecture courses such Loyola Campus, where Communi­ challenge, given recent funding cut­ Reporter says he lied to get information as the History of Journalism. David cation Studies was located. . backs and a small faculty. Journalism Oancia, of The Montreal Star and a Until 1986, Journalism was has five full-time professors, only Doing the right thing: former China correspondent for the housed on the third floor of Ignatius three of whom are tenured. Journalists talk ethics Raudsepp revisits newsroom deception has resulted in social good. BY CYNTHIA SHANNON "There are times when that's the after 17-year absence professional journalists from only way to get information," said newsroom. Now everything is on­ were working as a team rather than "f:'>ur BY CAROLINE BOWDE N £ print, radio and photography - panelist Steve Simon, a photojour­ line - stories, news wires and the as the stereotypical lone reporter all alumni/ae - discussed how nalist with The Edmonton journal. ournalism Professor Enn Raud­ photo file." covering a beat. Not only did the they've handled ethical dilemmas as However, such reporting methods sepp was the only Canadian Raudsepp spent four weeks on the reporters share and discuss ideas, but part of Homecoming '95. can affect the credibility of a story, J Heralds news desk as a copy editor, the public is encouraged to play an among 22 North American journal­ The panel discussion, titled Raudsepp said. Journalists should ism educators chosen to participate and found that the requirements of active role in the development of sto­ A Balancing Act: Professional explain their methods and why they this summer in the American Society the job had changed to keep pace ries, in an effort to revive sagging Ethics and Hard-Hitting, Award­ used them so that readers can decide of Newspaper Editors' Institute for with technology. readership. Winning Journalism, was held on for themselves whether the story is Journalism Excellence. It gave him "The job of a copy editor has Raudsepp's time at the Herald Saturday morning as part of the believable. six weeks in the newsroom at The expanded beyond editing and creat­ reinforced his determination to cre­ Journalism Department's 20th The panelists included Jennifer Calgary Herald, learning some new ing headlines to include designing ate programs within the Journalism Anniversary celebrations. McGuire, the producer of CBC tricks of the trade. pages, with photos and graphics," he Department that will better prepare The journalists said they usually radio's Sunday Morning network The new three-year project, which said. "There's a greater reliance on graduates for the working world. As deal with ethical issues on a case-by­ current affairs show and an early is funded by the John S. and James charts, diagrams and maps to help the department celebrates its 20th readers betteMinderstand stories." case basis. graduate of the diploma program, L. Knight Foundation, aims to anniversary, Raudsepp is looking to His last two weeks in Calgary the future. But much discussion was generat­ and Gazette reporter Geoff Baker, bridge the worlds of academic and ed by Andrew McIntosh's admission were spent on the city desk, where "A multimedia approach to jour­ who won a National Newspaper working journalism. Raudsepp, who that he had on three occasions "lied he acted as assistant city editor. nalism education is going to be Award in 1994. About 80 people is chair of the Journalism Depart­ to sources as part of a strategy to Raudsepp discovered that reporters required in the future." attended the panel discussion, held ment, knows that some working elicit information." McIntosh, a in the Bryan Building on the Loyola journalists are critical of the way business reporter at The Gazette and journalism is taught. Campus. a National Newspaper Award win­ Before setting off for Calgary, Other topics included the use and ner, was referring to undercover Raudsepp spent a week attending protection of anonymous sources, investigations. seminars on the latest technology the myth of objectivity, fairness and "I think it's unfortunate he used and marketing theories at the Amer­ balance, and the digital alteration of that word. I would use other words ican Press Institute near Washing­ photographic images. to describe [undercover investigative ton, D .C. This industry think-tank ~ Simon bemoaned the fact that journalism]," Professor Sheila is responsible for many of the trends ~ Arnopoulos said following the talk, there seems to be a two-tiered ethi­ in North American newspapers, ~ which she moderated. cal approach when it comes to words including the popular talkback tele- ait Deception is one of the major and pictures. The media often see phone lines for such things as the ~ issues in journalistic ethics, according nothing wrong with the computer weather, stock market quotations il: ~ % to Professor Enn Raudsepp, who has enhancement of photos. Citing Time and opinion polls. Journalism Diploma students Kimberley Malcolm and Andreas taught ethics to journalism students magazine's cover photo of O.J. Raudsepp, who has not worked in Hagelstam each received the Philip Fisher Bursary, which is provided by at Concordia for nine years. Simpson, in which his skin was -a newsroom for 17 years, found his T'be Gazette. Malcol,m also won the Susan,Carson Memorial Bursary, Undercover work is a small part of darkened, Simon predicted that first few days at the Herald some­ which was set up by friends and family of the Gazette journalist after her investigative journalism, he said, but readers who now question the verac­ thing of a shock. 'When I left the death. S~n at the presentation of the awards last week are, from left, it is absolutely crucial. There have ity of news photos will start applying Globe and Mail," he said, "computers Gazette ombudsman Robert Walker, Hagelstam, Malcolm, Arts and Scierice Dean ~ail V,alaskakis and Journalism Professor Lindsay Crysler. been times when such journalistic the same skepticism to articles. were just being introduced into the

6 OCTOBER 19, 1995 CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT ', , . ' • • T , .. _';l ' ~- . H O M E C O M I N G ' 9 5 ~-~: Peter Grogono demystifies Internet at workshop for alumni

than the Web, which is full of fancy and universities which originated the BY BARBARA BLACK graphics, and you can have e-mail Internet over the 1970s and '80s agerness fought with frustration without even being on the Internet. served notice that they're tired of Eat Computer Science Professor What is the World Wide Web? It millions of people having fun, doing Peter Grogono's Homecoming was started only five years ago, and research and making money at their workshop on the Internet on Satur­ has grown enormously because it expense. Now all the costs of setting day afternoon. established a standard format for dis­ up the networks will be borne by Eagerness, because there's a whole playing information. What you see commercial interests, which may new world out there of cheap, light­ on the screen is a "page." Certain lead to a lot of advertising cluttering ning-fast communication around the words of the text are coloured blue, up the Web. globe. Frustration, because it's hard and clicking on one of these words What about the hate and pornogra­ to swallow whole. It also changes will provide more information; it's a phy I've read about? It's there, Gro­ faster than even a professor can keep system of big categories and smaller gono said, but it's fairly hard to find. up with it. sub-categories. Companies, universi­ As far as Grogono is concerned, cen­ Head coach Pat Sheahan had a bad day at work on Saturday, when the "Almost everything I say is out of ties, clubs, even individuals have sorship issues on the Internet are Stingers football team lost to the Bishop's Gaiters, 35-8. But they may date," Grogono began, "and I fin­ designed their own "home pages," or similar to those concerning books rebound. Two years ago, the Stingers made it to the semi-finals for the ished my research for this talk last interactive brochures of text and pic­ and movies. Vanier Cup, the national trophy for Canadian university football teams. night." For 90 minutes, Grogono, tures about themselves. Anyone can Here are some random facts Gro­ who first encountered a primitive look at these by typing an address gono provided about the distribution like http:// www.concordia.ca on the of Internet technology. North Stingers' football coach Pat Sheahan played form of the Internet as a student in England in 1966, fielded a barrage of screen, or by using a program called America has the most users per capi­ for Concordia as an undergrad questions from an audience of about a browser. ta, but a South American child is 50 people, and gave them a lot to Who pays for all this, and who's in more likely to be on the Net than a ponder. charge? Practically nobody, which is child in the inner-city U.S. And What is the Internet? A collection why it's so chaotic and creative right Russian president Boris Yeltsin was +- For the love now. Grogono reminded the audi­ on the Internet two years before of about 45,000 computer networks. It allows you to communicate with ence that last April, the U.S. military President Bill Clinton. another person through e-mail, of the game browse through other people's ~ords "It should have a versatile and and pictures on the World Wide BY CAROLINE BOWDEN exciting offense, and a tough, physi­ Web, or take part in discussions through newsgroups. "\ ]{ fin or lose, head football coach cal defence. But above all, the game What do I need to get on it? You V V Pat Sheahan's heart swells should be fun." need a basic computer, a modem with pride at the thought of his team. Coach Sheahan bridles at the idea (the faster the better), and a good, Sheahan, with 15 years of coach­ of "dumb jocks." Student athletes clear colour monitor. You also need a ing behind him (seven of those with must maintain good marks or they telephone line, for which you pay a the Concordia Stingers) has seen risk being dropped from the team, he basic monthly fee of, say, $25, and players come and go, but he still gets said, adding that he believes athletics should be integrated with education. membership in a service provider. /;: excited when he discovers a "true There are several dozen local service ~ student of the game." ''I believe quite strongly in the Jesuit "- providers, and you should do a little ~ "They understand the sacrifices teachings of developing body, mind and spirit," Sheahan said. consumer research to make sure you ~ and the split-second decisions you He carries them out as the director get the price and services you want. ~ need to make to win the game," he a. of Concordia's Summer Sports What's the advantage ofe-mail? It's ~ said in an interview. Camp, which started in 1991 at the faster than regular mail, cheaper than ~ Football has always had a mys­ Loyola Campus, and caters not only long-distance telephone, and the if tique for Sheahan, who started play­ other person doesn't have to be there to the families of staff and faculty, Alumni on line: Computer Science Professor Peter Grogono gives a ... ing in high school in Brockville, but also to the surrounding neigh­ when you send your message; their Ontario. He loves the culture of the demonstration to Gdalyah Rosenfeld !seated) and his classmate, Charlie bourhood. This summer, the camp computer will store it until they turn Nichols. Both men graduated from Sir George Williams in 1945. game, which has its social and its attracted 285 children each week. their computer on. E-mail is simpler cerebral side. "It's the camaraderie, as Sheahan had started a similar pro­ well as the intricacies and the strate­ gram while he was coaching at gies of the game." McGill which eventually drew 400 As an undergraduate at Concordia Homecoming events drew hundreds of grads, friends children a week. in the 1970s, Sheahan was an offen­ "The camp teaches children the or the first time since Loyola College Dinner, scheduled for March 1996. tor Frederick Lowy was well attended sive linesman on the newly-amalgat­ value of physical activity," he said. Fand Sir George Williams University Other Homecoming events includ­ by out-of-towners, as were campus ed University's first Stingers team. "They make new friends and learn all merged in 1974 to form Concordia, two ed a concert on Th'ursday by faculty, tours and an evening of comedy at After earning his Bachelor of Sci­ about co-operation." graduates were inducted into the Uni­ students and alumni of Concordia's the Concert Hall, featuring local ence in 1979, he taught gym at a The camp also provides employ­ versity's Athletics Hall of Fame as part Department of Music. The first half of favorites On the Spot lmprov and Montreal elementary school before ment for about 70 Concordia stu­ of Homecoming 95. the evening featured classical selec­ Radio Free Vestibule . coaching high-school football. dents. "The students get a chance to The name of the late Laurie Bro­ tions by Puccini and Bach , among Sociologist Anthony Synnott and He took an assistant coaching give something back to the commu­ drick joined that of her father, hockey others. Following a short intermission, . anthropologist David Howes intrigued position at McGill University, and nity," Sheahan said. "Sometimes kids and football star Robert Brodrick, as Brazz, a 10-man jazz band, inc luding visitors with a "scratch and sniff" test five years later, he had acquired a get attached to camp counsellors, an honouree. She was an outstanding Music Professor Charles Ell ison on as part of their Homecoming lecture trumpet and flugelhorn, two alumni, on Saturday morning. The Concordia reputation for recruiting top student and they'll come to games during the hockey player in the early 197Os, and an active alumna until her death last Michel Lambert, Robert Piette, and professors recently wrote (with Con­ athletes and helped make the McGill season to see their friends play." year. Harold McCamey was a basket­ student Robert Kazenel, .took over. stance Classen) a scholarly explo ­ team 1987 national champions. The Sheahan says that participating in ball, football and hockey player while The band interpreted the works of ration of our least-appreciated sense, following year, he became head varsity sports (football in particular) attending Loyola College from 1944-'48. · Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and Hark called Aroma: The Cultural History of. coach at Concordia. is "the most rewarding thing a young The Athletics HaH of Fame Dinner, the Duke 's Trumpets, a suite Smell. Their lecture was followed by While the Stingers got off to a person can do, by giving something which was held on Thursday evening arranged by Music Professor Andrew a presentation on how chemistry rocky start this season, Sheahan has back to your school. at the Molson -O'Keefe Breweries, Homzy, w_ho is a distinguished Elling­ helps solve crime by popular bro.ad : every confidence in his players. He "And the lessons of discipline, included a silent auction to raise ton scholar.· caster and Vanier College teacher Dr. also has a clear vision of the ideal training and sacrifice, you take with funds for the Annual Athletics Awards A breakfast on Saturday with Rec- Joe Schwarcz. Stingers team. you for life."

CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT OCTOBER 19, 1995 7 Necessity was mother of invention at UN women's conference

ual orientation is often seen as an exclusively slide lecture highlighting her work from a mul­ ly ignored," said Hoodfar. BY SHIRA KATZ AND Western issue." timedia installation series titled Eau de passion: Despite the logistical problems, Hoodfar BARBARA BLACK During her sabbatical, Verthuy is amassing The Trilogy, the Triptych and the Triangle. said that some important work was accom­ research for a book on books written in French "My work has to do with environment part­ plished. She said the legal clinic workshops by immigrant writers. nerships and health as they relate to the female were particularly useful for women who have Official conference body." difficulty with access to information about Censorship (including self-censorship), sexual international courts and laws. moved women Kat O'Brien preference and abortion were discussed and dealt "It was a chance for legal-literacy NGOs, with through art installations and performances, who are human rights activists that counsel at a forward: Ma'i"r Verthuy met other artist­ rendering powerful debates on these subjects. ~ grassroots level, to upgrade their skills and tudes frans;aises Professor Mai:r collaborators O'Brien is now working on a project with inde­ make connections with lawyers." Verthuy had the honour of being one pendent artists she met on her trip. Hoodfar was also fascinated by a mock par­ rtist Kat O'Brien came back from Eof only two academics invited to join liament organized by North African Muslim Canada's official delegation to the United China this summer determined to activists and scholars. In answer to the unified Nations Conference on Women, held Septem­ A encourage others to change attitudes Homa -Hoodfar personal status law (covering marriage and ber 4-15 in Beijing, China. and policies toward women. "The mandate of divorce, inheritance rights and custody rights) In a telephone interview from France, where the conference was to put strategies in place for was fascinated by which has been suggested by some Muslim she is on sabbatical, Verthuy said that she was the year 2000. I would like to see the deeply impressed by the five professional nego­ Concordia community get involved with these discussions among conservatives, these panelists put forward a tiators who were part of the delegation. "Their plans," she said. Muslim women counterproposal, using elements acceptable to work was fascinating," Verthuy said. "We'd However, like many who attended the Non­ women from codes currently in force, with. meet every morning [to talk about the policy Governmental Organizations' Forum which nthropology Professor Homa Hoodfar Islamic interpretation. decisions being taken at the conference]. They preceded the recent United Nations Conference couldn't help comparing the China For example, a more "women-centred" were fabulous; in fact, they were even borrowed on Women, she was frustrated by the many A conference to the one she attended in interpretation of Muslim law would make it by other delegations." logistical problems surrounding the event. Cairo in September 1994. possible to outlaw polygamous marriages, Chinese officials decided late in the planning Hoodfar said that although the conference divorce rights for women, and re-examine cus­ stages to move the Forum away from the con­ on Population and Development in Cairo had tody issues. "There is nothing in Islam that ference proper in Beijing to the town of some 15,000 participants (versus the 37,000 prevents women from interpreting Islamic Huairou. As a result, many of the 900 work­ participants in China), it felt bigger because texts, legal or otherwise," Hoodfar said. The shops - planned by women in 189 countries they had a space which could hold more peo­ p~oposed legal document has been taken up by on 13 themes ranging from poverty and health ple. She said that the largest space at the con­ women in various Muslim countries, and to human rights and the environment - had ference in China could hold only about 1,500 another conference on the subject is being to be cancelled. · people, while Cairo had a site holding 4,000 to planned. However, the Concordians who attended 5,000 people. came back feeling more committed than ever Hoodfar said that the intermingling which towards sharing their experiences and acting on occurred between the government delegates ·Student journalists the issues they care about. and the NGO participants in Cairo was Design Art Professor Kat O'Brien travelled inconceivable in China because the two forces focus on networking, with 44 women from North and South America were separated by distance. The delegates met for two weeks before attending the Forum. The in Beijing, while the NGO Forum was relo­ financial tools women were members of the international cated, at Chinese officials' insistence, in the Women's Caucus for Art (WCA). arol McQieen and Jennifer Ditchburn, town ofHuairou. "A lot of activities were held in a tent out­ two former news editors of The Link "Many felt it was impossible for the govern­ doors or in a classroom that was set up for 30 Cstudent newspaper, were given partial ment delegates to see that the NGOs are an people - but up to 150 people would crowd in funding by Concordia to attend the conference important political force, as something that has there," she said. Her group were re-assigned to and its parallel forum. a large international presence and can't ·be easi- Mair Verthuy a hotel about 50 km from the forum site. They While in China, they communicated elec­ could spend up to two hours getting to the tronically with CTR (Sept. 7, 1995), offering conference site, only to find a scheduled activi­ their first impressions of the conference. Despite the size and complexity of the event ty had been cancelled. When they returned, they gave talks and slide - what she called "utter confusion, with peo­ The tents, 15-by-15-foot concrete slabs with presentations. ple shooting off in all directions" - she said canopies, were inappropriate for some of the Ditchburn, speaking at the Simone de Beau­ the conference achieved more than she expect­ dance shows and multimedia presentations, she voir Institute recently, emphasized networking ed. "I expected women to lose ground, but in said. 'Workshops were held in buildings under through an international electronic mail net­ fact, we moved forward." construction and without electricity, and we work called the Association for Progressive The final conference statement issued by the got rained on." However, the women managed Communications (APC), and a new credit tool UN called for all member nations to respect to find innovative ways to reorganize and for women entrepreneurs. The micro-credit women, regardless of religion and cultural tra­ reschedule their activities. "Some people had program, a system of non-profit banks operat­ dition. While some countries may attach quali­ access to a computer to make handouts ed by·and for women, is outlined in a 12-point fications to their interpretation of the announcing the new location and time of their Platform for Action. statement, it was a breakthrough for it to be event. We allowed people to use our exhibition made. space for spontaneously organized activities." Ditchburn and McQieen wrote 10 articles 'What was not achieved was equal recogni­ O'Brien was on a panel with five photogra­ for The Link about the conference. tion of sexual orientation, but it was discussed phers from Korea and the U.S. titled Women Among the many. issues discussed at the for the first time," Verthuy said. "There was a Artists, Cameras and Computers. women's conference were equal access to the statement from a black South African delegate, 'We were very lucky, because we were in a economy and education, domestic violence, a who said that when apartheid was dismantled, room in the Huairou Convention Centre woman's right to enter the workforce without her people vowed never to exclude anyone which had multimedia equipment and the seat­ discrimination, and the toxic effects of nuclear again. "It was moving, because the issue of sex- ing was 200, which was fine." She presented a waste on the health of women and children.

8 OCTOBER 19, 1995 CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT Opinion polls Hleave people so confused that they have no coherent way of responding" Democracy under assault from po\Ner elites: Chomsky

"The New York Times, in its first analysis of BY SYLVAIN COM E AU the effects of NAFTA on the New York oam Chomsky should be named the new region, listed all the people who are going to NGreat Communicator, now that Reagan gain, like big public relations firms, corporate has departed that post. law firms, bankers, high tech industries, and Chomsky, a professor of Linguistics and Phi­ publishers like the N ew York Times. losophy at the Massachusetts Institute of T ech­ "At the bottom of the article, they said that nology, best-selling author and American there are going to be some losers, including dissident, may not like being compared to one women, blacks, Hispanics and unskilled labour, of his ideological foes (and frequent targets). which is a technical term meaning about 75 per But how many linguists draw overflow crowds cent of the workforce. But everybody else will wherever they go, and can hold an audience do fine." rapt with broadsides against American foreign If Chomsky paints an accurate picture of the policy, the free market and that old liberal American propaganda machine, he is fighting a whipping boy, corporate fat cats? Chomsky can. quixotic battle, even with his huge fan base, books and documentary (Manufacturing Con­ sent, made by Montrealers and available at a video store near you). Referring to the universal acclaim for the lat­ Grandson of the father of non-violent resistance speaks est Middle East peace agreement, he paid a at Concordia backhanded compliment to his foes in the media, who continue to do a good job of"man­ ufacturing consent." Tolerance and nationalism "U.S. ideological hegemony is now so extraor­ dinary that the European press presents the same picture, as if it was written in New York editorial \Nere Gandhi's inner voices offices. [The U.S. view] has become an almost dreds of conflict-resolution centres around the universal picture in the West; that is an achieve­ BY PHIL MOSCOVITCH world are a testament to the power of his ment of propaganda that has to be admired." grandfather's legacy, since "Gandhi stands for As for the new world order, Chomsky boiled "\ ]{ fith nationalist violence and ethnic strife z an alternative way to look at the conflicts of the <.').. V V causing misery in many parts of the w down the complexities of geopolitics for the z world and to resolve them." w benefit of the audience. world, the teachings of Mohandas Gandhi are ~ All too often, Gandhi's non-violence has been 'When the U.S. votes against [a UN resolu­ relevant nearly 50 years after his death. ~ That was part of the message that Rajmohan misinterpreted as feebleness or passivity, but :,: tion], even if it's alone, it vetoes. That's what it a. Rajmohan Gandhi insisted that his grandfa­ means to be the biggest thug on the block; Gandhi, the Mahatma's grandson, delivered to ther's "unwillingness to accept oppression always that's the new world order- just like the old an audience of several hundred people at went hand in hand with Gandhi's willingness to world order. In 1990, during the Gulf War, Concordia on October 10. His latest book, accept injury," that his non-violence was linked [President] George Bush was kind enough to Gandhi the Good Boatman, is an examination of inexorably with the fight against injustice. explain what was happening. He said, What Gandhi's thought. While Gandhi preached a universal message we say goes,' particularly in the Middle East." Author, journalist, and former member of On the domestic scene, Chomsky warned parliament, Rajmohan Gandhi knew his of non-violence and tolerance, he was also a that democracy is under assault from the "doc­ grandfather well. On the day the great architect fierce Indian nationalist. Rajmohan Gandhi trinal system," which is what he calls the power of Indian independence was assassinated in believes that throughout his life, his grandfa­ elites who try to manipulate public opinion. 1948, the young Rajmohan came home to the ther listened to two inner voices. One was an ethical, religious voice that led him to seek And haven't we heard all of that before? Not One of their most useful tools is the opinion news that Gandhi had been "shot at." He was truth; the other was a voice which spoke up for the way the audience heard it at Concordia's poll, with which, Chomsky said, a national con­ immediately driven to the Mahatma's home, India's honour and self-respect. And the two Alumni Auditorium on October 2. sensus on the importance of a balanced budget only to find him already dead. were sometimes in conflict with each other. Chomsky opened with a crowd-pleasing has been manufactured out of whole cloth. Three years later, when he was 16, Rajmo­ lambasting of NAFfA. "Pollsters ask, Would you like to have a bal­ han Gandhi was informed by a journalist at the While Gandhi "doggedly sought to make [his "The North American Free Trade Agree­ anced budget?' and everyone says, 'Terrific!' Hindustan Times newspaper, which his father nationalism] as righteous as possible . . . and to - ment is an accurate description in one sense; it That's like asking whether you would like it if, by edited, that Pakistani Prime Minister Liaquat treat independence as a stepping-stone to a new does have to do with North America. But it's some magic, someone wiped out your mortgage. Ali Khan had been "shot at." The news was on world," Rajmohan Gandhi said, "his nationalism not about free trade, or even trade, and it's not "Then they ask whether you want a balanced a sheet of teletype paper and concluded with is something he was always tentative about." an agreement, if you include in an agreement budget if it means cuts in education, health, the letters "MTF" - more to follow. Religion Professor Sheila McDonough, who the populations of the three countries welfare, et cetera. Support drops to around 25 "I said to him that I hope what follows is the invited Gandhi to Concordia, said that stu­ involved." per cent." Nevertheless, Chomsky was able to news of his death. I thought that this very dents of South Asian origin should do their .... Chomsky contends that "the governments quote a number of headlines which seemed to smart and manly remark from me would elicit part to promote intercultural dialogue and tried to ram it through," an effort which was imply widespread support for balanced-budget at least a smile," Gandhi said. Ali Khan died of communication. "If you are a Hindu, take a discovered by the media. Still, he offered scant initiatives. his wounds, and Gandhi soon felt ashamed of course on Islam. If you are a Muslim, take a praise for the North American media, which "If the doctrinal system can't affect atti­ what he'd said. course on Hinduism." he sometimes, more or less affectionately, tudes," he said, "it can at least leave people so Since then, Rajmohan Gandhi, now 60, has The University was Gandhi's first stop on· a refers to as "the propaganda machine." confused that they have no coherent way of developed greater respect for Gandhi's insis­ two-week cross-Canada speaking tour funded responding. And that's what is happening." tence on non-violence. He said that the hun- by the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.

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Cinema has impressive record The Michelle Apartments, John Pozer; Zigrai/, ematographer Rodney Gibbons. Picoti Picota, by former student Manon Briand. directed by Andre Turpin, edited and co-written by The short films at the Toronto Festival by Cine­ Cinema Department Chair Peter Rist proudly Sophie Leblond; The Suburbanators, directed by ma students were Reconstruction, by Laurence notes that at least nine of the 55 Canadian films Say, Shufflers. .. Gary Burns, co-produced by John Hazlett, with Green; The Ocean Doesn't Want Me Today, by that were screened at last month's Toronto Inter­ We're proud of the pledges you raised, but national Film Festival were directed by current or Patrick McLaughlin as director of photography; Maryse Frigon; Last and First Seconds of a former Cinema students. and Screamers, directed by Christian Duguay, pro­ Century, by Andre Elias Aboujaoude; The People in where's the money? Tomorrow is the deadline for They included the following feature-length films: duced by Tom Berry and Franco Battista, with cin- the House, by former student Louise Bourque, and turning it in. Please send y?ur cheques to GM -420.

CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT OCTOBER 19, 1995 9 Doctor with mental illness gives new hope to many The secret that should never have been

cern in a manner that does not tend to disable BY HELENA KATZ me? Thank you for your consideration." "Having schizophrenia is like being But perhaps it's something others could learn on the 19th floor of a building looking from, he said, as the 400 people in the audience at the horizon when everyone else is on the applauded. "My wife says every housewife in first floor." the country should have it [the card]." Unlike other types of disabilities, mental ill­ Having the gene for schizophrenia might ness is rarely recognized because it's invisible, well be an advantage, according to Frese. Dr. Frederick Frese said in a lecture on Sep­ Research has shown that schizophrenics, who tember 22 titled "Redefining Mental Illness." form one per c-ent of the population, have an '1f a person is blind, they have a white cane above-average density of receptors in their brains. This makes them more sensitive and or a dog, so you can see it," Frese said, and prone to react more strongly towards stimuli in added, tongue firmly in cheek, "I've yet to find their environment than what Frese calls "the a handicapped parking space denoted with a chronically normal." Halidol pill." They also have better cognitive skills in some Frese, the director of psychology at Western areas. For example, rates of insanity are higher Reserve Psychiatric Hospital in Ohio, is schiz­ among artists. "It's good to have company on ophrenic himself. Diagnosed at the age of 25, board, let me tell you. It gives hope to us and he was able to earn a Master's degree and a our families that perhaps there's something PhD in psychology despite repeated hospital­ advantageous in having this gene." ization over the next 10 years. Eventually, he For the past 10 years, Frese has been calling became the director of the same state hospital for an equal partnership between families, men­ where he had been locked up as a patient. tal-health professionals and consumers. He urges Having this invisible disability means that the professionals to push for better services for Cryotherapy expert Kenneth Knight gives lectures in people aren't always aware of the allowances their clients and families. '1f you aren't full-time Exercise Science they need to make. "If we're exposed to psy­ advocates, you aren't fulfilling your role," he said. chological assaults and insults, we're more-like­ He also encourages families to stand up and ly to have a breakdown." refuse to be ashamed of mental illness. "This is a Frese's solution is to carry around a card in secret which should never have been secret." Melting myths his back pocket which reads: "Excuse me. I Frese's talk, the second annual John Hans need to tell you that I am a person suffering Low-Beer Memorial Lecture, was sponsored from a mental disorder. When I am berated, by Concordia's Psychology Department and belittled, insulted, or otherwise _treated in an the Alliance for the Mentally Ill (Qyebec). about ice therapy oppressive manner, I tend to become emotion­ October 15-21 is National Mental Health ally ill. Could I ask that you restate your con- Awareness Week. "The entire medical field has moved to more BY MARC ST. AUBIN rapid mobilization," he said. /\ thletic-therapy scholar Kenneth Knight In his second lecture, '1sokinetics vs. Isoton­ IN BRIEF ••• .l'1..set out in the first of two lectures at the ics: Updated Research," Knight encouraged the University to dissolve long-standing myths redevelopment of strength following injury. Environment conference atres, the Centaur and Le Monument National. The about the use of ice therapy. Because most strength is acquired through film was directed by Angela Di Pietro and Nabil Knight is a professor at Indiana State Uni­ neural pathways, the nervous system is the key Concordia will be the host of an international Mehchi, with a crew comprising Wendy Chad­ versity, editor-in-chief of the journal ofAthlet­ to both cryotherapy and rehabilitative exercise. conference that runs from Oct. 26-28 called wick, Carmen Maclean and Lisa Roth. "A Healthy Environment is a Human Right." Speak­ ic Training, and author of three textbooks, Knight thinks the new research frontier is in Phantoms blends the history of both theatres with ers include Patricia Adams (Probe International), including Cryotherapy in Sport Injury Manage­ further understanding these mechanisms. anecdotes from theatre veterans, including Monique ment, recently published by Human Kinetics. Shin Wha Lee (Harvard University), Eva Ligeti Mercure, director of the National Theatre School. In an interview, Knight said athletic thera­ _ As a Master's student, Kenneth Knight was (Ontario Environmental Commissioner), David Mac­ Legend has it, for example, that the ghost of pists have shaken the 1950s image of the "guy introduced to cryokinetics, a treatment with Donald (Parliamentary Advisor, Canadian delega­ "Johnny Stock Exchange" comes out during musi­ with a cigar and water pail who gave mas­ cold and active exercise which rehabilitated tion to the Earth Summit). and Vaclav Smil cals at the Centaur. The recently renovated Monu­ sages," and have matured into "allied health ankle sprains quicker than anything else. In the (University of Manitoba). ment National is apparently home to the spirits of a 1970s, it was thought that packed ice should be profes·s'ionals." For example, American The opening and closing events, which are dead child and a dancer who hanged himself. applied to a body part to decrease blood flow orthopaedic surgeon James Andrews, who open to the public, take place in the Alumni Audi­ Di Pietro has always been fascinated with the and thus prevent hemorrhaging and swelling. operates on many professional athletes, pro­ -tori um (H-110) of the Henry F. Hall Building. paranormal. "I wanted to ask not whether ghosts The prevailing theory then was that this moted the idea that every orthopaedic surgeon Thursday, October 26 at 7 p.m.: a lecture by actually exist, but what role does the supernatural treatment caused reflex vasodilation and should have an athletic therapist as a surgical Bruce Rich, author of Mortgaging the Earth, and a play in our lives? There is no better place to increased blood flow. technician. preview screening of The Pinnacle and the Poet , a answer that question than in the theatre. " "That concept really doesn't work when you Athletic therapy offers an aggressive rehabil­ film by by Louise Abbott. Saturday, October 28 at 10 a.m.: Elizabeth understand ·what goes on," said Knight, who itation approach. "I think there is a real niche Flu vaccines available Dowdeswell, director of the United Nations Envi­ earned an undergraduate chemistry degree in society for this," said Knight. From injury ronmental Program, will speak on "Environmental Limited quantities of flu vaccine are available, free, before moving on to a doctorate in exercise prevention to acute emergency care and reha­ at Health Services, from October 23to November 10. · physiology. Degradation and Erosion of Individual and Collec­ bilitation, athletic therapy "is the only [profes­ tive Human Rights." Priority is given to healthy adults over 65, and to In fact, he -said, there is no reflex vasodila­ sion] that crosses the full gamut of the injury." individuals with long-term heart and lung prob­ tion. Ice decreases the residual pain caused The conference is sponsored by the School of Knight encouraged Exercise Science stu­ lems, chronic diseases, or lowered resistance to from torn nerves which prevents athletes from Community and Publi c Affairs, Concordia's Que­ dents and professionals to be open to new infection (i.e., cancer or HIV). starting rehabilitative exercise. bec Public Interest Research Group, and the Cana ­ ideas, because medicine stems from both sci­ dian Human Rights Foundation. Call 848-3565 (SGW Campus) or 848-3575 (Loyola Knight was the first to hypothesize that the ence and tradition. Campus) to book an appointment. Vaccination clin­ objective of using cold is to decrease metabo­ ics will be held on Monday, 9 to 11 a.m., Wednes­ "Ke~p your eyes open," he told them. Film with stage presence lism. Cold puts the tissues in a state of hiber­ day, 2 to 4 p.m. and Thursday, 2 to 4 p.m. on the "Examine everything that comes along. Don't nation, which preserves the surrounding A documentary made by five Communication downtown campus, and Tuesday, 9:15 to 10:30 be a cynic, nor be gullible, but weigh and con­ tissues from secondary injury. Another benefit Studies students as a class assignment has won a.m ., Thursday, 1:30 to 4 p.m., and Friday 9:15 to of ice is that it decreases pain, which allows sider everything, and then act appropriately." second prize at the Canadian Annual International 11 :30 a.m. at the west-end campus. athletes to start therapeutic exercise. To be Both lectures were co-hosted by the Depart­ Film Festival in Hamilton, Ont. Those who do not fit these criteria and want the effective, cryokinetics should be started as early ment of Exercise Science and the Qyebec Phantoms of the Theatre explores the legends vaccine may call Health Services for information, as possible. Association of Athletic Therapists. surrounding two of Montreal's celebrated the- starting in November.

10 OCTOBER 19, 1995 CONCORDIA'S THURSDA)' - REPORT OCCUPATIONAL RESEARCH FUNDING AND GRADUATE HEALTH SCHOlARSHIPS • The Quebec o«up•tional AND SAFETY Hecilth aind s,tety Rcstarc.h lnst.itute {Inst itut de rec he rr;hc: e'I sante et en $~Curit, du travail, IR~ST) is a scientific research ag,mcy whose mandate is to a,nduct ~search on tnt identifi­ r.aticm artd eliminiltiDn at 5ourre at occupatianal hazards, and or. t~e rehab ii itation of worker1 w~o h1v1: f1I ltn • The relevance and pri<1rity of victim to thtJe hciz,rds. resea,ch projects ind graduate schol­ Each ~~cir, the IRSST funds arshipt a,e evaluated b~ management researcn projetts and 0~11 and labour representatives, whili, graduate schola,ships. thtir stientific value is ,valuate-d b~ externa I peer review. ·""" ' • An info,mation kit is avail­ able to help re,!archer, and stuit111ts prepar. thef r funding app lic:ation,. Orientation program is in its second year YMCA helps Concordia li'icf¥WWGHRiii9wki Deadlines: First Tues i1r 1n Sepmber and AprU af ead1 ,aar. vvelcome nevv students Some students are mildly dismayed at the BY SUMANA ]ANA Deadlines: first T1i1esdQ in December of each ,-,. Y's bare-bones accommodation, but according partment-hunting, choosing roommates, to ISO assistant co-ordinator Pat Hardt, there's a silver lining even to that cloud: "The Y Res~arctiers and students may, .at an, time during the year, A and just finding out where things are in an is not the Ritz, but students find common dete-rmine projects' rel!V'ance- tD lnstitutt adivities by Jubmit- unfamiliar city are difficult enough, but when 1ing lltlllrs of inltnt prior to the production of a formal pra- you come from a country with different cus­ comfort to sharing their complaints." Students 1otol. Guidtlint5 fi>r these toms and expectations, these tasks can be pay $125 a week for a room with a washbasin, letters are included in the intimidating. colour TV and a telephone. D1SST The ISO arranges for a student representa­ informiltian kit. lnsllh.:.: d1, ~,K:'hRn:~'V'! I The International Students Office started a +tn 1'1111·,; fll• en ~"c.1nti:1 new program last year to help new students from tive to visit the students in their quarters at the ()I,; t~ava..:. <1\l Qu(.i)C,c abroad find their feet. Instead of billeting stu­ Y for a couple of hours every day. 0 dents with local families, the ISO arranged with '1 think it was an excellent idea," said Sarah ---- X ______; the YMCA on Stanley St. to provide rooms at Samuel, who was the student rep last year. "I subsidized rates for the students' first two weeks. met a lot of new friends, and I was really glad PLEA.SI: SEIIID ME THE INFORMATION KIT About 70 students stayed at the Y this year. that I could help these students." FOi RESEARCHEIIS AND 51WENl5 This year, Concordia welcomed about 100 Lizwan Mohan, a Computer Engineering new students from around the world. More student from Africa, stayed at the Y last year, than 1,000 international students are currently and was chosen to be this year's student repre­ NAW: ...... ·-·· ...... • • ..• ,. studying at the University. sentative. "The Y program helped me feel con­ ADR!SS:. ••I ••1 I I 111 •1 I I I 1••111 I •••11 I I 1••1 I I I I•••••••••••••••••• o • • • • •• • • • a little easier," said ISO co-ordinator Claudette The ISO gives workshops and seminars for • • • • • • • • • • 11 • • • • • • 11 • • • • • • 11 • • • • • 1111 • • • • • 1111 ••••• 1111 I I I • I I. I I I I I I•• I I I• I• o o • o o Fortier, "but it was hard to find enough host international students on a range of issues, from PROYINCE : ...... •...... PCl!STAL CQDE: ...... •...... •• , , , , , , .. , .. families, and frankly, many of the students immigration procedures to keeping up grades. ~N(: t I I I I I I I Io I• I I I • o • o • o • o • o • • 11 11 0 • o o o 11 11 o o O • • • 11 • • 0 0 0 • 11 11 • • • • wanted to be downtown." Pat Hardt is involved in a research project with The Y seems ideal, with its downtown loca­ Leaming Development. FAX: t. • • • •• • • • •••11 I I I 111 I••••••• o o • o ••••• • • • •••• • o • •••• o • • tion and its multi.ethnic clientele. "Students from other educational back­ ... 11551, DIIIICIION DI IA IIGIEICNI IXIIINE The new arrangement allows international grounds often have difficulty coping with the 505, boul dt Milsonneuw Oue5t, Mont.rMI (~ HJA 3C2 students to meet each other as soon as they system here," she said. 'We want to learn more arrive, Fortier said, and helps them develop a about their problems, and find better ways to L------•------.1 support network that will make it easier for help them." them to adapt to life in Canada. The results of the ethnographic study will nonetheless manifest distinct characteristics of As well as easing students into unfamiliar help Student Services plan more appropriate either producers or scroungers. surroundings, the program tries to bring them and effective services not only for international One question remains. Why, if altruism is together. Some of last year's students were dis­ students, but for Concordia's multi.ethnic stu­ such an evolutionary faux pas, has it been estab­ appointed that the rooms at the Y were on dif­ dent body. Economic modelling in animal behaviour lished as a human characteristic? Giraldeau'; ferent floors. The ISO arranged for a single The ISO operates on a shoestring, but its staff studies was pioneered by Princeton behavioural theory is that altruism was acquired while floor this year, so that all the students could naturally would like to be able to offer more to ecologist Robert MacArthur in the mid-1970s. humans lived in prehistoric hunter-gatherer meet and talk more easily, and develop some their clientele. "What we would really like to see Since then, game theory - the branch of eco­ is an international house on campus," said Hardt. communities of 50-odd related members. It camaraderie even before classes started. nomics that deals with predicting the strategy turned out that some looking-out for one's each participant in a gr_oup will choose - has become a valuable tool in predicting the neighbour was genetically and socially beneficial. understood her susceptibility to the peer-group dynamics of animal behaviour. Unimpeded by Recent world history might see human influence and her tendency to hero-worship." the allegiances that we feel, animals are "the beings developing new characteristics, but not Pedersen has been teaching Women in ultimate rational consumers." soon. "To live in a city of five million is very Canadian History for four years, among other Giraldeau has never actually done any lion recent in evolutionary times," Giraldeau said. Here's the way the YWCA defined the female courses. Her paper was one of four delivered by research in the field. His area of expertise is Giraldeau is a native Montrealer who took adolescent, back in 1912. "She was naturally Concordia faculty members at the conference. analyzing mathematically the findings of biolo­ several biology degrees at McGill University. flighty, irresponsible and selfish, yet was actively She is compiling an expanded volume of her gists who have observed lions in their natural Then he did post-doctoral work at the Univer­ trying to understand her world and longed to be bibliography on women in Canadian history habitat. sity of Toronto - in psychology, he says, useful. She needed vocational guidance and sex called Changing Women, Changing History: Bib­ He is now working on problems of para­ "because I wanted to learn about learning." He education, fun, wholesome recreation, friendship liography of the History of Women in Canada. sitism in flock-feeding birds. He's studying the came to Concordia in 1986 as an NSERC uni­ and romance, and had a tremendous energy and Carleton University Press plans to publish the behaviour of 80 virtually identical birds who versity fellow, and is now an associate professor. idealism that could be channelled by those who bibliography next year.

CONCOROIA'S THURSDAY REPORT OCTOBER 19, 1995 1 1 International Students political activist and pioneer in volunteers to run or assist with recre­ Sunday, October 22 the strugg le for intern ational ation programs 2 - 3 hours a week. Bru nc h is ho sted by Loyola Chapel women's rights, on "Th e Role and Li sa Ostiguy at 848-3340. Communi ty in Lo yo la Ca mpu s sta ff Participation of Women in th e Indian lounge, AD -308, 12:30 p.m. Fre e. Independence Movement." 3:30 - 5 Car for sale 848-3588. p.m ., 7302 Sherbrooke St. W '83 Cavalier, 104,000 km, A-1 Information : 848-2280. mechanics, one driver only, $1,500. Social Aspects of Engineering 848-4883 or 672-5691 . Tuesday, October 24 K Information Centre of Montreal Patrick Carson , Vi ce- President Friday, October 27 U.S. Work Permits Environmental Affairs at Lobl aw J. Krishnamurti vi deo presentations. We ca n help Canadian citizens Companies Limited, will speak on Brockwood, 1983 with Dr. Bohm "Is increase their chances of receivi ng "Engineering , Business and the there an action that is not touched by U.S. work permits. Also, U.S. immigra­ Environment; The Role of Education." though t?" at 8 p.m . in H-4 20. tion and related business matters. B. Time : 5:40 p.m. in GM 403-211550 de Sponsored by CARA. 937-8869. Toben Associates !U.S. Lawyers) 288- Maisonneuve Blvd. W.) 3896 .

Events, notices and classified ads must reach the Centre for Community and Public Relations Department (BC-115) in writing no later Ethnic Studies School of Graduate Tuesday, October 24 University Ombuds than Thursday, 5 p.m. the week prior to the Thursday publication. Xavier Blaisel, So ciology and Studies News Anthropology, and Kathleen Knotsch, Office Get-togethers with the Dean For more information, please contact Kevin Leduc at 848-4881, Department of Geography, McGill Martin Ku sy, Dean of the School of University, on "Contextualizing the Contact us for information, advice and by fax: 848-2814 or by e-mail: [email protected]. Graduate Stud ies, would like to meet Inuit Conversion to Christianity: The help with university-related problems with graduate students on an informal Case of Cumberland Sound , 1880s - and co mplai nts . 848-4964 IPR-100) basis at the Graduate admini stration 1920s." 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. H-769 . 21 DD Mackay St offices Sessions will take place from 848-8728. 5:30 - 7 p.m . at 2145 Mackay St, on OCTOBER 19 • OCTOBER 26 the fo llowing date s: Monday, Department of English Wednesday, October 25 November 13; Wednesday, January 24 and Tuesday, February 13. Space is Women A great CAUSE CAUSE, the Concordia Assoc iation of limited. Please reserve by contacting Kali Sake ll at 848-3803. Self-Defense Course Alumni Film Lectures & Undergraduate Students in English , is Saturday, October 28 and Saturday, holding an annual wine and cheese in Kahnawake, Then and Now Conservatoire d' Art Seminars November4 LB -671-7. 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Monday, October 23 Cinematographique de Montreal Taught by women for women of all Thursdays at Lonergan Increasingly, interest and appreciation Cinema JA DeSeve, 1400 de age s and abil it ies. Stud ent s $2 0, October 19 School of Community and Special Events has grown for Native people, their his­ Maisonne uve Blvd . W , Concordia Staff, faculty and alumnae $50 . Call Filippo Sa lva tore , Dept. of Modern Public Affairs tory and culture . Only a few kilometres University !Metro Guy-Concordia). 848-7431 Languages and Linguistics and Wednesday, October 25 Students for Literacy south of Montreal lies Kahnawake, a Volunteers needed to become literacy Admission: $3.50. Fellow of Lonergan College, on "The Charles Taylor and Daniel Turp wi ll . \.-- Mohawk reserve . Much controversy tutors. If you can read this, you can Rise of the Concept of Science in the debate on the theme "Who belongs in ha s been presented in the media since Friday, October 20 help us . Please call Dennis at 323- Italian Ren aissance: Leonardo, Quebec?" 5 - 7 p.m . J.A. DeSeve the "blockade " there, but what about The men who tread on the tiger's tail 5906 for more info or leave a message Machiavelli, and Galileo." 3:30 - 5 Cinema, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Workshops the daily lives, values and chal lenges at 7 p.m .; Ran at 8:30 p.m. at our office at 848-7454 12020 p.m., 7302 Sherbrooke St. W. of this Nation ? Mau reen Meloche Mackay, 3rd floor). Microtheme Assignments Information: 848-2280. Thursday, October 26 IBA'91) is a resident of Kahnawake Saturday, October 21 Videomaker Lei la Sujir will be present­ Tuesday, October 24 Drunken Angel at 7 p.m.; Dreams at 9 p.m. Participants in this workshop wi ll and the firs t Native French-language Concordia Irish Lecture Series ing her latest work, The Dreams of the learn about different types of teacher on the reserve . In an honest Thursday, October 19 Night Cleaners . 4:30 p.m., 7141 Sunday, October 22 microtheme assignments suitable for and personal manner, she presents Professor Ann Saddlemeyer on Sherbrooke St. W. DL-200 (Russell Unclassified The passion of Joan of Arc at 7 p.m.; both larg e and smal l classes in any seminars to various groups to inform "Trave ls with Georgie: Research on Breen Chamber). Gertrud at 9 p.m. discipline. 2:30 - 4 p.m. in H-440, 1455 and enlighten interested individuals to the Biography of Mrs. W.B. Yeats ." Volunteers Wanted the Native milieu. Time : 7- 9:30 p.m. Thursdays at Lonergan Th e Concordia Inner City Youth Project de Maisonneuve Blvd . W. Leader: Monday, October 23 8:30 p.m . 848-2435. Price : $14 RSVP: 848-3817 . October26 offers free lei sure se rvices for over Mary Mar and Mary O' Mal ley . Les cousins at 8:30 p.m. Department of Religion Pra kas hvat i Pal, Ind ian soc ial and 400 youths. The project is looking for Information: 848-2495 . Tuesday, October 24 Thursday, October 19 Dishonored at 8:30 p.m. Professor Xu Xin, University of Campus Ministry Nanjing, on "Jews and Judaism in the Wednesday, October 25 Contemporary Chinese Mind ." 8:30 Financial difficulties? Sans anesthesie at 8:30 p.m. p.m . in H-431, 1455 de Maisonneuve The first meeting of Mother Hubbard 's Blvd. W. 848-2065. Cupboard, a group for students living Friday, October 27 on a tight budget, takes place on Ma nuit chez Maud at 7 p.m.; Les Concordia Sexuality Project Tuesday, October 31 at 5 p.m. at 2090 nuits de la pleine lune at 9:15 p.m. Friday, October 20 Mackay St, !Annex Z. A free vegeta ri ­ We invite you to attend the second of an chili dinner wi ll be served. Children our interdisciplinary lunchtime semi­ are welcome. For more information, nars on sexuality. Two students from call 848-2859 or 848-3585. The Loyola Film the Humanities doctoral programme will pre sent their research: Morgan Series Holmes on "Problems in Ethic s and Guardianship: Minors and Medi"cal . . I . F.C. Smith Auditorium, 7141 @xf::~ :~'* ·• .,. . ,, CPR courses Consent Law," and Terry Hoople on at Sherbrooke St. W. Tel. 848-3878 Daii:icd Turp, supportirtg the "Yes" side, is a professor of international law "IBD)SM: Beyond Good and Evil?" The the Universite de Montr~al, and a special advisor to Lucien Bouchard, head The following CPR and CSST first-aid Free admission. se minar starts at noon in VA-245. courses will be offered by the EH&S 11395 Rene Levesque Blvd. W.) 0 of the Bloc Q!ieo'ecois. Monday, October 23 Office in th e next few weeks. Night Moves, Arthur Penn 11975), at 6 Members of Concordia and the out­ K Information Centre of Montreal p.m. ; Strangers on a Train, Alfred W'edii:esday, October 25, from 5 to 7 f>.m. side community can take these cours­ Friday, October 20 Hitchcock 11951 ), at 7:50 p.m. es. Contact Donna Fasciano, Training J. Krishnamurti video presentation s. JA.DeSeve Cinemq,J.W.,McConnell Building, Co-ordinator, at 848-4355. Bro ckwood, 1980 with Dr . Bohm •140Q _de Maisonheuve'Blvd. West Monday, October 30 "An order beyond all human order & The Public Enemy, William Wellman Baby Heartsaver Course di sorder," and Brockwood , 1982 "If 11931 ), at 6 p.m.; Rear Window, Alfred Sunday, October 22 there is love there is unity" at 8 p.m. in 4 - 6 hours for life: Thi s course Hitchcock 11954), at 7:40 p.m . H-420. Sponsored by CARA. 937-8869. includes rescue breathing, CPR, as Professional Millea Pesic well as management of the obstructed International Students Office an ex-1V Belgrade reporter fired for airway in the infant and child. Friday, October 20 Development Fund Lacolle Centre· Get-together for wives of international , refusing to support Serbian govern­ students from 1D a.m . to noon in H- ment propaganda CSST First-Aid Course Deadline to apply for professional October 28, 29 Presentation Skills 653. 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PREPARED BY Jack Lightstone & Frederick Lowy

IN CONSULTAT I ON WITH Deans Mohsen Anvari, Christopher Jackson, · Martin Kusy, Donat Taddeo, Gail Valaskakis

Concordia UNIVERSITY particular expertise will determine what we will and will not be able to do The Challenge well. Hence the next year or two will provide a limited window of oppor­ tunity to consider what new things we should do that differ from any cur­ At no time in the history of Concordia has it been as important that all sectors rent endeavours. We must define those new enterprises now so that they of the University make major choices about what they shall do and how may inform decisions about future hires and plans for the disposition of they shall do it. These choices must inform the allocation of our scarce material support and space. resources and must ground our ability to seek new sources of funding. Maintaining the quality of our academic endeavours, indeed our survival as The choices we must make now must also seize opportunities to do new things, a university, depends upon the nature of these choices, the time frame in to reinvent and transform ourselves. The result must not be mere down-siz­ which we make them and the speed we act upon them . ing but renewal and transformation. It should be forward looking and inno­ vative educationally (such as the educational philosophies informing the Colleges, the EMBA, the MEng in Aerospace, the PhD in Humanities, or the Why? Fine Arts programs generally), giving Concordia's research and academic programs a particular character and Concordia a particular role to play. Four years hence we expect our operating budget to be approximately $40 mil­ Hence the criteria that inform our choices must instantiate both sound aca­ lion less than it was in 1994-95, and this on the premise that we maintain demic values, and capture our particular sense of identity. To give just one the current levels of enrolment and retention. To cope with this reality with­ example, if we are seen as, and valued for, giving people a second chance out making significant choices about what we shall do would require major to attain a university degree, we would not be wise to strive to be an exclu­ across-the-board cuts year after year, coupled with other severely applied sive elitist institution. Concordia must be an hospitable and suitable envi­ measures, which together would undermine almost all our academic pro­ ronment for our students, and must serve the needs of the society in which grams and research endeavours. those students live and work.

In light of the foregoing, and assuming the present FTE funding formula, five How? rather general principles are proposed as a starting point for plotting our future course: Assuming no significant increases in revenues (or expenses), the budget com­ pressions represent about 22% of our total operating budget (about 27% 1) maintain and foster teaching and research programs of of our expenses deemed "admissible" for government grants), and 80% of recognized academic excellence, by the standards applicable our oper2ting budget pays salaries. We cannot function without non-salary to any contemporary university in Canada and North America; expenditures. Therefore, to absorb such across-the-board cuts within this 2) maintain programs in which the revenues generated time frame would require severe, simultaneous application of many cost­ significantly exceed the costs incurred, provided they are cutting measures, such as: a tot_al hiring freeze on faculty and staff positions of acceptable academic quality; vacated for whatever reason; the near total elimination of part-time facul­ ty; a major across-the-board increase in standard course load; the near total 3) maintain, foster and develop programs with evident potential elimination of funds for TAs and markers; elimination of CASA and the to draw to Concordia more students than we currently do, FRDP in aid of research; a moratorium on all new facilities, including teach­ provided they are of acceptable academic quality; ing and research laboratories; a near freeze on library acquisitions and 4) maintain and foster programs in partnership with major reduction in hours of library service; increased class sizes (to the other Montreal area universities where such partnerships degree that our classroom space permits); significant salary roll backs. Many meet the above criteria; of these measures would randomly affect various departments, making some programs bereft of the necessary faculty complement. They will starve and, finally, the most challenging to define and operationalize, persons of time to do research and of support for it. Fewer external grants will be awarded to our researchers. Less frais indirects will be paid on exter­ 5) maintain, foster and develop programs which are central nal grants, adding to the downward spiral of research and scholarship. to our sense of who we are as a distinct institution among Graduate education would quickly be undermined. The quality of under­ other large comprehensive universities. graduate education would also suffer terribly, with larger classes, support­ The principles we propose for discussion are general, and various defensible ed by fewer TAs, and professors: time spread more thinly over teaching and methodologies may be adopted to operationalize th_em. They are also suf­ advising responsibilities. This coupled with the significant decrease in schol­ ficiently clear and substantive to provide a basis for making choices about arly activity will adversely affect curriculum design and content. Good aca­ our future course. Moreover, they permit "translation" into terms suitable demic and support personnel will leave. All of this could set off an exodus in the very different disciplinary areas and Faculties which comprise of students to institutions that have maintained quality. If significant ele­ Concordia. Using these local "translations" of the principles it should be ments of such a scenario hold for cutting $40 million from our budget over possible to identify programs which should be: a five year period, it is apparent that even one more year (i .e., the 1996-97 budget) of entirely horizontal cuts in the academic sector coupled with no a) enhanced and further developed; clear movement toward a new direction is indefensible. b) maintained in their current state;

At the very least we must make choices resulting in selective down-sizing. We · c) added; must decide to keep some activities and phase out others in accordance d) consolidated or otherwise re-organized; with publicly-discussed and fairly-applied criteria, and we must commit our faculty and staff positions to those which we retain. Moreover, the course e) phased out. we set over the next two years will likely bind us through the careers of all current junior faculty and those we hire over the next ten years since their particular expertise will determine what we will and will not be able to do The Challenge well. Hence the next yea r or two will provide a limited window of oppor­ tunity to consider what new things we should do that differ from any cur­ At no time in the history of Concordia has it been as important that all sectors rent endeavours. We must define those new enterprises now so that they of the University make major choices about what they shall do and how may inform decisions about future hires and plans for the disposition of they shall do it. These choices must inform the allocation of our scarce material support and space. resources and must ground our ability to seek new sources of funding. Maintaining the quality of our academic endeavours, indeed our survival as The choices we must make now must also seize opportunities to do new things, a university, depends upon the nature of these choices, the time frame in to reinvent and transform ourselves. The result must not be mere down-siz­ which we make them and the speed we act upon them . ing but renewal and transformation . It should be forward looking and inno­ vative educationally (such as the educational philosophies informing the Colleges, the EMBA, the MEng in Aerospace, the PhD in Humanities, or the Why? Fine Arts programs generally), giving Concordia's research and academic programs a particular character and Concordia a particular role to play. Four years hence we expect our operating budget to be approximately $40 mil­ Hence the criteria that inform our choices must instantiate both sound aca­ lion less than it was in 1994-95, and this on the premise that we maintain demic values, and capture our particular sense of identity. To give just one the current levels of enrolment and retention. To cope with this reality with­ example, if we are seen as, and valued for, giving people a second chance out making significant choices about what we shall do would require major to attain a university degree, we would not be wise to strive to be an exclu­ across-the-board cuts year after year, coupled with other severely applied sive elitist institution. Concordia must be an hospitable and suitable envi­ measures, which together would undermine almost all our academic pro­ ronment for our students, and must serve the needs of the society in which grams and research endeavours. those students live and work.

In light of the foregoing, and assuming the present FTE funding formula, five How? rather general principles are proposed as a starting point for plotting our future course: Assuming no significant increases in revenues (or expenses), the budget com­ pressions represent about 22% of our total operating budget (about 27% 1) maintain and foster teaching and research programs of of our expenses deemed "admissible" for government grants), and 80% of recognized academic excellence, by the standards applicable our oper2ting budget pays salaries. We cannot function without non-salary to any contemporary university in Canada and North America; expenditures. Therefore, to absorb such across-the-board cuts within this 2) maintain programs in which the revenues generated time frame would require severe, simultaneous application of many cost­ significantly exceed the costs incurred, provided they are cutting measures, such as : a tot_al hiring freeze on faculty and staff positions of acceptable academic quality; vacated for whatever reason; the near total elimination of part-time facul­ ty; a major across-the-board increase in standard course load; the near total 3) maintain, foster and develop programs with evident potential elimination of funds for TAs and markers; elimination of CASA and the to draw to Concordia more students than we currently do, FRDP in aid of research; a moratorium on all new facilities, including teach­ provided they are of acceptable academic quality; ing and research laboratories; a near freeze on library acquisitions and 4) maintain and foster programs in partnership with major reduction in hours of library service; increased class sizes (to the other Montreal area universities where such partnerships degree that our classroom space permits); significant salary roll backs. Many meet the above criteria; of these measures would randomly affect various departments, making some programs bereft of the necessary faculty complement. They will starve and, finally, the most challenging to define and operationalize, persons of time to do research and of support for it. Fewer external grants will be awarded to our researchers . Less frais indirects will be paid on exter­ 5) maintain, foster and develop programs which are central nal grants, adding to the downward spiral of research and scholarship. to our sense of who we are as a distinct institution among Graduate education would quickly be undermined. The quality of under­ other large comprehensive universities. graduate education would also suffer terribly, with larger classes, support­ The principles we propose for discussion are general, and various defensible ed by fewer TAs, and professors'. time spread more thinly over teaching and methodologies may be adopted to operationalize th.em . They are also suf­ advising responsibilities. This coupled with the significant decrease in schol­ ficiently clear and substantive to provide a basis for making choices about arly activity will adversely affect curriculum design and content. Good aca­ our future course . Moreover, they permit " translation" into terms suitable demic and support personnel will leave. All of this could set off an exodus in the very different disciplinary areas and Faculties which comprise of students to institutions that have maintained quality. If significant ele­ Concordia. Using these local "translations" of the principles it should be ments of such a scenario hold for cutting $40 million from our budget over possible to identify programs which should be: a five year period, it is apparent that even one more year (i .e., the 1996-97 budget) of entirely horizontal cuts in the academic sector coupled with no a) enhanced and further developed; clear movement toward a new direction is indefensible. b) maintained in their current state;

At the very least we must make choices resulting in selective down-sizing. We · c) added; must decide to keep some activities and phase out others in accordance d) consolidated or otherwise re-organized; with publicly-discussed and fairly-applied criteria, and we must commit our faculty and staff positions to those which we retain. Moreover, the course e) phased out. we set over the next two years will likely bind us through the careers of all current junior faculty and those we hire over the next ten years since their tion to location and general ambiance, will inevitably influence decisions From Culture into Action about how to best use either campus. For example, the presence of sever­ al large departments, notably Psychology and Communication Studies, on A creative tension exists at Concordia as a result of the requirement to "be like the Loyola campus, and of significant performance facilities in the new con­ others", on the one hand, and, on the other, to be accessible and open to cert hall and F.C. Smith Auditorium, suggest that Loyola might best be used a highly diverse body of students and to bridge traditional boundaries in as a locus for the social sciences and performing arts. The Sir George what we do. That tension serves us best when in planning our institutional Campus' location at the city centre, the hub for several hundred thousand course we are "self-aware" about our institutional values, including some commuters, might suggest that it remain the primary locus for persons pur­ of the resulting creative tensions . Indeed, our ability to ensure our future by suing their studies in conjunction with work responsibilities and for pro­ acting decisively with enthusiasm, determination and confidence lies in ever grams more directly related to the businesses located downtown. The prox­ more self-consciously embracing and acting upon those norms and values, imity of the Sir George Campus to other Montreal universities should also within the larger context of what it means to be a university. figure into what is located on our downtown campus.

It was argued that making choices should not result in mere down-sizing even if that is necessarily part of what we must do. The choices should also be Conclusion transformative and renewing. They should seize new opportunities clarified by querying what we believe university education should be, and whether Acting Decisively our very organization and categorization of knowledge best serves teach­ ing and research at Concordia for the next half century. In making such Cognizant of our cultural values and the dispositions they might engender, we future-looking choices, we should be guided, along with the principles must plan and set priorities. We must make our choices soon . We cannot noted earlier, by the two elements which make up our culture: permit sustained, horizontally-applied budget compressions for they will certainly undermine all our endeavours. If the 1996-97 budget is to begin our sense as a university like others where education and to move away from horizontally-applied budget compressions and if we are research is in service to society, the academy and in accordance to work systematically towards a goal over the next 3 to 5 years, we must with recognized standards of academic quality; have decided upon major directions in every Faculty by February of 1996 at the latest. That does not mean that every "i" must be dotted and every "t" our particular character and culture - the readiness to accept crossed by then . Nor does it mean that interior to those plans there should diversity, to bridge boundaries of all kinds and to open avenues be no room for further development and transformation. Planning ought to of accessibility of many types. In this we ought to find be an ongoing, iterative, "rolling" process. enthusiasm, insight and drive. What it does mean, however, is that we must have goals in every Faculty near These two complementary sets of values should serve to dispose us to particu­ the beginning of the next calendar year that are clear and substantive lar types of action and choices. For example, they should point us to new enough to inform priority decisions. The 1996-97 budget must not be met conceptions of program delivery that bridge intellectual, disciplinary and solely through horizontal cuts. Priority decisions intelligible to the commu­ other boundaries and increase accessibility. They might direct us to reflect nity as elements of a comprehensive and evolving plan must be taken to our internal diversity by assuming leadership in education and research that provide a meaningful context for ongoing planning an d budgeting. To meet embraces the emerging new internationalism and globalization. They this calendar, we _invite the University community to discuss widely and should motivate us to rethink the utility of conventional disciplinary bound­ promptly the general criteria suggested in this discussion paper. By the end aries . They might suggest striking a new balance in undergraduate educa­ of November, after revision arising from these discussions, we will prepare tion between specialization (a correlate of disciplinarity and often geared to a second paper that will provide a basis for planning in the Faculties. preparing one for graduate school) and general education (which stresses acquisition of general skills of analysis and communication, exposure to the In conclusion, we must immediately begin the process leading to choices . methods and theories of a number of disciplines, and prepares one for a Choices must be guided by principles which are sufficiently substantive to more diverse set of work and life choices) . They should direct us to take justify those choices and to ensure their fairness at an institution-wide level. account of the need of persons to return to the university several times in Institution-wide criteria must be translated in each Faculty into terms appro­ their lifetimes to learn new, more specialized knowledge. They might sug­ priate and applicable to its specific areas of endeavour. In the end we gest pursuing new types of partnerships with other institutions and organi­ should ·not me.rely be economically viable and academically sound, we zations beyond the boundaries of our own university. should also be renewed and transformed.

Our norms and values ryiight dispose us to bridge yet another boundar.y: they might impel us to design programs and modes of delivery that make Concordia an effective entry for anglophones who wish to be able to live and work effectively in the francophone milieu. And we might -expressly design programs which will make Concordia an effective and welcoming portal for francophone students who wish to interact effectively with the English-speaking world. In both these respects, Concordia can play a vital role in Montreal and Quebec. •

In all this, our two campuses should serve as alternative physical environments for our experimentation in redefining the boundaries of knowledge in teaching and research. Past decisions and current major facilities, in addi- Friday, 13 October 1995