Volume 3, number 27 Ju11e 1977 Graduating list on back pages ) ,. I.,___ _ _____, FYI~ ... CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY More grads thi~ year There will be 2,383 students graduating · from Concordia University this year-an increase of 49 students over the previous year. Graduates will receive degrees and diplomas it six convocations from June 5 to 12, at which four prominent Canadians will receive honorary doctorates. Rev. Bernard Lonergan, regarded by many as the finest philosophic mind of the 20th century, will return to his alma mater to receive an honorary doctorate at the Loyola Faculty of Arts & Science convoca­ tion June 5 at 2 :15 p.m. on the Loyola Campus. Rev. Lonergan, a Quebec native who now lives in the Jesuit Community at Boston College, became the focal point of world philosophical thought after the publication of his master work Insight in the late 1950s. Norman McLar~n, the celebrated Cana­ dian filmmaker with the National Film Board, will receive an honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Fine Arts convocation June 7 at 8 : 15 p.m. at the Alumni Auditorium in the Henry F. Hall Building. Patricia and Sharon Fitzgerald Guy Desbarats, prominent Canadian architect and assistant deputy minister of Public Works, will receive an honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Engineering convocation June 8 at 8:15 p.m. at the Concordia twins graduate Alumni Auditorium. Charles S. Carter, a retired Bell Canada Twenty-one years of close and constant lives. Through kindergarten to university executive who was instrumental in estab­ twinship comes to an end this year as they have shared the same classes, the same lishing the university's modular studies Patricia and Sharon Fitzgerald graduate books-even the same clothes. program, will receive an honorary doctor­ with honours at the Loyola Arts & Science Today, their only immediately visible ate at the Faculty of Science convocation convocation June 5. distinguishing feature is the difference in June 9 at 8.:15 p.m. at the Alumni their hairstyles, with Sharon preferring her "We' ll be going our separate ways," said Auditorium. hair long. Even that is a recent develop­ In numbers of graduates, the Loyola the outspoken Patricia. "I got engaged and ment. Sharon is planning to get get married too." Faculty of Arts & Science registered the Their mother· Mrs. P. Fitzgerald said: "I biggest gains, jumping from 601 students "This is the ffrst time we'll be going to don't brag about my kids as a rule- but last year to 681 this year. separate schools," said Sharon, who they're great kids. They never said they The next highest increase was in the concedes being the introvert of the two. disliked school." · Faculty of Commerce and Administration, Next fall Patricia will enroll in a one-year Being twins has always been a great which will graduate 671 students (an teachers course at McGill while Sharon source of fun for the Fitzgerald sisters. "We increase of 65) at the faculty convocation at takes on a masters program at Queen's .used to play all sorts of games in school," Loyola Campus June 11 at 2: 15 p.m . • University in Kingston, Ontario. said Sharon, who is older by seven minutes. The Faculty of Fine Arts registered a They have lived in the family home at "Like the time we changed seats in class See Grads Page 2 2170 Favard in Pointe St-Charles all their See Twins Page 2 scapegoat of the summer. session. The course offerings. Inter-campus bright, cheery looking book was prepared There have been some problems with the by t!:e Calend.:u Office and is the firs' 1977 summer session. But if a report on the registration publ:- c;:, tion ever to list all undergraduatE. summer session prepared by a sub­ university summer courses. committee of the curriculum coordinating up this summer Bruce Smart, Associate Registrar, be- committee and to be released in the fall, is ' lieves that the book should receive much of acted upon, the difficulties should be Although statistics for Concordia's 1977 the credit for the sharp increase in cleared up in time for the 1978 summer • I summer session are not yet available, the inter-campus registration. The Registratiof\ session. I • unofficial view is that enrolment has Office expected fewer than 200 students to increased slightly over last year's summer take courses off their home campus, but Concordia to session. No one is prepared to comment "between 500 and 1000 students are until the first set of official figures is switching campuses". submit brief released within the next few weeks. The pressing deadline against which the The University's six faculties are all . book·was produced accounts for some of its on Bill 1 offering courses this summer with the deficiences. Several people have claimed majority available through· arts an I ~rier,, that the calandar is difficult to follow and A Concordia University brief to the faculties. Courses in Engineering, while Smart admits that the registration segment, legislative committee studying arguments open to all students, are offered primarily which was written by his office', is on Bill 1, the controversial language for the benefit of January entrants and extremely confusing. He explained to FYI charter, is at the point of completion. evening BEng and BCompSc students. that when it was realized just how difficult It is understood that the university brief Offerings in Commerce ha:ve changed little the section was to follow, a pamphlet will call for greater latitude in the use of from previous years. Fine Arts is offering a explaining registration in a simpler manner English in the education field and in other few new courses, the most innovative of was prepared for bewildered students. areas of Quebec life, than Bill 1 now which is a full course in Musical theatre The time factor also accounted for the envisions. being taught by Assistant Dean Gerry exclusion of summer graduate course:; from University authorities said that ac­ Cross. It will culminate in presentations of the calendar. The resultant delay in companying the brief will be a request that a mime show and of the musical The Apple publicizing Concor,dia's summer graduate a university delegation be permitted to Tree sometime this summer. offerings has Associate Dean of Arts Muriel meet with the legislative committee study­ The 1977 Undergraduate Summer Calen­ Armstrong worried that low enrolment this ing arguments on the proposed charter for dar and Timetable is both the star and the summer will affect next year's _graduate the French language. ' Convocation Schedule TWINS from page 1 and the teacher didn't know who was Sunday, June 5 Loyola Arts & Science who," said Patricia. They giggled at the Location to be announced, Loyola Campus memory. 2: 30 pm Convocation The sisters came to Loyola after .touring 4: 30 pm (approx) Faculty Reception Montreal universities as part of a high Tuesday, June 7 Fine Arts school class. Alumni Auditorium, Sir George Williams "We liked everything about it, " said Campus Patricia. "We liked the atmosphere, the 8 : 15 pm Convocation small classes, the beautiful campus-every­ 9 : 30 pm (approx) Faculty Reception thing." They enrolled in honours sociology, but Wednesday, June 8 Engineering & Computer Science th~y soon discovered divergin~ interests .. Alumni Auditorium, Sir George Williams · Said Patricia : "I was chiefly interested in Campus teaching while Sharon was more interested 8 : 15 pm Convocation in sociology." 9 : 30 pm (approx.) Faculty Reception Said Sharon : "I'd like to teach too. But I · Thursday, June 9 Sir George Williams Science would like to teach at a CEGEP or Alumni Auditorium, Sir George Williams university level." Campus Now they have come to the end of theiI 8 : 15 pm Convocation close association. Is it frightening? 9 : 15 pm (approx.) Faculty Reception "A little," said Sharon. "Yes it is " said Patricia. "But we are two Saturday, June 11 Commerce & Administration Location to be announced, Loyola Campus person;litie~ and it is time to let them grow." 2: 15 pm Convocation GRADS from pag,e 1 4 : 15 pm (approx.) Faculty Reception slight increase from 158 graduates last year Sunday, June 12 Sir George Williams Arts Location to be announced, Loyola Campus to i68 this year. The number of graduates in the Faculty 2: 15 pm Convocation · 4 : 15 pm (approx.) Faculty Reception of Engineering was down by 14, with 116 students graduating this year. The Faculty of Arts is down by 52 graduates this year over last with 575 (There will be a Convocation Mass for those who wish to attend at the Chapel on students graduating at the faculty convoca­ the Loyola Campus, Sunday, June' 5, at 10 :30 am.) tion June 12 at 2: 15 p.m. at the Loyola ' . Campus. ;' t , THE GUINEA PIGS REUNITED: On Wednesday, May 25th, the Guinea Pigs-Sir George's first gra.duates-~ot together for their 40th anniversary dinner at the Ritz. After all the speech making and celebrating, FYI caught them at the end of the dinner and marshalled them for · thi~ photograph: left to right, and loo~ing very c~ipp~r, are D.B. Clarke, Lin Richardson, Clinton Davis, Rita Shane Norman Manson, Joe Robinson, and Alan Finlay~on . All Guinea Pig award winners were invited to attend the event. _The award is given on an annual basis [though not necessarily] to an indi~idu.al who (s deemed to have made an original contnbutron to Sir Matthew Ram who brought the whole occasion off in 1 George. Alf Pinsky [ inset left], the U~iversity's fine style. Rita Shane, who broke off midway through dynamo behind its fine arts programs and first dean of her reminiscences to offer stern words to the the new Fine Arts /acuity, copped this year's·award_.