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Two Concordia Grads in Cabinet Campagne d_e,souscripti~n Capital Campaign · de l'Urnvers1te Concordia Concordia University ~tu Concordia University, Montreal Vol. 9 No. 15 Jan. 16, 1986 TWo ConcOrdia grads in Cabinet ever al people Kenniff also commented on associated with Con­ the second of a two-part series s cordia are members of in The Thursday Report (Dec. Studies flave Marx 2nd chance the · newly elected Quebec 5) about the . University government, Senate Chairman budget, responding to a ques­ and Rector Patrick Kenniff tion from Assoc. Prof. Jack wo of Premier Robert told the Dec. 20th meeting of Lightstone, Religion, who ask­ Bourassa' s Cabinet Senate. " ed for clarification about Vice­ T. ministers, Justice Two alumni are Cabinet Rec tor Monique Jerome Minister Herbert Marx and ministers - Herb Marx, Forget's comments in the arti­ Small Business Minister Andre Justice, and Andre Vallerand, cle on the re-training of per­ Vallerand, look · back to Sir Small Business. Furthermore, sonnel. Lightstone wondered George Williams University, a the new Secretary-General of if the term, personnel, referred predecesor ·of Concordia, with the Executive Council, Roch to both non-academic staff affection, pointing to their Bolduc, received an honorary and faculty members . Kenniff student years there as major degree from Concordia in replied that he believed steps in their careers. 1983. Jerome-Forget was referring Marx, the 53-year-old con­ One of the two MNAs to non-academic staff. stitutional expert named to the repr~senting the ridings in Several curriculum changes high-profile Justice portfolio, which Concordia's two cam­ to graduate programs were ap­ moreover, credits Concordia puses are located, Jacques proved during the brief Senate (then Sir George Williams Chagnon in St. Louis, also has meeting. The motions to ap­ University) with giving him a Herbert Marx Andre Vallerand ties to the University, being a prove the changes came from "second chance" in his career. Political Science student here. (See "Senate" on page 6) "I am extremely grateful "Of course, it was a very 1968-69. that I was able to attend small institution in those days; Following his graduation classes at Sir George," the classes were· held in the from Harvard, Marx then Last minute report reflected Marx in a recent in­ YMCA building. But I certain­ taught constitutional law at he Thursday Report has just learned that the Conseil terview. ."I completed a ly have good memories of the the Universite de Montreal · des universites has submitted . to the Minister o'f · general B.A. at night in 1958, time I spent in such a close from 1969 to 1979. Quebec . T Higher Education and Science its latest "Avis" con- while I was working during the community." Liberal leader Claude Ryan, cerning orientation in university financing. day. I've always felt very After his graduation from who was familiar 'with Marx's Among its recommendations: priority need for the read­ close, then, to the University, Sir George in 1958, Marx work as a- constitutionalist justment of Concordia's base funding. because without it I don't see spent the next 10 years study­ froni his contributions to the . More details will follow in next week's edition of the Thurs­ how I could have gone to ing at the Universite de Mon­ op-ed page of Le Devoir in the day Report. university 'at all.", treal (M.A. in English Lit., 1970s, asked him to run for Marx adds that Sir George 1959-67; law school, 1964-67), the provincial Liberals in the . -------~----- --- --~ Williams in the 1950s was a at provincial Bar School and, largely anglophone D' Arey different place from today's finally, at Harvard Law McGee riding. Marx won the Concordia prof. is interim huge, amalgamated Concor­ School where he earned his ridfog by an .extraordinary dia. Master's degree in Law in See 'Studies" on page 7 FAPUQ leader ssoc. Prof. Michael Brian, English ·Associate Vice-RectOr named A Department, has by Paul Serralheiro cial drought that blurs the pur­ been serving as Interim Presi­ ean McEvenue is pose of the University's func­ dent and Interim Director dedicated to good tioning and shifts it from good General of FAP UQ, the S ideas and maintaining ideas at large to good ideas for province-wide federation of a high awareness of the latest economic survival. This situa­ university unions and associa­ goings-on in knowledge. As tion, McEvenue warns, brings tions, since Dec. 13 when Concordia's recently ap­ about a dangerous process: President Ann Robinson pointed Associate Vice-Rector "Everybody's afraid they resigned six months before her Academic, it will not only be won't have the money to do term was completed. Brian is his interest, but-also his job, to anything, so no matter how the first Anglophone to fill see that good ideas and the great an idea, they think they these positions. Ann Robinson latest advances in the various won't have money to do it, so resignedc:lrefore the end of her fields of study at Concordia they have to drop the good term because of other com­ are integrated int0 the Univer- idea. You start dropping good mitments, Brian said. sity machinery. · ideas; you stop the idea of · An election will be held at But on arriving at his new having good ideas." ~ the Jan. 24th board meeting to. Sean McEvenue job, McEvenue finds a finan- (See "Appointed" on page 6) (See "FAPUQ" on page 7) Michael Brian .. Page 2 THE THURSDAY REPORT Jan. 16, 1986 LETTERS. TO fHE EDITOR The. Thursday Report will be condensed by the welcomes letters to the editor. editor. All letters must be sign­ To assure enough space for all ed. letters, however, they must be The deadline is noon one no longer than 500 words. Any week before publication. .submissions longer than that by Rector Patrick Kenniff .TV aesthetics to be topic The New Year is a time for resolutions and was the need to put our financial house in bet­ positive thoughts, and I felt that it would be ter order, and the budget exercise we con­ Graphication and Personifica­ r. Herbert Zettl, Pro­ appropriate for me to remark upon some of ducted was a demanding one for all of us. tion of TV Images," and will fessor 9f Broadcast the achievements of 1985 as well as the · However, this process allowed many to see be accompanied with TV im­ D Communication Arts , creative tasks that we at Concordia can look clearly for the first time how the present ages generated in his latest at San Francisco State Univer­ forward to in 1986 in this first issue of The financial situation has evolved almost from research experiments. Having sitY,, will speak at the Depart­ Thursday Report. the day of merger in 1974. Th~ success of the ment of Communication explored through ' systematic exercise, and the presentation to the Board of experimentation and research­ 1986 promises much for Concordia. We will Studies Colloquia 1985-86. be ready to make a long-awaited start on our Governors of the University's first annual the ·multileveled potentials of Zettl is the author of two of · building projects. I feel sure that all members budget, have equipped us to deal more effec­ the television medium, Zettl the most influential text books of the community will share my own sense of tively with the public and government on advocates that television, in in the field of Communication increased optimism with such tangible issues of the real costs of education, the im­ addition to being one of the Studies (particularly TV pro­ evidence of the realization of our lengthy cam­ plications of not addressing immediately the most influential mass com­ duction and TV aesthetics) en­ paign for adequate library facilities for our funding question and the meaning and origins munication vehicles ever titled Television Production of the deficit and any further compressions. in known to man, is a medium University. Handbook (now in its fourth This year is also the time when we look for­ Concordia's budget. which offers enormous poten­ edition and translated into ward to a re-vision in the funding formula for The need to improve the revenue situation · tial for artistic expression. seven languages) and Sight, universities in Quebec. Discussions that have of the University and 'the Quebec election of The presentation will take Sound, Motiony Applied taken place over the past 18 months appear to 1985 provided another opportunity for Con­ place on Monday, Jan. 20 at Media Aesthetics ( on TV com­ be having the desired impact, and we at Con- cordia's members to voice their particular 4: 15 p.m. the west-end cam­ position and media related needs. That we can look forward to action on pus, Bryan Building, Room •cordia are in an ideal position to lobby effec­ research). tively at this point. the question of the funding formula is in great 205. Students and faculty of The major changes that we look forward to part due to the efforts of those who, having all disciplines are invited t~ at­ The topic of Zettl's lecture seeing in 1986 are in very fundamental ways studied the question themselves, confronted tend . is " Media Aesthetics: The based on- the accomplishments of our com­ the public and the politicians with the issue of· · munity of 1985. The Capital Campaign, financing and the present and future of our whose success is essential to the completion of University. our building projects, has raised more than The pressure is by no means off in 1986 - VICE-RECTOR $15 million; the increased participation of but there is no doubt in my mind that the students, faculty and staff has lent new energy members of this community are ready and to the considerable continuing efforts·of our able to work together to build upon the ac- • SERVICES many volunteers and external supporters.
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