Grad Student Growth Drives Huge Building, Renovation Boom

November 24, 2005 Vol. 41 No. 33 The University of Western Ontario’s newspaper of record www.westernnews.ca PM 41195534

WOMEN’S STUDIES TUNESMITHS POP MUSIC Decades in the making, Women’s Western’s New Horizons Band of Hit song creator Stephan Moccio Studies is ﬁnally a new department. enthusiastic musicians went on the says his love of music started road last summer – to the home of with that holiday standard - The the masters. Nutcracker.

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Grad student growth Look closely drives huge building, renovation boom

B Y P AUL M AYNE

Plans to expand graduate stu- Planned Capital Projects dent numbers and improve stu- ■ Biology and Geology Renovation dent services are driving forces - $35 million behind more than $80 million in ■ Physics and Astronomy Renovation building and renovation over the - $2.5 million next year. ■ Althouse Building Renovation - $5 The strategy features reloca- million tion of a large number of adminis- ■ Westminster College Renovation - trative jobs to the edge of campus $7.5 million in order to open up more aca- ■ Biotron: $28 million (Western’s demic spaces at the core. share, $3.2 million) With renovation projects set ■ Science Building - $15 million for Physics and Astronomy, Biol- ogy and Geology, Althouse Build- ing and others, Gitta Kulczycki, Renovation and new construc- Vice- President (Administration), tion on Biology and Geology, says it’s an active time for West- Althouse Building, Biotron and ern. the Science Building are immi- nent, with Physics and Astronomy slated for the next fiscal year. “The growth is clearly Also slated to begin next year is targeted towards the $7.5 million in renovations to the recently purchased Westminster graduate students and College. In the first major relo- Paul Mayne, Western News we need to allow them cation, Westminster will house Sonia and Arthur Labatt view a presentation in the 3-D virtual theatre, also known as the anatatorium, that Psychology Research Groups allows students to view several layers of the body by rotating, zooming in and ‘going behind’ muscles and the space to grow.” and Pre-School, and consolidate even removing pieces. With them is Western alumnus Board of Governors member John Nash. This week, the Gitta Kulczycki, the External portfolio includ- Labatts announced a $5-million donation to Health Sciences that will rename the South Valley Building in their Vice-President (Administration) ing Communications and Public honour. See story Page 11. Affairs, Advancement Services and Alumni Relations and Devel- Groundbreaking for the $28- opment. presence.” Building may be used as a one- strong possibilities we are hoping million Biotron began this week. The move, likely in early 2007, New projects being considered stop student services building. to make happen.” “This is a good busy. We have is required to increase space in would include moving staff in Kulczycki says work could Future projects also being a lot of things on deck,” says the core for academic purposes, the Support Services Building begin next year on a recreational examined include replacing the Kulczycki. “This is being driven says Ted Garrard, Vice-President to a new building on a periphery field house for Campus Recre- Bio-Engineering Building, reno- because good things are happen- (External). site and would include staff from ation. vating the Chemistry addition ing. The growth is clearly tar- “It’s a win-win from not only Physical Plant, ITS and other sup- “These projects are more than and Ivey additions at Spencer geted towards the graduate stu- the student perspective, because port units. The Support Services a wish list,” she says. “These are Hall for the MBA program. dents and we need to allow them it opens up space at the core of the the space to grow.” campus, but also from External’s For Western to take on more perspective we will be able to be graduate students, there’s a need fully integrated under one roof,” UW campaign hits homestretch for more faculty, staff and labs says Garrard. B Y P AUL M AYNE Gibbons says the current task is make it.” – all requiring more space or “the He adds the move is also impor- to seek out donors who contrib- The city- and county-wide space being better utilized”. tant from a community perspec- With just a week left in West- uted in the past and have not yet campaign, led by Western Presi- “We focus a lot on the best tive. ern’s United Way campaign, the pledged. dent Paul Davenport, has just student experience and from an “It provides our alumni, friends push is on to reach the $400,000 “The last stretch of the cam- reached the halfway point with undergraduate perspective we and others in the community eas- fundraising goal. paign will prove to be a little $3.2 million of the $6.4-million can see in the surveys the kind of ier access to those of us in Exter- Pledge cards continue to roll more challenging,” says Gib- goal raised. results we are achieving,” says nal who interface with members in, adding to the $333,000 raised bons, working with fellow West- To make a pledge, please fill Kulczycki. “But what constitutes of the community and that is to date – 83 per cent of the goal. ern sponsored employee Colleen out the pledge card at http://unit- the best graduate student experi- really important,” he says. “It also Sponsored employee Tammy Thody. “But I’m confident we’ll edway.uwo.ca/resources.htm ence? Space is a part of that.” gives us that sort of streetscape

CAMPUS DIGEST GO COLONIAL: A ‘Colonial Christmas’ fundraiser for the Lon- Cracking under pressure don Museum of Archeology features an opportunity to tour the Langdon family home near Arva. Located at 13174 Medway Road in Arva, the home is a replica of the Raleigh Tavern in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. Tickets are $10, adults; $5, children. For tickets call 473-1360.

NSERC: Royal Military College board member Suzanne Fortier has been selected to head the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). The McGill University graduate has held positions on faculty of Queen’s University in Chemistry, and a number of administrative posts at Queen’s including Vice-Principal, Academic. Fortier also served on the Board of Directors for the Ontario Centres of Excellence.

OLYMPIC: Western’s Law’s Distinguished Speaker Series will host Montreal lawyer Richard Pound, chair of the Anti-Doping Agency and one of Time Magazine’s 100 most inﬂuential people in the world for his efforts to rid sport of performance-enhanc- ing drugs. The presentation, “Doping in Sport” takes place Nov. 24, 12:30 p.m., in Room 38 in Law.

CITY HALL NORTH: The Environment and Transportation sub- committee of City Council will hold a meeting in the Law School on Mon., Nov. 28 at 4 p.m. in Room 36. This will be the ﬁrst time a committee of Council has conducted one of its regular meetings at Western. The chair of the committee is Fred Tranquilli, who is also a member of the First Year Class.

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■ Western Greg Marshall has won the Omega Award as outstand- ing football player in the OUAA in 1980. ■ A scaling down of the university system will be examined by a new provincial committee following concerns chronic under- Photos by Allison Stevenson funding could “be close to fatal” for smaller institutions as early What do you make with one kilogram of Polar Sticks, two bottles of glue and one spool of ﬂoss? A as 1985. bridge, of course. Dozens of London high school students and Western students took part in the annual ■ Curriculum development from a feminist perspective is being Western Society of Civil Engineering’s Polar Stick Bridge Competition. Chris Kocar, third-year Engineer- planned by the Caucus on Women’s issues in cooperation with a ing student, adds a 10-kilogram weight at left, and reacts as the bridge shatters. Provost committee.

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�� WESTERN NEWS NOVEMBER 24 , 2 0 0 5 3 Senate approves Women’s Studies department

B Y K ARMEN D OWLING Michael Carroll, adding he felt ers of the proposed department the motion was overwhelmingly began in 1987. arrangement was patronizing who have died or left Western for approved. “Without Julie, I don’t think Following years of effort and towards women. other opportunities. After the meeting, Okruhlik we’d be here today.” an emotional plea by Kathleen In disagreement, Okruhlik Roma Harris, Vice-Provost said she was relieved. * * * Okruhlik, Dean of the Faculty of said the administration involved (Academic Programs and Stu- “It’s taken so long to get here,” In other business, Senate set Arts and Humanities, Senate has included a number of women dents), would be a voting member she said. “When we started, things Convocation dates for 2006. approved creation of the Depart- who had a personal stake in the on the constitution. She added, were different and it was a high ■ St. Peter’s Seminary Theo- ment of Women’s Studies and department and who had been “To embrace women’s studies risk to support us. Today’s deci- logical Convocation – April 27 Feminist Research. working towards this point for and feminist research, it has to sion is important. It shows atti- ■ MBA Convocation – April 28 While a majority of Senate many years. include voices of women schol- tudes towards women and femi- ■ Huron University College favoured establishing the depart- “This is the culmination of 20 ars.” nist aspirations and endeavors Theological Convocation – May ment, the creation appeared to years of hard work to get Women’s UWOFA President Jane have changed over 20 years.” 11 hit a last-minute hitch when some Studies at Western,” said Okruh- Toswell proposed an amendment Okruhlik notes there have been ■ Schulich School of Medicine senators expressed disagreement lik, her voice shaking. “I hope to the motion creating the depart- a lot of compromises along the & Dentistry – MD Program – May with the number of administra- (today’s approval) is seen as a ment that then carried the day. way, but that’s how one reaches 19 tion voting members for the pro- tribute to a large number of very With the proposal, Senate didn’t one’s goals. Okruhlik made spe- ■ Spring Convocation – June 12 posed department’s constitution. far-sighted and brave women who have to approve the details of the cial reference to the work of Julie to June 16 No other university depart- couldn’t be with us today.” constitution in order to approve Ashford, assistant to the Director ■ Autumn Convocation - Octo- ment has a constitution controlled Some of the women Okruhlik creation of the department. With of the Centre for Women’s Studies ber 19 and October 20 so much by administration, said was referring to were support- removal of the constitution piece, and Feminist Research since it Carroll fears faculty information at risk

B Y K ARMEN D OWLING including Canada. point of academic freedom is to Electronic Documentation Act information could be surrendered Western has outsourced pen- protect the rights of the minority (PIPEDA), she says. to the U.S. means it is still an Questions and concerns raised sion record-keeping information who might want to do just this “We have a duty to protect per- issue, says Carroll. He adds that about the potential for Western to Buck Consultants Canada, - and anything that increases the sonal information and we believe if faculty have already been put faculty’s personal information which is owned by a U.S. com- ability of the U.S. government to we are meeting the standards,” at risk, opting out doesn’t solve getting into the hands of authori- pany, ACS. invade our private life clearly is says Kulczycki. “We abide by the the problem. ties in the United States will have “My point is that the simple going to have a chilling effect on laws of Canada and Ontario. We “I want written assurance from to wait until next month. possibility that a U.S. FIS court this minority and so curtail aca- have informed our employees of (Buck) that they will not transmit Senator Michael Carroll says can gain easy access to our demic freedom.” the use of their information and our personal data across interna- faculty records may become sub- records is a threat to privacy and Vice-President (Administra- we also give the employees an tional boundaries and that they ject to the U.S. Patriot Act, which likely to academic freedom,” says tion) Gitta Kulczycki says there opportunity to opt out.” would not comply with order permits access to personal or cor- Carroll. is potential for personal informa- Buck has never received a U.S. from a U.S. court to turn over porate records and other items in “After all, only a very few tion to be requested of Buck, but request for information, she says, our data.” order to intercept and obstruct academics are ever going to say it’s a theoretical power and is noting the Canadian government terrorism. things that challenge established not likely. Western is in compli- also has authority to request this authority in general and U.S. poli- ance with the Canadian Personal information, but hasn’t. cies in particular. But the whole Information and Protection of Even a slight risk personal “I want written assurance from �� (Buck) that they �� will not transmit �� our personal data �� Beat the across international boundaries and that �� they would not comply �� winter blues with an order from a U.S. court to turn over �� our data.” Senator Michael Carroll

However Carroll’s notice of motion has been referred to Senate’s Operations and Agenda Committee. The Patriot Act, passed in the U.S. after the September 11 ter- rorist attacks, allows a Federal Intelligence Surveillance (FIS) court in the U.S. to order a U.S. corporation to produce records of an afﬁliate in other countries,

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VIEWPOINT THE WAY WE WERE: 1939 Are universities more afraid of unpleasant facts?

History Professor Emeritus Heinz Klatt worries that multiculturalism and political correctness erode willingness to discuss the facts.

arlier this term I Then he ordered the assas- attended a public lec- sination of the poets who had ture on campus given by satirized or ridiculed him and Ea Muslim scholar on how who were guilty merely of writ- Islam should be defined and seen ing verses critical of him. The by the West after September 11. bothersome Jew Kab ibn Ashraf The speaker was introduced as was deceived into trusting someone who writes widely in Mohammad’s companions and national and local newspapers assassinated on the Prophet’s and who chooses his words care- orders. The poet Abu Afak, more fully. than one hundred years old, was murdered while asleep. Similar Contributed by Alan Noon London Free Press Collection/Western Archives fates befell Abu Uzza, Ocba, Uth- In 1939, Premier Mitch Hepburn announced the government had been too generous towards its provincially funded That young man ibn Moghira, and al-Nader universities and would reduce their grants. He wanted to redirect money towards primary schools rather than who reportedly told better sto- assist universities to “clutter up the professions”. Western students launched balloons carrying protest notes and indoctrinated students ries than Mohammad himself. participated in a massive march into downtown London. Their protests fell on deaf ears. The general public had do not know the The poetess Asma bint Marwan little sympathy for university students who they considered part of the privileged class. The advent of war however was murdered while asleep quickly changed the direction of government policy. difference between a with her baby at her breast, and mosque or church and the murderer was praised by Mohammad for his service to In a similar vein, we may quickly became slave owners Week with an attractively pre- a university shows the God and his Prophet. imagine a Twentieth Century themselves, and a black stu- sented seminar on the topic of challenge that we have The speaker, after having History class in which the pro- dent asks that those facts not the mandate of the university in listened attentively, gave truly fessor says the Soviets killed to be mentioned so he can feel which there is vigorous debate to meet. breathtaking answers to my tens of millions of their own respected. Some of our students on current controversies and on question. He confirmed the people (dissidents and members and colleagues are so inebriated the absurdity of the politically The invited professor, compe- veracity of my statements and of “wrong” groups) during peace by multiculturalism and political correct “university” in which tent and gentle, said everything added that all the above facts time, and in which a Russian correctness that they recognize students feel offended and not we have become used to hearing: have been reported by Mus- student claims to be offended the absurdity of only some of respected by the mention of Islam means peace and toler- lim historians and are “well and asks for respect for himself. the above examples and not of unpleasant facts. ance, and Khomeiny and Osama known by all of us.” Even more An Eighteenth Century His- others. I wish administrators would bin Laden do not represent astounding was his assertion that tory class may mention that the Similar incidents probably deliberate about what orga- Islam. It was a pleasant surprise nothing of what “we all know” French revolutionaries used the occur in other classes that show nizational structure to create to hear, if only for the fact that diminishes Mohammed since guillotine to reduce the num- more respect for facts than for that would allow all incoming his speech deviated from the God chose an “imperfect vessel” ber of aristocrats and a French sensitivity, but will not occur in students to learn in their very usual mantra, that he approved for his message. Thus, murders student says he is offended. An classes whose professors, intimi- first days what the mandate of a of President George Bush’s mili- committed by the Prophet do not American History class may dated and anxious, would not university is. tary interventions in the Muslim affect his image as the Perfect mention that the majority of our know how to handle unfettered world. Human Being and as the moral blacks descend from slaves, or academic debate. During the question period I model for all mankind. that many emancipated slaves I am still dreaming of a Frosh asked him how he reconciles the After these truly heart-stirring message that Islam represents revelations by the lecturer, a stu- peace and tolerance with some dent reproached me for having of the details of Mohammad’s offended her and for not respect- life. I told the audience that ing her. Worst of all, a young Christianity had to deal with the assistant professor of Religious Inquisition and horrible religious Studies supported her. Both, wars which, however, were clear however, were unable to explain betrayals of the New Testament in what way I had offended them and the life of Christ. Nothing of or shown disrespect. the kind can be said about Islam. Such taking offense and per- Khomeiny and Osama bin Laden, sonalization are, of course, com- good connoisseurs of the Koran mon fare in our multicultural and Mohammed’s life, follow the and politically correct universi- multiple and clear exhortations ties. That young indoctrinated and requests of the founder and students do not know the dif- the holy text, i.e. God, to terror- ference between a mosque or ize the world of the infidels. Of church and a university shows the countless examples I could the challenge that we have to have given, I just mentioned two. meet. That professors do not What I did mention in the class know is deeply troubling. was that as soon as Mohammed It is of course piquant to had the power to do so, i.e., when observe that in the above inci- he had reconquered Mekka, his dent one critic objected to hear- very first act was to destroy all ing the facts because they were the idols of the Kaaba that had both insignificant and all-too annoyed him for so long. He well known, whereas the other did not tolerate any religious objected to it because they are so symbols of other belief systems important that they must not be where he had control. revealed. WESTERN NEWS NOVEMBER 24 , 2 0 0 5 5

COMMENTARY A new president on ‘taking office’

B Y R OBERT W EISBUCH or she will spend the first year experiences I have never writ- difficult decisions. listening. The campus will utter ten or thought about, and I found I know that I wasn’t to create I wonder if I can follow my own The writer is the new president of Drew its wishes, which the president the medical dictum drumming in more of a culture of assessment advice. University and the former president of then will enact, as if the presi- my head, “Do no harm.” There and reallocation. I know that I For eight years, presiding at the the Woodrow Wilson National Fellow- dent were simply a collective con- is something precious at Drew, want to help make our place more Woodrow Wilson National Fellow- ship Foundation. This article is pub- sciousness. and I must not damage it. Both a participant in the continuing life ship Foundation, I’ve been telling lished with permission of The Chronicle I plan to do a lot of listening, but the shocking experience of a stu- of the disciplines, their discov- my fellow academics how they of Higher Education. I also think a college president dent’s death and that thought of eries and controversies. I know have been messing up and what ought to arrive with something cautious conservation were not that I want to make Drew more to do about it. Everything looked to say. My new colleagues will on my original agenda. of what it already is as a private different once I left academe for luck to be chosen as its new presi- change those sayings mightily, Another instance of surprising university with a strong public the foundation presidency, which dent. During my 25 years at the translate some into the historical information – this time of a hap- mission. allowed me to turn those new per- University of Michigan at Ann lexicon of the place, ignore oth- pier variety – came a few days ceptions into programs. Arbor, I was a professor and an ers, embrace a few. So, I am here later during a telephone call from Free of the democratic pro- administrator rising through the both to listen and to lead. The the head of the music program, cesses of faculty governance, ranks, but I left in 1997 to lead the James Carville of my conscious- telling me that one of the nation’s I plan to do a lot of I’ve exclaimed about the heredi- foundation. This will be my first ness keeps whispering to me, “it’s renowned chamber music ensem- listening, but I also tary stupidities of universities, stint as a university president. about the dialectic, stupid.” bles may wish to make Drew its the mind-boggling molasses of Drew is a great place; in the In just a few weeks as president, satellite home in New Jersey and think a college president faculty committees, and the cow- words of many, “the hidden gem already I have been stunned by offer concerts and education pro- ought to arrive with ardice of placing a shallow har- of American higher education.” the amount of unexpected infor- grams here – for a price. When something to say. mony above institutional good After two days of an on-campus mation that I receive, information have I ever considered an offer just to keep some unreasonable audition, I like the place so much that doesn’t so much run coun- like that? colleagues pacified. Of course at I asked members of the selection ter to my beliefs as to constitute Suddenly I am not simply an the foundation I didn’t have to committee at the debriefing if I whole new ranges of concern. academic Jeremiah but a village And I want us to be hellbent live day after day with faculty could just stay and interview the On my second day on the job, mayor. Any number of human for quality, however we agree to colleagues, reasonable or unrea- next finalist with them. one of our seniors, an extraordi- faculties I haven’t tested before define it. Oh hell, truth to say, I sonable. But of course Drew is not per- narily fine student and person, are coming into play. Great, but want to labor with my new col- Jeremiah had a lot of fun but fect. And even a few weeks into lost her life in a terrible accident, might integrity of belief exit leagues to reinvent the liberal did he ever work for a living? I the job, I begin to feel every pos- the maddeningly arbitrary victim through the other door? arts and help to create a new and haven’t gained anything like pro- sible temptation not to be bold. of a drunken driver. In the after- For as all the happenstance is amazing university under these phetic standing, but just enough I have two nightmares. One is math of that horrid moment, I happening, and amid the autumn Jersey skies. academics have heard from me of becoming the guy who is say- was heartened to witness dozens arrival of students, I struggle to And I’m going to get to all that that failing to behave in accord ing with shrill arrogance, “Follow of Drew students travel across hold to my sense of what mat- sometime today, right after we with my railings to behave in me, gang,” while no one is fol- several states to attend the memo- ters most. What matters most at discuss increased financing for accord with my railings would be lowing at all. In the other, I just rial service for her, relating to one Drew is going from very good to the fencing team and the com- humiliating. And even if no one quietly submerge myself into a another and her family with a great, which this place absolutely plaints about the shortage in mar- else took notice, I would know. ragtag crow, an undistinguished closeness that was deeply mov- has within its reach. It is a lovely, ried-student housing. Because now I am back. I fell in as any other. ing. deeply democratic culture, but at institutional love with Drew Uni- A new president of a university Both a student’s death and the times it has paid for its comfort versity and have had the heady is supposed to murmur that he communal response constituted at the cost of declining to make

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What is the solution to doping in sports?

Upinder Sidhu Shawn Talbot Carlos Sierra Alma Bailey Marco Lepegna Fourth year, Software Engineering Fourth year, Software Engineering Third year, Psychology/Sociology Second year, English & Ethics Second year, ACS “You should lose your career if you do drugs.” “There needs to be a change with the expecta- “We need to motivate the athletes to be more “I don’t think there is a solution. There is always “They need to put more money into the screen- tions in the sport. It’s a competitive thing and competitive and love the sport as it is – for the some way to cheat the system, whether it’s by ing process. It seems drugs are always one step should be treated as a social problem. These enjoyment. Then we’ll see better quality and making sure it doesn’t show up in blood tests above the methods to screen for these drugs.” athletes just keep coming up with ways to better entertainment – so everybody can win.” – some people will make sure they ﬁnd a way.” hide it.” Synchrotron science ﬂourishes despite failed bid

B Y K ARMEN D OWLING bers have been deeply involved katoon. Current Western users ate electrons to nearly the speed synchrotron can be used to help in the development and operation of this facility include Michael of light. This infra-red, ultravio- design new drugs, examine the Canada’s national facility for of the research centre from day Bancroft, Ronald Martin, Stewart let and X-ray light is shone down structure of surfaces for devel- synchrotron light research has one. McIntyre, Peter Norton, Richard beamlines to experimental sta- oping more effective motor oils, ofﬁcially turned one year old and Western’s expertise and commit- Puddephatt and T.K. Sham. tions where scientists can select build more powerful computer Western researchers have every ment to the synchrotron radiation A synchrotron produces different parts of the spectrum to chips, and help with clean-up of right to celebrate. application played a role in ensur- extremely bright light -- millions “see” the microscopic nature of mining wastes, to name just a few While Western lost a bid to build ing the Canadian Light Source of times brighter than the sun - matter, right down to the level of applications. the synchrotron in London a few (CLS) would be built, although - by using powerful magnets and the atom. With six beamlines already years ago, several faculty mem- the national facility went to Sas- radio frequency waves to acceler- Information obtained with a complete, two overseen by West- ern faculty, the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron at the

36 th Season 2005-2006 University of Saskatchewan is in London Pro Musica CHOIR the midst of construction to add six more beamlines in Phase 2 of �� presents �� the research project. �� CLS ofﬁcially opened in October Wassail! Christmas Past & Present 2004. The stadium-sized, $173.5- �� million project is Canada’s biggest �� Sunday, November 27, 2005 • 2:30 p.m. �� scientiﬁc research facility in more �� than 30 years. Capital and oper- Ken Fleet, Conductor �� ating funding comes from fed- �� Jennifer White eral, provincial, municipal, indus- �� Celtic harp �� trial and academic sources that Robert McMaster all came together in an unprec- �� Celtic percussionist edented partnership. �� By the end of this year the CLS �� Stephen Holowitz, will have scheduled 20 experi- �� Keyboard �� ments conducted in 140 experimental shifts, with 53 users visit- �� Fiona Wilkinson ing the CLS from across Canada �� Flute and as far away as Germany. �� Linda Adams Requests for beam time are soar- �� Recorder ing, with over 900 experimental �� shifts sought. �� with Bancroft was the Director of �� The A.B. Lucas Secondary CLS from 1999-2001, overseeing �� School Choir �� all of the initial construction. He �� (Stephen Holowitz, continued on the management �� Conductor) team until this past March and to �� this day remains on the board. �� Meanwhile, Western Chemistry �� A Festive Blend of Canadian, Celtic and International Seasonal Music in Intriguing Choral and Instrumental Arrangements professor, T.K. Sham is currently �� at the facility working on a series �� Regular Senior Student of experiments. He returns to Lon- �� Advance Sale $18.00 $16.00 $ 9.00 don on November 27 and says he �� Ticket Prices Door Sale $20.00 $18.00 $10.00 visits the CLS every couple of �� Season $53.00 $48.00 $26.00 months. Western collaborations will see two more beamlines com- �� Dundas Street Centre United Church (Dundas at Maitland) pleted this next phase. Sham says �� Free parking is available next door at the Pebec School of Esthetics (courtesy of Marvel Beauty School) they are already planning for �� Phase 3. �� Tickets available through Orchestra London Box Office Tel: (519) 679-8778 Each beamline takes about two �� to three years to build at a cost of �� For more detailed information please visit www.londonpromusica.org $5 million to $15 million. London Life Youth Outreach Program: $2.00 at the door for senior elementary and For more information on CLS, secondary school students / Children 12 & under: FREE ADMISSION visit: www.lightsource.ca WESTERN NEWS NOVEMBER 24 , 2 0 0 5 7

IN PROFILE: ALUMNI Hit songwriter shares his inspiration

B Y Q UENTIN C ASEY ising. mom, but used to teach in the pri- Moccio will soon work with hip- vate school system in Toronto. When Stephan Moccio was hop artist Kayne West, and Cana- The couple make their home in a music student at Western a dian jazz legend Oscar Peterson Toronto, but Moccio spends a lot decade ago, he happened to meet is set to record one of his songs. of his time in L.A., where much of Celine Dion during a performance Such success is the product of his work is based. at Alumni Hall. He boldly told the hard work, lots of ambition and Eventually Moccio would like famous Canadian singer he would what he calls “a very supportive to move to California perma- someday write her a hit song. nently, although further up the She laughed and the two parted coast from L.A. Within a decade ways. he’d like to work exclusively with Nearly nine years to the day “Some of my fondest orchestras, strictly conducting later, Moccio delivered on his memories are of the and composing. promise. Moccio’s willingness to share He penned Dion’s 2002 come- beauty of the campus, his story was appreciated by the back hit, A New Day Has Come. the architecture. That’s music faculty. The song was the title track of extremely inspiring for “He’s a special person… he’s so the album that debuted at No. 1 in giving,” said Robert Toft, chair 18 countries and sold 11 million any artist or musician. of the music history department. albums. “We were just thrilled when he Moccio was back at Western said he’d come.” recently speaking to students in musical family.” And Moccio clearly had an the Don Wright Faculty of Music. The Niagara Falls, Ont., native effect on the students in atten- Moccio discussed a variety of top- started piano lessons at the age of dance. ics, from song writing techniques three. He trained with the Royal “It was a great opportunity to and how to approach publishers, Conservatory, played in rock learn from someone who’s had to the pitfalls of the music indus- bands as a teenager and studied such success,” said Jennifer try. at Western despite scholarship Laengert, a fourth-year music “Allow mistakes to happen. offers from many other schools. history student focusing on pop Nurture them,” he told the crowd. Moccio can remember the music. “I learned a lot about how “They are your best teacher in moment, at 11 years old, when things work in the industry.” life.” he knew music would be his life’s Music grad Stephan Moccio works with some of the biggest names in music Moccio said he’s glad to see And Moccio has experience to passion. including Sarah Brightman, Celine Dion and David Foster. the direction Western is headed support his wisdom. “The piano all of the sudden in, particularly with its new pop The 33-year-old has collected a became an open canvas and part of my life.” Following what you know and music program that will begin wealth of accomplishments since the notes became these various It was also at Western that Moc- going against the grain... and hav- next year. he graduated in 1994 with an hon- colours, painted with different cio met his long-time friend and ing the conﬁdence to stand by it,” Moccio said the faculty’s open- ors degree in composition and brush strokes,” he said in an manager, James Porter. he said. mindedness toward pop music is piano performance. interview. “That’s when I really “We started with a passion for But despite his success, Moccio essential to produce top perform- Moccio composes, arranges and said, ‘wow, there are endless pos- music because we wanted to get said his greatest accomplishment ers in the industry. produces music in a variety of sibilities here.’” music out to the world,” said Moc- came just ﬁve weeks ago. “This is a step in the right direc- genres, from rap and pop to clas- Moccio easily recalls his time cio of his friendship. “And we are His daughter, Elle, was born. tion,” he said. “It’s very brave and sical. He has worked with some at the university. stronger now than ever.” “It causes you to look at life dif- I’m very proud they are doing of the biggest names in the music “Some of my fondest memories After graduation, Moccio ferently, evaluate things differ- it.” industry, including Sarah Bright- are of the beauty of the campus, signed a deal with Sony and spent ently,” he said. “It has put things All these years later, with man, the Royal Philharmonic in the architecture. That’s extremely eight years writing and compos- back into perspective for me in a his career in full form, Moccio London, England, the Los Ange- inspiring for any artist or musi- ing for the company. He left Sony very good, grounding way.” can still pinpoint the first song les Philharmonic, Olivia Newton cian. There’s a peacefulness, a in 2003 and started his own busi- Moccio shares his life with his that inspired him. He was only John, Jessica Simpson, Randy serenity to the campus that I ness, Sing Little Penguin Inc. wife of nearly three years, Hilary three years old and listening to Bachman and David Foster. couldn’t get at [other schools],” He said his biggest challenge Kristen. The two are high school Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. Even legendary Beatles pro- he said. over the past decade has also sweethearts and have been able to “I remember the power of that ducer George Martin has pro- “I know I wouldn’t be the been his most rewarding. remain together despite Moccio’s music,” he said, “and how it just duced one of Moccio’s songs. musician I am if I had gone else- “It’s following your inner voice, hectic schedule. took me to a different place.” And the future is just as prom- where… Western has been a great as tacky and clichéd as that is. Hilary is now a stay-at-home

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I can now say I’ve “played the Palace.” No, not the famed New York theatre of vaudeville days; instead I performed on the grounds of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna this past July alongside fellow members of the Don Wright Faculty of Music New Horizons Band. That ain’t too shabby. That we even performed in Vienna, and later Budapest and Prague, might be considered audacious for a band that’s only been around for six years and plays at a high school level. But some 40 members were keen to tour Europe and play five concerts there. The following is a condensed diary of our tour this past summer from where I sat as a clarinet Linda Armstrong player. The New Horizons Band takes a moment to celebrate from their five-concert tour of Vienna, Budapest and Prague. JULY 4 We gather at Saunders Second- to pick a repertoire of more than and violin -- who serve up every out. also wind, but I’ve mastered the ary School in London to start our a dozen tunes that we’ve been cheesy song that’s ever been This fourth concert is our best art of pegging pages and shifting first international tour. We are playing for awhile. recorded from Edelweiss to Span- performance, I think. We attract to new ones during bars of rest. adults ranging from late teens to We also battle a wind that makes ish Eyes to My Way. Our group a sizeable crowd for some of the The crowd seems quiet today. 80s, and there is a buzz of antici- our sheet music dance despite sings along heartily, definitely in tunes, and I swear some audience After a solid rendition of Land of pation about finally being on our being fastened with clothes pegs; good spirits. On to Budapest. member lit up a joint during one the Silver Birch, I swear there’s way after more than a year of it’s also difficult to hear. I’m think- piece. Hey, are we that hip? The no applause. Come on, people, planning. “Can you believe we’re ing, where are the trumpets? I JULY 9 band gathers the next night for a give it up for the band. But play- actually going?” is the most can always hear them, but not dinner cruise on the Danube and ing three Czech folk songs and repeated phrase. Some of us outside in this huge, gusty space. That our bus was able to make everyone seems to be having fun. enlisting another guest conductor bring along kazoos and play a bit As part of our performance, Enns it down the wafer thin driveway Off to Prague for the final leg. for Soul Bossa invigorates the of our repertoire on the bus to the pulls a guest conductor from the leading to a retirement home audience. We end, as always, with airport. One wag says, “we sound crowd, a teacher with a group of outside of Budapest, where we JULY 12 a march called Jovial Gentleman, better on kazoo than we do on our kids. She “conducts” us through play a morning concert, was as and seconds before, I say to my instruments.” Soul Bossa, music from an Austin much a highlight as our perfor- Prague is chock full of summer fellow clarinetists, “Well, this is Powers movie, and that gets the mance. We discuss whether to tourists exploring the bustling our final song of the tour. Savour JULY 7 crowd animated. start the concert with the Hun- streets and some of the best-pre- it.” The Band-Aids (spouses and garian anthem; one argument is served buildings in Europe. Last Our farewell dinner the next We arrived in Vienna yester- friends who accompany us) that these seniors will appreciate night on the Charles Bridge, we evening is filled with speeches, day, where we play the first two assure us afterwards that we it, while the debate against is con- saw a one-man band who played thank yous, and dancing. Many concerts. This is the third time sounded fine. My sense is that it cern that some may have trouble banjo, had several percussion band members are pumped by I’ve been to Vienna and have wasn’t our best performance by standing up. We opt to play and instruments attached to his legs what’s happened over the past 10 always loved it. But in the home any means, but we’re through it are touched when they sing along. and head, whistles and a harmon- days and are already wondering of Strauss, and for a time, Mozart and can relax a bit. Several band members later say ica, topped by an umbrella with a aloud where to tour next. I have and Beethoven, it’s a bit daunting this appreciative audience made spotlight that shone on him as he a feeling Europe hasn’t seen the to come as a musician. JULY 7 (EVENING) it their favourite concert, but it played. In a small, accented voice last of us. There are a few clouds as we certainly wasn’t my best play- he sang You Are My Sunshine and * * * set up chairs in the courtyard of Two concerts in one day – that’s ing. I kept glancing around at the If You Knew Susie, among others. One moment from the tour that Schönbrunn Palace, former home showbiz, baby! Tonight we play audience and missed a few bars. Maybe we could use this guy. sticks in my mind came between of the Hapsburg rulers. Our con- outdoors at a restaurant in Grinz- One sweet and ancient resident, Our final concert, at Namesti songs at Fishermen’s Bastion. cert starts at 3 p.m., but we’re here ing, a suburb of Vienna. We defi- named Olga, crocheted butterfly Miru or Square of Peace, is on Madeleine Hart (B.A. 1949), the an hour early… and nervous. One nitely perform better this time pins for band members to take the hottest day of the trip. Some clarinetist beside me, paused to sax player says, “I’m so scared and in the small crowd are half a home as a souvenir of the visit. of us have quaffed a Czech beer soak in the atmosphere and then I don’t have any spit.” For “our dozen people from the Canadian Budapest is divided in two by before this performance, which smiling, said: “This is so much international debut,” as someone embassy who heard it was Can- the Danube, the flat Pest side in may indicate our new, relaxed fun.” calls it, we start hesitantly with ada Night at the restaurant. A few contrast to the hills of Buda. Our approach to performing. We get Absolutely. the Austrian anthem. It takes us a Japanese tourists snap photos of afternoon concert is up in Buda off to a ragged start with the couple of tunes to find our groove, us. What, do they think we’re the at a spot called Fishermen’s Bas- Czech national anthem, but even- The writer is a London author and I appreciate the wisdom of Vienna Philharmonic? Dream on. tion. In a small park, we cram into tually pull together. Playing out- and adjunct English professor at our conductor, Mark Enns, (B. After the concert, we dine at the a gazebo, but the acoustics are doors again creates a sound chal- Western Mus. 1983 and B. Ed 1988), head restaurant and are entertained amazing, and I hear all the other lenge; all I pretty much hear are of music at Saunders Secondary, by two musicians -- on accordion band members playing through- the alto saxes behind me. There’s WESTERN NEWS NOVEMBER 24 , 2 0 0 5 9

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B Y K ARMEN D OWLING has taught 1880-1897 (University of Toronto After first year Burke switched and BPHE from Queen’s Univer- a n d p u b - Press, 2004). He is founding edi- into Physiology/Psychology and sity. Raymer completed his Mas- Four new faces will join the lished exten- tor of Canadian Poetry: Studies, is currently working on her third ters in Kinesiology from West- Board of Governors starting sively in both Documents, Reviews (1977- ) and year of concurrent degrees in ern and is currently in his fourth today. fields, as well director of the Canadian Poetry Health Science and Nursing. She year of the PhD program in Medi- Faculty members Jerry White as on matters Press (1986- ). He is a Fellow of has been heavily involved in the cal Biophysics. He has served and David Bentley have signed of profes- the Royal Society of Canada, a Orientation Week Program, espe- almost three years as Vice-Presi- on for four-year terms which take sional con- Fellow of the Royal Society of cially this past year as the Orien- dent Academic for the Society them until November 2009, while cern such as Arts, a 3M Fellow, and a winner of tation Coordinator. In addition to of Graduate Students, competed students Laura Burke and Gray- the relation- the Pleva Award for Teaching and sitting on three student councils: in varsity cross-country/track & don Raymer begin two-year stints ship between the Hellmuth Prize for Research. Health Sciences, Nursing, and the field at Queen’s & Western and ending November 2007. Bentley teaching and ■ Laura Burke - elected by the USC, Burke is also a member of continues to race road and MTB ■ Jerry P. White - elected by r e s e a r c h Undergraduate Student Constitu- the Charity Ball Committee. cycling semi-professionally. Ray- the Senate to the Board. and the situation of the Arts and ency to the Board. ■ Graydon Raymer - elected by mer married Western Kinesiol- White is a professor and Chair Humanities in Canada. His pub- She was born and raised in the Graduate Student Constitu- ogy and Physiotherapy gradu- of Sociology at Western. He is for- lications include The Confedera- North Bay and came to Western ency to the Board. ate, Becky Martyn, on October mer Deputy Chair of the Health tion Group of Canadian Poets, in 2001 for Kinesiology Sciences. He has a BSC (Life Sciences) 1, 2005. Professions Regulatory Advisory Council of Ontario and a holder of the Pleva Pro- fessorship for teaching excellence. White is currently A s s o c i a t e Director of Convocation White and is serving his fourth term on Senate. From 1998 to the present he has been co-director of the nationally renowned First Nation Cohesion Research Proj- ect at Western. He has edited or co-authored six books. ■ David Bentley - elected by No matter what your Peu importe la nature de vos the Faculty to the Board. university education, études universitaires, vous He is a specialist in Canadian literature and English Victorian you can enjoy a career pouvez bénéficier d’une literature and painting. Bentley with a difference in the carrière différente dans Canadian Forces. les Forces canadiennes.

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PhD Lectures Silvana Ilie: An Applied Mathematics PhD Public consumer representative on the Professional Mid-Year Examination Dates, Lecture will be held November 28 at 2 p.m. in Curriculum Committee, was a virtual co-pre- December 2005 Statements of account will be mailed early in Hideki Ariizumi: An Economics PhD Thesis Room 204, Middlesex College. Title of Thesis: senter, appearing in video clips to deliver her December to the address on the University’s Examination will be held November 25 at 2:30 “Computational Complexity of Numerical Solu- sections of the presentation. December 7: Classes end. computer system. Please update your address p.m. in Room 142, Stevenson Lawson Building. tions on Initial Value Problems for Differential December 8: Study Day. by logging into www.registrar.uwo.ca with your Title of Thesis: “Essays on Physician Contracts, Algebraic Equations”. A Thesis Examination will Jason Gilliland (Geography) gave an invited December 9 - 21: Mid-year examination period. student number and PIN. Health and Unemployment and Long-Term Care follow at 3 pm in Room 142, Stevenson-Lawson presentation entitled “Assessing the Influence Insurance”. Supervisor: Dr. Audra Bowlus and Dr. Building. Supervisor: Dr. Robert M. Corless and of Environmental Factors on Obesity-Related Mid-Year Examination Timetable, Add/Drop Deadlines Ake Blomqvist. Dr. Greg Reid. Behaviours in Youth” to the Canadian Institutes December 2005 November 30: Last day to drop a full course of Health Research New Principal Investigators The preliminary mid-year examination schedule An Education PhD Public and full-year half course (on campus day and Maureen O’Neill: Sean Gill: A Physiology PhD Public Lecture will Meeting. The meeting was co-sponsored by the is now posted on the Registrar’s web site. The Lecture will be held November 25 at 10 a.m. evening and Distance Studies) without academic be held November 30 at 9 a.m. in Room 1002, Institute of Genetics and the Institute of Human Final Schedule was posted November 17 on the in Room 1010, Althouse College. Title of Thesis: penalty. Please note: deadlines that fall on a Dental Science Building. Title of Thesis: “The Development, Child and Youth Health. Registrar’s web site. Students booking flights for “Understanding Understanding in Secondary holiday or weekend will be extended to the next Function of Timp3 in Murine Bronchiole Branch- the holidays are advised to book a flight date of School Science: An Interpretive Study”. A The- business day. ing Morphogenesis”. A Thesis Examination will Melitta Adamson, (Modern Languages and December 22 or later. sis Examination will follow at 1:30 pm in Room follow at 10 am in Room 142, Stevenson-Lawson Literatures) recently presented the papers 125A, Stevenson-Lawson Building. Supervisor: Dr. Hours of Operation Building. Supervisor: Dr. Kevin Leco and Dr. “Poverty on the Menu: Towards a Culinary A student who, for religious reasons, is unable Sharon Haggerty. Andy Watson. Vocabulary of Poverty in Medieval Europe” at to write exams on a Sabbath or Holy Day, must Regular hours, Information Services Room 190 The Sign Languages of Poverty in the Middle give notice of this fact in writing to his/her Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays – 9 am An Electrical and Computer Adam G. Rehorn: Ages and Early Modern Period, Twelfth Inter- Dean as early as possible, but not later than to 4 pm Engineering PhD Public Lecture will be held Faculty & Staff national Round Table, Austrian Academy of November 15. Wednesdays – 10 am to 6 pm November 25 at 1 p.m. in Room 234, Thompson Sciences, Krems, Austria; and “The Broad Bean Telephone Helpline: (519) 661-2100 Sandra Hobson presented a paper co-authored Engineering Building. Title of Thesis: “Diagnosis in Diet, Medicine, and Myth: Walther von der Due dates for tuition fees Regular hours - 9 am to 4 pm of Machine Tools Based on Inverse Problem with Thelma Sumsion and Debbie Rae, all with the School of Occupational Therapy, titled Vogelweide’s Bean Song” in the Department of Approaches and Time-Frequency Techniques” A Second instalment of tuition fees for under- For more information about these and other “Clients as Partners in Curriculum Planning and Medieval Studies, Central European University, Thesis Examination will follow at 2 p.m. in Room graduate and professional students is Jan- items, please visit the Registrar’s web site at Delivery” at an international conference on Budapest, Hungary. 102, Stevenson-Lawson Building. Supervisor: Dr. uary 9, 2006. Winter term fees for gradu- www.registrar.uwo.ca. Jin Jiang and Dr. Peter Orban. “Where is the Patient’s Voice in Health Profes- ate students (except MBAs) is January 11, sional Education” in Vancouver. Debbie Rae, 2006 and for MBAs is January 16, 2006.

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