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Vol. 27, No. 1 pr. concordia. ca/ctr September 12~ 2002

$200 million in bonds launched Record bond issue in Canada and a first by a Quebec university

BY BARBARA B LA CK However, Concordia's offering is sold to 23 purchasers, mainly pen­ the largest to date by a Canadian sion funds. oncordia has sold $200 mil­ university. These bonds are distinct from lion in bonds to finance its The university was assigned a the "grant bonds" used by the Cambitious construction credit rating of Al from Moody's Quebec government since 1969 program. Investors Services and A from to finance capital spending in It is the first bond issue by a Dominion Bond Rating Service, education, health and the social university in Quebec and only the the same ratings given to the services. Those bonds are man­ fifth in Canada. However, this is a aged, administered and serviced growing trend, as Canadian uni­ Bonds are a recent trend by the government of Quebec. In versities look to the private sector this case, however, the bonds are to supplement the financial sup­ in university funding direct obligations of the universi- port given by government. ty. The first to do so was the province of Quebec. This attests Concordia is in the midst of an University of Toronto in 2001, to the sound financial manage­ extraordinary construction peri­ with an offering of $160 million. ment of the university as well as od (See Buildings, page 2). The They were followed by the its positive outlook for the future. estimated cost of the three new University of British Columbia, Concordia's offering was of buildings will be about $351 mil­ York and Brock. At least six more Series A debentures, with interest lion, of which $200 million will offerings by Canadian universities of 6.55 per cent paid semi-annual­ come from the bonds, $100 mil­ INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS PACKED A RECEPTION in the McConnell atrium are expected, including McGill ly; the minimum subscription lion from private fundraising and on Sept. 6. Left to right, Maud Ferrari (France), Sylvain Giroud (France), and another offering by U of T. was $150,000. The bonds were the rest from government. Kintaro Murayama (Japan) and Lara Worcester (USA). See story on page 1 O.

Protesters prevent speech by Benjamin Netanyahu • in this Moratorium declared on Middle East events at Concordia University issue BY BA RBARA B LACK frontation between the two and it was felt that the building sides, but police broke it up, was secure. Students, faculty everal hundred protesters and no one was hurt. and staff were instructed to use 3 Word search: Scaused the cancellation of a The former prime minister of the Mackay St. entrance, but Profs focus on speech - and of classes - in Israel had been invited by this proved to be confusing as the Henry F. Hall Building on Hillel, the Jewish students' events developed. online semantics Monday. group, to speak at noon in the Netanyahu was quick to Most of the protesters stayed Alumni Auditorium, H-110. denounce Canada and in the street, but some The booking, made in the nor- Concordia for not being able to 5 Enough's enough: breeched security to get inside control the protesters. In a Rector's message the building. When furniture Monday's events evoke p~ess conference at the on events Monday was hurled from the mezzanine shame and dismay: Ritz Carlton Hotel, h~ to the lobby and a large win­ . denounced the protesters dow on de Maisonneuve Blvd. Rector Frederick Lowy "totalitarian mentality;· was broken, police drove the and suggested that 6 Model student: crowd back with pepper spray mal way by a student organiza­ Concordia should be "cleaned Demonstrating and tear gas, and the event was tion, caused concern when uni­ up:' cancelled. The building was versity administrators realized For his part, Rector UN diplomacy in evacuated, and classes in the that the speaker was the hawk­ Frederick Lowy reacted with a Kosovo building were cancelled for the ish Netanyahu, who was the strong statement condemning rest of the day. prime minister from 1996-99. the actions of protesters, and There were reports of ticket­ The protesters' stated aim declaring a moratorium on fur­ 7 Animation stars: holders for the event being before the event was to prevent ther events relating to Middle The School of harassed. As occupants of H- Netanyahu from speaking. East politics. His full statement Cinema shines 110 were discharged into the However, security precautions is on page 5. More photos on street, there was a noisy con- were elaborate and expensive, CTR Web site. Protesters at the Hall Building New Concordia buildings are right on schedule Extensive changes as the campuses continue to undergo exciti(lg renovation and construction

BY BARBARA BLA CK of Ste. Catherine and St. Mathieu Sts. Continuing Education will he Science Complex on the occupy the third floor, and Loyola Campus is on Registrar's will use the second Tschedule, and is slated to floor for unassigned classrooms. open in September 2003. Dean of Students (AD): At At the Sir George Williams Loyola, the most important sum­ Campus downtown, excavation mer renovation is the consolida­ has been going on all summer for tion• of the Dean of Students the Integrated Engineering, Office. These renovations will Computer Science and Visual offer centralized, improved facili­ Arts Complex, on Ste. Catherine ties for students by bringing St. between Guy and Mackay Sts. together the Dean of Students, The design phase is coming to a Advocacy and Support Services, satisfactory end for the new quar­ Campus Ministry, Health ters of the John Molson School of Services, and Counselling and Business, on Guy St. between Ste. Development on the ground floor Catherine and de Maisonneuve of the Administration (AD) Blvd. Excavation is expected to Building. A new Instructional and start in 2003. Information Technology Services ).W. McConnell Building (LB): ~ (IITS) centralized.service counter Tim Horton's is being renovated . ! will be available in the Central by the new food services provider, g Building. Chartwells. The copy centre that I Residence changes: The com­ was located on the main floor of ~ mon rooms and kitchen of the the Hall Building has moved to ~----'----''--->.:..------'.:!, student residence on the Loyola the McConnell Building main The landscape of the Loyola Campus has been transformed by construction of the new Science Complex. Campus have been renovated. floor. This brings printing and Campus Centre: The food serv­ copying together in proximity to Hall Building (HB): The fourth­ cultural kitchen are under negoti­ continues to rely on some rented ices space at Loyola renovated by the Bookstore and R. Howard floor Tim Horton's counter has ation, and will stay as they are for space on the downtown campus. the new provider, Chartwells, will Webster Library. A quick food been revamped. The food court now. Rooms will be rented on the two be inaugurated on Sept. 16. service is available on the terrace on the mezzanine and the New classrooms: During this upper floors of the new Jean V,sit the Concordia buildings Web until the snow flies. Concordia Student Union multi- construction period, Concordia Coutu building (CL) at the corner site at http://buildings.concordia.ca/

Shuffle kicks off September 27 Service is Number 1 for support sector Meet friends for exercise and fundraising The university's intense growth has led to special demands on staff he Office of the Vice-Rector, will watch the video in four ses­ runaround" of information. onali Karnick and Daliso scholarships. Over its 12 years, TServices, is launching a sions on October 1 in the D.B. These workshops will be offered SChaponda, two local come­ $565,000 has been raised major drive to improve customer Clarke Theatre. Later in the on a continuous basis to all dians with bona fide Concordia through the Shuffle. support with a video presenta­ month, a dozen workshops on Concordia employees. credentials, will host this year's tion to all its employees. customer service will begin for Vice-Rector Services Michael edition of the Shuffle. Hosts The video comes from SST administrators and a selected 10 Di Grappa explains this under­ The walkathon between cam­ Sonali Karnick is a recent Communications, a Chicago the­ ' per cent of the staff, of whom taking by saying that the univer­ puses is a great way _to start the graduate of the journalism pro­ atre company that specializes in half will be front-line service per­ sity's current intense growth will new academic year. It's an gram. She can be heard on CBC's employee training programs. It's sonnel. They will be encouraged make special demands on sup­ opportunity to get a little exer­ a lively session of advice, inspira­ to go back to their workplace port staff, and this is an ideal cise on a fall Friday, meet old tion and role-playing, enacted and share what they've learned. way to prepare for it. friends from across the univer­ before a small but appreciative The workshops will be led by "Working to become Canada's sity, and raise some cash for live audience. trainers, all employees in the best university requires building needy students. At one point, an actor playing Services sector, who themselves and renovating our facilities, and The 7.5-km walk along a disgruntled employee laments, are being trained by Noel-Levitz, providing well-defined, expertly Sherbrooke St. starts at 1 p.m. "All the gung-ho that got me a company specializing in uni­ delivered services to operate and on the green space at Guy St. named Employee of the Month versity administrative support. maintain them," he said. and de Maisonneuve Blvd; and three times is gone. It's the same The trainers-in-training are "Through Service 1, we aim to there are prizes to be won at.the old job - the same administra­ Beverley-Ann Morris, Enza de deliver the best service possible other end. The Rector's tive gootballs, the same faculty, Cubellis, Tanya Poletti, Cheryl to all our internal and external Reception, with refreshments Co-host Dallso Chaponda the same complaints, over and McKenzie, Louyse Lussier and customers, and at the same time, for all, will follow. over again. And as for the stu­ Myriam Champagne. demonstrate our commitment to Students, faculty, staff, alum­ Daybreak, where she is a dents . . :• That ought to raise a The workshop subjects range the personal growth of every ni, retirees amd members of the researcher, and at comedy clubs few smiles of recognition. from how to deal with difficult Services sector employee." general public are all welcome. around town. Daliso Chaponda Approximately 600 employees situations to stopping the "office -BB Participants are asked to sign is a creative writing student up sponsors, and the proceeds who stages his own stand-up will go towards Concordia comedy shows. 2002 JOHN HANS LOW-BEER MEMORIAL LECTURE Myths, Mountains, Miracles: Face to Face with Mental Illness The Thursday Report has a new look Fred Frese, PhD Wednesday, September 25, at 7 p.m. ,. ncordia's Thursday Report has a new look - we hope you like it. Room 11 O, Henry F. Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. COur thanks to designer Elana Trager, in the Department of Marketing Communications, for her flair and expertise. Fred Frese is a psychologist at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. Diagnosed with schizophrenia CTR is published every two weeks during the academic season. at 25, he will talk about the prospects and experiences of recovery, both from his own perspective and Future publication dates are Sept. 26, Oct. 10, Oct. 24, Nov. 7, Nov. as a mental health professional. 21, Dec. 5, Jan. 16, Jan. 30, Feb. 13, Feb. 27, Mar. 13, Mar. 27, Apr. 10, SPONSORED BY AMI-QUEBEC ALLIANCE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY Apr. 24, May 8, May 22 and June 5. 2 Concordia ' s Thursday Report ! September 12 , 2002 ...... \ . . .. • ,_ • ._ "\ • '., I • \, •, - '• This column wel.comes the submissions ofall Concordia Refining Internet searches faculty and staffto promote and encourage individual Computational Linguistics group focuses on semantics and group activities in teaching and research, and to encourage work-related achievements

BY JAMES MART IN n the world of electronic at a information, he that seeketh Ifindeth - but not until he hath sorted through a whole lot of extraneous stuff. ance The Computational Linguistics at Concordia (CLaC) research group is out to speed things along. Two in a row: Congratulations to Manuel Morales, who has been "Our work is related to what awarded a $10,000 PhD scholarship from the Casualty Actuarial Internet search engines do right Society and Society of Actuaries. Only four of five of these renewable now;' explained Dr. Sabine scholarships are awarded every year across North America. Professor Bergler, CLaC co-founder and Jose Garrido, who is director of the actuarial mathematics program, reminds us that last year another of his students, Esteban Flores, associate professor of computer won the same award. science, "but we're working at a more fundamental level of going A group of 56 paintings by Canadian artist Sheila Maloney called The towards the content of a docu­ Famine and Beyond: Irish Resettlement in the New World, has been given to the Canadian Irish Studies Foundation through the gen­ ment and finding ways of express­ erosity of Brian Leavitt. The works, ranging in size from eight by six ing at least parts of that content:' inches to four by three feet and done in a colourful, naif style, were CLaC was formed last shown June 19-28 in Samuel Bronfman House. The curator was September when Bergler joined Professor Kat O'Brien (Design Art). forces with newly arrived assis­ Suresh Kumar Cioyal (Decision Sciences/ MIS) co-authored the arti­ tant professor Dr. Leila Kosseim. cle •on manufacturing batch size and ordering policy with shelf Working with a handful of gradu- · Sabine Bergler and Leila Kosselm launched their laboratory In July. lives" with Professor S. Viswanathan, of Nanyang Business School of ate students (plus three under­ Singapore. The article was accepted for publication by the grads working on summer NSERC United States" - but those same are, in fact, accurate or useful. International Journal of Production Research. In just one year, CLaC has host­ scholarships), words, as used in documents Harold Chorney (Political Science) presented three papers last year, Bergler and Kosseim are taking from the 1970s, do!].'t necessarily ed the inaugural workshop on one in New York at the Eastern Economics Association meetings in computational linguistics beyond refer to the same person as docu­ Computational Linguistics in the February, another in London in July to the annual meetings of the what is termed "the bag of words ments from the 1990s. North East (CLiNE) in May, and Association of Heterodox Economics, and a third to the Association approach;' which doesn't take the researchers celebrated the Quebecoise de Droit Compare. Understanding the text into account that the order of opening of their own computer Jaleel Ahmad (Economics) was invited by Nobel laureate Robert words may change the meaning. Another co-referencing chal­ lab in July. Solow to present a paper at the 13th World Congress of the For example, a search for infor­ lenge lies in identifying the differ­ After years of limited growth, International Economic Association (IEA), of which he is president. mation about a sandwich-eating ences between referents which computational linguistics is now The conference is being held in Lisbon, Portugal, September 9-13. contest ("Brothers eat four hun­ may share the same name (as in experiencing a huge burst of Karin Doerr (Simone de Beauvoir, CMLL) organized the session dred heroes") may yield shocking the case of "President George international interest, largely "Transgenerational Memory of Genocide in Literature and Literary revelations about bravery gone Bush''). Ultimately, CLaC believes because governments are under Criticism" for the 32nd Annual Scholars' Conference on the horribly awry ("Four heroes eat co-referencing research will result great pressure to find efficient Holocaust and the Churches, held at Kean University in Union, NJ in hundred brothers"). "If you're in more meaningful, useful text ways to manage an ever-increas­ March. She also presented •Re-Reading Bernhard Schlink's The using Google and not taking care retrieval. ing amount of electronic text. Reader as a Mirror of Germany's Holocaust Memory." Sima with your double quotes;• Bergler "If you have any kind of under­ (The European Union, for exam­ Aprahamian (Sociology/Anthropology) gave a presentation on •Recent Literary Responses to the 1915 genocide of the Armenians." said, "you'll get all kinds of results standing of the text of a docu­ ple, must produce each of its doc­ and then have to sift through ment, rather than just frequency uments in seven languages; the Congratulations to two students in the John Molson School of pages and pages of material, like of key-word occurrence;• said Canadian Department of Business, Taoufik Oualhdj (MBA) and Marc Huras (BComm). They back in the Dark Ages:• Kosseim of the importance of co­ National Defence electronically won third prize in the CIBC World Market Ivey Business Plan Competition last spring. Their entry was a research and development referencing, "then the hope is that archives any document with a sig­ Developing a base technology start-up called K&H Innovations Inc. It was quite an achievement, as you'll improve the accuracy of the nature.) This avalanche of virtual they had little capital invested and unproven technology, unlike At the core of CLaC's research retrieval. That's why we're really paperwork, Kosseim cheerily many of their competitors. Over 60 teams from across North America is the idea of"noun phrase co-ref­ focusing on the deeper semantic notes, means "there's a lot of work and as far away as India competed. erencing;' which Dr. Bergler dubs and syntactic analysis of the text, to be done:• Four members of the TESL Centre (Education) were delighted to "the base technology that drives where we're trying to represent a Bergler admits there's no end to hand out prizes at a celebration in June held by the Societe the rest:' Co-referencing strives sense of the meaning:· the challenges presented by natu­ Quebecoise pour la reussite de l'academique. They were Beth for semantic understanding of Related CLaC research includes ral (colloquial) language's quirks Ciatbonton, Barbara Barclay, Chen Feng Huang and retired profes­ the text by attempting to link question-answering (the goal is to - ambiguity, irony, figures of sor Ciwen Newsham. They attended at the invitation of TESL gradu­ multiple appearances of the same semantically and syntactically speech - that often leave us per­ ate Bruce Peterson. He runs the English classes of Superkids, spon­ concept (or person or place) in a break down user queries by com­ plexed. "Two people don't neces­ sored by the Chinese community to teach mathematical skills and group of electronic documents. It piling annotated corpera: the sarily agree about what they read English as a second language to their children, most of whom are in the French school system. may sound easy, but meaning is reverse is also being researched, in the same document, even if it's slippery; Bergler warns that "seri­ wherein the software returns a factual text;' she said, "so we David Pariser (Art . Education) gave a lecture in July at the ous issues arise when you look answers using full, grammatical­ know that we probably won't have International Literacy and Education Research Network Conference across several documents:• ly-correct sentences), summa­ full semantic and syntactic on Learning in Beijing. It was on •Navigating Cultures in Graphic Even something as seemingly rization (in which users are understanding within our life­ Development: Testing the Cultural Socialization Hypothesis." He also gave two lectures at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. benign as a text's date can prove quickly and accurately briefed as time. Not unless - " problematic: a group of docu­ the content of relevant docu­ Laughing, Kosseim finishes the Bart Simon (Sociology/Anthropology) presented a paper called ments may, for example, all make ments), and user evaluations of thought: "Not unless someone "Science Studies and Computer Games: Notes on Materiality and reference to the "President of the whether the returned answers changes natural language:• Fantasy in Mediated Environments" at the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science at MIT in October of last year, and "Satellite Dreams: Materializing the Indonesian nation" at a workshop on socio-technical change in developing countries at the Concordia writer-in-residence Steven Heighton WRITERS READ @ CONCORDIA University of Twente, Netherlands, in June. Thursday, Sept. 19, 8:30 pm, Hall Building H-762 PRESENTED BY THE DEPARTM ENT OF ENGLISH AN D THE CREATIVE WRmNG PROGRAM Professor Emeritus Hugh McQueen was honoured this summer by Steven Heighten is the author of seven books, including the novel The Shadow Boxer, published by Knopf Canada (2000). CONCIM 2002, a symposium on metallurgy, for his contributions to His poetry collection, The Ecstasy of Skeptics (1995), was nominated for the Governor-General's Award, and he was a science and technology as a researcher, teacher and communicator. Trillium Award finalist for his collection of short fiction, Aight Paths of the Emperor (1993). He has also published a book The symposium was held August 11-15 in Montreal, and included a of essays, The Admen Move on Lhasa: Writing and Culture in a Virtual World. Raised in Toronto and in Northern Ontario, talk by Professor McQueen about the historic St Lawrence River he lives in Kingston, Ontario, where he edited Quarry Magazine from 1988 to 1994. bridges. 3 Sfpt,m~tr 12, 2002 I Concordill's Thursd1y hport Elizabeth Sacca named Dean of Graduate Studies .letters...... to...... the...... editor...... lizabeth Sacca has been meeting held June 19, it was CSU concerned about control of Hall mezzanine Eappointed Dean of Graduate determined that the title of he mezzanine, the valuable space of student groups and uni­ Studies for a term beginning Provost and Vice-Rector, Tversity departments alike, may soon be just another corpo­ September 1, 2002 and ending Research, will be changed to rate cafeteria. If Michael Di Grappa, Vice-Rector, Services, had May 31, 2007. At the time of her Provost, and a new position of had his way, construction would have already- started Sept. 1. appointment, she was Associate Vice-Provost, Research, will be The mezzanine is the space where student clubs have their Dean, Appraisals, Curriculum created. exhibits and tables. University departments hold information and Interdisciplinary Studies, in Previously, the research portfo­ tables, job fairs take place, Art Matters takes place, EC.A'.s bridge­ the School of Graduate Studies. lio came under the purview of the building contest happens, CASA hold their fairs, and more. All of Elizabeth has been teaching at Dean of Graduate Studies and would have been converted into a Chartwells food area. Concordia since 1975. She has Research, but there was a need for The CSU only found all this out during a meeting with low­ served as department chair, grad­ a full-time senior administrator level administration and as a result of a slip. We were told that uate program director, and prin­ dedicated to the research portfo­ the space where the copy center on the first floor is currently cipal of the Simone de Beauvoir lio. The Vice-Provost, Research, located would become an international cafe and that this would Institute. She has also served on Education Research. She is also a will report to the Provost and will extend up to the mezzanine. This plan would hardly help stu­ the Board of Governors, the member of the Canadian act as the chief research officer of dents or faculty since Java U, the ever-popular cafe, is located Board Advancement Committee Association for Graduate Studies, the university. The Dean of only a few feet away. Java U's space, however, is controlled by stu­ and Senate. and in 2000, she received the June Graduate Studies.and Research is dents. She earned her PhD at King McFee Award for profes­ now titled Dean of Graduate Due to CSU pressure, construction has been postponed for Pennsylvania State University, sional leadership, research and Studies. eight months, yet at this point it is only a delay. Therefore the and was the founding editor of teaching. Best wishes, Elizabeth, in your CSU is calling for the space to be placed into a trusteeship the Canadian Review of Art At the Board of Governors new post. between it and the Dean of Students office, thereby securing its long-term future for all departments and student groups. New members on Yves Engler, VP communications, Concordia Student Union • • 1n memoriam Board of Governors Patricia Posius, Administrator, Vice-Rector Affairs, replies: The university is planning a number of improvements to the Hall Jean-Pierre Petolas, 1925-2002 oncordia's Board of Building to improve and increase learning space and general CGovernors welcomes the fol­ access. These plans have been under discussion with the CSU for is many friends at Concordia were saddened to hear of the lowing new members represent­ several months, including the introduction of new food service Hpassing of Jean-Pierre Petolas, a significant figure in the ing the community at large: facilities on the Hall Building main floor and mezzanine. Central growth and development of Concordia. Normand Beauchamp has to these plans was an offer to fully renovate a major portion of He joined Sir George Williams University as an associate pro­ worked in the communications the Hall seventh floor to provide centralized and expanded dis­ fessor of physics in 1949, when the university consisted of two industry for more than 40 years. play and study space, as well an area to develop the Concordia floors of the YMCA on Drummond St. and most of the 1,600 He has held several key positions Kitchen Mosaic. It is unfortunate that these plans are now on students attended evening classes. In the 1950s, the physics with Telemedia hold, but the mezzanine will remain under the jurisdiction of department, then housed in the former Spanish and Portuguese Communications Inc. and the Dean of Students Office for the near future. Synagogue on Stanley St., moved under his direction into the Radiomutuel. new Norris Building next to the Y. Baljit Singh Chadha is presi­ Limits to free speech: Professor Professor Petolas joined the Sir George administration in dent of Balcorp Limited, an 1962, and began what he later described as the most exciting international trading house he remember learning that free speech did not extend to shout­ period of his life. The university was bursting at the seams. He founded in 1976 with offices in !ing "Fire!" in a crowded theatre. became a key figure in the planning of what was for many years Montreal and India. He is active Concordia set up the crowded theatre situation when it the largest university building in Canada, the Henry F. Hall in community and philanthropic allowed Netanyahu to speak on its premises. Allowing Yasser Building, and the acquisition of the houses along Bishop and affairs. Arafat to speak would have produced similar unfortunate Mackay Sts. as annexes. Suzanne Gouin is president results. There are many other auditoriums in Montreal. In 1961, he was president of the Sir George Williams and general manager of TVS, and Concordia's responsibility is to its students. Inviting disrup­ Association of University Teachers, a forerunn,er of CUFA. has held executive positions at tion to classes is irresponsible. When he retired in 1986, Professor Petolas was Assistant Vice­ Transcontinental Media, CJNT Rector, Physical Resources. After his retirement, he remained Television, and CF Television G.S. Newsham, Professor Emeritus active in community affairs in Hudson, and an avid sailor, and Inc. Her undergraduate degree is he was always interested in Concordia. from Concordia {1977), and she Graham Martin, who worked closely with him as an adminis­ was a member of Concordia's trator, said, "J-P was a quiet, unassuming, kindhearted man. His 2001-2002 Annual Giving Reorganization of departments work for the university, which ranged from the Hall Building Committee. ( through the Visual Arts Building to the new library complexes eneral Counsel and has merged with the Board and Senate Office and all space matters in between, was done quietly, often Gto form the University Secretariat, under Me Bram Freedman, behind the scenes, and rarely acknowledged publicly, but most Assistant Secretary-General and General Counsel. of the space that we had and that was planned up to 1986 was CONCORDIA'S It will be responsible for the administration of the university's legal his doing. Those of us who worked with him will sorely miss affairs, the governance of university business, both corporate and aca­ him:· THURSDAY REPORT demic, the development and oversight of official university policies Our sincere sympathies are extended to his family, particu­ Concordia'sThursday Report and the administration of Student Tribunal Hearing Panels. Two posi­ larly his wife Betty, who was also a longtime employee of the is published 18 times du ring the academic year tions are vacant, those of the Associate General Counsel and a secre­ university and a gracious friend to many. on a bi-weekly basis by the Internal Relations and Communicati ons Department of Concordia tary-receptionist. University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd.W ., Bassem Khalifah, PhD Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 (514) 848-4882 Advancement and Alumni Relations E-mail: [email protected] The following now report directly to the Vice-Rector, Institutional assem Khalifah, 61, died as the result of a massive heart fax:(514) 848-2814 Milll!ialpooishedilthe1Wi!p,1p1'1 Relations and Secretary-General, Marcel Danis: Acting Chief attack suffered in his classroom in the Faubourg Tower on B ma'/ (rt be reixoctuced without pennission. Development Officer Marcel Dupuis; Director of Advancement Tuesday. ISSN 1185-3689 Services Graham Maisonneuve; Director of Alumni Relations Laura Dr. Khalifah earned his PhD in religion from Concordia in Publications Mail Agreement No.:40042804 Editor Stanbra; and Acting Director of Communications Howard Bokser. 1996, and was teaching two courses for the Political Science Barbara Black Department at the time of his death, Religion and Politics, and Layout Name changes Islam and Nationalism. Debbie Hum Concept and Production Two departments of Advocacy and Support Services have changed Our sincere sympathies are extended to his family, including Elana Trager, Erin Mark their names. Campus Ministry will now be called Concordia Multi­ his son Alexandre, an employee in the Faculty of Engineering Marl

shameful and distressing taken immediately: diately and until further notice. Aevent occurred Monday at 1. Normal operations resumed, This includes a moratorium on Concordia University. A speaker, on Tuesday, September 10. The public speeches, rallies, exhibits invited by a student group, was Hall Building was open as usual. and information tables. We will prevented from speaking by the Students, professors and staff can be meeting with student leaders use of violence and intimidation. be assured that appropriate secu­ to develop a more long-term poli­ Some students and visitors were rity will be in place. cy in this regard. threatened and jostled. University 2. Those identified as having Concordia has no intention of property was damaged. provoked or engaged in violence abandoning its tradition of free In a university that prides itself or vandalism will be prosecuted expression. It is not acceptable on openness, tolerance of diversi­ and their student status reviewed. for the university to be disrupted ty and freedom of expression, 3. What is needed now is a peri­ in the manner that occurred on such actions evoke shame and od of restraint. A moratorium on Monday. dismay. They cannot and will not the use of university space for be tolerated. events related to the Middle East Frederick Lowy, Rector and Protesters broke a large window on de Malsonneuve Blvd. Police drove the The following steps will be conflict· will be instituted imme- Vice-Chancellor crowd back with pepper spray, some of which drifted Into the building.

Welcome to new faculty at Concordia appointments and departures

New tenure-track professors in Arts and Science and the Business School utgoing Dean of Graduate .studies ' and Research Claude Bedard has been appointed to the Quebec Commission on eir Amor ( Sociology and O University Teaching and Research. The three-year appointment Anthropology) is a native of M was made by Celine Saint-Pierre, chair of the Superior Council of Israel who has considerable Education. teaching and research experience there and in Canada, including Tamas (Tom) Zsolnay has left his post as Executive Director of this past year at Concordia. He Advancement and Alumni Relations for a United Nations mis­ got his PhD from the University of sion to Ethiopia and Eritrea, where he will coordinate the Toronto in 1998, writing his thesis deployment of 220 military observers. We wish him- all the best on state persecution. in his new duties. Marcel Dupuis has been appointed Acting Chief Development Lori Beaman (Sociology and Officer in the Office of University Advancement and Alumni Anthropology) comes from the Affairs, and as such is responsible for supervising Concordia's University of Lethbridge, where fundraising efforts. He worked for seven years for a private she spent five years. She special­ fundraising consulting firm, and joined Concordia last spring as izes in law and society, deviance, Director of Corporate and Foundation Giving. the sociology of religion and gen­ der issues, has a law degree and a Victoria Percival-Hilton has left her position as Associate PhD in sociology from the General Counsel to become Legal Counsel at McGill University. University of New Brunswick. Axel Hulsemeyer (left) Is a new hire In Polltlcal Science. Among staff who Vicky was at Concordia for seven years, representing the univer­ joined the Arts and Science barbecue held at Loyola during a day of orien­ sity before administrative tribunals and the courts, mostly in the Marco Bertola (Mathematics tation were Andrea Rodney, Shelley Sltahal and Jean-Patrick Dorais (front), area of labour relations. We wish her every success. from the Office of Research Services. Their director, Benoit Morin, and Statistics) specializes in explained the administrative support for research to new faculty members Yves Proulx has left his post as Assistant Director of Employee mathematical physics, with an at four orientation sessions held August 26-29. Relations to take on new responsibilities at the the McGill emphasis on differential geome­ University Health Centre. try. He has a PhD from SISSA­ is a specialist in 19th- and 20th­ Adrian Iovita (Mathematics ISAS, in Trieste, Italy, and did a century European philosophy, and Statistics) will join Concordia David Gobby, Coordinator of Quality Programs, has been postdoctoral fellowship at the particularly its history and ethics. in January from the University of named Interim Director of the Recruitment Office. Universite de Montreal that A native of Germany, he received Washington, where he is an assis­ Michael Kenneally has been appointed Chair in Canadian included research at Concordia. his PhD in 1999 from Villanova tant professor. A native of Irish Studies, a new position. He has served as interim director University. He spent the past two Romania, he got his PhD from of the Centre for Canadian Irish Studies since it was established Paula Bouffard (Eludes fran~) years at Miami University of Ohio. Boston University in 1996. He spe­ in 2000, before which he taught in the Department of English. specializes in French linguistics cializes in problems related to the The holder of a PhD from the University of Toronto, he is the with a focus on computer tech­ Hugh Hazelton (Classics, Modem p-adic cohomology of motives. author of Sean O'Casey and the Art of Autobiography, and the nology. She has been an LTA in Languages and Linguistics) has editor of the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. the department for three years been a part-time lecturer and LTA Michael Lipson (Political and is finishing her PhD at in the department since 1988, Science) spent the past year at Ghislaine Leclerc has retired after 15 years at Concordia. She UQAM. where he has taught Spanish lan­ Princeton, teaching international was most recently secretary to the executive director of Facilities guage and translation. His PhD is relations and int~rnational secu­ Management. We wish her a happy retirement. Richard Courtemanche (Exercise in comparative Canadian litera­ rity. He got his PhD in political Suzanne Gregory has been appointed Executive Assistant to Science) specializes in how ture from the Universite de science from the University of the Executive Director, Facilities Management. Suzanne has a humans learn and perform motor Sherbrooke (1997). Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. BA in French Studies from the Universite de Montreal, and many activities. He had a postdoctoral years of experience in real estate. Welcome, Suzanne. fellowship at MIT, and his PhD is Axel Hulsemeyer (Political Philippe Merle (Chemistry) is Simon Horn has been appointed Web Communications in neurological sciences from the Science) is from Germany, and is an organic chemist who special­ Development Coordinator in the Department of Internal Universite de Montreal (1999). a specialist in international rela­ izes in the chemistry behind Relations and Communications. Simon has some 20 years expe­ tions. He got his PhD last spring metallic reactions. He got his PhD rience as a writer, editor and computer specialist. Dana Dragunoiu (English) spe­ from the University of Calgary, in 1997 from the Universite cializes in modernist, postmod­ where he also taught internation­ Montpellier in his native France. ernist and contemporary British al relations and the international and American literature. She economic order. Toshihiko Mukoyama received her PhD from the (Economics) is a specialist in eco­ Viviane Namaste (Simone de prostitutes ··and drug users. Her University of Toronto in 2000, and Susumu Imai (Economics) nomic growth, unemployment Beauvoir) spent the past three PhD is in semiotics from UQAM spent the past year as a postdoc­ comes to Concordia from and income distribution. He years as a project coordinator for (1996). toral fellow at Princeton. Pennsylvania State University. He received a PhD from the Cactus, a needle-exchange pro­ received his PhD from the University Rochester in June. gram aimed at stopping the New tenure-track faculty Matthias Fritsch (Philosophy) University of Minnesota in 1998. spread of AIDS among Montreal continued on page 8 5 Septem ber 12 , 2002 I Conc ordia

THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT PRESENTS THE ANNUAL LAHEY LECTURE

Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California at Davis •cultural Literacy and the Question of Jargon: An Historical Perspective• Friday, September 20, 3 p.m. JA De Seve Cinema, LB-125, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Margaret Ferguson is the author of Trial of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry and Dido's Daughters: literacy, Gender and Empire in Early Modem France and England. 6 Communication progressed over the week as Kosovo youth picked up the art of UN diplomacy and negotiation. Co ncordia ' s Thursday Repo r t I Sept ember 12, 2002 spotlight on the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema African animators collaborate on a Mali tale for children

BY DANA HEARNE "Kadiatou and myself are the only human beings who always spoil two female African animation things:· ver since the 1995 Vues film directors in the world:' Being here means a lot to her. Ed'Afrique film festival in Konate's primary goal is to edu­ 'Tm doing the storyboard with a Montreal, Cilia Sawadogo has cate, and she sees film as an terrific team, and lots of people wanted to collaborate on a film excellent educational tool. "The are interested and happy to know project with Kadiatou Konate, a animation genre is an excellent these African stories:• As for Cilia filmmaker from Mali, with whom medium for children, and I want Sawadogo, Konate considers her she shared the festival's anima­ to educate all my African children "an amazing person. Look at what tion prize. [meaning all the children of she has been able to do with her Sawadogo, a professor in Africa, not just her own three] life! It is a ray of hope to see what Concordia's Mel Hoppenheim and myself about the tales, cus­ she has been able to do:• School of Cinema, was able to toms, culture and realities of Sawadogo, who grew up in make that dream come true this Africa:· Burkina Faso, hopes that this col­ summer, thanks to funding from She sees her documentaries as laboration will be the start of fur­ Vues d'Afrique. "Without that important sources of knowledge ther collaborations with Mali, funding;• Sawadogo said, for adults, "educating them about "especially in animation, because "Kadiatou's chances of making ~ the realities of our world, about it hardly exists there or elsewhere her film would have been non­ ~ social issues, including literacy in Africa. No one is teaching it, S! existent:• and la condition feminine. They and though there are film insti­ Konate, who works at the also help to create a program for tutes in Africa, there are no film Centre National de la cine­ change, as well as allowing others schools." matographie du Mali, turned to to get to know Africa:· Catherine MacKenzie, chair of filmmaking in 1983 after she had Cilia Sawadogo is the consult­ the Mel Hoppenheim School of finished graduate studies in ant on Konate's two-month proj­ Cinema, says that this collabora­ Senegal. She has since made three ect at Concordia and helps with tion comes at an exciting time for documentaries and three anima­ the script and the drawings, while the School, which is in the tion films, and is the first African third-year Concordia student process of finalizing agreements to win Le Prix de Jury at Cannes. Guillaume Turcotte is involved in with institutions in Cuba, 'J\s far as I know;• Sawadogo said, doing the drawings for the story­ Germany and the People's board. The film is called Republic of China. Cilia Sawadogo (left), and Kadiatou Malasadio and is based on a Mali MacKenzie said that the Konate, co-winners of the 199S Vues d'Afrique Festival animation tale of the friendship between a Konate-Sawadogo project is prize. Animation is an excellent hippopotamus and the people of grounded in the same principles. educational tool for sharing the a village, who adopt him. "Our faculty and students have a tales, customs, culture and realities "It's a moral tale, because the lot to offer in terms of filmmak­ of Africa, says Konate. The film demise of the hippopotamus is ing as an art, and a lot to learn by Malasadio is about the friendship between a hippopotamus and the brought about by a foreign hunter engaging with artists from other village that adopts him. who kills him, showing that it's countries."

Animation award at student film fest Chris Hinton's Flux wins acclaim

Seven months x 50 hours per week= 8 minutes of film - and a prize nother award-winner this summer was Christopher Hinton, A one of Brigitte Archambault's former teachers. Hinton's ani­ BY S YLVAIN C OMEAU Concordia student. "I wanted to mated short, Flux, has appeared at 15 film festivals and scooped recapture the spirit of animation up a number of awards, but Hinton is particularly proud of the even months x 50 hours per from the '4-0s and '50s, which was recognition from festivals specializing in animation. Sweek = eight minutes of film. light and cute, but also with a lot "What's important for the life of This is an example of animation of emotion. So I think the retro the film is the fact that it has been math. Concordia film student look of it might have appealed to shown in the four major animation Brigitte Archambault spent that them. festivals in the world: Annacy in much blood, sweat and tears on 'J\lso, I focused heavily on the France, Zagreb in Croatia, her animated short Monsieur story, and maybe they found that Hiroshima in Japan, and Ottawa. It's George et Monsieur George, and Monsieur George, with Monsieur refreshing. There are always a lot very rare for a film to make all four she says it was all worth it. George of very experimental, less story­ festivals:· "Eight minutes is actually long trounced the rest of the student oriented films at the festival:' Flux, which is the story of one gen­ if you consider that one second of competition in years past. Archambault gives a lot of cred­ eration of a family told through the screen time is 12 frames;• she "It's very flattering [being the it to Concordia's animation pro­ perspective of a child, won two said. "It took about 1,000 draw­ only winner]. I know that close to gram "which is very artistic, not awards in Annacy, three in Zagreb, ings," painstakingly drawn by half of the all the films chosen for just emphasizing technical skills;• and a special jury prize in hand. "But I love to work one the festival were from Concordia, and her professors, "who push us Hiroshima. That recognition, and drawing at a time and watch so I think that is an achievement. to pursue our artistic vision to the Hinton's reputation as a long-time movement appear. It's like magic:• It's something to be proud of, no limit. That's what distinguishes NFB animator and former Oscar nominee {for the animated short As a bonus, in late August, her matter what the jury chose:• Concordia animation from the Black Fly), has helped Hinton sell his film to distributors in film won the prize for Best She does offer a few theories as rest of the pack." Europe. It will be shown there on television, either as a stand-alone Animation Production at the 33rd to why the jury liked her film, When asked about her career segment between shows, or packaged in a collection of animated Canadian Student Film ·& Video which tells the story of identical aspirations, those film school val­ shorts. Festival, part of the Montreal twins who are inseparable - until ues come through loud and clear. "There is not much of a market for short animation in North World Film Festival. That was not a woman comes between them. "My dream is to continue to do America; in Europe, I think audiences are more aware that anima­ really a surprise; Concordia stu­ "My film was in 2-D, traditional animation, first of all for myself, tion has the potential to address adult concerns and interests:• dent filmmakers usually scoop up animation, while most of the oth­ for my own pleasure;' she said Hinton is currently on a one year leave of absence from his the awards in that category. More ers were in 3-D, digital anima­ simply. "I also hope people will teaching duties to work on films. Flux was screened at the unusual was the fact that tion:• Archambault was also nom­ see my work. I want to continue Montreal World Film Festival in the Short Films Category, and, Archambault was the only winner inated last year in the same cate­ telling stories through anima­ this month, in the Toronto International Film Festival. from Concordia, which has often gory, but lost out to another tion." - Sylvain Comeau 7 September 12, 2002 I Concordia ' s Thursday Report r New professors learn what Concordia works in the classroom over the summer rientation sessions were held over four days in late August for O53 new tenure-track faculty members. For many, it was their Audiences swept away by Pinocchio introduction to Concordia, and to the technical facilities, library privileges and administrative support available to them, including An original production by the Centre for the Arts in Human Development a new mentoring program. They even got an introduction to their own students via Ann r,lie Legend of Pinocchio, the around Montreal. Also active in teaching staff, studying how Kerby, Director of Advocacy and Support Services. Over the past six .l. fourth original musical pro­ the production were students much organization, evaluation months, Kerby and her staff have held focus groups to ask students duction by the Centre for the Arts from Venture High School. and work were necessary to make what works in the classroom and what doesn't, based on their own in Human Development, had four Classes of elementary school­ the play run so smoothly. experiences. performances in mid-June in the children attended the dress ' "It became very clear that Here's what some international students said:· F.C. Smith Auditorium. rehearsal, and one teacher was drama and music are healing "In my home country, people never speak up at university. The script was based on the moved to write a letter that said, instruments in the world of edu­ Students here often interrupted the class to ask questions:• children's classic about a puppet's in part, "Not one of my students cation. Each actor appeared "I realized that as a student on a limited scholarship, I had to quest to be a real boy. Many of the had a negative comment about strong, proud and in control. This complete my program quickly, but it was simply too much, what actors were participants in a the play. They were swept away by is due to your positive attitude with the adjustment process:• unique program of arts therapy­ the whole presentation. and expectations. "I found that on occasion, when discussing a reading that was, art, music, movement and drama "As a physically challenged "Talent is hidden in all of us - . clearly the product of a Western thinker, the professor would take - for people with disabilities teacher, I was putting myself in drama lets it come out. Thank it for gtanted that we all came from a similar position:• from readaptation centres the shoes of the actors and the you for showing me the light:' Kerby said that although Concordia has about 2,000 students defined as "international" (landed immigrants or on student visas), Ibrahim Hassan recognized as outstanding teacher there are many more students at the university who are also strug­ gling with language and culture. lthough he has been at heat transfer, multiphase flow Her advice: provide detailed lecture notes, offer study tips, AConcordia less than two and computational fluid dynam­ explain jargon and use visual aids. Best of all, she said, professors years, the teaching ability of ics, Hassan set up a micro-scale can help the shy student make a personal breakthrough simply by Mechanical and Industrial heat transfer research group with speaking kindly to him or her. "Treat me as an individual;' these Engineering Professor Ibrahim several graduate and undergradu­ students told her staff. "Talk to me!" , Hassan has been recognized· by ate students, and initiated part­ his students and colleagues. nerships with the aerospace As the academic year drew to a industry in Montreal. New tenure-track faculty members close, Hassan was given a teach­ , As a result of this association, continued on page 8 ing excellence award by the and with the support of Pratt and Engineering and Computer Whitney Canada, he recently Norma Rantisi (Geography) is an expert in urban geography. She Science Council on Student Life received a $250,000 NSERC col­ recently completed her PhD at the University of Toronto. (ECSCSL). laboration and research develop­ A researcher in the fields of ment grant. Dana Sajdi (History) specializes in the history of Islam between 1000 and 1800. She got her PhD last year from Columbia University. Fluent in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, she is currently studying Community development program celebrates a decade Urdu. n June, nearly 1,000 community approaches to fundraising. sessions should be up on the Arusharka Sen (Mathematics and Statistics) is focusing his Iworkers from 287 organizations Participants came from across Institute's new Web site at research on survival analysis and non-parametric curve estimation. took part in the 10th Summer Canada, including the North, and www.instdev.concordia.ca. He has a PhD from the Indian Statistical Institute and taught at the Program of the Institute in from such countries as Peru, Several students participated in University of Hyderabad, but spent the past year at Michigan State Management and Community Mexico and South Africa. the Summer Program for credit by University. Development, including a tenth Sixty-two parents involved in way of an Applied Human anniversary celebration. their children's education through Sciences course on community Rae Staseson (Communication Studies) has been an LTA in the For a decade, the week-long the Third Avenue Resource Centre development. department for three years, teaching television and video produc­ bilingual Summer Program has once again attended enthusiasti­ The Institutein Management tion, and writing for the media. She has an MFA from Rutgers. provided busy grassroots organiz­ cally. A ceremony will be held on and Community Development, ers with valuable opportunities the Loyola Campus in November which is part of Concordia's Jean-Philippe Wan:en (Sociology and Anthropology) is a special­ for reflection, sharing insights to award them with participation Centre for Continuing Education, ist in Quebec society. He was an assistant professor at Universite and experiences, and generating certificates. also launched a leadership project Laval, and got his PhD earlier this year from the Universite de new ways to effect social change. For the first time, two bilingual funded by Centraide. This is a Montreal. Sessions varied widely: how to two-day forums· were held to one-year training program that make a video about your commu­ focus on social justice, environ­ brings together 15 community Mehdi Farashahi (Management) has an aviation MBA and was an nity organization, how to use the­ mental activism and sustainable organizers from Montreal, aerospace engineer with in the airline industry for 16 years. He has atre and the Web, and effective development. Reports on these Longueuil and Laval every month. taught cross-cultural management, and corporate strategy at McGill and Concordia for several years. He is pursuing a the joint PhD in management at several Montreal universities. Competitive chemistry will be stirred up for two days Bianca Grohmann (Marketing) has a PhD from Washington State ighly successful over its four­ chemistry, or biochemistry. Poster and public-speaking University, and her research focuses on consumer psychology. Hyear existence, Concordia's The symposium is open to the presentations are critiqued by a Chemistry and Biochemistry public. Visitors are encouraged to panel of judges, who are volun­ Dowan Kwon (Decisions Sciences/MIS) is finishing a PhD in Graduate Research Conference sit in on the lectures and take the teers from universities or indus­ information systems from Case Western Reserve University. He (CBGRC) has expanded to two time to observe the poster try. Many of the sponsors attend, worked for a business consulting firm for several years, where his days, held this year on Sept. 27 demonstrations. allowing students to discuss their projects include the design of information systems for a major crdit and 28. One of the most popular events research and inquire about job card company in South Korea. The CBGRC is a showcase of for the general public is likely to opportunities. graduate-level work from universi­ be popular McGill professor and This event is organized each Claude Marcotte (Management) earned his PhD from UQAM. His ties across Quebec, Ontario, the Gazette science columnist Joe year by hardworking Concordia interests are international dimensions of entrepreneurship and Maritimes and the northeastern Schwarcz, scheduled to speak students: Julie Bonvin, Chris small-business management. United States. It has a competitive Saturday, Sept. 28 at I o'clock. For Boyer, Sean Hughes, Hasnain format, with awards for both oral the full schedule, consult the con­ Jaffer, Denise Koch, Kevork Iman ts Paeglis (Finance) received his PhD from Boston College in and poster presentations. Research ference Web site, at http://art­ Mekhssian, Andrea Romeo, the spring. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of may be in analytical, inorganic, sandscience.concordia.ca/ chem/ Pascal Turcotte, John Wright and Latvia, then pursued graduate studies in Claremont, California. physical, organic or molecular grad_ conference/ index.htm. David Yeung. 8 Concord ia 's Thurs day Report I September 12, 20 02 Innovation on a shoestring Student loans for part-timers

Zoom zoom's the sound of summer for auto engineers his fall, for the first time, part-time students at Quebec univer­ Tsities, including Concordia, will be able to get student loans. BY BARBARA BLACK The policy has been law for about 10 years, but has not been imple­ mented until this year. or auto enthusiasts at To qualify, a student must be enrolled in a registered program, Concordia, summer means taking between six and 11 credits per semester. Graduate students Fcar competitions. The are also eligible. undergraduate branch of the SAE The loans cover educational expenses (tuition and student fees) (Society of Automotive and child care. A fixed amount is set aside for child care expenses, Engineers) is an interest group of $350 per child per semester. To quality, the student must be earning about 20 or so students who test less than $35,000 a year. their skill and ingenuity in com­ The loans must be repaid, but as with loans to full-time students, petitions, often against much repayment doesn't begin until graduation. The loan and repayment better financed university teams schedule are adjusted if the student goes from full-time to part­ in the United States. time status. If he or she goes from part-time to full-time, ~owever, One subdivision of the the loans incurred as a part-time student are forgiven. Concordia SAE, called Formula, Brenda Brisson, Coordinator of Client Services for Financial Aid concentrates on the design and and Awards, says that about 50 per cent of full-time students at manufacture of a scaled-down Concordia are on some form of student aid, and she expects part­ Formula One- style race car. The time students to take advantage of the loans when they hear about challenge for this group of 15 stu­ them. Concordia has a high proportion of part-time to full-time stu­ dents is to develop a racecar that dents, about 45 per cent part-time and 55 per cent full-time. can feasibly be mass-produced There is printed information in the Financial Aid waiting room; for the average weekend racer. At students can also access the information on the touch screens set the competitions, held in the up around i;ampus. Applications can be made on the Web, via links Detroit area, the car is judged on on the Financial Aid Web site. The Ministry of Education asks the design, aesthetics, performance university to verify the accuracy of the information before approv­ and endurance. ing the loan. In 2000, the team had an awful "It's relatively easy to apply, because there's not a lot of documen­ time - "We were still working on tation involved;' Brisson said. "This might not solve all the prob­ the race car in the cube van while lems that part-time students may have, but it will certainly help. we were travelling to Detroit;• Until now, part-timers have had very few sources of assistance:• said team member Taro Dicks - but it was a learning experience The SAE Formula 1 car at a display for Engineering Week last winter. that focused their ideas for the were on such a slender shoestring Conference on Pattern Recognition 2001-02 car. that they crammed the whole Their hard work paid off this Concordia team - all 14 - into one Detroit n the theme of "Pattern Recognition for Humankind and the year. Most of the other teams hotel room! OEnvironment;' about 1,000 computer scientists from 60 coun­ stuck to the traditional down­ over the summer Dicks has tinkered with tries met in Quebec City for a conference from August 11 to 15. scaled Formula design. Instead, machines for years, starting with The conference is the 16th biennial conference held since 1973 by the Concordia team upscaled a choking problems than it would his bicycle, then his car, then his the International Association for Pattern Recognition, which start­ go-cart with automatic transmis­ have had with more cylinders:• parents' cars. He says he has four ed in 1973. The general chair of the organizing committees was sion to better conform to the Polaris representatives at the cars in his yard at the moment. Concordia professor Ching Y. Suen, a well-known expert in the field. requirements of the track, which competition were excited to see Although belonging to the SAE This edition focused on computer vision and robotics, pattern includes many tight turns and the Concordia team using their is voluntary, Dicks says that it's recognition, neural networks, document analysis, image and signal short straightaways. products, and promised a free great work experience and looks processing and biomedical and multimedia applications. A number As a result, it was under-pow­ 610-cc 2-cylinder engine for the good on your resume. In past of companion events were held in Southern Ontario the week ered but had excellent handling following year as well as technical years, he said, members of suc­ before. capability and a suspension help on the tuning of the CVT cessful teams have been hired by design that caught the attention (continuously variable transmis­ industry executives. of many officials and corporate sion). The team was thrilled to Dicks said he especially valued Tribute to modernist Yves Gaucher representatives. see the coverage they got in the the experience of working with The young designers used a international magazine Racecar machinists, and he gives credit to he late Yves Gaucher {1934-2000, below) was a radical print­ 500-cc I-cylinder Polaris ATV Engineering, which published a the three employees of the Tmaker and a modernist painter of international reputation. A engine, smaller than the 610-cc 4- feature on the SAE competition Department of Mechanical teacher in the Faculty of Fine Arts over many years, he influenced cylinder engine used by most in Detroit. Engineering's Machine Shop, many of Canada's finest artists. This summer, a show mounted at teams. "We used the small engine It's expensive work. The team under the supervision of Brian Concordia's Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery captured the variety to save weight and improve han­ got $36,000 from the Engineering Cooper. and originality of their work. dling and fuel economy;• Dicks and Computer Science Students Although he graduated in the The show was curated by David Elliott and included work by said. Association {ECA), for which they spring, Dicks is sticking with the Danielle Blouin, "The only drawback was that the are very grateful. The Formula SAE team for another year. His Marc Garneau, regulation air-intake restriction team received $8,000, a fair share, current project is the redesign of Betty Goodwin, caused the mono-cylinder more Dicks allowed, but the students the chassis. Antoinetta Grassi, Christian Knudsen , Jennifer Lefort, Summer school for teachers held at Concordia- Brigitte Radecki, Marc Seguin, choolteachers need to stay student Susan Turner, who was Turner is an expert in experien­ Vladimir Scurrent, so for 10 days in July, coordinator of the Summer Institute. tial learning - learning through Spicanovic and Concordia's Education Depart­ The program, which was pre­ doing - and that was a strong Jana Sterbak ment held a Summer Institute on pared by Concordia University element in the presentations. {whose work will the downtown campus to help student instructional designers, "Students are expecting to be as represent Canada about 55 "co-operating teachers" provided inspirational speakers entertained in the classroom as at this year's upgrade their skills. and about 35 workshops. Topics they are by video games and block­ Venice Biennale, "It's our way of thanking them were various-technology, crafts, buster movies:• she explained. "The the Olympic for allowing student teachers to dance, math, reading, group only way a teacher can compete is Games of art). Yves Gaucher taught at Concordia practice in their classrooms dur­ dynamics and dealing with bully­ to challenge students with class­ ing the semester;• said master's ing were among them. room experiences:· 9 SeptemberJ 12 , 2002 I Co ncord ia 's Thurs da y Repo rt Warm welcome, as new students Discover Concordia Mentors, learning and writing skill, and the key to success to be found at Orientation

BY SARAH KELLY all the brochures. I would have sity-wide orientation program, benefit from joining a PLUS academic writing, studying and AND 8ANA QABBAN I been lost if I'd gone to the first day with senior students acting as Mentor group and taking a taking exams. of school and didn't know all that animators. Getting to Know U CLUES library workshop. "I wish "I took a lot of notes at Start ore than 1,500 new stu­ I've learned from Orientation:• Days, a concurrent program, that PLUS Mentor groups had Right and learned many strate­ dents gave up a few pre­ Discover Concordia took place brought small, informal groups of been around when I started at gies that I think will help me this Mcious days of their vaca­ over three days. Along with the. _students together to explore the Concordia. I really could've used fall," said anthropology student tion to explore services and meet information sessions, students university. having an experienced student at Tom Jordan, 42. other students just before classes were treated to a humorous skit Donna Pinsky is a senior busi­ Concordia to answer my ques­ Students interested in joining a started. They were taking part in from members of the Student ness student who has been wel­ tions:• PLUS Mentor group or taking any of Discover Concordia, a series of Success Centre. "It woke me up! I coming new students to Start Right, another orientation the Counselling and Devewpment orientation sessions organized definitely enjoyed it;' said mar­ Concordia for over two years. "I event, is a series of eight learning workshops, especially the First Year through the New Students keting major Leigh Ann Pawliuk. was really impressed with modules designed to teach stu­ Experience Modules, can find out Program. There were prizes - gift certifi­ Discover Concordia when I was a dents the skills they need to suc­ more information from the Student Je.ssica Rincon, 18, is from cates to Java U, Concordia sweat­ new student, so I decided to get ceed at university. Counselling Success Centre in H-481. Venezuela and will be studying shirts from the bookstore, and involved." She likes meeting the and Development's Leaming Sarah Kelly and Bana Qabbani English literature. "Discover passes to Stingers games - plus new students and helping them Support Services developed this are Journalism students, and were Concordia was really helpful, lunch, cake and other snacks. getting adjusted to university life. series of workshops, which first-tinie animators with Discover although I still have to go through Discover Concordia is a univer- Pinsky feels all students would include listening and notetaking, Concordia this year.

Warrant issued for Navidad's arrest Student agenda gets -a good review Agenda has an activist outlook but is "without an agenda" BY P. A . S EV IG N Y BY P.A.S ~V I GN Y choosing the theme, organizing encourage dialogue and debate in r- ,\ warrant has been issued for the immediate · arrest of Sheryll information into easily naviga­ a civilized fashion:• .1"1Navidad, a former vice-president of Concordia's Student Union oncordia's new student ble sections, soliciting articles, Alexandra Schafhauser, a {CSU). Chandbook is, in the words editing and selecting informa­ third-year journalism student Navidad, a part-time commerce student, is accused of having of one student, "an agenda tion and articles:• at the university, wasn't having defrauded the CSU of over $196,000 dollars over three years ago. She without an agenda." He and The agenda still promotes any of it. "I don't need a lec­ was appointed to her executive position by the CSU's former president, many others consider the new the CSU's activist outlook on a ture;• she said. ''.All I want is a Rob Green. handbook to be a welcome number of issues. Aaron Mate, working agenda:• Sergeant Detective Ginette Leduc is the SPVM's police officer who change as compared to last a CSU vice-president, wrote a Her friend, Erika Deschenes, investigated the case. She said that the CSU's forensic accounting year's Uprising fiasco. long piece on how the CSU per­ who is the president of report provided much of the evidence against Navidad. With its incendiary cartoons ceives. the events of the past Concordia's Habitat for "When are people ever going to learn not to sign blank cheques?" and slogans, Uprising embar­ year. While he admits that the Humanity club, thinks the new asked Leduc. rassed the university and cost the CSU made many foolish mis­ agenda is clear, concise and Concordia Student Union's exec­ takes, he also describes the informative. "If you can't be Blank cheques were signed utive their mandate as outraged firestorm of protest that erupt­ bothered with the articles;· she The fraud was a simple affair. Back in the summer of 2000, then­ students insisted upon their ed over last year's agenda as a said, "don't read them and president Green signed dozens of blank cheques and handed them immediate resignation. "hysterical reaction to the move on:• over to Navidad before going on vacation. Navidad is accused of having Ralph Lee, now a CSU vice­ CSU's activism:• He maintains John Stuart, a Concordia made the cheques out to herself, and of having forged the names of the president, said that last year's that the reaction to the agenda design art graduate, made that recipients once the cheques were returned by the bank. CSU agenda "was nothing but a tells a lot about the nature of possible. He has organized the The CSU's bookkeeper discovered the fraud a few weeks later. He big mistake:• Lee was on the power and authority in the uni­ new agenda into a series of alerted Green and the student executive shortly before the students cutting edge of the student versity as well as in our demo­ easy-to-read sections. Just were to vote on the CSU's union accreditation. Many believe that the petition initiative that saw the cratic society. about anything that might student executives kept the developing scandal quiet because they resignation of the CSU and an Yves Englei; another CSU vice­ interest a Concordia student is wanted to win the CSU's accreditation drive. inconclusive midterm by-elec­ president, writes about globaliza­ in the handbook - student Green later admitted that he had been conned by his own vice-pres­ tion. "What did it get them?" he tion. Other articles discuss the services, clubs and associa­ ident. He never offered to resign over the incident, nor did he offer any asked. "What did anybody plight of native North Americans tions, cheap r estaurants, stu­ kind of apology to the student body for the loss of their money. gain?" and the 1968 Sir George Williams dent hangouts, and health After a number of delays, Navidad was finally charged with the fraud, The editor of this year's agen­ computer riot, when charges of notes {a.k.a. birth control and and a court date was set for the end of last February. When Navidad da, Shiri Pasternak, exercised a racism led to a sit-in, a fire, and safe sex) are just some of the failed to appear, the judge issued a nationwide warrant for her arrest. strong presence that can be felt $10 million in damages. Ralph sections that will keep this throughout the handbook. She Lee said, handbook in the bottom of Integrated into the Canadian police data bank described her job as "asserting "We weren't scared of being every student's backpack. "Oh, don't worry;• said Michel Francoeur, "we always catch up to editorial control - specifically, controversial, but we wanted to them sooner or later:• Francoeur works in the warrants office {section mandats) ·at Montreal's Palais de Justice. Piles of assorted files cover his desk. He said that more and more More international students drawn to Concordia people were skipping their court dates because they thought they could run away from their problems. Canada's integrated police data he number of students from sent about 10 per cent of the total study abroad. He said that steady and resource bank have put an end to that idea. Francoeur said that Tother countries studying at student population in the city. progress is being made towards a any kind of police identification check displays the warrant, and the Concordia continues to rise, to The top five countries of origin better balance between incoming subject is immediately arrested. more than 2,000. for international students at and outgoing traffic in exchange "They get pulled over in Toronto for having run a stop sign, and their Claudette Fortier, coordinator Concordia are France, China, the programs, which are organized name shows up on the squad car's computer;' he said. "They get arrest­ of the International Students United States, Jordan and Japan, through bilateral agreements. ed on the spot, they go to jail, and we have to go get them. That does­ Office, explains that the right is in in that order. The number of incoming n't look good when they finally go before the judge:• part because of the mildly exotic Professor Balbir Sahni, director exchange students rose to 470 He doubts if Concordia's student union will ever see their money allure of Montreal, and with the of the Centre for International this year. However, the number of again, and he thinks that the university's students are going to wait a relatively inexpensive tuition and Academic Co-operation, was Concordia students who will long time before they see any kind of justice being done. living costs. quoted in the current issue of study on exchange in another "The trouble is that the jails are full," said Francoeur. "There are lots About 14,000 students come to University Affairs about value of country has also gone up, from 29 of people who should be put in there, but they will just have to wait Montreal's four universities from the Quebec mobility bursary as an to 72, probably because of the their turn." other countries, and they repre- incentive for our own students to bursary. 10 Concordii'S ThursdiJ Report I Stptt~ber 12, 2002 Duo a winning combination A busy season for coaches Dynamic quarterbacks providing solid.offence for Stingers McGravie and Sanchez

BY JOHN AUSTEN BY JO tiN AUSTEN

he Concordia Stingers wo new coaches will be at the helm of Stinger teams as the fall football team has a new Tsports season at Concordia kicks into high gear. Tsecret agent. The name is Graeme McGravie will coach the men's rugby team, while Jorge Bond. Jon Bond. Sanchez takes over as women's soccer coach. Six-foot-six, the · 225-pound McGravie comes to Concordia with an impressive coaching quarterback from Plymouth, resume. The fully certified Level 3 coach is currently coach of the Mass., is already making a name Montreal Menace of the Canadian Rugby Super League, and also for himself in his. first year of the Montreal Wanderers, a Division 1 men's team based in Verdun. Canadian university football. He has been involved in coaching provincial teams as head coach of Bond is a big reason why the the Quebec entry at the Canada Summer Games in 1997 and as an Stingers posted two wins in their assistant coach with the 2001 team. first three games this season to sit McGravie also served as head coach of the Dawson College men's atop the QIFC conference, tied rugby team from 1997 to 2001 and coached at various high schools with the Laval Rouge et Or. He is in the Montreal area. the league's leading passer head­ "We consider ourselves very lucky to have a coach of Graeme's ing into the season's fourth week. calibre agree to take over our program;• said Julie Healy, Concordia's The Stingers scored early and intercollegiate co-ordinator. "He has a lot to offer our student ath­ often last Saturday, as they letes:• dumped the Bishop's Ga/.ters 46-4 McGravie takes over a team that has won three consecl\tive at Concordia Stadium. Bond was Quebec university championships. However, the 2002 team will be 11 for 17 for 213 yards. He threw young and will likely rely heavily on his leadership and teaching touchdown passes of 52, 27, 37 ability. and eight yards before being "I know the game of rugby well, and I'm prepared for whatever replaced by veteran' Hugo Fortier the game has to offer," McGravie said "My biggest job is to get the in the second half. team physically and mentally prepared There will be a lot of young "We are in the fortunate situa­ athletes making the jump to university rugby, and it's a big jump. tion of having a couple of really But the 18- to 23-year-old athletes are the ones you can have the good quarterbacks;' said head most fun with. They are very focused." coach Gerry McGrath. "They Athletes who figure ptominently in the coach's plans include complement each other." John Chiniborch (No. 8) 'and Jared Walker (flyback and fullback). Bond was happy with Saturday's Both spent the summer at Rugby Canada's elite academy in result. "It came together [against Kingston, Ont. McGravie also has high expectations for rookie Bishop's]," he said. "The offence scrum half Scott Gill, who played for John Abbott College and the was good today, and so was the Montreal Menace. · ~ defence." !il McGravie also works as a service assistant in the Birks Student i Fortier opened the season as Service Centre. He recently graduated from McGill University with starting quarterback for the a bachelor's degree in social work. As head coach, he replaces Gerry Stingers when they played the Clayton, who has moved to Toronto. Universite de Montreal on Aug. t.:::'.G~~~~~...... i--~:..:..:..._:11~tl~:!:.:.::...__zjl Jorge Sanchez, a Dorval resident, takes over the women's soccer 28. After failing to generate much · Quarterback Jon Bond makes a powerful throw at last Saturday's game. program, which has been in transition for a couple of seasons. He offence against the expansion has more than 30 years of experience as a player, coach and achnin­ Carabins, Bond took over and the game and a good passer," he said. ball into the end zone. istratoi: Stingers rolled to an easy victory. "He also has a knack for getting Other offensive stars for the He is coach of the Lac St. Louis Lakers U-17 soccer team, and was "I know I can be a starter in this himself out of trouble." Stingers included Ben Ouimet an assistant with the National High Performance Centre in league," Fortier said "I got into The Stingers were playing their and Richard Marin. Concordia's Montreal. Sanchez has also coached at John Abbott College and eight games during my first two third game in 11 days when they defence did the rest, as the with the Lakeshore Soccer Club. seasons. I've learned the system, I took on the Gaiters, but they Gaiters could only muster a pair "I don' t believe in winning ugly," Sanchez said. "My goal is to put know the team and I'm ready showed no fatigue. In less than of rouges and a safety. the best team on the field to play quality soccer: This will be a com­ mentally to do ,this. We should two minutes, Concordia scored all The Stingers' next game is pressed season, which challenges you as a coach:' have a tremendous squad this the points they would need. Saturday aftemo~n. whent they Sanchez graduated from Concordia in 1989 with a major in eco­ year." RunningbackJean-Michel Paquette take on Acadia at Concordia nomics and a minor in business studies. McGrath also praised Fortier: returned the opening kickoff 76 Stadium in the first week of inter­ Coach Kevin Figsby and his men's hockey team will play a tour­ "Hugo is a real student of the yards. Two plays later. he ran the locking conference play. nament in Boston before opening their regular season Oct. 18 at UQTR. The Stingers' first home game will be Oct. 25 vs. the Ottawa Gee-Gees. Service Centre The women's team, coached by Les Lawton, will also open in Golf tournament raises $12,000 Trois Rivieres on Oct. 18 before coming home Oct. 25 for a game expands its hours against Ottawa. olf enthusiasts gathered at Hemmingford on August 14 for the The men's basketball team, guided by coach John Dore, begin o increase availability to G10th annual Concordia University Memorial Golf Tournament, play Nov. 16 in Laval before coming home for a Nov. 22 date with Tthe university community, held in beautiful weather: McGill. the Service Centre operated by From the left are chair Enn Raudsepp and three friends from The Keith Pruden and the women's squad will also open Nov. 16 in Facilities Management will Gazette: entertainment reporter Anne Sutherland, editor-in-chief and Laval. The home opener for the Lady Stingers is Nov. 22 vs. McGill. open an hour earlier in the adjunct professor Peter Stockland and publisher Larry Smith. morning to take your calls. It It was the largest crowd so far for the event, and raised $12,000 for the will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 scholarships via the Concordia ~Diversity Memorial Endowment Fund. CONCORDIA STINGERS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE p.m. for the duration of the fall Congratulations to the winning foursomes: Carole Poirier, Marie­ Saturday, September 14 - 1 p.m. Concordia vs. Acadia term. Claude Richer, Gail Grier and Manon Cliche (women); Glen Weir, Dave Home games played at Concordia Stadium, This is a pilot project, and Batten, Ted Hemming and Derek White (men). 7200 Sherbrooke St. W., N.D.G. Claudie Boujaklian, Manager, Thanks to committee members Dave Batten.Perry Calce, Myriam Saturday, September 28 - 1 p.m. Customer Service, would Champagne, Marcel Danis, Michael Di Grappa, Wendy French, Allyson Concordia@ Bishop's appreciate feedback. Contact Noftall, Tony Patricio, Patricia Posius, Glen Weir, Rick Young, Steven her at [email protected]­ Zulkarnian, and a dozen volunteers who assisted the committee on the www.concordia.ca/stingers dia.ca. day of the tournament. 11 September 12, 2002 I Co ncord i a's Thursday Report ty-related problems. Call 848--4964, or drop at the Reference Desk, by phone (Vanier. September 14, 10:30 am; Saturday, byGM-1120. 848-7766; Webster: 848-7777) or from our September 28, 10:30 am; Vanier Library: r september 12-26 website (connect to http://library.concor­ Tuesday, September 17, 3 pm; Saturday, dia.ca and dick on Help & Instruction). September 21, 10:30 am. Peer Support Centre • Library Tour (20 minutes):Webster Library Current affairs and business sources on Wondering what to do this fall? 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