0 N C 0 R D I A,S SDAY _____ PORT VOL. 20 NOVEMBER 30, I995 N ° II Lowy installed as Rector He was delighted with the turnout Jeremy Searle, Convocation valedic­ BY BARBARA BLACK of Concordians at a "tea party'' held torian Timothy Gadosy, members of rederick Lowy was officially last Thursday afternoon in the atrium the Board of Governors, business Finstalled as fourth Rector and of the J.W. McConnell Building, and community leaders, and the rep­ Vice-Chancellor las t week in a and said so in a short inspirational resentatives of more than 20 Canadi­ uniquely Concordian combination of speech. The Senate Dinner, held an universities. Chancellor Eric pomp and informality. later that evening in the Loyola Fac­ Molson delivered the toast. The Installation ceremony, which ulty Lounge, brought the Rector Lowy's family attended the events took place at the University's Fall together with faculty members and on the big day. They included his wife, Convocation at Place des Arts on Fri­ students from across the University. Mary Kay, Mitzi Lowy and Eileen day, November 24, was the centre­ After the Installation ceremony on Weldon (their mothers), their grown piece of a number of events designed Friday morning, a luncheon was held children, Sarah, Eric, Adam, David to bring the new rector into contact at the Qyeen Elizabeth Hotel for and daughter-in-law Lindsey, Lowy's with all the elements of his con­ invited guests, including Lucienne sister, Benny Caswell, all the way stituency and the wider community. Robillard (former Qyebec Education from Scotland, and personal friends. In practical terms, Lowy took Minister, now federal Minister of Yesterday, Lowy was the host at office back in August, and has been Labour and MP for the Sir George a post-installation. luncheon in meeting as many students, faculty Williams Campus), Warren All­ the downtown Faculty and Staff and staff as possible in a variety of mand (MP, Notre-Dame-de­ Lounge for CEGEP directors-general venues, from the monthly proceed­ Grace), Russell Copeman (MNA, and representatives of religious and ings of the University Senate and NDG), Tom Brzustowski (president cultural groups. Faculty Council meetings to infor­ of NSERC), Henri-Frans:ois mal lunchtime discussions called Gau trin ( opposition education Concordia Chancellor Eric Molson Exchange for Change. critic), Loyola District city councillor (right) welcomes our new Rector. Getting into the spirit of giving

(For more information, call Campus For $1, you can place a ribbon on Research Group (QPIRG) is doing its BY KATHY GIANGASPERO Ministry at -3588.) a 20-foot Christmas tree in Place bit through the promotion of socially \ ]{ fith the holiday season upon The staff of the Libraries will Concordia (the atrium of the down­ responsible products as gift ideas. V V us, Concordians are busy rais­ hold their sixth annual Christmas town library complex). The money A basket has been placed facing ing money for those in need. There auction on December 7 from noon raised helps to fund the Spirit of the Security office in the lobby of are plenty of ways to spread your to 2 o'clock in the R. Howard Web­ Christmas drive. the Henry F. Hall Building to raise generosity this season. ster Library staff lounge. The Qyebec Public Interest donations for needy families Campus Ministry will hold its through Sun Youth. Students, facul­ annual Spirit of Christmas drive to ty and staff are encouraged to supply needy students with emer­ donate non-perishable food, toys gency food vouchers. Chaplain and clothes. Peter Cote, who has headed Spirit Information Services and the of Christmas since 1986, said there Psychology Department are orga­ is a growing demand in the nizing an annual food drive to ben­ Concordia community. efit Chez Doris (women) and "We saw a substantial increase Benedict Labre House (men). over last year - about 250 students," Donations of non-perishables and he said. The money used to be for toiletries can be dropped off at the food baskets, but since the late Information Desk (Hall Building) 1980s, the money buys vouchers or the Psychology Department which can be redeemed for food. (Loyola - PY Building). This month, Campus Ministry The Centraide campaign to aid had to dip into their coffers in antici­ local charities of many kinds con­ pation of Spirit of Christmas dona­ tinues at Concordia, and Engi­ tions, just to provide emergency help. "Students turn to us when they neering and Computer Science run up against a wall," said Campus students organized a Loony Line Ministry's Bernie Glover. "They last week to raise money for Cen­ often go to food banks only to find traide (See photo, page 9). The that they won't help them, so we're a Commerce and Administration last resort." Students Association was also Last year's sale of Christmas and involved. CASA internal vice-pres­ Hanukkah cards at Concordia Book­ ident Nadia Decobellis said, "It's stores raised nearly $9,000 for the drive. all about students giving back to This year, newly designed Christmas the community and allowing others cards are available at $4 for five cards. to enjoy the holidays." New core program should attract, retain more students Commerc.e and Administration revises curriculum

accounting, finance and marketing, BY CY NTHIA SHAN O N so that a student would become not he Faculty of Commerce and just a specialist, but a fully rounded TAdministration has concluded manager. the first phase of a revision of its The new integration courses are curriculum. A new core program Contemporary Business Thinking, was recently approved by Senate, Strategy and Competition (first and the department will now review year), Strategy and Competition all majors, minors and certificate (second year) and Entrepreneurship programs. (third year). The first-named course Today, the business community is promises to develop students' critical looking for people with skills, not thinking, crucial to success in the just fundamental knowledge, said rest of the program, not to mention Danielle Morin, the Faculty's Asso­ in their future careers. New external advisory board will guide Faculty ciate Dean of Academic and Student The Entrepreneurship course rec­ Affairs, who oversaw the mammoth ognizes that many students will go revision project. to work in family business, or start Business leaders lend full supp.ort to These skills include communica­ their own. A fourth course, called tion, critical thinking, team-work, Markets, focuses on the history, Engineering and Computer Science computer literacy, leadership, operations and relationships of the entrepreneurial skills, adaptibility product, labour and financial mar­ he Faculty of Engineering and The members of the executive University, a graduate of the Depart­ in a changing environment, and the kets in Canada and abroad. TComputer Science launched its committee are: ment, and the Chair of the Department. ability and inclination to be first External Advisory Board last Morrel Bachynski (President) Centre for Building Studies: Daniel informed. week. The 29-member Board hopes to Louise 011esnel (Vice-President) Gilbert, Mounir Batty, Lora The revised core is modern and forge stronger links between acade­ Leo Goldfarb (member, Concordia P_asqualetto, Sol Polachek and up-to-date, Morin said in an inter­ . mies, industry leaders and government. Board of Governors) Paul Fazio . view. It will develop skills through­ Growth in technologies related to Donat Taddeo (Dean, Faculty of Civil Engineering:Jacques McDon­ out the program to better prepare science and engineering demands Engineering and Computer ald, Robert Frederking, Vlad students for the constant change of that engineering education meet the Science) Gocevski, Normand Morin and the workplace. Daniel Gilbert (Chair, Centre for needs of the global community. Mamdouh El-Badry. Well-rounded graduates Building Studies Working "Success now means being one of the Computer Science: Rajiv Pancholy, "I think we are moving in the Group) best, not in your town or country, Frarn;:ois Gariepy, Anthony right direction," Morin said. "We Jacques McDonald (Chair, Civil but in the world," said board presi­ Gentilcore, Ann Logan and have many people with a Bachelor of Engineering Working Group) dent Morrel Bachynski. Clement Lam. Commerce degree. Now we will Rajiv Pancholy (Chair, Computer have well-rounded graduates - "There has never been a greater Science Working Group) Electrical & Computer Engineering: that's what the business community opportunity for science and tech­ Gilles Desharnais (Chair, Electrical Gilles Desharnais, Sven is looking for." nology to play a determining role and Computer Engineering Borgstrom, Stephen Mariano, In the past, the Faculty has not in events." Working Group) Marshall Moreyne and Charles attracted the top 10 per cent of The External Advisory Board Louis Chenevert (Chair, Mechanical Giguere. CEGEP graduates, and has suffered comprises an executive committee Mechanical Engineering: Louis Engineering Working Group) from high dropout rates. In addition, Computer literacy required and five departmental working Chenevert, Gerald Bush, Pierre enrolment figures started to slide five "It's a brand-new course," Morin groups, one affiliated with each of the Goulet, Paul Langdell and Each Departmental Working Group years ago. Morin said that all busi­ said. 'We don't think it exists any­ academic units within the Faculty. includes three members from outside the Suong Hoa. ness schools have seen students where." The business community is bypass their specialized programs to especially interested in it, she added. go into the social sciences. The new core curriculum includes She is confident, however, that ethics in at least three courses. Stu­ the new program will attract more den ts will have to take Business students. It's simply a matter of Communications in the first semes­ spreading the word, especially at ter, but only one statistics course, the CEGEP level. "It's much easi­ instead of two. Notably, the program er to sell something innovative," will require incoming students to be she said. computer-literate. Overall, the core program has The review process began three been reduced from 51 to 42 credits. years ago with an internal appraisal, This will enable students to gain followed by two external appraisals. exposure to other areas of knowledge In March, Morin put together the through electives. At the same time, Faculty's undergraduate curriculum a number of new courses have been committee to implement changes added to the curriculum. based on the appraisal reports. The Three new courses will integrate last review of the curriculum had material presented throughout the been 15 years ago. program. In the past, students tend­ This is a two-step revision, Morin ed to accumulate pieces of a puzzle said. The new program will be in without ever putting them together place next September, and a com­ ~., pletely revitalized curriculum, op ,eJr !I to see the whole picture. External including majors, will be in place for Profess~r appraisers wanted to see integration Sahni; i~oks on. between different functional areas, or the fall of 1997. Morin promises that disciplines, such as management, it will continue to evolve.

NOVEMBER 30, 1995 CONCORDIA ' S THURSDAY REPORT Students work with Professor Sam Osman to adapt scooter for wheelchair users Engineering meets altruism N E

safety, space and money, and allow team project, and Gaucher will pay for ~y PERRY J. GREENBAUM its occupant to sit comfortably. The some of the parts, up to $1,000. A project by a team of fourth-year scooter must also ride safely at speeds In industry, a project like this COMPILED BY B ARBARA BLACK .l"l.Mechanical Engineering stu­ of up to 50 kilometres an hour on could cost as much as 10 times more . dents offers the promise of more Montreal's potholed winter roads. In addition to about $2,000 in parts, Concordia faculty, staffand alumnilte pop up in the media more independence and mobility for Transportation for the handi­ a professional engineer could charge often than you might think! wheelchair users. capped, particularly in Montreal, is $13,000 for the design and testing Under the leadership of Professor miserable. Gaucher's trips are usually that the students are providing as Sam Osman, lab instructor Yamini short, no more than five kilometres part of their course work. A machine An article by Ronald Rudin (History) which appeared in a publica­ Gessesse and five students in a from his downtown residence. For shop might charge $10,000 for the tion by the Association quebecoise d'histoire politique was given a major review in Le Oevoir in October. Machine Design course are adapting now, he is making do with a large car. 250 hours of machining required. This involves cumbersome procedures Fortunately, machining costs are a 1984 Honda three-wheeled scoot­ Architectural historian Jean Belisle (Art History) was interviewed er. They will attach either a fixed or that will be greatly alleviated if the covered by the University's general for an article which appeared in La Presse on October 14 about the a mobile chair to permit the user to more compact scooter is a success. operating expenses. revita lization of old industrial buildings in the Montreal area. transfer easily into the scooter from "Parking is a problem," he admit­ To keep costs down, the team uses the wheelchair. ted. "And if this project turns out the standard materials like aluminum The face of J.C. Mackenzie, a 36-year-old Peterborough native The students are Sal Moscato, way we hope, it will be easier to get and commercial steel. They plan to who studied Theatre here and at the London Academy of Dramatic Issam Alsammak, Angel Vazquez, the chair on the scooter." start assembling and testing their Arts, was all over the syndicated television listings supplements in mid-October. He's one of the stars of a new ABC television series, Gaucher called the Mechanical week Mohamed El Souessy and Michael design in the second of Febru­ Murder One. Lodge. Engineering Department years ago ary, which should take about a David Gaucher is the client they with a similar idea, but he was too month. By the end of March, they Nikos Metallinos (Communication Studies) was on CFC F-TV's On have in mind, and the originator of late. The school year had already hope to deliver the modified scooter Line Montreal, talking about cable television in cla ssrooms. the idea. He was paralyzed from the begun, and students were at work on to Gaucher. "They'd better finish it waist down in a motorcycle accident other projects. This year, he called by then," Osman joked, "if they want Dennis Murphy (Communication Studies) and Lois Baron (Educa­ in 1981, only six weeks after he Osman in the summer, and when to graduate." tion) were interviewed on CJAD's Mark and Cindy Show about vio­ graduated from Concordia with his the students heard about it, they felt The project is one of three Osman lence on television and in the movies, in the light of the release of the film Mortal Kombat. Bachelor of Administration degree. it would allow them to combine is supervising. Over the years, students The relatively rare Japanese-made engineering with altruism. in his Mechanical Design course have Anita Grant (Human Resources) took part recently in a networking scooter doesn't have any space to The scooter adaptation is funded by won awards in the Qyebec Entrepre­ session between students and potential employers, sponsored by a store a wheelchair, so it will be modi­ Gaucher himself and by the Depart­ neurial Design Competition and the non-profit agency, Yo uth Employment Services. Her participation, fied to allow a fixed wheelchair to be ment. The Department ·contributes Canadian Entrepreneurial Design and that of student Susan Doherty, were the subject of an article attached, within the constraints of between $600 and $1,000 for each Competition. in The Gazette.

David Howes (Sociology and Anthropology) was interviewed on Radio-Canada TV's lndicatif about his research on our perceptions of smell. He w as also quoted in an article in Toronto Life Fashion magazine .

Dennis Pitselis, longtime Stingers football star, was the subject of a co lu mn by Jack Todd in The Gazette.

Maria Peluso (Pol itical Science) w as interviewed by Th e Gazette on th e eve of the referendum as part of a panel of women voters. She said that referen da are essentially patriarcha l beca use they polari ze options. Also in The Gaze tte, Alex Schwartzman (Psychol­ ogy) ad vised parents not to " turn to Jell o " about their political fears. " Kids know that pare nts are not superpeople," he said, " but they have to se e pa rents as able to meet challenges."

Pierre Ouellet (Political Science) w as a reg ular political analyst on CJAD's Robert Libman Show durin g the refere ndum cam pai gn . He analyzed the impa ct of Mario Dumont and L'Action Democratique, and the consequences of a Yes or No re sult. Blair Williams (Politi­ cal Science) wa s a guest on CJAD the day after th e big vote to do a postmortem.

...w "She's small and round, w ith a grey brush-cut and glasses she "'a: removes w hen she wants to be invisible." That's the w ay the Mir­ ~ -w a: ror described Elizabeth Langley (Contemporary Dance) in preview 0z <( of her recent Non Deep Meaning Show, performed w ith Erika Sidler and others. Langley, 62, was also interviewed on CBC's Art I~ Cl. Talks by alumna Shelley Pomerance about her remarkable longevi­ ty as a performer.

Rave reviews in the Sherbrooke Record for The Champagne Safari a recent documentary by George Ungar, who has taught Anima­ tion in the Department of Cinema. Sixteen years in the making, it recreates the quixotic life and 1934 expedition through the Rockies IN BRIEF ... of millionaire Charles Bedau x.

Gary Geddes (English), who once did a stint as writer-in-residence Universal ID cards They are expected to include access Fine Arts design contest at the University of Alberta, w ill contribute a column to the books and debit card functions at the Univer­ section of the Edmonton Journal on poetry. now available sity, too. The Faculty of Fine Arts is awarding $500 to the Fine Arts student whose These new multi-purpose ca rds may The cards are available to all faculty The Northern M iner, ba sed in Don Mills, Ont., reported on an design is chosen to illustrate the Facul­ award s dinner held in Vancouver by the Metallurgical Society of the be used not only for identification, but and administrative staff by appoint­ ty's home page on the World Wide Web. Canadian In stitute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) . ment, from November 22 to December for privileges in Athletics, Audio Visual, The design must be presented by Among the nine recipients of the CIM Fellowship Award were our the Libraries arid on the shuttle bus, 22, on the downtown campus only. Call January 7, 1996, in VA-250, Dean 's own Hugh McOueen (Mechanical Engineering), to w hom we and discounts on travel and car rental, Human Resources at 848-3666 to make Office, Faculty of Fine Arts. For more extend ou r congratulati ons. and YW/YMCA membership. an appointment. information, call 848-4272.

CONCOROIA ' S THURSDAY REPORT NOVEMBER 30, 1995 3 Yes and no, depending on the category Should we worry about

Concordia's Thursday Report is interested in your letters, opinions and comments. Letters to the Editor must be signed, include a phone number, and Maclean's survey? be delivered to the CTR office (BC-1 1711463 Bishop St.) in person, by fax (514-848-2814), by e-mail ([email protected]) or mail by 9 a.m. on L owy incorporated this BY D ONNA VARRICA the Friday prior to publication. Ifat all possible, please submit the text on point in his installation address computer diskette. Limit your letter to 500 words. The Editor reserves the "\ ]{ Jhile it may be a case of whether at Fall Convocation last week. right to edit far space considerations, although the utmost care will be taken to V V the glass is half fu ll or half "Rigid categories which attempt preserve the core of the writer's argument. Letters disparaging the behaviour or empty, the recent Maclean's ranking to rank commonalties among universities are not sufficiently decisions taken by an individual which are not of a public nature, letters shows that Concordia continues to sensitive to features which are quoting exchanges between two or more parties in private conversation or rank high in areas it considers impor­ distinctive, including praisewor­ personal correspondence, and letters venting an opinion about the integrity of tant. Overall, however, Concordia fin­ ished in last place in its category of thy features introduced by colleagues will not be published. comprehensive universities. design," he said. (The full text of "As has been the case each year Lowy's convocation address is since these ratings were introduced," included as a supplement in this French was official several hundred years, starting issue.) in 1066 AD. said Rector Frederick Lowy, "we Criticism of the methodology language in U.K. for I wonder how many politicians in tend to do well in areas that are not hundreds of years this province are aware of the origin directly related to funding, and less used by Maclean 's has been wide­ and evolution of languages? Empha­ so in areas that are. That is, we are spread since the special universities I agree with Dan Brown's correc­ sis should be placed on History 101 penalized both for not having more issue started to appear in 1991, even tion that Sanskrit is not the mother for all students so that our future money - and for what we therefore by universities that perform well in of European languages (CTR, Let­ po li ticians may manifest their knowl­ "It would be nice if criteria were cannot spend." the ranking. Last year, Claude Laje­ ters, "Sanskrit not mother of Euro­ edge into amiable po li cies on lingu is­ developed that did a better job of unesse, who was then president of the pean tongues," Nov.9) . The roots tic minorities regardless of their High marks for class size catching the essence of what we're of Indian and European languages Association of Universities and Col­ po li tical beliefs. Concordia ranked first for small trying to provide here, but on bal­ classified as lndo-Eu ropean lan­ Prasad Aysola class size in 300- and 400-level leges of Canada, recommended that guages goes back several thousand ance, the Maclean's exercise is helpful Chemistry member institutions not participate. years. courses and tied for firs t for 100- and in reminding us of our strengths and Concordia was one of those who In view of the la nguage confl icts 200-level courses. But Concordia weaknesses." in our province, it is interesting to continually loses points in the very opted out, but this year, Lowy want­ Garry M ilton, Director of Institu­ note that during last provincial elec­ CORRECTION areas that make it distinct. For exam­ ed to show the University's renewed tional Planning and Research, said tion's door to door campaign, a ple, Concordia's reputation is built on spirit and commitment by participat­ his department will take a harder Parti Quebecois candidate ( part­ In two articles in last week's CTR , accessibility, particularly for mature ing once again. 'Whether we agree look at the Maclean 's results once the time graduate student in History) in Concordia's Ecotoxicology Centre was and part-time students. Yet, because with the criteria and the weightings magazine provides the raw data it a South Shore riding was su rprised identified with the wrong department. It that Maclean's uses," he said, "these when I told her that French was an it takes longer for these students to used to form its conclusions. A official language, along with Latin, is in the Department of Biology. We graduate, Concordia comes up short annual rankings do provide useful report should be ready early in the in British courts an d universities for regret the error. against more traditional institutions. benchmarks for future development. -new year.

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1 4 NOVEMBER 30, 1995 CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT ... ,. .... ~ ,,,... "r I' ) • t I . Awards of Distinction • ·, Annual luncheon honours business leaders

The eighth edition of the Faculty of Mr. Polachek is a director of the Commerce and Administration A wards Urban Development Institute of of D istinction luncheon celebrated the <21tebec and a member of a number achievements offour outstanding M on­ of professional, engineering and con­ trealers today. struction associations . He served as R ector Frederick L owy made the general chairman of the Combined keynote speech at the luncheon, which is Jewish Appeal in 1991, and is a gov­ a key feature of the Faculty's year and ernor of the Montreal Children's always fills the Queen Elizabeth Hotel's Hospital and a member of the board Grand Salon. of trustees of Mount Sinai Hospital. This year, another event was added He has also delivered guest lectures to the celebrations. On Monday at McGill and Concordia Universi­ evening, a reception was held in the ties and at Vanier College. University's downtown Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery to honour all 32 recip ients over the years. The A wards began in 1988.

The Faculty of Commerce and Administration's Awards of Distinction committee is photographed here in the Karel Velan Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery on Monday evening at a reception for past and current recipients. At left are Management Professor Louis Hebert' and undergraduate students Peter Staveris and Aviv ·FJazon. On the right, standing, .are undergraduate Nancy T.am., Dean Mo~s~n Anvari, Co"'!munications. O~ficer Claire fYlcKinnon and A'~~ociate Dean (External Affairs"and Executive'P~'°gramsl Farhad Simyar. Sea'ted, committee Karel Velan ~hairman and Visiting Management Professor Pierre Sevigny/ Marketing Professor Gad Saad, and Vivianne Majeau, External Liaison Officer for the Centre for Building Studies. The exhibit, Ordinary Magic: Aspects of Karel V elan is the fo under of Robert Chevrier Ritual in Contep porary Art, features installation by five major Canadian artists, and ends Saturday. Velan Inc., an international leader in industrial and nuclear valves, with Robert Chevrier is the vice-chair­ three specialized plants in <21tebec man, president and chief executive employing 720 people, and others in officer of Westburne Inc., the third­ the United States, France, Portugal, largest distribution company in Richelieu, and Les Boutiques San then pursued legal studies, obtaining struction (Canada) Ltd, one of the South Korea and Taiwan which North America. Francisco. He holds a Bachelor of her Bachelor of Civil Law degree largest construction companies in employ 600 more. In only two years with Westburne, Commerce degree from Sir George from McGill University, and a Mas­ Canada. He has been a partner in the Karel V elan was trained as a Mr. Chevrier has achieved an Williams University (1964) and a ter's in Public Law from the Univer­ development of many office, com­ mechanical engineer, and fled com­ impressive reversal from losses of CA from McGill University (1966). site de Montreal. An expanded mercial and luxury co ndominium munist Czechoslovakia in 1949 with $30 million in 1993 to a profit of version of her thesis, Broadcasting projects in the Montreal area. his wife Olga and two small sons, $25.4 million in 1994. This and sim­ Law in Canada: Fairness in the A native Montrealer, M r. Ivan and Peter. Once in Montreal, ilar achievements have earned him Donna Soble Kaufman Administrative Process, was subse­ Polachek received a Bachelor of Civil he developed his innovative the reputation of being a "turn­ quently published and is now a Engineering degree from McGill approach to industrial valves and around specialist" in the industry. Donna Soble Kaufman is a part­ widely-used text on the subject. University in 1962, but his associa­ steam traps, establishing a manufac­ In 1976, he started Autopoint ner in the global law furn Stikeman, Mrs .' Kaufman is responsible for tion with Groupe Magil goes back to turing plant on Jeanne-Mance St. Inc., an automotive distribution Elliott. Stikeman, Elliott's antitrust practice the s·ummer of 1960, when he His firs t large order was in 1952, company which soon had 30 outlets A native of Toronto, she began group in Montreal. She is a director worked as a summer student for the from the U.S. Navy, for parts for from Montreal to Qyebec City. her professional life as a broadcaster, of the T ransAlta Corporation, and company he would eventually head. eight destroyers. While running Autopoint, he was serves on the boards of the CRB All Mr. V elan's manufacturing named president of Uni-Select, and Foundation, the Jewish General plants adhere to international quality eventually became its largest share­ Hospital Foundation, and the standards, reflecting the principles of holder. When he left the company, International Development Research total quality management. The sec­ Uni-Select was the second-largest ond generation, sons Ivan, Peter and Center. She has served as chairman, automotive distributor in Canada, Tom, are executive vice-presidents of president and chief executive officer and its shares were traded at five the firm . of Selkirk Communications Limited, times their issue price. Through the Velan Foundation, and as a director of Southam Inc. He spent the next two years man­ the family supports charitable aging a portfolio of investments for causes here and abroad. Kare} Schroeders and Partners Inc. In V elan devotes his free time to his 1992, he spent four months travel­ Sol Polachek lifelong interest in cosmology, ling in the South Pacific before with the help of the Cambridge going to W estburne. Sol Polachek is chairman and Institute of Astronomy. His own Mr. Chevrier sits on the board of CEO of Magil Laurentian Realty theory on the origin of the directors of Les Fonds de Croissance corporation, and majority shareholder universe is outlined in his book, Quebec, Provigo, Quincaillerie and corporate head of Groupe Magil, Th e Multi- Un iverse Cosmos Donna Soble Kaufman whose operations include Magil Con- (Plenum, 1992).

CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT NOVEMBER 30 , 1995 5 number of welcoming events were held last week to mark the installation ofFrederick Lowy as Rector and Vice-Chancellor -'- afternoon tea in the atrium, din­ ner with University Senators at the Loyola Faculty Club, a grand ceremony at Place des Arts which included Fall Convocation, and a gala luncheon at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel.

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Family portrait: Standing, sons Eric, David and Adam Lowy. Seated, daughter Sarah, wife Mary Kay, the Rector, and Eric's wife, Lindsey Lowy.

His art deepened by his brush with cancer, a talented painter graduates with distinction The flowering of Christopher Healey

"I was faced with a decision. I py and completed when he was feel­ BY SHIRA KAT Z could have gone back to my parents ing well. hristopher Healey's struggle to in Ottawa, but I didn't want to waste 'When I was getting sick and did Ccombat cancer is the subject of away at home. My student loans and not know it, I did a lot of abstract art most of his paintings. The 24-year­ my pride told me to tough it out," he that came out of my subconscious. old Studio Art student has acquired said. "Concordia Health Services Now it makes more sense. It looks a BFA with distinction, thanks to were very helpful. They provided me like biological matter fragmenting his strong determination to succeed. with a lot of resources." itself on a canvas." Hospital visits combined with two He says that the support he received Healey has sold most of his work, from Concordia, friends and espe­ weeks a month in bed are not the and he even donated a painting to cially from his girlfriend, Alice Can­ norm for most Concordia students. Concordia's Lonergan College as a tine, helped him get through his Healey told all his professors and way of thanking them for their sup­ six-month-long ordeal last year. classmates about his illness and quit port. The painting is a self-portrait "When you have a slow brush his job at Cafe X, but he stayed on with death you come out a different the executive ofFASA. based on the writings of political person. Everything becomes mean­ "I got an in-course bursary from philosopher Hannah Arendt, who ingless - or ten times more mean­ Concordia, and that was helpful," he was the focus of Lonergan's program ingful," he said. When fatigue said. last year. overtook him, Healey put it down to But the side-effects from the He is now working on a series his heavy involvement in student chemotherapy affected his concen­ called The Flowering God Machine, politics, combined with his work at tration. "I was sick, on average, for which deals with visual representa­ the student-run Cafe X, and the two weeks a month, and I'd be drag­ tions of the "flowering" of cancer. A birth of his son,James. ging myself to classes. Dope and six-by-three-foot painting in his In the 1993-94 academic year, he holistic medicine helped increase my downtown studio is a representation was co-president of the Studio Art appetite and get rid of the nausea. of raw flesh and blood. Students' Association (SASA) and a When I was feeling well, I produced "I wanted to get the picture of raw student senator representing the a whole bunch of art works," he said. flesh exposed, the depth of the inside Fine Arts Students' Association He finished Concordia with a grade­ of our bodies," he said. (FASA). He was taking six courses point average of3.75 last year. Healey said that now that he feels at the start of 1994 when he noticed "The professors and Student Ser­ much better, he is looking forward to some lumps on his neck. vices were all amazing. If there was spending more time painting and "My girlfriend noticed that I was an academic or technical problem, turning green. I thought I had the such as registration, they waited until being with his two-year-old son. He Iii mumps or mono. In retrospect, I I was well," he said. still has to go for tests, but the cancer ~ wish it had been the mumps." He Healey completed a series of 13 is probably gone. He said he would ~ went to Concordia Health Services paintings, many of them self-por­ like to do a Master's degree in Stu- ~ and was sent for X-rays. After a week traits, which were displayed in the dio Drawing. i Q. of tests, he fo und out that he had VAV Gallery last June. Titled Crisis "One thing for sure that came out Hodgkin's disease, which is charac­ if the Vessel, they included paintings of this ordeal was, dammit, I want to terized by enlarged lymph nodes. started when he was on chemothera- be an artist."

CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT NOVEMBER 30, 1995 7 Art makes everyone a learner, says Tim Rollins, Pied Piper of the South Bronx Kids' artw-ork sells, tours internationally

been diagnosed as educationally or BY JOANNE LATIMER behaviourally challenged. im Rollins is an independent art "Books were the enemy for my Tteacher who works with trou­ kids," Rollins said. "Many couldn't i bled kids in New York City's South · read, so we drew and painted on ~ a: Bronx. Concordia's Department of book pages. We created a counter- ~ <( Art Education asked Rollins to narrative. It's not vandalism, it's a ~ explain his innovative art project, dialogue. I read them Kafka, Orwell, 11: Kids of Survival (K.O.S.), early this Homer, Shelley, and they'd draw. month. This way, art becomes a curriculum." With the charisma and conviction K.O.S. experienced a setback in of an evangelist preacher, Rollins 1992, when the art market crashed. told the history of K. 0. S. and The project had made over $300,000 Leisure Studies' Lisa Ostiguy .directs volunteer project that takes showed slides of its work, which he through art sales, but income had university students into inner-city schools likened to family portraits. declined. Rollins had to lay off staff Rollins founded the project in members, and the government 1981. Since then, its art has made its seized the proceeds of that year's Passing on skills for life way into the permanent collections show for back taxes. 'We made a lot of money and we of the Chicago Institute of Art and and two drop-in centres are involved Inner-City Youth (CICY) Project spent a lot," he said, but he put sev­ BY SHIRA KATZ European museums. K.O.S. art tours in the project. emerged from the expansion of that internationally, and is sold through eral students through college. The oncordia's Inner City Youth "Recreation is a form of therapy course in 1992. The idea was to the Mary Boone Gallery in New older students are mentors for the (CICY) Project brings universi­ for these kids," said Patrick Ansley, a allow Concordia students who were York's Greenwich Village. new recruits. There were disappoint­ C ty students together with school­ Leisure Studies student who started not in the co urse to become 'When I was recruited, I thought ments along the way, he admitted. children between the ages of six and a weight-lifting program at an inner­ involved. I'd deliver an art curriculum into the "The older kids had treated me as 16. Last year, through this lively pro- city high school this year. -"I try to Professor Ostiguy, who has an Bronx , and then talk about it at a father figure, and then they were ject, about 450 youngsters had fun motivate them by offering a _skill to MA in Therapeutic Recreation and a cocktail parties for the rest of my suddenly too cool to know me. That exploring pursuits that ranged from help them throughout their lives." PhD in Higher Education Adminis­ career," Rollins joked. "I was this hurt bad. And we lost a few kids to rock-climbing to cooking, thanks to "A lot of kids ask if it's worth it to tration from the University of Iowa, guilty white, liberal guy. I'm in · the drugs and dealing. Now, things 58 volunteers from Concordia. go to university," said JoAnne Lan­ travelled with last year's co-ordina­ recovery." are bouncing back." "The more volunteers we have, the gelier, a Leisure Studies student who tors to a number of cities, giving In the early days, K.O.S. had Rollins hopes to open a parallel more programs we can run for stu­ volunteers at a drop-in centre. "I tell workshops and helping people set up practically no art supplies, but the school for girls one day, and he's dents," said Leisure Studies Profes­ them about my experience." similar programs in Regina, Halifax, project grew. In 1987, it got rented realistic .about sexual equality in the sor Lisa Ostiguy, who directs CICY. The programs are offered at dif­ Fredericton and Winnipeg. space and studio hours, in the after­ South Bronx. "K.O.S. operates in a The programs offer increased indi­ ferent times throughout the day. With the help of her team, she noons and on weekends. There are very macho, sexist neighbourhood. I vidual attention for these young peo­ Smith said that the before-school has been collecting data for a certain basic rules for participation. tell my concerned feminist colleagues ple, and emphasize the development recreation offers a valuable service three-year research program fund­ "The kids have to attend regular that junior high is not the place to of their physical and social skills. for students who are dropped off 30 ed by the Social Sciences and school, and they can't be involved in create a gender utopia." "We reach youths from single­ minutes before class every morning. Humanities Research Council any criminal activity," Rollins said. Art Education Professor Laurie parent, low-income families who are There are also programs at lunch­ (SSHRC) for a study of the long­ "If they're late five minutes, they Blair says that while there isn't a socially and perhaps emotionally hour, after school, and at commu­ term impact ofleisure programs for miss five hours of studio time. Rules similar project here, the Department deprived," said Leisure Studies nity drop-in centres, where the disadvantaged youth. are essential." does include a 400-level course with instructor Allan Smith. "The parents Concordia students often spend "Our research shows that the pro­ Many of these young people had a strong community component. are often hard-working people who time helping them with homework. grams do a lot for self-esteem and _ just don't have time." "They finish their homework and for kids' attitudes towards leisure," The project consists of one direc­ then they are off to an activity," she said. tor, three co-ordinators and, this said Smith. Leisure Studies students Josee year, more than 40 students with a "All the programs are voluntary, Della Rocca, Mario Lombardi and variety of leisure skills they want to but the kids have to make a commit­ Rob Zoppi are co-ordinating the share with youngsters. ment to them," Ostiguy said. project for credit this year in an "It's not about teaching them how "Attendance is incredibly high." Independent Study course. They are to play a game," Smith said. "Our Initially, the Leisure Studies in charge of the recruitment and goal is to get them interested in Department was approached by the management of volunteers, and rais­ something positive. Concordia stu­ Canadian Association for the ing funds to buy sports and crafts dents learn how to be mentors and Advancement of People (CAAP) in materials. There was a bake sale last recreation-providers for youth." 1988, which asked for university stu­ month, and they are now organizing Whether their specialty is outdoor dents to run a basketball program. a band night. recreation, arts and crafts, hockey or That was a success, so in 1989, A 25-minute documentary video music, the volunteer is assigned to a Smith started a six-credit Adolescent about the CICY Project was pro­ high school, elementary school or Recreation course which consists of a duced last year by Communication community centre to teach and run a lecture plus three hours a week of Studies students. This year, a stu­ recreation program. All the volun­ hands-on training. dent is writing a public relations teers are Concordia students, most of "The course has gone from 19 to proposal on the CICY Project. them in Leisure Studies, and some 40 students a year," said Smith. Donations such as craft material, receive academic credit for their "M·any of the students stay on, and egg cartons, fabric and sports equip­ work. several have been hired." ment can be dropped off in the Eight schools in the Protestant With support from the Leisure Leisure Studies Department at 2494 School Board of Greater Montreal Studies Department, the Concordia West Broadway St.

8 N O•V-E MB ER 3 0, 1 9 9 5 , C O N C O R D I A ' S T H U R S D A Y ·R E P O R T Departments take part in vocational rehabilitation project Loony Line for Centraide Easing back into the vvorkplace

with the help of friendly, non-judg­ de !'assurance automobile du Qyebec BY CATHERINE LANGSTON mental staff, Gauthier gradually pro­ (SMQl paying 80 per cent of their rrwoand a half years ago, the gressed from working a few hours a normal salary during the rehabilita­ l Mechanical Engineering day to a full week. Now working tion period, the participants can focus Department volunteered to take part full-time for a private industrial on regaining their professional skills. in a vocational rehabilitation project design company, Gauthier credits M ichele Lefebvre (pictured below) said it hasn't been hard to recover with two accident victims. The expe­ her stage at Concordia for her renewed self-confidence. her skills in the two months she's rience has been so successful that "I didn't have any st!"ess," she said. been working with Farhad Simyar, staff requests actually outnumber the Working in an anxiety-free environ­ Assistant Dean of Commerce and participants available. ment is very important for accident Administration, and Claire McKin­ In 1992, the University was con­ victims who have undergone brain non, Faculty Communications Offi­ tacted by Libranne Consultants, a trauma, said Patrick McLaughlin, cer. But even her relatively light company that works with people ownf!r-counsellor brain trauma, who have had brain injuries. The at Libranne. A the result of a idea was to create a low-key, co­ brain injury can car accident, operative effort to help ease these affect memory, requires Lefeb­ people back into the workplace. motivation, con­ vre to relax qui­ Marguerite Gauthier and Evelyne centration and the ability to commu­ etly alone at home after a working Cypihot, who had both been in car nicate. It affects everyone differently, day instead of going out with accidents, were the first participants. depending on the locale and severity friends. Because an accident victim's Gauthier, an industrial designer, of the injury. Common to all victims, symptoms are neurological rather worked in the Mechanical Engineer­ however, are a profound loss of self­ than physical, others expect them to ing Department's multi-media lab confidence and a nagging apprehen­ perform and socialize normally, for two years. sion about being able to work in the McLaughlin said. At first, she couldn't concentrate future. Colleagues who are puzzled by a for more than two hours at a time. Imagine worrying about money on healthy, hard-working stagiaire's But by working at her own pace, and top of all that. But with the Societe sudden fatigue or spotty memory should remember that a person's t:i ... brain functions have been affected. ~ fr Gauthier recalls asking a co-worker 1l! Cl the same question several times ~ over because she couldn't remember ~ his answer. Lefebvre has been ~ learning how to control her anxiety It wasn't a conga line - it was a successful Concordia student initiative and stimulate her memory while to raise money for Centraide. Student association representatives, working on public relations pro­ headed by Engine·ering and Computer Science Students~ Association jects. Her performance has earned president David Janssen, organized a Loony Line last Thursday in the rave reviews. lobby of the 1-!enry F. Hall Building. The event began at 8:30 a.m. when "It was very valuable to have Rector Frederick Lowy placed the first loony on an adhesive tape w hich someone so well-organized and pre­ wound its way through the area. A total of $1 ,042 was collected by the cise," said McKinnon. "Many times, time things wrapped up that evening. All proceeds will go to she was here more than she was sup­ Concordia's Centraide campaign. posed to be." Lefebvre said she At a Centraide orientation luncheon hosted by the Rector, volunteer appreciated being accepted. "The canvassers learned that while most workplaces drum up more than 35 confidence they have in me gives me per cent participation through the payroll deduction plan, Concordia's Michele Lefebvre at work in the Faculty of Commerce and Administration. a lot of self-confidence." rate over the past few years stands at just over 5 per cent. Please be generous and help Concordia make a difference for Montreal's neediest citizens. Please return those pledge cards to Human Resources, S-A-400, with a donation.

Dickens' Christmas classic opens tomorrow in 0 .8 . Clarke Theatre Scrooge is 6 the ultimate capitalist'

sion; in fact, the first play he Productions, has assembled a cast of IN BRIEF ••• BY PHILIP FINE ever saw was a school tour of 20, including four children. Geordie, "f:'or the past few weeks, Robert A Christmas Carol. which specializes in young audi­ Football coach John Dore ce rt Hall on Mond ay, Decembe r 11, beg inning at 8. The cho ir is Haughey's I' Ross Parker has been growing Bringing a new twist to the 19th­ ences, is co-producing A Christmas and Stingers honoured sideburns, hoping they will flower century character is not his concern. Carol with Concordia's Department class, supplemented by Music profes­ into perfect muttonchops. The "I want to be true to the text," he of Theatre. Parker, who will gradu­ Head coach John Dore was named sors, and the concert is free. Theatre student plays Ebenezer said. "This isn't Hamlet." And his ate this year with a specialization in Coach of the Year and his Concordia Four Concordians are featured in the Scrooge in the stage adaptation of Scrooge won't be a lesson in Performance, said he has enjoyed basketball team has been named out­ Montreal Inter-Hospital Cho ir's gala Dickens' A Christmas Carol, which unabashed evil, said the actor. He working with the veteran director standing men's team in Quebec . The Christmas conce rt on December 8. ~ill open tomorrow in Concordia's sees him as someone who has suf­ and the youngsters. honours we re bestowed at the 10th They are : Kimberly Adams (Electrical D.B. Clarke Theatre. fered. Scrooge is "the ultimate capi­ A Christmas Carol, by Charles an nual Quebec Univ ersity Athletics and Computer Eng ineering), Debb ie Gala on November 21 . Parker was being interviewed in a talist," burying himself in his work Dickens, adapted by Barbara Field and Herman (Library staff). Stephan ie Dore led the Stingers to a si lve r restaurant about his role as the miser and taking pride in being practical directed by Elsa Bo/am, opens tomorrow Roberts (Computer Sc ience). and medal at the Canadian Inter-university who is scared into the Christmas amidst all the yuletide foolishness. at the D.B. Clarke Theatre in the Henry Danny Rossiter (Computing Services). Athletic Un ion championsh ip last spirit by visitations of ghosts, when a The 23-year-old Parker will play F Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve The show, which includes gospel March. Canadian Tire commercial popped Scrooge as a man in his 50s who "has Blvd. W Saturday and Sunday, this tunes, African rhythms, classical msuc up on the television set in the comer. not aged well." Not really a stretch weekend and next, there will be mati­ Concordians make and carols, starts at 8 p.m . at the Ersk­ "He's got great sideburns," said - he recently played a 400-year-old nees at 2 o'clock and evening peifor­ ine Ame rica n Churc h, 3401 du Musee Parker, admiring the TV Scrooge, man in an eight-city Fringe Festival mances at 7 o'clock on Saturday, Sunday, Christmas music Ave . (corner Sherbroo ke). The doo rs "but they're not real." tour of his own one-man show, Con­ and Saturday, December 9. Tickets cost It's a ye arly tradition. The Co ncordia open at 7:30 p.m. Advance tickets are Parker has seen a few Scrooges, fessions ofan Undead Actor. $6 for children 13 and under, $8 for stu­ choir, unde r the direction of El izabeth $14 and $12; $18 and $14 at the doo r. from Alastair Sim in the 19 51 Director Elsa Bolam, founder and dents and seniors, and $12 for others. Haughey, will perform a program of For more information or to reserve, call British movie to the Muppets' ver- artistic director of Geordie Theatre Call 845-9810. seasonal music in the Conco rdia Con - 345-8041 or 737-8321 .

CQIIICORD. IA'S. THURSDAY R,EPORT No.V ,E (IIIJI ER .30~ , 1995 9 Michael Hainsworth understood Concordia's strengths Actor, students' mentor will turn his attention to furry friends Truth in advertising Counihan retires as ichael Hainsworth has taken discipline, learning to make bread require the University's redefinition, Mearly retirement as Director of and wine, and the occasional round he said that he hopes Concordia will Marketing Communications. of golf. always try to provide not only for the Dean of Students For some 20 years, he has promot­ Hainsworth believes that development of Rhodes scholars, but lar life is also valuable." He increased ed Concordia as an institution that BY SHIRA KATZ Concordia's strength lies in its diver­ also those older students whose sto­ his sphere of activity when he became equips graduates for the real world. sity, particularly among the students. ries of self-renewal he has often omething unexpected happened Dean of Students in 1978, working As co- chair of the University's While future budget constraints may found inspiring. to Brian Counihan at the annual on committees to help students multi-media institutional image S Undergraduate Scholarship Induc­ obtain financial support, helping stu­ campaign, he helped collect and tion Ceremony and Reception, for dent associations, and organizing a illustrate the success stories on city which he was master of ceremonies. speakers' series. He has been involved buses in the "Real Education for the The Brian T. Counihan Scholarship in the Concordia yearbook since Real World" campaign. for Outstanding Contribution was 1977, and has kept in touch with Hainsworth also started the annual established. some of the former editors. ' end-of-summer Concordia Memori­ "I was flabbergasted by it," he said Counihan is an experienced ama­ al Golf Tournament, along with sev­ later. "It was an honour in my teur actor who took part in musical eral other enthusiasts of the game. name!" That was followed by the productions at Loyola. His secretary, The first tournament took place only naming of the students' debating Jane Hackett, is also a talented singer days after the 1992 shootings, and and actress, and they got to know championships trophy for the popu­ has grown in attendance every year. each other onstage in the early 1970s. lar Dean of Students, who decided So far, about $7,000 has been raised He "retired" from the stage for about to take the early-retirement package for entrance scholarships in memory 16 years, but in 1990, he sought, and and will leave the University in of the four slain professors. got, a part in Lyric Theatre's musical, December. His friends and col­ Mike moved recently to Toronto, Anything Goes. leagues will gather for a gala goodbye where he plans to lead an eclectic life. After nearly 30 years of dealing late this afternoon on the Loyola It will include communications con­ with students, he wants to work with Campus, which has been his home­ sulting, teaching tai chi to employees another species in his retirement. away-fi-om-home. in "corporate wellness" programs, "I will miss being around students, \.-- continuing his own 18-year-long the day-to-day contacts," he said. exploration of the ancient Chinese "I've spent most of my life on both campuses every day. I've lived on the shuttle bus." The Reverend Robert Nagy, SJ, retires as co-ordinator of Campus Oliebec's French-language atmos­ phere was no problem when he start­ Ministry ed working here in 1970. He had a BA from St. Louis University, in Art inspired by life of the spirit Missouri, where he taught French and Latin until 1965, and was. stantly being challenged by an already making use of his MEd in BY SHIRA KAT Z increasingly secular society, and Nagy counselling from Boston University in his daily work with students. He "'\ ]{ "fhen Bob Nagy started work­ feels a bit nostalgic about the era. left his job there as assistant dean of V V ing at Loyola College back in "There was a lot more youthful students in charge of men's resi­ 1973, ·only 6,000 students were exuberance and energy then," he said dences when he was invited to be an enrolled. That was before the recently. "There was a greater sense of community at Loyola, and stu­ assistant dean of students at Loyola CEGEPs were launched, and just dents got involved in more protests College in 1970. He remembers the before Loyola merged with Sir and other activities." youthful exuberance of the period. George Williams University to form Nagy came armed with a degree in 'We had CEGEP and university Concordia. The Church was con- theology from the Universite de students at Loyola then. They'd be Montreal and an MA in religious sitting on the floor playing the guitar studies at McGill University, plus in the Dean's Office." He's also nos­ nine years experience as a chaplain at talgic about Loyola's winter carni­ McGill University. He took particu­ vals, with their ice castles and lar interest in issues of social justice. toboganning contests. Nagy Vl'.as faced with new chal­ been creating ever since. He is look­ Loyola's family-like atmosphere "Volunteering for the SPCA [the lenges after the merger, as University ing forward to spending more time naturally changed after the merger Society for the Prevention of Cruelty enrolment steadily increased. After on his art in his retirement, and has with the downtown-based Sir to Animals] is something I've always wanted to do," he said. "I have two the more homogeneous character of already enrolled in a painting pro­ George Williams University in 1974, and Counihan's role took on cats, and if I lived on a farm, I'd Loyola, Campus Ministry had to gram at Concordia. another dimension. probably have two dozen." learn to support a more diverse, older "My artwork comes out of my "Students became more job-con­ He's also thinking about going pro­ student body. Interfaith marriages religious and spiritual experience." scious," he said. "B ut we tried to fessional as an actor, getting an agent and student-faculty dialogue became Two of his sculptures are displayed make them aware that extra-curricu- and some work doing "voice-overs." more popular. in the Loyola Chapel: a processional "We became much more ecu­ cross, and a sculpture based on Fran­ menically focused," he recalled. 'We cis of Assisi's poem, Brother Sun, Sis­ began to include members of other ter Moon (see photo), which helped Statement to CUPFA members denominations on our team, and the him deal with his own grieving Christmas Basket Drive became a As many of you are aware, the allocation of part-time teaching co ntracts to process. "The poem is a praise of universal symbol of giving." some CUPFA members was delayed this fall. As a result, payments to some members was delayed. While the delays were the result of the University's One of Campus Ministry's great­ nature as a joyous expression of God's love," he explained. efforts , which were made in good faith , to ensure that as many class sections est challenges came only three years remained open as possible rather than cancelling them , the University regrets ago, when four professors were shot Nagy is considering combining any in convenience that may have been caused to CUPFA members. As a gesture and killed, and many Concordians his sensitivity to the interplay of art of good faith, and without admitting any liability, the University has provided needed help in healing. and worship as a consultant to a your Association with some funds as compensation for th e inconvenience. Nagy is a Jesuit priest, but he is team of architects. "Our buildings CUPFA members should contact their Association for further details. also an artist. He studied at Ecole and worship spaces say something Joy Bennett, Associate Vice-Rector, Institutional Relations and Finance des Beaux Arts as a teenager, and has about who we are."

10 NOVEMBER 30, 1995 CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT Research by Science College speaker addresses our mind-body link Social behaviour affects women's cycles LIB~ nized after two to three cycles. beliefs alter brain functions. As an BY JOA NN E DEER She went on to study the men­ example, she told the audience iopsychologist Martha K. strual cycles of women, who are about the effect of a women's beliefs This column is compiled by Lee Harris, BMcClintock, from the Universi­ "also very social creatures." She and culture on her biological Webster Library (LB-285, 848-7724, e-mail· lharris@vax2) ty of Chicago, visited Concordia began by testing her theory on 135 responses to pregnancy and labour. recently to talk about the relation­ women in the dorms of Wellesley "About 65 per cent of variance in Renovations: The CLUES terminals and CD-ROM database work­ ship between behaviour and biology. College, noting with a smile that it active labour can be attributed to was an experiment that appealed to social beliefs," she said. "Of course, stations in both the Vanier and Webster Libraries reference areas In her lecture, called "Of Rats and will be moved, because some of our most heavily used databases anyone with a sense of gossip. She Women: Menstrual Synchrony and genes are always important, but are being networked. This will allow access to each CD-ROM by the Pheromonal Control of Fertili­ was able to keep track of "Who was what controls these genes?" more than one person at a time. We w ill also introduce the new doing what, with who, when -:- all Her research shows the signifi­ ty," McClintock said she disagrees Canadian Database, which provides references to newspapers, cur­ in the name of science." cance of social environment on an rent events and business magazines, education journals and gov­ with the traditional scientific view McClintock found her original organism's biological functions. ernment publications. Users will connect to the Canadian Da tabase that says behaviour is determined findings from her experiments with "It is absolutely necessary to from CLUES and search it in the same way. Occasionally, a data­ only by biology. base may not be available because the workstatio n is being moved, rats held with the women. The men­ include downward causation [social "I believe the zeitgeist of biology is and users may hear some dril ling for new wiring, so you might strual cycles of women who spent a environment influencing biology] to too reductionist, both now and the want to plan to do your research earlier rather than later. lot of time together changed until understand behaviour." past," she said. She feels that it they began to menstruate at the same A recent profile in the New York Workshops: Every semester, the Libraries offer instructional ignores the social environment of time. McClintock said her results Times spurred Concordia's Science workshops. The winter session's offerings will be listed in the organisms, and only tries to under­ demonstrated the importance of the College to ask the biopsychologist to pamphlet, The Library Experience 1996. Four workshops will be stand the cause-and-effect relation­ effect of social behaviour on biologi­ come to Concordia. Considered a offered: ship between biology and behaviour . cal functions. revolutionary in her field, she pub­ 1) How to find periodical articles using CD-RO Ms, indexes and from one direction. There are many "If you are going to predict when a lished her first research paper before databases examples of social situations that woman ovulates, you have to have finishing her Master's degree, and 2) Discover the Canadian Database and advanced CLUES searching affect biology - blushing with social information, such as who she was honoured by the American Psy­ 3) The Internet: An introduction (e-mail, discussion lists, telnet) embarrassment, for example. is with, and so on. Hormone levels chology Society only six years after 4) Surfing the Internet for resources McClintock has done extensive are not enough." completing her doctorate. Reserves: Faculty members are advised to bring in material they research on the link between social Further research revealed that it Her presentation launched the wish to have put on reserve for winter semester courses well interaction and the synchrony of was the transmission of pheromones, 16th season of the Science College's before the holidays so that they may be available at the beginning menstruation. She worked first with unconscious chemical signals, that annual lecture series, which aims to of the course. If you have an extensive reading list and a large rats, and found that when she left caused the women's menstrual cycles expose science students and the uni­ class, or if the reading is a journal article, it is far easier for students rats together, the menstrual cycles of to synchronize. versity community at large to a range to be able to rely on the material being on reserve. Even though the females would become synchro- McClintock's goal is to show how of issues and knowledge. journals cannot be checked out, they are unavailable within the library after the first reader of the day removes the volume from the shelf until it is reshelved. Consult the pamphlet Reserve Material Service - A Guide for Concordia Faculty, which is avai lable at the Glamorous Christmas party has revived formal dances Circulation Desk in both libraries. Alumni chapter flourishes in Hong Kong

keep seeing each other for mah-jongg works closely with former alumni BY RACHEL ALKALLAY games and Dragon Boat races. We president Rita Ng (BComm '89) and Co-op program in Taipei ONG KONG - Concordia recently held a Buddhist picnic lunch Alex Jone (BA Economics '89), students would work in their office. HUniversity's biggest alumni on Lantau Island (site of the world's another ex-Montrealer now based in BY RACHEL ALKALLAY association is alive and well in Hong largest outdoor Buddha), and we Hong Kong. Romain Duguay, of the CIAC, Kong. Many graduates returning often hold smaller barbecues at mem­ Lo, who works in his family's chem­ HONG KONG - Ken Hynes, a said that unfortunately, "students are home, plus transplanted grads from bers' homes." He notices that younger ical business, estimates that Hong graduate of Concordia's co-op pro­ very job-driven. They don't look at Montreal and other places, have and older people tend to drift ii;ito Kong's hectic pace and the pressure of gram in economics, was chosen from international experience as furthering swelled the alumni association to their own loose groups, but that most work, prevent him from eating dinner a field of 30 candidates to work at their careers or opportunities." That more than 400 members. members are active participants. at home more than twice a week. But the Canadian trade office in Taipei. and their lack of language skills Ronald Lo (BComm '92), presi­ Lo believes that Concordia's the pace is stimulating. Contacted in Taipei, Hynes said make it difficult to place them in dent of the thriving chapter, even alumni association is the most active "In Hong Kong, you get 10 things he was thrilled to be able to work and international work programs, where gives it credit for the return of grand in Hong Kong, and attracts mem­ done in one day, whereas in Mon­ learn in the Far East. He had applied languages are a necessity. balls to Hong Kong. . Christmas is a bers from other university alumni treal you would do half that," he said. for the position even though he had a Hynes is the first student to go huge celebration in Hong Kong, associations and major international The frantic pace helps to create firm job offer in Ottawa, "because I international as a result of the CIAC with glittering decorations every­ firms with branches in the territory. events for alumni to attend. "People wanted to do something different." effort. "Ken showed persistence and where and mass participation. Every New members are referred by old work so long and so hard in Hong The six-month program of living and enthusiasm. In Taipei, he has han­ December 24, therefore, about 600 members, and committee members Kong that they welcome the oppor­ working in another culture has whet­ dled himself well," said Duguay. members and guests of the work to bring in new people and re­ tunity to take an organized break ted his appetite for more. The program requires a financial Concordia Hong Kong Alumni activate old memberships. with friends," Lo said. "Concordia's Economics Professor Balbir investment on the part of the stu­ Association gather for a long-dress, Lo, recently re-elected president alumni association draws attention Sahni, the newly appointed head of dent, Hynes said, "because the job white-tie affair in the ballroom of of the chapter for a second term, to itself because of the events we Concordia's Centre for International doesn't pay enough, but the invest­ the Regent Hotel, the largest in eschews titles. 'We work together to hold, and because our members are Academic Co-operation (CIAC), is ment is well worth it. Taipei is town, to rejoice in grand style. The do the job," he said, smiling. He prominent in the community." the director of the Economics booming and life is very vibrant 1995 grand ball will be the associa­ Department's co-operative program, here." (Interns are paid by the trade tion's 14th in as many years. which comprises six academic and office. Concordia makes the arrange­ Meetings are held at the Lion's four work terms. ments but provides no money.) Club and the Rotary Club, and like · Sahni suggested the new intern­ Hynes's internship at the Canadi­ alumni events here, are bilingual: ship last year to Bruce Mabley, who an trade office gives him many con­ Cantonese and English. Members was then director of the CIAC. tacts and valuable experience which are generally well-to-do and profes­ "Concordia has the faculty and he intends to use when he returns to sional. Alumni who are also mem­ staff to promote international con­ Canada. Exhibiting the enthusiasm bers of the prestigious Hong Kong nections," said Sahni, who has been which got him chosen for Taipei, Jockey Club secure boxes for the promoting University co-operation Hynes is now learning Mandarin.' races - horse-racing and the atten­ with India for the past 12 years. He hopes to work another six dant gambling being a major Hong Sahni followed up his idea with a months in Hong Kong. Kong passion. brief visit to the Canadian govern­ To make ends meet, Hynes works "The bond of alumni in Hong ment's trade delegation in T aipei, evenings, not unlike many people Kong is strong," observed Lo. 'We where it was agreed that one or two who live in this expensive city.

CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT NOVEMBER 30, 1995 1 1 CCSL, Friday, Decemb er 15 from 10 The International Students Office a.m .-1 p.m. in AD-131, 7141 Friday, December 15 University Ombuds Sherbrooke St. W. Are you graduating and returning home? Thi s get-together is for stu ­ Office Bo ard of Governors, Wednesday, dents who are graduating and plan­ Contact us for information, advice and December 20 at 8 a.m. in GM-407-1, ni ng to return home at thi s time. The help with univers ity-related probl ems 1550 de Maisonneuve Bl vd. W. session wi ll help you prepare for the and co mpl aints. 848-4 964 (PR-1 DD) shock of returning home. Location: IS O 21OD Mackay St. Co nferen ce room. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. A light lunch will be served. To registe r, ca ll 848-3515 by Monday, December School of Graduate 11. Studies News Women March of Rage and Mourning Get-togethers with the Dean Wednesday, December 6 Martin Kusy, Dean of the Schoo l of Theatre A publ ic demonstration of women's Graduate Studies, would like to meet power in the face of viole nce . Bring with graduate students, on an infor­ A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. anger, cand les and placards. Gather .ma I basis, at the Graduate Friday, December 1 at 7 p.m .. between 4:30-5:30 p.m. on the mezza­ Administration offices. Sessions wil l Saturday, December 2 and December nine of the Hall Bldg., 1455 de take place from 5:30 -7 p.m . at 2145 9 at 2 & 7 p.m., Sunday, December 3 Maisonneuve Blvd. W. March begins Mackay St., on Wednesday, January and December 10 at 2 p.m. in the D.B. at 5:30 p.m. All women welcome. 24 and Tuesday, February 13. Space is Clarke Theatre, Bishop St. Entrance, limited. Please reserve by contacting 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. A Bunch of Feminists cabaret Kal i Sakell at 848-3803. Admiss ion: $6 for children under 14, Wednesday, December 6 $8 for students and seniors; general A night of wome n' s performance to admission is $12. 848-4737. commemorate the lives and rage against the deaths of 14 women mur­ NOVEMBER 30 • JANUARY II Thesis Defense dered at Ecole Polytechnique, and all Special Events Thursday, December 7 women killed by male violence . Kourosh Adl-Zarabi , Special Featuring Choeur Maha, SHAG, and Latin American Students' Individualized Program, on "Existence many others. 7:30 p.m., H-767, 1455 rescue breathing and one rescuer CPR Building from 11-2:30. HIV/AIDS infor­ Organization and Properties of Absolutely de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Concordia Concert management of the obstructed airway mation wi ll be available and Peer Friday, December 1 Continuous Invariant Measures for and infant, chi ld resuscitation. Health Educators will be there to All members are invited to a wine and Hall answer questions. Higher Dimensional Transformations ." cheese at Old Reggie's, 7th floor, Hall Time 10 a.m. Locat ion: H-773, 1455 Thursday, November 30 Bldg. 848-3532. The Health Educator is in de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Charles Ellison will give a lecture on Workshop If you need health-related information "The Human Orchestra: Coming Full Film Concordia Christian Fellowship for yourself or for an assignment, Ham Radio Class- December 2 & 3 Circle." 12:30 p.m.; "The Affiliates" and Theological Studies Student Conservatoire d' Art drop in and speak to the Health This class will prepare students to fe atu ring Charles Ellison at 8 p.m. Association Cinematographique de Montreal Educator. Loyola Health Services obtai n their own amateur radio license Thursday, December 7 Unclassified Cinema J A. DeSeve. 1400 de Mondays 1:30-5 or Sir George Health and will cover Canad ian amateur rad io Friday, December 1 Christmas carolling at Loyola Chapel Maisonneuve Blvd. W .. Concordia Services Wednesdays 1:30 -5 p.m .. 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Lo yola Athletic Complex , 3:30- p.m.; Opera Repertoire Class di rected p.m.; The Piano at 9:15 p.m. Students for Literacy Senior Volunteer Involvement Peer Health Educators 6:30 p.m. by Jocelyn Fleury at 8 p.m. Volunteers needed to become literacy Project Saturday, December 2 Our students are available to give free tutors. If you can read this, you can Th e Psychology Department is seeking Staff Challenge Hockey Game Monday, December 4 Women on the Verge of a Ne rvous presentations on topi cs such as stre ss . help. Pl ease ca ll Dennis at 323-5906 retired seniors (55 and ove r) who are Sunday, December 10 Chamber Music Students of Sherman Breakdown at 7 p.m.; Chaplin at 9 p.m. nutrition, eating disorders. STDs, for more info or leave a message at not currently involved in vo lunteering Loyola Ath letic Com pl ex. 2-3:30 p.m . Friedland at 8 p.m. AIDS, and more. For more informati on, our office, 848-7454 (2020 Mackay St., to participate in this exciting project. Sunday, December 3 call 848-3572. 3rd floor). New volunteers will be interviewed to Tuesday, December 5 Down by Law at 7 p.m .. Black Rain at The International Students Office determine their skills, interests and Com position and Arranging classes 9 p.m. Thursday, December 14 Student Parking Information goals so that they may be linked to the directed by And rew Homzy at 8 p.m. Drop by our Open House and enjoy a Sports Complex parking permits will most suitable voluntee r posi tion for Monday, December 4 Lectures & glass of punch and some holiday be on sale De c. 11 -22 for the winter them . Volunteers will be able to -Wednesday, December 6 Les choses de la vie at 8:30 p.m. treats, or say goodbye if you are leav­ term beginning January 1996. Place : choose from a wide range of job Concordia Com bo directed by Roddy Seminars ing. H-653 from 2-4 p.m. Call 848- Sec urity Office, PS-102 (Loyola) Hours: opportunities. 848-2258 for additional Tuesday, December 5 Ellias and Co ncordi a Jazz Choir. con­ 3514. 9 - 11:30 a. m., 1-3 p.m. Cost: $45.58. information. Cops, One Week. The Gold Rush at Thursdays at Lonergan ducted by Charles Ellison at 8 p.m. 8:30 pm'. November JO Thursday, December 7 Savith ri de Tourreil, Department of Wednesday, December 6 Jazz Improvisation 1 classes directed Religion and Lonergan PhD Fellow, on Toni at 8:30 p.m. by Roddy Ellias and Dave Turner at 8 "Gandhi and Women." 3:3 0-5 p.m., p.m . 7302 She rbroo ke St. W. Information: Friday, December 8 848-2280. Kiss Me Deadly at 7 p.m. ; The Lady Friday, December 8 Vanishes at 9 p.m . Sax ensemble conducted by And rew Department of Philosophy Homzy and guitar ensemble conducted Colloquium by Gary Schwartz at 8 p.m. Friday, December 1 Louis Charland. Department of The Loyola Film Philosophy, on "S hould Compassion Series be included in Codes of Ethics for Performances of CPR courses Physicians?" 3 p.m . at Lonergan F.C. Smith Aud itorium. 7141 University College, 7302 Sherbrooke original works by St. W. All are welcome. The following courses wi ll be offered Sherbrooke St. W. Tel. 848-3878. Free students by the EH&S Office in the next few adm ission. Simone de Beauvoir Institute weeks . Members of Concordia and the Tuesday, December 5 out side community can take these Monday, December 4 Marie-Celie Agnant, poet and novelist. Thursday, December 7 courses. Contact Donna Fascia no, Touch of Evil. Orson Wel les (1958), at wi ll read exce rpts from The Saturday, December 9 Training Co-ordinator. at 848-4355. 6 p.m.; Frenzy, Alfred Hitchcock (1972), at 7:50 p.m. Passionate Eye on female infanticide at 8 p.m. in China. 3:30-6 p.m. at MU-101, 2170 CSST First-Aid course December 2, 3 Tuesday, December 5 Bishop St. 848-2370. Sunday, December 10 14 hour course. One and a half days of The Godfather-Part II, Francis Coppola at 2 p.m . School of Community and first-aid and half day of CPR. (1974), at 7 p.m. Public Affairs Certification is given by the CSST and Wednesday, December 6 is va lid for three years. Monday, December 11 Studio 303 North by Northwest. Alfred Hitchcock "Quebec Hea lth Care Reform : Effects 372 St. Catherine St. W. on Women' s Duality of Life." 6 p.m . in Baby Heartsaver course (1959). at 6 p.m. (Place des Arts Metro) Saturday, December 9 H-1070, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. 4 to 6 hours for life. Thi s course W. 989-8025 includes rescue breath ing and CPR, as $2 for students well as management of the obstructed HealJh Services $5 for others airway in the infant and child. World Mos Day is Tomorrow Meetings CPR Heartsaver Plus course (Decem ber 1). An exh ibition featur ing For information , Sunday, December 10 artists' responses to AIDS will take Senate, Friday, December 8 at 2 p.m . please call 848-4740. 6 to 8 hours for life. This course includes place on the main floor of the Hall in DL-200, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W. THIS SUPPLEMENT WAS PREPARED BY THE PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT ••••••••••••• ~t!,~:·: •• ·=: L ...... "'

TOWARDS A BETTER WORLD

A~onvocation Address by Dr. Frederick H. Lowy on the Occasion of his Installation as Rector and Vice -~hancellor of ~oncordia University Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier • Place des Arts • Montreal November 24, 1995

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TOWARDS A BETTER WORLD THE ROLE OF THE UNIVER~ITY IN ~REATING ABETTER ~O~IETY

oday's graduates and I have much in common. I have just been installed as Rector graduates - emotionally, spiritually, financially. In a sense, you graduate with them today and of a university that faces major change in a fluid socio-political and economic envi­ their success, in part, is your success. Rejoice with them - you deserve it. ronment. You graduates, likewise, will pursue employment opportunities or further studies in the same daunting environment. Shortly I will say some things about this I, too, stand before you, grateful to those who have made my installation today possible. I, too, environment as it affects Quebec, Canada as a whole and, indeed, all the interdepen­ have benefited from support without which I should not be here. Foremost is my family. My wife dent nations and peoples that make up our world. My focus will be the role of the uni­ Mary Kay, my children David, Eric, Adam and Sarah and Lindsey, Eric's wife, have always been at versity in shaping this environment to create a better society. my side. My mother, Mitzi Lowy, and my late father have been incredible supporters throughout my life. My sister Henny and Edmund Caswell, her husband, who have come from Dundee, But first let me make some comments of a more personal nature that reflect other things that Scotland to be here today, and Mary Kay's family have been dear, dear friends. And I am grateful you, the graduates, and I share. I feel immensely proud to have become Rector and Vice­ to the Chancellor, the Chairman and the Board of Governors and the faculty, staff, students and Chancellor of Concordia University and you have every reason to be proud to have earned a alumni of Concordia who have welcomed me with warmth and assistance beyond what I had the Concordia degree. right to expect. I thank you all most sincerely.

Concordia is only 21 years old, albeit the heir and beneficiary of two rich and very different tra­ PERILOUS TIMES ditions that go back to the 19th century. During these 21 years, Concordia has begun to forge a Educators in every age, from at least the time of Socrates to the present day, have probably warned culture that, while borrowing from and often combining Loyola and Sir George Williams tradi­ of "the perilous times" in which their students go out into the world. While of course there have tions and values, already possesses distinctive features of its own. I have been at Concordia a lit­ been far worse times for humanity (especially in our own 20th century) , it is true that today's tle more than three months, but I have learned already that in its emphasis, Concordia's culture graduates do face some very difficult problems. As we approach the millennium, they will have differs somewhat from that of the universities in which I have taught for the past 30 years. to function in a society that has barely come to grips with challenges that are, if anything, para­ doxical. Let me offer just a few examples of these problem paradoxes that confront society and What are these differences? Concordia not only espouses, but operationalizes, a student-oriented which universities inadvertently have helped to create. ethos. Classes at Concordia are smaller, the ambiance for students tends to be warmer, professors are more accessible for out-of-class counselling, and not only is ethno-cultural and age diversi­ 1. The very future of the planet as we know it is at risk. We can measure better than ever before ty accepted, it is celebrated. the extent to which and how we pollute the environment; we understand better the impli­ cations of the shrinking ozone layer, the destruction of the rain forests, the desertification of Consider for a moment this variable of age. Concordia has a greater age range and, on average, arable land, the hothouse effect, the pollution of air and water and so on. Yet the scientific an older student population than most universities. This is because we deliberately attract more advances that have permitted this better understanding, most of which have originated in part-time students and students who return, sometimes more than once, in a process of lifelong universities, have not prevented but, if anything, have accelerated the assault on the physi­ learning. These mostly mature students are not segregated. They are freely integrated into cours­ cal environment. es with younger students who come directly from Quebec CEGEPs and high schools outside this province. The mix of youthful openness, vigour and irreverence with the life experiences (in the 2. There is economic misery in the midst of plenty. More wealth is now created annually than workplace and in family life) of older students enriches the learning climate for both and gives ever before, spurred by developments in the natural sciences and engineering which have impetus to Concordia's goal of providing "Real Education for the Real World. " The same is true produced a revolution in information transfer, production of goods, transportation and of the remarkable ethnic, cultural and religious diversity of Concordia's students, faculty and staff. communications. Yet the gap between the so-called first and third worlds- between the have and have-not nations - has grown. And within the richest western countries, most notably These features of Concordia, about which I am learning and which you have experienced during the United States but, unfortunately, also Canada, the poor live in a world quite different your years here, are not easy to quantify and are not well-reflected in national ratings of universi­ from that portrayed in advertising and television. We have more wealth but, paradoxically, ties. Indeed, a young university that tries to be different has to overcome two obstacles when it seeks more poverty and high rates of self-esteem-sapping unemployment. recognition. First, there is the 'halo effect' (according to which perceptions at any point in time are influenced not only by current reality but by past events) . Both Concordia and, earlier, Sir 3. The technological imperative sometimes overrides all else. Biomedical science has spurted George underwent turmoil that still affects Concordia's image. Second, there is the problem that forward at an unprecedented rate during the past 50 years. The average life span has rigid categories which attempt to rank commonalties among universities are not sufficiently sen­ increased (in Japan, the world's leader, to 78.7 years for men and women combined; in sitive to features that are distinctive, including praiseworthy features introduced by design. C

4. Emotionally driven social forces periodically lead to violence. During the past century the As a long-time resident of Ontario who has just returned, gladly, to Quebec, let me offer a few social sciences (such as psychology, sociology, economics) have moved from the periphery observations. The two solitudes about which Hugh MacLennan wrote half a century ago remain of academe to occupy a large part of its centre. We have far more organized information largely inward looking and within each group people reconfirm for each other their divergent about the behaviour of humans, as individuals and in groups, than previous generations. views of history, their different basic assumptions and their dissonant perceptions about them­ Yet this century has seen the bloodiest conflicts in history. The nationalism which has stirred selves and "the others." Most alarming is that the majority of both anglophones and franco­ millions and which has given them pride in themselves, their history and their distinctive­ phones, who are traditionally fair-minded, tolerant and practical, are increasingly coming under ness has been perverted to mistrust and intolerance of people who are different. In the the influence of strident, committed ideologues who have polarized and oversimplified complex extreme, the pursuit of ethnic purity has, even in the most recent times, led to shameful issues. As a result, many Quebecers feel victimized, deprived of recognition as a people and, there­ abominations. fore, of self-determination. Many Canadians in the rest of Canada feel victimized by what they see as a province that monopolizes the national agenda, constantly wants more than the others, and These are examples of problems which our generation and those preceding have failed to solve and causes the ins tab iii ty that is so threatening. we fervently hope that you graduates and your generation will do better. But the examples I have selected for illustration are universal - the threat to the physical environment; poverty and unem­ In the overheated, emotional climate that has resulted the basic issue cannot easily be addressed ployment despite high productivity; the ethical dilemmas that accompany scientific progress; the calmly; does the government of Quebec represent a nation or people that joined with another to disruptive and sometimes deadly consequences of emotionally driven social forces. In addition to form Canada in 1867 or is it simply one of 10 provincial governments in a federal state? Indeed, these and other challenges with which university gr~uates- tomorrow's leaders - struggle every­ in this overheated climate the francophone majority in Quebec (but a North American minority) where in the world, we have our very own stresses right here in Canada. and the anglophone/allophone minority in Quebec (but emotionally linked to the North American majority) both see themselves as victims and are seen by the others as persecutors. The STATUS OF QUEBEC many Quebec francophones who would prefer to remain in a restructured Canada are gradually As we all know, the political system in which we live and perhaps our way of life will depend on being radicalized by those who wish to separate. The many anglophone Canadians who are how we meet them. The stresses are economic and social as well as political. However, until we potential allies in revitalising our federal system are gradually being radicalized by a minority achieve political stability, it is difficult to see how we can overcome the economic and social who insist on "no more concessions to Quebec," even at the risk of seeing Quebec separate. threats to our well being. Although the United Nations Development Index ranks Canada as the most desirable country in the world in which to live - and most Canadians who have lived else­ DEMONIZING STEREOTYPES where will agree - there is a pervasive feeling of uncertainty and anxiety throughout the country. These observations are not, of course, original or profound. But they underline what seems to me Can we maintain our way of life? There is deep concern about the decline in our economy and to be our dangerous approach towards a line of no return. By this I am not referring specifically our competitiveness (in which, according to Time magazine, we now rank 12th in the world to a Quebec decision to separate, though clearly that is possible. The line I do not want us to cross when we were fourth in 1989). Jobs and investments are being lost with dire consequences for our divides rational and sensitive problem-solving from irrational and insensitive blaming of each future. At risk are our valued social programs and support for our cultural and educational insti­ other and erecting demonizing stereotypes that people then feel justified in attacking. tutions, including our universities, which during the past few decades have become increasingly dependent on government grants. What then of the universities? What can they, and specifically Concordia, contribute towards help­ ing solve the problems we face, both those we share with the rest of the world and our own Political stability, on which our economic and social well being depends, revolves primarily on a Canadian issues? single issue and its ramifications - the status of Quebec. Can we find a way to restructure that will allow the majority of Quebecers to want to strengthen their ties to Canada, and yet is acceptable Let us first review very briefly the history of value transmission by the North American university. to the majority of Canadians outside Quebec? I believe we can if we can reconnect with our char­ When universities were founded in North America - Harvard and Laval in the 17th century were acteristic Canadian values and if we really talk to each other meaningfully. the first - they continued as a matter of course a tradition that began with Al Azhar in Cairo in the 10th century and the early European universities - Bologna, Paris, Oxford, Heidelberg - in the next two centuries. That is a view of the university as an institution that not only preserves, trans­

mits and advances knowledge, but also imparts moral values to students. As recently as 100 years \ . ago, even secular universities considered the moral development of their students as an integral part of their mission. The most senior professors, often the presidents and rectors, presented com­ pulsory classes on moral philosophy. The perceived moral character of would-be professors was a major determinant of whether they were hired, the assumption being that one of their major tasks was to serve as moral role models for students. In the relatively homogeneous communities they served, universities were expected to reinforce shared societal values which their graduates would then perpetuate.

All this, of course, changed during the present century under the dual influence of scientific log­ ical positivism and moral libertarianism. Normative judgments of right and wrong gradually faded from classrooms in the search for value-free learning. Professors were hired for their schol­ arly promise rather than their moral perspectives. (This rectified the situation in which, under the guise of judgments about an applicant's "character" or "personality," qualified persons with challenging views, as well as women and members of minority groups, were excluded from the professoriat in many institutions.) The consequence is that our universities now explicitly try to avoid transmitting values for fear of indoctrinating students or of being accused, by any one of many single-interest groups, of prejudice against them. To be sure, ethics courses have prolifer­ ated: bioethics, engineering and business ethics, journalistic ethics, etc. But even these courses, THIS SUPPLEMENT WAS PREPARED BY THE PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT ~At]lAit(tt~ ...... ·,~:· ...... '/' 4 which only a minority of students select, are often presented in a spirit of ethical relativism out CREATIVE COEXISTENCE of deference to the pluralistic composition of the university. Universities, of course, do transmit Students, too, have an important part to play. Understandably in today's economic cli mate , stu­ values implicitly. The rules and values of scholarship are passed on·, with appropriate variations, dents are heavily oriented to future employability. However, while preparing themselves for the job by the various disciplines. And radical libertarian values do permeate today's North American market, students (who are, as I have noted, tomorrow's leaders) must also leave room fo r engag­ academy, but often they find such extreme expression and are espoused with such vehemence (at ing in society's struggles. This they can do in part, by transmitting to the rest of us the idealism times even violence) that they reinforce the views of the converted, but leave others unconvinced, of youth, the optimism that a better wo rld is not only possible but is within our grasp if only we though often cowed. The safest position, during this hegemony of political correctness, is to take reach high enough. no moral position at all or, at best, provide tepid support for issues on which a broad consensus already exists. Most important, professors, students and all of us who are privileged to do our work in universi­ ties can create a climate of expectation that we ourselves first must meet. We can expect to create But the universities contain many of society's brightest, best informed and potentially most inno­ in our' academic microcosmos a model of creative coexistence. vative members. They number within their ranks the expert consultants, or the teachers of the consultants, whose advice underlines decisions made by governments, corporations and other What I am talking about is how we think about problems and each other and how we behave institutions, most of whom are led by university graduates. Their potential influence is vast. towards each other. Earlier I used the phrase "characteristic Canadian values. " While we have no monopoly on these, it is certainly true that Canadians are generally regarded as tolerant people I believe it is time for universities to retrieve their courage and return to the business of trans­ who value civility, peace, social stability, the protection of the sick, elderly and disadvantaged and, mitting values. As Derek Bok, former president of Harvard, wrote some 10 years ago: "In the last when necessary, compromise so that the other values can be preserved. analysis, an important part of becoming an educated person is to comprehend the fundamental problems of human existence in all their complexity and thus engage with life at the highest pos­ Universities need not be reluctant to espouse these values nor ashamed to reinforce virtues: hon­ sible level of awareness. "O) To engage with life is to take a stand, but first, one must know what esty, truth telling, dependability, acceptance of personal responsibility, avoidance of demagoguery, one stands for. and so on.

Let me hasten to reassure you that I am not advocating a return to religious or ideological ortho­ Concordia is well-positioned to take the lead. We are pluralistic in composition and outlook, we doxy or to an era when the domination of a majority left no room for dissent or for the emer­ can be inclusive in our curdcula and in how we teach, we are not imperialistic and we threat­ gence of radical challenges. I am not advocating that universities teach students what to think or en no one. And we continue to reach out to people who otherwise might not have a university what they should do. I do not advocate that universities indoctrinate students to be partisans of a education. We can take the lead in marshalling the incredible potential of Canada's excellent particular social or economic or political or philosophic position. universities and colleges to build a safer, less polluted, more just world and, at home, a more sensitive, more understanding and more tolerant citizenry. Our impact can be felt not only at RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY home in Montreal and within Quebec - but throughout Canada. We must not be passive and I am advocating an explicit emphasis on certain values that are prerequisites to civilized life in disengaged in these fateful times. Concordia can be a bridge. We must touch our residents of the complex, multicultural world in which we live and today's graduates will live. Foremost Quebec on one side and reach our fellow citizens of Canada on the other. Whether a lasting con­ among these values is a genuine respect for diversity, for opposing views. The peoples of the world, nection is secured will be determined by the democratic process and we can take comfort that many of whom are represented on our two campuses, are different. The two major linguistic the democratic process is firmly entrenched here. The result, I hope, will be a different, but groups in Canada are distinct, though neither is monolithic as stereotypers woul~ like to portray strong and united Canada. them. The historical era of the dominance of western European powers and the democracies they spawned (like the United States and our own country) is drawing to a close. Tolerance is the key to not merely a coexistence of opposing views but to the forging of new solutions for a rapidly changing world. Respect for diversity and tolerance of different positions do not require bland moral neutrality or an ethic of "anything goes. " On the contrary, clearly identifying differences is the first step to reaching solutions. Ethics has evolved throughout histo1y. Even the moral absolutes that today's deontologists hold have evolved from previous beliefs. To borrow a concept from chemistry, the creative confrontation of different elements - if it occurs in a problem-solving mode rather than in a struggle for dominance - can create a new, stable compound rather than a mixture that leaves the original elements unchanged and separate.

For universities to be the great force for good that potentially they can be, several things must change. Professors and academic administrators must look beyond their immediate career goals or disciplinary challenges and become involved in the great issues of society, not so much as pro­ tagonists (though as citizens it is their right to do so), but by applying their insights.and schol­ arly perspectives to these issues. The ivory tower occupied by academics remote from the imme­ diate problems of society will, understandably, not be able to count on society's support for long. This is not to say that the ever shifting political waves should take over the academic agenda. What I am proposing is that t~e academic community give priority to examining the major threats to the maintenance of a sustainable, just, democratic and peaceful society. I believe this is part of our civic duty. I am also convinced that if we can mobilize our considerable intellectual Ce discours est egalement disponible en fran~ais. veuillez telephoner au 848-4880. resources to this end, we can make a difference.

(l) Bok, D. Beyond the Ivory Jbwer: Social Responsibilities of the Modern University, Cambridge: Harvard University Pres.s, 1982, p. 131.