Vol. 17 No. 16 February 4, 1993 Concordia pr ofessor captures sense ol once-proud prairie city From boomtown to bleak town
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Can Moose Jaw, Sask., once a vital rail town, find true happiness in the 1990s as "the international marching band capital of North America?" Sadly, the answer is no, according to Moose Jaw, the latest film by Concordia Communication Studies Professor Rick Hancox. The old Moose Jaw has had its day. Hancox is one of Canada's most influen tial experimental film-makers. Besides Moose Jaw, he has made the prize-winning landscape/poetry -film trilogy Waterworx, Landfall and Beach Events, as well as Wild Sync and the one-hour autobiographical documentary, Home for Christmas. Moose Jaw will be shown at Concordia on Feb. 18. The screening will take pl ace in the F.C. Smith Auditorium on the Loyola Cam pus at 7:30 p.m., as part of the Communica tion Studies Coll oquium Series. 10-year project
To make Moose Jaw, Hancox returned to the city of his boyhood several times during the last 10 years -each time with his 16mm Bolex clasped firmly in hand. Conde nsing a I 0-year film project into 57 minutes, he has captured a vivid, fatalistic sense of a once-proud prairie city, now 30 years into its decline, by using filming tech niques and all the post-production magic 'There's a future in our past' holds true for Communication Studies Professor Rick Hancox. His expected of an independent filmmaker in film Moose Jaw begins as a documentary about the city of his boyhood and evolves into an top form. experimental film about himself. The city of Moose Jaw's decline - a process that Hancox calls "the museumiza tion of prairie culture" - has not been par Professor brings theology ticularly graceful. A vibrant economy driven by a forward-looking community has been eclipsed by tourist attractions and local to Ukrainian students community boosterism. The trains have Eludes fran~ises has launched a new co-op withdrawn, and the only thing that runs programme, the first since 1988, to place through the town on a regular basis is a Specialization in Translation students in real parade. The motto of present-day Moose ii Moscovitch work environments, balancing class work with Jaw is "There's a future in our past," which hands-on experience. Hancox has adopted as the film's subtitle. "The community has reached a wall where the future looks so bleak, all it can do What the Ukraine needs is "a perestroika is turn towards the past," Hancox said. of the soul," according to Theology Profes "They put their past in museums and hope sor Russel Moroziuk. The Canadian Association of University to at least develop a tourist industry." "Everything there has changed, but the Teachers has released a report drafted by an mindset is still the same. It's going to take a independent study group on university gov Post-war optimism long time." _ ernance, openness and accountability. Moroziuk, who is of Ukrainian origin, The eldest of three children, whose family spent the fall semester at the University of moved to Moose Jaw when his father be Kiev's Mohyla Academy, which opened last came publisher of the Moose Jaw Herald, September. The Academy is located in the Hancox has fond boyhood memories of heart of Kiev, the Ukraine capital. While Moose Jaw. "The 1950s were filled with there, he worked on research and taught an How does Concordia keep borderline stu post-war optimism. I had a rich, exciting introductory course in the psychology, soci dents from failing? A special report explores and romantic childhood, growing up in that ology, and philosophy of religion. some of the avenues a student might take and era, in that city." Students and faculty at the Mohyla Acad the services available to them to keep students in school and succeeding. This affinity for this topic, repeated visits, emy seemed starved for courses in religion conversations with residents ( there are more and theology, Moroziuk said. More than Professor Russel Moroziuk Sae MOOSE JAW page 10 S1111 UKRAIIIE page 10 PHOTO: Marcos Townsend 2- February 4, 1993
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.Ir Etudes fran~aises launches
Off the Cuff is a weekly column of opinion and insight into major issues in new co-op programme the news. If you are a Concordia faculty or staff member and have she hopes to admit IO students and to have something to say "off the cuff," call CTR at 848-4882. an equal number of anglophones and fran Moscovitch cophones. The students' first language is important, Tragedy of lnnu result of gap between because they are trained to translate from either English or French into their mother expectation and reality: Dean Valaskakis The Department of Etudes fran~aises has tongue. just launched Concordia's first new co-op The three-year programme involves three programme since 1988. Suicide attempts, such as those last week by six lnnu children in Davis inlet, consecutive semesters of classroom work, Five francophone and three anglophone Newfoundland, are not uncommon in the native world, says Dean ofArts and Science followed by six semesters that alternate students chosen from among the 50 enrolled studying with hands-on work experience. Gail Valaskakis. Nor, for that matter, is it that uncommon among other Canadian in the Specialization in Translation Pro- . youth. Valaskakis, herself part-Chippewa, and a long-time worker and scholar on Catry-Verron said that having three full se.: gramme, were admitted this semester to the mesters of school work under their belts communications programmes in the North, attributes the despair of these children Department's new co-op Programme in before starting an internship will be impor and negligence of their parents to the disorientation of identity and psyche caused by Translation. tant for the student translators. The programme is brand new, but good the gap between expectations and reality. "It takes a long time to be credible in a intentions have been kicking around for translation job," Verron said. "It takes that "This is devastating for Canadians, but what is so remarkable is that that community some time. much time to be ready for your first intern is not unique. Every native knows someone who has gone that route. In native "Ten years ago we looked into it and we ship. You have to have some terminological planned for it, but we didn't have the re communities and in our own society we see more and more of this despair reflected. knowledge." It's hard for many natives and many youth in general to see other ways of solving sources to run it," said Judith Woodsworth, Chair of the Department. Ghislaine Yelle, the Institute for Co-op problems. The programme was made possible erative Education's Co-ordinator for the Translation Programme, is responsible for "What does surprise me a little is that the lnnu are politically active (regarding stopping thanks to a re-distribution of resources placing the eight students. She said she the NATO low-level flying over their territory), and I would have thought that their within the Department. "We were very selective of the students," doesn't expect to have any trouble finding politicization and organization might have made the lnnu community stronger. It's also said Programme Director Marthe Catry internships. the case, however, that Labrador and some of the non-status communities are the Verron. "We had a written exam and an An aeronautics company in Edmonton worst. interview and we checked their first-term has expressed interest in hiring interns from the co-op programme, and so have several "There have been such changes in native communities between one generation and results." Comparing the group of students to a fine banks and an aerospace firm in France. the next- parents can't advise kids because they haven't had the same experience. wine, she said, "we wanted to start with a "With the contacts we've developed, I On top of that you have a cultural orientation toward not telling others what to do. At grand cru." Next year, Catry-Verron said See CO·OP page 12 the same time television is everywhere. Native children don't see their own experience reflected here; instead, they see this other reality and they have no way of attaining it. It's a moccasin on one foot and a shoe on the other, and it's very hard to reconcile that. There is no employment and no strategies to empower, only people living with A case of mistaken identity this cognitive dissonance. ,A number of complaints lodged last year Spilhaus, who is coordinating the removal Concordia doing its bit about a voyeur who frequented the women's of all the warning posters with the Security washrooms on the Loyola Campus has Department. made life miserable for an innocent male "This is to affirm, categorically, that the "All I can say is that we're trying to do our tiny bit here through the Concordia Council Concordia student. suspect in question is not a Concordia stu on First Nations Education. It's not going to help those children in Labrador, but it The student resembles the person in the dent, " Spilhaus said, provides opportunities for native youth and they are their communities' future. It gives mugshot that was posted on washroom The voyeur is known to police. Michel native students here access to tutors and to the native community. We try to ensure doors to alert users to the possible presence Bujold, Security Director, said no com that options are attainable; otherwise, when expectations can't be met, you only sow of the voyeur. After several cases of mis plaints have been made this year. The post the seeds of despair. taken identity, the unfortunate student con ers have been removed from the washroom tacted Sexual Harassment Officer Sally doors, he added. -DGV "I suppose that as land claims are settled, the different bands will create their own institutions and take control over the realm of expectations and reality, like the Cree have done, to some extent. Native self-government, depending on how it is deter mined, may also help, but in the case of this lnnu community, and in so many other native communities, the problems are so complex. I believe that you work where you are and help, one at a time. If you pull one out of despair, you've done a lot, for that HAVE YOU person will influence many others in his or her community." ,EXPLORED OPTIONS FOR YOUR FUTURE? Come look at health care as part of your future . Dr. Stewart Abel, Dean of the College of Optometry from Southeastern University of the Health Sciences, will be on campus on Thursday, Feb. 1 1 at the Counselling and Development Office, Henry F. Hall Building, Room 440-8, from 2:00 to 3:00, to speak about careers in health care.
Southeastern University is located in North Miami, Beacon, Florida and includes a multidiscipline setting of colleges of Optometry, Osteopathic Medicine, Pharmacy and Allied Health Physician Assistant Programme.
Please contact the Liaison Office at 848-4970 for more information . Concordia's Thursday Report February 4, ·1993-3
Library boasts most complete set in Canada Azrieli Collection acquires records of Norenberg trials This column welcomes the submissions of all Concordia faculty and staff, to promote and encourage individual and group activities in ties Research Council to complete Concor dia's collection of the Nurenberg reels. He teaching and research, and to recognize work-related achieve received $15,000. The remaining $4,000 ments. was taken from the Azrieli Holocaust Col lection Fund, founded by Montreal busi • Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor Georges Denes, who is an NSERC Re nessman David Azrieli in 1984, when he search Fellow, presented a paper titled "Lone Pair Stereoactivity and Tin-119 Concordia's Azrieli Holocaust Collection donated $100,000 to the University. Mossbauer Spectroscopy in Tin (II) in Fluoride Ion Conductors" at the Second has completed its set of records of the The first five of the trial records, which Nassau Mossbauer Conference held in Garden City, N.J. at the beginning of Nurenberg War Crimes Trials. Concordia began to attain four years ago, January. The paper has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of the Azrieli Selection Librarian Sol Katz said are used by Concordia students taking the recent acquisition of the proceedings of courses in genocide studies, Katz said. conference. the remaining seven of the 12 infamous News of the recent acquisition has been trials means that Concordia has the most • In the Leisure Studies programme, Professor Lanie Melamed led a workshop titled advertised in the newsletter of the Canadian complete collection of any Canadian library. "Celebrating Difference: The Joys and the Challenges" last November at the Association of University Teachers, and in Katz said the proceedings of the 12 trials, other publications dealing with the Holo PAPT-PACT Teachers' Convention. Professor Lisa Ostiguy was the keynote contained in the 738 reels of microfilm, are caust. speaker at the New Brunswick Parks and Recreation Conference in Campbellton. from the second set ofNurenberg trials. The first trials, conducted by a military court Katz stressed that the I ,500 items con She gave the presentation "Programming for Older Adults" at the November comprised of British, American, French and tained in the Azrieli collection - books, meeting. Soviet judges, tried 22 major Nazi leaders, periodicals, trial proceedings, art work, dia including Rudolph Hess and Hermann Gor ries- are used by Jews and non-Jews alike. • November was a busy month for Professor Randy Swedburg, also from Leisure ing. The second set, which tried 185 major Half of the students in courses covering the Studies. He gave the presentation "Active Living through Elderhostel" in the criminals, was conducted by the United Holocaust are not Jewish, he said last month Queen's Lecture Series at the university in Kingston. He was an exchange partici while addressing members of the Montreal States and covered such crimes as enforcing pant in the Institute for Older Adult Learning at San Diego State University in slave labour and conducting human medical chapter of the Association of Jewish Librar Galifornia. And , he participated in the Midwest Institute for Learning in Retirement experiments and mass shootings. ies. Until now, Canadian scholars had to go to The materials are found throughout the Conference in Chicago. He also embarked on a series of workshops and seminars one of the I 3 American universities in order Concordia library system, serving the stu titled "Institute for Learning in Retirement," touring Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, to study the Nurenberg documentation. dents of Holocaust courses in Political Sci Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary and Vancouver. Katz applied last spring for a $19,000 ence, Sociology, Religion and History, as grant from the Social Sciences and Humani- See TRIALS page 14 • Sociology and Anthropology Professor Chengiah Ragaven has returned to his South African homeland, but before leaving he had the opportunity to meet Rigoberta Menchu, the 1992 Nobel .Peace Prize winner at a reception hosted by Mayor Jean Dore when she passed through town last fall. He was invited in recognition of the work he had done at Cambridge University in England, where he tackled the subject of human rights in Latin America.
• Also in Sociology and Anthropology, Professor Joseph Smucker's article "Relig ious Community and Individualism: Conceptual adaptations by one group of Men nonites," which was previously published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, has been reprinted in Donald Capps' and Richard K. Fenn's (eds.) Individualism Reconsidered: Readings Bearing on the Endangered Self in Modern Society, Princeton; Centre for Religion, Self and Society, 1992.
• The Department of Theatre has introduced a newsletter which publishes informa tion about the goings on in the department, as well as news from graduates, the faculty and items of interest to all students. The faculty advisor on the project is Professor Nancy Helms; student Cheryl Conroy is the editor.
• Theatre Department Professor Philip Spensley and English Professor Gary Geddes presented papers last December at the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand. Professor Geddes also participated in a poetry reading with fellow poets from Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
• A variorum critical edition of H.G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau edited by English Professor Robert Philmus, was published recently by the University of Georgia Press. The variorum includes Wells's first draft of the Moreau text and other hitherto unpublished manuscript materials. Professor Phil mus gave a paper on the subject at last June's Science Fiction Research Association convention, where he also organized and chaired a panel on the state of the publishing industry. He also presented a paper on Wordsworth and Freud at one session and chaired another in October at the annual meeting of the Society for Literature and Science in Atlanta. He maintains editorial duties for Science-Fiction Studies. He has given up his post as principal editor and one of his four replacements is Veronica Hollinger, a PhD candidate in English at Concordia, who now teaches cultural studies at Trent University in Peterborough.
• A paper by Professor Jeremiah Hayes of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering was included in the recent collection of seminal papers, "Multiple Access Communications-Foundations of Emerging Technologies," pub lished by the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers Press. Hayes's original Sol Katz (right), Concordia's Azrieli Holocaust Collection Librarian, displays some of the books paper, "A Study of Data Multiplexing Techniques and Delay Performance" was In the collection made possible by philanthropist David Azlell's generous contribution to the published in 1972. University In 1984. Katz is accompanied by Marsha Lustlgman, a reference librarian at Bishop's University. PHOTO:Jonas Papurelis 4 - Febru~ry 4, 1993
Put question on upcoming ballots Nationalists a danger to society To the editor: politically idiotic. Meanwhile, we have Allow any students When Mr. Parizeau stated last week the footage of the concentration camp in that sovereignty would be achieved by the former Yugoslavia, we have reports the Quebecois de souche, even without of the systematic raping of Muslim to f i II vacant Board seat the co-operation of the rest of us, it was women, we have a rise of right-wing and no surprise to me. The surprise came neo-Nazi activities in Europe, and we To the editor: sion. This could be entrenched in our con when the press and people in general have a leader of the opposition who Immediate recall is something to have stitution for some probationary period, reacted in astonishment to the statements doesn't mind telling us that even if the because a student government could operate maybe two or three years and then be put made by the provincial leader of the op non-white, non-francophone, non under circumstances that forced the Board back to the student body after that trial pe position. Catholic, non-Quebecois de souche do of Directors and every level of student gov riod, to be abandoned as a bad idea or re not cooperate, it does not matter, because newed. To get surprised at racist or quasi-racist ernment to be quickly, directly, and certainly sovereignty will be achieved if the I suggest that this be put on the upcoming comments made by leaders of nationalist accountable for their actions. One method Quebecois de souche have to ignore us. ballots for the student body to deal with. The parties around the world is irrational. that I suggest is that any student should be question is: Should the constitution be People seem to forget what happened not Do we need to be reminded that the able to circulate among the University population, gather 'x' amount of signatures amended to allow a Board ofDirector mem only in Germany but in Europe as a difference between mob rule and democ from the appropriate faculty and on that ber to be recalled on the basis ofindividual whole (and in North America for that racy is that in democracy the ideal is basi"s alone, fill a vacant seat or remove an student petition? matter), between the two world wars, and consensus through negotiation, and in during the Second World War. To get mob rule consensus is reached through individual Board Member. surprised now that nationalists have intolerance and terrorism? Many of the Board of Directors are often Ores 0No right-wing chauvinistic (I don't mean voted into office on the basis of 200 to 500 I hope Quebecers, and Canadians at 1. The amendment shall be for a trial pe sexist) and racist tendencies is political votes, judging the amount of signatures re large, open their eyes to what is happen riod exceeding one year. naivete. And those who think that it can quired to boot one out could be discussed ing in Europe, and don't forget that only happen elsewhere are not only fool within that context. 2. The amendment shall be permanent. Europe is our ideological neighbor. War ing themselves, they are as dangerous to is never as far away as we think. And our One detractor of this idea suggested that A. The deadline for such an amendment their society as the people who are enemies in war are never the ones we an immediate recall petition would deny a shall be October 1st, 1993. brooding on these plans in the back of suspect the most. The Serbs, Croats, and Director a fair trial or jury. A fair trial and their heads. jury may be something required to think B. The deadline for such an amendment Muslims lived as neighbors only two shall be Dec.1st 1993. If anyone would have said two years years ago. about alleged criminal offenses, what I'm ago that we would have colour footage talking about here is a way of preventing C. There shall be no deadline. of a concentration camp in Europe, they Olaf de Winter large numbers of seats going vacant, ex I can't find any politicians who will like would have been called paranoid and Philosophy student treme and excessive absences from meet ings, or just plain stinking at the job; it this idea. Each one has lots of really sound happens and it's no crime. reasons why it's not a good idea. Page after page of really sound and good reasons why I suggest that any student ought to be able not. And there are even more good reasons to can any director on the basis of gathering why there isn't enough time to get this on some appropriate number of signatures, that the ballot in the forthcoming election. How those signatures be checked out with some much do we really want to empower the committee, and that board member then be individual student? bounced. It may keep the environment healthy and fresh, stimulate interest in stu Roy Berger Concordia's Thursday Report is the community newspaper of the University, serving faculty, dent government and fo ster bags of discus- Sociology student staff, students an d adm inistrati on on the Loyola Campus and the Sir George Williams Campus. It is publi shed 28 times during the academic year on a weekly basis by the Public Relations Department of Concordia Un iversity, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal , Quebec H3G 1 MB (514) 848-4882. Material published in the newspaper may not be reproduced without permission. The Back Page listings are published free of charge. Classified ads are $5 for the first 10 words and 10 cents for each additional word. Display ad rates are available upon request. Events, notices and ads must reach the Public Relations Department (Bishop Court, 1463 Bishop St., Room 115) in writing no later than Monday noon prior to Thursday publication. ISSN 1185-3689 Editor Donna Varrica Faculty Reporter: Bronwyn Chester This Issue: Contributors Barbara Black, Buzz Bourdon, Eve Krakow, Kevin Leduc, Phil Moscovitch, Michael Orsini, Naomi Szeben and John Timmins Photographers Jonas Papaurelis, Marcos Townsend and Edmund Wong Typesetting Richard Nantel Printing Inter-Hauf Developments Inc. With Valentine~s Day approaching, the 'Flower for a Friend' campaign is in bloom again. The flower.delivery service will t.ake place on Feb. 10, 11 and 12, leading up to St. Valentine's Day. If you would like to send a flo'Yer to a friend, or to a special someone, drop by Room 880-10 in the Henry F. Hall Building and request your flower and message today and;tomorrow. All proceeds go to the Heart Foundation, in support of research into heart disease. This is an initiative of the' Engineering and REAL EDUCATION FOR THE REAL WORLD Computer Sc'ien'ce Students' Associ,ation. ,., Concordia's Thursday Report February 4, 1993- 5 Community pays last respects to Chancellor Jeanne ·Sauve
Concordia Chancellor Jeanne Sauve, Canada's first woman Governor-General, was laid to rest Saturday following a state funeral at Montreal's Mary Queen of the World Basilica. Professor Balbir Sahni from the Department of Economics participated in the ecumenical ceremony as a representative of the Sikh faith. Concordia's official representative at the nationally televised funeral service was Patrick Kenniff, Rector and Vice-Chancellor. Also in attendance were Chancellor Emeritus Alan B. Gold, Mme Sauve's predecessor; Board of Governors Chairman Reginald K. Groome; Board Vice Chairman Claude Taylor; and Governor Peter Howlett. A Concordia student (below) pays her respects at one of the two memorials placed in the Administration Building _on Loyola Campus and in Place Concordia of the J.W. McConnell Building downtown. The books of condolence that the Concordia community was invited to sign will be forwarded to the Sauve family. Mme Sauve died at Mon.treal's Hopital Notre-Dame on Tuesday, Jan. 26, at the age of 70. Her five-year term of office as chancellor began Oct. 1 last year. She was the first woman to hold the post at Concordia. PHOTOS:Jonas Papaurelis
University should govern itself: CAUT
The Canadian Association of Univer sity to the community and the government. It cautions against over-reliance on statisti world-class, particularly when it isn't. The sity Teachers, which represents 26,000 The authors also recommend the choice of cal performance indicators. Not everything authors fear that Canada will balkanize its faculty, professional libraries and re administrators who can work with the aca the university does can be quantified. higher education and create ten provincial searchers in Canadian universities, has demic community and with the general pub The authors make three key recommenda accrediting agencies just at the moment that released .the report of an Independent lic, rather than those who favour top-down tions to the universities themselves. They one of our major competitors, the European Study Group on university governance, administrative styles. There is a persistent call first for much more openness. The See CAUT page 12 openness and accountability. trend in management literature to favour meetings of senate and boards of governors The authors argue that the university managerial styles that encourage creativity should be open. The line budget should be should be self-governing to maintain the and more effective involvement by all who open. The salaries of senior administrators Fund set up free and independent nature of its teaching work for a corporation. Excellence and crea and faculty sho~ld be public, as should their and research mission. To ensure this, they tivity cannot be commanded. They must be academic curricula vitae. All other salaries in honour of recommend that the main structures of the encouraged and supported. To this end, the should be available in tabular form showing university be reformed. report recommends structures for the choice means and averages for particular ranks. of senior administrators, the renewal of their There should be effective conflict-of-in slain student Internal self-government positions, and the functioning of their of terest regulations for members of the board, fices. the administration and the faculty. No one A memorial fund has been established in should serve on boards of governors who is the name of David Zaharchuk, the graduate They consider the senate or general facul The report states that internal self-govern an employee or partner of a major supplier student killed on New Year's Day at the ties ' council to be the key. They recommend ment can only be justified if the universities to the university of goods or services,·such University of Waterloo. reforms to make senates effective, giving are effectively accountable to the general as the university solicitors, the insurance The student was the husband of Concor them responsibility in budgetary as well as public. carrier and the like. dia Philosophy Professor Sue Wake. After academic matters, a more significant role in It recognizes that provincial governments consultation with her and with her hus the choice of senior administrators, and a must be responsible for system-wide deci The second major recommendation is for prominent place in ensuring equity within sions about post-secondary education (in a national system of accreditation, run by band's family, the university's Faculty of Engineering and the Graduate Student As the university. The authors recommend creasing or decreasing the size of the the universities, but with a substantial rep structural changes, including an inde system, student fees, opening or closing ex resentation of the public interest. Govern sociation set up a bursary which would benefit a graduate student in good standing pendent speaker, an elected executive, and pensive professional faculties). Govern ments cannot run accreditation systems from any faculty, based on need. Faculty joint committees with the board of gover ments should only take these decisions after because they are the paymaster and are in Dean David Bums said the first bursary will nors. real public consultation and after opening conflict of interest. be awarded in the fall. The report calls for smaller, but more ef their own files about the issue at hand to the fective, boards of governors which are more public and the media. Underfunding Anyone wanting to contribute to the me representative of the community. Boards the report rejects quick fixes and trendy morial bursary can contact Maryann Gavin need to ensure that administrators and fac solutions. It rejects value-for-money audit There will always be a temptation to argue of the University of Waterloo's Develop ulty carry out the academic mission of the ing because it allows auditors to impose that however underfunded the system, it is ment Office at (519) 885-1211 , ext. 2966. university, as articulated by the senate, and their political agenda and substitute them the best in the world. Politicians are prone Receipts will be issued for contributions of need to be effective adv.ocates of the univer- selves as the real rulers of the universities. to announce that everything they do is more than $5. -DGV 6- February 4, 1993
Battle of the acronyms: CASA, ECA want to dismantle CUSA New student federation proposed
"We've found in the ECA and CASA that President Nick Kaminaris, one of the pro term solution. It's impossible to have this in Faculty associations work and make sense," posal's key supporters. Lei bu and Kami place for next year." ii Moscovitch Leibu said. naris agreed that the creation of a federation He also cautioned students against blam The four Faculty associations would all be would probably result in an increase in stu ing CUSA for all of their problems. members of the new federation, and would dent service fees. "CUSA is a very complex organization be equally represented on its board of direc Ralph Synning, the president of the that does a lot of good. You can't expect to tors. The federation would be responsible Graduate Students' Association, called the change it overnight. The best you can do is "We're sick and tired of seeing students for running University-wide student serv meeting "very very important." He offered to slowly transform it." fighting among themselves," Computer Sci ices and funding non-academic clubs. his support to the proposed federation, say CUSA co-presidents Charlene Nero and ence major Dan Leibu told a group of about "You get the best of both worlds, and I ing that CUSA has "a tyrant's constitution." Phil Toone were invited to the meeting, but 30 students last Friday. know it sounds unlikely, but it's true," Lei bu Nobody expects an immediate overhaul did not attend. The idea of a student federa The students were at a meeting organized said. "You get represented at the faculty of the structure of student government at tion will be discussed further at a meeting to by members of the Engineering and Com level, and the federation speaks as one voice Concordia. Leibu said that "this is a long- be held February 1 1. puter Science Association (ECA) and the for all students. This kind of structure is not Commerce and Administration Students' unrealistic." Association (CASA) to discuss a plan that would see CUSA replaced by a federation But History student James Brown, of independent Faculty student associations. CUSA's Co-ordinator of Advocacy- Serv ices, argued that under the proposed reor Leibu, one of five students who drafted ganization, students would not be able to the plan, said the problem with CUSA is that deal effectively with the University admini it has two separate functions. It acts both "as stration, because they would not be unified. a faculty association for Arts and Science students and it represents all students of the "I think it's naive," he said. "You won't University. No organization can fulfil both have the same kinds of services and you those mandates because they are completely won't be able to represent students effec divergent." tively. If these changes go through it will be at that cost, but it will be a very heavy cost." New students' associations Political Science student Piper Huggins, who sits on CUSA's Board of Directors, also Under the CASA/ECA plan, new Fine criticized the plan, saying it was not accom Arts and Arts and Science students' associa panied by any concrete fiscal proposals. She tions would be created. Each faculty asso asked how the faculty associations and the ciation would be responsible for providing student federation would be funded. services, such as funding for academic "This is the one question that will be the clubs, to its member students. most controversial," responded CASA CEO's from around the world join AMBA Board Road Movies up for Gemini
the coast-to-coast pulse of Canada during the intense constitutional referendum cam paign. "There was a sense of pride," she said, " but it was mostly regional." The pan-Canadian experience gave her a clearer image of her future. She plans to integrate her video-making with her activ Maureen Bradley likes to joke that she's ism in the gay/lesbian community, which been "to hell and back." Actually, she's been she said is strongly influenced by an Ameri criss-crossing Canada, but under trying con can sensibility. ditions. The Concordia graduate student in Com "I'm still not a [Canadian] nationalist, but munication Studies was plucked last spring I know more than ever that I won't leave this from a crowd of aspiring videographers to country." be part of the team making Road Movies. Eight promising young Canadians were hired by the CBC to produce a weekly half- hour television programme about their ex plorations of their own country. The show Seventies-style rock aired during the summer, and was extended for a full 26-week season. Although it won't and roll band seeks be renewed, Road Movies is up for a Gemini Award. The winner will be announced early bassist to complete a next month in Toronto. It was a great learning experience, live-piece group. The innovative Aviation MBA programme in the Faculty of Commerce and Administration has Bradley said, but a tough one. Covers and originals. set up its own Faculty Advisory Board which comprises CEOs from Singapore Airlines, British The videographers didn't receive salaries; Airways, Kenya Airways, Canadian Pacific, Air Canada, Lutthansa, South African Airways, the CBC covered expenses. And they were ·Serious callers only. Japan Airlines, IATA, TACA International Airlines and Saudi Arabian Airlines, At a recent expected to do what it normally takes hl'\lf meeting of the Board held in AMBA's offices in the Faubourg buil~ing on Guy St., the objectives a-dozen professionals to do: research, wrV:e, Call George at 932-2911 of the programme were outlined by its Director, William Taylor. Later, the assembled experts interview, direct and shoot. The pressure exchanged ideas about the programme. was intense, and Bradley doesn't think the or John at 595-5232. Pictured above are (lett to right) Chairman of the AMBA Faculty Advisory Board Chair G.D. van team really found their feet until the half der Veer (South African Airways), Concordia Rector Patrick Kenniff, AMBA Director Taylor and way mark. Captain A. K. Mattar (Saudi Arabian Airlines Corp.) H_oyV~ver, she_foun~ it fa~~i1;1a,ti_ng _tQ t_aj<~ . __~ _;;_;;;;;;__ ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;::;;;;;;::;;;;;;::;;;;;;::;;;;;;;;;;;;:;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;::;;;;;;:;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:.a Concordia's Thursday Report February 4, 1993- 7
Publishing house helps to rejuvenate English writing scene A literary companion
ir.g With AIDS doesn't mean that the Com pany is leaving poetry behind. In fact, four Moscovitch new poetry collections are scheduled for release in 1993. It's just that Farkas was taken with Leslie's manuscript and decided to follow his instincts. The English-language literary commu "The freedom I have as sole owner, pub nity in Quebec is not only surviving - it's lisher and janitor is that I can go out on flourishing, said poet and publisher Endre tangents and do what I want," he explained. Farkas. He's given several Concordia writ "I have the freedom to do what I want to do. ers their first opportunity to be published. I really want to be open to all kinds of things, The Muses' Company, the publishing but my heart still belongs to poetry.'' house founded in 1980 by Farkas, has played a part in rejuvenating the English Farkas, who teaches English at John Ab writing scene in Montreal. bott College, is surprised that the Muses' The company's most recent publication Company has lasted as long as it has. - Dying With AIDS/Living With AIDS by The year, 1980, "was the weirdest time to Mark Leslie, the Photography student who get started because of the dominance of died last November - is a departure for Quebec nationalism," he said. "A lot of an Muses, which usually publishes poetry. glos left and so the community was shrink" "Poetry is my love," said Farkas, a Con ing. Who was the audience?" cordia graduate. "And I think it's important that there should be some houses poets can Today, Muses' Company books are dis go to where they'll be treated seriously. I tributed across Canada and in the United have no illusions about poetry paying the States, and Farkas finds himself "spending bills. It's an art that has to be supported and a lot more time on bookkeeping than on MUSES' Company publisher Endre Farkas has given many Concordia writers, such as Ruth I want to support the literary community in book-making." Sales are high enough that Taylor (pictured above with Farkas) the opportunity to see their work in print, many for the first Canada." he doesn't have to dip into his own pockets time. PHOTO: Edmund Wong Farkas has supported several new artists to cover expenses any more. by publishing their first books. "One of the . In the last decade, English-language pub mandates I gave the Muses' was to bring out lishing has taken off in Montreal with the new voices, and a lot of our books are first proliferation of a number of small presses. Hard to find a babysitter books," he said. "Especially now, in these There is a sense of community among Eng economic hard times that first book is com lish-speaking writers and publishers that ing out later and later." wasn't there 10 years ago. "Readings He has also published two anthologies started. Bookstores opened up. Some maga Student starts support group featuring younger writers, many of whom zines started to happen. Somehow a sense are from Concordia. of community developed." for single mothers at school Farkas described Leslie's work as "rough, in the sense of not polished, but for me the It's a far cry from the early days of the strength and power of the book come from Muses' Company when, according to are few serv.ices available to them outside of that personal approach to the disease Farkas, "it was very isolated, work. As a those offered by the Counselling and Devel (AIDS)." publisher, I worked at developing that com ii Moscovitch opment office and daycare facilities. And munity and that's essential to the develop He added that Leslie doesn't come across while students can get exemptions from ex as a hero, but that the book "makes him out ment of any kind of culture." aminations with a doctor's note, it is more as a human being with a· disease no one "I have to have these kinds of visions," he difficult for single parents to be exempted in should have." add~. "because I certainly don't have vi Jacqueline Woo is hoping to make life the event of a child's illness. · The publication of Dying With AIDS/Liv- sions of bucks." easier for single mothers at Concordia. University can be a disorienting experi Woo, who is raising three children on her ence for single mothers. Many have devel own, started the Single Mothers' Support oped networks of support to help them in Concordia Irish Lecture Series presents Group last September to offer information, their daily lives. "But you come to the Uni advice, and support to single mothers study versity and don't know anyone," Woo said. ing at the University. MARIA CAMPBELL "I want people to know. there's a support Many single mothers, according to Woo, group at the Women's Centre where they Metis storyteller. writer and film-maker; "have no social life. School is their priority, can go for information." Writer-in-residence. University of Saskatchewan and the rest of their lives is on hold- that's Unfortunately, the Single Mothers' Sup how dedicated they are." and port Group has had a bit of trouble getting Through her group, she hopes that they off the ground. The group has only managed will be able to get together once a week, DR. ANGELA BOURKE to meet once, and the reasons symbolize share their experiences, and offer each other some of the difficulties student single moth Department of Irish. help with problems that they face both in ers face. University College, Dublin; side and outside of the University. "They have no time to come - some of Issues that single mothers have sought Visiting Professor. Harvard University them live an hour away - or they have no advice on include rental problems, divorce money," Woo said. "They can't find sitters, procedures, financial aid, getting ex tensions or their energy is zapped. They 're tired, and on papers, and coping with sick children they have to get their assignments out of the Native Canadian and while studying. way." In starting the group, Woo, who also vol unteers two days a week at the NDG/Mon Woo is hoping to involve more women so that the group can meet every week, even if Irish Women's Voices: treal West CLSC, wanted t-0 "offer my some can't make it. personal, hands-on experience and my training in social work. I was just dying to In the meantime, she keeps in touch.with A Dialogue be of assistance to someone." women involved in the group, and is avail "Because of my experiences with the wel able to all single mothers at the University Faculty Lounge, Room 767 fare system, the Rental Board, social serv as a resource person through the Peer Helper Henry F. Hall Building ices, the police and lawyers, I wanted to help Centre. Thursday Feb. 11, 1_993 some unfortunate single mothers so they "Sometimes it's just a phone number they at 8 p.m. don't have the same troubles as I did," said need," she said. "My role in many. of the Woo, an Applies Social Sciences student. "I calls is to be a supportive listener." · ADMISSION FREE had to deal with all these problems myself, Anyone wanting information on the group and there was no one there to help." can reach Woo either at the Women's Centre For more information. call 848-2435 · Nobody knows just how many single par (848-7 431) or the Peer Helpers Centre (848- ents are registered at Concordia, and there 2859). 8-February 4, 1993
"II you've got some crisis outside of school, you can't p1
At the end of the 1991-92 academic year, 2,277 students eKrakow at Concordiafailed. Although that's only 9.2 per cent of total June, a biology student, had dreamed of attending medical school. But at the begin enrolment, it's a substantial ning of her second year, her grades fell. The belief that her low marks had shattered any number of people. hopes of being accepted to medical school made June more depressed. For 80 per cent of the "I feel such shame that I'm on conditional standing," she told the Task Force on Stu students, it's the first time, and dents in Academic Jeopardy, which was set and Development (formerly Guidance A total of 60 students attended. The most up last spring. "I haven't told my parents ... Services), said many of the students who frequently cited reasons were personal with permission from their I feel so guilty that I'm not in good stand use her department's services are in aca problems, time management problems, ing." demic jeopardy. poor course selection, a demanding course Faculty they may return. While some students have no major prob "They need to improve their learning and load, poor study habits and motivation prob lems and graduate successfully, others, like writing skills, or they have family problems, lems. Often they will be asked to June, get pulled in by an undertow where or they don't have clear career goals and "These are patterns that we're familiar overdue papers, failed exams and missed therefore ... motivation is lacking, or there's wait a year or two before classes accumulate over their heads. with, except now we are hearing it directly poor educational planning in that they might from them," Graub said. "What's curious to Jo Ann Welsh, Academic Advisor at the be taking too many courses, or are in the me is, how come they didn't reach out for re-entering, or will be Dean of Arts and Science office, said the wrong courses ... ," Graub said. help at the time when they were in diffi most common problems she's seen among culty?" re-admitted on a part-time students are financial and famil y problems. Last summer, Counselling and Develop "If you've got some crisis outside of ment invited all Arts and Science students Phil Toone, CUSA co-president and co basis and on academic school, you can't put it on hold, but you can who had been placed on academic probation director of CUSA's new advocacy service, put your courses on hold," she said. to a series of information sessions and asked was one of several people who suggested probation. Sup Mei Graub, Director of Counselling them why they weren't doing well. that services for students need to be better There are no statistics on how many students do come No money back to complete their studies. for war In Arts and Science, the on illiteracy failure rate has risen drama tically since the G.PA. regula uzz Bourdon tions were established in 1989.
From 1979 to 1989, thefailure After being stuck for three months in ad ministrative limbo, plans to launch one of rate hovered between 4 and Concordia's newest student clubs have been put on hold again until Concordia Univer 5. 7 per cent. Last spring it sity Student Association's (CUSA) finan cial woes are resolved. stood at 10.2 per cent, or 1,253 Concordia Students for Literacy (CSL) was set to join the fight against illiteracy in students. The number of January. Student tutors planned to go to Montreal-area churches, soup kitchens and students on conditional community centres to help adults who have trouble reading and writing. standing at the end of the Scott McKeown, a second-year Modem 1991-92 academic year was Languages and Linguistics student and the founder of the club, said he was relieved 660. when the club finally got recognition from CUSA. But he wasn't banking on CUSA's This is the first in a series problems, which have resulted in funds be ing frozen and not being turned over to examining why students fail student clubs. or run into academic difficu Volunteer tutors lty, what the situation About 25 students had signed up to learn how to tutor one-on-one, he said. McKe is in the different Faculties, own, who worked for the McGill Literacy Council last year, said the volunteers would and, most importantly, what have received nine hours of training, where they would have been taught how to teach is being done within the reading and writing, how to maintain a teacher/student relationship, and explore University to try to prevent the facts and fallacies of literacy. A 1990 Statistics Canada survey found students in academic jeopardy that 38 percent of Canadians are at risk of becoming functionally illiterate. Sixteen per from Jailing. See LITERACY page 10 PHOTOS: Marcos Townsend Concordia's Thursday Report February 4, 1993 - 9 put it on hold, but you can put your courses on hold"
Centre provides the ''write" _stuff
quality of his written assignments. "Then I went to the writing assistants and found it very useful because I now know what the problems are with my assignments," he said. "I think I've made significant pro gress." Zhao Shu has also been a regular at More and more Concordia students are the conversation groups. seeking help with their writing - and find Students aren't the only ones pleased with ing it - at Counselling and Development's the Centre's work. Nina Handjeva-Weller, Learning and Writing Centre. promoted. who teaches in the TESL Department, is one "Many students don't know what re Video demystifies "We've been 100 per cent booked since of a growing number of professors inform sources are available, or they might have September," said Mary Mar, the Learning ing their students about it. "I've seen my heard of a service like Counselling and De writing process Skills Specialist who runs the Centre. "We students' work improve," she said. "They velopment, but don't know that it offers are overwhelmed. Right now we don't have are quite proud when they come back." anything remotely applicable to their situ the resources to deal with the demand." ation," he said. Now in its fifth year of operation, the But Mary Mar worries about two miscon Toone added that many students aren't Moscovitch Centre has expanded its services. Its tutors ceptions faculty may have: that writing tu aware of the way things work, such as the still spend I 00 hours a week working one tors will do the student's work for them, or fact that the University will take into ac on one with writers on their assignments. that a student who has visited the Centre count extenuating circumstances. But students can also take advantage of should leave with a perfect paper. Need term paper advice? study skills and time-management work "For example, if you've been really sick She explained that while tutors offer guid Professor Leslie Orr suggests that you shops, conversation groups for students you can go through Student Requests and ance to students, they never do any of their watch a video. who speak English as a second language, have failed courses dropped from your tran writing for them. A tutor's code of conduct, Orr, who has been teaching in Concordia's and math groups to assist those in entry script for medical reasons," he said. "A lot making clear that students must do their Religion Department since 1991, holds level courses. of students don't know that." own work, is posted in each writing assis In his work with CUSA's advocacy serv workshops on paper-writing at the start of What sets apart Concordia's writing cen tant's office. And Mar said that a writer's each year. They are attended by students tre from those at other universities is that the ice, Toone has helped several students who long-term difficulties can't be dealt with failed because of extenuating circumstances from thoughout the Department. tutors are students, and that the service is adequately in an hour. "What we're doing is to get re-admitted. This semester she decided to have one of geared to students from all Faculties. The teaching language, and that takes a bit "Failed students feel helpless, disempow the sessions videotaped so that the informa writing assistants themselves come from a longer." ered. The university has just told them they tion is more widely available to students · number of disciplines. can't register - are they supposed to go to who need it. They can screen the video at Students used to be able to drop by the Feedback the university to ask for help? the Learning Labs. Learning and Writing Centre and have an appointment with a tutor within a few days. "It's very discouraging for students to be Though the workshops and video are But demand has been so high this year that shuffled from one bureaucrat to another, geared primarily to students taking courses Mar said there are some distinct advan some stu.dents have had to wait up to a week. make appointments and not have the person in the Department of Religion, they "would tages to using peer tutors. "The idea is that be suitable to students in other fields in the show up." students need someone to talk to and to give Even though the service is fully booked, humanities as well," Orr said. "The skills them feedback that's non-evaluative and Sometimes students have simply chosen Mar said that the tutors can still only see "a are the same. It should be potentially helpful non-judgmental, to help them write what the wrong programme. They might fail small percentage of the student population to a whole range of students." they want to write," she said. "That's not once, return in a new programme and do - of students on conditional standing and what professors do." well. Many students come to university with first-year students who need the help most. misguided ideas about what a good paper Zeng Zhao Shu, a graduate student in Roland Wills, Associate Dean of Com consists of. They may never have written Mechanical Engineering, said that until he "We're hoping to get more funds and merce and Administration, said he has come one before, or they may have been given started going to the Learning and Writing more space to make the programme more across several cases in his Faculty where it's See VIDEO page 10 Centre he didn't know how to improve the accessible," she added. the parents who want their daughter or son to be enrolled in that programme. "The student feels frustrated, depressed," he said. "In many cases we've had to call the parents in and say, 'Look what you 're doing to your child.' Once we speak to the parents, the student will often switch programmes." The highest failure rate is found in Engi neering and Computer Science - 14.3 per cent last year (286 students). This compares with 10.2 per cent in Arts and Science, 8.5 per cent in Commerce and Administration and 2.4 per cent in Fine Arts. Associate Dean Douglas Hamblin said he suspects that part of the reason for the high failure rate in Engineering and Computer Science is that the programmes are very demanding. "Students who came through science pro grammes easily in CEGEP are suddenly hit ...... with very different expectations," he ex plained. Most students who fail or have academic difficulty are in their first year, he said. Later it's usually due to personal problems. Maria Cinquino, a third-year Building Engineering student and Vice President Academic at the Engineering and Computer Science Studen,ts' Association (ECA), and David Dichmann, third-year Computer Sci ence student and ECA V.P. Finance, said first-year students need more personalized See FA/LIMB page 10
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• MOOSE JAW continued from page 1 • UKRAINE continued from page 1 than 23 different voices in the film), and a nation built on technological national half of the school's 224 fi rst-year stu~ nts theological college. He found 92 manu three years in post-production, have re ism," he expl ained. "What happens to the were enrolled in his class, and the lectures scripts of scholastic theology, 16 of which sulted in what Hancox calls his most acces country when we learn that technology and attracted several faculty members as well. he had microfilmed. sible film to date. He proved this when he the rhetoric of nationalism spread with this One student who had been completing his They are particularly interesting, Moroz showed a rough-cut version last year to a technology is all that links the country to doctorate at another university decided to iuk said, in that they "use Latin to defend the Moose Jaw audience and won its approval. gether?" start over again at the Academy because he Orthodox confess ion: I want to study how "Some of the Moose boosters were not Indeed, the film begins with a train arriv wanted to study theology. they used these techniques to defend their thrilled, but most of the people liked it be ing in Moose Jaw and ends with a train "They were so happy to learn about things point of view - and to find out what that cause it tells it as it is," Hancox said. "They leaving while the film-maker snores grace that had been condemned (under commu point of view was. It's a dimension of scho can al so see that this is a personal and artistic lessly, undisturbed in an empty coach, his nism) from someone who wasn't local," he lastic theology that hasn't been fully ex work and they know I'm not blaming Moose faithful Bolex preserving it all on film. said. The students were interested in learn plored." Jaw for its situation. Moose Jaw premiered last May at the Art ing, not only about Christianity, but also about Asian and pre-Christian European re Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and was Food lines Subjectivity of reality screened last summer at several film festi ligions as well. vals and conferences in Canada, the United "The irony is that all the old atheist "I think it is fairly accessible, although it States and Europe. schools have become theological and relig This was Moroziuk's third trip to the begins Iike a documentary about Moose Jaw ious academies," he said. Ukraine, but it was the first time that he was there for any length of time. In the past he and evolves into an experimental film about • LITERACY continued from page 8 The Mohyla Academy is no exception. myself. It exposes the limitations of objec Founded in the 17th century as a Liberal had stayed in hotels and ate in restaurants. cent of adult Canadians have reading skills tivity and brings out the subjectivity that is Arts college, it later became a theological Last semester, though, he found himself lin that are too limited to allow them to ade inherent in all attempts to examine external academy. It was closed down after the 1917 ing up for bread, eggs and milk along with quately comprehend written material en reality." revolution and reopened by the Soviets as a everybody else, and earning a salary whose countered in everyday life, the survey said. naval school. value was halved within four months by the During post-production, Hancox said he The CSL had hoped to maintain close ties country's skyrocketing inflation. began to wonder if "there is a Moose Jaw in with the McGill group, and in time, to ap At Mohyla Academy, Moroziuk saw him Although he enjoyed the time he spent in Canada's future." proach other universities to extend the net self as more than a theology professor. "I felt the Ukraine, Moroziuk said that "it shat "Moose Jaw shows us the vulnerability of work to other communities. my role was a catalyst to another mental state," he explained. He suggested ideas that tered my illusions about the old country." were completely new to his students, such Still, he would consider going back. The as setting up a student union, opening a Mohyla Academy plans to set up a theology Genetics and Society coffee house and lobbying for repre department, and Roman Onufreycheck, the sentation on university committees. school's Rector, has already spoken to The Symposia of the Royal Society of Canada Moroziuk, who has been at Concordia for Moroziuk about teaching at the Academy. 25 years, took advantage of his presence in "It's kind of a tantalizing idea," he said, "but explore the scientific and social implications Kiev to examine the archives of the former I don't know." of genetics.
Join Us • VIDEO continued from page 9 May 27 to 29, 1993 poor advice. But they are eager to learn how to write papers: it was never very dif Holiday lnn-Crowne Plaza METRO CENTRE Hotel, Montreal what's expected of them. Whenever Orr has ficult for them. "They were able to pick it For information: Lynda O'Donnell, Communications Coordinator suggested the workshop to students, the re up quickly and easily. Sometimes there's a Royal Society ol Ganada, P.O. Box 9734. Onawa. Ontario K1G 5J4 Tel.: (613) 991-9000 sponse has always been enthusiastic, she lack of understanding and of remembering said. that those skills didn't come naturally at all, "I found it helpful," said Anthropology but had to be learned," she said. student Norah L'Esperance. "It's nice that For students who need help with their she does that - especially for me as a paper-writing there are other resources, first-year student. She was very specific." such as Counselling and Development's Plagiarism, footnoting, organization, and Learning and Writing Centre. But Orr said effective ways to do research, are some of that there are still students who aren't aware LE DEFI- ROYAL the topics Orr deals with in the course of the of all the help available to them. Videotap :>::, : .:·:• •'!lt ii( • •••••••••.•••••••••••••••••••••• hour-long video. ing one of her workshops, she explained, "is : .· ... ····.·-:·:-:-·:-:-.···,:- a way of ensuring that at least students who While her purpose is to help students are in my courses could have more guid :::>::::·:.:·\t<·· a hockey game at the write better papers, Orr noted that "my goals •·•·<·····11• << +,. ance." Montreal Forum between are not entirely disinterested. Instead of . ~a1.,-,.·.· having to write the same comment over and 1 _- - l'Equipe Royale Students aren't the only ones pleased with ,. _~r . . over again, why not have the information ·._ ... the project. "Faculty members at Concordia . . and the out there for them right at the start?" are very committed to undergraduate teach Can ad iens Old Time rs ·"'\,',"',,,\,':::"',"',,:,,,::::,,',\,,"',,',,"':::'."',,,:::::,,,,,',''''"''"'"'"' Orr, who did her first degree in Zoology ing," Orr said. She added that holding the and Psychology, said there may be a simple workshops and having one of them avail explanation for why more professors don't able on tape is certainly something people give their students specific guidelines on in the Department are very happy about." Monday...... ' Feb 7 p. • FAILING continued from page 9 advising when selecting courses. Many students aren't fully aware of "In first year, you think, a normal course G.P.A. regulations, or who to seek for help, load is five courses so why can't I do that?" Dichmann and Cinquino also say. Although said Cinquino. ''Then you fail your mid everything is outlined in the student calen terms, but you think you can catch up." dar, few students actually read it. By second year, she said, you know your The pro~~~~~ 9fthi~ eyent will be given "You only start reading it when you're in study habits and some of the teachers, so .Mor:itreal ,General Hospital trouble, or if your freinds are in that situ you're more prepared. "By your third and ation," Cinquino said. .. :.:,. ·•
'How the hell can you call Israel humanitarian?' Israeli diplomat greeted by hostile audience
pation and the war-torn state of Israel, Le for a year. after I go over the border; I see all the signs vanon was bombarded by a barrage of angry When asked if all lectures hosted by Po are in Hebrew ... This is my country, and it Szeben statements by some members of the audi litical Science Professor Marvin Hershom doesn't belong to the Israelis. It bothers me ence. were this emotional, Concordia student to see them occupy land that isn't theirs." "How the hell do you justify the qeporta Vicki Newman shrugged and said "pretty Levanon replied calmly: "We're talking tion of 15 Palestinians?" asked one student. much so." about more than 40 years of history. It is the An emotional debate erupted last Wednes- "How the hell can you call Israel humanitar It is the third year in a row that Levanon ambition of every Jew to have a land of their day between some students and Israeli Con ian? We're talking about human beings." has been invited by Hershorn to discuss own." sul General Yitzhak Levanon during a Israel from an Israeli point of view. lecture at the Loyola Campus. "This is total ignorance," snorted McGill Bazzi said he found the lecture interest "I would say that of the last three years, After finishing his speech on land occu- student Sasha Newman, who lived in Israel ing, but added that Levanon didn't answer this year had become more emotional, the questions directly. His friend, Mira Bar --- sometimes the questions posed less de bir, who came from Beirut less than a month cently," Levanon said later. "But the stu ago, said: "You can't help but feel frustrated dents dared to ask more harsh questions, but with what he's saying about our country." generally, the students were very well Honorary Degree versed in political issues." Levanon said he was surprised by the The lecture covered issuesd related to the "apparent one-sided perspective" of the ·Nomination - land struggle, as reported from one directly class. involved in it; the responses, however, af "I had the feeling that there weren't Honorary degree nominations are being accepted for the fected students who considered themselves enough Israeli scholars, he said in a tele Fall 1993 convocation ceremonies. personally insulted. phone interview. "The students who did "I come from South Lebanon," an speak up didn't seem to have much aware All members of the Concordia community (faculty, students, nounced Walid Bazzi from the back of the ness of an Israeli image. Most spoke from staff and alumni) are invited to nominate candidates.* Each classroom. "And when I go back to my the point of view of a stereotype, which can country, I have to change the license plates be quite dangerous." submission MUST include a detailed curriculum vit~ and a succinct statement explaining why the nominator thinks the candidate is worthy of such an honour. The nomination deadline is March 1, 1993. · Ordre des comptables rewards Nomination forms (as well as the criteria and procedures for academic achievement selecting honorands) are available at the Office of the Secretary-General, Room S-BC-124 (local 4814). * Note: Current members ofthe Faculty, the Administration and the Board ofGovernors are not eligible for honorary degrees. 1,, t t Concordia I •t I I UNIVERSITY
REAL EDUCATION FOR THE REAL WORLD
James Lyng High School Open House Gala Evening Information -~ James Lyng High School J ames Lyng High School Call Mary Fone Sposato Friday March 26, 1993 Saturday March 27, 1993 at (514) 366-9697 7:00 pm 6:00pm or fax, (514) 744-3873 Free admission Tickets_$ 2 0. per person RSVP by February 17, 1993 The Ordre des comptables agrees du Quebec presented a scholarship award to Accountancy student Anita Frigan (second from left) for undergraduate academic achievement. The presen tation was made by Morty Zafran, partner in the accounting firm of Schwartz Levetsky Feldman (far left) and Evelyn Paquin (second from right), representing the Ordre. Gail Fayerman (far left) is Director of the Diploma in Accountancy programme. The presentation was made at a reception just before the holiday break in December. PHOTO:Jonas Papaurelis
Multimedia en video professionnelle et Macintosh Une rencontre S.M.P.T.E ., l'organisme international des professionnels de la video, du cinema et de la te levision , pour mettre sa competence au point .... Mardi 9 fevrier 1993 a 19 h 30 Au Tritorium 255 , ru e Ontario est Montreal Cegep Vi eux-Montreal 25th anniversary reun.ion for Conferencier: Ricardo Torres all graduates & faculty members from "1967-1992 ENTREE LIBRE 12 - February 4, 1993
• CO-OP continued from page 2 don't think it should be too difficult," Yelle said. She pointed out that doing an intern ship abroad can help make students more marketable after they graduate. There are also practical considerations for the University in finding positions for stu dents outside the country. "There are more and more co-op programmes being imple mented. The only way to be effective is to be competitive, and the only way to be com petitive is to go outside." Catry-Verron noted that North American transl ators are now in great demand in France. "For many multinationals, North American English is the standard," she said. "We are hoping to send some interns to France." She also stressed that translators should not isolate themselves from the surrounding culture. "Students need to be plugged in to current events. Each new situation creates new notions, new terminology. You do not translate in a vacuum. You have to know Participants and organizers of Concordia's first new co-op programme in more than four years celebrated its launch on the Loyola Campus last what's going on." Friday. They are (seated, left to right): Professors Judith Woodsworth (Chair, Etudes franc;aises), Graham Martin (Principal, Institute for The ideal students for the Co-op Pro Co-operative Education), Marthe Catry-Verron (Director, Translation Co-op Programme), and Jean-Marc Gouanvic (Director, Specialization in gramme, she said, are "people open to the Translation Programme). Ghislaine Yelle (seated, far right) is co-ordinator of the Translation Co-op Programme at the Institute. (Back row, world. People who read and who don't have standing, left to right): Elise Melanc;on (Secretary, Translation Co-op Programme) and participating students Angelique Bernard, Glenna Vinokur, romantic notions about translation." Suzanne Lapointe, Natasha Caron, Michele Devlin, Sylvie Gariepy, Julie McPhail and Eva-Marie Toussaint Chouinard. PHOTO :JonasPapaurelis
• CAUT continued from page 5 Community, is going in the exact opposite education where both those inside and out CANADIAN COUNCIL direction. The authors call for a national side the university debated the major issues. agency acceptable to English- and French They suggest that such a forum should be an OF PROFESSIONAL speaking institutions. Failing agreement, annual fixture. Only with public debate can ENGINEERS there would have to be two agencies. we know where we want to go and how to get there. · The third major recommendation is for National Scholarship Programme accountability in research and teaching. Members of the Commission: Universities should negotiate procedures to The Canadian Council of Professional Engineers ha s opened the ensure the highest degree of safety in their Guy Bourgeault - President of the Quebec Press Council, past President of the 1993 National Scholarship Programme competition. This year, labs, that fraud and misconduct in research is dealt with effectively, and that the re Canadian Commission for UNESCO and six cash prizes totaling $37.500 will be awarded to promote search of the universities is accessible not professor of educational sciences at the Uni excellence in the Canadian engineering profession through only to business but to all those groups in versite de Montreal. advan ced studi es and research programmes. the community that might benefit from it. In Ken McGovern - Chair of the Depart teaching, faculty should be encouraged to ment of Philosophy of the University of To be eligible, ca ndidates must be registered as full members of produce ongoing teaching dossiers about Regina and a former President of CAUT. their methods, course structures, examina Ernst Benjamin - General Secretary of one of the provincial or territorial professional engineering tion techniques, etc. which can be judged by the American Association of University associations, and have been accepted for post-graduate studies promotion committees. Departments Professors, who is a political scientist and a should hold regular sessions on teaching by a recognized university. former director of adult education at Wayne methods in the discipline. Students should State University in Detroit. be surveyed for their reactions to their The following sc holarships are available: The Study Group started its work in 1991 courses. Teaching awards should be encour and has held extensive hearings with groups aged. • The North American Life Scholarship Programme offers three from both inside and outside the university scholarships of $7,500 each t.o provide financial assistance to Finally, the authors call on governments community. It issued an interim draft report engineers returning to university for further study or research to consider non-bureaucratic approaches. in the fall of 1992 to all the interested parties They recall that in 1987 the federal govern for comment and suggestions. in an engineering related field. ment and the provinces held a highly suc -The Canadian Association • The Meloche Monnex Scholarship Programme offers two schol cessful national forum on post-secondary of UniVBrsity Teachers arships of $5,000 each to provide financial assistance to engineers returning to university for further study or research in a field other than engineering. This field of study will be one that is chosen to augment the candidate's performance in engineering. Treasury Open House • The Encon Endowment of $5,000 will be awarded to an indi vidual wishing to pursue studies in the area of engineering So you can become more familiar with our services, we will be failure investigation and/or of strength of materials. This area organizing three dates for an Open House. The first one will take of engineering is concerned with the analysis of the various place on Wednesday, February 10, 1993 from "17 :00-20:00 in causes of materials failure, and the prevention of accidents GM-700, 1550 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. The purpose of the which may result from them, either in the industrial, manufac turing or construction sector. Open House will be to meet our users and listen to their-needs in an informal setting. We hope to be seeing you soon. R.S.V. P DEADLINE FOR ALL APPLICATIONS IS MAY t, t 993. by calling Judy at 4938. Contact your professional engineering organization. or write to the National Schoiarship Programme. Canadian Council of Professional Engineers, 40,1-116 Albert St., Ottawa K1 P 5G3. . . Concordia's Thursday Report February 4, 1993 - 13 Journalism Department introduces newspaper Concordia will have a fourth newspaper Diploma student Thursday, Feb. 4, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. beginning next week. Lindsay Crysler, the Director of the Jour Lonergan College The Messenger, published by Concordia's nalism Department, said journalism stu Journalism Department, will hit the stands dents "wanted to produce something where Dr. James Moore (Political Science) Monday. they could get their stories out. You have to Dr. Leslie Howe (Philosophy) The 12-page issue will include Univer give your students some outlet." Jean Baillargeon (University of Toronto) sity-related news, but its focus will be on Ariemma agreed. "A lot of students are this month's theme: localizing international not publishing - period. This will provide "Should Hate Literature be Censored?'' issues. Each issue will feature a different them with somewhere to publish." topic. Next month's theme is Faith and Sci But don't look for The Messenger in the Friday, Feb. 5, 1 p.m. ence. regular boxes where you would find Con Co-ordinating editor Lisa Ariemma said cordia's three newspapers. The newspaper Lonergan College there's room for another newspaper at Con doesn't have a budget for boxes. The paper Dr. Nimrod Aloni (Education) cordia. will be placed in strategic spots throughout Dr. Edmund Egan (Philosophy) "The aim is to provide a different angle ... the University, including student lounges. a different perspective on issues that may -MO Dr. Rosemarie Schade (History) not get covered," said Ariemma, a Graduate Dr. Martha Saunders (Simone de Beauvoir Institute) THE HUMANIST FORUM - " The Politically Correct Ethic in Academia: Enlightenment or Dogmatism?" Carleton University to host Learned Societies Conference Carleton University will host the 1993 Learned Societies Conference from May 30 93 to June 13. More than 8,000 scholars in the humanities and social sciences from around )~~l\\~\~~)~~ The three-credit course will be taught by the world will participate in a uniquely Ca professors from Universita del Molise and nadian exchange of scholarship, research Concordia University. The 45 hours of teaching and ideas. .,,., will be given in Italian and in English. Th.e May 17 to June 25 The Learned Societies Conference is ac subjects will include Agriculture, Law, Learned Societies Conference Environmental Studies, History, Literature 1993 tually 94 conferences held at one time over Congres des societes savantes <( and Art History. Day trips are an integral a two-week period and delegates are mem CARLETON UNIVERSITY. OTTAWA, CANADA part of the content - from museum visits bers of one or more different academic so Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By to the Samnite shrine in cieties. For more information, contact the Drive, Ottawa, KI S 5B6, (613) 788-3978 or Pietrabbondante, to castles, churches and model farms, to industrial sites Learned Societies Conference Secretariat, fax (613) 788-5781. -DGV - like the Fiat auto plant in Termoli. Location Campobasso, the largest city in the region of Molise, and Termoli, the pleasantly situated resort city on z the Adriatic coast. -
Eligibility Nous sommes a la recherche de professeurs et de professeures, Canadian Undergraduate University students from de charges et de chargees de cours ayant des notes de cours pouvant all Faculties can apply. Preference will be given to students who have at least one parent of devenir des manuels ou des projets de redaction pour les etudiantes Molisan origin (Province of Campobasso or et les etudiants de niveaux universitaire et collegial. lsernia) and who understand Italian. Nous sommes aussi a la recherche d'enseignantes et d'enseignants I Scholarships Fiftee n scholarships are available. Each is qui nous suggereraient des manuels en langue anglaise correspon worth approximately $3,000 and covers dant a des cours de niveaux universitaire et collegial pouvant etre V round trip air fare from Montreal to Rome, ./ bus transportation to Campobasso, as well traduits en fonction des besoins des etudiantes et des etudiants et as food and lodging for the duration V\ of the course. du personnel enseignant.
Deadline: March 26, 1993 Guerin est le plus important editeur de manuels scolaires au Quebec Applicants should include a one-page et le plus important editeur de manuels scolaires canadiens. statement of the reasons why they wish to attend Samnium 93. A photocopy of the Communiquez vos projets par ecrit, par telephone ou par teleco transcript of the last completed academic year LU and two letters of recommendation. pieur a !'attention de Gaetan Dufour, vice-president, et soyez as The decision rendered by a three-member sures et assurees d'une reponse rapide et d'une communication des committee is final. < plus dynamiques. < Please send your application to: Dr. Filippo Salvatore, Director of Samnium 93 Summer School in Italy, Faculty of Arts and Scilinces, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Gu8rin, 8diteur It8e Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6. Tel.: (514) 848-2310
In cooperation with Gaetan Dufour, vice-president ~ ~.:·· Concordia Regione Molise and F.A.M.Q. 4501, rue Drolet __,I ~ UNIVERSITY (Federazione delle Associazioni Molisane in Quebec) Montreal (Quebec) H2T 202 Tel.: (514) 842-3481 V\ . Universitii del Molise Sponsored by Mometal Inc. Campobasso, Italy Telecopieu.r: (514) 842-4923 14 - February 4, 1993
• TRIALS continued from page 3 • The BACK PAGE continued well as students of Art History, Psychology Professor Kurt Jonassohn, Director of the SPECIAL EVENTS SPORTS and even Art Therapy. Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies, "We have a book of drawings of Jewish who make up the Azrieli Selection Commit Muslim Students' Association Stinger Hockey children in concentration camps," Katz said. tee. The men's hockey team plays host to the University of Friday prayer is offered on the SGW Campus throughout "We catalogued it under children's art ma Katz is currently trying to find material on Windsor Lancers at 20:00 on Saturday, February 6th. terials, so that it would be accessible to the gypsies, who, like the Jews, were con the year. The Khutba starts at 13:15 and the prayer is held students of the history and psychology of sidered subhuman by Hitler. The research at 2090 Mackay St.(Annex Z) Room 05. Also note the Royal Challenge Fast Approaching four daily prayers are offered in congregation; timing is children's art. In this way theAzrieli Collec hasn't been easy, as the gypsies are not a If you have not already purcha sed your tickets for the posted at the mosque. tion supports existing materials and vice literate people, relying on oral history. He is inaugural Royal Challenge to be held on February 15th versa." also looking for titles broaching some of the Concordia's Annual Health Fair is coming at the Montreal Forum, they are still available at any Katz orders most of the titles, but accepts moral questions posed by the Holocaust. Royal Bank branch, the Forum Admission Ticket outlets suggestions from Faculty and students. The "Ultimately, this collection is not strictly Nutrition, Spring Break Surprise, Fitness, Cholesterol and the Department of Recreation & Ath letics. For infor more important titles, such as the Nurenberg about the Holocaust. Rather, it is about na tests, Stress relief, Safer Sex, Prizes, Freebies and more! mation call 848-3850. reels, are selected by History Professor tionalism, racism, totalitarianism, morality February 10 & 11. Hall Building. Be There! (Volunteers Frank Chalk, English Professor Mervin Bu of the individual and of the group, and all still needed. Call Diane Bellemare, 848-3575). Stinger Basketball tovsky and Sociology and Anthropology the other issues raised by the Holocaust." Both teams play host to Bishop's tomorrow night, Feb New Year's Party and Talent Show for ruary 5th. The women 's game is at 18:30 followed by the International Students! men at 20:30. Philosophy Week Theresa Humes Invitational Hockey Thursday, February 4; Speaker: Dr. James Moore & Dr. Tournament Leslie Howe, Jean Baillargeon, Topic: Should Hate Lit For the best in women 's hockey, catch some or all of the erature be Censored? Time: 16:30-18:30. Location: Lon twelve games scheduled between eight of the best teams ergan College; Reception-Wine and Cheese, Time: in North America, including St. Lawrence University, 18:30. Location: Lonergan College; Friday, February 5; Providence College and the host Concordia Stingers. Speaker: Dr. Nimrod Aloni, Dr. Edmund Egan, Dr. Rose Game times on Friday, February 5th are 12:00, 14:00, marie Schade and Dr. Martha Saunders, Topic: The 16:00 and 18:00. On Saturday the 6th action gets under Humanist Forum: The Politically Correct Ethnic in .Aca way at 11 :00 followed by the games at 13:00, 15:00 and demia: Enlightment or Dogmatism? Time: 16:30-18:30. 17:00. Sunday games are at 9:00, 11 :00, with the con Location : Lonergan College; Reception-Wine and solation final at 13:00 and the championship game at Cheese, Time: 18:30. Location: Lonergan College. 15:00. LACOLLE CENTRE ALUMNI ACTIVITIES
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13 How to Raise Happy Children in an Unhappy World Putting More Time and Energy Into Your Life Discover how to help your children develop confidence Aworkshop to help clarify and improve your use of time. and self-esteem while asserting your rights as a parent. Librarian Sol Katz (standing) addresses a gathering to mark the Library's recent acquisition of Topics: goal setting, evaluating priorities, working with Location: Faculty Club Dini ng Room , 1455 de Maison proceedings of the Nurenberg War Crimes Trials. Marsha Lustig man (left), a reference librarian your biological clock, maximizing prime time. Workshop neuve Blvd. W, 7th floor. Time: 19:00-21:30. Price:$12. at Bishop's University, and Roy Bonin (right), newly appointed Director of Libraries, listen with Leader: Kathryn McMorrow, College Marie Victorin. Reservations are confirmed upon receipt of payment interest. PHOTO:Jonas Papaurelis Time: 9:30 -16:00. Cost: $53.50. Location: TBA, Loyola Call 848-3817 for more information. Campus. Information: 848-4955. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16 Discovering Your Inner Child Holocaust should be renamed SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 The difficulties in relationships experienced as adults have their roots in the family of origin. By becoming Team Building and Staff Motivation 'shoah,' says visiting librarian acquainted with one's inner child, one can begin to Learn ways to build into your workplace new and/or understand some of the core issues and dysfunctional improved, non-monetary incentives, pride, communica relationaship patterns that are established in childhood If Marsha Lustigman had her way, Con said. And while the Library has used the tion and a feedback system for a more cohesi ve group and re-enacted throughout life. Location: Faculty Club cordia's Azrieli Holocaust Collection might word shoah since 1968, it continues to use culture consisting of more contented, efficient and effec Dining Room , 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W, 7th floor. well be called the Azrieli Shoah Collection. the word Holocaust, saying that it must use tive staff members. Workshop Leader: Micki Vosko . Time: 19:00-21:30. Price: $12. Reservations are con-, Shoah is the Hebrew word for the atroci English terminology. But Lustigman Time: 9:30-16:00. Cost: $53.50. Location: TBA, Loyola firmed upon receipt of payment Call 848-3817 for more ties committed against the European Jewry pointed out that Holocaust, derived from the Campus. Information: 848-4955. information. during the 1930s and 1940s. Unlike the Greek holo, meaning whole, and kauston, word Holocaust, shoah cannot be used to meaning to burn, is no more English than ART GALLERY UNCLASSIFIED describe other genocides of this century. the word s hoah. The Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery is located at 1400 Lustigman, a reference librarian at Tutoring de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Informat ion: 848-4750. Bishop's University, has compared the cata Categorizing culture Tutoring available free of charge to students who have loguing terminology for the Holocaust of failed the University Writing Test Info: 848-2326. the American Library of Congress and the UNTIL FEBRUARY 27 _.... "Librarians create titles and categories," · Polish national library, Biblioteka Wanted she said. "We are issued a warrant to cate Naradowa. In a talk last month to members 'First Impressions: European Views of the Natural His Bolex 16mm Cameras. Call 842-2552, between 9:00- gorize culture. This warrant is a social prod of the Montreal chapter of the Association tory of Canada from the 16th to the 19th Century" 16:00. uct, not a divine state. We have a of Jewish Libraries, she concluded that both (Organized and circulated by the Agnes Etherington Art responsibility to apply that warrant and Housekeeper for hire systems of cataloguing reflect more about Centre, Queen 's University, Kingston) Time: Monday question and redefine it." the country than about the shoah. In the case Friday 10:00 - 20:00 and Saturday 10:00 -17:00 Afro-American female student willing to clean house and of Poland, the word Holocaust is not used. However, Azrieli Selection Librarian Sol 'Contemporary Works from the Permanent Collection " cook dinner (likes to cook). References available. $10/hr. Instead, she said, the mass killings in that Katz said he doesn't think he can change the Time: Monday-Friday 10:00 - 20:00 and Saturday 10:00 Call : 274-2057. name of the Collection. -17:00 country during the Second World War are For Sale known as martyrologia, a term referring to "In the minds of people, the word Holo 1983 Renault Allian ce DL. Immaculate. Very reliable. all Poles killed, whether Christian, Jewish caust sticks rather than shoah." MEETINGS or other. This reflects t.he Polish national New brakes, new front axel boots. $1 ,200. Cal 1848-4865 myth that out of martyrdom comes resurrec -Bronwyn Chester Amateur Radio Club Meetings Sharon. Meetings will be held every Tuesday night from 19:00 - tion, she said. Art Work Needed THEATRE 23:00 in H-644-1 , 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd . W. Ac On the other hand, the American version tivities include shortwave listening, international con Are you a Business student or Teacher and like to paint, of the Holocaust conforms to the value of "27 Wagons Full of Cotton tests, data communications, licensing classes start draw, sculpt or take artistic pictures. We're organiz(ng an cultural pluralism in that country, Lustig Art Exhibition exclusively displaying your works. We and The Long Goodbye," Feb.'93. Information call 848-7421 . man said. One can find "Holocaust, Jewish" would appreciate your participation. For more info, call by Tennessee Williams just as one might come across "Holocaust, Arts and Science Faculty Council Meeting Marc at 989-7475. Armenian." February 18, 19, 20 at 20:00. February 21 at 14:00 The next Arts and Science Faculty Council Meeting will Also, she said, attacks against European Admission: $4 students & senior citizens, $6 general be held on Friday, February 12, 1993. Time: 14:00. For Sale Jews began in 1933, not in 1939, as the ·public. No Reservations. Tel : 848-4742. Location: D.B. Location: DL-200, Russell Breen Senate Chamber, 7141 BIC Ski Rack $40., TYCO Slot Car Set w/extras $25., Library of Congress. would maintain, she Clarke Theatre, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Sherbrooke St. W. DBX Noise Reduction Unit $85., Call Jonas at 43g:.5592_ Concordia's Thursday Report February 4, 1993 - 15
• The BACK PAGE continued LECTURES/SEMINARS CONCERT HALL
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 Learning Development Office The Development of the Teaching Dossier: Documenting Deparbnent of Classics teaching accomplishment. This workshop will provide Or. Catherine Rubican , University of Toronto, on "Liberty useful examples, tips on compilation, and guidelines to on Ancient and Modern Coins." Time: 20:00. Location: get you started immediately on the preparation ·of your H-769, Henry F. Hall Building ., 1455 de Maisonneuve teaching dossier, as well as provide the opportunity Blvd. W. Time: 9:00-12:00. Location: Loyola, 24~0 West Broad way. Leaders: Ron Smith. Registration information: 848- Thursdays at Lonergan 2495. Rosemarie Schade, PhD, Department of History, and Michelle Seguin, Office on the Status of Women, on "Explorations on Gender and Learning, Part One: Gender FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12 and Curriculum." Time: 15:00 -16:30. Location: (7302 Sherbrooke St. W.) Coffee available from 14:45. Infor Friday Brown Bag Seminar Series CONCORDIA CONCERT HALL mation: 848-2280. The Concert Hall is located at 7141 Sherbrooke St. (Metro Vendome -Autobus 105). Lionel Sanders, Associate Professor, Classics, Concor W. dia University, will speak on "Thoughts on Dion of Admission is free to all concerts. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8 Syracuse." Time: 12:00 -13:00 in the Vanier Extension (except where indicated.) Information: 848-7928. Learning Development Office Lounge, 3rd floor. Bring your lunch, join in, meet your colleagues. Those who attend regularly are invited to THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 Solving Difficult Problems in Teaching. For many teach submit presentation proposals for next year. ers the most difficult problems in teachfng are the inter Piano Quartets, works by Faure and Beethoven. Time: 20:00. personal ones. How do you motivate students? Criticize Departement d'Etudes fran~aises students? Or confront students who are disrupting your TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 class? In this workshop we will examine a case study, Mini-colloque:" Le litteraire et le scientifique." Commu from a real teaching situation, where a professor felt a nications de: Gilles Charpentier, Isabelle Daunais, David Berverly McGuire in Concert with the Concordia Orchestra, works by Mozart, Schubert, Faure & Strauss and ex student was attempting to challenge her authority. We Levy et Judith Woodsworth. Conferencier invite: Jean cerpts from the opera "Suor Angelica" by Giacomo Puccini. Time: 20:00. will identify those strategies which limit our effectiveness Fran~ois Chassay (UQAM). Heu re: 13h30. Lieu: LB-628, in solving difficult interpersonal prob.lems in teaching. 1400 boul. de Maisonneuve 0. Time: 9:00-12:00. Location: LB-553-6, 1400 de TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16 Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Leaders: Ron Smith. Registration Deparbnent of Leisure Studies Electroacoustic Concert. Time: 20:00. information: 848-2495. "Leisure and the 21st Century Seminar: Leisure and the Environment." Four speakers; Dr. Richard MacNeil, Mr. Chris Adams, Christine Burt and Joan Haddrill. Time: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 9:00-12:30, registration at 8:30. Location: DL-200, 7141 Electroacoustic Concert. Time: 20:00. Social Aspects of Engineering Sherbrooke St. W. Admission: FREE. Information: 848- 3330. Ms. Josee Methot, Eng., M.B.A., Regie intermunicipale SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 de gestion des dechets sur l'ile de Montreal. Topic: Environmental lmpactAssesment of R.I.G.O.1.M .'sWaste The Concordia Orchestra in Concert, Sherman Friedland, conductor. Lalo-Concerto for cello and orchestra, with Management Project. Time: 11 :45-13:00. Course & THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18 Mary Stein, soloist. Mozart-Symphony #39. Time: 15:30 Place: Engr. 495/4-B, H-635-2, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Thursdays at Lonergan CPR COURSES GRADUATE NEWS Dominique Deslandres, PhD, Department of History, Universite of Montreal, on "French Missions in the 17th THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11 The following CPR courses will be offered by the Envi Century" Time: 15:00 - 16:30. Location: (7302 Sher Graduate Student Get-Togethers ronmental Health and Safety Office in the next few weeks . brooke St. W.) Coffee available from 14:45. Information: Thursdays at Lonergan Members of the Concordia community or outside com - School of Graduate Studies 848-2280. Rosemarie Schade, PhD, Department of History, and munity are all welcome to take these courses. There will The academic year 1992-93 is the inaugural year for the Michelle Seguin, Office on the Status of Women, on be a discount price for the Concordia community. SO, School of Graduate Studies. It wil I prove to be exciting Science College "Explorations on Gender and Learning, Part Two: Gender HELP SAVE ALIFE , IT'S AS EASY AS : ABC . For all those and will provide us with the opportunity to initiate pro in the Classroom (video and discussion)." Time: 15:00 Or. Charles R. Gallistel , UCLA on "The Computational who are interested, please contact Donna Fasciano, jects, such as promoti ng a lecture series by visiting - 16:30. Location: (7302 Sherbrooke St. W.) Coffee Brain." Time: 20:30. Location: H-110, 1455 de Maison Training Co-ordinator at 848-4355 for more information. speakers and other similar ventures, to forge stronger available from 14:45. Information : 848-2280. neuve Blvd . W. Information: 848-2595. links between faculty and students and to stimulate scholarly debate within the community. In addition, Dean FEBRUARY 7, 1993 Martin Kusy would like to meet with graduate students CAMPUS MINISTRY so we have arranged "get-togethers" for this purpose. CPR Heartsaver Plus Course There will be two such sessions each semester at our Tuesdays through Fridays - Eucharist - Thursdays - Sex and Spirit -13:15-14:30- Graduate Administrative offices, 2145 Mackay St. They 8 hours for life. This course includes rescue breathing, Loyola Chapel - 12:05 Annex Z, 2090 Mackay St. will be held from 18:00 - 20:00 on the following date; one-person rescuer CPR management of the obstructed A group to reflect on our sexuality and spirituality in an Monday, March 8, 1993. Because our space is limited, I Sunday Mass 11 :00 and 20:00 airway and infant, child resuscitation. ' open and supportive setting. Fo r info, call Daryl Lynn ask that you please reserve one of the fol lowing dates by Mondays - Eucharist - St. James The Apostle Ross at 848-3585. con tacti ng Ms. Kali Sakell at 848-3803 if you are inter -12:05 ested in attending We look forward to seeing you . Every day - Loyola Chapel FEBRUARY 13, 1993 Catholic Mass and Scriptural reflect ion orig inally sched Open to all throughout the day and evening for quiet G.S.A. Gen,ral Assembly ul¢d on Wednesdays during the first term has been meditation. If you haven't already been there drop in and Baby Heartsaver Course The next Geheral Assembly will be held on Thursday, moved to Mondays at 12:05 and will now be held at the experience the quiet and calm . 6 hours for life. This course includes rescue breathing February 18, 1993 from 18:00-19:00 at Graduate House, Anglican Church of St. James the Apostle, thanks to a and CPR, as well as management of obstructed airway 2030 Mackay St., 1st Floor. All graduate students are kind invitation from their Recto r. For further information Sharing Our Faith in the infant and child. call Rev. Bob Nagy, at 848-3587. A number of students have expressed interest and con requested to attend! cern about sharing questions about faith , ethical values , Interdisciplinary Speaker Series Tuesdays - Prison Visits their own need for being with others in an atmosphere in FEBRUARY 14, 1993 A dialogue programme with inmates at Bordeaux. Stu which they can discuss these things openly in a suppor John Milbank, Cambridge University, "Postmodernism, dents must meet with one of the Chaplains in advance. tive atmosphere. If you are interested in such a group CPR Heartsaver Course Religion and Reason" Thursday, January 28th, 1993, please call Robert Nagy at Belmore House Chaplaincy 20:00. Location: H-767, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. For info., phone Matti Terho at 848-3590 or Peter Cote 4 hours for life. This course includes rescue breathing, at 848-3586. Office at 848-3587. Henry Giroux, Pennsylvania State University, "Multicul one-person rescuer CPR and management of the ob turalism and the Politics of Border Crossing " Thursday, A Monastic Retreat structed airway. Tuesdays - Meditation -14:15-15:30, Annex February 4th, 1993, 20:00. Location: H-767, 1455 de at the Trappist Monastery at Oka Z, 2090 Mackay St. Information: Daryl Lynn Maisonneuve Blvd. W. February 12-14, experience the monastic rhythm of Jim Sandborn, Washington, D.C., "Natural Settings" Ross at 848-3585 FEBRUARY 26,27 & 28 , 1993 prayer and worsh ip with fellow students. An oasis of Thursday, March 4th, 1993, 20:00. Location: H-773, peace and tranquility for quiet walks and conversation. 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Women's Spirituality -13:00-14:30 Sleeping bag and pillow case needed, and warm clothing BLS Instructor's Course Constance Penley, University of California, Santa Bar Annex Z, 2090 Mackay St. New members January only. is recommended. Food preparation and clean-up will be This 18-hour course is for people who would like to bara, "Spaced Out: Remembering Christa McAuliffe" For info. Daryl Lynn Ross at 848-3585. a shared responsibility. Cost is $40. All inclusive. For become instructors. Prerequisites for candidature are: Wednesday, April 7th, 1993, 18:00. Location: DL-200, Annex R, 2050 Mackay, Brown ·sag Lunch. For more more information and reservations, call Campus Minis Certification within the previous six months in Basic 7141 Sherbrooke St. W. information, call Matti Terho at 848-3590. try at 848-3588. Cardio life Support and an interest in teaching. S1111 BACK PAGE page 14 COUNSELLING & DEVELOPMENT Do vou KNow ... How to study and improve your G.P.A.? financial aid can be obtained also. Be sure not to miss Where to locate university calendars worldwide? Where application deadlines for programmes, admission tests to find a job? How to orient your career? Where you can and Ii nancial aid. Vis it us soon at H-440 and 2490 West get support in dealing with personal issues? Be sure to Broadway. drop by Counselling and Development (Student Serv ices ), pick up our brochures, sign up for our WORK REGISTER NOW for Study Skills Workshops SHOPS, meet new and interest ing people and find the Make this term more successful. Learn how to learn from answers. Our services are available on both campuses. NOTICES SGW, H-440, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. , 848-3545 your textbook and from lectures. Find out new time and Loyola, 2490 West Broadway, 848-3555. management tips. Improve your approach to preparing Legal Information Service SGW Campus. for exams, taking exams, giving oral presentations and Learning and Writing Centre · writing term papers. The Legal Information Services is available for informa American Studies Grant tion and counselling. If you have problems with your The Learning and Writing Centre offers personalized landlord, or with a contract that you have signed, or you The grants are intended to support American Studies at assistance to all Concordia students who want to im SIGN UP NOW for Counselling Groups are looking for information on divorce, WE CAN HELP!! Canadian universities and to encourage special projects prove their academic skills and learning potential. Make this semester a time for personal growth and Contact us at 848-4960 from 9:00 - 17:00, Monday pertaining to U.S.-Canada bilateral relations. Individuals Counselling Service change. through Friday. Come and see us in Room CC-326, 7141 as well as institutions are welcome to apply. All propos als will be considered. Special Projects in: American Professional counsellors offer Concordia students edu Sherbrooke St. W., Loyola Campus. For students, staff Studies; Canadian American Relations; Curriculum En cational, career and personal counselling- one-on-one Male Incest Survivors and faculty, this service is free and confidential. richment. Application deadline: September 1, 1993. Call or in groups. Various tests can help identify and under A 10-session group experience to help male incest Sexual Harassment Office Frederick Francis, Centre for International Co-operation stand particular needs and talents. survivors break through the isolation and gently explore The Sexual Harassment Officer can provide you with at 848-4988. · Careers Library their issues. Participants will begin the work of recovery support, guidance and information on any matter regard from sexual abuse. Please call 848-3555 and set up an ing sexual harassment. All inquiries are completely con Centre for Mature Students The Careers Library, recognized as one of the best of its appointment with Anne Theriault to determine if mem kind in Canada, helps students take control of their fidential. Call Sally Spilhaus at 848-4857, or drop in at The Centre for Mature Students downtown is now located bership in this group could be helpful to you. Fridays, career development, including educational decision K-110, 2150 Bishop. in the new J.W. McConnell Library Building in Room Feb. 5 -Apr. 23, 1993. Time: 10:00-12:00. Fee: $20. making, career planning and job search. 517. Services include a lounge and study area as well as Services for Disabled Students academic advising and referrals. Students are welcome Career and Placement Service Understanding your Family Innovative programmes and workshops are offered to to drop by to see our facilities. To make an appointment disabled students. Specially designed workshops on use The Career and Placement Service offers employment This eight-session group will guide you in exploring for academic advising, please call 848-3890. The Centre of adaptive computer equipment for University study and counsel Iing and placement services to undergraduate issues associated with growing up in your particular for Mature Students, Loyola Campus, (with advising and future employment are regularly scheduled. Orientation and graduate students seeking part-time, summer or family. Learn to understand the impact your background lounges) is located in the Administration Building, in programmes for volunteers and Sign Language work permanent employment. Location: 2070 Mackay St.. has had on you. A preliminary interview wil I help deter Room 424. Telephone: 848-3895. shops are also offered throughout the year. For more Info: 848-7345. mine if this group can be helpful. Thursdays, Feb. 4 - information and applications. Contact: 848-3525/3511 Concordia Council on First Nations Education Apr. 25, 1993. Time: 13:00-16:00. Fee: $20. Information: Drop-in Service (Voice/TDD), SGW Campus in H-580 or 848-3503/3536 LOY: 848-3555, Anne Theriault. Feeling a little lost and need someone to talk to? Want A Drop-in Service is available. No appointment is nec (Voice/TDD), Loyola Campus in AD-121 . to meet other native students and chat? The First Nation s essary. ACounsellor will offer 15-minute periods to help Leadership Training Health Services Student Centre is now open. Drop by and see us at Anne x you with brief questions of an educational nature at V-311 , 2110 Mackay. Informat ion: 848-7327. Loyola (WC-101 ): Wednesdays and Thu rsdays: 12:00- Does leading a group worry you? Can you team build Health Services provides a confidential , individual ized 13:00 and at SGW (H-440): Tuesday 13:00-14:00 and and keep everyone in the game? Can you resolve con and comprehensive approach to health care which in International Student Office Thu rsday 14:00-15:00. A learning specialist wil l answer flicts and handle criticismm? Learn to identify your clu des counselling and teaching related to both physical Advisors are available to provide information, guidance, questions about learning strategies appropriate for your leadership style, strengths and weaknesses. Regi ster at and emotional we ll-bei ng. The centre provides the op and support to International students, around issues of course at SGW (H-440): Mondays and Th urs days, H-440 for 3 sessions beginning March 5-19, from 9:30- portunity fo r Concordia students, staff and faculty to concern, such as: immigration rules and regulations, 12:00-13:00. 11 :30. $10 fee. meet with health professionals in order to explore areas working on camp us, cultural adaptation, academic diffi of concern. Whether you are feel ing unwell, stressed or SPECIAL NOTICES THIS WEEK culties, financial emergencies and transfer of funds let Personal Empowerment just curi ous about health issues, you are invited to drop ters. We are located at 2135 Mackay St., 3rd floor, Looking for a Job? in at the following locations; Loyola Campus: 6935 telephone 848-3514, 3515, 3516. The ISO is a member This six-session workshop will help you develop an Sherbrooke Street West , Room Ch-101 (848-3575) of Advocacy and Support Services. Details on summer jobs are available at the Career and awareness of your inner resources and acquire tools to Hours: 9:00 - 17:00. Monday to Friday. Sir George Placement Service. CAPS can also help December grads become more confident. Come and learn how to feel Williams Campus: 2155 Guy St., Rm 407 (848-3565) International Students Working on Campus find employment. Join a Job Search workshop, meet better about yourself! LOY, 848-3555, Anne Theriault, Hours: 9:00 -17:00. Monday to Friday. International students are eligible to work on campus, with a counsellor, and/or check out our job boards. A Tuesdays 9:30-12:30, Feb.2-Mar.16, $20 fee. Meningococcal vaccine will soon be available free of variety of permanent positions are posted. but must obtain a Canada Employment Authorization charge at Health Services for students aged 21 and (work permit) before they can start a job. Potential Uni Thinking about Graduate School? Assertiveness Training under. Dates of vaccination: February 15-19 and March versity employers (Chairs, Deans, Faculty members, 1-5. Location: 2155 Guy St., Room 400-5. Health Serv Important decisions regarding graduate education re Boost your image and confidence and learn: 1) to deal managers, supervisors, etc.), are encouraged to call the ices: 848-3565/3575. quire careful planning. Explore the resources available with people who bully and intimidate you, 2) to solicit International Student Office for more information on to assist you at the Careers Library. We have awide range constructive feedback, 3) to negotiate and work out Ombuds Office employment regulations for International students. 848- 3514/3516. of subject directories to graduate programmes as well as compromises resulting in win-win situations, 4) to save The Ombudspersons are available to any member of the a comprehensive university calendar collection for Can face when making a mistake, 5) to lighten up. SGW University for information, advice and assistance with Coffee with The Vice-Rector, Academic ada and the U.S .. Information on graduate and profes (848-3545) for five sessions, Mondays 9:30-11 :30, University-related complaints and problems. Call 848- sional school admission tests and private sources of March 1-29. Limited registration. $15 fee. 4964 or drop into 2100 Mackay St., Sir George Williams Members of the Concordia Community, students, non Campus. Evening appointments on request. academic personnel and faculty: I would be pleased to have you come and have coffee with me, if you can make WOMEN'S AGENDA CUSA's Advocacy Services it for any of the following evenings this term: Thursday, Students with complaints against the Administration or February 18; Monday, March 22 and Tuesday, April 27, of Georgia will speak on "Evolutionary Biology and THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11 against their departments, or who have been charged after 19:30 in Room AD-231, Administration Building, Feminism." Time: 14:00. Location: The Lounge, Simone with cheating or other offenses against the Academic Loyola Campus, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W. Please call de Beauvoir Institute, 2170 Bishop St. R.S.V.P. before Code, or with any other problems and feel they need the Mu nit Merid at 848-4847 to let me know when you wish Simone de Beauvoir Institute/Biology February 5, 1993. Information & Reservation: 848-2373. help of CUSA's Advocacy Services, shouldn't hesitate to to come. I hope you won't mind if your first choice of date Department Admission is FREE. contact Nina or James at 848-7474, or come to H-637. is not honoured. The place is only .so big, I do look Patricia Adair Gowaty, Associate Professor, Department forward to seeing you and talking with you about Con of Zoology and Women's Studies Programme, University Student Exchange Programme cordia University. Welcome. Rose Sheinin, Vice-Rector, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12 The Centre for International Academic Co-operation Academic. THESIS DEFENSE (CIAC). Office of the Vice Rector, Academic, is now accepting applications from students wishing to study in Peer Helper Centre Simone de Beauvoir Institute the United States or Europe during the 1993-94 aca We understand that sometimes things can be a little TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16 Patricia Morley, Professor Emeritus, Department of Eng demic year. For more information concerning the Stu tough, or that you feel overwhelmed with everything lish, and Lifetime Honourary Fellow, Simone de Beau dent Exchange Programme, call 848-4988, or pass by going on in your life. Come down and see us at our new Keith Marchessault at 14:00 in H-769, 1455 de Maison voir Institute, Concordia University will speak on "The the CIAC offices located in room AD-207 on the Loyola location 2135 Mackay, the old Financial Aid office. We neuve Blvd. W. Thesis Title: "Social Behavior Correlates Mountain is Moving': Japanese Women." Time: 12:00. Campus, The Application Deadline is February will lend a friendly ear because we care. There wil I be an of Risk in Peer Relations: A Multimethod Assessment of Location: H-401 , 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. 15, 1993. Applications are also available from the Dean Open House on February 2 and 3, Everyone is welcome Aggressive, Withdrawn, and Aggressive-withdrawn R.S.V. P. before February 5, 1993. Information and Res of Students Office, on the Loyola Campus or the Depart to check out our new space. Children." ervation: 848-2373. Admission is FREE. ment of Counselling Services and Development on the See BACK PAGE page 15