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BY BARBARA BLACK tinuation of the discussion from lobby were from the fire extin­ the regular Board meeting held guisher and pepper spray sucked n the. recommendation of Oct. 16, at which the members back into the lobby, not tear gas, Rector Frederick Lowy, were shocked by media images a-s some reports falsely claimed. 0 Concordia's Board of and security footage of the Sept. 9 After viewing the tapes on Oct. Governors has agreed to allow the incident, in which hundreds of 16, several Board members feared return of information tables for demonstrators succeeded in pre­ that a premature loosening of the all campus groups on the mezza­ venting a speech in the Hall cooling-off period could lead to nine of the Henry F. Hall Building, Building by former Israeli prime more violence. After long discus­ except for those related to the minister Benjamin Netanyahu. sion, the Board tabled resolutions Israeli-Palestinian issue. The The tape, shown by Vice-Rector to moderate the emergency meas­ lobby of the Hall Building will Michael Di Grappa in the context ures. continue to remain free of infor­ of a security report to the Board, However, at their special meet­ mation tables. clearly showed the demonstrators ing on Oct. 21, the Board resolved The vote, taken at a special breaking the windows, smashing to encourage discussion between meeting of the Board on Monday, through the barriers on the mez­ the administration and the stu­ was unanimous. Members of the zanine and emptying a fire extin­ dent leadership on the Israeli­ Board recognized the steps that guisher and hurling furniture at Palestinian issue. have been taken to lower the level police. Dr. Lowy, with the co-operation of tension on campus, and It also showed that police used of the Concordia Student Union expressed confidence that in the pepper spray only after the (CSU), has encouraged the princi­ near future, gradual easing of the demonstrators smashed the win­ pal groups involved in the Middle restrictions on Middle East debate dow and began hurling objects East debate to open a dialogue. WOMEN'S RUGBY: Sommer Christie shone for the Stingers as they won over will be possible. through the broken glass. The the Ottawa Gee-Gees 27-0 in the Quebec Student Sports Federation (QSSF) The closed session was a con- clouds that filled the Hall Building Please see Board, page 10 semifinal last Sunday. See story on page 11.

Nobel Prize goes to a Concordia collaborator • in this Princeton psychology professor lauded for his influence on economic sciences BY M IRJANA V RBASKI investors, medical diagnosticians of Massachusetts General seen during anticipation or expe­ issue and decision-makers in many Hospital, to bridge psychology rience of other rewards, such as oncordia's Peter Shizgal, realms. The implications of this and neural science in a brain­ addictive drugs, pleasant tastes, CDirector of the Centre for work are being pursued here at imaging experiment. or preferred pieces of music. 2 Business ethics: Studies in Behavioural Concordia by Shizgal and his PhD Twelve volunteers were given Such findings may one day Neurobiology, rejoiced on Oct. 9, student, Bonnie Sonnenschein. $50 and then shown a sequence of enable scientists to use brain Challenges of as the Nobel Prize in Economic "My research, like some aspects spinners divided into three sec­ scans to measure the neural cor­ globalization Sciences went to a collaborator, of Kahneman's research, consists tors, each with a different mone­ relates of our subjective likes and Princeton's Daniel Kahneman. of trying to understand the psy- tary value. A spinning arrow dislikes. They may also help A study by Shizgal and delivered either a loss or a gain to understand impulse-control dis­ 5 opinion: Kahneman of the brain in the act each participant. orders, such as drug abuse and Researchers measure Opposing views of gambling bears the imprint of brain activity during The subjects' brain activity was compulsive gambling. Kahneman's groundbreaking con­ measured through a neuro-imag­ The design of the brain-imag­ on free trade tributions to the integration of decision~making ing process both during anticipa­ ing experiment reflects a long­ psychological research into eco­ tion and when they realized, or standing program of research on nomics, for which Kahneman has chological mechanisms and neu­ processed, the outcome of the evaluation and decision-making Mentors: Support been rewarded with the world's ral machinery involved in evalua­ spin. by Kahneman and his colleague, 8 most prestigious prize. tion and decision-making This novel application of the Amos Tversky, who died in 1996. for mature students Kahneman, a psychology and processes;' Shizgal said in an psychology of judgment and deci­ They described shortcuts people public affairs professor at interview. sion to mapping brain function take and the biases they have in Princeton University, N.J., is espe­ To better grasp the way various supports the view that common making decisions - results that 9 Building: cially prized for his work on parts of the human brain respond brain circuitry processes different challenged the basic model of Designed for human judgment and decision­ to the anticipation of winning types of rewards. In other words, a how individuals behave economi­ making under uncertainty. This money, Shizgal and Kahneman socially conditioned reward, such cally. business research is vital to understanding teamed up with Hans Breiter, as money, produced patterns of the mental processes of gamblers, Itzhak Aharon and Anders Dale, brain activity that overlaps those Please see Nobel Prize, page 8 Online seminar is centrepiece of doCtoral program Students learn to express their scholarly ideas in both English and French through the bilingual site

BY C AR OL MCQUEEN course which is interactive So far, Bilodeau is pleased with Web site at least twice a week, and ent universities. "Someone at between the three universities;' the results. He is working on secre­ engages actively in several of the UQAM is working on raves;• said eligion PhD student John said Religion Professor Lynda cy in religious conflict, looking par­ discussion groups. Professor Clarke, "and he posted a Bilodeau will only see Clarke, who is one of the anima­ ticularly at heretics and inquisitors Leslie Orr, chair of the Religion comment about trance and ome of his classmates in tors of the 890 seminar. in medieval Languedoc (France). Department, believes that the 890 dance. I thought he might like to the compulsory 890 seminar, The "To make the collaboration His interactions with francophones course, with its Web-based inter­ look at some Sufi material, so I Study of Religion: Theory and more like collaboration, and also from the other universities have action, is the centrepiece of the answered in that theme. If he Practice, four or five times during to solve the problem of geograph­ been particularly helpful to his joint PhD program, which initial~ wants to have any more discus­ the year when they can all come ic distance, we rely on a Web CT research. ly consisted of Concordia and sion, he can:• together in one location. site;' she added. "It's useful to me to have native UQAM, but incorporated Laval at Overcoming language barriers However, he will interact with French speakers who are familiar the start of 2002. is another positive result of the them online several times a week, Effective and user-friendly with some of the texts help me "The joint program really opens 890 seminar. Students assimilate through a Web CT _system that "It's a virtual classroom;• out;' he said. It has also been ben­ up for each university a range of the appropriate religious termi­ enables users to post messages, explained Roger Kenner, coordina­ eficial to be forced to post his own different kinds of scholarship;' nology in their non-mother enter discussion groups and chat tor of research and development work and ideas on the Web site. she said, "and it enlarges the pool tongue, and learn to express their with each other. Bilodeau is one of for IITS, who designed the site to "Sometimes it's good to be and the diversity:• Orr added that scholarly ideas in both English six Concordia students in a joint make it as effective and as user­ forced to answer a lot of ques­ · the 890 seminar "gives our stu­ and French, which is an essential seminar, and one of 32 PhD stu­ friendly as possible. Each of the tions and be clear about what you dents the opportunity to see all skill within the Canadian aca­ dents in religion at Concordia. All universities posts their syllabus are studying. If it's all just in your kinds of different approaches and demic community. 32 are taking part in a joint PhD and reading materials in their pre­ head - if you're working on it all perspectives, both from their fel ­ Orr said, "By the time students program that combines the schol­ ferred language, and then students by yourself - you don't really get low students as well as from their come together in person in the arship and expertise of Concordia from all three campUlles are free to a sense of what exactly people will professors in the different depart­ second term, we're hopeful that University, UQAM and Universite converse on the course topics, be interested in, what's going to ments:• they will have already acquired Laval in Quebec City. their own research or on a number confuse them, what you have to The Web site facilitates this certain vocabulary through their "Part of this joint venture is of thematic threads outlined in the clarify." communication between stu­ contact and interchanges on the that all PhD students take a joint discussion fields. Bilodeau says he logs on to the dents and professors from differ- Web site:• Global business ethics:-Researchers find there's no quick fix Third annual meeting on Global Responsibilities and the Practices of International Businesses in Developing Areas

BY EL EANOR BROWN Of course, some are concerned more than two dozen - picking a to date on the hundreds of coun­ acerbic badboy, wl)o will say by bad publicity, and others do country and a handful of busi­ tries around the world that fall aloud what other people are ylvie Babarik wants to be sure worry about business ethics. nesses within it. under their mandate. thinking;' Naguib said. Sthat her T-shirt was made by Babarik is working on a report for Brock University political sci­ The prime minister says the an employee who was never phys­ a church group that visits facto­ Corporate responsibility ence professor Hevina Dashwood international community tries to ically assaulted at the sewing ries in Guatemala for concerned Bird wants to study what makes is one-third of the way into her "beggar thy neighbour. . . . We machine by an angry boss. foreign investors, on the cheap. for good corporate responsibility, own three-year project on corpo­ have developed ourselves by "Were your jeans made quickly "In this case, the brand name and how and why it should be rate responsibility in Canada's doing the opposite of what the because someone wasn't allowed pressured one of its main suppli­ done. Is community development mining sector, looking at what [financial] wizards told us we to take a bathroom break? I would ers to allow people to come in;' the responsibility of a business factors have motivated firms to should do. But you don't like us to say that I don't know [about my Babarik said. "They are allowed to that sells its products elsewhere? adopt policies. Globalization has have big ideas - it's not proper:• · own wardrobe];' the Concordia speak to the workers on their Businesses in the developing brought on a new set of rules, Others have been in on the University student said ruefully. lunch breaks, they observe, they world must "abide by some stan­ from local to country-wide, and a project a bit longer, · like McGill She was addressing a group of have access to the books. They dards developed by Europeans;• dizzying array of international University doctoral student academics who assembled this write up what they've seen, and Bird said, "but are these the terms treaties. I Farzad R. Khan. He presented a month to discuss case studies on send it to the brand name:• If that those countries choose? Or "They're not cohesively put look at the international panic business ethics around the world at there are violations of local law or are they getting in the way, caus­ together:• she said. Companies are over child-labour used in making the third annual meeting on Global international treaties, "they hope ing conflict and inequality?" also increasingly making their soccer balls in Pakistan. Responsibilities and the Practices the brand name will then inter­ Cultural differences are real, own rules about ethical behav­ "The charges of abusive child of International Businesses in vene:• but Bird also doesn't want people iour. "We're seeing a shifting locus labour practices leveled against Developing Areas, convened by Guatemala is a popular locale to shrug and adopt a cultural rel­ Qf authority between the private them in a 1996 child labour cam­ Concordia professor Frederick for international investors in the ativism to the detriment of oth­ and the public. The whole privati­ paign were simply unfounded. Bird, and held Oct 17 to 19. textile trade, yet it has only nine ers. "What minimal standards zation of standardization shows a Children were simply helping the Although actual assault is not labour inspectors for the whole must exist in order to arrive at shift of the knowledge base:• family wax threads or perforate common, it can still happen in the country, meaning many of the common goals?" Should governments be devolv­ holes for panels;• he concluded. dozens of factories located in sub-contracted factory operators Bird has lots of questions, and ing their power? Universite de "Working part-time at their own developing countries around the rarely see one. there may be no hard and fast Montreal business school student family pace is a safe, clean, non­ world, where little effort is put Babarik presented the draft of answers. "We're not here to praise Rabia Naguib presented the eco­ hazardous process:• into employee comfort. But over­ her paper as a bit of an accident. or to blame, but to learn:' nomic vision of Malaysia's prime­ To solve the public relations time is often a job requirement, She went to Guatemala on her He does admit to an agenda, minister-for-life, Dr. Mahathir crisis caused by the rumours of pay cheques may not reflect the own just over a year ago, and however: "We are interested in Mohamad. He has been in office child abuse, the industry was hours worked, and there may be helped with writing up the project reducing poverty." As a result, the since 1981, and has significantly completely upended. Factories no work breaks. Employees may when she met up with some case studies look at whether com­ transformed his country, cutting were built, taking parents out of be yelled at by their supervisors, Canadian Presbyterians. panies build social infrastructure, poverty, focussing on huge public their homes and causing social and all the doors, including the In September, she started an and analyze business strategy. works projects and creating a upheaval. As a result, many work­ emergency exits, may be locked. MA in Religious Studies at Many corporations are obsessed "smart partnership" program that ers lost the piecework and part­ Even the multinational compa­ Concordia, and met Dr. Bird, an with making short-term cash mixes public and private, and the time jobs that had sustained their ny that sews its brand name onto ethicist in the department and when their long-term survival and local with the international. families. the clothing may not know what's one of the principal researchers profits might benefit from differ­ On the other hand, the struc­ Other researchers at the work­ happening in its factories, located on this project, which will culmi­ ent decisions. ''.Asset develop­ ture of "smart partnership" allows shop reported on case studies of thousands of miles away from the nate in a series of books on busi­ ment" can be seen to include for corruption and the occasional business practices in Uganda, head office. It's expensive to hire ness ethics around the world. The employees and whole neighbour­ boondoggle, and human rights Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, private accountants and moni­ project itself is mainly funded by hoods. abuses abound. Still, the prime South Korea, China, Vietnam, tors to find out, and many execu­ a small SSHRC grant, with each Bird's group is always inviting minister is popular for taking on Northern Quebec, Fiji and Costa tives would rather not know. academic involved - there are more academics to keep them up the rest of the world. "He is an Rica. 2 Con cord_i a's Thursday R,port I 0ctob" 24 , 2002 On the frontiers of -music and art· Musicians break new ground using text to evoke moods and sounds

BY JULIE PARKINS

ivate void. Channelling 'Scriabin. Distance is rela­ P. ive. These phrases may David Frost (G g ssertedhjs,s .. . or the Quebec govern- seem mysterious, but they repre­ ;s ; .;t~;v.-"" ,...;W-· ···- sent an artistic challenge to ment's proposal ( o i .·.PQSe ,a tax on SJ?Prf~utility vehicles, minivans and Liselyn Adams and a group of light trucks on "• Radio'~"~nfary in August. Gas guzzlers release an abundance o monoxide and oxides of nitrogen, which cause music students from Concordia ground-level ozone, breathing difficulties and aggravate the greenhouse and McGill who are involved in an effect. "For far too long we have treated our atmosphere as a giant inter-university research project garbage dump,• he said. In addition, Frost suggested a rebate for drivers in music and design. of fuel- efficient vehicles. "Rather than working strictly Steven Appelbaum (Management) was quoted in The Globe and Mail on from a composer's score, we're Sept. 25 about the importance of human emotions in the workplace. asking the musicians to create a Appelbaum said that successful managers were •user-friendly, approach­ collaborative composition based able mentor types• who were in touch with their employees' tempera­ on text," she said. ments. "Musicians take a look at this Kudos to Nelson Hendricks (Studio Arts) who was cited in The Calgary text and make decisions. They Herald of Sept. 20 for winning the Bell Canada Award for outstanding can make things sound like what achievement in video art. The native Calgarian received a S10,000 prize the text looks like. They can cre­ from the Canadian Council for the Arts at the Montreal International ate something that would sound Festival of New Cinema and New Media. like private void. They can go by Music professor Mark Corwin and Liselyn Adams, associate dean of Fine Arts Peter Stoett (Political Science) wrote in Le Devoiron Aug. 3 that the North the meaning, or create the mood and the South differ greatly in their concern for the environment. On the that is suggested by the phrase. but now it's about making sounds then take it into their own classes eve of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, They can create background and trying to evoke things. It's and other places." South Africa, he wrote that environmental issues take a back seat to ter­ music to someone reading the about trying to break new In addition to the student proj­ rorism and the economic effects of globalization in the North. text:' ground, find new ways of doing ect in each of the three years, Andri Gagnon (CAPS) was on Global television this week, talking about Adams began using text to things that were done in the past there will be a larg-scale produc­ what's hot in terms of jobs for young grads: retail managers, selling make music with her own musical - because it's just so much fun!" tion by one of the professional financial products for banks and sales in pharmaceuticals. Government group, The Blue Rider Ensemble. The music created in the pro­ groups of the research team. jobs are big, too, as many bureaucrats prepare for retirement, and by the This is one aspect of a three-year gram this semester will be pre­ In this first year, Adams's Blue way, the Quebec government is looking for bilingual anglophones. research program being undertak­ sented at a concert in December Rider Ensemble will finish and Gagnon noted that teachers are in demand, but not computer special­ en in Concordia's Departments of that will also feature a visual rep­ perform their work · commis­ ists, who are biding their time for now. Music and Design Art and resentation of the texts and music sioned by writer Michel Garneau Greg Neilsen (Sociology and Anthropology) had his say in a National McGill's Faculty of Music through under the direction of Design Art and called Blue Rider Marmelade. Post essay under the headline, "In Montreal, drivers are truly a distinct a grant from the FQRSC (Fonds Professor P.K. Langshaw. She and In the second year, Tim Brady's society." He said, "If it's aggressive, it's a healthy aggression, a seductive Quebecois de recherche sur la Corwin will also document this Bradyworks Ensemble, which is game of sorts where everyone, including pedestrians, says, 'I won't allow societe et culture) whose goal is "visual chamber music" with ensemble in residence at any driver to intimidate me."' His comments were based on research for to break down the wall between multi-channel recording and mix­ Concordia, will work with several a project on the individual cultures of five cities. acoustic music and the world of ing techniques, and on video. composers on works for string Sylvia Ruby (Biology) was featured in Canadian Wildlife magazine for her experimental performance and The second year of the program quartet and computers. experiments with atrazine, a common weed killer. Her research indicates digital media. will add detailed research on sound Throughout the three years, the that it interferes with the development of the sexual organs of tadpoles. The theory goes that true cul­ reinforcement and multi-channel recording and sound manipula­ Chantal Maille (Simone de Beauvoir Institute) warned against the dan­ tural innovation and aesthetic sound diffusion. In the third yem; tion research will be undertaken gers of stereotyping women in powerful positions in September's Elle­ research happen only when new computers will be brought into the by Mark Corwin and Philippe Quebec. The idea that all women are Mother Teresas who will resolve techniques are fully understood mix, both as instrumentation in a DePalle, of McGill. Compositional problems innately in the workplace is simplistic, she said. and internalized by artists. The chamber ensemble and as a tool for aspects will be overseen by In an article on the effects of Sept. 11, 2001, on Canadians in L'actualite of project acknowledges this theory, creating, transforming and control­ Alcides Ianza {McGill), and, stu­ Sept. 15, Stiphane Paquin (Political Science) said that globalization has and seeks to create a synergy ling acoustic and electroacoustic dents will be drawn from both a negative effect on Canada's political sovereignty. However, globaliza­ among a range of artists and sounds. universities. tion gives Quebec a voice: "Les demi-nations [like Quebec] jouissent researchers, freeing them to Different university students The full team comprises d'une visibilite et d'une legitimite croissants sur les marches et dans les explore and connect with each will be involved with this project Adams, Langshaw and Corwin, forums internationaux." other. throughout the three years. the two professors from McGil, The Journal de Montreal published information about a study by "This is just a new incarnation "We wanted to spread the and Tim Brady, an independent Subhash Rakheja (Mechanical Engineering) on tank trucks transport­ of an experimental mode that wealth out, get them to think musician, researcher and innova­ ing fuel oils and sometimes dangerous chemicals on the highway. musicians and visual artists had about performance in a different tive performer, who was instru­ Rakheja is heading a team working with the Ministere de Transport to back in the '50s and '60s," said way because they've been mental in organizing this project. identify risky configurations of these trucks and to improve their safety Mark Corwin, chair of the depart­ involved in this project," Corwin The total value of the grant is dynamics, especially immunity from rollover. ment and director of electroa­ explained. "The more people we $173,75, which includes $20,000 L. Ian MacDonald's second edition of From Bourassa to Bourassa: coustic studios at Concordia. can get involved at the student equipment and 51,250 per year Wilderness to Restoration was the subject of a book review by Avery Plaw "Making noises was one thing, level, the better, because they will operating funds. (Political Science) in The Gazette of Sept. 14. Plaw wrote that five new chapters and some text touch-ups enhance MacDonald's analysis of Quebec and Canadian politics as well as the Quebec premier's fascinat­ ing career. Meeting of minds: Conferences at Concordia

GLOBALIZATION: Concordia hosts visit the IPSA conference Web University of Ottawa, Bill St. the International Political site at http:/ /www.ipsa.ca. Arnaud of CANARIE, and repre­ Memorial service for Dr. Bassem Khalifah Science Association's {IPSA) NETWORKING: Thursday, Oct. 31 sentatives from the National he Canadian Arab Federation, National Council on Canada­ Fifth International Symposium, to Friday, Nov. 1, the Reseau Film Board of Canada and TArab Relations, and Arab-Canadian Organization for Human Mastering Globalization: New d'Informations Scientifiques du TeleQuebec. All events will take Rights will hold a memorial for Bassem Khalifah, who died on States Strategies, Oct. 24-26. Quebec (RISQ) will hold its place in the D.B. Clarke Sept 10. All events take place in the thirteenth annual conference at Auditorium in the Henry F. Hall The ceremony will be-held on Oct. 27 at 3 p.m. in Room H-767, Samuel. Bronfman Building at Concordia. Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve in the Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Colleagues 1590 Doctor Penfield Ave. For Speakers at the conference West. For more information, and friends will speak in Dr. Khalifah's memory. Please join us to information, call 848-8717 or will include Pierre Levy of the visit http:/ /www.risq2002.qc.ca. celebrate of the life of a teacher and human rights activist. 3 October 24, 2002 I Concordia's Thursday, Report /,. '.... _ ..• ~ -> tl ~ • ,!,';, . . "'. letters to ✓tKe eml6r ------·-"·--·-·------·--,y '/_...... ,,· ~•• .o,: /4 ~,--.~ ,', . Part-time facul~.,,,,,~,,:,,,,,:1nemb , ---1.e. cfemor would like to respondto the article on the needs~ concefus Iof part-time faculty by Caro,l McQue nin your St!P, 26'issue. The content of the article - not the manner in which it was written - made me feel,,somewhat embarrassed to be a CUPFA member. .; I am a part-time faculty member who has been teaching in the Theatre Department for five years now, and I am currently in my second term of service as the elected department part-time fac­ ulty representative. This letter contains my personal opinions, however. It is widely acknowledged in Quebec and beyond that CUPFA has fought for, and won, some of the best part-time faculty working conditions on the continent This is a situation for which the current union leadership deserves much credit, and which I appreciate and benefit from. I feel I am well paid for work I find stimulating and satisfying; I have a voice at meetings APPRECIATION FOR CLAUDE B£DARD: A party was held Sept. 26 on Crescent St. for outgoing Dean of Graduate Studies and in the concerns of my department and Research Claude ~ard, seen above with his wife, Sylvie Boisvert. and daughters Agathe and Jehanne. A third At the point at which I took an informed and considered daughter, Camille, was not able to attend, but about 100 of Claude's friends and colleagues were on hand. Among the attributes mentioned in the speeches was his excellent baritone. Dr. ~ard returns to full-time teaching in Department choice to pursue a career as a theatre artist, I understood that of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering. the nature of the work I would be engaged in would never offer me much in the way of job security. So for me, the ide_a of a part­ time union which campaigns to guarantee job security on behalf of theatre practitioners, visual artists, musicians and so forth Sally Spilhaus leaves post as advisor on rights begins to conjure up images of the safari tourist who rushes off to protect the gazelles from the lions. ally Spilhaus has announced She had started a university which were out of date. In fact, a high degree of job security is already provided for Sthat for health reasons, she is degree in 1960 in Capetown, but Consulting experienced col­ part-timers in the form of the seniority system; this is a system leaving her position as Advisor to didn't get a chance to finish it leagues and external experts, she which I, with a relatively high number of credits, very much ben­ the Rector on Rights and until some 20 years later, at worked up a protocol on tracking efit from. I have seen this process at work now from the vantage Responsibilities. Concordia. By that time, she was a disruptive behaviour that was inte­ point of a number of part-time hiring committees. In a message to some of her col­ single mother of two, working grated into the Code of Rights and Frankly, the current system works much better at protecting leagues, she said that she had full-time and studying at night Responsibilities, ratified in 1996. In time-servers than it does with regard to promoting high profes­ lived with Parkinson's disease for Still an activist, she worked for a the same year, the expansion of her sional standards and pedagogic breadth. As a professional the past nine years. "For a long number of community organiza­ duties was finally acknowledged teacher, these are areas of importance for me. time, it did not impede my work, tions, and became the founding with the title of Advisor on Rights On a specific point, the article mentioned a theatre depart­ but the heavy demands of the last director of the women's shelter and Responsibilities. Since April, ment part-timer who "finds it difficult to meet with students two years were starting to affect Auberge Madeleine. her responsibilities have been ful­ when he must share an office with 18 other part-time faculty my health in ways I could no In 1991, she came to Concordia, filled by Ombudsperson Kristen members." longer ignore." where she became the first and Robillard. Now, while there are pressing difficulties with space provision Sally came to Montreal in the only sexual harassment officer at "I loved my work," Sally said in for our department (a situation with which all faculty and staff 1960s from South Africa. There the university. In 1992-93, in the her message this week. She must contend), we do in fact have an office which is designated she had been in the thick of the wakeoftheFabrikantkillingsand thanks her colleagues for their as per the collective agreement for the specific use of part­ anti-apartheid struggle, working under Interim Rector Charles support through a turbulent but timers. The idea of all 18 of us packed in there, along with a stu­ for an organization that support­ Bertrand, she chaired a task force productive career at Concordia, dent or two, made me smile. We also have a comfortable, con­ ed political prisoners and their to review all university policies and added that she hopes to con­ venient meeting room in the department which is available for families. regulating behaviour, some of tinue to be of service to the uni­ use by all faculty. versity. "I have chosen to reveal This type of storm-in-a-tea-cup complaining does a little the Parkinson's in the hope that more than undermine the credibility and urgency of some of our some of you will want to learn Association's more legitimate demands for a new deal. CSU's heavy hand obstructs studying more about it and perhaps con­ Well-paid professional lecturers with tertiary levels of educa­ sider it when deciding on your tion working in a 21st-century academic institution should be he Concordia student body is once again reeling from a CSU­ charitable donations. The represented in a more appropriate and intelligent manner. If Torganized protest Apparently it doesn't take much to get the Parkinson's Society of Canada more of us don't speak out, we deserve whatever misrepresenta­ CSU riled up these days. supports research into improved tion we receive. Is it just me, or do any other part-timers out Last week's protest, which was to voice opposition to Yves treatment and potential cures. there think it's time we re-examined our and CUPFA's priorities, Engler's apparent melee with police, served as promotion for the (See www.parkinson.ca.) or even just raised the tone of the debate? Or held one? upcoming FTAA rally. When the concept of globalization is dis­ Kate Bligh. Theatre cussed, anti-globalizers bring up the idea of giant corporations oppressing the masses. Free speech flourishes: professor In this case, it seems appropriate to apply that ideology to the CSU. The CSU, to a great extent, is just that, an "authoritative" m~~fiEW ree speech is doing just fine at Concordia. Look at any issue force oppressing the vast majority of Concordia students. They Conalnlts'~~ : / ispublished'lltillltS•ring111t_..Y'« of either The Link or The Concordian student newspapers. are unrepresentative of the student population and abuse their F Oil I bi-~bislsbJ,lllf 11\t!ffli(RNtions You will see that for many years, Concordia student papers have positions to further their own political agendas. 1ndUIM1ioi

BY YVES ENGLER, rise in the rate of inflation during tion in tenure positions and VP COMMUNICATIONS, the same period Not only are stu­ increases in corporate funding cer­ CONCORDIA STUDENT UNION dents being punished by corporate­ tainly threaten academic freedom. dominated globalization, so are Local manifestations of this cor­ n October 31 students across most other social services as well. porate power are felt by professors OCanada and around the hemi­ Since the signing of the FTA and who are restricted by the various sphere will be taking action against NAFTA, organized labour and encroachments of corporations on the Free Trade Area of the Americas. workers in general have also been campuses and within their aca­ (At Concordia, students will be feeling downward pressure on demic work. The global cannot be striking.) their wages. Companies increas­ separated from the local. The FTAA is the name given to ingly threaten to move to "friend­ We on the Concordia Student the process of expanding the North lier climates" if workers try to Union executive ask our profes­ American Free Trade Agreement unionize. sors, no matter what their opinion (NAFTA) to all other countries of Recently released Statistics on the FTAA, to allow students to the western hemisphere except Canada data show that "at $51,000, express their democratic voice. Cuba. With a population of 800 the median family income was Opening up the negotiating million and a combined GDP of nearly $1,000 less in 2000 than it process to public scrutiny is a $11 trillion US, the FTAA would be was in 1990. Moreover, 75 per cent minor gain, yet it is one that bene­ the largest free trade zone in the of Canadian families saw a drop in fits all those who live in a demo­ world. their financial wealth between cratic society. These sorts of corporate trade 1990 and 2000, while the top 25 per As professors, you can do your agreements hurt us all. It is clear cent saw an increase of 14 per cent. part. Please, no exams or assign­ Centraide weekly raffle winners that corporate globalization is In the U.S., according to the New ments for students on October 31. undermining students' access to York Times, 64 per cent of faculty Moreover, a group of people will be "l ,I 7inners of the Oct. 11 draw: Valdir Jorge won a Polaroid quality public education. It is no members who retired between fall doing classroom visits about the VV compact Joycam. Joaquim Borralho won a Concordia coincidence that since the signing 1997 and fall 1998 left tenured FTAA. Please allow them five min­ polar zippered vest. Patricia Posius won a gift certificate from of the Free Trade-Agreement, the positions, while only 45 per cent of utes of your class time. Students the Body Shop. Mona Senecal won a Concordia "74" T-shirt. first free trade agreement between those who were hired were given and professors in solidarity can Yousef Shayan won a Concordia Stingers golf cap. the U.S. and Canada in 1989, uni­ immediate tenure or tenure-track improve our education system. Winners of the Oct. 18 draw: Barbara Harris won a Sony versity tuition has skyrocketed jobs. The numbers are similar in On Oct. 30, at noon, in the De Seve Dream Machine clock radio. Sandra James won an Eastpak across the country. Canada. Cinema, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. knapsack. Joaquim Borralho won a Concordia In 1989, Quebec tuition was $611; Furthermore, as the Nancy W., CBC's Montreal Matters and the polar scarf. Angelina Trubiano won an HMV gift today, it is around $2,000. Between Olivieri case at the University of Concordia Student Union will pres­ certificate. Danielle Tessier won a Concordia suede 1990/91 and 2000/01, Canadian Toronto illustrates, corporations ent a forum on money and education 0 cap. Jack Orstein won a Concordia zippered polar tuition rose 126.2 per cent, or six are increasingly influencing acade­ with the title •~ccessible quality pub­ vest. Joel Lauziere won a Concordia cap and T-shirt. times faster than the 20.6-per-cent mia in a negative way. The reduc- lic education is at risk!" Thanks to all those who have sent in their pledge card with their donation to Centraide. Your pledge automatically enters you in the weekly Centraide draws. Freer trade did not cause higher tuition: economist Watch for these Centraide events: ■ Putting game: Play for coffee and fun in the atrium on Oct 17, CTR thought readers might like to trading environment. He proposes: access to Western markets, not Oct. 24, and Oct. 31, at the lunch hour. have an.other perspective, and invited "It is clear that corporate global­ less. Mr. Engler and I may be in ■ Bake sales: Skip breakfast on Oct. 31. There's a big bake sale in economics professor Ian Irvine to reply. ization is undermining students' agreement here, but let's call it the lobby of the GM Building, and another one at Bishop Court. access to quality public education. · what it is. It is not corporate rape; Crafts and art are for sale, too. BY !AN IRVINE, It is no coincidence that since the it is voter and political self-interest ■ Halloween goodies: At lunchtime on Oct 31, costumed volun­ ECONOMICS PROFESSOR signing of the Free Trade in the West teers will be handing out candy in exchange for contributions. Agreement . . . university tuition _Fourth, while Mr Engler is cor­ ■ CASA Halloween party: 1,000 revellers are expected at this r. Engler's stance on free has skyrocketed across the coun­ rect in his figures on income event, which includes a bachelor/bachelorette auction for charity. Mtrade is not one that I share. try:' growth and wealth redistributions, ECA Loony Line: Nov. 5. But he is right to draw our atten­ The attribution of causation it might be added that wages in the ■ Flea market: Nov. 14. Get your donations ready, and we'll give tion to the general consequences here stretches the imagination. I lower part of the distribution expe­ you more information in the next issue. of a less fettered trading world. In favour instead the banal explana­ rienced a relative increase in the ■ Teddy Bear Hospital: Adopt a teddy bear in the "hospital" (GM the limited space available let me tion that governments at all levels '90s expansion, and much of the lobby) on Nov. 14. Donations are being accepted now of new or allude to some areas of disagree­ in Canada decided they could not gain experienced by the wealthiest looks-like-new teddy bears, at GM-201. ment. run budgetary deficits indefinitely, in our society in the '90s has been First is Mr. Engler's concern over and declared that fees for post-sec­ wiped out in the post-2000 era. the interplay between the outside ondary education should reflect Nonetheless, I share his concerns world and the university: I believe more than the tiny fraction of cost about the potential for excessive that if any polling organization that they represented in the late inequities. asked academics if they them­ '80s, particularly since the benefits Last, I would recommend that selves have ever felt compromised of this education accrue primarily we consider the alternative to a by a link to an external source of to the student. world of reduced trade. Great civi­ funding, be it the granting agen­ Third, I remind readers that one lizations have always been open cies or .the corporate world, about of the greatest obstacles to Third ones. They nurtured the free flow 99 per cent would indicate no, World development is not corpo­ of goods, people and ideas, and despite the Nancy Olivieri episode. rate barbarism, but instead the resulted in fewer wars. Trade This is not to say that academics desire of citizens in the West to growth in Canada in the '90s has in general may respond so: the impose de facto trade barriers produced a staggering number of moralists worry not about external against potential food exporters new jobs. influences upon themselves but from the less developed world. The While we may sometimes feel upon other academics - those huge subsidies to agriculture in the that the U.S. is a giant and a bully, I who have secured the funds. Such EU, and the recent decision by the suggest that the absence of an paternalism should be recognized Bush administration to double agreed-upon set of trading rules for what it is when it arises. such subsidies in the U.S., are a would result in a more anarchic KNrr ONE, SWIM 2: An interactive installation by Concordia professor Second, I disagree with Mr reflection of voter self-interest. trading environment and therefore and fibres artist Ingrid Bachmann. It's one of the works in The Best-Kept Engler's claim that the rise in What the less developed one subject to greater, not lesser, Secret in Montreal, the 10th anniversary show on view at Concordia's tuition in the '90s is due to a freer economies need here is greater self-interest. Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery until December 14. 5 October 24 , 2002 I Concordia "s Thursday Report I • I 1 • :·, , , .. i J Architects argue for urban flair in new School of Business Construction on the new building is expected to begin late in 2003 and be completed at the end of 2005

BY BARBARA BLACK architects' preference, too, and their original design included embers of the John "fresh-air corridors" on every Molson School of floor, although Kuwahara added M Business met with that this kind of design element designers to discuss their new puts the onus on the users to home, described by the architects manage the facilities appropriate­ as "a loft with a corporate tone:• ly. The new visual arts building The meeting, held Oct. 18 in the will have windows that open, but De Seve Cinema, was one of a the adjoining, and much larger, series held to give the faculty, engineering building will not. staff and students a chance to Kuwahara also said that KPMB comment on the design during is designing the Canadian the conceptual phase. embassy in Berlin, and he is The new School will be the struck by the environmental regu­ third of Concordia's three new lations and personal preferences buildings. Jacob Fichten, of in Europe. Sustainability is woven Montreal-based FSA, partners in into building codes in Germany the design consortium, said that and has become part of the cul­ construction of the massive ture, with office workers expect­ building on Guy St. between Ste. ing to control their own immedi­ Catherine St. and de Maisonneuve ate environment rather than hav­ Blvd. will likely start late in 2003 ing it sealed and automated. and be completed towards the The new building's design end of 2005. reflects that of the massive engi­ Bruce Kuwahara and Marianne neering/visual arts complex now McKenna, of the Toronto archi­ going up on Guy and Ste. tects KPMB, emphasized the Catherine Sts., anq like it, will qualities of Montreal and of have a cantilevered "hat" on the Concordia that they hope to see top and a wide copper slash down reflected in the new building - the side. The main entrance will flair, urban edginess, cosmopoli­ be on the corner of de tanism. While they had seen Maisonneuve and Guy, with many well-known business "Spanish Steps" (a reference to schools across North America Above: An interior view of the double-height atriums which vertically link the teaching levels. Below: A view of the pro­ the famously wide steps in Rome) over the summer on exploratory jected building at the corner of Guy St. and de Maisonneuve Blvd. from Norman Bethune Park. Drawings courtesy of to the metro providing a below­ trips led by Dean Jerry Tomberlin, KPMB I FSA Architects in joint venture. ground concourse on what the Concordia's site was the only one architects called "virtual ground:' that called for a high-rise, and The four-storey base of the they wanted to make this a virtue, building will not be quite as pub­ not a restriction. lic as that of the engineering The architects said their corpo­ building across the street, which rate clients, including banks and will have retail ·spaces as well as airlines, are trying to lose their the bus stops and heavy pedestri­ severe institutional look, and are an traffic it has now, but it will asking for interiors that are more have cafes. like the gracious living-rooms of Above this base are the teach­ the hospitality industry. "Banks ing floors. Tomberlin said teach­ want to become lighter;' ing space was increased in recent Kuwahara said, "more relaxed, modifications by the School's more creative:• planning team. Touring state-of­ He admitted that the original the-art business schools across design for the School had already the continent had opened their been compromised. The archi­ eyes to requirements and possi­ tects had recommended open bilities, and the new specifica­ office space because an open tions are more generous than office works so well for them at provincial norms require. There KPMB, but the faculty members will be a large amphitheatre, sev­ wanted closed offices for privacy. eral horseshoe-shaped teaching Most of these offices will be theatres of 60 seats, and a number around the perimeter of the of smaller classrooms. building, with great views of the Above the teaching floors are city. two floors of executive offices, When one professor predicted which include computer labs and that having five departments on case rooms. An innovation devel­ only three floors would lead to oped by the architects is two internal friction, Tomberlin said "floating boxes;• rooms that hang that the design was specifically inside the building's core, are aimed at countering the silo be able to see people;• Kuwahara would include a small, 55-space weren't being used. more than single storey in height, effect of departmental isolation, a said. "Marshall McLuhan said indoor parking garage, Professor . Professor Maureen Gowing said and can be used for presenta­ complaint of some university that when one technology Michele Paulin asked, "Why have that she would prefer tions. business schools. The architects replaces another, the other a parking lot at all? Why not make autonomous features, such as The architects said they explained at some length their becomes an art form:• Face-to­ it a swimming pool, which is what operable windows, i.e. windows encourage members of the School effort to create a vertical commu­ face interaction is more precious everybody wanted? After all, the that open and shut, because doing to define the identity they want to nity, with atriums around stair­ now than ever. building is connected to the research late at night when the see reflected in the look of the wells and plenty of common Several in the audience spoke Metro." She would have liked ventilation is turned down is new building, but they suggested space to bring people together. up for environmentally friendly escalators, lights and water utili­ unhealthy and unpleasant. looking to the city around them "In an age of e-mail, we want to features. Told that the building ties that shut down when they That would have been the for inspiration. 6 Con cord ia' s Thur sda y Report I Oct obe r 24 , 2002 Astrophysicist Hubert Reeves on·our surprising, stardust past

BY SOPHIE PE LLAND

"you were there at the Big Bang, but at that time, each of your particles was living its independent life:' Hubert Reeves, a nuclear astrophysicist best known to the public for his populariza­ tion of cosmology, gave about 60 fascinated listeners a short course in the history of the universe on Oct. 7. His presentation, called "The Universe Has a History;• was the first of this year's Montreal Inter-University Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Science, organized by Concordia's Science College. For about an hour, Reeves discussed what he con­ siders the most important scientific discovery of the 20th century: that our universe is not static, but has a varied history. Before this discovery, scientists from Aristotle to Einstein consid­ ered the cosmos to be an essentially changeless backdrop discon­ nected from the bustle of life on Earth. Questions about how stellar objects formed were considered meaningless or beyond the scope of Deborah Cohen and Sebastien Fournier say it's motivating to work with science students from outside their own area. science. Starting in the 1920s, evidence to the contrary began to accumu­ late. In 1929, Edwin Hubble's observations of galaxies revealed that Science College bridges the gap the universe is expanding. Viewed in reverse, this expansion becomes a contraction. Research opportunities help students expand their horizons Extrapolating the contraction back in time provides the framework of the Big Bang theory: an early universe that was extremely dense, BY SOPHIE PELLAND expand his horizons and consider textbook on major scientific hot and bright expanding over time to become_progressively darker, doing projects at some of the top advances that he plans to edit. cooler and less dense. an undergraduate physics research labs in North America. Michael von Grunau joins Although the Big Bang model had been derived independently by professor of mine once put Like other students in the pro­ Petkov in praising the perform­ Friedmann (1922) and Lemaitre (1927) Ait, "The difference between gram, Sebastien is enrolled both ance of the Science College stu­ by the time of Hubble's discovery, the doing problem sets and doing in a regular science program (typ­ dents. He wants to win more offi­ model was not accepted until decades research is that when you're doing ically an honours program or a cial recognition for the Science latei: As Reeves emphasized, observa­ research, you don't know the specialization) and with the College program by having it tional evidence was crucial in overcom­ answer, and you say to yourself, Science College. Students in the offered as a Minor in ing opposition and indifference to the 'This isn't going to work. I need a College are expected to complete Interdisciplinary Science Studies. model. beei" the degree requirements for their The Science College gives stu­ Penzias and Wilson provided a key Beer aside, his point is clear: department as well as 30 credits dents 24-hour access to its 2080 piece of evidence in its favour in 1965, Researchers need to be self-moti­ with the Science College. The 30 Mackay St. building, which has Hubert Reeves when they accidentally discovered a vated and to enjoy working on credits include three research desks, computers and space for relic of the Big Bang predicted by open-ended problems, something projects, cross-disciplinary cours­ studying and relaxing. Gamow (1948) and Alpher and Herman (1949): microwave radiation that assigned problem sets with es designed especially for Science Deborah and Sebastien say it's at a temperature of 2.7 degrees Kelvin (or - 270.5 degrees Celsius) known answers can't prepare for. College students, and a six-credit both useful and motivating to be pervading all of space. course in the history, philosophy able to work with bright students With the discovery of the so-called cosmic background radiation, Learning by doing and social aspects of science. from areas of science other than the community of physicists and astronomers truly began what Michael von Grunau, principal Deborah Cohen, who joined the their own. Reeves describes as "the exploration of time;• or the systematic of the Science College, thinks that College after her second year at The College runs three lecture mapping of the history of our universe. you can only learn to do research Concordia, especially appreciated series: public lectures by renowned The current standard model of cosmology, based on the Big Bang by "getting your hands dirty" - her course on the historical, scientists like Ford Doolittle, who scenario, provides a coherent account of how structure gradually actually doing it. This is also the social and philosophical aspects spoke recently; the Montreal Inter­ emerged from collisions between the individual elementary parti­ philosophy of the Science College, of science. This seminar-style University Seminar in the History cles that made up the early universe. which offers undergraduate sci­ course dealt with major discover­ and Philosophy of Science, whose As Reeves explained, the universe is structured like language, ence students the opportunity to ies in all fields of science, ranging most recent speaker was Hubert with elementary particles playing the role ofletters. As the universe participate in research projects from black holes to the human Reeves; and the Montreal Inter­ cooled, the elementary particles were able to form stable structures throughout their studies, either at genome project. Besides appreci­ University Physics Seminar. The ranging from nuclei and atoms to stars and galaxies, much like let­ Concordia or at other universities ating the basic science literacy Physics Seminar was organized by ters organizing into words and sentences. Reeves smiled as he told or research centres. the course offered, Deborah Di: Petkov to encourage discussion his audience, "You are made of stardust:• Student Sebastien Fournier, emphasizes that "all the sciences of open questions in physics When Reeves had finished his presentation, the question period who worked with Dr. Marc Hauser feed off each other, and anyone between students and professors threatened to go on indefinitely, as members of the audience clam­ at Harvard's Primate Cognition who's not aware of what's going from the four Montreal universi­ oured for clarifications and opinions. Typically, Reeves answered and Neuroscience Lab last sum­ on in other fields is missing a ties. the questions with the simplicity and clarity that has won his pop­ mer, thinks the Science College piece of the puzzle." Petkov is adamant about ular science books and television programs public acclaim. played a key role in creating this Her enthusiasm is shared by Dr. undergraduate involvement in An expert on the production of light elements in the early uni­ research opportunity. In fact, Vesselin Petkov, who taught the research: "Once students start verse, Montreal-born Hubert Reeves is the retired director of the Sebastien met Dr. Hauser at the course last year. He was so participating in research, they prestigious Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, Science College when he gave a impressed by his students' will drop their science fiction and the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the public lecture at Concordia. The research papers that he decided novels. The real thing is much Order of Merit of the French government and the 2001 Einstein College . also helped Sebastien to include revised versions in a more fascinating!" Prize. Although he is 70 and retired, Reeves is still active as a teacher, Discover science and technology by the water's edge researcher and public lecturei: Not content to study the universe's past, he is also deeply interested and concerned about its future, he 19th annual Science and interactive displays and demon­ and recruitment opportunity for and is well-known for his involvement in environmental protection. TTechnology Exhibition will be strations from departments in the the university. In fact, he delivered a talk on Global Environmental Governance held over the weekend of Nov. 2 Faculties of Arts and Science, The West Island is beautiful at (the importance of the Kyoto protocol) on Oct. 15 at Montreal's and 3 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Engineering & Computer Science this time of year. Drop by and sup­ Palais des Congres as part of an international conference on Civil Stewart Hall, 176 Bord-du­ and Fine Arts. port the students, faculty and Society-Global Governance. Lac/Lakeshore Road in Pointe The exhibition attracts up to staff who make this event such a The next Interuniversity Seminar on the History and Philosophy of Claire. 2,000 visitors every year and is a success. There will be balloons for Science will take place on Nov. 11 at 4:15 p.m. in Room H-609 of the This year's edition will feature tremendous community outreach the kids and door prizes. Henry F. Hal.l Building. 7 • October 24, 2002 I Concordia 's Thursday Report Faculty mentors reach out to new mature students Concordia's Centre for Mature Students involves 110 faculty advisors in supporting adult learners

BY BARBARA BLACK trying to ensure that every one of Decarie came from the working choosing courses? "Oh, yes, they work at the Universite de Montreal, them is offered personal support class, and fumbled his way make all the difference. They're and has been at Concordia for 12 ne hundred and ten faculty by a professor. Every department through his first degree. He got a more important than the choice years now. Omembers are going to go an of the university has one or more job teaching high school, but he of courses;' Decarie said Oppenheimer has great hopes extra mile by initiating contact designated mentors. He or she felt like a fraud. He forced himself for the mentoring program, and offering to meet with some of will initiate contact with up to to go back to university for a Reassuring words which clearly addresses their students one-on-one. five students each term, and graduate degree at night, and for Shiping Ma, a professor in the Concordia's mandate to provide An ambitious program was spend about half an hour a the first time, learned how to Exercise Science Department, is wide accessibility to higher edu­ launched this term by the Centre month providing a sympathetic study. Now he's something of a equally enthusiastic, even though cation. He knows that every year, for Mature Students' new direc­ ear. missionary for higher education, the mentoring program is cutting many students give up, haunted ' tor, Robert Oppenheimer. He is demystifying it on local CJAD into an already crowded teaching by a sense of having failed again. acting on a hunch that students Leaming unwritten rules radio, among other places. and research schedule. "We can make them feel more who have been out of school for a History professor Graeme Decarie has already contacted "Some students don't know connected;' he said simply. "We while need more support and Decarie loves the idea, because he the students assigned to him, and about the program, and they are can refer them to others at the advice than the students who knows how it feels to be a fish out meets with several of them once a surprised;' he said. "They have a university who can help them - have sailed right through the of water. "Your background is so month. There's a lot he can tell very positive reaction knowing Counselling and Development for school system. important;' he said. "It provides them - how to study, how to that they can come to me if they academic difficulties, Financial "Mature students" is the desig­ the unwritten rules that nobody write a university-level paper, how have a problem:' These concerns Aid for financial problems, nation given to those who are tells you - how to behave, even to read the teacher's unspoken range widely, from feeling poorly Health Services for problems with admitted to the university at age how to cheat:' thoughts. ''A university teacher prepared academically to domes­ their family life:' 21 or over, without a CEGEP How to cheat? "I remember, a wants certain things, and some tic turmoil that could lead to The Centre for Mature diploma or its equivalent, and professor mentioned a book in don't say. Even the regular stu­ dropping out. Students also has a peer program. have been out of the educational class. At the next class, this stu­ dents don't always know:' Ma was glad to help a student Eight mature students with a lit­ system for at least two years. dent mentioned it and impressed He helps the students pick who was struggling with her aca­ tle experience under their belt are These students are required to everybody. I asked him if he'd read their next courses, and advises demic English. Like him, her first working as advisors to new stu­ take an additional 18 credits for the book, and he said, No, I just them to ask other students about language is Mandarin. Maybe he dents, helping them find their their degree. read a review. When you come the profs in order to choose the told her a few stories from his own feet. It helps answer the plea that Concordia has about 450 first­ from a middle-class background personalities that are right for life that made her feel. better. He surfaced in a recent survey of time mature students this term, where you're expected to go uni­ them. Surely teachers' personali­ left China to do his PhD in the "what students want:' Talk to me, and Professor Oppenheimer is versity, you know all that." ties aren't the main criterion for United States, did postdoctoral they said. Just talk to me.

Nobel prize for economic sciences Schizophrenic psychologist dispels myths Continued from front page BY S YL VA IN COMEAU Frese rejects politically correct This heightened sensitivity leads Before their work was published, economists tended to por­ language, referring to his condi­ to overstimulation and non-ration­ tray humans as engaged in the rational maximization of their "Dr. Frese, are you insane?" tion as a disability and disease, al thinking coupled with paranoia. self-interest. Kahneman and Tversky's work challenges this That was the first question and contrasting the brains of Schizophrenics are more likely to view, and has played a seminal role in the development of psychologist Frederick Frese was schizophrenics to those of "nor­ believe in mysticism, UFOs, astrolo­ behavioural economics, a. fie!d that seeks to build a psycho­ asked when he appeared on ABC's mal" people. At the same time, he gy and the like, and on a perso~al logically realistic portrayal of human behaviour in economic Nightline recently. shows by example that the condi­ - level - the UFOs may be coming to contexts. "I said I was declared insane and tion does not have to hold some­ abduct them. Because of their "By giving economists different ways of understanding how committed to a public hospital. one back, even if it can be a bit dis­ heightened awareness, small details people make decisions, psychology has brought in more flexi­ That was a long time ago, and concerting to his patient: "There become weighted with significance, bility into economics research, which was traditionally much while it's true they didn't give me a are always doubters; having a dripping with portent more restricted;' said Ian Irvine, economics professor at certificate restoring me to sanity, sometimes psychotic psychologist "There are seven women in the Concordia. "In turn, a more flexible way of perceiving human I've always thought that was just speak to you can make some peo­ audience wearing red," Frese said behaviour impacts public policy:' an oversight." ple wonder.'' with mock suspicion. "You know Kahneman's contributions to economics, together with Frese, a psychologist, paranoid Frese dispelled myths about what that means:' those of Vernon Smith, will be officially celebrated Dec. 10 at schizophrenic and living proof mental illness, particularly mock­ Frese's illness is controlled par­ the glittering Nobel Prize awards ceremony in Stockholm. that the disability can be over­ ing his own profession's reliance tially by drugs, which, he noted, Shizgal continues to study brain mechanisms underlying come, delivered the annual Hans­ on a classic scapegoat: mothers. have vastly improved since he was evaluation and decision-making. both in laboratory animals Low Beer lecture on Sept. 25. He "Let's have a revolution in psy­ first diagnosed, and partially by and in humans. His work may have implications for under­ was indeed locked up in an Ohio chiatry, and stop blaming the fam­ will. He says that despite the standing impulse-controlled disorders. For example, he looks mental hospital 30 years ago after ilies for mental illness. It's time to potential devastation of this forward to experiments that would compare self-controlled suffering a mental breakdown in put the blame where it belongs: on degenerative illness, "there has groups - gamblers who can get up and walk away - to which he was trapped by paranoid the brain - schizophrenia means never been a better time to be a groups with no such control. However, he warns that, at this delusions. Twelve years later, he 'split brain: Where does the break schizophrenic. Some very promis­ stage, we have no assurance that a cure for compulsive gam­ had become the chief psychologist occur? In the synapses:' ing new treatments are coming:' bling is around the corner. for that same hospital. Synapses are neuronal connec­ However, he sees drug therapies "Even if we do succeed in developing a good neurological tions in the brain. Frese explained as only half the battle. He quoted account of impulse-control disorders, effective treatments are The 'split brain' that while we have relatively few of from a recent paper he co-wrote, not guaranteed. However, we may well have a better chance of Frese, who is vice-president for these at birth, in childhood they on ways of integrating evidence­ developing such treatments if we can understand the process­ National Alliance for the Mentally ill rapidly multiply, reaching a peak based practices (medical treat­ es in the brain that determine impulse control:' (NAMI) and director of the Summit at age 12. "By adulthood, you have ments) and the recovery model County (Ohio) Recovery Project, lost a third of them, if you're nor­ (self-reliance). TESL beckons would-be teachers educated the audience about the mal. Schizophrenics lose many "People need help, but as they - condition he lives with, while enter­ more, and since Mother Nature improve, the hope is that they will eachers of English as a second language are an adventur­ taining with quirky, sometimes self­ abhors a vacuum, the brain tries to become responsible for them­ Tous bunch, and they have tales to tell from all over the deprecating humour, and an eccen­ fill in the gap by creating new con­ selves, and tell the doctors to get world. Join some of them on Friday, Nov. 8, from 4 to 7 d clock, tric delivery. "Wow, with introduc­ nections. The result is that schizo­ lost:' in H-531. Destinations include Azerbaijan, China, Japan, tions like that, I'm kinda looking phrenics are much more sensitive Frese earned a standing ovation South Korea, Indonesia, France, Mexico and . . . Quebec. forward to hearing this guy than normal people. It's as if we for his lecture, which was present­ Information about qualifying to teach ESL will be available. myself;' Frese quipped after a had a pair of antennae attuned to ed by AMI-Quebec and the series of glowing intros. the world:' Department of Psychology. 8 Concordia's Thursday Report I October 24 , 2002

1 '·" Spend an evening with Irish spellbinder W.B. Yeats The Theatre Department's first production this season is based on four plays by the Irish dramatist

BY (LARE BYRNE Actor, director and writer Forgoes has produced over 50 ichel Forgues, director of plays. He cut a progressive figure The W.B. Yeats Project, the at the Universite de Montreal, Mfirst theatrical produc­ where he taught drama for five tion to be staged in Concordia's years before becoming director of F.C. Smith Auditorium in eight TUM in 1997. Two years ago, he years, had a confession to make: resigned from the U de M to take "Theatre bores me:• a break from theatre. He started Conventional productions that writing in 1997 and, like Yeats, follow the author's stage instruc­ writes both poetry and plays. tions to the letter leave Forgues Now back in the director's unmoved. "When I go the theatre, chair, 53-year-old Forgues said I want to be surprised," he said in he's "very, very pleased" to under­ an interview. take his first English-language Forgues, former director of the project at Concordia. Theatre de l'Universite de "The team is extraordinary;' he Montreal (TUM), has done every­ remarked about the actors. About thing to ensure a novel experi­ the F.C. Smith Auditorium, which ence for the spectator in this pro­ is located underneath Loyola duction, which opens tonight. Chapel, he exclaimed, "That the- This project, through its choice of ~ atre has got a soul!" author, choice of plays and stag­ a Forgoes' staging of the Yeats ing techniques, is designed to sur­ ~ plays promises to be as unconven­ prise. tional as the plays themselves. YEATS IN THE THEATRE - FOCUS ON THE WORDS: Behind the masks, actors rehearse The W.B. Yeats Project. In alphabet­ First, the author: William ical order are Stephanie Bogue Kerr, Laura Burke, Chris Cook, Jon de Leon, Sacha Engelhardt, Vanessa Johnson, Shannon "There is no decor - like in Butler Yeats. Yeats considered Lynch, Ralph Prosper, Charlene Rockwell, Esther Scharf and Kim Sheppard. Shakespeare's time, when they himself a dramatist first and fore­ would announce a forest scene most, but was infinitely more "Yeats' raw materials are Irish Waters. the other world with a wooden beam marked famous as a poet. The lyrical legends, full of ghosts and spirits, All feature phantasmagoric fig­ Yeats was greatly influenced by 'Forest'!" beauty of his poems, set in the very hard to stage," Forgoes said ures. Purgatory plays out the Japanese Noh theatre. The The Theatre Department stages context of the Irish independence "The challenge for me was to remorse of a son faced with the Dreaming ofthe Bones is an exam­ four or five plays annually. The movement, forged his reputation stage these plays in a way that is · ghosts of the drunken father he ple of Yeats' plays for dancers, 200 theatre students participate as one of Ireland's finest writers plausible for the spectator." killed and the mother who died with Noh-like masks, dancing and in all aspects of production, from and secured him the Nobel Prize The four short plays which will giving birth to him. The Words chanting of verse. Finally, The set design to lighting and cos­ for Literature in 1923, but his be tackled by Concordia's theatre Upon a Window Pane enacts a Shadowy Waters, not so much a tume creation, giving them plays are still a largely unknown students are Purgatory, The Words seance, in which the ghost of play as dramatic poem, speaks of invaluable theatre experience. quantity, so why Yeats to kick off Upon a Window Pane, Dreaming of Jonathan Swift invests a medium the author's disillusionment with For details ofthis production, see the theatre season at Concordia? the Bones and The Shadowy as she tries to make contact with the pursuit of love. the listing on the Back Page. Gro.wth of Jrish studies reflects the community's vitality Michael Kenneally appointed the inaugural chair in Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University

BY JULIE PARKINS ulty members serve on the jour­ ships of $1,000 to students nal's editorial board enrolled in Irish studies courses ichael Kenneally's Irish eyes The Centre has grown quickly this fall, and four more scholar­ Mare smiling just a bit from its inception in late 2000. ships may be on the way. brighter these days, after being This fall it is offering an under­ The Centre was created to pro­ appointed the inaugural chair in graduate minor in Canadian Irish vide a structure for the universi­ Canadian Irish studies at studies as well as a certificate to ty's growing body of teaching and Concordia and director of the people with an interest in all research in the field It will con­ Centre for Canadian Irish things Irish. It is also likely to tinue to grow by offering its pop­ Studies. offer a travel study course to ular series of public lectures and Dr. Kenneally, a native of Ireland next summer. films, and building up its collec­ County Cork, is one of Canada's "The centre is jointly support­ tion of artifacts, many of them leading Irish studies scholars. His ed by Concordia and the commu­ contributed by Montreal's Irish teaching and research include nity," Kenneally said He was for­ community. issues related to Irish landscape, merly the interim director, and "Irish culture, literature, histo­ memory and identity in contem­ hasbeenteachingcoursesinlr.ish ry, music, and dance appeal to a porary Irish literature, and the studies for over 20 years. wide range of people, and this writings of Irish exiles in 19th­ "This is an example of commu­ interest in Irish culture explains century Canada and other coun­ nity and university support build­ the vitality of the Irish communi­ tries with large Irish immigrant ing on a concept It's really the ty in Montreal," Kenneally said populations. Michael Kenneally, director of the Centre for Canadian Irish Studies Irish community buying into its "The popularity of Irish culture He is the author of a full-length roots - coming home - and around the world today - Roddy study of Irish playwright Sean director of the Abbey Theatre in done this every year for the past being interested in raising money Doyle, Seamus Heaney, Sinead O'Casey, has edited three books Dublin," Kenneally said three years. because of thatn O'Connor, U2 and Riverdance - on Irish literature, and is also the "He has an arrangement with The interview for the journal has made people want to learn editor of the Canadian Journal of the Centaur Theatre whereby he was done by Kate Bligh, who Irish studies scholarships about Irish culture." Irish Studies. Its next issue, which comes in from Dublin and directs teaches in the Theatre Interest generated from money The Centre for. Canadian Irish should be published in a month an Irish play with a Canadian Department at Concordia. Lorrie raised by the Canadian Irish Studies is located in the Samuel or two, will feature numerous cast And then Gordon McCall, Blair, of Concordia's Department Studies Foundation, which spear­ Bronfman Building at the corner of Concordia connections. the director at the Centaur, goes of Art Education, has written a headed the formation of the cen­ Cote des Nieges Rd. and Dr. "There will be an interview to Dublin and directs a Canadian profile of Irish-Canadian artist tre, is used to help fund the cen­ Penfield Ave., and can be reached with Ben Barnes, the artistic play with an Irish cast They've Paul Kane. Several Concordia fac- tre. It also provides five scholar- at 848-8711. . 9 0ctobtr 24, 2002 I Concord l•·s Thursd•y Rtport The zero-sum game: money New York: Is some of its lustre gone?

Think about the role of money in life, says author BY JAMES MARTIN role during the 20th century, and bustle. albeit in a different way. He calls But that's all over now. As with BY HYPATIA FRANCIS '' some of you may be puz­ the Big Apple "a manifestation, a Benjamin's after-the-fact study of zled by the title of this joyful working out, of the last the Parisian arcades, Kingwell oney, along with sex, religion and politics, is a subject you're lecture," said Mark century's possibilities." was talking about a Gotham that Mnot supposed to discuss in polite society. Stephen Jenkinson Kingwell, referring to "New York, Fancy footwork is at the heart of has vanished In the aftermath of broke that rule on Oct. 10, when he delivered an intriguing medita­ Capital of the Twentieth Century." both cities. For Benjamin, the lolly­ 9/11, the day when the last centu­ tion on money at Concordia as part of the CBC Montreal Matters The University of Toronto phi­ gagging jlaneur symbolized Paris­ ry's two most accomplished sym­ series going on all this month. losophy professor is the author of as-metaphm: For Kingwell's NYC, bols of "forwardness" (namely, Jenkinson, author of the book Money and the Soul's Desires, has a Practical Judgments: Essays in that symbol is the jaywalker: brash, the airplane and the skyscraper) master's in divinity from Harvard University, and has worked .at a Culture, Politics, and Interpretation. fast. possibly over-caffeinated, and fatally embraced over lower variety of trades, including sculptor and therapist. In this talk, he Kingwell spoke at the School of singularly dedicated to the mantra, Manhattan, New York is a differ­ discussed three themes: money and masculinity, money and sex, Community and Public Affairs on "Don't break stride." ent place. and money and human kinship. Oct. 3. The jaywalker is all about creat­ As evidence, Kingwell pointed He began with the traditional notion that men often define them­ He said his talk is part of a larg­ ing and maintaining "forwardness" to the popular T-shirts declaring selves by their ability to earn money. Then he turned this notion on er work-in-progress, tentatively on New York City's famous grid "I [heart] NY - Now More Than its head, making it as much about the generation gap as masculini­ titled Losing Your Way, but he Drawing on colourful quotations Ever." The first sentiment isn't ty, juxtaposing yuppie businessmen with dot-comers, a situation admitted with a wry laugh, "I from W.H. Auden, Le Corbusiei; • new, but the qualifier certainly is. Jenkinson said is problematic. "Ultimately, what we get from that is seem to have lost my own way in and Roy Blount Jr., among others, No longer the commanding pres­ Enron - insider trading:• this work - so I can't really tell Kingwell distinguished NYC from ence it once was, the city now you what it's about." Paris. draws "sympathetic love," a sign Unique insight on relationships When your role model is Walter Paris is a city layered atop that its "time of unquestionable Jenkinson's work as a marriage counsellor has given him a unique Benjamin's The Arcades Project, ancient catacombs. New York is a supremacy is over." perspective on marriage. As he said, he has been inside hundreds of however, getting lost is almost a place where the past is constantly marriages, and has seen what doesn't work. His counselling may requirement. Benjamin himself being erased in favour of building Capital of the 21st century also have soured him on marriage, because he lumped marriage and called his notorious 1,000-plus­ something newer, taller, faster, Early into the post-lecture Q-&­ prostitution together as "those places in life where money and sex page doorstop "the theater of all shinier, better. A session, one member of the meet:' my struggles and all my ideas," yet The jaywalker symbolizes this audience asked the question that Discussing the role of money in defining kinship and community, it was 13 years in the making and drive in the way he or she, had been hanging over the Jenkinson began with the idea that the possession of money is a still incomplete at the time of his although individually anony­ Bronfman Building atrium all zero-sum game. "If you have some, chances are it's because some­ death in 1940. mous, is engaged in "a collective night: If New York City is "in a one else doesn't:' "Using the trope of the Parisian . negotiation" to keep traffic on the sense, over:• what will be the cap­ The practice of usury, or lending money at exorbitant interest, is arcade as a jumping-off point, move. Even the seemingly rigid ital of the 21st century?" closely tied to notions of community, and Jenkinson described Benjamin's cultural meditation street grid is fluid with potential, "We've been playing out vari­ usury as a way of distinguishing between those who belong and discussed sexual mores, fashion, as the jaywalker constantly finds ous versions of modernity's those who do not. Historically, in Europe, money-lending was asso­ gambling. catacombs, Baudelaire, new ways to end-run around endgame for some time;• Kingwell ciated with the Jews, a case of the Christians using the them "to and all points in between and stalled trucks, to sprint kitty-cor­ replied. "One answer is, We have handle what no one else wanted to touch." beyond. He dubbed Paris 'the cap­ ner across intersections, to dodge yet to create it. But I'm still not Some in the audience were entranced, but not Maryem ital of the 19th century; a phan­ slack-jawed tourists. Brashness is convinced by the possibilities put Mubareka, a 24-year old Concordia student who recently completed tasmagoric city emblematic of a given, but Kingwell also locates forth by others, the idea of a vir­ her exams to become a chartered accountant. She said she listened modernity. spirituality in the audacity, a tual city, or an axis of power such to only part of the broadcast of his lecture the following Sunday on Kingwell sees New York City "transcendental sexiness" that as D.C. So the other answer is: I CBC Radio One before tuning out. fulfilling a similar metaphorical goes beyond the workaday hustle don't know:• Jenkinson himself seemed to take the view that the talk was not meant to provide people with answers. Instead, it was meant to encourage people to think about the role of money in their lives. Aspiring poets get tips from award·winners Montreal Matters, a collaboration between the CBC. Concordia and Hour, continues all month. For a full schedule of broadcasts and live BY SUSAN FON T mossy/second-hand canoe maun­ McKay had the last word for events, visit the Web site at cbc.ca/montrealmatters. dering into English with its one­ frustrated poets: "If it feels stale, reading by award-winning thing-then-/ another traffic-sig­ step away from it. Just go to the ACanadian poets Don McKay naled syntax:' pub and take some reading with and Jan Zwicky attracted an over­ Zwicky, a winner of the you:• Board approves of easing restrictions flow crowd of rapt students on Governor-General's Award in This was one in a series of read­ ings by invited authors, spon­ Continued from front page Oct. 7. McKay is a two-time win­ 1999 for her poetry collection ner of the Governor-General's Songs for Relinquishing the Earth sored by the Canada Council for The CSU, Hillel and Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) Award, for Another Gravity {2000) {1998), also teaches environmen­ the Arts, among others, and the have agreed to adhere to the principles of mutual respect, and to and Night Field {1991). tal philosophy at the University of Department of English. avoid racist or ethnic stereotyping. McKay started the evening with Victoria. She is this year's recipi­ On Nov. 7, at 8:30 p.m. in H-420, Initiatives are being developed with them and the CSU to organ­ "Alibi." The lines "swallows with ent of a teaching excellence award there will be a reading by Caroline ize events that would clarify Middle East issues. This may include a knives of wings" and later, in Alias in her department. Adderson, author of Bad fact-finding visit by selected students to the region. Rock Dove, "pigeons like empty "Border Station;' one of the Imaginings and A History of The Board has also resolved to look at revising the Code of Rights gloves," demonstrated McKay's poems from this book, evoked a Forgetting. Edmonton author and Responsibilities. Pending the report of a review committee, the observant eye, and how he angles vivid image of her home province, Shawna Lemay (All the God-Sized exceptional disciplinary powers given to the administration by the images for sharper significance or Alberta. "Raised on the prairies, Fruit, and Against Paradise) will Board will remain in effect. Concordia Security continues to exam­ thematic resonance. There are a I/could see it clearly/the beau­ read Nov. 18 in H-535-2. ine the tapes of the event to identify those responsible for the vio­ lot of birds and references to ty/ of the storms that can form in lence, and the university will take action under the existing Code. flight or ascension in his work. the vast light above the plains:• Dr. Lowy told the Board on Oct. 16 that although no formal "The Canoe People;• from his In answer to students' ques­ Quebec Short Story charges have yet been laid, the police have informed him that five new book Vis a Vis, was a refer­ tions, McKay described his poetic Competition non-students will soon be charged with acts ranging from assault to ence to a Haida story of spirit sense as a dog sniffing around If you have a story tucked away, vandalism and illegal assembly. They will receive letters from beings who were perpetual trav­ potential versions of his poems. why not submit it to the Concordia banning them from campus and from enrolling at the ellers but .didn't realize they were Zwicky characterized hers at its Quebec Short Story Competition? university for five years. spirits. "They lived in a space that most obstinate as a sort of fish. "I The deadline for entry to this Nine Concordia students have been identified as having partici­ creative people know only too know the damn thing's out there, contest, sponsored by CBC Radio's Arttalks, is Nov. 15. Past winners pated in breaking through the barriers on the mezzanine, and will well;' McKay quipped before read­ but I can't haul it in, it won't bite!" have included writers with face sanctions under the Code. In addition, the police are investi­ ing. She spoke of writing deter­ Concordia connections. gating several complaints that may lead to additional charges. "They're out there, the minedly through writer's block. For details, consult the Web site unformed ones,/shapes in sea­ "The damn poem's dead on the [email protected]. mist, half-/coagulated air, in their table and you keep working:• 10 Co ncor dia 's Thur sday Report I October 24 , 2002 -...I Stingets to battle for rugby title Figsby and the Stingers Womens team will face powerhouse Martlets this weekend making strides on skates BY JOHN AUSTEN BY JOHN AUS TE N he Stingers women's rugby team has had a great sea­ Vevin Figsby doesn't think he's changed much as a coach Tson - as long as the oppo­ .l~ince taking over the men's hockey program at Concordia sition wasn't the McGill Martlets. three years ago. He does feel, however, that he and his staff have The Stingers won six of eight had a major impact on the program, both on and off the ice. regular season games and will face "No, I haven't changed, but the program surely has;• he told the the undefeated Martlets in the Thursday Report. "We have the alumni back on board in a big provincial final on Sunday (1 p.m., way and we're initiating a long-overdue wall of fame where the McEwen Field in Ste. Anne de hockey greats of Sir George, Loyola and Concordia will all be Bellevue). McGill won both regular honoured. _J season games against the Stingers 'Tm a big believer in pride and tradition;• he continued. ''.An by scores of56-5 and 77-7. example of that is in our dressing room. When a kid sits at his The Martlets have annihilated stall, he sees the names of all the past players that occupied that their opposition all year. In fact spot for the past 27 years:• their closest game was a 37-0 win Figsby also points to the fact that the team retired sweater No. over Ottawa. 9 in honour of Maurice Rocket Richard two years ago, and hon­ In men's rugby action, the oured the Montreal Shamrocks hockey program by wearing Stingers shut out the Ecole de patches on their jerseys last year. Technologie Superieure 58-0 last "I think people notice that we're trying to do something posi­ Sunday. Jon Chiniborch, Mark tive here at Concordia and we're respected for it;' he said. "That's McKnight, Etienne Bouchard and why the Montreal Canadiens sent some of their injured players Alfred Davis scored two tries each. to practice with us last year. They knew it would be a positive Men's rugby: Jon Chiniborch can play with his eyes shut. The Stingers shut out and professional environment for them:• Stingers give T.O. the Blues £cole de Technologie Superieure last Sunday, 58-0. Players such as Saku Koivu, Donald Audette,JeffHackett and The women's hockey team, Sheldon Souray all took advantage of Concordia's offer. Figsby opening play Sunday at the Ed el to Quebec City to face Laval in ward Patrice Roy were also all­ also says he's trying to get some visiting NHL clubs to practice at Meagher Arena, , beat the the first round of the playoffs. stars. Roy had two goals and two the Ed M~agher Arena when they're in town. , University ofToronto'Blues 3-1 in assists in the competition, while Figsby a:nd his staff are currently prepping for two important the final of the Hilliard Invitational Tournament tough Parent added two goals and one league games this weekend. The Stingers host the Ottawa Gee­ Women' s Hockey Tournament, Both the men's basketball team assist. Gees Friday (Ed Meagher Arena, 7:30 p.m.) and travel to McGill played last week in Toronto. and the men's hockey team won on Sunday (McConnell Arena, 2 p.m.). Last Friday, the Stingers Marie-Claude Allard and Leanne tournaments recently. The cagers Wrestlers in town opened their 2002-03 season with a 4-2 loss in Trois Rivieres. Martel led the squad with a goal won their own 35th annual Con­ Get ready for the Big Mat "That's the team to beat;' Figsby said. "They've been to the and two assists each. cordia-Nike Tournament with an Attack! The Concordia University national championship four years in a row:• impressive 90-78 win over the wrestling team will host its annu­ Figsby says his team's outlook is good this season despite an Soccer squads succeed Lakehead Thunderwolves on al tournament Sunday at the early rash of injuries. The veteran-laden line-up is ticketed to Both men' s and women's soc­ Saturday. The Stingers beat the Concordia gymnasium on the challenge for the top spot this year. cer teams had a successful week. Wilfrid Laurier Goldenhawks 62- Loyola campus. More than 100 Concordia has strong goaltending with Philippe Ozga and Anmar Badaweih's two goals lift­ 53 in the preliminaries. wrestlers will gather for the first Chris Wilcox, as well as a solid group of forwards. "Our defence ed the men to a 3-2 win over Trois Point guard Philippe Langlois meet of the university season is good, too, but they're young;• he said. "We're building for the

Ririeres,- while the- women- shut was a leader in the competition, which gets under way at 9 a.m. future at that position:· .I out TR 5-0. Both teams have win­ dominating the boards in his own Several of the top Canadian The coaching staff is also expecting big things from highly ning records and find themselves end. He was named the tourna­ teamss will be present, including touted Jonathan Gauthier, who was the No. 1 overall draft pick in in third place in their respective ment MVP. Patrick Perrotte also Brock - the defending men's and Quebec Major Junior Hockey five years ago as a 16-year-old. divisions. The women's team also contributed 16 points against women's university champions. Figsby's coaching staff includes ex-NHLer Gord Donnelly, Tom had one of their players, Jerusha Laurier and 25 points in the Also competing are McMaster, Angelitti and Peter Bender. Dr. Wayne Halliwell will also be on Osborne, named athlete of the championship game. Memorial, University of New board to help with the team's mental preparation. week earlier this month. The hockey team won the Brunswick, Queen's, University of "The psychological aspect of the game is extremely important Osbourne, a second-year politi­ McGill Invitational Tournament Toronto and the Mohawk Valley these days;• said Figsby. "Last year when we had Wayne with us _I cal science student, scored three on the weekend with a 5-3 victory Wrestling Club. we won eight of nine games. He was a big part of the team's suc­ goals in two games recently to over the York Yeomen in the first Concordia wrestlers to keep an cess:• earn the honour. round and a 4-2 win over the eye on include: Tony Ronci, Tyler McGill Redmen in the champi­ Marghetis and Jason Chen. Also, Gridders in playoffs onship. the 2002 Concordia Female The Stingers football team Goaltender Philippe Ozga was Athlete of the Year, Martine ended its regular season with a named to the tournament all-star Dugrenier, will compete, repre­ 49-17 loss to the St. Mary's team for his performance. He senting the Montreal Wrestling Huskies in Halifax last Saturday. stopped 20 of23 shots versus York Club. She will rejoin the The team finished with a 4-4 and 26 of 28 shots against McGill. Concordia team in January. record and will likely have to trav- Defenceman Phil Parent and for- Finals are scheduled for 4 p.m.

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