Support Staff Association Naenabership Drive Takes Off Future

' ' • . ' . I . • . • · . I • : I ,, . , /,, //,,,,~ody Support staff SIXlH ANNUAL AIM4RDS FOR association naenabership CRFATIVE WORK IN lFIE ARTS 1980-81 drive takes off • • ., f , . • . By Mark Gerson attempt to form a CSN-affiliated union Nearly 300 members of the four weeks ago. university's support staff have joined At an informatin meeting held in H- CUNASA, the Concordia University 937 on March 11, 100-or-so staffers, Non-Academic Staff Association, since mostly from Sir George, were im a general mailing went out to all pressed with the importance of Concordia staff less than three weeks becoming actively involved in ago as part of a membership drive. CUNASA. CUNASA organizers estimate that "The 1976 attempt to form an there are somewhere in the neigh association failed due to the apathy of bourhood of 900 support staff members," said France Pelletier, a members in the university community, program advisor in Fine Arts. She and Academic Vice-Rector Graham warned the audience that if CUNASA Mai-tin has indicated that the ad meets a similar fate, the union ministration will likely recognize the organizers would return. association once it has signed 50 per Pelletier admitted, however, that cent plus one, or approximately 450 of unionization was not out of the them. question and, although the current Staff overwhelmingly rejected an See Association page 2 Future for n on-· · francophone. youths exanained By Beverley Smith First p,rize for Barry Blitt's p~ster in the Fifth Annual Arts Fes tival, Winners named, Students at Concordia are either not Non-Frc!_ncophone Youth." see story page 5. preoccupied about their future or don't Guest speakers Sheila Arnopoulos, a care to hear about it, judging from the freelance journalist, Barry Fridhal)dler, paltry showing at a symposium on the a Montreal criminal lawyer, Bob subject at Confordia last Wednesday. Burns, moderator of CBC-TVs BoG approves Organized by Participation Quebec, "Quebec Report" and Dr. Augustin a group dedicated to bringing about a Roy, head of the Corporation · rapprochement between Quebec's professionnelle des medecins du on1buds changes French and English communities, the Quebec, spoke mainly to each other The replacement of Concordia's two a single full-timer, provided that good symposium focused on the "Future. for since, aside from journalists covering full-time ombudsmen with one, back-up were available from the part the event, only a handful of students probably at a higher salary, was one of time ombudsmen. attended. · the changes to the ombuds operation The four ombudsmen had not all Arnopoulos, co-author of Le fait approved last Thursday by the Board favoured this solution, but they were anglais au Q uebec, concentrated on of Governors. unanimous in pressing for the two major areas of concern: According to the plan, which was requirement that qne of the part-timers representation of non-francophones in based on a series of recommendations be a faculty member They were Q uebec's civil service and social ser put forward by the supervisory board equally unanimous in their desire that vices for Quebec's ethnic groups. that oversees the ombuds office, the the full-time mandate be renewable. Arnopoulos, who has carried out full-time ombudsman will continue to This recommendation was endorsed by extensive research on Q uebec im be assisted by two part-time om the supervisory board and passed by • Swedish film to premiere migrants, had some harsh words for budsmen, although one will now be the Board of Governors. · at Loyola. Page 6. Q uebec government policies in this required to be a tenured member of The terms of the ombudsmen expire area. faculty. on May 30 and according to the • Dispelling myths about Outlining the difficulties local The modifications follow suggestions ·amended terms of reference, all are homosexuality. Page 6. community serviee centres have ex that, although a full-time presence on eligible for reappointment. • How to r~ognize a poem perienced in trying to hi-re staff who both campuses might be desirable, tl;e Nominations and applications for the when you see one. Page 3. can serve immigrants in their own present workload· could be handled by three positions will be accepted until language, Arnopoulos ·stated flatly: April 4.MG See Ftiture µage 2 / province." Future continued frorrr page 1 Medical practioner Dr. Augustin "The French community has to face Roy was equally optimistic about the fact it has immigrants in its midst future prospects for non-francophone .and man social programs accordingly." physicians in Quebec. Editor'"s Note At a meeting with the Finance Arnopoulos also cited the problems 'There is a very good in Committee on the 5 March, it was encountered by non-francophone terrelationship between French and The Dept. of Computer Science has made very clear to us that such ac: nurses wishing to find work in French English at the McGill medical school," two faculty members with the surname · tivity was considered to be perfectly hospitals to improve their French. Roy stated. "We used to be isolated of Probst. Wilfried Probst does not acceptable. The Committee refused "It's a vicious circle," she said. from one another but the climate has share the anti-certification views of even to consider offering an apology "Nurses don't pass the French tests of never been better." Karl David Probst in an expressed for its behaviour. What is worse, not the Office de la langue fran~aise since ~on-francophone doctors, said Roy, letter to the March 13 issue of The one Committee member seemed they're not exposed to French society, have recently been able to pass French Thursday Report. Indeed, Wilfried capable of understanding the issue at but they're not accepted into French tests farily rapidly "since certain im Probst supports certification and is a 'stake, an issue which is no less hospitals or into training programs provements have been made." · member of the certification committee. elementary than it is fundamental. (stages) to get the necessary practice Fewer English-speaking physicians, Assuming that the Finance Com either." he said, are leaving Quebec now than Protests letter opening mittee has not been motivated by "If anglophones continue to stay in a was th_e case in the early 70s and To "the _editor: prejudice in our case, one must con ghetto," said Arnopoulos, "we won't immediately folfowing the election of We wish to draw your attention' to clude that similar exercises directed have an influence on French in the PQ government. certainrecent actim;is on the part of the against other organizations under the stitutions. Anglophones must enter the Bob Burns, who works as a teacher certain recent actions on the part of the aegis of CUSA may o.ccur. You will mainstream of French society." at John Ahbott, as well as a CBC host, Finance Committee of CUSA. (These surely agree with us that the sort of In order to bring about increased pointed out that the job picture for -events have been reported at lenght in mentality evinced by the Committee on anglophone participation in Quebec's teachers is not as bleak as it was once the issues of the 7 and 11 March of this occasion ought to have no place in civil service, "quasi-affirmative action depicted. The Georgian.) They involve the illegal any institution of-our society, let alone programs are neeoed," said Ar Citing McGill Faculty of Education and unethical opening of mail ad a university. nopoulos. statistics for 1978-79, Burns stated: dressed to our association and sub Steven P. Spencer "The government," she said, "will "Last year out of 170 graduates sequent measures taken without our for Lesbian a·nd .Gay Friends have to modify the parts of Bill 101 heading for an elementary teaching knowledge on the basis of information · of Concordia which state that to be appointed, career, 90 people (61 per cent) derived from that source. · transferred or promoted in the civil managed to obtain teaching jobs. Of service you musfhave a knowledge of the 90, 78 found jobs within 30 miles French for the job." of Montreal." If these articles are kept in, Ar There is' hope for the future, Burns Combining study and pleasure nopoulos emphasized, "people with concluded. Problems between Quebec's adequate professional training but English and French are not new. in Colombia and ~Germany flawed French will not be eligible for _ 'They've been here a long time and civil service jobs." This, she claims; is will remain. What's needed is a bit For those wishing to learn Spanish or German while having a vacation in unjust. "People could easily learn more h~mour in the present c ntext. Colombia or W. Germany and at the same time gaining an understanding 9f French on the job." the countries' respective cultures, a joint study programme sponsored by the Barry Fridhandler spoke about the Association Centre for Continuing Education and the Department of Modern Languages future for young non-francophone -continued from page 1 and Linguistics offers a unique opportunity to do so. lawyers, based on his seven years of organizing committee did not favour it, Medallin, Kassel, experience in the field. a committee could be set up to study ' "It's absolutely understoog that you accreditation should the general Colombia W.Germany don't go into this profession," -said membership express an interest. (An From May 28 to June 27, the Due to the success of the Canadian Fridhandler, "unless you're bilingual. accredited association is- a "house' Spa~isi;.,summer school will take place summer school in Kassel last year, the You have to be able to function union", unaffiliated with any labour in the Centro Vacacional La Montana, study programme will be repeated this equally well in both lari.guages." .

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