Cinema Throws a Party to Celebrate Its New Home T Was Party Time in the Big Loca Functional New Quarters
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Concordia's llfS ort VOL. 24, N ° 7 DECEMBER 2, 1999 http://pr.coocordia.ca/ctr/ .- Fall graduating students receive their degrees Winter production of A Midsummer Night's Dream page 7 page 9 Cinema throws a party to celebrate its new home t was party time in the big loca functional new quarters. individual light tables for students I tion studio at the Mel Cinema Professor John Locke, to use when drawing their anima Hoppenheim School of Cinema who has done a close analysis of tion cells. Editors were on hand to last Thursday, as several hundred space needs for the Faculty of Fine show how film is edited digitally, students, teachers and industry Ans, pointed to some much-need a quick alternative to cutting and friends celebrated their new - but ed new features. For the first time, re-assembling actual film stock. not permanent - home. there is a sound teaching studio Architects doing the renovations a:> a: w The former Cinema Depart that is big enough to give classes were able to identify walls that 11. z in. The graduate students in Film needed reinforcement against :::, ment, renamed in gratitude to film 1 equipment entrepreneur Mel Hop Production now have separate intrusive sound. However, there <J) pen he i m, moved into two and rooms with editing facilities for were limitations to what could be ~ 11. one-third floors of the Faubourg each of the two years in the pro done in an existing office building, MEL HOPPENHEIM, C.HAIR OF THE FACULTY'S ADVISORY BOARD, AND Tower because they desperately gram, plus a little area to socialize Locke pointed out. The big loca PROFESSOR PETER RIST, CHAIR OF THE MEL HOPPENHEIM SCHOOL OF CINEMA, needed more space, and couldn't in. Similarly, the new Master's in tion studio where the reception IN FRONT OF THE SCHOOL'S NEW LOGO, wait for the new visual arts build Film Studies has its own space. was held has a 10-foot ceiling, but ing promised sometime in the next Visitors to the opening were a real, industry-standard shooting every year. ln preparation for a trip well-known grads as Steve Surjik, decade. able to tour the "puppet anima studio would have a 20-foot ceil by several administrators to Los Christian Duguay, George Mihalka, As a result, Cinema will be the tion studio," a little room where ing and a full lighting grid. Angeles recently with Mel Hoppen Bachar Sh'bib, Arto Paragamian, last to move into new facilities figures are repeatedly pho Concordia has one of the busiest heim and Mayor Pierre Bourque, Pascale Bussieres, Lynne Stop when they are built, and in the tographed to build up an and best-known film schools in Cinema Chair Peter Rist put kewich, Manon Briand, and Peter meantime, students and staff are animated film, and the other ani Canada, and turns out dozens of together a list of "100 Concordia and David Wellington. delighted with their modest but mation facilities, which have creative and technical filmmakers filmmakers" that includes such - Barbara Black Where is it? Students call on Spirit of Christmas he Spirit of Giving Campaign mind needed to carry on and suc collections," Cote said. "All this Tfinances our Student Emer ceed academically." goes to support students with the gency Food Fund. The need intensifies as winter most elemental of needs. It is Peter Cote, of Campus Ministry, draws on and the more fortunate alarming to realize that many of reports that over the past two among us look for a way to exer our students find themselves at one years, requests for help from stu cise some seasonal charity. point or another unable to feed dents in financial crisis have grown Campus Ministry welcomes dona themselves or their families." to more than $25,000 a year. tions from individuals and also Donations by cheque can be made "We see hundreds of students," encourages departments to raise out to Concordia University Student Cote said. "For many, the support funds for Concordia students. Emergency Food Fund, and mailed to we are able to give means the dif "Some departments put on Campus Ministry at Loyola, WF ference between a student failing or small-scale raffles, or pass the hat Annex. Tax receipts will be issued for dropping out, and the peace of at their holiday parties, or take up donations of $10 or more. Give food and more - here at work or 10 years now, Lise Tavares "In our third or fourth year, were stored in my tiny office until F(Information Services) has Kathleen O'Connell asked if the delivery day - ouffff - and deliv been the moving spirit behind a Psychology Department in the PY eries were made courtesy of our food drive that benefits several annex at Loyola could join forces police officer friends at Station 25. Montreal shelters for the indigent. with us. Naturally, we said Yes, yes -"In the first year, we collected yes! From then on, we started col ... please see Food drive, page 5 four boxes of non-perishables and lecting for Benedict Labre House, toiletries for Benedict Labre which is for men, and La Maison This is the last CTR House," Tavares recalled recently. Chez Doris, which is for women. until January 13, 2000. This architectural style may represent a wish to let bygones "The second year, we fared a bit They depend solely on the gen be bygones. (See page 10) better, and again the beneficiary erosity of donors to survive. HAPPY HOLIDAYS! was Benedict Labre House. "Until last year, all the donations Poet Solway challenges both reader and student what chilling realization of the The hum of/ circuitry's no proof and physical, and it requires con phrases, with insight into the decisiveness with which the HAL against/ the arias of the phantom centration, like poetry," Solway nature of poetic form and 9000 computer easily conquered queen/ who reclines in the said. "At the same time, chess is prosody," said Solway pupil Josh astronaut David Bowman at the boudoirs/ of the motherboard or ancient. It's been with us forever. Auerbach, a graduate student game in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 glides/ from chamber to bower Chess is a wonderful metaphor, studying creative writing. "David film 2001: A Space Odyssey. powered/ by sexy multiprocessors." because the book is not about is able to take things out of the Chess has come a long way For a volume of poetry, Chess chess at all. It's something we all classroom into the classroom, and since its predecessor, chaturanga, Pieces has seen unusually brisk know about, even if we don't play. vice versa. We don't really have a emerged in India during the sixth sales since it was launched by It provided me with a lens container for art as an encapsulat century. A Sanskrit word refer McGill-Queen's University Press through which I could focus on ed experience, and all of life is ring to the four divisions of the earlier this year. Its success may be everyday life. The book really sort of brought into our classes. Indian army - elephants, caval due in part to its often playful deals with relationships. It's about It's really great." ry, infantry and chariots - superimpositions of the intricacies loving in a dark, hesperian and "Solway knows exactly what chaturanga later spread to East of human nature upon the black inhospitable world." he's talking about, he really does ," Asia and the Muslim world, and-whi te dichotomy of the Over a career spanning more agreed Stephanie Halley, another which exported the game to chessboard, or that its poems than 20 years, Solway has pub creative writing grad student. Western Europe. Over the cen remain accessible to those with lished 14 volumes of poetry, "One class was about comparing turies, the rules of chess have even the most rudimentary grasp appeared in numerous magazines how one grades scotch to how one changed, but it remains one of of the game itself. and anthologies , and, as a lecturer grades a poem. Both are very sub the most enduringly popular "Handling the Chess Pieces" in English literature at John jective, but you can grade them." games in history. illustrates six distinct species of Abbott College, has authored sev "The writer's life is not utopia Enter Chess Pieces, the latest killer according to how each cap eral books on criticism and or a playground, it's a life of diffi BY T IM HORNYA K offering of verse by Concordia's tures an enemy piece. ln "The Next education, such as the controver culty, suffering, challenges and, in new writer-in-residence, poet and Crusade," a disillusioned knight sial 1997 Lying About the Wolf - many cases, abject poverty," Sol n a 1997 regulation match of educator David Solway. Over 20 dreams of becoming a defector to From Lyceum to Sheepfold: Essays in way said. "Students should know Ichess, international grand I)1as years in the making, the collection the Saracens. The book's opening Education. what it entails. l see the cl*ss in ter Garry Kasparov was defeated by consists of 39 adept explorations of piece sees the game moving its In it, he partly blames the cur part as providing them with an IBM's supercomputer Deep Blue, both the game's rich intellectual, players to Greece, where Solway rent didactic fad of "loser-friendly initiation. The paradox of this and that small portion of humanity strategic and poetic traditions, as has lived, taught and found inspi pedagogy" for the astonishing position is that one must at the following the game caught its well as its inherent symbolic ration: ".