WADING THROUGH 200 PAGES OR, Senate Wanna study? A tripartite commission is· looking into paid educational .consolidates Programmes leave for non-academics. PEL may become an accepted Nearly 200 pages of curriculum changes affocting three of the practice in the future if it can university's four faculties were ap­ be shown to foster greater proved by Senate at Friday's special productivity among employees. meeting of the university body. Senate's annual meeting to deal with There's a report on the changes in curriculum was more committee's work, beginning complex than usual because it dealt on page 4. with the final stages of departmental merging in the Arts and Science Faculty. College_units ... Most departments in the faculty On page 5, you'll find official presented unified courses and programs reports on two new colleges: to Senate with only a handful delaying Lonergori. University College complete unification until 1980-81. All the changes were approved, taking into and the Cooperative Education account the comments, clarifications College. and recommendations contained in the University Curriculum Coordinating Committee's (UCCC) study of the Fred Audet. proposed modifications. The Loyola dean of students The Fine Arts proposals included passed· away this week after a three new programs - a minor in film lengthy illness. Page 7. Physics professor Stanley Morris and JJlato animation, a minor in archeology and a certificate in art education for , elementary school teachers - as well as Whats Up! new courses and other minor changes. Turn to page 8 for a compl~te All but the minor in archeology Writers, Poets received prompt approval. There was listing of things .to do on both some concern expressed by history Concordia campuses this week professor Bob Tittler that there might and next. .Flock to Concordia be duplication of courses already - available in such departments as A conference on literature and the monwealth creative writers, the classics and history. Concordia in brief. arts in the Commonwealth begins next Canadian premieres of plays by a Fine Arts' acting assistant dean John A quick look at interesting week at Concordia, featuring world­ Canadian writer from Tobago and by Lc.•cke said that there was no things Concordia people and ranking writers from Canada, a young Australian playwright and the duplication but Professor Tittler also departments are doing each Australia, India, New Zealand, Nigeria screening of four Commonwealth wanted an explicit statement that and Trinidad. films. existing qualified full-time faculty week cart be found in At A The conferen<;e will bring together The conference begins Wednesday, would be used to teach as many of the Glance: ·On page· 3. over 100 teachers and scholars with an October 18, on the Sir George new courses as possible. interest in Commonwealth writing "for Williams campus and concludes the Professor Locke assured Senate that the exchange of ideas and the following Sunday. All activities on there had been coordination and broadening of horizons", according to Friday, October 20, will be held at discussion with the affected depart­ Under Milkwood, one of the_organizers , associate Loyola. ments, and that should there be full­ Thomas' moving yet hilarious professor of English, Dr .. Patrick Here, then, is a schedule of s~me of time faculty members qualified to teach presentation of a day in the life Holland. the highlights: the courses in addition to their course of th~ Welsh village Llareggub Highlights -of the conference include Thursday, October· 19, 4:00 p.m., in loads, they would certainly be con­ H-435 (SGW) - The Commonwealth in (buggerall backwards) opens the presentation of papers on all sidered. aspects of the writing of Com­ Canada, a panel discussion on the The minor in archeology was passed next Friday in Sir George's monwealth peopies by scholars from effects, for the writer, of movement with 14 Senators approving, 7 voting D.B. Clark The'atre. Page· 6. across Canada, readings and panel between cultures, with Austin Clarke, against and 11 abstaining. discussions by Canadian and Com- Saros Cowasjee and Audrey Thomas. Most of the changes proposed by the (:ontinued on page 2 Continued on page 6 Commo~wealth Conference PEL not for Tomorrow Continued from page 1 Continued from page 4 Canada has not yet ratified the introduction of industry-wide schemes Austin Clarke was born in Barbados convention because there is only whereby a pool of employers would and now lives in Toronto. Probably limited compliance with it here. finance the educational leave and then his best known novel is The Prime The convention defines paid "all would have a shot at the em- Minister. He was writer-in-residence educational leave as leave granted to a ployees." two years ago at Concordia. worker for educational purposes during Another stumbling block is who will Saros Cowasjee is known for his normal working hours for a specified pay for educational leave. Members of writings about Indians in Canada. He period and without loss of earnings or the business community argue that - is the author of Goodbye to Elsa . West other benefits. It also states that leave they are already paying too much for Coast novelist Audrey Thomas, who should be granted for the purposes of social benefits for their employees and was a visiting professor in the training of a general, social, civic or that in a time of recession they cannot university's English department last trade union nature. afford to finance a new social benefit. year, sets her novels in Africa. Among In Canada in 1973 (the most recent The commission will study various them, Mrs. Blood, Songs My Mother year for which figures are available) 13 forms of financing. In France there is a Taught Me and Blown Figures. per cent of managers and 15 per cent payroll tax to finance leave and in Thursday, October 19, 6:00 p.m., in of technical workers participated in Sweden grants for leave come from the · H-937 (SGW) - Three leading Canadian employer-sponsored training programs. ministry of education. writers, Dave Godfrey, Alice Munro Only 7 per cent of clerical staff par- The perennial problem of federal- and Rudy Wiebe, will read from their ticipated in such programs. provincial jurisdiction affects the works: In 1976 only 161 collective implementation of any wide-spread Australian-Canadian Literary Fellow agreements contained provisions for policy on paid educational leave. for 1978, Alice Munro is best known educational leave. ' Education and 90 per cent of labor for Lives of Girls and Women. Rudy In March 1977 a contract between legislation are provincial respon- Wiebe is the author of The Temp­ the United Auto Workers and sibilities. This means that each tations of Big Bear and Dave Godfrey Rockwell International (Canada) province would have to agree to any is known for his novel, The New Alice Munro became the first agreement with federal proposals for paid education~! Ancestors' and the short story, Death will speak about An Australian provisions for paid educational leave. leave. Goes Better With Coca-Cola. Theatre: At Last. The employer pays one cent per hour Dr. Adams'notes that jf the federal Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sun­ · The foHowing films-will also be ..,..,.,, - worked-by-each-employee into a fond government decided that paid day, October 19, 20, 21 and 22, in the screened : The Harder They Come that is used to educate selected workers , educational leave should be legislated, F.C. Smith Auditorium (Loyola) - Papa (Terry Henzell, 1972) on Wednesday, in specially designated UAW training it could provide financial incentives to God and Sugar George by Paul Keens October 18, at 4:00 'p.m. in H-110 courses. This agreement covered 1,100 induce the provinces to go along with Douglas, a graduate of SGWU; and A (SGW); Kamouraska (Claude Justras, workers and UAW has since signed its plan. Li'lle Bit O' Somet'ing by Lorris Elliott. }973) on Thursday, October 19, at similar agreements with three other The commission's recommendations Produced by the Canadian Association 1:30 p.m. in H-435 (SGW); Ned Kellv Canadian employers. for legislative change will apply only for Commonwealth Literature and (Tony Richardson, 1970) on Friday, Another Canadian development is to the federal labor code, although Dr. Language Studies and the Black October 20, at 1 :00 p.m., in the Vanier the introduction of a bill in New Adams says that much of the in- Theatre Workshop. Library Auditorium (Loyola); and The Brunswick to revise the employment formation in the report will be of use Friday, October 20, 11:45 a .m., in World of Apu (Santyajit Ray, 1959) on standards code. The proposd changes to the provinces. the F.C. Smith Auditorium (Loyola) - Saturday, October 21, at 1:00 p.m. in provide for unpaid educational leave Both the OECD and the United the Australian pfaywright Ron Blair H-435 (SGW) . for workers for courses that are Nations Educatio'nal, Scientific and directly related to their jobs. The bill Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have also states that employers can require been tracing the development of paid employees to return to their jobs for a educational leave in Europe ·but Dr. .time equal to the length of the course. Adams says that it is still too early to Labor unions in the U.S. have not determine the practical benefits of the NOTICE conducted a major drive for paid schemes. educational leave. A report prepared However, he enumerated some· of CHANGE IN VALIDATION SCHEDULE FOR CONCORDIA for the Carnegie Council on Policy the theoretical benefits: IDENTIFICATION CARDS Studies in Higher Education suggests that this is because the American labor • the productivity of the work force In view of the Rosh Hashana holidays which fall on October 2nd and 3rd, movement is more concerned about a · may increase if workers are more the l.D.