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PATRICK MCD ONAGH than those at street level. This wind-speed difference creates the high winds familiar to pedestrians walk­ "It has been like raising a baby from birth through ing between tall buildings. childhood, then the teenage years with all its prob­ Stathopoulos has a wind tunnel lab on the second lems, and now to adulthood:' floor of rented space at Ste. Catherine and Guy. That's Osama Moselhi, a professor in the Depart­ There, his research team constructed a model of the ment of Building, Civil and Environmental building and its surroundings to test wind condi­ Engineering, describing the new Integrated Eqgi­ tions from various directions. neering. Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex. "Buildings today are rarely box structures; they The building is nearing completion on Ste. Catherine have many different configurations," Stathopoulos St. between Guy and Mackay Sts. said. "The new building will have different levels, Moselhi, a specialist in construction engineering canopies or other features to dissipate strong winds and management, has served on the project commit­ before they hit the sidewalk. Trees and statues can tee since the late 1990s. As the building grew, he was also make a difference:• part of the team monitoring its progress. Then there's the challenge presented by snow­ Professor Ted Stathopoulos, Associate Dean of storms, which could dump huge amounts of snow in Graduate Studies and an expert on wind engineering inconvenient places such as the entrance. and building aerodynamics, carried out several stud­ Stathopoulos is able to predict where there is likely to ies for the building's architects and engineers. be a greater snow deposit, and again the building The City of Montreal requires that new tall build­ designers have taken these predictions into account. ings be subject to a wind study; in fact, Stathopoulos The third and most difficult test involves the dis­ was instrumental in drafting those guidelines. persion of exhaust. The new complex houses Osama Moselhi, Fariborz Haghighat and Andreas Athienitis Tall buildings can create harsh wind environ­ engineering labs .and visual arts facilities that use in front of the new building. Occupation of the 17-storey ENCS unit ments. Wind speed increases with altitude, so winds takes place May to September. The 12-storey V18ual Arts side, to be completed in the early summer, should be ready for 2005-06. at the tops of tall buildings are significantly stronger continued on page 2 Novelist Mary de Michele imagines famous opera singer's love life

BARBARA B LACK the stage, breaks up her marriage, focus on. gives her two children and gradually As she has created them, all three of Mary de Michele has written a novel turns her into a housewife - an Carusds lovers are aspects of her: Ada, inspired by the life of the great opera unmarried one, because divorce from the brash, ambitious older sister, Rina, singer Enrico Caruso. her first husband was illegal. Eventu­ the romantic, and Dorothy, the Amer­ Tenor ofLove, published in the Unit­ ally, Ada leaves and Rina takes over as ican, a quiet, bookish modernist De ed States by Simon and Schuster and Carusds lover and caregiver to his Michele was born in Italy, and said Canada by Penguin, is an unabashedly children. that she changed from an outgoing. sensual book by a writer who laugh­ The great singer isn't portrayed as a exuberant child to a quiet one when ingly describes herself as a romantic cruel philanderer, but as a force of her family immigrated to Canada. feminist. "The poet in me is still work­ nature. In the course of writing the book, ing;' she said in an interview. Caruso was the world's first super­ de Michele, like her father, fell in love De Michele has published eight col­ star, thanks not only to his talent but with opera, particularly the composer lections of poetry, but only one also to the advent of the gramophone. Puccini, who wrote La Boheme. Visit­ previous novel, Under My Skin. She He became a regular at New York's ing the places Caruso had known has taught creative writing in the Eng­ Metropolitan Opera, a household helped her understand him better; lish Department for many years. name, and a fabulously wealthy man. drafts of the novel were written while Caruso was indeed a tenor of love. The second part of the book is from she was poet in residence at the Uni­ De Michele's novel is about his effect the point of view of the young New versity of Bologna in 2003. on three women who loved him. Yorker who became Carusds wife. When she talks about writing, her The story starts in 1897, when the De Michele grew up with her face glows. The blank page is a bit J. . ambitious young Neapolitan singer father's love of opera, and did a lot of daunting. she admitted, but "I love met a prosperous Florentine family research. "In terms of narrative, I'm rewriting and developing:' As for the who helped advance his career. There always interested in what is true. Even process of creating characters, ''I've were two young women in the Gia­ in my poetry, I'm interesteq in dia­ never been so high! I think writers are chetti family, Ada and Rina, both logues with historical figures:• like actors, happy to be out of our­ singers in their own right. However, it was the interior life of selves:• In the novel, Rina sadly watches as the women and the mythic quality of Mary de Michele Caruso partners her older sister on the great tenor that she wanted to continued on page 2 I TH1S ISS E 2 Testing pitfalls 3 Ecology unites 5 Defiant Imagination 6 Light of foot Expert has views Eastern European challenges Lectures at MMFA Dancers get stage skills ------~ ------,.

Testing expert deplores 'teaching to the test' His research is focused on educational evaluation and 10 Literacy Test, now a graduation requirement for sec­ assessment, and he talks about it in everyday language, ondary students in Ontario. Unfortunately, many avoiding jargon. • students fail the test despite repeated attempts. "I try, even in my academic writing, to use the clearest, "Ontario may be forced to issue special diplomas for most accessible language possible;• he said in an inter­ those who have met all other graduation requirements view. "I want my work to be read not just by academic but just can't pass these tests, because without a high colleagues but by those affected in practice: teachers, leg­ school diploma, students cannot continue their educa­ islators and the public:• tion" even in trade and technical schools. Volante's most recent article outlines his ideas on the There are two models for standardized tests. Norm-ref­ use and abuse of standardized tests. "Teaching to the test: erenced tests create bell curve distributions of the scores What every educator and policy-maker should know" was of those writing them, against which each student is published in the Canadian Journal ofEducational Admin­ ranked. This competitive model results in many failures istration and Policy. by definition, since half the students will always be below He describes the corrupting effect of what he calls average. "high-stakes" standardized testing. There are jurisdic­ Volante much prefers criterion-referenced tests, where tions in the United States where schools receive student performance is measured against pre-set stan­ merit-based financing. If their students do well, as meas­ dard for success; using this model, it is at least possible for ured by standardized tests, the schools benefit each student to pass. monetarily. Testing may help identify student strengths and weak­ The result sometimes is "teaching to the test;' where nesses, but it is frequently misused to track school teachers spend too much time preparing students for the performance. Volante deplores the annual "report cards" test rather than simply covering the curriculum. Volante published by the Fraser Institute because schools are also reports instances where teachers or administrators ranked against one another, meaning there will always be have given students the answers to boost scores because lots of "failures:• so much depends on them. "Since we know that the single greatest predictor of Louis Volante The use of such tests is a growing phenomenon in student performance is the student's socio-economic Canada as well. Standardized test results are snapshots, background, how does it help a poor family on one side of BEVERLY AKERMAN but they can distract public attention from a three­ the city to be told that the 'best school' is located at the dimensional view of a student's performance. other end?" Animated, dynamic, passionate about his subject, Louis For example, in language arts, reading and writing are What standardized tests usually "reveal" is the superior Volante comes across as the kind of teacher one remem­ typically measured, "but a well-rounded literacy program performance of "private" schools. bers warmly years after graduation. also includes speaking and listening components, which In Quebec, nearly all private schools actually receive He arrived at Concordia last summer as an assistant are usually not part of these tests:• To design, administer large government subsidies. Volante subscribes to the professor of education. He has taught at the Ontario Insti­ and evaluate tests measuring all four parameters would notion that every dollar taken from the public system tute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, substantially increase their cost, and duplicate the ongo­ weakens it "Why, as a society, if we won't support two-tier where he obtained his PhD, and also at Ryerson Universi­ ing evaluation of students by teachers. health care, do we support two-tier education?" ty and the University of Hawaii. Volante developed assessment guidelines for the Grade

Increased natural light in building Cont Ed celebrates teachers continued from page 1

foul-smelling chemicals. "In the past, people quite at that stage yet. The technology for the would just erect huge chimney stacks on top solar panels on the curtain walls is still quite of the building, but architects don't like these experimental, and has not progressed enough ugly things and want to keep them from for mass production. The cost would have being seen from the street level:' been prohibitive:• Stathopoulos and his students performed Solar energy research is focused on devel­ tests in the wind tunnel with inert trace gases oping technologies for buildings that will be emitted from tiny mock-ups of the building's built five to 20 years from now. exhaust system, and measured gas concentra­ "This is probably one of the best university tions at various intervals and locations to buildings in Canada;• Athienitis said. "One of indicate where the exhaust is going. the objectives of our research is to push Cana­ One of the building's outstanding features da to catch up with the Japanese and is its ''green-ness:• Andreas Athienitis, anoth­ Europeans:• er professor in Building, Civil and The building will house Engineering & Environmental Engineering, worked with col­ Computer Science's interdisciplinary research league Fariborz Haghighat and a team of faculty and most of its research labs, which The Centre for Continuing Education hosts an annual end-of-year reception to graduate students to create a design that is makes it fitting that this collaboration thank instructors with 20 years or more of teaching. In the photo are, from left, environmentally sustainable and welcoming between planners, architects and academics Robert Vairo (Journalism Program), Michel Beliveau (Tourism Program), Murray to the building's users. was part of the building process. Sang, Director, Centre for Continuing Education, Leanne Sanders (Public Relations Program) and James Kyle (Purchasing and Inventory Control Program). Absent Bolla is pleased with the way construction from photo but nonetheless appreciated was Henry Labelle (Hospitality and Oslo conference has gone, and looks forward to the next Tourism Management Program). phase. "It takes about a year to get all the The analysis, along with Athienitis's pro­ kinks out of a new space. It's just like moving Tenor of Love posals, garnered plenty of attention. It was into a new house - there will be adjustments, one of five plans selected to represent Cana­ although we try to catch most of them before continued from page 1 dian initiatives at an international conference people move in:• on sustainability in Oslo in 2002. To Athienitis, "op~ration is another very Writing a novel rather than Pasolini and his brother. For it, Many of these recommendations were important phase, and we will have quite a few poetry was challenging but she'll draw on her mother's memo­ incorporated into the building, including projects to study. The building will be a living intriguing because of "the way ries of being a girl virtually on the plans for increased natural light and a mix­ laboratory, and its indoor environment can time operates. It's a different expe­ front lines of the conflict in Italy. ture of natural and forced ventilation. continuously be improved. rience of history. It uses the Writing about politics comes eas­ However, the idea of placing photovoltaic "If we didn't get involved in our own build­ reader's memory - that's what I ily to her, and she feels it's a good panels on the fa~ade of the building, as a ing, what sort of engineering professors love about the novel:' time for a book about fascism. "It means of generating solar power to help run would we be?" In fact, she is already working deals with choice of art, politics the facility, was not adopted. A longer version of this article appeared in on another historical novel, set and activism. I'm always interest­ Peter Bolla, the executive director of Facili­ the December issue of Concordia University during the Second World War, ed in the choices women make:• ties Management, explained, "We're just not Magazine. about Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo She already has a title: Unsaid.

2 I Concor-di a: s T.h,urs da y R,epor t I Januar y 13 , 2005 Ecology policies can heal Eastern European rifts

"They have developed an international manage­ ~- ment commission for Sava conservation;' Stoett said. "It involves Muslims, Croats and Serbs. 'J\nd they had to sit down together and work out how to manage the river so that by the time the water gets down to one region, another ren­ dered it unusable:• Stoett is planning a case study of this issue, comparing it with river management projects in other regions in the world, to determine "whether or not this can help overcome ethnic conflict in Barbara Woodside {CSBN/Psychology) was interviewed by The those regions:• Gazette about measuring intelligence. She said that the brain is a j: As a political scientist, he is interested in the changeable organ, that new neurons are being constantly dis~ov­ relation between war and the environment - not ered, and that a high IQ is not strictly a question of inheritance. only the ecological impact of war, but also the . Lawrence Kryzanowski {Finance) was interviewed a number of question of how shared responsibilities in envi­ times recently, including on CBC-Newsworld. He discussed why ): ronmental matters can bring potential l the relative value of the Canadian versus the U.S. dollar has adversaries together. I increased, the impact on Canadian firms and jobs, and whether a "What sort of arrangements and institutions further upward change in the relative value of the Canadian to the can be constructed so that we can avoid environ­ U.S. dollar is likely. mental damage as a result of military conflict, or avoid military conflict though the pursuit of envi­ Graham Dodds {Political Science} was featured on CKMI-TV GLO ronmental co-operation?" {Ste. Foy) as part of a panel on Canada's border security. Still, ecological policies are far from the top of Martine Lehoux, Director of Facilities Planning and Develop­ Peter Stoett the agenda in the former Yugoslavia, Stoett said. ment, participated in a panel discussion on CBC's Home Run about. "For people in the street, the .environment is the construction boom going on in all of Montreal's universities. FRANK KUIN way down the list;' he observed. "It's difficult to get environmental policy to register when people Pamela Newell {Contemporary Dance) received excellent reviews Peter Stoett is exploring how environmental col­ have to deal with daily struggles:• for her solo dance performance mtreya, part of the Majors series laboration between states can help heal the Institutional players, however, are motivated to at the Espace Tangente. wounds of war. draft environmental regulations by the desire to Jordan LeBel {Marketing) was interviewed on Radio Canada's Stoett, a professor in Concordia's Political Sci­ eventually join the European Union. For that to Telejournal about the sex scandal involving impressario Guy ence Department, has been traveling to the former happen, ecological policies will have to be in line Cloutier: He was also asked by La Presse why people fall back on Yugoslavia during a sabbatical to examine ways in with those of other European countries. "cliched" Christmas decorations. For them, it's tradition, he said which new ecological policies foster co-operation That's a challenge in itself, Stoett said, because there. "the socialist era of Eastern Europe was an ecolog­ Isabelle Dostaler {Management) and the course she developed During his stay at the University of Bihac, in the ical disaster" in terms of toxic and nuclear waste. are profiled in the University of Vermont's Alumni New 2004 Mag­ former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia and Herzegov­ Ironically, the war has a mixed record in the azine. Called International Case Analysis, it is given in tandem ina, he was at once struck by the physical and region, he said, because it shut down polluting with the University of Vermont. Apropos of Bombardier, she told psychological scars of war and impressed with factories. La Presse that there is reason to question the effective governance early efforts to draft environmental regulations. Now, Stoett sees economic potential in eco­ of a company that is halfway between public and private. "There's a lot of depression and post-conflict tourism. Some of the former Yugoslavia's natural Lorne Switzer {Finance) noted on CFCF-TV that banks are clos­ trauma that does not go away in six months or two beauty, such as Bosnia's Una River and Croatia's ing outlets in neighbourhoods like Little Burgundy and giving years;• he observed, adding that the University at Adriatic coast, is absolutely breathtaking, he more service to richer areas like Westmount. Bihac bore the physical evidence of the conflict, observed with "bullet holes all over the place:· For that to happen, however, it is important to Lea Katsanis {Marketing) was quoted in a Gazette article under But at the same time, he was impressed with the foster 'environmental security; he said. "Individual the headline "Hey, kids, you need to buy something." She said it abilities of former enemies in the civil war of the health and human security are contingent upon starts with toys, as toddlers recognize brands like Lego, Mattel 1990s to "sit down together and work things out:• ecosystemic health. You need fundamentals. You and Fisher Price. By the time they are 11, some children tum up An example of such budding cooperation need clean air, clean water, and a toxic-free envi­ their noses at anything that is not a brand name. involves the issue of river management, where it is ronment. Recent JMSB graduate Rami Sedra was the subject of a feature internationally recognized that upstream states "In the longer term, it's going to be absolutely article on entrepreneurs by The Gazette's Frans;ois Shalom. He have an obligation not to excessively pollute rivers essential that there is sustainable development started Biond {for business intelligence on demand) in March for downstream nations. The Sava River runs from which they ~an draw:· 2002, and it is already worth millions. His secret is great customer through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia. service and a good working environment for his 18 employees. Gad Saad {Marketing) was quoted in the New York Times before Christmas under the headline "This is for you, dear, but it's all about me:• The article referred to a 2003 study Saad did that sug­ gests men are more likely than women to give presents for tactical Europhoria gives rise to eurologisms reasons, such as seduction, display, and so on. Michel Laroche {Marketing) was quoted in La Presse on the Mon­ GWENDOLINE HUANG abilite, eurodomestique, euro-euro (the European treal-based company La Senza. He recommended they develop euro), euroguide, Euro-Info-centre, euroland(s), their company's recognition and associate it with quality, as Vic­ Change in society creates changes in language. euro-phorie, euro-sceptique. Caignon said that toria's Secret continues to be better known even in Canada. French professor Philippe Caignon gave an enter­ most of these words probably won't survive. John Parisella, member of the Board of Governors, was inter­ taining talk recently in which he used as an An associate professor of translation_ and termi­ viewed on CFCF News on Oct. 10 about his new book Elections: example the new words that have popped up in nology in the Departement d' etudes frani;:aises, Made in USA, which studies the American electoral process. French since a new currency was adopted. Caignon is the author of Vocabulaire de compt­ When the euro was introduced in 2002, France abilite canadien (Essential Accounting Lexicon). Enn Raudsepp {Journalism) commented in The Gazette on the gained 600 new expressions, from eurodateur (a His talk, given Dec. 9, was organized by Concor­ recent Senate hearings on Canadian media ownership, where he play on horodateur, a stamp that records the time, dia's Translation Services in collaboration with the appeared as a witness. He said successive committees have date), eurokit (a kit containing various denomina­ Reseau des Traducteurs en Education. acknowledged high media concentration, but the only things that tions of the euro and ways to use them), It was based on his article, "Creation d'une have changed are the names of the media owners. europhobi~. and vivre l'euro. monnaie et creativite d'une langue: l'euro et le Painter and art teacher Janet Werner has a show at the Tracey frani;:ais;· written with Louise Brunette and Elise Here are some more neologisms (new words) Lawrence Gallery in Vancouver: The National Post favourably created in French by the euro: euro formateur, Gagnon, and published in the journal La banque reviewed her traditional portraits of imaginary people. eurolarge, anti-euro, euro-calcitrant, eurocompt- des mots.

Conco.rdia; s Thursday R_eport I January t3, 2005 I. 3 course examiners cannot have a copy of the final exam they Security secured wrote. Nor have they proper access to the previous exams. BARBARA BLACK rnittee is headed by Michael Di 5. An expense claim that Grappa, Vice-President, Services. must be filled out electronical­ The university administration It will review and approve ly. It will also not execute if one has announced it is taking meas­ requests for access to university does not lie in reply to one ures . to permit controversial space, and when appropriate, question. speakers to appear on campus make recommendations to the Why has this occurred? Part­ without the kind of violence that President's Cabinet. ly it is due to the merger that erupted Sept. 6, 2002, over a created Concordia. We are big­ scheduled speech by an Israeli Diverse views ger and more impersonal. politician. Partly it is due to the professors' The news release, issued Dec. President Frederick Lowy said Professor laments bureaucracy decision to unionize. 17, says that after a comprehen­ in the release, "Concordia Uni­ I also suspect that there are sive review of university facilities versity is committed to The key contribution of a uni­ largely pointless, often couched lucrative careers to be made at and security requirements, and providing opportunities for versity lies, surely, in its in language that would make a Concordia in designing new with the counsel of outside secu­ diverse points of view to be teaching and research. Within Kafka or an Orwell smile? Or forms and creating new proce­ rity experts, the university has heard by our students and the reason, things should be struc­ should I say cry? dures to be imposed upon the identified several unnamed ven­ community at large. tured to facilitate these roles. Here are a few examples faculty. Doubtless the students ues on the SGW and Loyola "However, this has to be bal­ Regrettably, professors are which only scratch the surface. experience the same in spades. campuses to accommodate such anced with the obligation to inundated by requests for 1. An "annual" report that Surely Concordia can do better. speakers. ensure the safety and security of reports, and hamstrung by new covers five years. Why not return to the basics - "Structural changes and relat­ the members of the Concordia procedures and mindless, arbi­ 2. A "course report" is now trust and respect? ed security measures will take community, our neighbors and trary fiats. required for each course taught. Professors are responsible place in the corning weeks to our guests and to minimize dis­ The technological advances We survived for decades with­ and devoted people. They care permit invited high-profile ruption to the academic mission of the last decades have out these. about their work, and they are guests to speak this academic . of our university. brought some benefit; for 3. There must be an annual very busy. Their roles need not year: 1 "Concordia University intends example, marks are now sub­ report filed each year by the be compromised by people who "Conco'rdia reserves the right to pursue all the necessary mitted electronically and reach director of each graduate stu­ do not understand their work, to designate the appropriate adjustments required to promot­ students more quickly. But dent. Again, if not, we would and they ought not to be venue and may decide to hold ing the free expression of must we abuse the new tech­ never think about our students' reduced to the lowest common certain university events at an opinions and ideas in an atmos­ nology by sending request upon progress. denominator: off-campus venue." phere of civility and tolerance:• request for overlapping reports, 4. In some departments R. Raphaet Mathematics The Risk Management Com-

. Centre. He joined Concordia in 1976 and Appointments In memoriam retired in 1993. Marcel Danis named VP External Relations A memorial service will be held this Satur­ Leon Bruce Barkman day, Jan. 15, at the Loyola Chapel, at 3 o'clock. Marcel Danis, formerly Vice-President, Under his leadership, Concordia's Donations may be made to Pulmonary Institutional Relations, and Secretary­ marketing and recruitment programs His friends at Concordia were sorry to hear Oncology Research, care of the Jewish Gener­ General, has been appointed to a have been reinforced. The Office of of the death on Jan. 5 of Bruce Barkman, of al Hospital. five-year term as Vice-President, Exter­ Government Relations and External cancer, at 66. Our sympathies are extended to his friend nal Relations, and Secretary-General, Affairs {later Public Affairs & Dr: Barkman was a professor of applied and former wife, Anne, and their children beginning Jan. 1, 2005. Government Relations) has developed linguistics and a former head of the TESL and grandchildren. He will continue to be responsible for fruitful contacts with government. Government Relations, University Danis established a task force to Secretariat (Legal Counsel, Office of review the human resources area and a Board and Senate, Archives}, strategic plan to streamline its Appointment in ENCS Translation and Human Resources and operations. Employee Relations. He joined Loyola College in 1968 as a Georges Gignac has been appointed Manager, The appointment was announced at lecturer in the Department of Political Public Relations & Alumni, in the Office of the the Dec. 15 meeting of the Board of Science and has taught ever since. Dean of Engineering and Computer Science. Governors. An alumnus of Loyola College, He will head a new unit comprising Marc Me Danis was appointed Vice-Rector, Fordham University and the Universite Bourcier (Communications Officer}, Mary Institutional Relations, in 1996, and de Paris, he is a practicing lawyer. From Tzanetakos {Alumni Officer) and Dalia Radwan Concordia's Thursday Report was named Secretary-General in 1998, 1984 to 1993, he was the Member of {Advisor, Web Content). is published 17 times during the academic year on a when the two offices were merged. Parliament for Vercheres, and served in The Manager position reports to the Director biweekly basis by the Internal Relations and Communi­ Instrumental in the successful $100- a number of posts, including Minister of Faculty Administration. cations Oepanment of Concordia Univernty, million capital campaign, he led the of Labour {1991-1993}. He is a member Georges has extensive experience in the field, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd.W ., Concordia University Foundation and of the Privy Council. and comes to Concordia from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext.4882 set up infrastructure for fundraising. where he worked as a communications officer E-mail: [email protected] and manager of special projects in the Faculty of Fax:(514) 848-2814 John Parisella to be Communications Advisor Management. He is an alumnus, having graduated from Sir Mall!rialptmli!lled11the~ John Pariseµa has been appointed Spe­ where he has been an executive since George Williams University in 1974 with a maynotberepMJCEd'Mll100tpermillion. ISSN 1185-3689 cial Communications Advisor to the 1994. Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs. Publications Mail Agreement No.: 40042804 President for a six-month period, begin­ Parisella is a Loyola graduate, and Welcome back, Georges. ning Jan. 3. has a diploma from Harvard in Return undeliverable canadian addresses to Concordia~ Parisella will report to the President government management He has Thursday Report,#121, 1455 de Maisonneuvellhd.W., Montreal QC, H3G 1MS . taught political science at Concordia, and will be working with the areas of Correction, addendum email: [email protected] Internal Relations & Communications, and was vice-chair of the Board of Marketing Communications and Public Governors from 1998-2003. In an article about gold medal winner Stephanie Editor Affairs. Dennis Murphy, who until He currently chair$ the Board's Fulton in our last issue (Dec. 2}, we said her doc­ Barbara Bladt recently served as Executive Director, communications committee, and has toral supervisor was Peter Shizgal. In fact, she Editorial Assistant Communications, will continue as the been actively involved in fundraising. was also supervised by Barbara Woodside. We Lina Shoumarova university spokesperson. From 1986 to 1994, Parisella was apologize for the error: In announcing the appointment, Dr: active in the Liberal Party of Quebec, In an article about CENPARMI, the Centre for Layout and P!oduction Sandra Lynn ll&nger Lowy said his experience in strategic serving as chief of staff to premiers Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence communications and knowledge of Robert Bourassa and Daniel Johnson. (CTR, Dec. 2), graduate students Ping Zhang Concept Concordia will benefit the university. He is also a frequent writer and and Karim Abou Moustafa were also on the Elana Trager During this period, he will continue his broadcaster, particularly on U.S. team that won the Best Paper/Poster Award at a Marketing Communications role as president of BCP Consultants, · politics. recent conference in Tokyo. +

Defiant Imagination talk explores mini.-portraiture

B ARBA RA BLA CK very intimate experience:• Huneault's lecture will be on Friday, Jan. The Defiant Imagination is the name 21, at 3:30 p.m., in English, in the De Seve given to a series of talks over the next Cinema. Subsequent lectures are by three months by scholars in every domain Rhona Richman Kenneally on Feb. 4, Sha of the arts, sponsored jointly by Concor­ Xin Wei on March 4, Erin Manning on dia's Faculty of Fine Arts and the Montreal March 11, Raymonde April on March 17, Museum of Fine Arts. and Lynn Hughes on March 31. Consult The series begins this afternoon, Jan. the Back Page listings of future issues of 13, at 3:30 in the Maxwell Cummings CTR for more details. Auditorium of the MMFA with Max As research chair, Huneault is also Wyman, president of the Canadian Com­ organizing seminars on art historical mission for UNESCO and a well-known practice to bring recognized scholars into writer, critic and advocate for the arts. He contact with Concordia graduate students is an inspiring speaker, and will set the and faculty. tone for what promises to be an interest­ This fall's speakers were Mieke Bal, ing series. founder of the Amsterdam School for Cul­ Kristina Huneault, Concordia Universi­ tural Theory; Anthea Callen from ty Research Chair in Art History, will give Nottingham University; and Reesa Green­ the second lecture, on "Miniature Paint­ berg, an independent scholar and curator. ing: The Fine Art of Selfhood:' Winter and spring seminars are sched­ She explained, "While I was looking Celebrating two Concordia Research Chairs in Fine Arts are Dean Christopher Jackson, Kristina uled for Susan Hollis Clayson from into 19th-century women artists in Cana­ Huneault, Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) Liselyn Adams, President Frederick Northwestern University (Jan. 14), David da, I came across some works that seemed Lowy and Lynn Hughes. The reception was held Dec. 7 at SAT, the Society for Arts and Technology, Peters Corbett from University of York quite special to me:• on St. Lawrence Blvd. · (Feb. ·14) and Anne Higonnet (May 17) The works are miniature portraits - from Barnard College, Columbia Universi­ tiny watercolours on ivory, scarcely three identified and individualized, Huneault attempting to secure land, education, and ty. The series will continue over the five inches high, and the subjects are First said. financial security for North American years of Huneault chairship. Nations people. "One is Teyoninhokarawen, or Mafor First Nations. "Good research requires so many things Miniatures were popular before the John Norton, a Mohawk war chief, diplo­ "In the lecture, I explore the context of - diligence, inventiveness, time, money, advent of photography. For travellers, mat, soldier, and the adopted nephew of the men's lives but I also look at the nature and commitment - and new ideas to help including explorers in North America, Joseph Brant. The other is Kahkewaquon­ of miniature painting itself, to assess why refresh thinking;' Huneault said. they were like carrying photos of your aby, or the Reverend Peter Jones, an this kind of portrait might have been "The seminars are methodologically loved ones in your wallet. They were pop­ Ojibwe chief and Methodist missionary, painted, and what impact the format has oriented sessions, in which scholars dis­ ular among businessmen, professionals, who was the first ordained Aboriginal on the images that are portrayed. cuss their current work, with an emphasis military officers and their families; in minister in Canada. "To hold a miniature in one's hand, to on process - what they do and how they other words, the elite. "The portraits were painted in London bend nearer to its polished surface and do it." These First Nations sitters are clearly while their sitters were in England refocus one's gaze to see its details, is a

Suresh Goyal writes Celebrating Canada Research Chairs about us - in Hindi When writer Daniel McCabe went and raised, "but an editor suggest­ looking/or professors with hobbies ed that I focus on Indians living outside their field of scholarship, abroad" - the sort of people he we suggested John Molson School regularly interacts with in Cana­ ofBusiness professor Suresh Goyal. da. He has published more than 130 Here's what McCabe wrote about short stories since 1987 in maga­ him for the January issue of Uni­ zines such as Sarita and Mukta, versity Affairs: some with circulation in the mil­ lions. He has also published Dr. Goyal merrily finds ample poetry and a novel. material in university corridors to Initially he wrote as a way to drive the plots of the short stories escape the pressures of his job, A reception was held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on Dec. 7 for Concordia's 15 Canada Research Chairs. It was attended not only by the honorees, but by a number of Concordia he writes for magazines in India. but now he can't help himself. Research Chairs and by their colleagues. Seen in the photo above are Provost Martin Singer, He says academics experience "Once I get an idea about a Manon Harvey, Vice-President, Corporate Services, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Denis plenty of intrigue and heartbreak story, I have to write it out. I can't Croux, Director of Operations, Canada Research Chairs, and Vice-Provost Research Truong in their lives, and many of his sleep otherwise:· Vo-Van. short stories are based on An expert on operations man­ episodes in the lives of friends and agement and productivity, Dr. Playwrights to speak Jan. 17 in D.B. Clarke acquaintances. Goyal practices what he preaches. "In [the JMSB], we have faculty "I teach about the best utiliza­ The general public are invited to an appearance Jitters, the pool-hall drama One Crack Out, the members from over 30 different tion of limited resources. Time is by two well-known Canadian playwrights on Jan. comedy The Riddle of the World, the thriller Sil­ countries. We have students from one of those limited resources, so 17. ver Dagger, and adaptations of Ostrovsky's The all over the world. The possibili­ I try to utilize my time effectively:' David French and Hrant Alianak will read Forest and Chekhov's The Seagull. ties for interesting stories are His ability to shut out distrac­ from their plays and take part in a discussion on Hrant Alianak made his debut as a writer in endless:• tions would be the envy of any the early years of Theatre Passe Muraille, Facto­ 1972 at Theatre Passe Muraille with Tantrums. academic, or budding author, for ry Theatre and Toronto Free Theatre from the Other plays include his Gangster trilogy, Night, Only in India that matter. 1970s to the present. Passion and Sin, as well as The Blues, The Big Hit, "I can write a story in three David French is one of Canada's most popular Lucky Strike and The Walls ofAfrica . He formed He gets away with this without hours. I can be very disciplined playwrights. The Mercer plays, about a New­ his company, Alianak Theatre Productions, to making ~nemies because his sto­ about it;' says Dr. Goyal. foundland family (Salt-Water Moon, 1949, produce plays of his own choosing. ries are written in Hindi and "I can work surrounded by Leaving Home, Of the Fields Lately, and Soldier's The reading and round table take place published only in India. noise. I write in airport terminals Heart), have received hundreds of productions Monday, Jan. 17, from 10 tol2:30, in the D.B. At first, Dr. Goyal's stories were when I'm waiting for a flight:• around the world, including Broadway. Clarke Theatre of the Hall Building. Robert Astle set in India, where he was born His other plays include the backstage comedy is the organizer.

€on cordia•s l h·ursday Re' po r-t 1,Jal'l uar y 13, 2005 I 5 + Solar Decathalon team are ready to build their house

KATE SHINGLER and corporate sponsors are crucial. Pasini and his fellow students have Energy-sustaining homes, though rela­ found ways to <]ptimize the efficiency of tively common in Japan and Germany, are the solar panels. That means that they are more often found in classrooms and labo­ able to harness up to 25 per cent more ratories than in subdivisions across energy with their technology. Canada. "Normally, you only get electricity out Master's student Mark Pasini is one of of the panels, but we're able to use it [so about 40 students from Concordia and the efficiently] that we can heat our space and Universite de Montreal who are building a water." solar-powered home for the International The model will be assembled on Con­ Solar Decathalon, to be held. Oct. 7 to 14, cordia's Loyola Campus, its final resting 2005, in Washington, D.C. place. Whether or not it wins next Octo­ The students have to operate a home ber, that will be its permanent home as a equipped with regular appliances like a research centre or teaching facility. It will stove, refrigerator and dishwasher for a demonstrate advanced solar technology week on solar energy alone. They also have as well as Concordia's commitment to sus­ to maintain a steady temperature of tainable development. between 22.2 and 24.4 degrees Celsius The project is getting a lot of media inside the house at all times. attention. The Discovery Channel is pro­ The $70-million International Solar ducing a documentary on the Solar Decathalon was born out of growing con­ Student project manager of the Canadian Solar Decathalon team Mark Pasini (left) and chief fac­ Decathlon, and will be doing segments on cern over the global energy crisis, the ulty advisor Andreas Athienitis beside an early model of the solar-panelled house. eac h team. Global Television and CBC are climbing price of natural gas and oil, and also covering the team's entry. increasing conflicts over access to oil in ning has been underway for quite some Canadian companies for thrir solar panel The· team includes students from two the Middle East. time. supply and may be on the receiving end of Concordia departments, Building, Civil Pasini says the shift towards solar-pow­ Alouette Homes approved the team's a dozen 300-pound batteries from Sur­ and Environmental Engineering and ered homes is inevitable. In fact, he's architectural drawings this summer, a~d rette that will be used to store the solar Computer Science, plus several architec­ convinced that with the right government the construction drawings are now under­ energy. ture students from the Universite de incentives, it's going to start happening way. The Granby-based company, which The panels use the concept of BIPV Montreal. over the next few years. builds modular homes, is sponsoring Con­ {building integrated photovoltaics), Professor Athienitis is envious. "I wish The Concordia-U de M contingent is cordia's entry and will be constructing the which involves integrating solar panels I'd had that when I was an undergraduate the only Canadian team in the competi­ basic structure free of charge. into rooftops rather than having them student. They learn .everything about the tion, up against 18 teams from the U.S. In addition to the model donated by stand out like eyesores. practical aspects of engineering:• He is and abroad. They are all trying to achieve Alouette, help from the federal govern­ They can also be used to cover rooftops working on a related research project, and the same goal: to construct the best and ment and an electric car donated to every like a shingle would today, but they are plans to build a solar-powered home of his most functional home powered complete­ team from GEM, the Concordia team is still much more expensive than regular own. "It's going to be as comfortable as ly by sunlight. seeking other sponsors to help with build­ shingles, costing an average of $400 dol­ possible, almost like a live-in laboratory:• Construction on the energy-efficient ing costs. lars per square metre. That's much more residence begins in February, but plan- They are currently in talks with several than for regular shingles, so donations •

Light on their feet: Dancers learn craft at The~tre School

Ros CARVER wonderful tools. They don't feel like a problem. They feel like an opportunity. What would you do if your cyclorama was "The challenge is how to work in such a too cold and there was no gel in your pin concentrated time and address new ways spot? of working. You have to develop all of your Don't know? Until last week, neither did senses - bring into focus a lot of possibil­ many of the 32 Contemporary Dance stu­ ities and move fluidly between them:• dents taking an intensive two-week An added pressure, albeit positive, is a lighting workshop in collaboration with visit from Francis Reid, one of the world's the National Theatre School of Canada. foremost lighting design authorities. He The students not only pick up the light­ observes the teams' efforts and offers ing lingo but they develop a sense of what comments and critiques. it's like to work under pressure in a real­ The workshop came into being four world situation. years ago to provide Concordia's dance Christine Germain, one of the dancers, students with some practical lighting called it "a fantastic experience:• experience and at the same time give Like other second-year students, Ger­ NTS's lighting students a chance to under­ main and her classmate Hannah Naiman stand the challenges in lighting a dance have been assigned to work with a third­ production. year choreographer, who in turn works "Lights are more often than not used to Contemporary Dance chair Michael Montanaro shows the importance oflight through a publicity with one of the NTS's lighting design stu­ photo he took of dancers, above. He choreographed eight of 10 acts for the Cirque du Soleil show make people visible;' Montanaro com­ dents. Varekai, and is still flown out to cities in the U.S. when the director needs him to update the show. plained. Their job is to put together a dance pro­ "It's a different type of choreography" he said, "because it's not for dancers, but for acrobats with In the workshop the students can see duction for a showcase this Saturday. This more strength but less stamina. It's like movement management:• and practice things like an "angle year, there are 15 choreographers and six demonstration;' where a stationary body's lighting designers cramming to put some­ practical experience as hanging and naro, who helped pioneer the workshop appearance changes with a moving light. thing together with limited time and focusing heavy lights. Those who aren't three years ago and has watched it grow in In past years, students have stunned limited space. slated to use the stages work in hallways scope. Montanaro with their creativity. He recalls Since returning from Christmas break, or empty rooms to keep up. Teams fortu­ "It's more of a process-driven workshop one group using light to create the illusion the students have had to spend at least nate enough to have a stage are than a product-driven one," he said. of people floating in the air. two hours every weekday at the Monu­ encouraged to use their time as wisely as "Wonderful things happen [by] putting all For some of the students, merely under­ ment National on St. Lawrence Blvd. while possible. these creative people in not enough standing words like "cyclorama'' and "pin maintaining their regular course load. The time and space constraints are space:• spot" is enough. According to Hannah They must choreograph and rehearse • exactly the point, says Contemporary Associate Professor Silvy Panet-Ray­ Naiman, "Now we understand what we're their productions while gaining such Dance Department chair Michael Manta- mond agreed. "The restrictions are talking about:·

6 I Concordia ' s Thursday Repo r t I January 13 , 2005 Holly King brings her magic to the new building

worlds:' One of her large photos has been chosen for a mural in Concordia's new Fine Arts-Engineering complex, which is nearing completion at the corner of Guy and Ste. Cather­ ine Sts. Holly's piece, which will be at the entrance to the build­ ing on the metro level, was chosen after a competition organized by the Concordia University Part-Time Faculty Association (CUPFA). She has been a part-time instructor in the Studio Arts department for 20 years, teaching painting and drawing as well as an ARTX course she helped develop that deals with visual language as content. Holly has had 40 solo shows and has participated in about 60 group exhibitions. She has work in several muse­ um collections, including the Montreal Museum of Fine Artist-photographer Holly King on the metro level Arts and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Pho­ of the new building where her photo mural will be tography, which organized a touring show of her work in installed. 1998. Her work is also in several corporate collections, her master's degree. including those of Air Canada and London Life. Her years as a performance artist included a show at She was one of only three Canadian artists with a piece Montreal's Musee d'art contemporain when she was in in the Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences show at the her early 20s. She incorporated symbols inspired by psy­ Museum of Fine Arts in 2000-01, an international exhibi­ chology and Carl Jung's work. tion that went on to the Centre Georges Pompidou in One performance that toured several cities featured Paris. Holly in a cage with a black wooden frame. She wore a two-sided costume, with a peacock on one side and "the Familiar beast" on the other, turning quickly from one character to the other as she paced about the cage. Holly King is represented by Art Mur in Montreal, a gallery Holly's landscapes can seem very familiar. She said a where she had a show that ended in December. The image above, called Beauty, was in the show. few people told her at one show, 'Tm from that area, I Staged performances know it very well:' But she doesn't intend for the illusion ROBERT WINTERS to be complete; she wants the viewer to be aware that the She later created staged performances for the camera landscape is artificial, thus pitting "believability vs. arti­ in a set she created, often adding architectural elements. Artist-photographer Holly King's world is a magical one fice, and fabrication vs. illusion:• Finally, she tired of using the human form and focused on in which the viewer steps out of time and space for a Holly, who takes about a month to make each new land­ photographing the landscapes she created. "I wanted moment to imagine a landscape of beauty that almost scape, doesn't allow her sets to be photographed or viewers to feel they could step into this world I was creat­ seems to have come out of a dream. exhibited. She starts with a drawing, inspired by various ing rather than watch somebody else in that world;' she It's a world of light that glows with a spirit of mystery influences, including films, literary texts and references said. that infuses the landscape. But wait a minute, what exact­ to art history. Then she paints her sky and makes trees out This emphasis on stimulating the imagination of the ly are we looking at? Is this a painting? Some hyper-real of clay, adding other materials such as tissue paper, plas­ viewer is particularly fitting for the mural photo Holly is computer-generated image? ter, wood and plastic. creating for the university's new building, where it will The reality behind Holly's magic is that she creates The sets are quite simple. "It's like going backstage at help link the worlds of the university and the city beyond elaborate miniature sets at her Eastern Townships studio, the theatre;· Holly said. "The actual objects are very hum­ its gates. meticulously photographs them with a special camera ble. Photographing the sets transforms them:• The Concordia piece, which is 14 feet high by 12 feet using a larger than normal size negative and then super­ The reference to performance and theatre is important wide, is titled Seascape and the Sublime. It depicts a lumi­ vises the production of a large-scale print. for understanding the evolution of Holly King's work from nous sky in colours of turquoise and deep blue reflected "People bring their own imagination and memories" to her days as one of the pioneers in performance art in Que­ into a sea that gently swirls and eddies. In the foreground her landscapes, Holly said in an interview. By printing the bec. She studied studio arts, first in Quebec City, at is a large flat-topped landmass that invites the viewer to images so large, viewers "are almost able to step into these Universite Laval, then at York University, where she did contemplate the seascape beyond.

New book examines popularity of St. Anne

BARBARA B LA C K period. scholarship in terms of regional "The heightened enthusiasm St. specificity. "One can't simply talk Virginia Nixon has just published a Anne enjoyed in the late 15th century about the Middle Ages;• she explained. book called Marys Mother: Sainte didn't simply arise, it was created by "With St. Anne, for example, there Anne in Late Medieval Europe. the consciously planned activities of are major differences among German In an e-mail interview, Nixon said, specific groups and individuals;' she cities, not to speak of the differences "I think my attraction to the medieval said in her e-mail. In such social phe­ between different regions and coun­ period goes back to reading Grimm's nomena "there is almost always an tries. " fairy tales as a child. The setting of economic factor of some kind, not in a Nixon did her MA in art history at these, both text and illustrations, was crude causal way, but it's usually there Concordia, but on a quite different usually medieval. I've loved the in one form or another:' subject, a 19th-century Quebec artist Middle Ages as far back as I can She said her work fits in with a ten­ called Antoine-Sebastien Falardeau, remember:' dency in art history to understand the who made a successful career as an St. Anne, usually thought of as the art of a time and place by seeing it in Old Master copyist in Florence. mother of Mary, the mother of Jesus, its milieu. She switched to medieval German was in fact not a biblical figure. Her 'Tm interested in going further in sculpture when she started her PhD. name first appears in an apocryphal trying to understand medieval She has taught art history for 25 "infancy gospel" in the second centu­ people's relationship with works of years at Concordia's Liberal Arts Col­ ry. However, it was in the late art. I did an article a couple of years lege, and now teaches music history medieval period that St. Anne really ago analyzing the significance of the there as well. took off as a cult figure in her own striking compositional differences in Marys Mother was launched last right. two works by the same early 16th cen­ month at the McGill bookstore, and Nixon's book is about the populari­ tury Augsburg artist, one done for an Nixon reports with pleasure that many ty of St. Anne as a devotional figure, elite patron, the other for an illiterate copies were sold. It is available there and what it tells scholars about the viewer:' and at the Concordia bookstore. way Europeans thought during that Her book also conforms to medieval

Concordi.a' s Thursday Report I January 13 , 2005 I 7 Staff member experiences Ukrainian· p_rotests

B ARB A RA BLAC K shevskoho to Khreshchatyk we are sur­ rounded by pro-Yushchenko supporters Chris Mota knew when she paid her first heading to Maidan Nezalezhnosty {Inde­ visit to Ukraine in 2003 that she'd be back. pendence Square) chanting "Razom nas She didn't expect it to be so soon, or under bahato, nas ne podolaty" - "Together we such dramatic circumstances. are many, we won't be defeated:' As media relations co-ordinator for the "The closer we get to the Verchovna university, she deals with reporters on a Rada {Ukrainian parliament) we hear the daily basis. When election results were sound of beating drums. On the crest of a contested by supporters of reformist can­ hill in Mariyinskij Park, facing the Minis­ didate Viktor Yushchenko and crowds ters' Building, are dozens of young men filled the streets day after day, she got calls and women beating on makeshift drums from reporters who needed her help as a - metal garbage cans and oil drums:' translator. Bonfire She told her supervisor, Evelyne Abit­ bol, who went to Vice-President Marcel On another day: "I come across a group Danis and convinced him that the univer­ of about 10 young men huddled together sity could be of service to local media by around an oil-drum bonfire roasting paying for her flight. shashlik. They are students from Lviv and Mota has been devoted to her Ukrain­ Ternopil. ian heritage all her life. Her parents met "When I tell them I am from Canada, a during the Second World War in northern stool is immediately vacated for me. I have England, where they had been evacuated. many questions but they have even more. Sir George Williams University alumnus "'What are they saying about what is Mykola Plawiuk is a relative by marriage going on here? What does Canada think?' whom Mota thinks of as an uncle. He was Chris Mota shares a meal with protestors around a bonfire. The street she's in is just off Indepen­ "I hold up my orange Yushchenko rib­ dence Square, where the new Ukrainian president, Victor Yushchenko, will be given a popular the president of Ukraine in exile from inauguration, to be followed by formal installation in parliament. bon and tell them, 'This is what Canada 1988 to 1992, elected by thousands who thinks: were waiting for the Soviet Union to and worked furiously throughout the difficult to get Canadian cell phones to "They slap each other on the back, reju­ loosen its grip on the country. With this week she was there, helping journalists work, so the journalists had to buy new venated. They know they are making a election, they were hopeful - but what from La Presse, Journal de Montreal, ones. Internet access was a nightmare. difference:• seemed to be widespread electoral fraud Maclean's, and others. E-mails she sent from Kyiv give a taste After Mota returned to Canada, on Dec. robbed them once again. · She reported that Kyiv has come a long of the atmosphere: 26, another election was held, which Mota stayed in her uncle's apartment, way over the last few years, but it was still On the first day: "As we walk down Hru- Yushchenko decisively won.

Business were among the 11 Quebecers who made it into the top 50 Canadian candidates writing the Art from pond scum UFE this year. Congratulations to Jonathan Gra­ ham, Kathryn Johnston and Bradley Wells. To become a chartered accountant, candidates must pass an intensive three-day evaluation known popularly as the UFE, short for uniform evaluation. For the fifth consecutive year, the pass rate for Quebec candidates was higher than the national Dans La Rue and Design Art average. First-time writers in Quebec achieved a A vernissage was held Dec. 10 of work created pass rate of 82.5 per cent, a result that is four by students in the Department of Design Art and points higher than the national average for the high school students linked to Dans La Rue, the same group {78.4 per cent). agency for street kids founded by Rev. Emmett A total of 2,561 students from- across Canada Johns. wrote the exam and 1,908 of them passed. Of The joint initiative, launched in September those, 419 Quebec students were successful.

2001 as a pilot project, enjoyed such success that ,1 The evaluation is administered by the 16,800- the following year it was included in the curricu­ member Ordre des comptables agrees du Quebec. lum. The course offers Concordia students the Its purpose is to measure candidates' ability to opportunity to exchange ideas and mentor Dans integrate their knowledge, and to evaluate, ana­ La Rue students in a social and collaborative envi­ lyze, address, synthesize and effectively ronment. communicate information. The subject matter The Dans La Rue students receive multimedia includes assurance, taxation, information tech­ training from university students, allowing them nology, risk management, corporate finance and to develop skills and confidence, and explore their management accounting. Nissa Nishikawa and her art work own visual expression. Speaker on immigration Nissa Nishikawa, a Studio Arts map from geography class, Fresh Voices from Journalism major who is in the last semes­ includes urban waste and The John Molson School of Business Visiting ter of her program, has created snails that are woven into the Congratulations to five students in the broad­ Speaker Series for 2004-05 will present Keith a rather unusual piece of art­ fabric of the material produced cast journalism program. They were among 16 Banting, a leading authority on Canadian social work called Seu, which she when the scum dried. winners across Canada of a contest run by the policy, on Wednesday, Feb. 9. describes as representing the Nissa told us what she was CBC called Fresh Voice. Banting has been an advisor to senior levels of "natural intelligence of a pond." trying to express with this They submitted proposals for mini-documen­ government and is a former vice-president of the Nissa says she was inspired work. taries to the national competition. As winners, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to do the piece when she was The scum of the pond "is an their proposals will be produced and broadcast on {SSHRC). strolling in Lafontaine Park. entirely flowing universe, a Newsworld and CBC Radio's Sounds Like Canada He will present results of his most recent She noticed a layer of scum miniature ecosystem that our in February. research, and has titled his talk "Immigration, on the rocks of one of the park's hands gently pulled from the They are Karen Biskin, Wendy Smith, Oswald Multiculturalism Policies and the Welfare State: Is ponds. By carefully removing tight-knit rocks." Michelin, Joslyn Oosenburg and Sikander there a tension between recognition and redistri­ the scum and drying it, Nissa Her collaborator on the piece Hashimi. bution?" was able to create what she was Tessa Wetherill, a dancer The graduate programs in non-profit manage­ describes as paper-like sheets. and former art school student. JMSB students excel in UFE ment and sport administration are Banting's The dried scum, which looks hosts, and he will meet with students in the a bit like a physical landscape - Robert Winters Three students from the John Molson School of DIA/DSA program before his public lecture.

8q, ( 'oflc,ord !a.'l.Th·u.rsda y,-'ll epo_r tt l Nove.mb e,r 0 8, 02004 Concordia reaches semis in MBA Case Competition

JIM FLYNN has an unfair advantage:• The team who planned and directed The team from the Haskayne School of this year's successful case competition, Business, at the University of Calgary, won held Jan. 3 to Jan. 8 at the Hilton Bonaven­ the John Molson School Business's 24th ture Hotel, comprised Lay, Joshua Byers, International MBA Case Competition. Kyle Deguire and Isabelle Smith. The challenge was to come up with cre­ All are final-year MBA students who ative solutions to cases, i.e. real-life gained practical experience at last year's business problems. It was intense, and the competition by serving as executive assis­ final presentation was made in front of a tants. The event proceeded smoothly from full-house audience and a high-powered Day One to the final banquet, sponsored board of judges from as far away as by Scotiabank. Europe. Joshua Byers, who worked with the Concordia, whose team won last year's judges, ·said, "There's always a couple of event, made it to the semi-finals. Mischa fires every day. It helps to have a short Loeffler, Benoit Breault, Egan Cheung, memory and tough skin. We have good Chris Tomiuk and Farah Ahmad made up people around us who have a lot of experi­ the home team, who placed seventh. ence - that's a big help:' Participants included 30 teams of Mas­ Kyle Deguire added, "Every year there ter's of Business Administration students are unforeseen challenges in staging this from across Canada, the United States, competition. This year we had a few but Europe, Hong Kong and New Zealand. we dealt with them. You have to work Pierre Brunet, chairman of Peak Finan­ together to manage an event like this:' Student organizers of the Case Competition, from the left and going clockwise, cial Group, sits on the competition's Joshua Byers, Mathieu Lay, Kyle Deguire and Isabelle Smith. Isabelle Smith, who was responsible for advisory board. budget and sponsorship, remembers some "There are no losers in this competi­ sage advice the organizing team received tion, in a broad sense;' he said. "Each from their corporate benefactors: "There's team receiv:_es feedback from the judges in world. They are looking for broad-based four student organizers, was responsible no rehearsal for this event. You only get writing to give the participants something workable solutions with a good action for finding and maintain the confidential­ one shot. Everything has to be planned in to walk away with and think about as they plan, ideas they can sell to their employ­ ity of the cases until they were unveiled in advance down to the last detail:' prepare for the next round:' ees and their customers. Presentation is the competition. Second place was taken by the Sobey Brunet, who has been associated with important, but it is content that matters "It's important that each team receives School of Business, St. Mary's University the case competition since its inception most to these judges:• the same amount of time studying the {Halifax), and third by Wilfrid Laurier 24 . years ago, points to the calibre of This year, for the first time, the compe­ case;' he said. "They have three hours to University {Kitchen-Waterloo). Prizes of judges as a key factor in the competition's tition was preceded by a case-writing prepare their 25-minute presentation. $5,000 to $10,000 were awarded to the top high standards of performance. invitational that attracted entrants from Then they have a 15-minute Q&A with the three teams. The Richard Outcault Spirit "These judges are not academics; they all over the world - Asia, India, Britain, judges. There's a lot of secrecy involved in Award went to Memorial University of are from the business community, the real the U.S. and Canada. Mathieu Lay, one of rolling out the cases to ensure no team Newfoundland.

Scholarships and bursaries served up at festive breakfast

FRANCINE FREEMAN in the graduate diploma program in com­ munity economic development Concordia's enrolment is steadily growing. Fortunately, so are the number and range Graduate Awards of the university's scholarships and bur­ saries, according to Roger Cote, executive The Graduate Awards and Teaching director of Enrolment and Student Ser­ Assistantships Induction Ceremony and vices. Breakfast were held Dec. 3 at the Inter­ This year, more than 300 undergraduate Continental Hotel and saw the students are receiving scholarships and introduction of 16 new awards. bursaries valued at a total of$512,000, and Ragai Ibrahim, professor emeritus of more than 440 graduate students are biology, established a graduate award in receiving fellowships, scholarships, bur­ biology as "a tribute to the university saries, awards and teaching assistantships which adopted me in 1966 and gave me valued at $1,770,000. the opportunity to excel in my teaching At the Undergraduate Scholarships and and research:' Over his career at Concor­ Awards Breakfast Reception, held Nov. 26 dia, Ibrahim has trained close to 40 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, 24 new graduate students. awards were introduced, bringing to 162 Another new award, the Keith Lowther the number offered to Concordia under­ Graduate Award, is the result of four years graduate students annually. The winner of the Gerald, Maria & Georgiana Daoussis Scholarship, Eric Guraieb, celebrates with of earnest fundraising and benefit con­ "Students and donors help make Con­ Paul Dao088is and Gerald Daoussis. certs by students in the History cordia a very special place; said Provost Department Lowther died in 1997 from Martin Singer. These awards, and the will­ Professor Ellen Jacobs, who introduced dents who helped make the charity event complications related to AIDS just a few ingness of people in the community to the award, said her death left a void a success. months shy of earning his PhD in history. recognize the needs of students, are also a among the students. The award is based The Mildred B. Lande Prize for Service The Office of University Advancement tribute to the university. on criteria that exemplify her academic to the Community was established by gov­ and Alumni Relations inaugurated its standing, professionalism and co-opera­ ernor emeritus Miriam Roland to graduate bursary, funded through an Memorial to student tive spirit honour Lande, a distinguished member of endowment supported by 95 per cent of Jean Fabi, president of the Champi­ Concordia's Board of Governors, on her staff members. The new awards include the Nadia onnat des Ameriques international 90th birthday. "It is fitting that we lead by example Gagliano Student Teaching Award, estab­ equestrian event, introduced the Institute Roland has also generously funded two and do our share in encouraging the phil­ lished in memory of a student who passed for Co-operative Education Work Term new awards at the graduate level, an anthropic values we uphold," said Tamara away in her final year of studies in early Stipend. He initiated it because he was entrance fellowship in the PhD in human­ Gulezko. The office's undergraduate bur­ childhood education at Concordia. impressed by the Concordia co-op stu- ities program and a bursary for students sary was awarded in early 2004. Professional touch Sustainability ideal sparks new policies an·d projects It has been a busy first semester on the job Through R4 Concordia, Chartwell's cafe­ for Melissa Garcia Lamarca. As the universi­ teria operations on campus were assessed, ty's first sustainability co-ordinator, she and an action plan was drafted to improve reaches out to Concordians to make the uni­ service. Some of the suggestions are to elim­ versity more socially and ecologically viable. inate individually wrapped sugar, milk and "So far, my experience has been overwhelm­ cream, provide fair trade coffee, and offer ingly positive," she said. hormone- and antibiotic-free meals on the Garcia Lamarca has brought together five menu. professors who are working to create an Garcia Lamarca, who is an alumna of the interdisciplinary graduate program in socie­ Sustainable Concordia Project, works with tal and environmental sustainability. They SCP students. One of the working groups, are Frank Millier (Economics), P.K Lang­ Energy Action, is planning seminars this shaw (Design Art), Ramdas Chandra (John term with another student group, Engineers Molson School of Business), and Catherine Without Borders, on renewable energy Mulligan and John Hadjinicolaou (Civil sources and on how green technology might Engineering). be implemented in the developing world. Students taking a civil engineering course Another SCP project would turn the in environmental impact assessment have greenhouse on the roof of the Hall building already benefited from the support of Gar­ into a space for students and faculty (partic­ cia Lamarca and her colleagues in ularly from Fine Arts and Engineering) to Environmental Health and Safety and Facil­ grow food and plants and carry out projects. ities Management. The students did Then there's the Allego program, created projects on topics such as water consump­ by the Agence Metropolitain de Transport tion, building material recycling and air to encourage alternative modes of trans­ quality. portation in various institutions. In collaboration with Sue Magor, director Garcia Lamarca has been asked to coordi­ of Environmental Health and Safety, Lamar­ nate the Allego project, which will involve ca has drafted an environmental policy for surveying of the university community to the university. This was a result of recom­ understand transportation habits. The mendations in the Concordia Campus results will be analyzed and a plan devel­ Sustainability Assessment (2003). It is built oped to encourage public transit use, off the Talloires Declaration, a 10-point plan walking. biking, and carpooling. signed by more than 300 university presi­ In October, Garcia Lamarca participated dents in 40 countries around the world, in two conferences in the U.S. that gave her including Concordia's Frederick Lowy in a chance to spread the word about Concor­ Geoff Selig, president of the Concordia University Professional Employees Union, puts a few finishing touches to decorative slogans on the Christmas tree in front of adminis­ 1995. dia's own sustainability program and trative offices in Bishop CourL CUPEU's negotiations with the university for a new A new part-time position has been creat­ exchange ideas with others. "It was useful to contract continue. The main issues are salaries and job security. ed. Chantal Beaudoin is running a project see how sustainability initiatives are unfold­ called R4 Concordia: Rethink, Reduce, ing on different campuses - and to Reuse, Recycle, which expands the recycling recognize how unique and special our program. The four Rs are rethinking con­ process is:• sumption and waste production, reducing. reusing and finally recycling. Suresh Goyal writes Helping others in many ways ':{'he Concordia Student Union and some of Just before the holiday break, there were its clubs are holding a cultural day today on many efforts to help others. CASA Cares, a about us - in Hindi the mezzanine of the Hall Building. There student committee of John Molson School When writer Daniel McCabe went abroad" - the sort of people he reg­ will be food from different cultures, as well of Business, held a Holiday Bake Sale, and looking for professors with hobbies ularly interact~ with in Canada. as a shave to save, sketches being done for raised $400, to which they added another outside their field of scholarship, we He has published more than 130 donations, henna decoration and other $250 from a party at Peel Pub. The money suggested John Molson School of short stories since 1987 in maga­ activities. went to Dans La Rue, which works with Business professor Suresh Goyal. zines such as Sarita and Mukta, The students are trying to raise $20,000 to Montreal street kids. CASA Cares is a subdi­ Here's what McCabe wrote about him some with circulation in the mil­ support the relief efforts for tsunami vic­ vision of CASA that organizes events to raise for the January issue of University lions. He has also published poetry tims. The money will be sent to Asia through money for local charities. Affairs: and a novel. Initially he wrote as a Oxfam, where over 90 per cent of the funds Lise Tavares (Information Services) and Dr. Goyal merrily finds ample way to escape the pressures of his go to relief efforts. Tax receipts will be the men in Distribution Services collectd material in university corridors to job, but now he can't help himself. issued for all donations made. non-perishable food items, clothes and toi­ drive the plots of the short stories he "Once I get an idea about a story, I letries, and gave them to St. Michael's writes for magazines in India. have to write it out. I can't sleep oth­ Centraide over the top Mission for men in downtown Montreal. He says academics experience erwise:• plenty of intrigue and heartbreak in An expert on operations manage­ Concordia's Centraide exceeded its objec­ Ribbons on tree their lives, and many of his short ment and productivity, Dr. Goyal tive of $140,000 by $20,000 - and still stories are based on episodes in the practices what he preaches. counting! The committee, led by Catherine For a week before Christmas, the Student lives of friends and acquaintances. "I teach about the best utilization Mulligan and Miriam Posner, wants to Emergency Food Fund of the Multi-faith "In [the JMSB], we have faculty of limited resources. Time is one of extend a big thank-you to all the volunteers Chaplaincy invited passersby to make dona­ members from over 30 different those limited resources, so I try to and donors. tions and tie a ribbon on the holiday tree in countries. We have students from all utilize my time effectively:• Centraide's total for Greater Montreal was the atrium. over the world. The possibilities for His ability to shut out distractions $45.4 million, well over the objective for the Every year, employees of the Concordia interesting stories are endless:• would be the envy of any academic, campaign. Libraries hold a silent auction of donated He gets away with this without or budding author, for that matter. Although the campaign is ostensibly over, goods and services to benefit various chari­ making enemies because his stories "I can write a story in three hours. you can give to Centraide any time of the ties. are written in Hindi and published I can be very disciplined about it," year. Watch for a big jazz concert on Feb. 2 Boi May Ang reports that the Libraries only in India. At first, Dr. Goyal's sto­ says Dr. Goyal. "I can work sur­ in the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, featur­ Christmas Auction raised a record-breaking ries were set in India, where he was rounded by noise. I write in airport ing vocalist Jeri Brown and many of $4,600 and is still counting it all up. It goes born and raised, "but an editor sug­ terminals when I'm waiting for a Concordia's talented musicians, to add to to a variety of needy causes at Concordia gested that I focus on Indians living flight." our Centraide total. and in the wider community.

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Stingers a close second at Humes event Stingers roundup

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European vacation for player, coach

Concordia Stinger left wing Yannick Noiseux and head coach Kevin Figsby went to Innsbruck, Austria, this week to represent Canada at the 2005 Winter Universiade from Jan. 12 to 22. The top 26 players in the conference competed for 21 roster spots at the team's training camp in Woodstock, Ont., from Dec. 15-19. Noiseux is the leading scorer on the Stingers, with eight goals and 14 assists for 22 points in 13 games. He is the second leading scorer in the OUA and has the second best numbers in the nation. Emilie Larocque (17) in play against the Golden Hawks from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. He is an Administration majoi: Noiseux has been on provincial teams and competed at the JOH N AUSTEN were the top goalie and defenceman respectively. Canada Games as a baseball player. However, the Winter Universi­ Concordia opened the scoring early in the second . ade will be his first international competition. They may have outplayed their opponents but, as period when Janie Brassard scored at the 5:21 mark. Also representing Concordia will be head coach Figsby, who Stingers women's hockey coach Les Lawton will tell The celebration was shortlived, however, as the joins Team Canada as an assistant coach. He is a successful moti­ you, it's the final score that counts. Hawks tied it up just 22 seconds later when Fiona vator with more than 20 years of coaching experience at the The Stingers, despite outshooting their foes 29- Aiston, one of the top female players in the country, provincial, national and international levels, including serving as 15, lost a heartbreaking 2-1 decision to the Wilfrid beat Stinger netminder Cecilia Anderson. head coach of the bronze medal Quebec entry at the world under- Laurier Goiaen Hawks in the final of the Theresa The Regina Cougars defeated the Toronto Varsi­ 17 championship in 1995. Humes Women's Hockey Tournament, played last ty Blues 2-1 to finish third. A 2-1 victory over the Canada will compete in a pool with China, the Czech Republic, Sunday afternoon at the Ed Meagher Arena. Queen's Golden Gaels gave the Ottawa Gee-Gees the Japan, Ukraine and defending champion Russia. The Canadians Numerous penalties called against both teams consolation championship. The McGill Martlets will open the tournament on Jan. 13 against China. left the game with very little flow, and Lawton said blanked the Plattsburgh State Cardinals 1-0 to fin­ that hurt his club. ish in seventh place. Cage Vikes top Lady Stingers "We're a skating team, so it was tough for us to All proceeds from the gate of the eight-team get anything going with all the stoppages," said competition will be donated to the Concordia Stu­ The University of Victoria Vikes defeated the Concordia Stingers Lawton. "We didn't play our best game and their dent Union's Tsunami Relief Fund. The receipts 68-60 to win the third annual Concordia-Reebok Women's Basket­ goalie [Cindy Eadie] made some big saves. The bot­ from the three days of action totalled $4,000. ball Tournament in Montreal earlier this month. tom line is that we didn't capitalize, and the final Perhaps the best game of the tournament was Jody Potts led the charge in a physical game between two of the score shows that." played a day earlier when fourth-year defender top women's teams in Canada. She was the leading scorer in the Candice Djukic scored the winning goal with 3:44 Marie-Helene DeBlois scored the winning goal in a game with 26 points. Jen Diana chipped in with 14 points and left to play to give the Hawks the victory in the shootout to give the Stingers a 3-2 victory over Lindsay Hewson added 10 points. Victoria is ranked No. 6 by championship game before 350 exuberant fans. Toronto in the semifinals. Canadian University Sport The Stingers went into the game as slight under­ DeBlois was the seventh Stinger shooter and only For the No. 8-ranked host team, Pascale Morin scored 19 points dogs since they were ranked No. 6 in the country, the second Concordia player to beat goaltender and Graziella Charles added 12 points. The score was 36-27 at half while Wilfrid Laurier sits at No. 2. Stephanie Lockert. Toronto's Janine Davis and Janie time. The Stingers tied the game mid-way through the second half Concordia's diminutive forward, Dominique Ran­ Brassard of the Stingers exchanged goals early in but couldn't hang on against the Vikes. cour, who was seemingly on the ice all afternoon, the shootout In the third-place game, the Bishop's Gaiters rolled over the felt they still should have won the game. The Stingers last won the tournament in 2002 Memorial Sea-Hawks by a score of 70-48. "It's disappointing, because we can play better with a 4-3 victory over the Cornell Big Red. They The Queen's Golden Gaels topped the Laurentian Voyagers 72- than that and we still almost won," she said. 'Tm lost 4-1 to the Alberta Pandas in the championship 59 to finish first on the consolation side. really tired right now, but I think overall the tourna­ game last January. The Pandas went on to win the Wilfrid Laurier finished in seventh place with a 69-51 victory ment will give us confidence heading into the gold medal at the CIS championship. over the UQAM Citadins. second half of the season." Concordia is in first place i.n Quebec with a 5-2-2 Rancour was named as the tournament's top for­ record. Concordia cagers shave heads ward, while Hawks' Eadie and Ashley Stephenson Four members of the Concordia Stingers women's basketball team shaved their heads in front of more than 250 people last Wednes­ Women host hoops tourney day night at the Stingers men's hockey game. The women - Emilie Ruel, Fanie Ruel, Shannah Ernest and All­ Canadian M.J. Raposo - made the exceptional gesture in hopes of raising a couple of hundred dollars for the Canadian Cancer Soci­ ety. Due to the generosity of friends, teammates, family and supportive hockey fans, approximately $1,000 was raised. The stu­ dent-athletes were inspired by the Ruel sisters' uncle. They wanted to do something to encourage him in his fight against can­ cer. The Stingers boast a 5-2 win-loss record and were recently ranked No. 8 in Canadian University Sport.

Stingers win holiday tourney

The Concordia Stingers men's basketball team defeated the Saint Mary's Huskies 71-63 to win the annual eight-team Rod Shoveller Memorial Tournament hosted by Dalhousie University in Halifax. Senior guard Phil Langlois led the Stingers' attack in the cham­ pionship game on Jan. 2. He scored 13 points and added eight rebounds and seven assists, and was named the tournament MVP.

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