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SHELAGH MCNALLY our everyday lives but we aren't really using them to full capacity. MDCN wants That cell phone in your pocket is about to to send images, text and music to mobile get a lot more interesting and powerful. devices in ways never tried before. The Mobile Digital Commons Network "This is a chance to experiment in a (MDCN) is one of the research projects bandwidth that is not yet heavily popu emerging from the seed grants lated. We have some room to play and announced last spring by ENCS Dean hopefully to create an online community Nabil Esmail and Fine Arts Deaµ Christo for hand-held technology;' said Michael pher Jackson. Longford, an associate professor in the This multidisciplinary undertaking Department of Design Art. has brought together an international MDCN will also be creating a physical network of artists, researchers and engi connection to the cyber world by making neers to explore the potential of wireless the information sensitive to location. · communication. A joint initiative with Jason Lewis, another associate profes the Banff Centre, it has just received a sor in Design Art, said, "The idea is to grant from Heritage Canada for just mark up [fill] space with virtual data so under $500,000. Jason Lewis, Reza Soleymani and Michael Longford try out the features of their cell that you could be on a street comer and phones on the roof of the building on Ste. Catherine St. that houses the research Cell phones, personal digital assistants institute Hexagram. Soleymani is an engineer; Longford and Lewis are part of the pro use your wireless device to plug into data (PDAs), global positioning systems (GPS) gram Digital Image and Sound in the Fine Arts. left by someone talking about an event and portable computers may be part of continued on page 5 Leafy exterior mural will become a downtown landmark
JENNIFER WESTLA KE His uncompromising take on work had to cross some hurdles with this project, The leafy mural gracing the Mackay St. though. Consensus on the entry had to be far,:ade of the Integrated Engineering, reached between a creative team of three. Computer Science and Visual Arts Com Baier had his doubts about their final plex is complete. choice, which he produced after a long When it was briefly spotlit at a formal process of brainstorming and debate, but introduction to the public on Sept. 28, the his team members and his agent, Rene spaces within its grid that are dark in Blouin, loved it. The image was submit daylight appeared in all their translucent ted, and the contract was won. glory. The mural, depicting sections of a Discussion between the artist and Con deconstructed plant, will be permanently cordia over a stipulation that the mural lit at night after the building is finished. not be visible from the interior of the Although the mural's grid-based com buildil).g led to a compromise that Baier position bears something in common could live with: 15 to 20 per cent of the with the look of some of his past works, work is transparent. The mural will not the artist, Nicolas Baier, pointed out, be visible from the studios, but the win "Every time I've used a grid, I've func dows of certain public spaces will have a tioned very differently on the Guests listen to speeches in the garden of St. James the Apostle Church, at the corner vaguely stained-glass effect. of Bishop and Ste. Catherine Sts., as the mural, seen in the background, is presented to methodological level of the work." the community on Sept. 28. Although there were expenses that The divisions, or splices, in his photo would not be incurred in most art works graphs take on different purposes from the contract. This is far from being his He has built a career that allows for the (a creative team of three, and lawyers' one piece to the next. In this case, the first coup, though. creative latitude he insists on. His cre fees, for example), and the project was grid fulfills a purely formal purpose. "It's Baier's work is familiar to followers of ative modus operandi is simple, but very two years in the making, at a total cost of a collapsed point of view:• The composi visual arts in Quebec. He won the Prix broad. $475,000, the payment to the artist is sig tion forces the eye to rummage through, Pierre Ayot in 2000, and had an exhibition "I ask myself if it works or not, or if it nificant. (Consider that the average skip over and piece together an image in in 2003 at the Museum of Contemporary touches me. That's all. I won't close any annual income of visual artists in Canada the mind. Art. There's a piece of his at the Montreal doors, and I try to never do the same is $12,633.) Baier stresses that he is inter Baier didn't deny being proud of hav Museum of Fine Arts, and private thing over. It has to be different all the ested in reality, or more precisely, what he ing, with the design team Cabinet collectors buy his work through the Rene time. Otherwise it would be boring. and I Braun-Braen, won the competition for Blouin Gallery. would stop producing:• continued on page 5
h l THIS ISSUE 2 Tackling Tinseltown 3 High anxiety ) Homecoming a hit 10-11 Faculty. promotions Richard Kerr's new show New treatment developed Comedians,costumes Full professors in Arts & Science -t
Joy Bennett studies facul.ty unions for her PhD
SARAH B I NDER to grind. At the same time, management intransi gence can force academics to adopt tactics, such as When Concordia University management and profes work stoppages, that do not sit well with their profes sors next sit down at the bargaining table, they might sional self-image. take inspiration from Joy Bennett's doctoral disserta She concluded that on the whole, unionization has tion on the unionization of full-time faculty in had a positive effect because it codifies the rules of English-Canadian universities. the game, making them fairer and clear to both sides. Not that she included Concordia in the thesis's How tenure is achieved, how promotions are decided, three case studies. "I can't be objective about a place what constitutes a minimum teaching complement I know so well;' Bennett explained. The librarian - these are no longer decisions made arbitrarily; turned-administrator-turned-consultant has sat on they are written down and subject to a recourse pro both sides of the negotiating table during her long cedure. career at Concordia. "It has made the relationship between the adminis Concordia, whose full-time faculty won certifica tration and faculty more litigious but also more tion in 1981, actually makes a good showing on the transparent;' Bennett said. spectrum of industrial relations in academe. This transparency can be a relief to many ·on the "We take a long time to bargain, but we stay at the management side of the table, Bennett found, espe table;' Bennett said. "We've never had a strike. It's a cially for deans and vice-deans who have been faculty credit to both sides:' and are likely to resume that status at another point Compare this to Dalhousie University, one of Ben in their career. nett's case studies. The Halifax institution, certified Unionization has led to a tremendous improve since 1980, has suffered though four strikes in its four ment in salaries. Although academics don't like to last rounds of contract talks. think of themselves in the usual labour-management Or take Queen's, in Kingston, where teaching staff terms, the issue of salaries remains a high negotia rejected unionization until a salary freeze in 1995, tions priority, along with tenure and the number of then breezed through the certification process in full-time tenure-track faculty. three months due to a "sophisticated" faculty that Academic freedom is also a hot-button issue, and included supportive law-school comrades. given recent cases where attempts were made to sup By contrast, it took a lengthy battle to win the right press research results, it could take on an even higher to bargain collectively in 1974 at the University of profile in future contract talks. Bennett, who received Manitoba, Canada's first English research-level uni her PhD this spring and has submitted the thesis to a versity to have a unionized faculty association; it Canadian book publisher, credits her doctoral com was Bennett's third case study. mittee members for adding breadth and depth to the Joy Bennett By now, most of Canada's full-time university pro work: Enn Raudsepp, chair of the Journalism Depart fessors negotiate collectively through faculty ment; Donald Savage, former executive director of the associations. Bennett set out to explore the impact of Using documents and interviews with faculty and Canadian Association of University Teachers and adjunct this in her PhD thesis, submitted in August 2003 under administrators reflecting different regional and universi history professor; and her main supervisor, Jerry Tomber the title "From gentlemen's agreements to collective ty cultures, she examined why and how collective lin, dean of the John Molson School of Business. agreements: how the unionization of full-time faculty bargaining developed. Bennett is currently advising Concordia management members in anglophone Canadian universities has She found that trust can be a major issue in the admin in negotiations with part-time faculty, and is teaching a changed the management and governance structures of istration-faculty relationship, and that management management course at McGill's Graduate School of those universities:' efforts to be open can run up against faculty with an axe Library and Information Studies.
Avant-garde filmmaker takes on Hollywood i·n a new show
Scon M c RAE The film Collage d'Hollywood, which will be shown at the exhibition as a Experimental filmmaker Richard Kerr is remixed digital projection, juxtaposes turning Hollywood on its head this fall in three tracks of different collages of trail an upcoming exhibition filled with found ers onto one screen. This frenzy of fo otage. familiar, overlapping images moves Kerr has turned toward meta-cinema, through Hollywood genre, from science an art form which embraces both film's fiction to thriller, and offers in its sensory ephemeral images and the physical prod overload a poignant critique of both the ucts of the industry, the filmstrips. commercial film world's vacuity and its Industrie/Industry is an installation of limited visual grammar. Kerr's work that will be displayed at the Working with trailers has proved an Cinematheque quebecoise starting in artistic goldmine for Kerr. "It's like work November. It uses as its principal materi ing with diamond dust;' he said. "It's very al approximately 40 trailers from major rich material:' Hollywood films released between 1998 It also suits his personality. Kerr is an and 2000. energetic, restless man who is constantly From these trailers Kerr and his team, on the move. Brett Kashmere and Mike Rolo, have cre Unlike many of his meta-cinematic ated an exhibition that uses the footage contemporaries who have experimented in several ways: a slide show of "stilled with slowing films down, Kerr has been cinema;' a series of "motion picture weav interested in the acceleration of film. ings," and a film they call Collage Film trailers, already a highly accelerated d'Hollywood. Indeed, collage has become From left, Mike Rollo, a former MFA student and now the Mel Hoppenheim School form of cinema, were a natural choice, he the central aesthetic for the show. of Cinema's production co-ordinator, filmmaker Richard Kerr, and Brett Kashmere, explained. The slides in the "stilled cinema" seg an MFA student and curator of an exhibition at the Cinemateque quebecoise. They may be fast, but his work ment consist of two consecutive trailer demands extended contemplation, Kerr frames which have been boiled until the others have been distorted to look like look like geometric abstractions; viewed said. 'Tm happy that this will be in a emulsion softens, physically manipulat abstract art. up close, the tiny images reveal a critical gallery setting. ed, retouched with dye, then inserted into In his "motion picture weavings;' Kerr analysis of this film commodity. In case "You don't make things like this to see a slide holder. · stitches together filmstrips of Hollywood anyone missed the point, Kerr and his once. Like poetry and jazz, they demand Some retain many of their original fea trailers and mounts the crosshatched team have named one of the lightboxes repeated viewings:' tures and still look like film frames; product on lightboxes. From afar, they "Hollywood Turns Light into Money:'
21 ' ('o n'cord ia •5' l'hd rs day R'e~ ort' I O't t ob·er 7" , 20·0'4 Psychologists bring new hope to some sufferers from anxiety ance
Calvin Kalman (Physics) chaired the 6th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons, held in Chicago from June 27 to July 3. He presented a paper on why Quarks cannot be fundamental particles. Kalman has chaired the previous conferences in Montreal, Genoa, Valencia and Vancouver. He also gave a refereed 90-minute workshop, An Interactive Introductory Course, at STLHE2004 (Soci ety for Teaching and Learning), at the University of Ottawa from June 17 - 19. The conference theme was Experiencing the Richness of the University :&iosaic: From Diversity to Individuality.
Journalism student Heather Thompson landed an internship spon sored by the UK High Commission with the Daily Telegraph, one of From left, Michel Dugas, Natalie Phillips and Adam Radomsky Britain's major newspapers, where she will spend one month on the foreign desk. Heather was one of the top students in her class last year, J AN ICE HAM I LTON GAD requires guaranteed safety, and might and won a European Union Young Journalists Award that took her to cancel the trip. Brussels. Everyone worries from time to time, but for Another factor is fear of anxiety. People some people, anxiety becomes so intense that with GAD believe that being anxious is dan Congratulations to Elizabeth Sacca, Dean of Graduate Studies, who it is paralyzing. Recent research carried out by gerous. This combination of features leads has been named to the 2004 class of Distinguished Fellows of the Concordia's Michel Dugas has led to a suc them to a paradox: they want to approach the National Art Education Association. Her name will be announced at cessful new treatment approach for one type situation in order to be more certain what it the First General Session of this body, to be held at a convention in of severe anxiety called generalized anxiety involves, but they fear the anxiety involved in Boston. disorder (GAD). making that approach. "Our treatment manual is being used in sev "They get stuck between wanting to know Barry Lazar (Journalism) was the co-producer, with Garry Beitel, of eral settings in Canada;• said Dugas, naming more, and not wanting to feel more anxiety;' The Man Who Learned to Fan a touching documentary about a writer hospitals in Quebec, Ontario and British Dugas said. who is slowly dying of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. It was Columbia. "We have data showing that this shown Sept. 22 at McGill as part of the public evening of the 15th treatment is effective:' Uncertainty International Congress on Care of the Terminally Ill. Dugas saw that the relaxation techniques usually used to treat GAD are not completely One of the key features of the treatment he The paper written by graduate student Girish B. Parvate-Patil, effective; so he developed an approach that is has developed is that clients learn to increase Henry Hong and Brandon W. Gordon (Mechanical/Industrial Engi specific to this disorder. "We want to refine their tolerance of uncertainty. "When you neering), ''.An Assessment of Intake and Exhaust Philosophies for our understanding of the factors involved in increase tolerance to uncertainty, it seems Variable Valve Timing," was judged among the most outstanding SAE the development and maintenance of GAD to people worry less; there seems to be a causal technical papers of 2003. The paper will appear in the SAE Journal of help us refine our treatment:' link:' Engines, (September 2004). Hong is the faculty advisor for the SAE He is associate professor of psychology and A third feature of GAD is that these people Student Chapter at Concordia, which has successfully participated in member of the Centre for Research in Human seem to process information in a different way SAE competitions all over North America. Development, and works with associate pro than most of the population: they tend to see fessors Natalie Phillips and Adam Radomsky. threats in ambiguous situations. Francesca Scala (Political Science) won the Jill Vickers Prize for the With colleagues from Hopital du Sacre If they see someone waving from the water, best paper submitted to Canadian Political Science Association meet Coeur de Montreal, where Dugas holds for example, they are more likely to think the ing. Written with Isabelle Fortier and Eric Montpetit, the paper was research and clinical positions, they have just person is drowning rather than waving hello, called "Democratic Practices vs. Expertise: The National Action Com received a three-year $156,700 grant from the or they will think someone running towards mittee on the Status of Women and Canada's Policy on Reproductive Canadian Institutes of Health Research to them is a mugger. Technology:' investigate the mechanisms underlying GAD. In the new study, Dugas and his colleagues Dugas explained that GAD features exces will use computer tasks to better understand Professor emeritus Andrew Kavchak (Philosophy) was the keynote sive and uncontrollable worry and anxiety. how people with GAD notice and interpret speaker at the June 24 - 27 international conference of the Centre for One of the most common anxiety disorders, it information around them. Gifted Education at the University of Calgary. His paper, "Develop may affect between four and six per cent of "We are also going to look at the interaction mental Potential and Authentic Mental Development;' is available in the population. between intolerance of uncertainty and fear of the proceedings of the conference. People who suffer from it have difficulty anxiety, and how they are related to this interacting with family and friends, are often biased cognitive processing;• he said. Suresh Goyal (Decision Sciences & MIS) is a creative writer of note. unemployed, risk developing other medical The study will look at the differences Longtime CTR readers know that he has had many stories published problems, and cost the health care system between three groups: people with GAD, peo in Hindi. Now one of his poems, My Wish, has been given an Editor's four times more than members of the general ple with other types· of anxiety disorders, and Choice Award by the International Library of Poetry, found at population. people from the general population. www.poetry.com. Several factors seem to be implicated in Dugas, who grew up in Ottawa, did his PhD GAD. Most commonly, people with GAD are at Laval, and came to Concordia in 1998. A conference is being held Oct. 13-15 at UQAM called Mending the unable to tolerate even small amounts of He wanted to be a scientist-practitioner Past: Memory and the Politics of Forgiveness. It is sponsored by the uncertainty. because "when you do research, that helps you Institut d'etudes de Montreal and CRIC, the Centre de recherche sur For example, if an ordinary traveller knows be a better clinician, and when you see clients, /'immigration, l'ethnicite et la citoyennete. Daniel Salee (School of that there is a one-in-2-million chance that that helps you come up with more clinically Community and Public Affairs) will be a discussant at a session on the plane he is scheduled to travel on will relevant ideas:• His work on GAD helps him indigenous people in the Americas. crash, he will take the risk, but a person with achieve that goal.
C,p ~cor_dia •_s l hu(s da y ~eport I.O~to b.et 7. , ~o og I 3, ...: Board approves amended international student levy
LAURI E ZAC K tives. Any clawback by the government or · professors in the last eight years and another Faculty, two students (undergrad change in funding policy for internation bringing enrolment close to our capacity and grad) and an administrative and sup At its Sept. 29 meeting, the Board of Gov al students would nullify the levy. of 25,000 FTEs (full-time equivalent stu port staff representative from the Faculty. ernors resumed a discussion from last Provost Martin Singer recognized the dents), the university only spends about Provost Martin Singer reported that spring concerning a proposed levy on difficult financial situation of many inter $9,000 per sturient. This contrasts starkly undergraduate admissions were stable international students in the Faculty of national students, but emphasized that with the $10,000 to $11,000 per student for the university as a whole but down in Arts and Science. Speaking in a room this was in no way a "money grab" by the when he began his term 10 years ago and . Engineering and Computer Science and packed with international students and university. the Ontario average of $18,000 per stu in the JMSB. Singer explained that engi student supporters, the governors lis Singer said the real culprit is the gov dent. neering admissions were down across the tened to impassioned pleas from student ernment funding policy, which claws country. He hoped that graduate admis representatives and sobering explana back the difference between fees paid by Search for Dean of Arts & Science sions would compensate for the slight tions from administrators. international students and local stu undergraduate shortfall. Interim Arts and Science dean June dents. Vice-President Finance Larry Dr. Lowy announced that an Advisory Chaikelson explained that the revised English estimated that only $1,500 of the Search Committee for a Dean of Arts and Money for'JMSB levy called for a $1,000 levy to incoming $9,500 international fee collected by the Science will be formed under the chair international students beginning in Sep university for a student doing 30 credits manship of Martin Singer. Lowy Lowy said that the Quebec government tember 2005 and for the year after. goes back to the university. explained that the ad hoc committee to has committed to funding the new home International students currently studying CSU representative Tyler Wordsworth examine the future of the Faculty had for the JMSB building. The amount of the in the Faculty will not be affected. ended the discussion with a plea to the concluded that it was not advisable to contribution will be known soon. He also Asked about the total amount to be Board to work together with students to divide the Faculty at this time and to suggested that the latest budget figures collected she estimated $300,000 for the try to influence policy in Quebec City and search for anew dean while June Chaikel suggest that Concordia may be able to first year and possibly $600,000 the sec to be sensitive to the burden that any fee son assumed the interim deanship. present a balanced operating budget this ond year, depending on the number of change imposes on students, including The Search Committee will consist of a year. international students who register. international students. chair (Martin Singer), a member of the The Board approved the reappoint She assured the students that the In a wide-ranging report to the Board, . Board either from the community at large ment of Vice-President Services Michael funds would be used exclusively for President Lowy outlined the develop or alumni and a faculty i:nember from a Di Grappa for a term extending from June scholarships for international students ment over the past year and the Faculty outside Arts and Science, four 1, 2005, to May 31, 2010. They also and the levy funds collected would be challenges facing Concordia. He under full-time and one part-time faculty mem approved the title of Vice-President open to scrutiny by student representa- lined the fact that despite hiring ~ ber from Arts &Science, a Dean from Finance for Larry English.
Security concerns
Permission to hold a speech this month by Ehud Barak, former prime minister of Israel, has been denied by the university because of security concerns. The request was made during the summer by the Jewish student group Hillel. A full statement can be found at www.concordia.ca. Concordia's Thursday Report is published 17 times during the academic year on a biweekly basis by the Internal Relations and Communi Corrections cations Department of Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd.W ., In the article titled "University faces challenges, as unions negoti Montreal,Quebec H3G 1MB ate" (CTR, Sept. 23}, please note that the technicians' union is Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext. 4882 Concordia University Union of Support Staff - Technical Sector E-mail: [email protected] (CUUSS-TS}, and not CUSSU-TS. Fax: (514) 848-2814 Regarding strikes at the university, the non-professional library Mab!rialjXiisl1elli11he~ staff (National Union of Sir George Williams University Employees maynotberepuclJcEd'Mllwtpermmcn NUSGWUE} formed the first white-collar union at SGW. Their first CSU's Brent Farrington and alumni president John Aylen are seen above at ISSN 1185-3689 contract was ratified in December 1971 after 10 months of negoti the latest retreat for leaders of the university's alumni associations, held at Publications Mail Agreement No.:40042804 the University Club. Farrington suggested an increased focus on mentoring ations, five weeks of walkouts and three weeks of full strike programs that would help students link up with graduates in their field of Return undeliverable (anadian addresses to Concordia's (Nove.mber 20 to December 8.) interest. Aylen agreed, and said the group is already active on campus. _Thu~ Report,1121, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd.W., In September 19,73, NUSGWUE again took strike action in a con Career nights were held last year where young graduates spoke to final-year Montreal QC, H3G 1MB . tract dispute about bereavement leave, sick leave, job descriptions, .students. email: [email protected] wages, and job security. The strike lasted five weeks and was set Editor tled in late October. Barbara Black Our thanks for this information to Nancy Marrelli, Archives, who, incidentally, was involved in both strikes. Editorial Assistant Lina Shoumarova In a caption under a photo about a summer theatre production, IN MEMORIAM Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels (Sept. 9}, the author, Femi Layout and Production Osofisan, did not teach in the Theatre Department. In fact, the HOWARD B. RIPSTEIN Sandra Lynn Belanger director, Diane Roberts, from Toronto, is a visiting artist in the department. His many Concordia friends Germany during the Second Concept were saddened to hear of the World War with 426 (Thunder Elana Trager Marketing Communications death on Sept. 27, in his 81st bird} Squadron, and post-war year, of Professor Howard service with 438 (City of Mon Appointment in A & S Berlind Ripstein, Professor treal) Squadron of the Royal Emeritus of Accounting. Canadian Air Force (Auxil ~... Concordia Jean A. Proulx has been and most recently, for a public Mr. Ripstein was a chartered iary), Mr. Ripstein retired from ~ UN I VERS ITY appointed Communications relations agency in Montreal. accountant and a graduate of the RCAF as a Flight Lieu Officer for the Faculty of Arts He will be responsible for Sir George Williams Universi tenant in 1958. and Science. media relations and advertis ty, BComm 1960, and Queen's His many honours included He graduated from Concor ing for the Faculty, and will University. He was a long-time being invested with the Croix dia in 1996 with a BA in play a role in recruitment and professor at Concordia and du Combattant de !'Europe in Next issue: Communication Studies and is fundraising. both of its two founding insti 2000 by the Government of October 21 currently pursuing a second Jean's office is AD-324-2, tutions, Sir George Williams France and being appointed BA in Liberal Arts. extension 4384. Welcome to University and Loyola College. an Officer of the Venerable He has worked as a parlia your new post, Jean. After flying a tour of Order of the Hospital of St. mentary assistant to an MNA, bomber operations over John of Jerusalem in 2004.
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Religion professor Ira Robinson chapbook,contact the Institute at has translated and written an [email protected], ext.8760, introduction to a document or www.concordia.ca/jchair. important to Canadian Jewish studies. Rabbis The Jews in Canada (In North America) was first written by Y.E. Scholars from Israel, the United Bernstein in Hebrew and pub States and across - Canada will lished in Russia. It portrays Jewish present papers on sermons by life in Montreal in the late 1800s, Canadian rabbis at a conference including religious, educational, on Oct. 24 and 25 titled Skilled social and political concerns of Tongue: Sermon & Society in the the late 19th century, particularly Canadian Jewish Experience. Zionism and anti-Semitism. It will take place Sunday, Oct. The chapbook includes histori 24, at the Spanish and Portuguese cal photographs, and a Congregation of Montreal, and reproduction of the original Monday, Oct. 25, at the Institute Hebrew text. for Jewish Studies, Concordia Uni This publication, made through versity, 1590 Dr. Penfield Ave. A group of chaplains and others associated with Concordia's Multi-Faith Ministry are pictured above with the prime minister at a recent conference at McGill University. Left to right are Fred Kelly, Rabbi Concordia's Institute for Canadian On Wednesday, Oct. 27, at 7 Shlomo Mann, Daryl Lynn Ross, Dr. M.N.S. Swamy, Paul Martin, Rev. Ellie Hummel, Bilal Bas and Man Jewish Studies, initiates a series p.m. at the Institute, there will be jit Singh. The conference, titled Interfaith Perspectives on Justice and Universality: Textual Precepts devoted to translations, docu ari archival exhibit and commen versus Practices, was held in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shri Guru Granth Sahib, a seminal ments, and scholarly essays on tary called Russia in Montreal. Sikh text. Religion professors T.S. Rukmani and Ira Robinson participated in the conference. The prime minister attended the banquet, and the keynote speaker was Justice Minister Irwin Cotler. Canadian Jewish history. Remarks on the Russian Jewish Although the Institute's other Archives Project will be made by publications are for sale, this one Concordia professors Loren Lern is available free of charge. For er and Norma Joseph. more information or to receive a Admission is free.
Films undergo analysis by the experts The Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, Quebec where she met the father of her son. The dis English Branch, presents three films followed cussants will be Ethel Person, of New York, and Mural designers celebrate by a critical presentation from a psychoanalyt Gabriella Legorreta. ic perspective. On Oct. 23, it's The Cooler (Wayne Cramer, Each film is screened on a Saturday at 7 p.m., 2003), a modern.film noir about a casino owner in the DeSeve Cinema. They are free for CPS and a sad sack who has the uncanny power to members, candidates, fellows, Concordia Uni cool the winning streaks of gamblers by stand versity students and staff; others pay $8. ing next to them. The discussant will be-Steven On Oct. 16, the film is All About My Mother Rosenbloom. (Pablo Almadovar, 1999, Spanish with English On Nov. 6, the film is Whale Rider (Niki Caro, subtitles). 2003), a modern fairy tale about a Maori girl Old connections are renewed and new ones trying to be worthy in the eyes of her grandfa made when a Madrid nurse returns to the pros ther, the tribal chief. The discussant will be titute and transvestite subculture in Barcelona, Karin Holland Biggs.
Public can participate in research
continued from page 1 into different programs. Cityspeak is a tie-in that happened a year ago, or access the history of project; people will send in comments about a the building in front of you. particular location by phone or through text "It's parallel to the Internet, but it's a local messaging. community with a local portal that changes as Sonic Scene is a similar proposal, but instead the landscape and community changes." people will be given sound equipment to walk At the beginning, MDCN will use an existing about recording their neighbourhood. These From left, Hans Brown, Nicolas Baier and Bruno Braer. Brown and Braer infrastructure created by its collaborator, fle portraits of text and sound will be made avail comprise Cabinet Braun-Braer. sans_Fn which for the last year has been able for downloading into your PDA. installing hotspots throughout Montreal for free Demos should be up and running by spring public access to wireless Internet. 2005. continued from page 1 "This is 11. chance for us to use the existing At the same time MDCN will also be examin technology with more imagination;' said Reza ing the social impact of wireless technology and calls "multi-realities" that include aspects of life not usually visible to Soleymani, Research Chair, Wireless Multimedia opening up the debate on privacy and regulation. the naked eye, or lens: the world of sleep, dreams, memory, and altered Communication, in the Department of Electrical "As the digital commons niche becomes more states of consciousness. & Computer Engineering. visible there will be a number of issues to look This 6,000-square-foot mural has effectively bought Baier some time "Of course we will need to redesign some sys at;' said Michael Longford. to play with. He is not scheduling any exhibitions in the near future. tems, build some different transmitters and "What will motivate people to participate? His advice to younger artists makes sense if you accept that creative perhaps improve the software in . order to see What kind of data is being collected and what is work cannot be forced. "You have to work very hard, and be very lazy:' how far we can push the boundaries and still being done with it? · To see more of Baier's ·work, visit his website at have something useful:' "There will be lots of technical challenges and, www.nicolasbaier.com or see a short interview in QuickTime at the This is an ambitious undertaking, so the areas of course, a learning curve. I'm sure we are in for web site for CBC's Zed: http://zed.cbc.ca/go. of research and development have been divided some surprises:•
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Homecoming 2004 New alumni chapter is a hit Night out for hippies
The oldest alumnus to attend the tumultuous launch of the engineering alumni chapter was Richard Pohoski, 80, seen above talking for the first time in 25 years to Professor Georgios Vatistas. They were classmates in the late 1970s. Dr. Pohoski, a hero of the Second World War, came to Concordia to earn his mechanical engineering degree when he was 50 years old.
Terry Fancott, Associate Dean, Special There are 13,000 alumni of the Faculty Projects, called it "the party of the year. It all over the world. was absolutely thrilling to see all these The first chapter president, Mario Cia former students again:' ramicoli, said, "ECAC's mission is to foster He was referring to the Sept. 30 launch an environment where graduates can stay of the Engineering & Computer Science connected to their alma mater and alum Alumni Chapter (ECAC) at Club New ni community, and make the network Cher, a.k.a. Lucie Frechette, BA 96, who co-hosted the event, along with Con town, on Crescent St. Over 400 people stronger by fostering relationships:• cordia Professor Emeritus of Engineering Hugh McQueen, Loyola BSc 54, who attended the event, which brought togeth · Karim Ibrahim, events co-ordinator of celebrated his 50th anniversary reunion with some period fashion. er ENCS alumni from the 1950s to the ECAC, said the chapter will organize present for the first time. It was the largest speakers, mentoring, visits to the new More than 200 Concordia alumni, faculty, students and friends got alumni chapter launch ever held by Con ENCS building and business workshops. into the spirit of campus past on Oct. 2, when Homecoming prfsent cordia. "Alumni are an important part of the ed Come As You Are, Come As You Were, a dinner dance to celebrate Mary Tzanetakos, Alumni & Fundrais Faculty of Engineering & Computer Sci Concordia's 30th birthday. ing Officer of the Faculty, said, ence family, and we hope to stay Held at Le Windsor ballroom in downtown Montreal, the 30th "Excitement and anticipation was so over connected:' Anniversary Bash was an opportunity for guests to come dressed as whelming that our original forecast of 150 . For photographs of the evening. visit they were in their school days, although only a handful had the nerve. attendees was quickly thrown out the www.encs.concordia.ca. However, when the DJ played sorigs from the '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s, window:· the dance floor filled and toes were tapping. Stuart McLean tells stories Rick Mercer throws curves
Stuart McLean, host of CBC Radio's The Vinyl Cafe and a tenured professor at Ryerson University, read The annual Abitibi-Consolidated Lecture has been given by such serious speakers as Simone Weil one of his droll short stories at an alumni luncheon at a downtown hotel on Sept. 30. and David Suzuki, but Rick Mercer's take on Canadian politics was uproarious. The comedian, Before he did so, he told the audience how much his years at Sir George Williams University meant to who said the secret io his success was his "ability to completely b-----t people," showed some of his him, particularly his courses in Applied Human Science and summers working at Camp Kanawana. greatest hits: Jean Chretien at Harvey's; Canadian peacekeepers eating lobster in Serbia; Ameri He graduated in 1971, and went on to make a career as a broadcaster on Peter Gzowski's Morningside cans' views on Canada's National Igloo. He also showed the online petition to change Stockwell and as a teacher of journalistic writing. Members of the audience asked him about famous episodes, Day's first name to Doris. "I'll nice ya!" Mercer said, to gleeful applause. He spoke on Sept. 29 in such as the extended laughing jag he and Gzowski got into on network radio. H-110. You can catch his Monday Report on CBC, starting Oct. 18.
6 I Concordia's Thursday Report I October 7, 2004
➔ 15th annual Shuffle draws a record turnout
It was a fabulous fall day, perfect for a Senior administrators pitched in by The prizes were great, including five That includes his fellow ·committee walkathon, and Concordians rose to the matching pledges, and two "spirit" trips, and they all ,went to hard-working members, the volunteers who kept spirits occasion. More than 600 people - facul awards were given for an especially valu people on campus. up along the way, the record number of ty, staff, alumni, students and friends - able donation - time. The raffle was followed by the Presi participants, the generous sponsors, and did the 15th annual Shuffle this year. 1'hey went to Frederick Lowy, who did dent's Reception under the big top, with a the friends, family and colleagues who Over $52,000 has been raised for schol his last Shuffle as president, and to for jazz combo providing a little ambience. signed pledge forms. arships and bursaries s_o far by the mer provost Jack• Lightstone, who was Murray Sang, head of the Shuffle Now, don't rest on your laurels. Collect participants, who walkea, jogged, absent. organizing committee, wants to thank your pledges and bring them in so that all rollerbladed· and cycled from the Sir · _Howf;!ver, he recorded a fewwords from everyone who continues to make this that shuffling really counts for deserving George Williams Campus to the big tent his. boat in the Atlantic, where he is annual event such a great symbol of Con students. on the Loyola Campus. enjoying a year's administrative leave. cordia's spirit. International students celebrate a new place in Montreal
From left, Y-mg Hong Cheng (China), Sidd Bannerjee (India), Anais Lelaumier-Becavin (France), Left to right, Diala Lada (Jordan), Moemedi Koketso (Botswana), Laura Stahl (Australia), Yonatan Juan David Lopez (Colombia) and Y-mka Ibukun (Nigeria). Weic (Israel), Mila Mannerla (Finland) and Elena Corelis (U.S.).
ELIANE DAND JINOU students by 10 to 20 per cent over the "Quebec is the easiest place to come as a Her main challenges are "being totally next five years. But the diversity of coun French student because of the language, independent and finding my own land International students and consulate tries is very important; we want to have but also because of the intercultural and marks:' representatives turned out for a recep students from all over the world repre rich student life. I chose Concordia For Yinghong Cheng, from China, tion on the Loyola Campus on Sept. 27. sented on our campuses:• because it is one of the best Canadian starting her studies in Economics was Balbir S. Sahni, director of the Centre Diala Lada, from Jordan, is majoring in universities in communications:• challenging enough; she said that it is for International Academic Co-opera Marketing. She is "originally Palestinian, Juan David Lopez, an exchange stu due to the fact that "the social values tion, gave them some impressive lived in the Arab Gulf in Bahrain most of dent in Economics from Colombia, said here are very different from my own cul statistics: a total of 3,260 international my life, moved to Jordan, attended pri the cultural shock "so far hasn't been too ture. I am trying to learn and understand students from 143 countries, represent vate school and volunteered with bad, although the main language in Mon that:' ing an increase of 215 per cent in Caritas. I have values that can't be treal is French and that poses an obstacle These students have dreams. While he enrolment over the past eight years. The changed, but I am open-minded at the [but] I'.ve had a week of meeting people watched other students enjoying snacks top five countries of origin are China same time, and very proud of my coun who have helped me a lot:' of many countries, Sidd Bannerjee, from (850), USA (334), France (240), India try:• Yinka lbukun is from Nigeria, and is India, said, "I see myself helping shape (152), and Lebanon (101). Anais Lelaumier-Becavin, from majoring in Journalism. "The infrastruc policy as an agent in an inter-govern "The goal of Concordia University is to France, is a Communication Studies stu tures here in Concordia are amazing. mental organization like the UN or the increase our enrolment of international dent who came to Concordia because People are friendly:• World Bank:'
• . Conc ordia 's Thursday Rtport I October 7, 2004 I 7 + Food for Montreal Matters Umbrellas for Centraide
Montreal Matters has become recent web-based survey on an annual fall affair for the local comfort foods. These results CBC and a handful of collabora show marked differences tors, including Concordia. This between genders, age and cul year, the chosen topic is food, tural groups regarding and it will be explored in vari chocolate. Audience members ous ways throughout October. will be invited to taste and see On Oct. 19, from 4:30 to 5:30 for themselves. in the DeSeve Cinema, market On Oct. 25, from 4:30 to 5:30 ing professor and culinary in the DeSeve Cinema, design expert Jordan LeBel will present art . professor Rhona Richman The Marketing of Pleasure and Kenneally will present Eating Comfort: The Special Case of Expo: The Food Culture of Mon Chocolate. treal in the 1960s. Left to right are David Coughlin, Andrew Davis, Joey D'.Amico and Trevor Hawkins. He'll look at the mental asso She'll show how a popular Stingers football players turned out en masse for the Sept. 29 launch of the annual Centraide ciations of chocolate and the and innovative international campaign. This year, fortunately, the March of 1,000 Umbrellas took place on a sunny day. marketing tactics designed to exhibition changed the way we This year's campaign co-ordinators are Miriam Posner and Professor Catherine Mulligan, exploit these associations. He'll think about food, and how we and their committee is looking forward to coming up with enjoyable and original events to raise awareness of the cause. Look for lots of fun over the next two months, as Concordia also present the results of a pr~pare it at home. participates in this umbrella organization's support for non-profit organizations around Montreal. Last year, Concordians gave $136,000, so this year's goal will be higher still. The best way to give is through a pay cheque deduction.
Lloyd Axworthy warns of complacency, apathy
SYLVAIN COMEAU "To fight terrorism, you must drain the at such a pace, that it is putting at risk which will become a centerpiece of Cana swamp in which it thrives. There are alter whole cultures. da's foreign policy. Former Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd natives to fighting terrorism with force, "The polar bear, in my beloved province "You can't hide behind your government Axworthy is both an optimist and a tough and I deeply believe Canadians can make a of Manitoba, is on the edge of extinction. any more. You can't say that the govern minded realist. difference and find them. The problem is This is not just happening in Uganda, or ment made you do it:' In a wide-ranging lecture at Concordia that the United States, with its tremendous Colombia or Sudan. It's happening in our The international community has not last Thursday, he discussed the threats power and reach, is increasingly acting like backyard. just the option but the obligation to inter emerging from the era of globalism, but it's above the law:• "A.re we prepared to take on our respon vene if the government in the country in also pointed the way to solutions beyond He also fears complacency is setting in · sibility, and lead the same kind of question is unwilling or unable to inter conflict and war. · for a public weary oflooking over its shoul mobilization of effort that we did around vene, or is the predator itself. He believes "Since September 11, we have learned der and waiting for the next September 11. the issue of land mines? We know that it that such help will create a greater sense of that we are all potential victims of the dark "There is now a new state of disbelief, a won't be cost-free; every one of us will pay international community. side of globalism. That is the reality of public attention deficit, when it comes -to some price, and have to change some of our "As Canadians, the greatest contribution today's world:' frequent public security warnings in the behaviour." we can make is imagination. Once in a Axworthy, now president of the Universi u.s:· As an antidote to apathy, Axworthy while, the door to the future opens. It is our ty of Winnipeg, said that the nebulous, Similar complacency is feeding into hailed the emergence of a new kind of citi decision whether or not to step through it:' unpredictable nature of terrorism means another threat to emerge from globalism, zen, one who is always aware of his or her Axworthy's speech was the inaugural lec that the current war on terrorism may in one that no nation on earth can escape. place in an interconnected world. ture in the Henry P. Habib Distinguished fact be feeding into it rather than defeating He said an upcoming report on climate He called on Canadians to accept the Speakers' Series on Peace, Conflict and it, as governments involved in the war lash change by 300 scientists "will be a sledge challenges of global citizenship, which will Global Politics in the 21st Century. The new out and inspire more opposition. hammer in our solar plexus. It is saying increasingly involve addressing human series is named after the longtime chair of "We are not stopping terrorism through that the impact of climate change in the rights violations. A key will be the interna the Political Science Department. the exercise of overwhelming military north is so devastating, and is accelerating tional responsibility to protect, a concept force; we are festering it.
Italian jazz expert speaks Secrets of the deep No gobblers at Frigo Vert "The human brain, evolution, DNA, and musical styles New technologies are creating a revolution in the ocean An anti-colonial Thanksgiving is the goal of Le Frigo around the world" is the title of a free public lecture sciences: power and the Internet will be delivered to large Vert, the university's not-for-profit food co-operative. being given tonight, Oct. 7, by musicologist Marcello areas of the ocean environment, initially through the It wi 11 take the form of a vegan dinner, guest speaker Piras in the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, at 4 o'clock. NEPTUNE Project. and discussion of a film, Alcatraz is Not an Island, which Italy's acknowledged authority on jazz and black Christopher .Barnes, is Project Director for Neptune deals with the long occupation of Alcatraz Island by First music, Piras is an entertaining lecturer and a prolific Canada, and an oceanographer at the University of Victo Nations protesters, including students, in 1969. writer whose interests range from the archaeology of ria, He is a fellow of the Royal society of Canada, the The dinner and screening will take place today, Oct. 7, music to the notated musical traditions of black com Geological society of America, and a member of the from 6:30 to 9:30 at the School of Community and Public posers and performance practice, to the history of tango Order of Canada. Affairs, 2149 Mackay St. to sound restoration. He will talk about the Neptune project on Oct. 21 at 8 p.m. in the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall. •
8 I Concordia·s Thursday Report I October 7, 2004 • I I
Media Democracy Da-y comes t o Concordia
JAS ON G O ND ZI OLA make the point, Winton recalls when one What started in Vancouver four years ago of Jean Chretien's aides called U.S. presi will soon make its mark in Montreal, dent George W. Bush "a moron:• thanks to the planning and support of a "I was in British Columbia. An editori few Concordia students. alist for the Times Colonist in Victoria International ~edia and Democracy said that Canadians owed America an Day (IMDD) is coming to the Hall Build apology and that we should be grateful to ing on Oct. 18, bringing an assortment of America for our security and culture;• he journalists, media critics and moviemak said. ers to bear on the subject of media "I called friends in Vancouver, Win democracy. nipeg and Montreal, and the same "I went to one three years ago in Van editorial ran in all the major cities across couver and it was definitely a good event;' Canada. That's because [newspaper recalled Ezra Winton, co-director of iiber chain] CanWest has a national editorial culture collective and principal organizer policy. of the event. "I thought that it would be "When you're speaking with one voice good to have one in Montreal, especially to that many people, you're wielding a lot at Concordia:• of influence:• Modeled after Earth Day, IMDD is a The IMDD organizers hope to expose day set aside to explore and celebrate and challenge that influence. Discus media diversity while protesting the sions, workshops and panel discussions increased concentration of media in are on the agenda, featuring producers, Canada and around the world. journalists and academics. "Canada has the highest concentration Concordia Communications Studies of newspaper ownership in the world;' professors Leslie Regan Shade, Matt Soar said Sergeo Kirby, executive producer of and Yasmin Jiwani will be involved in a IMDD organizers Johanne Savo, Sergeo Kirby (at bottom) and Ezra Wmton. CUTV and one of the event's organizers. panel discussion entitled Media (De)Con "We're constantly under the influence of vergence, Concentration and Culture in private ownership in the media, and Canada. groups and organizations present. There "Mainstream media is very accessible, there's very little public debate. That's one Film screenings are also planned, and will be a special focus on alternative but alternative media is not. If you don't of the things we really want to engage in." will feature the Canadian debut of media sources, according to Johanne have alternative media, your perspective Winton said Montreal presents a Weapons of Mass Deception, a documen Savoy, organizer of the media fair. will be limited and won't cover as many unique situation, because concentrated tary by Danny Schecter that examines "It's to show people that there's alterna issues:• corporate media run alongside numerous American reporting on the war in Iraq. tive media, but sadly you do have to go For more information on Montreal's alternative news sources. This isn't the The event will also feature a media fair out and find them yourself. They don't get First Annual International Media Democ case for the rest of Canada, however. To on the mezzanine, with over 25 media any air time. racy Day, go to www.mediawrench.ca.
Sexual dive rsity Why they chose women's studies The Q2 Ally Network is distributing a guide for fac ulty members suggesting ways to support sexual KEND RA BAL LIN GA LL diversity. The Network gives moral support and informa Five students of the Simone de Beau tion to students who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, voir Institute received scholarships for transgendered and "questioning" at the university; excellence in Women's Studies at the hence the initials LGBTQ. college's open house on Sept. 23. The guidelines say that professors should use Sarah Anderson calls herself a self gender-neutral and inclusive language when they identified feminist. "I enjoy balancing speak to students and prepare handouti, and other activism and feminist theory;' she said, material for class. Derogatory and stereotypical citing health issues and queer femi- . remarks should be avoided. nism as examples. She is pursuing a "If given the chance, invite lesbian, gay or bisex double major in Women's Studies and ual professionals to conduct seminars or provide Applied Human Sciences. lectures in your classes and offices. Invite them for Katie Kotler first became interested both gay/lesbian/trans topics and other topics of in women's studies while reading their expertise:' Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth. "It was The Network provides resources on their web so relevant;' she explains. "It verbal site, http://q2.concordia.ca, which offers advice to ized a lot of what I had been thinking:' faculty members and training to volunteers who In the Institute, Kotler finds a source would like to become LGBTQ advocates. of "good, strong women role models:• The Network believes that a positive attitude in After studying feminism at an alter the classroom enables students to express them native Toronto high school and Mount selves and do their best. Allison University in New Brunswick, Esther Marie Simmonds MacAdam decided to continue with women's Hellenic scholarships studies. "My courses came full circle;· she Eight scholarships of $2,000 each are available this explained. "I like the way it incorpo year to undergraduate and graduate students of rates history, cultural studies, From left: Sarah Anderson, Katie Kotler, Esther Marie Simmonds MacAdam, Talia Greek origin through the Hellenic Scholarship especially here at the Institute. The Kleinplatz and Tifanie Valade. Foundation. The deadline is Nov. 8. For more courses here are· very provocative:• information, please contact Dr. Efie Gavaki, at In her second year, Talia Kleinplatz [email protected]. is interested in "feminist generations Tifanie Valade is combining her "I was working for a corporation The Hellenic Studies Unit of Concordia is offer and controversies:• She says women's Major in Women's Studies with Com when I decided I wanted to do some ing the $1,000 Arnopoulos Scholarship to a studies "allows you to go out and think munications and Public Affairs. Her thing more meaningful, to help student who need not be of Greek origin. More critically in the world, to question in goal is to work in either government or people;• she said. "I think mixing the information is available from Dr. Nikos Metallinos, ways other thought processes don't:' community organizations. two degrees prepares you for that:' at [email protected].
Concordia ' s Thursday Repo rt I October 7, 20 04 I 9 + I • FACULTY PROMOTIONS
Congratulations to the following faculty members, who were named Full Professor, effective June 1, 2004. Promotions in the other three faculties will be listed in CTR on Oct. 21.
McGill in sociology, and a PhD codification of Muslim laws from the Universite de have affected Iranian women. Montreal. Her books include The Mus lim Veil in North America: Issues and Debates, Sajida Alvi, Homa Hoodfar and Sheila McDo nough, eds, Building Civil Societies: A Guide for Social and Political Participation, France), and, with Nelofer Pazira, Women Living Under Muslim Laws.
Martin Allor Muriel Herrington Bluma Litner Communications Studies Biology Applied Human Sciences
Martin Allor joined Concordia Muriel Herrington has a BSc Bluma Litner joined the Applied Dennis Dicks in 1984. from McGill and a PhD from Social Science Department in Education He has supervised 18 PhD McMaster University. 1989. She had been one of the dissertations and 29 MA theses, Dennis Dicks studied biopsy She joined Concordia in 1975, principal consultants of the has been chair of the Depart chology at Carleton University obtained a tenure-track posi Department's Centre for ment, and a graduate program and the University of Chicago, tion in 1978 and was named Human Relations and Com director. completing a doctorate in com associate professor in 1987. munity Studies. He~has been vice-president of munications psychology at the She has taught courses pri- She had served as Assistant the International Communi Imperial College of Science and marily in genetics and Dean of Students from 1975 to cation Association and sat on Technology in 1972. microbiology. 1981 and was responsible for the editorial boards of nine aca He did communications Her research explores folate the program development port Christine Jourdan demic journals. research in electrical engineer metabolism in the model organ folio. His research interests include ing at Queen's University before ism Escherchia coli. As part of Sociology and Anthropology For her teaching, Dr. Litner analysis of cultural policies, the joining the Educational Tech her research, she has supervised received the Concordia Council politics of cultural citizenship, nology program at Concordia two PhD students, six MSc stu Christine Jourdan has a MSc in on Student Life Award, a and the influence of new media University in 1974. dents and many linguistic anthropology from national 3M Teaching Fellow genres on public knowledge. He has served as department undergraduates. She has pub the Universite de Montreal and ship and the Concordia He did his PhD at the Univer chair, vice-dean curriculum and lished 21 papers and presented a PhD in the same field from the University Alumni Award, plus a sity of Illinois at administration, and director of at numerous conferences. Australian National University. certificate of merit from the Urbana-Champaign. Currently academic appraisals in Arts and Currently undergraduate pro Her research interests focus YWC/\.s Women of Distinction he is a researcher at Hexagram, Science. gram director in Biology, she primarily on the Pacific region Awards Program for advancing the Centre interuniversitaire in As director of the Centre for has served on many committees and she has written extensively women in education. arts mediatiques. Instructional Technology and e and contributed to a successful on the linguistic practices and She has conducted funded learning consultant for the John proposal for a PhD in Biology. the processes of creolization research on the empowerment Molson School of Business, he and urbanization in the of students with learning dis led a multidisciplinary team Solomon Islands. She is the abilities and attention deficit developing teaching technolo author of Solomon Islands Pijin: hyper-activity disorder. gies for the laptop-based Global A trilingual cultural dictionary. Aviation MBA and the video Dr. Jourdan is also a partici conference-based Investment pant, along with a team of Management MBA. researchers from around the He has publisheµ work on world, in the creation of Ency animal behaviour, technology clopedie Culturelle Hypermedia assessment, human resources, de l'Oceanie, a web-based ency higher education, as well as in clopedia for which she received his current research areas - the the prize MIM d'or in 2001. integration of teaching tech Recently, she has been study nologies, design science, and ing the changing eating habits applications of topic maps. in Quebec and doing a historical Joyce Barakett ethnography of the French vil Education lage of Labastide-Murat. Homa Hoodfar Joyce Barakett has been at Con Sociology and Anthropology Sheila Mason cordia for 27 years, during which she was director of the Homa Hoodfar has a BA in eco Philosophy PhD Humanities and the MA in nomics and business studies Sheila Mason got her BA from Educational Studies programs, from the University of Tehran McGill University in 1965, and among others. (1976), an MA from the Univer her PhD from Purdue University She is the author of articles sity of Manchester (1981), and a in 1972. She has taught in the on sociological theory, educa PhD in social anthropology Philosophy Department at Con tion and social change, critical from the University of Kent cordia since 1969. Her main pedagogy, the social implica (1989). area of research is ethics. She tions of computers in the Her research is focused on has focused on the importance classroom and the use of narra refugee and internally displaced of narrative in the acquisition of tives in the classroom. communities, notably the mil moral understanding and on She was the co-author of Soci lions of Afghan women and the ethics of care. ology of Education: An children now living as refugees She has developed interesting Introductory View from Canada, in Iran and Pakistan. She also connections between ethics and the leading textbook in this studies how masculine assump psychology and worked on field. She has an MA from tion of citizenship and the problems of health care funding
10 ,I ,Co n,co rdi a•s Thu r,s da y Rep ort I Octo ber 7., 70,04 with members of the Depart He has served as judge and Bureau for International Educa ment of Accountancy. She has chief judge for the Canadian tion and Health Canada. Stingers roundup presented numerous papers on National Newspaper Awards the teaching of ethics, as well. and the annual awards of the JOHN AUSTEN She is currently working on Canadian Association of Jour the way in which people learn to nalists, and has worked in care about the environment, the international media develop Stingers thrill by edging McGill in OT wellbeing of people in develop ment in Kosovo and Cambodia. ing countries and the suffering Don't look now, but suddenly the Concordia of animals, that is, in the kind of Stingers are one of the hottest football teams experience that leads people in the country. beyond immediate self-interest After losing their first two games of the to a broader set of concerns. season, the Stingers have reeled off three straight victories, including a shocking tri- umph over St. Mary's, the defendi_ng Canadian university champions. Concordia's latest win came last Saturday afternoon, when they needed overtime to dispose of the McGill Redmen 29-26 at Con Patricia Thornton cordia Stadium. Geography A 41-yard field goal by Warren Kean gave the Stingers the win Patricia Thornton received her before almost 2,000 fans in the 36th annual Shaughnessy Cup MA and PhD from the Universi Game. The Redmen rallied from a 26-10 deficit to tie the score and ty of Aberdeen, Scotland, but send the game into extra time. she was brought to Canada by Stinger quarterback Scott Syvret, a product of the John Abbott William Sims her doctoral research on the Islanders, completed 15 of 32 passes for 252 yards. Another former Economics·- evolution and sustainability of Islander, running back Mark Kang, rushed 10 times for 101 yards. William Sims came to Concor coastal communities in New Juan Scott had five catches for 84 yards. dia in 1976 and completed his foundland and Labrador funded The Shaughnessy Cup is named for the legendary Frank PhD in economics at the Univer by the Canadian Department of Shaughnessy Sr. who is symbolic of university football supremacy Eno Raudsepp sity of Toronto two years later. Indian and Northern Develop in Montreal. Journalism He has taught a variety of cours ment. The football innovator, who coached both at Loyola College and Enn Raudsepp is the director of es at both the graduate and She came to Concordia in McGill, is credited with introducing the forward pass to Canadian the Journalism Department, undergraduate levels including 1978 to pioneer an undergradu university football. Shaughnessy has been inducted into both the where he has taught since 1978. courses in Microeconomic The ate program in human Loyola/Concordia (1967) and McGill (1997) sports halls of fame. Prior to that, he spent 10 years ory, the Economics of environment relationships, A week earlier in Halifax, the Stingers shocked perhaps every as a reporter and copy editor at Regulation, Environmental Eco which has subsequently become one but themselves with a 29-10 win over the previously No. 1 the (Toronto) Telegram, the nomics and the Economics of the orientation of all geography ranked St. Mary's Huskies. Montreal Star and The Globe Professional Sports. BA programs. Syvret put on a spectacular air show, helping his team overcome and Mail Presently, he is chair of the She became an associate pro a shaky start that saw the Stingers give up 10 points and three He did his undergraduate Economics Department, having fessor in 1984, served as chair of turnovers in the first quarter. By halftime the score was 10-10 studies at McGill University, fol served as Graduate Program the department from 1996-2002, thanks to·a 12-yard TD pass from Syvret to Scott and a 42-yard lowed by a master's degree in Director, Director of the Insti and is active on numerous uni field goal from Kean. journalism at Columbia Univer tute of Applied Economic versity administrative bodies. The game remained deadlocked until the fourth quarter when sity in New York in 1966. He Research, and Director of the Her research has been consis the Stingers went to work. Concordia forced a Saint Mary's safety, completed a doctorate in Cana Undergraduate Program. tently funded by SSHRC since and Kean connected on another field goal. -Syvret found Scott on dian literature at McGill in 1977. Dr. Sim's research is primarily 1985. She has published exten a 36-yard play for a touchdown, and finally Stingers linebacker His research interests in jour in the area of applied microeco sively and presented papers at David Hemmings recovered a fumble for a major. nalism ethics and history and in nomics. His papers on more than 50 conferences on Syvret completed 26 of 49 passes for 297 yards and two touch the Native press in Canada have environmental policy, inter the out-migration from Canada downs. He was named player of the game by the Halifax media. given rise to chapters in two provincial trade, the taxation of during the second half of the books and articles in several alcoholic beverages and welfare 19th century, and on infant NCAA cagers to battle at Con U academic journals. He is also an change measures, have been mortality and environmental expert on media ownership published in Canadian and justice in Montreal. There will be a lot of excitement at Concordia Gym this weekend issues. international economics jour Her most recent research on when NCAA basketball teams hit town to take part in October He has served as Vice-Dean of nals. the demography and social Hoops Madness. Administrative Affairs for the He has also undertaken geography of the French Cana The South Carolina Gamecocks, who made it to the final 64 last Faculty of Arts and Science. He research studies for a number of dian, Irish Catholic and season, will join Virginia and the New Hampshire Wildcats at the was elected president of the government agencies, including Anglo-Protestant communities event. Lethbridge (Alta.), RMC (Kingston, Ont.) and the host Concordia University Faculty the Economic Council of Cana is being brought together in a Stingers will round out the event. Association in 1991 and served da, the Treasury Board (Office of book entitled Culture Matters: Games get under way tomorrow and will continue until the fol as chief negotiator for CUFA in the Comptroller General), Rev The Anatomy of Life and Death lowing weekend. two successive rounds of collec enue Canada, the Canadian in 19th-century Montreal tive bargaining. Syvret, Poirier are tops
Scott Syvret of the football team and Melanie Poirier of the women's soccer team have been named the Sir Winston Churchill Pub athletes of the week for the period ending Sept. 26. Syvret, a second-year quarterback, completed 26 of 49 passes Want to be the next Red Fisher? for 297 yards and two touchdowns in the Stingers' win over· Saint Mary's. Syvret led Concordia back from a 10-0 first quarter deficit. Sports reporting can be so much more than sim Robin Brown, the host of CBC Radio's The Inside He was also named player of the game by the Halifax media. He ply providing the scores from last night's game. It's Track. was also been named offensive player of the week by the Quebec about physical and emotional competition at the The featured speaker will be activist and histori university football conference. The 21-year-old native of Kirkland highest levels, and it provides the opportunity for an Dr. Bruce Kidd, who has been called "the is a Marketing major. journalists to capture moments of great human conscience of Canadian sport." He will challenge Poirier, a second-year mid-fielder with the Stingers, was named achievement and disappointment. students to resist the pressure to focus on "mas the outstanding player in both her games last week. She was On Saturday, Oct. 23, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m, at culinist corporate sports productions" that tend to instrumental in helping Concordia earn a 1-0 victory over the the DeSeve Cinema, sports journalists from across marginalize women and redefine both sport and Montreal Carabins. The top three teams in the eight-team confer the country will gather to share the insights from excellence. ence make the playoffs. their careers and to interact with those interested The event is sponsored by Rogers Sportsnet and She was also named player of the game in a recent 3-0 loss to in a life of sports reporting. .organized by the Departments of Journalism and the McGill Martlets. The Laval native is studying Athletic Thera Among those appearing are Stephen Brunt from Communication Studies. No advance registration py at Concordia. the Globe and Mail, Scott Morrison from Sport is required. snet, former Olympic athlete Laura Robinson, and
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