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Date de tombée : 26/02/10 No de dossier : Format : 8.125x10.75 MM8127-10_Ellipse Annonce Concordia (8.125x10.75)v2 Couleur : couleur Graphiste : Yannick Decosse Hamelin Martineau • 505, boul. de Maisonneuve O. Bureau 300 • Montréal (Québec) H3A 3C2 • T : 514 842 4416 F : 514 844 9343 ATTENTION : Merci de vérifier attentivement cette épreuve afin d’éviter toute erreur. university magazine fall 2010 volume 33 number 3 magazine.concordia.ca It takes a community a girl is murdered in the woods. Her family is devastated. But, as Concordia researchers show, so is her community, which is often overlooked in the aftermath of tragedy. by adam avrashi Cover: Students react to a shooting in 2008 outside Bendale Business and Technical Institute in Toronto. Concordia researchers are looking at how this type of trauma affects communities. Credit: The Canadian Press/Toronto 12 8 Star-Tara Walton. Pedagogical hangover All in the family in Sin City Members of four Concordia Concordia students and their alumni families share their professor head to Vegas experiences studying at to hit the hottest casinos the university and update off the strip. But instead of us on their current lives, spending time at the gambling which include wedding bells, tables, they study the city’s baby bumps and a career architecture and history. in broadcasting. by adam avrashi 22 by adam avrashi 3 Editor’s VoicE 4 PrESIDENt’S MESSAGE 16 5 coNcordia NEws Great grads 36 AssociAtion NEws Meet four of Concordia’s newest and most accomplished graduates. 38 clAss Acts 44 enouGh sAid 20 Faculty Spotlight: Fine Arts Concordia’s performing arts departments move downtown this publication is printed on 100% and upscale. recycled paper, including 20% post 28 consumer waste. For each ton of Un dialogue fécond recycled paper that displaces a ton of avec de nouvelles constructions et un virgin paper, it reduces total energy centre de génomique structurale et consumption by 27%, greenhouse fonctionnelle qui sera livré à la fin de gas emissions by 47%, particulate mars 2011, le campus loyola est sur la emissions by 28%, wastewater by voie d’une renaissance qui lui redonne 33%, solid waste by 54% and wood ses lettres de noblesse. use by 100%. Par Patrice-Hans Perrier SettinganExample Forever grateful to Concordia Marjorie Gawley sadly passed away in Montreal on credits over five years. There was only one August 8, 2010. Marjorie penned this article in June. institution that allowed me to take courses at night: Sir George Williams University, which n 1959, I graduated from high school and later became Concordia. McGill insisted on day Iexpected to attend university. My mother attendance and had no interest in accommo- had always stressed the importance of a post- dating people in my situation: those who lacked secondary education so I was shocked to learn the funds to attend school full time. that my father could only afford to send my younger brother to university and informed Concordia provided me with my start as it has so me that he had set up an interview for me many other students who were unable to pay for with Bell Telephone instead. Before embarking a full-time education. Without Concordia, I would on a career as a telephone operator, I decid- never have set out on what turned out to be a ed to set aside as much money as I could by rewarding career from which I retired in 1998. working over the summer. When I was drawing up my will, there was no While the amount I made didn’t cover univer- question that Concordia had to be one of the sity expenses, I also won a small scholarship recipients of my inheritance. So with the uni- from the Teachers’ association as I intended to versity’s help, I set up an endowment to help be a teacher. armed with my scholarship and students in financial need. pittance from summer work, I negotiated with my father and he eventually agreed to support Concordia continues to contribute greatly to me for one more year so I could earn a diploma the education of so many people in Montreal from Macdonald Teacher’s College in Ste- who would not otherwise be able to attend anne-de-Bellevue, Que. In 1960, I was 16 when I university. entered the classroom as a full-fledged teacher. But a condition of the teaching diploma was Marjorie Gawley, MA 76 that I had to upgrade it to a permanent one by accumulating a certain number of university How to make a difference As a volunteer or donor to concordia, you, too, can make a difference. Every year, thousands of concordia alumni, parents and friends provide support to concordia students. whichever area of concordia you choose to support, your gift will help ensure our students enjoy the best possible university experience and graduate as leaders in their fields. contact Advancement and Alumni relations at 1-888-777-3330 or 514-848-2424, ext. 4856, or visit giving.concordia.ca. Editor’sVoice Summer tragedy and triumph hile Montreal’s summer 2010 The aspiring young journalist also will be remembered as one of the spoke with four families who have mul- Wwarmest on record, sadly, it was tiple Concordia graduates for “All in the also marked by local family tragedies. family” (page 22). There were plenty of In early June, Johra Kaleki, a native families to choose from because there of Afghanistan and resident of Dorval, are countless Concordians with close was charged with attempted murder the professors can’t reveal the details relatives who share the distinction of after she allegedly stabbed her 19-year- of their work to protect the identities of having earned Concordia, Sir George old daughter in what is being described both the victims and their families, their Williams University and/or Loyola as an “honour crime.” Fortunately, the recommendations will apply to most College degrees. In fact, it was Adam girl survived. In July, a Ville Émard circumstances, including the recent who pitched the story because his father, man allegedly took the lives of his two Montreal tragedies. Morris Avrashi, is a Concordia gradu- young sons before killing himself. A The writer of “It takes a community” ate (BEng 85), and he wondered how few weeks later, Concordia Mechanical is Adam Avrashi, whose byline you’ll also many other families boasted a strong Engineering student Mandar Verma notice on several other stories in this is- Concordia connection. drowned while on a camping trip sue. Adam, now a third-year Concordia Adam’s skills, knowledge and with friends. And in early August, an Journalism student, has spent the sum- enthusiasm are a testament to the 18-year-old was charged with fatally mer as the magazine’s intern. While we quality of our Journalism program and, stabbing his 14-year-old sister, Shirel kept him busy with various tasks, Adam certainly, to the types of students who Attar, in their Côte-Saint-Luc home. clearly relished writing feature stories. are attracted to and excel at Concordia.