Replacing Rutherford U of S Looks at Options for New Ice Facility  Colleen Macpherson the University of Saskatch- Versity Sport Competition

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Saluting the Huskies Huskie Athletics handed out its major awards April 4 at the annual Huskie Salute. Taking home the top prizes were, from left to right, hockey player Brennan Bosh, all-round male athlete; coach of the year Steve Kook from women’s hockey; hockey player and rookie of the year Kendall McFaull; female athlete of the year Dalyce Emmerson from the basketball program; basketball player Riley Humbert, all-round female athlete; and hockey player Kaitlin Willoughby, female rookie of the year. Missing from the photo is hockey player Derek Hulak who was awarded the E. Kent Phillips Trophy for male athlete of the year. Full details are available on the Huskie Athletics website.

 Josh Schaefer Replacing Rutherford U of S looks at options for new ice facility  Colleen MacPherson The University of Saskatch- versity Sport competition. I think it’s time to determine exactly ewan is looking for a way to “I think it’s time to meet its need for a new ice rink determine exactly what the level what the level of interest is, and to find out if without increasing its capital or of interest is, and to find out if we can get a new facility without incurring operating costs. we can get a new facility without In April, the office of incurring additional capital or additional capital or operating costs. Corporate Administration will operating costs.” issue a request for expressions of While she declined to Judy Yungwirth interest in building an ice facility give details of what parame- in College Quarter. Much like ters would be set around any boxes, “things you’d like to see The master plan for College the process used for the hotel proposal, Yungwirth said the at a higher level than we have Quarter includes an ice facility development announced in university’s “primary need is to now.” Better-developed training but “it’s moveable. We’re still in November, any agreement would replace Rutherford which means facilities, locker rooms and an early enough stage of develop- involve a long-term land lease to we need access to one ice pad coaching space “would certainly ment that a rink can be accom- an outside firm that would build almost full time.” make it a better experience for modated just about anywhere on and operate a rink, explained Carol Rodgers, dean of the student-athletes and coaches.” the north-east site.” Judy Yungwirth, director of College of Kinesiology, said with Yungwirth Yungwirth said the timing She said the request for Corporate Administration. more than 800 students playing for issuing the request for submissions will be provided to After the hotel development Campus Rec hockey plus the opportunity to participate in expressions of interest is good those companies that contacted was announced, Yungwirth Huskies hockey programs, any physical activity and meet the because infrastructure servicing the university directly, and it said she received a number of ice surface would be well used. overall vision of the athletics, of the College Quarter north- will also be advertised. She informal inquiries about the And a new facility “would health and wellness area in east precinct, including roads expects it will be mid-summer university’s plans to replace make an overall contribution College Quarter.” and sewer, water and electrical before any proposals can be Rutherford Rink, which was to College Quarter and to the She added a new ice facility lines, will begin this summer to analyzed and a decision made built in 1929 and is among the athletic-recreational space there. presents an opportunity to accommodate the hotel that will “that’s in the best interest of oldest facilities in the country It’s another facility students can upgrade secondary features be located along College Drive the university given our current still used for Canadian Interuni- access that will enhance their like the sound system and press just north of Griffiths Stadium. financial situation.” 

Inside for the birds 6-7 Preservation 8 2 April 11, 2014 

Campus Sweat Cultural Co-ordinator Bob Badger puts the finishing touches on the site of a sweat lodge built April 2 beside the Education Building. In addition to constructing the lodge, with the help of his brother-in-law Glen Worm, out of 12 willow poles covered in tarps and canvas, and chopping the wood necessary to heat the rocks, Badger conducted sweat tutorials and led sweats April 2, 3 and 4. He said he would like to see regularly scheduled sweats on campus. “We could do them daily.  Kris FOster That’s how we live.” Medicine restructuring in progress; work is largely behind the scenes

 Colleen MacPherson

Although there is little visible We still have a “One of the most signifi- from the outside, on the inside cant pieces of work continues to work continues apace on college to run and be our work with government enacting a plan to fundamen- everyone is working and health regions to design tally restructure the university’s a better way to pay physicians College of Medicine. very hard but it’s who want to contribute a signif- “I describe it as a work in not happening in icant amount of their profes- progress,” said Martin Phil- sional time to both teaching and lipson, a professor of law and the the public sphere. research. Currently, the funding vice-provost of organizational model is not as balanced as we Martin Phillipson restructuring for the college. need it to be. All parties are “The analogy I use is that we’re working hard on this, and we’re renovating the house while we’re making progress.” still living in it. We still have a front, work is nearing completion There is also work going on college to run and everyone is on filling the position of chief with the provincial Ministries of working very hard but it’s not Martin Phillipson, vice-provost of organizational  Colleen Macpherson operating officer for the college. Health and Advanced Education happening in the public sphere.” restructuring in the College of Medicine He added a national search is to rework the way the college is The one public piece about to begin for a vice-dean funded. Again, it involves the that Phillipson described as other medical schools in Canada, some months, he has been moni- of research, “somebody with a health regions and issues like critical to the restructuring have been underway since April toring progress on the imple- vision who will set the course of how funding flows through plan was the announcement 2012, with formal approval in mentation plan closely. Smith medical research in the college the college, he said. Current in December that Dr. Preston principal of a vision document has made a number of visits to and in the province.” There are funding is secure and a restruc- Smith, currently senior associate taking place in December of Saskatoon, Phillipson has spent also four unified department tured budget should be in place dean of education at Dalhousie that year. Structural change time with him in Halifax and head positions that need to be by next year. Phillipson said University’s Faculty of Medicine, was required to address critical the incoming dean gets regular filled on a permanent basis. the government’s involvement will assume the deanship in issues of accountability, assign- updates inbetween. A key element of the exemplifies its commitment “to Saskatoon July 1. “Our job now ment of duties and realignment “The new dean will be restructuring is streamlining helping us design a 21st-century is to put the building blocks in of resources to significantly essential in pulling people service between the college and medical school.” place for the new dean,” he said. improve teaching and research together, in putting together a health regions for the delivery All of this, he added, is Efforts to restructure the outcomes. new leadership team that will of both academic instruction taking place while the College college, including designing a Phillipson said although turn the restructuring plan into and clinical care. That work is governance model in line with Smith does not take office for reality,” said Phillipson. On that “moving along,” said Phillipson. See Students, Page 9

4th Annual SoTL Symposium — May 1 & 2, 2014 Call for Submissions Call for submissions We invite submissions for four different types of The Centre for Discovery in Learning (CDL), in conjunction with the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching teaching and learning related presentations: Effectiveness and the Vice-Provost (Teaching and Learning), are proud to host an Annual Symposium for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). This symposium celebrates the diverse research being 1. Watercooler chats 3. Poster session conducted on teaching and learning in higher education across the U of S campus, and also provides 2. World Café 4. Research presentation opportunities for faculty, sessionals, staff and graduate students new to SoTL to learn more about it. Deadline for submissions is April 14

Full details are available at usask.ca/cdl/events/sotlsymposium ON CAMPUS NEWS  April 11, 2014 3 Transition program back on campus  Chris Putnam

The College of Arts and Science that request, he said, but without Transition-program students Transition Program is making a They were dedicated space on campus, they will use a similar model, transition. worried it wasn’t, were concerned the strong sense enrolling as a group in standard Starting this fall, the of community that had been key classes while being provided program will be housed directly in their words, to the program’s success would some extra skills training and on campus instead of at Royal ‘authentic’ in terms be lost. support. West, the Saskatoon Public Then a “breakthrough” Moving to campus brings Schools adult-education facility, of a university occurred with the founding many other benefits. The where it has been based since its experience. of the Aboriginal Student students will have the same inception. Achievement Program, said access as any student to services The program was estab- Gordon DesBrisay DesBrisay. Students move like health care, counselling, the lished in 2005 when the through that program in library and the PAC. university raised its admission close-knit group of peers. If they learning communities, meeting The move comes with some standards, explained Gordon did well, they continued on as regularly in different locations minor cost savings, but the DesBrisay, associate dean of regular students. DesBrisay on campus but always with the primary driver was always to students for the college. High Countless success stories same group of peers. provide better opportunities school graduates whose grades resulted from the program and to be on campus. They were “Even without a separate for students, DesBrisay said. No fell short of the new require- nearly all participants spoke worried it wasn’t, in their words, building, they still created that job losses will result from the ments were offered enrollment as positively about their experi- ‘authentic’ in terms of a univer- sense of spirit and collective change.  transition students; they would ences, said DesBrisay. But one sity experience.” support. So we realized maybe Chris Putnam is take standard arts and science complaint always recurred, The program administrators we could do that with the tran- communications officer in the courses in smaller classes with a “that they would have preferred always hoped to accommodate sition program,” he said. College of Arts and Science. Policy change recognizes transgender people

An update to the University of Also added to the prohibited case with the previous version of times they quote-unquote “a more inclusive and comfort- Saskatchewan’s Discrimination grounds section were physical the U of S policy, is not detailed match up, and sometimes they able place.” and Harassment Prevention weight or size. enough, said Saddleback, who don’t. That’s life.” While the U of S policy is policy gives protection specif- U of S student Jack Saddle- explained people are made up Saddleback said he was based on both The Saskatchewan ically to transgender people, back, who is also co-ordinator of four different parts related to very pleased with the support Human Rights Code and the something they do not have of the USSU Pride Centre, was gender: gender identity which he received from all levels of the Occupational Health and Safety under the Saskatchewan Human involved in the effort to change is a person’s internal perception university in the process of getting Act, neither provides specific Rights Code. to policy to create what he of gender; gender expression the policy changed. “I think all protection for transgender The U of S Board of described as “concrete rights or how gender is displayed or folks can feel this is a big win.” people although the Saskatch- Governors approved the policy for transgender people. Having expressed; sex “which is what’s Speaking after a public ewan Human Rights Commis- revision March 18 that identi- transgender people specifically between a person’s legs”; and Board of Governors session, sion recently found the rights of fies gender expression, gender identified (in the policy) helps to sexual orientation which relates Chair Susan Milburn said the a transgender woman had been identity and two-spirit identity alleviate any confusion.” to romantic choices. decision was an easy one for the infringed under Section 12 of the as prohibited grounds for To prohibit discrimination And for everyone, “some- board as it makes the university human rights code.  discrimination and harassment. on the basis of sex only, as is the from the archives McAvoy wins Bowling champs 3M fellowship

Shannon McAvoy has become the second-ever U of S student to receive the prestigious 3M National Student Fellowship. McAvoy, a third-year regional and urban planning student, is one of 10 students across Canada to be awarded a 2014 fellowship, which recognizes outstanding leadership in the academic sphere. The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), which administers the awards, cited McAvoy McAvoy’s extensive volunteer experience as well as her “self-di- ation Conference and worked rection, maturity, passion and for the summer performing engagement” in choosing her cultural history mapping for the for a 2014 fellowship. city. McAvoy volunteers as a “I’m really honoured,” peer mentor for the Univer- said McAvoy, who credits the sity Learning Centre, sits on many volunteer opportunities the executive of the Planning available on campus and the Students Association and volun- support she received during the teers for prison outreach activ- application process as contribu-  Patrick Hayes, u of s archives  MG 480 ities through St. Thomas More tors to her success. College’s Service and Justice Fellowship recipients are This issue’s image is the “Winners of the Eaton Trophy – Manitoba Lawn Bowling Tournament – Aug Project. She has been part of given $5,000 and an invitation 1925”. The Saskatoon team featured, from left to right, lead P. Steele (photographer), third W. Lockhart the Huskies track and cross- to the annual STLHE confer- (tailor), skip W.J. Rutherford (Dean of Agriculture) and his son second Jack Rutherford (student). The country teams, organized the ence in June, where they will senior Rutherford was a keen sportsman but because of a childhood leg injury was restricted to lawn 2013 Catholic Students Associ- collaborate on a project.  bowling and curling, sports at which he excelled.  4 April 11, 2014 

New to us

Marta Erlandson

When it comes to building strong bones, a little gymnastics goes a long way and for a long time, according to Marta Erlandson, assistant professor in the College of Kinesiology. She explained that while it was known elite gymnasts develop much stronger bones than sedentary youths or even other athletes, no one knew if this held true for recreational gymnasts. This became the subject of her master’s and PhD research at the U of S. “They (children) had better bone parameters even after an hour or so a week of participation.” The roots of Erlandson’s research lie in her upbringing in Saskatoon, competing as a gymnast with the Marion and Can-Am clubs. She competed at the university level for the first two of her undergraduate years before being recruited as a pole-vaulter for the Huskies. As a student, she became interested in how gymnastic training affected developing bodies. Her work contradicted the notion that such training slowed down how fast athletes matured. It turned out the reverse was true: slow bloomers tended to choose gymnastics, just as their faster-maturing friends were drawn to hockey and football. After three years of postdoctoral work in osteoporosis at the University of Toronto, Erlandson returned to the U of S, lured in part by its strong bone health research programs. She cites unique decades-long population data from Saskatchewan studies, as well as bone analysis instruments that allow researchers to see not only how much bone there is, but its structure and shape. “There are only four places in Canada that have these (instruments),” she said. Erlandson explains exercise is most crucial while the body is growing in the childhood and teen years when bone is being formed. “If we can increase the amount of bone these children are accruing during ScienceCartoonsPlus.com childhood, we might be able to get them enough bone that even though they will lose it naturally as they age, they’re never going to reach a fracture threshold,” she explained. “That’s what we hope to do with these childhood Stellar teaching recognized interventions.” 

new to us highlights the work of new faculty members at the University of Saskatchewan. If you are new to campus, or in College of Arts and Science know someone who is, please email [email protected]

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This will be used future leaders and practical longer meets Canadian Council public,” he said. “from there, we can take what to study environmental impacts knowledge that is relevant to on Animal Care (CCAC) Van Kessel explained the we learn into the research feedlot of intensive cattle feeding oper- their operation,” he said. standards, largely due to poor cattlemens’ contribution will and scale it up.” ations and to develop mitigation The new beef facility is drainage in the pens during allow the project team to leverage The facility itself also will strategies for best management needed to replace the current spring runoff and other wet other sources of funding, from feature three different sizes practices. 700-head operation on the east times of year. Van Kessel said government to feedlot supply of pens, designed to answer Van Kessel stressed the beef side of the river north of Circle CCAC inspectors praised the companies to other related different research questions: industry’s research interests Drive. Beef production has efforts of the feedlot manager industries with a stake in beef nutrition pens of up to 15 reach far beyond traditional production research. animals each will be used to concerns of animal nutrition The new facility is very much compare different feeding strat- and health to include issues such a collaborative effort, he said, egies, feed ingredients and as welfare and environmental supported by the Western College additives; genetic pens with up sustainability. of Veterinary Medicine, College to 30 animals each will allow “As a University we will of Engineering and the Global for studies of diets to get the continue to provide controlled Institute for Water Security. best performance from animals studies which fill gaps in Plans for the new facility with different genetic traits; existing knowledge and include a segregated pavilion and health resource pens of up support informed science-based area where researchers can to 200 animals each will mimic decisions on management and demonstrate the latest animal commercial feedlot conditions. regulation.” 

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There are a lot of birds—hundreds of thousands of birds—headed for Chaplin Lake in south central Saskatchewan. For some, it is a stopping- off point on their spring migration from warmer climes to breeding grounds in the high Arctic. For others, like the endangered Piping Plover, Shore birds at Chaplin Lake. the saline lake will be home for the season.

New enhancement chairs announced

Greg Penner, cattle nutrition researcher.

Greg Penner from the Depart- iology in recognition of his ment of Animal and Poultry research in the area of food and Sciences and Keith Carlson, bioproducts for a sustainable history professor and director future, specifically in ruminant of the Interdisciplinary Centre animal nutrition that has earned for Culture and Creativity, him both national and interna- have both been awarded U of S tional attention. Carlson’s award Centennial Enhancement Chairs. —the Centennial Enhance- Set up to support research ment Chair in Aboriginal and and scholarship in the univer- Community-Engaged History sity’s signature areas, the —also noted the national and program provides chairs with international recognition he has research grants, chair stipends, earned through his work in the teaching assistant stipends and area of Aboriginal engagement graduate stipends. and scholarship. Penner was awarded the Both awards begin May Centennial Enhancement Chair 1 for a five-year term which is in Ruminant Nutritional Phys- renewable. 

Historian Keith Carlson. ON CAMPUS NEWS  April 11, 2014 7 Community-engaged research takes flight in Chaplin

Christy Morrissey, assistant contamination, loss of habitat professor of biology, has been or the effects of climate change. doing research at Chaplin Lake Whatever the cause, Morrissey for two years, drawn by the said the people of Chaplin have chance to study such incredible a real interest in preserving their numbers of migratory shore unique resource. birds. This spring, though, “They have a nice nature her focus will be on recruiting centre there and they have this and training a special group of really abundant, rich lake so people to help her gather data— it’s a perfect combination. The the people who live on the shores community is looking to protect of Chaplin Lake. the lake and the shore birds so Morrissey was one of the the goal is to set up long-term, recipients of the university’s scientifically based monitoring new community engaged schol- that gives ownership to the arship research seed funding community.” and she is using it to get the Merci Rapolti, a graduate people of Chaplin involved in student in the School of Envi- her monitoring. It is a project ronment and Sustainability, called connecting migratory is helping Morrissey set up a birds with the community and framework for monitoring the all it needed was some funding shorebirds that will add infor- for it to take flight. mation to what is already known. Merci Rapolti, left, a graduate student in the School of Environment and Sustain-  Colleen Macpherson “There is literally noIt has to be simple enough for ability, and Christy Morrissey, assistant professor of biology. funding for engagement that people to use but it also must researchers can apply for and yet produce information “that is birds that use Chaplin Lake so tation of the “citizen science” their site, full stop. They’re 100 lots of us like to do it, and lots consistent in a given year and watchers will also be asked to project expected for next year’s per cent on board.” of us are already doing it,” she between years so the data are report those sightings as a way of migration. Morrissey and Rapolti said. “When the funding was comparable,” said Rapolti. That studying migration patterns and Morrissey and Rapolti will be in Chaplin June 6-7 for made available, I had a project means controlling factors like the survival rates. are working with Lori Wilson the annual Chaplin Shorebird perfectly aligned.” timing and locations of counts. “It’s an opportunity to from the Chaplin Tourism and Festival to promote their While bird numbers are But it is more than just collect real, valid, useful scien- Nature Centre on the initiative. research and the monitoring high—about half of the entire counting, she explained. Also tific information, and it doesn’t Morrissey said Wilson is keen project. They will be joined by North and South American important is gathering, for matter if you’re a scientist,” said to involve school students in the researchers from Mexico and population of Sanderlings move example, the chronology of Morrissey. survey process, the selling point Salt Lake City, other areas where through Chaplin Lake on spring when various species of birds This year’s work centres on being the chance to do hands-on, the birds are monitored “so the migrations—they are declining arrive and depart, and how long testing and validating compo- in-the-field research work. U of S is on the map for people for reasons that are not yet they stay at the site. In separate nents of the framework, said “The community is thrilled who care about these birds,” said fully understood. It could be research, Morrissey has banded Rapolti, with full implemen- to have scientific research at Morrissey. 

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About three years ago, someone able buildings that make up the building and it’s probably the tion, design, spatial configura- a weight of evidence if there’s suggested the President’s University of Saskatchewan. best heritage house in Saskatoon tion and materials. The eval- something important about the Residence be torn down to allow “I was alarmed,” said but it has no formal protec- uation criteria were based on building,” he said. more development along the Wallace, an architect and tion.” So Wallace, along with Parks Canada’s Standards and In the end, the register riverbank edge of campus, a associate director of space fellow architect and associate Guidelines for the Conservations divides the buildings and sites suggestion that horrified many, planning in the Facilities vice-president of facilities Colin of Historic Places in Canada, into three categories of asset. including Andrew Wallace. But Management Division (FMD). Tennent, set out to create a which Wallace said is the gold The first, an A list of 18, requires it also spurred him on to tackle “The President’s Residence is a guide to preserving what they standard across the country in that any work be carried out a project designed to recognize heritage building; any reason- view as one of the univer- in accordance with the the significance of the remark- able person can see it’s a heritage sity’s most valuable assets. Parks Canada standards. The result is the U of S We know how to The B list, which numbers Heritage Register. 16, are buildings and sites Wallace explained recognize heritage value, where it is recommended that heritage buildings and with our own guide, but not required that the can currently have three standards be followed. levels of protection— we can impose our own The remaining municipal, provincial requirements for seven buildings have no or federal designation. formal protection but are The Stone School House preserving and protecting included in the register and Rugby Chapel are our buildings. because they have some municipal heritage heritage features that need buildings and the Peter Andrew Wallace to be considered when MacKinnon Building alterations are required, has both provincial and Wallace said. federal protection. Unfortu- heritage building recognition The resulting Heritage nately, those designations come and conservation. Register is a comprehensive, with rules and approval proce- “There’s some subjectivity and beautiful, document. The dures that often make it difficult to it,” he admitted, “but it’s entry for each building includes for owners to renovate, restore informed subjectivity.” archival materials like original or expand structures. With the help of Megan drawings, detailed descriptions The solution was anFritzler, an architecture master’s and stunning photographs of internal register. “We know how student from the University of the buildings themselves and to recognize heritage value,” Calgary, 41 buildings were short the various elements that make said Wallace, “and with our own listed for further inspection, them special. guide, we can impose our own evaluation and documentation requirements for preserving and of their features. “This builds See Heritage, Page 9 protecting our buildings.” The first step was deciding which campus buildings and The original sites belonged in the register. drawings of the Wallace said the evaluation Thorvaldson Building used the same considerations call for a Guastavino as other heritage designations, vault over Room 271, Colleen MacPherson Andrew Wallace, associate director of space  “character-defining elements” on the far right. planning in the Facilities Management Division. like age, quality of construc-

 University Archives & Special Collections, Faculties Management Records, Drawing TB 15 Unique feature discovered in Rm 271

Doing a thorough inspection of any U of S building will reveal some quirks and maybe even some faults, but it can also reveal some surprises. That was exactly what happened when Andrew Wallace took a close look at the original plans for the Thorvaldson Building. The architect and associate director of space planning in the Facilities Management Division noticed that those plans called for a Guastavino tile vault over Room 271, officially called the Henry Taube Lecture Theatre but more informally known as the Airplane Room. Curious, he climbed to the top of the building and sure Health Sciences Bookstore enough, that’s what he found. Guastavino tile is a technique used to build self- supporting vaults with interlocking terracotta tiles and now open layers of mortar. Patented in the U.S. in 1885, the technique involves laying Guastavino tile, which is less than an inch Stop by our new location on the main floor of thick, in herringbone-patterned courses that follow the E Wing to shop our collection of health sciences curve of the roof rather than running horizontally or reference books, materials and supplies. perpendicular to the curve. A number of very notable buildings feature Guastavino tile, including Grand Central Terminal, Carnegie Hall and the American Museum of Natural History. The Guastovonio usask.ca/bookstore dome in the Thorvaldson Building at the U of S can now be added to that list.  ON CAMPUS NEWS  April 11, 2014 9 Students, patients not disrupted

undergraduate curriculum From Page 2 is also evidence of positive of Medicine is on accreditation changes “that will benefit our with probation. The next site students and the people of the visit by the accreditation bodies province.” is a year away “so we have 12 Morale within the college months to make significant has waxed and waned through progress on the issues we need the process of developing a to address. The incoming dean vision for the future and an is a nationally recognized expert implementation plan to get in medical accreditation and his there. “There was a time when knowledge and experience will people weren’t engaged,” said prove invaluable in this regard.” Phillipson. “Accreditation was a He stressed that two of the wake-up call but the announce- key guiding principles for all of ment of the dean was a huge shot the changes going on are that in the arm. I have a sense that there be no disruption to student people realize we have work to education or patient care. do, and they want to be part of “We made a commitment changes that will to make the to this at the outset of the college more successful. restructuring process and we’ve “The pace is not always delivered on that commitment.” what you’d want it to be and Phillipson cited the results of save the appointment of the new the recent resident recruitment dean, there may not be any big The bike cage in the Health Sciences parkade.  Kris foster and matching process, which announcements, but change is were the best in recent college happening in the college and history. The adoption of a new that’s exciting.”  Underground lock-up Heritage value offered to campus cyclists not in age alone Cyclists coming to and from the main entrance. The access space was designed, bike access campus have a lot of parking card also allows entry to showers, wasn’t considered, so cyclists is a particular favourite for options these days. washrooms and change areas. have to use the stairs rather than From Page 8 Wallace. “I have real admira- A recently opened bike A survey from 2012 the main entrance which isn’t as Wallace said the register tion for Holliday-Scott having cage in the Health Sciences indicated that about seven to 10 convenient.” will be valuable to both FMD done such thorough work. Law parkade has room for 60 bikes, per cent of the U of S community De Souza said that the and consulting architects has beautiful spaces, there is a said Martin Gonzalez De Souza, biked to work depending on the number of spaces rented is the involved in renovation or lot of rigour to its design and associate director of Consumer time of the year, said De Souza. main measure of success for the expansion projects. “It doesn’t it’s expressive of both its time Services. “We are always looking To accommodate the parking new bike cage at Health Sciences force the university’s hands to and historical context. And it’s for ways to improve sustain- needs, Parking And Transpor- and will determine whether more carry out any particular project cheeky and playful. I actually ability at the university, and one tation Services, a division of spaces will be added. “There is but it does say that if we’re going laughed out loud when I first way to do that is make traveling Consumer Services, has been potential to add more spaces in to do a project, here’s how to noticed things like its references to and from campus on bikes as testing various bike rack options Health Sciences.” do it right. It doesn’t say we to spires and battlements. easy as possible.” to see which are most used. The goal, he continued, is to can’t add on to the Thorvaldson “The university has very The underground bike “We have 19 bike boxes, provide riders as many conve- Building, for example, but if we good examples of all of the racks, which are located in a pie-shaped containers that can nient, secure and affordable do, the register will guide how major architectural styles of secure cage, De Souza explained, hold a bike and other personal options as possible. “Having these the work is done. It comes down the 20th century and they all are available for rent at a rate belongings, all across campus,” options is one way to improve to a very simple principle—you fit together. When we only of $20 per month, $60 for four he explained. “These are popular traffic on campus as well.” ought to take the least invasive think of the original buildings months, $90 for six months or and convenient because they To sign up for bike parking approach possible.” on campus, we overlook some $150 for a year. are located just outside of major in the Health Sciences parkade or What is interesting about really good architecture.” With that fee comes an campus buildings like the PAC.” for more information on any of the register is that while many Wallace’s passion for access card allowing cyclists There are also 10 hanging the bike storage options, contact obvious buildings—the Colle- heritage architecture is evident convenient entry into the under- bike racks available in the agri- Parking Services at 306-966- giate Gothic collection—are as he turns the pages of the ground parking facility through culture parkade, but “when that 4502 or [email protected]  included, others on the list may register which will soon be be a surprise. 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• April 23, 1-2:30 pm, Planning For • Painting/Towards Abstraction II and III, at 1:30 pm and at 7 pm on April 17. Seminars/Lectures Community Engaged Learning with 2-4 and 9-11  Miscellany Reservations are required. An online form Andrew Dunlop • Creative Digital Photography I, May is available on the CLS website under Quebec Election Panel • April 29, 9-noon, Aboriginal Communi- 5-June 18 Open 24/7 the education tab, or email outreach@ • April 17, noon-1:30 pm, Prairie Room, ty-Based Pedagogies • Advanced Photography II, May 6-June 17 The Murray Library is offering extended lightsource.ca, or call 306-657-3644. Diefenbaker Building, the John- hours until April 29. As part of the Safe • May 7, 9 am-4 pm, Oskayak High School, • Photoshop III, May 5-June 18 son-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Study program, the ground floor of the Saturday Pet Wellness Clinics Classroom-Based Pedagogy • Pinhole Photography and Alternative Policy presents a Quebec election panel Library, including the group study room, The WCVM Veterinary Medical Centre will • May 8, 8:30 am-12:30 pm, Course Design Process I, June 7-8 featuring Roy Romanow, former premier will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a hold a Saturday Pet Wellness Clinic from Institute. Applications for Course Design 8:30 am-4:30 pm April 19 for pet checkups of Saskatchewan, David McGrane, • Expressive Landscape Painting I, May week but access outside of normal Library Institute are open; see the GMCTE or vaccinations. Call 306-966-7126 to book associate professor of political students 30-June 1 hours will be limited to those with a valid website. The application deadline is an appointment or for more details. The at St. Thomas More College, and Daniel • Off The Wall: Mixed Media Sculptural student card. April 25th centre offers a 10 per cent discount for Béland, professor and Canada Research Wall Pieces I, June 13-15/ 20-22 Supplier Trade Show U of S students and staff. Chair in Public Policy Writing Winning Grants • • Welding in Sculpture II, June 5/14- The annual Supplier Trade Show will take • April 24, 9 am-4 pm, Room 103 Physics, 15/21-22 Archaeology meeting place May 6 from 9:30 am-3 pm in the a one-day hands-on workshop for all Master Gardener Program and lecture main gymnasium of the PAC. The event disciplines with practical, expert, advice • Perennials: The Basics, April 11, 7–9:30 will include displays by a large number of • April 16, 7:30 pm, Room 132 Archaeology from Natasha Waxman, director of pm, Beginner to Intermediate, $44.95 vendors – everything from scientific lab Building, the Saskatoon Archaeological publications and writing services, Perim- + GST equipment and office supplies to travel Submit Society will hold its monthly meeting eter Institute for Theoretical Physics, • Garden Fundamentals, April 12 and April agencies, customs brokerage services and and AGM. The guest speaker is Denise Waterloo, and from U of S grant holders. 13, 9 am–4 pm, Beginner to Interme- hotels. Information sessions will be held, Huynh who will present ‘An SAS Member For more information contact grants. diate, $99.95 + GST + $10.50 materials fee samples and giveaways will be available Coming Events went on Vacation and all we got was [email protected]. and there will be a major door prize. For • Gardening Naturally: Reducing Pests this Lecture’: A Look at the Mayan Sites more information contact Purchasing Continuing Education for Nurses without Chemical Products, April 12, of Lamanai and Chacchoben from a Services Division at 306-966-6704. Next OCN: Friday, April 25 Vacationing Archaeologist For more information visit usask.ca/ 7–10 pm, Beginner to Advanced, $44.95 Deadline: Thursday, April 17 nursing/cedn + GST CLS Tours • May 6-7, Integrating Falls Prevention into • Communications, May 3, 9 am–4 pm, The Canadian Light Source is offering free Email [email protected]  The Arts Nursing Practice, Tisdale Beginner to Intermediate, $67.95 + GST public tours of the facility most Thursdays Centre for Continuing and • Stained Glass Birdbath, May 4, 9 am–4 Snelgrove Exhibitions pm, Beginner to Advanced, $67.95 + GST Closing April 11 in the Gordon Snelgrove Distance Education + $15.75 materials fee Gallery are BFA shows by Edna Oleksyn, For more information, visit www.ccde. Jessica Sukut and Kaja Coleman. On view usask.ca or call 306-966-5539 ICT Training Services April 14-17 with an opening reception Business and Leadership Programs For information or to register email us at [email protected] or visit training.usask.ca. April 14 from 7-10 pm is Out of the Box, • Understanding Self and Others Using Graeme Joseph, currently the co-ordinator of an exhibition of third- and fourth-year MBTI Step II, April 24 • Adobe Acrobat Pro – Intro, June 18, strategic Aboriginal initiatives at the University of 1:30-4:30 pm, $75 students; $85 staff and photograph. An exhibit of work by Staci • Train the Trainer: A Short Course in Adult British Columbia, will join the U of S May 15 in the faculty; $100 others Huculak runs April 21-25. Learning, April 28-30 new position of team leader, First Nations, Métis • Adobe Illustrator – Intro, June 3 and 5, STM Gallery • Leading Innovation, Inspiring Creativity and Inuit Student Success which includes leadership in the Workplace, May 1 1:30-4:30 pm, $125 students; $150 staff Showing until April 25 in the St. Thomas and faculty; $185 others of the Aboriginal Students’ Centre. Under a new More Gallery is Collaboration: 9th Annual • Introduction to Group Facilitation, structure, Joseph, who is Gitxsan from northwestern May 9-10 • Adobe InDesign – Inter I, April 17, 1:30- USCAD Instructors’ and Certificate Students’ 4:30 pm, $65 students; $85 staff and British Columbia, will report to the director of Aborig- • Technical Writing, June 24 Show. The gallery is located on the faculty; $100 others inal Initiatives in Advancement and Community second floor of the college, just outside Crucial Conversations for U of S • Adobe InDesign – Intro, May 13 and 15, the library. Joseph Engagement. Employees 1:30-4:30 pm, $125 students; $150 staff French Fantasies • June 16 and 23, Room 224/225 Williams and faculty; $185 others Alexis Tindall, an MSc student in the Department of Soil Science, is one of The Elixer Ensemble presents French Building, fee $490 • Adobe Photoshop – Intro, April 22 and two recipients of the Dr. Karl C. Ivarson Scholarship awarded this year by the Fantasies April 19 at 7:30 pm in Convo- Community Music Education 24 OR May 20 and 22, 1:30-4:30 pm, Agricultural Institute of Canada Foundation. The scholarship recognizes Tindall’s cation Hall. The concert includes French Parenting with Music and Suzuki Early $125 students; $150 staff and faculty; research contribution to the Integrated Nutrient and Water Management Project $185 others chamber music from the late 19th and Childhood Spring classes start May 3 and in the Sahelian region of Africa as well as her volunteer work as director of Kid’s early 20th centuries plus a tango by • Adobe Photoshop – Inter, June 10 and registration is open for summer music Club at The Bridge on 20th, a program for youth at risk. award-winning Canadian composer camps. For more information, call Nicole 12, 1:30-4:30 pm, $125 students; $150 Christos Hatzis. Details can be found at Wilton at 306-966-5625 or visit www.ccde. staff and faculty; $185 others The College of Law’s moot team made up of Nathanial Day, Sean Fagan, elixirensemble.com usask.ca/community-music • Apple – iOS Tips and Tricks (iPad, iPhone, Rylund Hunter, Grace Waschuk and coach Ashley Smith won this year’s U of S Language Centre iPod), June 26, 2:30-4 pm, $0 students, A Queen and Her Country staff and faculty; $75 others regional McIntyre Cup competition and went on to place third at the national The Diefenbaker Canada Centre is hosting Multilingual Conversational Language • Apple - Make the Most of Your Mac OS - Sopinka Cup. The Sopinka Cup involves the top eight law schools from regional A Queen and Her Country, a travelling Classes: for students who have not taken Intro, June 11, 1:30-4:30 pm, $0 students, competitions competing in the bilingual national moot finals which aims to exhibit from the Canadian Museum of multilingual classes, call 306-966-4351 staff and faculty; $75 others encourage students in the art of oral advocacy by running a criminal jury trial. History, until June 8. The exhibition marks or email [email protected] for a • ArcGIS - Intro, April 14 and 16, 6:30-9:30 the diamond jubilee of Her Majesty Queen language assessment. Textbooks and pm, $0 students, staff, faculty; $185 The following have been announced by the Office of the Provost and Vice-Pres- Elizabeth II using artifacts and images workbooks are extra (excluding Cree 1) others ident Academic: to recall her many visits to Canada and • French levels 1, 2, 3 and 6: $205 (GST her connections to major events in the exempt) • MS PowerPoint – Intro, June 19, 1:30-4:30 Dr. John Thiel appointed acting academic head of the Department of Obstet- pm, $0 students, staff, faculty; $125 country’s history. • Spanish levels 1, 2, 3, and 5: $215.25 (GST rics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences for up to six months or less if a new included) others head is appointed. Kenderdine Art Gallery • Japanese level 1 : $215.25 (GST included) • Research Posters - Adobe Illustrator, May Showing in the Kenderdine Art Gallery 29, 2:30-4 pm, $0 students; $50 staff or • Cree level 1: $225.75 (textbook & GST Adam Baxter-Jones’ term as acting dean of the is Rita McKeough: The Lion’s Share, an faculty; $75 others included) immersive experience that includes a College of Graduate Studies and Research has been One-Week Intensive French Immersion • Research Posters - MS PowerPoint, May visual array of materials and the sounds extended for the period July 1–Dec. 31. Program: for speakers of all levels. 27, 2:30-4 pm, $0 students, staff, faculty; of a lion eating, all within the space of a $75 others faux restaurant. The artist describes the • Aug. 11 to 16, Monday to Friday, 8:30 Trever Crowe’s term as associate dean of the College am-4 pm and Saturday 8:30 am-noon, Faculty Workshops: contact a training@ installation as a 3D version of a Looney usask.ca or 306-966-4866 for more infor- of Graduate Studies and Research has been extended Tunes restaurant in which things have Cost: $540.00 (materials and GST for the period July 1-Dec. 31. included). Register at ccde.usask.ca/ mation on workshops geared to faculty. gone terribly awry. The exhibition, learnlanguages/french-immersion or call IT4U – Tech Help for Students: http://it4u. curated by Josephine Mills, continues Dr. Geoff Johnston appointed acting unified head 306-966-4351 usask.ca until April 26. of the Department of Medicine effective February 1, Enroll in many courses from off campus. The French Voyageur for Beginners: for 2014 for a period of six months or less. College Art Galleries zero to low-level beginner speakers. Go to training.usask.ca for more infor- Baxter-Jones The group exhibition Ecotipia, circulated • Aug. 8 to 10, Friday 6:30 pm-9 pm, mation. Venkat Gopalakrishnan reappointed as head of the by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Saturday and Sunday 9 am-5 pm, Cost: Edwards School of Business, Department of Pharmacology for a three-year term and on view in the College Art Galleries, $275.00 (materials & GST included). Executive Education effective July 1. explores environmental conservation, Register at ccde.usask.ca/learn- For information call 306-966-8686, destruction and the cacophonous blend languages/french-voyageur or call Marc Mentzer appointed acting head of the of architecture and decay in a technolog- 306-966-4351 email [email protected] or visit edwards.usask.ca/execed Department of Human Resources and Organizational ical age from the perspective of a number USCAD Classes of artists. The show runs until May 7. • April 29-May 1, Digital Marketing Behaviour in the Edwards School of Business for a • Stained Glass: Focus on foil work, April Program: Social Media and E-Marketing six-month term effective July 1-Dec. 31. 25-27 Certificate  Courses/Workshops • Visual Arts Survey I, May 15, 23-25 and • May 22-23, Process Mapping and Process Rosemary Venne appointed acting head of the June 68 Improvement Course - Regina Department of Human Resources and Organizational Gopalakrishnan Gwenna Moss Centre for • 2D Design I, May 2-4 and 9-11 • May 26-27, Analyzing and Improving Behaviour in the Edwards School of Business for a Teaching Effectiveness • Open Sculpture Studio, May 2-4 and 9-11 Office and Service Operations (Lean six-month term effective January 1, 2015. For details visit usask.ca/gmcte/events or • Drawing I, May 30, June 1 and June 13-15 Office) Course call 306-966-2231 • Drawing II and III, May 23-25 and June 6-8 • May 28-29, Process Metrics, Manage- • April 17, 9 am-4 pm, Station 20 West • Drawing and Painting the Portrait II, May ment and Controls Course More stories at: Classroom, Community-Based Pedago- 5-June 18 • May 30-June 6, The Effective Executive gies with Geraldine Balzer • Painting I, May 6-June 17 Leadership Program –Waskesiu news.usask.ca ON CAMPUS NEWS  April 11, 2014 11 Mindful of math  Lana Haight

“Back to math basics” is a cry order of the math skills learned to between drill the facts and don’t that is increasingly heard across ensure students are competent in drill the facts but emphasize Canada as studies show students one before another is introduced. some kind of concrete under- lagging behind those in many Campbell also studies the standing of the operations. Both other developed countries. differences in math compe- of those facets are important.” But focusing solely on rote tency between U of S students While educators work to drill of math facts isn’t neces- who attended Canadian schools strike a balance between the sarily the key to reversing the and those who were educated in two, there has not been an slide, according to University China. interest in incorporating what of Saskatchewan psychology When participants are given Campbell and other psycholo- professor Jamie Campbell. two minutes to complete as many gists have learned about how the Jamie Campbell, psychology professor.  kris foster “The reason there has not problems as they can using pencil brain and its memory process been a simple solution to this is and paper, the Chinese students arithmetic. as much cross-talk as we would interests of improving math that the process of learning arith- complete significantly more than “My experience is that there like,” said Campbell. education in Canada.  metic is extremely complicated.” the Canadian students. seems to be a barrier. It’s sort of It’s a divide that Campbell Lana Haight is a Saskatoon Campbell, a cognitive “When you get those tests different philosophies. There isn’t would love to see closed in the freelance writer. psychologist, has spent his entire back, you know immediately academic career researching how which group it came from. That’s the brain learns arithmetic, how because in the Canadian group, it retains that information and there is all kinds of marginal how it retrieves math facts. writing. The carrying opera- One of his latest studies tions and the intermediate steps involves retrieval-induced are written on the page. They ASSOCIATION forgetting, something that every are using the page as a working person experiences many times memory,” he explained. throughout the day. In the process “You look at the Chinese Thank you of retrieving or remembering test papers. There is none. There something from long-term are only answers. That clearly to our volunteers who memory, other information is shows they’re using working suppressed or forgotten. memory more efficiently than generously “You couldn’t possibly Canadians are.” retain everything you learn. Why this is the case isn’t give their time, skills and Forgetting is a healthy part of clear. Differences in language, expertise to advance the memory,” he said. teaching methods and parental University of Saskatchewan Understanding retriev- expectations likely have some al-induced forgetting is key to influence. So could calculator and the Alumni Association. improving math education and use; while Canadian students could be valuable in designing begin using calculators early alumni.usask.ca curricula. in math education, Chinese “Memory competition is students often do not have access a major source of difficulty in to calculators until university. learning basic math facts. I don’t “You are going to get good think that has been recognized,” at what you do. If you practice said Campbell. memorization, then you are going “When kids first learn to develop memorization skills. If multiplication, it clobbers their you practice using a calculator, addition skills. There’s some then you are going to develop evidence that it never actually calculator-specific skills.” recovers. There’s always an The debate over how best asymmetry there where multipli- to teach mathematics has been cation interferes with addition.” going on for the past century. He suggests changing the “I’ve seen the flip flop

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Room This year’s back-page feature explores the view of campus from various office windows, and the people who enjoy them. Do you with a View have an interesting view? Let us know at [email protected]

 Kris Foster Vehicular view

Jody Gress has a narrow ground-floor window in his office but there’s never a shortage of things to see, or hear, or smell. The office of the marketing specialist for Consumer Services in the Qu’Appelle Hall addition overlooks the transit hub in front of Place Riel and starting early in the morning, “it’s a steady stream of mass transit, a rush of people and the smell of diesel fumes. ” The rush dies down about 10 am but begins again about 3 pm. “You get used to the normal hum at certain times of day,” he said. If it’s not buses, it’s delivery trucks and vans in front of his window. But if a car inadvertently ventures into the area, Qu’Appelle “the drivers just lay on the horn.” No cars allowed. Hall Addidition As for people traffic, Gress said in winter, transit passengers wait inside Place Riel “until the last minute and then run for the bus,” a veritable tsunami of humanity. In warm weather, there are a lot more people right outside his office. As often as not, he gets to listen in on phone calls “but I only get to hear one side of the conversation.”