asf Barry McGee Vanier Library construction starts By Ken Whittingham President of Valbrice Con­ As mentioned above, the through the doors of the fully­ and the ajoining land for the struction Inc. of St-Leonard, three principal participants had operational "new" Vanier start of construction - sched­ the general contractor for the to add their signatures to liter­ Library. uled for the fall. t's finally underway. Con­ site. ally dozens of documents. For In addition to the three­ Among other things the struction has started on Among those present at the legal reasons the University storey library building, the foundations of tJ;ie . Royal I Concordia's multi-million' marathon signing ceremony in Seal also had to be affixed to Quebec government has just George building will have to be dollar library expansion pro­ the Rector's Loyola Campus each and every copy (of the given Concordia official shored before new foundations ject. office were Chancellor Alan B. architectural plans, blueprints, authorization to build the 575- can be dug for the eight-storey After more than a decade of Gold, Board of Governors contracts and sub-contracts) seat Centre for the Performing downtown library building. uncertainty and sometimes Vice-Chairman Andre Gervais prepared for the event. Arts that will be linked to the . agonizing delay, construction (representing Board Chairman Immediately afterwards the Vanier Library and the Campus crews moved onto the west-end Don McNaughton), Vice-Rec­ Rector led the official party to a Centre by a glass-roofed campus April 27th to begin tors Francis Whyte and reception he hosted m the entrance hall. • Senate news, work on the $8.4 million expan­ Maurice Cohen, and Library Loyola Faculty Club for all Construction contracts for p.2 sion and renovation of the 23- Director Al Mate. Vanier Libra1:y personnel. that project will be signed year-old Vanier Library build­ They were joined at the Library staff thanked imminently. The centre's pro­ • ing (see photos page 6). historic event by members of Kenniff used the occasion to jected completion date is the China-Concordia Just a week' earlier Rector the board of governors and thank Loyola Libraries Head same as the Vanier Library's. Patrick Kenniff and Vice-Rec­ representatives of the alumni, Irene Sendek and her entire The cost will be approximately relations tor (Services) Charles Giguere the deans, studenfgovernment, staff for their patience and $4 million. expand,p4 officially signed the building and many of the professional support during the many years On the downtown site mean­ contract (actually a compendi­ staff who have worked so hard leading up to construction, and while, crews of hard hats have • Cyberpunk? um of several dozen documents to bring the project to fruition all present raised a glass to toast been at work since late May p 11 including the architectural - including the project's archi­ the day just 18 months down carrying out advance work to plan~ and all of the sub-con­ tects, engineers and legal con­ the road when the first Con­ prepare the former Royal tracts) with Bernard Attard, sultants. cordia students will walk George Apartment Building . Page 2 THE THURSDAY REPORT June 11, 1987 Sellatenews by Barbara Verity The Rector went on to con­ Science Faculty Council recom­ The programs will be imple­ ties which apply for NSERC May 9, 1987 gratulate those involved in the mendation that social insur­ mented in January 1988 unless grants, to distribute 1987-1988 staff, faculty and Board of ance numbers not be used to unforseen additional resources funds. Governors part of the Capital identify people at Concordia, are required that cause budget­ The motion was withdrawn Campaign, who have donated Cohen said the issue will be ary or academic planning prob­ because of lack of support. more than $1 million. "It was discussed at Senate in the fall. lems. Other business hat is the reaction of an outstanding success," he He said he is concerned about The Physics department of In other Senate business, Quebec universities commented. over-use of the numbers, but the Arts and Science faculty Vice-Rector, Academic Whyte W t:o the recent Responding to a question, also worries about the cost of a will also be adopting the co-op announced that a budget com­ announcement of the 1987- Vice-Rector; Institutions and new system. format at the same time. mittee will be·created next year 1988 Provincial Budget? Finance, Maurice Cohen said In other news, Senate An amendment, introduced by the Academic Planning and "Moderately and prudently Concordia cannot afford the learned that another agreement by Religion prof. Jack Light­ Priorities Committee to study pleased - but very wary," said same level of pay recently has been signed with China; stone at the request of the the budget in an ongoing man­ Rector Patrick Kenniff, who granted to part-time faculty at that the Fine Arts faculty has a Institute's director, G.J. Tru­ ner and to link decisions on the chairs a committee related to the Universite du Quebec and new publication detailing del, was defeated after lengthy budget to academic planning in university financing at the Universite de Montreal. research activities 'by its fac­ debate. The amendment was general. Conference of Rectors. Kenniff "Should our financial situa­ ulty; and that the Board of aimed at ensuring that control The Academic Programs was responding to a question at tion improve, one of our high­ Graduate Studies has a new over the new programs rest with Committee put forward exten­ the May 9 Senate meeting at est priorities would be to database for graduate fellow­ the Institute until procedures sive documents detailing new Concordia. change in a significant way our ships and a new appraisal are worked out for industry­ programs and curriculum The amount set aside for part-time rates," he said. schedule for graduate pro­ wide use of the co-op format. changes in all four faculties. universities is less than that The Thursday Report and grams. Also, the Arts and Sci­ Opposition to the amend­ They were all approved. - proposed by the Minister of the faculty member who ence faculty will have a part­ ment was based on the fact that The new programs are the Education, Kenniff said. How­ recently wrote the article on time instructor as one of its a committee, consisting of Diploma in Journalism and the ever, the government has at cheating at Concordia came in Senate representatives in the Engineering and Computer Master of Science (Administra­ least demonstrated a change in for heavy criticism by senators. fall - Susan Murray, who is Science dean M.N.S. Swamy, tion). Major modifications· attitude, he continued. The Concordia's own press is giving also president of the Concordia Arts and Science dean Charles were made to the proposed Conference of Rectors will con­ the University a bad reputa­ University Part-Time Faculty Bertrand and Vice-Rector, Aca­ joint PhD (Communications) tinue to monitor the situation tion, some said. Furthermore, Association. demic Francis Whyte, is suffic­ and the Major Program in Art as the implications of the budg­ the validity of the survey data is Requirements for the Uni­ ient to work out interim proce­ History. et become clearer. questionable. versity Writing Test were dures for the Engineering and A seven-page document on a Kenniff said that the inclu­ Cohen said that operating approved by Senate. They Computer Science programs. proposed library acquisitions sion in the budget of tax breaks ·procedures at The Thursday include the obligation of Fears were raised during the allocation formula was dis­ for businesses to do joint Report are being studied to undergraduates to register for debate by Associate Vice-Rec­ cussed by Senate, which heard research with universities is an achieve a better balance the exam for the first session of tor, Academic (Research) from Martin Cohen, Collec­ important incentive - one that between free expression and the the test after admission. Cooper Langford, whose tions Development Co-ordina­ Concordia will work aggres­ impact of coverage on the insti­ In other Senate business, the Chemistry department partici­ tor in the library, that a new sively to benefit from. He also tution. membership of the University pates in the co-op format, that formula is needed to update the said that the $15 million includ­ Dean Steven Appelbaum, Library Committee has been inter-faculty wrangling could current 14-year-old one. Con­ ed in the budget to deal with Commerce and Administra­ expanded to include the Vice­ weaken the effectiveness of .cern was expressed by senators accumulated deficits at Quebec tion, raised the issue of aca­ Rector, Services, and the fol­ what he termed "one of our that fewer funds will be availa­ universities is insufficient to demic freedoms and responsi­ lowing people have been named jewels in academic leadership." ble for monographs and seri­ wipe out Concordia's deficit. bilities on the part of faculty, to the Fellowships, Scholar­ Institute s(ructure to be als. Other news terming the publication of a ships and Awards Subcommit­ reviewed The Senate Steering Com­ In other news, senators were confidential survey as slander­ tee: M. Doughty, Chemistry, Meanwhile, the structure of mittee reported that it has set told that the government had ous. The opening statement to A. Dutkewych and A. the Institute will be reviewed to up an ad hoc sub-committee to finally approved plans for the the survey states that the infor­ Jalilvand, Finance, and J. Svo­ find ways of making the co-op study participation of part­ expansion of the Vanier mation is confidential and boda, Mechanical Engineer­ format University-wide rather time faculty in Senate.