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Networks of volunteers now stretch between universities Students help each other ple who have fallen on hard times. some of the student volunteers help­ BY MICHAEL D OBIE "It's as different as it could be from ing out were in just as much in need ome students will be sitting in the good days," he said, in his office of assistance as the non-students Sclassrooms writing exams, while at 2090 Mackay St. they were helping. Thus was born their stomachs rumble with hunger. Terho said that when he was a the year-round food voucher pro­ Campus Ministry is compiling a student in the 1960s, bursaries and gram that is funded entirely by list of students who would benefit scholarships were more plentiful. keeping aside some of the money from a Christmas food basket. This Student loans were often forgiven raised during the Spirit of Christmas is one of several emergency food pro­ after graduation, and there seemed Drive. grams that the Campus Ministry to be more part-time jobs for stu­ "It's a stop-gap to help students directs as a unit of Advocacy and dents. Not all students live the with emergencies like waiting for Support Services. There is also a privileged existence commonly student loans and bursaries," Terho year-round food voucher program, a ascribed to them, he said. "It's said. "Or sometimes a roommate will student food bank that is just getting important to recognize times are dif­ suddenly leave, or there'll be a death underway, and Mother Hubbard's ferent." in the family, and a student will have Cupboard, the Monday night soup Terho described an escalating a cash-flow crisis." Actors Nick Titcombe, Joe Cobden and Susan Doyon get tips kitchen run by the Peer Helpers. series of responses to changed cir­ Students in need will receive a from Toronto director Ken Gass at a rehearsal for Claudius, "This is something the community cumstances that Campus Ministry voucher that can be redeemed for Gass's "tale of politics, passion and paranoia," scheduled to does to help its own members," said has spearheaded over the last 15 groceries at Provigo. At the same open tomorrow night in the downtown D.B. Clarke Theatre. Matti Terho, one of the University years. The Spirit of Christmas Drive time, students talk to a Ministry Claudius, of course, is the uncle and stepfather of Shakespeare's chaplains involved in the relief effort. goes back to the earliest days of Loy­ chaplain, who can promote other Hamlet, and central character of a murky comedy full of twists "Later, when you remember the help ola College and Sir George Williams services available to students, such as and turns. The play was first produced at the Factory Theatre in you received, you'll help, too." University, before they merged to second-hand clothing stores and Toronto-in 1993. For performance times, see the Back Page For Terho, it's all about building form Concordia University. open kitchens in various communi- listings. community and a safety net for peo- In the 1980s, it was realized that See Food,p: 11

IN THIS ISSUE Student debt could be UFEdelight eased by new legislation Field work $43.8 million in 1995-96. BY MICHAEL DOBIE Bill Reimer is an expert on the The federal government has just rural economy; and a student "'{ Jigilance and flexibility concern­ revealed that the problem of rising debt and bankruptcies isn't limited to enjoyed summer on a Roman dig. V ing student debt are the keywords of a report recently sub­ Qyebec. Average student debt Page2 mitted to Minister of Education nationwide will rise to $25,000 by Pauline Marois by a team that next year. Last year, almost 12,000 included Roger Cote, Acting Dean students defaulted on their loans, four times the number seven years Space vision of Students and Director of Finan­ cial Aid Services at Concordia. ago. In the 1990s, student debt levels Senate is presented with a long­ "We didn't have a mandate to have almost tripled. f change the student aid program, but In an attempt to halt these rising ~ term view of where disciplines u. rather to examine measures to facili­ expenditures, Marois quickly tabled ~ could find their home. tate [the reduction] of student debt some of the report's proposals in the ~ Page4 loads," Cote explained. The goal is National Assembly. If passed, they ~ also to reduce the amount given out will introduce flexibility into the § in loans and to reduce bankruptcies. repayment of student debt and make ~ a. The committee of experts, headed educating students about the ramifi- 9 Sick buildings by Claude Montmarquette, an eco­ cations of debt after graduation a ~ nomics professor at the Universite de central part of the application sil: A pledge to the Capital Montreal, revealed that from 1991 to process. Campaign will give researchers 1996, bankruptcies more than dou­ Also proposed were changes in the Congratulations to these four recent Concordia graduates of the calculation of parental support and an edge on indoor air quality. bled to 2,669 ex-students per year Graduate Diploma in Accountancy, who placed among the top 10 in owing a total of $29 million, up from the estimation of student income Quebec writing the gruelling Uniform Final Exam set by the Canadian Page 7 $6 million in 1991. that would make wealthy students Institute of Chartered Accountants. Last year, 37 per cent of <21_iebec's less eligible for aid. They are, left to right, Sonalee Parekh, of Price Waterhouse, who 360,000 post-secondary students The most significant change is to placed eighth; Jonathan Roiter, of Samson Belair Deloitte & Touche, Next issue: took loans, the average loan being the deferred repayment program, and Lawrence Wilk, of Richter Usher & Vineberg, who tied for fifth January 15 $3,200. Next year, the government which is being extended from two place; and Julie Moyen, also working at Samson Belair, who came expects to pay out a total of just over years after finishing full-time studies seventh. In fact, Concordia's pass rate for its 98 first-time writers was 70.4, once HAPPY $500 million in student aid, com­ to five, during which former students again considerably higher than the Quebec average of 53 per cent and prising bursaries, interest charges can take advantage of four six-month the national average of 64.5 per cent. HOLIDAYS! periods to defer their loan payments, and payments to banks for defaults Congratulations to the director of the program, Professor Gail interest-free. Currently, ex-students and bankruptcies. Defaulted loans Fayerman, her team, and the Faculty of Commerce and Administration. from 4,500 ex-students cost <21_iebec See Debt, p. 11 Sociologist Bill Reimer heads a national research project on the rural economy

Life in the country is complex Engineering Games held here and changing fast Concordia will play host to the 1998 Quebec Engineering Games from BY PHIL MOSCOVITCH January 7 to 11. Four hundred engineering students f farming and forestry are all that representing 10 schools will compete in Icome to mind when you hear the word rural, then it's time to think a variety of events ove r the five-day again. period. The competition features skill­ From resource-based enterprises, testing challenges in building, civil, to manufacturing, to a wide array of computer, electrical , industrial and service industries - and yes, to mechanical engineering, as well as a farming, too - rural communities I< debating competition and sporting present a complex picture. iii events. But while there is no dearth of ~ <( The Engineering Games started in studies on Canadian rural communi- ~ 1i' 1990 at Universite Laval and have been ties, nobody has ever done an ~ held annually since then. Major corpo­ in-depth, comparative study. And ~ rate sponsorship for the Competition that's where Sociology and Anthro- ~ C. pology Professor Bill Reimer and the y comes from SPAR Aerospace , with New Rural Economy (NRE) ~ additional funding from Atomic Energy Research Project come in. 5s: of Canada Ltd ., Bombardier, DuPont, Launched in May of this year, the Nortel and Concordia's Faculty of Engi­ project is a five-year, $1.4-million neering and Computer Science. VIA initiative of the 10-year-old Canadi­ Rail, Labatt Breweries of Canada and an Rural Restructuring Foundation First Base give support in the form of (CRRF). It involves researchers from the amalgamations of country hospi­ In particular, he will focus on try­ moved to Qyebec in 1972 and began product donations. 15 universities and study areas in all tals and the exodus of young people ing to understand the ways in which studying agricultural communities. 10 provinces and both territories, as to cities, rural Canada is in the midst aboriginals are dealing with rural H e has been a rural sociologist ever well as policy makers, businesspeo­ of major change. social and economic change by look­ smce. ple, community activists and rural "As the labour in primary indus­ ing at the degree to which primarily Reimer has received close to Polytechnique citizens. tries declines rapidly, it has affected aboriginal rural economies, both on $40,000 in funding so far for his part commemorated Ambitious I and II the ability of rural communities to reserves and off, are integrated into of the NRE research. Funding, Reimer, who has been president of survive," Reimer said. "There's also a the economies surrounding them. which comes through the CRRF, A screening of the National Film tremendous variation in rural Cana­ One of the keys to the NRE pro­ the CRRF for the past three years, has been provided by a number of Board's Packing Heat, followed by a da: the impact i,n areas north of ject as a whole is to determine which said he was "excited" by the project. sources, including Concordia's Fac­ panel discussion, was held last night as Montreal or near Toronto is very rural communities are economically When he and his colleagues were ulty Research Development a commemoration of the December 6, planning the scope of the study, they different from communities in "leading," which are "lagging," and Program, the Department of Indian 1989 massacre of women students at figured they were being optimistic, northern B.C. or the East Coast." through what process some commu­ and Northern Development, the the Ecole Polytechnique. so they named its two phases Working with a team of seven nities become economically and Rural Secretariat of Agriculture and The panellists were former MP War­ "Ambitious I" and "Ambitious IL" students, Reimer, whose long-stand­ socially sound. Agri-food Canada and Human ren Allmand, Therese Daviau, anti-gun To his surprise, the study's parame­ ing interest has been social inclusion, Reimer admits there's a certain activist Heidi Rathjen, Leona Heillig and ters are turning out to be just as exclusion and marginalization in irony in the fact that Concordia - Resources Development Canada. broad as they had hoped. "It's gone rural areas, has begun by identifying one of Canada's most unabashedly For more information on the CRRF filmmaker Wendy Rowland . The event much faster and farther than we had groups of people likely to lose out in urban universities - should be play­ and the NRE project, visit the was moderated by Leslie Roberts anticipated," Reimer said. · rural restructuring: single mothers, ing a leading role in research on rural CRRF Web site: (http:llartsci­ (CFCF's Montreal AM) and spo nsored With social and economic changes the elderly, the working poor and areas. After having done research ccwin.concordia.ca/SocAnth/CRRF/ by CFCF, CJAD, The Mirror, the NFB like the decline in manufacturing, aboriginal people. into forestry in rural B.C., Reimer cnf_hm.html). and the Concordia's Women's Centre.

Fieldwork bursary sent student to a Roman fort in England Digging for knowledge

British history that I've always want­ the context of other kinds of Roman BY NADINE I SHAK ed to understand." forts, like stone forts and watchtow­ istory student Pierre Dussol (In fact, Dussol came to classics by ers, showing the purpose of each one Hwas so impressed with another a circuitous route. His background is through the movement oflegions. student's account of a training exca­ in theatre - he completed the pro­ There are many theories with vation in England that he decided to gram at John Abbott College - but regards to the purpose of the fort; for go himself. he was drawn to classics at instance, whether it was meant to Dussol's application was chosen Concordia when he saw two classes hold wild animals or prisoners, such for a bursary by the Concordia Field­ cross-referenced with history. He is as the famous woman warrior work Association. Last summer, he now co-president of the Classics Boadicea. The most plausible theory went to England and the project on Students' Association.) is that it was a place to train horses. the Lunt Roman Fort, being con­ The Lunt is recognized as one of Treasure-hunting may be the ducted by the University of British the best places to go for excavation objective of some excavations, but Columbia's Classics Department. training. Located south of Coventry, the Lunt doesn't hold things of Last Thursday, Dussol was the one the earth-and-timber fort was first material value. Its treasures are the the placement of buildings is the knowledge: a granary is heavy, and presenting his findings in front of a built under Nero for the Roman clues it provides into understanding examination of postholes. For exam­ must be elevated to keep grain dry. classroom of students. army in approximately 60 AD, and history. ple, postholes spaced five feet apart Other activities included site plan­ "Had the Romans not gone to reconstructed in the 1970s. The 30 students found clues by England, I wouldn't have gone to In his presentation, Dussol digging through the soil and checking indicate a granary. To come to such a ning, cross-sectional drawing, Lunt," said the self-professed focused on the evolution of fortresses for differences in colour and texture. conclusion, archaeologists couple the cataloguing and labelling the findings anglophile. "There's a big hole in and how Lunt fits in. He spoke in Another method used to determine physical evidence with their own from last year.

2 DECEMBER 4, 1997 CONCORDIA ' S THURSDAY REPORT Ex-gymnasts research eating disorders COMPILED BY BARBARA BLACK BY EVE KRAKOW

lean, lithe girl alights onto the This column welcomes the submissions ofall Concordia faculty and A balance beam. She deftly per­ staffto promote and encourage individual and group activities in forms various steps, kicks, splits, teaching and research, and to encourage work-related achievements. jumps, then flips off, her two feet it m landing firmly on the mat, body u'. Congratulations to Vijay Pisini, a student in the Master of Applied arched in a salute. iii~ Science program in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Pis ini has W e're all fascinated by gymnastics. ~ been awarded a one-year, $9,000 s cholarship from GRIAO , the () Yet there's a side the public never ~ Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en architecture des ord ina­ sees: the struggle to obtain the "per- ~ teurs de haute performance et VLSI. g feet" body, an often unrealistic ideal ~ perpetuated by the sport's own stan- ~ Erica Besso (Director, Office of Research Services) became presi­ dent of t he Associ atio n de s administrate urs de recherche dards, and reinforced by the coaches. @ universitaire du Quebec (A DARUQ) at its annual meeting, held Tara Litwin, a Master's student in iE November 14 in Quebec City. The 1997 annual meeting focused on Child Study, competed in gymnas­ the impact on the university of interactions with non-academic part­ tics from age 8 to 16. At 13, she was ners, ranging from industrial sponsors to government ministries, ranked second in Qyebec and was foundations and international entities. competing internationally. control their weight, such as not eat­ sense of body image to this day. But to go further, her coach told ing, self-induced vomiting, or using Education Professor Lois Baron, Sally Cole (Sociology and Anthropology) has edited and introduced her to stop training until she went laxatives. At first glance, this does who is supervising their work, feels an edition of The Ojibwa Woman, by Ruth Landes (Lincoln: Univer­ sity of Nebraska Press, 1997). The book was originally published in down to an "appropriate" weight. So not seem like a child development that parents must be educated about 1938. while the other girls would practice issue, until you consider that most this issue. She hopes to pursue competitive gymnasts begin at age 5. their routines, she would spend the research in this area when she goes Chantal Collard (Sociology and Anthropology) presented a paper, Gymnasts were not always so four hours on a bicycle machine. "I on sabbatical this January. She wants "Transnationalism and lntercountry Adoption: a View from Que­ young·. In 1956, the top two was among the bigger girls, but I to see how this trend extends into bec," in collaboration with F.R. Ouellette, at the CASCA annual Olympic gymnasts were 21 and 35 definitely wasn't overweight," Litwin other "aesthetic" sports, such as meeting at the 1997 Congress of Learned Societies, held at Memo­ years old. That changed with Olga rial University last June. recalled. women's figure-skating, and how it Korbut and Nadia Comenici, the Tina Balazovjech, also a Master's can be dealt with. student in Child Study, was a com­ tiny perfect gymnasts in their early Congratulations to Michel Laroche (Marketing) for being the first "But there's a dilemma," Baron recipient and namesake of an award from the Journal of Business petitive gymnast from ages 6 to 12. teens who captured the world's imagination in the 1970s. said, and it's one she and her stu­ Research. It will be given every three years for improving scholarly Every week, the girls were weighed. publications in the journal, and will be named the Michel Laroche As gymnasts got younger, stan­ dents have discussed at length. "If She was lucky; she was always the JBR Outstanding Associate Editor Award. The honour was you change the weight and age fac­ smallest. But she remembers how dards changed to reflect the abilities announced at a luncheon in Atlanta attended by 300 business pro­ anxious her teammates were each of small, compact, light bodies. tor, what happens to the sport?" fessors from all over the world . time. Today, most girls can no longer Balazovjech and Litwin think "Throughout our training, there compete after age 16. Women's there is room for a balance between a S.K. Goyal (Decision Sciences and MIS) has had the following was constant emphasis on body gymnastics has become a "children's" healthy body and high performance. papers published recently with collaborators: "Integrated Procure­ ment-Production System in a Just-in-Time Environment: Modelling image. There's no doubt: how you sport. However, this would require chang­ and Analysis, " in Production Planning and Control; "Optimal cycle Such strong emphasis on body look contributes to your mark," Bala­ ing current judging standards and time and Production Rate in a Family Production Context with wvjech said. weight and image can be both physi­ trends. Only then will coaches (and Shelf-Life Consideration," in the International Journal of Production These similar experiences led the cally and psychologically damaging therefore, gymnasts) consider relax­ Research; and "On Joint Vendor-Buyer Policy in J IT Manufactur­ two students to choose eating disor­ for young girls, and the effects can ing their emphasis on body weight. ing," in the Journal of the Operational Research Society. extend into their adult lives. ders in gymnastics as a research topic Litwin suggests that competitions for their graduate seminar in Child Many gymnasts develop eating Joanna Bottenberg (CMLL, German section) was invited to give a could require that gymnasts have a Study. disorders after they stop training. paper, "Experience and Memory of War in the Art of Otto Di x and certain minimum percentage of body Fritz Grasshoff," to the Plattsburgh Studies in the Humanities' sixth Literature on the subject con­ They're no longer exercising inten­ fat in order to compete. Such a rule annual interdisciplinary symposium, held in October. firmed their suspicions: the sively and they're eating more, so exists in one U.S. state for wrestling. percentage of official cases of bulimia their body fills out to a normal, "I love gymnastics. It's a beautiful Karin Doerr (CMLL, German section) w as in vited to present and anorexia nervosa among gym­ healthy weight. Yet their distorted "Imprisoned in Memories: Women and the Holocaust in Autobio­ nasts is more than double that of the body image tells them they're fat. sport," Balazovjech said. "But there graphical and Fictional Memoirs " in a session on Aesthetics and general population. While neither Litwin nor Bala­ have to be certain guidelines. There's Politics of Memory: Women's Voices at the annual conference of Some studies have shown that 75 zovjech have ever suffered from a need to educate parents, coaches, the American German Studies Association, held in Washington, per cent of gymnasts resort to some eating disorders, both agree their athletes and the public about this D.C., in September. She also took part in the compilation of "Teacher Resources: Selected Bibliography" for the CD-ROM issue type of pathological behaviour to gymnastics experience shaped their problem." and Web site of The Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust (Florida Cen­ ter for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida).

Homa Hoodfar (Sociology and Anthropology) reprinted "The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads: Veiling Practices and Muslim Women" in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd, editors, Durham and London: Duke Universi­ ty Press, 1997).

David Howes (Sociology and Anthropology) presented a paper, "Forged Identities," at the Faculty of Law at McGill University on October 23.

Marie Nathalie LeBlanc (Sociology and Anthropology) presented "Fashion and the Politics of Identity: Versioning Womanhood and Muslimhood in the face of Trad ition and Modernity" at the Depart­ ment of Anthropology Conference series at McGill Universi ty on November 17.

Vered Amit-Talai (Sociology and Anthropology) published "In Pre­ carious Motion: From Territorial to Transnational Cultures" in the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology.

C ONCO RDI A ' S THU RSDA Y R EPORT DECEMBER 4, 1 99 7 3 Governors Emeritus honour Macllwaine and Habib SE TES Board gets progress report COMPILED BY BARBARA BLACK on McGill-Concordia cooperation ture. The possibility of joint human­ Internal Audit is exploring informa­ A regular meeting of Senate, held November 28, 1997. BY LAURI E ZACK resources information systems will be tion-sharing of audit-report formats l ,Tice-Rector Institutional Rela­ explored. and benchmarking questionnaires Rector's remarks: Rector Fred­ Cinema: Approval was granted Safety officers of the universities and approaches to audit issues. erick Lowy expressed to rename this department the V tions Marcel Danis presented have met, and a joint hazardous disappointment at the low rank­ Mel Hoppenheim School of Cin­ an overview of discussions with Vice-Rector Services Charles ing given to Concordia in the ema, in gratitude to its recent McGill at the November 19 meet­ materials emergency response team Emond announced the amalgama­ recent survey of Canadian uni­ benefactor. The change will ing of the Board of Governors, held established. tion of mail services and printing versities in Maclean's take effect pending approval by at the Loyola Faculty Club. Training facilities for our track services into Auxiliary Services and magazine, saying that staying the Board of Governors. Opportunities for new electronic team have been negotiated with the establishment of an Enrolment within a straitened budget and Teaching Excellence Awards: products, consortium prices and McGill, as well as joint travel our mission to serve part-time Management Project (EMP) work­ The Faculty of Engineering and arrangements to track meets. and mature students puts electronic databases are being exam­ ing team. Computer Science has estab­ Collaboration on a range of physi­ Concordia at a disadvantage in ined by the libraries of the two Provost Jack Lightstone lished two awards, one for a cal resources has been discussed, the ratings survey. However, full-time and the other for a part­ institutions, in conjunction with the announced that the recommendation many positive things are taking including joint purchasing of ti me faculty member, to be other Ol,iebec universities. for a new Director of Libraries place, including the generosity Similarly, joint information-tech­ materials, service contracts and presented at spring convocation. would be presented to the Board at of donors to the Capital Cam­ nology and Centrex phone services such professional services as paign (now $37 million and Space plan: For a description, the next meeting on December 17. are being assessed by Computing waste management and recycling, rising) . see story, this page. This broad Governors Emeritus Claude Tay­ outline, which the Rector Services. Cooperation on alumni design/ drafting, project manage­ Service department merger: lor, Father Stanley Drummond and Vice-Rector Services Charles described as a vision dependent suppliers, travel merchandise and ment, computerized maintenance John Economides were present to Emond announced the merger on the favourable outcome of insurance is also being discussed. management systems (for data com­ join the Board in thanking Sister of the Computing Services and the Capital Campaign, rather Joint information sessions for patibility) and grounds and roads than a detailed plan . Two mem­ Audio Visual departments into a NSERC, FCAR and SSHRC grants repair. Eileen Macllwaine and Professor new unit, to be called Informa­ bers praised the manner in Henry Habib for their years of ser­ which it had been drawn up and have been held by the respective The Office of the Registrar is tion and Instructional vice to Concordia. Sister Macllwaine Technology and headed by the broad outlook it represent­ research services offices and an looking at cooperation on registra­ recently stepped down as Board John Woodrow, current Direc­ ed, and said it will revitalize agreement was reached to share the tion for exchange students, tor of Computing Services. sectors of the University. cost of translating FCAR literature. recruitment, and information-shar­ Vice-Chair after holding the posi­ ing on out-of-province fees. tion for five years, although she Ad hoc finance committee: However, Concordia Student Discussions in the area of human This committee of Senate was Union president Rebecca Ald­ resources continue, with the recogni­ Financial Services is exploring the remains an active member. Habib granted a two-year mandate. It worth cautioned against giving tion that Concordia and McGill possibility of a new financial infor­ recently retired after 23 years on the will be chaired by Abo/ Jalil­ up all the heritage buildings differ greatly in organizational struc- mation system with McGill, and Board. vand. The other members are downtown, saying "there's Daphne Fairbairn, Graham Mar­ more to the downtown campus tin , Leo Platek, Morton than high-rises filled with Stelcner, Robert Weeks and a asbestos. " Vision of Concordia's brighter future student to be named by the Charles Giguere (Electrical and blueprint for a revitalized, more also house the computer-art compo­ project. Several uses for the land are committee. Computer Engineering) warned coherent Concordia is in circula­ nent of the Faculty of Fine Arts. being considered. A final decision Curriculum changes: Under­ against changing direction in A tion, and it seems to be winning In fact, Fme Arts, like Arts and Sci­ will be tied to the completion of the graduate changes were midstream and floundering in adopted for the Faculty of Arts "adhockery." Bill Byers (Arts cautious - and in some cases, unbri­ ence, would be split between two $55-million Capital Campaign, of and Sciences, and a restructur­ and Science) remarked that his dled - enthusiasm. campuses. The performing arts (The­ which more than $35 million has ing of the Theatre programs discipline, mathematics, could "A Space Plan for Concordia Uni­ atre, Music and Contemporary already been raised. -BB be considered either one of the was made in Fine Arts. was Dance) would continue to be based at humanities (to be based down­ versity'' drawn up by the Rector's Changes to graduate curricula Advisory Group (the Rector's Cabinet Loyola, but consolidated in a renovat­ were made in all Faculties, town) or a science (to be based and the deans), with advice from the ed facility, probably the one now among them, the creation of a at Loyola). He added that the Graduate Certificate in Manage­ traditions of Sir George Office of Space Planning and Devel­ housing Physical Resources. The visu­ ment Accounting (Commerce Williams and Loyola may be fur­ opment, and presented to the Board al arts would be based downtown, in and Administration). ther eroded, to which Provost of Governors' real estate committee the Visual Arts Building and the new, Jack Lightstone replied the McGill: A mandate and objec­ future viability of these cam­ and to University Senate. technologically advanced "smart" tives were approved for puses cannot be sacrificed in The plan aims to provide much Engineering building, but might negotiations of cooperation the name of tradition. better teaching, research, office and eventually get a new, dedicated between McGill and Concordia recreation facilities by renovating the building. with regard to library services. Operating budget 1997-98: Byers moved that consideration west-end Loyola Campus and consol­ Those elements of the administra­ As Director of Libraries Roy of this subject be tabled to the idating owned buildings downtown. tion that don't have constant interface Bonin pointed out, the aim will January meeting to allow Sen­ be to play to each university's According to the plan, the humani­ with students will likely be moved to ate time to study a document strengths (Concordia's being its ties and social sciences are to be the Faubourg Tower, at Guy and Ste. distributed just before the services and McGill's its collec­ housed downtown in the Henry F. Catherine St., which was recently meeting. Approved. tion), while improving access Hall and J.W. McConnell Buildings, bought by the University. for students. Next meeting: January 9. but with a service component at Loy- . The plan foresees an increase in ola to serve students in the sciences space devoted to student life. It sug­ and performing arts. The sciences will gests permanent space for student find their home at Loyola, in a mod­ activities at Loyola and consolidated ernized Drummond Science Building student service centres in the Henry F. for the "dry" sciences, and a new Hall Building and the Loyola Admin­ building for the natural and biological istration Building. Residence space soences. would be increased by converting both Commerce and Administration is Hingston Hall blocks back into resi­ already consolidated in the Guy dences, and establishing a graduate Metro Building, which will be com­ residence. pletely renovated to feature electronic Recreation and intercollegiate classrooms and better opportunities sports facilities at Loyola would be for student-faculty interaction. improved, and new recreational facili­ Engineering and Computer Science ties would be found downtown. will be consolidated in two buildings The University has acquired a downtown, the Henry F. Hall Build­ 30,000-square-foot property on the ing, and a new building that would corner of de Maisonneuve W . and serve as a laboratory for the building Guy St. which includes the founda­ sciences. This new building would tion of an abandoned condominium

4 DECEMBER 4, 199 7 CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT Avvards of Distinction celebrates 10th anniversary nce again, the huge ballroom "stand tall and proud," and aspire to Oof the Qyeen Elizabeth Hotel the same level of success as the dis­ was fully occupied for the Awards tinguished honorees. "And it brings of Distinction. About 200 guests us together in a spirit of friendliness met on November 27 to enjoy lunch and joy," he added. "Concordia is and rousing speeches about special." Concordia, as they have every year Awards were presented to phar­ for a decade. maceutical executive Renee Dupuis This year's keynote speaker was Angers, accounting executive and Col. Pierre Sevigny, whose idea it longtime Loyola and Concordia was, back in 1987, to celebrate "olunteer Alain Benedetti, shoe business leaders for their achieve­ retailer Aldo Bensadoun, Noranda ments and their contribution to the vice-president and member of the community. Faculty's advisory board David Sevigny, a war hero and former Goldman and banker Roger cabinet minister who continues to Kwong-Ming Yuen. teach courses in the Faculty of Yuen got a laugh when he sug­ Commerce and Administration past gested, deadpan, that Hong Kong his 80th birthday, is an unapolo­ will pull out of the current currency getic Concordia booster. Few crisis ahead of other Asian money members of the faculty can talk so markets because it has such a lot of sketch from the Awards of Distinction sincerely, as he did, of "our beloved Concordia graduates. honorees in the last issue of the paper, university." on November 20. We apologize to The Awards of Distinction event, CTR inadvertently omitted David him. Sevigny said, inspires students to Goldman's photo and biographical -BB

More about the media lab A win-win situation J\ n article about the Digital In addition, Taarna.has made a .rl.Media and Research Facility in long-term commitment to work for two departments Write on the Edge our last issue (CTR, November 20) with the Faculty of Fine Arts in the Playwrights Workshop Montreal's mentioned collaboration with Taar­ development of the digital animation he Departments of Applied interactive. Applied Social Science seventh annual Write On the Edge stu ­ na Studios. facilities. TSocial Science and Leisure has approximately 550 undergradu­ It has been pointed out to us that dent playwriting competition invites We should add that Professor Studies are combining to form the ates and 35 graduate students, while the award-winning software on Department of Applied Human Sci­ submissions. The deadline is February Greg Garvey is coordinator Leisure Studies has about 250 which Digital Animation students ence. The change was given Board undergraduates. 1. For more information, call 843-3685. will work was developed by Digit 'n of the new program Digital approval on November 19. The newly named department will Arts, and is being used by T aarna to Image/Sound and the Fine Arts, and Marilyn Taylor, ApSS Chair, and also _maintain the close connections Day Without Art produce The Boxer, an animated film would be happy to hear from Randy Swedburg, Chair of Leisure both existing units have forged with with 3D effects like A Toy Story, but, prospective students, at 848-4749 or Studies, are both enthusiastic, On Monday, December 1, the the non- academic community. It according to Taarna, "much better." [email protected]. because the consolidation builds on Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery will include Elderhostel, the educa­ affinities between their departments tional travel service for seniors based marked the ninth annual Day Without and their respective strengths. Art, an international day of mourning Leisure Studies is strong in pro­ in Leisure Studies, and the Centre which coincides with the World Health IN MEMORIAM gram planning and has an excellent for Human Relations and Commu­ Organization's AIDS Awareness Day. internship program, while ApSS's nity Studies, a counselling service Denis Diniacopoulos strengths lie in teaching skills and based in ApSS. Curatorial Assistant Lynn Beavis A search committee is in progress gave a slide talk in the gallery about an 1930-1997 interpersonal dynamics. Taylor and Swedburg said that to recommend a chair. exhibition, Telling Lives: Women and Many members and graduates of the Department of Communication classes will be bigger, but no less -BB HIV. Studies, past and present, were saddened to hear of the death on November 21 of Denis Diniacopoulos, a longtime member of the facul­ ty. He had been retired for a year and a half. Lightstone presents progress on academic planning to Board, students Born and raised in France, Diniacopoulos came to Canada with his family after the war. He joined Loyola College in 1970, only four years after the Communication Studies Department had been formed, and Undergraduate programs shrink by one-third, contributed significantly to defining its c;:urriculum, setting its course and earning it a solid academic reputation. faculty complement by one-eighth "Nearly 700 full-time tenured or of programs often conceived as if "He brought a wide range of knowledge to the department," recalled BY BARBARA BLACK colleague Don Taddeo, "not only across the range of classical human­ tenure-track faculty, rather than over each occupied increasingly tall and ism, but the fundamentals of psychology and the other sciences. His Provost Jack Lightstone met with 800, will teach our programs, supple­ impregnable silos." contribution was what he called visual dynamics, and he insisted that it a group of student leaders on Tues­ mented by our part-time faculty," Concordia has been a particular was not a course in photography, but how an image is created, how it day to explain aspects of the Lightstone said. "But we will contin­ victim of this tendency because it has is structured, and how it communicates effectively." academic planning process that has ue to provide high-quality education used not only the English-language Through Diniacopoulos's Visual Dynamics 1 course, he taught most of gone on over the past two years, and to 16,500 or more full-time-equiva­ "honours" and "major/minor" desig­ the first-year student in the program, and he also taught Visual discussed with them how it will lent students. Through enhanced nations but also the Qyebec Dynamics 2, 3 and 4. affect future programs available to recruitment and retention efforts, we designation of "specialization." For He had a distinctive personality and teaching style, Taddeo said, which Concordia students. He made a sim­ believe we can maintain our current example, in the Chemistry Depart­ earned the loyalty of a small but faithful group of students. They rel­ ilar presentation to the November 19 FTE level." ment, there are major, specialization ished his pearls of wisdom. As a former student Sean Murphy said at meeting of the Board of Governors. More important than the scale of and honours programs in five dis­ the funeral, to the end of his life, Diniacopoulos bought lottery tickets. Two or three years from now, the reductions, Lightstone said, are tinct streams. These will be When he was asked what he would do with the winnings, he said, "The Lightstone said, "we will offer the pedagogical changes represented consolidated into two streams, one point isn't to win." After a puzzled pause, Murphy asked, "Well, what approximately 210 rather than 300 by various fusions of closely related in biochemistry and the other in is the point?" "Each week, we invest a little in hope," Diniacopoulos undergraduate programs, delivered programs. physical or materials chemistry. replied. by about 42 rather than approxi­ "The result is a turning away from Through discussion, the academic The bachelor professor lived with his mother, Mrs. Olga Diniacopou­ mately 50 academic units." The only a 30-year tendency in Canadian uni­ planners are also trying to break los, to whom we extend our sympathies. major discipline removed was Geol­ versities to increased specialization at down the invisible walls between dis­ ogy, which was absorbed into the the undergraduate level." This has ciplines, although the idea of a core Geography Department in 1995. resulted in "a rampant proliferation curriculum has been abandoned.

CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT DECEMBER 4, 1997 5 Three W h 0 Made a Difference

Gaudet established a comprehensive, coherent Secretariat First and only Secretary-General retires getary cuts that the University has found new quarters for the unit, in BY EU GEN I A X ENOS been forced to make, the present the Henry F. Hall Building, and two lthough the University's first incumbent will not be replaced, but professionals to work with Marrelli. Aand only Secretary-General will most of Gaudet's portfolio will be She also reorganized Translation be retiring at the end of this semes­ included in that of the Vice-Rector, Services, which had decent office ter, it does not mean Concordia's Institutional Relations, M arcel space, but was inaccessible to the "institutional memory" will fade. Danis. The only director who will clients it served. Now Translation ,. That's because Berengere Gaudet report directly to the Rector is the Services is located in Bishop Court, !s ~ has made recommendations for the Advisor on Rights and Responsibili­ close to the departments that use it. ~ reorganization of the Secretariat so ties. With her team of four, the office ~ that all its duties will continue to be 'What I recommended was that also took over policies and official ~ carried out. the Secretariat become part of the documents at the request of her col- ~ A..rnong other things, the office is portfolio of one of the vice-rectors," leagues in the Rector's Cabinet. ~ responsible for the administration of she said. "In doing so, we are adopt­ 'When we started doing this work, ~ the Board of Governors, Senate, ing the same model that UQAM some policies were terribly outdated. :E Legal Counsel, Archives, Transla­ has." They had never been revised, never 5iE tion Services, the Office of Rights Gaudet's assistants, Marie­ been updated." As of this fall, all this and Responsibilities, and Equity Andree Robitaille-Brodie and work has been completed. the past three years, in which 10 our needs, with limited resources." Programs. It is the official record­ Amely Jurgenliemk, will take over Gaudet also revised and rewrote searches were conducted. These After her retirement, Gaudet keeper of the University. new positions. Robitaille has already the University bylaws in 1989-90. observations were substantial enough plans to "work a little, and enjoy life "I wanted to make sure that we begun her role as Director of Gov­ She was also involved in the Groome to draw some conclusions on what a little." She will do some legal trans­ preserve the integrity of the Secre­ ernment and External Relations, and Committee, which looked at how works and what doesn't." lation, which is one of her areas of tariat," said Gaudet, who was Jurgenliemk will be both Secretary of advisory search committees should Gaudet said her biggest challenge expertise, and may go back to the (),blebec's first female notary in 1960, the Board and Secretary of Senate. function, and wrote the report. "We at Concordia came at the very begin­ piano, which she studied for 11 years and who researched family law for The Legal Counsel office will look took extensive consultations," she ning. "I had to build a Secretariat when young. She will also travel and the Royal Commission on the Status after copyright law and access to said. "The rules were adopted in from scratch," she said. "I didn't even do some volunteer work. of Women in the early 1970s. information, and will be responsible 1994, and they're still not perfect. At have a secretary until four months "Sometimes I have misgivings "I wanted to avoid going back to for the University's policies. the time, the community wanted a after I started working." about retiring," she said. "It's normal. the situation 10 years ago, before I Over her 10 years as Secretary­ more open process, some say in the Because there was no tradition of You can't just turn the page and for­ was appointed, when all the different General, Gaudet reorganized and choice of senior administrators." a Secretariat, people at the Universi­ get everything. I will miss Concordia functions related to a secretariat were found resources for all of the units Gaudet aims to make some ty didn't know what to expect from and the people with whom I work. dispersed among several other units reporting to her. When she first amendments to the rules, even her. "On the one hand, there is no But there has to be a different life." that did these in addition to their started, Archives was situated in a though she won't be here to see predecessor to whom you can.be A dinner reception was held in her own duties." warehouse on Guy St. and Rene­ them go into effect at the end of the compared. On the other, you have to honour at Rector Frederick Lowy's Before 1988, Concordia was the Levesque Blvd. - "It had cement academic year. "Marie-Andree and organize everything and tailor it to house last night, at which her many only (),blebec university without a floors!" - and only one archivist, Amely and I prepared a report based suit the institution. I had to adapt friends at the University and beyond Secretariat. Now, because of bud- Nancy Marrelli. Eventually, she on observations that were done in what I saw at other universities to paid her tribute.

John Noonan named AV's master-of-all-trades built a telephone exchange and his own desk Secretary Emeritus of Senate Mark Schofield's love of technology is contagious and hiring him as a technician. BY B ARBARA BLACK "Mark proved to be worth more , J{ Then Mark Schofield came to than his weight in gold," Ostopkevich V V work at Concordia, it was told the gathering. "He immediately ~ 1968. Fresh from his native England, set to work, including such formida- ~ z where styles were being set on Carn­ ble tasks as rewiring the TV ~ distribution of the (Henry F.) Hall ~ aby St., he was the one with the long u hair, and it was the students who Building and reconfiguring our 72- ~ 5 were short-cropped and in blazers. position language lab. He even 9 But it was a lively time, and designed and built a 24-line automat- 1l' 9 Schofield, who parlayed his technical ic telephone exchange from a drawing ::i experience with the BBC into a job he found in an old encyclopedia! @ I in what later became the Audio "No job was too daunting for him. a. Visual Department, remembers A real master-of-all-trades, Mark ohn Noonan capped 32 years of of Concordia) John O'Brien point­ videos by young Concordians grate­ being in the thick of furious demon­ would plow ahead with his projects, fully name him in their credits. service to Loyola College and ed out, the new Senate was J strations, even riots. "We were the knocking down walls, nonchalantly At the gathering, he recalled pro­ Concordia University last Friday established before the actual merger media at Sir George," he recalled, rewiring 110-volt circuits, sawing, jects he was especially proud of, with a brand-new title, Secretary took effect, so for a year, Noonan "and we had to cover them. [The plastering, painting, and doing any­ including a very early multimedia Emeritus of Senate. The title was was Secretary of a phantom body film] is all in the Archives now." thing else necessary. He even built French 201 course that was used and conferred at the regular Senate meet­ that met in the PSBGM building Schofield was given a warm send­ his own desk from a language lab sold across Canada until it finally ing, after which a large crowd of on Fielding St., "equally inaccessible off in the downtown Faculty and console when no other was available became outdated - not the concept friends from all over the University to both campuses." Staff Dining Room last week, when for him." or the material, but the clothing and converged on the newly renovated Noonan said, "It has been reward­ friends and colleagues gathered to Schofield joined the department hairstyles of the student actors. Faculty and Staff Lounge at the ing to have the opportunity to do pay him tribute. He is retiring as when it still had an academic man­ He also recalled with pride a slide west-end campus for a celebration of work I believed in with people I Director of the Audio Visual date, and when that was removed, he presentation from the same period. his career. admire so much." He and his wife Department, which he has stamped didn't abandon the students. Under It was actually an expose of abysmal Noonan was the Registrar of Nicole were given a week's vacation with his own resourcefulness and his leadership, AV not only lent daycare conditions in poor districts Loyola when the College merged in the "Paradise Island" of their good humour. equipment generously for student of Montreal. It was prepared for a with Sir George Williams Universi­ choice. Also enjoying the party was Associate Director Nicholas projects, but developed courses and conference, and when it was shown, ty to create Concordia in 1974. As Danielle, their daughter, who is a Ostopkevich took the credit for spot­ facilities to train them in its use. it played a role in Concordia's being Speaker of Senate (and first Rector See Noonan,p. 11 ting Schofield's "aura of competence" Many award-winning films and See Schofield, p. 11

6 DECEMBER 4, 1997 CONCORD I A'S THURSDAY REPORT Fresh Ideas Campaign for th e New Millennium - Major gift will advance ·ENTUM research on "" sick buildings'' BY K ELLY WILTO N

More news about the Capital Campaign, compiled bv Campaign $1-million gift to the Capital Communications Officer Sarni Antaki. ACampaign from the Edith and John Low-Beer Foundation (EJLB) will enable Concordia to assume a Brian Steck, Campaign Vice-Chair for Toronto, has made a success­ >- ful canvass of his bailiwick, and his agenda for January is full. The leadership role in determining how ~ tremendous results registered by the internal and leadership gifts the construction of buildings affects ~ divisions have generated a high level of goodwill along Bay St. and the environment and human health. t;; a' throughout Toronto, and expectations are high for the new year. The gift will establish Canada's first i5 • research centre on the Environmen- §"' tal Impact ofBuilding Materials. g Canderel CEO Jonathan Wener and Laurentian Bank Executive -w Vice-President Roy Firth have accepted John Parisella's invitation to "This is a very generous gift that ~ serve as Vice-Chairs for the Special Gifts Division. Parisella, Chair of recognizes the strengths of " . the Division, will recruit three additional vice-chairs in the near Concordia's School for Building and ~ future. Active solicitation in the Division will begin in March. the researchers working here," said a. • John Campanelli, Assistant Profes­ John Campanelli (right) and colleague Professor Dorel Feldman. On December 18, Rector Frederick Lowy will present the Cam­ sor in the Department of Civil paign and Concordia's plans for the future to prominent alumni in Engineering. "It enables Concordia Paul Fazio, Chair of the School (found in exterior cladding, frames, New York. Approximately 35 guests will gather at Milos, one of the to direct a series of very important for Building, said there is great profiles for windows and doors, floor city's toniest restaurants, which is owned by Concordia graduate research initiatives involving other excitement about the centre. and wall coverings, baseboards and Costas Spiliadis. Among the dignitaries in attendance will be the universities and private industry." "Concordia's research centre will be Canadian Consul in New York, Gen. George Haynal (LBA '67). blinds). The problem stems from the The need for this type of research unequalled, not just in Canada but in additives in PVC, which, once emit­ • has grown dramatically over the past North America," he said. "We ted, result in exposure to volatile 30 years. During this time, a new, already have a good reputation inter­ Seventy percent of the 33 Governors representing the community­ organic compounds (VOC). at-la rge have made pledges and verbal commitments to the man-made ecosystem has come to nationally, but this will raise our Long-term exposure to these Campaign, totalling $3,750,270. The 10 remaining members have life in the form of a controlled envi­ profile even further." all been canvassed and are in the process of making their deci­ compounds is being linked to chron­ ronment in office buildings. Today, According to Campanelli, the sions. modern buildings are designed to be research centre will bring together ic ailments, such as headaches and • almost completely air-tight in order experts at Concordia in biology and nausea, as well as major diseases, Paul Kefalas, president and CEO of ABB Canada, delivered his com­ to maximize energy efficiency for several engineering departments, as such as cancer. Recent statistics by pany's $100,000 Campaign pledge to Leadership Gifts Chair heating and air-conditioning. well as engineers from McGill and the U.S. Environmental Protection Jacques Menard and Don Taddeo, Campaign Executive Vice-Chair. Preliminary studies by researchers representatives from industry. Agency indicate that 5,000 new Kefalas holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from with the World Health Organiza­ "It is beneficial to have this inter­ cases of cancer per year can be attrib­ Concordia and received an honorary doctorate from the University in 1996. The gift was secured by Humberto Santos. tion and the United States disciplinary approach because we can uted to VOC in buildings. It also Environmental Protection Agency find solutions to these problems if • costs the U.S. economy $60 billion indicate that air-tight office build­ we share our knowledge and exper­ each year in lost productivity. In order to ensure that students' contributions to the Capital Cam­ ings trap poor air within the tise," Campanelli said. "This is how Apart from health-related prob­ paign do not penalize those individuals in dire financial building, circulating it among work­ breakthroughs are made." circumstances, a fee exemption process was instituted by the Uni­ lems among workers, environmental ers and causing what is commonly An advisory board made up of all versity. Only 194 out of 25,000 students applied for the exemption. concerns regarding the disposal of referred to as sick building syn­ three parties is being set up to review PVC products will also be studied . • drome. distribution of the $1 million, which "Our biggest impediment at the Beginning in January 1998, University faculty and staff who were This term was officially recog­ will be given out over three years. either uncommitted to the Campaign or on leave from the Universi­ nized by the World Health "Researchers will come up with spe­ moment is a lack of knowledge; this ty w ill be approached to participate. The goal is to increase Organization in 1982, and is associ­ cific project proposals, and then will gift from EJLB will help us get start­ participation and raise the finan cial commitment from this group to ated with symptoms such as ask the advisory board for funding." ed on this very important research," $1 million. headaches, fatigue, difficulty concen­ Initial research efforts will focus C ampanelli said. "Once we have trating, sore throats, skin irritation · on polyvinylchloride (PVC), the more information, we can try to and even full-blown asthma attacks. most widely used plastic in buildings come up with possible solutions."

More good news for Cinema Nevv MA program in Film Studies takes off Russell. "Film studies is an estab­ inspection the celluloid stuff they also be excellent preparation for cializations, which will be a boon to BY DIANA TEGENKAMP lished scholarly discipline," she said love so fiercely, the new MA in Film teaching film and media at the the students, Waugh said. "And here has been a lot of good in an interview. "Our students Studies will give students the oppor­ CEGEP and high school levels. Montreal's a perfect place to do film T news in the Cinema Depart­ examine film language and how a tunity to continue their studies in The academic expertise of the studies research because of the vari­ Canada rather than having to leave Film Studies faculty is impressive. ment lately. Alongside the recent film text makes meaning, in a ous film institutions here." process comparable to how English the country. Concordia and Car­ Russell, who received her PhD from $1-million donation that will create The MA in Film Studies program students examine literature. We also leton University (whose program, New York University, published the Mel Hoppenheim School of will accept 10 students a year, and use discourses from art history, coincidentally, also begins next fall) Narrative Mortality in 1995 and is Cinema, and a change of address to 20 students in total. Five classes will political science, psychology and are the only Canadian universities writing her second book. Professor a newer, bigger high-tech space in be offered in the first year, on topics philosophy." offering an MA in Film Studies. Tom Waugh, whose areas of spe­ such as Stanley Kubrick, narrative the Faubourg Tower, the approval While most of the Hoppenheim While the MA will fully prepare cialization include Canadian, theory, Canadian cinema and of a Master of Arts in Film Studies donation will go towards much­ students for doctoral-level film stud­ documentary and gay cinema, is yet another sign that cinema at needed equipment for Film ies work, it is also meant to be a recently published his second book, research methods. Funding in the Concordia is alive and well. Production, a portion will go "terminal" degree that is valuable in Hard to Imagine, on the history of form of fellowships and teaching _Film studies programs used to towards extending the already sub­ its own right. "Our graduates will be gay photography. Professors Mario assistantships is available. The appli­ encounter academic skepticism, but stantial film archive. well prepared to work in film distri­ Falsetto and Carole Zucker have cation deadline is February 1, 1998. over the years, that has changed, Besides giving film scholars a full bution, programming, film festivals also published books. For further information, call according to Professor Catherine two years to hold up to critical and archiving," Russell said. It will The faculty cover a range of spe- 848-4666.

CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT DECEMBER 4, 1997 7 Research can centre on festivals, rituals & celebrations Art Education ·conference gives students inspiration videotape can identify specific prob­ riage contract that gave students BY S USAN HIRSHORN lems. For example, the teacher may with little previous art training a velyne Bienvenue has a message have difficulty asking questions in a broader appreciation of art and Jew­ Efor her fellow Art Education way that engages students in discus­ ish artistic traditions (see illustration.) undergraduates: "Next year, try to sion. There is some anxiety about "The project, which focused on the attend the national conference!" being videotaped, Fairchild said, but integration of text and image, Bienvenue went to the annual "in my class of beginning teachers, increased their confidence, excite­ conference of the Canadian Society this anxiety was alleviated by letting ment and interest in the artistic for Education Through Art, held in them view their tapes privately and process," she said. Montreal in October, and came back only showing them if they wished." Decorated Ketubbot have been more enthusiastic than ever about Art educati0n is a multi-faceted popular since the Middle Ages, and her academic choice. discipline. At Concordia, the pro­ their designs have often echoed the "It was a wonderful opportunity to gram encourages student teachers visual conventions of the larger non­ see art at a global level, by opening and researchers to make and respond Jewish communities where they our minds to different opinions," to art in a socio-cultural, historical lived. Bienvenue said afterwards. context. One of Davidson's students adapt­ Several members of the Art Edu­ Professor Lorrie Blair and doctoral ed an Italian Renaissance Ketubbah 'Some chose drugs. I chose Maoism. I'm cation faculty presented papers at the student Miriam D avidson both document that celebrates her broth­ not sure which caused more brain damage' conference, which brought experts made presentations that focused on er's 25th wedding anniversary. She from coast to coast to Montreal. teaching art through the context of linked her personal family history to Graduate Program Director David students' religious and cultural life. the long tradition of decoration of Pariser spoke about important dis­ Jan Wong knovvs all Davidson described a project that the marriage contract, incorporating tinctions in graphic development in centred on Ketubbah, a Jewish mar- photographs and illustrations that children. Professor Emeritus Leah trace the family's journey from Rus­ Sherman and art consultant about propaganda sia to their current home in Israel. Monique Briere presented a paper Part of Davidson's research in art highly valuable. She returned to on the contributions of key women BY N A DI NE I SHAK education centres on festivals, rituals China to become the Globe and to art education in Qyebec. an Wong was the perfect candi­ Mail's Beijing correspondent just in Richard Lachapelle and Andrea and celebrations as locations of artis­ date to tell a roomful of time for the events in June 1989. Fairchild, chair of the department, tic production. She believes that J communication students about pro­ Like countless others, Wong reported jointly on applications for relevance in art - and in other acad­ paganda, as she did last week, ignored the broadcast warning to new technology in museum research emic subjects - is based on the because she fell for it. The Toronto stay home. When the crackdown and teacher training. activities and events that are part of journalist wrote the bestselling mem­ Professor Fairchild said, "Video daily life. started, she was in Tiananmen oir Red China Blues: My Long March cameras are becoming an important Bienvenue shares this belief, and Square; when the chaos escalated, From Mao to Now (Doubleday, tool in helping teachers develop hopes to apply it one day by using she watched from her hotel room 1996) reflective practice, a way of looking the arts to enrich the teaching of and took the best notes she could. At age 19, Wong left her native at what they've done in order to French. "I envision using a variety of The propaganda machine really Montreal for China for a summer understand how they've come across art forms, including visual art and "cranked into full gear" after 1989, vacation and a search for her roots. to students." drama to facilitate learning across she said. Before the military crack­ She liked what she found, and soon Used strategically and with the full the curriculum," she said. "I believe down on student protesters, China returned to become the first Canadi­ cooperation of the student teacher, a this is the future of all learning." had boasted, "The people love the an to study in China at the height of army and the army loves the people." the Cultural Revolution in 1972. "It seemed that everybody was This was one of the examples that happy," she said. "No one bad­ led to Wong's view of China as "a mouthed the government. I bought place where everyone's saying what into the propaganda that this was a they don't mean." place without any problems." Chinese propaganda is not as Wong studied Chinese history, effective in the 1990s as it used to be, did manual labour and altered her Wong said. The collapse of the thinking from Western decadence to socialist economy and the invasion of Maoism. She turned a blind eye on the outside world have weakened its inconsistencies, like the existence of influence, at least internally. ration coupons despite assurances Wong also commented on there was enough to eat, or locked­ China's recent reclaiming from up bicycles where theft was Britain of its long-lost orphan, Hong supposedly non-existent. She even Kong. "The handover was sad," she tattled on a classmate who asked for said. "It's like a wedding where you help to go to the United States. know the groom's a jerk, but the "Some kids chose drugs," Wong invitations are already sent out so said. "l chose Maoism. Looking you go ahead with it anyway." back, I'm not sure which would have Although skepticism and the caused more brain damage." questioning of authority are probably People's elation after the arrest of the last things communist China Mao's widow took Wong aback. She became disillusioned when she dis­ would encourage, they are skills that covered that things were less than Wong learned to practise there. perfect in the "worker's paradise." '1 And propaganda goes beyond the realized quite abruptly that everyone obvious, she said. Where it exists in had been lying to me." Canada, it's more insidious, hiding Wong returned to Canada, but behind things like sophisticated her knowledge of the Chinese lan­ advertising. "A lot of the time," she guage and culture and her ability to concluded soberly, "you don't even lose herself in a crowd made her know it's controlling you."

8 DECEMBER 4, 1997 CONCOROIA'S THURSDAY REPORT Award-winning playwright discusses HIV/AIDS Eastern Europe makes AIDS marks Brad Fraser's sacrifices to join EU that if he invests in a project and it is BY SYL VAIN COMEAU not working out the way he expect­ life and art astern Europeans dream of join­ ed, he carries on and invests more, was named one of the top 10 plays of ing the European Union, but because he already has a lot invested. BY DIANA TE G ENKAMP E the year by Time magazine. For that new ideal may be as unfeasible European politicians have invested n November 27, four days Fraser, though, 1996 was "a night­ as socialism, Budapest Professor of the credibility and authority of their Obefore AIDS Awareness Day, mare." He had lost seven friends to Economic Sciences Laszlo Andor parties, and therefore feel that they Canadian playwright Brad Fraser AIDS in six months. told a Concordia audience last week. cannot abandon it." gave a frank, gutsy talk about the "Why, when you know that if you Andor, currently a visiting profes­ Andor noted during his lecture part that the devastating disease has have unsafe sex you risk contracting sor of political science at Rutgers that only one European nation, Lux­ played in his work. HIV, do people still do it?" Fraser University, said in a lecture at the embourg, currently qualifies under Fraser chronicled the artistic and asked urgently. People who have no School of Community and Public the Maastricht criteria for member­ personal events of his life since sense of their importance as mem­ Affairs last Monday that Hungarians ship in the EMU. Those criteria AIDS made its presence felt. He bers of society, no vocabulary to in particular have been willing to include low inflation, low long-term first heard rumours of a "new form describe who they are, and no posi­ sacrifice to qualify for membership, interest rates, low budget deficits, of herpes" in 1982, while in rehearsal tive role models to embrace, can see but that willingness could backfire. and low debt-to-GDP ratios. "The drive for EU membership for his first professionally produced more value in immediate leisure than "The Maastricht criteria are a has really become the only vision or play, WolfBoy. in long-term survival. "We need a straitjacket which keep the European motivation that can make people He spoke unflinchingly of his own cure for AIDS," he said, "but we also economies in recession. Trying to accept social sacrifice for economic unsafe sex practices as a young gay need a cure for self-hatred and live up to them forces national gov­ progress. As the sacrifices become man, and his elation when he tested inequality." ernments to cut expenditures time greater and greater, however, the negative for HIV in 1985. He went Fraser spoke about the gay com­ after time, which decreases the attractiveness of this vision may fade on to write Unidentified Human munity's paradoxical relationship to aggregate demand [for goods and Remains and the True Nature of Love AIDS. He said that the media focus away. "It may well happen that the peo­ services]. It deflates the economy by on his small, blue Smith-Corona on gays who are HIV-positive, con­ ple would link the concept of Europe reducing the money supply circulat­ typewriter that same year. tributing to the insidious fallacy that to meaningless social and economic ing in the economy." Writing Remains, Fraser said, was gays are "sick." Equally dangerous sacrifices, and the whole process For East European countries "the most exciting thing that ever are the naive images used to adver­ defined me as an artist." could become unpopular, and even­ struggling to emerge from the col­ happened to me." In 1989, it was tise HIV drug therapies of Fraser gave a playwriting work­ tually voted against in the crucial lapse of communism, meeting those produced professionally for the first Adonis-like men walking their dogs. shop Friday afternoon called "How referendum." prerequisites would be a particular time, in Alberta, and went on to Martin Yesterday, Fraser's newest to Create an AIDS Play in Two In an interview following his lec­ burden. international acclaim, winning the play, opened in Toronto earlier this Hours." His direction was so suc­ ture, Andor explained that "The criteria can be met for a cou­ L.A. Critics Award and the Genie year to relatively cool reviews. Years cessful that the 20 participating Hungarians and other Eastern Euro­ ple of ye ars, but it's unclear how Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. ago, he would have been devastated, Concordia students were able not peans are willing to make such sustainable that is. They can push A film, Love and Human Remains, but not any more. He is already in only to complete first and second sacrifices because EU membership is down the budget deficit below 3 per was directed by Denys Arcand. the process of revision. drafts, but to read their plays to the now seen as a panacea. cent of GDP, they can push down In 1996, Poor Superman, which "AIDS has taught me to face fears group at large. "This is a replay of the utopia of the public debt to 16 per cent of Fraser describes as the "spiritual and to accept change," he said. "It His lecture was part of the communism; the EU holds the posi­ sequel" to Remains, won the New has been the best and worst thing Concordia Glaxo-Wellcome Com­ GDP, but how long will it last if the tion in common political ideology Canadian Play Award for 1996, and that has ever happened to me. It has munity Lecture Series. countries cannot stay on an econom­ that was once occupied by commu­ ic development trajectory?" nism or socialism. Today, even the In exchange for such austerity, Russians are talking about joining." East European nations would get a The biggest stumbling-block Activists went to APEC meeting in Vancouver to pressure governments shot at eventually adopting the euro, would be eventual membership in but Andor argues that East Europe the Economic Monetary Union would not benefit from the euro. (EMU), in which member countries East Tirnor: The forgotten cause "For one thing, industrial would adopt a common currency, economies like Hungary's are not the or by starvation and disease. This labour and lax regulatory environ­ the euro. Andor points out that this BY MICHAEL DOBIE most advanced technologically. They number is about one-third of the ment. In the rush to make money, is currently out of reach even for have to rely on competitiveness. aria Soares remembers waking total population. human rights and human dignity Western Europe. Sometimes, when they fall behind, up to the sound of bombs Soares visited Montreal to talk have been trampled. "Even in the most optimistic sce­ M they can boost competitiveness by falling on her hometown of Dili, about the Indonesian annexation of Soares said that concerned Cana­ nario, the EMU will not take place devaluing the national currency in East Tirnor, on December 7, 1975. East Timor and to· discuss a docu­ dians can help by pressuring their in the next five years. The deadline order to make their exports more The Indonesian military had arrived mentary film which was screened, government and the companies that (for the EMU) has been pushed affordable. You give up this option to take possession of the island, a Elaine Briere's Bitter Paradise: The do business with Indonesia. "With back again and again." The current former Portuguese colony located Sell-Out of East Timor. "The movie your support, we can do something. deadline is the year 2002. with a common European currency. about 400 kilometres north of Aus­ shows the reality of East Timor," Pressure your government, pressure "The EMU is in shambles. The euro would not give policy mak­ tralia. Soares said. the Indonesian government to stop Europe is headed towards a major ers the flexibility they need." -. "I was eight years old," Soares told The movie catalogues the injus­ killing and torturing East Timorese," economic disaster with those plans. Andor's lecture was presented by about 75 people gathered in a lecture tices visited upon the East Tirnorese she said. "If we collaborate with It is all run on the logic of sum costs. the SCPA and the Karl Polanyi theatre recently in Concordia's Fine since the invasion: forced steriliza­ Indonesia, we collaborate to kill East For a businessman, sum cost means Institute of Political Economy. Arts building. "It was five in the tion of women, the relocation of Tirnorese people. [Indonesian presi­ morning when I heard the sound of people into strategic villages estab­ dent] Suharto ~s a murderer and a cannons. The Indonesian military lished by the military, and the criminal." Fresh and on th was in every corner ofDili." torture and imprisonment of anyone Soares has been in exile since 1989 Contemporary Dance Open House Her father ordered Soares and her opposed to the new regime. and now lives in Portugal. She is vis­ Studio 303, 372 Ste. Catherine St. W. siblings to take cover from the gun­ At stake for Indonesia is the oil iting Canada as part of "Team fire under a table. He was arrested, beneath the Timor Sea, south of the Timor," a group of 15 exiled East December 5 and_6 at 8 p.m. and spent two years in prison for island. Western governments aren't Timorese and Indonesian activists December 7 at 2:30 p.m. being a member ofFRETILIN, one interested in pressuring Indonesia to that is raising awareness of human­ 25 original works by students of the parties vying to form the gov­ relinquish control of East T imor rights abuses in East Timor and Tickets are $5 at the door, $3 for stu­ ernment of E ast T imor after the because their businesspeople have a Indonesia. The activists made their dents/seniors, free for children under Portuguese left in 1974. great deal of money invested there. way to the Asia Pacific Economic 12. All proceeds go to the James Saya In the course of the invasion and The Canadian government has a Cooperation meeting in Vancouver Memorial Bursary Fund, a prize in the decades since, an estimated trade-oriented embassy in Indonesia, last week to ask the Canadian gov­ awarded annually for exceptional 200,000 East Timorese have been as well as programs that help ernment to put Suharto on trial for work, promise and need. killed either outright by the military investors take advantage of cheap crimes against humanity.

CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT DECEMBER 4 , 1997 9 The women of Choeur Maha have a great time making music Liberal MNAs visit know they were on campus, includ­ BY CHRI STINA P ARSONS Angels on campus ing the student media. f elected, the provincial Liberals "We believe students should not BY DIANA TEGENKAMP Iwould index tuition fees to the have to. pay more to study," Chagnon said, but Copeman added ance Professor Kathy Kennedy cost of living. But that was about the that after graduating, they should credits Choeur Maha's success only concrete promise made by two D repay their loans in proportion to to its feminine, feminist nature. "It Liberal MNAs, Russell Copeman their salaries. has informed everything we do," said (Notre-Dame-de-Grace) and MNA Copeman and Chagnon said that Kennedy, who is the choir's artistic Jacques Chagnon (Westmount­ director. Saint-Louis) on a visit to Concordia education and health are priorities, and Choeur Maha (Maha is a Hindi last Thursday. They represent the that a Liberal government would gen­ erate more money for these sectors. word meaning great or grand) has 20 ii= ridings that include the Loyola and members, many of them Concordia ~ Sir George Williams Campuses. "The cuts the universities are expe­ riencing are having an impact on the faculty, alumni and students. Seven ~ 'When you're in opposition, it's t;; important to check the grassroots to quality of education compared to years ago, when Kennedy and Su ii' 6 Schnee founded Maha, it was .. see if your policies are on track," what other Canadian universities are Schnee's idea to make it all-women. § Copeman said. Unfortunately for the offering," said Chagnon, who has § "I thought, 'Another quilting bee? 1l' politicians, few students seemed to been education minister. No thanks,"' Kennedy said. Now, Y :::! she would have it no other way. ~ Film Studies Professor Catherine il: Russell, who has sung in the choir memorating the 1989 massacre McLeod, Louise D enson and since 1992, laughingly explained, includes radio excerpts and recita­ Sophie DeLorme have made their "We don't exclude men. We just tions of the victims' names. Complex don't let them sing." own CDs, and Cathy Herman's CD ,. In December 1996, Choeur Maha and powerful, the subject matter was will be released soon. ~ released Different Angels, their first too emotional for some Maha mem­ Choir members have sung back- ~ CD. It reflects their eclectic bers. Three years later, however, up for the Canadian band Go Van ~ approach, including an arrangement Choeur Maha still performs annually Gogh. They performed Kennedy's ~ to commemorate the event, and is "sonic choreography'' in New York g of Willie Nelson's "Crazy" and selec­ 0 tions from Kennedy's electroacoustic more cohesive than ever. this summer as part of the Lincoln ~ composition "The Counting Game." On December 13, at Graffiti Center's Out-of-Doors Series. And ~ :::! Kennedy's experience includes an Tango, on St. Laurent Blvd., Maha Concordia alumnus Patricia Kearns MA in singing and a background in will perform a typically varied pro­ made them the subject of a docu- i vocal/dance performance. "I care gram, including Celtic "mouth mentary film, Choir Girls, which she about what people want and what music" (a mix of percussive sounds directed with Deborah VanSlet. It will make them happy, and so I use and nonsense syllables) and an Aus­ will be seen in January at indepen­ their special skills. I think of us as a tralian Aboriginal women's walking dent local cinemas. family whose interactions are based song. The choir has cut their sched­ "We're fodder for other musical as much on organic living principles ule to two concerts a year, and their contexts, jobs, apartments, friends, as aesthetic musical standards." rehearsals to once a week, because and sometimes even lovers," Russell recalls only one controver­ "everybody either has a family or a Kennedy laughed. "In our choir, sy. It was in 1994, over Hildegard job," Kennedy explained. there are no stars. It's that social, Westerkamp's Ecole Polytechnique. Many Maha members are musi­ non-hierarchical quality that's The 15-minute composition com- cians with other projects. Heather allowed us to continue." Centraide needs more An appeal was made in November to close to 1,860 Concordians to donate to the Centraide campaign. Contributions benefit needy Montrealers, not only at this time of the year, but all year round . As the last week of the campaign winds down, 160 have completed pay­ .,_ roll deduction forms or given cheques or credit card donations. Figures com­ piled on Tuesday show a participation rate of 8.62 per cent and a total of $32,605 collected. Last year's total was $49,769 with an Centraida adjusted participation rate of 14.5 per of Greater Montreal cent. For more information, consult the link at the bottom of the University's homepage, at http://www.concordia.ca. Time is running out. Do your part. The food bank is still in its early Counihan Cup Tournament gives good talkers a chance to shine stages; problems of money, storage space and a permanent advisory Debating team needs sponsor to get to Greece ties. By volunteering at such places, committee are still being worked students can avail themselves of their out, Terho said. Right now, the only ed together was in Montreal, and we BY LINDA MENARD services and help their community at paid employee is Diallo. won that one, too." The brothers the same time. Ideally, there would be an overall he Concordia University faced gritty competitors, such as the It's all part of the network of administration plus people at each TDebating Society (CUDS) University of Windsor team, who mutual aid that Terho is building. university in Montreal organizing recently hosted its 12th annual tour­ drove 13 hours through a snowstorm "By helping others you can help things locally. In the meantime, vol­ nament, now called the Counihan to come to the contest. yourself," he said. About 400 to 500 unteers are running with the ball, Cup. The verbal fisticuffs gave cen­ Every year there's a world champi­ students receive such help every year, approaching supermarkets for dona­ tral Canada's best debaters a chance onship for university debaters. Last totaling just over $13,000 in aid. It year it was held in South Africa. But tions of unsellable, but still edible, to hone their skills for the upcoming doesn't take much to help a lot. because of the high cost of sending a foodstuffs . world championship, to be held in However, even this was insuffi­ team to Greece this year, Concordia "We've had a positive response Greece in January. cient, and Bakary Diallo, a student at Retired Dean of Students Brian will not be able to field a team in the from the Concordia Student Union the Universite de Montreal, started a Counihan continued his long-time championship unless it gets sponsor­ and the Graduate Students' Associa­ city-wide university food bank. His support of. the CUDS. He attended ship soon. tion and its president, Jean-Frani;:ois efforts over the last two years have the final round of debate and pre­ Tournament organizer Penny Le Nouvel Hotel and partied at Reg­ paid off, and Students' Assistance of Plamondon," Terho said. 'We need sented the trophy to Matthew and Ortega said Concordia is the only gie's on Saturday night. Ortega Metropolitan Montreal received its to bring the volunteers together, lit­ Jonathan Cohen, of the University of university in Canada that holds a enlisted the help of local favourite letters patent as a non-profit organi­ tle by little, to keep it running Toronto, who beat out 32 teams in "world's prep." The Counihan Cup Souvlaki George to feed everybody zation last May. smoothly." the round-robin competition. runs a modest deficit, which is during the weekend. The topic of the final round was a financed by the Concordia Students' Fawaz Salah, this year's president controversial one: "Be it resolved Union and donations solicited by of the Debating Society, said he was that we will negotiate with terror­ Counihan. Ortega coordinated the pleased with the tournament, despite ists." For the record, the affirmative student volunteers who judged the ~ turn-out that was lower than side won. rounds, tabulated the results, and expected due to inclement weather. The savings are hung in the Jonathan Cohen said afterwards, tidied up. "It takes a good couple of ,6 \a "The best thing about this is com­ months to make the hotel and bar ~: bookstore with flare in --~ peting together for the first time in arrangements," she said. • hopes that you will be there ! • five years. The last time we compet- Out-of-towners were billeted at granted its Early Childhood Educa­ Pick & save 10% to 50% * on the earnings of the former stu­ tion program. dent. Low-income earners would be A fine story-teller, Schofield com­ able to deduct 100 per cent of their municated the romance of can defer their payments for up to 18 debt charges from their income tax; communications technology and months in the two years after leaving higher income earners would be able how quickly it has developed. school. However, the proposal would to deduct a lower percentage. He said that in his first year at the put an end to the six-month interest This marks a change in the phi­ BBC, 1963, John F. Kennedy was holiday that students leaving full­ losophy behind student loans, shot, and the news had to travel to treating them as a "human capital time studies now enjoy. Europe on one or the other of the investment," Cote said. This would The task force discovered that 75 two cables under the Atlantic Ocean. "give the same benefit to these per cent of student debt holders Only three years later, he saw the investors as those who invest in other declaring bankruptcy did so within start of the first hook-up of commu­ two years of finishing school and kinds of capital investment, invest­ ments which are expected to yield nications satellites, which were then cap, without using the deferred repayment fixed in space, and "fell" like shoot­ program. This is partly because, some return." Rebecca Aldworth, president of ing stars. Now that satellites orbit eatshirt , according to the report, the govern­ the Concordia Student Union with the earth, even that era can be ment-licensed operators who process (CSU), said over the telephone, "I recalled nostalgically. "You could lie the bankruptcies are not using all the think they're all fantastic recommen­ out on the grass after dusk and watch resources available to students to dations, but the university should be them go by," Schofield said. avoid fiscal meltdown, in particular, lobbying for free tuition instead of Although one of the gifts he got the deferred repayment option. minor changes to the financial aid was luggage, suggesting that he plans The task force also found that program." The CSU has a policy to travel, Mark also intends to many students weren't aware of the calling for zero tuition. A Bachelor's remain active in the field of distance cumulative effect of successive loans degree is now considered the mini­ and of what their monthly payments education, through his contacts with mum necessary education level to would consist after graduation. The CANAL, the Qyebec educational participate meaningfully in the econ­ Qyebec Federation ofCEGEPs told TV network, and the CADE (Cana­ omy, Aldworth said, and like public dian Association for Distance the panel that only 45.7 per cent of elementary and secondary schooling, Education). financial aid recipients know how it should be free. they will repay their loan, as opposed After you have collected all your goodies, go The Federation Etudiante Univer­ to 81. 7 per cent of personal loan to the cash and pick your stocking to sitaire du Qyebec, representing some recipients. They recommended to 135,000 students, is on record as reveal your discount or prize ! Marois several measures to keep stu­ supporting efforts to reform financial Concordia graduate in actuarial dents informed of the size of their aid, rather than abolishing tuition mathematics, and was described by You won't get a lump of coal from us in your accumulated debts and what their fees. The Student Society of McGill stocking ! Everyone is a winner ! monthly payments would be after University (SSMU) "applauds the her father as his "Sunday afternoon leaving school. Qyebec government for addressing skating partner." st rd Date: Dec. 1 - 23 inclusive If the legislation passes, banks will the issue of student debt, but these Marika Giles, who was student (S.G.W. Campus only) start reporting student debt and are band-aid solutions," said Lisa union president two years ago, spoke defaults to credit-reporting agencies Phipps, vice-president external of for many when she said that for Noonan, his job "was always about Beat the P.S.T. increase Jan. 1/98 and treating student loans like com­ the SSMU, over the telephone. The mercial loans. This means that credit SSMU wants a continuation of the students." Unfailingly affable toward checks upon applying for credit cards tuition freeze, and recommends the neophyte student senators, nervously or personal loans, for example, would government adopt an income-sensi­ "surfin' Senate" for the first time, "he reveal student debt, which is not the tive loan repayment scheme that answered all our questions, long and case now. Conversely, it was also would allow for government assis­ short" Giles said. "He really filled the proposed that interest charges tance in repaying loans m generation gap, and never lorded it become tax deductible, depending extraordinary circumstances. over us." - BB

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;- Thursday, December 11 and worship God. Info: 2020 Mackay, tion. Price is negotiable. Call Second-year Jazz I students, directed P-303, 848-7492. Theatre 823-3495. by Charles Ellison. 8 p.m., free. Claudius: A tale of politics, passion Clearance sale Friday, December 12 ce and paranoia. Written and directed by Everything in my apt. must go Big Band, directed by Dave Turner. 8 Ken Gass. December 5 - 7, 11 - 13, 8 between now and April, including p.m., free. The Ombuds Office is available to all p.m. December 14, 2 p.m. D.S. Clarke office furniture and astrological members of the University for informa­ Theatre, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. $2 library. Nothing over $IOO.; 20 per cent Sunday, December 14 tion , confident ial advice and assis­ students, $8 seniors, $10 general. off anything so ld by January 4. Call Katherine Addleman, piano, all­ 488-2278. tance with university-related prob­ Ticket reservations: 848-47 42. Brahms program . 8 p.m., free. Effo