Vol. 17 No. 1 September 10, 1992 CONCORDIA MOU

On Monday, Aug. 24, an anned man entered the Henry F. Hall Building, made his way to the ninth floor and opened fire. This is horrifying enough. What makes it more horrifying is that the armed man was a professor and his targets were his colleagues. When it was over, and Mechanical Engineering Professor Valery Fabrikant was arrested, Concordia was left to mourn its dead: Civil Engineering Pro­ fessor Matthew McCartney Douglass; Chemistry Professor and President of the Concordia University Faculty Asso­ ciation Michael Gorden Hogben; and Mechanical Engineering Professor Aaron Jaan Saber. And to pray for the wounded: Electrical and Computer En­ gineering Chair Phoivos Ziogas and Mechanical Engineering Secretary Elizabeth Horwood. At an emergency meeting of the Board of Governors last week, Chancel­ lor Alan B. Gold, who stepped down as Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court in July, said, "What happened here is the terrible price you pay for an open society, the terrible price that any university that respects its people and its dissenters can pay." Tragedies of this magnitude have happened elsewhere, he added, but the institutions have survived; and so will Concordia

Shuffle proceeds to be donated to Memorial Fund

Concordia's third annual 1992 Shuffle After the tragedy, Concordia University Faculty As­ will be dedicated to the memory of Pro­ sociation Vice-President June Chaikelson said "our fessors Matthew Douglass, Michael losses are beyond calculation." As the community Hogben and Aaron Jaan Saber. The Fac­ struggles to recover, we pay homage to the three ulty and Staff Shuffle Committee has fonnidable teachers we lost and to the colleagues who were wounded. announced that all proceeds of this year's event will go towards building the Concordia University Memorial En­ dowment Fund in their memoiy. Hundreds of letters of sympathy and condolence The Shuffle will take place on have poured In from across Canada and the United Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 1 p.m. The route States. A listing of these letters, received as of Aug. 31, and excerpts have been compiled in the hope has been reversed so that the starting that they can offer us some comfort. point will be at the Loyola Campus, while the finish line will be in the atrium of the new downtown library complex. Registration will be held simultan~ ously on both campuses on Sept. 21 and The Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and 22 from 12 to 2 p.m. in the Henry F. Hall Counselling and Development have been on hand to lend support and assistance, in this time of need, Building lobby dowtown and in the for both the University community as a whole and lobby of the Administration Building on an Individual basis. on the Loyola Campus. ·Buses will be available to transport See SHUFFLE page B PHOTO: Jora Pl!)lllnlll 2 - September 10, 1992

• profiles

The tragic events of Monday, Aug. 24 have prompted the entire community to ask itself questions.Why did it happen? Could it have been prevented? What kind of person could do this to other human beings? There has been much discussion, but in the end, there are few answers . The only thing that remains is that three of our colleagues and friends are no longer with us and the two others who were wounded, struggle to recover. Much will be said about the case of Valery Fabrikant in the weeks and months ahead.This special issue of Concordia's Thursday Report is dedicated entirely to the memory of Civil Engineering Professor Matthew Douglass, Chemistry Professor Michael Hogben and Mechanical Engineering Professor Aaron Jaan Saber. We extend our most heartfelt sympathy to their families. We join the University community in its prayers fo r the full recovery of Electrical and Computer Engineering Chair Phoivos Ziogas and Mechanical Engineering Secretary Elizabeth Horwood.

Matthew Douglass Michael Hogben was more than a teacher was a man who cared

"Dr. Matt," as he was known to his Michael Hogben climbed mountains close colleagues and students, was and tracked stars, and his hobbies mir­ truly loved. rored the idealism and relish for chal­ And he was deeply admired. Not lenge of his professional life. long after the shooting that took his life A professor of chemistry, he crossed on Aug. 24, a man standing outside the the artificial dividing-line between sci­ Henry F. Hall Building told a television ence and the arts to study the human reporter simply, "I really think he was a impact of science and teach jointly with kind of saint." a Philosophy professor. As President of Matthew McCartney Douglass was the Concordia University Faculty Asso­ born in Trinidad in 1926. He earned a ciation (CUFA), he also took great satis­ BEng from McGill University in 1952, faction in one of the most frustrating after which he worked for five years in areas of collective endeavour - the industry and public service, and nine solving of labour grievances. years as an assistant professor at Howard University. He got a Master's 'People person' degree in 1962 from George Washing­ ton University (D.C.) and a doctorate Hogben was born in Middlesex, Eng­ from Oklahoma State University in land in 1940 and came to Canada in 1966, and came to Sir George Williams 1962. He joined Loyola College in 1971, University to teach. three years before the merger with Sir Douglass was the first Chair of the George Williams University. Through­ Department of Civil Engineering, from out his career, Hogben was "a people 1968 to 1972, and served a second term person," friendly, caring and deeply in­ from 1982 to 1989. terested in how people are affected by Matthew Douglass their environment. Enthusiastic teacher Chemistry Professor Robert H. Pallen talks of Hogben's devotion to teaching, His enthusiasm for teaching spilled and the many hours he spent counsel­ over into his research interests, which ling students about their career paths included computer-based learning and and their future. computer-aided analysis. He taught Biology Professor Perry Anderson courses in Mechanics and Structures, talks of Hogben's deep involvement in and served as a consultant to the De­ the development of an Ecotoxicology partment of Civil Engineering of the Diploma Programme at the University, University of West Indies. a programme so successful that . it is His life was full, rich in music, family now full to capacity with 60 students. It and friends, and that richness was re­ is an ideal response to the great interest flected in his funeral service. Douglass in pollution, and its socio-economic was an active member of St. Edward the and regulatory effects. Confessor Catholic Church, which shares its Pointe Claire church building Cared for colleagues with St. John's United Church in a still­ unusual instance of practical ecumen­ Hogben had been involved in the ism. The possessor of a beautiful Concordia University Faculty Associa­ singing voice, he was in the choir. tion for many years. He was CUFA sec­ At the funeral, the choir sang. Steel retary in 1979-80, Vice President in drums played ''Island in the Sun" and 1980-81, and President in 1981-82. He Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring." involved himself in the negotiating Dean of Engineering and Computer team and on the joint grievance com­ Science and close friend M.N.S. Swamy mittee, and Journalism Professor Enn chanted a Sanscrit prayer, and friends Raudsepp, who knew him well through paid moving tribute to a vital, talented, CUFA, said he was "very much a prob­ generous-spirited man who was like a lem-solver." father to so many. "I was the editor of the newsletter Douglass was planning to retire next when he was president [in 1981-82]. He year, when he would have been 66. He was never one of those us-and-them is survived by his wife Joyce; his chil­ types. And when there was a problem, dren, Karen, Roy, Teri, Robin and Kim­ he personally siiw to it. I was amazed to berley; and eight grandchildren. Michael Hogben See HOGBEN page 8 September 10, 1992 - 3 IN MEMO profiles

A. Jaan Saber was Hopes and prayers ambitious, gifted and of hundreds for extraordinarily productive Phoivos Ziogas' recovery

Aaron Jaan Saber knew about the fra­ Phoivas Ziogas lies in the Montreal gility of life. Born with a heart defect, he General Hospital, fighting to recover survived infancy thanks to his tena­ from a severe gunshot wound to the cious mother, and underwent open­ abdomen. He has the hopes and heart surgery three times in adulthood. prayers of hundreds of friends and fam­ He was reaching the height of a bril­ ily members riding with him. liant career when he died of his injuries Ziogas joined Concordia's faculty as a the day after the Aug. 24 shooting. As lecturer in 1978, and became Chair of Rabbi Ronald Aigen said at his funeral the Department of Electrical and Com­ last week, ''Jaan Saber lived his entire puter Engineering in 1989. life in grateful appreciation for the mir­ Professor Asim Al-Khalili has known acle of being alive." him for 11 years, and was on the ninth Ambitious, gifted and extraordinarily A. Jaan Saber floor of the Henry F. Hall Building on productive, the professor of Mechanical Aug. 24 when the shooting took place. Engineering seemed to be everywhere, In fact, Al-Khalili "shoved" the gunman winning awards, research grants, in­ before he realized he was armed, found dustry appointments and consulting Ziogas wounded in his office, and contracts. Yet colleagues and neigh­ called 911 for help. He spent the next 20 bours also remember him as a loving hours at the hospital, sitting outside family man, a supportive husband and Ziogas' s room, and has been back every active father who was as likely to be evening since then. found teaching 6-year-old Noah and 4- ''He's a wonderful person, one of the year-old David to ride their bikes as at best human beings I know," said Al­ his computer terminal. Khalili. ''Very cool and calm. I've never Saber was born in England in 1946. seen him angry in all the years I've His family emigrated in 1952, and he known him. And he's the only profes­ was raised in Toronto. He was awarded sor I know who always has lunch in the a Bachelor of Applied Science with hon­ cafeteria with his students. ours by the University of Toronto in ''He's there for everybody; his door's 1969, and went to Princeton to study always open. You'd never know he was rocket propulsion. While studying for the boss." his master's and then his doctorate, he The crush of well-wishers to Ziogas' was an active member of various uni­ bedside has· been almost overwhelm­ versity committees, and stayed on at ing. While the hospital ruled last week Princeton as a researcher until 1975, that only immediate adult family were when he came to Concordia. to be admitted because his condition is Over the years, he had taught courses still very serious, people have come in many aspects of the field, including from great distances to see him and of­ combustion, human factor engineering, fer support to his wife, Frances. Two brothers have come from Greece, and organizational management, physical Phoivos Ziogas systems, thermodynamics, fluid me­ Al-Khalili says phone calls have come chanics and machine design. from as far away as Chile and the Mid­ dle East. His progress gives reason for guarded Changing field optimism, and he has opened his eyes Elizabeth Horwood recovering at home and acknowledged family members. His research reflected the changing Ziogas, 48, earned his BSc, MSc and face of his field. Early in his research Elizabeth Horwood, who was shot in dealing with a visitor as determined PhD in Electrical Engineering at the career, Saber was looking at the gases the leg and released from hospital a few and angry as Valery Fabrikant was University of Toronto, graduating with produced in coal combustion, and ex­ days after the incident, has been a sec­ clearly exhausting her, and she told a his doctorate in 1979. He teaches two ploring a lignite deposit in Ontario with retary in the Faculty of Engineering and colleague this summer that she was at courses every year, and is a very active a view to developing alternative fuels Computer Science for nearly 20 years, the end of her resources. "She was get­ researcher in the field of power elec­ to coal. As the interest in that subject and the secretary of the Chair of the ting all the flak. She was going to tell her tronics. He is a fellow of the Institute of waned, he worked on solid propellant Mechanical Engineering Department superiors she had had enough." Electrical and Electronics Engineers, rocket motors, and became well known for the past decade. and editor of the IEEE Transactions of in the aerospace industiy. Horwood commuted every day from Industrial Electronics. His personal experience with buried, "She has a great deal of responsibility her home near St. Jerome in the Lauren­ No one is rooting for Ziogas more unexploded ordnance led in the mid- for the day-to-day running of the De­ tians. A widow for some years, she has fervently than a dozen young people 1980s to research into hazardous and partment," said a colleague. Praised for a stepson who lives in western Canada working in the bowels of the Henry F. toxic waste disposal and management, her efficiency, honesty, adaptability and and a stepdaughter who lives near he-. Hall Building. Graduate students one of our greatest current problems. excellent English skills, her superiors She is an enthusiastic skier, but her working in the Power Electronics Labo­ His wife Sara Felsenfeld is on the staff have also noted that she "enjoys pres"' great love is music. A serious piano stu­ ratory, they look on him as their hero. In of Alliance Quebec, the English-rights sure and challenge." dent for many years, she holds several the words of student Joe Woods, ''He's lobby group. However, the extraordinary task of diplomas and has taught music. the best." 4 - September 10, 1992 IN MEMO sympathy and support

In the aftermath of the tragedy, Concordia University received many, many letters of sympathy and support. Reprinted below is a list of individuals and organizations who wrote to the University to express their condolences. Excerpts of some of those letters are reprinted on page 5.

Ramon John Hnafyshyn Wendy Jerome Governor-General of Canada President, Laurentian University Faculty Association The Rt. Honourable Jeanne Sauve Ronald Hinch § Chair, UniV81'sity of Guelph Faculty Association Jacques Bordeleau Owen Underhill Directeur general, Conference des recteurs et des President, Faculty Association, Simon Fraser principaux des universiMs du Quebec (CREPUQ} University Claude Lajeunesse Ronald Melchers President, Association of Universities arid President, Association of Professors of Col leges of Canada (AUCC} the University of Ottawa Peter George Saul Ross President, Council of Ontario Universities President, Ontario Confederation of University Claude Hamel Faculty Associations President, Unlversite du Quebec Marilyn Thylor Michel Gervais Chair, Status of Women Committee of the Canadian Recteur, Universite Laval Association of University Teachers Marcel Hamelin Alan Andrews Rector and Vice-Chancellor, University of Ottawa President, Canadian Association of University Paul Ruest Teachers (CAUT/ACPU} Rector, College universltalre de Saint-Boniface, Manitoba Donald C. Savage Executive Director, Canadian Association David W. Strangway of University Teachers (CAUT/ACPU) President, University of British Columbia § Terrence H White President, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario AnneMarrec Presldente et Directrice generale, Fonds pour Philippe Gribeauval formation de chercheurs et l'aide ala recherche (FCAR} Directeur general, Coll~ge de Rosemont Paule Leduc David L Johnston PHOTO: Jorm P..,at.nlll Principal, McGill University Presldente, Conseil de recherches en sciences humalnes et Consell des Arts (SSHRC/Canada David G. Bevan Paul Davenport Paul J. Collette Council} Vice-Principal, Bishop's University President, University of Alberta, Edmonton Association des bibllo!Mcaires et des professeurs de Leopold Nadeau Joy D. Calkin l'Universite de Moncion, Nouveau-Brunswick Jacques R. Parent Canadian Council of Professional Engineers Vice-President (Academic} and Provost, Recteur, UnlverslM du Quebec aTrols-Rivl~res University of Calgary Marc Richard Jean-Pierre Brunet Concordia College • Vice-President, McGill Association of University President, Ordre.des lngenleurs du Quebec John Whitfield Edmonton, Alberta Teachers Acting President, Lakehead University, Henri Navert Vuginia Hunter Thunder Baf, Ontario David J. Lawless Association canadlenne-francaise pour l'avancement President, St. Francis Xavier University, Vice-Chair, External, YUFA, York University Fran~ois Ouimet des sciences (ACFAS) Antigonish, N.S. Bill Graham President, Commission des tcoles Catholiques Richard Drouin President, UTFA, University o!Toronto de Montreal J.M.Perz President du consell et chef de la direction, Acting Principal and Dean, Scarborough Campus, Robert Rosebrugh Hydro-Quebec J. Robert S. Prichard University of Toronto President, University of Toronto President, MAFA. Mount Allison University, Alain Soucy Sackvllle, New Brunswick Brian D. Baldry Elizabeth Patr-Johnson lnstiM national de la recherche scientifique, Vice-President, CBC Engineering President and Vice-Chancellor, Mount Saint UnlversiM du Quebec AnnieMear Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Presldente, Syndical General des professeurs de Mamdouh Ismail Gerard Arquin l'Universite de Montreal President et Directeur general, C.I.C.I. Construction Gilles G. Cloutier Recteur, Universite du Quebec aChicout iml Recteur, Universite de Montreal The University of Regina § Sinh LeQuoc Faculty Association Aldee Cabana Directeur de l'enseignement et de la recherche, Jean-Claude Turcotte Recteur, Universite de Sherbrooke Universite du Quebec, tcole de technologie superi eure Gail Storr Archev~ue de Montreal President, Association of University of New Brunswick Jean Guertin Christiane Gosselin Teachers Heidi Rathjen DirecteLr, tco le des hautes eludes commerciales Directrice des Communications et Secretaire generale, Coal ition for Gun Control (HEC} College Edouard-Montpetit Alexandre Strachan Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Kotansky Claude Corbo President, Syndical des professeures et professeurs Michel Heroux Kotansky Development Corporation, San Jose, Recteur, Universite du Quebec Montreal . de l'Universite du Quebec aRimouskl a Service des Relations publiques, Universite Laval California Mary Rhodes Andre C. Cote § Doyen, Faculte de droit, Universite Laval President, Associati on of Professors of Bi shop's Madeleine Saint-Jacques Maximilien Arella University Andre Bazergui President de !'association des professeurs de l'lnstitut Roland Dore Directeur de l'tco le Polytechnique Armand-Frappier Helen Holmes President, Canadian Space Agency President, University of Calgary Faculty Association Louis Courville WilliamA. Bruneau Wladimir Paskevieci Directeur des eludes de premier cycle, tcole President, University of British Columbia Faculty John Griffith International Space University, Projet de l'Universite Polytechnlque Association . President, Lakehead University Faculty Association intern~ or,ale de l'espace ~ Montreal September 1 o, 1992 - 5 IN MEMO sympathy and support

We were saddened and appalled to staunch supporter of tougher gun con­ hear the news ... We know the anguish trol. that this has brought to the families, -Heidi Rathjen, Coalition for Gun Control colleagues, students and friends. We hope that you will convey our sympa­ Atterre par la tragedie qui plonge thy to the entire Concordia community, votre universite clans le desarroi, je but especially to the families of the vic­ tiens a vous temoigner ma profonde tim. .... sympathie. Tous les membres de la .... -CAUT/ACPU Commission des ecoles catholiques de · Montreal se joignent a moi pour offrir J' ai appris avec consternation et une aux families douloureusement ,eprou­ profonde tristesse l' evenement vees nos sincere condoleances. tragique d'hier... -Franf()is Ouimet, CECM -Michel Gervais, Universite Laval

Les evenements dont l'Universite Temoin du massacre de Polytech­ Concordia a ete le theatre dans la nique, je connais les sentiments d'hor­ joumee d'hier ne peuvent laisser insen­ reur, de rage impuissante, d' incredulite sible. Tout comme l' ensemble de la et de doute qui nous accablent dans des population quebecoise, Hydro-Quebec moments aussi difficiles. J' espere et ses employees ont ete profondement cependant que 1' elan de solidarite qui touches lorsqu'ils ont appris le deroule­ ne manquera pas de se manifester ment malheureux de ce drame. pourracependantattenuerlesentiment -Richard Drouin, Hydro-Qudbec de douleur que traverse votre univer­ site. - Wladimir Paskevieci, Projet de l'universite Be assured that, although many miles Internationale de l'espace h Montreal, Ude M away, we, too, acutely feel the shock and horror engendered by this act of violence. That a tragedy of this magni­ Ces gestes imprevisibles nous ren­ tude should occur at a Canadian uni­ dent impuissants et nous eloignent versity is unthinkable, and yet, as past davantage de la comprehension de events have shown, it is sadly all too cette societe de plus en plus complexe. real. -Jacques R. Parent, Universite As we grieve the passing of valued du Quebec h Ttols-Rivieres colleagues, we hope that one day such anguish and despair will no longer We offer our sympathy at this dread­ darken Canadian university campuses. ful time to all of our Concordia col­ Let us all work to make that day a real­ PHOTO: Jonas Papalllllls leagues. ity. Academe is not immune to the ills of Any such event puts in question the society, but we are in a privileged posi­ Our thoughts are with you in these and aux personnes eprouvees en esperant very basis of our civilized relations to tion to address them and help lead the the coming days. qu'ils trouvent du reconfort clans ce one another, as human beings and as way to a better future. - Marllyn Taylor, GAUT temoignage d' amitie: academics. CoIJring so soon after the -David W. Strangway, -Jean-Pie"e Brunet, Ordre des ingooieurs du Qudbec murders at the Ecole Polytechnique, the University of British Columbia The deaths of three of your faculty effects will be felt across Canada. Once members and injuries to two oth­ Acts of violence, wherever they occur, again we must ask about underlying The [Faculty Association} Executive ers ... are deplored by Canadians across injure all of us. It is especially offensive pressures in Canadian academic life, [of York University] has asked me to the country who have been reminded to those of us in academia when vio­ pressures that may help to explain these express to you, and through you to all once again of the terrible futility of vio­ lence takes place in our own institu­ murders. And we must ask how the members of the University, our deepest lence. tions. Our hearts go out to you and your instruments of violence were so readily sympathies in the face of an act that was On behalf of the people of Canada, colleagues at this time of great sadness. at the murderer's hand. both fortuitous and senseless. Its after­ may I extend my deepest sympathies to - WA. Bruneau, UBC Faculty Association math is thus, I am sure, particularly Even more than that, we remember the staff and student body of Concordia hard to bear. the victims and their families. What­ University. - Virginia Hunter, York University ever we may be feeling at this distance Si ce geste suscite un sentiment de -Ramon John Hnatyshyn, pales in comparison with the loss or revolte, il est par ailleurs d'autant plus Governor-General of Canada suffering of those one loves. We at the troublant qu'il a ete pose clans un mi­ I was a member of the first Engineer­ University of Calgary join with others lieu qui cultive les valeurs de collegi­ ing graduating class at Sir George Wil­ in conveying condolences to those af­ ali te, de tolerance et de liberte. liams University. Matt Douglass not Our thoughts are with you and we fected. Malheureusement, il faut croire qu'en only was a teacher, but was much more fervently hope the community at Con­ cordia will find the strength and cour­ - ·Joy D. Calkin, University of Galgary cette epoque tourmentee, nul milieu than that. His perception of people's n' est l' abri d' evenements de cette na­ needs made him stand out among his age it needs to deal with the aftermath a ture. peers. He not only taught me, but took of this tragic event. L'utilisation apparement grandis­ -Jacques Bordeleau, Conference des recteurs et des the time to help me in many other ways. -Bill Graham, sante de moyens violents est une realite University of Toronto principaux des universites du Quebec He became a friend and we kept in troublante. J' ose souhaiter que ce geste -.... . contact throughout the years. I met all regrettable ne nous conduise pas a de­ of his family and my heart goes out to · ... Nous aimerons partager en toute velopper du ressentiment et de la mefi­ I was horrified to learn of the terrible them I wish there was more to say collegialite avec les membres de votre ance les uns envers les autres. Qu'il tragedy at Concordia yesterday. All of other than my wife and I will miss him personnel, votrecorps professoral ainsi nous incite plutot a elaborer des liens us at the University of Alberta wish to -Bernie Kotansky, que la communaute universitaire nos fondes sur une plus grande com­ offer our most profound condolences to SGWU, Class of '68, San Jose, California sentiments d' appui et de sympathie a prehension et le respect mutuel. the victims of yesterday's events. It is l' egard d' evenements aussi imprevis­ - Jean-Claude Turcotte, particularly disturbing to me that this ... Our [Status of Women] Committee ibles, tristes et regrettables. Archev/}que de Montreal tragedy occurred at one of Canada's has given a great deal of attention to the -Philippe Gribeauval, College de Rosemont very fine universities, an institution matter of violepce on our campuses. We This adof devastating madness is all which has made such remarkable pro­ ~ - know that being touc;~ed by it and Nous voulons aussi transmettre nos the more sad inasmuch as Concordia gress in recent years under the leader- having to deal with it is ·v~ry painful. . encouragements en ces heur-es difficiles University has always been a most See EXCERPTS page 8 6-September 10, 1992 ·IN MEMO assistance and counselling

Employee Assistance Programme hopes to make a difference

All over the University, people are turning their pain and anger and con­ fusion about the shooting tragedy into shared sorrow and determination to do better. Grendon Haines is convinced that the work of the Employee Assistance Pro­ gramme (EAP) has already made a dif­ ference. It was evident, for example, in the sombre but thoughtful mood at the general assembly held last Tuesday, he said. Haines is Resident Consultant to the Vice-Rector, Institutional Relations and Finance. Ironically, the EAP was conceived as a permanent programme which was to begin this term. However, the shooting of Aug. 24 catapulted it into crisis inter­ vention, with some counsellors work­ ing 12-hour days on very short notice and under intensely emotional condi­ tions. Counselling has been given to hundreds of people.

Massive response

"There has been a massive response," Haines said. "Our first priority, of course, was the primary victims (the families and those directly affected), and after that, the secondary victims. ''But I want to stress that we are tak­ ing a very pro-active approach. We re not waiting for people to come for counselling. Participation is voluntary, PHOTOS: Jonas Papal1911s but we've earmarked certain areas, and we' re calling people and telling them Two general lnfonnatlon sessions on the availability of professional counselling services were scheduled the day after the shooting, one on what is available." each campus (above and opposite page, top). A general assembly held last week In H-110 drew a capacity crowd (opposite, bottom) emphasizing the convnunlty's need for lnfonnatlon to help It cope. Simple get-togethers ployee-management committee. It in­ Pare, the head of Donancy, as the events ployee's request will go directly to Do­ Bright orange posters went up all cludes union representatives and re­ unfolded. He was at the University by nancy, and counselling will take place over both campuses offering simple source people from throughout the 4:30 p.m. to start helping people. outside of the University. In the after­ get-togethers over a bag lunch all last University community. "As far as rm concerned, this univer­ math of the shooting, however, counsel­ week, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Room The professional services are pro­ sity is extraordinary," Pare said. "The lors have conducted sessions on H-661-2 downtown and RoomAD-429 vided by Donancy Consultants, which co-operation, the willingness to follow campus and people have come together on the Loyola Campus. Daily forums has among its customers the Federal up on ideas other people might resist­ to share their feelings, but private one­ are continuing this week from noon to Business and Development Bank, and I couldn't believe how open everyone on-one sessions away from the Univer­ one o'clock in the WC Building (2490 the Montreal Expos baseball organiza­ is, from the top on down." sity can also be arranged. West Broadway, on the Loyola Cam­ tion. The Universite de Montreal immedi­ pus), under the joint auspices of Coun­ Shock selling and Development (which Counselling under the regular Em­ ately sent all the material it put together provides services to students) and the ployee Assistance Programme will be in the course of its own counselling ef­ EAP. The counsellors were even avail­ provided free of charge for full-time, forts following the slaying of 14 young Pare says that reactions to the incident able on Saturday and Sunday in the permanent employees and their imme­ women in December 1989. Pare copied have naturally been varied, depending Faculty Club Lounge. diate family members (which may in­ it and distributed it to his counsellors. on the closeness to the event. For some, Arrangements have been made with clude common-law and same-sex He said that Concordia's Health Serv­ the shock has been devastating. 'We are theCLSCs (the network of public health relationships). Concerns may include ices were "super-cooperative. Nancy talking here about people who can't re­ clinics). Students, faculty or staff mem­ marital and parental counselling, work­ Torbit [Director of Health Services] turn to where they worked, and for bers can walk into their neighbourhood related conflicts, violence and abuse, should be really proud of what she's whom the University is offering to CLSC and get appropriate counselling stress and anxiety, depression, phobias done." make other arrangements." if they identify themselves as Concordi­ and other mental health problems. Donancy has had between 15 and 20 Pare says that the pro-active side of ans. The Guy Metro CLSC is especially As its brochure says, "Concordia Uni­ counsellors working at Concordia since the crisis intervention has a definite pat­ well equipped. versity has established an Employee the shooting, including some who tern. Assistance Programme because it rec­ called Donancy to offer their services ''Basically, Grendon Haines, myself Joint employee-management effort ognizes employees as its most valued after hearing about the incident. and one or more counsellors go into a assets, and realizes that you can't sepa­ Under normal conditions, the coun­ department, and explain what we want The Employee Assistance Pro­ rate the 'employee' from the 'person."' selling will be done away from the Uni­ to do in terms of counselling. Then we gramme has been organized under The EAP sprung into action by neces­ versity. To ensure anonymity from break up into groups of 10 or so. Haines's leadership by a joint em- sity on Aug. 24 when Haines called Don superiors and co-workers, the em- 'We encourage people to say where September 10, 1992 - 7 IN MEMO assistance and counselling

they were, what they were feeling; we encourage the emotions to come out. -'v Then we offer services to individuals."

Important to talk

Counsellor Joanne Enright has been stationed in classroom H-661-2 at noon hour to talk to students, faculty or staff - who might drop 13/. "It's important to get people who were involved to talk about it," she said. "If they were in the building, they may be fearful, and feel that the same event could happen again. If they knew and loved the victims, they are grieving. Even fleeting acquaintance and our - shared connection to this institution link us to those who died. "Young people may feel especially vulnerable," Enright said. "They may feel disillusioned by what seems like a breakdown of their expectations, that if you do good, bad things don't happen to you." Some people may react with anger. ''Looking for someone to blame is nor­ mal. It's a way to link cause and effect, and sometimes a way to deal with feel­ ings of guilt. We try to help people deal in a constructive way with their anger." People should not only seek counsel­ ling if they feel they need it, but share their feelings with their co-workers, and· gently encourage colleagues who seem to be having real difficulty getting - on with their normal l ives to visit a counsellor. 8-September 10, 1992 IN MEMO letters

The Rector addresses the community 'A time to draw together': CUFA

The following is a letter issued by the u nits have lost dedicated and loyal Psychology Professor June Chaikel­ Things were being accomplished for Dr. Rector, Patrick Kenniff, on Aug. 26, 1992. teachers and researchers, close col­ son, who is vice-president of the Con..: Fabrikant in the system. Our newly elected leagues and friends, people who con­ cordia University Faculty Association presiden t, Dr. Hogben, was working very To all members of the Concordia Uni­ tributed to the excellent reputations of (CUFA), spoke at a news conference hard to try and settle the grievances with the versity Community: their units and their University, and Concordia held on Thursday, Aug. 27. . University, and to try and settle them in Dr. who gave greatly to enhance the quality The tragic and senseless events of last Her remarks are reprinted here: Fabrikant's favour . He had been working of our academic environment. Monday have left us all with a terrible We learned with deep sorrow of the death unstintingly during the whole summer to feeling of bewilderment, sadness and In the next hours, I shall be issuing a of our colleagues. We have received hun­ that end, and that, in all probability, as far loss. At the time that I was informed of more complete statement and holding dreds of messages of sympathy from across as we know, is why he was in Dr. Fabrikant's what had happened, late Monday after­ a press conference to deal with the the country; our fax machine has been work­ office that afternoon. noon, I was away from Montreal on a events and issues of this enormous ing non-stop since Monday, and we are brief vacation. My first thought was to tragedy in the history of our University, deeply grateful for the messages of support Losses beyond calculation return to Concordia as quickly as possi­ as I see them. that we have received. ble. I reached the University late Tues­ We must now begin the process, be­ I think I would like to explain a little bit The recent events are not mere nightmares day afternoon. yond our grief, of continuing to work about the union, and the relation of the that can be dreamed away easily. They are Through the inevitable briefings, my together to build an even stronger ~on­ union to the University. first thoughts and actions have been for Our University is a very complex organi­ real-life tragedies that will weigh heavily cordia, one that is firmly committed to upon us in years to come. Our losses are the victims and their families, for whom the values enunciated in our mission. zation, and as such, it has bureaucratic we grieve and to whom we extend sym­ structures, but it is a place where people beyond calculation, and we cannot find the pathy and support in this most painful May I add a word of thanks to all care. The Faculty Association is a union that words to express our grief and pain at the moment. I am in the process of seeing those who bore the burden of Monday's exists to promote and protect the interests of loss of our colleagues. them individually. Secondly, I have de­ events with great fortitude, in my ab­ faculty within the University, and it does it There can be no reasonable explanation for sence. I thank all those who did the voted time and attention to meeting for all its members. Together, through the this senseless tragedy. This is a time to draw with many of those who were most di­ many great and small, individual process of negotiation, the union and the together in our common purpose, however, rectly involved in Monday afternoon's things, often with courage and speed, administration have made a concerted effort and CUFA joins the UniversihJ community events, on the ninth floor of the Hall that helped the victims and no doubt to develop procedures that present griev­ in extending our deepest sympathy to the Building, in the Faculty of Engineering helped to prevent even more tragedy. ances, that protect the rights of individuals, fa mt1ies of the victims, and our heartfelt and Computer Science, and the Depart­ Patrick Kenniff and provide for the stability and integrity of wishes for the complete recovery of those ment of Chemistry. These academic Rector and Vice-Chancellor the University community. who were wounded.

• SHUFFLE from page 1 • EXCERPTS from page 5 • HOGBEN from page 2 participants from the downtown cam­ service. Monitors will be on hand to ship of you and your colleagues. see how much patience he had. He did­ pus to Loyola for the start of the walk. lead participants onto the right buses. - Paul Davenport, University of Alberta n't dismiss people - malcontents can The buses will depart at regular inter­ In the first year, the Shuffle raised be quite tedious. He had a big impact. vals between 11:45 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. more than $19,000, and more than La communaute de l'Ecole Polytech­ "It's so damn sad and ironic that he These are not Shuttle buses and will not $17,000 in the second year for student nique partage votre douleur dans was trying to help Fabrikant when this interfere with the regular Shuttle bus scholarships and fellowships. l' epreuve qui vous frappe. Nous vous happened." offrons toute notre sympathie. -Andre Bazergui, Ecole Polytechnique Fabrikant, the Mechanical Engineer­ ing Professor who was arrested after the shooting, had been bombarding Mes pensees sont avec vous durant CUFA with complaints against the Uni­ ~imilr D~ rt ces horribles journees. Je vous pried' ex­ versity, and was angry that his instruc­ --.1.!J-~~tp]__ primer nos sympathies sinceres aux fa­ tions to them weren' t followed milies des victimes, aux blesses et tous a precisely. In the annual election of the les collegues. Nous serions heureux et CUFA executive last spring, he ran Editor Donna Varrlca honores d' aider, de la fa<;on que vous against incumbent Tony Costanzo and Barbara Black jugerez utile, s' il y a lieu. Hogben, and received a handful of Typaattlng Richard Nantel, Productions PICA - Louis Courville, Ecole Polytechnique votes. Printing Inter-Hauf Developments Inc. Violence, whether aimed at women or A special thank you to Photocomp RB for donating Source of joy their services for this special memortal Issue. men, is never acceptable. And yet, as we all know, it continues to happen. I pray that we as a society will face the issues Philosophy Professor Dennis O'Con­ squarely and understand that our focus nor has taught with Hogben, a rela­ must include ele~ents of our culture tively rare cross-disciplinary initiative. and society which in any way condone O'Connor delivered the eulogy at the incidents of violence. funeral last week. He referred to his We share with you and Concordia friend lovingly as "a star-gazing, University your sense of shock and sor­ mountain-climbing clown who danced row. Please convey our greatest sympa­ with chemical elements and astrophysi­ thy and support for those injured and cal constellations as if they were to the families and loved ones of those friendly companions." who died so tragically. If there is any­ thing I or the University can do to assist, He was a source of joy as a compan­ please do not hestitate to call. You will ion; O'Connor said, a man of great de­ be in our thoughts as you face this dif­ cency and principle nurtured by a ficult period. joyous family life with his wife Marga­ -Elizabeth Parr-Johnson, ret and two sons, Mark and Keith. ''He Mount Saint Vincent University (Nova Scotia) was something of a hero."