November 8, 2013 Volume 21, Issue 6

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GO GREEN Whether they’re cheering on the U of S Huskies or the Roughriders, everyone in the College of Dentistry likes to show their team spirit and team colours. The college declares Casual Green and White Day on Fridays before big games and in October, gathered on the front step for a team photo.

 JOHNNY TRAN Hotel development announced College Quarter site of dual-brand project  COLLEEN MACPHERSON

Construction is expected to This allows the begin in the middle of 2014 on a 203-room hotel project in university to realize the University of Saskatchewan’s the first part of its College Quarter. University officials have vision for services in signed an agreement for a College Quarter and long-term land lease with Saska- toon-based P.R. Hotels Ltd. for that’s made this a dual-brand hotel development project a lot of fun just east of the Stadium Parkade on College Drive. The complex to work on. will combine a Holiday Inn Express and a Staybridge Suites Judy Yungwirth in one building to offer accom- modation to user groups associ- She declined to discuss ated with the university—visiting the details of the land lease lecturers and scientists, meeting A rendering of the dual-brand hotel development to be built in College Quarter.  CALNITSKY ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS. INC. agreement citing confidentiality attendees, parents, athletes—as around business contracts. well as to the general public. the first part of its vision for to upper-scale rooms while the and operating costs of the The funds from the lease Other potential users include services in College Quarter and Staybridge Suites wing will offer project in return for the lease on agreement will be reinvested in federal facilities located on that’s made this project a lot of lodging with kitchen facilities in the land. Yungwirth stressed no the next phase of the College campus, Innovation Place tenants fun to work on.” each suite for long-stay guests university resources will be used Quarter northeast precinct, and Royal University Hospital. The 10-storey dual-wing although the suites can be rented in the development “but we will which includes plans for a new “This is very exciting,” said building will occupy the by the night. benefit financially through the rink. “Those funds allow the Judy Yungwirth, director of northeast quadrant of College Under the terms of the lease agreement and by filling the university to leverage the value corporate administration. “This Quarter. The Holiday Innagreement, P.R. Hotels Ltd. will need for accommodation of this allows the university to realize Express wing will feature mid- take responsibility for all of the type on our campus.” See Hotel, Page 2

INSIDE 3 X 3 5 MAN’S BEST FRIEND 7 2 November 8, 2013  Hotel will serve wide range of patrons

From Page 1 of its lands and improve the infrastructure that supports our students’ experience on campus,” said Yungwirth. Owned by Lawrence and Patricia Rychjohn, P.R. Hotels Limited owns and operates six other hotels including the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites and the Holiday Inn Hotel in as well as other hotel properties in Kelowna and Arizona. Yungwirth While there will be no restau- rant in the hotel, its amenities on the financial terms, and “the will include breakfast facili- company’s good understanding ties for each brand along with of what the university was looking free internet, a swimming pool for and who will be staying there.  DAVID STOBBE and waterslide, and fitness and They also really understood our SUPPORTING STUDENTS business centres. Four meeting vision for College Quarter, and rooms, some on the top floor with the fact we consider the hotel key Gay and Ralph Young chat with Terrie Fitzpatrick, centre, manager of Student Counselling panoramic views of campus and to setting the tone for developing Services, on a recent visit to campus where they made a $135,000 donation in support of student the city, will be available for rent the northeast precinct of College mental health. Ralph Young is chancellor of the University of Alberta and an engineering by guests, members of the campus Quarter because it will attract graduate of the U of S whose family includes members affected by mental health issues. He said community and the public. both campus and community his recent involvement at the U of A was a reminder of what students face on campuses and Yungwirth said P.R. users, one of our goals for College Hotels Ltd. was chosen from a Quarter.” spurred the Youngs to establish Grace’s Fund in Support of Student Mental Health at the U of S. number of firms that submitted Completion of the hotel is Read more about the donors and their contribution at give.usask.ca proposals to build a hotel based expected by the spring of 2016. 

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Challenge Perceptions, the 2013 U of S. The annual financial report of U of S President Ilene report is still being published, Busch-Vishniac, takes some of but the president’s report serves the opinions people have about a different purpose, said Ivan both Saskatchewan and the Muzychka, associate vice-presi- university and turns them on dent of communications. their heads. “This report is meant to “Despite the great things engage a really wide range of we’re doing at the U of S, people readers, including business still have some false perceptions leaders, alumni and donors and about the city, the province other university administrators and the university itself,” said as well as government leaders in Busch-Vishniac about the report and outside of Saskatchewan,” which is available in print or he said. “We wanted to create a online. “We want to share some publication that stood out, one of the amazing stories about that really engaged with the our people and the work they’ve reader and helped them under- The 2013 President’s Report challenges ideas about the U of S and Saskatchewan.  BRIAN KACHUR done over the past year. This stand the U of S and, to some report is a fresh, fun new way to extent, the province. Too many do that.” institutional annual reports Annual Financial Report In addition to addressing are vanilla in their approach perceptions about the U of S and and heavy on information that the province like “It’s so cold” a broader audience does not The University of Saskatchewan released its vice-president of finance and resources, explained and “Nothing exciting happens”, appreciate. We wanted our 2012-13 annual financial report Nov. 4, which the restricted funds include money used for the report also contains simpli- readers to see and understand showed total revenue for the fiscal year of $935.4 research, endowments, student financial aid and fied facts and figures about things about the U of S differ- million and total expenses of $834.3 million. capital projects. the university including a ently. If they had a chuckle or The financial report contains the universi- The university’s operating fund also includes breakdown of revenue sources a smile along the way, then we ty’s consolidated financial statements for 2012-13 restricted revenue targeted to areas like clinical and details about the makeup of think that will help them under- as well as a discussion of various aspects of its services and clinical practice in the College of the student body. stand what we are like as an operation over the year. It was tabled in the Medicine, northern medical services and subsid- “Challenge Perceptions institution.” Saskatchewan legislature on Oct. 30. iary companies of the university like the Canadian really targets people who don’t Muzychka said his office has The university ended the 2012-13 fiscal year Light Source and the Prairie Swine Centre, know a lot about the U of S,” received hundreds of emails in with a net increase of $101.1 million in its fund according to the memo. said Busch-Vishniac. “However, response to the report, most of balances, but that money is largely restricted The vice-presidents also noted the univer- it’s also an important report for them positive but some negative. or earmarked for specific purposes and is not sity received a clean audit report for 2012-13 with people who live in Saskatoon “Many readers have noted and available for day-to-day operations. A memo no recommendations for improvement, which and Saskatchewan, and even praised the creative and edgy to campus Nov. 4 from Brett Fairbairn, provost “further underscores that we are fiscally well-man- our own faculty, staff and style of the report. Some people and vice-president academic, and Greg Fowler, aged and our financial statements are sound.”  students. Sometimes we need don’t like it and that’s under- to be reminded of the things standable given that it was a that make us different, and the somewhat risky and innovative The 2012-13 annual financial report is available at usask.ca/reporting things that make us great. It is approach.” important to remember that A print version of Challenge we are already succeeding in so Perceptions is available from the many ways and to celebrate what marketing and communications we’re doing well.” office. The online version can be from the archives The 2013 president’s report viewed at usask.ca/presidentsre- is the first of its kind at the port  Lest we forget A chance to study at Oxford  MEGHAN SIRED A unique partnership with “This will be a life changing one of the world’s most pres- opportunity for the students tigious academic institutions selected,” she said. “It is a very has opened the door to a new rare opportunity that we jumped study abroad option for a select on as soon as we learned about few University of Saskatchewan it—Oxford doesn’t look for new students. partnerships every day. The U of S is the first and “The fact that a college at only Canadian institution to Oxford University was willing offer a full year of academic to build its portfolio of visiting study to its students at Oxford students to include us as a  PATRICK HAYES, U OF S ARCHIVES U of S Archives, A-3535. University’s St Anne’s College, new partner—and their only explained Gingi Sheppard, Canadian partner—is almost Reproduced here is an image from , April 1915, which pictures the men of the University manager of the International unheard of. It is extremely flat- Company of the 28th Battalion. Made up of students, staff and faculty at the University of Saskatch- Student and Study Abroad tering and exciting.” ewan, they all enlisted on Oct. 26, 1914, marching in ranks to the recruiting office. There was a rush to Centre (ISSAC) at the U of S. With only 30 visiting join because it was generally believed that the war would be over by Christmas. The opportunity includes living students out of a total student The western front would grind to a halt in the next few months. Thousand would die for little or in residence at a college that body of 425 undergraduate no gain in the following four years. Here is a list of the soldiers and their fate: A. Gruchy (Died); C. Day Sheppard said prides itself on students at St Anne’s, U of S (Wounded); H. Barr (Invalided); C. Scott; L. Brehaut; H. Berry; W. Garrod; H. Olding (Wounded); J. being progressive, informal and Allen; W. Burd (Wounded); W.E. Lloyd (Wounded); A.S. Lloyd (Died of Wounds); J.E. Reaney; B. Smith academically ambitious. See St Anne’s, Page 8 (Wounded); H. Spackman; R.J. Bateman (Killed In Action). 4 November 8, 2013  Initiatives funded

A total of $70,000 has been awarded to U of S faculty and students who are finding innovative ways of expanding community-engaged research, teaching and learning. The funding, announced Oct. 23, was awarded in five categories of initiatives taking place across the province. According to Heather Magotiaux, vice-president of advancement and community engage- ment, the funds “support innovative activities that offer the potential to change and improve lives through community-university part- nerships—an important objective for this university.” Below are the recipients and their projects.

Community Engaged Scholarship Research Seed Funding ($6,000 each) Christy Morrissey, Connecting migratory birds with the community Lalita Bharadwaj, Our nation, our water Scott Butcher, High-intensity functional interval training in older adults Janet McCabe, Exploring the effect of peer mentoring for children and youth with disabilities Megan O’Connell, Development and evaluation of a telehealth facili- tated support group for caregivers of individuals diagnosed with atypical dementias

Support for Community Engaged Experiential Learning ($3,000 each) Ken Coates, Policy issues in a northern community – community-engaged learning in La Ronge MJ Barrett, Transdisciplinary advancement of the partnership with Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve Hope Bilinski, Engaging rural communities in advancing interprofessional education of health science students SCIENCECARTOONSPLUS.COM Bill Waiser and Jim Miller, Okanese experiential research/learning VIEWPOINT K-12 School Outreach Initiatives Michelle Delorme, PLSNP K-12 school outreach initiatives project ($3,500) Lana Elias, PotashCorp Kamskénow science and mathematics outreach program ($1,500) Jordan Woodsworth, Develop and teach a new clinical program to senior A case study of veterinary students within the Veterinary Medical Centre (VMC) ($3,000)

Engagement Communications ($6,000) Maureen Reed, Design and deliver a video production to illustrates SENS’s a great university experiential and community-engaged teaching and research What makes a great univer- His many articles and books a reception by the host Depart- Engaged Scholar Mobilization Graduate Student sity? First and foremost, a great cut across discipline lines. In ment held at the Faculty Club Catalyst Award ($3,000 each) university needs a faculty who fact, he co-authored with W. G. and featuring the “Bluegrass are at the forefront of their Runciman the definitive article Sound of Devil’s Dream.” In Lorna Butler and Maxine Watt, Linking learners with leaders for life professions, who are capable of on the logical anatomy of Rous- sum, Professor Sen was well where they live (L4) detecting new developments seau’s general will (Mind, 1965). feted, and just as Professor Sandra Bassendowski and Shauna Davies, iNurse, iTeach: using mobile within their areas of research, I had been assigned the Spafford had predicted, he was applications in client education and who can then bring the new task by President J.W. Begg to a most gracious and convivial Rachel Engler-Stringer and Scott Mantyka, Community food assess- knowledge to their students. In contact personally, if possible, guest. In his letter to me after ments 1979, the University of Saskatch- the nominees for the honorary his visit, he thanked us for our Robin Hansen and Penelope Sanz, Human rights impact assessments of ewan provided a case study in degrees. In lieu of a plane ticket “superb hospitality” and partic- mining investments: questions of methodology in Indigenous community how a great university should to London, President Begg ularly for the “Faculty Club card participation perform. suggested that a letter might with that magic number.” The Learned Societiessuffice. As luck would have it, Why was the nomination of met in the Spring Professor Duff Spafford, (now of Professor Sen inspired? Since of 1979 at the University of professor emeritus of political our honorary degree in 1979, Saskatchewan. To celebrate the studies) who himself was well his first and always so listed, seventieth anniversary of the acquainted with choice theory, Professor Sen has received 47 ON CAMPUS NEWS university a special convocation was on sabbatical in Great honorary degrees from around On Campus News is published 18 times per year by University of Saskatchewan was held during the meeting Britain. I gave Professor Spafford the world. His degrees are Marketing and Communications. It is distributed to all U of S faculty, staff, graduate and four honorary degrees were a phone call, and he graciously from Bologna, Louvain, Athens, students and members of governing bodies, as well as to others in the university awarded to outstanding scholars accepted the task of contacting Calcutta, Queen’s, Zurich, community, related organizations, some Saskatchewan government officials and in the fields of ancient history, Professor Sen and of personally Edinburgh, Oxford, Stockholm, news media. literature, the arts, and the social delivering the letter. Columbia, McGill, Delhi, Hong Subscriptions are available for $22 per year. Story and photo ideas are welcome. Advertising rates are available online or on request. sciences. Professor A. K. Sen, Professor Spafford wasKong, Dhaka, and many others. a Fellow of Nuffield College, successful. He reported back The following are only a few On Campus News aims to provide a forum for the sharing of timely news, information and opinions about events and issues of interest to the U of S community. Oxford, was nominated for his that he had had a most convivial of the awards he has received The views and opinions expressed by writers of letters to achievements in economics time with Professor Sen and since 1979: the highest honour the editor and viewpoints do not necessarily reflect those of and in the general area of the predicted that the visit would awarded by the President of the U of S or On Campus News. social sciences. This was an be a great success. In due time, India, the Legion of Honour, Editor: Colleen MacPherson inspired nomination. Professor Professor Sen did receive his the Eisenhower Medal, and the Writers: Kris Foster, Michael Robin Sen, who was in his mid-for- honorary degree, as presented Nobel Prize in Economics. Designers: Brian Kachur, Pierre Wilkinson ties, had written two ground- by Professor Jack Stabler, Head The University of Editorial Advisory Board: Patrick Hayes, Sharon Scott, David York, John Rigby, Sandra Ribeiro, Fiona Haynes, Steve Jimbo breaking books in choice theory of the Department of Econo- Saskachewan acted just like by 1979: Choice of Techniques mics and Political Science. a great university should in (1960) and Collective Choice and Professor Sen gave his address honoring Professor Sen. We did ISSN: 1195-7654 PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40065156 Social Welfare (1970). He had in Convocation Hall on “Schol- well.  Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: also written a work that had an arship in the Modern World: UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN J.M. Porter MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS enormous impact on our under- Fact, Fiction, and Descrip- 501–121 RESEARCH DRIVE SASKATOON, SK S7N 1K2 standing of the third world, tion.” He also attended several Professor emeritus Email: [email protected] On Economic Inequality (1973). lunches and dinners, including Department of Political Studies ON CAMPUS NEWS  November 8, 2013 5 Former Huskies shine again Basketball players do well on 3 x 3 world tour

 KRIS FOSTER

Being able to play ball at a high level with my best friends and getting to travel around the world and represent Canada and Saskatoon is pretty special.

Trevor Nerdahl

They excelled on the basketball loss coming in the finals at the court as Huskies and now, four hands of a team from New York, former players are making their and taking home a $5,000 prize. mark in the world of three-on- That earned them a place in the three ball. world championship Oct. 4-5 Troy Gottselig, Michael in Istanbul, Turkey, where they Lieffers, Michael Linklater and finished sixth overall. Trevor Nerdahl, all members “We’ve all played together of the Huskies basketball team for so long that we fit together that won the 2010 CIS champi- well and have good chemistry,” onship, teamed up this summer Nerdahl said, adding that the to compete in the FIBA 3x3 style of play required of the World Tour. FIBA 3x3 game matches their Trevor Nerdahl, former Huskie basketball player.  KRIS FOSTER “We played a tournament style well. “It is a half-court in Edmonton and qualified to game that’s 10 minutes long and Tokyo, Prague, Lausanne and Three on three, Nerdahl of ball every weekend for awhile play in Puerto Rico this past it is super fast. That suited us Rio de Janeiro as well as two continued, is a style of basket- now” said Nerdahl, adding that August,” explained Nerdahl, really well.” wild-card teams. ball that FIBA—the Inter- a chance to play in Turkey with who is now the transfer credit At the world champion- In preparation, Nerdahl national Basketball Federa- friends is more than he could and articulation co-ordinator in ships, Team Saskatoon faced and his teammates played tion—has started aggressively have imagined. the College of Arts and Science. competition from 11 other three or four times a week and promoting worldwide in the “It all happened so fast In Puerto Rico, Team Saskatoon teams—the top two teams really worked on conditioning. hope of having it added to the that I still can’t really believe placed second, winning five from regional qualifying tour- “We are doing lots of running Olympics. it. After the Huskies, I thought of its six games with the only naments held in Puerto Rico, and sprints. The games are fast The tournament format most of my competitive basket- and are all played over a few was introduced later in Canada ball days were over. Being able hours, so conditioning is really than in other countries Team to play ball at a high level with important. The one game we lost Saskatoon faced in Turkey. my best friends and getting NEW TO US (in Puerto Rico) was because we “Some European teams we’ve to travel around the world weren’t in good enough shape seen look really tough, but and represent Canada and (by the end of the tournament).” they’ve been playing this style Saskatoon is pretty special.”  Jeff Lane

Jeff Lane joined the U of S in July 2013 as an assistant professor in the Department of Biology, specializing in how mammals, specifically squirrels and prairie dogs, respond to climate change. “The questions I’m interested in are long term like, how are wild popula- tions responding to climate change? Is there any evidence of evolutionary responses in the populations?” Lane grew up in Calgary and developed a love of the outdoors in the Rocky Mountains. He completed his bachelor’s degree in ecology and zoology at the University of Calgary, then went to the University of Regina for his master’s degree in biology. He did his doctorate at the University of Alberta as well as three postdoctoral stints outside of Canada. “I’m a western Canadian boy born and bred,” he said. “I’m a field ecologist, and the U of S has a strong ecology program – a diverse and very active program, which was exciting for me.” Lane’s studies red squirrels in the Yukon that survive the long winters by gathering great caches of food and Columbian ground squirrels in the Rockies that survive winter by hibernating. He is also about to begin a project studying prairie dogs in Grasslands National Park. Biology, at least the introductory class that Lane teaches, attracts three groups of students, he said: pre-professionals, aspiring biologists, and those for whom it’s a required subject or a personal interest. “You want to get them interested and excited about biology,” he said. “That’s something that should translate across those three groups. If you can engage them and get them excited about what they’re learning, they’re going to perform better and hopefully carry that with them.” 

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13-305-009 – Advanced Education - Support Friday, October 25, November 8, 2013 | U of S – On Campus News BW (5.833” x 6.45”) 6 November 8, 2013  The class of 2013 MFA in writing grads first at U of S  DEE HOBSBAWN-SMITH

The autumn convocation this what I wanted to do and helped year marked the graduation me get there.” of the first students from the Hawboldt is at work on a University of Saskatchewan’s new novel. fledgling Master of Fine Arts Lorelie Gerwing Sarauer, (MFA) in writing program. a writer and artist living in “I’m incredibly proud of our Saskatoon, is attracted to inaugural graduating students narrative, which she expresses in the MFA in writing,” says through drawings and paintings the program’s director, Jeanette as well as writing. She previously Lynes. “They’ve lived through the earned an MFA in Visual Arts bumps of a new program estab- from Concordia University. Her lishing itself; I think of them as U of S thesis is a novel titled The the Trailblazing Four. They’ve Van Der Weerds, a tale told from set the tone for this fledgling the points of view of 30-year-old program – it’s energized, engaged Katie and her parents Harold Leanne Bellamy, Jeanette Lynes (MFA in writing program co-ordinator), Adam  SUBMITTED and diverse.” and Donna. Estrangement, Hawboldt and Andréa Ledding celebrate at fall convocation Oct. 26. The four grads are indeed a addiction, death and the custody diverse lot. Cape Bretoner Adam of a four-year-old niece and Hawboldt is a working jour- granddaughter are part of this The fourth graduate, Now that she’s completed nalist who moved to Saskatoon story. Her mentor was Regina In the course Leanne Bellamy, is currently her degree, Bellamy plans to to earn his MFA. novelist and short story writer enrolled in education classes at carry on writing poetry and “I was told to get a creative Sandra Birdsell. of this program, the U of S, and teaches English a novel but admits “I think of writing degree – and to work Sarauer plans to spend her the biggest thing I 110 at Horizon College and myself as a beginning writer.” on my writing – by the editorial time doing more visual art asso- Seminary in Saskatoon. The MFA program is one of team at the House of Anansi ciated with narrative. “It’s a relief learned was to “I had two related reasons Canada’s newest creative writing when they rejected my work,” to be done, but I feel some disap- apply pressure to for earning my MFA in programs, and was shepherded he says. While thinking about pointment too,” she says. “There’s writing,” Bellamy explains. “To into being in 2011 by, among his thesis, Hawboldt watched a so much more to learn.” my work, to turn understand literary criticism, others, Professor Emeritus Norwegian documentary about Andréa Ledding of coal into a you should write literature. And Robert Calder. love addiction, and was struck Saskatoon came into the MFA number two, I always wanted to “We were adamant by the illness’s perfect narrative program to further her poetry diamond. write.” about consulting the writing arc. The result was Solju (Korean writing. For her poetry/prose Adam Hawboldt Bellamy originally thought community about what the for rice wine), Hawboldt’s novel, collection titled Flett, a complex her thesis would be a fantasy degree should look like,” Calder set in , Korea, where he has interweaving in English, Norse novel; instead, she wrote a says. “The consensus was that we spent time. and Beothuk, the language of the efficiently but productivelycollection of poems titled Every- should create a degree program “In the course of this now-extinct Aboriginal people together across that distance.” thing is an Argument, examining that was ‘uniquely Saskatch- program, the biggest thing I of Newfoundland, her mentor Ledding, who was short- community, spirit, nature and ewan.’” Part of that uniqueness learned was to apply pressure was Eastend poet and fiction listed for the Lieutenant Gover- poetics through the lens of her was incorporating a mentorship to my work, to turn coal into writer Seán Virgo. Virgo’s “wise nor’s 2013 Emerging Artist deeply held Christian beliefs and component to solidify the bonds a diamond,” he says. “Every- and benevolent support, mostly Award, is also a playwright. Her under the mentorship of Saska- between the university and the thing has to mean something virtual as we were in different first play, Dominion, opened toon-based poet Barbara Klar. province’s community of writers. (in the novel) and move parts of the province, was abso- ’s 2012 Weesageechak “I love and like Barbara,” “One thing was certain,” something forward.” lutely treasured and invaluable,” Festival, and was the first work she says. “She’s nice. Grumpy. says Calder, himself a Governor Saskatoon writer David Ledding says. “What a wonderful staged at the new Aki Studio But so am I. And she was good at General’s Award-winning writer. Carpenter mentored Hawboldt in person to have at your back! He Theatre, a core component of that pointing out what was working, “It should be an MFA, not an his novel writing. “(He) is great,” and I were both busy and our time city’s Native Earth Performing which gave me confidence, and MA; that is, it should focus Hawboldt says. “He understood was at a premium, and we worked Arts organization. what wasn’t and why.” entirely on creative writing skills with no requirement to take liter- ature courses. As well, we wanted students to have the opportunity to specialize in non-fiction as well as the usual poetry, fiction, and drama.” According to the Peter Stoicheff, dean of the College of Arts and Science, current successes can also be measured by the quality of the inaugural applicants, as well as by the quality of the director, awards granted to students from outside the typical recognition field, and the international presence in the third cohort (students from England, Finland and Australia as well as Canada). The yardstick for the future is considerably longer, Stoicheff says: “The writing community seeing [the MFA program] as a good and successful thing and wanting to be a part of it. Our writers going on to write and gather attention for their work. That will be success.” dee Hobsbawn-Smith is a second-year student in the MFA in writing program. ON CAMPUS NEWS  November 8, 2013 7 Of dogs and men Team explores novel prostate cancer imaging

 MICHAEL ROBIN

A team of U of S researchers is developing a new window into There’s still stuff we need to work out a deadly disease that could ulti- to go from looking at a prostate out of a mately help not only men, but also man’s best friend. body to looking at it in a live animal or “We are looking at prostate person, but that’s where we’re headed. cancer in dogs as a model for human disease,” said Murray Dr. James Montgomery Pettitt, a researcher with the Department of Animal and Poultry Science in the College work it all out yourself. While at it in a live animal or person, of Agriculture and Bioresources. the CLS is extremely supportive but that’s where we’re headed.” “Dogs are the only other large in getting you on the beamline The ultimate goal, Pettitt mammals that have a significant and providing the basic set up said, is creating a detailed 3D incidence rate of spontaneous for the type of imaging you want image of a patient’s prostate right prostate cancer.” to do, these experiments by their on a clinician’s computer screen, The U of S Prostate Research nature are breaking new ground. an image that could be manipu- Team is working at the Canadian That means you have to tailor lated on screen and peeled away Light Source (CLS) to make the the setup precisely to get your layer by layer to examine the process of diagnosing prostate image.” gland in detail. cancer more accurate and less This means a lot of trial and The team has made invasive. The nine-membererror – from figuring out how to important first steps, thanks to team draws expertise from the set up a prostate in a jar to image their unique collaboration and Colleges of Medicine, Veteri- it to manufacturing a cradle close access to the CLS. Funding nary Medicine and Agriculture to hold a dog in the beam for a support from Canada’s Motor- and Bioresources, as well as the non-invasive scan. Pettitt said cycle Ride for Dad, the Saskatch- Saskatchewan Cancer Centre the learning curve has been steep ewan Health Research Foun- and the Saskatoon Health but a technique called phase dation, and the Sylvia Fedoruk Region. contrast CT imaging provided Canadian Centre for Nuclear Physicians have several tools the image quality they wanted. Innovation plus three U of S at their disposal for diagnosing “It was Christmas that day, colleges has also been essential. prostate cancer, including let me tell you,” Pettitt said. While much of the attention blood tests and imaging tech- Snead agreed. has focused on prostate cancer nologies, but to get a definitive “I think we’ve all been blown in humans, the research will also Dr. Liz Sneed of the U of S Prostate Research Team.  WCVM diagnosis, doctors must collect away at what we’re getting from benefit dogs. Snead explained a biopsy. The team hopes to the phase contrast imaging,” that dogs cannot tell their change this by coming up with she said. “When we first saw the owners early if they’re feeling usually has one option: palliative “I don’t know if we’ve even a way to produce images of the image, our eyes just went really bad “down there.” Conse- care. An imaging tool could give scratched the surface of what is prostate with enough detail to wide. We were all like, ‘wow!’ – it quently, by the time the cancer vets a chance to catch it in time potentially possible with this either diagnose cancer directly, was really impressive.” is diagnosed, the veterinarian to treat it. type of imaging,” Snead said.  or at least pinpoint the areas of The phase contrast images interest for later biopsy. Since show so much detail the team it had never been done before, compares it to viewing tissue on the team found their ingenuity a microscope slide. pushed to new limits. “You can see individual reach out & learn “You don’t just go to the glands and the ducts where the Centre for Continuing & Distance Education synchrotron and do research,” glands feed into the urethra,” University of Saskatchewan Language Centre said Dr. Liz Snead, a small animal said Dr. James Montgomery, a internal medicine specialist at the medical imaging specialist with Western College of Veterinary the WCVM. Medicine (WCVM). “I honestly “There’s still stuff we need to feel like McGyver every time work out to go from looking at a Smaller classes, a smaller campus and better access we go there because you have to prostate out of a body to looking to my instructors help me to succeed in my academic studies. I like the fact that I don’t have to go to a big city to get my degree.

Rayne Favel, Student College of Arts and Science University of Saskatchewan, Prince Albert Campus Inter-FaIth remembrance Day ceremony Date. November 11, 2013 Time. 1:15 pm For more than 30 years, we’ve collaborated with colleges to bring U of S off-campus Place. Memorial Gates and distance programs to the people of Saskatchewan and beyond. All are welcome to attend, and a reception will Partner with us. We provide be held at Louis’ Loft following the event. • development and delivery of distance learning and off-campus degree and certificate programs, Sponsored by University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union • professional development and training to campus staff, groups and units, and Multi-faith Chaplains Association • academic preparation, English language and intercultural education to international students.

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From Page 3 and an agreement was signed in has an extensive offering of May 2013. Aboriginal programming and students are sure to have a “When the group of services, a unique feature of memorable, challenging and recruiters I was with visited St interest to Oxford. immensely rewarding experi- Anne’s, a college representative St Anne’s College was ence, said Sheppard. In order to said to us that they would like to founded in 1879. It admits apply, students must be full-time have a Canadian partner; they candidates, regardless of back- and in their second year with no weren’t actively searching for ground, who display the highest less than an 80 per cent average. one, but were open to the idea,” academic potential and imagi- The deadline to apply is Nov. 20. said Seneker. “I took that as an nation along with enthusiasm for This agreement came about invitation and followed up—we their subject. The college is just when Dan Seneker, manager of were the only university on the north of Oxford city centre— undergraduate recruitment in tour to do so.” five minutes by bicycle—and Student and Enrolment Services According to Sheppard, close to the University Parks Division, participated in a top-tier universities like Oxford and Science Areas. Canadian recruitment tour in are inundated with partnership “This is an exciting chance Dan Seneker, manager of undergrad recruitment  MEGHAN SIRED England in October 2011. requests, so unless an insti- for St Anne’s to welcome students There, Seneker met Anne tution has something unique from a diverse range of interna- Oxford is famous, will be the University of Saskatchewan will Mullen, a senior tutor at St to offer, they typically are not tionally renowned universities,” centrepiece of study for students accept students from St Anne’s Anne’s College, who told him interested. The University of said Alexander Binns, director from U of S during their time as College for one year as well.  about the college’s interest in Saskatchewan’s selling point, of studies for visiting students visiting students.” having a Canadian partner. said Sheppard, was the fact that at St Anne’s College. “The Binns said the hope is Meghan Sired is a communica- ISSAC pursued the opportunity it is a Canadian institution and tutorial experience, for which that one day, this will be a true tions co-ordinator in Student and exchange agreement and the Enrolment Services Division. live & learn Centre for Continuing & Distance Education The University Library has announced a number of Tools for Success! new staff: Advance your career. Our professional development programs provide the right tools to help you excel • Jaclyn McLean has joined the library as in your work. Check with your supervisor to see if collection services you can use your professional development funds. librarian. She is former Communication deputy director of the John M. Cuelenaere • Crucial Conversations McLean Polischuk (Two day workshop)—Dec. 11 & 13, 2013 Public Library in Prince Albert. • Technical Writing—Nov. 22, 2013 • Carisa Polischuk, Leadership formerly with Advance- • Leading Innovation—Nov. 18, 2013 ment and Community • Building an Eff ective Team—Nov. 21, 2013 Engagement, has been named assessment Industry Accreditation analyst. • Professional Selling—Dec. 4, 6, 13, 2013 • Shawn Ghaznavi, whose • Maintenance Management previous experience is in Ghaznavi Francis Professional Training (PEMAC)—Call for details the health-care industry • Certifi ed Crop Advisor (online)—Start anytime in Ontario and the , has taken on the position of financial • Compliance Management analyst. (Confi ned Field Trial Certifi cation)—Dates TBA • David Francis has been appointed as instructional designer. His work experience includes being responsible for SIAST’s Call 306.966.5539 to learn more or register at online course development and delivery. ccde.usask.ca The Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic has announced two appointments: • Dr. Colum Smith as acting dean, College of Medicine, until June 2014. • Dr. Garnet Packota to the position of acting Ambitious associate dean, College of Dentistry, until June 30, 2014. Packota

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Walter Palmer (W.P.) Thomp- mously named W.P. Thompson to archives that I had visited,” Thompson is credited with at the Grade 12 grades,” Rempel son’s contributions to science, Building, more commonly, the he said. “In my experience, there establishing outreach with said. the University of Saskatchewan Biology Building, on campus. is no archive which approaches school principals to help rural A passionate advocate and the people of Canada might “He helped organize the first rust the archives of the University of students transition to university, for science and education have slipped from the public eye conference in Winnipeg, which Saskatchewan.” Rempel said, and was a champion throughout his 35-year career, if not for the efforts of Richard eventually evolved into the rust Rempel also conducted for women’s education, both for Thompson retired in 1959 Rempel, for whom the story of lab, which I actually spent some extensive interviews with his graduate students and his after serving 10 years as U of S the university’s third president is time in as a graduate student in Thompson’s surviving family, staff. He also had little use for president. Rempel’s biography, a personal affair. the 1960s.” uncovering along the way a the IQ tests in vogue at the time. Research and Reform: W.P. “My father (Jake) was Rempel’s research on trove of correspondence that “Dr. Thompson said, really, Thompson at the University of a pupil and then a younger Thompson had him making proved invaluable both as source in terms of predictive accuracy, Saskatchewan, is available at the colleague and he believed Dr. extensive use of the U of S material and an addition to the you’re much better off looking University Bookstore.  Thompson was the finest man he Archives, for which he had high archives. He explained that while ever knew,” Rempel said. “And praise. Thompson had many job offers of all the qualities of greatness, “Earlier in my career as a from universities like Stanford Financial Services Division FSD Thompson’s total integrity is historian, I must have visited 25 in the U.S., he remained devoted what stood out.” archives. I supervised 35 PhDs, to the U of S and chose to retire Rempel, professor emeritus which meant I often sent them in Saskatchewan. of history at McMaster Univer- sity, has just published Research FSD has developed an automated email procedure to notify employees when a purchase order (PO) has been created. Following submission of and Reform: W.P. Thompson a purchase requisition to Purchasing Services, a PO will be completed. at the University of Saskatch- Once the PO is completed, those submitting purchase requisitions will ewan, a biography that chron- receive an email with the PO number, supplier name, their purchase icles Thompson’s career at the requisition number for reference and reminder information about receiving goods and services procedures. U of S starting with his arrival on campus in 1913 as head of the Department of Biology. A What do Payroll and Payment Services do? Harvard-educated plant geneti- Payroll - Every month, these employees ensure that about 7,700 cist, the native Ontarian helped salaried and 1,500 hourly-paid employees are paid correctly and on time. This work includes withholding payments for income taxes, establish the Winnipeg Rust Canada Pension Plan, employment insurance and employee-elected Laboratory to help combat an charitable donations. (Access to charitable giving through payroll epidemic of the fungal disease deduction is available in PAWS in the Employee area under My that by 1917 had cut yield of and can choose to have your donations automatically reported to your the Prairie wheat crop by one third. It was not uncommon major unions on campus. As well, they handle payroll requirements for for farmers during harvest to be coated in red rust spores the University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union. They also make fee- for-service and honorarium payments, and pay individuals providing from head to toe in particularly contracted services. infested fields. “W.P. embraced the Payment Services - Most of the work of Payment Services involves challenge and did something suppliers, Payment Services processes invoices linked to purchase about it,” explained John King, professor emeritus of biology reimbursements; other areas include expenses for hospitality, course and conference registrations, and memberships. The department in his remarks at the book’s Author Richard Rempel, right, autographs a copy MICHAEL ROBIN  manages the university PCard program and employee professional launch Oct. 22 at the epony- of his book for professor emeritus John King. development funds. As well, Payment Services is currently leading the implementation of a new online travel and expense management process across campus.

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U of S, she admits it has been a “We can see the movement challenge. of leukocytes, first moving out “In the first year of my PhD of the blood vessel and then study, I took a course called towards the inflamed tissue. Graduate Pharmacology. At that By analyzing the path and the time my English wasn’t good movement pattern of leukocytes, enough, and this course requires we can infer the mechanisms two midterm exams, one final behind this phenomenon,” she exam, one oral exam and one explained. presentation. It was a huge Understanding how leuko- challenge for me as I needed to cytes work could inform future  KRIS FOSTER do lots of lab work at the same studies aimed at finding ways time,” she said. to allow the cells to do their job She persevered, supported of protecting the body while by colleagues who had taken suppressing their destructive Seed barn the course before. She was also behavior. helped along by her professors, While Su is focused on who encouraged her to refine completing her doctorate, her her presentation “sentence by love of research is shaping her sentence,” and devoted their own plans for the future, perhaps as a relocated SUBMITTED  time to give students a full after- research scientist at a university, noon’s tutorial. for a commercial company or It took several days of prepara- used for cold storage of grounds College and Campus Drives, “After more than six months in a government lab. Like most tion but less than 60 minutes of maintenance equipment. near the Saskatoon Field House. of hard work, I got a high score people, she hopes to contribute actual moving time to relocate The move itself was done at a Archival photographs show it in this course,” Su said. “I really something meaningful, but is the university’s historic seed cost of $35,000. Cruikshank said sitting on a concrete foundation appreciated the help from the modest in her expectations. barn from south of College Drive the budget for the entire project there but at some point, it was professors in our department. “I hoped to have impact on to its new location on East Road. is $180,000, which includes the moved onto a wood foundation They are always kind and helpful my world but not the world. I just The 80-plus ton building move and clean up of the former on the southwest side of the if I ask them for help, even if they hope that someday my family was moved in the wee hours barn site. The condition of the intersection. are not my supervisor.” and the people I care about can of the morning of Oct. 30 to barn, which was built in 1915, will The barn was built by the Now in the research phase be proud of my work, and if I make room for future develop- now be assessed and plans are in federal government and became of her PhD, Su is looking specif- can earn the respect from others ment in the northeast precinct the works to restore its exterior. the property of the university in ically at the process by which who work in the same field, that of College Quarter. Ron Cruik- And it turns out the seed the 1950s, he said. white blood cells are alerted would be the best.”  shank, director of planning and barn is one of the most well The seed barn in its new development with the Facilities travelled buildings on campus. location on East Road. Inset Management Division, said the Cruikshank said research on the photo is of the middle-of-the- MORE STORIES AT: structure will eventually rest structure revealed it was orig- night move as the building is on a grade-level foundation inally located on the southeast turned off Preston Ave. and onto news.usask.ca in its new location and will be side of the intersection of East Road.  CAMP S INCIDENTS Report all information about incidents to Protective Services at 306-966-5555 Oct. 21-27 University Club Criminal Offenses: • iPhone stolen from insecure locker in men’s change room at the PAC. • Samsung phone stolen from insecure locker in men’s change room at the PAC. • 3 separate incidents involving the theft of backpacks from insecure lockers FREE FALL OFFER in men’s change room at the PAC. • 3 bicycles were stolen during the week (near the PAC). One bicycle was Join Now... 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Oct. 28-Nov. 4 Criminal Offenses: • Theft of artwork in the Art Department. • Theft of a backpack from an insecure locker in men’s change room at the PAC. • 2 separate incidents regarding the theft of backpacks in the Murray Library. Both backpacks were left unattended. • Theft of a backpack in Health Sciences. (Note: Under certain circumstances, Club membership dues may be eligible for deduction from your professional expense account. Please check Financial Services website for details.) Summary Office Tickets: • Traffic Offences: 14 • Alcohol-related Offences: 2 12 November 8, 2013 

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

 KRIS FOSTER Window on the world

Donald Bear truly has a window on the world.

The clerical assistant in the Advancement and Community Engagement (ACE) outreach office at Station 20 West sees the morning sun illuminate the domes of St. George’s Cathedral, watches children gather to catch the school bus in the morning and get dropped back off in the afternoon, and is witness to how the university builds connections, all from his second-storey window.

“I see (university) students head out onto the street to do community surveys,” said Bear, “and I see people carrying their groceries home from the Good Food Junction on the main floor. It’s rewarding to see the impacts collaboration is having on individual people.”

Station 20 West is a community enterprise centre set up to serve the residents of Saskatoon’s inner city neighbourhoods with food and food security programming, health services, and business and housing development. The university office focuses on community-based research, teaching and learning.

Bear said the window brings sounds as well as sights into this office. He hears the CHEP van delivering fresh food for the good food box program, a reminder “of my not-so-long-ago days as a student” volunteering with Station 20 West CHEP to deliver food boxes. “It’s a positive memory for me of the little ways one small act can have towards making a difference.”

He also hears neighbourhood kids playing. “It’s nice to open the window and hear that. I don’t think many people on campus get to hear children playing.”