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Vol. 2 7, No. 2 pr. concordia. ca/ctr September 26, 2002

Board seeks to defuse tension A cooling-offperiod on Israel-Palestine issues at Concordia

B Y B ARBARA B LACK with Israeli-Palestinian issues are police have offered their full co­ disallowed, as are exhibits or operation, and infractions of the he Board of Governors of installations, posters and infor­ criminal code will be pursued. the university deliberated mation tables with pamphlets or The Board has also granted Tin closed session for two other material on the subject. Rector Frederick Lowy the power and a half hours on Sept. 18, and This does not stop people from of immediate action to deal with a emerged with more details of the discussing the Middle East or any student who breaks university measures being taken to deal with other topic among themselves. rules. This may take the form of a the fallout from the recent distur­ Nor does it stop discussion in written reprimand, imposed con­ bance on the downtown campus. ditions, payment for loss of prop­ On Sept. 9, a protest against Sanctions depend on the erty, a fine of up to $500, suspen­ scheduled speaker Benjamin · severity of the offense sion from the university, and Netanyahu turned violent, result­ expulsion. The student has the ing in a confrontation in the mez­ class when such discussion bears right to request a review of the zanine and lobby of the Hall upon the subject matter of the ruling by a panel of the Board of Building, broken windows and course. Governors. furniture, pepper spray (but not Information tables and display One Board resolution describes tear gas, as previously reported) booths of any kind are disallowed unacceptable behaviour as dis­ and five arrests so far. It also in the lobby and mezzanine of the crimination, harassment, threats resulted in national publicity, Hall Building, and the university or violence, offenses against prop­ much of it negative. will ind other appropriate space. erty, and other acts contrary to a The Board adopted three reso­ The rules are being enforced by safe and civil environment at the lutions, which you can read in full the Dean of Students Office, in co­ university. ART FOR PASSERSBY: Melanie Authier, president of the Fine Arts Student on the university's Web site, operation with University Non-students who breach uni­ Alliance (FASA), puts a bright new face on the construction fence of www.concordia.ca. For a period of Security. Sanctions will depend versity rules will be excluded from Concordia's new downtown building on Mackay St. near Ste. Catherine. Authier no more than three months, pub­ on the severity of the offense and and fellow art student Jessie Brugger are running the Concordia Fence Project, and invite students and faculty members to participate. Contact them via the lic meetings or speeches dealing the status of the rule-breaker. The Please see Cooling-off, page 2 Fine Arts web site, http://fasa.concordia.ca/ FenceProject.htm . Political science department gains a new vitality • in this Bids fair to become one of Canada's top three, says Chair Reeta Tremblay issue BY F RANK KUIN planning yet another expansion out, because now, following an project: the creation of a PhD pro­ aggressive hiring spree, it is felt 3 Staying home: oncordia's Department of gram. that the department can chal­ Gary John studies CPolitical Science is buzzing It's a remarkable turnaround lenge for a spot in the top three with activity these days. Its young for a department that a mere few political science schools in work absenteeism and dynamic faculty members are years ago experienced a brush Canada. "We really have a good chance;• publishing extensively, enrolment with oblivion. In a wave of retire­ Cold fusion: is way up, and the growth spurt of ments, Political Science lost Tremblay said. "We have no prob­ 6 recent years has been noted by about half its faculty in the sec­ lem in terms of credibility. The Bart Simon goes the political science community ond half of the 1990s, and accord­ whole Canadian political science underground across Canada. ing to Tremblay, was toying with community knows that we've A sense of fresh enthusiasm is the idea of closing down altogeth­ been hiring the best. We're cer­ palpable in the offices on upper er. tainly on the map in Canada." Part-timers: Bishop St. The lively chair of the "Our department was one of What's the secret behind the Professor Reeta Tremblay 8 Conference at department, Dr. Reeta Tremblay, the worst hit;' Tremblay said of political science department's Concordia is shepherding her flock of new the retirements, which by 1998 resurrection? According to tunity to bring in new faculty recruits, who are actively drawing saw its faculty slashed from 21 Tremblay, the "complete renewal" members with new research pro­ in new students and organizing full-time members ·to 11. "So the of the department was born out files;• she said. ''.And it really start­ CONCORDIA SHUFFLE TOMORROW! Friday, Sept. 27, conferences. choice was to close down the of the bloodletting, because it ed us thinking about how to cre­ She's also publishing articles department or rebuild it." forced the remaining faculty to ate an ideal department." starting 1 pm at Guy/de Maisonneuve, about her own specialization, Of course, it was decided to start with a clean slate. followed by the Rector's Reception at Loyola (Guadagni Lounge). JOIN US! South Asia and Kashmir, and rebuild - fortunately, as it turns "It gave us an excellent oppor- See Political Science, page 9 Novelist-poet Steven Heighton takes up residence Gifted author will guide creative writing students in the everyday struggle to write something good

BY B RONW YN (HESTE R At age 18, he set off westward who's engaged in the everyday from Toronto, where he spent struggle to write something e the photographer part of his childhood (the other good;' she says. as getting Steven part was in Red Lake, northern "He's going to see the best in W:eighton to pose, Con­ Ontario, where his father taught students' work and help them cordia's new writer in residence English and his mother "wrote bring it out. " was asking him for advice on letters to appease the relatives That likely won't be by e-mail or translating Le Bateau ivre, the regarding her marriage to a non­ fax, however, as Heighton has title of a poem by Rimbaud. Greek"}, to travel in Australia and access to neither in the home Heighton's first novel, The Europe, busking along the way. office where he spends six hours a Shadow Boxer, was considered a Later, he travelled in Asia, includ­ day working on his next novel, Best Book of 2000 by the Globe ing Japan. which he described as "an Arctic and Mail, while his collection of These days, travel involves a story set mostly in Mexico;• and a poetry, The Ecstasy of Skeptics, weekly trek by train from collection of poems, some his, was nominated for the Governor­ Kingston. This is Heighton's first some translations of favourite General's Award in 1995. Beyond ~ time as writer in residence at a poems fom the Greek, French, being a gifted novelist, short­ ! university, and he plans to give and Latin. story writer and poet, Heighton is readings, conduct master classes His decision to limit the tech­ als_o a utranslator. , and work with students' manu­ nology in his life isn't a matter of He can read French, but not scripts. principle, even though some of speak it. After completing his He already has a lot of experi­ his friends call him a Luddite. "It's Writing is a matter of keeping distractions to a minimum: Steven Heighton graduate and undergraduate stud­ ence in the exchange of criticism just a question of keeping the dis­ ies at Queen's University, Height­ with fellow writers, such as tractions to a minimum." on learned to read French litera­ The settings for The Shadow Soo to pursue a life of comfort Concordia English professor and "I try to keep life as simple as ture with a dictionary. Now he's Boxer include Sault Ste. Marie, with a new husband. It's not a city novelist Kate Stems, who was on possible and as physical as possi­ thrilled to be in Montreal at least Lake Superior, Toronto - and Heighton knows except through the writer-in-residence selection ble. Food, sex. music and dancing one day a week, coaching stu­ Cairo. The protagonist, Sevigne books, but it works. committee. are the visceral antidotes to the dents in Concordia's creative Torrins, spends time in Cairo vis­ Cairo notwithstanding. Height­ "Steven is a tremendously gen­ chaotic state of my brain," he said, writing program. iting his mother, who has left The on, now 40, has travelled widely. erous and sympathetic person laughing.

Enrolment continues to grow Research awards across the university Concordia becoming a local university ofchoice

he latest enrolment figures show a continued rise. Interim he Canada Foundation for do integrated studies of adap­ toring. in collaboration with TRegistrar Linda Healey reports that Concordia now has 25,803 TInnovation announced in tive emotional processes in Pratt & Whitney and CMC. undergraduate students, compared with 24,115 at this time last year. July $925,252 in funding for children. This includes all Faculties, as well as independent, visiting and certifi­ research infrastructure. The Arts and Science research chairs cate students. Figures for graduate students are slower to come in, but money, part of the CFl's New Aerospace grants to engineers Psychologist Andreas Arvan­ CTR will report them when they are available. Opportunities program, will go Mechanical and Industrial itogiannis, who is a member of Concordia is the fastest-growing university in Quebec. Last year's to five assistant professors Engineering Department has the 1Centre for Studies- ."{n enrolment was the highest in t_he university's.hist.gr;yi,/lS,237. fullwtime recently arrived at Concordia. also been awarded five projects Behavioural Neurobiology, was arl6r1 Concordia University offer programs that are relevant and desirable." real-time simulation of the five projects is $1,938,250. Research Chairs: Frederick Engineering undergraduate enrolment has risen by 110 per cent mechanical systems- aero­ V.S. Hoa was awarded Bird, who is directing a major since 1997, taking Concordia from sixth to third place among Quebec space and automotive applica­ $141,667 for a research project study in business ethics universities. tions. Ibrahim Hassan is study­ on the design and manufacture around the world; Ann English, The rise in enrolment is fortunately being matched by an unprece­ ing novel cooling schemes for of low-cost composites, in col­ whose studies in inorganic dented renewal of the faculty cohort. In Arts and Science alone, 178 the next generation of aircraft laboration with Bombardier chemistry on oxidative stress professors - about one-third of the total - have retired in the past six engines and developing micro­ and Bell Helicopter, for three in cells may yield clues to the years. Across the university, 206 full-time professors have been hired in scale power devices. Paula years. aging process in humans; and the past five years. Wood-Adams works on the Jaroslav Svoboda, an expert Gilles Peslherbe, the founding physics of advanced materials, in the integration of real-time director of Concordia's Centre featured in CTR last year. flight simulation and compu­ for Research in Molecular Cooling-off period at Concordia tational fluid dynamics, was Modelling. Science grants awarded $125,000 for three Continued from page 1 The Department of Exercise years, plus $37,500 in the Junior Researcher Award in JMSB university property and may face other penalties, and organizations Science's Robert Boushel and fourth year, for a project in col­ The John Molson School of which do so will indefinitely lose the right to reserve university facili­ Gerald Zavorsky are working on laboration with CAE, and Business has established a ties. the regulation of blood flow $58,333 per year for three years Distinguished Junior Faculty In a message to the university community, the Rector explains the and oxygen transport during for a project in collaboration Research Award, to be present­ need for this cooling-off period, and specifically encourages activities exercise, and vascular remodel­ withCMC. ed annually at spring convoca­ likely to bring the two opposing sides together, or at least shed light on ing with training. (See page 6.) Ion Stiharu was awarded tion. the subject rather than heat. Paul Hastings, a psychologist $212,500 per year for three The award carries a one-year These could include constructive, low-key meetings of both sides, associated with the Centre for years, plus $63,750 in the research grant. Candidates articles and letters to the student newspapers and the Thursday Report, Research in Human Develop­ fourth year, for a project on the must be full-time tenure-track and classroom discussions conducted under the supervision of an ment, has a CFI grant to study development and integration assistant or associate profes­ instructor. For more on this issue, see Senate Notes (page 4), Opinion the physiology and cognition of microsystems (MEMS) for sors within five years of obtain­ (page 5), and CSU (page 10}. of affective development, and jet engine control and moni- ing their PhDs. 2 Con cordia 's Thurs day Report I Sep t em ber 26 , 20 02 Concordia faculty, staffand alumni/te pop up Delving into absence from work in the media more often than you might think! Gary Johns named Concordia Research Chair in Management

BY JULIE PARKINS flaffieS inlbe ·

ailing in sick for work is something many of us · news Chave done at one time or another. Perhaps we weren't actu­ A 13-part documentary series called Into the Fire, about the making of ally sick, but just felt that we the Cirque de Soleil show Varekai, has started on Global TV, on Sundays needed a "mental health" day. at 7 p.m. Prominent in the series is Michael Montanaro, who took leave Absence from work is so preva­ from his post as chair of the Department of Contemporary Dance to lent, and so intriguing, that choreograph the internationally successful production. You've only missed the first episode. Management Professor Gary Johns will never run out of mate­ Patricia Posius (Administrator, Vice-Rector, Services) was quoted in an rial. A 28-year veteran of the sub­ article in the National Post on Sept. 16 about efforts being made on cam­ puses across Canada to improve service. A presentation will be given ject, Johns has just been named Oct. 1 to Concordia employees in the D.B. Clarke Theatre by SST to the Concordia University Communications, a Chicago theatre company specializing in employee Research Chair in Management. training programs. (We said in our last issue that it would be a video "When I started studying presentation, but in fact, it will be live. The editor apologizes.) absenteeism, it was a pretty bor­ Several profiles were published this spring of Ned Goodman, Concordia ing subject and not many people adjunct professor, alumnus and benefactor via the Goodman Institute of looked at it," Johns said in an Investment Management in the John Molson School of Business. interview. "It was thought that it Montreal Business Magazine described his approach to running was simply a product of job dis­ Goodman Private Wealth Management. Diane Francis, writing in the Financial Post, described his rise to success, his development of Dundee satisfaction, which is true, but Bankcorp, and his investment philosophy. *I didn't believe in the tech that's only one of a dozen reasons. bubble; I didn't participate,* he said. The Internet is changing the world, It was also associated with demo­ but where's the benefit for investors? *Highways are good, too, but graphics, but it wasn't clear then nobody makes money with them either." and it isn't clear now why that is." Gary Johns, a leading researcher on absenteeism and stress In the workplace. Christine Webb, director of the Institute for Co-operative Education, was Johns' work in absenteeism and a guest on Tommy Schnurmacher's show on CJAD a while back, talking other areas of industrial organi­ At the reception, he mentioned soft skills in business today - about how co-op education creates excellent job opportunities and zational psychology has appeared one ofhis former students,Jia Lin how people react in groups, happy employers. frequently in nearly every top Xie, who worked for a week in a understanding what motivates Harold Chorney (Political Science) was interviewed on Global TV in the journal in the field. He has earned Chinese r~taurant to get data for people, and decision-making. wake of conflict-of-interest attacks last spring on members of Gerald the status of fellow in several pro­ her thesis. Another study by "These soft skills are some of Tremblay's municipal government. Chorney also wrote an essay for The fessional societies, and his advice Johns and Xie showed, perhaps the hardest things to train into Gazette in June recommending that instead of paying down the $547.4- billion national debt, the Canadian government should invest this year's is sought by the editors of aca­ for the first time, the radical dif­ people. The easy thing is that peo­ surplus of $7 to 10 billion in the health care system and the military, and demic journals. One colleague ferences between Chinese and ple like it and it's interesting. but spend comparable amounts next year on urban infrastructure and edu­ quoted by Dean Jerry Tomberlin Western attitudes to absenteeism the down side is that it can be cation. Given a growth rate of 2 to 3 per cent in the economy, the debt­ at the reception held in Johns' and stress in the workplace. She is amazingly hard to get people to to-GDP ration would fall in any case. honour last Thursday went even now a professor at the University change their own behaviom" The work of Brian Smith, a researcher in the Psychology Department, furthet of Toronto. Johns cites the recent scandal attracted widespread media attention last spring. Smith's research, Dt Susan Jackson, Director of at Enron as an example. which was published in the journal Alcohol, indicates that the rats who Doctoral Programs at Rutgers Early work has Influenced many "It's not that these people did­ are quickest to learn their way through a maze also become the most University, said, "Dr. Johns is Johns takes great pleasure in n't understand Accounting 101 skilled at drinking alcohol without binging. He observed that the smart rats in his study learned to pace themselves when offered more-alcohol, widely recognized throughout the seeing the effects that his work and Finance 101, they understood and did other activities ·rather than taking another drink. The research international scholarly communi­ has had throughout the years. them all too well, well enough to could have implications for addiction treatment. ty as the world's leading expert on "One of the coolest things in all manipulate the books, anyway. Lawrence Kryzanowski (Finance) was quoted in a story in the National the phenomenon of absence from of this has been how I've been "What they didn't understand Post when it was announced that Henri-Paul Rousseau would succeed work. Indeed, there is really is no able to have some impact on is Organizational Behaviour 101, Jean-Claude Scraire as chairman and CEO of the Caisse de depl>t et one else who is a close second in other people's work. I was really and how to set standards and placement de Quebec. Scraire had recommended that the Caisse be the field." lucky that a lot of work that I did detect this sort of behaviout This more transparent. Kryzanowski agreed, saying that the Caisse's accounts As Research Chair in early on was assigned in PhD is the greatest challenge. All this should be subject to scrutiny by the Quebec auditor-general, and its pri­ Management, Dt Johns looks for­ courses all around North America other material in business ority should be to earn from its investments. ward to bringing in influential and a bunch of graduate students schools is irrelevant unless it gets When Basem Boshra, The Gazette's new TV columnist, got fed up with speakers, planning conferences cottoned on to it." translated through behaviour seeing the same commercials on TV over and over again, he turned to and involving more and more Johns sees the need for even perceptions and attitudes of peo­ Harold Simpkins (Marketing), who assured him he wasn't alone. Maybe the answer, Simpkins said, is to produce more commercials at lower cost, PhD students in his work. more emphasis on the so-called ple in work." and retire them before they wear out our patience. Christopher Gray (Philosophy) wrote an essay in The Gazette on May 25 CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION about Quebec's proposal to sanction same-sex marriage. It would further weaken the already weak commitment of Quebecers to the marriage bond, and needs more discussion. *Most citizens are profoundly tolerant Alumni Recognition Awards Banquet and open to the rights and dignity of gay and lesbian·persons; yet many feel a deep and inarticulate unease about these proposals." Thursday, October 3 Reeta Tremblay (Political Science) was a guest on the Tommy Delta Centre-Ville, 777 University St. Schnunnacher Show on CJAD, talking about the protracted conflict 6 p.m. cocktails, 7 p.m. dinner between India and Pakistan over the Indian state of Kashmir. Ian Irvine (Economics) doesn't think much of the proposals to alleviate To order tickets ($75 per person}, please contact Lauren Gould at 848-7377 or poverty proposed by both the Parti Quebecois and the Action [email protected]. Democratique. In an essay in The Gazette, he called both plans holdovers from 1970s that would simply make it easier to to get welfare. He looked RECIPIENTS: to Alberta, which made it harder to get welfare and redirected potential Humberto Santos Award of Merit: George F. Lengvari, QC, L Ba 63 recipients into education. Benoit Pelland Distinguished Service Award: Al Mah, BA 79, Elizabeth Ostro, S BA 44 Sherry Simon (£tudes fran~aises), interviewed by Jeff Heinrich for La Honorary Life Membership: Ron E. Lawless Presse, noted that increasing numbers of Montrealers, including students in her translation courses, don't have a single mother tongue. While this Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching: Dr. Reeta C. Tremblay, Dr. J. Pierre Brunet, L BCom 70 degree of bilingualism (and often trilinguaiism) is positive, it presents Outstanding Student Award: Cristelle Basmaji, Vassilios Bill Mandelos, BCom 02 some challenges to the translator. Simon said that while being open to others languages, the translator must lay claim to a primary language John Molson School of Business MBA Alumni of the Year Award: Robert Briscoe, S BSc 67, S MBA 73 and have a strong command of it. 3 September 26 , 200 2 I Concord i a's Thur sday ' Report letters to the editor .te notes A regular meeting ofUniversity Senate, ········Sena············---·------······--- held September 13, 2002 Netanyahu was not blocked at Berkeley Privatized tuition: Provost Jack yet it only affects a fraction of said that student groups had Lightstone announced that the our 29,000 students, he said. recently invited "two speakers _ The following is an e-mail sent SepL 19 to the city desk of The government will not claw back The university's core activity is guaranteed to irritate many Gazette, and is reprinted here with pennission: the fees of international stu­ education, but it had been sub­ people;' i.e. Netanyahu and r,-fie Gazette's Sept. 10 story on the Netanyahu visit in Canada dents in Arts and Science and verted. pro-Palestinian academic .1. contains an error that should be corrected. the John Molson School of "It's legitimate to ask if [for­ Norman Finkelstein, whose Near the bottom of the story it states that students at the Business, as was feared in the mer Israeli prime minister speech was cancelled because University of California, Berkeley, tried to block Netanyahu's spring. Adam Slater (CSU) Benjamin Netanyahu] should of the moratorium. visit to the campus two years ago. asked if this would affect have been asked to speak in the "Why do students feel the Netanyah did not visit UC Berkeley and the campus was not accessibility. Dean Martin Hall Building," he continued. need to operate from such a involved in this incident in any way. He was scheduled to speak Singer explained that the inter­ "We can be accused of an error negative perspective?" Jacobs at an event off campus and that event was sponsored by a Marin national students pay the same in judgment [and] I'm not asked. "Why aren't they look­ County company that runs a private lecture series. The event fees whether they are priva­ going to shy away from ques­ ing for solutions, for ways to was at the Berkeley Community Center, an off-campus site run tized or not; the difference is tions, but the burden of live together creatively?" by the city ofBerkeley. that the university keeps the responsibility lies with the pro­ In answer to a question from The incidents and actions related to this event involved the total and does not claim them testers:• Lee about the breakdown of city of Berkeley and its police department, not the campus for the operating grant. Lowy said that the adminis­ security at the Sept. 9 event, Dr. administration nor campus police department. Again, there was Academic amnesty: Ralph tration will use the university's Lowy said, "It is true that there no UC Berkeley involvement in any way. Lee (CSU) proposed a motion Code of Rights and Respon­ was an assessment that recom­ Please correct this point. Your story continues to be picked up to provide amnesty for stu­ sibilities to address breaches of mended Loyola [as an alternate by other news organizations in the United States and posted on dents who want to observe a conduct, and groups including site for the speech]. their web sites and placed in newspapers. Thanks for your help. student strike Oct. 31 and Nov. Solidarity for Palestinian Human "Hillel and the organizers 1 to protest a Free Trade Area Rights and Hillel have agreed said it would be more difficult Janet Gilmore, Media Relations, of the Americas meeting. to low-key meetings. He added for downtown students to University ofCalifornia, Berkeley Harvey Shulman (Arts and that a forum on free speech attend. {They viewed] the Hall Science) observed that such a was held three days after the auilding as the centre of ... Board of G0,vernors urged to reconsider blanket policy unfairly includes disturbance which went quite Middle East activity at Con­ students who might not agree well, although some of the stu­ cordia: Ther~for~, I asked " s you may ~e ;J~aie, the ~oar~ of ~ove~ors ~as recently with these views. Lightstone dents in the audience were riot . Security_what it would take to Il..iinposed a cooling-off penod; dunng which time no pub­ suggested that instead, he responsive. make it secure. [I was told that] lic meetings, speeches, exhibits, installations, information could issue a letter to the Moreover. Lowy said, a short­ more security people would tables or po.sters dealing with Israeli-Palestinian issues will be deans, to be circulated to facul­ term moratorium had been have to be hired, and we would permitted. Furthermore, university clubs, regardless of nature, ty, recommending flexibility imposed on events likely to need .the co-operation of will no longer be allowed to have information tables in the lobby for student strikers wherever inflame opmion on the MidEast police. We did not believe that or mezzanine of the Hall Building. possible. Lee accordingly with­ controversy. Several speakers Concordia students would be The imposition of such restrictions clearly curtails the rights drew his motion, and was from the CSU and the Faculties capable of that [violence], and to freedom of expression and assembly of Concordia's students thanked for his flexibility by expressed concern about the we may have been wrong." and faculty. The rights to freedom of expression and assembly Singer: moratorium, but the Rector The Rector added that the are fundamental rights enshrined in a number of international Sept. 9 disturbance: Rector said it will not stifle opinion on request for the use of the audi­ human rights treaties and are considered to be integral to the Frederick Lowy said that the the topic altogether, only pro­ torium came from a student enjoyment of many other rights. violence of Sept. 9 had "led to vide a badly needed cooling-off group, Hillel, "and we have International law (such as the International Covenant on further polarization, disrup­ period. never refused a stud!!nt. group. Civil and Political Rights, articles 19 and 21) does recognize that tion, anxiety, inconvenience, Slater (CSU) said that he ''I've been accused of being in certain exceptional circumstances authorities may be justi­ destruction of property and the '!was shocked that Hillel would far too flexible;' he said. ''I've fied in imposing restrictions on the rights to free expression cancellation of a speaker . . . . It invite such a provocative been told no other university and free .assembly. Any such restrictions must, however, be lim­ has certainly contributed to speaker in my name." He added would have tolerated [such] ited. our notoriety, and our image as that the university "didn't have adversarial acts. I'm guilty of This includes the necessity of demonstrating that the restric­ a hotbed of strife. It will have the courage to stand up to the that. I still believe in free tions are necessary in order to achieve certain objectives, such an impact on fundraising. Asper Foundation, ... the same speech, especially at a universi­ as respect for the rights or reputation of others, or to protect Some students have with­ guy who has fired journalists ty. The only way to open your public order (the two permissible objectives which are most rel­ drawn. Some new faculty have for their views" (Izzie Asper. mind is to listen, whether.you evant to the current circumstances). said they regret coming here." owner of CanWest Global agree or not:' The United Nations Human Rights Committee, the expert University life has been dom­ newspapers and TV). body charged with monitoring state compliance with the inated by the MidEast issue, Ellen Jacobs (Arts and Science) Next meeting: October 4 Covenant, has stressed that limitations of this sort, which apply to a number of the Covenant's rights, "may be applied only for those purposes for which they were prescribed and must be directly related and proportionate to the specific need on which CONCORDIA'S they are predicated." Appointments in Human Resources THURSDAY REPORT Amnesty International is concerned that the widesweeping nature of the ban, which does not seek to distinguish in any way, asper Bloom, Q.C., has been appointed Director, Academic and Concordli's Thursday Report for example, between peaceful events and events which may CEmployee Relations, in the Department of Human Resources and ~ published 181imts during the academic year on a bi-~ basis by the Internal Relations tum violent, is such that these limits cannot be considered to Employee Relations. Me Bloom practised law for more than 30 years and Communications DeparttMnt of Conconlia be proportionate to the need to uphold the rights or reputation with Ogilvy Renault, where he was senior partner for labour and UnifflSity, im dt MaisonnMt 8Nd. W., of others or to protect public order: employment law. He also served as Batonnier of Montreal and presi­ Montrtal,Qu~ H3G 1M8 (5 14) 848-4882 Amnesty International has written to Rector Lowy urging the dent of the Quebec branch of the Canadian Bar Association. E-maH: bar1>lal<@akor.conconlia.ca Fax: (514) 848-2814 Kimiko Kudo has been appointed Senior Benefits Advisor: She is a Board of Governors urgently to reconsider its decision. ~~in11,e~ The free and peaceful exchange of views and opinions is a Concordia graduate with 10 years' experience in group benefits in the n,.,notbe~widmpmnis.lion. vital human right. Any limits imposed by the Board should be private sector: ISSN 1185-3689 PublicationsMan Agrttment No.:40042804 Ernest Haigh those strictly necessary to avoid harm to others or to maintain has been appointed Manager, Pension Services. He has Editor public order: A widesweeping ban of the nature that has been been at Concordia for eight years. Barbara Bladt imposed goes too far: It needs to be revised and tailored so as to Harold Murphy is the new Manager, Compensation and Benefits. He l.,ut.C.,Edltor DtbbieHum properly target only those activities which can be justified by joined Concordia's Department of Human Resources and Employee (ornptandPnNluctlon the Board as likely to lead to harm or disorder: Relations last fall. Elana Trager • • • Marlreting Communications Rob Maguire, Amnesty International Concordia Nicole Desrochers has completed her contract as Senior Benefits Advisor, and has left Concordia. Executive Director Gilles Bourgeois ~ Concordia Letters to the Editor continued on next page thanks her for her services to the department and to the university. ~ UNIVERSITY 4 CoMordia•s Thursda y Report I September 26 , 2002 Extreme behaviour hurts the cause Those opposed to Netanyahu forced to' defend hini: history professor letters to the editor Letters to the Editor continued from page 4

OPINION BY DR. FRANK CHALK, view of the top issue of the they called into question their Intimidation in the name of human rights DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY moment. own commitment to democracy In passing legislation permit­ and human rights. By their blan­ irst, there was the violent suppression of freedom of expres­ he approach taken at ting student associations to gain ket assertions that all Zionists are Fsion by pro-Palestinian rioters. Then the ridiculous and Concordia University by accreditation, Quebec clearly racists and colonialists, they pathetic resolution passed by the CSU [to pay the legal costs of T some students and student defined a student association as exhibited their own narrow those arrested]. Whispers, growing ever louder, that Palestinian groups to prevent Benjamin "an organization whose main pur­ nationalism and its potential rioters were not instrumental in their cause but actually Netanyahu from speaking on poses are to represent students or prejudices. And by their refusal to destructive in their aims. Sept. 9 smacked of vigilante student associations, and to pro­ engage in peaceful protest within The shameful events of Sept 9 should serve as a wake-up call action and mob justice. mote their interests, particularly the boundaries of Canadian law to all Concordia students and administrators. Those who are The protesters forced me and respecting teaching, educational they added to the growing num­ concerned about the peace and tranquility on campus being other advocates of negotiating methods, student services, and ber of persons who question the shattered must make their voices heard. with the Palestinians a two-state the administration of the educa­ existence of a pragmatic group There can be no place. for groups who incite violence and solution and withdrawal of settle­ tional institution:• with whom advocates of peace spread hatred on campus under the guise of fighting for human ments from the West Bank and Are Concordia students aware can co-operate. rights. This is not an issue of religious affiliation or political Gaza to defend the right to speak that under the bylaws of the I think that the Jewish students beliefs. We are dealing with a group of individuals who have at Concordia of a politician whose Concordia Student Union any stu­ who agreed to sponsor Benjamin waged war on the very social values which we cherish as a dem­ policies we abhor. dent at Concordia interested in Netanyahu's speech at Concordia ocratic and free society. It is good to see students at determining if spending by the on Sept. 9 made a mistake. They The physical damage done to Concordia University property Concordia involved in contempo­ Student Union respects these pri­ obviously did not choose the time by the riot has already been repaired. The damage done to rary political issues. A number of orities has the right during nor­ of Netanyahu's visit, but were Concordia's image and reputation as an open and free educa­ the students who protested mal office hours to visit the office offered a speaker. Their timing tional institution, however, will take much time to heal. Netanyahu's talk respected the of the Student Union and request was terrible. Their sense of wh,at The most pathetic part of this ordeal is that those involved principles of peaceful protest and the details regarding "receipts was appropriate at the beginning with the group actually claimed the appalling train wreck of a were seen restraining their col­ and disbursements of the Student of a new school year, when protest as a victory. Those who claim violence, intolerance, and leagues from physical assaults. Union and the matters to which Concordia needed a period of intimidation as a victory should have no place on campus and But Concordia students should each of them relates, as well as serious reflection on how to build should certainly not benefit from my student union fees. be aware that a few among them details of its financial transac­ bridges towards constructive The protesters may ·liave stopped. Benjamin· Netanyahu from take only one or two courses a tions and its credits and liabili­ efforts for peaceful debate on the speaking, but they failed to extinguish the spirit of freedom and year so they can participate in ties"? Middle East, was flawed. the eternal flame of the Torch of Liberty, which we will contin­ student organizations, . earn With a former Student Union In my view, we don't need any ue to hold high. salaries for their campus activi­ vice-president accused of having more "victories" for either side Steven Rosenshein, economics student ties, a'nd spread their views. For defrauded the CSU of $196,000, like Sept 9's. We need to work out these · individuals, disruption of and the decision of the CSU to pay guidelines for dialogue assuring Violence could have been foreseen education at Concordia and the the legal expenses of students and civility and mutual respect, and, commercial fabric of the city of non-students arrested during the once that is accomplished, lift the would like to join my colleagues and express my anger about Montreal is just fine. They don't riotous behaviour of September 9, ban on speakers discussing the Ithe way the university administration handled the situation believe in formal education - it this may be an important period Middle East surrounding B. Netanyahu's visit on Monday and about the lack just reinforces the global capital­ for careful scrutiny of the books. A positive next step would be a of an apology afterwards. ist system. lecture-dialogue series co-spon­ At the end of last week (preceding the event), it was clear to These students reject dialogue Restoring orderly discourse sored by Jewish and Palestinian me, and to anybody I talked to, that the event would be accom­ on political issues and refuse to Where do we go from here? groups, a series featuring a broad panied by noisy rallies and probably violence. However, I trust­ tolerate views different from their What can we do at Concordia to range of Israeli and Palestinian ed that the university would be able to guarantee the security of own. They use open forums to restore the civility and orderly dis­ speakers examining the legiti­ the university community, as promised at the time. divert attention from the adver­ course which befits a university? mate aspirations of Palestinians After an; if it was clear to me t'hat violence was likely then it tised subject to their own shrill The intruders committed a to emulate the State of Israel in must have been clear to the administration - and the organiz­ agenda. Theirs is the path of dis­ serious strategic error. By their creating their own state and of ers of the_event - as well! ruptions, intimidation, polariza­ aggressive actions, they advanced Israelis wishing to ensure the As it turned out, the university was entirely unable to provide tion and violence. They trample Benjamin Netanyahu's campaign emergence of a Palestinian state security and safety. Besides everything that did happen, imagine on the Latin origin of the word to return to the leadership of that respects the right of Israel to what could have happened if the evacuation of the Hall Building "university," universitas, meaning Israel's Likud party and to occupy exist securely and to be a Jewish had resulted in a panic! the whole world, by seeking to the office of the prime minister. state. A series like that would In conclusion, an apology seems in order for a promise that shrink the focus of the life of the By their denial of the right of free show the true face of Concordia was not fulfilled. ~he event should not have happened, at least university to their own narrow speech at Concordia University, University. not at the busy downtown campus. Dr. H. Georg Schreckenbach, Department ofChemistry and Biochemistry MONTREAL INTER-UNIVERSITY SEM INAR HISTORYAND PH ILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Letters to the Editor continued on page 10 "The Universe We welcome your letters, opinions and comments at BC-121, 1463 has a History" Bishop St., by fax (848-2814), or by e-mail ([email protected]) by 9 a.m. on the Friday prior to publication. Hubert Reeves (Universite de Montreal) Monday, October 7 ALUMNI FORUM 4:15p.m. Hall Building, H-920 Moving Forward: The role ofour alumni in university issues Canadian-born Hubert Reeves is a specialist in nuclear Saturday, October 5, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. astrophysics at the Universite Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W. de Montreal, expert on the The Concordia University Alumni Association executive will host an origin of the light elements, open forum with Concordia Rector Frederick Lowy and other senior such as helium, deuterium university administrators. Alumni are invited to express their thoughts and lithium. He is a LOYOLA CAFETERIA REOPENS: Chartwells, the new food services provider, and ask questions concerning recent events at Concordia, as well as to opened renovated cafeteria facilities in the Campus Centre on the Loyola discuss what positive role alumni can take in university issues. well-known popularizer Campus on Sept. 16. Seen cutting the ribbon are Jack MacDonald, CEO of of science. Chartwells Canada; Patricia Posius, Administrator, Vice-Rector Affairs, and Director, Auxiliary Services; and Michael Di Grappa, Vice-Rector, Services. 5 S,pttmbtr 26 , 2002 I Concord ia's Thursday Report

~ I ', I J u I f l Major CFI grant goes to In the heyday of cold fusion study on exercise Bart Simon's underground adventure with clandestine scientists

BY JU LI E PARK IN S BY JAMES MAR TIN

rofessor Robert Boushel believes in the theory that human beings art Simon almost took Pwere born to exercise, and he and his colleague Gerald Zavorsky are one on the chin in the setting out to prove it with a major grant from the Canada Foundation Bname of ethnographic for Innovation. study. During lunch at an Italian "I think we have an opportunity to provide a mechanistic basis for science conference, someone why exercise is healthy and show how we adapt to physical activity;' helpfully mentioned that nearby said Boushel. "Emerging science now shows that a lot of chronic degen­ scientists were planning to erative diseases are linked to inflammatory immune responses. It's escort Simon outside - and almost the body's way of saying that if you are inactive and overweight feed him a knuckle sandwich for and not eating right, your immune system is likely to respond by dessert. Spontaneous peace attacking you. There is a healthy expression of genes in those who do talks ensued, and fisticuffs were regular physical activity:• narrowly prevented. The CFI grant awarded to the two professors in the Department of Welcome to the weird world of Exercise Science is for $379,335, matched by the Quebec government cold fusion. for a total value of $948,861. Dr. Simon's new book, Undead The grant will be used to purchase equipment for the new Science Science: Science Studies and the Complex to be opened at Loyola next year, and will be used to help the Afterlife ofCold Fusion (forthcom­ two researchers study the regulation of blood flow and oxygen trans­ ing in November from Rutgers Sociologist Bart Simon investigated scientists in an unwelcoming world. port during exercise, and vascular remodeling with training. University Press), expands his Boushel and Zavorsky will look at the regulation of blood flow and PhD dissertation about "one of fusion enthusiasts have one their story." oxygen transport from different angles. Boushel's work will focus more the most famous scientific con- thing in common: buoyed by a While completing PhD studies on diseased populations; in particular, vascular adaptations in diabet­ troversies of the last century." handful of successful copycat at the University of California, ics, and individuals withheart disease. "We have a major study with sci­ However, adds the assistant pro- experiments, they passionately San Diego, Simon fulfilled his entists from four countries, and it's a broad mechanistic study of vas­ fessor of sociology, "I think I've believe the claims of Pons and "Laboratory Life Studies" cular and metabolic responses in diabetes;• he said. "We will be look­ got a different kind of story to Fleischmann warrant further requirement by working as a ing at how blood vessels grow [and] how the inflammatory process in tell about it:• research. research assistant in a semi- diabetics affects their circulation." In 1989, Stanley Pons and "The story wouldn't be that clandestine cold fusion labora- Zavorsky, a former All-Canadian in track and field, will look at these Martin Fleischmann claimed exciting if it was just about these tory. systems from more of a global systemic view of the body. discovery of an amazing electro- two guys saying they're right Although the lab was an open "I work more from an athletic perspective;' he said. "It's really inter­ chemical process producing until the day they die;' Simon campus secret, its subject's rep­ esting to look at an elite athletic model, because they are the people more energy than it used - explained. "From a sociological utation nevertheless meant "no who are able to stress their lungs more than any other type of person:• what Simon sums up graduate student would "If we use these pieces of equipment to study not only the diseased as "nuclear.. fusion in Cold fusion is one of the most famous touch cold fusion with population but the athletic population, then we can gain a broader a test tube. a ten-foot pole, because understanding of how the cardiovascular system is regulated, and Within months, scientific controversies of the last it would ruin their hopefully optimize training programs or better medications or treat­ the mainstream sci- century. Things were just getting started. careers" leaving ments for these people:• entific community Simon ample opportu­ dismissed this potentially revo- point of view, it only becomes nity to gain firsthand experience Grant enables purchase of specialized equipment lutionary new energy source as interesting because there's a in cold fusion research. He was­ One of the major pieces of equipment that will be purchased with the utterly groundless. Cold fusion whole bunch of people who n't at the lab long enough to see grant is a Doppler ultrasound that will allow researchers to look at all but dropped off the scientific maintain a level of research in any results, but his tenure did blood flow all over the body. It will also allow them to quantify blood radar, lingering only as a cau- spite of mainstream rejection of gain him access into the guard­ flow during every heartbeat in both active muscle and inactive muscle. tionary tale told in ethics clas- what they do - and it takes a ed community. By the time he "[The Doppler] will help us to an understanding of how blood flow sics. social group to do that" completed Undead Science, he'd from the large arteries is distributed to the level of micro circulation," "It's like the Enron of science;• Undead Science examines how interviewed dozens of key play- Zavorsky said. said Simon of the mainstream this group sustains a research ers in the cold fusion under­ Boushel added, "This grant was absolutely vital because we don't take on cold fusion's brief hey- program despite being denied ground. have labs here. This will allow us to be unique in Canada in terms of day, "but with a happier ending, access to traditional modes of Which isn't to say his looking at systemic circulation and how that's regulated from the level because science only wasted a interaction. During the early inquiries were always welcome. of the heart down to the capillaries. I think the' equipment we got will summer before weeding these days of the underground, for Of particular contention was the set us up to do some quite unique work in Canada:• guys out." This so-called ending example, researchers traded book's title (which referred to Perhaps most importantly, the equipment purchased with this grant was, however, just the begin- results via the then-nascent cold fusion research's "state of will enable more researchers at Concordia to be trained at using this ning: the death of cold fusion Internet, in lieu of publishing being alive in a semi-legitimate equipment, which could have far-reaching effects later down the road. was when things started getting papers in traditional scientific underground"), often misinter­ "The CFI invests in us so that we can train other students, so they really interesting. journals. preted or mistranslated as "dead can become researchers in the future;• Zavorsky said. Of particular interest to science;• giving some researchers Secretive science Simon is how various resources, the incorrect impression Simon Simon's study moves past the such as money, equipment, was out "to do a hatchet job on usual headlines and into the labour, plus less tangible ele- their field:' closely-knit international under­ ments, such as paranoia and ''.As a sociologist, it doesn't ground of researchers continu­ professional legitimacy, help a matter whether I think cold ing to conduct cold fusion subterranean community exist fusion is real. What matters is experiments. in an unwelcoming world. whether they think there's some­ Some members are respected It's always challenging for an thing there. But they're human scientists whose taboo pursuits ethnographer to gain accept- beings, and they can get emo­ court ostracism; others are ance within such a community, tional about their subject. And, "entrepreneur inventors" with and the cold fusion under- as their work gets better and little to no scientific credentials. ground is no exception. At cold better within the community, Some experiments are conduct­ fusion conferences, unfamiliar the sense that they've been ?. lal ed late at night in borrowed lab­ faces are often pegged as under- wronged increases. ii oratories; others are literally - cover CIA operatives. Or, even "So sometimes, as with the ~ done in garages. worse, as reporters. Fortunately Italian scientists who wanted to Details may differ dramatical­ for Simon, the researchers "are beat me up, what matters is i:.r....llliilll~;...;.;..LJ I ly from case to case, but cold also guys who really want to tell what they think I think:' 6 The Department of Excercise Science's Gerald Zavorsky and Robert Boushel Concordia 's Thursday Rtport I S,pt,mbtr 26, 2002 Lost works by Anne Savage now belong t·o Concordia

B Y SU SAN FONT Artist Alfred Pinsky, who, with rounded shapes that flow into Sherman, founded what became each other in a rhythmic, dynam­ nne Savage was just 27 when the Faculty of Fine Arts and was ic composition. She was strongly Ashe became the art teacher at its first dean, was another former influenced by the Group of Seven, Baron Byng High School on St. student. now icons of Canadian national­ Urbain St., and right from the In Savage's own work (right), ism because of their distinctive outset, she wanted to help her movement is captured in the aesthetic, especially of landscape students to value art in their daily painting. life. The young teacher brightened She did it by inspiring them to up the drab library of what was sketch and paint freely, and by then a new building by painting a bringing art into the classroom. series of large murals, each She was daring and different, depicting an element of Canadian especially in 1922, and she history. Three of the murals went became one of Canada's most into storage when the school prominent female artists and a closed in 1980. (The former Baron legendary teacher. Byng now houses the offices of Sun Youth.) Students became art educators Sherman appealed to the When Professor Emerita Leah PSBGM Cultural Heritage Found­ Sherman looks at Savage's paint­ ation and asked that they be ings, recently displayed in the donated to Concordia. It took 20 Leonard and Bina Ellen Art years of negotiation, · but the Gallery, she's looking back in murals, including one particularly time. beautiful native scene in rich Sherman was one of those daz­ umber and sienna, are now part zled students who went on to of the Ellen Gallery's permanent make art education her career. Anne Savage at work (above). At right, Indian Fur Traders (c. 1930). collection.

New director of Hexagram welcomes more partners on board Notjor-profit institutes and industry join in the Concordia-UQAM artistic endeavour

BY FRANK KUIN University's Centre for said. "They create a deep under­ Interdisciplinary Research in standing of how the technology exagram, the brand new Music Media and Technology functions. Institute for Research (CIRMMT), which should "We need to be able to commu­ H and Creation in Media strengthen Hexagram's music nicate clearly to industry the Arts and Technologies created component. Other partners value of this knowledge, and how jointly by Concordia and the include Sun Life Financial and the Quebec economy will be able Universite du Quebec a Montreal, the Daniel Langlois Foundation to use that talent for art creation. has formally indicated it is in for Art, Science and Technology. Our job is to help industries make business by announcing its first In addition, new funding part­ those discover~es:• partnerships with industry play­ ners have been signed up, includ­ By providing an "integration ers in the world of digital media. ing Quebec's Fonds de la environment" for industry and At a flashy press conference in recherche sur la societe et la cul­ academics to build and exchange Montreal this week, Daniel ture (FQRSC), which is contribut­ "applied creative knowledge;• Lamarre, chairman of the board ing $1.3 million. Economic Hexagram is trying to "invent a of Hexagram, said the institute Development Canada, a federal kind of culture;• Bargar added. has signed new contracts with agency, will contribute $2.8 mil­ almost a dozen companies and lion, bringing the total amount New research centre non-profit organizations. These invested so far in Hexagram to Hexagram plans to undertake will jointly pursue or fund about $30 million. research projects in collaboration Hexagram's research projects_ in "Hexagram has stood up and is with industry on a basis of con­ creative media applications. beginning to learn how to walk;' ventional sponsored research as "Hexagram will achieve an said Robin Bargar, the institute's well as joint ventures. Part of the international reputation within a new president and general direc­ funding Hexagram has received matter of years;• Lamarre predict­ tor. His appointment, hailed as will be used to pay for a research ed, praising the institute's growth. lending an "international aura" to centre within Concordia's new Hexagram, which is autonomous Hexagram, was also formally building for engineering/comput­ from the founding universities, announced by Lamarre. er science and the visual arts. was created late last year. Bargar, an American composer Robin Bargar, new president of Hexagram In fact, Bargar sees added and producer specializing in potential in the combination of Partnerships in creation applied technology, joined Indeed, the institute plans to such creative experiments with the two Faculties under one roof. Among Hexagram's first part­ Hexagram this summer, moving become a conduit for creative digital technology. But while col­ Back in Illinois, he was involved ners include Quebec's Big Films to Montreal from Chicago. ideas in digital media, ranging laborations between universities in creating joint courses between Inc. and the Giant Screen "Hexagram is unlike any other from virtual 3-D characters to and industry in fields such as sci­ the Art Institute of Chicago and Consortium, who will join forces research institute in North fabrics with computerized sen­ ences and engineering are com­ DePaul University, a strong engi­ with Hexagram's researchers in America;• Bargar said. It will sors that can be applied in busi­ mon, ideas from the arts don't neering school. "I could see that improving technology for three­ strive to bring together artist-· ness tools. flow easily to the industrial world. emerging at Concordia;• he said. dimensional images on the giant researchers, academics and Hexagram's artist-researchers Unjustly so, according to 'Tm personally very interested in movie screen. industry. It should be "the miss­ - 60 professionals and 250 graduate Bargar: ''.Artists create many other that, and I think Hexagram may A partnership has also been ing link between the creative students, many of them Concor­ things when they also c_reate their help show the way:• established with McGill world and the industrial world:' dians - are actively engaged in art works with technology;• he 7 September 26 , 2002 I Concordia 's Thursday Report Part-time faculty across the c;:ontinent walk ~he walk . i Coalition ofContingent Academic Labour to hold a conference at Concordia from October 6 to 8

BY CAROL MCQUEEN whom part-time university teach­ "Conditions have been much, have a much greater percentage whether or not he'll get a course ing is their only source of income. much better since the collective of academic staff in Canada rep­ from one term to the next. ore than 200 part-time They earn approximately $6,000 agreement [negotiated by CUPFA resented by certified unions:• David Vivian, who has taught in faculty members from per course at Concordia, with no in 1997] has been in place," said Since almost all of the part­ the Theatre pepartment since Macross Quebec, Canada, pay between contracts. It creates June Riley, a part-time finance time faculty unions in the 1996, finds it difficult to meet the U.S. and Mexico will be on a vicious circle for many part­ professor for the past 14 years. Montreal area, including those at with students when he must campus the weekend of October timers. "It's been a transformation in the Concordia, are renegotiating their share an office with 18 other part­ 4-6 for the fifth conference of the "When you're trying to earn an way we've been treated at collective agreements this fall, time faculty members. He also Coalition of Contingent income, it's too difficult to do Concordia." Brenda Grant, president of worries about the low level of Academic Labour (COCAL). research," said Angela Ford­ Not only were pay rates CUCEPTFU, said that the confer­ part-time faculty representation According to 1998 figures from Rosenthal, who has taught cours­ increased, but part-time faculty ence is also a way to "raise our on university bodies when part­ Statistics Canada, contingent es in sociology since 1987. Not members now enjoy a seniority profile, let people know who we timers at Concordia number academic labour - part-time fac­ being paid during the summer system. Those with 90 credits are are." Thus, on the Friday after­ nearly 900 people. ulty members who do not hold also severely restricts her allowed to teach up to 18 credits a noon of the conference, a "mobi­ "We only have two representa­ tenured positions - constitute research opportunities, and with­ year, or six courses, for a total of lization walk" will take place tives in Senate, and no one there about 40 to 45 per cent of the out research publications, it's about $36,000. They also gained­ from Concordia to the Universite for us from the Faculty of total teaching staff of universities almost impossible to gain access some benefits and some integra­ de Quebec a Montreal. Engineering and Computer across Canada. to tenure-track positions. Often, tion into decision-making bodies What bothers the Music Science, or from the John Molson This is a chance to take stock of part-timers work at more than at the university. Department part-timer Louise School of Business;• he said. "On the gains made in recent years in one university or CEGEP to make This improvement in working Samson is that she has less time the Board of Governors, we have terms of increased salary and up the shortfall. conditions is one of the reasons to play the piano in public con­ one representative, and he is respect, and brainstorm on how the predominantly American certs because she is "just trying to there only as an observer:' to tackle remaining inequities, Improvement in recent years COCAL voted to have the confer­ survive" financially. If she were to June Riley, of the Finance including lack of job security. Conditions for part-time facul­ ence outside U.S. borders for the fall ill, she would only be covered Department, probably speaks for Maria Peluso, president of ty members were even worse only first time. to 80 per cent of her pay for the all part-time faculty members at CUPFA, the Concordia University a few years ago, but Quebec's "The American members of rest of her contract. "What do you Concordia when she says "there is Part-time Faculty Association, strong tradition of unionization COCAL have always looked to do after that?" she asked. always more work to do:• The describes the salary divide in has brought important gains for Canada as an example because Pierre Ouellet, vice-president of COCAL V conference, with its stark terms: "It's cost-efficient for part-timers across the province. we have much better labour laws;• CUPFA and part-timer in the thematic title It's time for a new universities to have part-time fac­ This includes Concordia, which said Vicky Smallman, co-organiz­ Political Science Department deal, is where they intend to start. ulty. We cost 30 cents per faculty has CUPFA and the Concordia er for the conference for the since 1992, knows he is one of the For more information about the dollar:• University Continuing Education ca·nadian Association of lucky ones in terms of seniority COCAL V conference and how to Such inequity is felt most Part-time Faculty Union University Teachers (CAUT). "It's vis-a-vis other part-time faculty, register for it, please see severely by those academics for (CUCEPTFU). easier for us to unionize, and we but he still has no idea as to http://www.cupfa.org/COCALV/.

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY PRESENTS THE HIV/AIDS LECTURE SERIES 2002-2 003 Jump into the pool, the water's fine "Crisis and Response in Academic Hearing Panels delayed for lack offaculty members African-American·Communities" t University Senate on Sept. 5:30 p.m., and on average, they hers and one student. They · Debra Fraser-Howze, National Black Leadership Commissions on AIDS A13, General Counsel Bram last about 60 to 90 minutes. Panel review only the written record lnur,sday, September 26, 6 p.m. Freedman tabled the Academic members are expected to read the when a student is unsatisfied Hall Building, H-110 Hearing Panel annual report and documentation sent to them with the result of his re-evalua­ Ms. Fraser-Howze is president of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (BCLA), made an appeal of his own for about one week before the hear­ tion. Re-evaluation appeals occur based in New York City. She was appointed by then U.S. president Bill Clinton in 1995, to his faculty members to join the pool. ing. This consists of the incident quite rarely, usually one per Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. The student pool is full, said report, the decision letter of the semester. They are usually held Freedman, but at last count, six dean or delegate, and any evi­ during the day. hearings are being delayed for dence the parties wish to pro­ Danielle Tessier, of the lack of faculty representatives on duce. University Secretariat, said, "The the tribunals. A non-voting chair presides larger the pool of available mem­ Montreal Matters The· hearings are into cases of over the hearing, and the secre­ bers, the fewer panels an individ­ academic misconduct and/or re­ tary of the panel writes up the ual will have to sit on. In any A month-long multi-media forum by CBC Radio 88.5, with Hour evaluation appeals. decision for the panel's approval. event, members of the tribunal magazine, Concordia University, CBC Television and CBC.CA. Panels for academic miscon­ On the day of the hearing, panel pool are under no obligation to sit Money and the Soul's Desires: A Meditation duct cases are convened when a members listen to both parties on a panel if it is inconvenient. Thursday, October 10, 7:30 p.m. student requests a full hearing. and then deliberate privately ''All faculty members who are J.A. DeSeve Cinema, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. The panels are made up of three regarding the charge and the willing to be ·part of the pool and Author Stephen Jenkinson explores the way we view faculty members and two stu­ sanction. participate in hearings will have money and relationships. dents. The re-evaluation panels are my everlasting gratitude;• she cbc.ca/montrealmatters Panels are usually held at q or composed of two faculty mem- added.

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BY JAY POU LTON also have zines [magazines], almost two hours looking at which vary widely in content and them:• ince 2001, Project Mobilivre style, and independent publica­ Pourtavaf said the group works Sand its dedicated group ofvol­ tions that are put out by small with community centres, a Forces Avenir finalist. A grant Despite the occasional techni­ unteers (pictured at right) have publishers." libraries, schools, and gives work­ from Forces Avenir would be wel­ cal problem, the response has travelled across the United States The books vary in content, but shops to give visitors hands-on come, because Mobilivre must been very positive. "Some cities and Canada in their vintage Silver are tied together by the idea of experience in creating book art rely on donations from private are better than others. It depends Airstream trailer, promoting and expression free from the con­ and zines. The project travels and public sponsors. on the promotions that we get, displaying the works of artists, straints of larger publishing com­ with a library of about 400 works, "Funding is always an issue;• because we set up with the com­ activists, and writers to a variety panies that would not usually changing each yeai: Pourtavaf said. "Basically, we have munity groups before going into of communities. print activist books and newslet­ They offer the communities no funding. A lot of the donations each city so people already know Project Mobilivre travels with a ters. they visit a diverse selection of come from people who visit the about us and where we will be." selection of books in three basic "The books we display are not works that they woul

BY DANA HEARNE ical: to control readers who stylistic difficulty as a negative your readers. Shakespeare) and others bad (like lacked full literacy, for example moral judgment on the author of Ferguson refers to Adorno's Derrida). You have to make your eware of 'good' English, women, the lower classes and the text in question:• scorn for what he called the ide­ case:• Renaissance scholar Mar­ immigrants, and to extend the Nussbaum implies that the use ologies of "lucidity, objectivity Rhetoric works with what the Bgaret Ferguson warned a reach of empire - in this case, of clear language demonstrates a and concise precision;" and to reader understands, she said. We Concordia audience, "because the British Empire. person's goodness, that philoso­ Benjamin's concept of "writing can't just denigrate certain inter­ behind it lies a history of imperial Ferguson linked this form of phy should be a discourse of against the grain:• pretative communities. We have expansionism as well as the poli­ control to the current tendency of equals who trade arguments and The stylistic ideal of clarity is to ask who will understand, and cy of denouncing academics for denouncing academics for their counter-arguments without any only partially understood, see what the audience picks up. their use of jargon:• use of jargon; bad English, convo­ obscurantist sleight of hand, Ferguson said, if it is associated "Judith Butler has a fanzine, for Ferguson, professor of English luted language, and inaccessibili­ Ferguson said chiefly with moral qualities such goodness sake!" Discursive com­ at the University of California, ty. Butler fails the goodness test as "kindness" to the reader. We munities are not hermetically Davis, gave the Lahey Lecture this In her view, "jargon" is the pejo­ because her language is "ponder­ need to ask, Which reader? Born sealed. year, an annual event hosted by rative term used by people who ous and obscure, dense with allu­ where? How educated? We In response to another ques­ the English department to pay may be unwilling or even unable sions to other theorists, drawn should be asking why different tion, Ferguson said that academ­ tribute to the late Gerald Francis to make the effort required to from a wide range of theoretical readers may have different ics need to reach out to a wider Lahey, teacher and former rector understand difficult language. traditions, half of them, in Nuss­ degrees of tolerance for aspects of community. Writers should also of Loyola College. "Jargon is a hot issue;• Ferguson baum's list, from non-anglophone a text's language that seem alien, make an effort within their own In her talk, "Cultural Literacy said. "We all think we know what countries." foreign, unknown or, at least, discourse to define their terms and the Question of Jargon: An that is. We all think it's a bad sig­ Nussbaum praises Scottish hard to know without consider­ and to imagine a reader. Historical Perspec1ive;' Ferguson nifier. But this is not necessarily philosopher David Hume for his able expenditure of time and Often, however, anti-jargon traced the history of the stan­ so:• clarity and kindliness, in the form energy. attacks are convenient displace­ dardization of the English lan­ of simplicity, towards his readers, "Is criticism never justified?" ment strategies for what is in real­ guage. Moral judgment but Ferguson argues that this is a asked one member of the audi­ ity an effort to promote a differ­ Great pains were taken to root Ferguson used law and ethics misreading of Hume, who, in fact, ence. "Yes, but it's a transaction;• ent agenda - even a "national" out signs of barbarism in the use professor Martha Nussbaum's she suggests, joins Judith Butlei; Ferguson responded. "There are agenda (as could be the case in of language, by provincials or for­ attack on literary critic Judith Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin different communities of readers the attack by some American eigners for example, and sole­ Butler, a superstar of '90s acade­ and Fredric Jameson, among oth­ all with their own professional feminists against French femi­ cisms (violations of the rules of mia, as an example of the tenden­ ers, in pointing to the intellectual jargons. It's a problem to assume nism), or simply an inability to grammar). The purpose was polit- cy "to project one's irritation with value of not being too kind to some things are good (like understand the "other" discourse. 'Free-speech' protest by student union set for Monday Quebec Black Medical Association tudent president Sabine The Concordia Student Union vented from speaking in the Hall SFriesinger may have been the (CSU) also plans to protest next Building by protesters. rewards Concordia students first person to defy the temporary Monday in front of Bishop Court, On Sept. 11, the CSU formally ban on posters, but you could the administration building, resolved to pay the legal costs of ione Watts, a student 1.n the Graduate Diploma in hardly quarrel with the message against a cooling-off period those arrested in the brouhaha, DAdministration, Health Care Option, was awarded the she taped up for a crowd of imposed by the university in the which saw windows broken, tick­ Janssen Ortho Scholarship at a dinner held in May by the Quebec reporters last Monday afternoon: wake of a disturbance on Sept. 9, et-holders for the speech Black Medical Association. "Stop the killing in Israel and when former Israeli prime minis­ harassed, the building evacuated Dione graduated from Concordia in 1997 with a BComm, Palestine." ter Benjamin Netanyahu was pre- ~ and. the police challenged ~ajoring in human re~ource manage~ent. She is currently ) administrative associate in the Department of Nursing at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), where she coordinates administrative functions across five hospital sites; she is also an letters to the editor active community volunteer. Letters to the Editor continued from page 5 The Quebec Black Medical Association awards more than CSU executive denounces cooling-off period $30,000 in awards and scholarships annually, mainly through the efforts of Dr. E.C. Tucker, Association president. The following is an open letter We also wonder whether this put fuel on the fire. Further­ Here are two more Concordia recipients: to Rector Frederick Lowy: motion was in any way political more, we feel this ban goes Kieron Motley has been Concordia's choice to receive a gradu­ opportunism. Two years ago against the spirit of the discus­ ate award for the past three years. He completed an MSc in biol­ n Wednesday, Sept.18, the the administration tried to ban sions we had with you after ogy in 1998 at Concordia, and is about to complete a PhD in neu­ OBoard of Governors passed tables in the lobby and this Sept. 9 where you implied the roscience at UQAM. Kieron received the Eli Lilly Award. a number of resolutions that summer a planned food court moratorium would only be Onyenyechukwa Nnorom has completed her second year at are both unnecessary and on the mezzanine was post­ short-term. Concordia in cell and molecular biology, and is a member of the inflammatory. As we under­ poned as a result of student Lastly, why did you ask the Garnet Key Society. She was presented with one of two Pfizer stand them the motions can be pressure. It would be wrong Board for special powers to cir­ scholarships. summarized as such. and shameful to exploit the cumvent the code of rights and 1) A ban on tabling for all clubs events of Sept. 9 to move ahead responsibilities? The code is the in the mezzanine and the lobby. with these plans. After all, if mechanism the university decid­ 2) A continued ban on pam­ they are a fire hazard today ed upon to hear cases against THE SCHOOL OF COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS PRESENTS phlets, posters, discussions etc. they have always been one students. Furthermore, after last on the Israel/ Palestine conflict. (BoG's reason). year you should be aware of the "New York, Capital of the Twentieth Century" 3) The board gave you the ability Second, a long-term ban on ramifiq1tions of circumventing to bypass the code of rights and discussing the Israel/Palestine proper process. It is somewhat Mark Kingwell, University of Toronto responsibilities in expelling stu­ conflict is absurd. After the authoritarian for one person to Thursday, October 3, 5:30 p.m. dents. cancellation of the Netanyahu have this amount of power over Atrium, Bronfman Building, 1259 Dr. Penfield Ave. The first motion will hurt all talk you spoke out as a defend­ students. students and especially their er of free speech, while at BoG In sum, these motions will Mark Kingwell is a well-known speaker on cultural and political clubs. Students pay to attend you argued for this ban on free­ only further inflame the campus. issues, and has written for Saturday Night, Shift and Descant. He classes at Concordia; however, dom of expression. Where's Why is it that you claim to want is the author of Better Living: In Pursuit of Happiness from they also expect to take part in your consistency? to diffuse our campus yet contin­ Plato to Prozac, and Dreams of a Millennium: Report from a activities outside of the class­ Moreover, what is the point ue to act in a manner which will Culture on the Brink. He has taught at Yale, York University and room. This ban will reduce the of a university if we cannot dis­ only further inflame it? the University of Toronto at Scarborough, where he is currently ability of clubs to inform others cuss the important political associate professor of philosophy. about their projects. issues of the day? This will only Concordia Student Union 10 Con cord i a's Thur sd1y Report I September 26 , 200 2 Stinger athletes on the go An eye on new facilities Serving student athletes is the priority: Lawton BY JOHN AUSTEN

en Ouimet, of the Stingers BY JOHN AUSTEN football team, and Marie­ BClaude Allard, of the orking 12-hour days, often seven days a week, doesn't bother women's soccer squad, have been WLes Lawton. In fact, he thrives on it. named Concordia Stinger ath­ Concordia's interim director of recreation and athletics stepped letes of the week. in last year when Harry Zarins left. He's also in his 21st year of Ouimet, a fifth-year running­ coaching the women's hockey team at Concordia. His .700 winning back, collected 99 yards on three percentage makes him the winningest coach in the history of receptions and scored a touch­ Canadian women's hockey. down in his team's 37-19 loss to "It's certainly a challenge to do both jobs well, but I love it and I'm the Acadia Axemen. A native of up to the challenge;• Lawton told the Thursday Report. "It's a little Joliette, he is an Arts student at overwhelming at times, but we have a great staff that makes the job Concordia. easiei:'' Allard, a fifth-year forward, A Future Search committee of between 50 and 70 people will eval­ scored all three goals in her uate the needs and wants of the department before naming a full­ team's 3-3 tie with the Bishop time director of recreation and athletics next spring. Gaiters. Allard, 23, might be the Lawton was asked if he wants the job. "I will do the best I can, first SJ;inger female athlete to and if the committee is satisfied then we'll talk about it," he replied. have recorded a hat trick in two "I really don't want to to have to give up my coaching, though. sports. Last year, she was named "Our job is to serve the athletes at both the varsity and recre­ to the first team All-Canadian list ational levels;· he continued. "We have to do the little things right in women's hockey. The Quebec and offer good service to make up for our lack of facilities. City native is majoring in psy­ "[The Loyola Athletics Complex] mJy have been state-of-the-art chology. when it was first built, but it has become antiquated. We serve 12 times as many students at the university now. That's why we are in Hall of Fame The fall season Is well underway for the Stingers. the process of updating the facilities." It's still not too late to get your choices in for the Concordia all former varsity athletes. For as the Shaughnessy Cup contest. Improvements at Loyola Sports Hall of Fame. Nomin­ information, call Paul Chesser at The Stingers sit in third place More than $12 million has been earmarked for improvements to ations will be accepted until Oct. 848-4856. with two wins and two losses the complex and its surrounding fields. Plans include a double gym­ 12 in the following categories: going into this weekend's game at nasium, pool and fitness area, plus an artificial turf and new lights athlete, builder and team. Healy takes calgary job Bishop's. McGill and Laval are for the football field. The awards represent individu­ Julie Healy has left the recre­ tied for top spot with identical 3- 'i\ll this has been discussed for a while, Lawton said. "The foot­ als and teams for outstanding ation and athletics department to 1 records. ball surface and lights will be in place for next spring and hopeful­ achievement while at Concordia, take a job in Calgary with the The Varsity Athletic Chapter ly everything else will be completed within five years. Sir George Williams University or Canadian Hockey Association, as will host a barbecue before the "Right now we just have to do the best with what we have," he Loyola College. Director of Female Programs. McGill/Concordia matchup in continued. "I think there are some people who don't take our The graduate of bio-physical the Homecoming tent next to the department as seriously as they should. We're not just fun and Alumni jocks organize education leaves after 16 years of stadium. Sixteen teams celebrat­ games here. We have serious student athletes. They represent the Attention former Concordia service in which she held various ing special anniversaries of colours of the school with pride." _ Y!l!.si_ty athletes! The Alumni positions, including assistant league championships will be Lawton's short-term goals include getting the students and sur­ Association h,as just fo~ed the women's hockey. coach, facilities honoured. . rounding community more involved in supporting the varsity ath- Varsity Athlete Chapter, a group co~ordinator and, more recently, letes. rl'' 1 designed to meet the needs of intercollegiate co-ordinator and Soccer teams split "We'll have soriie v'try ; omp~titi~J team~Wis 'iall and winter, so it former athletes. budget and administration man­ The Stingers women's soccer would be nice to have lots of fans in the stands," he said. "It's funny. The chapter, run jointly by the agei: team fell just short, losing 2-1 to We'll get more than 2,000 to come out and watch a football game department of recreation and Healy's new job will see her Laval last Sunday. The men got a but not all that many of them are Concordia students. We'll have to athletics and the Alumni overseeing the country's high per­ little revenge, however, when they find ways to get the student body out." Relations office, will endeavour to formance and developmental dumped Laval 1-0 in the second preserve and celebrate the history women's team programs. game. of the Sir George Williams Both Concordia teams travel to -,, ~ Georgians, the Loyola Warriors Time to •kt11" McGIii? McGill on Friday with the women and Concordia Stingers. The 16th annual Shrine Bowl kicking off at 6:30 p.m., followed The chapter's first official event and Homecoming football game by the men at 8:30 p.m. On This year's Homecoming is bigger and better than ever. will be a welcome reception Oct. 4 will take place Oct. 5 at Sunday, UQAM comes to Come out and join fellow alumni, current students, and the at Loyola High School on Concordia Stadium when the Concordia. The women's game is university community at this annual event! Sherbrooke St. W. A wine and McGill Redmen visit the Stingers at 1 p.m., with the men taking the Thursday, Oct. 3 cheese social will welcome back at 1 p.m. The game will also serve field at 3 p.m. CUAA Alumni Recognition Awards Banquet, Delta Centre­ Vtlle, 777 University St. Hosted this year by alum John Moore {CJAD/MIX 96). STINGERS FOOTBALL @ Friday, Oct. 4 WRITERS READ CONCORDIA Class of 1977 25th Anniversary Cocktail, Faculty Club, Loyola PRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH ANO THE CREATIVE WRmNG PROGRAM UPCOMING GAMES Campus · CUAA Varsity Athlete Chapter launch cocktail, Don McKay and Jan Zwicky Saturday, Sept. 28, 1 pm Loyola High School • Retro Replay rock 'n' roll dance, Guadagni Monday. Oct. 7, 8:30 pm, Hall Building . Concordia @ Bishop's Lounge, Loyola Campus

Don McKay. the author ofnine books ofpoetry. has won the Govemor-Generol's Saturday, Oct. 5 Saturday, Oct. 5, 1 pm Homecoming Cup Football Game: Concordia Stingers vs Award twice, for Another Gravity (McQelland & Stewart, 2()()()) and for Night Field Concordia vs. McGill (1991 ). His most recent publication is a collection ofessays. Vis a Vis: Fieldnotes on McGill Redmen (Shrine Bowl and Shaughnessy Cup), football (Homecoming) Poetry & Wilderness (Gaspereau Press, 2001). McKay has taught English at the stadium, Loyola Campus · Rector's Reunion Dinner, Club St. Denis University of Western Ontario and acted as director of creative writing at the Saturday, Oct. 12, 1 pm University ofNew Brunswick, where he served as edit.or for The Fiddlehead. He now Concordia vs. Laval Sunday, Oct. 6 lives in Victoria. Concordia Multi-Faith Chaplaincy, blessing of the new aca­ Jan Zwiclcy won the Governor-General's Award in 1999 for her poetry collection Saturday, Oct. 19, 2 pm demic year,_Sunday Service at Loyola Chapel. 5 pm Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (Brick, 1998). The author of Lyric Philosophy. Concordia @ Saint Mary's Wittgenstein Elegies, and The New Room, she recently edited and contributed to To register. or for more information, check out the web site Why I Sing the Blues: Lyrics and Poems (Smoking Lung Press, 2001). She teaches in Visit the Stingers Web site at at http://alumni.concordia.ca/, or phone Lauren Gould the Philosophy Department at the University of Victoria. www.concordia.ca/stingers at 848-7377 or toll-free at 1-888-777-3330 ext. 7377. 11 September 26, 2002 I Concordia 's Thursday Repbrt · • personal and collective, including its repre­ Room available lady's bicycle ($40). Phone 367-4190 after 6 sentations in literature and art. as well as Seeking student for a quiet home in Laval, pm or leave a message. All prices negotiable. september 26-october 10 expressions of recognition and contrition, and dose to bus stop and 15 min. from train sta­ various ways of reconstituting memory. We tion. Electricity, washer/dryer, fridge, stove, Autumn day trip invite panel submissions that dea l with these insurance, television, bed, cable and parking For autum n colours festiva l, in Pare Mont post-genocide topics. Deadline for submis­ included. Contact Pau l at fau lken@cyber­ Megantic in the Eastern Townships: Saturday sion of abstracts is Oct. 1, 2002. Mailing globe.net Sept. 28. Cost:$28.50; optional fees for astro­ address: Dr. S. Apraham ian/Dr. K. Doerr, nomical observatories. 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NDG, four minutes from Loyola Campus.5 in class, problem diagnosis, diverging and con­ Response in African-American Communities." on ground floor of duplex, hardwood floors, The fun starts at 1:00 Hall Building, H-110, 6 pm. verging analyses, etc. Thursday, October 10, 9 applia nces, fireplace. Available begin ning frLday, september 27, 2002 am-12 pm,H-771 . Notices October, $950. Call 91H464 Saturday, September 28 corner of Guy and de MaLsonneuve Research Databases, e-Jouma ls and Dr. Joe Schwartz will give a lecture as part of Call fo r papers Sublet Electronic Current Awareness Services the Chemistry and Biochemistry Graduate For the Annual Congress of the Social Park and Villene11ve, 5 1/2, furnished sublet, This hands-on workshop will provide an Research Conference, at 1 pm in the DeSeve Sciences and Humanities, in May 2003 in attractive, bright, quiet, with office space, http://shuffLe.concordLa .ca overview of research databases and electron­ Cinema. 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