Concordia University, Montreal Vol. i4, No.12 November 23, 1989 ·Japanese·delegati,on visits Simone de Beauvoir Institute Two weeks ago 31 women from the International Women's Educational Association ofJapan visited Concordia to acquaint themselves with our world~renowned Simone de Beauvoir Institute, which exists to promote and facilitate women's scholarship. This marks the third time members of the Association have visited the Simone de Beauvoir. The Association has 21 branches in Japan, all dedicated to women's education and understanding on an international level. Everyone has chance to win Labatt's Road scholarship ... well, almost everyone ... Starting today (Nov. 23) at 7:00 p.m. in sions and will be limited to 90 students, will the Loyola campus's F.C. Smith take place at the video presentation tonight. Auditorium, Concordia students can take Students are requested to have both their advantage of a two-part safe driving Concordia identification and a valid driver's program offered free by Labatt Breweries of licence with them. -TL Canada, with cars being supplied free by the Ford Motor Company. The program begins with tonight's video ,seminar, to be followed up by four hours of Inside hands-on driving over the weekend. The underlying message is that driving Is sexism st/II an issue? requires 100% concentration, and nothing Science can be fun . .page 10 can be allowed to impair the driver's ability. Don't forget the The on-the-road portion of the program Chistmas Basket Drive • • .page 11 Author, politician,. philosopher and will include teaching students about skid anthropo1ogistAlainPeyrefitte spoke to the control, obstacle avoidance and emergency Concordia community about China last braking procedures. Wednesday. See details on page 3. Registration for the practical part of the PHOTO: Ron Paquet program, which will be held over four ses- Page 2 THE THURSDAY REPORT November 23, 1989 Pepsi-Cola to donate $250,000 for Concordia stadium Summer jobs for hundreds of students also in offing · Pepsi-Cola Montreal is giving Concor­ dia $250,000 along with a commit- · ment to provide summer jobs to several hundred Concordia students during the next severi years. The job pledge is a major provision of a licensing agreement signed recently that makes Pepsi-Cola the official campus sup­ plier of soft drinks between now and 1996. The donation will help to finance the new stadium on the Loyola Campus. Under the terms of the agreement Pepsi­ Cola Montreal will allocate 20% of its sum­ mer job openings to Concordia students. The firm employs about 250 students each summer for periods of up to 16 weeks. At an average weekly salary of $440, the pledge will result in estimated earnings of $2.5 mil­ lion for Concordia students. The donation was announced Monday by James A. Smith, President of Pepsi-Cola Montreal, at a news conference in the Henry F. Hall Building Faculty Club. Smith and Concordia officials both praised well-known sports and media per­ . sonality George Springate, Chair of Concordia's Stadium Appeal, for his initia­ tive in arranging the agreement with Pepsi­ Fitness, Recreation and Athletics Director Bob Philip (left), Pepsi-Cola Montreal President James A. Smith, and University Advance­ Cola. ment Director Christopher Hyde down a cup of Pepsi's finest after announcing Pepsi-Cola's quarter-million dollar donation to the Springate, a Concordia alumnus (SGW Stadium Appeal. PHOTO: Charles Belanger '65), told The Thursday Report that "the in­ itial stages of the Stadium Appeal are providing funds to finance the grandstand's relocation, but the campaign is also raising Seeing their w~y to generosity funds to build training and changing rooms and a Hall of Fame to link the new facility to the athletic complex." The new sports facility includes a 270~ foot concrete grandstand that was donated to Concordia last year by the City of Verdun for $1. It was reassembled alongside the ath­ letic complex on the Loyola Campus, dou0 bling seating at the site to 6,000. -KJW Tl) The Concordia University Interfraternity Council ( IFC) has presented a cheque for $900 to the Montreal Association for the Blind (MAB) . The gift will be used to prepare study materials for blind and visually impaired students in Braille, large print and on cassettes. The cheque was presented by Donald Chartrand, President of the IFC) (far left) to Director of Volunteers Elaine Masson (third from left, receiving cheque). Also present were (beginning second from left) Katherine D. Geisser of Alpha Chi, Derek Castell of Omicron, Richard Swayze of Tau Kappa Epsilon, Lucie Tremblay of Zeta Tau Amiga, and John Reeves of Omicron. The MAB offers a wide range of electronic and optical aids for students, as well as academic texts in Braille, large print and on casset­ tes. John Simms, Director.General of the MAB, said that "Concordia can be justly proud of the caring and empathy of the IF~ students for their visually impaired and blind colleagues." November 23, 1989 THE THURSDAY REPORT Page 3 Alain Peyrefitte probes the Chinese · -experience ~ .. and his own More than 500 attend latest in the Picard Lecture series by Laurie Zack stead were confronted with the choice of either prostrating themselves before the efore a crowd of more than 500, dis­ emperor or being banished. tinguished Academie fran~aise In addition to recounting the British ex­ B. member, French politician, novelist, pedition, Peyrefitte recalled entertaining essayist, philosopher and anthropologist anecdotes of his own "expedition," retracing Alain Peyrefitte spoke last Wednesday-of · the Macartney-StalJ!ltOn route to research by Sharon Bishin the confrontation of East a:nd West his book and discovering priceless diaries described in his latest book, "L'empire im­ and sacks of abandoned letters along the ... Philosophy's Stanley French will be a featured speaker atthe 1989 an­ mobile ou le choc des mop.des," an epic 800- way. nual meeting of the Canadian Bioethics Society in Calgary, Alberta this pag e chronicle of the British Calling on his extensive political back­ weekend.Bis talk is entitled, "Infantile Spasms: A Narrative Case Study" ... Macartney-Staunton expedition to China in ground, Peyrefitte concluded by taking his ... Earlier this month Commerce & Administration's Michel Laroche 1792. He also brought into sharp{'ocus some analysis of the contradictions inherent in the (Marketing) participated in Universite de Sherbrooke's business school's of the contradictions that are rocking China Chinese experience up. to the present and luncheon idea exchange program, Midi-Recherches, when his topic was "Un today. looking to the future. modele de concurrence entre les marques d'une categorie de produits" ... A guest of the Political Science DeJ?art­ Calling the economic reforms initiated ment and the Jean H. Picard Foundation, by the Deng Xiaoping regime more success­ ... Office de la langue fran~aise has just announced that d 'etudes Peyrefitte is visiting Canada to publicize his ful than Russian perestroika, he nonetheless fran~aises' Sherry Simon's workL'inscription sociale de la traduction au latest work on China. His first book on the pointed out the total lack of any democratic Quebec was recently published in "la Collection Langues et societes" ... subject, "Quand la Chine s'eveillera" tradition in China. ... Also recently published: Genocide in the 20th Century: Definitions of - (1973), was an-essay chronicle of his own Given this authoritarian tradition and the genocid,e and their implications for prediction and preverztion, by History's voyage to the turbulent China of Mao Tse­ isolation of the rural areas, he considered Frank Chalk, in "Holocaust and Genocide Studies," Vol. 4, No .. 2, pp.149- tung during the Cultural Revolution. That .that the students went too far last June and 160, (Pergamon Press 1989)... \ book enjoyed great international success. said that he was not surprised by the repres­ ,... Today, Thursday, there will be an Alcohol Outreach Booth on the Peyrefitte began his lecture by compar­ sion that followed. Loyola Campus, Campus Centre Cafeteria (11 a.m. - 2 p.m). Alcoholics ing the task of explaining centuries of Peyrefitte predicted a long reign for the • Anonymous (AA) will be on hand. Focus: repsonsible drinking habits ... Chinese history in an hour to writing the governing_ Communist Party. He also bible on a postcard. By the time his talk was foresaw important economic development ... Physics' Dave Charlton recently spoke on "Cell Survival and over, the audience had been treated to a tour in China's maritime areas causing increas­ Microdosimetry Spectra," by invitation, at Harvard Medical School. Also, de force sprint through several centuries of ing economic inequalities with the poorer along with the department's B. Frank, C.S. Kalman and S.K. Misra, he enduring dynastic rule, periodic turmoil, but rural inland. met last month with Dr. Jean-Pierre Dedonder of University of Paris Vl 1 to above all, inscrutable stability. As in the past, Peyrefitte sees the situa­ discuss Concordia's part in the implementation of an exchange program be­ Peyrefitte explored the nuances of cen­ tion leading again to the reinforcem~nt of a tween France and the Quebec universities. (Students interested in doing one turies-old Chinese · attitudes to the "two strong, authoritarian central government to of their undergraduate or graduate semesters in France are·asked to contact kiIJ.ds of foreign barbarians, the cooked­ mediate and redistribute wealth. Dr. Charlton for details: 3285) ... those who had already accepted Chinese su­ After generously fielding questions from ... Over the summer, Economics: Syed Ah~n was invited to the Univer­ periority, and the uµcooked-those, l~e the the audience, Peyrefitte received an ovation sity of Munich by the German Academic Exchange (DAAD). Once there, he British, who, they assumed, had come with from the crowd.