, Integration is. watchword·for Quebec anglos · By Beverley Smith Now that the old Anglo corporate willing to work at the grassroots level elite is fading and English Quebecers are and not at the top of the hierarchy" (as in "a new-ballgame", they have only one anglophones traditionally nave in the hope for the future. They must evaluate See A,iglos page 2. the new breed of Anglo leaders prepared . to integrate but not assimilate, into the French mainstream culture. Thursday That's the view of Sheila Arnopoulos during a hotly-contested presentation at Report Concordia with Dominique Clift on "Tlie New Role of Anglos in a Changing Quebec". holiday· The two well-known Montreal This is an example of one of the many Christmas cards being sold this year by journalists, authors of t_he recently schedule the Montreal Children's Hospital. The cards, designed by children, are being published Le fait anglais au ·Quebec, The last Thursday Report of the fall sold by the hospital's Women's Auxiliary today and tomorrow on the were the guests of Concordia's School term will be published next week, mezzanine of the Hall Building. of Community and Public Affairs on November 29, 1979. We will resume Senate November 13 in the first of a series of our weekly publishing schedule on talks on Quebec, Canadian and Thursday, January 10, 1980. international issues. ' Please note that items for The Back Profs-to Arnopoulos began her presentation Page of next week's issue can include by offering a profile of the new type of events from November 29, 1979 Anglo leader who represents, in her · through to January 11, 1980. get re-read eyes, the only positive, healthy direction Submissions should be sent to Louise open to the English Quebecers. Ratelle at Loyola (AD-105, 482-0320, These "leaders", says Arnopoulos, ext. 689) or to Maryse Perraud at Sir application "are willing to straddle two cultures and George (BC-213, 879-8497) no later than noon, Monday, November 26. By Mark Gerson deal at the grassroots level of politics", The deadline for the issu.e of Jam.iar Instructors will now have the right working at the community level. 10 will be noon, Monday, January 7, to a copy of applications for academic They tend to be "left of centre, since 1980. re-evaluation submitted by their those interested in leftist iss~es are students, as a result of an amendment to the academic re-evaluation regulations passed at Friday's Senate meeting. · Drcimatist takes aim at· According to Biology professor B.S. Mangat, who moved the amendment, South African politics the unamended regulation, while ensuring that the instructor is informed By Beverley Smith of the reread, does not give him the Theatre is an effective vehicle for work A Lesson from Aloes, which has automatic right to know the students' political protest for white South just completed a successful run in reasons for requesting a re-evaluation. African playwright Athol Fugard, Johannesburg. These reasons are generally contained whose plays in support of his country's Featured in the Centaur production in the application. oppressed racial minorities have ·are fellow South African and artistic The amendment met with the provoked a sympathetic response the director of the Centaur Maurice • Death, the futility of life general approval of all senators and world over. · Podbrey, who plays the part of white and other subjects explored was easily passed. It takes effect The South Afrcian playwright's man Piet Bezuidenhout; Anne Butler, in Cristofer, Ionesco plays. immediately. work and the political realities of his last seen at the Centaur in David See story page 3. In other business, the appointment · country will be the subject of a French's Leaving Home, who plays the • Guitarist to play music of. of English professor Judith Herz by · discussion, to be held tomorrow part of Piet's wife, Gladys; and West "greats" of all ages. Page Arts and Science Faculty Council as evening at Concordia, when Fugard Coast actor Alex Diakun, in the role of Division I representative on the Senate visits the university as the last guest in the "coloured man" Steve Daniels. · 7. Library Committee was confirmed by this term's "Writers and Scholars" Fugard and Podbrey have established • Listeners needed. Page 3. Senate. series. a close friendship, says the playwright, • Dialogues in Depth The report on Concordia prizes, Fugard's visit to Concordia coincides ever since they met in London six or explores roles of women. tabled from the October meeting, was with his arrival in Montreal to direct seven years ago. Page 4. tabled again, because an explanatory an upcoming production (January 3-27) "The Centaur's been marvellously doc1:1ment wasn't ready. at the Centaur Theatre of his latest responsive to my work," states Fugard, See Senate page 2. See Fugard page 5. Page 2. The Thursday Report continued from page 1. Also _ta bled was a proposal for a agreement between Quebec universities rewording of the undergraduate which allows six to twelve credits per residence requirements. The new year to be taken at another university regulation presented by the University in the province. Curriculum Coordinating Committee Although UCCC chairman James (UCCC) takes into .account the fact Whitelaw assured Tittler that the that the Faculty of Engineering is now regulation has no effect on the on a credit system and reflects "the agreement, Divisional Dean June increasing rate at which Quebec Chaikelson said -that Arts and Science residents are being called away to Faculty Council also had an -objection apply their expertise to other to the phrase. Talking about ·students provinces." having to leave Montreal has "negative In order to accommodate this latter implications in the Quebec context", fact of life, UCCC inserted a sentence she said. readin,g, "In exceptional cases, students The general consensus was that the moving away from Montreal may be sentence si}.ould be changed and Senate . allowed to complete a small numoer of chairman John O'Brien promised that a outstanding credits at ;mother reworked regulation wo Id be university." presented to Senate in December. History professor Robert Tittler Also at Friday's meeting, Professor wanted the phrase "moving away from Whitelaw presented a report ·on the Montreal" deleted because it precluded findings of the Angers Commission on other reasons for taking courses Quebec universities. elsewhere, such as the existing Senate next meets ~m Decemb~r 14. The house in the· photograph is Haworth Parsonage, where the Bronte sisters wrote their novels and poems. It is one of the places which will be visited by students at an English Literature summer school next year. In this three-week course, works of the Brontes, D.H. Lawrence, George FORTHE Eliot, Byron, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Ted Hughes will be studies, in connection with the surrounding~ which influenced RECORD: them. Students will see a performance at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at At its meeting on Friday, November representative on the Senate Library Stratford, and will see the half-timbered house where the poet was born, as 16, Senate Committee. well as the early home of D.H. Lawrence in the mining village of Eastwood, • appr9ved an amendment to the • tabled the report on Concordia and Newstead Abbey, the magnificently Gothic famfly home of the Byrons. undergraduate regulations for academic prizes. The organisers of this summer school have arranged a full program which re-evaluation which would ensure that • tabled the report on residence will interest serious students of English literature, teachers and all those who the instructor receives a copy of the requirements. wish to gain deeper kuowledge of English life and culture than can normally student's application. Senate next meets on December 14; be gained on holiday. • confirmed English professor Judith 1979. The seminars will be conducted by lecturers in English literature from Herz's appointment as Division I Sheffield University. Previous students have used the course for accreditation purposes. Places are available in June, July and September, -1980, and the cost, including accommodation, food, tuition, visits and_theatre tickets, is £340. For To the Edi for: people than would otherw{se have been fµrther information, write to Avril Meakin, 10, Victoria Road, Sheffield, On behalf of the committee and the case. We are grateful that you England SlO 2DL, or telephone 0742 660766. members of Lesbian and Gay Friends thereby helped us to achieve the of Concordia, I would like to thank principal aim of the festival, which was ' the Thursday Report for its coverage simply to make ourselves better known Anglos continued from page 1. - of our recent Arts Festival. By doing to the university. - business world in Quebec). anglophone in the late 60s to opt for this, your newspaper demonstrated its Again, thank you. Most of them, says Arnopoulos, can political association of The Provincial policy of serving all interests within the Steven P. Spencer be found in the Montreal Citizens' Association of Protestant T~achers university. I don't doubt that your for Movement (MCM), the first (P APT) with the Centrale des substantial article helped to bring our Lesbian and Gay Friends organization "where English and French enseignants du Quebec (CEQ), is often efforts to the attention of many more of Concordia with a certain vision" could work seen by many English, as a "leftist together, where French functioned as the wierdo", says Amopoulos. However, main language but everyone could she contends, he is "a very important Queen Elizabeth express himself in the language of his person in the English community whose choice. role and contribution have never been Silver Jubilee award Arnopoulos cites such names as Nick pr'operly understood." auf der Maur, Bob Keaton, Michael One of the reasons for this, says Nominations are open for the 1980- General at a special ceremony in Fainstat, and current president of the Arnopoulos, is the hostility of the 81 awards of the Queen Elizabeth Ottawa in the spring of 1980.