IHE IHURSDA·Y IIEPORT CONCORDI~ UNIVERSITY • MONTREAL • VOLUME l, NUMBER 26 • MARCH 30, 1978 LETTERS: Why reps nixed college plans To the Concordia Community, Thursday, March 9th, the Board ot Governors held its monthly meeting. The most important item on the agenda was the discussion of the College proposals. At the meeting· we were presented with a motion · that dealt not only with the "Establishment of Division IV of the· , Faculty of Arts and Science", · but also with the recommendation of four particu­ lar units to be approved, and the Sydney Bennett and Mike Hume, .Athletes of the Year implementation of two of these four: the Center for Mature Students and the Institute for Women's Studies. We, the Awards honour athletes Student Representatives on the Board of Mike Hume and Sydney Bennett league All-Star selection, also received Governors agreed to vote against this captured top honors last Wednesday at three basketball team awards; Most motion as presented, and it is my the annual Concordia Athletic A wards Valuable Player, Most Inspirational, and intention to clarify my position through Night. the Iron Man Award for most time played. this letter. Hume's collegiate career has a story- · Miss Tarbet earned a starting berth on First of all, I must reiterate that I am book flavor. Mike spent the first three t he varsity Stingers team and her not opposed in any way to the idea of seasons on the specialty teams and as a continue~ improvement earned her the Colleges, in fact, I welcome the innovative reserve linebacker and quarterback. This team's "Most Improved Player" Award. approach to education that some of the year, Mike was converted to the slotback 'The diminutive guard capped off her College proposals have brought forth. Nor position · and quickly made his presence rookie season by scoring 20 points against am I ignorant or disdainful of the needs of felt. The 6'1", 180 lb. native of the Bronx, Bishop's University in the Q.U.A.A. final the student population I represent (as New York caught 25 passes for 399 yards playoff game .. She well earned hey award some Board members have tried to and 2 touchdowns. He was selected to the as "Freshman-Athlete of the year". suggest), it is simply a question of Ontario-Quebec . Inte.rcollegiate Football · John Gray, president of the LMAA, different sections of the 1,miversity Conference. The Saskatchewan Rough- was awarded the Director of Athletics community seeing these needs fulfilled in riders drafted Hume in the fifth round of Shield, presented for non-participant ,different ways. the Canadian Football League's collegiate contributions to the Concordia Athletic At the Thursday meeting, I quickly draft. Hume's accomplishments are all the program for the second consecutive year. became aware that while talking about more impressiv~ when one considers that John headed the intramural program on "colleges" we were not dealing with either he never played organized football prior to ·the Loyola Campus and organized such· the structure or educational concept that I his arrival at Loyola/Concordia. first-time events as the Concordia Open am familiar with, or that exists at. other Miss Bennett proved to be a jill-of-all- and the school's Carnival Olympics, as universities, but that in speaking about trades in Pat Boland's women's athletic well as 'fan buses to the National Hockey the implementation of the Center for program. She captured the women's finals in Moncton. Mature Students and of the Women's division o'f the Concordia Open, was the The Georgian Special Award was institute, we were dealing with "smaller top female finisher in the Quebec:: · presented to Glenn Ord, vice-president of units" (the recommendation in the Dean's University Athletic Association Cross- the Sir George Williams Outdoor Club, report reads: " ... the creation of smaller country championships, played on Concor- and President of the Concordia Tabletop units such as colleges ... "). Whether Board dia's first-ever Women's Soccer team, Baseball League. The ·Outdoor Club members were aware of this distinction or finished fifth in the Canadian · Women's organizes a wide variety of outdoor not, I don't know. But it seems to me that Intercollegiate Athletic Union diving • activities such as skiing, cycling, canoe­ what the Board in effect did was pass the championship and· was the only female ing, mountain-climbing, horseback riding, smaller units as Colleges, (not such as member of the Concordia Ski team. etc. Colleges), and in doing so has given the A pair of basketball pljiyers took home The Women's Athletic Shield was said units a status which they do not have the Freshman "Athlete of the Year" awarded to Paddie Chiara, a five year by their own merit. awards, Leon Bynoe for the men and veteran of the Women's hockey and Both the Center for Mature Students Joyce Tarbet for the women. Bynoe, basketball teams. Miss Chiara was a and the Institute for Women's Studies - Concordia's rookle cage sensation was former Most Valuable Player for both the laudable as their intentions may be - do selected as the Freshman Male Athlete of hockey and basketball teams and won the not fulfill one of the basic requirements of the Year. Leon, who led the Q.U.A.A. in Female Athlete of the Year a~ard in 1975. continuep page 2 rebounding and scoring, en.route to a continued page 3 matters". And the only thing I can say to that is that it's a pity we can't be open enough to look at changing old structures, but that they are doomed to be what they always have been - whatever that may be-. My understanding of the original intent behind the re-structuring of Arts and Sciences was to create a University system unique at least in the Province of Quebec. I should stress then that this uniqueness could also be achieved through changes other than (but not instead of) the creation of Colleges. I do not understand why we can't also put some energy into making the existing structures more realistic, more flexible, and more in touch with the times - and hence with the needs - .of the student population. In this e, · sense we could take a good critical look at ;::l .c what is already happening at the ....., University in the hopes of making it ~- better; and not try to patch up existing structures with more structures, however ~~--- innovative they may be. Debaters McArthur (left) and Kirkpatrick Our refusal to support the motion presented to the Board has accomplished what we set out to do: there was no Debaters for London meet intention of influencing the vote, it was merely a statement of position. My hope is In just a few days Peter Kirkpatrick recent Ottawa tournament; and they had that it has also helped to sensitize some and Peter McArthur, two ·Concordia to win their invitation to London. people to the fact that somewhere along debaters, will be off to London to compete Debating seems to be -growing in the lirie, it seems that the process of the in the annual tournament of the Trans­ popularity at Concordia. According to creation of colleges became the only Atlantic University Speech Association McArthur and Kirkpatrick every one of recourse available to people well aware of from April 3-11. the society's twenty members is running the need for change in more than just the They'll be testing their skills at public for office this spring and they see that as academic aspect of this institution. It is • speaking and debating, both prepared and a healthy sign. Kirkpatrick thinks important for us students -that this change extemporaneous, ·alongside representat-' students are realizing that debating take place, but it is 11:lso important that it ives from other Canadian universities, doesn't have to be the stuffed-shirt kind of happen in the right place and in the right American schools like Yale and Princeton· activity it's often imagined to be and often way to be effective change. We must and British teams from Oxford, Cam­ is at other universities. He thinks the fact seriously consider people's efforts to make bridge, Sheffield, Manc.hester, Glasgow that half of Concordia's debaters are Concordia a better Upiversity, but we also and elsewhere. But in spite of the fact Commerce student indicates a recog­ must take care that these efforts ill'en't that their own Sir George Williams nition of debating's usefulness in devel­ wasted in useless attempts to validate Debating Society of Concordia University oping organizational skills. themselves as something that they aren't, is a relative newcomer formed a scant Constructive criticism is an important while we all could be doing better things two years ago, McArthur and Kirkpatrick part of the society's weekly meetings and with our time and energy. seem pretty confident about their abil­ practice sessions; and to that end the Susan T. Saucedo ities. society is searching not just for enlarged L.S.A. Representative They've had a good season, Kirkpatrick membership but more in the way of Board of Governors _having won the speakers award at a faculty assistance. -G. McC. LETTER from page 1 a "college", that is, they do not have a needs, we are also able to see that the consistent philosophy of education to college system is not the structure meant =-,HE IHURSDAYR: support them. Rather, they both are for this. Published weekiy during the academic yea_r · centered around particular needs of My suggestion to the Board was that by the Information Office, Concordia Un1- specific human groups in this university.