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C4052CA AR issue 4 2009 2/11/09 11:59 AM Page 1 ■ ■ ■ CONTENTS ISSUE #4, 2009 VOLUME 83, NUMBER 4 SERVING THE QUEEN’S COMMUNITY SINCE 1927 SNAP JUDGMENTS’09 2 EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK 20 AND THE WINNERS ARE ... 3 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The judges have deliberated. The decisions have been made, and the winning entries in our 9 QUID NOVI? Snap Judgments ’09 photography contest have A round-up of some of the latest news been chosen. from campus. 12 CAMPUS SCENE FEATURE REPORT 24 Kirsteen MacLeod reports on “The 24 PORTRAIT OF A PLAYBOY Queen’s-China connection”. An Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, reveals the story behind her controversial new biopic Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel. BY BRIGITTE BERMAN, ARTS’, ED’ BRYANT HOROWITZ BRYANT COVER STORY 26 ANSWERING DR. FREUD’S QUESTION What do women want? Sigmund Freud asked that question nearly 100 years ago. GREG BLACK, QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHER Dr. Zhiyao Zhang, director of the Shanghai- Queen’s Psychology professor Meredith Chivers is discovering answers that are based Queen’s China Liaison Office not only complex and contradictory, but also surprising. BY NANCY DORRANCE, ED’ 15 LIVES LIVED “Through a lens darkly” 26 Remembering Prof. John Ursell 16 EUREKA! 28 AT THE BRANCHES 30 QUAA PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 35 KEEPING IN TOUCH ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS 32 Katie Macmillan, Artsci’78 38 Gordon Pitts, Arts’Arts’69, Ed’70 40 Commodore Mark Norman, Artsci’85 44 Jane Tattersall, Artsci’80 46 Bryan Cornwall, Sc’87, MSc’90, PhD’96 51 Josephine Tsang, PhD’06 55 Amy Ciupak Lalonde, Artsci’98, Ed ’99, 56 GRACE’S GRADS Justin Duncan, Law’01 58 ALUMNI BULLETIN BOARD 60 THE LAST WORD “I can see clearly now,” By Georgie Binks, Artsci’75 COVER PHOTO OF DR. MEREDITH CHIVERS AND MODEL ANDREA DIAZ-FLORES SANCHEZ BY BERNARD CLARK BERNARD CLARK AR issue 4 2009 27/10/09 3:29 PM Page 2 ■ ■ ■ EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK ALUMNI REVIEW VOLUME 83, NO. 4, 2009 Review readers surprised us [email protected] www.alumnireview.queensu.ca ho says print is dead? Certainly One is that more than 54 per cent of EDITOR Wnot the nearly 3,000 Review read- readers advise us that when we launch a Ken Cuthbertson, Artsci’74, Law’83 EDITOR EMERITA ers who responded to our latest readership new, improved Review home page early Catherine Perkins, Arts’58 survey. The on-line poll, conducted this in the New Year – as we plan to do – it KEEPING IN TOUCH EDITOR summer, has yielded a wealth of data that should serve as a complement to the print Andrea Gunn, MPA’07 we’re still in the process of analyzing. edition, not as a replacement. STAFF CONTRIBUTORS However, initial findings are gratifying and The other revelation: one in four sur- Liz Gorman, Sc’97 Andrew Naples, Artsci’06 encouraging, especially for those people – vey respondents say they have no interest ART DIRECTOR me among them – who still like the old- whatsoever in reading the Review online Larry Harris, Queen’s Marketing and fashioned feel of paper in our hands. and “will probably never visit the Review Communications Despite the undeniable seismic shift web site.” Given that this was an online ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Nadene Strange (Acting) that has millions of readers forsaking survey and that those readers who made Phone: (613) 533-6000 ext. 75464 newspapers and many mainstream con- the effort to respond are tech savvy Email: [email protected] sumer magazines in favour of the Inter- (almost 50 per cent of them say they use EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD net, all indications are that for now, at Facebook, Twitter and other social media Heather Armstrong, Artsci’92; Sara Beck, Artsci’93; Mary Luz Mejia, Arts’93; least, the Queen’s Alumni Review remains channels, while 94.2 per cent are online Marissa Nelson, Artsi’99; Richard Powers, an important and effective alumni com- daily), this bit of information caught us Artsci/PHE’78, MBA’83, Law’86; Robert munications vehicle. It is also one of the off guard. Renaud, Com’96; Bruce Sellery, Com’93; Sean Silcoff, Com’92. most important conduits alumni have for The truth to what seems to be a con- 2009-2011 QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY keeping in touch with one another. tradiction may lie in the demographic ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT Fully 87 per cent of our survey re- profile of Review readers, 55.2 per cent of Heather Black, Sc’80 spondents say they read every issue of the whom graduated in 1983 or earlier – THE MISSION OF THE QUAA “To reach out and foster a lifelong Review, while more than 77 per cent tell meaning they’re age 40+. We know that a association with Queen’s, to engage us the magazine remains their primary slight majority of them are female, most our members in the life and work of source of information for news about the live in Ontario (Ottawa and Toronto pri- the University, and to serve the alumni community in all its diversity.” University and their classmates. marily), and that 77 per cent of them CANADA POST PUBLICATIONS Breaking down the numbers reveals earned an undergraduate degree at MAIL PERMIT #41089017 that “people news” is the most magazine’s Queen’s. Postage paid at Kingston, ON most avidly read content. As has been the Our survey also included several Return undeliverable Canadian and other addresses to the Review offices. case since our first issue appeared in open-ended questions, which gave Queen’s University March of 1927, the Keeping in Touch respondents an opportunity to air their 99 University Avenue (KIT) notes remain number one in that opinions and offer suggestions. As men- Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 regard; 78 per cent of readers perusing the tioned earlier, we’re still sorting and ana- Phone: (613) 533-2060 or 1-800-267-7837 KIT pages in every issue. Alumni Spot- lyzing all the data of that we’ve collected. (toll-free in Canada and U.S.) light articles are in second spot on the As we go forward, we’ll use it all in our Fax: (613) 533-6828 popularity list (56 per cent), with Letters efforts to further improve the Review – DIRECTOR, COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS to the Editor (55 per cent) third. Almost both the print and on-line editions – and Ellie Sadinsky half of all respondents read the Quid Novi to keep it relevant, timely, and interesting EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MARKETING AND campus news pages (49.6 per cent), while to you and other readers. It is, after all COMMUNICATIONS almost 40 per cent of readers regularly your magazine. Helena Debnam give the Principal’s column a look. THE QUEEN’S ALUMNI REVIEW (circ. 106,000), published quarterly by The numbers also suggest our survey Thanks everyone who took the time to the Department of Marketing and respondents are happy with the “overall answer our survey, and congratulations to Communications, Office of Advancement, is a member of the Council for the quality” of the Review; a solid 87 per cent the three lucky alumni whose names were Advancement and Support of Education. give the magazine a grade of excellent chosen at random from a list of survey Subscriptions free to alumni, $25 cdn/year for others. Opinions expressed in the Review (32.9 per cent) or good (54.7 per cent). respondents who entered their names are not necessarily those of Queen’s University Asked to rate the “credibility” of the Re- into our prize draw.