.. ,; . Concordia University-Montreal, Quebec Senate .. · Colleges to welcome non-A&S students The Faculty of Arts and Science has Science has altered its requirements in order opened the doors of five of its seven to allow its students to join Science colleges to students from other faculties. College. A resolution passed by Arts and Science - Also at Friday's Senate meeting it was Faculty Council in March and approved decided to extend the trial period for the last Friday by Senate will allow a limited February mid-term break an additional year number of students from outside arts and to 1982-83. A study week for 1981-82 was science to seek membership in Liberal Arts, approved by Senate at its September Lonergan University and Science colleges, meeting. the School of Community and Public One of the issues that has held Senate Affairs and the Simone de Beauvoir back from approving the break on .a Institute. permanent basis is the proposed 1983=84 · The Institute for Cooperative Education, academic year. Including a week-long study which is only operating a program in break would mean that the examination chemistry at present, and the Centre for period would not end until May 7. Mature Students, whis;h cannot now handle The 1981-82 break will run from February the large influx of students that would 22 to February 26 with exams that year result were it made university-wide, are not ending on May I, and the 1982-83 break will included at this time. (Long-term planning run from February 21 to 25 with exams for the centre has always envisaged opening ending on May 3. it up to students from other faculties.) For more on the deliberations of Senate, Admission of a small number of non-arts as well as information on Arts & Science and science students will be decided on a and Commerce & Administration faculty college-by-college basis, and these students councils, see FOR THE RECORD, page 2. will be expected to complete all the MG/ LR requirements of college membership as well as the program requirements for their degree. The move has been welcomed both New library within and outside of the· Faculty of Arts and Science. Provost Martin Singer, building responsible for the faculty's seven colleges, said that it will "bring the benefit of An information session on the non­ different perspectives to our arts and library portion of the proposed new SGW science programs". He noted that the library building will be held Thursday, May Faculty of Engineering and Computer 14 from 2 to 4 p.m. in {1-420. This replaces the original meeting scfleduled fo_r April 23 but cancelled. Copies of the March 26 Thursday With his "musical thriller" Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim stretched the limits of Report, containing the recommendations of musical theatre, almost bridging the gap between it and opera. Sondheim ,is one of the the non-library program committee, will be practitione.rs of this most American of artistic forms who will be studied this summer in available at the meeting. the theatre department's course, "Popular Musical Theatre ". See story on page 6. - Cut duplication, fragmentation: Happy talk. in the past, visually handicapped Je.an commission on adult. ed. computer users had to rely on If Michele Jean and her colleagues on the to formulate coherent policies, suggest the whether offered by educational institutions, the assistance of sighted Cc!mmission d'etudes sur la formation des commissioners. This management should businesses, community groups or persons to point out errors oil advltes have their way, the responsibility either report to a single minister (preferably professional corporations. for adult education in the province will neither education nor labour) and be At the regional level, the commissioners the screen or on printouts. All shift from its present overlapping attached to the premier's office, or report envisage a series of adult education cent.res that has changed, thanks to jurisdictions in the provincial labour and to an associate minister for adult education that would be charged with managing adult Concordia's unique talking ed ucation ministries and the federal in a new Dept. of Human Resources that education services in each area and would, employment ministry to a single para­ would replace the existing Dept. of - or so the commission hopes, eliminate computer. ·More on page 3. ministerial organization, !'Office de Education. · much of the current duplication and ('education des adultes. It should be pointed out that when the fragmentation of services. Abstinence makes the heart According to a 389-page discussion report refers to adult education, it is in the Although not offering courses grow stronger. Actually, a paper, released .late last month by the broadest possible sense of .the term. themselves, the regional centres would be strong heart makes abstinence· commission, the current set-up in the adult Included are professional and manpower responsible for coordinating the activities easier. See page 5. education field works against the best training programs as well as interest course~ of the organizations in its area involved in interests of Quebecers. and courses taken for upgrading purposes; adult education and would also play a Only; a single "management" will be able in other words, all courses aimed at adults, See " Jean commission", page 2. Do you read lips? U of T English professor sweet nothing Pringle was murmuring into Barrie Hayne, who is learning lipreading as part Nagle's ear was : "Drop me, you bastard, and of his study of silent films , has discovered that -- 1•11 break your -neck ." what actors were actually saying on screen didn't Signs of the times: Jus't off the main dragin always match the subtitles. One passionate scene Warwick, Rhode Island, is a small road called . between Conrad Nagle and Eileen Pringle in Diploma Avenue. We're not sure whether it was - Three Weeks carried an appropriately gushy wisdom or simply a twisted sense of humour that subtitle. What Hayne and many an outraged caused the town's planning department to attach 2 deaf person of the time discovered was that the such a name to a dead end. FOR THE In labour: CAPT .loses union bid; RECO·RD I Arts & Science Faculty Council CUFA back in court; At its March 27 meeting, the Arts & Science Faculty Council • approved a proposal by the lnteruniversity Centre for European .Studies for a joint CUNASA 's grievance policy Concordia-UQAM doctorate in European Studies (implementation is subject to appropriate funding being raised and approved by the Board of Graduate Studies and to The unionization bid of Concordia's board,. the first !iUCh mechanism for Senate); part-time faculty failed last month when an university support staff in Canada. • Feturned the report of the ad hoc committee to study all programs in linguistics to Dean insufficient number of faculty members The new policy represents the first Taddeo for further study and recommendations; ' voted in favour of the certification of the successfully completed negotation between • elected John Jackson (sociology and anthropology) and John Jenkins (geology) to the Concordia Association of Part-Time the administration and the staff association Arts & Science Faculty Panel, which decides on cases of student cheating (undergraduate); Teachers (CAPT). and will apply. to all non-academic staff • passed a motion allowing students from other faculties to attend Concordia colleges (see Although 63 per cent of those voting whether or not they are members of story this issue); ' were in favour of a union (381 out of 604), CUNASA. • defeated a motion to change the composition of council, which would halve its size (see the labour code requires the approval of a "The new procedure will create a lot of story this issue). LR majority of the bargaining unit before pressure to settle grievances lower At its special April 3 meeting on curriculum, Arts and Science Faculty Council certification can be granted. As 834 part­ down," vice-president Sharon Speevak told • received from the task force on curriculum a rewritten version of principle six, which timers were eligible to vote, a yes-vote of TTR earlier this year. "Many grievances more clearly reflected the aims of the curriculum report in re~ommending that education 417 would have been required in the March result simply from a lack of " must foster intellectual independence in a free and open spirit so that students may 30 to April 3 poll. communication. Our system will enforce communication and thus diminish the develop their critical faculties to the fullest." The principle also recomm,ended that the There is no indication whether CAPT university provide an academic advising structure which would "respect and accommodate will continue as a non-certified association number of grievances." or whether it will again seek union status. decisions made by students about their programs". • CUNASA re-elected Linda Orrell as The next regular meeting of council takes place at 1:30p.m. on May 15 in AD-128, Loyola · CAPT executives could not be reached and president for a second term. Other campus. A further special meeting to continu~ the curriculum debate has not yet been set. Allan Gottheil, an organizer for the executive members are Sharon Speevak, Conf.ederation des syndicats nationaux vice-president, liaison (acclaimed); Fred LR (CSN) who has acted as a CAPT Francis, executive vice-president; Diane spokesman in the past, would make no Sankey-Burke, secretary (acclaimed); - Commerce & Administration Faculty Council comment to The Thursday Report. Gottheil Steward Phelan, treasurer (acclaimed) and At its regular meeting on April 10, the Commerce and Administration Faculty Council has accused The Thursday Report of France Pelletier, past member.