r In This Issue: Restrictions on foreign teaching assistants. The Canadian government may prevent foreign graduate students from accepting BACK TO SCHOOL OR, · r- teaching and research assistantships at universities unless the institutions first attempt to fill the positions with Canadians. WINDI-NG YOUR WAY Page 2 THROUGH THE HAU.OWED F.asy e9me. easy go. _ The education department has absorbed Concordia's operating deficits from 1976-77 _ HAllS OF-ACADEME- and 1977-78 and is even throwing in an extra $2 million this year, but this is somewhat offset by a $1.2 million cut in Concordia's 1978-79 grant. Another deficit is in the offing. The fall/winter session activity begins in After a summer of frenetic preparation~ Page 6 · earnest tomorrow as thousands of new and the Mature Students' Centre and the former students wind their way through Simone de Beauvoir Institute will be opening their doors to receive their first At-a-glance or. Take a longer look. registration that goes on until September 6. Day and evening classes begin the students, in an attempt to combat the A carrefour of tidbits about who's doing following day. "anonymity of the large Arts & Science what and what's happening to whom at and At the same time, Concordia enters its Faculty. Upto six other colleges are on the around Concordia. fifth year as the merged Sir George way in the next few years. Page 3 Williams-Loyola and one of the last And the provincial government has innovations assc;x:iated with that merger tidied up some of the fiscal loose ends gets off the_ground. the colleges. occasioned by the 1974 merger. It has The multinational world of Serge Losique Continued on page 2. One of the university's foremost entrepre­ neurs, is in the company this week and next of some of the world's greatest film stars and film makers. <!!.he fflontreal Star See Page 4 J·•-1ly 21 , 1978 Pigeons dovetail it out of here. Concordia painters have been on the job this Liaison Office summer sprucing up the facades of several , Loyol a Campus ·-7141 Sherbro~ke St. W. buildings downtown, but not everybody's Montreal , Queb e c pleased with their flair for colors. And visiting H4B 1R6 pigeons may be unintented victims. Page 3 Attention: Ms . Anne Kelly Four watts isn't much ... But it's enough to get Radio-Loyola into your Jear Ann e, ' .. living· room if you live near the west-end I wish t o t h a nk you for your posters concerning the Senior campus. Schol arships offered at Concer.d ia . Page 6 Unfortunately , due to the language law currently in force in Que.bee, we a r e unable to post an English a nnouncement Colleges on the road. unless it is accompa nied by its Fr~nch equivalent. As Our newest educational innovation seems to we like t o keep cur employees informed of what Concordia be a smashing success, with more to come. off e r s , we hope that this situation can be rectified. On page S . Your consideration in .this matter is greatly apprecia ted . DIALOG. etc. Sincerely Despite its limitations, the on-line computerized information service at Concordia University libraries is a valuable reference fool. The system is quick and fairly 11 , --. simple and, for the time being, is no charge to ,·.)._,, - -I· "', ✓-i -v ·J· _,,,. ___ , the user. ~ an:il Duma s " ...__ See page 3 E:nploy.ee Relations CUFA CONTRACT SIGNED A month of nego,tiations between CUFA "In November, there was a kind of (Concordia University Faculty Association) urgency which seems to have dissipated," and the administration resulted in the July said Williams referring to faculty fears of 4 signing of the new CUFA contract. government financial pressures. "The contract was basically limited to "There's a wide gap in the faculty," said salary adjustments," said Marty Steiner, Williams, "ranging from those who think vice-president of CUFA and head of the we should folJow the other Quebec univer­ negociating team. "It has been approved by sities into unionization and those who the CUFA council but still has to be ratified think it would be the end of the world." by the general membership." Steiner "We don't have the same kind of trouble expects this to take place within the first -with our administration as do the faculty of few weeks of September. other Quebec universities," said Mobre, A separate agreement covering promotion, "and pressure to unionize will probably contract renewal and merit increments was come because of external reasons rather approved by the Board of Governors on than internal ones." June 8. The agreement ends a situation where different procedures existed on each This is the artist's conception ofthe new Fine Alts Building on Dorchester Blvd West betw~ Crescent and campus and provides one unified system Bishop Streets. 1he building, an old garage. is undergoing vast renovation in preparation for opening in 1979. for faculty across the university. The agreement creates a right of appeal May Put ---- - ----------------- ----------- for faculty and establi~hes a mechanism Continued from page I. for reviewing contracts. agreed to absorb the university's operating Unionized workers at the Vanier Library "There were some tough negotiations," deficits for the last two years and is even and the Loyola Physical Plant have been said former CUFA vice-president Jim Restrictions chipping in an extra $2 million yearly as of negotiating with the university on renewal Moore, "but what we've settled on is some­ 1978-79 in order to bring up Concordia's of their contracts and agreements are thing everyone can Jive with." level of financing closer to those of the expected shortly. The issue of unionization still remains on Foreign other universities. The Senate's menu is full, as discussion in Jimbo according to several CUF A Anxiously awaited now, however, are continues on revision of various academic members. A study committee headed by the definitive enrolment figures for this regulations designed to assure the compa­ Blair Williams. is to assess the situation Teaching fall/winter session. Although bility of regulations originally set for and make recommendations to CUFA on university officials do not expect a 'Loyola College and Sir George Williams the subject. significant drop in registration, a decline Uoiversity. Another big item coming up of just one per cent means a quarter of a for 'debate in Senate before Christmas is Assistants million dollars less in revenue. Jike1y to be the question of competence in English for university students, as well as The Board of Governors needs the By Lynda Woodcock enrolment data to determine the extent revised curricula for newly merged depart­ STUDENTS OTTAWA of another expected operating deficit for ments in the Faculty of Arts and Science. The Canadian government may prevent this year. It could go as high as $3,000.000. One of these new sets of regulations foreign graduate students from accepting Foreign students, who have traditionally takes effect this year.those for cheating. teaching and research assistantships at the come to this university in great number~. And the new non-academic code of FIND THEIR country's universities unless the insti­ do not seem to have been discouraged by conduct, approved by the Board of tutions first attempt to fill the positions new federal immigration regulations or Governors last December, now applies. Its with Canadians. higher tuition fee ($1,500) imposed by application will be supervised by a new WAY New regulations being weighed by the the provincial government. team of two full-time and two part-time government probably would require assis­ Maintenance crews and outside ombudsmen which took office this New students were introduced to the tantships to be advertised in Canada. A contractors have been busy sprucing up summer. Loyola campus this week when the Dean of foreign graduate·student could apply after various parts of both campuses. The wood- And, of course, to top it all off, all Students Office launched its first April 30 of each year if no Canadians or , work on Concordia's rented buildings universities are waiting on the Angers orientation program. One day was set aside "landed immigrants" had accepted the downtown on Bishop and Mackey streets Commission to produce its final report for each faculty with ,a condensed evening positions. A landed immigrant, in Canadian is now a motley of bright, vivacious colors, on the Quebec university system. The session scheduled to take place tonight at parlance, is a permanent resident of the apt to attract everyone's attention. report, expected in early 1979, follows 7 p.m. and a special day for foreign students country who is not yet a citizen. And although it doesn't resemble at the earlier publication of "a statement of tomorrow. The rules are being considered by the all the artist's conception of the finished issues" last spring and a series of itinerant Orientation began with a brief intro- , federal Ministry of Employment and Immi­ product. the old Mid-town Motors Garage hearings in the university community. duction about student services and the gration. They will µot be put into effect on Dorchester Boulevard has been "faculty of the day". This was followed by a until negotiations with the l O provincial undergoing vast renovation over the guided tour of the campus geared to the governments are completed. Since that summer. It should be ready to receive particular faculty. After a leisurely lunch process is expected to take several months, the Faculty of Fine Arts by the spring SHALL WE DANCE! on the lawn, students attended an infor­ graduate st~dents will not be affected this · of 1979.