Vol. :J;i-,,_ No. I3January 14, 1988 Joint fellowship established between Bank of Montreal and c ·oncordia Women encouraged toward academic, business excellence by Ken Whittingham ank of Montreal recent­ man William D. Mulholland excellence." --with the Vanier family. tition. ly announced the estab­ said the Bank had chosen to Creative approach 'Madame Vanier's late hus­ The Master of Business B lishment at Concordia honour in this very special way William Stinson, Chairman band, Governor-General Administration Program at University of a fellowship Madame Vanier, who became a of Concordia University's five­ Georges P. Vanier, was a gradu­ Concordia is part of the Uni­ named for the Honourable director of the Bank in 1967. year, $25-rnillion Capital Cam­ ate of Loyola College, one of versity's Faculty of Commerce Pauline Vanier. The $250,000 She was, moreover, the first paign, welcomed news of the Concordia's two founding and Administration. Individ­ bank funding will enable the woman to be elected to the Bank's contribution. "The institutions. The library on the uals seeking information about University to annually award a board of directors of a Canadi­ Bank of Montreal has adopted University's West-end (Loyola) application procedures should two-year fellowship of$20,000. an chartered bank. a particularly creative campus bears his name. contact Rebecca Midgley in the Recipients will be women who Mr. Mulholland added that approach to furthering the edu­ Due to the approaching MBA Admissions Office at have been active in the business "through this fellowship, the cation of women in business, application deadline for the 848-2717. world for at least two years, Bank of Montreal seeks to and at the same time support­ 1988-89 academic year, the first Media representatives and who are entering Con­ encourage women to aspire to ing universities. Concordia fellowship recipient will be requesting additional informa­ cordia's full-time MBA pro­ the highest levels in the busi­ applauds · this initiative," Mr. selected from qualified Bank of tion should contact Public gram. ness world through a combina­ Stinson said. Montreal employees. In follow­ Relations Director Ken Whit­ In announcing the fellow­ tion of practical business expe­ Concordia University has ing years the fellowship will be tingham at 848-4879. ship, Bank of Montreal Chair- rience and academic enjoyed a close association awarded through open compe- Charles Belanger (downtown AV) and Paul Hrasko (West-end AV) took these random photographs of Concordia folks just before the holidays. Did you all have restful vacations? Page 2 TIIE TIIURSDAY REPORT January 14, 1988 All signals go for metro stop renaming ... John Miller from Fine Arts' Painting & Drawing department has two large exhibitions currently underway: Variation on a Theme (recent paintings 1985-1987) Part 1 is on until January 28th at Space 1428 (Museo-techni), 1428 Overdale, 876-1192. Part JJ is on view at Artlenders (Dan Delaney Gallery), 318 Victoria Avenue in Westmount 484- 4691, also till the end of the month. Professo; Miller has ; hown at the National Gallery in Ottawa, is represented in the Canada Council Art Bank and is known for large mosaic murals, notably in the Court House in Regina, Saskatchewan, at the Catholic Centre of the Cathedral in Saskatoon and in the . Grand Hall of the Legislative Building in Lincoln, Nebraska. There he designed and installed a massive mural titled "The Coming of the Railroad" for the commemoration of Nebras­ ka's Centenary of Statehood, a commission won by interna- tional competition. Sociology & Anthropology's Julio Tresierra has been busy. In the fall he presented a paper "Europa and lndo­ America: 500 Years Later" to the Norwegian Association of Histodans at the University of Oslo; he participated in a Peace Studies and Dimensions of Conflict seminar at the Internation­ al Peace Research Institute in Oslo under the direction of Professor Johan Galtung; his article "Le Plan Arias est-ii reellement en contradition avec la politique de Ronald Reagan?" was published in Haitian Perspectives; and he also received a $8,400 grant from the Secretary of State to adminster a pilot study on Greek Youth in Montreal jointly with the Hellenic Community of Montreal. · ... The following professors were recently elected to serve a two-year term on the Faculty Personnel Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Science: J. Herz (English), J. Ryan Louise Roy (President and Oeneral Manager, STCUM - Montreal Urban Community Transit (Theological Studies), P. Seraganian (Psychology) and 0. Tee Corporation) made a personal visit to Concordia to help Rector Kenniff ring out the old and greet the (Chemistry). L. Adler (Mathematics) and R. Coyte (Political new; after two and a halfyears of lobbying, the Guy metro station has been renamed Guy-Concordia. Science) were elected as alternate members . .. UQAM also makes it to the map: its adjacent station is called Berri-UQAM. .. Stephen Sondheim watch out! Before Christmas CBC radio was running a contest looking for the best 'reworked' Christmas carol. Home Run producer Gino Apponi heard about the " Bingle Jells" poem that was published in TTR's Library News page (Dec. 3/87) and solicited it as a submission. Welcome, One catch, though: the poem - sung to the tune of Jingle Bells OPINION. - had to be sung on air. No problem. Poet Elizabeth Winiarz To the Editor: and her fearless buddies from the Library Linda Dmytryshyn, We were dismayed to read in the acquisition of funding, just Lee Harris, Deborah Herman, Peter Randell and Albert Tabah the recently released Concordia as 'total research activities' Mr. Ivanier strutted their stuff on Daybreak, CBC's early show. The University Annual Report for extend beyond the business of morning audience was so wowed by the performance that they 1985-1986 the following pas­ fund raising. voted the Bingle Jells group first prize winners.' Who said life is sage from p. 4: Crude as it is, could we not dull in the stacks? . .. · "In 1985-1986 the Faculty herald as well the total of . Last minute flash: Concordia has been successful in (of Arts and Science) contrib­ publications produced by that obtaining two SSHRC Canada Research fellows: Peter Keating uted greatly to·the enrichment Faculty in 1985-86? This would (History) and Marguerite Mendell (Political Science). Further of the University's research serve to remind us that in many details will appear in next week's edition of TTR . .. profile. The total of research disciplines, research productiv­ activities in the Faculty ity is only very loosely related amounted to $4,155,203." to funding. Surely the Faculty's ability Ronald Rudin to enrich the University's Robert Tittler research pr,ofile extends beyond Department of History America's largest steel pro­ Medical Research Foundation. ducers, and the ninth largest l:le is also a member of the manufacturing company in Executive Committee of the Canada. Allied Jewish Community E!lucated at McGill Univer­ Services of Montreal, and a sity, lvanier sits on the board of Grand Patron of the Montreal governors of the Universite de Museum of Fine Arts. Ivanier Montreal, the international also sits on the museum's board of Ben Gurion Univer­ Canadian art acquisitions com­ Montreal industrialist Paul sity, the Royal Victoria Hospi­ mittee. lvanier has been appointed to tal Corporation, and the Trained as an accountant, Concordia's Board of Gover­ boards of directors of numer­ Concordia's latest governor nors. His term runs until June ous organizations, ·including joined lvaco Inc. in 1957. The 1988. the Canadian Steel Producers firm was recently ranked 47th The new governor is ·Presi­ Association, the Weizmann in Canada's Financial Post 500 dent and Chief Executive Offi­ Institute of Sciences and the companies, with 1986 sales of cer of Ivaco·Inc., one of North Jewish General flospital's approximately $2 billion. ------------------------- --------------------------- - ~- --- - - January 14, 1988 TIIE 1HURSDAY REPORT Page 3 'Beam me in, Scotty' Concordia joins the tele-university revolution by Mark Medicoff his month the Univer­ City, and to smaller com­ sity joins Laval, munities scattered throughout T l'Universite de Mont­ the province. real and Tele-Universite of the Concordia will be showing Universite du Quebec and oth­ general interest programs, doc­ ers to beam televised educa­ umentaries, conferences, guest tional programming to all parts lecture series and seminars on of the province. specific topics. In 1986-87, a Neilson's rat­ "Concordia," asserts Mark ing survey was undertaken by Schofield, who is Concordia's Tele-Universite to ascertain the A,udio-Visual Director and size of its viewing audience. who [s responsible for our The results left university offi­ participation in the program, cials in awe. The survey exam­ "has joined the consortium at ined the 1986-87 academic year, just the right moment. Last which consisted of 35 courses year CANAL - (Corporation and a formal student enroll­ for the Advancement of New ment of 5,500. It revealed that Applications of Language - - 27,000 Quebecers had been fol­ Quebyc's educational channel) lowing the educational pro­ achieved satellite capabilities. grams without taking them for This means we will be able to credit purposes. broadcast throughout the prov­ Although this marks the ince independent of direct tape first time Concordia will be deliveries to cable companies." televising through the CANAL In fact, the progress of broad­ network, courses will not be Mark Schofield, Concordia's A udio-Visual Director, sess CA NA L as revolutionizing the way cast technology has even made available for credit. Potential people learn. We joif! the ·revolution this month with three and a half hours of programming per it theoretically poi,sible to send students will have to wait at week. live material to other educa­ least until next fall as a number tional channels throughout of academic problems remain each program a telephone num­ Canada.