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Music student joins renowned Cirque du Soleil_

BY] ACQUIE CHARLTON

Though her costume is still a secret, Concordia cello student

Josee Campeau has an idea she'll be wearing something out of the ordi­nary - perhaps even downright strange - for her new job with the Cirque du Soleil.

"In Alegria, the orchestra members were all in white, with gigantic flower petals on their heads."

Campeau, at 23, is already earning raves. This spring she embarks on a three-year stint as a member of the Cirque du Soleil's tiny but much­praised orchestra in a brand-new show (whose name is still a secret). It will take her across the United States

and eventually, perhaps, to Europe. Camp eau, a student in the

Advanced Music Performance Stud-ies program, heard from a friend who plays violin in the Cirque's perma­nent show in Las Vegas that a posi­tion had opened up for a cellist at the ~

Cirque's Montreal headquarters. ffi It was all a little overwhelming at ~

first, she said, auditioning for a post § in what has become the hippest, most stylish circus in the world. But the audition judges put things into perspective. The Cirque du Soleil, they said, wants only what any other circus has ever wanted: to astonish people. And Campeau got the job.

The Cirque du Soleil's music defies easy classification, but "world

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beat" comes close . Alegria , the Cirque's best-selling record which reached number one on Billboard's world-beat charts last year, bor­rowed from the music of Balkan gypsies, with nods to the French torch-song, German cabaret, and Fellini film scores.

The new show, set to premiere at the end of April, apparently includes an Irish jig and a Chinese lullaby. Its libretto, which is in Spanish, Italian, French and English (as well as a mys­terious fifth language of phonemes, or nonsense syllables) is de:;igned, as ever, to transcend borders.

10-course program urgently needed by the industry

Campeau's own tastes are just as eclectic. She likes classical cellist Siegfried Palm, pop star Sting, jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong, Gaspesien rocker Kevin Parent, and

See Cirque, p. 7

Academic sector begins cutting The Faculties of Arts and Science and Fine Arts plan departmental mergers in an effort to reduce costs. For details, see page 4.

Centre for Continuing Education to offer Certificate in Marine Transportation

Software to hetp Jorda agricultural engineers

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BY BARBARA BLACK

Concordia's Centre for Continu­ing Education has signed an

agreement with the Shipping Feder­ation of Canada which will create the first program of its kind in Canada.

The 10-course program leading to a Certificate in Marine Transporta­tion is so urgently needed by the industry, in fact, that there are more potential students than instructors who can immediately be found to teach them.

Thirty students, all of them already working in the industry, will start the . program next September. They will administer and sell shipping services, rather than command ships.

Concordia alumnus David Garon is manager of marine administration for the Federation, and heads its training committee. He said that the program breaks new ground, and is already being looked at by two other Canadian universities.

"There is no formal training in this sector now," he said. "For years, we have relied on foreign expertise, but that is drying up."

Montreal is the administrative

hub of the Canadian shipping indus­try. It employs 4,400 workers, only 17.6 per cent of whom have post­secondary education relevant to· their work. Canadian shipping adminis­trators have been either immigrants with years of European or Asian experience, or native Canadians who had been trained in an ad hoc fash-

ion by their superiors. The Federation found that seven

local post-secondary institutions offer programs with an international marine transportation component, but none of these really concentrates on the commercial aspects of ship­ping; all but one are in French, while English is the lingua franca of the

A container ship plies the English Channel. Photo supplied by the Shipping Federation of Canada.

global industry. Garon said that the twin revolu­

tion of globalized trade and electron­ic communication make specialized training for shipping managers essential. Continuing Education was chosen in preference to the credit­granting academic sector, he added, because the program can be devel­oped faster, will be more flexible, and can be sold more easily to the industry.

The Federation, created by an act of parliament in 1903, with its head­quarters in Montreal, now represents 80 companies which operate or act as agents for more than 300 steamship lines. This includes virtually all the vessels moving between eastern Canada and ports overseas - over 150 million tons of goods a year.

Richard Diubaldo, Director of Continuing Education, was delight­ed with the agreement . "When

employees know what their company is all about, they're much better

equipped to perform efficiently," he said. 'We're very happy to serve a constituency in this area, and provide them with a competitive edge."

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This column highlights newsworthy events at universities across Canada and abroad If you have any interesting bits

of ieformation to pass on, please send them to Concordia's Thursday Report, BC-117.

• Labour troubles are brewing at Universite de Montreal, where teaching assistants are threatening to strike if their demands are not met. The union representing the TAs and the administration disagree on severa l points. For example, TAs say they teach half of the undergraduate courses at the university; the administration says the figure is closer to 35 per cent. TAs also contend that the university wants to reduce by one quarter the number of course offerings. That would mean more students per class; and more work for TAs, the union cla ims . TA trou ble is also plaguing McGill University, where 65 per cent of teaching assistants voted in favour of a strike in April if sa lary negotiations fai CThe salaries of TAs at McGill have not increased in at'least 10 years, said a student spokesman . TAs in the Faculty of Arts earn about $3,250 per semester based on 12 hours of work per week.

• A student at Universite du Quebec a Montreal wrote recently about the so-called private-sector ta.keover of public universities. Isabelle Hachey said the signs are everywhere you turn at her university: the Amphitheatre Banque de Montreal, UQAM's new building to be named for the founder of Tele-Metropole . Before long, Hachey said, "I'll be going to my sexology class in the Tro­jan Amphitheatre, attending a seminar on international relations in the Ronald McDonald Room and stopping for a 'pause pipi' in the Cottone/le Bathrooms."

• Universite Laval hopes to ra ise $60 million as part of its recently launched capital campa ign . Almost 30 per cent of the money ($17 .5 million) will be used to upgrade existing facilities or build new ones. Another $10 million of the money raised w ill be used to fund the library, which is trying to keep pace with technologi­cal advances in information retrieval. The university's last capital campaign raised $42 million, well above its $25-million target.

• Researchers at Simon Fraser University are tearing a page from the science fiction of Vancouver writer William Gibson, w hose novel Johnny Mnemonic imagined a world in which human mes­sengers store software in their brains. The scientists are using "Squids" - short for superconducting quantum interference device - to measure magnetic changes in the brain . Not only do they offer a glimpse of w hat the brain does, the Squids pinpoint areas in w hich the brain' s processing functions are performed, says The Globe and Mail. The findings are already having implica­tions for people·who make claims on B.C.'s auto-insurance com­pany. SFU's brain behaviour team is studying the possible effects of head injuri es, helping to verify or contradict reports of migraines, motor dysfunct ion or memory loss.

• The University of Manitoba and supporters of AIDS research in Africa suffered a major setback at the end of 1995 w hen five key members of the university's AIDS research project in Kenya died in a car accident. Killed were the project's administrative manag­er, Ruth Auma, research physicians James Nasio, Patrick Nyagne, and Tom Obongo, and driver Edward Oyugi . The group was returning to Kenya following a trip to a scientific conference in Uganda , at which the U of M project was praised by researchers for contributing to the understanding of HIV in Africa.

• Students at the University of Waterloo may soon have a say in which professors are granted tenure . UW's provost recommend­ed that a non-voting student observer be included on each faculty promotion and tenure committee for a two-year trial period.

• The newspaper of the Canadian Association of University Teachers published a list of American universities or colleges that have violated principles of academic freedom and tenure. The list of 51 institutions includes New York University, State University of New York, and Marquette University. Placing the name of an institution on this list does not mean that the institution or faculty has been condemned, only the current administration. Members of the American Association of University Professors consider it thei r duty to refuse an academic appointment at an institution that remains on this censure list, according to CAUT Bulletin.

• Dartmouth police are investigating the death of a Dalhousie Uni­versity student w hose body was found on January 3. Shannon Bright, 26, was a member of the Transition Year Program (TYP) and had planned to study sociology, social work or law. " He was a really good guy, and he had a lot going for him," the director of the progra;n said. "Education meant very much to him."

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Corporal David Faitchild, surrounded by his proud family - sister Jessica, mother Andrea and father Page Fairchild - and the rnayor of Westmount, RMC Col.one! Peter Trent.

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Drove through a town under fire to rescue hospital patients

Student David Fairchild is decorated for heroism

BY ALISON R AMSEY

Serving as part of the army reserves in Yugoslavia last year,

David Fairchild got a lesson in poli­tics that stretched far beyond his cur­riculum as a Political Science student at Concordia. It earned him a Force Commendation from the United Nations, which was presented in a ceremony at the Royal Montreal Regiment's quarters in Westmount on February 27.

Near the end of a ho-hum, seven­month tour filling sandbags and escorting convoys, when all but six of his platoon were away, Fairchild was sent on an unexpected and danger­ous assignment.

He was to drive to Knin, a town about three kilometres away which was being shelled by advancing Croa­tians, and go right through the centre of town to rescue more than 30 wounded civilians lying in hospital.

With Red Cross flags plastered on their army vehicles, the six peace­keepers made two trips. They stuffed

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the wounded in as best they could, given that the hospital patients were immobile and draped with tubes. 'We were racing against the clock," Fairchild explained.

On the third attempt, said the 22-year-old student, "we were stopped by the fact · the Croatian army had taken control of the town. When we arrived, Croatians had taken the hospital, and said there was nothing left for us to do."

Instead of returning with a load of patien ts, the soldiers picked up refugees on the way back.

The commendation praised Fairchild for "risking his personal security" while making the trips, "each more dangerous than the previous."

"It is the highest award the UN can give," said Lieut.-Col. Toby Glickman, commander of the Royal Montreal Regiment, of which Fairchild is a corporal. "Only four have been given to Canadians in the last two years." (One of those was to another member of the RMR, Dr. Reza Mehran, for doing open-heart surgery under field conditions, and

for saving a crushed leg when he landed in Bosnia without instru­ments or proper drugs.)

Fairchild isn't en'tirely sure why he received the commendation while the other five didn't.

'Tm hoping they will get the same thing," ·he said. ''I don't feel I did more than them. It wasn't me that was in command; a sergeant was in charge."

Fairchild signed up with the RMR in 1992. Due to graduate in 1997, he is carrying a full course-load while working three days a week at the Vanier College branch of Co-op Concordia, the computer outlet. He wants to join the Royal Canadian Mounted Police when he graduates.

He was one of eight soldiers from the RMR who were on that Yugoslavia · tour. Apparently, Concordia is the reg­iment's school of choice; fully seven of the eight either have attended or are currently enrolled here.

Lieut.-Col. Glickman graduated with a degree in Applied Social Science in 1980, and Fairchild's immediate superior, Capt. Matthew McDonald, is enrolled in a Geology program.

took the form of a traditional Chinese banquet this year. The dioner:; ~nsored by the Mechanical

'' Engine&ingStudents ~iation, is an opportunity for students to meet potential employers. Dean Donat Taddeo and the chair of the department, Professor V.S. Hoa, welcp~ed representatives from Loral Canada, CAE, Bell Helicopter Textron, BNR, Bombardier Canadair, Pratt and Whitney, Heroux, Allied Signal Aerospace, and the Naval Engineering Testing Establishment, among others. Representatives from Concordia's Career and Placement Service also attended.

Concordia is the hub of an inter-university project that helps Jordanian farmers make the most of their scanty rainfall

Jean Drolet is making the desert bloom

BY ALLAN KUNIGIS

"\ ]{ 7hen farmers receive just 10 to V V 15 centimetres of rain a year,

they must make each drop count. Concordia Civil Engineering Profes­sor Jean Drolet is heading a project that will help Jordanian farmers har­vest their water more effectively.

The four-and-a-half-year project, which began in 1993, is funded by the Canadian government's Interna­tional Development Research Centre (IDRC). It involves researchers at Concordia, the University of Monc­ton, the University of Jordan, and the Middle-East-based International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).

The IDRC has granted the project $250,000. Concordia is matching the funds by providing access to comput­er facilities as well as professors' time and administrative support.

University of Jordan researchers are collecting data on rainfall and soil quality. At the University of Monc­ton, they're testing a hydrological model based on annual rainfall records and water use. And Concordia is developing a software tool that will help Jordanian agricul­tural engineers determine their best options for farming in a variety of conditions.

"Concordia is the project's hub," Drolet said. 'We're integrating data

from Jordan and Moncton - pro­viding the tools - and we'll help the Jordanian people implement them."

Researchers are working on a 70-s q u are - kilometre experimental watershed that supports nearly 6,000 lli people. The area, which is near the 5

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receives one-tenth ofQyebec's annu- ~ I

al rainfall, yet farmers have managed, 0

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"The area once was forested," Drolet said. "Deforestation changed

Dance students perform As part of the Contemporary Dance

Department's regular "Informal" dance series, students will present their newest creations and works-in­progress at Le Building Danse, 55 Pine Ave., on Saturday at 8 p.m.

Students usually present their work informally three times a semester for fellow students and friends in one of their own studios on-campus. This term, the third and final Informal will be held off-campus and the public is invit­ed. Admission is free, and there will be a cash bar and a bake sale.

Interested in dance? Come and meet

the soil to a near-desert. We want to partially reverse the process."

Inhabitants include tent-dwelling Bedouins who raise sheep, farmers who grow barley (with a 20-per cent success rate), and vegetable growers who truck in water from Amman.

Inexpensive solutions Researchers will factor in the

amount of water available and the shape of the watershed and the needs of animals and plants, and then look for solutions that are acceptable to the inhabitants. The solution must not only work, but "be something the local people can be comfortable with," Drolet said.

"We're looking at inexpensive solutions with low environmental impact, " he said. 'We need straight­forward, pragmatic solutions. We need to adapt our tools to the peo­ple, not vice versa."

Examples include alternating small planted areas with non-planted areas, and using six-inch gulleys to capture and channel water from the

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the students in this very informal con­text. Help them in the development of their creative work and be part of the process. A warm reception and a pleasant evening of new dance are guaranteed. For information, please call 848-4740.

Theatre success Theatre student Sean Smith is one of

four winners in Write on the Edge, the annual competition for student play­wrights sponsored by Playwrights' Workshop of Montreal.

His play, The Order of Circles, will have a public reading next Thursday at

vacant area to the plants. Another solution is to plant a single fruit tree in the middle of a 10-metre square and funnel water from a fan-shaped area of soil on either side through a couple of trenches leading diagonally to the tree.

Depending on the quality of the soil, researchers will determine how to use the land most efficiently, with a mix of fruit trees, vegetable gardens and grazing crops'. ..,,. · _ _ . _ ~

The computer software will help the farmers cope with a range of cli­matic conditions - not only drought, but also heavy rain. "It will help to minimize risk and enable them to make the best decision."

Drolet, who joined the project a year ago, will see it through to its com­pletion in another year and a half.

He's currently searching for a post-doctoral fellow to help create the prototype software program. Once the program is ready, it will be implemented and documented, Jor­danians will be trained, and results will be published.

Eventually, conditions could be improved in hundreds or thousands of similar watersheds using the same tools. Compared with massive American environmental and water resource projects Drolet worked on before arriving at Concordia, he said, "This is a very small project. But it could have great importance for the area."

Drolet came to Concordia in May 1994 from Bethesda, Md., where he was a consultant with S.S. Papadopu­los and Associates. He grew up in Qyebec City, did his undergraduate work at the Universite Laval, and got his Master's in 1985 and his doctorate in 1989 from Princeton University. At Concordia, his teaching includes courses in environmental engineering, and he is doing research in automatic water-sampling techniques.

8 p.m. in the Strathearn Theatre, 3680 Jeanne-Mance St. Admission is by donation.

Meanwhile, his professor, Kit Bren­nan, is having her own play, Tiger's Heart, published by Scirocco Drama (also known as J. Gordon Shillingford Publ ishing), and will celebrate with a book-launch and a reading in Concordia's D.B. Clarke Theatre on March 25 at 7:30 p.m.

Tiger's Heart, a drama about a gen­der-bending physician set in 19th­century South Africa , received its premiere in Ottawa last year and has been featured in a drama festival in Vancouver.

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,CE COMPILED BY BARBARA BL ACK

This column welcomes the submissions of all Concordia faculty and staff to promote and encourage individual and group activities in

teaching and research, and to encourage work-related achievements.

Congratulations to Stanley Kubina , Associate Dean for Strategic Planning in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, who has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electron­ics Engineers . The honour is bestowed on no more than one per cent of the membership, and follows a rigourous evaluation.

V.S. Hoa (Mechanical Engineering) has been been selected by the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering to receive the G.H. Duggan Medal, awarded annually for the best paper dealing with the use of advanced materials for structural and mechanical purpos­es. Hi s paper was called "Biaxial Bearing/Bypass Testing of

r-ap.b1.!_e/Epoxy Plates," and appeared in the ~rof-1:he-Ame_ri­can Socleryton-es{i-R.9-ao.cLMaterials. The presentation w ill ;;­made tomorrow in Hamilton, Ont.

The doctoral thesis of Guido S. Baruzzi (Mechanical Engineering) was a runner-up in the competition for best thesis in Quebec. Its title was "A Second Order Finite Element Method for the Solution of the Transonic Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations."

Paul Bouchard, who recently joined the Education Department, has been named francophone editor of the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education (CJSAE). The journal is the only national publication dedicated to research in the field of adult education, and is published quarterly by the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education through its collaborators at the University of Saskatchewan, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Edu_cation, and now, Concordia.

Jeri Brown (Music) has been nominated for a Juno Award in the Best Mainstream Jazz Album category on the basis of her CD, A Timeless Place. The awards will be presented on March 10. She also won the Jazz Man Choe Award, the French equivalent of the U.S. Grammy. She toured France last year, and expects to do another European tour.

Lance Evoy and the Institute of Management and Community Development, of which he is the co-ordinator, were cited in the Year­book of Exemplary Practice 1995, published by the Canadian Associ­ation for Continuing Education. The journal devoted four pages to the IMCD and its work, particularly its summer program, and noted that the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation considers it a model for regional development training for grassroots groups.

Alan Nash (Geography) was a guest of the Tarnesby-Tarnowski Chair for Family Planning and Fertility Regulation and the Graduate Program for Environment and Society at Tel Aviv University. He pre­sented a paper called "Environme.nt Refugees: Consequences and Policies from a Western Perspective" at their international work­shop on Population, Environment and Society on the Verge of the 21st Century.

Manek Kirpalani (Marketing) has been invited to be Visiting Profes­sor of International Business at the Helsinki School of Economics from September to December of this year.

Filippo Salvatore (Modern Languages and Linguistics) took part in the documentary Enigmatico, a Genie Award nominee directed by David Martin and Patrizia Fogl iato and shown on CTV in December. He also took part in a post-referendum panel discussion on the Toronto-based Tele Latino network, and writes a weekly column about Quebec politics in II Cittadino Canadese. He contributed an artic le, "Mary Melfi: entre !'alienation et le surrealisme," to Ellipse, published by the Un iversite de Sherbrooke, whose December iss ue was devoted to Italian-Canadian poetry.

Humberto Santos (Board of Governors) was the keynote speaker at the mid-winter conference on alumni relations of the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education (CASE), held in Ste. Adele in February.

Ian Hanchet, a graduate of the Jazz program in Music, has launched his first compact disc as a leader-composer. Called First Love, the CD comprises 11 of Hanchet' s own compositions in a variety of styles, played by the Ian Hanchet Sextet. He works as a full-time music therapist with autistic children at the Giant Steps School.

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Letters to the Editor must be signed, include a phone number, and be delivered

to the CTR office (BC-117/ 1463 Bishop St.) in person, by/ax

(514-848-2814}, by e-mail {barblak@alcor.concordia.ca} or mail by

9 a. m. on the Friday prior to publication.

The mind boggles As the stagr;, is set at Concordia

for downsizing, cutbacks and depart­ment/program closings , one ques­tion (among many others) particu larly boggles the mind.

One cannot help thinking the per­sonal qualities it takes for some of the senior administrators to plan and negotiate such cuts with a straight face and a clea r conscience. After all, aren't these the same individuals of the Kenniff era w ho continue to enjoy the scandalous sweet d~al of · rece iving t he same administrative salaries after thei r administrative terms expire?

Ahmet Satir Decision Sciences and MIS

CORRECTION

The Exchange for Change column in the February 29 issue of CTR quoted Vice-Rector Hal Proppe as saying that the Quebec government "might" soon rescind the one-per-cent salary "claw­back" from Concordians' paycheques. The headline, however, said definitively that the clawback "will" end soon. The story was right; the headline wrong. CTR regrets any confusion this may have caused.

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Anticipated savings of $13 million over the next five years through retirements, rationalization of programs

Arts and Science starts restructuring BY BARBARA BLACK

The Faculty of Arts and Science, in a determined effort to

streamline, wants to restructure sev­eral departments and begin phasing out some programs.

In a document called Platform far Development: A Plan rf Action, 1996-97,

Dean Gail V alaskakis has asked her Faculty Council, the Vice-Rector Aca­demic and Senate to approve closing some programs in the Departments of Library Studies, Geology and Theo­logical Studies, and the BA Specializa­tion in Science and Human Affairs. The report emerged out of ~ork done by the Faculty Academic Committee on Planning and Priorities (ACPP).

• It recommends that the Geology Department be collapsed into the Department of Geography, which might be renamed accordingly. Six of -the .. seven undergraduate pro­grams would be closed, but the University would continue to offer the discipline.

• Leisure Studies, which has only three full-time faculty, would maintain its independent location, but be administered by Exercise Science; this situation would be assessed after one year.

• While all three undergraduate programs in Library Studies would be closed, faculty would be encouraged to develop a cluster of courses in Information Studies which have caught the interest of at least two other departments.

• Two of the four undergraduate programs in Theological Studies

would be closed. (This department should not be confused with the Department of Religion.)

• The BA Major in Science and Human Affairs would be run by the Department of Philosophy; the BA Specialization would be closed.

Admission to the programs slated to be closed has been suspended pending approval of the recommendations by the relevant University bodies.

No full-time faculty or staff are expected to be laid off as a result of these changes. However, the number of part-time teaching contracts may decrease, because the teaching remis­sions given to full-time faculty for administrative duties would be reduced. Some support staff posts would no longer be necessary, but strong efforts would be made , as always, to transfer those employees to other jobs in the University.

V alaskakis said in the report that considerable savings are also expect­ed through early and anticipated retirement. "Should 54 faculty retire, · we will balance our budget," the report says. "Should more retire, we will begin to renew the faculty." Salary accounts for 96 per cent of the Faculty's budget.

The plan projects savings of $13 million over the next five years from

New structure will allow for greater interdisciplinarity

Fine Arts to reduce budget by $2 million, merge departments

BY DO NNA VARRICA

The Faculty of Fine Arts plans to cut expenditures by $2 million

over the next five years. A report prepared by the Faculty's

Strategic Planning and Budget Committee was on the agenda of the March meeting of Faculty Council.

It maintains that budget cuts of $1 million can be achieved through a series of one-time measures for 1996-97, including a compressed timetable, an increased workload for full-time faculty on a voluntary basis and more retirements among faculty members over 65. An additional $1 million can be removed from the budget in sub­sequent years through attrition.

Dean Christopher Jackson appealed to the faculty to support him. The members unanimously agreed with Jackson's view that the cuts, although painful, will allow the Faculty to maintain its high stan-

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dards and preserve its integrity. Council also approved a plan to

amalgamate four departments -Painting and Drawing, Photogra­phy, Sculpture, Ceramics and Fibres, and Printmaking - into a central one to be called Studio Arts.

Better serve students The move is designed to provide

an administrative structure which will better serve the students by pro­viding greater accessibility to support services. Each area will have a co­ordinator, but a single chair will oversee operations of the new, enlarged department.

Academically, the new structure will allow greater interdisciplinarity. Most students enrolled in Fine Arts graduate in the studio arts.

Now that the motion to reorga­nize Studio Arts has been approved at the Faculty level, it will be for­warded to Senate and Board of Gov­ernors for final approval.

the Faculty's $40-million annual budget through these and other cost­cutting measures. Already this acad­emic year, the faculty has been reduced by 10 per cent, and the sup­port staff by more than 15 per cent, thanks to the recent early retirement package.

Ten academic units have been reviewed by the ACPP so far, and 18 remain to be assessed.

While this plan would compress the Faculty to some degree, the ACPP also foresees the development of new programs. Their plan discuss­es ideas for a school of information, communications and technology, a unit of applied health science, a lan­guage-learning lab, a cluster of envi­ronmental sciences, a redesigned general degree in arts and science, and ways in which faculty could use electronic technology to improve their service to students.

This report is the first of a series on academic development and resource planning in the Faculty, Valaskakis said. It provides a wealth of data on the Faculty, including its size (its budget exceeds that of the other three Faculties combined), enrolment profile, details of its acad­emic structure, and history of the planning process. Copies are readily available from the Dean's Office, and on the Faculty's Web site.

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PR officer spends gruelling week organizing visit here by BBC crew to film segment on Professor Habashi's aircraft de-icing technology

This is London calling ... Concordia's Public R ela tions

Department fields dozens of telephone requests every day, from simple things, like sending out campus maps, to com­piling information for external agen­cies. But one of the Department's main objectives is to put Concordia on the media map.

As the Public Relations Officer responsible for media queries, I hear from reporters looking for experts on everything.from mob behaviour (Sociol­ogy Professors Taylor Buckner and Brian Petrie) to DNA analysis (Biology Professor Claire Cupples).

Every call is important, because it can result in good exposure for Concordia. This past year, almost all of Concordia's publicity has been positive.

BY DO NNA VARRICA

The telephone rings con­stantly in my office. It's

not uncommon to have CJAD on the line and CFCF's Pulse News on hold, but when it's the British Broadcasting Cor­poration (BBC) calling from London, every effort is made to be available and to meet its every need.

The standards and quality of BBC programming are impeccable and its reputation unparalleled. BBC pro­ductions are bought by other net­works and re-broadcast around the globe. Naturally, being featured in a BBC program is a coup.

So when BBC television producer T eresa Hunt called in November looking for interesting research pro­jects to feature on a science show called Tomorrow's World, we were prepared to go to any lengths to bring her and her team to Concordia to film one of ours.

Tomorrow's World, became inter­es ted in doing a segment about Mechanical Engineering Professor Wagdi (Fred) Habashi's aircraft de­icing technology. We knew we might be asked to do some extraor­dinary things to facilitate their shooting schedule , but I did not expect that to include a Sunday afternoon shopping for winterwear for the producer, or trying to per­suade someone to persuade someone else at Air Canada to "lend" us an airplane for the film shoot, but that is what eventually happened.

looking for a waterproof parka and boots. In all correspondence since, she has not stopped thanking me for giving up personal time to help her shop. "I'm sure it's not in your job description," she laughed.

Shopping was a breeze compared to i finding an airplane - to film both in ~ the air and on the ground - or per- ~

< suading an exhausted pilot to demon- ~ strate a flight simulator after he had s: spent 24 hours trying to leave New York during the big January blizzard.

But it's all ,io.._a day's work. Finally, on January 23, the BBC crew asse.r,n­bled for the painstaking process of filming the plane's de-icing technolo­gy in action. Professor Habashi and I spent three toe-numbing hours on a runway at Dorval Airport before someone mercifully announced that filming for the day was over. That does not count the three hours before

orks that, which were spent wait­ing while the tiny "pencil" camera was mounted on the airplane's nose.

In an early telephone call, Teresa asked what the weather was like in Canada in January. I asked her if she had ever experienced a Canadian winter. "No, but how bad can it be?" she asked.

Most Europeans have no idea how cold cold can get. We spent her first Sunday in Montreal in the stores

A star may or may not have been born that day, but

Professor Habashi was, as always, the consummate professional.

We haven't yet seen the fruits of our labour; the episode contain­ing our segment will air a little later in their season, but they have promised us a copy. They seem to be pleased with the product. I'm sure we will be, too.

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Watson does it for the whales

BY SYLVAIN COMEAU

One of the defining moments of Paul Watson's life came, fit­

tingly enough, in an inflatable boat off the coast of California. In 1975, he and other Greenpeace activists had manoeuvred themselves between sperm whales and a Soviet harpoon boat. After about 20 minutes, the vessel's captain "looked at us and drew a finger across his throat," and fired over their heads at the whales.

"We had been told by all of the experts that the whales would attack us, because we were the closest boat, but the male came up and over us, and I looked up into an eye the size of my fist, and what I saw in that eye was understanding. The whale under­stood what we were trying to do."

The whale spared their lives before dying. "I felt that my life had been given to me by that whale. From that moment on, I said to myself, 'I don't really care what any human being thinks about what I do from now on.' My allegiance is to the whales, to the natural world."

Watson, the founder of Green­peace and the organization he cur­rently leads, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, said in a lec­ture at Concordia las t Wednesday that he doesn't have a high opinion of his own species.

"If you define intelligence as hand-to-eye co-ordination and the ability to build atomic bombs, then we are definitely the most intelli­gent species. But if you define intel­ligence as the ability to live in harmony with the natural world, whales are much more intelligent than we are."

Some members of his own species have been at least as contemptuous of Watson . The Canadian-born activist has been arrested several times in Canada for trying to end the seal hunt, as well as for trying to stop Spanish fishing boats in inter­national waters. He says that he has been beaten up by seal-hunters in Newfoundland, as well as by RCMP officers.

When he's not on the high seas battling fishing boats, Watson lives in California. He spoke at Concordia - and on several local radio stations during his brief stay in Montreal - to fight the reopening of the commercial harp seal hunt in Canada later this year. Watson says that despite government claims to the contrary, the seal hunt makes money only through the sale of the seals' penises to Asian markets for "quack medicine" impotence cures.

"Canada sent representatives to Taiwan to convince them that if you dry seal penises and mix them with dried tiger bones, it will cure impo­tence. They don't want to be known as the Lorena Bobbitts of the world, so they sell the penises with a bit of the seal attached. Of course, the buyers just throw the rest away."

Watson, using a Canadian gov­ernment research permit, has come up with a humane alternative to the seal hunt; he says that the fur shed by seal pups could be used to make bed comforters.

Left Greenpeace in disgust 'We found that we could provide

300 jobs almost immediately. Am I getting any co-operation from the government? Absolutely not." Wat­son is best known for founding Greenpeace, but he left the environ­mental organization in disgust sever­al years ago.

"I feel like Dr. Frankenstein in regards to Greenpeace. The heads of Greenpeace make six-figure salaries; they send out millions of pieces of direct mail, for a 1.2-per-cent return - they might as well be MacMillan­Bloedel's largest customer. This is not what we envisioned 25 years ago."

The much smaller, lower-profile Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's next mission will be a four-month campaign in Antarctica, "[where] we'll go after the Japanese whaling fleets."

Watson's lecture was presented by the Concordia Animal Rights Asso­ciation (CARA) and QPIRG. CARA and other Montreal organi­zations are planning a demonstration on Parliament Hill on March 15 to protest the seal hunt.

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At Concordia, we take pride in offering graduate programs designed to ensure success. We also take pride in the achievements of our graduate students.

Prix d'excellence of the Academie des Grands Montrealais, Chambre de ·commerce du Montreal metropolitain

1994 Guy Cormier PhD, Chemistry & Biochemistry Best doctoral thesis, Natural Sciences and Engineering category. Supervisor: Dr.]. Capobianco

NSERC Doctoral Prize Competition

1995 Guido Baruzzi PhD, Mechanical Engineering Runner-up for the best thesis in the Natural Sciences and Engineering category. Supervisor: Dr. W Habashi

1993 Rongtuan Lin PhD (SIP), Biology Runner-up for the best thesis in the Natural Sciences and Engineering category. Supervisor: Dr. E Newman

Governor General's Gold Medal

1995 Tim Gadosy PhD, Chemistry & Biochemistry Supervisor: Dr. 0.5. Tee

1995 Darragh Devine PhD, Psychology Supervisor: Dr. RA. Wise

1993 Rita Terzian PhD, Chemistry & Biochemistry Supervisor: Dr. N. Serpone

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1995 Kimberly Miousse Graduate Diploma in Accountancy Placed second in Quebec, third in Canada in the UFE. For the eighth consecutive year, Concordia's chartered accountancy program achieved a higher success rate in the UFE than all other universities in Canada, placing six of its students in the top 10 in Quebec. Program director: Prof. G. Fayerman

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Forum on jobs is surprisingly upbeat

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Students were advised to march off to Concordia's Career

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About 260 students attended the session, which was presented by The Gazette and moderated by alumnus and business reporter Campbell Clark.

All seven panelists were cautious not to sound overly pessimistic about the job market. They cited statistics sug­gesting that the newly graduated aren't necessarily doomed, and stressed how students should market themselves and target growth industries.

Alan Law, of Murray Axmith Inc., works with people in "career transitions." He was quick to point out that students often short-change themselves when listing their rele­vant work experience. A graduate involved in student government or athletics, he suggested, has already acquired organization and people skills.

"But take the time at the front end to think of what you're searching for. Then get a sense of your strongest skills."

Network, promote yourself "But you won't get an interview

without a great cover letter and a great_ resume," said Professor Stephen Kaplan, who teaches man­agerial accounting and auditing at Concordia. Kaplan said that net­working and self-promotion are often the keys to employment today. He eschews traditional resume packages sent in flat envelopes, and suggests a unique style of presenta­tion that relates to the field of employment.

Kaplan, who wrote a book titled Don't Wait Till You Graduate: The Canadian job Search Guide for the Real World, emphasized the impor­tance of selecting a profession with growth potential, and Michael Cook concurred. Cook, a senior project manager with Andersen Consulting Inc., pointed out that "knowledge workers" in technology are in high demand.

"Today, we expect you to have good people skills, good reading skills, good writing skills. That's the price of admittance," Cook said. 'We want to know if you have the skills to learn something deep, fast. You should be technology-literate."

Cook, who recruits on campus for Andersen Consulting Inc., stressed the importance of mobility. If you are willing to move anywhere in the world, he said, your resume will be given more consideration.

Dev Srinivasan, the head of the Commerce and Administration Stu­dents' Association, said that "if you sit at home watching The Simpsons and complaining, you'll never get a job, and don't deserve one." Fear of failure is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Srinivasan said that employers can sense fear in applicants, and respond better to confident interviewees.

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Esmeralda Thornhill speaks as part of Black History Month

.. Re-righting" black history

BY SHI RA KATZ

H·istory needs "re-righting," according to lawyer and human

rights educator Esmeralda Thornhill. Thornhill is an educator who has

worked for the Quebec Human Rights Commission since 1977. She has just been appointed the first hold­er of the James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University, in Nova Scotia, named in honour of Nova Scotia's first black lawyer, who graduated from Dalhousie Law School in 1898.

Thornhill spoke at Concordia under the title, "Removing Blind­folds, Baring Faps: Blacks in the Americas!"

African achievements and con­cerns are often ignored, she said.

"No one group holds a monopoly on collective genius. Christopher Columbus accidentally stumbled onto the Americas. He could not have 'discovered' the First Nations peoples who were living there for thousands of years, and African and Asian visitors were t_here well before Columbus arrived."

Western economic trade was built on the slave trade and the use of African resources, such as gold. "The period of black enslavement has been and is still sorely underestimated," she said.

Black people brought skills to the West, including agricultural and medicinal knowledge, linguistic and negotiating competence, architec­ture, carpentry, weaving, clothing and jewelry.

Defining the Self SAGE, the Student Association of

Graduate Studies in English, will hold a day-long symposium tomorrow in the Faculty and Staff Lounge of the Henry F. Hall Building.

The four sessions will be chaired by Professors Mary Di Michele, Neil Ten Kortenaar, Nicola Nixon and David Leahy. The keynote address, by Eliza­beth Yeoman, of Memorial University, is on "lntertextuality, Identity and Disrup­tive Children's Stories."

Twelve students will present papers, five of them from Concordia: Taien Ng, Merrianne Couture, Philip Shoore, Alice Jane Emanuel and Andrew Burke. The event begins at 10 a.m.

Estates-General The second of two Estates-General

on education in Quebec will be held on Thursday, March 14, from 5 to 7 p.m., in the Pavilion Judith-Jasmin, Studio­Theatre Alfred-Lal iberte, JM-400, Uni-

There were outstanding figures in Qyebec history, Thornhill said, such as Marie Joseph-Angelique, the first person known to have protested against slavery here. She was execut­ed in 1734, after revolting against her slave owners.

Thornhill said that at university, black students have so little contact with black teachers and role models, and so little exposure to curriculum relevant to their history, that their education is like an out-of-body experience.

Thornhill holds a Law degree from the Universite du Qyebec a Montreal and a Master's Degree in Spanish language and literature from the Universite de Montreal.

As James Robinson Johnston Chair at Dalhousie, she will be the first person with an academic appointment dedicated to the study of black perspectives, history, culture and contributions in Canada. She will join Dalhousie's Faculty of Law on July 1. She was invited to speak here as part of the Race and Racism Lecture Series, which is sponsored by the Concordia-UQAM Chair in Ethnic Studies and co-sponsored by Concordia's Centre for Community and Ethnic Studies.

For more information on the Race and Racism series, contact the Centre for Community and Ethnic Studies, at 848-8728. The next presentation, ~n "Universalism and Difference: (Un)intended Discrimination in Canadian Immigration Policy," takes place March 13, and a presentation titled "Measuring Racism" will take place March 27.

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versite du Quebec a Montreal, 405 St. Catherine St. East, at the corner of St. Denis St. The speaker will be Celine Saint-Pierre, head of the Estates-Gen­eral and vice-rector of teaching and research at UQAM.

CGAs invite writers The certified general accountants'

association (Ordre des comptables generaux licencies du Quebec) has put out a call for tenders for the writing of reference works to establish trade prac­tice in four aspects of their profession.

The Ordre will publish six reference volumes, of which two are already in progress, one on performance indica­tors, and another on financial risk man­agement. Those remaining are on profitability evaluation, financial planning and management, budgetary planning and management, and control systems.

For further information, please contact the chairs of the Departments of Accoun­tancy, Finance and Management. - BB

Ude M's Edite Noivo tracks ethnic racism, a phenomenon in which the discriminated against become the discriminators

Rec.ent immigrants have become ideal scapegoats: sociologist

BY SYLVAIN COMEAU

Universite de Montreal Sociology Professor Edite Noivo is well

aware that the results of her recent research may not sit well with some. She has written two papers on race relations between groups of immi­grants to Montreal, with the focus on landlords who have taken recent immigrants as tenants.

In a lecturn in the J.W. McConnell Building on February 6, Noivo quot­ed a landlord and Italian immigrant to M Q..ntre.al,-speaking about racism he faced 30 years ago when he settled in Montreal. "I used to be called a wop, a macaroni, a 'voleur de jobs'; I was treated as inferior, too hot-blood­ed and stupid, and people made racist jokes. Of course I felt discriminated against."

But minutes later, the same man, whom Noivo calls "Nino," was asked about more recent immigrants. "These people are no good for this country. They don't like to work hard, they exploit the government, they live in the dirt. That's how they are; it's in their culture."

The quotes encapsulate a paradox at work among the immigrants Noivo studied. "As much as they recall how much racism hurts, people like Nino are both discriminated against and also discriminators."

Noivo, a Portuguese immigrant, calls the phenomenon "ethnic

racism," a term she invented because she couldn't find any research about it. Last summer and fall, she studied "how landlords in two immigrant groups, the Italians and the Greeks, perceive and react to non-white immigrants who are their tenants." Many of her results were surprising.

"Racist attitudes on the part of ethnic minorities are not without cer­tain contradictions. For example, in Canada, Italians and Greeks are at the top of the list among groups affirming their ethnic differences. Despite that, people like Nino con­tinue claiming that the ethnicity of the others - for example, Jamaicans, Muslims, the lndo-Pakistani -poses a problem."

Vulnerable conditions In another obvious contradiction,

"despite the fact that Greek and Ital­ian landlords are directly benefiting from the arrival of recent immigrants, they insist that 'none of these groups should be allowed into the country."'

Although minorities are not more prone to racist beliefs than the domi­nant group, "perhaps the vulnerable immigrant conditions may reinforce scapegoating attitudes.

"For example, the recession and the restructuring of the labour mar­kets in recent years have threatened or eliminated many jobs, and estab­lished, white immigrant groups per­ceive that their jobs are being taken away and given to newcomers. These

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new arrivals become ideal scape­goats."

She says that sociologists have sim­ply ignored this area. "Why do we generally think of racists and the vic­tims of racism in opposite camps? Why does Canadian sociology, for example, tend to portray ethnic minorities solely as victimized groups and rarely as potentially racist? Is eth­nic racism hiding behind the poverty of our theoretical framework, or in our incomprehension of racism which is articulated in foreign languages?"

Noivo found that minority groups "tend to reproduce the [racist] ideas of the dominant group. I believe we need to step outside the trendy vision of racism as uniquely linked to the attitudes that white people hold toward minority groups, and we need to apprehend situations in which the immigrant minority groups racialize each other."

Noivo emphasizes that the lion's share of racism and discrimination in Canada is committed by the domi­nant group, but ethnic racism is the kind most likely to stay hidden, and unaddressed in public campaigns against racism.

"I'm concerned that anti-racist policies, public education and infor­mation campaigns may not be reach­ing immigran't~oups that speak other languages, and that live in eth­nic enclaves and cultures. The ongo­ing anti-racist struggle must also be directed at them."

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Special speaker: Dr. Frederick Lowy, Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Concordia University

"Policy Options for Concordia University"

Open to all eligible CUPFA members with 1995-96 membership cards

a medieval music ensemble from Montreal called Le Nef. "I like any music coming from the soul," she said in an interview. "It doesn't mat­ter if it's baroque or if it's rock."

Campeau's teachers in the Advanced Music Program praise her talent and commitment. Professor Sherman Friedland said that she's

already "MSO quality." "She'll be able to do anything she

wants to do in the music business,"

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said Friedland. He is preparing a compact disc with the young cellist of contemporary compositions by Jean Coulthard and John Bavicchi.

Campeau grew up in Rosemont, the product of not-particularly­musical parents. At two, she began playing an older cousin's recorder, and was soon writing music. She mastered musical notation before she knew her ABCs, and, after playing the recorder and the violin, took up the cello at nine.

Over the years, Campeau has played with Canada's National Youth Orchestra, and with the Orchestre

Conservatoire de Musique de Mon­treal. She has also played in France; in Lyons, through an exchange with the Conservatoire nationale superieure de musique, at the Maison du Qyebec in Paris, at concerts and festivals in St­Malo and Loches, and on tour with the French orchestra Tempo Primo across France, Germany and Poland.

Campeau said she's "very happy" to be with the Cirque now. And wi th unaffected impatience, she snorts a bit at all the praise heaped upon her. "They always tell me I'm so young to play like that. I know that! Is it a problem?"

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Alumni News Lecture: Energy· Resources and the Environment Monday, March 18 Hugh McQueen, PhD, (Loyola BSc'54), Fellow of the Ameri can Society for Metals and the Canadian Society for Mechanical Eng ineering , has been Professor of Materials and Manufacturing at Concordia since 1972. 7 - 9:30 p.m. in the Henry F. Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Room 760. $14 per person. RSVP: (514) 848-3817.

Art Gallery The Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery is located at 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W In format ion 848-4750. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

March 12 - April 16 Spring Hurlbut: L 'Ascension. Monday - Friday from 11 a.m.- 7 p.m. and Saturday from 1-5 p.m.

Concordia Concert Hall Thursday, March 7 Music and Ideas, a forum moderated by Kevin Austin, at 12:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 9 Classical vocal students, directed by Beverly McGuire. 8 p.m. Admission is free.

Sunday, March 10 Catherine Potter Trio . North Indian cla ss ical music. 8 p.m. Tickets are $5. 848-7928.

Wednesday, March 14 Sara Seek, flute; Tracy Mortimor, bass. 12:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 16 Jazz vocal performance students by Jeri Brown. 8 p.m. Admission is free.

Counselling & Development Study Skills Drop-in Get on-the-spot help with reading , writing, studying and time manage­ment. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 12 - 2 p.m. at SGW. call 848-3545 for more details.

CPR courses The following courses wi ll be offered by the EH&S Office in the next few weeks. Members of Concordia and the outside communi ty can take the se courses. Contact Donna Fa sci ano , Training Co-ordinator, at 848-4355,

March 9- Basic Life Support course March 10- BLS course March 22 - Heartsaver March 28 & 29 - CSST First Aid -English course March 30 & 31 -CSS T First Aid -English course April 12- Heartsaver course April 13- Heartsaver course April 14 - Baby Heartsaver

Faculty Workshops Understanding and Responding to Differences among your Students. Tuesday, March 12. Noon -2 p.m. in H-440, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd . W. Leader: Heather MacKenzie (LOO) and David Tabakow, Counselling and Development.

Film Conservatoire d' Art Cinematographique de Montreal Cinema J.A. DeSeve, 1400 de Ma isonneuve Blvd . W., Concordia University (Metro Guy-Concordia) . Admission $3.50.

Friday, March 8 Some Like it Hot at 7 p.m.; Not a Love Story, a film about pornography, at 9:15 p.m.

Saturday, March 9 WR-Mysteries of the Organism at 7 p.m.; Cyrano de Bergerac at 9 p.m.

Sunday, March 10 The Last Wave at 7 p.m.; Montenegro at 9 p.m.

Monday, March 11 Nuit d'ete en ville at 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 12 Baby Doll at 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 13 Se.ven Beauties at 8:30 p.m.

Friday, March 15 Marius at 7 p.m.; La bataille d'Algerat 9:15 p.m.

The Loyola Film Series " Li te rature & Fi lms of War and Peace", sponso red by th e Loyol a Pea ce Insti t ute. F. C. Sm ith Auditorium, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W. Tel. 848-3878. Free admission.

Monday, March 11 Bridge on the River Kwai at 7 p.m.

Monday, March 18 Paths of Glory at 7 p.m.

Health Services Recipe Contest In celebration of Nutrition Month, we're holding a recipe contest. Drop off your favorite nutritious and easy­to-prepare reci pes at either Health Services locations or in the box near the Informat ion De sk in the Hall Building before March 22. Prizes given for the top 3 recipes.

International Students Office Income Tax Information Session-for International Students

Revenue Quebec Thursday, March 21 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Office of Revenue Quebec, Complexe Desjardins/Metro Place des Arts . On St. Catherine between Jeanne Mance and St. Urbain Sts. Basilaire 2 (second floor) next to the cinema.

Revenue Canada Thursday, March 23 1 :30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. H-110 (auditori­um), Henry F. Hall Bldg (1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.). Income tax forms will be available at the work­shops and at the ISO office. 848-3515.

Lacolle Centre for Educational Innovation Intuitive Training. Saturday, March 9; 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Leader: Antoinette Giacobe. Fee: $56.98

Career Transition Monday evenings, March 11 - April 18; 6:30 a.m.- 9:30 p.m .. Leader: Suzanne Cote . Fee: $170.93

Lectures & Seminars Concordia Glaxo-Wellcome Thursday, March 7 Rector Frederick Lowy on "Medicine, Ethics and HIV: Chai Ieng es for the Nineties." 6 p.m. in LB-125 , J.A. DeSeve Cinema, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. 848-2555

SCPA & Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy-~ Thursday, March 7 · Karen Kraft-Sloan, Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment; Jeff Faux, Economic Policy Inst., Washington and Ray Rogers, Environmental Studies, York University, on "The Future of Work: Alternative Policy Agendas ." H-110, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. 848-2575.

Department of Philosophy -Thursday, March 7 Profe ss or De siree Park on "The Plura list Society " 1 - 2:30 p.m. in AD-131. 848-2510.

Thursdays at Lonergan March 7 Sima Goel, D.C., chirop ractor, on "Al t ernative Med icine and Contemporary Needs. " 3:30-5 p.m ., 7302 Sherbrooke St. W. Information: 848-2280.

Faculty of Commerce and Administration Visiting Speaker Series Friday, March 8 Professor Denise Rousseau, Carnegie­Mellon University, on "It takes a good reason to change a psychological con­tract." 2 p.m. in GM 403-2 (1550 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)

CIAC Friday, March 8 B.I.L. Madise, High Commissioner for South Africa, on "Reconstructing the New South Africa." 4:30 p.m. in H-507, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. 848-4987.

Student Association of Graduate Studies-in English Friday, March 8 "Defining the Self," an all-day series of presentations, begins at 10 a.m. in H-762, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. 848-2340.

The Academic Women's Caucus Monday, March 11 Barbara Carroll, Carleton University, and Erica Besso, Concordia University, on "Playing the Funding Game : Acquiring Research Funding in Hard Times." Noon in the Faculty/Staff Club Lounge, 7th floor, Henry F. Hall Bldg., 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Buffet is $10.

Concordia South East Asian Students' Association Tuesday, March 12 Seminar on working and doing busi ­ness in Asia . Speakers from Singapore, Indonesia and the former Canadian ambassador to China. 1 -5:30 p.m., Faculty Club , 7th f loor, Henry F. Hall Bldg ., 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Admission: $5 (free for Concordia students) 848-3540 or seasa@alcor.concordia.ca

School of Community and Public Affairs Wednesday, March 13 John Zacharias, Concordia Urban Studies professor, on "New Ways of Getting the Publ ic Back into the

Planning Process." Noon in the base­ment Lounge, 2149 Mackay.

Photography Visiting Artist Series Wednesday, March 13 Lecture by Arnaud Maggs at 1 :30 p.m. in VA 323 of the Visual Arts Building (1395 Rene Levesque Blvd. W.

Centre for Community & Ethnic Studies Wednesday, March 13 Alan Nash, Concordia Geography pro­fessor , on "Universalism and Difference: (Un)intended Discrimination in Canadian Immigration Policy?" Noon - 1:30 p.m. in LB-677,1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics Wednesday, March 13 Paul Michael LOtzeler, Washington University, St. Louis, on "European Identity and Multiculturalism." 4:15 p.m. in LB-125, JA DeSeve Cinema, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W .

Liberal Arts College Thursday, March 14 John Fekete, Trent Univers ity, on "Moral Panic and Body Politics." 8:30 p.m. in H-110, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. 848-2565.

Department of Philosophy Thursday, March 14 Prof. Ernest Joos, on "Cogito, ergo 'non sum:' I th ink therefore I 'am not."' 6 - 8 p.m. in CC-101. 848-2510

Centre for Native Education Thursday, March 14 Angaangag Lyberth, Inuit drum dancer and consultant on aboriginal affairs, on "Traditional Inuit Values." 7 p.m. in LB-125, J.A. De Seve Cinema, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Thursdays at Lonergan March 14 Marcel Danis, Arts and Science Vice­Dean (Administrative Affairs), on "The Rights of the Accused." 3:30-5 p.m., 7302 Sherbrooke St. W. Information: 848-2280.

K Information Centre of Montreal Friday, March 15 J. Krishnamurti 1996 video presenta­tions, "Ending Disorder Now." 8 p.m. in H-420, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. 937-8869.

English Department Thursday, March 21 Professor Michael Levenson, University of Virginia, on "Toward Kitsch and Koons: From High Modernity to Low Pleasure." 8:30 p.m. in H-920 (1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)

Meetings Senate: Friday, March 8 at 2 p.m. in DL-200, Loyola Campus.

CCSL: Thursday, March 15 at 10 a.m. in H-769

Board of Governors: Wednesday, March 20 at 8 a.m. in GM-403-1, 1550 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Special Events CSCE -12th Annual Bridge Building Competition Friday, March 15 The Concordia chapter of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers is

hosting the 12th Annua l Bridg e­Building Competition. Thi s annual event involves the construction of popsicle-stick bridges and attracts teams from across Canada and the United States.

Thesis Defense Friday, March 8 Dagobert Brah, History, on "The History of the Newspaper Aufbau: 1934-1948." 2 p.m. in H-771, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Thursday, March 14 Vicki Veroff, Psychology, on "An Integration of Friendship and Social Support: Relationships with Adjustment in Men and Women." 1 p.m. in H-762, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Friday, March 15 Loui se Kell y, Admini stration , on " Inferring Corporate Strate gy and Character in the Computer Industry." 10 a.m. in GM -300-24, 1550 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Unclassified University Writing Test The next test will be held on Friday March 8, 1996. Appointment card s may be picked up at the Student Service Centre at LB-185.

Apartment for rent Spacious 5 1/2 available immediately in Ville Emard . Five-minute walk to Monk Metro. $490 (heating not inc lud­ed). Call 766-5607 between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.

USA Work Permits We can help Canadian cit izens increase their chances of receiving USA work permits. Also, U.S. immigration and related business matters. B. Toben Associates (U.S. lawyers) 288-3896.

Concordia Students for Literacy If you are interested in being a literacy tutor, training sessions will be on March 9 & 10. For interview call 848-7454 or drop by our office at 2020 Mackay.

Women International Women's Day Friday, March 8 Vigil and demonstration at 7:30 p,m. Berri Square (Metro Berri)

Benefit party and dance at 8:30 p.m. "The Medley" (Rene-Levesque & St. Denis). Tickets: $2 or donation.

Every Day is Women's Day Cabaret Thursday, March 7 A salute to International Women 's Day at California, 1412 St. Elizabeth. (Berri Metro)

Friday; March 8 The mezzanine of the Hall Building comes alive in a salute to International Women's Day. Table dis­plays, free food, tarot readings, art show, film showings and much more.