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SDAY ~PORT VOL. 18 OCTOBER 2I, 1993 No. 6

A report card for academics

Government study shovvs hovv universities spend tax dollars

BY SYLVAIN COMEAU

The number of Qyebecers attending university has more

than doubled in the past 20 years, and the proportion of adult students (age 18-29) jumped to 18.9 per cent from 8.5.

W omen make up 57 per cent of students attending Oliebec universi­ties and have been in the majority since 1980, but they represented only 19 per cent of academic staff in 1991-92.

T hese are some of the facts in Indicateurs de l'activite universitaire, a 146-page statistical profile of Qiebec universities released last Thursday by Oliebec Higher Edu­cation and Science Minister Luci­enne Robillard.

The first of its kind in Canada,

the study avoids the kind of contro­versial value judgments evident in the annual Maclean 's magazine rat­ing of Canadian universities.

Accountable to the public "This collection of data can't rate universities, because the differences between them are so vast," Robil­lard pointed out. "To evaluate per­formance or quality, we would have to establish standards by which the raw data could be compared.

"For example, the data on the money devoted to research doesn't give us any information on the per­tinence of the research."

Speaking at a news conference, Robillard said that the study will have no effect on government spending at Qiebec universities. The Ministry plans to continue with current levels of funding, she

said. Although she described the

release of the Indicateurs as a public service rather than a tool for the government, she said that it has been published to let people know what is going on.

'We put a lot of money into our universities. It's the principle of accountability; you have to tell the public, who are giving you the money, what you're doing with it."

Claude Hamel, President of the Universite du Qyebec and this year's chair of the Conference des Recteurs et des Principaux des Uni­versites du Qiebec, said he wel­comes this kind of data collection.

"One of the reasons that universi­ties participated in the study was to help provide an alternative to the Maclean 's survey," which tends to

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Kekondonce, a two-year-old Potowatomi, peeks over the table displaying sweatshirts at Concordia's Native Awareness Days, held early this week. Panel discussions, story-telling, dancing and drumming filled the mid-day sessions on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Invited to Buckingham Palace to receive award

Patsy Lightbown wins international book prize

BY BARBARA BLACK

l)rofessor Patsy Lightbown, who r has long been on the cutting edge of research into how we learn lan­guage, has hit an academic jackpot.

How Languages are Learned, which she wrote with colleague Nina Spada, has won first prize in the applied linguistics section of the English-Speaking Union's Duke of Edinburgh Book Competition.

Lightbown has taught in Concordia's TESL (Teaching Eng­lish as a Second Language) pro­gramme since 197 4. The programme was then only a year old; in fact, TESL staff, students, alumnae/i and friends will celebrate its 20th anniversary this Saturday. Spada is an Associate Professor in

the Department of Education iri Second Languages at McGill Uni­versity, and did her MA in 1979 under Lightbown;

The English-Speaking Union, based in London, has 35,000 mem­bers worldwide, .mainly in the Commonwealth countries, and traces its roots back to 1918.

Lightbown heard about the award yesterday by E-mail, and was look­ing forward to getting more details on the weekend. The informal mes­sage read, in part, "HRH himself will be giving out the certificates sometime between lunch and tea on Wednesday, November 3 at Buck­ingham Palace." One of the authors is invited to attend, and to have her photograph taken with Prince Philip after the presentation.

Lightbown is a leading authority in both the theoretical and applied aspects of second-language acquisi­tion, with numerous publications and research projects to her credit, including work with English- and French-speaking schoolchildren in Oliebec.

How Languages Are Learned is a practical, comprehensive reference book, in which the main theories of language learning are set out, to help teachers choose appropriate methods.

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OF FF EDITED BY MICHAEL ORSINI

Off the Cuff is a weekly column of opinion and insight into

major issues in the news. If you are a Concordia faculty or staff

member and have something to say "off the cuff,"

call CTR at 848-4882.

Success of casino isn't a sure bet,

Brian Petrie says

It may be a far cry from Atlantic City, the mecca of gambling, but

Montreal now has its first casino, North America's largest. And

judging from the initial public reaction - more than 36,000 visi­

tors filed in during the first three days of operation at the $95-

million facility on lie Notre Dame - the provincial government's

gamble seems poised to reap huge financial rewards. The casino

expects to generate gross earnings of $114 million in the first

year, with a net profit of $50 million going to Quebec's coffers.

Off the Cuff spoke to Sociology Professor Brian Petrie about

some of the stakes in this gamble.

How do you feel about the Quebec government's decision

to get into the gambling business?

"The government has long told us that casinos are a hotbed of

organized crime. Now, the government says it's OK just because

they're doing it. But if the Mohawks do it, it's still illegal.

Do you think the opening of the casino will contribute to the

gambling problem?

"They're encouraging people to gamble, which is providing an

alternative form of taxation for the government. But big gam­

blers will still be attracted to Atlantic City. Maybe the govern­

ment needs a 12-point plan to cure its gambling addiction ."

Why do you think the government chose to open a casino?

"They've known that people are gambling illegally. They recog­

nized that the climate was right and they moved in . Now they're

intruding into our fantasies . I object to this, to the creative way in

which the government can get its hand into my pocket. I just see

this as another form of taxation ."

What are the sociological reasons behind gambling?

"Gambling is an alternative reward system . Gambling is the

dream of making it to a life of moderate comfort without having

to work hard. Win the 6/49 and live in Baie d'Urfe. We have the

belief that these systems are viable for social advancement. But

in reality, they're empty exercises."

Can this venture succeed?

"A casino run by bureaucrats can't possibly win, because they

don't have a sense of fun. Americans offer much more incentive,

such as high-class entertainment. What do you get for your

bucks [at the Montreal casino]? Very little. My prediction may be

off, but I don't think it 's going to become the gambling centre of

Canada."

OCTOBER 21, 1993

Fine Arts students produce high-quality magazine and CD

Volute knocks down departmental walls

BY SUSAN GRAY

The students who assembled this year's special edition of volute

had two things in mind. Implicit in their mandate was

the production of an attrac­tive showcase for students' work. But beyond that, volute's fifth edition provides a much­needed link among the various disci­plines of the Fac­ulty ofFine Arts.

The result, published last month, is a handsome, 112-page magazine and compact disc, now being used to promote the Faculty across Canada.

Balance Volute's was a labour-inten-sive affair for its publishers, the Art History Undergraduate Stu­dents Association. Editor Chris Kuilman is not the only one who relinquished the possibility of paid summer work to pour his heart and soul into it; a nucleus of 27 students

put the magazine together over eight months.

The idea behind the special edi­tion was "to

create an overall balance," explained Kuilman. "We didn't choose things that called too much attention to themselves."

The text of volute includes an

Patrick Meagher executed this piece, called Canadian, during a three-month exchange last year in Offenbach, Germany. "I remember laughing out loud at the literalness of the word handschuh, or hand-shoe. Gloves would never again be so mundane."

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ironic poem about art icon Jeff Koons ("Jeff Koons has nothing to say and he does it well"), and essays on such disparate subjects as little­known 19th-century American sculptor Edmonia Lewis, Haitian

political posters, Bloomsbury painter Vanessa Bell and the

self-referential nature of pop culture.

Images range wide-ly in media, and in

tone, from the ag­gressively polemi­cal ("Dead Men Don't Rape") to the lyrical and the enigmatic. The 20 selections on the compact

disc include stu-dent compositions

for electroacoustic and conventional in­

struments. Student per­formances of existing

works range across the reper­toire, from Brahms to Dizzy

Gillespie. Volute is a Latin term for the curl

on an ionic column; it's a name which Kuilman, an architecture buff, finds both artistically sugges­tive and linguistically neutral.

Sold advertising One of the students' major deci­sions involved financing. After an initial outlay of $4,000 was provid­ed by the Art History Department, they raised another $4,000 from advertising, and got $4,600 from Concordia's MasterCard Advisory Committee and the Dean of Stu­dents' special projects fund.

A deficit of $3,000 remains, but it is hoped that sales will cover it. Since September, 400 copies at $6.50 each have been sold.

Copies of volute will be distrib­uted across Canada to universities, art schools and colleges. The Music Department has bought 500 copies of the CD, the first ever produced with their students.

Art History Chair Don Andrus, one of two faculty advisors on the project and himself an experienced art magazine editor, is lavish with his praise. "It's very rare to find a student production of such high quality."

The next issue, set to appear in January, will be about 50 pages shorter, but Kuilman says the quali­ty will be maintained. The "volu­teers" hope to expand their production to CD-ROM, which would permit colour reproduction and possibly film footage from Cin­ema students.

Additional reporting by Barbara Black

Programme could use more faculty participants

Executive Development goes to the office to sell savvy

BY BARBARA BLACK

L. ucia Fusaro has been out pounding the pavement, cooling her heels in executive

waiting rooms, and exercising her persuasive powers in the marketplace. She's selling savvy.

Fusaro is the marketing manager for the Executive Development Programmes (EDP), set up in 1988 by the Faculty of Commerce and Administration to give workshops to businesspeople. More than 3,500 working executives have passed through Concordia's doors since then, taking one- or two-day workshops to sharpen their skills.

Now EDP is getting proactive. Fusaro and her boss, EDP director Henri Colas, are tak­ing the workshops directly to company offices, instead of bringing the participants to the campus. Fusaro is delighted with the recep­tion she's been getting from business and industry.

"Our competition is not from other univer­sities," she said with some surprise. "They don't seem to be doing this. And companies often prefer professors to professional consul­tants, because they value their research."

Focused fresheners Business and industry have pared down and sharpened up to meet the recession. While they may think more carefully than before about spending money on training, they wel­come focused, short-term fresheners that give their executives an edge over the competition. Bringing workshops right to the office makes the idea even more attractive, because they lose a minimum of company time.

About 10 faculty members, all instructors in

the MBA (Master's of Business Administra­tion) and Executive MBA programmes, have courses ready to go. However, the keynote of EDP is flexibility, both in time and content, so each programme can be adjusted to fit Fusaro's diagnosis of the client's needs.

A typical programme would have 20 senior managers attend a working lunch, where a Concordia professor would give them an up­to-the-minute analysis of trends in mergers and acquisitions. Another programme might take a half-day workshop to simulate a real business crisis.

Soft skills The recession has had an effect on the subject matter which interests potential clients, Fusaro said. In the past, "soft skills" such as leadership, motivation, negotiation and pre­sentation skills were popular, but now the accent is on "hard skills": day-to-day business techniques, finance, accounting, marketing, and human resources management, plus the latest trends in exporting, and mergers and acquisitions.

The advantages for a company are clear, but there are reciprocal benefits for the University. Concordia adds lustre to its already solid rep­utation in the business community, and facul­ty members make business contacts which_ may lead to consulting opportunities.

Fusaro would like to see more faculty take part. She can be reached at 848-3960, by fax at 848-8645, or in writing at GM Suite 903-23, 1550 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., H3G 1M8.

Three-day event to take place at Loyola Campus

Philosophy symposium examines polluted moral environment

BY BARBARA BLACK

We hear a lot about our dirty air and water, but what's the state of our souls?

Or, if you prefer, our sense of values? Philosophy Professor Ernest Joos, organizer

of a three-day symposium to take place at Concordia's Loyola Campus next week, has deliberately chosen the theme, "Is our Moral Environment Protected?," to draw a parallel

. with the much-publicized degradation of the physical world.

·The symposium will be launched next Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Loyola Chapel with an address by the Hon. Charles Gonthier, of the Supreme Court of Canada, titled "Law and Morality: Is There a Need for a Moral Order to Support Legal Decisions?"

On Wednesday from noon to 2 p.m. in the Russell W. Breen Senate Chamber, there will be a round table discussion on the topic, "Do Products of the Arts and the Media Belong to Our Moral Environment?" The moderator will be Associate Vice-Rector Barbara MacK­ay, and the speakers will be Professors Joos and David Roche Eley (Communication Studies).

On Wednesday at 8 p.m. there will be a public lecture in the chapel by Paul van Ton­geren, of Nijmegen, Holland, on the viability

of philosophical anthropology. On Thursday, in the Senate Chamber,

there will be another round table, this time on "The Interplay of Freedom and Equality." The moderator will be Professor Christopher Gray (Philosophy), and the speakers will be Louise Marcil, of the Universite de Montreal, and Van Tongeren. In his letter inviting Judge Gonthier to give the keynote address, Joos explains why he coined the phrase "moral environment."

"I wish to stress the analogy with 'environ­ment' as it is discussed nowadays at every street corner. Its meaning is understood by everybody as an obvious transgression of the laws of nature ... The laws governing our lives become visible in our private and collective actions."

The laws which govern our moral choices, Joos explained, are disregarded or flouted because we imagine freedom to mean that everybody can set his or her own standards. "As a result of this conception," Joos wrote, "life itself suffers an irremediable fragmenta­tion."

The symposium is sponsored by the School of Graduate Studies, the Faculty of Arts and Science, the Visiting Lecturers Committee, Campus Ministry, and the Departments of Philosophy and Theology.

AT CE COMPILED BY BARBARA BLACK

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.

Homa Hoodfar (Sociology and Anthro­po I ogy) has received a grant of $100,000 (U.S.) from the Andrew W . Mellon Foundation for her Study on The lslamization of Law on Iranian Women.

Dominique Legros (Sociology and Anthropology) presented a paper, Reworked Oral Tradition and Continu­ity: The Northern Tutchone Case, at the International Conference on Tradi­tion, Continuity and Invention in North American Native Society, sponsored by the Association pour la recherche en anthropologie sociale (France) and the 14th North American Indian Con­ference Organizing Committee (Aus­tria), at the College de France in Paris in June.

Frank Muller (Economics) presented a paper on Preventive Environmental Policy: Concepts and Impediments at the fourth World Academic Confer­ence on Human Ecology, held in Meri­da, Mexico in July. He also organized a workshop on Preventive Environmen­tal Policy: A Realistic Policy Option? at the first meeting of the Canadian chapter o.f the International Society for Ecological Economics, held in Ottawa in October.

Klaus Herrmann (Political Science) read a paper in April to the Internation­al Constantin Brunner Foundation at The Hague, titled The Philosopher Constantin Brunner and the Republic of Israel. He also participated in the Konrad Adenauer Foundation's Walter Lacqueur Colloquium on contemporary developments in central and eastern Europe, and was invited to speak on issues relating to the former German Democratic Republic . by the Depart­ment of History of Humboldt Universi­ty in Berlin.

Harold Chorney (Political Science) presented a paper on Rediscovering Full Employment: The Monetarist Fal­lacy to the Department of Economics of the University of Manitoba on Octo­ber 1. He also debated the dean of Manitoba's School of Commerce on Debts and Deficits before an audience of 200, at a conference which was sponsored by a social action coalition called Choices, and chaired by Sharon Carstairs.

.Cathy Mullen (Art Education) present­

ed preliminary results of a research

project under the title Representing

the Social Contexts of Cultural Under­

standings and Practices at the Interna­

tional Visual Sociolqgy Association's

annual meeting in Rochester, N.Y. in

July. She also organized and moderat­

ed the Canadian Researchers' Forum,

a gathering of 25 art education

researchers and doctoral students

from across Canada, to discuss issues

shaping current and future research in

art education. The session was part of

the programme of the 28th World

Congress of the International Society

of Education through Art (INSEA), held

in Montreal in August. Mullen and col­

league David Pariser have been

appointed co-editors of the Canadian

Review of Art Education, the research

publication of the Canadian Society of

Education through Art (CSEA).

Richard Lachapelle, a doctoral stu-,

dent in Art Education, is a recipient of

a 1993 Doctoral Dissertation Fellow­

ship from the Getty Centre for Educa­

tion in the Arts, in Santa Monica, Calif.

Richard received the $12,500 (U.S.)

award to work on his dissertation, A

Videographic and Ethnographic

Account of the Process of Aesthetic

Understanding. His dissertation super­

visor is David Pariser (Art Education).

Richard, who works as an educator at

the National Gallery of Canada in

Ottawa, is using that museum as his

research site. He received his MA in

Art Education from Concordia in 1990.

Desiree Park (Philosophy) lectured on

The Role of the State and Enlightened

· Self-Interest at the University of War­

saw in May. She also lectured on John

Locke's Proposed Separation of

Church and State at the Pontifical

Academy in Cracow and at the Insti­

tute of Philosophy in Tarnow. Both lec­

tures will be published in Poland in

Polish translation.

Ulrike de Brentani (Marketing) pub­

lished an article, The New Product

Process in Financial Services: Strategy

for Success in the July issue of the

International Journal of Bank Market­

ing.

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Concordia's Thursday Report is interested in your letters, opinions and comments. Letters to the Editor are published at the Editor's ~ discretion. They must be signed, include a phone number, and be delivered to the CTR office (BC-117/1463 Bishop St.) in person, by fax

(514 I 848-2814) or mail by 9 a.m. on the Friday prior to publication. If at all possible, please submit the text on computer diskette. Limit your letter to 500 words. The Editor reserves the right to edit for space considerations, although the utmost care will be taken

to preserve the core of the writer's argument.

As published in CTR Sept. 17/92 and Feb. 13/92 (and subsequently approved by CTR's Editorial Board) letters disparaging the behaviour or decisions taken by an individual, which are not of a public nature, letters quoting exchanges between two or more parties in private

conversation or personal correspondence, or letters venting an opinion about the integrity of colleagues, will not be published Whenever time allows, the writer may be contacted by phone or mail to rework the letter, with an explanation as to why it was not accepted

These are copies sent to CTR of two let­ters addressed to the editor of The Con­cordian student newspaper, regarding an editorial in the issue of September 29. In keeping with the spirit ofCTR's letters policy {see above], these letters have been edited. Full copies are available in the CTR office, BC-118.

Dean expresses sorrow at Concordian editorial I write this letter to you with a deep sense of sorrow. Sorrow, because of all the people you have wounded and pained in your attempt at sensationalism in the case of Mr. K.C. Dhawan. I am shocked and ashamed to know that a Concordia student would report this kind of story without regard to who gets hurt . I made myself available to all media, any time of day or night, and yet you claim that it was difficult to contact me. Shame on you! When I offered to meet with you on Thursday, you said there was no point in

meeting since the story was now dead. A few people's souls are also dead in this uni­versity because of your story.

Let me set the record straight. You say that Mr. Dhawan "began his protest after his request for a public inquiry into sexual harassment allegations .. . went unan­swered!" The University answered Mr. Dhawan. It also investigated the case. Mr. Dhawan was given a chance to defend himself, contrary to your report. He met with Dr. Charles Bertrand, the Acting Vice-Rector, Academic at the time. Evidently he couldn't mount a good defence, hence the letter of warning. Mr. Dhawan did not like this result, and he chose the media to let his reaction be know n rather than follow the normal pro­cedure of lodging a grievance.

Contrary to what Mr. Dhawan said, the case began with the Sexual Harassment Officer in November 1991. Since 1989, how­ever, the secretary had been seeking advice and counsel on an informal basls from sever­al members of the Faculty as to how to deal with Mr . Dhawan. In addition, she had explained her mailing activities to the Asso­ciate Dean, Administration in 1991.

Let me also state categorically that the part-time secretary came to the Dean's Office to resign her job, not to complain about Mr. Dhawan. After much persuasion, she decided to put her thoughts down in writing. She lodged a formal complaint against Mr. Dhawan only when he lodged one against her. Imagine the damage you

OCTOBER 21, 1993

have done not only to the part-time secre­tary but to all the women in this University. Mr. Dhawan chose to make this affair public, not the secretary. He is suing her for libel because she dared to talk to the Dean about possible harassment. This whole affair has resulted in women saying that they would resign and walk away from their jobs rather than lodge complaints about harassment. The women on the staff of The Concordian should sit and ponder this situation .

Mr. Dhawan clearly said, at the end of his fast, that he had attained his goal - attract­ing media attention. The University did not negotiate and did not appoint a mediator. The University offered to have an indepen­dent person collect all the facts and present them to Mr. Dhawan. In spite of all his protestations, Mr. Dhawan has now decided to use regular procedures.

Finally, you wonder about the message that the University is sending. The message that The Concordian is sending is, "Women, do not complain about harassment, because The Concordian will make you suffer." My recommendation, if I may take a leaf from the book of Mr. Dhawan, is a public inquiry into the reporting of the Dhawan case by The Concordian. Is that too much to ask? I am tempted to fast until I achieve my goals.

Christopher A. Ross Dean, Faculty of Commerce and Administration

Professors "unconcerned" about gender discrimination I became involved in the case of K.C. Dhawan in Fall 1989 in my role, at that time, as " Sexual Harassment Contact Per­son" for the Faculty of Commerce and Administration.

What I find truly discouraging, and why I am writing this letter, is that many faculty members are sitting back, seemingly uncon­cerned and even working hard at avoiding the facts, and, indeed, the entire issue of g!3nder discrimination. It is shameful that the majority of the witnesses who had the courage to corroborate Mary Genova 's story are not tenured faculty members, but mem­bers of our most vulnerable employee group - that is, female staff.

About five years ago, there was an hour­long debate at one Faculty Council meeting about the problem of gender discrimina­tion/equity. At that time, this matter was deemed to be a "non-issue" in this Faculty.

Five years later, it certainly does appear to

be precisely that - a non-issue - to many

of our colleagues. Otherwise, how can we

explain the following?

• Although many of us have witnessed over

the years K.C. Dhawan's verbal abuse and

disruptive behaviour, the first thing people

ask when broaching the subject of the

Dhawan affair is not did K.C . Dhawan

harass this person, but did Mary Genova

do something wrong?

• One professor recently urged me to get

Mary Genova to retract her statement

because "she can't win ... she's only a part­

time secretary." In other words, when it

comes to a professor's career versus the

right of a secretary to a non-threatening

work environment, clearly, the latter is

irrelevant, a "non-issue."

• Another individual noted: "Poor K.C.

Dhawan looks gaunt and pale ... we really

must do something!" How is it that over a

two-year period, this professor never

noticed the distress on Mary Genova's

face when she had to cope with K.C.

Dhawan's offensive conduct? Dhawan's

behaviour was accepted as a norm for the

past 25 years, while gender discrimination

was deemed to be a "non-issue."

Unfortunately, the only aspect of the gender

discrimination/equity "non-issue" that

seems to concern some people is that the

University hiring policy - that of increasing

the percent of female tenure-track faculty to

a reasonable level - has had "the effect of _

irritating male professors" (Gazette ,

October 3, 1993). This editorial obviously

insinuated that just maybe, w omen are real­

ly asking for it. In fact, the only concern that

appears to count as an "issue " in this

harassment affair is the effort on the part of

some faculty members to shore up what is

left of their "old boys" network. Some

"issue"!

Let me add one very important point. I am

heartened and extremely proud of the way

senior administrato'rs in this University seri­

ously and promptly followed due process

throughout this outrageous affair.

Ulrike de Brentani

Associate Dean,

Faculty of Commerce and Administration

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Obituary

Andre Laprade, former Assistant Vice-Rector

Members of the University community were saddened to

hear of the death last week of Andre Laprade, who was Assistant Vice-Rector, Relations and Audit, at the time of his retirement from Concordia in 1987.

"Andy," as he was known to close colleagues, was raised in Ontario, but spent his adult life in O!iebec. An engineer by training, he left Northern Telecom in 1968 to join the staff of Sir George Williams University.

In the 1980s he became active in the aerospace industry, and worked to promote links between the busi­ness community and academe.

Cyril Macdonald, now Director of Supply and Services, reported to Andy Laprade for 12 years and was a close friend.

"He was definitely an ideas man, always looking for a better way to do what needed to be done," he said. "He had high expectations for his team, was quick to promote our accomplishments, and quick to help those with problems. This Universi­ty has benefited in countless ways from Andy's outlook."

Andy Laprade is survived by his wife, Jeanne Metivier, sons Ray­mond, Michel, and Marc, and daughter Lorraine. The funeral was held last Thursday at the Loyola Chapel. Cyril Macdonald delivered the eulogy. Family, friends and col­leagues gathered afterwards at the Loyola Faculty Club. Andy was 72.

APPELS DE PROJETS POUR L'EVALUATION DU

PROGRAMME REVUES DE RECHERCHE ET DE TRANSFERT DES CONNAISSANCES

OBJECTIFS SPECIFIQUES

Effectuer !'evaluation de la pertinence, de l'efficacite et de !'impact du programme, en utilisant notamment les resultats d'un sondage d'opinion mene aupres de la communaute scientifique par une firme de sondage.

CRITERES - la qualite du projet de recherche; - la qualite du chercheur ou de l'equipe et son

experience en matiere de conception de politiques et d'evaluation;

- la methodologie retenue; - la faisabilite du calendrier propose.

ADMISSIBILITE

Les chercheurs 1 universitaires seuls ou regroupes en equipes.

CREDITS DISPONIBLES

Subvention de 20 000$ plus un budget additionnel de 20 000$ pour les services d'une firme de sondage.

POUR UNE ETUDE PROSPECTIVE SUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT DE LIENS PRODUCTIFS

DANS LA RECHERCHE QUEBECOISE

OBJECTIFS SPECIFIQUES

Identification de liens et de criteres de collaboration interdisciplinaires, intersectoriels, inter-equipes, inter­universites, universites-entreprises au niveau national et international, pouvant favoriser le maillage inter­structures et la creation ou la consolidation de reseaux de recherche.

CRITERES - la qualite du projet de recherche; - la qualite de l'equipe et son experience en matiere de

conception de politiques et d'evaluation; - la methodologie retenue; - la faisabilite du calendrier propose.

ADMISSIBILITE

Seules les equipes regroupant au moins deux chercheurs1 universitaires oeuvrant dans au moins deux universites quebecoises differentes.

CREDITS DISPONIBLES Subvention de 80 000$.

Date limite de depot des demandes 15 novembre 1993

ECHEANCIERS Annonce de la subvention 20decembre 1993

Depot du rapport final 15 janvier 1995

Responsable: Jacques Crochetiere Telephone: T elecopieur:

(418) 643-8560 (418) 643-1 451

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de Chercheurs et I' Aide a la Recherche 1

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• Indicators continued from page 1

manipulate figures to meet the goals of the rating exercise.

number of diplomas awarded.

The Indicateurs includes data on Qyebec universities as a whole, and on individual universities . For example, it shows how much fund­ing is devoted to research and how it is allocated, percentages of gradu­ates in each programme, and the

Lucienne Robillard

Concordia research is 2.6% of Quebec total The section on Concordia indicates that this University awarded an increased number of degrees between 1987 and 1991 (up to 4.1 per cent from 3.7), despite the fact that the total number of stu-

i dents in Qyebec dropped slightly 5l during that period. w 0

Subsidies and contracts for research rose to almost $16 million from $11 million during the same period, but Concordia still received only 2.6 per cent of the total research money allocated to Qyebec universities.

T he booklet will be updated ::< annually. Copies can be obtained ~ z from the Centre de documentation, " 15 Direction generale des affaires uni-~ versitaires et scientifiques et de la ~ 8 Science, Edifice Marie-Guyart, ~ 1033, rue De La Chevrotiere, 20' iE etage, Qyebec (Qyebec), GIR 5K9.

Quebec to set up boards by '96

Kenniff named chair of committee studying linguistic boards

BY MICHAEL ORSINI

Concordia Rector Patrick Ken­niff has been asked to head an

advisory committee on the imple­mentation of linguistic ' school boards, Higher Education and Sci­ence Minister Lucienne Robillard announced Monday.

The creation of the committee follows a ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada in June that the government' s plan to transform most of Qyebec's denominational boards into language-based boards is constitutionally sound.

Kenniff said he believes he was chosen to lead the committee because of his impartiality.

"I have no vested interest in this," he said this week in an interview. ''I'm not part of the (school board) system."

Kenniff said he expects this to be a controversial issue, since this is the first significant change to the school board structure since the British N orth America Act was passed in 1867. Only four religion-

Nyet to rebels

designated boards (two Protestant and two Catholic, in Qyebec City and Montreal) are constitutionally protected from the Qyebec govern­ment's reform plan, because they were the only Qyebec boards in existence at the time of Confedera­tion.

Asked if there would be public hearings on the issue, Kenniff said he was open to the idea, but added, "Our mandate is not to try to rein­vent the wheel. We're not here to challenge the reform. T he reform has been passed."

The committee's job will be to find a consensus on how the boards should be implemented, Kenniff added, ensuring that the territories covered by the boards satisfy the needs of all involved.

The committee is expected to make recommendations to Robil­lard by the summer of 1994. Lin­guistic school boards will not be in place before 1996.

Kenniff plans to meet with the nine-member committee this month.

Speaking at the Loyola Senate Chamber last week, General Consul of the Russian Federation Nikolai Smirnov and his deputy Andrei V . Kroutskihh (not pictured) discussed the recent failed coup d'etat in Moscow. Smirnov said that President Boris Yeltsin had no choice but to use the Russian army against the rebellious parliamentarians, who were armed with machine guns and grenade launchers. The lecture was the latest in the Master's in Public Pol icy and Public Administration Speaker Series.

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An unprecedented fragmentation of the political map

Polling ·Concordia professors

Blair Williams, Polit ical Science

On the popularity of Reform and the Bloc: Support from the West for Reform isn't surprising, but it seems it's not just a prairie fire but a pretty big inferno right across the country. The West has been the root of many populist movements, such as the CCF and Social Credit. West­erners have traditionally felt removed from Ottawa ahd the political establishment. [Reform Party leader] Preston Manning is very confident. He understands the issues and he has run a good cam -pa1gn.

What is motivating many of the Bloc supporters is exactly what is motivating many of the Reform voters. It is a rejection of the tradi­tional approach, in which parties serve themselves and the interests of the political class to the detriment of the country. The Reform Party is offering serious political reforms, such as making members of parlia­ment subject to recall if they don't serve their constituents, and having fixed election dates.

On the interest value of the election: It is fascinating. I think this is prob­ably the most interesting election I have seen in a long time. You have the traditional politicians playing catch-up, and trying to. figure out what is going on.

On unemployment: The Liberals' plan to spend money on short-term jobs has been pretty well discredited. He Uean Chretien] promised $6 billion for job creation, but only $2 billion of that is federal; the rest will come from the provinces and municipalities. You won't find too many municipal politicians who are going to be keen on raising property taxes in order to raise $2 billion for job creation.

Daniel Salee, Political Science

On Bloc support: It is a protest vote because people are fed up with the old parties. It has happened in the past, and we have even had protest parties form­ing governments. It happened in Qyebec with the Union National [1936]. A vote for the Bloc is not a vote for separation. We tend to vote for leaders in Qyebec and I'm sure if Jean Charest was elected instead of Kim Campbell, I'm sure the Bloc wouldn't have as much support.

They [the Conservatives] are going to do poorly throughout the country because of their perfor­mance in public management. Free trade has done harm and the GST is unpopular. This is why all the Conservative votes are going to the Reform party.

Stephen Block, Political Science

The media are responsible for iden­tifying Reform and the Bloc as protest-vote recipients. This gives people the idea that if they want to park their protest vote they can vote Bloc or Reform. There are a lot of people who don't know a lot about politics and they are influenced by what is in the wind, which is that you can't trust any of the old par­ties. The media have cut off the

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possibility of people even consider­ing moving to the left to vote. If they are going to protest, they have to move to the right. Canadians feel powerless, and traditionally when people feel like that, they run to the right, not to the left.

Reeta Tremblay, Political Science

On perception of the election: Campbell would have done well if she didn't say so much; she said she can't deal with unemployment until the year 2000. We are going to have to pick the best of a bad bunch. Anyway, politics isn't about issues; we are all looking at who represents themselves the best. Issues are talked about on a superficial level; they aren't meant for information.

On the Reform phenomenon: I'm a member of a visible minority, and I feel Manning st ands for [only] one Canadian culture and identity.

Maria Peluso, Political Science

On Bloc and Reform support: It doesn't surprise me that they have gained strength, but what does sur­prise me is the nature of their

strength, and the fact that it lacks any solid kind of depth. Usually a political party gets elected because of where they stand on women, the unemployed or economic issues, but we have the Bloc seemingly gaining popularity on rhetoric, style and the emotion they can generate. That is very scary.

On lack of support far conventional parties: Major political parties have lost touch. In post-modernism, what wins votes and gets politicians into power are the techniques of market­ing and polling. The focus has been on the techniques of politics rather than on political dial~gue. It is unfortunate that as we are growing as a nation, people are not receiving the [feedback] they need. It appears that the traditional political party system as we know it has failed, so the country is breaking up into a number of political factions.

This is unusual for Canada. Usu­ally this happens in countries where there is a large population, like France. Maybe it is a sign that peo­ple feel their concerns aren't repre­sented, and we should look at reforming the Elections Act so that there is some kind of proportionali­ty, and people feel their voices are being heard.

On Liberal success: One cannot help but be impressed with Jean Chretien and the incredi­ble comeback he has made. A year ago, people were saying he was too old. His success at speaking directly to Canadians is reflected in the polls, and he has a very good chance of forming a majority government. That is pretty impressive.

Graeme Decarie, History

On Reform and Bloc: In a recession, you have a break­down of the capitalist system. When it breaks down, you would think that would give rise to parties who want to change the system. In fact, the opposite happens.

The best example is if you watch evangelical preachers. They never preach fancy new. messages, it is always that old-time religion. Peo­ple get security in what they are familiar with and what is old. Essentially the parties are the same thing.

Both are right-wing · parties, both represent a retreat into provincial­ism, and represent an 'I-don't-give­a -damn-about-the-rest-of-the­country' attitude. These people are Brian Mulroney Conservatives.

The Reform Party is dangerous, partly because they are stupid. It is a party of oversimplification. The issues come down to waving a magic wand. All you have to do is balance the budget.

On a minority government:

· The Governor General will normal­ly turn to the party with the largest ' number of seats and ask them to form a government. If Chretien only has, say, 142 (out of 295) seats between the Liberals and the NDP, that's a minority. He has to be very careful bringing forward legislation, in order to get enough people from other parties to vote for it. At any time the others could unite and vote against him, and he would have to submit his resignation. The Gover­nor General would either call an election, or ask someone else to attempt to form a government.

On the economy:

We have had recessions for a couple of hundred years in modern society under capitalism, and I would ask Kim Campbell to point to one sin­gle example anywhere in the world where cutting spending has solved a recession. It has been tried and it doesn't work.

On the Conservatives: I haven't seen it [the ad mocking Chretien, which has been pulled by the Tories] but it doesn't surprise me. I was at the Conservative con­vention, and I've never met so many small-minded, vicious, ignorant people in my life. It is quite depressing. Brian Mulroney forever changed the character of this coun­try. Some would say he destroyed it, and I think there is a lot of truth in that. The Liberals are the best of a very bad lot.

Interviews conducted by Kelly Wilton

Jobs, jobs, jobs are students' priority

Sobering issues, no passion at federal election debate

BY KELLY WILTON

Dur federal candidates went r through the motions two weeks ago, echoing the voices of their leaders at an election debate held at Concordia.

There was little emotion in their speeches, no passionate arguments, and much discontent among the students. The debate, which was organized by the Political Science Students' Association, started half an hour late and question period was cut sh,ort . .

Eliminate GST _The Conservative party representa­tive spoke ·about reducing the deficit, the Liberals pushed job cre­ation, the New Democratic Party promised to eliminate the GST over five years and the National Party promised to eliminate university tuition and keep social programmes intact. The Bl?C ~ebecois declined an invitation to participate.

There was some relief in sight as Liberal representative Clifford Lin­coln spoke frankly and specifically about job creation. He said the Lib­erals would create job programmes by transferring defence expenditures and subsidies to corporations.

He also said the Liberals would develop a Youth Service project which would hire 10,000 young Canadians a year to work in projects related to the environment and social services.

"We'~e published a job creation programme," he told the audience of about 100 in the Henry F. Hall Building.

"It is not a magic formula and doesn't have all the answers, but it has a lot of the answers to put Canadians back to work, and give them back their dignity, hope and sense of fairness ."

Rob Charles, a 23-year-old Politi­cal Sdence student, said he was undecided before the debate, but after listening to the speakers, he decided he would vote Liberal.

"The Liberals are concerned

One of the few politicians to get specific, Clifford Lincoln (Liberal, Lachine-Lac-St-Louis) talks to a prospective voter while campaign organizer Don Duffy looks on.

about youth and jobs, but the Tories only want to get rid of the deficit and help the business com­munity. I can't wait around until the year 2000 before I get a job."

Jobs versus deficit Tory candidate Maeve Qiaid spoke about helping Canadians help themselves. "Tell us what you want and we will help you get it," she said. 'We won't give you a fish, but we will teach you how to fish."

Each candidate had two minutes to speak about how their party dif­fers from the others, and then four minutes to talk about the main cam-

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paign issue, jobs versus the deficit. Rob Malcom, 27, said the speak­

ers spent too much time attacking each others' policies and not enough time addressing the problem of unemployment. "At least the Liber­als spoke about a job creation plan," said the Political Science student.

Constitution a non-issue One student wanted to know why the constitution isn't an issue in this election. "Meech Lake brought mis­ery to Canadians," Lincoln said. "We have to worry about putting people back to work and giving them back their dignity."

Decoding Fermat's Last Theorem

Mathematics has been some­thing of a hot ticket since Fer­

mat's Last Theorem, one of history's most enduring brain-teasers, was solved this summer by Princeton University scholar Andrew Wiles.

Karl Rubin, of Ohio State Uni­versity, will give a public lecture next Thursday, Oct. 28 in H-110, the Alumni Auditorium of the Henry F. Hall Building.

The lecture begins at 8 p.m., and is geared to a general audience.

Fred Headon, a McGill Law stu­dent, asked the panel what they planned to do about helping natives find jobs.

NDP representative Bruce Toombs said his party will create aboriginal self-government and increase their opportunities for education.

Music Forum set for Concert Hall

Noon-hour music series launched

/\ new series of lectures, concerts .li.and other musical events will be held on Tuesdays in the Concordia Concert Hall on the Loyola Campus.

The series begins next week with a lecture by Walter Mony, Chair of the School of Music of the Univer­sity of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and presently Visiting Fel­low at London University in Eng­land. His topic is "Indigenous African Influences in Western Art Music Composition in Southern Africa." The lecture begins at 12:30 p.m. Music Professor Wolfgang Bottenberg says that there will be only a few events in the series before Christmas, but it should be up to speed by the new year. -B.B.

OCTOBER 21, 1993 7

'It's only a trickle now'

South Africa needs 1 flood' of foreign investment: Ambassador BY SYLVAIN COMEAU

The rationale for sanctions against South Africa has disap­

peared because of fundamental political change, and investment is now needed to help his country move forward, according to South African ambassador to Canada Andre Kilian.

Kilian was referring to the recent decision by the U.S., Canada and other Commonwealth countries to end sanctions in response to a request by Nelson Mandela to the United Nations.

"Now that sanctions are being lifted, foreign investors are coming back to our country," Kilian said in a speech Oct. 6 in the Henry F. Hall Building.

"It's only a trickle now, but we hope it will become a flood one day. An infusion of investment and international trade is needed to pro­vide the programmes we will have to undertake in South Africa, in education, housing and health care."

have engulfed the whole nation. [But] since the early '80s, apartheid has been unravelling at the seams."

Kilian outlined that rapid process, including the legalization of previ­ously banned political groups such as the African National Congress, and the abolition of laws defining where different races can live, who can own land (mostly whites) and preventing the intermingling of races.

"Some people would say, this all sounds very well on paper, but will it be business as usual in South Africa? The short answer is no. There will be changes in everyday South African life. Black South Africans will be provided with qual­ity education and employment training, so that they can achieve equality of opportunity in the work­place and the boardroom, and white South Africans will not be able to retain their traditionally privileged positions."

Kilian echoed much of the con­demnation that has been levelled against apartheid, but emphasized that the policy now belongs to the past.

Speaking the day before Kilian's address, Dan O' Meara, an ANC member and political science pro­fessor at Universite du O!iebec a Montreal, presented a sharply con­trasting view of life after apartheid. O'Meara said that much of apartheid's legacy will remain in place because of the compromises reached between the government and the African National Congress.

South African Ambassador Andre Kilian talks to students after his October 6 address.

Unravelling at the seams "Apartheid enslaved all South Africans. It was not only immoral and inherently unworkable, it was also, if left as it was, sowing the seeds of an ultimate disaster in South Africa, one which would

"The government's military force remains, not yet undermined by the ANC. [And] because of the power­sharing agreement, whatever the election results, the National Party

will retain power in certain key ministries. You can bet your bottom dollar that one of them will be Finance."

O'Meara predicted that ANC president Nelson Mandela will be South Africa's next president, but that the ANC will be deprived of effective power.

New group tackles literacy problem

Students can be teachers, too BY MONIQUE BEAUDIN

Dances Goodwin and a friend £ have been meeting to read together once a week for the past two years - in a grocery store, to decipher the labels on canned foods, or in a pharmacy, to unlock the mysteries of aspirin bottle labels. Goodwin is a graduate student in Psychology; her friend has difficulty reading.

Goodwin is one of seven students organizing a Concordia chapter of Students for Literacy. The associa­tion of volunteer tutors is affiliated with Toronto's Frontier College, a national non-profit literacy organi­zation. This year, as many as 25 universities across Canada are expected to have their own student

_, µteracy volunteer programmes.

'Learners' McGill University has had a pro­gramme for five years; last year, 120 students were involved. Goodwin, 28, got her training at McGill when a friend invited her to a meeting.

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At Concordia, students trained by Frontier College staff will be paired up with illiterate people, called "learners," from around the city.

Increasing access According to Statistics Canada, seven million Canadians, 23 per cent of the population, are illiterate. But only about five per cent of those people are in literacy programmes, said Frontier College's Stephanie Miller, the programme manager of Students for Literacy.

"By having university students involved, we're increasing access to literacy programmes right across the country," she said.

Concordia's focus will be on peo­ple who speak fluent English, but can't read, Goodwin said. People will be referred to them from Sun Youth, the Salvation Army and other social service organizations, as well as from McGill.

Hidden handicap "Illiteracy is really a hidden handi­cap," Goodwin said. "One woman

graduated with a BA from Concordia who could only read at a Grade Five level. She got around it by not taking essay courses."

Goodwin said the personal rela­tionship she has formed with her learner is the best part of the tutor­ing program.

"She's beautiful, bright and fun to be with," she said. "This is a very personal kind of volunteering."

Students for Literacy uses a stu­dent-centred, individualized learn­ing technique . "That means the student decides what they want to learn," Goodwin said. Learners may wish to read the classified ads or application forms for bank accounts rather than doing exercises from a textbook.

"You may find that your learner dropped out of school because someone called them a dunce," she told 30 prospective tutors at a recent orientation meeting. "That learner may find textbooks frustrating."

For more information, contact Students for Literacy at 848-7474.

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Protecting privileges "The government managed to pro­tect its own privileges, and prevent the ANC from enforcing major changes after the election, particu­larly the nationalization of key sec­to rs of industry as a way of redistributing wealth, which they were hoping to do."

Both sides only accepted the

agreement to avert a horrifying eventuality, according to O'Meara.

'What has happened is a grubby compromise that each side has taken because the situation in South Africa can't continue; the country has been drifting toward a racial civil war. They had to avoid that at all costs."

Fall Convocation '93 This convocation ceremony will include the installation of Eric Molson as Chancellor of the University.

The identification numbers of approved candidates will be posted in the tunnel connecting Henry F. Hall andJ.W. McConnell Buildings, and on the first floor of the Admin­istration Building at the Loyola Campus on the afternoon of October 22, 1993. Students who have not met all the requirements for their degrees will be mailed written noti­fication no later.than October 22.

Students are advised to check with the Students' Accounts Office to ensure that all student fees, library fines and graduation fees have been paid. Students are requested to pay their accounts by November 5 in order to be permit­ted to participate in the convocation ceremony or to receive their degree.

Place des Arts provides assistance and has parking facilities for wheelchair users. Use the box-office entrance off de Maisonneuve Blvd. West and inquire at the security kiosque.

• Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts • Tuesday, November 9, 1993

2:00 p.m.

.•. Concordia t UNIVERSITY

REAL EDUCATION FOR THE REAL WORLD

Clayoquot Sound controversy giving Canada a black eye

Overpopulation and greed threaten us all: Ca111peau BY MARLENE BLANCHAY

The federal election campaign has been a disappointment for Arthur

Campeau, who spoke at Concordia as part of Homecoming '93.

Campeau, a Loyola College grad (1963, Political Science), was appointed Ambassador to the Envi­ronment and Sustainable Develop­ment by the Mulroney government in time to attend the Rio de Janeiro environmental summit last spring.

He told a small but appreciative audience on Saturday morning in

the J.A. DeSeve Cinema that the current leaders of the five parties have barely addressed environmen­tal issues in the campaign.

De bate betw een the accountants "It's been mainly a debate between accountants," he said. "There has been almost no discussion of devel­opment is-sues or international affairs. All they are talking about is how they will reduce the deficit in five years."

The world's resources are being pushed to the limit by overpopula­tion, Campeau said, and develop­ment and ecology must become more compatible to protect what resources remam.

"Nearly 100 species a day are becoming extinct," he said. "We have a growing economic system and a closed ecological system."

With world population projected at between 10 and 12 billion by the year 2050, Campeau said that slow­ing population growth by means of education and improving the status of women can address the crisis.

Campeau said the controversy over the cutting of centuries-old trees near Clayoquot Sound, B.C. has given Canada a black eye.

The indefatigable poet Irving Layton, shown here on the cover of a recent book assembled by two Concordians, delighted a Homecoming audience w ith readings. The feisty Montreal poet looked back on a lifetime of work, ranging from his memories of his mother to his sense of loss at the death of Marilyn Monroe. Layton has just added to a long list of honours by becoming the first non-Italian to win the Petrarch Poetry Award, from the University of Padua.

Arthur Campeau

"Canada is a country where we rely on our natural resources," he said. "We need to develop tech-

nologies which will minimize the impact of industries on those resources. "

Concert highlights talented Music students

Homecoming '93 opened last Thursday evening with a

showcase of student and faculty musicianship in the Concordia Concert Hall on the Loyola Cam­pus.

The programme ranged across a spectrum of tone and talent, from the intimacy and originality of jazz to the lyrical beauty of the classical repertoire.

Jazz performers included singer Stephanie McLean, guitarist Jake Langley, pianist Mike Litresits, and

the Concordia University Jazz Choir and Rhythm Section, con­ducted by Professor Charles Ellison, who played a trumpet/flugelhorn solo.

Classical performers included three sopranos: Carmen Girard, who sang Handel arias, Amelia Petri, who sang three Emily Dick­inson poems set to music by Aaron Copeland, and Lisa Lapointe, who sang songs by Faure, Saint-Saens and Richard Strauss. - BB

Mike Noble, chosen Most Valuable Stinger, proudly holds the Homecoming Cup after Saturday's win over t he Carleton Ravens. He is flanked by (left) Coach Pat Sheahan, and (right) Homecoming Chair Peter Howlett and Rector Patrick Kenniff. Above, right, a guest at the Reunion Revival Big Band Dance in Place Concordia samples the delicious late-night buffet spread.

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Even cough syrup is banned by strict regulations

Stingers bounce back after player suspended for steroid use

BY MICHAEL ORSINI

The Stingers' football team needed some good news - and

they got it Saturday with an impor­tant Homecoming win over the Carleton Ravens. The win secured the second-place team a playoff spot when post-season play begins in two weeks.

The team had just been shaken by the news that a steroid test given . to one of its players had shown pos­itive results.

Spiro Feradouros, a defensive back for the Concordia Stingers, was suspended for four years last week for violating Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU) rules on the use of banned substances.

Stingers' football coach Pat Shea­han said Feradouros's unfortunate situation may have taught the rest of the team a valuable lesson.

''They were shocked into the real­ity that cheaters get caught, and that there are consequences," Shea­han said.

Isolated issue In a statement released last week,

Feradouros stressed that this was an "isolated issue" which should not reflect poorly on the team or the University.

"I'm extremely sorry for the hurt that I've brought my parents and my close friends. I would also like to apologize to the administration and the coaching staff at Concordia."

Harry Zarins, Concordia's newly hired Director of Recreation and Athleti,5s, said although some young athletes use steroids, they are not the only ones. "It's in the weight rooms an_d fitness studios of the world," he said. "It's unfortunate, but people want to look good."

Feradouros is the second varsity athlete in as many months to be suspended for steroid use . John Pevec, a McGill Redmen football player, tested positive last month for the use of stanozolol, an anabolic steroid, the same drug that showed up on Feradouros's test.

Random testing The Canadian Centre for Drug­Free Sport co-ordinates random drug-testing of athletes. In the past three years, the organization has

Japan Studies Association conference held at Concordia

Japanese children are being royally indulged: B.C. speaker

BY PHIL M0SC0VITCH

The hottest area of retail market­ing in Japan today is the chil­

dren's market, according to Millie Creighton, a professor of Anthro­pology at the University of British Columbia.

Creighton presented a paper on "Children's Marketing in Japan's Consumer Society" at the Japan Studies Association of Canada's sixth conference, held early this month at Concordia. It is the first time the annual event had been held at the University.

Over the last decade, the Japanese birth rate has declined dramatically, while the standard of living has risen. This has resulted in fewer children, surrounded by ever more · affluent adults eager to buy them things.

"People are discussing the under~ 10 crowd as having the most dis­posable income," Creighton said. For example, there's a boom in. "shopping theme parks," giant play areas where everything is for sale. Dr. Kids Town, one of these theme parks, is designed to look like a small American town.

Children as treasures Children have always been central

to Japanese popular culture, Creighton said, but their image has changed in the last 20 years . The classic representation of the Japan­ese child showed him or her work­ing hard to help support the family, and studying equally hard.

"In contrast, the persisting per­ception of children as treasures means that in present-day Japan they are indulged with unprece­dented consumer offerings," she said. "No one expects them to work hard any more to maintain their families."

Also, she said, "the expansion of . children's goods, specialty lines and designer brands really took off -particularly in the 1990s."

Strengthening social ties Creighton noted some important

d. ifferences betwee1Japanese and North American co sumer culture. While North Ame icans see the · purchase of consu er goods as a way to establish an individual iden­tity, the Japanese see consumerism as a way of strengthening social ties. And while North American adoles­cents covet expensive, brand-name goods, Japanese teenagers are fairly indifferent to them.

"It's the mothers and the grand­parents who are interested in get-

overseen 834 anti-doping tests across Canada. Feradouros is the 11th Canadian athlete to test posi­tive.

About 20 Concordia football players have been tested in the past year.

The CIAU informs athletes 36 hours in advance of where they have to report for testing.

A survey of 16,000 Canadian stu­dents conducted for the Centre by Price-Waterhouse found that 4.7 per cent of students aged · 18 and over had used anabolic steroids. Almost 60 per cent of males sur­veyed thought that steroids would improve their athletic performance.

Zarins said the news is especially heartbreaking since the University conducts drug education sessions each year on the dangers of steroid use. Feradouros had attended three such sessions, he said. Athletes are even given a book telling them which drugs they can and cannot take. The list of banned substances includes such common, over-the­counter drugs as Anacin, Sudafed, and Vicks cough syrup.

So far, drug testing is restricted to football players, said Diane St-

Millie Creighton

ting those brand-name goods or big-ticket items. I've never seen a

child insisting on $300 designer optical frames," Creighton said.

Education Professor Dennis Dicks, who organized the confer­ence, said it was attended by acade­mics from a variety of fields, as well as by government employees and business officials interested in

Japan.

The Stingers ran away with an important win over the Carleton Ravens on Saturday.

Denis, the CIAU's national pro­gramme co-ordinator, but that may change in the next few years when testing is expanded to include other sports, such as wrestling and track and field.

While all the players are warned of the dangers of steroid use, in the

end, it's a personal decision, Shea­han said, comparing the situation to the frustration of being a parent. "You try your very best to impart your values to your children, but there are no guarantees that they will live and die by what you taught them."

1 0 OCTOBER 21, 1993 CQNCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT

Concordia University is seeking a Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts Concordia University is seeking a Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts to take office 1 June, 1994 for a five-year renewable term. The incumbent is not seeking reappointment.

The Dean is the academic leader of a dynamic Faculty of Fine Arts which cur­rently comprises approximately 2,000 undergraduate and 200 graduate students pursuing programmes in the B.F.A, M.A. of Art Education, M.A. of Art Therapy, M.A. of Art History, M.F.A. in Studio Art, Ph.D. in Art Education, Diploma in Advanced Music Performance, Diploma in Art Education, Diploma in Art Therapy, Certificate in Elementary Art Education. In the departments and programmes of Art Education; Art History; Cinema; Contem­porary Dance; Design Art; Music; Painting and Drawing; Printmaking and Photo­graphy; Sculpture, Ceramics and Fibres; Theatre; Interdisciplinary Studies and Stu­dio Art, undergraduate and graduate pro­grammes are housed. Research is carried out by a faculty complement of 104 within the context of departments and pro­grammes.

The ideal candidate will be an individual with national and international academic stature and credibility. In dealing with the external and internal communities, the interpersonal skills of the candidate are vital. The demonstrated ability to adminis­ter and manage, the capacity to carry through projects from beginning to end, the ability to communicate in French, excellent negotiating skills and the ability to collaborate effectively are essential.

The Dean must possess scope of vision, boldness and confidence, a commitment to inter- and multi-disciplinary programmes and a clear appreciation of the inter-rela­tionships among the differing disciplines and the ability to reconcile varying posi­tions within the academic community.

The Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts is one of five Academic Deans, reporting to the Vice-Rector, Academic. The individual chosen should be able to work easily with a team of senior administrators which includes colleagues, as well as the senior administrators who form the Office of the Rector, sharing information and partici-

paring in major policy decisions.

Applications and nominations, including curriculum vitae and names and addresses of three possible referees should be sent by December 31, 1993 to Dr. Rose Sheinin, Vice-Rector, Academic, Chair, Advisory Search Committee, Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, 714 1 Sherbrooke St. West, AD 231, Montreal, Quebec, H4B 1R6. (Confidential facsimile number: 514-848-8766).

Concordia University is committed to Employment Equity and encourages applica­tiom from women, aboriginal peoples, visible minorities and disabled persom.

In accordance with Canadian immigra­tion requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and perma­nent residents. Confidentiality of applicatiom and nominatiom is assured.

Concordia UNIVERSITY

REAL EDUCATION FOR THE REAL WORLD

CUSA, CUSACORP lost a total of$761,916 in 1991-92 Shuffle '93 • Honour your pledges!

Double deficit plagues . student association

BY MICHAEL OR SINI

CUSA's long-awaited audit is finally complete, and the news

isn't good. The student association's books

for the 1991-92 fiscal year reveal a $257,436 deficit, auditor Giovanni Tagliamonti, of the accounting firm, Arthur Andersen & Cie, told a recent CUSA Board of Directors meeting.

CUSA's corporate arm, CUSA­CORP, which operates the Mug­shots cafe and bars on each campus, recorded a whopping $504,480 deficit. More than 40 per cent of that deficit was inherited from the prev10us year.

Of the audit, CUSA co-president Philip Dalton said, "We were expecting things to be bad, but not this bad." As for CUSACORP, "If you look at what it takes to run the bars, the numbers just don't make sense."

Course of action The best-case scenario, he said, is out-of-control mismanage.ment. The worst-case scenario? Dalton stopped short of pointing the finger, saying he could not go into details about any "course of action" until he and co-president Lana Grimes dis­cuss it at tonight's Board of Direc­tors meeting.

The completion of the audit means the University can now turn over more than $500,000 in student fees to the association. The Univer­sity, which collects the fees each year on behalf of CUSA, froze the

money last January after the publi­cation of media reports pointing to "financial irregularities" in CUSA's books.

Conditions fulfilled Associate Vice-Rector Services (Student Life) Donald Boisvert said the University decided to turn over the money following the fulfilment of two conditions set out in January: completion of the audit and the implementation of internal financial controls.

CUSA's Board of Directors passed a series of motions aimed at ensuring that these problems don't exist in the future.

A recent article in The Gazette, Boisvert said, "hints that there's something fishy going on." Although the auditors say that thousands of dollars could not be accounted for due to missing docu­me n ta tio n, "they never say it's because someone ran off with the money."

Didn't commit fraud Contacted at his office, Tagliamonti refused to discuss the CUSA case, adding that it would violate client confidentiality.

Former CUSA co-president Charlene Nero said the new co­presidents and the auditors have had six months to uncover fraud. "If there was any fraud they would have found it," she said.

"Let them investigate. I'm absolutely confident that we didn't commit any fraud and that there has been no misappropriation of funds."

This is a reminder to shufflers to collect their pledges and return them as soon as possible to either of the following locations:

Office of University Advancement (S-GM 420) 1550 de Maisonneuve Blvd.

Office of Advocacy and Support Services (L-AD 131) 7141 Sherbrooke St. W.

We would like to receive all pledges by the end of October. As of Oct. 15, only $4,800 had been collected, a fraction ofthe $30,000 pledged. Thank you for your support!

CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT

To: All Port-lime Faculty From: Professional Development

Committee Dote: October 1993

Article 17 of the Collective Agreement established the Pro­f essionol Development Fund to assist Port-lime Faculty mem­bers in their pursuit of research, study, and other scholarly or professional or artistic activities, particularly as they enhance teaching quality. All Port-lime Faculty members with more than 2 4 credits of seniority who ore not on leave ore reminded that they ore eligible to apply for funding.

The deadline for the first distrib­ution of monies from the Fund in 1993-94 is Monday, Novem­ber 1 5th, 1993. Applications (four copies) should be submit­ted to the Prof essionol Develop­ment Committee at the CUPFA office (21 SO Bishop Street, Annex K-310) by this dote.

Before applying, please consuh the information sheet available (in English or French) from the CUPFA office (848-3691) and the guidelines included in the latest CUPFA News.

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Alumni Activities How to buy a new car Wednesday, October 27 Brought to you by the Automobile Protection Association, an independent consumer organization. Topics to be covered: latest industry trends, strate­gies to save money, how to negotiate; latest safety issues, financ ing, anti­theft devices, are extras worth the price, how to modify sales contracts to better protect yourself, selling your old car, and environmental issues. The talk will be held from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in the_ Faculty Club Lounge, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West. 7th Floor. $12 per person. Written confirmation is mailed upon receipt of payment. For more information, call Gabrielle Korn at 848-3817.

Campus Ministry Prison Visit Programme A dialogue program with inmates at Bordeaux prison. Visits wil l run Tuesday afternoons until November 16. For information, contact Peter Cote at 848-3586, Matti T erho 848-3590.

Soul Food Experience Students gather each Tuesday to reflect on their concerns about the spiritual void in their life, their stresses and quest for peace. They will ponder their faith questions, as well as meditate on the scriptures. !Bob Nagy 848-3587 /Michelina Bertone SSA 848-3591 ). Loyola: Annex WF 2496 West Broadway 3:30-4:45 p.m. SGW: Annex Z-Rm. 02, 2090 Mackay St. 12-1 :15 p.m.

Exploring C.G. Jung's Basic Psychological Concepts Reality of the Psyche/ Ego/ Persona/ Shadow/ Psychological types/ Animal Animus/ Dreams/ Ind iv iduation Process/ "Self". A nine-session work­shop, Mondays, from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. (Michelina Bertone 848-3591/481-7875). 5140 West Broadway.

Women Spirituality Women who want to share in explo­rat ion of their spirituality through reflection, ritual, readings, discussions are invited to gather on Tuesdays 11 :30- 1 :00 p.m. Annex Z Rm 105 (Daryl Ross 848-3585).

Canticle to the Cosmos Using a series of videos by physicist Brian Swimme, we will explore the story of the universe, from the original fireball to our present time. and reflect on its spiritual meaning and implica­tions. Tuesdays 2:30 - 4 p.m. Annex Z. 2090 Mackay St. Rm. 105. (Daryl Ross

848-3585)

Meditation: A tool for self knowledge Relaxing and centering; quieting and concentrating the mind; attuning to the body-mind-soul connection. The ses­sions will draw upon various traditions and each will include a "quiet sitting" Thursdays 1 :15 - 2:45 p.m., Annex Z -RM 105, beginning October 7th (Daryl Ross 848-3585)

Native Traditional Retreat October 29- 31 A retreat focusing on native teachings and spi rituality for native students at Concordia. Native elders will direct the weekend . Contact Laverne Gervais at the Concordia Council on First Nations Education (848-7326). This event is also sponsored by Campus Ministry, and the First Nations Concordia group.

Muhi-Faith Dialogue Students meet Thursdays for a lunch­time ('Brown-bag') discussion that is desighed to promote understanding and dialogue between members of various fa iths. The group will meet in Annex T-305 !The Graduate Students Lounge) at noon.

Counselling and Development Graduate Records Examination (GRE) Students can pick up GRE application forms at the Careers Library. Practi ce study books are available for use in the library. Upcoming test dates are Dec.11/93 and Feb.5/94, April 9/94 and June 4/94. Don't miss application sub­mission deadlines. IH-440 at SGW and WC-101 at Loyola).

Need Help With Your Studies? The Careers Library has books on writ­ing papers and essays, studying effec­tively, improving your vocabulary , increasi ng your reading speed, and managing your time. SearchMAGIC can help you browse the collection on our computer database. Visit us soon at H-440 ISGW) and WC-101 !Loyola).

Register now for October Study! Skills Workshops Make this term more successful. L arn how to overcome exam anxiety nd manage your time. Improve your ability to give oral presentations and write term papers. Phone: 848-3545 ISGW) for details.

Companies Will Be Hiring in 1~! The following companies are comin to Concordia to recruit students: Ander on Coa,"lt;og, Ch"bb of Caoada, l S,

Hong Kong Bank of Canada, Toronto Dominion Bank, Export Development Corporation, and Laurentian Bank. For more information, check the bulletin boards at H-440 or the Career and Placement Service, 2070 Mackay St.

Adult Children of Alcoholics Examime the role alcohol has played in the life of you and your family and begin the work toward recovery . Preliminary interviews for membership in this group are sti ll taking place. Group leaders: Dorothy Plummer, M.Ed. and Anne Theriault, M.Ed. Phone 848-3555 for details.

Incest Survivors' Group Examine the ways in which incest has affected you and begin the work toward recovery. Preliminary interviews for membership in this group are still tak­ing place. Group leaders: Dorothy Plummer, MEd and Anne Theriault, MEd. Call 848-3555 for details.

Shape Up or Ship Out! Learning to live with a roommate Avoid this final confrontation. Learn to communicate, problem solve and nego­tiate more effectively to create a more enjoyable living experience. Three ses­sions: Mondays, Oct.25, Nov.1 and 8, 1993, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at SGW H-440, 848-3545. Group leader: Diane Adkins, MEd and Penny Robertson, BA.

CPR Courses The following CPR courses will be offered by the Environmental Health and Safety Office in the next few weeks. Members of the Concordia com­munity or outside community are all welcome. The Concordia community will get a discount price for CPR cours­es. First-aid courses are $60. Please contact Donna Fasciano, at 848-4355

CSST First-Aid Course November 6 and 7 This14-hour course features one and a half days of first-aid and half a day of CPR. Certification is given by the CSST and is valid for three years.

Film The Loyola Film Series Admission: FREE. Location: F.C. Smith Auditorium, Concordia University Loyola Campus, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W. Information: 848-3878.

Wednesday, October 27 Persona 11966) Ingmar Bergman at 7 p.m.; Babette's Feast (1962) Gabriel Axel at 8:35 p.m.

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Conservatoire D' Art Cinematographique de Montreal Cinema J.A. DeSeve, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Concordia University !Metro Guy-Concordia). Admission: $3.

Friday, October 22 Les Quarante-Sept Ronins 11941) Kenji Mizoguchi at 7 p.m.

Saturday, October 23 Ombres en plein jour 11956) Tadashi Imai at 7 p.m.; Seven Samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa at 9 p.m.

Sunday, October 24 Yojimbo 11961) Akira Kuroswa at 7 p.m.; Woman of the dunes 11964) Hiroshi Teshigahara at 9 p.m.

Monday, October 25 Au Hasard Balthazard (1966) Robert Bresson at 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, October 26 A.K. 11985) Chris Maker at 7 p.m.; La Dolce Vita 11960) Federico Fellini at 9 p.m.

Wednesday, October 27 Ugetsu 11953) Kenji Mizoguchi at 7 p.m.; The Lion has seven r,eads (1970) Glauber Rocha at 8:45 p.m.

Graduate News Interdisciplinary Speaker Series Tuesday,October26 The Hon. Charles Gonthier, Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, will speak on "The Legal System and the Moral Environment - Is there a need for a Moral Order to Support Legal Decisions?" Time: 8:30 p.m. Location: Loyola Chapel, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W.

Wednesday, October 27 Professor Paul van Tongeren, Nijmegen !Holland) will speak on "Is there a need for a philosophical anthology to protect our moral environment." Time: 8:30 p.m. Location : Loyo la Chapel, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W.

Graduate Awards All students who have won grants from FCAR, NSERC, SSHRC, Commonwealth, etc ... and have not received an invita­tion to the Graduate Awards Reception should contact the Graduate Awards Department at 848-3801 as soon as possible.

Lacolle Centre Self-Awareness: The key to sett-development Saturday, October 30 This workshop will focus on how partic­ipants, given their strengths and weak­nesses, work in a team environment. Leader: Donna Logsdon, Ed.D. Time: 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Cost: $59.88 !includes GST plus $6.38 for the instru­ment). Location: Loyola Campus, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W.

Lectures and Seminars Department of History Thursday, October 21 Irish Traditional Music; "The Echoes of Ireland Tour" featuring the best in Irish traditional song, dance and storytelling. Time: 8 p.m. Location: Concordia Concert Hall, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W. Tickets: $10. Information: 848-2435.

AIDS and the University Friday, October 22 Esther Valiquette, film-maker presents her lecture "Video Against the Virus" and prize-winning video "Recit d' A" and her recent NFB film "A Measure of your Passage"ILe singe bleu) in Room VA-114, 1395 Rene-Levesque Blvd. W. 7 p.m. Admission is free.

Department of Classics Tuesday, October 26 G.S. Shrimpton, University of Victoria, will speak on "Why did Thucydides stop writing?" at 1 p.m. in H-769, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. All are welcome.

Political Science Students' Association Wednesday, October 27 Justice John Sopinka, Supreme Court of Canada, will speak on "Freedom of Speech Under Attack." Time: 4 p.m. Location: H-937, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd W. Information: 848-7409.

Thursdays at Lonergan Thursday, October 28 Pamela Bright , Phd, Department of Theology and Lonergan Fellow, and Charles Kannengieser, PhD, Department of Theology on Part I: "Augustine and the Bible." Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m .. Location : 17302 Sherbrooke St. W.) Coffee available from 3:15 p.m. Information: 848-2280.

Visiting Lecturers' Committee Monday, November 1 Jean Baudrillard, Social Theorist and Philosopher, will speak on virtual reali­ty. Time: 4:15 p.m. Location: LB-125, J.A. DeSeve Cinema , 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Centre for Community and Ethnic Studies Wednesday, November 3 John Drysdale on "Travel Notes of a Sociologist in Post-Unification Eastern Germany." Time: 11 :30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Location: LB-677, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Thursdays at Lonergan Thursday, November 4 Pamela Bright, Phd, Department of Theology and Lonergan Fellow, and Charles Kannengieser PhD, Department of Theology on Part II: "Augustine and the Bible" Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m .. Location: 17302 Sherbrooke St. W.) Coffee available from 3:15 p.m. Information: 848-2280.

Meetings Pension Plan for the Employees of Concordia University Annual meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 27 in H-110, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. at 5:30 p.m.

Model UN Meeting Every Thursday at 5 p.m. Location: 2140 Bishop St. in the basement.

Notices Earthquake - India Relief Fund, Canadian Red Cross Society Anyone interested in making a contribu­tion to the Earthquake -India Relief Fund can do so by sending their dona­tions to "Earthquake Fund," c/o Department of Mechanical Engineering, Concordia University, H-549, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal , Quebec, H3G 1 MB. All donations of $15 or more will be provided with a receipt for tax purposes. Information: 848-8604.

CUSA · The CUSA board of directors by-elec­

tions and referendum end today. The polling stations can be found in the Hall Bldg . Lobby ISGW). VA Bldg. Lobby ISGW). AD Bldg. Lobby (Loy), Bryan Bldg. Lobby (Loy) and the Campus Centre (Loy). Open from 9 a.m. - 8 p.m.

The Teaching Team Invites all teaching assistants, graduate students and new faculty to a T.A. Brown Bag Discussion on Friday, October 22 from noon to 2 p.m. at 2085 Bishop St., F-107. Bring a lunch and we'll supply the beverage. Information: 848-2495.

Latin America Students Association We're having a membership drive. All Latin American Students interested are asked to contact Roberto at 333-1947. Gracias y hasta la vista.

Student Loan Debt Counselling Programme The Financial Aid and Awards Office offers a debt counselling programme to all students. The programme, run by senior student counsellors, enables you to weigh your debt against your expect­ed income and explore the repayment options available. To make an appoint­ment visit LB-085 in the McConnell Bldg. or call 848-3507.

Financial Aid and Awards Office Workshops Registration is done in-person in the Financial Aid and Awards Office, room 085 of the McConnell Bldg.

International Students Office If you are an international student and need information, guidance or support in any of the following areas; cultural adaptation, immigration rules and regu­lations, academic or personal difficul­t ies, visi t the International Student Office, 2135 Mackay St., 3rd floor, no appointment necessary, or call 848-3514/5/ 6. Hours : 9 a.m. - 5 p.m . !closed 12 - 1 p.m.)

International students working on campus International students are eligible for on-campus employment. They must first obtain a letter from their employer and then apply for an Employment Authorization at Canada Immigration Office. All University employers are encouraged to call our Office for infor­mation or clarification of Immigration rules and regulations. Information: 848-3514/5/6.

Unclassified Translation Services English to French, French to English. Also, manuscripts, term papers, letters, CVs, etc ... Reasonable rates. Call Lucie at 485-1842

Madonna Tickets Excellent seats, highest bidder starting at $200 each !negotiable). Call 278-9970.

For Sale DBX noise reduction unit $85. Bic Ski rack $40. Thule Pro Bike attachment $95. Call Jonas at 489-6592.

House Exchange York University prof on sabbatical will exchange 5 1 /2 upper house with a prof on sabbatical from Montreal from January ·94 to August '94. For informa­tion: Steve O'Neil at 843-9400 between 10 a.m. -4 p.m.

Women's Agenda Thursday, October 21 Marika Pruska-Carroll, Pol itical Science Department, will speak on "Russian Women: Communist and Post-commu­nist Realities." Time: noon. Location: The Lounge , Simone de Beauvoir Institute, 2170 Bishop St. Information: 848-2373.