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Australian TV crew films experiment in action

Leonardo Project gets boost from Down Under BY KELLY WILTO N

J\ Concordia project that helps .r-1.artists aim for the stars will soon be known around the world, thanks to an Australian television show.

The Leonardo Project, a collabo­ration between talented performers and a team of research scientists, musicians and performance analysts, will be the subject of an Australian science and technology TV show called Beyond 2000.

A four-member crew was on the Loyola Campus last week to film the project, which has received a Seagram Award for Academic Innovation in Research. Beyond 2000, which explores the progress of science and technology, is broad­cast in 82 countries.

The Australians, who were on a swing through North America, arrived from filming polar bears

near Churchill, Man., to tape fea­tures on the Leonardo Project and Design Art Professor Greg Garvey's light-hearted "automated confes­sional" installation, which has gained remarkable publicity here and abroad. The two Concordia projects were the only ones they filmed in Montreal.

Attaining excellence The Leonardo Project is based on the premise that almost anyone can attain excellence. It studies human potential, and how to increase the level of achievement.

About eight musicians are cur­rently working with a team of psy­chologists and researchers. Analysts film the subjects in performance, and study each movement and breath on a computer screen in another room. These and other musicians also take part in more formal research projects conducted by the team, such as studies of memory and strategies of attention.

A former biology laboratory in Loyola's Drummond Science Build­ing has been transformed into a research centre that resembles a small concert hall. 'We wanted to create the atmosphere of a non­conventional lab," said Psychology Professor Norman Segalowitz, the director of the ambitious project.

Music Professor Philip Cohen said the project questions the com­mon assumption that people have inborn talents. Many of the people being studied have succeeded despite apparent handicaps such as deafness and asthma.

Segalowitz said the researchers have worked with a pianist who is double-jointed and has no strength in her fingers. When she tries to play certain passages, her hands col­lapse on the keys. Cohen sat her on a low chair so she would be looking

An Australian television crew moves in for a close-up on the keyboard during a demonstration of the Psychology Department's Leonardo Project.

up at the piano. "Now, when she puts her hands on the piano, her body weight adds support to her hands on the keys, and she can play with a strength that used to elude her," Segalowitz said.

Sparks fly from the Tesla Coil, part of the entrancing Physics section of Concordia's Expo Science, held last weekend at Pointe Claire's Stewart Hall for the tenth consecutive year. Second-year Physics student Raymond Harris demonstrates the dramatic device to visitors Richard Watt, 12, and Rohan Rosario, 10. For story on the science fair, see page 8.

Gloria Polcari, 27, an opera singer, said she got involved in the project last February because she wants to realize her maximum potential as an artist.

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1, 149 students graduating this fall

Molson to be installed as new chancellor at convocation

University representatives from across the country will be on

hand for the installation ceremony of Eric Molson, Concordia's newest Chancellor next Tuesday.

The 55-year-old business execu­tive began his five-year term of office on July 1. He succeeds the Right Honourable Jeanne Sauve, who died in January.

Chairman of the Board of the Molson Companies Limited, Mol­son has been active in community affairs for more than 30 years.

rhe installation will take place at Concordia's fall convocation cere­mony, which begins at 2 p.m. on November 9 in Place des Arts' Salle Wilfred-Pelletier.

An estimated 500 students are expected to attend the convocation ceremony. A total of 1,149 under­graduate and graduate students from the four Faculties will receive their degrees this fall.

For profiles of this year's honorary doctorate recipients, please see page 7.

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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.

Fellini was to film what Beatles were to . music: Losique

Serge l osique

The film world mourned the passing this week of Federico Felli­ni, who died at the age of 73 after suffering cardiac arrest. The Academy Award-winner created a number of critically acclaimed films over almost half a century of film-making, including La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2 and La Strada. His deeply personal films focused on his preoccupation with relationships between men and women, and between sex and love.

Off the Cuff spoke to Professor Serge Losique, Director of Concordia 's Conservatory of Cinematographic Art and President of the Montreal World Film Festival, about the Italian director's legacy. Losique first met Fellini almost 25 years ago at the famed Cinecitta film studios in Italy, and remained friends with him throughout the years. Losique proudly noted that the former cartoonist agreed to design the poster for the 1991 film festival. Although he never accepted an invitation to attend the festival, he did participate in a press conference via satellite. When asked by a journalist in 1986 if he would attend the 1987 festival, Fellini agreed, but then added, 'Never forget that I'm the biggest liar in the world.'

Some of Fellini 's films will be screened at the CCA this month and in December, as the CCA presents a series by Italian direc­tors. For more information, call 848-3878.

What attracted people to Fellini 's films? "He expressed our hidden dreams. Cinema is mostly based on our dreams and on love. Fellini expressed both of those themes wonderfully well. He was to film what the Beatles were to music. He appealed to the mainstream."

Do you have a favorite Fellini flick? "They're all great. La Dolce Vita (1960) propelled him internation­ally. I Vittelloni (1953), which looked at youth, was one of his first great films. I saw a lot of my friends in that film. But 8 1/2 (1963) is one of the best, because it best represented his cinemato­graphic approach ."

What was your impression of Fellini the Man as opposed to Fellini the Film-maker? "He was a great man - very generous. All great people in cine­ma are always warm - Bunuel, Chaplin, Hitchcock. I never went to Rome without seeing him.

Where do you think Fellini will take his place in the film world? Fellini will take his place with the 10 best film-makers the world has produced. Not the best . There is no best film-maker li ke there is no best w riter. You can admire Shakespeare but you can't forget Moliere and Tolstoy.

NOVEMBER 4 , 1993

Hugh McOueen writes historical booklet on department

Mechanical Engineering fetes 25th anniversary of first graduating class

BY SYLVAIN C OMEAU

D ur years ago, Concordia's Fac­r ulty of Engineering and Com­puter Science celebrated its 25th anni\'.ersary. But, for Mechanical Engineering professor Hugh McQieen, 1993 represents an even more significant milestone; 25 years ago, Engineering produced its first graduating class.

"The graduation of the first class in 1968 is the first marked accom­plishment, and more important than the year that the students entered the programme. It was the first sign that the Department is fulfilling its purpose."

McQyeen joined the Faculty's Department of Mechanical Engi­neering in 1968. To commemorate this year's anniversary, McQyeen has written a historical booklet, A Quarter Centu1y of Mechan ical Engi­neering At Concordia University 1993 for the archives of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Graph show progress "They're trying to collect the histo­ries of all the mechanical engineering departments in Canada. I already intended to write this for a while, but they motivated me to get it done. I decided to do it as a science paper, by collecting data and presenting it in the form of graphs and tables, which clearly show the progress in the department and faculty."

McQyeen 's work shows, for example, that while the number of Master's and PhD graduates in the Faculty of Engineering has barely changed since 1970 (about 50 and 10, respectively, in 1993), the num­ber of Bachelor's students since the original graduating class (' 43) jumped to 260 in 1993. Research funds to the Faculty have increased to $7 million in 1993 from $1 mil­lion in 1974.

McQieen also charted the fluctu­ations in the teaching staff of the Department of Mechanical Engi­neering, the aspect of greatest inter­est to the Society of Mechanical Engineering.

"(They're collecting these histo­ries) to see who has built the profes­sion in Canada. That's what they discuss, in many cases talking about someone who had been chair of a particular department, and how he built it up over 10 or 20 years. But I chose not to emphasize who the chairmen were, because everyone contributes, not just the chairman."

The Faculty honored alumni from the class of '68 with a dinner and tour of the Faculty during Homecoming, although the cele­brations were nearly cancelled because of the slayings of four engi­neering professors in August of 1992.

"They were in no mood to cele­brate after what happened in

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Mechanical Engineering Professor Hugh McQueen

August," said Hugh Lariviere, an alumni from the original class who organized the homecoming for his former classmates. "But I convinced them that everything that needed to be said about it had been said, and that it was time to move on."

Iron ring Lariviere, who now owns a consult­ing firm in Montreal, shared recol­lections with ten other original graduates. He recalls that the class of '68 was referred to as the "engi­neering prototypes" in the Sir George Williams University year­book, and he still has the ring from the ritual "iron ring" ceremony for graduates.

'We were each given an iron ring to wear on the pinky of our working hand, and we held on to an iron chain and made an oath that we will provide safety to the public at all times. The iron was supposed to be from either a Qyebec bridge that collapsed three times in the St. Laurent or from the rails of the first Trans Canada railway line. The bridge represented responsibility; the railway represented greatness."

Although the turnout was rela­tively low, Lariviere noted that many of the alumni are out west. Among those in attendance, Lariv­iere feels that their connection to Concordia has survived the past 25 years.

"They were happy to return, and reminisce about their education. I think they still feel a part of

Concordia, in some ways. Just because you graduate doesn't mean you leave it completely behind you."

Stalemate continues in Dhawan case J\ lmost four weeks to the day

flafter ending his well-publi­cized hunger strike, Marketing Pro­fess or K.C. Dhawan has issued another open letter to the Concordia community attacking his union, his Dean and other senior University officials for failing to accede to his demand that they establish a special, "three-member (or larger) distinguished Canadian panel" to investigate Dhawan's complaints against the University.

Concordia's position remains the same: that Dhawan should use the same grievance procedures that are available to all other faculty mem­bers who feel that they have not been treated fairly by their superi­ors.

The day before Dhawan ended his fast, Concordia offered to name "an independent person" to review all the facts of the Dhawan case. Professor Dhawan has so far declined to accept that offer. His three-page letter was distributed last week throughout the University. - KJW

Hoodfar awarded $100,000 grant to study Iranian women

A revolution of a different kind BY MARIA FRANCESCA LoDICO

"\ ]{ 7hile Canadian women have V V made little headway toward

earning wages for doing housework in their own homes, Iranian women won that battle last December.

"The idea that Muslim women are passive is simply not true. They are, as you can see, political and social actors," said Homa Hoodfar.

The Sociology and Anthropology professor has won a $100,000 (U.S.) grant from the U.S.-based Andrew W . Mellon Foundation for a study on The Impact of the Islamization of Codified Law on Iranian Women which will enable her to continue to explore Muslim women's lives under the 14-year Islamic Republic oflran.

Hoodfar hopes to provide a "bal­ance sheet" of the regime's advan­tages and disadvantages to women. "I am interested in the strategies women have adopted to promote their rights within the context of Islamic law," she said.

Iranian women are using the law to demand that the state grant them certain rights. By gaining access to the original sources oflslam, female · scholars and theologians have been able to offer their own interpreta­tions, instead of relying on a pre­dominantly male body of study.

"They are finding clever ways of manipulating the system from with­in for political and scholarly purpos­es," Hoodfar said.

For example, education has been opened up to women because Islamic law does not differentiate between men's and women's access to educa­tion. However, since Islamic law also stipulates that women must keep their bodies covered in public, they were not able to use sports facilities . But a requirement that both men and women remain healthy was used to have sports centres allocated for women's exclusive use.

Homa Hoodfar

"It's wonderful to see a 55-year­old Muslim woman going to her aerobics class," said Hoodfar.

Three researchers have already begun field work, and Hoodfar will be joining them in the summer. The three-year study will explore the life-histories of 3,000 Iranian women in marriage (inheritance, custody, mobility rights), labour and educa tion, as citizens (human rights) and their bodily rights (birth control, abortion, conjugal and fam­ily violence).

The most fascinating aspect of the study, Hoodfar said, is looking at the successive generations of women within the same family, and the changes in their lives and atti­tudes . Although most political activity has taken place in urban centres, the study will be extensive in scope to reflect the varieties of experience oflran's eight major eth­nic groups.

Hoodfar speaks from personal experience. Born in Iran, she began this type of research in 1981 as part of her doctoral thesis. While study­ing in London, she was unable to return to Iran for further field work because of the political instability following the 1979 revolution.

"It was difficult to continue research because people were not able to talk freely," she said. Hood­far still has family in Iran.

She believes that her study is doubly important because of West­em misconceptions about Muslims. "There is a lot that is going on in the name of Islamization, such as the fundamentalist movement, which is also present in other reli­gions. But in the West, the percep­tion is that Islamic law automatically means oppression of women." She cites media reports on the subjugation of Muslim women accompanied by images of Muslim women marching with machine guns in Teheran.

"This is incredible to me. They are saying one thing and the images are there telling you some­thing else," Hoodfar said. "How is this rational?

"There is no denying the orthodoxy [ of I slam] or that it is male-centred, but most religion is." She is also critical of the your-reli­gion -is-worse-than -mine attitude used in discussing these issues.

"This is very sad. I prefer to look at wo­men's stra tegies in dealing with it, how they have fought to take it and change it, or turn it into an advantage."

AT CE COMPILED BY ITA KENDALL

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.

Kailish Anand (Mathematics and Statistics) deliv­ered a paper, Canadian Women Mathematicians from the Earlv 19th Century to the Present Time, in the History of Mathematics section of the Cana­dian .Mathematics Society and the Mathematical Association of America Joint Meetings, held in August at the University of British Columbia .

Palmer Acheson (Teaching English as a Second Language - TESL) was in Swansea, Wales to pre­sent a paper tit led Developing a data base to measure teacher training programmes at the International Association of Teachers of English as a Second Language (IATEFU conference. In August, he visited un iversities in Guatemala, Hon­duras, Costa Rica and Panama, gathering informa­tion for the next issue of his TESL Job Guide.

Alex Sharma (TESL) delivered three workshops in August titled "The Challenge of lntercultural Education, " "Teaching of Reading and Writing," and "Self-Development for Teachers" at the 25th International Language Organization in Odawara, Japan. He also gave two workshops and a lecture at the Summer Institute for Teachers at Chu­lalungkorn University in Bankgok, Thai land, and two workshops on research at the Teacher Tra in­ing College for Islamic Studies Education in Jakar­ta, Indonesia.

Wajeeh Elali (Finance) won the Best Pape r Award for Debt-Equitv Swaps: A Solution to LDCs' Debt Crisis, a paper submitted at the Inter­national Academy of Business Disciplines (IABD) Conference held in Jordan in September.

Anne Galler (Library Studies) presented a paper, Profiles of Librarians Serving Disadvantaged Per­sons: The Blind, the Deaf, the Elderlv, the Hospi­ta I Patient and the Prison Inmate, at the International Federation of Library Association's council and general conference held in August in Barcelona, Spain.

Kurt Jonassohn's (Sociology and Anthropology) paper, titled Famines, Genocides and Refugees, was published in the September/October 1993 issue of Societv

While on sabbatical leave at the Department of Materials Science at the University of Erlangen in Nurnberg, Hugh McOueen (Mechanical Engi ­neering) made a brief visit to Florence, Italy, where he delivered the keynote lecture at an international meeting on innovative technology sponsored by the Italian Association for Metals. His topic was the "Hot and Cold Working of Stainless Steels."

Homa Hoodfar (Sociology and Anthropology) was a panelist last month in a two-day round­table discussion on Law and Feminism in Min­neapolis at the invitat ion of the Un iversity of Minnesota Law Center and SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Societv.

Patrick Kenniff (Rector) was nominated to a position on the Council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities at their meeting on October 5 in Thunder Bay, Ont

Kaz Kusano (Sociology and Anthropology) was a commentator on Japan's Economic Image, a sec­tion of the sixth annual conference of the Japan

Studies Association of Canada in Montreal last month .

Last month Ronald Mackay (TESL) presented a paper, Evaluation Multicultural Programmes, at a Canadian Council for Multicultural and Internation­al Education conference in Vancouver . He pre­sented a paper, Programme Evaluation, at the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Lan­guages (TESOL) convention in Atlanta, Georgia in May, and Measuring Programme Outcomes at the May meeting of the Canadian Evaluation Soci­ety in Banff. Programme Evaluation was pub­lished in the EL T Management Journal.

John Fiset (Institute for Co-operative Education) was honoured at a dinner in August for his work as a member of the Superior Council of Educa­tion, an advisory body to the Quebec Minister of Education.

Dominique Legros (Sociology and Anthropology) presented his paper, Inborn and Acquired Mind Sub-Svstems: Th e Northern Tutchone Atha­paskan Aboriginal Conception, at the Conference sur la svmbo/ique de /'esprit et du pouvoir chez Jes peuples autochtones de /'Amerique du Nord held last month in Ottawa.

Henri Lustiger-Thaler (Sociology and Anthropol­ogy) and McGill colleague Eric Shragge wrote an article titled Social Movements and Social Wel­fare: The Political Problem of Needs, which was published in New Approaches to Welfare Theory.

Last month's Societe pour la promotion de l'enseignement de l'anglais au Quebec (SPEAQ) conference in Laval featured significant participa­tion from the experts at Concordia's Teaching English as a Second Language Centre. Elizabeth Gatbonton, Marlene Gross, Randall Halter, Patsy Lightbown, Ronald Mackay, Leila Ranta, Alex Sharma, Joanna White and John Wilkin­son all presented papers.

Patsy Lightbown (TESL) is scheduled to travel to Australia to be a guest lecturer at the University of Sydney and the Australian National University in Canberra.

Guy LeCavalier (Sociology and Anthropology) was a member of the jury for the 1993 Annua l Book Prizes of the Social Science Federation of Canada.

In August, Gwendolyn Newsham (TESL) attend­ed the 10th World Congress of Applied Linguis­tics at the Free University in Amsterdam, where she presented a paper titled Testing for Success: Placement Testing. Leila Ranta (Teaching Eng­lish as a Second Language) was also at the Ams­terdam congress to present a paper.

Bill Reimer (Sociology and Anthropology) was the organizer of the Agricultural and Rural Restructur­ing Group's (AARG) national conference, titled Development Strategies for Rural Canada: Evalu­ating Partnerships, Jobs and Communities, which was held last month in Wolfville, N.S. Reimer is also one of four co-authors of a paper titled Manu­facturing and Services: Stimulating Rural Econom­ics, which wi ll be published in the ARRG Working Paper Series produced by the Rural Development Institute of Brandon University.

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Preliminary Statement

The Independent Committee of Inquiry was appointed by the Board of Governors to "address issues with respect to scientific and academic integrity" at Concordia University. Its terms of reference are attached. At the outset of this inquiry, the Independent Committee wishes to indicate to the Concordia commu­nity how we propose to proceed, to solicit the assistance of the commu­nity in pursuing the difficult tasks which have been assigned to us within the six months time limit set out in our mandate, and to solicit any information, opinions or sug­gestions which might be pertinent to the inquiry.

Independence and Openness As our name implies, we are an independent committee. We have received the assurance of the administration of the University that our independence will be fully respected, and that we will receive all necessary co-operation in order to discharge our mandate. Our work will be supported administra­tively by the Office of the Secretary General of the University, and by the University's Legal Counsel, who, for this purpose, will be acting on secondment under our direction.

Our primary task is a constructive one: to point the way forward for Concordia, to help it to define poli­cies and structures which will pro­mote excellence, initiative, integrity and accountability in its research culture. This can only be accom­plished in an atmosphere of open­ness, in which all interested parties are heard from and listened to.

However, as everyone knows, we begin our work against the back­ground of a terrible tragedy and the highly publicized and controversial criminal proceedings which fol­lowed it and which are ongoing. Some parts of our investigation may involve the actions and reputations of individuals who may choose to invoke legal rights and recourses over which we have no control. And legalities apart, some individuals may insist on speaking to us in con­fidence or not at all, and we will have to deal with these situations as they arise. All that said, we mean to be as open in this part of our inves­tigation as the various contingencies affecting our mandate will permit.

Two parts Our work falls into two parts:

A review of policies and practices relating to academic and scientific integrity, and

ii A review of the allegations made by Dr. Valery Fabrikant to the Natural Sciences and Engineer­ing Research Council of Canada, and to the Board of Governors of Concordia University, concerning violations of academic and scien­tific integrity at Concordia.

A. Review of Policies and

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case of statements made in confi­dence, the person against whom they are made will be provided with the substance of such state­ments, without identification of their source.

dent CornmiUefr off ~9u1rtp.A A~ademic andScientific Integrity has met twice. eeting focused on (tl;aP.~\_119 out which di.rectio~t . inquiry should take.

6 Anyone who wishes to make sub­missions concerning the allega­tions should notify the Committee of their intention to do so by no later than November 12, 1993. Individuals who wish to make their submissions on a con­fidential basis should so indicate. Submissions should be made by no later than December 3, 1993.

session actually cori'sf .... fa ser.ies of meetings/ committee met with from th& Concqr:pia.corry.> nity ov0r two days·. ~ .·~ t rs heard from the Deans, i;l

facult'y'a ..•... ··· ~!ions, staff unions; stu9e:9J'associations, the Rector, the Vice . .::Rectors and F·aculty rep(esentatives to the Board of Governbrs. The committee has incorporated many of the ·

suggestions it received into its procedures.

Practices We look forward to working with the community in developing an overall perspective on academic and scientific integrity. Within this per­spective, we may have to address such issues as fraud, conflict of interest and the allocation of recog­nition to individuals with differing roles and responsibilities in Concordia's many research cultures. To provide some background, we have initiated a study of policies and practices relating to academic and scientific integrity, both at Concordia and at other Canadian universities.

We invite all individual members of the Concordia community, as well as any interested bodies such as Fac­ulty Councils or Senate Committees, and student, staff and faculty organi­zations, to provide us with informa­tion or views concerning existing arrangements as well as suggestions for improvement. Such submissions should be in writing and be submit­ted to the Independent Committee by no later than December 3, 1993. We have tentatively set aside December 6-7 for an open discus­sion of the written submissions.

B. Review of Allegations Our mandate also requires that we investigate the allegations made by Dr. Fabrikant. We have adopted a Procedural Protocol, attached, which will govern this investigation. Essentially, we mean to proceed by way of an informal and iterative inquiry which is designed to achieve three objectives: a) to permit us to review the allegations fairly and fully; b) to provide us with informa­tion concerning possible improve­ments to Concordia's policies and procedures and; c) to ensure that the rights of all persons involved are respected.

Copies of the relevant documents containing Dr. Fabrikant's allega­tions are available from the Com­mittee's administrative offices.

Our Report Subject to circumstances beyond our control, we intend to present our report to the Board of Gover­nors within the six months time

limit set out in our mandate, in March, 1994. The report will be made public.

We want to hear from all inter­ested parties. Inquiries, communi­cations, submissions etc. should be addressed to the Independent Com­mittee of Inquiry on Academic and Scientific Integrity c/o Room BC-123, Bishop Court, 1463 Bishop St., Montreal H3G 1M8. Tel: 848-4813. Written communications marked "Confidential" will be for­warded directly, unopened, to the members of the Committee.

Procedural Protocol

Review of allegations The lndepe:ident Committee has been mandated by Concordia's Board of Governorsto investigate the allegations made by Dr. Valery Fabrikant to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada as well as to the Board of Governors. These allegations con­cern violations of academic and sci­entific integrity at Concordia and are available from the Committee's administrative offices.

The Independent Committee intends to proceed in the following manner:

1 The Committee will seek to review fully and fairly the allegations it has been appointed to investigate, to derive from its investigations information concerning possible improvements in the University's policies and procedures, and to respect the rights of all persons concerned with the inquiry.

2 The Committee is not a Board of Arbitration. It cannot make a determination of anyone's rights. It has no statutory powers and no authority to compel individuals to participate in the inquiry and accordingly relies upon the co­operation of everyone concerned to ensure that it is fully informed with regard to these allegations. Anyone who chooses to appear before the committee may be accompanied by an advisor from within the University community.

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3 The University Administration has assured us of its full coopera­tion and has accepted that all members of the University are free to make submissions or offer evidence with respect to the alle­gations, or to decline to do so, without fear of reprisal. While the limit of its powers is not entirely clear, the Committee will make every effort to respect requests that information pro­vided to it be treated as confi­dential.

4 The Committee will begin by reviewing the documentary record, and will seek further information from individuals whose input it feels is necessary.

5 In order to ensure fairness, per­sons against whom statements are made will be afforded an oppor­tunity to respond to them. In the

7 At any stage in its inquiry, the Committee in its discretion may request further information or clarification from individuals who have made submissions, from those mentioned in submissions, or from other persons, by way of either a written statement or a meeting with the Committee.

8 At some stage in its inquiry, the Committee may summarize its findings to date, and invite com­ment thereon from parties affect­ed.

Submissions or requests for infor­mation should be addressed to The Independent Committee of Inquiry on Academic and Scientific Integri­ty c\o Room BC-123, Bishop Court, 1463 Bishop St., Montreal H3G 1M8. Telephone: 848-4813. Written communications marked "Confidential" will be forwarded directly, unopened, to the members of the Committee. Upon request, arrangements can be made for con­fidential meetings with the Com­mittee.

s 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 Jax (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.

Debilitating disease I believe there are signs of a debilitating, possibly fatal, disease within Canadian universities . The symptoms are an ever-increasing ration of administrative costs against costs of teaching and research . What are the statistics for Concordia? What are sizes of the administrative person el compared with those of the faculty over the past five years? When did the increase occur and why?

These figures (together with the number of students here) would give some meaning to the lndicateurs de /'activite universitaire quoted in your October 21st headline.

If the government wants to know how universities spend tax dollars, this is a question whose answer cannot be ignored.

John McKay Computer Science and Mathematics

To: All part-time faculty From: Professional Development

Committee Date: October 1993

Article 17 of the Collective Agreement established the Pro­fessional Development Fund lo assist part-lime faculty mem­bers in their pursuit of research, study, and other scholarly or professional or artistic activities, particularly as they enhance leaching quality. All part-lime faculty members with more than 24 credits of seniority who are not on leave are reminded that they are eligible lo apply for funding.

The deadline for the first distrib­ution of monies from the Fund in 1993-94 is Monday, Novem­ber 15th, 1993. Applications (four copies) should be submit­ted lo the Professional Develop­ment Committee at the CUPFA office (2150 Bishop Street, Annex K-310) by this date.

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

Editor Barbara Black

• Copy Editor Michael Orsini

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Taddeo is back in Montreal and heading the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science

Rising to the challenge BY MICHAEL ORSINI

Donat Taddeo had a few hours to make an important career

decision. He had received a call from Rector Patrick Kenniff, asking if he would be willing to head the Faculty of Engineering and Com­puter Science. The University's exhaustive search for a new dean had come up empty-handed.

He agreed. Since accepting the two-year post­

ing, which began in June, Taddeo has had some time to reflect on his decision - and he doesn't regret it.

"It's an extremely exciting envi­ronment to be in," the Italian­Canadian professor said recently over a lunch of fusilli alla matriciana. "Technologies are shap­ing the way societies organize. And some of those technologies are being developed right here at Concordia."

Leadership qualities Looking back at his career, it's no surprise Taddeo, 47, would be undaunted by the new job. His life has been a string of challenges. From his humble beginnings as a salesman at the family-run shoe store in working-class Ville Emard to his much-publicized fight in the 1970s for the "illegal students" affected by Bill 101, Taddeo has exhibited the markings of a leader.

In 1988, he was handpicked by Premier Robert Bourassa to be Qiebec's Delegate-General to Italy. Taddeo said his experience in the Eternal City opened his eyes to the challenge of getting things done on the international scene.

"To carve out a niche for Qiebec was a learning experience," he said.

Asked if he ever thought he'd be heading the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Taddeo, a non-engineer, said, "it _would have been inconceivable."

Taddeo's association with Con­cordia spans almost three decades. He studied toward a BA in Classics at Loyola College in the 1960s. In 1972, after completing his PhD at Stanford University, he returned to

Following list of objectives

Donat Taddeo

Loyola as Administrative Assistant to the Chair of Communication Arts. He also served as Dean of Division 1, Arts and Science, from 1980 to 1985, and became a tenured professor in the Communication Studies Department in 1985.

In announcing Taddeo's deanship last spring, Kenniff said, "After a very trying time for the Faculty this past year, I am particularly pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Taddeo, whose strong sense of leadership and broad experience in the field of education and adminis­tration will bring a period of consol­idation and stability to the Faculty."

Taddeo's said that's partly why he took the job. "The University has been good to me, and if I can help, I will."

Decanal team Discussing his priorities for the Faculty, he pointed to a subject close to his heart: communication. It is an apt theme for Taddeo to be

otet-h~ participation ofth~ Y outlinedb n,Taddeo at a recent · Executive Committee and< Faculty CJ,bqcil m'/,eting:

8fld re itJilitfoS fo meinbefS df Pi

the Decarial Team, so as to facilitate · the faculty's interaction with the University and its various academic and non-academic constituents.

• To devolve, accordingly, to the acade­mic units of the Faculty, the-increased responsibility and accountability for all facetsof!heir operations.

e attitudes ofopenriess, rid itfolusivity within the

between the Fac­iversW community in

• To s the distribution of re5oulces within the Faculty (ie. capital and operating budgets, fac­ulty and staff, space) and develop, with the Executive Committee, strategies for the optimum use of these resources .

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addressing. He has spent the past 13 years teaching in Concordia's Communication Studies Depart­ment. This semester, he's teaching a course on "Media and Cultural Context."

Despite the increasing presence of technology, Taddeo said, "there's still a need for human beings to interface."

The recent collaboration between the Faculty and Jordanian Universi­ty of Science and Technology (JUST) is a sign of things to come, he said.

The Faculty was awarded a $1-million grant from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to launch a training pro­gramme in manufacturing technol­ogy in co-operation with JUST. 'We've got to do more things like that," Taddeo said.

The engineering profession, like any other, "has its own cultural accoutrements," he said. But the image of the engineer in a hard-hat

,• To increase the Faculty's liaison with the Quebec commuh1ty (gov­ernment, industry and university) through the increased participation -of faculty members in j ''-~+ rojects,

well as increased rship in Ordre des in bee.

is starting to change with the onslaught of computer technology.

Participation is another impor­tant theme Taddeo addresses in his 10 objectives for the Faculty (out­lined at the bottom of this page). The creation of a decanal team, he said, is an attempt to foster partici­pation in the decision-making process . The team comprises Mechanical Engineering Professor Douglas Hamblin (Associate Dean - Student Affairs), Electrical Engi­neering Professor Emeritus Stanley Kubina (Associate Dean - Strategic Planning), Computer Science Pro­fessor Ching Suen (Associate Dean - Research), Centre for Building Studies Professor Ted Stathopoulos (Associate Dean - Academic and Administrative Affairs), Mechanical Engineering Professor Tom Sankar (Special Co-ordinator - Interna­tional Relations, and Professor Corinne Jette (Advisor to the Dean - Communications and Equity Affairs).

'Stupendous' job Although he is still new to the job, it appears that Taddeo has already impressed both his troops and his superiors. At a recent Board of Governors meeting, Vice-Rector, Academic, Rose Sheinin said that Taddeo had done a "stupendous" job during his first several months.

Arriving as he did after the most difficult year in the Faculty's histo­ry, Sheinin gave particular credit to the new dean for his savvy in sur­rounding himself with "an out­standing group of people. They are forward-looking, upbeat, and really working well as a team," she said.

When asked about some of the problems the Faculty has had in recent years, namely the Aug. 24 tragedy, Taddeo said he prefers not to dwell on the past.

"I think it's time to move for­ward;" he said. "There are problems -in any major organization. It's human nature. It's really idyllic to think that the grass is greener on the other side.-

"When you look at this Faculty up close, it is extremely strong."

agreements b and Quebec ~· tries ih these area ed to determine the'. resouro~s,· already available to_pronfote;' exchanges and joint research pro-jects. --

• To define and develop a mission statement and a strategic plan of action for the Faculty of -~ngi~eering and Computer S · ·· ·- inff\nto Y"

consideration!: process and . have been Review.

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'Women in prison need a supportive environment, not a punitive one'

Shaw's feminist criminology is creating a new kind of women's prison BY AISLINN MOSHER

A sk sociologist Margaret Shaw to .l"\.describe the evolution of crimi­nology in Canada over the past decade, and her response is emphatic.

"Feminism is one of the most exciting things to have happened in criminology within the last 10 years."

Shaw has been teaching a course on crime and justice in Concordia's Department of Sociology and Anthropology since 1989, as well as acting as a research associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute.

Feminist criminology stresses dif­ferent issues from the conventional variety, Shaw said. "It attacks tradi­tional methods of trying to under­stand and cope with the world."

Shaw, who lives in Notre-Dame­de-Grace with her husband (also an educator), came to Canada from Britain in 1986.

That cher's Brit a in "Mrs. Thatcher [the prime minister] was decimating the universities and destroying the fabric of the society in which I grew up. We felt we had no professional futures there."

The move to Canada came after 22 years of working for the British government's Home Office, where Shaw acted as a liaison between researchers and policy-makers on issues such as imprisonment and community crime prevention.

"I was there to act as an irritant

within the system, to raise issues people didn't think about or consid­er," she said. "I've always been con­cerned about raising questions on how the system works. But I don't believe being negative is construc­tive . In order to develop a better understanding of how things work, we must look at problems standing in the way of change."

That devotion is changing the system. Her work as a criminologist within what Shaw describes as a "feminist framework'' led to a con­tract with the Canadian govern­ment in 1989 to work on a task force examining the management and special needs of the 350 women in federal prisons.

Regional facilities The task force's report, Creating Choices, recommends the elimina­tion of Canada's Prison for Women in Kingston, Ont., and its replace­ment with five regional facilities based on a series of "feminist choic­es." Women would live in small groups in a series of small cottages. The facilities, managed by Correc­tions Canada, would have access to both nature and cities, and would permit visits by family members and children.

"The main issue is that women in prison need a supportive environ­ment, not a puni t ive one," said Shaw. She, along with other mem­bers of the task force, interviewed most of the women serving federal

sentences. "Because Canada is so vast, we

have problems here you wouldn't necessarily have in other countries," she said. "If you live in B.C. and you're sentenced federally, you end up in Kingston. What happens to your family? The distance is alienat­ing. And once you're there, you are in an entirely traditional system, one that certainly has no sympathy for aboriginal culture." Six aborigi­nal women at the Prison for Women have committed suicide since 1990.

Women sentenced for murder, manslaughter and other violent crimes need special consideration, Shaw said.

"They need a considerable amount of help dealing with their experience of abuse. Women who have been treated violently and then themselves use [violence] need sup­port to rebuild their lives," she said. Eighty per cent of federally sen­tenced women say they have been abused physically or sexually, according to the task force report.

Action on report As a result of the 1990 report, the Solicitor General has earmarked $15 million to construct the region­al facili ties. Centres are already being developed in Kitchener, Joli­et te, T ruro (Nova Scotia) and Edmonton. A healing lodge exclu­sively for aboriginal women is also being built in Saskatchewan.

Arts and Science's atrium-advising brings out the shy ones

Margaret Shaw

"My motivation has always been to use research skills to change poli­cy," Shaw said when asked about her publication credentials. "I don't

function as an academic. My goal is n't to push up my publication record. My goal is to change policy and move issues along."

Challenge of counselling 13,000 students evokes new ideas BY B RONWYN CHESTER

\ ]{ Then Sylvia Carter stepped V V into her job two-and-a-half

years ago as Vice-Dean of Student Affairs, everyone in academic advis­ing in the Faculty of Arts and Sci­

-ence was "still typing their memos." The first thing she did was equip herself and her five staff members with computers and provide every­one with computer lessons.

Today, she says "technology has enabled us to become a more effi­cient unit, and assist advising within the Faculty."

Dealing with fallout One of the challenges of Carter's job is getting academic information across to the Faculty's 13,000 stu­dents. Her approach has been both preventive (doing everything to assure that students understand all the administrative tasks they must fulfill in order to graduate) and curative (dealing with the fallout, such as a student who stopped attending a course but didn't offi­cially drop it).

'W e have the authority to over­ride the regulations," said Jo Ann W elsh , academic advisor at the

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Loyola Campus. She and her Sir George Williams counter­part, Matt Santa ­teresa, receive 2,000 student requests per year.

Some · of those requests are handled individually, while others are dealt with by the student re­quest committee, made up of Welsh, Santateresa, three Faculty members, a student, Carter and a representative from the Admissions Office.

"The commit tee meets at least once every two weeks," Carter said. "I have to keep them well supplied with choco­late doughnuts ."

The other chal -Sylvia Carter

lenge is assuring con-sistency in the advising which is done by the Faculty's 35 depart­ments and its schools, colleges and programmes. In order to provide

this consistency, as well as reduce the number of student requests, Wels_h, Carter , Sheelah O'Neill (Communicatio n Studies) and Catherine Moore (Geography) have

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produced a funny 30-minute fi lm, written, directe_d and acted by the third-year Televi­sion class . The video addresses such topics as the University Writing Test and how to calculate your GPA (grade point aver­age) . So far, 100 copies of the video and 3,000 of the accompanying booklets are in cir­culation.

Welsh and Car­ter are proud of the video, "the first of its kind, to our knowledge ." They have received many letters of apprecia­t io . When the American National Academic Advising Association fo und

out about it via the electronic bill­board, seve n U. S. unive rsi t ies requested copies.

The Department also uses old-

fashioned person-to-person contact to reach students. Information stands ins t alled in the Place Concordia atrium last year brought 1,492 academic-related questions, Carter said.

"It was a fantastic response," Welsh agreed. "We got students who would have been too intimi­dated to make an appointment. Here, they could be anonymous."

"Atrium -advising" has been repeated this year on the Sir George W illiams Campus over the past two weeks, and is scheduled for the lobby of the Administration Build­ing on the Loyola Campus between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. next T uesday and Wednesday.

Carter and her team will also repeat last year's successful early identification of students who are at risk of failing, and students who are capable of going into Honours but may not know it.

Carter has agreed to stay on for a second term as Vice-Dean of Arts and Science at the invitation of D ean Gail Valaskakis. She still teaches Leadership and G roup Development in the Applied Social Science programme, her home turf at Concordia for the past 17 years.

Luncheon reception will be held on November 12

Faculty of Commerce and Administration honours 1 distinct' Montrealers

BY SH ARON BISHIN

Concordia's Faculty of Com­merce and Administration will

honour four prominent Montrealers on November 12 with its sixth annual Awards of Distinction at a luncheon reception at Le Centre Sheraton Hotel.

The distinguished members of the Montreal business community who will receive the award this year are Harold Greenberg, Henriette Lanctot, L. Jacques Menard, and Emanuele (Lino) Saputo.

Madeleine Saint-Jacques, Presi­dent of the advertising agency Young & Rubi cam Montreal, a pre­vious award recipient, will be the guest speaker at the luncheon.

The Awards of Distinction was inaugurated in 1988 to mark out­standing achievement in finance, commerce, and service to the com­munity. Last year's recipients were Philippe de Gaspe Beaub ien (Telemedia Corporation), A. Frank Knowles (Power Corporation), Madeleine Saint-Jacques, and Sid Stevens (Sun Youth).

Harold Greenberg Harold Greenberg, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Astral Com­munications Inc., began with one camera store in Montreal in the 1950s and, along with h:s three brothers, has built Astral into one of Canada's leading communica­tions companies involved in broad­casting, entertainment and retail photography. It is a wholly Canadi­an-owned, publicly-traded compa­ny, with shares listed on the Toronto and Montreal stock exchanges. The Astral Broadcasting Group is an integral group of the Canadian broadcasting system offering pay and basic television ser­vice in English and French. The Astral Entertainment Group is involved in developing financing and distributing film programming. Astral also operates the Astral Photo chain of camera stores and photofinishing outlets in Qyebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.

Guest speaker Madeleine Saint­Jacques

Harold Greenberg

Always active in community and industry activities, Mr. Greenberg has received numerous honours, including the Legion d'honneur of France and the Ordre national du Qyebec. One of his many activities over the years has been to establish, with his three brothers, a video cen­tre in the Faculty of Visual and Per­forming Arts at Tel Aviv University, to encourage young film-makers .

Henriette Lanctot In 1981 Henriette Lanctot launched the Bottin des femmes, a directory of more than 100 profes­sionals and tradeswomen eager to promote their services and establish business contacts. In the dozen years since, this entrepreneurial venture has grown into a. province­wide organization which supplies services and resources to its 3,300 members. As President and founder of the Association des femmes d'affaires du Qyebec (AFAQ2, Ms. Lanctot heads a network of entre­preneurs, professionals and corpo­rate women who play an active role in their association and in the busi­ness community.

Henriette Lanctot continues to promote Qyebec businesswomen by encouraging the nomination of women to boards of directors of corporations across the province. Internationally, she is expanding opportunities for women in business with a new initiative, Femmes d'affaires sans frontieres . The Asso­ciation was one of the first to launch a programme linking female students from various high school and colleges with businesswomen to experience a real business environ­ment.

Ms. Lanctot's presence has also been in demand as commit tee member, judge and supporter for a number of artistic, political, com­munity and educational ventures.

L. Jacques Menard L. Jacques Menard, a BComm graduate of Loyola College, has played a key leadership role in his community and his industry in Montreal since 1970.

Henriette Lanctot

Vice-Chairman of Burns Fry Limited and member of the firm's Executive Committee, Mr. Menard has served as a director of numerous investment bodies including the Investment Dealers Association, TransCanada Options, the National Contingency Fund, and the Inter-: national Options Clearing Corpora­tion.

He has been Chairman of the Montreal Stock Exchange, and Chairman and President of the Chambre de commerce du Mon­treal metropolitain. In 1992 he was campaign co-chair of the most suc­cessful Centraide campaign to date in the Greater Montreal area. He has also served on the Boards of La Fondation Ressources-Jeunesse, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and the McCord Museum of Canadian History, among others . Mr. Menard is a Governor of the Qyebec MBA Association, which recognized him as MBA of the Year in 1990. He is currently a director of the Societe Generale de Financement du Qyebec and of the International Financial Centres Organization of Montreal.

Toget her with Expos' CEO Claude Brochu, he assembled the new ownership group and raised the financing that maintained Montreal control of its major league baseball franchise in 1991; he has continued his leadership role in the franchise through his firm's ongoing invest­ment in the team and his role as Chairman of the Board of the ball club.

Emanuele (Lino) Saputo One of Qyebec's leading entrepre­neurs, Mr. Saputo is a prominent figure in the Italian community. He is the co-founder, President and CEO of the Saputo Group, one of Canada's leading producers and dis­tributors of cheese and other food products. The Group has achieved a North American scope with manu­facturing facilities across Canada and in the U.S.

Mr. Saputo is a member of the Board of Directors of several firms, among them the National Bank of Canada. He is also the owner of

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L. Jacques Menard

Montreal's new franchise in the North American Professional Soc­cer League.

In 1979, the Saputo Foundation was created. Headed by his wife, Mirella, the Foundation has worked with different organizations, such as the Montreal Association for the Mentally Retarded, the Multi-Eth­nic Association of Handicapped

Emanuele (Lino) Saputo

Persons of Qyebec, the Quebec Society for Crippled Children, le Bal des Enfants du Monde, Special Olympics, and the Association for Muscular Dystrophy. The Founda­tion is also the major contributor toward the building of a new wing at the Montreal Rehabilitation Institute. For ticket iriformation, calf 848-2705.

Goldbloom, Eberts receive honorary doctorates -r,'ederal Official Languages Com­_r missioner Victor Goldbloom began his professional life as a pedi­atrician in Montreal.

He served as Chairman of Med­ical Economics for the Association of Pediatricians of the Province of Qyebec, and later as Chairman of the Canadian Medical Association, which allowed him to travel across Canada examining health care sys­tems and issues.

In 1966, Dr. Goldbloom was elected to the Qyebec legislature for D'Arcy-McGee, represented the riding for 14 years and was named to the cabine t in 1979, the first member of the Jewish community to be so recognized. He was the province's first Minister of the Environment. Under his six-year tenure, the Environment Qyality Act was passed.

In 1973, Dr. Goldbloom was named Minister of Municipal Affairs.

Responsible for 01B In 1975, just eight months before the opening of the 1976 Olympics, he was given the additional respon­sibility of Minister Responsible for the Olympic Installations Board. In 1991, he was appointed to his cur­rent post in Ottawa, Commissioner of Official Languages.

Dr. Goldbloom's commitment to the Jewish community has also shaped his life. He has been active in several Jewish organizations, and from 1979 to 1987 served as presi­dent of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews.

Dr. Victor C. Goldbloom

Mary Eberts Mary Eberts is a senior constitu­tional lawyer who acts for universi­ties, corporations, unions and associations on issues as diverse as taxation, insurance and environ­mental law. She is pe rhaps best known for her work on the Canadi­an Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Dedicated to women's issues, Ms. Eberts has been active on com­mittees studying violence against women. She has been on the front­line of the debate over midwifery, co-chairing a committee sponsored by the Ontario Government on the implementation of midwifery in that province. She was a member of · the executive of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, and the Advisory Com­mittee of the Mother and Child Project. - BB

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Concordia has had a decade-long hit with Expo Science

Taking science out into the community BY SYL VAI N COMEAU

Budding Einsteins got their first taste of hands-on science at the

10th annual Expo Science at Stew­art Hall in Pointe Claire last week­end. The popular annual event, presented by Concordia's scientists and engineers, played host to a full contingent of children, plus many of their intrigued elders.

"They're learning about science, and finding out that it's fascinating and fun, as opposed to sitting in a dull lecture-room and doing exer­cises," said organizer and Chemistry Professor Robert Fallen.

The exhibits attract all age groups, but children are the pre­ferred audience.

"The students and professors [running the exhibits] are able to explain things at any level, from the expert's to the kids' ," said Fallen. "They prefer to talk to the kids, though, because they're more fasci­nated, and they have a very unbi­ased attitude. They're interested in science, and they haven't yet been ingrained with the idea that science is difficult, it's not for you, it's only for the elite."

The computer has been a tool for the democratization of science in

recent years, allowing a small lab to perform tasks once requiring a team of scientists. The first Expo had one computer among its exhibits; this year there were 10.

The Centre for Building Studies, based in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science , demon­strated designing software with a database of housing codes and regu­lations for every region in Canada.

"On a preliminary design, gener­ating half-a-dozen alternatives might take a week; with a comput­er, it will take a day or less," PhD student Ravi Mathi said. ''You can't put on a realistic science exhibition today, particularly for engineering, without including computers. They're a fact oflife for us now."

Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor Laurie Colebrook con­structed computer models of mole­cules - everything from a building-block of DNA to ordinary hand soap.

"People think of chemicals as some nasty compound made by some chemical company. They don't realize that everything in the household is a chemical, including things they use every day, like soap."

If the computer was the most common instrument, bringing out the science in the commonplace was

Doctoral student in Chemistry Kelly Millan gets a foamy reaction for visitor Julia Chung, 7.

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Fourth-year Mechanical Engineering student Paul Sabapathy lets Daniel Fortin, 10, try his hand on an oscilloscope, an instrument for measuring electrical impulses.

the most common theme. For example, in the Exercise Science section, you could test your batting speed by swinging a bat through two laser beams.

"Kids are already very competi­tive," graduate student Peter Kudsieh said. "This kind of equip­ment is used by baseball teams to test players, so the kids can see how their speed stacks up to major lea­guers."

The Physics room was no doubt the most visual of all, with strobe lights and tendrils of electricity right out of a science-fiction movie. Mostafa Showleh admitted that the "Jacob's Ladder," with its ball of electricity reaching for the sky, was just for show. Then he explained the Tesla Coil, a device -that gives off a powerful electrical field.

"This is lower-frequency, but exactly the same principle as radio or TV broadcasting. If we removed the roof, we could broadcast to radios all over the West Island, although they would only hear stat-. " lC.

All these exhibits followed the same equations: science often equals intimidation; demystification of sci­ence equals greater understanding.

"Our intention is to get young people interested in science, but also to show adults that science is part of everyday life, and that they use it all the time, in all the appliances and things they do around the house," Fallen said. "I'd like to feel that we are explaining science before people become intimidated by it, and, if

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they already are, to overcome that fear."

The exhibition is affiliated with La Quinzaine des Sciences, Nation­al Chemistry Week, National Sci-

ence and Technology Week, and the Royal Society of Canada's Pub­lic Awareness of Science Pro­gramme.

Review of the Industrial Liaison Office

The Vice-Rector, Academic has struck a committee to review the Industrial Liaison Office and to report its find­ings and make its recommendations by March 1, 1994.

The mandate of the Review Committee will be (1) to assess the current operation of the Industrial Liaison Office and (2) to make recommendations concerning its development over the next five years.

In carrying out its assessment and formulating its recom­mendations, the Committee will consider:

• the mission of the unit in light of the University's overall academic mission,

• the functions, services and activities which serve to fulfill the unit's mission,

• the internal administrative structures and supporting infra­structures of the unit, and its interface with other bodies, as these bear upon these functions, services and activities.

The Committee invites oral/written submissions from interested members of all sectors of the University commu­nity. An Intent to submit should be sent by November 15, 1993 and written Submissions, must be received by December 15, 1993, and may be forwarded to: Dr. Tien D. Bui, Chair, Review Committee oflndustrial Liaison Office, Concordia University, Room BC-225, SGW Campus. Tel.: 848-4802

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Philosophy symposium examines moral environment

Goodness is more profound than the legal system: Justice Gonthier BY SYLVAIN COMEAU

Laws meant to uphold morality are ineffective without society's

support, said Supreme Court Justice Charles Gonthier at a philosophy symposium held last week at Concordia.

"Laws protect our moral environ­ment by reflecting a moral consen­sus of community tolerance of activities. The community sets laws to control behaviour it cannot toler­ate, because that behaviour is seen as presenting a fundamental threat to the community and its moral environment." But in a cultural mosaic like Canada, there is no one community setting the rules.

"Thomas Aquinas said that laws attempt to make their subjects good. They can and do, but within the limits tolerated by our multilin­gual, multiethnic and multicultural country, which has a considerable diversity of moral views."

In this environment, courts and leg­islators cannot pick and choose which view they prefer when values come

into conflict, such as is sometimes the case with freedom of expression and community safety. Justice Gonthier cited the example of violent or degrading pornography, which is often censored on the grounds of harm to members of a community.

"Harm is an objective criterion, because it may be more ascertain­able than morality. Morality informs [ our concept of] harm, but that does not allow legislation regu­lating conduct on the assumption that one moral view is superior to another. Harm to the community or its component members must be [clearly] demonstrated."

Individuals have duties Gonthier frequently mentioned Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms as a pervasive influence on Supreme Court decisions . He said that the protection it provides for the individual in Canada calls for a more reciprocal relationship.

"Our Charter focuses on the lan­guage of rights . However, individu­als must be prepared to fulfill

Commended for volunteer work

Kerby wins Canada 125 Medal

BY BARBARA BLACK

Director of Advocacy ~nd Sup­port Services Ann Kerby will

join 40,000 outstanding Canadians who have been presented by the Governor General with a medal for outstanding citizenship.

The Canada 125 Medal was struck to commemorate the coun­try's 125th anniversary in 1992.

Kerby is a member of the board of AQJ<:T A, the Association Quebe­coise pour !es troubles d'apprentissage, and has represented that group at the national level in the Learning Disabilities Association of Canada.

Unlike many volunteers in this field, Kerby is not the parent of a learning-disabled child. Her inter­est, she said in a recent interview, grew out of Concordia's early involvement in helping learning-

Ann Kerby

disabled students adapt to universi­ty, and her own awareness that there was an urgent need for advo­cacy.

Active volunteer By the late 1970s, the Qyebec gov­ernment was urging schools and universities to review their policies toward disabled students. Concordia was ahead of other Qyebec universities and most of those in the rest of Canada in look­ing for strategies to integrate stu­dents with physical disadvantages. Kerby was part of the University's pioneering Services to the Disabled, and found that some of the learning tools developed for blind students could be usefully adapted for the learning disabled, who also have visual-perceptual difficulties.

However, she has gone far beyond the strict requirements of her job. She became an active vol­unteer with AQET A about eight years ago, serving as treasurer, and chairing a major international con­ference with over 1,200 participants in Montreal last March. She also co-chairs a U.S. - Canadian panel looking at legislation relating to the disabled.

Denise Marquez, who works in the AQET A office in Montreal, praised Kerby's work for the organi­zation. "We couldn' t do without her," she said.

Kerby was in charge of the Dis­abled Students Office when she was named director of the newly regrouped Office of Advocacy and Support Services in 1991.

Philosophy Professor Ernest Joos (left) and Associate Dean of the School of Graduate Studies Dorothy Markiewicz (centre) were hosts at a reception for keynote speaker Justice Charles Gonthier (right) .

certain duties and responsibilities. If contains a more fundamental moral in exercising their freedoms." there is no commitment to the ful- foundation than the law, Gonthier The symposium was organized by fillment of duties, we are left with said. Philosophy Professor Ernest Joos, authority as the only basis on which "It would be imprudent to place and presented by the School of legislation is followed. Perhaps it is too much faith in our legal system

Graduate Studies, the Faculty of

Arts and Science, the Visiting Lee-time to start thinking about a char- as a key mechanism for improving ter of duties. Should we not be our moral environment. The real looking at rights in terms of corre­sponding obligations?"

A sense of individual obligation

Can you spare a few hours?

Bowl-a-thon raises scholarship money

Daise money for Concordia Rscholarships while you enjoy an evening of bowling with old friends, suggest members of the Sir George Williams Alumni Association. They are organizing their first annual bowl-a-thon at Pare Lanes, 5250 Pare St., on Sunday, November 13 at 1 p.m.

"We've invited representatives from the Montreal Expos and the Canadiens hockey club, as well as Concordia administrators," said organizer Don Albin. "CJAD and The Gazette have already respond­ed."

Those interested are asked to group themselves in teams of five, and submit $25 per bowler to the Alumni Associations' scholarship fund. Bowling shoes and refresh­ments will be provided free of charge. For more information, please call 848-3823. - AnnaA/hovias

protection of our moral environ­ment must come from the responsi­bility people are prepared to assume

turers' Committee, Campus Min­

is try and the Departments of

Philosophy and Theology.

Graduating? All students completing certificate, degree or diploma requirements during the fall 1993 or winter 1994 sessions who therefore expect to graduate next spring must apply by January 15th, 1994.

Spring 1994 graduation application forms are available at the student service centre on each campus:

• Loyola: AD211 • SGW: LB185

Students who do not apply by January 15th will not graduate next spring.

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"It has helped me with all the lit­tle things I took for granted, such as proper breathing techniques" said the Concordia Music graduate. "It has taught me to have a positive outlook, not to be burdened by fears. I've learned to be able to sing through anything without harming myself."

Exceeding your expectations Beyond 2000's producer, Paula Bycroft, said when she heard about the Leonardo project, she knew it would be ideal for her programme.

"We deal a lot with computers and technology of the future," she said. "This looks at how people can exceed their expectations in differ­ent areas. This has a lot of implica­tions, and can be applied to anything in work or the home."

The show will air on the U.S. Discovery C h annel in abou t six

months. The Australian crew filmed five shows in Canada, including the two from Montreal.

Anyone interested in supporting this

non-profit research should send their

contributions to the Leonardo Project,

Concordia University, Montreal,

Quebec, Canada H4B 1R6. For more

information, call 848-4084. The

Leonardo Project's 1993-94 Recital

Series gets under way on Nov. 23 at

8 p.m. with a concert by cellist Sophi-e

Rolland and pianist Marc-Andrl

Hamelin in a memorial tribute to

Yvonne Hubert. The recital takes .

place at Salle Pierre-Mercure, Centre Pierre-Peladeau, Universite du

Quebec a Montreal, 300 de Maison­

neuve Blvd. East. Tickets are $Z7

and can be bought at Salle Pierre­

Mercure {987-6919) or by calling th-e

Leonardo Project directly.

CONCORD I A'S THURSDAY REPORT NOVEMBER 4 -, 19 .93 . '9

It's a hard sell to employers, but pays off in many ways

Co-op programme gives students experience, discipline BY ITA KENDALL

Engineering student Dominique Godin manages her time better

than she did last year, thanks to Concordia's Institute for Co-opera­tive Education.

"Instead of spending six hours at

the library, I'm spending two hours there and that's it," Godin said.

Like other Engineering students, she must complete three years of study to get her degree. But she will also spend 16 months working in jobs related to her field of study.

The co-operative educ_ation option, as explained in the Insti-

Pictured in front of the historic CP Rail headquarters in Montreal are (back row, left to right); Robert Girling, Richard Clements, Mike Eert, Raju Vegna, Elizabeth Kehyaian, Ken McGuire. Co-op students (front row, left to right): Stephanie Labowka, Frank Charrua, Jennifer Kurta, and Nada AI-Yazdi.

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tute's brochure, is a "work-study programme that mixes formal acad­emic terms with paid work terms."

At Concordia, students can choose co-operative education in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Econom­ics, Mathematics, Physics, Exercise Science, Building Engineering and Computer Science. And this year, Translation, Accounting and Man­agement Information Systems were added to the list.

Small number Unlike other schools, such as the Universite de Sherbrooke, where the entire engineering faculty is co­op, Concordia has only a small number of places open to students in departments with the co-op option.

To qualify, prospective students must have good grades and be able to demonstrate that they can handle the work and extra pressures, which include not being able to put off or fail courses.

Besides compelling students to improve their work habits at school, a co-operative education also teach­es them how to function in the workplace.

"Our job includes educating stu­dents who often know absolutely nothing about the workplace," said Graham Martin, Principal of the Institute for Co-operative Educa­tion. "People go through a work term, and then you find they are a lot older and wiser after they finish."

CONCORDIA'S THURSOAY REPORT

Tough climate But finding the right jobs for co-op students can be tough in this eco­nomic climate.

"It's a very hard sell," said Insti­tute Vice-Principal John Fiset, who is responsible for finding jobs for the Chemistry co-op students.

In addition to the problems cre­ated by the tough economic situa­tion, co-op students are competing for work with graduates out looking for their first job, and interning stu­dents willing to do the work for free.

"In co-op, you're taking a student out on the work-force with 30 uni­versity credits, and you're trying to persuade employers to get involved in the education process," Fiset said.

Catherine Belrose and Louise Lalonde are two of the three co­ordinators at the Institute for Co­operative Education. A large part of the task of finding jobs for co-op

students falls on their shoulders. Despite the economic climate, they're optimistic.

''You have to work a little harder in these economic times," Belrose said, "but the jobs are there."

Lalonde says employers benefit when they hire co-op students. "Students are university-educated, and make good employees for a rel­atively small outlay," she said. "They make excellent employees because they come up with new ideas."

Co-op is improving the Univer­sity's profile among the employers hiring co-op students, and getting the academics out of the University to meet people in government and industry.

"It forces people from the Uni­versity to get out into the field and talk one-on-one with key players in the labour force," Fiset said. And when a co-op student succeeds, Concordia succeeds.

Two more workshops to be held this month

Students are missing chances to study abroad

BY CAROL-ANN HOYTE

There were four people in the room at a recent information

workshop on exchange programmes: the presenter, an exchange student from Sweden, a reporter - and one Concordia student who was inter­ested in finding out how to study in another country.

"European students tend to do more travelling than North Ameri­can students," explained Frederick Francis, deputy director of the Cen­tre for International Academic Co­operation. He gave the workshop, the second in a series of four. "Europeans have a global attitude towards education."

Countries involved in exchange programmes with Concordia include the United States, Ger­many, Switzerland, Sweden, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

This year, close to 100 Concordia students took part in exchanges. Ideally, Francis would like to see 200 to 300 participants. Naturally, students almost invariably find the experience personally enriching, and, Francis added, "The interna­tional experience that students gain from participating in the exchange makes them more attractive to future employers."

One major advantage for exchange students is that they pay Concordia tuition fees, not those of the host university, which, in Cali­fornia, for example, may be as high as $7,000 a year. Students also con­tinue to be eligible for Concordia loans and bursaries.

Travel and living expenses, health insurance and possible incidental fees at the host institution are the students' responsibility, so they will vary, depending on the country, and whether the university is in a big city or a small community.

Candidates must be enrolled in a Qyebec university, be Canadian cit­izens or permanent residents, and have completed one year of full­time study in an undergraduate degree programme. Graduate stu­dents may be exempted from having to meet the one-year requirement.

They must have written permis­sion from their Faculty, be fluent in the language of the host university and be in good academic standing here at Concordia.

International students (students who are studying here from outside Canada) are presently ineligible to participate in the exchange due to the complication of having to obtain double visas. The overall quality of the application, academic performance, letters of recommen­dation and the applicant's statement of purpose are all considered when participants are selected.

For information regarding stu­dent exchanges, attend the remain­ing information workshops:

• Monday, November 8, at 2 p.m. in Room 307 of the Bryan Build­ing on the Loyola Campus;

• Tuesday, November 16 at 10 a.m. in Room 762 of the Henry F. Hall Building;

• or visit the Centre for Interna­tional Academic Co-operation, Room AD-207 at the Loyola Campus, at 848-4987.

Flurry of big games this weekend

Stingers teaans

• • en1oy1ng a brilliant season Men's football and soccer and

women's rugby are knocking down all comers.

The Stingers football team beat the McGill Redmen 34-30 las t weekend, advancing to the final this Saturday against the Bishop's Gaiters for the Dunsmore Cup. If they win that trophy, they'll play the winner in the Ontario University Athletic Association league on November 13 in the Churchill Bowl. The big one is the Vanier Cup, which goes to the best univer­sity team in Canada and is slated for November 20.

Women's rugby is a relatively new sport, and Concordia's team has taken a commanding lead, los­ing only once in their three-year history. Their season final will be held on Sunday at 1 p.m. on the Loyola Campus against McGill.

Concordia men will go for the provincial soccer championship on Sunday against the Universite de Sherbrooke. - BB

For more information on games, please call 848-3849.

Pay up, urge Shuffle . organizers, or student aid suffers

Only $14,234 of the $30,000 pledged has been collected

from the Shuffle walkathon last month. Unless the remaining funds come in, the University will not be able to award the Shuffle scholar­ships and bursaries next year.

Shuffle organizers urge partici­pants to collect their pledges and deliver the money as soon as possi­ble to the Office of Unive rsi ty Advancement, GM 420, or the Office of Advocacy and Support Services, AD 131. - BB

Win some, lose some Concordia's women's volleyball team fought hard (left), but were defeated in a pair of weekend matches against Universite Laval. They were scheduled to play at the Universite de Montreal last night. The Stingers were victors, however, at the 28th Nike Centennial basketball tournament at Concordia last week (right) against teams from the University of Toronto and Universite Laval, plus a crack Stinger Alumni squad made up for the most part of players from the 1990 national championship team.

Attention: Arts and Science Students

Academic Advising in the Lobby, Administration Building, Loyola Campus

• G.P.A. Regulations

• Dropping Courses

• Taking Courses

outside Concordia

•

• Taking Overloads

• Graduation Questions

• Any Academic Question

COME SEE US IN THE LOBBY, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING,

LOYOLA CAMPUS ON:

NOVEMBER 9 & 10 11 A.M. - 6 P.M.

We want you to have a successful academic yearl

This notice has been placed by your Office of Student Affairs, Arts and Science

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NOVEMBER 4 • NOVEMBER II

Alumni Activities Making a decision about hormone therapy Monday, November 8 Probably the most crucial decision fac­ing women in or near menopause today, this presentation will walk women through the decision-making process with the use of slides clearly outlining the advantages and disadvan­tages at each point of the process. The talk goes from 7 - 9:30 p.m., Faculty Club Lounge, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., 7th floor. $12 per person. Written confirmation is mailed upon receipt of payment. For more informa­tion, call Gabrielle Korn at 848-3817.

Art Gallery The Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery is located at 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Information: 848-4750.

Faculty Exhibition November 11 to December 16 Vernissage Nov. 11 at 7:30 p.m. Exhibit: Monday-Friday from 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Campus Ministry Multi-Faith Dialogue Students meet Mondays for a lunch­time ('Brown-bag') discussion that is designed to promote understanding and dialogue between members of various faiths. The group meets in Annex T-305 (The Graduate Students Lounge) at noon.

Women's Spirituality Circle Women who want to share in explo­ration of their spir ituality through reflection, ritual, readings, discussi~ns are invited to gather on Tuesdays 11 :30 a.m. - 1 p.m. The group decides the direction of the sessions, drawing upon our own experiences and resources . Annex Z Rm 105 (Daryl Ross 848-3585).

Canticle to the Cosmos Every culture and faith tradition has formed stories of the creation of the universe which provide a focus for understanding our place and role in the world and our relationship with the sacred mysteries. Dur culture has derived a story based on science, i.e. empi rical observation. Using a se ries of videos by physicist Brian Swimme, we will explore the story of the universe, from the original fireba ll to our present time, and reflect on its spi ritual mean­ing and implications. Tuesdays 2:30 - 4 p.m. Beginning Oct 12th, 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 draw upon various traditions and each includes a "quiet sitting" Thursdays 1 :15 - 2:45 pm, Annex Z -RM 105, (Daryl Ross 848-3585)

Ultimate Questions This discussion series will be led by Peter Macaskil l on Mondays and Thursdays, at 11 a.m. in Annex Z -2090 Mackay St. All are welcome. (Rev. Peter Macaski ll 684-2393/426-1658)

Sunday Liturgy Every Sunday at 11 :DO a.m. and 8:00 p.m. the Eucha ri st (RC) is celebrated in the Loyola Chapel.

Co-op Kitchen Are you on a tight budget? Then come join Campus Ministry and Peer Helpers in the creation of an inexpensive, nutri­tious meal. Participants wi ll share in the preparation of the meal, enjoy a friendly dinner together and then take home two more meals with them. The cost of the food is shared (about $5 to $10) and free daycare is provided. The next even ing is go ing to be on November 19th, but we need to know by November 17th if you are coming. Further information is ava ilable from Campus Ministry or Peer Helpers 848-2859, Daryl Ross 848-3585, Peter Cote 848-3586.

Concordia Concert Hall Listings Thursday, November 4 Music of the Americas, featuring com­positions by guest Brazi lian composers Frederico Richter and Villa Lobos. Time: 8 pm Location 7141 Sherbrooke St. W. Metro Vend6me - Auto bus 105. Information: 848-4718.

Counselling and Development Thinking About Graduate School? Be sure to plan carefully. Visit the

Ca reers Library and explore the resources avai lable to you. Don 't miss application deadlines for programmes, admission tests and financia l aid. Visit us soon at H-440 (SGW Campus) and WC-101 (Loyola).

Suffering from exam anxiety? The Careers Library has materials to help you beat exam anxiety. We have books you can borrow on how to man­age your time, study effectively, write essays, cope with stress, and take exams. Visit us soon at H-440 (SGW) and WC-101 (Loyola).

Stress Management Examine your life stresses and develop techniques which provide an antidote to stress and lead to a healthier lifestyle. Membership in group is limit­ed and will be determined through a preliminary interview. Two-day work­shop: Nov. 13 and 14, 1993, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at LOY WC-101 , 848-3555. Group leaders: Dorothy Plummer, MEd and Anne Theriault, MEd.

CPR Courses Th e fol lowing CPR course will be offered by the Environmenta l Heal th and Safety Office in the next few weeks. Members of the Concordia com­munity or outside community are all we lcome. The Concordia community wi ll get a discount price for CPR cours­es. First-aid courses are $60. Please contact Donna Fasciano, at 848-4355

BLS Refresher Course November14 Four to six hours for life: This course is offered to people certified in the Basic Cardio Life Support Course who want to renew their certification and update their knowledge.

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

Wednesday, November 3 Shame (1968) Ingmar Bergman at 7 p.m; Passion of Anna (1969) at 9 p.m.

Financial Aid and Awards Student Loan Debt Counselling Programme November 8 & 11 This programme enables students to weigh their student loan debt against expected income and explore the repay­ment options. To make an appointment vis it LB-085 in the J.W. McConnell Building or call 848-3507.

Financial Aid and Awards Office Workshops November 8-11 Registration is done in-person in the Financial Aid and Awards Office, Room 085 of the J.W. McConnell Building

Graduate News Graduate Student Get-Togethers Thursday, November 11 Dean Martin Kusy would like to meet with graduate students once again this year on an informal basis. "Get-togeth­er" sessions have arranged for this pur­pose from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at our Graduate Administration offices, 2145 Mackay St. Because our space is limit­ed, please reserve one of the above dates by contacting Ms. Ka li Sakel l at 848-3803. We look forward to seeing you.

MBA Programme Information Session Thursday, November 4 Is an MBA part of your future education plans? Find out more about Concordia's Professional MBA Programme. Come meet students who are currentl y enrolled in the programme and MBA alumni. Looking forward to seeing you there. Time: 6 p.m. Location: Holiday Inn, Pointe-Claire, 6700 TransCanada Highway. Information and RSVP: 848-2727.

The School of Community and Public Affairs' Visiting Scholar Tuesday, November 16 Dr. Mihaila Crnobrnja on "The European Community: A Superpower in the Making?" Time: 8:30 p.m. Location: H-767, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Thesis Defence Announcements Friday, November 5 Mostafa Mehrabi on "Path Tracking Control of Automated Vehicles, Theory and Experiment." Time: 2 p.m. Location: H-771, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Friday, November 12 Johnny Basso on "The Effect of Perturbing Folate Metabolism on Translational Accuracy and the Growth of Escherichia coli."Time: 10 a.m. at H-769, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Lacolle Centre Effective Stress Management Saturday, November 6 This workshop defines and examines stress and the effect it has on your life and hea lth. Leader: Angela Aronson. Time: 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Cost: $53.50. Location: Loyola Campus, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W.

Lectures and Seminars 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: (7302 Sherbrooke St. W.) Coffee available from 3:15 p.m . Information: 848-2280.

Department of History Thursday, November 4 Robert Wilcocks, Professor of French, University of Alberta on "Maelzel's Chess Player: Sigmund Freud and the Rhetoric of Deceit." Time: 6 - 8 p.m. Location: H-767, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Free Admission.

The School of Community and Public Affairs Thursday, November 4 Professor Joya Sen, Department of Management, Concordia University on "The 1990s: Have Women Made It?" Time: noon. Location: SCPA, Basement Lounge, 2149 Mackay St. Please bring your lunch. Coffee will be provided.

DC Books and Concordia Bookstore Friday, November 5 32 Degrees: An anthology of f iction, poetry and drama from Concordia's Creative Writing Programme. Time: 7 p.m. Location H-767, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

K-lnformation Centre of Montreal Friday, November 5 Krishnamurti Video Tape presentation on " What has happened to mankind? Time: 8 p.m. Location H-420, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd . W. Information: 937-886, en frangais : 598-5339 . Free admission.

Learning Development Office Mondays, November 8 and 15 Book Club: Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. A three­part meeting to discuss this report by Ernest Boyer, who has been a major catalyst in the re-examination of the place of teaching in recognition and reward of university faculty. Time: noon - 2 p.m. Location: LB-553-2. Leader: Ron Smith. Information: 848-2495.

Department of English Monday, November 8 Paul Stevens, Dept. of English, Queen's University on "Leviticus Thinking and the Rh etoric of Early Modern Colonialism". Time: 4 p.m. Location: DL-200 , 7141 Sherbrooke St. W. Free Admission. Information: 848-2320.

The Centre for Community and Ethnic Studies Tuesday, November 9 Clifford Ruggles on "Shooting ourselves in the foot: The Pol itics of Internalized Oppression and its effects on communi­ty building." Time : 3:30 - 5 p.m. Location: LB-677, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

The Karl Polanyi Institute Thursday, November 11 Michele Cangiani , Department of History, University of Venice, Italy on "Chronicle of the Great Transformation." Time: 6 - 8 p.m. Location : School of Community and Public Affairs, 2149 Mackay St ., Basement Lounge. 848-2575.

Thursdays at Lonergan Thursday, November 11 Filippo Salvatore, Phd, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics and Lonergan Fellow, Part I of a two part series on Umberto Eco : "The Name of the Rose from the Novel of the Film" Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. Location: (7302 Sherbrooke St. W.) Coffee available from 3:15 p.m. Information: 848-2280.

K-lnformation Centre of Montreal Friday, November 12 Krishnamurti Video Tape presentation on "What is the Intelligence which brings order and peace?" Time: 8 p.m. Location: H-420, 1455 de Maisonneuve .Blvd. W. Information: 937-886, en fran~ais: 598-5339. Free admission , donations.

Meetings The Irish Society is holding a General Assembly meeting on Thursday, November 4th at 8 p.m. in P-103, 2020 Mackay St. The vote wi 11 be on ratifying a new constitution. Call Christopher Orr at 932-5326.

Notices Flu Vaccine 1993 Limited quantities of flu vaccine are presently available at Health Services. Priority will be given to those individu­als in the following categories; healthy adults over 65 years of age, those with long term heart and lung problems, those with chronic diseases, those who have lowered resistance to infection because of cancer or an immunological disorder including HIV. Locations: SGW, 2155 Guy St., room 407, 848-3565 or Loyola, 6935 Sherbrooke St. W., room 01, 848-3575.

Centre for International Academic Co-operation Will be holding information sessions on the Student Exchange Programmes sponsored by Concordia University. These sessions will be held at the fol­lowing dates and times; Monday, November 8, 1993 at 2 p.m. in BR-307, Loyola Campus and Tuesday, November 16, 1993 at 1 D a.m. in H-762, SGW Campus. Information: 848-4987.

Concordia Queer Collective and Peer Helpers The Concordia Queer Collective, in con­junction with Peer Helpers, has started support groups for people questioning their sexual orientation or coming out. Groups meet at 2130 Bishop St., room 02. Women: Tuesdays at 7 p.m. and Men Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Information: 848-2859 or 7414.

Special Events Awards of Distinction Th e Faculty of Commerce and Administration is pleased to invite you to its sixth annual Award s of D"istinction. The reception will be held at Hotel, Le Centre Sheraton, 1201 Ren e Levesque Blvd. on Frid ay, November 12, 1993 at 11:45 a.m. Ti ckets: $55 Corporate guests; $45 Faculty; $25 Students. Information: 848-2700.

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

Found Sunglasses, 4th floor, Webster Library on Tuesday, October 5. Also, pair of gloves, outside Hall Bldg., Bishop St. near bike rack on October 27. Call Patrick at 340-9470.

Did you fail the University Writing Test? Tutoring available free of charge for students who have failed the University Writing Test. Cal l 848-2326

Roommate wanted Female, non-smoker, near Loyola Campus . Please call 486-0834 in the evenings.

Women's Agenda Action Self-Defense Course November 13 & 14 This course for women focuses on what you can do, not what you can't do! Time 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Location: AD-131,7141 Sherbrooke St. W. Reduced fees for students and staff. Space is limited, so call now! 848-7431.