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'In class, he just bombarded me with questions': Professor Habib

Ruslan Dimitrov wins scholarship to Cambridge

BY BARBARA BLACK

C onfidence and persistence have paid off handsomely for Ruslan

Dimitrov. The Political Science stu­dent has just won the British Chevening Scholarship, which will pay for his graduate degree at Cam­l?ridge University, valued at $35,000.

Dimitrov has just left for England to start classes, with some regret that he won't be able to pick up his-Bach­elor of Arts in person at Concordia's fall convocation on Nov. 22.

"I applied for 10 or 12 scholar­ships," Dimitrov said, "and some of the people I told didn't take me very seriously." He also had to apply to Cambridge itself to do his MPhil (equivalent to our Master of Arts) - and well in advance because of

the volume of applicants. As it turned out, he also was accepted by the London School of Economics.

The Chevening Scholarship (pro­nounced Cheevening) is named for the official residence of the British Foreign Secretary. The scholarship is offered by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office to graduate students and young professionals all over the world, but is aimed particu­larly at those with outstanding lead­ership potential.

Caroline Warrior, Acting Director of the British Council, in Ottawa, said that Dimitrov was an excellent candidate, with lots of initiative. "We had about 250 candidates in his year, all incredibly good," Warrior said. "It's very hard to choose."

Henry Habib, Chair of the Politi-

cal Science Department, taught Dimitrov in several classes, and was delighted with his pupil's success. "He's an excellent student, very hard-working," Habib said. "In class, he just bombarded me with ques­tions. I heard that when he was at Dawson College, a teacher gave the class a special question on a test, designed just for him."

Dimitrov's parents are Russian and Bulgarian. He speaks Russian, and may do his thesis on the recent political transformation there. After that, he plans to do a PhD or a law degree, work in international affairs,

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"My father sat me down in front ~ of the news when I was five or six,"

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Dying for lobster in Honduras BY MATTHEW SYLVAIN

A ccording to Exercise Science Professor Lou Jankowski,

Hondurans are being crippled and killed for our culinary pleasure.

The Miskito natives of coastal Honduras needlessly suffer from excessive exposure to the high pres­sure of deep-sea diving (decompres­sion sickness) while harvesting lobster that is destined for North American fast-food restaurants, Jankowski said.

'What's happening in Honduras is not new," he said. He hopes to go to the Miskito Coast in February to

survey the extent of the problem, and is petitioning the Canadian Interna­tional Development Agency to fund the project.

He will be helped in this effort by Concordia's Centre for International Academic Co-operation, which will explore potential funding, training and advocacy on behalf of the children.

Decompression sickness, a debili­tating and potentially fatal condition, occurs when a diver breathes air under high pressure. As the diver inhales, dissolved oxygen and nitro­gen are drawn into the body. The oxygen is used up, but the nitrogen merely accumulates. · The diver's ascent must be slow,

so that the nitrogen can pass out of the system gradually. If he or she surfaces too quickly, Jankowski explained, the nitrogen expands, forming gaseous bubbles in the body, "much like when someone opens a bottle of Coca-Cola or a can of beer." Because the bubbles form in tissues that protect the vital organs, they restrict the circulation of blood. As the blood flow is dammed, oxy­gen cannot pass, and the tissue begins to die.

The afflicted diver can suffer any­thing from fatigue to impotence. In many cases, due to spinal nerve dam­age, the result is quadriplegia. On the remote Miskito Coast, there is nothing but the most basic of home

care. Sometimes the diver dies because of respiratory failure.

"This kind of problem just really infuriates me," Jankowski said, "because it shouldn't happen at all. By 1935, the scientific community knew how to prevent decompression sickness from happening." Today, the danger is understood and avoid­ed by certified scuba divers, but the Miskito Indians of Honduras, improperly trained by the dive-boat captains who profit from their labour, are unaware or unable to make use of preventive measures.

As well, they are diving to the very limits of the pressure envelope, reaching depths of 180 feet in as many as nine dives a day. In contrast, recreational scuba divers in Canada are limited to only one dive a day of 130 feet, followed by a shallower dive only after a surface interval of several hours.

"It's virtually impossible for them to do this kind of work and get away with it without getting seriously hurt or killed," Jankowski said. "It's just a matter of time."

The Miskito drop deep in pursuit of the lobster because it has been depleted in the shallower waters, where traditional traps are used. Jankowski says responsibility rests on the shoulders of the boat captains.

The major restaurant chains deal­ing in lobster are only interested in

of the Canadian Navy courses on fitness and 'nutrition, especially as

fi , they relate to diving.

,Divers on board·the Cormorant had discovered through mud sam­pies that the Irving Whale, a tanker which sank 26 years ago off th~ coast of Prince Edward Island, was leaking increased amounts of

M oil and PCBs. The tanker was suc-cessfully raised without further pollution on July 30.

tabling the cheapest dishes possible. It is the dive-boat captains who knowingly withhold information about, and treatment of, decompres­sion sickness.

''Just a simple intervention of hav­. ing oxygen on board could probably

save 25 or 30 per cent of the divers that get hit," Jankowski said.

Having a decompression chamber in which to treat affected divers would resolve 60 to 70 per cent of the cases, but the chambers are expensive. Dive captains would rather pay their employees higher wages. At $10 (U.S.) a day, a diver earns a fortune in comparison with banana-picking, the Miskito Coast's other source of income.

'Anyone who tries to tell you that privatization is all bad or all good is lying or naive': Molz

Privatization is a mixed blessing BY CAROLINE KUTSCHKE

Don't believe everything you hear about privatization, advises

Rick Molz, Commerce and Admin­istration's Chair of Management.

Professor Molz, who has been researching privatization since 1984, ought to know. He has written A Comparative Analysis of Privatiza­tion Outcomes, a feasibility study eval­uating Canada's own program.

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Hautes Etudes Commerciales, ana­lyzed 120 often contradictory evalua­tions in Australia, New Zealand, the

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United Kingdom and France to find ,; a basic model on how to evaluate privatization outcomes.

Their study, which was commis­sioned by the Treasury Board two years ago, concluded, not surprising­ly, that privatization creates both winners and losers.

"Anyone who tries to tell you that privatization is all bad or all good is lying, naive or doesn't know what they're talking about. Life isn't so simple," Molz said in an interview, and his study bears him out. "In fact," it says, "there is anything but universal agreement that privatiza­tion improves a nation's economic fortunes or the lot of its citizens."

Taxpayers must go beyond gener­alizations and ideological rhetoric. "The question is, what are the public policy objectives? What are the com­mercial objectives? What do we as a society want to do with this crown corporation or enterprise?"

Evaluating the outcome of privati­zation depends on whether you're inside or outside the enterprise, and how directly you're affected. Molz cites the aborted Pearson Airport deal in Toronto as an example. The pro­posed privatization of Canada's busiest airport by the Progressive

Conservative government was can­celled by its Liberal successors because of a disagreement over who would enjoy the benefits of the change and who would bear the costs.

The researchers also found that privatization produced mixed results. For example, in some cases, employ­ment increased; in others, it dropped. "Basically, it's impossible to come up with a comprehensive way to say that privatization is universally good," Molz said.

Causality is a problem Molz and Hafsi also encountered

what they called scientific difficulties. One was causality, or the question of whether everything that happens after privatization is directly a result of it. As well as the internal changes in a privatized company, there are external changes going on at the same time, such as the rise of com­petitors. And the effects of privatiza­tion can't be measured overniglit.

While Canada is comparable to Australia or New Zealand because of the size of its economy and the amount of its state ownership, Molz suggests that taxpayers should look

to the U.K. to understand the effects of privatization.

Privatization actually began in Chile in 1974, but gained legitimacy in northern, developed countries around 1979, during the Thatcher years, putting Britain "ahead of the curve," in Molz's phrase. The Cana­dian government started privatizing because of its mounting fiscal crisis, and the growing acceptance of priva­tization as a way of getting rid of activities that cost taxpayers money.

Molz said that Canada can learn from Britain's mistakes, which include introducing privatization without allowing competition at the same time.

"In the U.K. over the last 10 years, the popularity of privatization has suffered enormously," Molz explained. "In 1984, the margin of U.K. citizens favouring more priva­tization versus more nationalization was 20 per cent. By 1995, the situa­tion had completely reversed itself, with a margin of 10 per cent favour­ing more nationalization over more privatization."

The two researchers submitted their study in July to the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management Conference, but Molz is pessimistic about pursuing the subject further. "Given the diffi­culties identified in this research in making a comprehensive evaluation of privatization outcomes, it is unlike­ly that a robust, reliable and valid evaluation will emerge soon."

However, he does predict that despite some resistance, privatiza~ tion will continue to spread around the world.

"It will continue until a major shift occurs in the way society views the balance between the private and pub­lic sectors. In the last 15 years, there's been a major shift toward the private sector, and I don't see that stopping."

CSBN is host to Conference on Reproductive Behaviour

All about sexes and species BY SYLVAIN COMEAU

The 28th Annual Conference on Reproductive Behaviour held

here in June yielded intriguing insights about similarities and differ­ences between sexes and species, according to organizer James G. Pfaus of the Centre for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology.

"Even though sexual behaviour is different, researchers have found that copulation activates similar neural circuits in both sexes, and induces the activation of similar brain regions," Professor Pfaus said after the conference.

The same may be true in humans. "Aside from obvious physical differ-

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ences, there are many things that are similar in terms of brain function [between the sexes]."

Pfaus organized the conference with an eye toward encouraging sub­disciplines to interact and share results.

"Most research in the area of hor­mones and behaviour is done on lab animals, particularly rats, and not so much on people," he said. 'Unfortu­nately, clinical and animal researchers don't usually talk to one another, so I made sure that a lot of data on humans would be included in this conference. Hopefully, some of the researchers have made an intuitive leap, and dis­covered parallels with someone else's work on a different species."

Another similarity between humans and other animals is that apparently unrelated stimuli can acti­vate the same areas of the brain, Pfaus said.

"One thing that ·came home in this meeting was that in sexual, aggressive and maternal behaviour, similar neural circuits in the brain are activated even though the stim­uli are different. Elements of that circuit may also be activated in sex­ually stimulated humans, and I would be willing to bet that it works the same way for the other behav­iours as well."

This conference is an annual event. It was last held at Concordia in 1986.

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Hayes cited for work on broadband networks

BY SYLVAIN COMEAU

Electrical and Computer Engi­neering Professor Jeremiah F.

Hayes has won the Canadian Award in Telecommunications Research. The prize was presented in June at Qyeen's University, at the 18th Biennial Symposium on Communications.

It recognized a career marked by pioneering work in advanced telecommunications, designed to deliver a large range of services to the consumer. Some of these will soon be realized on a wide scale, such as video on demand and home banking.

Hayes's work has dealt with the theoretical underpinning of telecom­munications networks. This consists of devising mathematical models to evaluate alternative methods of implementation. His current interest is traffic control in broadband net­works. These are networks based on optical fibre transmission that carry a broad range of traffic types.

"My focus is on developing meth­ods of controlling the flow of infor­mation into networks," Hayes said in an interview. He is working with graduate student Periklis Tsin­gotjidis to develop a technique "for predicting, based on the current state of a network, when the network operators should intervene to avert congestion."

The technique, which forms the basis ofTsingotjidis's doctoral thesis, presents a mathematical mo.del which enables operators to detect when a broadband network first enters a "non-safe state," the point ~t which the information being· sent through the network begins to over­whelm capacity. "At that point," Hayes said, "the alarm bells should go off."

The model can be applied to a net­work of any size, and gives sufficient time to take preventive measures.

'With automation, congestion in the system can be prevented in milli­seconds," Hayes explained. "If a

warning is given that the system will overload in half a second, that is plenty of time to throttle back the traffic of information." Hayes and Tsingotjidis recently presented part of this work at a technical meeting in San Francisco.

The mathematical models that are at the heart of his research can be applied to systems and situations far removed from telecommunications. This was amply illustrated in a lec­ture on his best-known work, which Hayes gave as part of the awards cer­emony. Here is his own explanation:

"The model considered in this work was a group of terminals con­nected to a computer through a common transmission medium - a party line. At random points in time, these terminals have messages to send to the computer. The problem is to grant access to terminals with messages in an efficient fashion.

Solution is group testing "Generally, the number of termi­

nals is large, and the rate of mes­sage generation per terminal is low, so that querying individual termi­nals for message content is very inefficient. The efficient solution is 'group testing,' where the terminals are segmented into groups which are queried electronically, 'Does any terminal in the group have a message?'

"By the judicious choice of the sequence of groups to be tested, based on the message generation rate, the individual message-bearing terminals are isolated and granted access to the line.

"Group testing originated in the screening of.large numbers of army recruits during World War II. It happens that the Wasserman test for syphilis is very sensitive, so that blood samples from a group of indi­viduals can be pooled and tested. If one or more samples are from infect­ed individuals, the pool will test pos­itive. By choosing the proper sequence of groups, individuals with the illness can be identified."

Physicists converge to discuss the origin of the universe

The elusive charm of . h.adrons BY ROSEMARY FATA

Hundreds of the world's most prominent physicists came to

Concordia in late August to partici­pate in the Second International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons.

Physics Professor Calvin Kalman organized the event, and had an opportunity to explain its signifi­cance and its arresting name.

The term hadron refers to the pro­tons and neutrons that make up every atom, as well as other sub­atomic particles. Hadrons .consist of even smaller particles, called quarks.

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matter yet known. Physicists have categorized them by such names as charm (type c) and beauty (type b) . Hyperon is an old-fashioned term preferred by some scientists, and refers to a hadron that contains the s-type (for strange) quark.

However, charm, beauty and strange quarks do not exist. That is, · they don't exist any more. Scientists know they were present when the universe was forming. They say that if they could recreate the s,ime kind of tremendous energy they believe was present .during th\: birth of the universe, they could artificially repro­duce these quarks, and discover how the universe was created.

Experiments require huge, heavy machines called particle accelerators, or colliders, which are very expensive to build. There are several of them around the world, mainly in the United States, Japan, China and Europe. The largest require as many as 500 physicists to conduct a single experiment, and can occupy a site of 8 km in diametre.

Since these experiments are so com­plex and are conducted on such a large scale, the work must be done interna-

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tionally, in teams, and this branch of physics requires co-operation between scientists and laboratories.

The conference at Concordia in August enabled the scientists work­ing in this field to discuss their progress since their first international conference, held in Strasbourg, France, ·last September.

Unfortunately, Kalman's original co-Chair, Professor Alfred Fridman, from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (called CERN), died while on a teaching assignment in Mexico City, and Kalman had to carry on alone. Several weeks before the conference, Kalman's wife, Judy, who teaches English at Concordia, lost both parents. It was another devastating blow at a particularly dif­ficult time.

Still, Kalman continued the plan­ning and was very pleased with the

outcome of the conference. "The participants were all telling me that it really worked out well," he said.

Several key researchers, including Kalman, presented their research to about 200 scientists from around the world, including CERN and the Universities of British Columbia, -McGill, Stanford, Cornell, Genoa, Torino, Grenoble, Paris-Sud and the Universite de Montreal. Their aim was to touch base with everyone, pool their information, and discuss where future research should go. The next conference will probably be held in 1998 in Genoa, Italy.

The organizing committee com­prised Marco Bozzo (University of Genoa),Jean-Pierre Engel (Centre de recherche nucleaire, Strasbourg), Jules Gascon (Universite de Montreal), and Janis McKenna (University of British Columbia).

Staying on treatment is key in schizophrenic life BY SYLVAIN COMEAU

New York psychiatrist Peter J. Weiden reported both good

news and bad in the war against schizophrenia last Wednesday in the Alumni Auditorium.

"There have been breakthroughs in the U.S. and Canada in the treat­ment of this devastating disorder," Weiden said to open the third annu­al John Hans Low-Beer Memorial Lecture. "But, at the same time, there is evidence to suggest that we're letting people fall between the cracks, and failing to effectively deliver the available treatments."

"People are admitted to hospitals. They are treated and released. They get sick again. They go back to the hospital - and the cycle starts all over again."

Weiden quoted U.S. figures indi-

eating that 50 per cent of patients treated in hospitals for mental illness are later readmitted - that's 250,000 patients per year.

One of the main reasons for this is non-compliance with prescribed treatments. Increasingly, drug treat­ments for schizophrenia go a long way toward diminishing the severity of symptoms, but "if we don't help them stay on the drugs, we can't make any progress." Weiden is con­cerned that schizophrenics disregard doctors' orders even more than the general population.

"No one complies completely with what doctors tell them - people often forget to take their heart medication. So it's not surprising that the mentally ill also have trouble doing so."

In the case of schizophrenia, the nature of the illness tends to compound the problem of non-compliance.

"One of the symptoms of schizo-

phrenia is that you don't know that · you are sick. If you deny that you are ill, why should you take your medi­cine? Another symptom is being dis­organized: Schizophrenics don't carry filo-faxes containing their med­ication renewal."

Another reason for the revolving­door cycle is lack of stability and low quality of life.

"The building blocks of recovery are stability, and once that is achieved, we can work on issues related to quality of life and treat­ment of the disorder. But the stabili­ty must come first; you can't have a life if you keep going back into the hospital."

Weiden favours family- and community-based approaches, with psycho-education (training courses for patients and for families) and support groups as a complement to

See Weiden,p. 11

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E COMPILED BY BARBARA BLACK

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

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

James Moore (Political Science) was elected president of the 18th­Century Scottish Studies Society at its annual meeting in Grenoble in July. ·

David Ketterer (English) is cited as responsible for six word changes in the new, definitive text of the 1818 first edition of Frankenstein . They are proposed in his September 1995 article, "The Corrected Frankenstein: Twelve Preferred Readings in the Last Draft" (English Language Notes). Months later, they could be found in Volume 1 of the 1996 eight-volume Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley (Frankenstein, ed. Nora Crook) .

An article by Norma Joseph (Religion) was awarded the Leo Wasserman Prize, given annually by the American Jewish Histmic Society for the best submission to American Jewish History. Her article, which appeared in Volume 83 (1995), is called "Jewish Edu­cation for Women: Rabbi Moshe Feinstein's Map of America ."

Congratulations to Centre for Building Studies PhD student Atul C. Khanduri, who won first prize for a paper on research in progress from the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering at its 1996 confer­ence, held in Edmonton last May. His paper was called "Modelling Wind-Induced Interference Effects, " and he is supervised by Claude Bedard and Ted Stathopoulos.

Harry Hill (English) had an article, "L'implacable rhythme: E.A. Poe et la pedagogie," published iri Etudes Litteraires (May 1996).

Hunger Striking, by Kit Bre.nnan (Theatre), was given a public read­ing on Sept. 9 at the Centaur Theatr.e as part of a writers' unit showcase by Playwrights' Wor-kshop Montreal. The reading was directed by Diana Fajrajsl.

Patrick Landsley (Painting and Drawiog, re.tired) had a one-man show in the well-known Titanium Gallery in Athens . He was the first Canadian to have paintings shown there .

Robert M. Philmus (English) received the 1996 Milford Award for lifetime achievement in science-fiction and fantasy editing . The award, from the Eaton Conference at the University of California, Riverside, was given to him for .editing Science-Fiction Studies (SFS). Philmus, who has also edited The Island of Doctor Moreau and other writings by H.G. Wells, edited SFS for 12 years, until November 1990, when it took four people to replace him.

Guy Lachapelle (Political Science), as incoming president of the Societe quebecoise de science politique, will co-chair the 18th World Congress of the International Political Science Association, scheduled for the year 2000 in Quebec City.

Greg Garvey (Design Art), developer of the interactive confession­al, has conceived a new work - the Morphometer - which asks a series of questions to determine how 'male' or 'female' the user is, and features visuals of Ken and Barbie dolls "morphing" into one another . The Morphometer was on display at this summer's Images du Futur show in Montreal's Old Port.

Lucie Lequin, directrice du dep_artement d'Etudes franc;aises et membre de l'lnstitut Simone de Beauvoir, fait partie du jury qui choisira le Grand prix du livre de Montreal.

Jean Mason and Lori Henig-Schubert, part-time Marketing faculty members, presented "Preparing Students for International Connec­tions: a Multi-Purpose, Multi-Media University Assignment" at the 1996 Association for Business Communication Canada/East/Mid­west Combined Regional Conference.

Desire.e Park (Philosophy) was invited to take part in the sixth Euro­pean Conference on Science and Theology in Krakow, Poland, in March. Her paper, "The Myth of the 'Slippery Slope,"' has been selected for publication in an upcoming Studies in Science and The­ology. In May, she was invited to give the same paper in South Africa at the Universities of Stellenbosch and the Western Cape. A third lecture, "Behind the Particulars," was given at the University of Cape Town.

Frances Shaver (Sociology and Anthropology) was a panel member at a conference held Sept. 27-29 at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal under the title When Sex Works.

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Terrible mistake rectified: Fancott

I was most pleased to see that you gave front-page coverage of the Rector's statement confirming that Dr. Swamy was cleared of all accu­sations against him arising from the Arthurs and Levi reports. Those of us who witnessed the media storm that arose from those al legations in 1994 can only hope that this state­ment receives the widest possible dissemination. Your editorial com­ment at the head of the statement is , however, inaccu rate and quite m isleading, in that it gives the impression that NSERC was a cause of Swamy's difficulties.

Contrary to your comment, Dr. Swamy signed his agreement to retire before NSERC froze his funds. His decision was made as a result of pressure from the administration, their lawyers, and the media cover­age. NSERC's decision to freeze the funds was made when the Levi

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1995-96 Rectors Report is on the way

Concordia is joining a growing trend among Canadian universities by moving away from the corporate model of an annual report to a more community-ori­ented, newspaper-format Rector's Report

Besides being more accessible, moving to a newspaper format repre­sents a sizeable saving in production and printing costs.

The first issue of the 1995-96 Rector's Report will be mailed soon to all Concordia employees. It will also be sent to Board members, friends of the

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audit was released two days later. Its subsequent independent investi­gation was not a reversal of posi­tion, but was in itiated because "they were not satisfied with the accuracy of the Levi audit."

We have Dr. Lowy to thank for his courage and sense of honour in rec­ognizing publicly that the University made a terrible mistake, with fright­ful consequences for one of its most distinguished members. We can hope that his recognition of this mistake will prevent it from being repeated in the future, and that he wi ll use the same wisdom in re­examining the case of the Sankar brothers .

Terrill Fancott Computer Science

Editor: Professor Fancott may well be right about the NSERC freeze coming after rather than before Dr. Swamy's departure. The two events were very close in time. If I have erred, I apologize.

University and the Montreal media. The Report covers the major academic ini­tiatives taken by the Faculties and School of Graduate Studies and Research in program planning, and the achievements of some outstanding teachers, researchers and students.

"I hope that our faculty and staff will be proud of what we achieved last year, despite some very difficult finan­cial circumstances," Rector Frederick Lowy said of the Report. "I hope they will show it to their friends and col­leagues, potential students and donors to the University. We should all be ambassadors, spreading the word about the excellent educational experi­ence that Concordia has to offer. The Rector's Report is another tool to help us do just that." -LZ

Looking at Concordia's future A far-reaching discussion paper

on academic planning was tabled at Senate last Friday, aimed at helping to redefine core educational values and goals within the current financial situation.

The discussion paper, titled Fol­lowing a Course Forward, was pre­pared by Provost and Vice-Rector Research Jack Lightsto ne under a mandate from the Senate Commit­tee on Academic Planning and Pri­orities (SCAPP).

Last spring, each Faculty and the School of Graduate Studies pro­duced a planning document for SCAPP which were tabled at Sen­ate. Over the summer, these were integrated in consultation with the elected members of SCAPP, the deans, and the Office of the Rector.

As described in its preamble, the document was intended "to provide a synoptic account of the more essen­tial elements of the Faculty/School planning documents, articulate these elements in a manner which would serve pan-Faculty/School compar­iso ns and decision-making, and introduce further proposals for acad-

emic initiatives and priorities of both Faculty/School-specific and Univer­sity-wide natures."

Following a Course Forward provides an overview across disciplines, and, informed by the five Senate-approved principles for planning, makes recom­mendations for the next decade. It addresses the allocation of faculty and the direction of future hiring, and rec­ommends that some new programs be launched and others streamlined, con­solidated or discontinued.

While it recommends retaining the four Faculties and School of Graduate Studies, the paper advocates curricula which balance specialized studies, breadth of knowledge, and life skills in each of the Faculties. It says that undergraduate education, not only at Concordia, but across Canada, has become quite specialized, and under­graduates need more knowledge of society's cultural, social, historical and scientific underpinnings.

Undergraduate students tend to be taught as though they are all going on to graduate school, the paper says, though many will go directly into the workplace. In addition to a basic

Space Plan Task Force In order to take advantage of a

number of opportunities and chal­lenges, the Office of the Rector has established a Space Planning Task Force to enable the University to adopt a strategic space plan as quick­ly as possible. The opportunities include improving classrooms and information facilities, as well as aca­demic space. The challenges include reducing our overall space and reallo­cating space according to the predic­tions of the academic planning exercise.

In order to facilitate the process, the members of the task force have agreed upon general guidelines that provide the context for the develop­ment of the plan. They are the fol­lowing: 1. The Ministry of Education

expects the University to convert its rental space into owned proper­ty within the next five years. In doing so, however, the Ministry has decreed that the University must decrease its admissible space by 6,000 square metres. Hence, respecting the mission of the Univer­sity and the changing demographics within the Faculties, the first guide­line is to prepare a plan that reduces the University's admissible space by 6,000 square metres (roughly the equivalent of two floors in the Henry F. Hall Building).

2. The University long ago agreed that both the F acuity of Engineer­ing and Computer Science and the Faculty of Commerce and Administration will be consolidat­ed on the Sir George Williams campus. Hence, the second guideline is to plan for the consolidation of Engineering and Computer Science and Commerce and Administration

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on the Sir George Williams campus. 3. It is also agreed that the Faculty of

Arts and Science and the Faculty of Fine Arts will continue to occu­py space on both campuses. It has equally been understood that the University wishes to establish a clear identity for the Loyola cam­pus. Hence, the third guideline is to cluster departments from the two Faculties which will provide a clear identity for the Loyola campus and will facilitate the establishment of synergies on both campuses.

4. In an attempt to promote increased collegiality and efficien­cy, a number of departments in the Faculty of Arts and Science have requested consolidation on one campus. Hence, the fourth guideline is to plan for the consolidation of departments in Arts and Science in a rational pattern that will improve the ability of each department to fa.I­fill its academic mission.

5. The Library has now all but out­grown the current available space in the Webster Library. In order to continue to grow, the Library needs to reclaim the fifth floor of the McConnell Building. Hence, the fifth guideline is to evacuate the fifth floor of the]. W McConnell Building so that it can be used for its intended purpose. The members of the task force are

C. L. Bertrand, Vice-Rector, Ser­vices (Chair); I. M. Barlow, Associ­ate Vice-Rector, Services (Physical Environment); P . Bird, Vice-Dean, Arts and Science; G . Gibbons, Associate Dean, Fine Arts; D. Tad­deo, Dean, Engineering and Com­puter Science; B. Ibrahim, Associate Dean, Commerce and Administra­tion; R. Proulx, Director, Facilities

understanding of the world, they need intellectual versatility, commu­nication skills, and the ability to work well with others to prepare them for the workplace and global economy.

Following a Course Forward envi­sions more graduate programs with a real-world and cross-disciplinary com­ponents, such as environmental stud­ies, educational technology, and the teaching oflanguages as a complement to research-based graduate programs.

"The challenge is to undertake this initiative in a manner which comple­ments and supplements, rather than overrides and undercuts, the results of Faculty/School-based planning processes," the paper's preface says.

"One should not interpet this doc­ument as the plan, from on high, as it were. Concordia has committed itself to an open, participatory, and ongo­ing planning process that produces not the academic plan for the Univer­sity, but which regularly and in an ongoing fashion will spin off conclu­sions taken at the most appropriate level about academic and research programs about faculty hiring and other resource-related matters." -BB

Planning; M. DiGrappa, Director, Administrative Services, Physical Resources; C. Lavoie, Space Infor­mation; J. Chegrinec, Secretary.

Within a week, the task force will set up a Web page and will use it to keep the community aware of its progress and to receive comments.

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Permanent memorial to be unveiled BY BARBARA BLACK

A lasting tribute to the four pro­fessors slain in the shootings of

Aug. 24, 1992, will be unveiled in the lobby of the Henry F. Hall Building tomorrow morning.

The ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m. It will be attended by the fami­lies, colleagues and friends of Profes­sors Matthew Douglass, Michael Hogben, A. Jaan Saber and Phoivos Ziogas, and all Concordians are invited to join them.

The installation, featuring four tables and seats made of granite and aluminum, is a work of art that is meant to be used. Two years ago, when the design was chosen, the memorial was envisaged as being outdoors, on the Mackay St. side of

the building. However, repairs to the building's

foundation and facade have gone on for some time, and it was decided to

put the memorial indoors, at the west end of the lobby. Eduardo Aquino, one of the three artists, is pleased with the decision.

"It turned out for the best," Aquino said. "Outside, it :would have been used only half the year, because of the weather. It's in a relatively quiet part of the lobby, where people rest and think, and it's still strongly in the spirit of the original design."

The artists are all Concordia Fine Arts graduates, and all are still study­ing or teaching. Eduardo Aquino teaches at University of Ottawa and at Goddard College in Vermont. Johanne Sloan is doing her PhD in England, and Kathryn Walter is teaching at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont.

The tables are framed by the four existing columns, which will hold planters of climbing ivy, symbolic of growth and rejuvenation. There is distinctive lighting on the west wall of the site, and each table bears a text

chosen by the family of one of the

professors. Here are the inscriptions:

Matthew Douglass:

"If we succeed in giving the love of

learning, the learning itself is sure to

follow."

- Sir John Lubbock,

The Pleasures of Lift

Michael Hogben:

'Whoever is a teacher through and

through takes all things seriously

only in relation to his students -

even himself."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

A. Jaan Saber:

Qyi tacet consentit (He who keeps

silent, consents.

Phoivos Ziogas: "Phoebus, arise, paint the sable skies

with azure, white and red."

- W. Drummond

Opera given Montreal premiere here

01ATLANTIS A n opera written in a concentra­

tion camp will be performed here, under the sponsorship of the Austrian government and B'nai Brith Canada.

The Emperor of Atlantis, by Viktor Ullmann, will be performed twice in the Concert Hall at Loyola Campus. The opera has been mounted by a young Austrian company, Arbos, and presented to critical acclaim in Europe.

Arbos originally had planned to bring the production to Canada for

three performances only at Ottawa's National Arts Centre from Oct. 22-24. But the idea of giving the opera at Concordia arose when Rector Frederick Lowy met with Austrian Ambassador Walter Licham.

Ullmann was a successful Czech composer until he was arrested by the Nazis. He wrote The Emperor of Atlantis in the Theresienstadt con­centration camp, in the Czech city of Terezin, where he was part of the so-called 'leisure organization' that maintained artistic life in the camp

under appalling conditions.

While the opera's story is set in

the mythical city of Atlantis, its

theme is unmistakably that of the

Holocaust. Not long after he wrote

The Emperor of Atlantis - it was one

of 22 works he composed at Terezin,

as well as giving lectures, accompa­

nying and teaching - Ullmann died

in the infamous camp at Auschwitz.

Tickets for The Emperor of

Atlantis may be obtained by calling the Concert Hall box office at 848-7928.

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SE TES COMPILED BY BARBARA BLACK

A regular meeting of the Concordia University Senate, held on Friday, Oct. 4, 1996.

Rector's Remarks: Rector Frederick Lowy announced that since the Quebec govern­ment is urging universities to get out of rented space where possible, a space-planning committee has been estab­lished (see Space, page 4). He invited all Concordians to attend the unveiling of the per­manent memorial to the pro­fessors shot on Aug . 24, 1992 (see Memorial, this page), and announced that an opera will be presented here in co-opera­tion with the Austrian govern­ment and B'nai Brith Canada (see Opera, this page).

Tuition: Concordia Student Union President Daniel Gagnon presented a resolution from the student associations calling for Senate to oppose any rise in tuition fees. This became a notice of motion.

1996-97 operating budget: Chief Financial Officer Larry English presented the budget for the current academic year, explaining that several changes had been made since the pre­liminary budget document was presented last spring. Several senators deplored the absence of an explanatory document to make the tables of figures clear, and a breakdown by Fac­ulty. The Rector said this docu­ment more closely conforms to current accounting practice, and that closer liaison is need­ed between the CFO and Sen­ate . The budget will go to Senate's ad hoc budget com­mittee for analysis.

Academic planning docu­ment: This document (see Lightstone, page 4) was criti­cized by Martin Singer (Arts and Science) and others on the basis that it assumes the con­tinued existence of the four Faculties and School of Gradu­ate Studies; that it gives undue attention to research and grad­uate studies for what is primar­ily an undergraduate teaching institution; that it was drawn up to address a budget short­fall that has since grown larger; that its specificity is unwarrant­ed; and that while the Senate Academic Planning and Priori-

Loyola food services All food services normally available

in the Campus Centre at the Loyola Campus will be moved to Hingston Hall on Oct. 22, 23 and 24 to prepare the Campus Centre for a reception for award-winning undergraduate stu­dents and their donors. The ceremony to present the scholarships and bur­saries will be held in the Concert Hall

ties Committee requested it, SCAPP did not provide a full analysis of the finished docu­ment. Other senators said that the budget crisis requires vigourous, immediate action; that research is essential to meaningful teaching, particular­ly in the professional disci­plines; and that benchmarks should be introduced to mea­sure Concordia's effectiveness vis-a-vis other institutions. Speaker John O'Brien suggest­ed that SCAPP provide a cri­tique for the next meeting, and consider the idea of bench­marks.

External relations: Harvey Shulman (Arts and Science) presented a set of five guide­lines to provide assistance in offering existing courses at the requ·est of a body external to Concordia University, including maintaining academic and admission standards. Several senators expressed uneasi­ness at the prospect of having to adjust institutional values. The document was accepted with the addition of a sixth guideline, that of conformity with the University's mission statement.

Professors Sankar: A resolu­tion that would have the Uni­versity formally apologize to two former professors was postponed until January at the request of the proposer, Hugh Mc0ueen (Engineering and Computer Science).

Graduate students: Last year's graduate students' rep­resentative Michael Klamph presented two motions that were defeated. One would have lowered the permissible grade for transferring credits to another Concordia graduate program; the other would have allowed alumni represenJation on Senate.

Notice of motion: Harvey Shulman (Arts and Science) gave notice of motions to elim­inate the School of Graduate Studies and the position of Vice-Rector, Services.

Next meeting: Friday, Nov. 1.

on Oct. 23. Regular service in the Campus Cen­

tre will resume on Friday, Oct. 25. The Undergraduate Scholarship Awards Committee apologizes in advance for any inconvenience this may cause, and Marriott Food Services and Bob Maciv­er, Director of Conference Services, thank the University community for their understanding. -DGV

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Re-open constitution and let us in: Ovide Mercredi

BY SYLVAIN DESJARDINS

Ovide Mercredi says that the only way to achieve national

unity in Canada is to resume consti­tutional talks.

The National Chief for the Assembly of First Nations spoke at Concordia on Oct. 3 as part of the Homecoming '96 Stone-Consolidat­ed Lecture Series. About 500 people, many of them students, were in the Henry F. Hall Building auditorium to hear his lecture.

Mercredi said that Prime Minister • Jean Chretien "should not be afraid

to lead." If Chretien does not want to re-open the unity debate, he should at least call a meeting where all provincial and federal leaders and aboriginal chiefs can decide the fate of the country. He said it is unac­ceptable th at aboriginals were excluded from past constitutional talks.

Aboriginal people support nation­al unity because if Qiebec were to separate, there are no guarantees the new state would support aboriginal rights. However, Mercredi said, 'We see ourselves as citizens of our own nation. We are not Canadian, not French, not E nglish." Aboriginal participation in Canadian affairs "does not subvert our collective

rights as a nation," he said. "I can be

part of your society and still be indigenous."

Handing off responsibility to the provinces is no answer, he said, but if the constitution is revamped to bet­ter reflect the people of Qiebec, "there may be no need for another referendum in Qiebec."

Mercredi warned that the Supreme Court of Canada, recently asked by the federal government to rule on a possible unilateral declara­tion of sovereignty by Qiebec, is not the place to solve questions of unity . "Why should non-elected people decide that?"

Although aboriginals have always supported Qiebec's right to be called a distinct society, Mercredi said that the fight over language makes no sense. "I can't understand the fight between Qiebec and Canada," he said. "If the issue is language, then solve the damn thing!"

Mercredi, a Cree who grew up and studied law in Manitoba before taking on his national role, evoked the problems of suicide, unemploy­ment and poverty within aboriginal communities. "We live in Third World conditions," he said, "but no one in Canada cares."

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'If you don't get the facts with the feeling, you don't get the story'

Hana Gartner comes home BY ANDREA HOWICK

Less may be more, journalist Hana Gartner told a Homecoming

audience on Saturday morning. 'When it comes to information,

we've actually got too much of a good thing," the host of the CBC's National Magazine told an apprecia­tive audience at the Concordia Con­cert Hall. "Sometimes I wonder if we are better informed."

Gartner said she is concerned that the global village is putting distance between people instead of bringing them together. 'While we're bom­barded with information, we're los­ing our stories."

Breathless from constant change, she described herself as a technologi­cal dinosaur. She got a laugh when she said that colleagues on the Mag­azine were surprised to see her writ­ing scripts with her "portable PC" -her favourite Cross pen.

Gartner prefers to conduct inter­views in person, and not via satellite, as she often must on the Magazine. "I will never lose the longing to sit opposite someone, knee to knee and eyeball to eyeball," she said. "This is why I became a journalist."

She has interviewed Czech presi­dent Vaclav Havel, and "wing-nut" Vladimir Zhirinovski in Russia. While she waited to interview the ultra-nationalist politician in his dacha, she did some hands-on research, peeking into the medicine cabinet.

One of the most difficult but grat­ifying interviews of her career was with the parents of Leslie French and Kristen Mahaffy, the teenaged girls slain by Paul Bernardo in St. Catharines, Ont.

"I second-guessed myself for days after that interview," she said, until she got a call from the parents' lawyer, thanking her. "It was the ultimate compliment."

Raised in Montreal, Gartner grad­uated from Concordia in 1969 with a BA in Communications. She spent three years as CJA.D's first female voice, then became a host of CBC's The City at Six. In 1974, she moved to Toronto and began 13 years as investigative reporter on the fifth

estate. She is the mother of two chil­dren, aged six and eight.

Her speech was part of the Stone­Consolidated Lecture Series.

It all began above a noisy disco with three professors

Reminiscing about Early Childhood Education

BY RACHEL ALKALLAY

Recalling its humble beginnings over a noisy disco with only

three professors, the Early Child­hood Education (ECE) Department celebrated its twenty-fifth anniver­sary as part of Homecoming.

About 30 graduates, former staff and faculty members joined in the festivities. They were entertained by a poem written by ECE and Child Studies Director Ellen Jacobs and Internship Co-ordinator Sara Wein­berg about some of the unexpected events that formed this "strong, committed group."

Professor Jacobs, who was there at the start, recalled professors getting lost on the way to a supervision on the South Shore

the curriculum. Professor Nina Howe said that incorporating themes in subjects "makes more sense for kids."

Internships are strictly supervised by faculty, and student teachers are continuously observed in the class­room. "We take a developmental approach to teaching," Howe said.

The students - 90 per cent of whom are women - begin with courses and practicums at the day­care level, and move on to higher levels. Government norms call for 700 hours of classroom practice, but ECE already requires approximately 800 hours, beginning with first-year students.

About 25 students graduate annu­ally out of a total enrolment for the

four-year program of about 130. and ending up at

the New York border, mishaps in the classroom, and everyone freezing in sum­mer and boiling

"We must be successful, because Teaching posi­tions are available, although gradu­ates may have to travel out of

calls come in from across the

country far our graduates"

in winter in the drafty quarters that served as ECE's former home.

The Department has come a long way. Today, ECE provides teacher training from kindergarten to Grade 6, leading to a BA degree in Early Childhood and Elementary Educa­tion after four years. A Master's pro­gram and a BA in Child Studies are also provided.

Courses are divided into theory, methods and internships. Students are taught about diversity in the classroom and how to teach across

Montreal for them. Excellent

opportunities exist in the North and for those capable of teaching French immersion courses. "There has been phenomenal growth of these courses across the country," Howe said.

Students are drawn by the Depart­ment's reputation from Ontario, British Columbia and sometimes the United States. 'We give our students all the know-how to teach students from ages three to 12," Jacobs said. "And we must be successful, because calls come in from across the country for our graduates."

Student's summer touched by flood BY LISA D'INNOCENZO

Sylvain Girard was spending his summer moving stock in a ware­

house and training for the Stingers' football season. Then his routine was abruptly broken by the torrential floods that washed over the Sague­nay region and much of his home town.

The 21-year old Chicou timi native was fortunate. His home is perched over the valley, far enough for safety from the Chicoutimi River, which overflowed with calamitous results one weekend in July. But the homes of many people he knew were ravaged.

Girard was unable to help his neighbours because he and his family were confined to their home without water for four days until roads reopened.

"They asked us to stay in our houses so that we would not disturb the aid that was going on," he explained over the noon-hour chatter of students in the Loyola Cafeteria.

A special atmosphere prevailed over the chaos, he said. "Everybody helped out." But until he saw the media coverage, the enormity of the situation didn't sink in. "People from Montreal started to call us and

ask how we were. Even the coach [Pat Sheahan] called. Then the rest of Canada heard about it. It was pretty big."

After a week and a half, he resumed training, eager to return to the football squad. Girard, now in his second year in Exercise Science, had planned to go to Universite Laval after CEGEP, but the coach of his Midget AA team, Franc,:ois Collard, asked him to consider play­ing for the Stingers.

During his first two months here, Girard often wondered if he had made the wrong decision . "I was

playing badly. I was used to playing running back, and here, I was play­

ing wide receiver; it was a new posi­tion to learn. And at school, it was difficult for me to follow classes."

Girard studied extra hard to keep

up, honing his English, and he set­tled into his football game.

In fact, at last weekend's home­

coming football game, Girard won the Homecoming Cup for Concordia's Most Valuable Player.

He caught four passes for 86 yards and had two touchdowns. It seems like he's getting along just fine.

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Computer expert Andrew McAusland introduces lectureless learning

Discover Statistics: A course vvhose ti111e has co111e BY WHIT NE Y MILLER

put it on the Internet. As far as he learning statistics on-line. "Why the Loyola Campus computer labs, knows, Discover Statistics is unique waste your time in class?" he asked. more personalized help is available. c oncordia Exercise Science stu- in Canada. "You're just going to go home and Patrick Devey is a teaching assistant

dent Dale Barrett attended his "Other courses have notes on line, learn it from the textbook, anyway. for Discover Statistics. "I help stu-

first and last introductory statistics but we're the only ones with the You don't have to have your hand dents with problems with the Inter-

class - on the same day. "I got to whole package," McAusland said. held." net and problems with statistics," he

class and found out there weren't McAusland piloted the course explained.

going to be any lectures." last winter with a group of 26

S.t.~tmf9rl5§ The lab, reserved four morn-

Barrett is one of 70 students students. This fall, about 70 stu- ings a week for students of the

enrolled in Discover Statistics dents from several departments course, has been quiet since the

(INTE 298s). The students read (including Biology, Physics, and term started. Devey predicts he'll Sociology and Anthropology) are For those who do need a little be busier later in the fall. "The

the text and do their assignments on enrolled. That number will climb to hand-holding, McAusland was reas- assignments get tougher," he said. the Internet. They even complete 90 in the winter session. "We're suring: "You're not left on your "They're going to need more help. ))

their course evaluations on-line. building up," McAusland said. "Our own." Although there is no teacher "The idea was to save a bundle," Barrett, who has a computer and goal is term enrolments in the 200 to available to answer questions, there said Peter Bird, Vice-Dean of Arts modem at home, won't have to go 250 range." are glossaries to explain unfamiliar and Science. The Faculty financed back to school until the mid-term Because an academic advisor reg- statistical terms and symbols that the project using existing computer exam. istered Barrett for the course, he students encounter. There are also facilities. In return, McAusland is

Andrew McAusland, Faculty of didn't know he'd have a computer summaries of each chapter on-line, a promising savings. Arts and Science Director of Acade- for an instructor. A self-described feature McAusland calls the "Cole's ''This is a tremendously cost-effi-mic Technology, is the class instruc- independent learner, Barrett wasn't Notes" of the course. cient process," he said. "The goal is

tor. He also developed the class and upset to learn he was going to be For students who make the trip to to have a single introductory statis-

Office of Research Services holds workshops, gets wired

Taking aim at better grants111anship BY TOD HO FFMAN

The word service doesn't appear by accident in the name of the

Office of Research Services (ORS). The ORS exists to help Concordia researchers negotiate a maze of pro­cedures to finance their work.

Erica Besso joined the University as Associate Director of the ORS in July 1993. She assumed the director­ship of the ORS the following March, following the retirement of Audrey Williams. Her professional experience includes working in the private sector as research scientist and R&D manager; in the public sector as program officer in the Part­nerships Program of the Natural Sci­ences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC); and in the acad­emic sector.

Besso arrived to find an institution still deeply affected by the 1992 Valery Fabrikant shootings and their aftermath. The crisis had, in her words, "created an awareness of the need for better-defined research policies." In response, the University standardized some of its application procedures, and the ORS has been supporting the implementation of these changes to faculty members.

Shuffle pledges A pledge is just a promise until it's

filled. Send your payments for the Sept 30

Shuffle walkathon to the Advancement Office (GM-420) or Advocacy and Sup­port (A0-130) before Oct. 20. Tax receipts are issued for donations of $10 or more, provided a full name and home address are given.

8 OCTOBER 10, 1996

The ORS advises in the prepara­tion of grant applications, reviews them so as to ensure that all require­men ts of the granting agency are respected, then submits them to the funding agencies. When it receives award notices, the ORS opens the accounts necessary to administer the funds.

The ORS also organizes and delivers workshops to raise the suc­cess rate of Concordia applicants by improving their "grantsmanship." With the participation of both Concordia members with experience on grant selection committees and of successful grant-holders, applicants are given pointers for the writing of stronger grant applications.

Over the past three years, an annu­al average of $16 million in research funds has moved through the ORS, but competition for funding has become tighter than ever. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), for instance, is in the second year of a three-year plan to cut 14 per cent from its funding. "There is a possibility of further reductions," Besso said, "but we are guardedly optimistic that they have reached their limit."

Unfortunately, the private sector

Integration pioneer speaks here

The Concordia-UQAM Chair in Eth­nic Studies will sponsor a lecture by Vivian Malone, a courageous pioneer in the U.S. civil rights struggle of the early 1960s.

Malone, an African-American, enrolled at the University of Alabama

has not stepped into the vacuum cre­ated by government cutbacks. Besso said that means universities must be innovative in making the best use of their research potential.

"One of the ways we're addressing the cuts is to examine what services might be reinforced through collabo­ration with other universities," she said. Most research projects can accommodate this approach. "No two individuals have exactly the same expertise, so they are not interchange­able. Therefore, there is room for co­operation between institutions."

The University has its own budget restrictions and research overhead, such as lab space, insurance coverage, and basic heating and lighting that represent a significant sum. In the case of a recognized agency, such as NSERC or s-sHRC, the Qyebec government gives the university a sum equivalent to 15 per cent of the grant to offset these costs. This is not given for research funding from sources not recognized by the Qye­bec government, such as industry or business. So when negotiating such a contract, Besso said researchers should take these overhead costs into account since Concordia simply is not in a position to absorb them.

over the protest of then-governor George Wallace, and graduated with a degree in business education in 1965. She is now a regional director of the Office of Environmental Justice, in Atlanta, Ga.

Her talk, "Pioneer Women and Pathfinders: Crossing the Colour Line," will be given in the Faculty and Staff Lounge (H-767), 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Oct. 18, beginning at 6:30 p.m.

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Despite its best intentions, Besso admitted, the ORS is occasionally viewed by some faculty members as a bureaucratic obstacle. This is partic­ularly true when a researcher has obtained funding independently, and finds it frustrating to have to submit to ORS scrutiny and administration.

Still, Besso and her staff personal­ized the face of the ORS last spring when they held an open house for their clients across the University. A well-attended event, it featured home

Lively play about early Canada

The Department of Theatre will mount a student production of Saint Nicholas Hotel, William Donnelly, Prop.

The play, written in 1976 by James Reaney, deals with the legendary Don­nelly family of southwestern Ontario. Were they nineteenth-century hood-

tics course for the Faculty [of Arts and Science]," he said. If that hap-pens, McAusland estimates the Fae-ulty will save more than $200,000 a year, mostly in teaching costs.

To date, only the Department of Exercise Science has stopped teach-ing introductory statistics altogether, but with recent faculty retirements, Bird predicts that other departments will soon follow suit. "The chemists are too busy teaching chemistry [ to teach statistics]," he said.

Will future Concordia students learn philosophy by computer? Not likely. "Not all courses are suited to this type of delivery," McAusland acknowledged. But courses like introductory Spanish and remedial math could end up on-line. McAus-land believes these skills-level cours-es are well suited to the medium.

baking by the staff and posters that showed Concordia's research record

and how the Office does its work.

The task of keeping researchers

informed about funding opportuni­ties has been ·enhanced recently by

the ORS home page on Concordia's Web site (www.concordia.ca), which

incorporates a keyword search func­

tion called FORCE, for Funding

Opportunities for Research and Cre­

ative Endeavours.

lums, or victims of vigilante justice? Reaney's play is full of youthful pio­

neer spirit, pageantry and music, with elements of native lore, and Director Peter Smith promises a highly physical production.

Performances are Oct 24-27, Oct 31 and Nov. 1-2 at 8 p.m., and Nov. 3 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10, $8 for seniors, $5 for groups of 10 or more, and $2 for stu­dents. Please call 848-4737.

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Adventures in Africa

BY B A RBAR A BL AC K

Agroup of seven Concordia stu­dents and alumni in the inter­

national Scouting movement spent part of the summer in Imbali, a black township in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa . Along with four other Rovers (i.e., Scouts aged 18 to 26), they helped refurbish a Scout camp for needy children.

The Rovers report that despite the end of apartheid, life in the township near the city of Pietermaritzburg is desperately poor and violent. They enjoyed getting to know the resi­dents, learned a lot, and had some excitement, including bush fires and

gunfire in the night. The Concordia students are

Romesh Vadivel, Kelly Collins, Kevin Emery and Dominique Lloyd­Srnith. The alumni are Pano Xinos, Julie Brennan and Isabelle Lacelle.

Meanwhile, alumna Christine Lengvari has done some develop­ment work of her own in KwaZulu­N atal. Lengvari, who has her own insurance and estate-planning com­pany in Montreal, developed a lot­tery for Operation Jumpstart , a non-profit group; The lottery has raised the equivalent of $20 million Canadian for the development of much-needed infrastructure for the township. The average lottery ticket buyer is white, over 30 years of age and city-based, she said.

Lengvari's interest in South Africa began with a holiday in 1988, led to a lecturing post at the University of Natal, in Durban, and eventually to the directorship of Operation Jump­start. Lotteries were still illegal in South Africa when she started the venture, though legislation has since changed. She is now back in Mon­treal, and was interviewed recently about her humanitarian work on CBC's Daybreak.

For the full story of Christine Lengvari and Operation jumpstart, see the current issue of Concordia University Magazine, published by Alumni Affairs.

Geography Department joins a study of watershed management with Canadian, U.S. and Mexican universities

Hands across the Continental Divide BY A N NA-MARIA MARTINE Z

The Ministry of Human Resources has given

Concordia's Geography Department a $120,000 grant, to be shared with the University of Guelph. The grant will send Canadian graduate stu­dents to study watershed manage­ment in another North American country.

Seven or eight students from each country will fulfill part of their degree requirements by participating in the project, which is called Water­shed Management: Developing Sus­tainable Strategies.

The Ministry's program for North American Mobility in Higher Edu­cation awarded the three-year grant in association with similar programs in the United States and Mexico. It is part of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to work together towards sustainable development.

"We are very excited about this initiative," Geography Professor

Alan Nash said. "It will not only enable us to send our own graduate students off to the United States and Mexico, but it will also allow us to receive some international students as well."

The watershed is usually the high­est point of land from which water drains. It is nature's traffic cop, send­ing the waters in different directions. The Rocky Mountains, for example, divide the rivers that flow into the Pacific Ocean from those that flow into the Mississippi River.

W atersheds occur naturally with the rise and fall of the land. W e can change and control watersheds, but geographers point out that it is more effective to work with the natural contours of the land than with artifi­cial boundaries.

The Department became aware of the project when it was approached by Guelph Professor Michael R. Moss. Its involvement will be part of an association with another research program, called AGREE (Aborigi­nal, Government, Resources, Econo-

my and Environment), which focus­es on environmental management and resource-based development in rural/indigenous communities.

The program itself won't begin until next fall. The Department applied for the grant last spring, and has just been selected as a host uni­versity. 'W e are still in the process of getting the program off the ground," Geography Professor Monica Mul­rennan said.

"The money from the grant will enhance the mobility of graduate students across N orth America, while also providing for a more sus­tainable, integrated approach to the management of watershed."

The new pan-continental project will contribute to the current MA in Geography, which is a Master's in Public Policy and Public Adminis­tration (MPPPA Geography). It also contributes to a determination with­in the Department and among geog­raphers in general to bring the fields of human and physical geography closer together.

Collaborators in Canada, Australia, California and Japan create CD-ROM - without ever leaving home

Internet pays off for English teachers BY CAROLINE KUTS C HK E

Through worldwide collaboration over the Internet, a Concordia

University professor has played a vital role in the recent release of a CD-ROM that will give teachers of English as a second language (TESL) more access to computer­ized teaching materials.

Professor Roger Kenner helped to bring the TESOL/CELIA '96 (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages/ Computer­Enhanced Language Instruction Archive) CD-ROM to fruition in less than a year, almost entirely over the Internet.

"I don't think it would have been possible to do otherwise," Kenner said in an interview. He works in Concordia's Audio-Visual . Depart­ment's Instructional Technology Support division and the TESL Centre.

A product that can be used as a language-teaching tool and works on PC or Macintosh, the CD-ROM provides all the information that var­ious TESOL librarians once sent out on diskette.

"There's more stuff in here than anyone needs, but there are very good indexes," Kenner said, holding up the CD admiringly. "Not every­thing is applicable, but at only $15, the information is virtually free."

Teaching software isn't easy to find, and the comprehensive pro­grams are often expensive. ''The kind I prefer do one thing and do it well,

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and let the teacher design the lesson around it," Kenner said. With TESOL/CELIA '96, the teachers can set tasks and goals for students and build their own lessons.

Kenner admitted that he was a lit­tle worried about teachers who don't have access to CD-ROM computers, but the committee figured that with the savings from buying the CD, "they will find a CD-ROM player."

The idea for the CD-ROM origi­nated at a convention for teachers of English to speakers of other lan­guages in California in 1995. None of the participants met again, or even telephoned each other, until the CD's release at a Chicago conven­tion in March.

The CD-ROM is a collaborative effort of the Computer Assisted Lan­guage Learning Interest Section of TESOL (CALL-IS) and its software librarians, together with CELIA at La Trobe University in Australia.

Except for the circulation of the beta-test versions of the CD-ROM via Fedex, all discussion, exchange of software, evaluation, software and navigation-writing and decision-mak­ing were done over the Internet. The project co-ordinator was in California, the manager of the on-line software archive in Australia, the Windows software co-ordinator and key beta­testers in Japan, TESOL's Macintosh software librarian in Oregon and the DOS librarian in Montreal.

"I was as up-to-date as anyone," recalled Kenner, who said he spent half an hour two or three days a week

working on the project. "E-mail is changing the way things are done. We're catching up with technology."

A founding member and former chairman (1986) of the Computer­Assisted Language Learning Interest Section of TESOL, he's still part of CALL-IS, which maintains software libraries and produces annual soft­ware lists, among its many tasks . TESOL listed 20,000 members in 1992, 800 of whom are CALL-IS members.

For the CD-ROM, Kenner sat on the decision-making committee as the TESOL DOS librarian and helped co-ordinate the collection of software. He also worked on testing the CD, which holds more than 100 free software and shareware titles, electronic journals and commercial publishers' demos.

Multi- media language labs are taking the place of traditional lan­guage labs, Kenner said. The learn­ing labs at Concordia University have been making software available since 1979 for Spanish, French, English and German courses. Cur­rent multi-media language teaching technology also provides sound and graphics, "where you can practise all the skills, basically," Kenner said. "The only thing left is the speech input."

The CD-ROM is available from TESOL at 1600 Cameron St., Suite 300, Alexandria, VA, 22314 or you may contact TESOL by e-mail at: tesol@tesoledu

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

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

The first Canadian woman in space will be -able to stay in Canada after all, thanks to a $500,000 grant from the CIBC last month. Earli­er this year, Roberta Bandar had said she might transfer her work to the U.S. Because she was splitting her research time between three universities, she didn't qualify for all the grants she needed for her research . With the bank's help, Bandar will continue to develop cerebral blood-flow studies at the University of Western Ontario. Ryerson Polytechnic University, in Toronto, will continue to provide engineering support.

McGill University recently announced its share of provincial funding decreases: $14.2 million, or 6.3 per cent of its total operating bud­get, a shortfall of $86.2 million over the next five years. However, McGill will have an extra $4.3 million as a result of 160 early retire- ' ment packages. And faculty members will be getting -a break as the administration puts aside $1 million to bring academic salaries in line with those of Canada's top 10 research-intensive .universities.

Canada's largest granting agency wants scientists to express them­selves in clearer language when applying for funds., The National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) is persuading applicants to better explain their proposed studies to those -outside of the scientists' fields. It says titles and summaries chock-full of jargon are perfect' targets of derision by some politi­cians and members of the media who misunderstand the ·,context of the research.

Researchers are putting alternative medicine for animals under scrutiny. At the University of Guelph's Ontario Veterinary College (OVC), Brenda Bonnett and Carol Poland head a study to assess the efficacy of veterinary herbal medicine, homeopathy, chiropractice and acupuncture. Along with conducting their own future clinical tri­als, using herbal and homeopathic products for pain and cancer treatment in dogs, the team will set up a Web site on holistic vet­erinary medicine. The OVC study is almost entirely funded by one . animal owner.

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OFFICE OF RESEARCH SERVICES

Research Involving Human Subjects All research projects involving the use of human subjects, whether funded or non-funded , to be conducted by faculty, post-doctor­ates, administrators and staff, must be reviewed by the Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) prior to the commencement of the research.

A Summary Protocol Form, available from the Office of Research Services (ORS), should be completed and submitted to the Human Research Ethics Committee for approval.

Two HREC meetings have been scheduled to accelerate the review process Researchers who intend to submit Summary Protocol Forms are kindly asked to do so by one of the following deadlines:

Monday, October 28, 1996 (for CQRS, Health & Welfare, and any research which will begin prior to February 1, 1997)

Friday,January 17, 1997 (for FCAR, SSHRC, NSERC , and other agencies)

Please note that researchers applying for funding for a research project already approved by the HREC may request an updated Certification of Ethical Acceptability.

Human subjects are involved in a variety of research situations including but not limited to the following: (a) posing questions to individuals by telephone, letter, survey, questionnaire, or inter­view; (b) use of non-public records, which contain identifying information about anyone; (c) reporting the observance of individ­uals' response or behaviour, either directly or non-directly; and (d) testing or performing any procedure, clinical, therapeutic or otherwise on someone else for research rather than for treatment.

All research involving the use of human subjects conducted by students is to be reviewed by the appropriate departmental ethics committee. Please refer students to their respective departmental , or in the case of Commerce and Administration, Faculty Ethics Committee.

For forms (also available on diskette) or more information, please contact the Office of Res·earch Services at 848-4888 or by e-mail at ors@vax2.

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Research Involving Animals

NEXT ORS DEADLINE:

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1996

All research and teaching projects involving the use of animals must be reviewed by the University's Animal Care Committee (UACC) prior to the commencement of the research .

All Applications to Use Animals fo r Research or Teaching must therefore be submitted to the Office of Research Services before Monday, November 4 , 1996, in order for the UACC to review them at their November meeting. This deadline applies to both renewal and new applications.

It is very important to note that the application has been revised and only the 1996 version will be accepted for review by the Ani­mal Care Committee. For application packages (also available on diskette for the Macintosh environment only), or more informa­tion, please contact the Office of Research Services at 848-4888 or by e-mail at ors@vax2.

Dimitrov said. "Since then, politics

has been my life."

In 1992-93, he spent six months

in Japan, working in the administra­

tion of an English-language college.

"It worked by Jap anese corporate

rules," he said. "Every morning we

chanted the college's song, or pledge, . and you couldn't leave work before

the boss."

The Japanese experience gave him a new, more disciplined approach to work - and he made up for lost time by cramming more courses into his schedule so that he could gradu­ate at the same time as his friends. "I took 15 credits last summer - and

lost 15 pounds. But I got over it."

Science College Public Lecture Series

Dr. Julius Adler University of Wisconsin at Madison

Life is One: The Major Features of Life Hold True for All Organisms Time: 8:30 p.m. Date: Thursday, October 10th, 1996 Place: Main Auditorium, Hall Building

1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West Info.: 848-2595

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Search for Director, Centre for Mature Students The Director, Centre for Mature Students, is a permanent, full-time faculty member who reports directly to the Provost/Vice-Rector, Research.

The Director is concerned about the needs and structures which support Concordia's mature-entry-plan students, and is a spokesper­son for mature students at CREPUQ and in the media.

The Director participates actively at such Centre for Mature Students orientation and recruitment events as Septemberfest and Information Nights.

The Director chairs meetings of fellows. The Centre's professional staff of three, on two campuses, attend to the day-to-day running of the office, that is, daily advising, problem-solving, referrals, and advocacy. The Director troubleshoots with staff and fellows, over­sees the budget and personnel, and is a non-voting member of Senate, with speaking privileges.

The appointment is fromJanuai;y 1, 1997, to May 31, 2000. Send applications by November 11 to Mary Brian, Centre for Mature Students, LB-517, SGW.

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Faculty of Arts and Science Academic administrative positions

• Principal, Liberal Arts College • Principal, School of Community and Public Affairs • Principal, Science College

The above positions are available to full-time tenured (or tenure­track) faculty members for a three-year term, beginning June 1, 1997. Nominations, applications and briefs relevant to the selection process will be received until Wednesday, October 30, 1996.

For further information about these positions, please contact:

Dr. Enn Raudsepp, Vice-Dean, Administrative Affairs, Faculty of Arts and Science AD-320, 848-2086

Completed applications, nominations and briefi may be submitted to Dr. Raudsepp.

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Ocentraide

Centraide 1996: Doing a world of good

BY DONNA VARRI C A

Last year, Concordia raised $43,000 for Centraide, a big

improvement over the previous year's total of $29,000, but closer inspec­t ion shows there is room for improvement. In 1994-95, only 195 of 3,000 faculty and staff members filled out a pledge form, a participa­tion rate of only nine per cent; that rate climbed to 14 per cent last year.

While many Concordians may well have made charitable contribu­tions elsewhere, there are a number of good reasons to give to Centraide through the University. First, by giv­ing through the payroll deduction plan, you will hardly notice the dif­ference in your pay cheque - and those who choose the payroll plan this year will be eligible for prizes.

Centraide contributors can rest assured that 87 cents of every dollar donated goes directly to the 233 agencies and service organizations that help the more than 500,000 Montrealers in need. And as the University gears up for its next Capi­tal Campaign, Concordia will appeal to the community for help; of course, an institution that gives is more like­ly to receive help in return.

This year's campaign committee is aiming at a 20-per-cent participation rate . Enn Raudsepp , Vice-Dean, Administrative Affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is the co-chair.

"Concordia is capable of con­tributing a lot more than it has," Raudsepp said. 'Times are tough for all of us, but we can make a differ­ence in improving the lives of our fellow residents of Montreal."

hospital treatment. "Studies sh~w that the relationship

that is made with the person, through education, is more important than the content of the syllabus. The data also suggests that people and families who show up for education are more likely to comply with treatment, although that could be a chicken-or-egg prob­lem - people motivated to show up may already be more motivated to comply/? w eiden said.

"The most persuasive data on effectiveness of family treatment is on multi-family groups. When several families meet over a long period of time, that has been shown to increase compliance and reduce relapses. A lot of solutions like these are low-cost, and don't require throwing millions of dollars at the problem."

The lecture was sponsored by the AMI-Qyebec Alliance for the Men­tally Ill and Concordia's Department of Psychology.

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Alumni Marketing Yourself for Your First Job Monday, Oct. 21 Topics to be covered include the CV, researching opportunities and the interview. This session will provide both theoretical and practical tech­niques to help market yourself for your first job. You will benefit from the experience of a seasoned headhunter and a trainer. Bring a copy of your CV to recei ve feedback. 7 - 9:30 p.m. Faculty Club Dining Room, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., H-763. Price: $14 per person. Student discount, $7, with valid ID. card. No refunds. RSVP: (514) 848-3817.

Art Gallery The Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery is located at 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Information: 848-4750. (Metro Guy-Concordia). Free admission.

Until Nov. 2 Tony Scherman: Banquo 's Funeral. Monday- Friday from 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Concert Hall Bach Bop & Beyond series. 22 con­certs at a low price of $75, $50 for seniors. Call 848-7928 for a complete concert list.

Oct. 12 Steve Amirau lt, piano, and Michel Donato, acoustic bass.

Oct. 19 Christopher Jackson, harpsichord, and Liselyn Adams, flute.

Nov.2 Joe Sullivan Sextet program and players.

Oct. 17 - "Music and Ethics," a discus­sion paper by Roddy Ellias.

Oct. 24 - Wolfgang Bottenberg, Music Theory, "Do We Teach the Right Stuff the Right Way?"

CPR courses The following courses will be offered by the EH&S Offi ce in the next few weeks. Members of Concordia and the outside commun_ity can take these courses. Contact Donna Fasciano, Training Co-ordinator, at 848-4355.

Oct 16 & 17 - CSST First Aid (in French)

Oct 19 & 20 - CSST First Aid (in French)

Oct. 23 - Heartsaver Course Oct. 27 - Heartsaver Plus Course Nov. 2 - Basic life Support Nov. 3 - Heartsaver Course Nov. 4 & 5 - CSST First Aid (in French)

Film The Loyola Film Series F.C. Smith Auditorium, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W. Tel. 848-3878. Free admission

Tuesday, Oct. 15 Red River, Howard Hawks (1948) at 7 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 21 The Quiet Man, John Ford (1952) at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 22 Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks (1959) at 7 p.m.

Lectures & Seminars Thursdays at Lonergan

Nov. 6 Oct. 10 Encore Brass Quintet, featuring Charles El I ison, trumpet.

Nov.9 Liselyn Adams, flute, Helene Gagne & Laurie Milkman.

Thursday Music Forum Series (bring your lunch) 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 10 - "Preparing a Work for Sound Production: A Case Study, Minuet by Christian Calon," presented by Kevin Austin.

Gary Evans, Dept of History, Dawson College, on "Paul Tana and Otherness in Contemporary Quebec Cinema." 3:30 - 5 p.m., 7302 Sherbrooke St. W. 848-2280.

Department of Art History Thursday, Oct. 10 Dr. Kathy M'Closkey , Social Anthropologist, University of Windsor, on "The Hidden History of Navajo Weaving." 1:15 p.m. VA-210, 1395 Rene Levesque W. 270-7761.

Science College Thursday, Oct. 10 Dr. Julius Adler, University of Wisconsin at Madison, on "Life is One: The Major Features of Life Hold True for All Organisms." 8:30 p.m., H-110, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. 848-2595.

Department of Art History Wednesday, Oct. 16 Hilary Robinson, University of Ulster at Belfast, on " Irish/Woman/Artwork: Selective Readings." 1 :30 p.m. VA-323, 1395 Rene Levesque W.

. Thursdays at Lonergan Oct. 17 Blaine Allan, Dept. of Film Studies, Queen's University, on "Heritage, A Film of the Canadian Oust Bowl." 3:30 - 5 p.m , 7302 Sherbrooke St. W. 848-2280.

Concordia-UQAM Chair in Ethnic Studies Friday, Oct. 18 Vivian Malone, Director, Office of Environmental Justice, on "Pioneer Women and Pathfinders: Crossing the Colour Line." 6:30 - 8 p.m., H-767, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

K Information Centre of Montreal Friday, Oct. 18 J. Krishnamurti video presentations: "Knowledge and the Transformation of Man." 8 p.m. H-420, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. 937-8869.

Department of English Wednesday, Oct. 23 Alexandra W. Halasz, on "Early Modern Publicity: The Entrepreneurial Pamphlet." 8:30 p.m., H-420, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Department of Art History Thursday, Oct. 24 Dr. Lynne Pearce, Lancaster University, on "Feminism and the Emotional Politics of Reading." 10 a.m. VA-323, 1395 Rene Levesque W.

Thursdays at Lonergan Oct.24 Joanna Bottenberg, Dept. of Modern Languages & Linguistics and Fellow of Lonergan Col lege, on "Landscapes of War: Artists, Poets and Painters." 3:30 - 5 p.m., 7302 Sherbrooke St. W. 848-2280.

K Information Centre of Montreal Friday, Oct. 25 J. Krishnamurti video presentations: "Knowledge and Conflict in Human Relations." 8 p.m., H-420, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. 937-8869.

Legal Information Services Concordia's Legal Information Services offers free and confidential legal information and assistance to the Concordia community. All consul­tations are by appointment, 848-4960.

School of Graduate Studies News Get-togethers with Graduate Students Thursday, Oct. 10 and Monday Nov. 11 , 1996. 5:30 -7 p.m., 2145 Mackay. Please call to reserve your place, 848-3803.

Special Events and Notices Thursday, Oct. 17 Meeting for the members of the pension plan of Concordia University. 5:30 p.m.

. in the J.A. OeSeve Cinema, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. 848-3665.

Thesis Defence Friday, Oct. 11 Sandra Curtis, Humanities, on "Singing Subversion, Singing Soul: Women's Voices in Feminist Music Therapy." 10 a.m. in H-762, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Wednesday, Oct. 16 Pamela Korman, Special Individualized Program, on "Intention , Creative Variability and Paradox in Recorded Performances of the Piano Music of Maurice Rave l. " 4 p.m. in H-769, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Friday, Oct. 18 Howard Nemiroff, Administration, on "Price Discovery around Canadian Equity Trading Halts using lntraday Data." 2 p.m. in H-771 , 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Unclassified Condo in Costa Rica for rent Planning a vacation in Central America? 2 luxurious condos at com­petitive prices. Fully equipped. 200 m from the beach. Tranquil area. Minutes from all amenities. Call Martin, 273-6422.

For rent Charming 5 1 /2 lower duplex on 105 bus route. Woodwork, fireplace, base­ment. Ideal for visiti ng academic. $700/mo. Available Jan. 1, 1997. 487-6286.

Room for rent Room available in a comfortable home in Westmount. Suitable for several days a week or on a more permanent basis. Non-smoking vis iting professor, or mature student preferred. Please call 486-3215 to explore possibilities.

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

Wanted Sabbatical housing for Jan. 1 - June 30, 1997. Visiting professor working at Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont seek­ing 3-bedroom furnished or semi-fur­nished apartment or home. Location not critical , if within reach of bus or Metro. References avai lable . Please call 519-824-4120, ext. 6377 or e-mail [email protected].

Women's Agenda Wednesday, Oct. 30 Lee Maracle, author of Ravensong and /, on "Women: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism." Noon at the Women's Centre, 2170 Bishop. 848-2373.

Action A se lf-defen ce course taught by women for women of all ages and abilities. Two-day course offered at Concordia Saturday, Oct. 19 and Saturday, Oct. 26. Students: $20; staff, faculty, alumni $50. Info: 848-7431'.

International Coming Out Day Friday, Oct. 11 Come in at 1 p.m . to share in our potluck and intriguing exits from the closet. Call the Women's Centre for more info at 848-7431, 2020 Mackay (downstairs).

Workshops Macintosh Computer Workshops for Faculty & Staff Register by ca ll ing Carmel ita Swann at 848-3668. Al I workshops wi 11 be held in LB-812.

Netscape - World Wide Web browser for the Macintosh Wednesday, Oct. 23, Nov. 6, 20, Dec. 4 and 11, from 10 - 12:30 p.m.

Create your own Home Page Tuesday, Oct. 15, 22, from 10 a.m. 12:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 15, 22, from 2 - 4:30 p.m.

Eudora Electronic Mail for the Macintosh Thursday, Oct. 17, 24, 31 and Nov. 7, 14, from 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Appleshare: File Sharing for the Macintosh Friday, Oct. 25, Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29, from 2 - 4:30 p.m.

Now Up-to-Date - Electronic Calendar for the Macintosh Friday, Oct. 11 , 18, 25, and Nov. 1, 8, 15, from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Centre for Teaching and Learning Services, Faculty Development Workshop Series. Call 848-2495 to register.

The Development ofthe Teaching Dossier: Start Early Oct. 10 in H-771, from 1 :30 - 4 p.m. Leader: Ron Smith

Managing Threatening, Aggressive or Harassing Conduct in the Classroom Oct. 11 in H-771 from 9:30 - 11 a.m . Leader: Sally Spilhaus

The Large Class: Issues, Concerns and Teaching Techniques Oct. 24 in AD-131 from 9:30 a.m. - 12 · p.m. Leader: Ron Smith.

Experimenting with New Technologies in Teaching Oct. 25 in A0-308 from 1 - 2:30 p.m. Leader: Greg Lipny

The Concordia University Amateur Radio Club Saturday, Oct 26 and Sunday, Oct 27 Intensive weekend amateur radio class from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. To register or for more information ca ll 848-7421, or send a message to [email protected]. Tuesday night club meetings from 7-9 p.m. in H-647.

Morse Code Classes for Beginners Every Thursday night from 7 - 8:30 p.m. in H-647, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Students should bring two blank 60-minute cassette tapes and one blank 3-1/2 inch computer disk. 15 - 20 minutes of practice per day will be required at home. There wi ll be a small tape dupli­cation charge of less than $5.

Libraries Fall 1996 Workshops They are; Introducing the Libraries (50 min.), How to find articles: Using CD­ROMs, Indexes and Databases (75 min.), Lexis/Nexis Introductory Workshops (60 min.) and Surfing the Internet for Information. For times and locations , please call Me linda Reinhart, 848-7715.