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Human-vibration research previously solved problems of j ackhammer operators

Bone-rattling buses under study at CONCAVE BY DAWN WISEMAN

The people on the bus go up and down, Up and down, up and down, The people on the bus go up and down, All through the town.

"\ ]{ Jhether it's all through the V V town or just for a few stops,

the people on the bus get off after a relatively short period of time. The drivers, however, go up and down all through the town not once but sever­al times in one shift. And, if the town they are driving in is Qiebec, the roads they are driving on may not be in good repair.

Eight hours of bouncing around on bad roads in the same seat ca~ lead to muscle fatigue and back strain. Through human-vibration research, members of Concordia's CONCAVE Research Centre are trying to make the bus-driver's life a little more oomfortable.

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Lowy to hold open meetings On Tuesday, May 14, Rector Frederick Lowy will hold two open meetings to discuss major issues of concern to the Concordia community. One will be primarily for fac­ulty and one for staff. Stu­dents are welcome to attend either. The Rector will pre­sent an overview of the situ­ation at Concordia, followed by an open question period.

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CONCA VE has been involved in human-vibration research since 1988. According to its director, Mechanical Engineering Professor

Subhash Rakheja, the centre (whose name is an acronym of Concordia Computer-Aided Vehicle Engineer­ing) has always had funding for this

type of research. "The Commission de la sante et de la securite du travail (CSST) itself has funded eight or nine projects for almost $1.5 mil­lion," he said in an interview.

Rakheja entered this area of research when he became interested in examining the arm-hand vibration of jackhammer operators. After pro­longed exposure to jackhammer vibrations, operators lose circulation in their index and middle fingers.

Before Rakheja began his study, the phenomenon had always been looked at as an irreversible medical problem. However, he said, "We took an engineering approach, and tried to discover what was causing the damage."

They found that the operators' hands slipped while the hammer was on, so that the handle would rest against the bottom joints of the fin­gers where they meet the palm of the hand. Because the vibration from the

hammer temporarily deadens feeling in the hands, operators could not sense when circulation was being cut off from their fingers.

Rakheja explained, "There were no other efforts in this area at that time, and with each paper we pub­lished, we received requests for fur­ther data, especially from workers' compensation groups. The work we did here was eventually adopted as an international standard."

Surprisingly, the researchers at CONCAVE have discovered that the bus drivers' problems are some­what similar. They began by going into the field and measuring the vibrations to which the drivers were actually subjected.

They then returned to the labora­tory, and recreated the conditions in a more controlled environment, using a special machine which was built in-house and can mimic the

See Buses, p. 7

Jazz voice professor to perform songs from her latest CD to raise money for scholarships

Fresh Start for singer Jeri Brown BY PHIL MosCOVITCH

Concordians will have a chance to enjoy the singing of their

very own jazz diva this spring, when Music Professor Jeri Brown stars in a special benefit concert for scholar­ships for students in the Faculty of Fine Arts.

The concert, called Fresh Start after Brown's latest compact disc, will also feature Music faculty mem­bers Joe Sullivan (trombone), Roddy Ellias (guitar), Wali Muhammad (drums) and Remi Bolduc (saxo­phone). Brown, who was nominated for a Juno Award this year, will per­form a mix of jazz standards, recent tunes, and a sampling of songs from her new CD.

It's been a busy year for Brown. She toured Europe last fall, recorded her new CD - and, in addition to her duties as Concordia's Director of Jazz Vocal Studies, she was artist-in­residence at St. Francis Xavier Uni­versity in Nova Scotia.

"It was hectic. I try not to sing much when I'm doing crazy things like that," Brown said. "I seem to know how to relax my voice. I eat and sleep whenever I can. I do not recom­mend that a performer teach in two different universities in two different

provinces and try to have a career." And that pace shows little sign of

slowing down. Brown is performing in Europe again this spring and will be going to Japan to tour in the fall.

A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Brown moved to Montreal to take up a position at Concordia in 1989. She has developed a reputation as a tough, demanding teacher. Asked if she sees herself that way, Brown said. "Absolutely." Students some­times "want to know a mysterious magical formula for being able to

scat sing or get a voice wi th the colours of Sarah Vaughan," she said. Instead, Brown tells them they have to "feel something inside" first.

"How do you create?" she asked. "That's essentially what I've been teaching since I've been here. I haven't been teaching 'do-re-mi' as much as I've been teaching Why?"'

The Fresh Start CD grew out of a series of four performances with Cyrus Chestnut, Wali Muhammad and Dave Young last spring. The album is a departure from Brown's

earlier work, in that she moves away from jazz standards to a more con­temporary sound with a soulful edge. She also wrote most of the lyrics.

'That is actually the type of music that I love the most, but I have never put it on record. It's me. I am a product of the '70s. Fusion, contem­porary music, avant-garde, soul, funk - that's all me."

The Montreal Mirror called the CD "outstanding," and said that it "boldly ventures into contemporary R&B and funk without diluting its integrity or ever losing its charm." .

Denise Beamish, co-ordinator of the benefit concert, said, "Jeri is someone in the Faculty who is a very exciting kind of performer. She and the other musicians are really great to listen to." Beamish, Facilities Director for the Theatre Depart­ment, said the Faculty of Fine Arts is hoping to raise about $10,000 for the Fine Arts Development Fund; the money is earmarked for student scholarships.

The Fresh Start benefi,t concert is on May 30 at 7 p.m. at the Concordia Concert Hall. Tickets are $15, $25 and $100. The $25 tickets include a cocktail party as well as the show, while the $100 tickets also include dinner. For ticket reservations or more iriformation, call Denise Beamish, at 848-4660.

As a teenager, director Jean-Frederic Messier was galvanized by avant-garde Quebec play

Don't Blaine the Bedouins premieres tonight BY PHILIP FINE

By the t ime his cast of Don't

Blame the Bedouins empties the sand from their shoes after the first show tonight, Jean-Frederic Messier will probably have moved on to his next show.

Concordia's Department of The­atre is fortunate to have had the ser­vices of this director, playwright, composer, musician, who is one of the busiest people in Montreal's the­atre community.

But it's Messier who feels like the lucky one. The artistic director and founder of Momentum Theatre credits this play with setting him on the road to a career in the theatre.

When he saw the first staging of Ne blamez jamais !es Bedouins, along with shows by Carbone 14 and Robert Lepage (with whom he later

· worked), he was a restless 16-year­old attending an international the­atre festival, and these productions changed his life.

Now 28, he tried to explain why he liked the Rene-Daniel Dubois play so much. There was the palpa­ble violence and the sheer energy of

Dubois's performance in what was then a one-man show by the play­wright. (In this production, 12 actors play more than that many charac­

ters.) But settling for a simpler way to describe what the play did, Messier said, "It really rocked."

The play brings together seeming­ly disparate images - two nuclear- ·

powered trains riding a collision

course, an opera singer tied to train · tracks, a German mountain-climber

watching from a cliff, and a monster - all of them set in an Australian

desert. The stage is filled with sand and marked wi th elevated train tracks.

According to Messier, the play began in the playwright's head with a person screaming; Dubois then went on to find out what that scream meant. For Messier, who last year directed the first-year acting students

at the National Theatre School in

Theatre student .Rea Nolan as Michaela in Don't Blame the Bedouins, opening tonight at the D.B. Clarke Theatre.

Widow of slain Egyptian president speaks at Concordia

Bedouins as a class exercise, there has always been an attraction to what he could not understand in this dis­jointed play.

"If I got it right away, I'd be bored," Messier said. He calls Dubois one of Qyebec's strongest writers, and jokingly added that the real reason he is directing the show again was to meet the writer. Besides, he said, "I'm starting to get it." The story's foremos t issue for

· him is how one is perceived and how one keeps up those appearances.

Messier is best known for his own plays, including Death, Delirium and

Desire and H elter Skelter. His Le

'making of' Macbeth opened just last weekend, and he was the screen­writer for Karma, a coming film.

Tonight, playwright Dubois and translator Martin Kevan will be in attendance at the D.B . Clarke. Messier will try to lift them and the rest of the audience "this high and for this long," because that's what he feels happened to ·him in that first production he saw back in 1984.

D on't Blame the Bedouins, by

R ene-Daniel Dubois, translated by

Martin Kevan and directed by j ean-

Frederic Messier, runs tonight through

Sunday and from Wednesday, April 24,

to Friday, April 26, at 8 p.m., with one

matinee performance on Saturday,

April 27, at 2 p.m. at the D.B. Clarke Theatre, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W (Bishop St. entrance). Tickets are

$10, $8 far students and seniors, and

$5 far groups of10 or more.

Macho attitudes, not religion, hold back Mid-East women BY SYLVAIN COMEAU

Jehan Sadat was warmly received with a standing ovation and praise

from introductory speakers when she spoke at Concordia on April 3, but the long-time activist and widow of slain Egyptian president Anwar Sadat modestly deflected the credit for her pioneering social work.

"I could not have accomplished anything in Egypt without the many, many women who have volun­teered," she said, "nor without the support of my husband. There are many pioneers of whom I am very proud, and who paved the way for me and for others to follow. So many people think I am behind the Egypt­ian movement for women and chil­dren, but I am just learning from the pioneers."

Nevertheless, Sadat's record of achievement, which began long

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Agnes Lefort Gallery Concordia's Leonard and Bina Ellen

Art Gallery will commemorate another art gallery known as a dynamic force when Quebec art symbolized the avant­garde in Canada.

The Agnes Lefort Art Gallery: Mon­treal 1950-61 is the title of an exhibition on view at the University from April 23 to June 1.

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before her late husband became pres~ ident, is impressive. In 1972, she founded the Al-Wafa-Wa Amal [Faith and Hope] Society, which has built hospitals, clinics and rehabilita­tion centres for the treatment of war­wounded and handicapped veterans and children.

In 1977, she launched S.O.S. Children's International, which offers a normal family life to orphans. Among other innovations, she . helped push amendments to family laws through the Egyptian parlia­ment. The amendments gave women custody of the children and the fami­ly dwelling in the case of divorce.

Sadat, who was brought to Con­cordia by the Political Science Depart­ment and the Egyptian Community of Canada, has long been associated with the women's movement in the Middle East. She was careful to make a distinction about Islam.

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It includes almost 70 pa intings , prints, drawings, ceramics and sculp­tures which were drawn from works actually shown in Lefort's gallery, and reflect her commitment to the promo­tion of contemporary Canadian art.

Represented in the show are Paul­Emile Borduas, Marcelle Ferron, Yves Gaucher, Pierre Gauvreau, Jean McEwen and Marian Scott, among oth­ers. Lefort also supported the interna-

'1 have been described as a femi­nist, social activist, a defender of women's rights, a voice for th e downtrodden, and a woman with a mission. I am all these things, and more. I am also a Muslim, who firm­ly believes in Islam and in the rights of women. I see no conflict between these two beliefs."

The conflict that does arise comes from many of the interpreters of Islam, according to Sadat.

Patriarchal attitudes "The Koran clearly sets forth the

equity between men and women. In my travels, I am continually amazed at how many educated people in the United States, Canada and Europe think of Muslim women as being constrained and restrained by Islam. This is a misconception. Muslim women are not constrained by Islam, but by patriarchal attitudes, traditions and practices, whether in

tional avant-garde (the show includes works by Cesar, Vassili Kandinsky, Fer­nand Leger and Georges Rouault) and women artists.

The Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery is on the main floor of the J. W McConnell Building, 1400 de Maison­neuve Blvd. W, and is open MoncJay to Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and on Saturdays from 1 to 5 p.m.

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. Jehan Sadat and Political;Science chair Henry Habib.

Arab or Western societies." Sadat noted many of the giant

strides that women have made since she started her work in the 1960s, but pointed out two areas, education and peace, that will be keys to the future.

"To those who say that investing in a girl is not worthwhile, I say that to educate a girl is to educate a family. For every dollar spent on education in the Middle East, $135 is spent on weapons. Is not the edu­cation of the people worth at least the same attention? T he 21st century can either see more of us lost in the wilderness, or more of us prepared to contribute to the future.

The cause of peace is even more fundamental, she said. "There can be no development, no equality, until peace is a reality in the Middle East. We are the mothers, the wives, the

sisters and daughters of those who fight and die. Our vocation, our call, our actions must be for peace."

One of the biggest threats to that cause will continue to be terrorists, but Sadat predicted that they will ulti­mately fail to stop the peace process.

"Fundamentalists and extremists are an obstacle not only to women, but to the whole country. They must come to know that nothing that they are doing will stop the peace, because that is what the vast majority wants."

Sadat herself has been criticized by some quarters of Middle Eas tern society, but she brushes it aside. "I don't pay much attention to criti­cism. You must never let it stop you, because that would give critics the opening they want. Someone has to take the criticism so that others can enjoy the benefits later on."

Hugh McOueen's dream of sustainable technology

The greening of engineers BY JONA THO N G ATE HOUSE

Mechanical Engineering Profes­sor Hugh Mc01ieen says that

his professional colleagues often struggle to balance the interests of the public, industry and environ­ment. They just need, more than ever, to make environmental con­cerns part of their everyday work.

Engineers are already dedicated to sustainable technology, but have just never called it that," he said in an interview. "One of the most impor­tant aspects of engineering is improving efficiency - creating technology which uses less resources and makes less waste."

McQyeen, who teaches and does research in the field of materials and manufacturing, is spearheading a drive to make environmental con­cerns part of every course in the core curriculum of his department.

He wants each professor to create a document showing how the princi­ples of sustainable technology and design could be applied to the mate­rial they teach. By September 1996, Mechanical Engineering students would receive a "green outline" for each of their courses.

"My hope is that this might gen­erate interest among the students; create a dialogue on the subject, and lead to an evolution of attitudes," Mc01ieen said.

Concordia Engineering students are already required to take two courses in Social Aspects of Engi­neering, which include environmen­tal concerns. Mc01ieen believes that further development of the concept

would make the Faculty more appealing to today's environment­conscious students.

Professor Bernice Goldsmith, co­ordinator of the Social Aspects of Engineering program, strongly sup­ports Mc01ieen's efforts.

"There is no field of engineering in which environmental sustainabili­ty is not important," she said. 'We have to help professors and students link what they're doing with what society wants - a clean planet, sus­tainable resources and some type of social equity."

Mc01ieen believes that mechani­cal engineering is the perfect disci­pline in which to start this transformation because of the crucial role it plays in all stages of the man­ufacturing process.

A mechanical engineer who is

concerned with sustainable technolo­gy would focus on the long-term environmental impact and durability of a product. A refrigerator would be designed to last for decades, be energy-efficient and easily recyclable when its utility had ended. Mc01ieen said this might make the initial cost of the fridge in the order of$100 more expensive, but it would save money and the environment in the long run.

While Mc01ieen acknowledges it's an uphill battle to persuade industry · and consumers to pay more to even­tually save money and the planet, he believes it's his profession's responsi­bility to help society evolve.

'We're not in a position to alter the way society thinks," he said, "but we should be exercising some leadership."

CONCORDIA'S THURSDAY REPORT

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.

Catherine Vallejo (Modern Languages and Linguistics) presented a paper at a colloquium in Havana, Cuba, on an unpublished manu­script by a 19th-century w riter from the Dominican Republic, Vir­ginia Elena Ortea, called La femin istas. She is also involved in a project at Havana's Casa de la Amer ica s, w hich wi ll publi sh w omen 's writing of the colonial era in Latin America.

John Raso (Purchasing Services) has been invited to sit on the Business Advisory Printing Committee at Rosemount Technology Centre, w hich has just received a major government grant to reno­vate their facilities .

Congratulations to S.V. Hoa, chair of Mechanical Engineering, w ho has w on the G.H. Duggan Medal, awarded annually by the Canadi­an Society for Mechanical Engineering for the best paper dealing w ith the use of advanced materials for structural and mechanical purposes. It w ill be presented in Hamilton, Ont, on May 8.

The fifth edition of Le marketing: fon dements et applications, of w hich Michel Laroche (Marketing) is a co-author, has just been published by Cheneliere/McGraw-Hill.

A paper by Kurt Jonassohn (Sociology and Anthropology), "Before the Holocaust Deniers, " has been published in Society. His col­league, Joe Smucker, was one of a four-person team wh ich had a paper, "External Flexibility in Sweden and Canada: A Three-Industry Comparison," published in Work, Employment and Society.

John MacKinnon (Physics) gave a talk to the physics department of the National University of Singapore on his physics simulations teaching programs, and gave them copies of the 16 programs. They are also on the Web, at http ://www.sonetis .com/ - htran.physics.hunl.

Reesa Greenberg (Art History) was part of an international roster for a symposium on Modernist Utopias held recently at the Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal.

Poet Gary Geddes and poet-journalist Mary di Michele (English) read from their work at the University of Toronto bookstore on March 4.

Fred Bird (Religion) gave the 1996 Sproule Lectu res on Eth ics and Publ ic Responsibility at M cGill Unive rsity on the subject of business ethics . The three lectures took place over March 6 and 7, and were sponsored by McGill's Facu lty of Relig ious Studies.

Slang expert Louis Poteet (English) is the author of The Hockey Phrase Book. Now the book has been revised fo r the U.S. market under the title Hockey Ta lk by Robert Davies Publishing.

Congrat ulations to Ron Mackay (TESL) . He and two co-writers, Alister Cumm ing and Alfred Sakyi, have been aw arded the R.B. Jackson Award for the best art icle in the current volume of the Canadian Journal of Education. The article was called " Learning Processes in a Canad ian Exchange Program for Multicultural , Anti-Racist Education." ·

G.P. Sassano (Geology) has w ritten a book, E le Rocce Comincia­rono A Par/are, about the geological and paleo-geographic character of the Beringia continental bridge, which existed about 80,000 years ago.

Elizabeth Sacca (Art Education) contributed a chapter, "Women's Full Partic ipat ion in Art Teaching and Research : A Proposal , " to Gender Issues in Art Education: Content, Contexts and Strategies, recently published by the National Art Education Association. At the NAEA's national convention, she and Katsi' tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, art ist of the Kanehsatake Resource Cente r for the Preservation and Teaching of the Language and Culture of the Kan ien 'kehaka, pre­sented a video they made for the Center on the history of educa­t ion of Kanehsatake children.

Robert Attala , 40, an alumnus in Comm unicat ion Studies, has been hired as advertising manager of The Gazette.

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Graeme Decarie on the airwaves

For some years now, I have appeared in the media an average of over 600 t imes a year. The greater part of it has been on CJAD, but also on at least a weekly basis in newspapers and on radio and televi­sion across Canada and in the U.S.

In all that time, I never made your Names in the News column. But at last, today [April 41, there I was, list­ed for taking part in a debate on par­tition on CBC's Radio Noon. There is, though, just one little thing that bothers me. I have no recollection of appearing on Radio Noon.

Graeme Decarie History

Editor: The reference to CBC was our mistake . Professor Decarie appeared in Names in the News on Septernber 29, 1994, and it was no ted in an article on March 31, 1995, that he is a regular commen­tator on CJAD.

CLARIFICATION

CTR's March 28 article about the faculty/librarian retirement incentive plan may have given the im press ion that two lump-sum payments are available to this group, one through the collective agreement and one through FAL­RIP. In fact, there is only one cate­gory of lump-sum payments.

Work already under way for multi-year fund drive

Kleingrib appointed Capital Campaign director

BY KEN WHITTINGHAM

Carole Kleingrib has been appointed Director of Con­

cordia's upcoming Capital Cam­paign, effective May 1. She will report to Christopher Hyde, Direc­tor of University Advancement and Associate Vice-Rector Institutional Relations.

The campaign's public launch is scheduled for the fall of 1997, but the private phase of seeking leader­ship gifts and support from the cam­pus community will begin this fall.

Active in fund-raising for the past seven years, Kleingrib has held a series of administrative posts since joining Concordia in 1982. Most recently, she has headed the Advancement Office team responsi­ble for the increasingly successful Annual Giving Program, which started in 1989 after the conclusion of the five-year, $25-million "Cam­paign for Concordia." Donations to Annual Giving have increased from $500,000 in 1989 to an all-time high of $1.2 million this past year.

Concordians probably know Kleingrib and her staff best through Annual Giving events like the Concordia Shuffle and the Alumni Phonathons, but she works far more behind the scenes recruiting cam­paign leaders and co-ordinating the work of corporate and senior alumni

volunteers who help ensure the suc­cess of all university fund-raising activities.

Prior to her 1989 appointment as Director of Annual Giving, Klein­grib spent four years as Assistant to the Vice-Rector, Institutional Rela­tions and Finance (1985-89), and three years as a Public Affairs Ana­lyst in the Public Relations Depart­ment (1982-85). Her · private-sector experience included more than six years at Clarkson Gordon chartered accountants and Steinberg Inc.

Kleingrib is a graduate of McGill University and the Sorbonne, and has taught public relations and Eng­lish as a Second Language in the continuing education divisions of the Universite de Montreal and various Qyebec CEGEPs.

Architect Ronald Proulx appointed to head new unit

BY BARBARA BLACK

Architect Ronald E . Proulx has . been appointed Director of the

Facilities Planning and Development Department, a new unit created from the merger of Space Planning and Development with Construction Services.

His appointment fulfills a com­mitment the University made last spring when it published the organi­zational reviews report. It recom­mended the merging of Space Planning with Construction, and stressed the need for professionally trained managers in some key posts.

Proulx brings to Concordia con­siderable experience as a project manager and design/construction co­ordinator, notably in major capital renovation projects at the Montreal General Hospital and the Montreal Children's Hospital.

He graduated from McGill Univer­sity with a BSc in Architecture in

1985 and a Bachelor of Architecture in 1986, and is a member of the Order of Architects of Qyebec and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.

Proulx has already taken up his duties on the 11th floor of the Guy Metro Building, and looks forward to a new set of challenges. Combin­ing the functions of space planning with construction at the University makes eminent sense, he said in an interview, because it provides for a more complete view of what can and must be done: "It means that we can take the present into account when planning for the future."

He is a believer in transparency, he added, and intends as much as possible to share ideas and informa­tion about physical planning with the University community.

Outside of working hours, Proulx enjoys sculpting in copper and lead. He's also an inventor, with a patent pending on a handy portable bicycle stand.

Goodwill ambassadors of Garnet Key Society celebrate 38th year

BY SHELAGH PEDEN

Garnet Key Society members old and new celebrated on March

29 at their 38th annual Alumni Ban­quet. More than 80 people attended, including special guests Rector Fred­erick Lowy and Mary Kay Lowy.

You've probably seen students in garnet (dark red) blazers acting as ushers and information officers at ceremonial events arou.nd campus . They're members of the Garnet Key Society, which represents the student body to the outside community.

The Garnet Key Society was founded at Sir George Williams University in 1957 and is one of the longest traditions of Concordia Uni­versity. It operates on a volunteer basis with a system of "ticks." Depending on the length of the event attended, one or more ticks are awarded . Once the Key member attains 30 ticks, he or she is consid- ~

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ered an alumnus. rt cj

Most members said that they ~

applied to meet new people, espe- § cially students from other Faculties, ~

to improve their social skills, and to ~ learn more about the University and ~ Montreal. About 25 students apply il' each year, but only 10 are chosen.

Belonging to the Key allows the members to meet ambassadors,

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politicians and business people who visit the University. Vani Radhakr­ishna, vice-president of last year's Key, noted facetiously, it also gives them "knowledge of all the good bathrooms" in order to direct visitors.

The banquet is held each year to thank the old Key for their service during the past school year. This

year it began with introductions of the new Key members. After dinner, an Honorary Member's Certificate was presented to Pina Greco, the Executive Secretary to the Rector, who has often worked closely with the members on special events. Roberto Sgrosso and Stephanie Cormier tied for the Outstanding

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Service Award for the 38th Key. Heather Patenaude, a Rublic

Relations Officer who organizes many events, and Margaret MacPherson, Senior Events Co­ordinator (Conference Services), both agree how invaluable the Gar­net Key Society is to them in orga­nizing University events.

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"I promised myself I would never accumulate notes'

Father Drummond celebrates a half-century of teaching BY ALLAN KUNIGIS

Ask Father Stanley Drummond when he'll retire, and the 82-

year-old Biology professor responds, 'Why should I quit? Stay active, and you stay young."

Father Drummond is a living, breathing, walking, cycling testa­ment to the benefits of mens sana in

corpore sano, a healthy mind in a healthy body. He rides his bicycle (a "retirement" gift of 17 years ago) 10 miles a day, except during snow, ice or hard rain, and he'll take the stairs before waiting for an elevator.

"You have to keep the body active, or it gets lazy," said Drummond, who eschews dietary extremes. "I teach nutrition, so I should practise what I preach."

Longevity seems to run in his family; his mother lived nearly 100 years . His hobbies have included photography, carpentry, bookbind­ing and running a printing press.

"Hobbies are a great diversion, and they' re p racti cal ," he said. "They're totally relaxing, and you come up with something useful while your brain is working out yes­terday's problems."

From his earliest days at Loyola

College, he has been completely devoted to his students. In 1946, he built the school's biology facilities from a single, unequipped basement room in the Administration Building to what it eventually became in the Science Building.

"I was browned off by the dim lights and an ordinary kitchen table and straight-backed chairs ," he recalled. "So I built the equipment for the students. If I didn't build it, we didn't have it. l got most of the tables and chairs from War Assets. The facility was comfortable, and it became their home away from home. Each summer I did more. They'd come in and say, 'I wonder what he did this summer."'

Although the Drummond Science Building wasn't named after him -it was named for another Jesuit and his family in recognition of their assistance in establishing Loyola College in 1896 - some people referred to it as "Drummond's build­ing" because he was there so much.

What still keeps him going after all these years as a teacher is that he always enters the classroom looking for a fresh way to impart informa­tion. "There are two ways of teach­ing," he said. -"You can use a set of

typewritten notes and read them line for line and you're set for life, or you can try it a different way each time. That gives you a challenge, and that challenge never fades. I promised myself that I would never accumu­late notes.

His personal alumni include doc­to rs, dentists, veterinarians and heads of medical departments in hospitals and schools all over North America. These days, his one course,

a basic non-technical human biology course, is given to 140 non-Biology students from other departments, such as Psychology or Sociology.

In studying for the priesthood, Drummond learned Latin and Greek, which helps him simplify medical terms into easily under­standable English.

Drummond retains a practical interest in his field and his off-cam­pus work as a priest. He volunteers

four hours every Saturday at the Catherine Booth Hospital. "Because I can speak simply and explain things, I can reassure patients and allay their fears," he said.

Summing up his career, he said, ''I've had a greater interest in the per­son than in the knowledge I put in their brain." His advice to today's new teachers: "Don't lie. Admit mistakes. Be thoroughly honest with students. And boy, does that make contact!"

Jesuits mark 100th birthday of one of our founding institutions BY BARBARA BLACK

Fve Jesuit priests took turns giv­

ing a warm and informal history

lesson at the downtown St. James's

Club on April 2, when the Loyola

Alurrmi Association gave a dinner to

celebrate the 100th anniversary of

one of Concordia's "parents."

When Loyola College merged

with Sir George Williams Universi­ty in 1974, the Society of Jesus, whose member-priests are called Jesuits, relinquished their authority over the institution they had found­ed back in 1896.

The Jesuits were founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola, a Spanish reli­gious reformer, in the mid-16th cen­tury. The Society of Jesus soon became a formidable intellectual

force throughout Europe and beyond, as young priests travelled on missions in Asia, Africa and the Americas, including New France.

By the late 19th century, there was a large English-speaking Catholic population in Qyebec, largely from Ireland, and the order decided that it was time to establish a school for the young men of the community. Loy­ola, which at first served students of

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high-school and college age, was established as part of College Ste­Marie on Bleury St. (All that remains now are the Gesu church and theatre.) In 1916, Loyola was moved to the city's west end, and the lovely buildings we prize as the nucleus of that campus.

Education and Qyebec politics went through enormous changes, particularly in the 1960s, and the result was that Loyola College, many of whose adherents would have liked the institution to become a full­fledged degree-granting university, entered into the merger to create Concordia.

Reflected on Loyola About 100 people attended the

celebratory dinner, and enjoyed the anecdotes and reflections on Loyola's history, and the involvement of the Jesuits up to the present.

The speakers were Fr. Stanley Drummond, who is marking his 50th year as a professor, Fr. Marc Gervais, who is a Communication Studies professor at Concordia, Fr. David Eley, who is Concordia's Catholic chaplain, Fr. Leonard Altilia, who is the president of Loyola High School and the superior of the Jesuit com­munity, and Fr. Eric Maclean, who heads the English-speaking Jesuit "province" of Canada.

Among the out-of-town guests were Fr. Patrick Malone, who was the last president of Loyola College.

Although in the beginning, all the teachers at Loyola were Jesuit priests,

the dwindling numbers of priests and the complexity of educational require­ments saw a steady incursion of secu­lar teachers even before the merger.

Now, only six Jesuits are involved in Concordia. They live in the Jesuit Residence, on the Loyola Campus. Here they are part of a community of some 20 Jesuits, some of whom are also involved in Loyola High School and the Ignatian Centre, which trains lay people to give spiri­tual guidance. Some of the priests are highly involved in parishes, hos­pitals and working with immigrants, in spite of the fact that most of them are officially retired.

The upbeat speeches at the dinner made particular mention of Jesuits' contributions to contemporary life at Concordia, including the Loyola Peace fostitute, the Eric O'Connor Lecture Series, Lonergan College and the Thomas M ore Institute.

All the speakers agreed that the old authori ty and homogeneity of the Roman Catholic Church are a thing of the past. During the first 1,000 years of Christianity, Fr. Maclean said, the Church's dynamism lay in its organization of the parishes. The second thousand years saw the development of reli­gious orders. But the next millenni­um will be the age of the laity, the ordinary people.

Gervais agreed. "Now, society is collaborative and pluralistic. The ideal is to be truly yourself, but truly open to others."

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But students should also speak up for themselves, says Jennison Asuncion

Professors raise their voices for blind students BY KARI ANNE DIABO

Professors could make some stu­dents' lives easier if they just

spoke up. Jennison Asuncion knows, because he's visually impaired.

By simply remembering to vocal­ize clearly what they have just writ­ten on the blackboard, he says, teachers cari ensure that blind stu­dents have the same opportunity to learn as the rest of the class.

In the classroom, Asuncion takes notes on his laptop computer. A

Refreshable Braille display allows him to check what he is typing as he types it, and he later prints the notes out on a Braille printer.

The technology, which is always evolving, includes talking scientific calculators, portable Braille note-tak­ing devices, and aids that make Windows computer environments accessible. There have also been innovations in Braille graphics tech­nology, which make such complex items as scientific diagrams accessi­ble to the blind.

Asuncion says that the most important thing about using all the technology available to him is in knowing how to take notes effective­ly, organizing his time - and find­ing a plug for the computer, so that he doesn't wear down the battery.

Some professors use overheads as they lecture. If they have blind stu­dents in the class, it's helpful to pho­tocopy them afterwards, so that the student can get them translated into Braille.

Here are a few more ways that teachers can help. Allow the student to tape lectures. Be willing to grant a deadline extension for a paper, since it may take the blind student longer to marshal the material. Provide book lists and handouts ahead of time, for the same reason.

Ultimately, of course, doing well depends on the student's own efforts.

"Since university is a training­ground for a career, students with dis­abilities should feel confident enough to express their needs clearly to their professors," Asuncion said. "A prof can't know what a student needs until the student comes up and says so." Together, the student and professor can overcome these challenges.

Every term, Asuncion identifies himself to the members of faculty and staff he will be dealing with, too. (Because of respect for confidentiali­ty, professors are only told that a dis­abled student will be in their classroom - it is up to the students to make themselves known.)

Asuncion calls the bookstores in May to get book lists as soon as pos-

Internet project brings the blind and entrepreneurs together

BY PHIL MOSCOVITCH

How can you read this newspa­per if you are blind?

In the age of information technol­ogy, you can go to its Web site, and, with special software, listen as your computer reads out the words that appear on its screen. It's fast, easy, and effective.

In an exciting new project, Profes­sor Tom O'Connell, Acting Director of Concordia's Centre for Small Busi­ness (Minority Institute), and Christopher Brodie of Computing Services plan to harness that technol­ogy to help the blind find employ­ment as independent "telecommuters" working from their homes.

Brodie and O'Connell have come up with an ingenious way to merge two seemingly different ends: help­ing small business owners overcome problems they may face, and giving blind people hands-on training using computers.

Here's how it will work. Via the Internet, entrepreneurs will ask

6 APRIL 18 , 1996

questions on how to improve their businesses. Those questions will be read by blind computer operators, who will forward them to the Centre for Small Business. Drawing on the expertise of Concordia's Faculty of Commerce and Administration, O'Connell will transmit appropriate answers back to the computer opera­tors, who can pass on the responses.

'We want to have a quick turn­around, so that people who e-mail us questions won't have to wait four days for a response," O'Connell said.

Once the blind computer opera­tors are comfortable with using the technology, he hopes to place them as interns in local businesses and to help them with resume-writing and interviewing techniques. The skills they get out of the program should help them find jobs.

Eventually, O'Connell added, the computer operators will be able to respond on their own to queries. He is maintaining a database of ques­tions, and out of that, "we will create a list of frequently asked questions,

and the servers will refer to that list." Right now, the program is still in

its early stage. Brodie has set up a Web page designed to introduce blind users to the Internet, and it includes a link to the Centre for Small Business. The next step will be to look for donations of computers.

Brodie and O'Connell first met in the late 1980s at a public speaking course. Last year, when O'Connell wanted to set up the small business help-line, he turned to Brodie for Internet advice.

Since he had experience with blind computer users (see accompa­nying story), Brodie suggested that the service combine help for small business with computer training for the blind. "I told him about the work I was doing, and you could hear the gears turning," Brodie said.

While O'Connell fields the small­business queries, Brodie will do the hands-on work of familiarizing pro­gram participants with computers and the Internet.

"I am right there with the students,"

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sible, because he has to send out-of­town for an equivalent in Braille or on tape. He makes use of the Dis­abled Student Services office to write his exams. Two other tools at his dis­posal are books on audiotape and a

government program that allows for the hiring of library research assis­tants to help him look for material.

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Professor Mark Corwin. Carqieli­no Sacco, a student of Corwin's,

·. ,who is blind, wanted to us the ternet for research.

, tffodie, Night Supe Loyola Computing S

"remembers thinking, "H hell is a blind guy going to use .. tlie lnternet?" But Sacco had a freen reader, a device which reaq~,,p ut

: the text on the screen. zi~t £ When Brodie showed Sa n,

Asuncion is in his second year of an honours program in Political Sci­ence. After he graduates in 1997, he plans to pursue graduate studies in international relations. Right now, he is active with the National Edu­cational Association for Disabled Students (NEADS), an advocacy group based in Ottawa.

to

users.

Sacco, who graduated from Concordia in 1994, helped Brodie research Internet res for the blind and teste'd

Music student Carmelino Sacco (left) and Chris Brodie {Computer Services) explore the Internet.

O'Connell said. "I've got to get the students introduced to the Net. If they already have an Alcor account, I can get them from ground zero to using the Net in fifteen minutes."

The Centre for Small Business (Minority Institute) was set up by former Dean of Commerce and Administration Christopher Ross to

help disadvantaged and minority groups. Until now, the Institute has focused on working with entrepre­neurs from the black community, but with this project it is expanding its focus. The Institute also hopes to include programs for the Cree and Inuit in northern Qtebec, and for the Mohawk in Kahnawake.

Concordia holds its first workshop on research involving human subjects

Research lNith a human touch BY SYLVAIN DESJARDINS

. C oncordia University wants all research conducted by students,

staff and faculty to be performed ethically. To ensure this, the Univer­sity's Human Research Ethics Com­mittee (HREC) recommends that all funded and non-funded research be reviewed. Human research can involve interviews, questionnaires, observation in natural settings, or telephone and letter surveys.

The HREC, established in 1976, used to request that only funded fac­ulty research be submitted for review. But since 1995, student and non-funded faculty research, both in and out of Canada, must be reviewed as well.

Concordia held its first work­shop on research with human sub­jects on March 28. The Office of Research Services invited four speakers to the workshop, which was att~nded by about 50 people. The speakers were Vice- Rector Academic Jack Lightstone, Arts and Science Vice-Dean (Student Affairs) Jim Jans, Religion Profes­sor and ethics specialist Fred Bird and Rector Frederick Lowy.

One objective was to give an overview of the Departmental Ethics Committees, or DECs, which were approved by Senate in 1994 and estab­lished in 1995 to review all student research involving human subjects.

The HREC wants faculty and students from all departments to complete protocol forms if they are working with human subjects. The

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Concordia switchboard · is semi-automated

Concordia 's main switchboard is now semi-automated. As of this week, callers to the University's main number, 848-2424, will be welcomed to Concordia, and asked to choose Eng­lish or French. Once they reach the main menu, they can choose from a list of the most frequently called services.

Manager Frances Weller explained that with shrinking budgets and person­nel cuts, Telesis has had to be creative in continuing to provide efficient ser­vice with fewer resources.

A two-month study was conducted to assess incoming traffic and identify

HREC currently receives about 100 protocol forms from faculty mem­bers outlining how they intend to work with subjects.

The protocol forms allow the Uni­versity to ensure that research with human subjects meets standard ethi­cal guidelines. They also permit the HREC to verify that informed con­sent was obtained from subjects. Informed consent, either written or verbal, is defined as a voluntary agreement to participate in research, based on adequate knowledge of rel­evant information.

Faculty and students attending the workshop raised concerns that the University's research protocol forms may be unnecessarily bureaucratic, but Vice-Rector Academic Jack Lightstone said that the alternative to not having forms is "a slippery slope."

Not pointing fingers James Jans, chair of the HREC,

said the committee doesn't want researchers to feel they are being policed. 'When we ask a question, it is not to point a finger, we are just trying to have an issue clarified." He added that review procedures will continue to be streamlined as much as possible as the HREC recognizes the need for rapid turnover.

Rector Frederick Lowy said that human subjects have been exploited in the past. Almost all research and medical advances in this century, he reminded his listeners, were done without informed consent.

Before coming to Concordia last year, Lowy was chair of the Canadi­an Tri-Council Working Group,

the most-called departments. With this information, a call-routing chart was created. Bell Canada installed the tech­nology, and .Telesis began program­ming the system. Greetings were then recorded, and the system was open for testing.

Information sessions were held with department heads, and a trial period was held last week. After some minor refinements, the system was activated on Monday.

The service will be monitored and menus updated as needed. Weller said that feedback will help evaluate its success.

Loyola eatery open on trial basis

In response to some requests, a sec­tion of the Campus Centre cafeteria des-

composed of the three major funding agencies: the Medical Research Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Natural Sciences and Engineer­ing Research Council.

Research with human subjects used to be performed primarily in medicine and psychology. The first­ever, soon-to-be-released Tri­Council guidelines will now include such disciplines as business, social sciences and humanities. They will be finalized this fall, but a one-year hiatus has been planned so universi­ties across Canada can add their suggestions.

Lowy said that the Tri-Council Working Group will recommend that funding agencies not approve any federal funding to institutions that do not review both funded and non-funded research on human subjects.

"The hope is that human subjects will be respected and protected," he said. "Subjects want to make a con­tribution to knowledge. The chal­lenge is to not dehumanize them."

ignated for faculty and staff will function on a trial basis for four to six weeks.

"We will endeavour to offer a similar menu and the same level of service as during the fall and winter," said Bob Maciver, director of Conference Ser­vices, "and if the faculty and staff sup­port the area, we will maintain the service."

Count yourself in, or else Tuesday, May 14, is Census Day, and

Statistics Canada is reminding universi­ty students that their participation in the 1996 census is important.

During the first two weeks of May each household will receive a census form, which must be completed and mailed on Census Day. If you are attending school out of town but return home when school is not in session, you should be included in

~econd-year students Sungmin Kim and Andy Naylor rehearse The Cloud Box for the '" Contemporary Dance,

•0Open House, held

"April 12-14.

your parents' questionnaire. Census information is used to plan

many progams in the fields of health and education, and to identify future employment and infrastructure needs.

And if that's not enough to ensure compliance, Statistics Canada officials warn that refusing to answer census questions is a crime, punishable by a $500 fine or three-months' imprison­ment, or both.

For more information, call the Census Help Line between May 9 and 17 at 1-800-670-3388.

Here's A Novel Idea Ever wished you lived in Los Angeles

and could be part of the test-screening of feature films? Now's your chance.

Third-year Film Production students have made a movie called A Novel

Idea, and they want to see what audi­ences think of it.

Under the supervision of Professor Louise Lamarre, the 14 Cinema students tackled every aspect of the 90-minute colour production, and brought it in on time - an organizational tour de force, according to seasoned producer Lamarre.

The plot synopsis: An author with writer's block gets handcuffed to a typewriter by his angry publisher, who then sends a couple of burly goons to extract the manuscript. He escapes his pursuers, and meets various strangers. They try to help him, but how much help can other people's stories be?

Come and see for yourself, on Wednesday, April 24, at 8 p.m., in the former film conservatory on the main floor of the Henry F. Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Information: 848-4791.

on the seat. By placing a pad covered enough to diminish circulation to the seats and how to make improve- Montreal Urban Community Transit

vibration of any number of vehicles. With the co-operation of bus dri­

vers from the South Shore Transit Commission, they then proceeded to do measurements on the body and

with 256 pressure sensors under the the legs and cause muscle fatigue. ments in them." Corporation, Rakheja is meeting with ·

seat, they were able to determine

that under prolonged vibration expo­

sure, the pressure between the seat

and thigh-bones (which end in the

middle of the buttocks) was high

'We are transferring our data to

the South Shore Transit Commis­

sion and they are looking at imple­

mentation of improvements,"

Rakheja said. "They are focusing on

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This will help, he said, "but if they

truly want to get rid of the problem,

they should forget about the seats and

work on the suspension of the bus."

(Or maybe fix the roads.) As for the

them this week to discuss the possi­

bility of working together.

CONCA VE's facilities are at 6277

St. Jacques St. W., about midway

between Concordia's two campuses.

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Events, notices and classified ads must reach the

Public Relations Department (BC-115) in writing no later

than Thursday, 5 p.m. the week prior to the Thursday publication.

For more information, please contact Kevin Leduc at 848-4881,

by fax: 848-2814 or by e-mail: kevin@alcor.concordia.ca.

. APRIL 18 • APRIL 25

Art Gallery The Leonard and Bina El len Art Gallery is located at 1400 de Maisonneuve Bl vd . W Information: 848-4750. (Metro Guy-Concordia)

April 23 - June 1 The Agnes Lefort Art Gallery: Montreal 1950-61. Monday - Friday from 11 a.m.- 7 p.m. and Saturday from 1-5 p.m.

Concert Hall Thursday, April 18 Heather Baragar, contralto, Natalie Michaud and Sandra Kirim, sopranos. 8p.m.

Friday, April 19 Robert Kinar, tenor. 8 p.m.

Saturday, April 20 Guy Michaud, guitar. 8 p.m.

Sunday, April 21 Gabrielle Maes, soprano. 8 p.m.

Monday, April 22 Opera repertoire class. 8 p.m.

Tuesday, April 23 Maria Masucci, soprano. 8 p.m.

Wednesday, April 24 Marielle Ducas, piano. 8 p.m.

Saturday, April 27 The Log of the Skipper's Wife. Tickets are $1 O; $8 for students and seniors. 8 pm.

Sunday, April 28 Annie Parent, violin. 8 p.m.

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

May 1 & 2 - CSST First Aid - English May 4 - Heartsaver Plus May 5- Basic Life Support Course May 11 & 12- CSST First Aid - English May 13 & 14 -CSST First Aid - French May 25 - Heartsaver Course May 26 - BLS Recertification

Faculty Workshops Interested faculty members are asked to register by calling 848-2495.

Te ach ing & Technology: Sc reen Grabbing as an Alternative to Live Software Performance. Wednesday, April 24. 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. in H-762, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd . W. Leaders : Roger Kenner.

Using the Internet for Teaching and Learning: An Introduction. Friday, April 26. 9:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. in H-511-1, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd . W. Leaders: Melinda Reinhart.

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

Thursday, April 18 Numeros zero at 7 p.m.; Cronaca di un amoreat 9 p.m.

Friday, April 19 Reporters at 7 p.m.; La Signora Senza Camelie at 9 p.m.

Saturday, April 20 San Clemente at 7 p.m.; I Vinti at 9 p.m.

Sunday, April 21 Faits divers at 7 p.m.; II Grido at 9 p.m.

Monday, April 22 Le Amiche at 8 p.m.

Tuesday, April 23 Par-de/a !es nuages at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 24 L 'Awentura at 8 p.m.

Thursday, April 25 Words Upon The Window Pane at 7 p.m.

Friday, April 26 Les annees declic at 7 p.m.; La Notte at 9 p.m.

Lectures/ Seminars Temple Emanu-EI-Beth Sholom Sunday. April 21 Vice-Rector Academic Jack Lightstone, on "Jerusalem and the Making of the Jewish People ." 2 p.m. in the Sanctuary, 4100 Sherbrooke St. W. 937-3575.

EAP lunchtime seminar Tuesday, April 30 "Resolving Conflict: The Art of Hand ling Interpe rsonal Tension ." 12:30 - 1 :15 p.m. H-762, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. N.8. Open only to Concordia staff and faculty.

Quebec Association for Adult Leaming Conference Thursday, June 20 Ro sa lind Fr itz, on "A Structural Thinking Perspective." Guest speak­ers, workshops, exhibitors, Internet demonstrations. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Loyola Campus. 848-2036.

Theatre Don't Blame the Bedouins, by Rene­Daniel Dubois. April 18-21 & 24-27, 8 p.m. nightly. 0.8. Clarke Theatre, Hall Bldg ., Bishop St. entrance, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd . W. Admission is $8 for students and seniors, and $5 for groups of 10 or more. General admis­sion is $10. To reserve, call 848-4742.

Unclassified Graduate student needed Concordia lecturer seeks graduate stu­dent knowledgeable in comparative religions for research project. Please call Mark Medicoff. 489-0167.

Income tax $18+ 7 days, 8 a.m. - 9 p.m. Call B. Ricci at 682-0030.

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

Summer cottage for rent 30 minutes from Montreal. Situated on a small farm on Riviere-de s­anglaises. 2 bedrooms, swimming pool access, canoeing, fishing, cycling. Jun e 1 - September 30. $1,800. Contact Pat at 486-4805 or 848-3690.

Planning your retirement Develop a strategy to maximize retire­ment income from personal employ­ment and government plans. Co-ordi­nate your pension , retirement al lowance, RRSP, in the most tax­effective manner. Contact Russell Chapman (MA, Concordia '8 1). Chartered Financial Consultant for independent advice, personalized plan and quotations. Chapman Financial Group, 499-1317.

Small cottage for sale 1 hr. 15 mins. from Montreal. Situated on Sa int-Frangois river. Four seasons. 1 bedroom, slow combustion wood stove. 1/2 acre of land. Farming com­munity. Compost toi let. Electricity. No running water . Fences and trees. $21,000 negotiable. Cal l Pat at 486-4805 or 848-3690.

Volunteers for project At least one half-day per week, gath­ering data for re search on caregiver respite by the University Institute of Social Gerontology of Quebec. Work may be either administering a psycho­logical questionnaire or entering data into computer. Training wil l be given. Cal l Luni Bendayan, 488-9163 (351).

Volunteers for elderly

CLSC Ren e-Cassi n (C ote St. Lu c

Hampstead, Snowdon West) is looking

for drivers to take frail elderly people

to medical appointments or shopping,

or just to visit with them. Ideal for stu­

dents who want experience and the

sati sfaction of helping others.

Women and Work Symposium - May 10, 1996 .. ......... .... .... . .... If eyll_()tt? spe_<1.lfe.r_ ..... .. .. ......... ·········· ·· ·· ········· ... .. .

Micheline Bouchard, Vice-President, Operations, Hewlett-Packard 6 to 7 p.m., J.A. DeSeve Cinema, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

................. .. W.o.r_lfs_~ops. ......... ..... .. ............... .............. ........ .................... . .. Career Opportunities for Women - Fact or Fiction (morning)

Women Are Different. Or Are They? (afternoon} ~ ~

Henry F. Hall Building, Room 507

For more information, call 848-2737.

TROUBADOURS THROUGH TIME

The Concordia University Alumni Association proudly invites Concordians, alumni and friends to a benefit performance of Bowser and Blue in Troubadours

Through Time at the Centaur Theatre.

Following the performance, join alumni and special guests at a reception in the theatre gallery. Evening proceeds go to the CUAA Scholarship Fund.

CENTAUR.

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(C: ~,PA NY

George Bowser

Concordia U niversiry Alumni Association Inc.

Ricky Blue

Student Services Centre Please note: Effective Monday, April 29, the hours of the Birks Student Services Centre on the main floor of the J.W. McConnell Building will change to improve the service between 4 and 6 o'clock. The new hours will be:

Monday ........... 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Tuesday ........... 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Wednesday ........ 1 O a.m. - 7 p.m. Thursday .......... 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Friday ............... 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts presents a benefit con'cert

fresh start jeri bfOWn

Thursday, May 30, at 7 p.m. Concordia Concert Hall 7141 Shemrooke St W.

$15 concert only $25 concert and cocktail

$ 100 concert, cocktail and dinner ~ Concordia w UN I VERSITY