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Concert Hall celebrates Oscar Peterson BY ANI TA G R A C E

The room was filled to its 570-seat capacity last Saturday

night as Concordia paid tribute to jazz legend Oscar Peterson by nam­ing its concert hall in his honour.

The internationally acclaimed artist, born and raised in St. Henri, was visibly touched by the tribute.

"I've gone through so many dif­ferent phases in my career, in the swirl and radiance of the spotlight, I haven't had the time to realize -how much people in my home town think of me," he said in a deep voice filled with emotion. "There isn't anything that could ever take away from me this moment in my life."

The renaming ceremony was introduced by Vic Vogel, veteran bandleader and a longtime friend, who played several short numbers on the piano.

A quartet comprising pianist and Music Professor Wray Downes,

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bassist Dave Young, guitarist Richard Ring and drummer Michel Lambert played several numbers chosen for their associations with the 74-year-old guest of honour.

The new nameplate for the con­cert hall was unveiled to thunderous applause. Peterson paid tribute to his sister , the leg­endary pi ano teac_her Daisy Sweeney, who was in the audience. Without her, he said, "I would not be sitting here tonight."

He also thanked his wife Kelly and eight-year-old daughter Celine for their love and care, which he said saved his life after his stroke two years ago.

As the concert hall exploded on ce more in applause, Celine stood with beaming eyes and mouthed "thank you" to her dad. Peterson smiled broadly, his eyes shining, and blew her a kiss.

The gala naming ceremony was hosted by Dean of Fine Arts Christo­pher Jackson, and Rector Frederick

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FROM LEFT TO RICiHT ARE MUSICIANS DAVE YOUNG, WRAY DOWNES, MICHEL LAMBERT AND RICHARD RINCi WITH CiUEST

OF HONOUR OSCAR PETERSON (CENTRE).

Lowy, Charles Ellison and alumnus Ken Druker spoke. Mayor Pierre Bourque and MNA Russell Copeland , among inany others , were present. The guests entered the concert hall by walking through a tent, in which a student jazz band was playing. After the ceremony, a

reception was held in the lobby, and since the weather was fine, guests spilled out into the tent.

A plaster cast of Peterson's hands on display in the lobby attracted admiring attention . It is for a bronze sculpture being created by well-known artists Mark Prent, a

technician in the Faculty of Fine Arts, and Frarn;ois Cloutier.

There was a press conference with Peterson on Saturday, which was attended by a number of inter­national journalists, and a private luncheon at the Rector's residence on Sunday.

A few -words from Oscar Oscar Peterson met the press

at a session held at t e Ritz Carlton Hotel on Saturday after­n oon . Here are some of th e questions, and his answers.

Q: What is jazz? A: Jazz is instant composition.

Jazz musicians are the greatest mathematicians.

Q: What is your greatest achieve­ment?

A: Keeping trios and quartets in the foreground of music after the big band era.

Q: What is your opinion of Mon­treal as a jazz city?

A: It was a great city when I was young and starting out , with places like the Alberta Lounge and musicians like Steep Wade. Then the nightclubs began to fea ture

"shake dancers" and strippers. It lost something.

On the harshness of critics: "Any artist from any city needs to know that the community is behind them.

Young artists need to be encouraged, not raked over. Don't bruise a young talent. Give the plant a chance to grow and yield its first flowers."

- Paul Serralheiro

Documentary bridges nature and art BY DENISE ROIG

Having been cinematographer on some 50 films, Marielle

Nitos lawska is certain of one thing. Sky Bones, her latest docu­mentary, couldn't have been made inside the film industry. "I would have heard questions like , Will this sell on TV?" said the head of Concordia University's Film Pro­duction program.

An evocative SO-minute film about Quebec artist Domingo Cisneros, Sky Bones defies catego­rization. "People ask, Is this a film about art or about nature? Is it about man versus nature? Is it about life and death?" Yet it's this amorphous quality that makes the film interesting, she believes.

It 's also not market-driven , Nitoslawska said. "As one of the best schools in Canada, it's our mandate to encourage and nour­ish precisely this kind of work, so that the opportunity to make non-commercial films can contin­ue ." She calls Sky Bones "a real Concordia University story," and is grateful for the chance to make

her film "exactly the way I want­ed to make it."

The story began in the early 1990s with a telephone conversa­tion with Cisneros. A visual artist born in Mexico, he had spent 25 years living in a remote area of the upper Laurentians, and had become a force in · the renaissance of Native culture in the 1970s. "Domingo was one of the first to say, Moccasins are great, beads are fabulous, but what are we going to do as contemporary Native artists?"

The filmmaker, who earned a BFA from Concordia in 1976 and an MFA from the Polish National Film School in 1984, hit it off immediately with Cisneros . "Domingo had been to Poland. I'd been spending time in Mexi­co. He kept saying, 'You must come up!"' Their rapport contin­ued over four years of filming, editing, mixing and fundraising.

Nitoslawska began shooting in Mexico in the summer of 1994 with the help of a faculty research grant. Later, money from the National Film Board and the Canada Council allowed her to

shoot in Quebec, often without a crew. Nearly eight months were spent finding the right tone for the soundtrack, as she worked with Michel Grzelak, a colleague in the Film Department's sound section.

The sense of being inside nature, as well as being inside the head of an artist, dominates Sky Bones. The visuals do the telling: images of water, sky, fire and for­es t wash over the viewer, insistent, dream-like. The ever­shifting landscape serves as a mirror for Cisneros' highly origi­nal installations of bones and furs, skulls and stones.

Part artist, part write r , part shaman , Cisneros says in the film, 'The forest is my studio, my gallery, my museum. " The same might be said of Nitoslawska. She recalls sitting in a boat in the Laurentians and looking down at pieces of wood floating by. "You see something wonderful, and suddenly you're shooting. There was always room for that magical thing to happen."

She's aware of how difficult it is for a film like Sky Bones,

unconventional , in three lan­guages , to reach a general audience . So far , it has been enthusiastically received at the Vancouver Film Festival, and was one of the films chosen for the opening of Montreal's newest art

film theatre, Ex-Centris . Nitoslawska has also shown it to several of her classes, where it provoked lively discussion.

Sky Bones will be shown at the Cinematheque Quebecoise on November 4 at 9 p.m.

'Taking art to the people of St. JerOme BY MICHELLE RAINER

W hen Fine Arts professor Bonnie Baxter was invited

to participate in Mythologie des Lieux, an international symposium on contemporary art, she decided to make it a collective project involving students.

"When you're out in the com­munity and working in a real-life experience, it's never quite the same as what you can read about, or what you learn within the uni­versity," Baxter said, who teaches print media in the Studio Arts Department.

The theme of the symposium, which ran from September 11 to 26, was the creation of a mytholo­gy based on place. The group -Baxter, Concordia grad Pierre Pel-

lerin, undergraduate Clark Fergu­son and graduate students Michelle Bush and Patrick Visentin -decided to focus on St . Jerome, about an hour north of Montreal.

St. Jerome, population 25,000, was once touted as a potential industrial centre, but the promise of prosperity never materialized. As a nod to St. Jerome's one-time prominence on the railway , the group dubbed their venture TCHOU, as in choo-choo train.

The members of TCHOU went door-to-door around St. Jerome offe ring to do push-ups in exchange for old shoes, an ice­breaking stunt that allowed them to meet members of the communi­ty and gather material for their project at the same time.

They carved designs based on

PATRICK V ISENTIN HOLDS UP DISCARDED SHOES THAT HAD DESIGNS ON THE

TH EME OF TRANSPORTATION CARVED IN THE SOLES.

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the theme of transportation into the soles of the shoes, making them into wearable stamps. Then they embossed intricate prints of bicycles, railway tracks and train signal towers onto huge rolls of paper donated by local pulp and paper mill Papier Rolland Inc. Finally, they spread the rolls out alongside the old tracks in the cen­tre of town, set out a few pans of paint, and invited the people of St. Jerome to put on some shoes and make their mark.

About 280 people came throughout the week to add to the project, chat about their families and the history of the community, or ask about the symposium, spon­sored by Fondation Derouin. Collective member Visentin said that meeting the people was the best part of the project.

"Usually when you're making art, it's a one-way street - you're making it and they're viewing it," he said. "One of the great things about this project is that the people participated . We learned a lot about each other." The students also learned how to plan a project, run a symposium and participate in a press conference.

The eveu.t culminated on Satur -day , September 25 , with a night-time parade and "burning ceremony." About 1,000 people joined the artists as they marched their works , which included a wooden ship and a four- metre­high model of the Empire State

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Building, through the streets. Then, as the city's firefighters

stood by, the artists burned most of the pieces they had taken so long to produce. They hope they have created a new legend for the

town, making the night part of St. Jerome's collective memory. As Visentin explained, watching the works going up in flames around him , "You have to destroy the record to create the myth."

BONNIE BAXTER, WHO MASTERMINDED THIS PUBLIC ART PROJECT, IS ONE OF A

GROUP OF WOMEN ART ISTS WHO ARE TAK ING PART IN A SYMPOSIUM ON

NOVEMBER 4 CALLED PUBLIC ART AS SOCIAL INTERVENTION - BUT Now I HAVE

TO SPEAK: TESTIMONIES OF TRAUMA, TRANSFORMATION AND CHANGE.

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Michel Laroche inducted into the Royal Society of Canada Marketing Professor Michel

Laroche received Canada's highest academic honour when he was named to the Royal Society of Canada last year. His formal induction, along with that of two other inductees, took place Octo­ber 14 in the downtown Faculty and Staff lounge.

In his speech , Laroche described the rapid growth in his specialty, the study of consumer behaviour, and the contribution it has made to the social sciences.

Marketing, of which the study of consumer behaviour is a branch, originated in economics. However, as Laroche pointed out humorously in his speech, "econ­omists defined homo economicus as an extraordinary creature who has perfect knowledge of his needs , can measure the utility or satisfac­tion that are furnished him by each act of consumption, and is so rational that he can perfectly apportion his budget so as to maximize his utility or his satisfac­tion. Who recognizes himself in that definition?"

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, when consumption was at a low ebb , psychology and anthropology were advocated in an effort to boost the sale of goods.

In the boom that followed the Second World War, overproduc­tion was the new worry . Consumer sovereignty appeared for the first time in 1952 in the annual report of General Electric, an idea attributed to manager Ralph Cordiner.

At the beginning of the 1960s, the Ford Foundation invested $35 million over 10 years to encourage research on consumer behaviour in U.S. business schools, and by 1965, the first university course was in place.

Laroche said that the field embraces aspects of cultural anthropology, communication, demography, economics, linguis­tics, psychographics, cognitive psychology, social psychology, psychophysiology, semiotics, and sociology, and even, for one researcher, literary criticism. The tools of the trade come from mathematics, statistics and opera­tional resea.rch.

laroche's own contributions to the field include a mathematical model he developed in 1973 that became known as "the vulnerabili­ty model." He has won prizes for it, and is constantly reworking it. He will present it in a speech later this month in Atlanta , where he will be given the SMA Advances in Marketing Award.

Over the past 15 years, Laroche has also become an expert in the role of culture in consumer behav­iour . When he started reading related works in anthropology and cross-cultural psychology, he dis­covered "a great confusion in terminology. American researchers failed to distinguish clearly among assimilation, acculturation, identifi­cation , ethnicity, adaptation , integration, and so on."

Laroche and his collaborators began to examine closely the

MARKETING PROFESSOR MICHEL LAROCHE WAS INDUCTED INTO THE ROYAL

SOCIETY OF CANADA AT A RECEPTION HERE LAST WEEK,

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degree of acculturation and ethnic identity of major groups in Cana­da - native speakers of English, French, Italian, Greek and Chi­nese. They are still involved in this task , although papers have already been published in the Journal of Social Psychology and the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psycholo­gy, among others.

He developed a graph to show the relationship between accultura­tion and identity, and called the result "the attraction-resistance model" to illustrate the two forces that influence ethnic change, name­ly the power of attraction to the new culture , and the resistance to change due to the culture of origin.

In the course of his work, Laroche said, he has learned lessons that should apply to all researchers: maintain objectivity, keep an open mind, be ready to make detours if needed, be open to ideas and theories from other fields of study, and give free rein to your imagination.

Laroche grew up in France and earned degrees in the U.S. from Johns Hopkins and Columbia Universities. At Columbia, he fell under the influence of renowned psychologist John A. Howard , and changed his field from pro­duction management to marketing, writing his doctoral thesis on consumer psychology. last year, he was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association for his contributions to consumer psychology.

The Royal Society of Canada was established in 1882 to encourage learning and research in the arts and science, and every year a handfu l of scholars are invited to become fellows.

Concordia now has eight schol­ars with the right to affix FRSC (for Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada) after their names: sociol­ogist Hubert Guindon (1978), biologist Rose Sheinin (1981 ), philosopher Kai Nielsen (1988), computer scientist Ching Y. Suen (1995), psychologist Jane Stewart (1996), psychologist Roy Wise (1997), religious scholar Michel Despland (1998) and Laroche.

Also inducted at the October 14 ceremony at Concordia were econ­omist Claude Montmarquette and philosopher Jean Grondin , both from the Universite de Montreal.

- Barbara Black

Paris-based author of Une crise et des hommes: Israel 1995-1999 Mes reflexions sur le processus de paix au moyen-orient

Tuesday, October 26 6:30 - 8 p.m.

H 763, Henry F. Hall Building 1455 de Maisonneuve W.

c'onco rdi .a ·s Thur s da y i=l e'p'or t OC T OB ER 2·1, 1999

~a . glance .

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.

With colleague Doug Horton (International Service for National Agricultural Research [ISNAR], The Hague, The Netherlands), Ronald Mackay (TESL Centre) has co-edited a special issue of the international journal Knowledge, Technology & Policy. The focus of the special issue is on the role and use of program and project evaluation in developing countries. Dr. Mackay spent 1997 with ISNAR working on the evaluation of a large capacity­building project in more than a dozen countries in Latin America.

Enn Raudsepp Oournalism) wrote an analysis of The Gazette's "You Be the Editor" readers' survey for the Journal of Mass Media Ethics.

Karin Doerr (CMLL) has published "Verisimilitude and the Holo­caust in Sherri Szeman's The Kommandant's Mistress" in a special issue of Philological Papers devoted to the uses of his­tory in fiction and film. She has also given a number of papers at the 29th International Annual Scholars Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, at Nassau Community College, N.Y., the Conference of the Canadian Association of University Teach­ers of German at Bishop's University, and at the International Conference of the Association of Genocide Scholars at the Uni­versity of Wisconsin-Madison.

Congratulations to Jeremiah F. Hayes (Electrical and Computer Engineering), who has been raised to the rank of Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in recognition of his contributions to the theory of local distribution in comput­er communications. He is a former chair of the department.

Leanne Joanisse and Anthony Synnott (Sociology/Anthropology) had an essay, "Fighting Back: Reactions and Resistance to the Stigma of Obesity," published in Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness, edited by Sobal and Maurer.

Margaret Shaw (Sociology/Anthropology) had a number of arti­cles and reviews published recently, including a discussion paper on family group conferencing with children under 12, which was used at a Department of Justice conference last month. Her article "Knowledge Without Acknowledgement: Vio­lent Women, the Prison and the Cottage," appeared in the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice.

Ghislaine Daoust (Translation Services) had the pleasure of pre­senting a scholarship to. an outstanding student in Concordia's own Translation Co-op program, Katherine Oliveri. The presenta­tion was made at a reception given by OTIAQ, the Ordre des traducteurs et interpretes agrees du Quebec, celebrating the International Day of Translators in Quebec. The $400 award was made in the name of the Reseau des traducte urs en education/Network of Translators in Education.

Sheila Arnopoulos Oournalism) spent June and July in Asia. In Japan, she gave six lectures at universities in Mito and Tokyo, and three lectures at the Harbin Institute of Technology, in China. She discussed Canadian writers, global culture in litera­ture and Canadian news coverage of social issues.

Sima Aprahamian (Sociology/Anthropology) had an article on Armenian identity published in the Feminist Studies in Aotearoa Journal, distributed by e-mail from New Zealand. She has also had a number of book reviews published in the Journal of Socio­logical and Anthropological Studies and the Horizon Literary Supplement.

Lucy Fazio (TESL) addressed the Sir George Williams Alumni Association in September. She talked about her teaching experi­ence in a project in Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa, which brings a Concordia Master's degree to 19 Special Individualized Program students at the University of the North, QwaQwa Campus (UNIQWA), and has involved a number of Concordia faculty members. The Association has sponsored a subscription to the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development for UNIQWA.

Frank G. MUiler (Economics) participated in the biannual meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics and presented a paper, "Environmental Economics and Ecological Economics: Antagonistic Approaches?" at the University of Regina in August.

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500 words.

Hats off As Chair of the 25th Ann iversary launch committee, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the staff, faculty, students and alumni who selflessly gave their time, energy and consider­able expertise to pull together an extremely successful event. I can't tell you how satisfying it was to see the event come together - the upbeat video, the student performers, and the celebrity prese nters. There were times over the past few months when we held our fingers crossed, not really believing it would actually happen. But it did happen, thanks to the commitment of numerous individuals and departments , and despite resources being severely stretched during this busy time of the year. Everyone who wo rked on the launch did so on top of his or her regular duties . This includes Ja mie Orchard, Terry DiMonte, Leslie Roberts and John Moore, who eagerly responded to our invita­tion because of their public support for Concordia. This is a pivotal time in Concordia's history. We have gone through difficult times, and have emerged as a stronger, health ier and more unified family. The _hundreds of people who participated in the launch, as well as the success of our Capital Campaign, are proof of that. Hats off to everyone involved with the launch of our 25th anniversary, organizers and participants alike. We have much to be proud of. Let's remember how we felt on that Friday afternoon, and carry that feeling with us throughout our anniversary year.

Maria Paradiso Executive Director of Communications

Editor's note: Many people were impressed by the lively video that was part of this event. Responding to praise in the news­group Shoptalk, Sandra-Lynn Spina, Director of Marketing Communications, said, "We wanted viewers (alumni, faculty, staff, students, friends) to walk away from the viewing feeling good about their role in making Concordia what it is today, and it seems we've accomplished that goal. Since the presen­tation, I have received numerous requests for copies for departmental showing, for recruitment purposes and even for good old pride! We're thrilled at the response we've received. The problem is that the video was done for internal use only; that is, we never requested formal permission to use the songs. Seeing the demand, we have now started the process for getting permission to use the songs (more often than not, a simple formality), so that we may distribute the video freely. We will keep you posted.

Lewis Harris 1948-1999

Concordia's Journalism Department lost a valued part-time teacher when Lew Harris died October 10 of cancer at the age of 51.

Enn Raudsepp, Chair of the department, told The Gazette last week that Harris was a serious and dedicated teacher, and former student Katherine Wilton called him a great storyteller.

A graduate of Sir George Williams University in English literature, he came from a family of journalists. He worked for the Sherbrooke Record, the Montreal Star, and then The Gazette, working long after his diagnosis and almost to the end of his life.

We extend our sympathies to Lew's wife, Marian Scott, and their two sons.

Concordia University Research Fellows Lecture Series

Janice Helland, Professor of Art History

"Professional Women Painters in 19th-Century Scotland"

Monday, November 8, 4 :30 p.m.

Room 767, Henry F . Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

This /ree public lecture will be followed by a reception.

Centraide: A good deal for all Over the next month, you're

going to hear a lot about Cen­traide, the umbrella organization that raises money for more than 250 Montreal-area social agencies.

As a citizen , you should be gratefu l that Centra ide exists, because it's so cost-effective. By doing virtually all the fundraising for so many organizations, Cen­traide saves them the money and time they would have to expend on fundraising ventures of their own.

It's cost-effective in another , more important way: the preven­tion of social problems . Mark Branch, a 1981 Concordia alum­nus and executive director of the Lasalle Youth Centre, gave the uni­ve rsity 's campaign captains a striking set of numbers at their launch session last week.

He said it costs about $200 a year to help a child with after­school programs and recreation -but it costs between $25 ,000 and $75 ,000 a year to look after a young person who is incarcerated . because they got into trouble.

"What are the most dangerous hours in a child's day?" Branch asked. "Between 3 and 6 o'clock, because neither the school nor their parents are responsible for them then."

At the Lasalle Youth Centre ( Centre des Jeunes de Lasalle), Branch and his staff, supplemented by dozens of volunteers , get the children to sit down and do their homework. Then they can cook or play outside, under supervision. The Centre operates on an annual budget of $266,000 , of which $103,00 comes from the annual Centraide campaign.

This year's campaign at Concordia is co-chaired by Marie­Andree Robitaille and Bill Curran. They say the goal should be to increase Concordians' participation,

In brief Search Committee established

Rector Frederick Lowy will chair the Advisory Search Com­m itteee for Vice-Rector, Services, that will be made up of: Marianne Donaldson (com­munity-at-large), Marcel Danis (senior management), Max Bar­low, Dale Doreen, A.K. Ethakeem and John Locke (full-time facul­ty), Michael Tremblay (part-time faculty), Mistie Mullarkey and Nisha Sajnani (undergraduate and graduate students) and Patricia Posius (staff).

Champion Shuffler Darcy Sowden (Bookstore) was

the winner of the Palm IIIx , an - electronic agenda worth $500,

in the aftermath of the Shuffle. Luck had nothing to do with

it. Darcy raised $700 in pledges for scholarships. Way to go!

The total raised in pledges was $67 ,000, but a pledge is

Ir's A FAR CRY FROM HIS USUAL DUTIES AS CONCORDIA'S DIRECTOR OF LIBRARIES,

BUT Bill CURRAN GIVES IT THE OLD COLLEGE TRY, AS RECTOR FRED loWY LOOKS

ON. THE CO-CHAIR OF THIS YEAR'S CENTRAIDE COMMITTEE KICKED OFF LAST

SATURDAYS GAME TO PUBLICIZE THE UNIVERSITYS CAMPAIGN.

not simply to drive up the total. Last year, our participation rate

went up from about 9 per cent to about 12 per cent, but it could be much higher. The easiest way to give is through a payroll deduction. That could be as little as $1 per pay­cheque - the cost of a cup of coffee, and only $52 for the year­or it could be much more. Between 85 and 88 per cent of the money raised goes to the recipient agencies; the rest pays for the campaign.

You'll get a pledge card in the internal mail during the week of

only a promise. Don't forget to mail your cheque (payable to Concordia University) to Colleen Weddell, Shuffle Co-ordinator, Advancement Office, S-FB-801, or drop off your payment at the same office.

On the Loyola campus, pledges can be dropped off at Advocacy and Support Services in AD-130.

Help for the Helpline The IITS Helpline is once

again searching for part-time representatives.

The Helpline receives between 350 and 450 telephone calls each month. It resolves more than 75 per cent of these during the first call.

If you know of someone who would be interested in working as a Helpline representative, pleas/! have them contact Geoff Selig at hl-jobs@concordia.ca

October 25. Please don't cast it aside until you have read the material thoroughly. If you have any questions or would like to see who your team captain is, consult the Concordia Centraide Web site at http://centraide.concordia.ca/

- Barbara Black

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Students help to build Concordia A t the ce remonial closing of

the Capi tal Camp aign on October 1, third-year Journalism student Divine Agodzo was cho­sen to make the announcement of the total.

He delivered his opening words in Akan, a native language of his homeland, Ghana , and continued, "The Real World is not as big a place as we sometimes think. We, the students of Concordia Univer­sity, come from all over the globe. We speak dozens if not hundreds of languages, not just English and French. We come from myriad cultural backgrounds and reli­gious creeds. Whether we are strolling through the peace ful green spaces of the Loyola Cam­pus or negotiating the bustling hallways of Sir George, we have one thing in common - we chose Concordia.

"From as far away as Africa , I was drawn to the journalism pro­gram because of Concordia 's reputation for excellence in train­ing journalists who are not just reporters of news, but informed and thoughtful interpreters of cur­rent events.

"I was one of the students who made the follow-up calls to solicit thousands of alumni of Sir George Williams University, Loyola Col­lege and Concordia University.

What was most striking to me was [their] stories of pride and of grat­itude.

"My role as a phone-mail caller obliged me to learn about the whole university, and in particu­lar its world-class standards in such diverse areas as accountan­cy , computational fluid dynamics , digital imagery and multimedia , behavioural neuro­science, bioinformatics and Jewish studies. These are just a few examples of areas of study where Concordia is doing research and providing training that places us at the -forefront of an international stage.

"As a student, I am also proud to say that I am a donor. The col­lective contribution of the student body represents $9 million out of the total [of more than $77 mil­lion]."

Government tries to stop brain drain The fed eral government has

responded to cries of alarm from the university sector with the promise of 1,200 new positions for university researchers . The news was released in the Throne Speech read by new Governor­General Adrienne Clarkson on October 12.

Sixty million dollars will be spent next year; this is expected to increase to $180 million by the third year of the program. It will provide about $100 ,000 for younger scientists and $200 ,000 for senior researchers in the form of salaries , and frees them from teaching duties.

Rector Frederi ck Lowy wel­comed the news , and said at University Senate last Friday that he expects Concordia to receive between 1 and 2 per cent of the new money via the major granting agencies, given our current rate of research funding.

However, the federal gove rn­ment's last stab at bailing out post-second education , the $3-bil­lion Millennium Sch olarship FoundatioR, is still mired in poli­ti cs, at leas t as fa r as Quebec

students are concerned. While students in the other

provinces will begin to receive their share of the money in Janu­ary, Ottawa and Quebec are still arguing over how much will go directly to the students (Quebec wants half the money to go to post-secondary education, rather than individuals), and over which flag will take precedence on the cheques.

At Concordia , students are being asked by their student union to express their views in a referendum over three days , Octo­ber 26 to 28. The questions being asked are:

• Do you want more variety of food on campus?

• Do you want to pay for a women's centre?

• Do you want your administra­tive fees eliminated?

• Do you want to see big changes in the Quebec university system?

The Concordia Student Union plans to participate in a day-long student strike on November 3.

- Sources: The Globe and Mail , The Gazette, The Concordian

U N I V E R S I T Y

STUDENT DIVINE AGODZO ANNOUNCES WHAT WAS THEN THE GRAND TOTAL; AN ANONYMOUS DONOR, HOWEVER,

SENT THE FINAL TALLY PAST THE $77 MILLION MARK.

St~f1QfE? notes

A regular meeting of the Concordia University Senate, held October 15, 1999.

Death of Reginald K. Groome: The meeting began with a unanimous expression of regret at the death last month of the Chair of the Board of Governors.

Throne speech: Rector Frederick Lowy hailed as "marvellous news" the federal government's inten­tion, announced October 12, to substantially increase funding to its research granting agencies, establishing 1,200 new academic chairs. Since the funding of this five-year program would be dis­tributed according to current research activity, Concordia should get between 1 and 2 per cent of the new money for salaries and research support, freeing up its equivalent for other operating needs.

Food services contract: Student senator Pierre Blais attacked the exclusive contract enjoyed by Mar­riott, saying that it restricts the variety of food offered to students, prevents groups from serving their own food at special events, and leads to such exorbitant charges as $25 for a pitcher of water for an invited speaker. Vice-Rector Services Charles Emond explained that Marriott remits a sub­stantial portion of its sales to the university, and is entitled to make a fair profit. He said that when conflicts occur, he deals with them on a case-by-case basis.

Capital Campaign: Student senator Mistie Mullarkey asked why, since the Capital Campaign has ended with its goal more than achieved, students continue to pay into the campaign through their student fees. Lowy said that the university's needs are still great, and that if the fee were abol­ished, se·rvices to students would suffer. Another student said that " miscellaneous" fees charged to students have increased far beyond the costs they are ostensibly for, and are an illegal way of cir­cumventing the tuition fee freeze. Lowy said that the Quebec government is well aware of these administrative charges, and their legality is a matter of interpretation .

Budget for 1998-99: Chief Financial Officer Larry English presented the latest figures on the acade­mic year past. He noted that the accumulated deficit had been virtually halved through money from Quebec, saving about $750,000 in interest payments. He explained a number of specific items, e.g., a rental loss on the Faubourg Tower is not likely to be repeated now that it is fully occupied; bad debts (mainly unpaid tu ition) amounted to more than $400,000. The deficit for 1998-99 was $4.1 million.

Budget for 1999-2000: English presented a number of reallocations within the budget that were presented last spring. A $2.7-million deficit is projected for this year. He also gave an overview of Concordia's finances in relati on to other universities. Most provinces showed a substantial (as much as 10 per cent) rise in tuition fees last year; only British Columbia and Quebec have frozen tuition. In terms of accumulated debt, Concord ia and McGill have gone in a few years from being among the most indebted to among the least indebted universities in Quebec; Laval tops the list, with a debt of $81 million. The student senators, however, were unimpressed, and repeated their call for totally funded tuition; they denounced corporate representation on the Board of Governors, and invited the administration and faculty to join them in a student strike on November 3. The Rector said that breaking with the rest of the Quebec universities to mount a public protest would not be wise. He added that if he could find more volunteers from the corporate world to sit on the Board, he would; these people had been enormously helpful to the university when it had nowhere else to turn. To a student who talked of "selling out academic freedom," Lowy said, "I challenge you to find a single case where our academic freedom has been compromised."

Compiled by Barbara Black Next meeting: November 5

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Past, present and future To celebrate Concordia's 25th anniversary, we present a series on the past, present and future of our buildings, and next term, on the life within them and how it has changed. To start, here's a

fond look at the wyola Campus, whose earliest structures were built on farmland early in the century. We are indebted to Archives for their excellent research, and to Christian Fleury for many of the photographs.

The first buildings, begun in 1913, were the Administration Building, the Junior (now the Psychology) Building, and the Refectory. They, the Chapel (opened in 1933) and the Central Building (opened in 1947) are brick, faced with matte-surface Greendale bricks, with Indiana limestone and terra cotta trim, and set on Montreal limestone.

The Psychology Building started in 1913 as the Junior Building (for junior students), and then became Loyola High School. In 1990, the High School traded properties with Concordia. Psychology moved into the former high school, and Loyola built a new facility on the other side of Sherbrooke St.

Aerial view of the construction of the Administration Building, circa 1926, facing north. The building is an ornate version of the neo-Tudor style with decorative battlements, a reworking of Engl ish medieval architecture.

The main entrance of the Administration Building is a close copy of a doorway at St. Mary's College, Oxford.

At left: The Campus Centre was the focus of student administration debate for six long years before it opened in the early 1970s. It was run by the students (though it was owned by Loyola College), with lounges, music-listening facilities, a games room, a snack bar, and a student pub, The Hive, which became the hub of a "revitalize Loyola" campaign last year. The Campus Centre was built next to the Vanier Library, which had been opened by its namesake, Governor-General Georges P. Vanier, on October 27, 1964. An extension to the library, which also houses some academic offices, was added in 1986-89. The photo was taken in the 1970s.

Other buildings at Loyola: Concordian, and the Guadagni Lounge. The

lounge was named fo r Professor Franco

Guadagni , who taught engineering and

chemistry from 1942 to 1953.

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• The Central Building, linking the Admin­

istration and Refectory buildings, was opened

in 1947. It now houses Academic Technolo­

gy (Arts and Science), CJLO Radio, a copy

centre, engineering labs, the offices of The

• The Bryan Building, home of Commu­

nication Studies and Journalism, was built

in 1968. It was named after William Xavier

6 OCTOBER 21, 1 999

Part I THE BUILDINGS OF LOYOLA

The Jesuit priests who administered and taught at Loyola once lived on the second floor of the Administration Building. The priests of St. Ignatius parish had living spaces and visiting parlours off the hallway that joins the Adminitration Building to the chapel, until a separate parish church was built in 1967. This photo was probably taken in the 1940s.

Here's a building that's seen lots of action. The Physical Services Building was built in 1923 as an arena and hockey rink for Loyola College, and saw many lively games even before artificial ice was installed in 1954. In 1941, an addition to the south wall was built as a drill hall for military cadets, and this became a cafeteria in 1946. The building was used for the Loyola Youth Hostel in 1972 and 1973, and it also housed the Chameleon Theatre in the 1970s.

The Road of Remembrance: In 1922, 36 maple trees were planted along Sherbrooke St. to commemorate each of the Loyola boys who had died in World War I, and a 37th was added shortly thereafter. Each Remembrance Day, November 11, the trees were marked with poppy wreaths. Some of the trees have disappeared, and the plaques have been moved to the new high school.

Bryan, S.j . (1892-1947) , a distin­

guished teacher and Dean of Studies

at Loyola.

• The Hingston Hall complex con­

tains a bookstore, classrooms ,

residences, faculty association offices,

and academic departments, but when

it was opened in 1964, it was strictly a

residence for men. It is named for a

former Loyola rector, William Hales

Hingsto n , S.j . (1877-1964) A

women's residence, Langley Hall , was

open on Sherbrooke St. at Mariette

Ave. from 1967 to 1995. Plans are to

Con ord i .a.·s · Thur s,day. · .R.epor t

have Hingston Hall revert to being

primarily a co-ed residence.

• When the Drummond Science Building opened in 1961 , it was a

state-of-the-art science facility, and its

modern s tyle, with a windowless

rotunda fronting Sherbro oke St. ,

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Next issue: The buildings of the Sir George Williams Campus

The Refectory, now home to the Music Department, was one of the original buildings, and its function was to feed students and staff. It is in the shape of a cross. A cloister (covered walkway) joins it to the Psychology Building.

The Loyola Chapel contains new colours "laid up" in 1976 for the Duchess of Connaught's Own Irish Canadian Rangers, a World War I regiment with close Loyola connections. The panels for the altar were hand-carved in walnut by Robert Nagy, a retired Concordia chaplain, who also made the processional cross. They were installed last spring.

The F.C. Smith Theatre commemorates Francis C. Smith, SJ., who gave some of his family inheritance toward the building of the Loyola chapel and auditorium in 1933. The auditorium was much used over the years by the west-end community for plays and concerts - jazz great Thelonius Monk played there__:_ and has recently been renovated.

raised a few hackles. The building was

named after Lewis Henry Drummond,

S.j. (1848-1929), a prolific writer , a

popular speaker and preacher, and an

activist for education, French-English

relations and other issues. He taught

English at Loyola in his later years.

The rou nd , su n-fi ll ed Ru ssell Breen Senate Chamber, at the south

end of the complex, was named for

Monsignor Russell Breen, who taught

at Loyola from 1969. Breen became

the first Concordia Dean of Arts and

Science after the merger.

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Journalism awards The Gazette gave a reception on October 6 to present two annual awards to outstanding graduate diploma students in print journalism. The Susan Carson Award was presented to Anita Grace (left}, and the Philip Fisher Award to Michelle Rainer and Catherine Solyom (far right}.

SURROUNDED BY BOOKS ON THE HALL BUILDIN<i MEZZANINE ARE VOLUNTEERS DAVID BROWN (ADVANCEMENT},

PETER COTE (CAMPUS MINISTRY}, AND BARBARA BARCLAY (TESL CENTRE}.

Book Fair raises $7,300 to feed needy students The third annual Concordia

Volunteers Book Fair took place September 6 and 7, and earned at least $7,300 for Campus Ministry's Emergency Food Vouch­er Program. Barbara Barclay, who conceived and organized the fundraiser , wants to thank the many people who helped make it such a success:

• The Concordia community -students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends - who were so generous in donating and buying books.

• Vice-Rector Charles Emond, who made available his resources, including Pat Pietromonaco and his team of strong men - Gaston Boulanger, Gerry Barrett , and all the others, including gentle giant Dave Batten.

• [Bookstores Manager] Lina Lip­scombe, for so many brand new books, and for the expertise of her crew, particularly Gisele Duplantis and Susanne Dragffy; the volun-

teers from the Library, Helen Eng, Boi May Ang, Faye Corbin and Kathryn Barkman, who really showed us how things should be done; and Miriam Posner (Chem­istry and Biochemistry). Iha~ to

the Concordia Student Union and Meloche Monnex for making the cloth book bags.

• Finally, thanks to those who worked so hard this summer and last week at the sale: from Campus Ministry, Peter Cote, our new chap­lain Ellie Hummel and David Eley; from the Pensioners Association (CUPA), DawnJohnson,June Dun­can, Elaine Bruce and Gabrielle Murphy; from the SGW Alumni Association, David Brown, Susan Hawke and Jannine Barrette-Kerby; from the TESL program, Don Peck, Wanda Antonopoulos, Janine Mal-1 oy, Barbara Verity and Bruce Peterson; from Environmental Health and Safety, Christine Sid­hom ; and from the Friends of

Concordia, Daphne McKergow. Daryl Lynn Ross , of Campus

Ministry, adds a word: I'd like to add a word of thanks

on behalf of Campus Ministry, as well as on behalf of all the students who come to see us in difficult and sometimes desperate situations, to Barbara Barclay and the others.

This is a very immediate and con­crete way of helping out students who are under terrible pressure due to rising costs for education, insuffi­cient loans and bursaries and lack of employment opportunities.

At Campus Ministry, we have seen an increased need in the last few years for the emergency assis­tance we provide . Every dollar given to the Student Emergency Food Fund goes entirely to provide food for students.

Donations are already being accept­ed for the Fourth Annual Concordia Used Book Fair in October 2000. Con­tact Barbara Barclay at 848-2449.

Fine journalist leaves teaching The teaching career of James

Stewart, a respected figure in Canadian journalism, was warmly celebrated last week by his stu­dents and colleagues at a reception given by The Gazette.

Jim's retirement from Concordia ends a link with the past. He start­ed teaching only a year after the Journalism program was founded by David Oancia in 1974. At the reception, Chair Enn Raudsepp described that first year as "23 stu­dents, one class and 18 typewriters in an annex on Mackay."

Raudsepp went on to describe Stewart as "the quintessential thinking man's journalist, more cerebral than most political reporters." An outstanding teacher, he was always available to students and for committee work. He took a hiatus of seve ral yea rs , but

returned to teaching, despite a busy career as a senior political reporter for both the Montreal Star and then The Gazette.

Senator Joan Fraser, who was edito r when Stewart was an edi­torial writer at The Gazette, praised him at the reception as "an acute obse rver." Over his career , he covered Ottawa, Lon­don and Quebec City, was president of the parliamentary press gallery , and wrote a book about the FLQ crisis .

At 71 , Stewart still keeps his hand in, writing the weekly seniors column and doing occasional book reviews for The Gazette , most recently of Reed Scowen's Time to Say Goodbye. He is also a member of the editorial board of Concordia University Magazine, published by Alumni Affairs.

Shamrocks on the lawn

You'll find the stone shamrocks seen in close-up on page 1 on the ~yola Campus, right in front of the Vanier Library. In 1864, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, a Father of Confederation, was given a home on Ste. Catherine St. by his constituents, and he lived there until his assassination in 1868. It had distinctive lintel stones around the doorway that were decorated with shamrocks, emblem of Ireland, McGee's native land. The stones were covered by a newer building during the 1940s, and uncovered during its demolition in 1962. They were donated to Loyola College, and when the Vanier Library was built in 1963, they were placed on the lawn nearby.

CSLP DIRECTOR PHILIP ABRAMI, MARIO Rucci, A TEACHER AT Sr. DOROTHY'S

SCHOOL, AND ANNE WADE, LIBRARY STUDIES AND CSLP RESEARCH CO­

ORDINATOR AND INFORMATION SPECIALIST.

Fair highlights high-tech learning B Y B RADF O RD MACK A Y

The CSLP Research Fair , held October 6 in the busy atrium

of the j.W. McConnell Building, offered 60 researchers an opportu­nity to showcase their research projects to the general public.

The subjects were wide-ranging, from the development of an inter -active Web-based classroom to computer-assisted language tutor­ing to an investigation into musical performance.

All the research falls under Concordia's Centre for the Study of Leaming and Performance ( CSLP), founded in 1986 and affiliated with the Departments of Education and Psychology and the TESL Cen­tre (Teaching English as a Second Language).

Children from St. Dorothy's Ele­mentary School were on hand to show how multimedia software has affected their learning. With profes­sional development for St. Dorothy's teachers funded by the Norshield Financial Corp ., and using computers that were donated to the school by Apple Canada, stu­dents are able to access information from the Internet and manipulate it with the latest software. It was clear from the eager students' flashy pre­sentations that show-and-tell will never be the same.

WebCal, a Web-based calculus course , featured Professor Steve Rosenfield's efforts to revolutionize distance learning. Now in its sec­ond year , the project presents a calculus course that has been developed into an interactive Web site, complete with alterable charts and graphs that encourage students

to explore for themselves. At pre­sent, Vanier College students use in-class computers to follow the professor's lead , but Rosenfield plans to extend the class to a dis­tance-learning course broadcast over the Internet.

Another project , developed under the supervision of Bette Chambers, exhibited tutoring soft­ware to be used by participants of the "Success for All" program. Designed and developed by Michel-Charles Therrien and Katherine McWhaw, the software, called Reading CAT, uses multime­dia and animation to improve the reading skills in students with reading disabilities.

Offering a break from high-tech wizardry was the Leonardo Project, an ongoing collaboration between performance artists and researchers from the Department of Psycholo­gy. Artistic Director Philip C_ohen explained how, over the past nine years, the project has investigated the essence of performance by observing and in teracting with pianists and other artists. One of its aims is to help artists control per­formance anxiety and recover from injuries.

CSLP Director Philip Abrami said the goal of the fair was to establish links with both the internal and external communities. Organized by Anne Wade, Research Co-ordinator, this was the second research fair mounted by the CSLP (the first was in 1997). Along with Dr. Abrami, the principal .investigators are Dr. Chambers (Education), Dr. Richard Schmid (Education), Dr. Norman Segalowitz (Psychology) and Dr. Patsy lightbown (TESL Centre).

Human Resources and Employee Relations Open House

Monday, October 25, 9 - 11 a.m. and 2 - 4 p.m. ER annex, 2155 Guy St, Suite 500

All staff and faculty are invited to see our new facilities and talk with members of the HR & ER teams.

Light refreshments will be served.

Teaching well with tec~ology B Y A LI SO N RAM S EY

Education technology is not always ideal, but some soft­

ware can be a rea l boon to learning, say Concordia experts.

The best results may be obtained when the teachers using the soft­ware move away from text-based courses and towards co-operative learning , using peer teaching, holistic projects that combine information from diverse sources, and group work.

"Some students hate group work, " said Professor Richard Schmid, Chair of the Education Department, "but teamwork is very important for employability. It's now considered an essential skill."

Unlike working in traditional groups, computer software can force each member to be account­able for an equal.amount of work. The format eliminates the students who ride on the coattails of others in the group.

Co-operative learning discour­ages students from cramming like mad for an exam. This tends to be an ineffective way of processing information, since much of the knowledge is voided after the exam to make room for the next batch of facts .

"There is an increasing accep­tance of the instructor playing the role of learning facilitator rather than teacher," Schmid said. "Infor­mation is out there - in computers, in textbooks, in fellow students."

If you suspect you are among those teachers whose lectures are too text-based and too dull, check your attendance figures. "Students have less tolerance of that kind of teaching," Schmid said . "They don't show up for lectures because if the exams are based on the text and they carefully read a well-writ­ten text, they can do well without the instructor."

He recommends a program

called FirstClass, currently used by Concordia teachers with a com­bined audience of about 700 students in the Education Depart­ment and Faculty of Commerce and Administration. Others prefer WebCT (which stands for Web Course Tools) , actively used by about 25 professors in such diverse disciplines as biology , classics , computer engineering and art edu­cation.

Teachers may ask themselves if using any computer-based tool is democratic, given that computers are expensive and many students are struggling financially . While statistics involving students from all departments are unavailable, the Education Department did a sur­vey of abou t 50 students tha t showed 70 per cent have computer access at home. The rest use uni­versity labs, "and we've had no complaints."

FirstClass grew from software designed to conduct online meet­ings , and is particularly useful to the professor who needs to reach scattered students with tight sched­ules who have access to laptops , said Education Professor Gary Boyd. A strength is its ability to fol­l ow and summarize online conversations. The survey func­tions of WebCT, he added, make it useful for Education professors to gauge results and perform research for publication.

With FirstClass, small groups of three to six people can be assigned activities. The program can be structured so that each student has his or her individual responsibility to the group , each must critique and evaluate material prepared by other students in the group, and each must collaborate towards syn­thesizing course work as a class collective.

"It 's individual accountability, with interdependence ," said Profes­sor Phil Abrami , Director of the Centre for the Study of ~earning

and Performance. WebCT easily handles online

quizzes, private dissemination of grades and e-mail. A bulletin board provides for different threads of dis­course on select topics. WebCT incorporates a monthly class calen­dar, where detailed announcements can be made, and provides a table of contents for course information that can include a week by week syl­labus. For ease of comprehension, highlighted words are linked to a glossary.

Unfortunately , Schmid said, teachers often incorporate technol­ogy in the form of Power Point presentations . "It 's just a much, much more expensive and compli­cated way of doing overheads," he said. Also, "overheads never break down. We're constantly having technical problems with Power Point. If the computer crashes, that's it for the day."

One benefit is that Power Point lectures can be placed directly on the Web and referred ·to later by students. This eliminates students spending their time copying from the screen. However , the same effect can be achieved by distribut­ing photocopied overheads.

"Power Point presentations have a distanced sameness," Boyd said. "It's often badly used." On the up side, "they help you organize mate­rials and present them in such as way that students feel you are orga­nized." Still, he prefers teaching aids such as WebCT and FirstClass.

"We know computer conferenc­ing can increase the energy in the course," Abrami said. He said that the aim of using computers is to engage the learner, boost learning and , as a secondary goal , to improve collaborative and cornmu­nica tion skills. Properly used, well-written software can do just that. "Technology," said Schmid, "is there to serve pedagogy,"

In the next issue of CTR, how to get started with classroom technology.

Natives cope with HIV BY CHANTAL TRANCHEMONTAGNE

Kecia Larkin's shaven head , plain black T-shirt, khaki

pants and confident speaking style mirrored her peaceful acceptance of her HIV-positive status.

On October 7, she opened the seventh season of the Concordia University Community Lecture Series on HIV/AIDS . Leslie Roberts, of CFCF 12, and Gazette columnist Josey Vogels intro­duced Larkin's lecture , titled "Country Living with HIV: Inter­ventions in Non-Urban Native Communities."

Because of poverty and social problems, aboriginal people are over-rep resented among the

HIV/AIDS population. According to Health Canada, in 1997-98, ·First Nations people represented 10 per cent of HIV/AIDS cases in Canada, up from 1.5 per cent 10 years before. Canada has about 800,000 aboriginal people, 2.6 per cent of the total population, and about 55 per cent of them live in rural communities.

Larkin was diagnosed with HIV a decade ago after working in Van­couver's sex trade. Her experience with HIV has been "an opportunity to grow mentally, physically, spiri­tually and emotionally," she said. "It's taken me 10 years to accept my life with HIV. To expect people to accept that overnight is to expect a lot."

In 1990 , she began touring Canada and the U.S., talking about HIV and AIDS. She also became a front-line worker, but gave it up in July after burning out "like all AIDS activists do ." A member of both the Kwa 'kwa 'wakw and Peigan tribes, she now lives in Alberta Beach, Alberta, where she is a co-ordinator for several aborig­inal conferences to take place this winter.

With tears in her eyes, Larkin expressed the sense of peace that has come to her since her diagno­sis. "I've been blessed with many gifts - an audience , a family , a beautiful daughter, a willingness to try a little more , achieve a little more," she said.

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@«ml ~1998-99 FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE

This is the second installment of the Dean's List of last year; the first was published in the September 9 issue of CTR. The Dean's List is composed of those students who, having earned at least 12 credits during the academic year 1998-99, achieved at least a grade-point average of 3. 75.

Cory Abrams Linda Charbonneau Kylie Francis Johanna P. Labreche Charbel Mourad Gregory Shulkin Robert Melvyn Adolfson Reena Chawla Mark R. Fraser Vollering Rawan Mourani Donna Simmerman Izaskun Maria Aguirre Shuk Kwan Cheng Sarah Frenkiel Nathalie Lachapelle Johanne Mueller Marco Sinai Vivian Akerib Leah Anne Cheyne Edwina M. Gallant Rebecca Leigh Lackman Kenneth Warren Mueller Tara Lacelle Singh M. Anouk Allard Martin D Chochinov Giuseppina L. Garritano Giovanni Lagiorgia Aziz Mulay-Shah Marina Siponen Jason Allen Amrita Choudhury Shawn K. E. Gates Linda Lalonde Marsha Mundy Shelley L. Sitahal Lisa Kathryn Allen Ae Kyung Chung Francine Gauvin David S. Lamothe Dianne Murray Kimberley A. Skakle-Bisnauth Colin J. Alleyne Christopher Churchill Jennifer Gauvin Eric J. Lamoureux Laura Elizabeth Murray Anna Soule Ana Cristina 0. Almeida Tania Renee Ciciola Stephanie Chava Gazda Pascale Lapierre Jason Adam Muscant Nadia Sourial Alain David Alterescu Alan Clark Julia Gedeon-Matusky Julien Lapka Leyla Nahas Pavlina Soussoudis Anita Angelozzi Stephen G. A. Clark Marisa Gelfusa Edward Lardizabal Louise Naud Steven Frank Sperandeo Wanda Antonopoulos Owen J Clegg Shiraz Gheyara Roberto Lattanzio Rebecca Nemiroff Isabelle St-Amand Nazareth Arabaghian Nancy Cloutier Elham Ghobadi Yuen Fan Lau Donna Y.C. Ng Cynthia P. Steeves L. C. Celine Argentini A.Y. Alan Cohen Jennifer Grazia Giannini Keiko Laurin Christopher Ng Thow Hing Bruce D.J. Stevenson Jon Armano Yvelaine H. Colas Leah Njoki Githaiga Karine Lavergne Carmelina Nicoletti Marilyne St-Georges D. Simone Arsenault-May Danielle Coleno Barbara Goncalves Oi-Ying Law Anthony Noce Linnaea Stockall Johanne Ascoli Alexa K. Conradi Andrea Lucienne Gormley Margaret Law Daniel Nyborg Kevin Strychalski Eric Asselin Warren G Copeland Kelly Graham Linda Lazarus Aber Donna O'Bomsawin Grzegorz Stusio Elizabeth V. Astles Gregory N. Cormack Adam M. J. Gray Gillian Beth Leithman Marie Josee O'Halloran Sandra G Suissa Sarah Auchterlonie Christine Cormier Harriet Greener Sylvie Lemay Olusegun Oshodi Peter Sutherland Catherine Bakalos Candice Cornet Maria-Elena Grijalva Barba Dayle Lesperance Dagmar Thea L. Otzinger Joshua Svatek Anthi Balafoutis Marzia Cortopassi Yaffa Gruia Marco Lettieri Tracy-Elaine Page Cynthia Svoronos

rs~ Mandip Basi Nancy Cosentini Caroline Marie Guay Genevieve L'Herault Pouya Pakneshan Sarah Alexandra Sweet Glenroy Kendal Bastien Robert Cote Giuseppina Guercio Lucy Lightbown Gino Pallante E. Tanya Szammer Suzanne Bate B.Jean-Philippe Cournoyer Constantine Gymnopoulos Sophie Limoges Giuseppina Panzuto Karen Tafler Judith S. Bauer Wendy A. Cross Lynn S. Habel Gwendolyn J. Lloyd-Smith Lucia Papa Karyin Helen Tam Annick Michele Bayno Eileen Nora Crysler Marika Hadzipetros Lisa Loiselle Sophia Theodora Pappas Josephine A. Tavaler Yves Beauchemin Tony Cuco Charles Halliday Daniel Loucks Bhaveshkumar Patel Michelle K. Taylor Jose Belanger Gabrielle Czaika David Mark Hambly Dalia Lubell Joe Guillaume Pelletier Peter Jaber Taylor Andrea Bell Irene Dalkin John Faithful Hamer Elliot Andrew Ludvig Agnes Dolores Pereira Helen Theodorakopoulos Dora Lina Beluska Patrick A.C. Davidson Reem Hashem Valerie Lupien Axel Perez De Leon Serge Thiffeault Patrick Benhaim Kimberley Davis Janet Ruth Haynes Thi Song An Luu Roberto Persechino Sheila Dawn Thingvold Jean-Fran~ois Bernard Patricia Dearling Karli M. Heath Lynda Lyness Marisa Perugino Rachel Ravith Toledano Michelle Bertrand Patricia Denis-Boyer Natasha Heimrath Heather Mac Dow Roselyne Picotin Maria Theresa Torriero Rita Biscotti Dominique Marie Desroches Melanie Henault-Tessier Crystal Mac Innis Suzanne P. Piquette Jonah Tozman Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall Michelina Di Cesare Felismina Henriques De Mairi Mackinnon Diana Pisanu Raimona Trapani Heather Black Rosalina Di Sario Oliveir Anna-Maria Macone Corey Peter Pomkoski Vasilios Tsimiklis Sandra Belinda Blackwood Honey M.W. Diabo Genevieve Henry Sarah Anne Macpherson Valerie Pouliot Marie-Claire Ullmann Marie-Josee Blais Brigitte Diercks-Haltrich Craig Hetherington Julie Mailhot Doi Douglas Powanda Mary Vacirca Mathieu Boily Karen Digby Donna Petra Hicks Pierre Mailly Derek Pyndus Shamini Vamadevan Maria Beatriz Borjas Gregory Dijkman Geoffrey Hipps Giovanna Maimone Elana Rabinovitch Rona· D. Van Hell Talin Bosnakyan Debora Diner Pak Kin Ho Elena Maksimova Georges Racicot Lenny Raphael Vartanian Julie Boulanger Shanty Dixon Tara L. Hodge Babak Maleki Fariba Rahkhoodaee Nicholas Vaughan Michele Bourdages Ivan Dolinsek David Hoida Malcolm Maltinsky Amanda Redler Linda Vaupshas L. Alain Bourdages Magali Domin Darren W. Holowka Jamie Marchand Marguerite Regan Diane Vautour F. Annie Boutet Marlene Donegan Margaret Horecka Jean-Philippe Marcotte Martine Regoli Francois Veilleux Amanda Susan Bowden Amelia Westlake Doran Sean Rashad Hughes Margaret Martha Margossian Erin Mae Reid Lucia Venditti C.K. Melissa Boyer Shama Dossa _Mary Hunt Dennis Markuze Sandy Resendes Andrea Videtic Joe Ann L. Brace Valerie Doucet' Karen Louise Hunter Goldie Maimor Wilma Rick-Grainger Barbara Viola Michael C. Broadhurst Joshua Dougherty Tomoka Ishizu Mary Ellen Mason Kenneth Ritchie Kim Thu Vu Andrew Brock Louise Doyon Sarah Marie Janes Andrew McClory Keren Ritter Johanna Vyncke Julie Brongel Kristina Lee A. Drake Stephanie Jobin Mary Alma Mccomber Edward Rizk Mark Wallace Sarah Jane Brown-Tesolin Danielle Duckworth Cassidy Anne Johnson Susan McDougall Joyce Rogers Tina Walter Stephanie Brulier Schirmer T. Tracy Johnson Heather McDowell Simon Patrick Rogers W. Bernadette Wanner H. Genevieve Brunette Christine Dudoit Mikael Joukakelian Celia Kate McEvenue Giovanni Romanelli · Francine Waters Stephanie E. Burchell Randy Duniz Brian P. Kahane Amanda Fuschia McIntyre Vicky Romano Cara Rae Webb Colin N.S. Burnett Cindy Maureen Durack Laura Anne Kalba Sandra Medeiros Cindy _Romeo Nicky Wesson Meera Burney L. Catherine Durand Junko Kato Shawn Melancon Elaine Rosenberg Angela Wilby Andrew Burr Nadine Faye Egler John Alexander Keaveny David Mendelsohn Sherri Rosenbloom Hayley Victoria Wilson A. M. Alison Burton Jason A. Eichstedt Marion Kemper Marissa Mendelsohn Deena Roth Adam Wygodny Jennifer Butler Yaffa Elling Carrie Kessner Aaron Merovitz Jennifer C. Royer Dylan Yaeger Christine Cadieux Bella Ellwood-Clayton Azeddine Kettani Suzanne Mezzetta Laura Rubin Johanne Yates Rina Calabrese Lydia Christine Erwig- Dana Khoury Constantine Michailidis Andrea E. Rubinstein-Marcus Michael S Yerxa Sheri Elaine Cameron Straughan Peter Thomas Killam Nathalie Michaud Natalina Salmaso Suzuko Yorozu Alexander Campbell Sarah Etezadi-Amoli Julie P. Kiopini Dietlinde Miesen Caroline Anne Sasseville Stephanie Robyn Zack Jason Campbell Rita Farinaccio Jaime Andrea Kirnan Richard Miners Jamie Sauder Tian-Ying Zhao A. Sarah Carney Irina Fedortchenko Reisa Hayley Klein Bruno Mital Lisa Savage Kristina Zujkovic E. Angela Carr Allan Michael Ferguson Vasiliki Kountourogiannis Forouzan Mobayyen Tania Elaine Schramek Adriana Carrasco Francois Fillion Carl Kouri Melodee Mograss Faigie Joy Sculnick Grazia Carrubba David Fiore Maita Kraft Emis Mohebat Ilan Sellouk Candice Cartier Alexandra Fioriello Tamara Kramer Jacqueline Montalibet - Christina A. Semeniuk Karen Cartwright Maura Michal Fisher Nancy-Karen Kuzniak Laura Mosca Alena Seresova

r. Shirley Siu Yim Chan Derek Fong Diana Alice Kyriazis Patrick Moss Gail C. Seymour

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School of Graduate Studies Council news update

Witch hunt The first Theatre Department presentation of the year is Vinegar Tom, by Caryl Churchill. Set in England during the 17th century, this gripping drama is about the persecution of women who live on the fringe of society. Contemporary music links the piece to the modern day, and suggests that the witch hunt is perhaps not yet over. Starring are Margaret Thompson and Dominic Longo {above), and the director is Lise Ann Johnson. Performances, in the D.B. Clarke Theatre, are on October 22-24 and 28-30 at 8 p.m., and October 31 at 2 p.m. Please call 84,8-4742 for more information.

Two graduate students will receive Concordia 25th

Anniversary Fellowships sta rting this fall , worth $3,000 per term at the Master's level, and $4,000 per term at the PhD level. The award will be given out every year to the fourth-highest ranked students, in celebration of Concordia 's 25th anniversary.

Nine new awards will also soon be available to graduate students, courtesy of the Capital Campaign, including awards for MBA stu­dents , for transportation studies students, for Jewish studies and communication studies students, as well as one in earthquake engi­neering. Information about these awards will be posted, as they become available, in the Publica­tions section of the School of Graduate Studies Web site, at http://www-gradstudies. concordia .ca/SGS_ WWW/Grad­StudiesHome.html

The site, besides allowing users to search for awards according to one's Faculty and department, now also has a searchable listing of successful theses (and their call numbers) of

Football Stingers aim to keep their No. I ranking in Canada BY )OHN AUSTEN

The whole country now knows something that has been the

worst-kept secret at Concordia for a while now - the Stingers are one of the best university football teams in Canada.

Thanks to their come-from­behind 19-18 win over the Waterloo Warriors on October 16 at Concordia Stadium, the Stingers are the No. 1 rankeq team in the nation this week.

The victory improved Concordia's record to a perfect six wins and no losses with two regu­lar season games left to play (October 23 at Bishop's and Octo­ber 30 at the University of Ottawa).

The Stingers were lucky to win this one, but a "win is a win" for head coach Pat Sheahan. "Hey , we 'll take it," he said. "Good things often happen to good foot­ball teams. When you don't play particularly well and still win, it's

Sports roundup:

• Women's hockey team wins in Toronto

Another varsity team to be reckoned with is the Stingers women's hockey team. Goals by Annie Boucher and Corinne Swirsky were enough to lift

a bonus." More than 1,500 people turned

out under warm sunny skies last Saturday to see Concordia meet its Waterloo.

Concordia 's offensive · unit wasn't exactly ready for battle and failed to register a point in the game, which saw the home side trail by seven points at halftime. Special teams and the defence made the difference on the day.

Rookie defensive back Anthony Jean sco red Concordia's only touchdown , while Matthew Trudeau kicked field goals of 36, 11 , 2 4 and 16 yards to handle the rest of the scoring. Jean 's touchdown came after he blocked the punt, recovered it and scam­pered 40 ya rds for the touchdown after the game was just a few minutes old. The War­riors then went to work and took over the game until late in the fourth quarter.

Concordia trailed 18-16 until Trudeau's fourth field goal of the

Concordia to a 2-0 win over the Va-rsity Blues in the final game of the University of Toronto Invitational Women's Hockey Tournament, held last · weekend.

Lisa Harris registered the shutout as the Stingers out­shot Toronto 22-16. Concordia will host McGill on Saturday,

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day sailed through the uprights with just under six minutes to play in the game.

The win enabled the Stingers to leapfrog over the Saskatchewan Huskies, who held the official No. 1 ranking in the nation the week before. The Huskies had their per­fect 5-0 record snapped when they lost 30-21 to the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds in Vancouver last Friday.

Coincidentally , it was the Stingers and Huskies who battled in the national championship last year (Saskatchewan took the Vanier Cup with a 24-17 win).

The Stingers will have to play better than they did last week if they hope to defend their O-QIFC and Atlantic Bowl titles.

"We'll be OK," said Sheahan. "We're not the same team as we were in 1998. In some places, we are better. Our goal is to profit from last year 's experience, get back there [the Vanier Cup] and finish the job."

beginning at noon .

• _Lalonde scores three for women's soccer

Led by three goals from Laura Lalonde, the women's soccer team beat the Patriotes 4-1 in Trois Rivieres last weekend . Joanne Belai r scored the other goal for the winners.

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the past two years. There is also a page that outlines important dates for graduate students.

Academic Planning/Research As part of its academic plan­

ning, the Schoo l of Graduate Studies will be highlighting the following issues: How to encour­age interdisciplinarity, how to establish and review short pro­grams, and how to commercialize and develop research and intellec­tual property.

ln fa ct, Alain Aubertin , a new emplo yee in the Office of

Two new fees have been approved for students who will potentially be co ming to Concordia : a $25 deferral fee, which will go towards keeping files open for students who have been accepted into a program but , for various reasons , cannot yet attend; and a $100 confirma­tion deposit , to· be paid when a student is accepted and which will count as part of his or her tuition fees .

Research Services, has been con- -

New programs

tacting researchers whose work · is close to co mmercialization over the summer , and at least one project will be ready to go by the end of the term.

Also of note is the fact that the Canadian Medical Research Coun­cil will cease to exist in April 2000, and a new body will take its place - one that will include more broadly based health fund­ing. Therefore, some departments in the Social Sciences and Human­ities will have access to this

Dean of Graduate Studies and Research Claude Bedard has reported that the Ministry of Edu­cation will fund start-up costs for three new sh ort programs at Concordia: the graduate certifi­cate in Cultural Affairs Events Management ($70,000) , the grad­uate certificate in Mechanical Engineering ($ 70 ,000) and the graduate certificate in Environ­mental Engineering - Industrial Waste Management) ($40,000).

funding for the first time. • The School of Graduate Studies

Council met September 2 7. - Eugenia Xenos

STINGERS' BURKE DALES {ON THE GROUND) ENJOYS FRONT-ROW FOOTBALL

ACTION AFTER PROVIDING A KEY BLOCK TO CORNERBACK LOAN DUONG

{FOREGROUND) IN FIRST-Q.UARTER ACTION AT SATURDAY'S GAME.

• Rulers of rugby The Concordia men's rugby

side played a strong game at home last Sunday and had lit­tle trouble beating the Sherbroo ke Vert et Or 44-5. Scoring for the winners were Yann Geoffrey, Gary McDougall, Jason Low, Nick Guezen, Harry Georgiopoulos, Sandro Troini

and David Goldman. Meanwhile, the Stingers

women's rugby team also had a good week, posting a 27-0 win over the Gee-Gees in Ottawa. Linda Domzet had two tries, while Mar go Legault, Lauren Arner and Chantale Hurtubise scored one each.

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the Thursday publication.For more information, please contact Eugenia Xenos at 848-4279, by fax: 848-2814 or by e-mail: ctr@alcor.concordia.ca

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Applied Psychology Centre The Appl ied Psychology Centre in the Department of Psychology offers con­fide nt i a I psychotherapy an d assessment for adults. couples. fami-1 i es. ch ildren and teenagers. By appointment only. Ca ll 848-7550.

Art October 26 - December 4 New Acquisitions: Selections from the Permanent Collection. Leonard and Bina Ell en Ar t Gall ery, 1400 de Maisonneuve W. Vernissage: October 26, 6 p.m. Guided tours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12 p.m. in English, 1 p.m. in French. Free. Info: 848-4750.

CPR classes Environmental Health and Safety

, For information and prices on the fol­lowing courses, call Anna Giannakouros at 848-4355. October 21 - Heartsaver (English) October 24 - Heartsaver Plus October 26 - Heartsaver (English) October 30 - Basoc Life Support October 31 - Baby Heartsaver

Heartsaver (Adult CPR & Heimlichl $15 students, $30 staff/ faculty/public. · Classes given in V-410 (2110 MacKay). Info: www.save-a-life.net, info@save­a-life.net or Stephane· Kallas at 983-0695. Register at the CSU (H-637). Friday, October 22, 1 :30 - 5:30 p.m. Monday, October 25, 1 :30 - 5:30 p.m. Monday, November 1, 1 :30 - 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 2, 6-1 0 p.m. Wednesday, November 3, 6-1 D p.m. Friday, November 5, 1 :30 - 5:30 p.m. Basic Life Support (Adult, Child, Infant CPR & Heimlich} Saturday, October 23; 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Campus Ministry Mindfulness Meditation At SGW: Wednesdays, noon to 1 p.m., Z-105. Loyola: Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. (beginners' instruction), sitting begins at 8 p.m.; Thursdays, noon to 1 p.m. Be lm ore House (WF-100- 1 DI Info: Daryl Lynn Ross 848-3585.

Christian Meditation Fridays, 11 a.m. to noon in the Prayer Room of the Loyola Chapel (followed by the 12 05 Eucharist). Info: 848-3588.

Spirituality with Michelina Bertone Michelina Bertone, SSA. offers sever­a I groups, including Holi st ic Spi ri tuali ty fo r the New Millennium, Lea rn ing the Art of Focusing, Bib le Study: Guided Med itation through God's Word in Luke's Gospel. and Out­reach Experience (at Chez Doris and Benedict Labre House). For times and information, cal l Michelina Bertone at 848-3591 .

Buddhist Dharma Teaching A read ing group with Daryl Lynn Ross. Wednesdays, 1 :30-3 p.m., Z-105. Info: Daryl Lynn Ross 848-3585.

Mother Hubbard's Cupboard On Monday nights at annex Z, from 5 -7 p.m., Mother Hubbard i's cooking up some nouri shing and delicious vege­tarian meals. The suggested donation is a dol lar or two . Ope n to all Co nco rd ia students - th eir room­mates and famil ies, to o. Info : 848-3588 (Campus Min istry l. 848-2859 (Peer Support Centre).

Centre for Teaching and Leaming Services For information or to register for the following workshops, call 848-2495 or e-mail CTLS@alcor.concordia.ca

1. Writing a Letter of Recommen­dation: This workshop explores the strategies of writing effective letters - who should write and when, what sorts of things to say, how to discuss recommendations with students who ask you to write t hem. Thursday, November 4, H-771 , Hall Bui lding, 10 a.m. _ ,-2 p.m.

2. The Development of the Teach­ing Dossier: Thi s works hop wi ll provide examples of dossiers, exam­ine some of the issues and concerns in preparing and reviewing dossiers, and provide some suggestions based on the Canadian Association of Uni­versity Teachers (CAUT) guidelines to help you develop your own teaching doss ier. Friday, October 22, 1-\-771 , Hall Building, 9:30 a.m. - noon.

3. Powerpoint Clinic: Roger Kenner wi l l explo re some of the more advanced possibilities offered by Pow­erpoint, includ ing better integrating images, sound and video; creat ing Web vers ion s of presenta tio ns ; manipu lating "clip art" creatively to produce new images; and many other features. Attendees shou ld have a basic familiarity with Powe rpoint. Wednesday, November 3, H-521 , Hall Building, 1 D a.m. - noon.

Concert Hall Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, 7141 Sherbrooke W. Info: 848-7928.

Friday, October 22, 8 p.m.: Katherine Addleman , piano, performs Bach 's Goldberg vari ations. Free.

Saturday, October 23, 8 p.m.: Bows­er and Blue . Tickets and info : 487-2330.

Sunday, October 24, 2 p.m.: Chopini­a na, Chopin' s music , wi t h a composition by John Winiarz. $8 gen­era l, $5 seniors, free for students.

Sunday, October 24, 8 p.m.: Ingrid Tark, piano. Free.

Film Indian Film, 1984-94 7:30 p.m. , 2149 Mackay, $5 or pay what you can. Info: 526-8946.

Wednesday, October 27: Home and the World(1984), EST.

Wednesday, November 3: Sa ti (1989). EST.

Lectures . Thursday, October 21 Professor Steven Feld, Anthropology, New York Un iversi ty, on "Vocal Knowledge ," the 1999-2000 Annual Anthropology Lecture . 8:15 p.m., H-507, 1455 de Ma isonneuve W.

Thursday, October 21 Lee Edelman, Engl ish, Tufts Universi­ty, on "The Birds is Coming: Hitchcock, Futurity, Queer Theory." 8:30 p.m., H-407, 1455 de Maisonneuve W.

Friday, October 22 J. Kri shnamurti video presentat ion, -"To Be Utterly Free of Disorder," 8:30 p.m., H-431, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. Info: 937-8869.

Tuesday, October 26 Robert Assaraf, author of Une crise et des hommes: Israel 1995-1999, on "Mes reflex ions sur le processus de paix au moyen-orient," 6:30 - 8 p.m., H-763, 1455 de Maisonneuve W.

Monday, October 25 Dr. Angel Oquendo, Professor of Law, University of Connecticut, on "Defend­ing Na t ional Culture in t he Post-National State," presented by the Concordia-UQAM Chair in Ethnic Studies. 4 - 6 p.m., H-435, 1455 de Maiso·nneuve W.

Tuesday,October26 Michelle Tisseyre, literary translator and journalist. on her first novel, Divid­ed Passions, as part of the Concordia Irish Lecture Series. 8:30 p.m., H-407, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. Free. Info : Donna Whittaker, 848-2435.

Tuesday, October 26 Ilona Granet, New York artist. on "Pri­ma l Wedgwood," presented by the Ceramics Visiting Artist program . 7 p.m., VA-101, 1395 Rene-Levesque W. Info: Francine Potvin, 848-4291.

Tuesday, October 26 Bhante Wima la, Buddhist monk, on "Practica l Spiritua lity in Daily Life," 8:15 p.m., Loyola Chapel, 7141 Sher­brooke W. $2. Info: David at 286-4552 or Daryl at 848-3585.

Wednesday, October 27 Dr. Anne-Marie Gingras, Political Sci­ence, Laval University, on "Protecting Cultura l Diversi ty in a Deregul ated and Globalized Environment," noon, basement lounge, School of Communi­ty and Publ ic Affa irs, 21 49 Mackay. Info: 848-2575. Bring your lunch.

Thursday, October 28 Werner Israel, cosmologist, University of Victoria, on "Black Holes,· for the Science College Lectu re. 8:30 p.m. H-11 o: 1455 de Maisonneuve W. Free.

Friday, October 29 Dr. James Naiman, psychoanalyst, on "Psychoanalysis: One-Person or Two-Per­son Psychology," 8: 15 p.m., H-407, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. lnfo:-342-7444.

Friday, October 29 J. Krishna murti vi deo presentation , "Seeing Self-Interest as the Root of Fear," 8:30 p.m., H-431 , 1455 de Maisonneuve W. Info: 937-8869.

Monday, November 1 Dr. Ann Cattanach, Roehampton Insti­tute of Dramatherapy, London, on her work as a dramatherap ist and pl ay therapist with children and adults. 6:30 - 8 p.m., D.B. Clarke Theatre, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. Info: 848-8627.

Tuesday, November 2 Dr. Jane E. Cook, McGi ll Institute for the Study of Canada , on "The Irish Infl uence in 19th-centu ry Canadian Cou ntry Furniture," part of the Concordia Irish Lecture Series. 8:30 p.m., H-407, 1455 de Maisonneuve W. Info: Donna Whittaker, 848-2435.

Thursday, November 4 Roberto Perez Rivero, Foundation for Nature and Humani ty, Havana , on "History of Cuban Organic Agriculture: The Post-Soviet Years." 7 p.m., 2149 Mackay, basement. Info: 848-7585.

Legal Information Conco rd ia's Lega l Information Ser­vices offers free and confidential legal information and assistance to the Concordia community. By appointment only. Call 848-4960.

Notices NSTP award The Northern Scientific Trai ning Pro­gram is open to candidates studying in either the natura l or social sc iences whos e research involves northern stud ies. Approx. $3,000 towards field­work expenses in the Canadian North. Duration: winter and summer 2000 . Deadline: November 1. For informa­ti on and appl icati ons, contact Dr. Lorna Roth, Chair of Northern Studies Committee , at 848-2545, roth@microtec.net

Volunteers needed Servi ce s for Di sabl ed Students are looking for volunteers to help out fe l­low students; the experience wil l also make a nice addition to your C.V. Be a reader, tutor, transcriber, note-taker, research assistant. library assistant, mobility orientation volunteer or spe­cial assignment volunteer. Drop by H-580, Hall Bui lding, or call 848-3525.

Office of Rights and Responsibilities The Office of Rights and Responsibili­ties is avai lable to all members of the University community for confidential consultations regarding any type of unacceptable behaviour, including dis­crimination and personal / sexual harassment, threatening and vio lent conduct, theft, destruction of property. Call 848-4857, or drop by 2150 Bishop, room 110.

Ombuds Office The Ombuds Office is avai lable to al l members of the Un iversity for infor­mat ion, co nfide nti al advi ce and assistance with univers ity-related problems. Call 848-4964, or drop by 2100 Mackay, room 100.

Peer Support Centre The Peer Support Drop- in Centre is staffed by students who are trained in active listening and problem-solving ski lls and can provide non-judgmental feedback about academic and person­al problems. Free and confidential.

Monday - Thursday, 12 - 5 p.m., Z-02, 2090 Mackay, 848-2859.

Special Events Book launch Chantal Col lard's book, Une Famille, un village, une nation (Montreal: Edi­tions du Boreal. 1999) wi ll be launched at the Department of Sociol­ogy and Anthropology un Wednesday, October 27, 4 p.m., LB-677.

Iron Ring ceremony Wednesday, October 27, at 5:30 p.m. Semi-formal attire - maximum of two guests per person. Applications accepted unti l October 8 at 10 a.m. $10/student payable to the ECA, H-880-10 (10 a.m. - 4 p.m.) Info : 848-7408.

Writers read @ Concordia Thomas King, on Friday, October 29-, and writer-in-residence David Solway, on Thursday, November 4. For details on location and time, ca ll 848-2340.

Archivists' conference The As soc iation of Moving Image Archivists is holding a conference in Montreal from November 1 - 6. Ses­sions include "What the Heck is a Ci nematheque - Archives, Acade­mi cs and Aud iences." Info : www.amianet.org/

Unclassified Intelligent people wanted Growi ng software and consu lting company is looking for fi ve intel ligent individuals to work as marketing and sal es staff. Salary or commission depending on qua lif ications . For details, please view "Join us" section of http://www.mehrad.qc.ca

For sale Compaq Pressario, never used, still in box. 466 CEL 12 GB 32X 4MB 64/256 MB, model 571 1, MV520 15" monitor. Wind ows 98, Word 97, Netscape, Explo rer and more. Best offer. Cal l Peter, 486-0817.

For sale NEC Powermate 150 mhz computer (64 mg RAM, CD-ROM, tape backup). DjamondScan 17HX monitor, Optisafe UPS system, and accounting software. Best offer! Call John at 846-8439.

Study subjects needed Looking for healthy subjects to partici­pate in a study on the effects of an anaesthetic gas as shown by way of electroencephalogram and measure­merit of the depth . of consciousness under general anesthesia. Participants must be 18 - 30 years old, right hand­ed, healthy and not using analgesic medication. A compensatory indemni­ty is offered. Info: Dr. Pierre Fiset, mdft@musica .mcgil l.ca, or 842-1231, ext. 4887.

Participants wanted A graduate student is looking for Jew­ish students to participate in a study about the attitudes and social interac­tion between Arab s and Jews in Montreal. Info: Hadeel at 846-1371 , h_abdo@rocketmai I .com

Participants wanted How hypnotizable are you? Pa rtic i­pants needed for psych ology study on childhood memories. 2 x $1 DD lotter­ies. Leave a message for Kristina at 848-221 3.

Kathleen's Business Services Will type termpapers, essays, etc. for $1.20 per page (s.s. or d.s.). Call Kathy at 487-1750.

Tutoring Do you need tutoring in your courses? A Concordia alumnus, M.A. Econom­ic s, can prepa re you for exams, research and writing assignments .

Ca ll Gee pu at 285-4937. aclad@colba.net

English angst? Proofreading/correcting for university papers, resumes, etc. Also tutor for

English, written and/or conversation. Good rates. Lawrence: 279-4710.

Workshops EAP lunch seminar Adapting to Change: Learn to better understand your feelings during a t ime of change.Tuesday, November 2, 1999. 12 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. H-ER 500. To regis­

ter, call Carmel ita Swann at 848-3668 or e-mail cswann@alcor.concordia .ca

Computer workshops Instructional and Information Technology Services is offering a variety of computer

workshops to students, staff and faculty. For information and a schedule, visi t

http://ii ts/services/training or e-mail workshop@alcor.concordia.ca

Tools for Change workshop Public Education Strategies: Getting your Message Out. October 26, 7 p.m.,

2149 Mackay, basement. A participa­t ory workshop for socia l change activists. Cal l 848-7585 to register.

Library workshops Workshops at Vanier Library are in room VL-122 and are hands-on. Work­

shops at Webster are demonstrations; check white board at the entrance for room number. Info: 848-7777 (Web­

ster) or 848-7766 (Vanier).

1. Navi gatin g the Libraries (overview of li brary services, search­ing CLUES, the online catalogue, and

library tour). Webster: Saturday, Octo­ber 23, 11 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. (special session combin ing Navigating the

Libraries and How to Find Art icles Using Databases).

2. Finding Articles Using Databas­es. Webster: Saturday, October 23, 11

a.m. - 12:45 p.m. (search ing the library catalogue, fi nding artic les using data­

ba ses and library tour) . Va nier: Thursday, October 21 , 3 - 5 p.m.; Tues­

day, November 2, 1 D a.m. - noon.

3. News and Business Sources on Lexis-Nexis. Webster: Wednesday,

October 27, 10 - 11 :15 a.m. 4. Searching the Internet. Vanier:

Tuesday, October 26, 5 - 7 p.m.

5. Get Connected to Government Information Sources. Webster: Wednesday, November 3, 5 - 6:15

p.m. Vanier: Thursday, October 28. 3 -5p.m.

FALL CONVOCATION

Thursday, November 18 Palais des Congres

Niveau 1, Salle B 10:30 a.m.

Honorary doctorates will be presented to the

Hon. Lise Thibault, Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, and world-

famous theatre and fi lm director

Robert Lepage.