Going. going, gone. Another building- this time at Bishop and de Maisonneuve- makes w~y.for the downtown library project.

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Quebecers support - .

higher education, survey shows A majority of Quebecers (55%) is satisfied

with the contribution of the university system and its contributions to Quebec society. Furthermore, the vast majority of _the population (85%) believe the Quebec government should maintain or increase its level of support of higher education in the province.

respondents thought faculty pay was "just right". Incidentally, 44% of the respondents said they thought the average faculty member earns between $30,000 and $50,000. Fully 46% of the responden.ts said they · thought the average professor worked over 30 hours a week on university-related tasks.

This generally favourable attitude toward academics was also reflected in the followi ng su!'vey results : · • 62% said faculty are generally

conscientious in their work;

• 52% said they thought it important that faculty be unionized ;

• 77% indicated they think professors are very or quite c_ompetent. As for the respondents themselves, a

plurality (27%) was between the ages of 25 and 34; 69% were married (25%, single); 58% were heads of families; a plurality (38%) had from 10 to 12 years of schooling; fully 82% had never spent time at university but 44% of the respondents' immediate families were at or had already_attended university.

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These are just two of the findings from an opinion survey of Quebecers carried out in Apri,1 by Sorecom for the Conference of Rectors and Principals of Quebec . Universities (C REP UQ) and the 'Federation des associations des professeurs des universites du Quebec (FAPUQ).

Sorecom-questioned 837 Quebecers by telephone between March 30 and April 6. Eighty-nine per cent of the respondents indicated they spoke mostly French at hdme; 8%, English; 3%, both languages.

The results were disclosed today at a news conference. They indicate a relatively sophisticated level of opinion about university life in general, coupled with a favorable disposition toward he university's importance in society.

-committee-asks Senate to IOok at computers, .computer literacy

On the other hand, the respondents harbour few illusions about the marketability of the university degree. Thus, 77% feel a university graduate is as likely to be unemployed as a high school graduate. And .62% do not believe that spending more money on universities will lead to less unemployment. A large number of respondents (41%) felt the province's seven universit ies were not doing a particularly good job in preparing .studentsJor a career. As might be expected, an even larger number (67%) believe preparation for the job market is a very important function of the university.

When asked what areas of study are the most important, health, business and science were mentioned the most often by 97%, 96% and 92% of the respondents respectively. The liberal arts are the least popular (mentioned as important by only 66% of the respondents) among the five areas of study mentioned in the survey.

As for university professors, 55% of the

By Ken Whittingham The proliferation of word processors,

mini-computers and other assorted gadgetry is getting out of hand at Concordia, and steps should be taken to coordinate their purchase and .use among all faculties and departments.

That, in essence, is the principal finding of the yearcold computer science sub­committee, which told Senate last week that a university-wide policy on the use of computer-related equipment and services should be adopted by the fall, if possible, to avoid any further waste and duplication.

At present, individuals often purchase equipment without seeking expert advice to determine if the machine involved is the most effective available for the tasks required, or whether it is compatible with existing university equipment, the committee said.

This is particularly true in the research area. "The relatively low cost of many items makes them easy to purchase out of research grants·and other monies." But it must be remembered there remitins.-"the matter of maintenance and replacement.as obsolescence becomes increasingly rapid".

The comrQittee also expcessed concern

a bout the proliferation of'courses designed to provide students with s~-called "computer literacy"- the ability to understand and use a wide range of computer-related equipment- and the lack of a policy to set priorities for space allocations for equipment and support facilities.

Among other things, the committee recommended that Concordia recognize

computer iiteracy as a "major concern," a·nd consult with CEGEPs and high schools to define the needs for computer skills at each level and consider possible ways of meeting them. ·

It also requested that all departments report to the committee by the end of October outlining their needs in the area of

See "Senate", page 2.

1982-83 budget,-ou presque The university has adopted a provisional

budget for 1982-83, but considerable uncertainty exists now concerning the effects . on it of the government's public sector wage roll-back legislation, tabled last week.

The highlights of the university budget, accepted by the Board of Governors on April 15, include admissible expenditures of $92. 9 million and an attendant deficit of $2.75 million, as well as a new attrition policy that will see only one employee replaced for every three that leave the university.

The attrition policy, which began June I, is expected to save the university $1.07 million over the next 12 months and is also

aimed at avoiding staff layoffs. The attrition policy is the major new

retrenchment scheduled for 1982-83, but those $3.4 million cuts brought in last year remain in effect.

Meanwhile, university officials were ,meeting this week in an attempt to determine the effect of Bill 70, the wage roll-back bill, on Concordia employees.

The legislation would permit the government to recuperate in the firs t three months of 1983 the lion's share of the public sector wage increases slated to be awarded between June I and Dec. 31 , when current collective agreements expire.

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Concordia comings and gomgs: ·Among other things, June brings a host of profess ional promotions to Concordia. And so our congratulations go out to the following faculty members. Moving fro m lecturer to assistant professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts are L. Adams and L. Plotek in painting a nd drawing; Kevin Austin in music; Mario Falsetto and ·Gabor-Szilasi in cinema and photography; W. Krol in sculpture arid crafts; and C. MacKenzie in art history. Moving from assis tant to associate professor in the Faculty of Commerce and Administration are M. Anvari in quantitative methods, Michel Bergier in marketing and K. Riener in finance. Those receiving the same promotion in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science are E.J . Doedel and R. Shingal in computer science; T. Stathopoulos in building studies; and R.V. Patel, M.H. Rashid, Otto Schwelb a nd P.O. Ziogas in electrical engineeri ng. ' ew associate professors in the Faculty of Fine Arts are Wolfgang Rottenberg in music; T. Gibson and Tom Waugh in cinema and photograp hy; L. Hamel and Susan Hudson in design; Sandra Paikowsky in art history; Norma Wagner in art education; and William Reznicek and Kent Sloan in theatre. Carl Sandblom (quantitative methods) and Salvatore Morgera ( electrical engineering) deserve special notice. Both have achieved the rank of full professor. Faculty promotions in the Faculty of Arts and Science were not avai lable at press time. And from the staff side, welcome aboard to Nancy Brennan in commerce, Than Thi Bui in the computer centre, Margot Langlois in education, Heather McLaughlin in registar's services, Frank Vodopivec in commerce, Terry Staleker in computer science, Nicole Salatiel in the safety office and Maureen Thomas in exercise science. Congratulations are in order to Diane Izzi was promoted through internal transfer to payroll and to Nicole Salaciak who moved to graduate studies by the same route ... From our keeping up with alumni department comes news of Karen Lynch who is now press officer at the Shaw Festival...The international women's studies conference (see article thi~ issue) isn't the only important happening at Concordia this ·summer. Later t his month 300 delegates from across Canada will meet here at ,the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Colleges and Universities Student Services ... lf you haven't already heard, 264 CUNASA members turned out at the March executive election, which was also an opportunity to opt for certification and affiliation with the C;inadian Union of -Public Employees (CU PE) . The vote went four to one against unionization. Some pro­union staffers see the vote as a good sign,

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Dance fever outgrows Victoria School By Minko Sotiron

Recently, Concordia's two-year--0ld dance program risked becoming a victim of its

· own success. The popular courses had so many students that the dance studios, located in the former Victoria School, were constantly jammed.

"I've sat on so many committees trying to solve the university's critical space problems," said dance program director Elizabeth Langley. "So many other departments had the same problem. After a while there really seemed to be no solution, especially when the budget cut campaign began."

But then she hit on a solution in a typically dance-like way. Just as she teaches darrce improvisation, she asked herself, why not improvise a studio setting for her

students? Accordingly, she took her class to dance. in the university's art gallery in front of the works of Ivan Eyre as an inspiration.

Another time the class danced amidst the works of Nancy Hubert, a fibre artist. "That was inspirational,dancing amid all those string, rope and plastic hanging sculptures. All the students loved it, and so .did Nancy's little ones at the FA<2E school."

Langley was also impressed with the improvisational work the students did in front of the paintings of artist Rene Drouin at the Musee d'Art contemporain. "I was surpised that the museum staff was so forthcoming in allowing us to dance there. Through our dance, we really felt the spirit of the artist's expression:

"All in all , the experience has·been so good for my students. Besides taking pressure off the studios they get much needed public exposure and experience in dancing before people; something which don' t get dancing in our isolated studios. I certainly intend to continue to hold classes in other environments."

Other members of the dance program have also been busy, she reports: Paul-Andre Fortier and his company performed in Toronto and Montreal; Frani;oi~e .Sullivan performed and gave a retrospective exhibition at the Musee d'Art contemporain a~d in Moncton, New Brunswick; Edouard Lock and his dances performed in New Yor~ and Montreal; and Sylvie Panet-Raymond performed in Montreal, in Vienna at the International Tanz Festival '82 and at Innsbruck, Austria.

As for Langley herself, she has al~o been busy teaching community seminars at Queen's University, John Abott College and Vanier College. She is going to teach at this month's Dance-in Canada Conforence in Ottawa and has been chosen as one of the five jury members for the Jean A. Chalmers Award in Choreography.

Concordia dancers at the Musee d'art contemporain. "Through our dance, we real~v.felt the spirit of the artist's expression," says Elizbeth Langley, head of the dance program.

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academic computer usage (for research and undergraduate and graduate courses) as well as any planned courses (with full details of their human and material resource requirements) .

In other business, Senate: • approved the creation of a pilot project beginning January 1983 to allow senior citizens 65 and older to register in non-credit courses; • approved procedures that will allow the Concordia University Students' Association to distribute its allotted Senate seats to undergraduate student representatives based on annual enrolments in each faculty;

• • modified the masters program in public policy and public administration to allow students to serve a three-month internship in The Quebec civil service (generally after the last semester of studies); • accepted an interim report from the sub­committee on the examination of competence in written expression that recommended that in future as a prerequisite for graduation, an students obtain a passing grade of "C" in English course C-21 I· or French courses C / 400 or C / 40 I; a final report from the committee (along with a set of appropriate tests) will likely be submitted to Senate in the fall; • approved the creation of an MA program in media studies.

The paper chase The rector has approved many of the

recommendations for saving paper and money put forward by Hugh McQueen's paper-conserving task force in January.

These include new, smaller internal memo forms; the abolition of confidential envelopes in favour of reusable­"confidential" stickers; smaller exam booklets; and message pads made from scrap paper.

The current two-colour letterhead will also be re-examined and may be replaced in order to reflect "a suitable image of conservation" for the university.

The Thursday Report has also learned that a pilot paper-recycling project is now being planned for the Norris building. If

-,, successfu l, paper-recycl ing may be expanded [ across the un iversity. MG

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Roy moves ;.; into _deanery ;p Biology department chairman R.M. Roy ~ has been appointed to succeed Maurice

Cohen as dean of Division II I (arts. and science). Cohen left Concordia in J a nuary for a three-year posting with the Conseil des U niversite's finance committee.

Roy joined tbe university in 1970 and was chairman of the Sir George Williams biology department at the time of the merger of the arts and science faculties. He was named chairman of the combined department in December 1978.

Professor Frank Macleod will serve as acting chairman until a permanent successor is chosen.

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Pomp and circumstance, or why stand on ceremony? By James H. Whitelaw

It is fashi onagle in many quarters to decry convocations and to liken them, according to one's individual bias, to a kind of Roman circus (at which fatalit-ies are rare if not non­existent), as a deplorable survival of the pomp and circumstance which surrounds such archaic institutions as the Church or the monarchy, complete with sermon or speech from the throne, or, at a more prosaic level, a reminder of lining up for drivers' permits on the last day of February or the last few bottles on the shelf before the

· Liquor Board strike begins. Memories abound ... At my Oxford convocation we appeared

before the Vice-Chancellor in threes so that he co uld tap us on the head to the accompaniment of in lfomine patris (tap) ... et fl/ii (tap) ... et spiritus sancti (tap). When they got to the Ws, there were only two of us left- what would the Vice-Chancellor do? I got patris, while my companion got the other two. I fe lt gypped.

At the old Sir George Will iams convocations in the Salvation Army Citadel, music to accompany the entering performers was provided on the organ by an elderly gentleman who apparently knew only one triumphal march, written by a German late­Romant ic, which lasted at the most two minutes, so that we heard it five times coming in and five times going out.

Time was when we sang both God Save the Queen and O Canada. At least people knew the words of the former, even if they couldn't sing in tunc;- but nobody really started singing until the penult imate line

Convocation '82 features

• Concordia's new royal chancellor, page 5

• Honorary mentions, page 6 • A group of graduates, page 8

anyway. At some universities students kneel and

put their sweaty paws between those of the officiat i'ng dignitary-doubtless equally humid, depend ing on the glandular or nervous state of the incumbent, or the length of time since the air conditioning broke down. At Concordia, under. the sheer pressure of numbers, graduates walk smart ly across the stage, some dressed to ki ll, some

Jim Whitelaw is associate vjce--rector for . academic .planning at Concordia. This article first appeared in TT R in June / 980.

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to shock (I recall a bowler hat at -Loyola at few years ago), some looking proud and 9th rs trying to look casual, some going by the Vice-Chancellor so fas t that he has to take a wild swipe with his morta r-board as they go by, others stopping to savour the moment while the general awkward silence is _broken by wild applause fro m a score of re latives perched in the balcony.

Various people make various speeches, audible or inaudi ble, stimulating or trite, witty or ponderous (or both). I once addressed a convocation where the mortar­board of every single student was back to

See "Convocation", page JO.

And that's the way it is By Robert C. Rae

The educated person should be skilled in the art of clear communication and have a reverence for the integrity of words. This qual ity is much needed in a world that has become confused in its usage and understa·nding of words. I heard recently of a Boston Hotel which instead of using the easily understood term "No Exit" had erected a sign which reads ' 'This aperture is not an accredited egress."

Recently I joined with some of my colleagues in addressing a letter to the Prime Minister urging that effort be made to press for discussions leading to the end of violence in Viet Nam: Somewhat to my surprise, I found that I was labelled as an anti­American.

Now, I believe my attitude to Americans is, in general, marked by friendship and admiration. This habit of applying an over­all connotation to a specific utterance is, of course, Procrustean. You will remember that Procruste,s, in ancient times, measured everyone by his remarkable bed. If you were too long for it, some of your extremities were chopped off; and if yo~ were too short you were extended to fit it by certain ·primitive stretching techniques. The art of applying labels is certainly Procrustean in trying to make everything fit our generalized conception. There are many Procrusteans at large today.

The educated person is one who-clearly discerns the rights of society and the rights of the individual. There are appropriate areas for our tradition o( sturdy independence to be continued and areas where all of us must cooperate in ways that are socially necessary in the cause of common humanity . .

Another mark of the educated person is a demonstration that life is not always grim, but can be marked by a sense of joy in the wonder of life and self-fulfilment. A sense of humour helps us to view life with some balance and reduce its situations to proper proportions. Many of us- will recall the story

of Heraclitus, the early historian, and his response to a .message that his mother-in-law had fallen into a pit which was inhabited by a sa bre-tooth t iger. Said Heraclitus: " What care I what happens to a sabre-tooth tiger" . There is also-the story of the newly-arrived immigrant who was received at the pier by

. an enterprising salesman who asked him if he would subscr ibe to a magazine, the Atlantic Mont hly. "No", said the immigrant, "on the way across I conttibuted to the Atlantic daily."

An insistence upon high standards is another mark of the educated person.Jt is not easy to, maintain this in our present day world with its pressure toward conformity and mediocrity and some suggestion that one should be satisfied with the second-rate. A.A. Milne said: "A third-rate mind is only happy when thinking with the majority; a second-rate mind when thinking with the minority, but a first-rate mind is only happy when thinking." The educated person rejects the material objectives as the sole end of life. There is a fable that refers to a window and a mirror as both being made of glass, but if one adds a little silver-the glass-becomes the mirror and one Qnly sees one's own self. Despite some arguments I have read recently, higher education is more than a preparation for a caretr'. it has to do with our whole way of life. !\have no quarrel with the vocation .aspects of education and I know that for many of us 9ur most meaningful experjences will coine as we pursue our vocations. But to appraise a university educatitm solely on the basis of occupational preparation is -surely to miss ttie point. Our educat ion has prepared us for a full life in all its aspects and to weigh it on

· one component is to cheat ourselves of the wonders of the opportunity to fulfil ourselves in our totar potentiality.

Robert C. Rae was Sir George Wiliams University 's fourth principal. The above is an ex tract from his address to Mount Allison University's /965 convocation.

The numbers game By Mark Gerson

There will be about ten per cent more students graduating this spring than last; 251 5, up fr'om 2289 in 1981.

T he largest increase is in the number of grad uate d iplomas, part icularly in the Faculty of Fine Arts, where the number had doubled fro m 14 to 28. Partly because of this, the increase in fi ne a rts graduates is the highest in the university: up 20 pe.r cent,

. fro m 228 to 273. Another large increase is in the Faculty of

Engineering and Computer Science, where the number of undergraduate computer sci_ence degrees has jumped from 72 to 97, a whopping 35 per cent. Graduate degrees in the faculty have dropped from 36 to 27 (25 per cent), reflecting the wealth of jobs avai lable to undergraduates and the growing cross-Canada shortage of graduate students in engineering. The overall faculty increase is nine per cent.

No one in the Faculty of Commerce and Administration or anywhere else, for that matter, should be surprised at the 28 per cent increase in MBA graduates. But it's interesting ro note tht the undergraduate administrat ion program (BAd), a more flexible program offering only a core of business courses, has 29 per cent more graduates this year, while the t raditional commerce (BComm) program is only up by six per cent. Of-course, the bachelor of administration program st ill has less than ten percent of the facu lty's students. There are eight per cent more graduates from the Faculty of Commerce and Administrat ion this spring compared· to last.

The Faculty of Arts and Science, probably because it is the most varied, shows the most fluctuat ion. Although the faculty-wide increase is nine per cent, ·there are both significant drops and increases within the faculty.

Undergraduate arts degrees, the largest single degree enrolment in th~ university, are up 13 per cent, from 705 to 796. The large increase in undergraduate .. cert ificates (21 per cent) more than likely represents the continued shift of students from independent to program status.

Significant in percentage terms, though not necessarily in absolute terms, are the drops in education degrees (63 per cent :

See '"Stalistics", page JO:

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Concordia conference call

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CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL SOBRE LA INVESTIGACION Y LA ENSENANZA RELATIVOS A LA MUJER

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND TEACHING RELATED TO WOMEN

COLLOO UE INTERNATIONAL SUR L A RECHERCHE ET L'ENSEIGNEMENT RELAT IFS AUX FEMMES

By Minko Sotiron in the field·. Feminist studies are still More than 300 delegates from .over 80 relatively new, and a lot of people ~are

countries are expected to attend the world's plunging into the field the ·world over. It's first international conference on research vital that we - researc.hers and teachers -and teaching related to women to be held at act together to-discover what we are all Concordia from July 26 to August 4. , doing. so that we're not duplicating our

According to Mair Verthuy. principal of efforts and continually re-inventing the the Simone de Beauvoir Institute. which is wheel. so to speak. organizing the event, "This conference will "Studies related to women touch on a be truly international and. to the greatest broad range of social issues. and the results extent possible. there will be equal are beginning to have a significant impact on · representation from all the geo-political attitudes and policies in many societies. For regions; we will have delegates from Africa, these reasons, it is important that specialists the Middle East, Asia. Latin America. in the field meet at this time to promote Oceania. North America and Europe. collaboration and closer working relations

"We have gone to great pains to enlist the and to ensure coordination of individual and help of leading figures in various regions in collective efforts. determining the topics up for discussion and "It's also important that women specialists in contacting potential participants." see each other at thrs ti111e:• she observes,

The conference, she explains, came about "because feminist studies - and I am as a result of the Women's Studies deliberately calling them that - have International Seminars held at the UN entered a new and corrective stage. Rather World Conference Forum on Women held than focussing exclusively on the affairs of in July 1980. At the UNESCO-initiated women, or women's studies, feminist studies event, delegates expressed the need for offer a new and different perspective on further exchanges of information. knowledge itself."

The conference is important, says Indeed , this perspective, Verthuy notes, is Vert huy, because "for the first time, challenging many of the presumptions of the specialists from the world over can meet traditional corpus of knowledge. Citing the together and discuss the latest developments Renaissance as an example, she argues:

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·'Traditionally, that era is thought of as an enlightened and progressive age. But in the case of women, this wasn't the case; in fact, it was the opposite for them. Women lost many of the rights and privileges which they possessed during the proceeding era, the Middle & Dark Ages, which have usually been see n as obscurantist for men.

"This is not an isolated exam ple either. Other so-called progressive eras can hardly be called that when at least 50 per cent of the population may have lost rights and powers previously held . Indeed , one often learns, as a result. that the era is also less progressive for men . This feminist perspectiv~ is now being trained on many su bjects across the interdisciplinary spectrum."

Another vital function of the conference will be to provide much needed support and encouragement to the delegates.

"Although there are many specialists in the field and a few small centres in Canadian universities, we're still very isolated from each other and within our discip-Jines.

"Yet we're relatively privileged here in Canada, compared to the sit uation of specialists in many other countries who don't enjoy the institutiona~support we do. A danger to these scholars as we know, is that they may begin to question their work and think that they're crazy for doing it and so on. The conference will provide a kind of life-line to pull them and us out of our isolation ."

A conference of this nature "constitutes a formal recognition of the im portance of the field in a global sense." . The conference, says Verthuy, aims to integrate newly formed research units; recognize and encourage the contribution to social and economic development of the work being done i-n th is area; and explore the possibilities of forming regional associations of researchers in this field .

"The potential of the conference is great as it will contribute to a freer exchange and better understanding between groups from different and conflicting cultural backgrounds. The Simone de Beauvoir Institute has a number of follow-up projects it is considering."

Line Robillard Heyniger, an international women's affairs consultant with 20 years' experience working with UN and other international organizations, is serving as conference coordinator. The conference will have simultaneous translation in the three working languages - French, English and Spanish. Video and audio equipment will be used during the major working sessions.

Conference organizers are planning day­care facilities for delegates' children in collaboration with the YMCA and Concordia's early childhood education program. They are also looking for "host families" from the Concordia community who will put up some of the delegates while they attend the conference.

Among the many extra-conference events planned is an evening of cul tural exchange where delegates can experience a Quebec dinner in a home setti ng.

The conference is supported by a host of

The eyes have it: Following a vote to approve new facilities for the State University of ew York's optometry college. the senate chairman announce~. "Yhe ayes (or was that eyes?) have it." (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Will that be cash or ... Students at St. Mary's University can now pay their tuition or bookstore bills with plastic money. The Halifax institution has begun to accept Visa a nd MasterCard.

public and private institutions and companies. Besides Concordia and the federal and provincial governments, the list includes the Ford Foundation; the Canadian commission for UNESCO, CIDA, IDRC, Steinberg's, IBM, Nashua-Murrill, A.E. LePage, Ministere de Ia Cooperation in France, the Swedish International Development Agency and the British Council.

Setting the scene

The Department of Theatre will hold the first annual Canadian Scenography Conference at Concordia from August 20 to 22. Many well-known people in the field will be present, according ·to Don Childs, conference organizer and theat re dept. head.

Among those present will be Ladislav Vychodil, head scenographer of the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia and founder of O.1.S.T.T. (Organization International de Scenographie et Technique Theatre) and a leading scenography teacher. He will be bringing 60 of his renderings for display.

Iain Mackintosh, famous for his theatre architecture and consulting, will be present. He part icipated in the design of the St. Lawrence Centre in Toronto and the Barbican Theatre in London and is well khown for his consulting work in the United Kingdom. Bill West of Victoria's Phoenix Theatre will also attend . Already many scenographers from Canadian universities and schools like Dalhousie, Alberta, Leth bridge and the ational Theatre School have said that they plan to attend . Others from the United States have also expressed interest.

Among the activities planned are a display of the wares of over 30 theatrical goods manufacturers. There will be a juried exhibition of student ·works which will be judged by Vychodil and other experts.

Childs says that he is hopeful that the conference will become an annual affair leading to the creation of a Canadian organization of scenographers that could eventually affiliate with O.1.S. T. T. MS

Cut budget cuts, urges council

The Council of Universities has again criticized the government for " brutal, unplanned" budget cuts in the university system.

At a news conference on May 13, not only did the council, as advisory· body to the minister of Education, recommend the abolition of proposed retrenchment for 1982-83; it also requested that an additional $30 million be added to the universities' grant package.

Some $20 million of this new money is necessary, the Council insisted, to fund growth in student enrolments over the last few years, particularly at lhe Universite du Quebec. Another $7 - IO million is needed to properly fund growth for the m;w fiscal year ( 1982-83). -

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What's it all about? "Now education is a peculiar process," Stephen Leacock once wrote. "You aim at one thing and you hit another. You set out to look for ultimate truth and you don't find it ; but , incidentally you have acquired a cultivated mind. You pursue stud ies that you think will be of use in your business. They are not. But by the time you are done with them you yourself are a better man for your business or for any other business."

W. -Earle McLaughlin: A royal chancellor ,,.

By Ken Whittingham " Flabbergasted - but honoured," is the

way W. Earle McLaughl in describes his reaction to being named chancellor of one of Canada's largest universities.

The (ormer chairman of the board and chief executive officer of The Royal Ba nk of Canada was recuperating at home from surgery when Concordia Board Chairman Donald W. McNaughton first approached him about the job.

Apart from a brief sti nt on the board of trustees of Ki ngston's Queen's Universi ty (his alma mater) , McLaughlin's previous contacts with Canadian academe had been restricted to donating money to university fund drives.

" But even though I couldn't claim an intimate knowledge of Concordia or its operations, I'd always been impressed by this institution a nd the service it provides the community," he says.

"Anyone who passes by the Loyola or Sir George ca mpuses at virtually a ny hour of the eveni ng can't help but notice all the activity going on: No matter what the weather or the time of year, you see people dashing to and fro; cars descending from everywhere to pick stud ents up or drop them off ... it's a sight familiar to any Montrealer who's lived in this town for even a short length of time.

"On more tha n one occasion I can remember th inking a loud how great it is for Montreal - or a ny community for thl;l.t matter - to have facilities like that available to virtually anyone who wants to use them.

"Because of that I would have found it hard , if not impossible, to say no to Don McNaughton when he asked me to assume the chancellorsip."

Although he won't be installed officially until next Wednesday (during special ceremonies at the commerce a nd administration co nvocation), Concordia's new cha ncellor has been hard at work since Janua ry 1 - the day his five-year appo intment took effect.

As titu lar head of the university, the chancellor's duties are largely ceremonial, but like the Governor-General or mona rch, he faces the arduous task of sifting through piles of documentation and keeping abreast of developments in all areas of university life.

As chancellor, McLaughlin h.olds a n ex­officio position on the board of governors, and currently sits on three of the board'·s sub-committees - the executive committee,

· the finance committee and the graduation ceremonies committee.

He will also play an important - if unofficial - role in the university's

,,Even though I couldn't claim an intimate knowledge of Concordia or its operations, I'd always been impressed by this institution and the service it provides the community. ,,

upcoming capital campaign, offering advice a nd ex pertise on t he dos a nd don'ts of corporate fund-ra ising. · As the CEO of any large corporation can attest. the number of requests for donations is directly proportional to a firm's public visi bility a nd perceived assets. As head for 18 years of the largest and richest bank in Canapa, it goes without saying that McLaughlin had more than his sha re of requests fo r assistance from universities and o thers.

More importantly, perhaps, for Concordia, our new chancellor has also had experience running fund drives, so he is well­placed "to look a t the subject from both sides of the fence". "For whatever the use Conco rdia wants to make of it," he says he thinks he can " provide some useful insights o n how peop le should be approached for co ntributions".

As part of his new responsi bilities McLaughlin has already undertaken a series of spea king engagements on Concordia's behalf, vis iting alumni groups and- potentia l d onors in other cities to tell them .what's happening at the university and furnish detai ls of the capital campaign and its objectives.

His advice has also been sought by graduate students who want to know what practical steps can be taken to land jobs and improve their chances for advancement in the business community. They know, quite rightly, that if W. Earle McLaughlin can't ~elp them on that score, no one in Canada can.

Although McLaughlin has been "officially" retired for almost two years now, you'd never know it from the hectic schedule he keeps. When he isn't travelling around North America attending corporate board meetings (General Motors, Nabisco 'Brands, Metropolitan Life Insurance, etc ... ) Concordia's pipe-smoking chancellor can be· found in his office a t the Royal Bank's .Place Ville Marie headqua rters (he is still active on ,

the Royal's board of directors) or a ttending to affairs here at Concordia.

McLaughlin's ties to .the Royal Bank go back an incredible 46 years. He joined the firm in 1936 after graduating from Queen's University with an honours degree in economics. His early years were spent working in branches throughout Ontario, a nd after catching someone's eye at head office he was named manager of the bank's Montreal main branch in 1941.

Within a few years he was promoted again, to assistant general manager and assistant to the president, then to general manager, president and chief executive officer - a post, as mentioned previously, he held for 18 years. McLaughlin retired as chairman of the board of directors in October 1980.

In addition to his business interests, Concordia's personable new chancellor is also a member of the board of governors of the Royal Victoria Hospital Corporation and a director of the Royal Victoria Hospital Centre.

Somewhere along the way he also found time to marry and raise two children, one of whom lives near Toronto l\nd the other j ust outside Montreal.

Like politicians and soothsayers, ·

,, Tomorrow's universities may not exactly be the same as they are today, but then they aren't the same today as they were in the past.,,

economists a nd ba nk"ers like McLaughlin hae to d o a certain a mount of crystal ba ll gazing to get a handle on their jobs, so TTR couldn't resis t asking the new chancellor what he foresees for Concordia a few years down the road.

Interestingly, for a man exposed to so much worrisome economic news, his prognosis for Concordia is very, very optimistic.

"More than most universities, perhaps, Concordia has been terribly preoccupied with its financial woes," he says, " but people here sometimes forget that university budget problems are nothing new.

"Admittedly some periods are worse than others, but rough times have been with us before and they'll be with us again. Universities have always ma naged to survive and they'll continue to do so in the years ahead.

" When you look back on Canada's early educat ional history you see that most of the colleges in ex istence were denominat ional ones .

"During the last century governments started withdrawing their support from these denomi national instituti ons, and you can rest assured that the academics of the period considered it a crisis of major proportions.

"But new sources of funding were sought and new means devised to circumvent the problems. That's how the University of Toronto was forme9: a number· of colleges with fi nancial problems decided to band "together to pursue common goals.

"Tomorrow's universities may not be exactly the same as they are today," McLaughlin says, "but then they aren't the same today as they were in the past.

"Like the societies they serve, universities are living organisms constantly undergoing change. But t hey will be here in the future because they have to be here - they're too necessary a part of our lives to be allowed to wither away." ,

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Above: Photographer Sam Tata in 1973 in Hong Kong: Below: Two Tata shots- A

Tokyo cinema in 1973 and a Shanghai f?eggar woman in /949.

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Right from Wrong: When George M. Wrong was chairman of the U of T s modern history dept. back in the early days of the century, his faculty hiring policy was unique. " What I want," he later told the Canadian Historical Review, "is a scholar and a gentleman, and if he knows any history, so much the better."

From left to right, Jack Bordon. Arthur J. Gosselin,

By Minko Sotiron . It will be father and daughter day on June

13 at Concordia when two honorary degree reci,pients, Robert H. Marchessault and Arthur J. Gosselin, watch their daughters graduate at the same convocation ceremony.

At the afternoon arts and science convocation (divisions II and IV), Robert Marchessault will be awarded an honorary doctor of science (DSc) for his significant contribution to wood chemistry research. Nicole Marchessault will receive her BA in communication· stud ies at the same ceremony. Another daughter, Janine, graduates in computt;r science at the June 17 co.nvocation.

1A graduate and former trustee of Loyola

College, Marchessault is currently vice­president of the Xerox Research Centre of Canada. The former chemistry chairman at the Universite de Montreal is widely known in his field as author of more than 100 publication~ and holder of five patents.

Later the same day, Arthur Gosselin will be honoured with a doctor of laws (LLD) in recognition of his extraordinary work transcribing printed works into Braille. He'll share the stage with his daughter, Aud rey, who is to graduate with a BA:

The 83-year-old former Bell Canada historian - ·now a part-time historian for ' Northern Telecom ---' has already won many awards,' including the Order of Canada, for his prodigious output. He has transcribed the Quebec civil code and Canadian criminal code, the Oxford Concise English . Dictionary, more than 300 f rench and English novels and numerous PhD theses. ·

Gosselin works with extraordina ry speed at his typewriter-like machine. T he paper is rolled under the roller rather than over, a·s ona conventional typewriter, so the protrusions can be raised on the paper.

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Concordia's hon Although mistakes are rare, a pointed piece of wood flattens the occasional mistaken Braille character.

Gosselin can't "read" Braille the way a bli nd person would, with his fingers. That, he says, takes special training.

Although honoured by countless awards, including many from the blind .community, Gosselin derives the most satisfaction from knowing that members of a Braille library eagerly await his latest transcriptions. He recalls one time the librarian asking members whether they enjoyed his choice of novels. "All did except one who complained that the books didn't have enough sex in them. She was 92 years o ld!"

Mr. Justice' John Hannan

The craduate: Word has come to us from the University of Waterloo of another derivation for the word "alumni:', t!aditionally associated ·with the Latin for "foster sons". Apparently, in Arabic, alumni is related to "algebra" and "algorithm" and means "the unlettered" or "people without law". (UW Gazelle)

Lower left: Douglas Wright; lower right (top w ·bouom): Alec Duff. Robert Marchessault and Douglas Tushingham .

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ionorary eleven In addition to Marchessault, Gosselin and

W. Earle McLaughlin, who will be installed as Concordia's second chancellor at the commerce convocation, nine other ~en will be honoured this spring.

For their significant contribution to Concord1a, Justice John R. Hannan, J . Arthur Pascal.and Harry J . Hemens will be honoured at the arts and science convocations and Jack Bordan and Alec Duff will be honoured at the engineering and computer science ceremony (Jun·e 17).

Justice Hannan, a Superior Court judge, is a former member of Concordia's Board of Governors and a past director of the Sir George Williams Almuni Association .

Pascal, executive vice-president of the J . Pascal Hardware Company, has long been active with university affairs. Also a former member of the Board of Governors, he has participated in numerous university development campaigns.

Harry J . Hemens, a Queen's Counsel, served as Concordia's first chancellor from 1974 to 1981 , while Alec Duff, a former executive of Henry Morgan and Sons and also of Birks Ltd., was associated with the university first as a member o(the Board of Governors in 1963 and then as chairman of the board from 1969 to 1981. · Jack Bordan came to Sir George Williams in 1952 as a physics lecturer. By 1962, he had moved through the ranks to full professor and had been appointed chairman of the science faculty's engineering department. When the depar tment was expanded into a ~ faculty in 1963, Borden was named its first dean, a post he held for six years. He was named vice-principal, academic, in 1970 and was re-appointed vice-rector, academic; after the merger with Loyola. He retired in 1980.

At the fine arts convocation on June 15, honorary doctor of laws degrees will be conferred on photographer Sam Tata and archeologist Douglas Tushingham.

Tata is a world_-renowned photographer who first won acclaim for his photography during the Chinese Revolution. During the 1949 liberation of Shanghai, his camera captured a unique record of profound social change. Emigrating to Canada in the mid-l 950s, he build an unequalled collection of • portraits of Canadian artists. From Irving Layton to Michel Tre!llblay, Mavis Gallant, Margaret Laurence and Guido Molinari, the 70-year old Tata has photographed the public figures who construct our visual and verbal world through their writing, painting, photography and poems.

Tushingham is being recognized for his many achievements in all areas of archeology; from field work and research to administrative services. His 15-year term as chief archeologist at the Royal Ontario Museum mirrored the growth in prominence of that institution. Widely published in both scholarly and popular literature, he has written Masks: The Many Faces of Man, Crown Jewels of Iran, Arias of the Biblical World, Gold/or the Gods and Studies in Ancient Peruvian Metalworking.

1 For their contributions to higher education, the university is awarding honorary degrees to Douglas T. Wright and Myer Horowitz.

Wright, now president of Waterloo

University, was chairman of lhe Ontario Committee on University Affairs, which issued the well-known "Wright Report" on higher educat ion. He was the first dean of engineering at Waterloo and also served as Ontario's deputy minister of culture and recreati'on. He'll reeceive his degree at the engineering and computer scie_nce ceremony on June 17.

Horowitz, a Sir George alumnus, is president of the Univer~ity of Alberta. The former president of the Canadian Bureau of International Education and forme,r chairman of student teaching at McGill will be honoured at the arts and science

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ceremony. All spring convocation ceremonies wiJI

take place in the arena of Loyola's athletics complex.

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The graduates.'!. I

Convocation '82 prizes

And the winners are

More award winners, page I/.

The Thursday Report

A lesson for us all! "My centennial project," former PC leader Robert Stanfield said in early 1967, "is to try to love Toronto." We hope it's a misprint: ;fhe staff handbook at Kalamazoo College solemnly states, "Part-time employees working fewer than I 000 hours per

- week are not eligible for holiday pay." (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

Linda Miller, BCo,n,n

" Having five children and being a full-time student at the same time didn't present any specia l problems to Linda Miller, who will receive her bachelor of commerce degree next week at spring convocation. Indeed, she appeared surprised when asked if she found it tiring to raise chidren , now ranging in age from 8 to 15 years, and study.

"The experience wasn't bad at all ," says Miller, "I simply planned for all my cou rses to be in the afternoon when my kids were in daycare or school."

Miller, who graduated from D'Arcy McGee High School in 1965, decided to go back to school because she discovered that she had the time to do so. "I found that by 10:30 I had finished all my housework and all I was doing was watch the soaps and do some voluntary work.

"I had always wanted to go to school. In fact, after high school that was what I was planning, but instead I got married and had two children. Then, I worked for three years. and had three more children."

Her remarriage proved to be the catalyst which spurred her to take courses. Tentatively, she took an a lgebra course in the summer of 1978 as a mature student. She did well , she says, and consequently enrolled as a full-time student in data processing. She did so weU at it, she's already landed a job doing data processing research for Canadian Pacific. She hasn't ruled out an MBA but would like to work for at least a year before tackling that.

Her fondest memories of Concordia concern her involvement with extracurricular activities. "In my second year, I helped the Vietnamese family which the Loyola campus community sponsored. I also worked a great deal as a volunteer for the blood clinic. This year, besides sitti ng on a number of student committees, I was also external vice-president fo r the Commerce Students Association. I organized the

See "Miller ", page /0.

"With jeans and other casual clothes, most students didn't even noti<;e me as older, " says Linda Miller.

Just testing: Writing about "English as she is taught at college". Stephen Leacock remarked that "the only kind of examination in the subject I can think of would be to sey to the pupil. for example. ' Have you read Charles Dickens and do you like it?' and when he answered that he didn't care for him but that his uncle read him all the time. to send a BA degree to his uncle . .,

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t Breuer, BA Eddie Breuer will be part of the first

graduating class of the Liberal Arts College, which is touted by some as containing Concordia's "best and brightest" stu~ents. In Breuer's case, they may be right since he's been showered by impressive graduate school offers.

He has accepted Harvard's offer of an $11,000 grant to study near eastern languages and civilizations, specializing in post-biblical Jewish history.

In accepting the Harvard offer, Breuer · had to refuse a Columbia University scholarship, a Concordia fellowship and a Canada Council grant. His plans include getring a PhD, perhaps a degree in law. "At the least," he says, "the Liberal Arts College program aroused my interest in coptinuing my education."

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"It was the human contact of my professors and their encouragen1ent which made being at Concordia such a great experience." says Pascal Peraquin.

Jim .D ubois, BA Crediting his success at winning the grants

to the general program of the college, he says, "Columbia and Harvard accepted me because I received a solid, general background in the arts and humanities, not especially because of my minor in Judaic studies.

Pascal Peraquin, BFA

When Jim Dubois was a child. his doctor told his mother that Dubois would be lucky to finish high school. let alone attend university. ot surprisingly. over the years . this. advice was repeated by other health-care professionals since Dubois suffers from muscular dystrophy and has been confined to a wheelchair for most of his life.

This June. he'll prove the experts wrong, when he graduates from Concordia with a bachelor's degree in psychology. Furthermore. he has been accepted into McGill's master's program in educational counselling.

But Dubois has been more than a scholarly success during his years at Concordia; he was also instrumental in the creation of the Concordia Handicap Information Centre, one of the few such

, centres specifically created to handle the needs of the handicapped in Canadian universities.

The centre came about partly through the lobbying of the Handicapped Students' Association which Dubois helped found in 1978. (He served as its -president.) The group exposed many of the problems facing handicapped students and helped convince. Mag Flynn, then dean of students a t Sir George, of the necessity of a handicap resource centre. He asked Dubois to set it up and run it as coordinator.

With characteristic energy, Dubois established the centre, organized volunteers to aid the handicapped, lobbied for structural changes, conducted ccessibility and sensitivity wo_rkshops, arranged companionship and transportation services, and generally made t~e centre a roaring success.

He was supposed to work 20 hours a week as coordinator but, confesses Dubois, "Many weeks I'd pµt in more than 40 hours." It was only extraordinary self-

disci pline that helped him maintain his studies at the same time.

Dubois sums up his Concordia experience as "rewarding". "It's been an excellent learning experience. I've learned how to deal with administrations and how to handle red tape. I've gotten valuable insights ·as to how large insti tutions work, and I've learned valuable social skills."

All this will stand to good stead after he completes his master's degree at McGill, since he hopes to work in counselling at the

See " Dubois", page JO.

"It's the integrative nature of the seven college courses - art, music, history, philosophy, sociology, etc. - that we had to take which helped," he notes. "Also helpful was going through school for the last three years with the same gro.up of enthusiastic students.

"We were tortured with lots of work ," he says, " but there was much interchange of ideas and continuous discourse. 0ur discussions would start before class and continue during and after it.

"That's what education' is all about." _,-

Ever since Pascal Peraquin was a sma ll boy, music has been part of his life. First, he played the piano in his native Plessisville, then he moved on to the saxophone while in high school. By the time he entered CEGEP Ste-Foy in Quebec City, he knew that music · would be his career. ,Now he is graduating from Concordia's music department with a bachelor of fine arts degree.

According-to Peraquin, he studied at Concordia because it was the sole Canadian university offering a studio music program

·at the time. "When I entered, I was especially lucky to have such an excellent musician as Doug Walter teaching me to play jazz," he says, noting that he soo n ,-,------,--~--------------,,,,--------- ----.. ,c;;.-_-_.,...,;_..;_"'_""_"_-,

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"We were.tortured with lots of work," says Eddie Breuer of the Liberal Arts College.

\f creative work in the arts for a piece he _performed on the saxophone.

~ Although his special interest is jazz, he -~ keeps in practice by playing at weddings and • ~ playi ng as side-man, replacing others in -- bands.

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Future plans include going to Las Vegas if he is accepted in the master's program at the University of Nevada. Why there? Says Peraquin, "The music department there has a connection with the hotels where we get to play in the show-bands there. That way, we get a fot of practice and some money to support ou rselves." ,

If he isn't accepted there, he has also applied to the University of Miami. Once through with school, he hopes to become a studio musician with the recqrding studios.

His memories ,Qf Concordia are fond. Although he didn't speak much English before he came, it onl:x took several months before he gofaccustomed to speaking it.

"I learned a lot at Concordia," he concludes . "Charles Ellison and Andrew Homzy taught me a great .deal. It was the human contact of my professors and their encouragement which made being at Concordia such a great experience."

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Library ins and outs· •

Circulation policy changes

Library users who accumulate too -many fines or fa il to return books within a specified time will no longer be allowed to continue borrowing library material.

A new nine-point circulation policy adopted by Senate last week also limits the number of items borrowed at any one time to 30, although exceptions will be made for individuals who obtain authorization from a department chairman. The policy will take effect early in the fall.

Reader Services director Joseph Princz says the intent of the new policy is to ensure greater availability of material for students, faculty and staff.

The number of books in circulation is increasing steadily, he says, along with complaints about the difficulty of obtaining many titles. '

By changing the circulation rules the librairies hope to encourage people to return material more quickly, thereby increasing everyone's chances of obtaining the titles they need.

Under the new policy, • if an item is overdue for IO days the

individual involved will be declared a "delinquent borrower" and will be barred from further borrowing until the item is returned and the fine paid, or payment is

provided for the book; • a non-recoverable processing charge of

$15 will be added to the cost of a lost item together with the fine, if any;

• fine notices will no longer be mailed out (to reduce administrative costs); however, after a user accumulates unpaid fines of $2.50 for late return of materials he or she will be declared "delinquent" and barred from further borrowing;

• the maximum fine for an item will be decreased from $IO to $5;

• the daily fine will be changed to 25 cents· and the I 0-cent fine fo l' the first three overdue days will be abolished. KW

Vanier extension: ·pl0:nning begins

By Minko Sotiron The fi rst in a series of information

meetings on proposed Vanier library renovations was held on April 22 to get feedback from the university community.

"We are going ahead in our planning as if the money was forthcoming," Frank Chalk, chairman of the Senate library committee, said at the meeting.

Accord ing to Marti n Cohen, library collections coordinator and a member of the Senate committee, "The Vanier library has a number of problems, notably a lack of space and poor ventilation . Then there are problems of floors levels not matching and

EMERGENCY FUND FOR

INTERNATIONA[ STUDENTS

The fund is available for international students registered prior to September 1981 to help defray the cost ofincreased tuition fees.

Applications available by September 1982 in Dean of Students offices (SGW: 2135 Mackay; Loyola: AD-129)

The Thursday Report

Deadline: September 30, 1982 Decision: November 1, 1982

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Happy birthday: This year marks.a 40th birthday anniversary for Carleton U niver~ity and a 25th for the University of Waterloo. The latter has chosen a catchy slogan for its anniversary open house: "Meet Your Waterloo". Concordia, by the way, turns eight in August. So much for the computer age: "That arithmetic is the basis of all mental activities," ·

the entrance, which has to be completely redesigned. The diffusion of light, causing extreme heat has to be changed , and the ambient nosie levels have to be reduced. Also, the auditorium presents a problem because to enter it people disturb those studying." (For a complete rundown on these problems, see TTR, April 2, 1982.)

Cohen presented some of the features which should be included in the renovated librar_y . Aside from home environments (bunching books and catalogues and ~tupy areas according to related subjects), the library should have more faculty study space, which it now lacks. He called on the audience to think about what they would like the library to incude and then convey the message to the library committee.

This view was echoed .by J.P. Petolas, assistant vice-rec~or for physical resources, who said that now was the time to let library planners know what is needed . "Once the plans are finalized , it's highly unlikely that changes will be considered. That's why we want Jots of ideas before construction."

Petolas also said that the design should take into account the minimum arriount of staff needed to operate it. Moreover, he added, the building won't be built on the presumption that there will be unlimited growth in the library collection. "The design will take into account limited growth as well as no growth at all."

Some members of the aud ience presented ideas for improvement. History professor · Robert Tittler called for lockable carrels, isolation corners, windows that open, and natural light.

Another asked how would the library prevent inconvenience once construction. began. Cohen replied that the extension would be built first, and the collection moved there while renovations were done on the older wing. '

The next meeting will be held in early fall.

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business fair at Loyola." Althugh she confesses to having initial

misgivings as to how the younger students would receive her, once she began school her

· misgivings disappeared . "Once you wear jeans ·and other casual clothes, most students didn't even notice me as older. In fact , they'd be surprised when I told then I had five kids."

"Indeed," she remembers, "another student who's as old as I am and I were remarking to ourselves, we were probably the most immature students in the place."

Dubois continued from page 9.

CEGEP or university level. Although he hopes to help McGill l!lodify

its campus to make it more accessible to the hapdicapped, he'll have to limit his lobbying activities. 'Tm going to have an extremely heavy workload, and it'll be all I can do to keep my head above water."

Dubois wants to thank the people of Concordia for their awareness, cooperation and helpfulness vis-a-vis the handicapped. "Without them, we never could have made a success of the centre," he says:

insisted Arthur Schopenhauer, "is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomp­lished by a machine."

Statistics continued from page 3.

from 31 to 12) and PhDs ( 46 per cent: from 13 to 7). The number of BSc degrees has remained fairly stable in the I SO-student range.

The university-wide increase in bachelor degrees - from 196 I to 2 I 34 - matches the overall university rise of nine to ten per cent. Graduate degrees (diplomas, masters and doctorates) are up 13 per cent - from 228 to 258 - with only doctorates dropping in numbers from last year. Undergraduate certificates have increased 23 per cent, from I 00 to 123; but, as mentioned above, this is more a shift of existing students than an absolute increase in numbers.

The o_verall 1981-82 increase has nothing to do with the fact that there was no fall convocation last November. Although fall graduates are entitled to attend spring convocation, separate statistics are still kept for fall and spring.

Convocation continuedfrom page 3.

front, the flat part being almost vertical, but then a former dean at Sir George used to do the same thing, which looked particularly grotesque on top of a moon-face and a beaky nose.

Such memories might appear to lend support to those who criticize convocations. But surely, in a world starved of pagentry apart from strutting cheerleaders, ticker-tape receptions for returning gladiators, the threatening overkill of May Day in Moscow or the sweaty joys of Carnival in Rio, there is a place for solemn but colourful recognition of real achievement. There are a few more impressive sights than the procesion of a double file of doctoral gowns (even if one spots the odd pair of cowboy boots or other exotic footware peeking out from below). Their collective wisdom is the fundamental guarantee of the calibre of the degrees awarded.

For graduating students this may be the only moment in a lifetime when the attention of hundreds or even thousands of people is focused upon them as individuals. For many, perhaps the majority in the case of Concordia, this will be the first time that anyone in the famiiy has even attended university, let alone graduated therefrom. Many of these, too, will have completed their studies on a part-time basis over many years, including summers, to the extent that the degree repr.esents in some ways a family effort.-Of course it is true that many students attend graduation to please their families. It is gratifying that in an increasingly self­centred age such things still happen.

If many students find little attraction in ceremonies, it must be recogized that attending convocation is not the most exciting of pastimes for faculty members and administrators. Often a rather distressingly small number turns out. Without them, no less than without students, the ceremony has a hollow ring. University is buildings, classrooms, laboratories, computer cards; shuttle buses and all the r_est. A hove all it is -the interaction and mutual enrichment of student and pro"fessor. Both have a place of honour at convocation.

Are we going to the dogs? One industry that seems to be profiting from the economic crisis is the pet business. Quebecers spent $125 million on their finned , winged and four-legged friends last year; and that's not including vet fees. Two-thirds of that goes toward pet food, with the remainder being spent on the pets themselves and a multitude of ac~essories and gadgets. According to one pet

shop supplier, an average of $12.5 million is spent annually on fish and birds (mostly by fraricophones) and $8.8 million goes toward dogs and cats (mostly by anglophones) . There's a growth market in reptiles, which are worth about $1.5 million in annual sales, mostly to women. By the way, the number of vets has multiplied sevenfold in Quebec over the past decade.

Convo~ation awards The "Montreal network" -continued from page 8.

Mixed Faculty Awards THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S MEDAL . ................... Marlene Major

Concordia loo,ks good THE BIRK'S MEDAL ..................................... Marlene Major As part of its review of the universi ties in

the greater Montreal area, the Department of Education has asked McGill and Concordia to better define their specific roles and missions in order to assure their contribution to Quebec society as a whole.

THE MAPPIN MEDAL ...... , ...... .. . . ......... . .. . : .. . . . Lawrence Gilles Marcoux THE ANNE STOKES MEDAL. .. ............ : .. ..... . .. .. ... Christina Louise Kerr THE FIRST GRADUATING CLASS AWARD . . ..... ... .. . .. Not awarded .THE MALONE MEDAL ..... ........................ . .... . Not awarded THE LOYOLA CAMPUS MEDAL ....... . .... .... . .... . .... Lois Amy Crowe THE SGW CAMPUS MEDAL ......... .... . ...... . ......... Not awarded The government has suggested such an

exercise might help remove "any ambiguity" that might -currently exist within the universities themselves, or indeed, in Quebec City, about the future of the two institutions.

NOTE: Awards made only when merited.

AT A GLANCE continuedfrom page 2.

though: the last unionization vote, two years ago, lost by a margin of six to one. Running CU NASA for the coming year are Donald Chambers (registrar's office) as president, Barbara Whitehorse (economics) as executive vice-president, Linda Schachtler (registrar's office) as vice-president for liaison, Joyce Carson (Simone de Beauvoir) as executive secretary and George Stecyk ( computer centre) as treasurer. 1981-82 president Fred Francis serves on ~his year's

, executive as past member ... Bruce Smart in the news: Concordia's associate registrar is not only president of the Association of Registrars of the Universities and Colleges of Canada (which is holding its biennial conference in Montreal later this month), but he's also been renamed by acclamation as the non-academic participants' representative to the Concordia employee benefits committee. His term in the latter office runs to May 31 , 1984 ...

Everybody loves a winner; Two former Concordia students won ACTRA awards at last month's ceremonies in Toronto: Phil Bedard and Larry Lalonde, both for "best writer radio variety". Daniel Provost walked off with the first prize at the Graduate Students' Association chess tournament earlier this spring. Myung-Joo Park, an undergraduate at the Centre for Building Studies, won second place (worth $250) in the 1982 international student paper competition sponsored by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air­Conditioning Engineers for her paper entitled Building Energy Ana~ysis at Initial Concept Stage ... Full-time faculty have a ne':" slate of representatives for 1982-83, CUFA elections earlier this spring resulted in the following executive: Michael Brian (English dept.) , president; Joseph Mouledoux-(sociology & anthropology), I st vice-president; John Hill (history), 2nd vice­president; Catherine Mackenzie (fine arts) , 3rd vice-president; David Frost (geography) secretary; and Brian Markland (accountancy), treasurer. .. The English dept. is holding its annual theatre tour later this month to the Stratford and Shaw festivals.

' Between June 24 and 27 you can see Shakespeare's The Tempest, Julius Caesar and The Merry Wives of Windsor, Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado and Shaw's Too Good to be True, all for as little as $160 including transportation and accommodations. For reservations or further information, call Ron Wareham at 482-0320, ext. 534/ 560 as soon as possible.

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NOTICES TO ALL FALL 1982 DEGREE, DIPLOMA AND CERTIFICATE CANDIDA TES; If you will have completed the requirements for your degree, diploma or certificate by the end of the summer 1982 session, you must submit the fall 1982 graduation application appropriate for your level of study in order to be considered for your degree, diploma or certificate this fall. Deadline: July I 5. Forms now available at Registrar's ,.. Services (Loyola: CC-214; SGW: N-107).

These policy proposals are part of the so­called Plan Montrealais prepared by the Department of Education to deal with higher education problems in Montreal in the area of accessibility. Working papers of several hundred pages were presented to Montreal-area rectors last March 25 by the deputy minister of education.

Only the summary paper, containing proposals for actions, has been made public. It was released recently by the faculty union at the Montreal campus of the Universite du Quebec.

The Thursday Report has learned the documents present a relatively favorable picture of Concordia. For instance, in I 979-80, Concordia is said to have university students in the Montreal area with only 13% of the total budgets of area universities.

The government documents note the lean faculty and staff contingents at Concordia. Thus, Concordia had , in 1979-80, 38 full­time equivalent faculty for every I 000 full­time equivalent students, while the Quebec average is 53 per I 000. The university had , in the same year, 17 full-time equivalent non­teaching staff per I 000 full-time equivalent students, compared to 107 per IOOO as th Quebec average.

As part of its proposals, the government also intends to change its method of funding

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for increases and decreases in student enrolment, in order to imprpve its outmoded grant system.

It hopes to establish a unique admissions office for the Montreal institutions by the fall of 1983. Such a system already exists for most Montreal-area CEGEPs. In addition, the government hopes to convince the Montreal universities, as well as the Universite de Sherbrooke, to develop a · cooperative system whereby students refused admission to quota programs in one institution might register in another.

Finally, Quebec wants the universities to be more open about the intricacies of their admission policies and standards, with particular attention to programs with admission quotas.

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Concordia's committee on priorities and planning, now in its fourth month of consultations and study, will be ready to su_bmit a far-reaching report to the Board of Governors by September. The report will focus on the future of the university's academic life and structures in the search for excellence and financial responsibility.

The committee w.as struck in January to help in the formulation of recommendations concerning the twin goals of high academic quality and accessibility to the :Wider community. Acting within a budget-oriented context, the committee is concerned with the shaping of Concordia of the future and is attempting to identify the changes or developments required in the coming five to ten years.

The committee of five, drawn from the university community, is now meeting three days a week to interview senior administrators (vice-rectors and deans) and directors of various administrative services. To date some 40 people have been interviewed with the goal of better understanding the structure and operation of Concordia. Chairpersons and directors of special units within the university have been asked to submit briefs and suggestions and student representatives are also being asked to provide suggestions. .

The committee will continue to meet regularly throughout the summer and hopes to finalize its report in the latter part of August. Further interviews are still being planned to receive input from as many areas of the university as possible.

Individuals or groups who wish to offer suggestions, proposals or critiques related to the university are invited to send written comments before June 30 to the chairman, Prof. M. Fahey, c/ o BC 224-IA. Inquiries may be made at 879-4113 or 879-8184.

June 3, 1982

The Thursday Report is published weekly du ring the academic year by the Public Relations Office. Concord ia University. 1455 de Maison neuvc Blvd. West, Mont real. Quebec H3G I MS. (5 14) 879-8497. Materia l published in The Thursday Report may be reproduced withou t permiss ion. Credi t. would be a ppreciated .

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e back page the back page the back pa EVENTS Thursday J. CONSERVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC­ART: Une Femme mariee (Jean- Luc Godard, 1964) (English subt.) with Macha Meril, Philippe Leroy and Bernard 'oel at 7 p.m. ; All These Women (For Att /me Ta/a Om Alla Desso Kvinnor) (I ngmar Bergman, 1964) (English subt.) with J arl KuUe, Harriet Andersson and Bibi Andersson at 9 p.m. in H-110; SI.SO each. SGW campus. , · WEISSMA GALLERY & GALLERY II: The New York Connection, until June 5. On the mezzanine of the Hall bldg. SGW campus. GALLERY I: F. W. Hutchison. /87/-195.3, until

7 June 5. On the mezzanine of the Hall bldg. SG W campus.

Friday 4 CO SERVA TORY OF Cl EMA TOGR.\PHIC A RT: Le Journal d'une femme de chamhre (Diary of a _Chambermaid) (Luis Bunu.el, 1964) (English subt) with Jeanne Moreau. Michel Piccoli, Georges Geret and Daniel lvemel at 7 p.m.; Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock., 1964) (English) with Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery and Diane Baker at 9 p.m. in H-110; $1.50 each. SGW campus.

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Saturday S CO, SERVA TORY OF Cl EMA TOGRAPHIC ART: Onibaba (111e Demon) (Kaneta Shindo, 1964) (English subt.) with obuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura and Kei Sato at 7 p.m.; Repulsion (Roman Polanski. 1965) (English) with Cath.erine Deneuve, John Fraser, Pat rick Wymark and Yvonne Furneaux al 9 p.rn. in H-1 IO; $1.50 each. SGW campus.

Sunday 6 CO SERVA TORY OF Cl EMATOGRAPHIC ART: Loving Couples (Alskande Par) (Mai Zetterling, 1965) (English subt.) with Ha rriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom and Gio Petre at 7 p.m.; Les Amours aune blonde (Lasky Jedne Plavovlasky ) ( Milos Forman, 1965) (French subt.) with Hana Brejchova, Vladimir Pucholl a nd An onin Blazejovsky at 9 p.m. in H-110; $1. 50 each. SGW campus.

Monday 7 CO SERVATORY OF Cl EMATOGRAPHIC ART: U~.-sses (Joseph Strick, 1966) (English) with Bar'6ara Jefford, Anna Manahan and Milo O'Shea at 8:30 p.m. in H-110; Sl.50. SGW campus.

Tuesday 8 CO ERVA TORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART: Belle de jour (Luis Bunuel, 1966) (English sub!.) with Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli a nd Genevieve Page at 8:30 p.m. in H-1 10; Sl.50. SGW campus.

Wednesday 9 CO SERVA TORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART: King Kong (Ernest Schoedsack & Merian C. Cooper, 1933) (English) with Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot and Robert Armstrong at 8:30 p.m. in H-110; Sl.50. SGW campus. SPRING co ·vocA TION, COMMERCE & ADMI ISTRA TION: At the Loyola arena, 2:30 p.m.; reception approximately 5:30 p.m. in the gymnasium.

· Thursday I 0 CONSERVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART: &rbarella ( Roger Vadim, 1968) (English) with Jane Fonda., John Phillip Law and Milo O'Shea at Tp.m.; Q-&c My Love (Jean- Pierre Lefebvre, 1969) (French) with Larry Kent, Anne Lauriault and Jean-Pierre Cartier at 9 p.m. in H-110; Sl.50 each. SGW campus.

Friday 11 CONSERVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART: Rhapsod_p (Charles Vidor, 1954) (English) with Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassman, John Ericson and Louis Calhem at 7 p.m.; Tell Me Where It Hurts (Paul Bogan, 1974) (English) with Maureen Stapleton. Paul Sorvioo and Doris

Dowling at 9 p.m. in H- 110; $1.50 each. SGW campus.

Saturday 12 . CONSERVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART: Satyricon (Federico Fellini, 1968) (English su bt.) with Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Bo rn and Salvo Randone at 7 p.m.; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woo(/? (Mike Nichols, 1966) (English) with Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, George Segal a nd Sandy Dennis at 9:15 p.m. in H-110; $1.50 each. SGW campus.

Sunday 13 CONSERVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART:._ Ma nuil chez Maud (Eric Ro hmer, 1969) (English subt.) with Jea n-Louis Trintignant, Fran~oise Fabian and Marie-Christine Barrault al 7 p.m. ; Woman of the Dunes (Sunna no Onna) (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964) (English subt .) with Eiji Okada and Kyoko Kishida at 9 p.m. in H-110: $1.50 each . SG W campus. SPRING CONVOCATION, ARTS & SCIENCE (DIVISIONS I & III): Al the Loyola arena, 2:30 p.m.; reception approximately 4:30 p.m. in the gymnasium. SPRI G CO VOCATI ON, ARTS & SCIENCE (D IVISIONS.II & IV): At the Loyola arena, 8:30 p.m.; reception approximately IO p.m. in the gymnasium.

Monday 14 CONSERVATO RY OF CINEMATOG RAPHIC ART: Teorema (Pier Pasolini , 1969) (Engl ish subt. ) wit h Laura Betti , Massimo Girott i, Silvana Mangano and Terrence Stamp at 8:30 p.m. in H-110; $1.50. SGW campus.

Tuesday IS CONSERVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART: Le Genou de Claire (Eric Ro hmer, 1970) (French) with J ean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu a nd Beatrice Roma nd at 8:30 p.m. in H-11 0; $1. 50. SGW campus. S PRJNG CONVOCATION, FINE ARTS: At tht Loyola Arena, 8:30 p.m.; recept ion a pproximate!) IO p.m. in the gymnasium.

Wednesday 16 CONSERVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART:// Decameroµe (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1970)

- . (English subt. ) with Franco·Citti, Ninetto Davo li, Angela Luce and Patricia Capparel li at 8:30 p.m. in H-110; SI.SO. SGW campus. WEISSMAN GALLERY, GALLERY I & GALLERY II : Concordia University art collection, until mid-September. On tti.e mezzanin of the Hall bldg. SGW campus.

Thursday 17 CONSERVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART: L'Ange et la Femme (Gilles Carle, 1977) (French) with Ca role Laure a nd Lewis Furey at 7 p.m.; &by Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956) (English) with Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, El i Wallach and Mildred Dunnock at 9 p.m. in H- 110; $1.50 each. SGW campus. BOARD OF GOVERNORS: Open meeting at

.1:15 p.m. in H-769. SGW campus. SPRING CONVOCATION, ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCE: At the Loyola arena,

8:30 p.m.; reception approximately 10: 15 p.m. in the gymnasium.

Friday 18 CONSERVATORY OF CINEMAJOGRAPHIC ART: Quiel Days in Clichy (Jens Jorgen Thorsen, 1970) (English) with Paul Valjean, Wayne John Rodda and Louise White at 7 p.m-.; Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972) (English) with Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider a nd Jean-Pie rre Lea ud at 9 p.m. in H-1 10; $1.50 each. SGW campus.

Saturday 19 CONSERVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask (Woody Allen, 1972) (English) with Woody Allen, Gene Wilder and Lou Jacobi al 7 p.m.; Baby Doll (El ia Kaza n, 1956) (English) with Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Eli Wallach and Mildred Dunnock at 9 p.m. i:-r H- 110; $ 1.50 each. SGW campus.

Sunday 20 . CONSERV ATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC A RT: The Touch (Ingmar Bergman, 1971 ) (English) with Elliott Gould, Bibi Andersson, Max Von Sydow and Maria o lgard at 7 p.m.; Frit z the Cat (Ralph Ba ksh i, 1972) (English) at 9 p.m. in H- 11 0; $1.50 each. SG W campus.

Monday 21 CONSE RVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC A RT: Glissements progressifs du plaisir (Alain Robbe-Gri llel , 1973) (English subt. ) with Anicee Alvina, Olga George~-Picot and Michel Lonsdale at 8:30 p.m. in H- 110; $1.50. SGW campus.

Tuesday 22 CO S ERV ATORY OF CINEMATOGRA PHIC ART: Scenes.from a Marriage (Scener ur el/ Aktenskap) ( Ingmar Bergman, 1973) (English subt. ) wit h Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Bibi Andersson and Jan Malrnsjo at 8:30 p.m. in H-1 IO; $1. 50. SGW campus.

Wednesday 23 CONSERVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART: Canterbury Tales (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1972) (English subt.) with Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli , Franco Citti and Josephine Chaplin at 8:30 p.m. in H-110; $1.50. SGW campus.

Thursday 24 FETE NA TIONALE: T HE UN IVERSITY IS CLOSED. CONSERVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART: Sweet Movie (Dusa n Makavejev, 1974) (French) wit h Carole Laure, Pierre Clementi , Anna Prucnal and Sarni Frey at 7 p.m.; Gina (Denys Arcand, 1975) (English subt.) with Celine Lomez, Claude Blanchard , Gabriel Arcand and Paule Baillargeon at 9 p.m. in H-110; $1.50 each. SGW campus.

Friday· 25 CONSERVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART: La Bete (Walerian Borowczyk, 1975) (English subt.) with Sirpa lane, Lisbeth Hummel and Guy Trejean at 7 p.m.; The Night Porter

The very, very end With another term gorie by and a whole new crop of graduates about to leave

the university, TTR calls it quits for the summer. We'll be back on August 26, though, and return to our weekly publishing

schedule as of September 9. Because of the Labour Day holiday weekend, the deadline for submissions to the September 9 issue will be noon, Friday, September 3. The Monday noon before Thursday publication is our.regular deadline. · ·

Send all your back page submissions to Maryse Perraud in the public relations: BC-213, 879-8497.

Have a good summer!

King Kong shows off in the .film of 1he same name. The ori~inal / 933 King Kong, starring Ft1y Wray, comes to Concordia on June 9 at 8:30 p.m. in H-1/0.

(Lilia na Cavani, 1974) (English) with Dirk · Bogarde, Charlotte Ram piing, Phil ippe Leroy and Gabriel Ferzetti at 9 p.m. in H-110; $1. 50 each. SGW campus.

Saturday 26 CONSERVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHJC ART: L'Ernpire des sens (Ai no Corrida) (Nagisa Oshima, 1977) (French subt.) with Eiko Matsuda a nd Tatsuya Fuji at 7 p.m.; /00 / Nights (Pier

. Paolo Pasolini, 1974) (English subt.) with Ninetto Davo li, Franco Marli and Ines Pelegrini at 9 p.in. in H-110; $1.50 each. SGW campus.

Sunday 27 CONSERVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART: Story of Sin (Dzieje Grezechu) (Walerian Borowczyk, 1976) (English subt.) with Grazyna Dlugolecka, Jerzy Zelnik a nd Olgierd Lukaszewicz at 7 p.m.; Pourquoi Pas? (Coline Serreau, 1977) (English subt. ) with Sarni Frey, Mario Gonzales, Christ ine Murillo and Nicole Jamel.at 9 p.m. in H-110; SI.SO each. SGW campus.

Monday 28 CONS ERV A TORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART: L'Homme qui aimail /es femmes (Fran~ois Truffaut, 1977) (English subt.) with Charles

· Denner, Leslie Caron, Birgitte Fossey and Nathalie Baye at 8:30 p.m. in H- 110; $1.50. SGW campus.

Tuesday 29 _ CONSERVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART: Sauve qui peut / la vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1979) (French) with Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc and Nathalie Baye at 8:30 p.m. in· H-110; $1.50. SGW campus.

Wednesday 30 CONSERVATORY OF CINEMATOGRAPHIC ART: The Postman Always Rings Twice (Bob Rafelson, 1981) (English) with Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange and John Colicos at 8:30 p.m. in H-110; $1.50. SGW campus.

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