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$750,000 Cf DA grant creates finance and banking centre

Visit to China cements new academic links

BY BARB A RA BLA CK

A Concordia delegation went to China this month to strength­

en old ties and explore new ones. The trip included a visit with

Hong Kong alumni who will help with the Capital Campaign, atten­dance at the centenary festivities of Beijing University, and active partic­ipation in a conference of university presidents in Nanjing.

In Beijing, the Concordia delega­tion included Rector Frederick Lowy and Mary Kay Lowy, and Director of the Centre for International Aca­demic Cooperation Balbir Sahni.

In addition, D ean of Arts and Sci­ence M artin Singer , Dean of Commerce and Administration

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Mohsen Anvari, and Dale Doreen, Director of the Aviation Master's of Business Administration (AMBA), were in the Chinese capital.

At its present rate of growth, China's economy could be the largest in the world sometime in the first half of the next century, and its financial and banking sectors have potential for enormous growth. The country is also a huge market for educational services, particularly in the hitherto undeveloped field of management.

The Concordia delegation met with the president of Xiamen Uni­versity, a partner with Commerce and Administration in a major edu­cation al project in the financial services sector to s~t up a centre for

international finance and banking in Xiamen.

Just after the delegation returned to Montreal, they received word that $750,000 for three years of funding for the $1.7-million project will be provided by the Canadian Interna­tional Development Agency (CIDA). Partners in the project are the Centre for Canada-Asia Busi­ness Relations, the Bank of Montreal, CIBC and the Canadian ~ accountancy firm KPMG. Li

The proposal for the project was ~ t;;

prepared in record time in the Facul- ~

ty. A strong teaching and research 0

record in international finance and banking, contacts with leading com­panies here and experience in China

See China, p. 5

Networks of Centres of Excellence project attracts industry giants

Data \Narehousing provides a challenge

BY EVE KR A KOW

It's a paradox all Internet users face: You want to do a search on

the Internet . You call up your favourite search engine and input a few key words.

Hundreds of entries pop up on screen. As you scroll through them and click on a few, you -find that at least half are irrelevant.

What is even more frustrating is that you know the information you're seeking is out there. And so the tedious, time-consuming search begins ...

Might there one day be a way to explain to your computer exactly what you're looking for, and have it conduct the search intelligently?

This is, in a simplified sense, one of the goals that Laks V.S. Laksh­manan, Associate Professor of Computer Science, hopes to achieve with his current research project.

T he project, titled "Building, <2.!ierying, Analyzing, and Mining Data Warehouses on the Internet," is a joint collaboration among database researchers at the University ofToron- · to, the University ofBritish Columbia,

Simon Fraser University, and Concordia, together with IBM Cana­da's Centre for Advanced Studies.

It has received major funding from the Networks of Centres of Excel­lence/Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (NCE/IRIS), as

· well as graduate fellowship awards from IBM.

"The goal," Lakshmanan explained, "is to come up with a uniform way of accessing information and a means of assimilating it so that what you end up with is not raw data, but information at a higher level - what's referred to as "knowledge": patterns, trends and rules, information that is useful to the end user, whether for business, indus­try, health care, or a specific field."

The four-year project has four components: constructing data ware­houses on the Internet , querying data warehouses on the Internet, online analytical processing (OLAP) in Web-based data warehouses, and data mining in Web-based data warehouses.

Lakshmanan illustrates these con­cepts using the example of a food retail store.

See Lakshmanan, p. 11

Professor Andre Herman honoured by students

Rialto provides appreciative audience for student films BY SYLVAIN COMEAU

The popular annual screening of Concordia student films took

place this year at a downtown cine­ma, bringing in better audiences than ever. From May 6 to 8, the films were screened at the Rialto, a former repertory house that now specializes in Indian cinema.

Third-year Film Production stu­dent Tara DeSimone explained that so many editing hours were lost dur­ing the ice storm that the screening was postponed by a week, making the Henry F. Hall Building inacces­sible . "The Rialto was a perfect alternative."

Co-organizer and fellow third­year student Tod Van Dyk agreed. "The Rialto is the oldest, and, I think, the most beautiful movie house in town," he said.

It was a fitting celebration of the 25th anniversary of tlie Cinema Department, now known as the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, and a chance to throw what Van Dyk called "a bit of a party in a chic envi­ronment."

While past screenings have been resounding successes, DeSimone admitted that they were attended largely by film students and their loved ones. 'We're getting a much wider audience than in previous years," she said.

"The appeal of this format is that you get to see maybe 20 films in a night, all very different. If you don't like the one that's on now, you can just wait a couple of minutes and the next one will be on soon."

What kind of movie-goer chooses an eclectic collection of student films over the latest summer blockbuster?

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"People who are interested in the arts," Van Dyk said, "and in finding out what the younger generation has to say about society. Some of the films might be a little strange for the average movie-goer, but they chal­lenge audiences to look at cinema in new ways."

"I saw a lot of films here which I otherwise wouldn't get to see on the big screen," said third-year student Jim Hoffman, an avid Rialto fan when the ~ theatre was a rep house. "A screening ~ of student films is certainly in the same u:: vein. After this, people will only get to see them at film festivals."

Hoffman appreciates knowing that his film, Homonculous Chuck, was not only seen on the big screen, but enjoyed by an audience who showed up expecting to be entertained.

"My film was screened yesterday, and there was a surprising amount of cheering which didn't come from my entourage of friends and family. I was thrilled because I knew there were a lot of cinephiles in the audi­ence who have nothing to do with the cinema school."

Hoffman is convinced that stu­dent films can have mass appeal.

"I'm hard-pressed to see student films as so much different from other short films. I'm impressed by the professionalism and originality of most of the films I've seen here. If there were more venues for short films, I think audiences would want to see them more often."

Third-year student Russell Bennett, whose film Tender was screened on the second day, said their greatest strength is their lack of commercial constraints. 'We want to learn how to make films that are marketable, and we want to acquire the technical skills, but as students, we can make films which don't have to make money. We only have to please ourselves, and maybe a few people who appreciate innovation and experimentation."

One of the most respected of the professors teaching such skills, Andre Herman, was honoured by the students on awards night. Several speakers paid homage to Herman, who founded the Film Production program.

As an encore, the Mel Hoppen­heim School of Cinema is presenting the Concordia Animation Festival tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Imperial Cinema, 1432 de Bleury. Admission is free.

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Conference celebrates writing for the love of language, freedom

Femmes de lettres et le fran(:ais hors frontieres

BY EV ELYN-E ABI TBOL

Le colloque Femmes de lettres et le ljran;ais hors frontiere, en hom­

mage a Mai:r V erthuy, directrice-fondatrice de l'Institut Simone de Beauvoir, a accueilli des femmes de lettres d'un peu partout et quelques hommes d'ici comme Howard Scott et Paul Bandia. Bien peu de presence masculine, mais un vif succes clans les echanges.

Elles etaient presque une centaine. Toutes ont rendu un chaleureux et touchant hommage, pardon "fem­mage," expression lancee par Lucie Lequin, directrice du Departement d'etudes fram;:aises, a Mafr Verthuy, qui a su influencer leur parcours d'une maniere ou d'une autre.

Des illusions aux espoirs, de la tra­

dition a la modernite, toutes ont

echange sur le fait d'apprivoiser soit

l'horreur au quotidien, comme les

femmes algeriennes, soit le bonheur

d'ecrire. Tout simplement.

L 'ecriture au feminin semble

empreinte d'une soif de liberte

absolue: ecrire comme si l'on n'avait

plus rien a perdre .. . de cette sincerite

absolue qui arrive lorsque l' on a vecu

l'exil, un drame interieur ou une

peine d'amour .. .

Cette quete identitaire de l'ecriture

au feminin ressemble etrangement a l'exil et a l'identification meme d'un

exil interieur. Le fil d'Ariane du col­

loque: L'ecriture comme un palliatif

a une reconnaissance.

Young alumnus inspires students with his zest for the profession

Journalism's Geoff Baker wins second national award

BY SYLVAIN-JACQUES

DESJARDINS

Geoff Baker's jubilant mood was in stark contrast to the dingy

diner he found himself in for a breakfast interview recently. The 29-year-old Journalism 201 instructor, who is also a reporter at The Gazette, had two good reasons to be upbeat. He just married his university sweet­heart, and he just won his second National Newspaper Award.

Baker was modest about winning the award, saying he was shocked to win it again. His first award was in 1995 for spot or general news cover­age, while this one was in the sports-writing category for his cover­age of the Montreal Alouettes football team.

"This has been a lucky year for me," he said between bites of his bacon and eggs.

But Professor Enn Raudsepp, Director of Concordia's Journalism Department, would beg to differ. "None of what he has achieved has

ir been by luck," he said over the ~ phone. "I've seen him in action, and ';

< he has never stood still. Geoff paid ~

his dues and was rewarded for his ~ hard work and skill."

Dave Stubbs, The Gazette's sports editor, agreed. "There was no reason to be surprised that he won again," he said. "Geoff has a terrific future ahead of him."

Baker joined The Gazette after graduating from Concordia's Jour­nalism program in 1991. A sports buff, he had planned on becoming a professional football player, but five operations on a bad knee nixed that, so he decided to put his writing skills to use.

He was hired by Montreal's Eng­lish-language daily thanks to a thick portfolio of freelance writing for

community and university newspa­pers that he started when he was 17. He also worked as a reporter for a community TV station until he "cured" himself of a desire to become a television news anchor.

Even before he hired Baker as a part-time instructor three years ago, Raudsepp used to call him in to give inspirational talks to students.

Baker said he isn't about to take himself too seriously. Although he is on The Gazette's business desk now, he plans to return eventually to sports writing.

"I still have a lot to prove," he said.

"I always tell my students that Qour­nalism] is not a sprint, it's a marathon, filled with highs and lows. You have to be in it for the long haul."

Gazette columnist Josh Freed, who has lectured here, also won a

National Newspaper Award this year. Among those nominated were Gazette investigative reporters William Marsden, who has spoken to Journalism classes, and Rod Mac­donell, who has lectured for several years, plus alumnus Mike Shahin, who works for the Ottawa Citizen.

2nd Annual Concordia Volunteers Book Fair OCTOBER 7 A N D 8

Used books of all kinds, including antiquarian, Canadiana, autographed -- Concordia writers, are being accepted now:

SGW - Room 303, 2070 Mackay St. Loyola - 2496 West Broadway Ave.

West Island - Call 695~2502 South Shore - Call Geoff Adams, 461-3487

Pick-up of larger donations - e-mail barclay@alcor.concordia.ca Last year, nearly $5,000 was raised for the Emergency Student Food

Voucher Program and the Emergency Student Loan Program

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COMPILED BY BARBARA BLACK

Concordia faculty, staff and alumnilte pop up in the media more often than you might think!

This month's issue of La recherche includes a 66-page supplement about research in Quebec. Thanks to Director of Research Services Erica Besso and Dean of Graduate Studies and Research Claude Bedard, it included information about Concordia research and new programs, including the Fine Arts/Computer Science digital anima­tion unit, research in genetics by Biology's Marcus Lawrence and Susan Mikkelsen, and Engineering's collaboration with CAE Elec­tronics.

Guy Lachapelle (Political Science) was quoted in an article picked up by the Canadian Press and reprinted widely. He said that new Quebec Liberal leader Jean Charest will have to move to the politi­cal centre if he wants to be accepted by Quebecers, and could be stuck squarely on the fence, like predecessor Robert Bourassa. In an equally visible article, however, Daniel Salee (SCPA) said that in terms of image, Charest is "Bouchard's equal, if not better. That's the advantage of youth."

A two-page feature in Western Report, B.C. Report and Alberta Report magazines about "tra_nshumanists" quoted Arthur Kroker (Political Science). The Report says that the hope of transcending this mortal coil with the help of technology is gradually entering the mainstream. Kroker's gloomy view was that Western culture is not ascending to techno-utopia but descending "towards the brilliant illumination of final burnout."

Apparently, some advertisers are thriftily turning to post-it notes on your morning newspaper as an alternative to expensive inserts, reports Marketing magazine. Stephanie Whittaker quoted Enn Raudsepp (Journalism) as saying that it doesn't bother him, and might help newspapers survive the money crunch.

Cultural affairs minister Lise Beaudoin said in an interview in The Toronto Star via Canadian Press that Quebec has a lot of catching­up to do in its public library services because two generations ago, the Catholic Church discouraged the free flow of ideas. Mair Ver­thuy (Etudes franc;aises) said that present-day Quebecers have had more exposure to television than to books. "Quebec went straight from a non-reading society to a visual society," she said.

Frank Chalk (History) was quoted in an article that appeared in the U.S. and Canada, and has attracted interest in South Africa. It was about a little-known atrocity early in this century in what is now Namibia, in which about 60,000 Herero people, three-quarters of the population, were killed by the ruling Germans. The killings gave rise to a book about eugenics that was approvingly read by Adolf Hitler. Chalk, vice-president of the international Association of Genocide Scholars, said that the line from the Herero massacre to the Nazis should be better known.

Christopher Brodie (ITTS) and Music student Carmelino Sacco formed a company with the help of Tom O'Connell (Entrepreneur­ial Studies) to help blind people access the Internet, and called it All Our Friends Everywhere. An article and photo appeared in the West Island supplement of The Gazette. Their URL is http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/AOFE

Michael Kenneally, who teaches Irish literature in the English Department, was widely interviewed on Canadian television in early April about the peace agreement in Northern Ireland . He called it exciting, and hoped that "sanity will prevail," as it did.

Stanley Ryerson, the eminent left-wing intellectual who died last month at 87, was memorialized in Canada's major newspapers, including The Toronto Star. Ryerson began teaching history at Sir George Williams University in Montreal in 1934, and two years later became secretary of the Communist Party of Quebec. A friend of Norman Bethune and others, he was beaten up by thugs in Quebec City; the police raided his house and burned hundreds of his books. An early sympathizer with Canada's native people, he wrote several books and one play. He lived in Toronto for many years, but in 1969, began teaching at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal , where a memorial service was held on April 24.

MAY 28, 1997 3

IN MEMORIAM

Nancy Torbit, 1947-1998 The Loyola Chapel was filled to capacity on May 13 as family, friends and colleagues said farewell to Director of Concordia Health Services Nancy Torbit, who died May 9 after a courageous bat~le with cancer.

Nancy attended Loyola, and joined the College's health services unit there as a nurse in 1972. She soon became the first director of a Cana­dian college or university health service who was not a physician, something of which she was very proud.

As her longtime friend Ann Kerby said at the memorial service, "From the beginning, Nancy was committed to promoting the nurse-practi­tioner role in the Canadian health care system.

"As I look through our policy manuals, calendars and handbooks, I see Nancy's wisdom and common sense throughout; for example , the emphasis on prevention and on the health consumer, especially among the students.

"Nancy saw that insurance policies included references to HIV policy and psychiatric care. She promoted the employee assistance program, and influenced the development of policies regarding disruptive behaviour. Her contribution to Concordia was an expression of her professional integrity, her skills and her belief in people, especially stu­dents."

Nancy is survived by her husband, Gary, and their two daughters, Meghan and Lindsey, who took an active role in the memorial service.

Student Services has established the Nancy Torbit Memorial Endow­ment Fund. Those wishing to make a contribution to this scholarship/bursary fund may do so through the Advancement Office.

IN MEMORIAM

Frank Knowles, 1923 1998 Concordia lost a good friend on April 29 when Frank Knowles, long­time member of the Board of Governors, died of cancer.

Frank was educated at McGill University as a chartered accountant. He joined the staff of Power Corp. in 1964, rising through the ranks to become president from 1986 to 1991, after which he was deputy chair until his retirement in 1993, and director emeritus until his death.

He joined Concordia 's Board of Governors in 1987, and was a faithful and active member. His expertise was particularly valuable with regard to the University's finances, and he chaired the Board's audit commit­tee from 1987 to 1996.

Active in many spheres of community life, he was a key fundraiser for the recent renovations to St. Patrick's Basilica, and the restored park in front of the church has been dedicated to him. His funeral was held at St. Patrick's on May 2, and the University was represented by Vice­Rector Marcel Danis and Secretary of the Board of Governors Amely J urgenliemk.

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Senate marathon orary degrees (closed session), recom­

mendations on academic regulations,

proposals for major curriculum

changes, discussion of the 1998-99

operating and capital budgets, the Stu­

dent Charter of Rights and changes to

the graduate studentfee structure.

University Senate, which usually meets on Friday afternoons, will start at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow and may run all day, with a break tor lunch.

Among the items on the agenda are approval of the graduation list and hon-

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York Theatre land acquired The University is about to sign the

final paperwork to buy the property

on Ste. Catherine St. between

Mackay and Guy Sts. that houses the

long-empty York Theatre building.

The Quebec government is

encouraging the University to

consolidate operations, and has

earmarked funds for the acquisition

IN MEMORIAM

Anne Stokes Reader, 1915 -1998

Professor Anne Stokes was a pioneer in the education of teachers of English as a second language, and tbe founder of Concordia's TESL Centre.

In 1969, she founded a TESL certificate program at Concordia, and in 1973, the first TESL centre in Canada. In 1974, a BEd (TESL) pro­gram was begun , followed in 1976 by a Master's program (MA in Applied Linguistics) , also a Canadian first .

After she took early retirement in 1977, Anne was one of the first Canadian professors to be sent to China on an .exchange program by the Department of External Affairs. Back in Canada, she translated for both the federal and Quebec governments. In 1978, in recognition of her contributions, she was awarded the Canadian Silver Jubilee medal by the Governor General.

Her foresight and initiative helped create a global industry as well as a profession. Concordia~s graduates have taught in 84 countries around the globe, ahd the centre she founded here is recognized as one of the finest in the world.

The Anne Stokes Medal is given annually to the highest ranking BEd (TESL) graduate at Concordia as a reminder of her contribution.

She is survived by her daughter, Dr. Cheryl Stokes Murray, of West Hartford, Connecticut, and by her son, Graeme Stokes, of Kelowna, B.C. , and three grandchildren: Andrea, of West Hartford and Rochelle

· and Cameron, of Kelowna.

A memorial service will be held Friday, May 29, at 2 p.m. in the down­town Faculty and Staff Lounge on the seventh floor of the Henry F. Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W . All friends and former colleagues are cordially invited to attend.

- Our thanks to Barbara Barclay

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of owned space. In addition,

Concordia's Capital Campaign,

which has so far raised about 75 per

cent of its $55-million minimum

goal, includes plans for a new

building.

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Michael Dobie: Teaching in China

BY SYLVAIN-JACQUES

DESJARDINS

Michael Dobie's dream of trav­eling through Asia is about to

come true. After graduating from Concordia's Journalism Diploma program this June, the 32-year-old spring graduate will pay a brief visit to his native Vancouver. Then he's off to China's Beijing Broadcast Institute (BBI), where he will teach introductory journalism and English courses.

"This is a great opportunity. I'm thrilled," Dobie said of his one~year contract, secured as part of an ongo­ing agreement of cooperation between Concordia and BBI.

The deal, signed in 1994 and pro­longed until 2003, fosters exchanges between the two institutions. Enn Raudsepp, Director of Concordia's Journalism Department, said Dobie is the ideal ambassador to BBI because

going back to the early 1980s com­bined to win Concordia the agreement.

Recruitment, industry linkages

Also on the trip, a general agree­ment of cooperation was signed with the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and talks were held with the Civil Aviation Man­agement Institute of China.

Dean Anvari met with potential partners in recruiting students for the Faculty's undergraduate pro­grams for international students. Anvari was also able to generate interest in offering not-for-credit courses in management to Chinese clients, and about a dozen potential

he is "a bright, promising graduate." Dobie plans on exploring as much

of China as he can and hopes to pick up some Mandarin. "My goal is to learn as much as I can and not worry about perfection," he said.

Speaking another language could prove useful if Dobie realizes his next dream, becoming a foreign cor­respondent . But that project will have to wait until he completes a tour of India when his BBI contract exprres.

Dobie came to Concordia after studying French at Universite Laval for a year and graduating in political science from the University of British Columbia. While in Montre­al, he has written for the Link, CTR

and The Gazette. He also shared the Philip Fisher Scholarship, awarded to the best Journalism graduate stu­dent, chosen by The Gazette's two senior editors.

students for the self-financing

AMBA program were interviewed.

Existing linkages received atten­

tion on this visit, too. Contact was

renewed with the Beijing Petroleum

Managers Training Institute, which

may undertake a project with our

Department of Applied Human

Sciences.

A new five-year agreement was

signed with Southeast University

(SEU), located in Xiamen. SEU is a

partner with Concordia in a program

funded by CIDA. -

An agreement to continue to

develop an existing linkage was

signed with the Beijing Broadcasting

Institute, where there are many

admirers of our Journalism and

Communication Studies programs.

Friends in Hong Kong, Beijing and Nanjing

The first stop on the Rector's recent trip to Asia was Hong

Kong, where Concordia has been steadily building closer ties with the city's successful and enthusiastic alumni.

On this trip, William Yip and Roger Yuen provided particularly valuable advice and support. Discus­sion included the possibility of establishing a scholarship fund for students from China, including Hong Kong, and an alumni committee to spearhead this effort, headed by Yip.

In a report on the visit, Advance­ment Director Christopher Hyde said, "Our strategy of regular visits by familiar faces is working. We now

can speak quite frankly with each other and work collaboratively."

In Beijing, the Rector and Mary Kay Lowy were official guests at the 100th anniversary of Beijing Univer­sity. It was a splendid event in the Great Hall of the People, addressed by the president of China and attended by the premier and other senior officials.

Before the celebratory dinner, there was a two-day forum on the beautiful Beijing campus. One hun­dred university presidents from all over the world discussed "the univer­sity of the 21st century," and, the Rector added later, the problems of the university of the late 20th centu-

ry, a subject on which there was remarkable unanimity.

Among other visits and events, including a reception by the Canadi­an ambassador, the Concordia visitors were able to make contact once again with Dr. Wei Yu, a dis­tinguished educator who received an honorary doctorate fro·~ Concordia in 1988. She is now 'J'iina's vice­minister of education. ·

The trip to Nanjing was for the Canadian Chinese University Presi­dents Meeting, at which the keyno!e speaker was Concordia's Dean of Arts and Science Martin Singer, a specialist in Chinese-Canadian acad­emic relations.

Three-way link with Africa established Concordia's South African con­

nection was given splendid publicity on May 16 by The Gazette.

As part of a recent series of feature articles on Montrealers who are doing good in less fortunate parts of the world, the newspaper ran an arti­cle of more than two pages, replete with photographs, of a project to improve the standard of education in a former homeland of South Africa.

The project, started and main­tained by former Vice-Dean of Arts and Science Florence Stevens, is with the University of the North,

QwaQwa Branch (UNIQWA). With funding from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), 19 experienced educators are enrolled in Concordia's special individualized program, though their studies take place at UNIQWA.

Now, with support from CIDA and the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, Concordia has signed a three-way agreement for academic cooperation that links UNIQYIA with the University of Zimbabwe.

Both universities are partners in a

human resources development pro­ject directed by Concordia, which is aimed at selected faculty members from the two African universities. Education Professor Ailie Cleghorn recently finished a CIDA-funded teacher training project at the Uni­versity of Zimbabwe.

The agreement was signed during a visit in April to South Africa and Zimbabwe by Director of the Centre for International Academic Cooper­ation, Balbir Sahni, and Professor Stevens. - BB

Egyptians recruited through industry agreement

An agreement has been conclud­ed between the University and

CAE Electronics that is aimed at attracting students from two Egypt­ian universities to Concordia.

The Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science and the Dorval­based manufacturer of flight simulators will work together on a proposal that would see top students from Ain-Shams University and Cairo University working at CAE while they study at Concordia, prob­ably in graduate programs in Computer Science and Computer

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and Electrical Engineering. According to the agreement,

signed May 14 at a reception, CAE will supply bursaries for the students. The students might opt to stay in Canada after graduation and work at CAE, or they could choose to make their work at CAE part of a co-op (work/study) program before they return to Egypt.

Dean Nabil Esmail is an adjunct professor at Ain-Shams Universiry. He, Rector Lowy and Provost Jack Lightstone paid a visit to Ain-Shams and Cairo Universities earlier this

year, part of a Middle East tour that also included contacts with Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian institutions.

Among those present at the sign­ing were the Rector, Provost Jack Lightstone, CAE president James C . Cherry, CAE vice-president of human resources Hugh Mitchell, and Professor Balbir Sahni, Direc­tor of Concordia's Centre for International Academic Coopera­tion. The agreement will also be signed by the presidents of the Egyptian universities. - BB

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Lively and generous, the renowned painter helps young artists

Guido Molinari: The artist as patron

Guido Molinari retired two years ago from Concordia, but he

seems to be busier than ever, and still active at the University.

One of Canada's finest painters, Molinari taught here two evenings a week for 25 years. His teaching career not only nurtured a generation of Canadian artists, it freed him to stay in the city he loves, making art as he wished instead of chasing his fortune in New York.

Last spring he played host at his east-end studio to a highly successful fundraiser for the Faculty of Fine Arts. His studio is also being used for concerts by the "Molinari Oliartet."

The artist explained recently that he found that several of his neigh­bours, all young members of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, had formed a quartet to play modern chamber music. He offered them his studio as a rehearsal and perfor­mance space, and they adopted his name. V oila, the Oiiatuor Molinari.

In 1982, Molinari had bought an old bank building on Ste. Catherine St. East for less than the average suburban house. Its three-metre­high windows offer plenty of light, and an ideal workspace for his paint-

ing. He lives upstairs in the former bank manager's quarters, with a view of the St. Lawrence River and Longueuil beyond, and he keeps his most valuable paintings in the bank's vault, with its heavy copper door.

A typical Quatuor Molinari event was held on a recent Saturday afternoon at the studio. Called Dialogues a !'atelier, it combined an illustrated lecture on modern music with an exhibition of student and professional art.

About 80 · people sat on folded chairs, listening to the quartet play excerpts by Bartok, Shostakovitch and two Montreal composers, Denis Gougeon and Ana Sokolovic, who were themselves on hand to talk about their work. On the walls of the studio hung paintings by promising Concordia students, along with pieces by such established artists as Frarn;:oise Sullivan, Yves Lemoyne and Molinari himself.

One member of the audience was so moved by it all that she made an impassioned impromptu speech praising first violinist Olga Ranzen­hofer for her lucid explanation of the music. She earned a warm embrace from the violinist, another from

Molinari, and a big round of laugh­

ter and applause from the audience.

Lately, Molinari has been involved

in activities around the 50th anniver­

sary of the Refus global, the

incendiary manifesto that threw the

first spark into Quebec's Grand Noirceur. He became an artist him­

self only a decade later, and was

profoundly affected by the Automa­

tiste pioneers, particularly the

movement's prime mover, Paul­

Emile Borduas.

In an interview he gave The

Gazette's Janet Bagnall in 1995,

Molinari called the lack of attention

paid to Borduas' work "sacrilegious,"

and said that he had been lobbying

the Quebec government for five

years to classify the artist's St. Hilaire

house as a heritage site, and establish

a museum for Oiiebec art on Mon­

treal's Cite du Havre.

Molinari's work was given a full

retrospective by Montreal's Musee

d'Art Contemporain in the summer

of 1995. This summer, there will be

another Molinari retrospective in the

south of France, at the Musee des

Beaux-Arts Grenoble. - BB

Wednesday, June 10, 6:30 .to ·8:30 p.m. Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, 1400 ~.~ Maisonneuve Blvd. W-

Art Edf.!cation students give classes at Temple Emanu-el

A real learnin-g experience for all

BY SUSAN HIRSHORN

D r Stephanie Robertson, an Art £ Education student who gradu­ates next month, teaching in a community setting is "where the action is." She participated in a spe­cial project at the Temple Emanu-el-Beth Shalom religious school, teaching art to 15 lively third- and fourth-graders.

"I really enjoyed it. It was a chance to hone my teaching skills while also learning about a community I'd never experienced before."

Ann Cohen, director of the tem­ple school, said, "We felt that bringing in Concordia art students was a good way for the youngsters to have fun while studying Judaism. Artistic expression brings words and stories to life."

The project was a collaboration between the temple and Linda Szabad-Smyth, who teaches Seminar and Practicum in Art Education at the University's Department of Art Education, in the Faculty of Fine Arts. The course develops profes­sional teaching skills by placing students in both alternative and tra­ditional teaching settings.

So far, Smyth's students have taught in public schools, cultural and community centres, hospitals, pallia­tive care units, drop-in centres for teenagers and foster homes for the elderly. "Every setting has different art education needs," she said. "For some, the social interaction might be the primary goal. For others, the overriding objective might be to learn about a specific subject through one or more artistic media. Therefore, a big component of the students' work is to develop a needs assessment,

which takes many educational and practiqu factors into consideration."

At the temple, Robertson and another art education student devel­oped assessments around the need for youngsters to explore, on a personal level, the meaning of various Jewish themes and celebrations. Several artis­tic projects arose from this, including imaginative wall murals and a hand­made tree to celebrate the Jewish Arbour Day, called Tu Bishvat.

Since neither student was familiar with Jewish customs and holidays, their initial task was research. "The temple has a reading room with a variety of books," Robertson said. "I also held a brainstorming session with the kids, where they discussed and drew anything that came to mind about certain Jewish themes."

With the destruction of so many trees during the ice storm, Tu Bishvat took on a special significance for the youngsters. 'They talked about losing their favourite trees at home, and about a collection they'd taken up to plant trees in and around Montreal, as well as the traditional planting in Israel." Modern celebration of Tu Bishvat involves the expression of ecological concerns and peoples' desire to reconnect with nature.

After the brainstorming session, Robertson divided her class into three groups, with each working on a different wall mural. Two of the murals had Tu Bishvat themes; the third represented the children' s vision of what the temple might be like in the future.

"I had the kids work with latex­based paint, which is easy to use as well as to clean up. It was fun. I hope they learned as much from me as I learned from them."

Ellen Gallery welcomed 800

Last Sunday, Concordia's Leonard

and Bina Ellen Gallery threw its

doors open to 800 visitors. They were

taking part in Museums Day, when

Montrealers are given free bus rides

to museums and galleries all over the

city, thanks to sponsorship this year

from American Express.

The visitors enjoyed the current

exhibit, Les mysteres objectifs ... The phrase, a reference to abstract art, comes from Le Refus global, the artis­tic manifesto whose 50th anniversary is being celebrated this summer all over Oiiebec.

Les mysteres objectifs ... is a vibrant selection from the University's exten­sive permanent collection, and includes such names as Marcel Bar­beau, Paul-Emile Borduas, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Jean McEwen, Jacques Hurtubise, Rita Letendre, Guido Molinari, Fran<;oise Sullivan and Irene F. Whittome. You can catch the show until it closes on June 20.

Door prizes: Works by Irene F. Whittome and Betty Goodwin, gourmet Italian dinner for. two at_L'Altro - Tickets: $20. Call Marilyn Healy, 848-4660, healym@vax2.concordia.ca -

The Ellen Gallery also received some welcome news last week: $42,700 in grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. The funds will be used for presentation, research and publication of several exhibition projects, as well as overall program­ming initiatives. - BB

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The University paid tribute to several hundred employees with a reception at the University Club on May 12. Reminiscences flowed freely as people who had recently taken an early retirement package mingled with those celebrating 20, 25, 30, 35 or even more years with Concordia.

Long Service Pritam Gill

Kinh Ha- Huy

Leslie An n Hughes 20years Shan H. lmpey

Tilly Janowitz Angela Alleyne Gary W. Johns Suzanne Belson Narinder Kapoor M ichel J. Bergier Zohel Scander Kha li l Claude Bernard Jerome Krause Cynthia Canavan John W. Locke Giuseppina Colace Robert Lortie Marvin Cooper Bhupinder Mangat David Duchow P. Raymond Martin Anne Marie Ferra ri Sharon L.T. McLean Gary Geddes Elaine Muise Ursula Hakien Robert Oppenheimer Adel Hanna Pete Reg imba ld Lee Pamela Harris Margaret Robertson Chris Hodge Giuseppe Ruscitto Ian J. Irvine Norman S. Segalowitz Christopher D. Jackson George D. Short Louis Jankowski Penny- Anne Soper Henry J. Kovalcik Larry H. Thiel Bernard Lagace Roger Tyrrell Henry Lemmetti Paul Widden Sally F. Livingston

Mia Massicotte 30years Aileen Gemmell Murray

Freda Otchere Peter Bird

David Pariser Gary McIntyre Boyd

Brian Parry Josef Brody

Kathleen M. Perry Ermine V. Campbell

Anne Pollock- M cKenna Louise Elise Carpentier

John Raso Nicolet Cellucci

Enn Raudsepp Timothy Denis Clark

Darleen M . Robertson Anthony Costanzo

Marie-Andree Marcel Danis·

Robitaille-Brodie Bipin Desai

Susan J. Russell Richard Diubaldo

Frank L. Sbrocchi Helmut F. Famira- Parcsetich

Richard Schmid Stanley French

Lisa A. Serbin John Lowell Hill

Margaret Sheremata Calvin Kalman

Eckhard W .W. Siggel Attila Keviczky

Stanley Swiercz Thomas Kovats

Lise Tavares Jacques Langevin

Linda Tees Gaston Laurion

Taeko Teesler Denis O'Connor

Patri cia Anne Thornton Edward Pechter

Kath ryn Tweedie Robert Phil mus

Renata Wirska Nick Serpone

John Wojc iechowicz Srikanta Swamy

Danny Yates Vladamir F. Zeman

Tcheet N . Yen

Victor Young 35 years and more.

25years Shafiq A. Alvi

Michael Brian

Paul Albert Malcolm B. Foster

Marion E. A lleyne Kalman Krakow

Bryan Barb ieri Serge Los ique

Robert Bertrand Graham Martin

Abraham J. Boyarsky Roslyn L. Muer

Anne Brown Nicholas A . Ostopkevich

Gheri Celin Pierre Y.J. Pare

Joanne Dolan Stephen J. Scheinberg

Charles Draimin Ramesh C. Sharma

Irene Fernandez Brian Slack

John W . Fiset Tari q Srivastava

Sharon Frank Jane Stewart

Early Retirements The following employees accepted ERIP or FALRIP and retired between December 1, 1996 and April 1, 1998.

M. D iane Adk ins Jose Almeida Gerald Auchinachie Margaret Bai les Mary Baldwin Arri ndel! Bann ister Anne G. Barkman Charl es Barton Nancy Belmore Lorraine Bertrand Jitendra K. Bhatnagar M argueri te Bodnar- Lagarde Yvon Bonsaint Gabriel Breton Arthur Broes Daniel Brown America Carneiro Marthe Catry-Verron Richard Cheng Karen Cherry Melvyn B. Cox Lindsay Crysler Reza Danesh Kailash C. Dhawan Kuldip Dhindsa Jeanne Drolet John Drysdale Tryambkeshwar Dwivedi Nelson Eddy Howard Fink Rachel Fletcher Gaynell Forde K. Dawn Forget Yvon Francoeur Sherman Friedland Berengere Gaudet Laszlo Gefin Thomas Gibson William Gilsdorf Donald E. Ginter Russell Gordon Henry Habib Patricia Hachey David R. Hargreaves Elizabeth Henrik Susan Hoecker- Drysdale William Hooper Lee Hopkins Doreen Hutton Ragai Ibrahim Lawrence Jeffrey John Jenkins Willi am Jurick Robert Kavan agh Pierrette G. Kearney Joseph Kelly June Kenny John Gary Kershaw Arlin Lloyd Ki pl ing Joseph M . Kolodychuk Pierre L'Herau It Elisabeth Langley David Levy Gloria Lovegrove John Lunan Robert Macpherson Mohd A. Malik Patricia Manning Stephanie Manuel Bri an Markland Michael Mason Shirley Maynes Ani ta McLaughl in

Bruce M clure Hugh McQueen Eira M iller Parker D. Mitchell Guido Molinari Jean Claude Morelli Stan ley Morris Ka lyan Mukherj i Gabrielle Murphy Patricia Negin Doan Nhu Nguyen John Noonan Susan O'Reil ly Jo-Ann Oberg- MU iier Helen Parent Desiree Park Robert Patterson May Christine Patton Ann Pearson Beatri ce Pearson M ari a Philmus Dorothy Plummer Richard V. Pope Margaret Radack Freda Rashkovan Beverley L. Rennick Leyden M .K. Roy Robin Rye Mark Schofield Marjorie Sharp G. David Sheps Joseph Smucker Joseph Soric Florence Stevens Denise Stobbe Diane Sullivan Sheila Taylor Hung- Yeh Tsuei Jean Turgeon Gail Valaskakis Alexander Vasil Colin Waters Blair Williams Madelaine E. Yates Raymond Zienius

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Education fair has the last word on learning

BY LINDA MENARD

The Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance

(CSLP) displayed a wealth of intriguing ideas and projects on May 5 at a research fair in the atrium of the J.W. McConnell Building. It included 30 posters ( text and illustra­tion to summarize a research project) and nearly a dozen video and soft­ware demonstrations by CSLP researchers and graduate students.

The CSLP received a $90,000 grant last fall to bring together researchers in Education, Psycholo­gy, and Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) to address the enhancement of learning and performance of complex cogni­tive skills in learners of all ages.

"I t was seed money toward becoming a Centre of Excellence," said Research Coordinator Anne Wade. "We are trying to put things into place so we can apply to FCAR for centre infrastructure funding. We hope this will happen in the next year or so."

The money has been used to sup­port the research fair, dissemination of research, communications, outside speakers, and technical and adminis­trative support.

CSLP Director · i1hilip Abrami is

just coming off a sabbatical in which he pursued his research on the effec­tive integration of technology in the classroom. He is also collaborating on a textbook and multi-media pro­ject of statistics for the social sciences, which will be published in 1999 by Allen and Bacon.

Education graduate student Scott Morrison demonstrated the Success For All program for beginners. "One-to-one tutoring is the most effective form of instruction we know of," he explained. "However, it is also the most expensive."

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In Success for All, computer­aided tu to ring software ( called Reading CAT) monitors the pro­gram by pulling together information about the student's progress, keeping it in the database, and making it available to the tutor, teacher and program facilitator.

Psychology Professor Norman Segalowitz is a CSLP researcher and Director of the Leonardo Project, which focuses in particular on sec­ond - language skills and expert musical performance. Posters pre­sented by him and his researchers explored the development of high­level attention-management skills.

The Leonardo Project, a collabo­rative effort by Psychology and Music researchers, investigates how to maximize human potential in music performance.

The research requires unconven­tional methods, doctoral student Angela Chan acknowledged. "The number of keystrokes [in a piano piece] are easily quantified, but counting them might miss the cre­ative elements we are trying to investigate . Humans are dynamic. We are exploring musicians' ability to adapt to a changing environment."

"Concept-mapping" is a way of drawing a diagram of thought processes and how ideas succeed one another in learning. Adjunct Profes­sor Christina DeSimone said that concept-mapping can be used across the Internet to share material or get feedback from your teacher, and could also be applied to cross-cultur­al studies.

Other participants in the research fair displayed the CSLP's progress in computer-assisted learning for the disabled, teaching French or English as a second language, and training teachers to integrate technology into the classroom.

Minor in Sexuality introduced next fall Concordia students can now

explore the roots of their raging hormones for academic credit. The Faculties of Arts and Science and Fine Arts have introduced an Inter­disciplinary Minor in Sexuality.

"It's pretty exploratory at this point," said Professor Tom Waugh, who is the program director. He explained that the minor was created in response to an inquiry by the Concordia Council on Student Life (CCSL) into the status of gay and lesbian life at the university. "There was a recommendation about how there should be a curriculum response to the needs of lesbian and gay students," he said.

However, the program is not tai­lored to a specific group. "A committee was struck to create a program that would welcome stu-

dents interested in queer studies as well as sexuality across the board."

The 27-credit minor, starting next September, is unrelated to the "clus­ters" that were introduced into the curriculum last year. The minor is a combination of existing courses, such as Sexuality in the History of Reli­gion, HIV/ AIDS: Cultural, Social and Scientific Aspects of the Pan­demic, and two new courses, Issues in Sexuality Research and Introduc­tion to Ol_ieer Theory.

The program's objective in com­bining courses from widely varying disciplines is to "investigate empiri­cal, theoretic_~ and creative aspects of sexuality." Waugh said he would eventually like to see a Major in Sex­uality, but resources for new program development are scarce right now.

- Nadine Ishak

Students vvin travel to Texas Concordia's Faculty of Engineer­

ing and Computer Science was able to contribute toward two bud­ding science careers when a pair of Canadian high-school students trav­elled to Fort Worth, Texas, last week for the 49th Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

Adam Bly and Xing Zang shared a $3,000 travel scholarship from Concordia. The Bridging the Mil­lennia Scholarship, inaugurated

several years ago to give Engineering and Computer Science a higher pro­file among potential engineers, is given at the Bell Montreal Regional Science Fair, which took place in March and chose winners for the finals in the U.S.

In addition to the travel scholar­ship, the Faculty provides five $100 scholarships for the Bell Regional Fair, one for each of its five disciplines.

Bly, whose project was on the fusion of epithelial cahedrin cDNA green fluorescent protein, also won several partial scholarships to U.S. universities. His achievements were featured in a story last week in the Montreal Gazette.

Altogether, there were 17 Canadi­an high school students among the 1,122 competitors from 34 countries presenting projects in Fort Worth.

-BB

Krupski escaped wartime Poland and discovered Shakespeare

Lecturer retires after an eventful life BY SUSAN HIRSHORN

During the 1930s, Jadwiga Krup­ski was a freelance journalist

and 21-year-old welfare inspector in Poland. In 1963, she became an early French-immersion teacher at a Montreal elementary school. At the age of 65, she began another teach­ing career as a lecturer in Concordia's English Department.

For Krupski, who is retiring this spring at 83, life is like literature, "a continuum of perceptions, with one nucleus of ideas or experiences draw­ing inspiration from, or maybe opposing, the previous one."

When German forces invaded Poland in 1939, she was in the Pol­ish army, and with her fiance, George, fled to neutral Hungary. He

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preter. Her knowledge of several ~

languages likely saved her life. ~ "I was desperate to reunite with 0

George, so I pestered the French consulate, in French, for permission to enter their country, and Hungari-an officials, in German, their second language, for an exit visa.

"The Hungarian clerk yelled at me, 'All you Poles want to go to

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France! How stupid! Why don't you

stay here?' Then, very softly, he

added, 'Do you speak Spanish?' I

said, 'No, but I have a smattering of

Italian, so I'll understand you·.' So

he continued, in Spanish, 'Come

back at 4 o'clock and I'll issue your exit visa.'"

In France, she and George mar­ried. "We figured it would be an easy war. We'd spend holidays together, and, after all, there was the Maginot Line to keep the Germans at bay." Fortunately, before that for­tification fell, George had joined Britain's air force, and Krupski had joined him in England. There, and later, in Canada, she developed a deep love for Shakespeare and other English classics.

At 79, she got her doctorate in English literature at Concordia. Her dissertation, Shakespeare's Children, focuses on the idea that Shakespeare perceived the prejudices of his time, and opposed them in his plays.

"Childhood was perceived as a kind of disease ," she explained. "Children were frequently abused and made to appear or to conduct themselves as little adults. However, in several of Shakespeare's plays, this treatment is subtly challenged."

Krupski's retirement may include writing about her life. In fact, she is trying to decide whether to write her · memoirs or make them the material of a novel.

The Winds of Oz is back for an encore

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r,,he Winds of Oz , a lively example 1 of the therapeutic value of music

and drama, is being revived on the stage of the F.C. Smith Auditorium.

The original musical, which was a great success last spring, features intellectually handicapped clients of Concordia's Centre for the Arts in Human Development.

The students working on the show are from the Theatre Depart­ment and the Creative Arts Therapies graduate program. The social agency Les Promotions Sociales Taylor-Thibodeau is also involved in the production, as is Concordia's Education Department.

There will be only one perfor­mance, on the evening of June 4, but thanks to a generous grant from the Fondation Qyebecoise de la Defi­cience intellectuelle, it promises to be a feast for the ear and the eye.

Professor Stephen Snow, the Centre's Director, said that every bit of the F.C. Smith venue is being used to show the creativity of the 21 participating clients, including a dis-

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play of artwork supervised by the Art Therapy graduate program. In addi­tion, a documentary video is being made about the unusual production.

Snow said that The Winds of Oz was inspired not so much by the Frank Baum classic The Wizard of Oz, as by a sequel which Baum also took to the New York stage, in which the Scarecrow and the Tin Man are monarchs of imaginary kingdoms.

Tickets are $10 each, but the per­formance is also a fundraiser. Friends of the Centre can buy a patron's ticket for $25, which includes a chance to mingle with the "stars" after the show.

The Winds of Oz will be presented on Thursday, June 4, at 8 p.m. in the F.C. Smith Auditorium, 7141 Sher­brooke St. W (Loyola Campus). For tickets, call Diane Dumontier, 761-5571, #237. Patrons should address cheques to the Taylor-Birks Founda­tion, c/o Lenore Vosberg, 7100 Champlain Blvd., Verdun, Quebec, H4H1A8.

Quebec will need about 370 English teachers a year

TESL colloquium brings latest research to English teachers

BY MICHAEL DOBIE

Concordia's TESL Centre held a colloquium on May 9 to thank

those teachers who have served as cooperating teachers for TESL stu-

. dents or who have opened their doors to TESL Centre researchers.

The event was organized by Bar­bara Barclay, coordinator of undergraduate programs, and TESL Professor Lori Morris.

"It's the first time we've done this for ages and ages," Barclay said. It was an opportunity not only to thank the teaching community, but to remind them of the work of interest to them being done at the TESL Centre.

The TESL Centre has been train­ing teachers and conducting research on linguistics since 1973. It has sent thousands of ESL teachers into the world equipped with a Bachelor of Education, a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics or a Certificate in TESL. It is unique in Canada in that it is the only large academic unit devoted entirely to TESL.

Barclay has been associated with Concordia since 1955, first as a stu­dent at Sir George Williams University, then as a staff member

and part-time faculty member. "We're all Barbara's children,"

quipped Michel Thibault, referring to the thousands who have graduat­ed under Barclay's guidance. He started his MA in Applied Linguis­tics ("grown-up TESL") last fall. He already has a PhD in Comparative Literature and the TESL Certificate, and teaches at Ahuntsic CEGEP. He is typical of most of the Centre's students, who are upgrading their skills or starting a second career.

The TESL Certificate is a one­year program offered to those with a certain amount of second-language teaching experience or to certified teachers who wish to broaden their expertise to include TESL. About 36 students, on average, graduate with their TESL Certificate each year.

The TESL Centre has just been mandated by the Qyebec ministry of education to lengthen the BEd from 90 credits to 120, meaning that it will now take four years to complete instead of three. The approximately 60 students who graduate each year are recommended for permanent provincial teachers' certification, pro­viding they have achieved fluency in French.

While most graduates teach at the primary or secondary levels in Olie­bec, many teach at CEGEP, even though a Master's degree is officially required. Some go into adult educa­tion, start their own tutoring services or write ESL textbooks .

Many venture far afield, elsewhere in Canada, or to more exotic locales. With the spread of English as a global language, qualified English­language teachers are in high demand almost everywhere. Barclay said that one graduate sailed with her husband from Japan to the Mediterranean Sea, stopping every so often to teach English. TESL Centre graduates have gone to teach in more than 50 countries, including Nepal, Lesotho, China, Japan and Korea.

The job prospects for ESL teach­ers are quite good right now, Barclay said, and she expects demand to remain high for the foreseeable future. Last year's high rate of retire­ment by Oliebec teachers will likely be repeated until 2000, doubling the hiring of ESL teachers here to about 370 a year. Thereafter, the ministry of education foresees an annual need for about 200 new teachers.

'Obedience' in class pays off for women, ESL researcher finds

One of Concordia's newest faculty members, Lori Morris, has done

research into gender bias in the evalu­ation of English as a second language (ESL), and delivered her findings to an audience of teachers and education students at Concordia on May 9 as part of a colloquium on teaching Eng­lish as a second language (fESL).

She noticed in her ESL classes at a Qyebec CEGEP that women were outperforming men in her classes even though they were almost invisi­ble in the classroom - not interacting much with teachers, say­ing little in class, and attracting little attention to themselves.

"Since some research suggests that active learner involvement is essential in second-language learning, I began to wonder why it was that the women

did so well with so little apparent active involvement," Morris said.

She analyzed students' essays and tested them for readability, but found no significant difference between the sexes. Why were the women getting much better grades?

"I checked the criteria used to evaluate ESL papers in the CEGEP, and discovered that six out of seven criteria used measured pure instruc­tion-following rather than ability in English." Women stayed on topic, for example, and made sure their essays contained the required num­ber of verb conjugations and vocabulary items.

Morris said that teachers are often so relieved to get papers that are eas­ier to mark that they give these women good scores but vacuous cri-

tiques, like 'Well done!" The males' papers, however, usually take longer to mark, and as a result, may receive low marks and scathing criticism that actually has little to do with the quality of the English. The result is that "males couldn't care less," Mor­ris said. "They become vaccinated against negative criticism."

To counter gender bias, Morris suggested that teachers devote more time to the better papers and less to the poor ones, and when possible, conduct blind marking, hiding the names on the papers until after they're marked.

"There is a good deal of evidence that suggests that the problem exists at all levels of education and in all subjects," she added.

-MD

Teaching English as children's third or fourth language can be stressful

The multicultural mix of many Montreal schools raises particu­

lar problems for ESL teachers, according to Mela Sarkar, a PhD student and part-time faculty mem­ber of the TESL Centre.

For example, of the 18 children in a francophone kindergarten class in Park Extension, none speaks French at home; one speaks English, and the rest speak various languages, from Arabic to Vietnamese. Their situation is not unusual to Montreal, she said.

"The children cry from September

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to November," Sarkar said, "because they don't understand a thing."

Teaching English as a second lan­guage to francophones de souche is different from teaching it to children from Vietnam or Pakistan who are trying to come to terms with French as a second language and for whom English may represent a third or fourth language, Sarkar said.

Furthermore, cultures differ in their attitudes towards education, and allophone parents may express their concerns differently from native-born Qyebecers. These attitu-

dinal differences can lead to parent­teacher misunderstandings and can . further complicate an already diffi­cult educational situation.

"One thing that has the potential to change the system quickly is to prepare the teachers for new arrivals," Sarkar said. She advocated fostering intercultural awareness among these primary school teach­ers, teaching them about second-language learning, and assur­ing them of the importance of first-language maintenance in the process. - MD

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Fifth annual symposium by Commerce and Administration draws 300

Women and power: We'll get used to it BY STEPHANIE WHITTAKER

Diane Oliver admitted that she wasn't popular with her

employees after she was hired at Chanel "to make changes." Oliver, vice-president of marketing at Chanel Inc., told an audience at the Women and Work Symposium on May 7 that her employees were afraid of her.

"I began to perceive a high level of anxiety among them when they had to deal with me," she said. "They

. would emerge from my office in tears. And they would hide their mistakes because they were afraid I'd fire them."

Oliver was one of six influential women who addressed the issue of leadership and power at the fifth annual symposium, organized by Concordia's management faculty.

The other participants were Supe­rior Court of 09ebec judge Pierrette Sevigny, Jennifer Patton, vice-presi­dent of Kadora Investments Ltd., Alliance 09ebec president Con­stance Middleton-Hope, Marie Lacroix, vice-president and area manager of the Montreal Downtown Retail Centre of the Royal Bank and Janyne Hodder, principal of Bishop's University, in Lennoxville.

The purpose of the symposium, which drew an audience of 300, is to

permit women who have made a mark in the workplace to discuss their journey to success.

Diane Oliver stopped short of telling the audience how she changed her management style from that of an autocrat to one of a team builder, but she added that "leading and commanding are two different sets of skills. To lead, you have to get excited and be passionate to inspire people. They need to trust you."

Audience members who were poised to hear hard-hitting testimo- i;:

nials about seizing power may have ~ LI.

been surprised at Janyne Hodder's ~

ambivalence about it. ti cc Hodder said she had struggled as a c3

single mother to juggle work, gradu­ate school and parenting. "And I certainly wasn't thinking about lead­ership and power then." She said she prefers the notions of responsibility, commitment and value.

"It's dangerous to talk about leader­ship and power without talking about purpose. We have no need for leaders for whom power is an end in itself"

Like Hodder, Constance Middle­ton-Hope, who is currently campaigning for the leadership of Alliance 09ebec, discussed a partic­ularly female view of power and leadership.

"I like to think of power in terms of change," she said. "Working in

the church, I've learned to sit in a circle and listen to how power is used and exercised in a circle. We have much to learn from aboriginal peo­ple, who exercise power that way."

Middleton-Hope discussed her checkered career - from journalism and public relations in the 1950s to various jobs in education after a return to university to complete a Master's degree.

As a stay-at-home mother in the '50s, Middleton-Hope had decided to set up a translation business in her

Maureen Sterling wins praise for thesis on hospital cuts

Ethics and efficiency can co-exist in the public sector

BY BARBARA BLACK

A ccountancy Professor Maureen Sterling marked her first year at

Concordia with an award for the best PhD dissertation of 1996-97 from the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.

It was a study of how a big T oron­to teaching hospital wrestled with the challenge of chopping $40 mil­lion from its budget - 20 per cent - without reducing safety or effec­tive care.

"I got the award because I was able to show that ethics and efficien­cy aren't mutually exclusive in management accounting," Sterling said.

"What does anyone expect from a hospital? That they not harm us when we're at our most vulnerable. And all the activities at a hospital, the things that cost money, are there to ensure our safe recovery." That made Ontario premier Mike Harris's cuts to health care tough to take. And in the world of hospital care, failure isn't an option.

She chose a hospital with "the best accounting information system in the country. And even at that, my

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dissertation shows how hard it was to do the job."

Before she went to 09een's Uni­versity for her doctorate, Sterling had a full career as an investment analyst in Toronto, in the Calgary oil patch, and finally as a forensic accountant at the notoriously lively Vancouver Stock Exchange . A downsizing severance package, she admits candidly, helped pay for her PhD.

She's bullish on Montreal, and _ particularly on Concordia.

"It's a fabulous place to be!" she exclaimed. "I've spent a lot of time in universities across the country as a student and then as a teacher, and

"' the students here are the best. ~

"The students are responsive, will- ~ ing to work, and very respectful. gj They understand how important the ai degree is, and they don't feel entitled to it without hard work. I feel I'm making a genuine contribution, helping them realize their ambitions and dreams for success.

"And their diversity gives them a competitive edge in the marketplace because they have already learned how to get along with people in many cultures."

Sterling has been teaching both introductory management account­ing and final-year financial accounting theory courses. She enjoys the theory course because it deals with how important account­ing is to the fair and efficient functioning of the economy.

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home and approached her bank for a loan of $1,200. "They wouldn't give it to me unless my husband co­signed for it," she said.

Years later, while setting up a shelter for homeless women, Mid­dleton-Hope said she had to approach another bank for a $100,000 loan.

"The bank manager looked shocked," she said. "But my instinct told me we had the power of persua­sion. I hope my own legacy is that I have empowered others," she said.

Pierrette Sevigny described how

she has assumed leadership through­

out her life by accomplishing the

unexpected.

Women were a minority in

McGill's law school when Sevigny

finished her studies there in 1973.

"Of 160 students in my law class, 16

of us were women," she said. "Seven­

ty-five of us ended up graduating,

including all 16 women."

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Each day, massive amounts of data are entered into the store com­puter: what items were sold, to whom, and so on. Company deci­sion-makers then pool the data from all their outlets across the province. They assimilate and integrate this data in order to extract useful infor­mation, such as what are the aggregate sales per month in each region, and which brand of yoghurt is the most popular. This collection and assimilation of data form a core component of data warehousing.

Suppose the decision-makers sus­pect a certain trend, and want to verify it. They input an analysis query; for example, how are the top 10 products oflast year's first quarter performing in the first quarter of this year? This is called on-line analytical ii=

processing (OLAP). ~

. rs CIJCEPTFU, the Con­tinuing Education Part-Time Faculty Union, and their sup­porters he ld a noon-hour demon­stration outside the

In other cases, however, the deci- ~ i=

sion-makers don't know what they're ~

looking for. Data mining is therefore c3 used to find patterns and trends, and to sort through the data and come up with meaningful information. An example of a mining query could be, 'What are the expensive food items that are often bought together with cheap food items?"

"Data warehousing, data mining, and Internet information technology are three emerging technologies with wide industrial and commercial applications and significant econom­ic benefits," Lakshmanan said. "The proposed work is an integration of these technologies based on our R&D experience and close industry collaborations."

Concordia stands to benefit great-ly from the project. It is a way to strengthen industry ties and gain

international visibility in the field. "It provides tremendous opportu­

nities for graduate students," Lakshmanan said. "Already, one of our PhD students is working at the IBM Almaden Research Center in California, while one of our Master's students recently visited the AT&T Labs research facility in New Jersey for three months. A third student is set to go to IBM Almaden on a six­month visiting appointment . Typically, such leading research cen­tres hire graduates almost exclusively from top schools like Stanford, Wis­

. consin, Maryland and Duke. To my

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Socialism might be better off without Marx,' says history professor

The end of ideology BY SYLVAIN COMEAU

Neil Cameron sounded the death-knell for socialist ideolo­

gy at a speech he gave recently at Lonergan College - but he would like to see it continue to "keep us honest."

"Socialism in this century has had it, " said the John Abbott College history professor and one-time Equality MNA. "I'm not talking just about the fall of the Soviet Union, or about the changes in China. What has happened at the end of this cen­tury is that all systematic political thought has run into a brick wall."

Experiments with socialism in capitalist countries put another nail in the coffin of many intellectuals' favourite ideology, he added.

"Socialism has had it because it was a catastrophe, even in countries like Sweden, which found itself sink­ing like a stone because of its fanatical efforts to avoid the horrors of massive unemployment. They got bogged down in elaborate social pro-

knowledge, this is the first time they have taken people from Concordia's Computer Science Department."

It is also a chance for Concordia to contribute to the high-tech indus­try in Canada. "This technology may attract other Canadian high-tech companies to work with us and ben­efit from technology transfer," Lakshmanan said. "Because of the high application potential of the pro­posed work, several companies, such as B.C. Hydro, Boeing Aircraft, and JC Penny, have contacted us for potential test, use, or purchase of our system, once it is well developed."

CON CORD I A 'S TH U RS D AY REPORT

grams and protected union jobs." Capitalism's crushing victory

means that scholars on the left have to downplay their political leanings in order to be taken seriously. But while Cameron is glad to see social­ist rhetoric fa de, he admits that something was lost when the debate between the two camps became a monologue.

"Maybe without a constant cri­tique from the left, we will end up getting from capitalism a real-life version of one of those dystopian movies, like Bladerunner, endless bad taste, a video-game culture, unlivable cities."

Paradoxically, Cameron believes that the demise of socialism as an ideology may actually kickstart socialism as a political force .

"Socialism itself is not dead," he said. "It might actually be stronger now that it's not held down by the weight of Marxist ideology. You don't need ideology to conduct a battle between those who have and those who don't. The have-nots will always find a person from the prop­ertied classes who will promise to transfer wealth to them if they are elected."

In an interview following his lec­ture, Cameron speculated that socialism in the future will not both­er with windy ideology, and move to the bottom line.

"It will be a simple battle of inter­ests, not of ideology," he said. "It will be a struggle for power and wealth. I

hope that in the liberal democracies

in the world, the rule-of-law states,

like England, the U.S., Canada,

New Zealand, this [battle] won't be

too severe . What these countries

have in common is that most people

know that the free market is the

goose that laid the golden egg. And

they don't want to strangle it."

Third World countries and

emerging economies, according to

Cameron, "won't necessarily be

politically explosive. If people never

had a chance at anything, they're not

necessarily revolutionary. The people

who are politically explosive are

those who have had a sweet ride, and

see it suddenly come to a halt.

'We might get a big shock as to

what kinds of societies are vulnerable

to political upheaval. The haves ver­

sus have-nots argument does go on

irrespective of what kind of political

philosophy is dominant in the uni­

versities or in the press, because it's

based on the way people see inequal­

ity."

No matter how well capitalism

works, "here and elsewhere, there

will always be people who are not on

the gravy train, and they won't be

happy about it. And I think this is

where the great political problems of

our time will arise."

Cameron is a former professor of

history at Concordia's Liberal Arts

College, where he spoke on April 2.

BRIE

Alliance auebec debate Yesterday afternoon, the Concordia

Concert Hall was the site of a passion­ate public meeting on the future of anglophones in Quebec.

ton-Hope against journalist William Johnston, who is challenging her for the leadership of the advocacy associ­ation. The vote will be held on Saturday.

CBC's Radio Noon held a live two­hour program that pitted Alliance Quebec president Constance Middle-

The debate, which was moderated by Radio Noon host Nancy Wood, included questions from a journalists' panel and from the large crowd. The hall holds 539 people.

A joyous, inclusive celebration

Multi-Faith Convocation Service

Sunday, June 14, 11 a.m.

Loyola Chapel 7141 Sherbrooke St. W.

Graduating students and faculty may wear aca­demic dress and be in the procession; please

arrive at 10:40 a.m. Families and friends, fac­ulty and staff are also invited. Refreshments

will be served following the service.

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Alumni Grad Finale Convocation Reception All alumni are invited to this joyous ce lebration during Concordia's spring Convocation to we lcome new gradu­ates to the "alumni family." June 12, At rium of the J.W. McConnel l Buil ding, 1400 de Maisonneuve W., 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Price: Free for spring 1998 graduates, $1 2 for family and friends. Includes light refreshments. RSVP: 848-3815.

Stratford Theatre Festival Alumni Weekend For this specia l theatre weekend pack­age, we've chosen one classic musica l, Man of La Mancha, two great works by William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing and Julius Caesar, plus two behind-the-sce nes tours. Take advantage of ou r superb group rates for a memorable weekend in this pic­turesque Victorian city. July 17-1 9, the Victorian Inn on the Park. Price per per­son, based on double occupancy: $325. Single occupancy rate: $430. RSVP at 848-3817. Transportation on your own.

Third Annual Concordia Alumni Night at the 1998 du Maurier Open Tennis Canada is once again pleased to offer alumni a specia l even ing of international women's tennis champi­onships at the 1998 du Maurier Open, featuring such sta rs as Mart ina Hingis and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario. August 19, du Maurier Stadium, Jarry Park Tennis Centre. 5:30 p.m. $33 per person, plus taxes; includes reserved group seating wi th fe llow alumni , access to a reserved corporate area, an d a three-course pasta dinner. Li mited space availab le. RSVP by Thu rsday, July 30 by ca lling Tenn is Canada at 273-1515, ext. 245. Diners Club-enRoute, Visa, MasterCard and American Express accepted.

Art Until June 20 Les Mysteres objectifs .. se lected works from the Permanent Col lection (1948-1998) Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, 1400 de Maisonneuve W. Free. Info: 848-4750.

CPR/first Aid Courses Environmental Health and Safety offers the following courses, which are open to everyone. For information

and prices, call Training Coordinator Donna Fasciano at 848-4355.

May28and29 CSST First Aid (French) June6 Basic Life Support recertification June7 Heartsaver June 11 Heartsaver June 13 and 14 CSST First Aid (English) June 16 Heartsaver June 17 and 18 CSST First Aid (English) June20 Heartsaver Plus

Campus Ministry Mindfulness Meditation Relaxing, centering and concentrating. Beginners always welcome. Thursdays at noon, Belmore House, Loyola. Info: Daryl Lynn Ross at 848-3585.

Video series on the Four Noble Truths The Dalai Lama explains the funda­menta ls of Buddhism in this video­viewing and discussion group meeting on the Four Noble Truths. Every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Campus Min istry, Loyol a, 2496 West Broadway, unti l June 24. The group is open, so you are we lcome to join at any point. Feel free to bring your lunch. Info: Daryl Ross, 848-3585, darylyn@vax2.concordia.ca

Community Events Yellow Door Elderly Project Volunteers are urgently needed over the summer months to accompany seniors to and from appointments, to help with shopping, or to drop by for visits on ce a week . Info: Leah or Daniel le at 398-6243.

Discovery Workshops Fami ly-oriented workshops for chil ­dren and their parents are held every Sunday at t he Redpath Muse um . Registration ($5) starts the Thursday before at 398-4086, ext. 4092. Limit: 20 places per workshop.

Ancient Order of Hibernians Th e Order's an nua l March to the Stone wil l be held on Sunday, May 31, to beg in at 12 :30 p.m. from St. Gabri el' s Pa ri sh and ne ighbouring Paroisse St. Charles on Centre St. in

Pointe St. Charl es . Info : Hal Hennessey, 697-5008.

Concert Hall 7141 Sherbrooke W. Tickets and info: 848-7928, Friday, May 29 Lakeshore Concert Band, 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 30 Ramacharitham The Story of Lord Rama, 7:30 p.m.

. Sunday, May 31 College Notre-Dame student concert, 7:30_pm.

Legal Information Conco rd ia ' s Legal Informat ion Services offers free and confidential lega l information and ass istance to the Concord ia community. By appoint­ment only. Call 848-4960.

Office of Rights and Responsibilities The Office of Rig hts an d Responsi bili t ies is ava il abl e to all members of the University community fo r confidentia l consultations regard­ing any type of unacceptable behav­iour, including discrimination and per­sonal/sexual harassment, threatening and vio lent conduct, theft, destruction of property. Cal l 848-4857, or drop by 2150 Bishop, room 11 0

Ombuds Office The Ombuds Office is ava ilable to all members of the University for informa­tion, confidential advice and ass is­tance with un iversity- related prob­lems. Call 848-4964, or drop by 2100 Mackay, room 100.

Special Events and Notices HIV/AIDS course assistantship Th e HIV/ AID S Ac ademic Subcommittee invites applications for course assistantships for the interdi s­ci p Ii nary undergrad uate course ,. HIV/ AIDS : Cu ltu ral, Socia l and Scientific Aspects of the Pandemic for 1989-99. Dead line for applications is Ju ne 1. Info : dh_tege@alc or.

concordia .ca or waugh@vax2 . concordia.ca

Scholarship available The deadline for the Solar Energy Society of Canada' s J. Bolton Scholarship is June 1. Candidates must have completed undergraduate studies at a Canadian university or college and have been admitted for graduate study at an engineering fac­ulty in Canada. Info: (613) 234-4151 , sesci@sympatico.ca

Listening and referral centre for students Peer Helpers are students who are trained in active listening skill s and referra ls. Drop by to talk or get infor­mation at 2090 Mackay, room 02, or cal l us at 848-2859.

Unclassified Sunday school coordinator Fri endly and supportive community church seeks Sunday School coordina­tor. Immediate part-t ime opening. Musical ability and organi zationa l skill s necessa ry . Willing to work actively and enthusiastica lly with chil­dren and th eir teachers. Call the Mount Royal United Church, 739-7741.

Ride needed Will share gas and driving to San Diego/LA area, early July. Call 488-2278 by June 14; leave message at 482-9329 from June 15 to July 2.

For rent .Pare St. Henri, renovated 5-1 / 2, 2 floors; washer & dryer, di shwasher, stove & fridge; near St. Henri Metro, within walking distance to SGW Campu s, $600/ mth .· Availabl e Se ptember 1. Info: 938-4293 or 8renda@vax2.concordia.ca

For rent or for sale 4 1/2 condo, near Ge org es Vani er Metro. Info: 848-4926 (days) or 933-9947 (even ings).

For rent Upper duplex, 4 1/2, NDG. No appli­ances, unheated . $500/mth . Washer/dryer outlets. Immediate occupancy. No cats allowed. Dogs accepted. Call 781-5773.

Sabbatical rental Fully furnished four-bedroom house near universities. $1150/month + utili­ties . Available July 1. Contact A. Athieniti s at 848-8791 or athiena@alcor.concordia.ca

To go by June 14 Double bed with frame, $75.; sofa bed (opens to twin size), $40. Prices firm. 488-2278 by June 13.

Tutoring and research-help Do you need tutoring in your courses? A Concordia alumnus, MA Economics, can prepare you for exams, research, and writi ng assignments. Geepu at 287-2685, aclad@colba.net

At a loss for words? Let me help you . Proofreading & Editing, Copywriting, French to English Tran slation . David Mi tchell -Wordsmith: 484-6071 , dmitchell@vi r­com.com

English angst? Proofreading/correcting for university papers, resumes, etc. Also tutor for English, written and/ or conversation. Good rates. Lawrence: 279-4710.

Computer tutoring Private or group tutoring for Internet or computer use (PC, Mac, UNIX). We al so do consulting (upgrading, pur­chase, configuration) and Web design and programming. Meera Group: web­broker@hotmai I.com, or 920-2055 (pager).

Business opportunity Enthusiastic students wanted. Earn tuition fees+. Substantial income pos­si ble from home-based business. No risk. Residual. 484-3998.

JOIN THE PARTY' The Concordia University Alumni Association invites you to come and raise a glass to the Class of '98 at

GRAD FINALE Friday, June 12, 1998 5:30- 7:30 p.m. Atrium - Place Concordia, J .W. McConnell Building 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West

Price: Complimentary for graduating students $12 for each guest

Tickets can be picked up at the Office of Alumni Affairs SGW Campus: 1463 Bishop St., BC-10 1

For more info rmation, call (5 14) 848-3815

Spanish immersion programs Carefully selected schools in Mexico, Central and South America, and Spain. North-South Connexions, 236-3400 or arnold@citenet.net

U.S. work permits We can help Canad ian cItIzens increase their chances of receiving U.S. work permits. Also, U.S. immigra­tion and related business matters. 8. Toben Associates (U.S. lawyers) 288-3896.

Workshops Start your own business ~ Info-Entrep re neur , the Bu siness Development Bank of Canada and Sun-Life Canada wi ll give sess ions on start-up requirements, fed eral and provincial rul es, the creation of busi­ness plans, life insurance and pension planning. May 29, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. H-521, 1455 de Mai sonneuve W. Students : $28 .75. Others: $57 .51 . RSVP at the Centre for Human Relations and Community Studi es, 848-2273.

Archives information session Learn the ins and outs of Concordia 's Archives Department. Topics include when and how to deposit and retrieve documentation, what type of docu­mentation you should keep in Archives, as well as what documenta­tion can be di scarded. Wednesday, June 3, 9:30 a. m. -no on. H-1015 (Arch ives Department). To register, contact Carmelita Swann at 848-3668, or at cswann@alcor.concordia.ca

Introduction to the Concordia University filing system Would you like to reorganize and improve the efficiency of your existing fil ing system? Learn the Concordia fil ­ing system and implement the system in your office. Wednesday, June 10, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. A-400 (training room) To register, contact Carmelita Swann by June 3 at 848-3668, or at cswann@alcor.concordi a.ca