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Title A name given to the resource St. Joseph's General Hospital Graduates 1907-1966 Subject The topic of the resource Universities Description An account of the resource This booklet contains graduates from St. Joseph's General Hospital from 1907 to 1966. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lakehead University Alumni Alumni Association Alumni Association of Lakehead University Graduates Lakehead Lakehead University Port Arthur St. Joseph's General Hospital https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/8/1467/St._Joseph_s_General_Hospital_Graduates_1907-1955.pdf 5985a2de9db629787dacf4420111db61 PDF Text Text ������������������ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lakehead University Graduates Lakehead Lakehead University Port Arthur St. Joseph's General Hospital https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/8/1344/Nor_Wester_Magazine_Fall1988_Vol.5_No.3.pdf c147872487926dfea63c6910fc86bcbe PDF Text Text ������������ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lakehead University Alumni Collection Description An account of the resource Material kept by the Lakehead University Alumni Association, or donated by Alumni to the Association. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nor'Wester Magazine Fall 1988 Vol.5 No.3 Subject The topic of the resource Universities Description An account of the resource This issue of the Nor'Wester contains an article on LU's Psychology program, an announcement that the Visual Arts & Music are being relocated, and a message from the President. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lakehead University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1988 Alumni Alumni Annual Fund Alumni Association Alumni Association of Lakehead University Lakehead Lakehead University Music Music and Visual Arts Building Nor'Wester Nor'Wester Magazine President Rosehart President's Message Psychology Visual Art https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/e50eca5df1e1bcfdba22e4d2eff0ebc8.pdf ce706d2c1e441fa91e2a4a6d2b8d9ea9 PDF Text Text Inside: 3 Spring ground-breaking for Northern Forest Biology Building - 11 3 LUcky 7 lives up to name 7, 8, 9, 10, Convocation '89 memories 12 Teaching award for Petrone THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO VOL.6. NO.6 JUNE 1989 �Report From The President Dr. Bob Kosebart Lakehead University Float Congratulations to all of those who participated . The Lakehead Unive rsity float was most impressive, as were our people, and my 25 year o ld car made it to the end of the parade. helpers, but especially the staff support given by the Registrar's Office. I..akehead first hosted this event in 1971. What is an L.U . Affinity Card? It is a Master Card with a photograph of Lakehead Univers ity on it. l.a.kehcad University becomes the latest Canadian university to offer, as part of Alumni Services, an "affinity card". Each and every expenditure charged to the card results ina financial contribution to the Alumni Fund. If you use credit cards, it is a painless way to donate. If interested, contact Frances Harding in Alumni Services. tee of the City Administration and, as well, is a local entrepreneur. Lakehead University Women Win filg ) Congratulations to the Silver Jubilee Team in the Royal LePage Run for Women. The team successfully beat out all challenges and won first place for the Corporate Award for most entries. In spite of the snow, the re was a good turnout of women representing faculty, staff, faculty wives and students. Architect Selected The Firm of Tctt and Landy, in association with Carley and Phillips, has been retained by the Board of Governors to design the new Student Centre/Regional Education Centre Project. Two working groups representing potential users are in the process of being fanned in order to give operational advice to the architect. Stephen Phillips of the firm of Carley and Phillips, has been involved in similar projects at the University of Waterloo. Winnen: Lakebead University entry of 100-member SilverJubilee team ir-¾e On the surface, it is difficult to say any- Run for Women. was organi.zet-.Jy thing inspiring about the recent Provincial Linda Phillips.Diane McBride, above, Budget. Many of the new initiatives are was one of those to brave the snow. socially progressive, but the cumulative tax Canada Sea to Sea bite is beginning to add up. Saving this, Twenty-five of our Outdoor Recreahowever, is one thing. At the gasoline station this morning, the owner said that he tion students and Dr. James Smithers are had no grumbles about increased gasoline now working their way down the 1,200 taxes. Is it that Canadians are so "well off" mile journey to the mouth of the Mackenthat taxes arc of little concern? zie River. Mayor KnightofFort McMurray I doubt it. I suspect that it is more a participated in a gala send-off in Fort reflection of our passive attitude when it McMurray on Victoria Day (in spite of the comes to government. Special inte rest recent snow). Just prior to leaving groups do a good job getting their message Lakehead University, the group was in· to government. I am less convinced that formed that the Federal Government had approved a grant of approximately the general public is as effective. $105,000 to pay the summer student sala• Finnish University President to Visit ries. National media interest in the 1989 Lakehead University trip is high with a CBC reporter as well as an "Equinox" writer travelling on the enDr. Eska Riepula, the Rector of the Uni- tire trip with the four canoes. In I 789, versity o f Lapland, is visiting Lakehead Uni- Mackenzie was on his way to the Pacific versity this month and is a special guest at Ocean and made a wrong tum near Fort Convocation. 1be University of Lapland is McMurray and e nded up at the Arctic, located in the very progressive northern 1200 miles later. Mackenzie, four years Finnish community of Rovaniemi which is later, made it to the Pacific, several years located on the Arctic Circle. It is a univer- prior to the much-recognized trip of sity that specializes in Social Sciences, Law Lewis and Clark. ~ Old Fort William has been supp~ve and Education and, in addition to being the head of the University, Rector Riepula of this venture in te rms of both historical is also Chairman of the Executive Commit- input and loaned equipment. Provincial Budget Floating along: Lakebead University's entry into the Sbriner's Parade looked great.JimPodd and Norma Gibson were responsible for pulling everything together and creating a first-class float. Vice-President Weller Re-appointed for Second Te nn At the conclusion of the review process, Vice-President (Academic) Weller has been re-appointed for a five-year term. In reviewing the role ofVice-President (Academic) within the institution, the Review Committee has stressed the importance of the intra-university role and the day-today management responsibilities of this senior academic administrative position. Dialogue '89 - A Success Over 260 guidance staff, as well as university liaison representatives, from all the Ontario universities, participated in the annual Dialogue forum at Lakehead University from May 17 to 19, 1989. The feedback from the meeting indicated very strong support for both Lakehead University and the conference organization. Special recognition is deserved of Gwen Wajda, Pentti Paularinne, and all the many Page 2 - - - -- -- - - - - -- -- - - - - AGOKA - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - June 1989 �University growth cont.inues, new research centre under construction Work has started on a $4 million re~ ch centre at Lakehead University. ~ he Northern Forest Biology Centre will provide office, administration and Iabora• tory space for eight Ministry of Natural Resources research scientists and related administrative and technical support staff. The building will also accommodate up to four post-graduate students, visiting scien• tists and post-doctoral fellows working on approved research projects. The building is going up just west of the Chancellor Paterson Library. The project is expected to take about one year to comple te. The a rchitect is John Stephenson from Walter Kuch & John K. Stephenson Architects of Thunder Bay. Research centre: The Northern Forest Biology Centre will encourage more cooperative research projects between the Ministry of Natural Resources and the University. The S4 million building is going up next to the Chancellor Paterson Li• brary. LUcky 7 overcomes setback to zoom near top spot The LUcky 7 lived up to its name, earning a second place finish for Lakehead University's entry in the 1989 Shell Canada Fuclathon. LUcky 7 and 26 other student-designed vehicles competed for top prizes late last r,-"'lth at the test centre in Oakville, Ont. h-.1ough the University of Waterloo's Astral came in first, LUcky 7 pulled off a second place finish among university entries. However, a professional Shell research team finished second overall. Lakehead took second place in spite of wet, tricky track conditions. The University also earns $2,000 for its efforts in the competition. Lakehead's entry suffered a setback during a trial run when driver Diane Hyde was thrown after the vehicle hit a bump. According to team manager Art Rob, Hyde required a few stitches and was not allowed to continue because o f team concerns about her health. Substituting in the driver's seat was team mechanic Harold Danilkewich. The substitution meant a major weight differ• ence. Danilkewich, weighed in at 188 lbs, twice the weight of Hyde and the car, both of which weigh 94 lbs. Repairs were also made to the car, but they were minor. "We were able to patch it up," Rob said. "It meant a couple of late nights, though." The final student member of the team was mechanic Frank Schauble. Seimer Tsang, faculty to the team a. ,J chairman of mechanical engineering, had high hopes for the LUcky 7. '''This is the 13th Fuclathon,'' he said before leaving for the competition. "Maybe naming the car r,r. June 1989 Very lucky: Lakehead University's seventh entry into the Shell Canada Fuelathon proved to be a lucky one. The LUcky 7 finished second among the univeristy entries. Pictured above are Diane Hyde, in the car; Lakehead President Bob Rosehart at left; Dr. Dianne Common, right; and Dr. Seimer Tsang to the rear. LUcky 7 with L for Lakehead and U for University will counter the (unlucky number) 13." This was Lakehead's seventh entry into the Shell Fuelathon. This year's vehicle was a re-designed version of the 1988 entry. The LUcky 7 sported front-wheel drive and rear-wheel steering. In addition, a fiberglass body was used to improve the aerodynamic characteristics of the car. The engine was the same Honda G100 76 CC engine used during the last two years. The sleek design AOORA and modifications inspired the team to hope for the best. "In my opinion it's the best car we've ever had," Hyde said before leaving for Oakville. " I'm hoping for at least second (place)." It is that enthusiasm that will carry next year's team through the 1990 Shell Canada Fuelathon. "We have to beat Waterloo next year," Tsang said. "This car could do very well." Page 3 �Books Who's who in fish world listed in new book Momot said the book began as a dusty box of notes and partial A book published by two Lakehead University people could be subtitled: Everything you've ever wanted to know about local fish, drawings given to him by the late naturalist Keith Denis. Denis but didn't know who to ask. iiiiiiiii;;;;;:;.:::.;:=c;:;;.:::.;:~;;:;;;;iiiiii.iiiii;.;;;::;;::::;ii=iii.=::=.::r==::;::,i ~as received the info~ _) non from Dr. A.E. Allin, a Walter Momot and Connie Hartviksen hobbyist who collected have released a 300-page book titled Fishes fish extensively until his ofThe 'lbunder Bay Area ofOntario. Illusdeath in 1966. Much of trations were done by local wildlife artist Allin's collection is now in Karen Spinney-Helmer. The official book the Royal Ontario Mulaunch was held last month and the book scum. has been well-received by fishing enthusi• This finished book conasts. Momot is a professor of biology, Hartviksen is a biology research associate tains more than 80 penand Spinney-Helmer is a biology lecturer at and-ink illustrations. She the University. noted that the drawing.s "It is a usable source book for anglers, had to be so technically tourists, hobbyists, naturalists or anyone - -perfect, they had to conin science," Hartviksen said. "It should be . ,O:::::::.._:"";Hll!I"'. tain the correct number of a standard piece of equipment for every scales along the fishes' latangler's tackle box." era! lines. The book contains an inventory of 500 1he book was sponlakes and 35 streams describing the water sored by the University's body locations and what fish can be found L---~~=======~~~~~------~ Senate Research Commitin each. The area covered ranges from Fisbfiacts not tales: Walter Momot centre and Connie tee, the Th~n~er Bay Whi Ri Atik k Th b k d ·1 ' ' ' Salmon Assoc1at10n and teh v~r to o angth. e _gho~ etaids Hartviksen worked'? compile the handbook offishes in the North Shore Steelhead the fi s es average 1en , we1 , recor s Northwestern Ontario. This book is a bandy guide for . . and whether it is common or rare to the anglers, naturalists, hobbyists and science students. Assoc1at1on of Thunder area. It also describes the fins, color, habiBay. tat, food and spawning of fishes. Lakehead's Dilley part of international rural plannin_) Rural areas are more than "a resource for city people." Lakehead University's professor Robert Dilley is part of an international effort to raise awareness of concerns held by rural areas around the world. Dilley is the Canadian editor for the 1988 Inte rnational Yearbook of Rural Planning. "We're trying to draw people's attention to the problems ofrural areas," he said. "Attention has focused more in recent decades on urban problems, (and) rural areas have been regarded as a resource for city people." He was also involved in the 1987 edition of the yearbook. The yearbook idea arose from a British publication called the Countryside Planning Yearbook, edited by Andrew Gilg, who decided to go international by adding sections on the Western World. Dilley got involved in the project after meeting Gilg at a conference. "I must have made some impression," Dilley said. "He invited me to be the North American editor." However, Dilley said the job was too much for one person and recommended dividing the job be· tween a Canadian and an American editor. "Nobody really thinks of rural areas as something that needs to be cared for," he said. "But this (attitude) has changed slightly with concerns over environmental assessment." The yearbook includes significant legislation dealing with rural problems and planning, he said. Dilley works with a network of correspondents from coast-to-coast. 'Ibere is also a series of literary reviews which cover publications such as books, government documents and journal articles. "As editor, it is my job to prevent over.,--.... lap," he said. The yearbook also includes a num• bcr of research articles dealing with ( techniques or particular problems in rural planning. "As editor, I contact people for articles." He me ntioned I . that Thunder Bay-Atikokan MP Iain ,.,..,., Angus wrote about government policy ..._, on grain trade. "Next year's volume will have a new name and will probably contain an Latest annual yearbook: Professor Robert arti~le on t~e ~ffect ~f free trade on DilleyservedasCanadianeditorfortheJ-, ~ agnculture, Dilley said. International Yearbook of Rural Fiann--(;;. Dilley is continuing with his interest He also worked on the 1987 yearbook. Work in rural issues, both local and interna- is underwayfor the 1989 International Year• tional. book. rage -4 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AOORA - - - - - -- - -- - - - - - - - - June 1989 �Re-tracing Mackenzie's search for Northwest Passage by Maureen Martin ~ e stereotyped image of a university One Step Beyond organization. The two or- I\_L,essor does not include paddling ca- ganizations joined forces with Lakehead noes 12-hours a day while battling hoards of ravenous insects and coping with unpredictable weather. Unless one is referring to Lakehead University's Dr. Jim Smithers. Smithers, a professor of Outdoor Recreation, admits he is more comfortable working 16-hour days seven days a week planning canoe treks than he is writing scholarly papers. "It's not exactly an academic, contemplative life," he said of his career. ''I'd rather do the trip than write about it." Lakehead's adventurer is olI on another expedition: the re-creation ofSir Alexander Mackenzie's quest for the Northwest Passage. He wiU be travelling with 25 students and another leader, Derek Apple, project assistant and an Outdoor Recreation graduate. This year is Phase I of a proposed five-year project. Participants will journey 2,048 miles from Fort McMurray, Alta., to Whale Island in the Arctic Ocean this summer. "It's a relatively ambitious project," he said. Smithers had a taste of this voyage in 1984. "Old Fort William asked us (Outdoor ~r reation) to do a historical recreation of u.: trek from Montreal to Old Fort William," he said. "We decided to do the trip as historical as possible." Aside from dressing in voyageur clothing and paddling in reproductions of original voyageur canoes, participants stopped in communities along the way to make presentations. "Professionally, it was very good for the students," Smithers said. The trip provided students with an opportunity to pick up organizational skills needed for long voyages. "Travelling several thousand miles with 30 people and a very definite time-table is quite different from four people in two canoes going from A to Bat their leisure," he said. "Since the trip was very successful, we started looking for similar projects," he said. While considering various projects, he came across the 200th anniversary of Mackenzie's expeditions -- and saw a great c- ortunity. Coming up with the idea was eL ;; finding backing was not. During the search, Smithers crossed paths with the Alexander Mackenzie Trail Association, which was meeting with the June 1989 University to make the re-creation of Mackenzie's expeditions possible. The Sir Alexander Mackenzie "Canada Sea-to-Sea" Bicentennial Expeditions will re-create and commemorate the 200th anniversary of the first recorded crossing of Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. Phase I, which is underway, will run from May to Augus t 1989. Although there will be 12-hour paddling days, unpredictable weather and swarms of insects, life will not be all hard work for the modern voyageurs. Presentations and historical re-enactments will be given in communities along the route. The 105-day trek will combine the rigors ofvoyageur life with live theatre. Not only will the project commemorate Mackenzie's search for the Northwest Passage, it will educate Canadians about an important part ofthe nation's history. Early explorers such as Mackenzie and the voya- Westward bo! Professor Jim Smithers geurs helped develop Canada in the 18th bas embarked on a canoe trip to the Arctic to re-create Sir Alexander century by expanding the fur trade. Smithers said there will be no canoe Mackenzie's journeys. Smithers, Derek trips in 1990, but the education element Apple, project assistant, and the 25 stuwill be strong. A $50,000 grant from the dents will return in August. Gordon Foundation has been received to design curriculum material to teach stu- each group." Smithers said the presence dents about Canadian explorers, including of women on such long expeditions is a Sir Alexander Mackenzie. "There is a gen- well-documented historical fact. Taking eration that is his- females on the 1989 trek will serve two torically and geo- purposes, he said. " It shows women can graphically illiter- do this type of thing and recognizes that ate," Smithers said. Native women had an important role in "Canadians know the success of such undertakings." "It's strange," he said. "Here we have more about Daniel predominantly Anglo Canadians, mostly Boone and Davey Crockett than they from Central Ontario, who are travelling d o a b o u t across the country recreating a very Mackenzie." Next important part of French Canadian hisyear's project will tory." With a chuc kle, he summed up the centre on correct- trip. "Basically we're travelling around ing that problem. Students will help with singing French songs •· badly." Along the way, participants will take the creation of material to highlight Canapart in the 'rerritorial Canoe Festival in dian history. the Northwest Territories during July. Trips will resume in 1991. The expeditions may be the spark needed to create a Smithgers said the group will provide national heritage trail to preserve and inter- "color" for the event but will not be pret ,this route for future generations. The competitors. Smithers and company are expected Alexander Mackenzie Trail Association to reach Whale Island by July 30. After a hopes to create a heritage trail designed ceremonial event, they will paddle to along the lines of the Lewis and Clark trail Inuvik, from which point they will return across the United States. The Mackenzie Expeditions will be as home. The modem voyageurs will return accurate as possible •· including the pres- to 1Jiunder Bay around Aug. 7. ence offemales on the trek. "Mixed groups (The office received a call from the are better for long trips," he said. "Both adventurers the day the paper went to groups seem to temper the extremes of press. Tbey are right on schedule and AO-ORA experiencing no major difficulties.) Page S �Re-tracing Mackenzie's search for Northwest Passage fJy Maureen Martin ~ c stereotyped image of a university I\_\,essor does not include paddling canoes 12-hours a day while battling hoards of ravenous insects and coping with unpredictable weather. Unless one is referring to Lakchcad University's Dr. Jim Smithers. Smithers, a professor of Outdoor Recreation, admits he is more comfortable working 16-hour days seven days a week planning canoe treks than he is writing scholarly papers. " It's not exactly an academic, contemplative life," he said of his career. "I'd rather do the trip than write about it." Lakehead's adventurer is off on another expedition: the re-creation ofSirAlexander Mackenzie's quest for the Northwest Passage. He will be travelling with 25 students and another leader, Derck Apple, project assistant and an Outdoor Recreation graduate. This year is Phase I of a proposed five-year project. Participants will journey 2,048 miles from Fort McMurray, Alta., to Whale Island in the Arctic Ocean this summer. "It's a relatively ambitious project," he said. Smithers had a taste of this voyage in 1984. "Old Fort William asked us (Outdoor ~7 teation) to do a historical recreation of t. \,. trek from Montreal to Old Fort William," he said. "We decided to do the trip as historical as possible.'' Aside from dressing in voyageur clothing and paddling in reproductions of original voyageur canoes, participants stopped in communities along the way to make presentations. "Professionally, it was very good for the students,'' Smithers said. The trip provided students with an opportunity to pick up organizational skills needed for long voyages. "Travelling several thousand miles with 30 people and a very definite time-table is quite different from four people in two canoes going from Aton at their leisure," he said. "Since the trip was very successful, we started looking for similar projects," he said. While considering various projects, he came across the 200th anniversary of Macke nzie's expeditions•· and saw a great (?"ortunity. Coming up with the idea was e.11; finding backing was not. During the search, Smithers crossed paths with the Alexander Mackenzie Trail Association, which was meeting with the June 1989 One Step Beyond organization. The two organizations joined forces with Lakehead University to make the re-creation of Mackenzie's expeditions possible. The Sir Alexander Mackenzie "Canada Sea-to-Sea" Bicentennial Expeditions will re-create and commemorate the 200th anniversary ofthe first recorded crossing of Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. Phase I, which is underway, will run from May to August 1989. Although there will be 12-hourpaddling days, unpredictable weather and swarms of insects, life will not be all hard work for the modern voyageurs. Presentations and historical re-enactments will be given in communities along the route. The 105-day trek will combine the rigors ofvoyageur life with live theatre. Not only will the project commemorate Mackenzie's search for the Northwest Passage, it will educate Canadians about an important part of the nation's history. Early explorers such as Mackenzie and the voyageurs helped develop Canada in the 18th century by expanding the fur trade. Smithers said there will be no canoe trips in 1990, but the education element will be strong. A $50,000 grant from the Gordon Foundation has been received to design curriculum material to teach students about Canadian explorers, including Sir Alexander Mackenzie. "There is a generation that is historically and geographically illiterate," Smithers said. "Canadians know more about Daniel Boone and Davey Crockett than they doabout Mackenzie." Next year's project will centre on correcting that problem. Students will help with the creation of material to highlight Canadian history. Trips will resume in 1991. The expeditions may be the spark needed to create a national heritage trail to preserve and interpret ,Lhis mute for future generations. The Alexander Mackenzie Trail Association hopes to create a heritage trail designed along the lines of the Lewis and Clark trail across the United States. The Mackenzie Expeditions will be as accurate as possible •· including the presence offemales on the trek. "Mixed groups a re better for long trips," he said. "Both groups seem to temper the extremes of AGOR,\ Westward bo! Professor Jim Smithers has embarked on a canoe trip to the Arctic to re-create Sir Alexander Mackenzie's journeys. Smithers, Derek Apple, project assistant, and the 25 students will return in August. each group. " Smithers said the presence of women on such long expeditions is a well-documented historical fact. Taking females on the 1989 trek will serve two purposes, he said. "It shows women can do this type of thing and recognizes that Native women had an important role in the success of such undertakings." "It's strange," he sa.id. "Herc we have predominantly Anglo Canadians, mostly from Central Ontario, who are travelling across the country recreating a very important part of French Canadian history." With a chuckle, he summed up the trip. "Basically we're travelling around singing French songs •· badly." Along the way, participants will take part in the Territorial Canoe Festival in the Northwest Territories during July. Smithgers said the group will provide "color" for the event but will not be competitors. Smithers and company are expected to reach Whale Island by July 30. After a ceremonial event, they will paddle to Inuvik, from which point they will return home. The modern voyageurs will return to l _"hunder Bay around Aug. 7. (/be office received a call from the adventurers the day the paper went to press. Tbey are right on schedule a11d experiencing no major difficulties.) Page 5 �Visitors on campus New perspectives: Lakehead University was visited by a delegation JrrJ·~ Bunkpurugu, Ghana. The group i.. . visiting to gain a new perspective on educational and health problems. The J ive-member delegation spent some time gelling acquainted with the University. Pictured at left is Lakehead liaison officer Oliver Pfeiff (centre), and delegates Lawrence Kwotuah and Janet Anafu. Other members not pictured are John Laari, Nelson Jatuat and Siat Kanturib. The group came to Thunder Bay under the auspices of CUSO (formerly Canadian University Service Overseas). Bunkpurugu bas a twinning agreement with Thunder Bay. The program encourages an exchange of information on coping w ith various problems associated with regions isolatedfrom central areas. Computer kids: The 1989 Computer Contest drew a number of students from Thunder Bay and area. Pictured at right is the senior team from Manitouwadge working out computer problems /or the contest. Dr. Clem Kent ofthe Mathematics Department co-ordinated the event. Winners in the senior and junior d ivisions won individual prizes. The schools of the winning teams received a Zenith ''Easy PC Desktop. In the senior division Lakeview High School took top spot while Port Arthur Collegiate Institute and Beaver Brae District High School from Kenora tied/or second. In thejunior division Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate & Vocational Institute took first place,followed by Nipigon-Red Rock District High School insecondplaceandWestgateCollegiate& Vocational Institute in third. Dialogue '89: The delegates at Dialogue '89 met to discuss educational needs of the future during a three-day galherlng at Lakehead University. Added to the intellectual discussions were a number of social events. The group pictured to the left were attending a Taste of the North dinner, featuring buffalo, partridge, and lake trout. From left to right, Brenda Steen, Assistant Registrar; Herb Pettipiere, Director ofthe Ontario Universities' Application Centre, and bis wife June; and Penlli Paularinne, Lakebead University's Registrar. The three-day conference J""'lf titled "Threshold ofthe 90's" and ined ways to deal with the trends and issues many universities may /ace in the next decade. ciJ Page 6 - - -- - - - - -- - - -- - - - - June 1989 �Kenney-Wal/ace Mansbridge's Advice: Offers timely advice "Refuse to be Ordinary 11 Graduates were advised to "be interna- Peter Mansbridge followed his own advice and spoke about things he knew - his early reporter days in northwestern Ontario, his fond memories ofThunder Bay and credibility in professionalism. The well-known anchor and CBC journalist described his work: "you're a witness to the most memorable times of our lives and you get to share the experience with so many others." He told the graduates that a lot was being asked ofthem. "For journalists the challenge is a big one" he said, " ... we're expected to be judges of good taste, leaders of opinion, forums for opinion, d e tectors of trends, critical investigators, corruption finders, guardians and crusaders for justice - and we're supposed to be entertaining too.. " He argued that no matter what career grads had chosen, the challenges are just as real. "The people you deal with want the best ... why not give it to them. I mean the best. The world is full of adequate. Do the best job possible. Do your best each day and know you 've done your best. Know you haven't cut any comers. I would beg you, refuse to be ordinary." (Ciat, focus on excellence and be on nme. " Dr. Geraldine Kenney-Wallace, Chairman of the Science Council of Canada, offered advice to graduates in the afternoon session of Convocation. "Graduation is a right of passage," she said. "It allows you to say -- and say with authority-- 'I do not know, but I'll find you the answer as soon as I can.' " KenneyWallace went on to say that "life is really about getting the questions right and knowing which way to turn to begin finding the answers." Graduates were told that they were "graduating into the Real Time Global Village and they must be aware of what was happening elsewhere in the Village in order to make timely decisions about the direction of their own lives. "Don't be tempted to make decisions on what you thought it (the question) was," Kenney-Wallace said. "Go out and open your eyes and make decisions for what it is. Make decisions on time for the world that's rapidly unfolding." ~m left to right, Dr. Bill West and bis '.(.,/ Mary, University Fellow Mr. Wal/dee Bryan and bis wife, Harriet, and Dr. Adrienne Clarkson stand proudly during introductions at noon hour ceremonies beside Lake Tamblyn. Top, Registrar Penlli Paularinne assists Dr. Geraldine Kenney-Wallace with her gown at the afternoon ceremony where she received an honorary science degree. Dr. Peter Mansbridge is all smiles after receiving bis doctor of Humane letters. High winds and near-freezing te mperatures threatened right up to Convocation Day. But Saturday May 29, 1989 was a clear, sunny day that warmed the people and events. There was indeed pomp and ceremony at the largest graduating class in the university's 25 year history. Two fullhouses at the morning and afternoon ceremonies heard thought-provoking and entertaining speeches by Dr. Peter Mansbridge and Dr. Geraldine Kenney-Wallace. For each graduand, there was his or her mome nt of recognition walking across centre stage to receive a diploma or degree. There were behind the scene stories lost in the excitement of the day: a grad rushing out to nurse her newborn baby before receiving her degree, the grandparents over from "the old country" who sat teary-eyed as a grandchild knelt in front of the (q..,ancellor to receive personal congntulations. There was the ~ -year old Red Lake bus driver who graduated with a degree in sociology after 10 years of continuing education courses while working the night shift. The list also includes a deter- June 1989 mined woman who took 25 years to complete her BA in history, taking her first course in 1964 but stopping her studies to raise her family. Dean Braun has been in frail health and missed convocation for the first time, but he and his wife brought joy to many when they arrived at noon-hour to share the SilverJubilee Opening Ceremony. A large team of people work behind the scenes to make Convocation a celebration that each graduate, family and friends will always remember and cherish. This team includes the registrar's offi ce, printing, graphics, security guards, food service workers, secretaries, alumni and many other caring souls. Grounds and housekeeping staff work around the clock to spruce up the campus. The Chronicle-Journal showed its community spirit and produced a special commemorative tabloid recognizing the efforts of more than 1,300 students. Take a bow team! AOORA Page 7 �\ \ honours bacbelo gratulations fro1 Chancel/or's Mee Margot Hodgson Socio~o. Sec011 comp ··,r bis B! winn "OcbLeto Bernard Weiler(, wife Margaret; J, Tamblyn. 1birdr all smiles as she daughters pose j workedforallfo �'J I --- ~ r,ocaJion '89! Photos from left top row: '1 made il" says Mike Siska who eamed bis (Social Work; Mark Pumala BSc(Hons) won tbe Geology department prize and gels conbis paretlls; Phyllis Anderson BScN(Hon) RN won tbe Dean Braun Medal and tbe 'for top part-time student; and tbe determined woman in centre of top right photo is ·bo took courses off-campus for JO years to complete ber Bachelor of Ans degree in row: Registrar Penni Paularinne congratulates Rob Foster, Rbodes Scholar, wbo 11011 ff"' './inning a few awards along tbe way; looking cool in shades, Poulin Award neau;·,-atMcElroy, First Graduate oflakebeadUniversity, cuts tbe cake wilb Chancellor ~e made and decorated by Ute Hickin); Dr. Gary Locker visits with Dean Braun and bis 1 uf tbe noon-hour crowd attending Silver Jubilee Opening Ceremonies beside Lake 1: Wan Rajibab Wan Musa graduated with a degree in Business Administration and is •ses with Malaysian friends; Professor and Mrs. Robert Dilley and their four delightful a f amity portra it; the four presidents ofLake head p ose with Linda Phfllips, wh o bas : a,uiproud mom Ethyl Everett and son, Dr. Lonie Everett, 1989 Alumni Award winner. �Convocation '89 award winners Tiffi POULIN AWARD An award for outstanding citizenship to the student selected by his fe llows, the Faculty and Administration as contribuitng most to the we lfare of the University through his student activities. M. Roch Lionel Letourneau THE PRESIDENT'S AWARDS Awards given a nnually to the graduating students who have occupied positions of responsibility in the students' organizations and who, by the ir activities and achievements, have earned the gratitude of the University. David Simon Bogdonov BEng(CiviJ) Robert Franklin Foster BSc (Hons) Patrick Walusiku Matakala BScF (Hons) Donald Arthur Nault BPE (Hons) Frank Ange lo Sacino BA BEd Steven Stang BEng (Elect) Lorraine Ann Thomson BScN (Hons) Anthony Kevin Yozipovic BA THE ALm.oo HONOUR AwARD Awarded to an alumnus who has made an outstanding achievement in one or more fields of endeavour. Lorne Everett PhD Tim DFAN OF ARTs AND Peter Allan Myllymaa BComm (hons) exaequo Bachelor of Administration -· Doris Irmgard G. Wohlfarth BAdmin Honours Bachelor of Outdoor Recretion •· Peter Nelson Labor BOR (Hon) Llbrary Technology -· Heather Marie Manty Dip! Llb Tech Bachelor of Engineering •· Karl Alois Unger BEng (Elect) Engineering Technology -- Gordon Andrew Rae Dip! Eng Tech Honours Bachelor of Science in Forestry -· John Andrew McLaughlin BScF (Hons) Forest Technology -- Gerald Allen Regier Dip! For Tech Honours Bac he lor of Science in Nursing•· Phyllis Darlene Anderson BScN (Hons) RN Honours Bachelor of Physical Education -· Donald Arthur Nault BPE (Hons) T1-m GovERNoR-GENERAL's Gow MEDAL Awarded to the highest ranking student in the graduating class of the masters degree Karen Ann Charles BA (Hons) MA Bachelor of Education (Inter/Senior): Jeffrey Robert Buck BA (.HonsJ' BEdM~ Master of Education: John Gordon Bird BA MEd THE GOVERNOR- GENERAL'S Sil.VER MEDAL Awarded to the highest ranking student in the graduating class of the Honours Bachelors' degrees John Andrew McLaughlin BScF (Hons) Tm~GoVERNoR-GENERAL's Coll.EGE BRONZE MEDAL Awarded to the highest ranking student in the graduating class of the Diplo ma programs Gordon Andrew Rae Dip! Eng Tech THE CHANCELLOR'S MEDAL Awarded to the highest ranking parttime student in the graduating class of the Bachelors' or Honours Bachelors' degrees Phyllis Darlene Anderson BScN (Hons) RJ CANADIAN INS11TUTE OF FoRSTRY Go1.0 MEDAL Sc1ENcE's MEDALS To the highest-ranking students in Arts Three-Year program: Derek Phin Apple BA, BOR (Hons) Four-Year Program: Sabine Micheala Fels BA (Hons) Honours Bachelor of Social Work Program:Joanne Margaret Dagsvik BA BSW (Hons) Fiona Dianne Karlstedt BA BSSW (Hons) ex aequo THE DEAN OF ARTS AND SCIENCE'S MEDALS To the highest-ranking graduating students in Science Three-Year Program: Peter John MacDonald BSc Four-Year Program: Robert Franklin Foster BSc (Hons) THE LlEurnNANr- GoVERNoR's MEDAL Awarded to the highest ranking graduating student in the three-year Bachelors' degrees Karen Leigh Molly BA TI-IE DEAN OF EDuCAnoN's MEDALS Awarded to the highest ranking graduating students in Education Bachelor of Education (Primary-] unior): Christine Eva Burkowski BA (Hons) BEdMA Bachelor of Education (Junior-Inter) Bonnie Jean Sutherland BSc IlEd BOR (Hons) Awarded to the graduating student in the Forestry Degree program, who is judged to be the best all-round student in scholarship, sports and citizenship Edward Henry Hoffman BScF (Hons) PROFESSOR EMERITUS T1nEs Martin H. Greenwood Mi\ Professor Emeritus ofAnthropology George Alexander Harrower, IlSc, Msc, PhD Professo1· Emeritus of Physics Gordon Russell Mott B Arch, MBA Professor Emeritus ofCivil Engineering DFAN BRAUN'S MEDALS Awarded to the highest-ranking graduating students in the Faculty of Professional Studies Honours Bachelor of Commerce: Janice Yvonne Gagnon BComm (Hons) Professors emeriti Greenwood, Harrower and Mott Fage 10 - -- - - -- - - -- - - - - - - - - A OORA June 1989 �Papers/ Publications & Special Projects and a number of NGOs in India and Bang- from Laval and Lakehead University for his research work. ladesh who also made presentations. Dr. Rasid was invited to present another For the second year Dr. H. Cumpaper at a symposium organized by the As- ming, professor of Fish and Wildlife sociation of North Dakota Geographers, Management in the School of Forestry, which was held at the university of North served as a member of a three-man Dakota, Grand Forks, April 21st. The title of committee reviewing performance of his pap er was "Hazards of living on the forest companies during the first five edge of the Great Lakes: TheAmerican and years of their Forest Management Agreethe Canadian case experience". ments with the government of Ontario. Dr. S. Y. Mansour, Associate ProfesThe FMAs, which replace existing lisor, Department of Electrical Engineercensing arrangements with an Agreeing, had his paper e ntitled "Power Sysment which requires the companies to tems Minimum Fuel Cost Dispatch Using manage the forests in the FMA area on a Piecewise Loss Models", presented at the sustained-yield basis. In addition to harCanadian Conference on Electrical and vesting, the FMA holde r is responsible for Compute r Engineering, Vancouver, B.C., all planning, regeneration and other November 1988. The paper was co-ausilvicultural activities necessary for thored with Dr. D. H. Kelly of the Univerproper forest management, including sity o f Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. the construction of access roads. The role of the review committee was to asDr. Thomas M. sess the commitment o f the companies to K. Song, Profestheir obligations as identified in the sor of School of • Agreements. Physical EducaThe committee included de tailed extion, Co-ordinator amination of company records, discusof Human Persions with company and Ministry personformance Laboranel, and field inspections by ground and tory, has bee n inby h elicopter. Committee conclusions vited to Universite from the 1987 reviews are published Laval in Quebec City this summer. Dr. Song under the title Forest Management will be a visiting research professor doing Agreements Third Five-Year Review research work on "Effects of Electrical 1982-1987 and are available from the Stimulation on Metabolism" and "Nuclear Ministry of Natural Resources Public and Mitochondrial DNA Polymorphisms Information Centre, Room 1460, Whiton Athletes". Dr. Song has received the ney Block, 99 Wellesley Street West, third consecutive Ontario-Quebec Ex- Toronto, Ont., M7A 1W3. Results of the change Program Grant and research grants 1988 review should be available soon. Alan Bowd, School of Edu-=~"""""° cation, was invited to present a paper at the Tiurd Inte ma~ ==',==,{~ tional Confe re nce on Native Children with Exceptional Q;;~'.::IT;~~~ Needs, Winnipeg, Manitoba, April 20 - 22. Dr. Bowd's paper was entitled "Adapting teacher ~s~~ behaviour to culture diffcrC~~==~~~i ences in learning". Walter Crowe, Sch ool of Business, recently presented two, one-day seminars to a group of senior managers from Atlantic Canada. They took ~ ====,==,{~ place in SaintJohn, New Brunswick. The subjects were "Materials Management - a Leap Forward for the Purchasing Function", and" Short Term Demand Forecasting for the Materials Manager". Crowe has given seminars on these and similar topics across Canada from time to time. Professor Crowe recently participated in a workshop at the Wellington School of Medicine, New Zealand, where he exchanged ideas on community medicine, 7'd the impact of the newly introduced L .:a Health Boards upon health care and health care economics in New Zealand. He was the guest of the Director-Gene ral of Health, and was privileged to visit senior health administrators in several centres in Ncw Zealand. Patricia Vervoort, Visual Arts, presented a paper entitled "DutchArtAbroad: Van Gogh Canadianized" at the Low Countries and the World Conference at University College, London (England) o n April 12, 1989. The paper will be p ublished by The Centre for Low Countries Studies, Univer\ sity College, London. Dr. Haron Rasid, Associate Professor of Geography, presented an invited paper at an International Conference on Flood Problems in Bangladesh, held at Concordia University, Montreal on May 11 and 12, 1989. The title of his pape r was "Miniprojects for a mega-problem: A pragmatic solution for the flood problems in Bangladesh". The conference was organized by the International Society of Bangladesh and was sponsored by CIDA and IDRC. There were papers presented by distinguished ?"" hors fro m Harvard Unive rs ity, Univer•tY of Illinois, Univers ity of Toronto, Uni- Researchers: The Fourth National Conference on Research at Small Universities was versity of Manitoba and University of held atlakehead University in April. Left to right are Dr. Ralph Heintzman, Executive Dhaka, Banglad esh, as well as representa- Director, SSHRC; Dr. Paule Leduc, President, SSHRC; Dr. Arthur May, President tives from US AID, CIDA, IDRC, World Bank NSERC; Dr. Murray IAnkester, Director, Graduate Studies & Research at Lakehead. June 1989 AOORA l"age 11 �New face Beth Huston, ' HBA Political Studies student, is new to Lakehead. She will be spending the summer workingwith Alumni's Frances Harding to help or.__ _ _ __ _ __ _. ganize the alumni re-union. "I'm learning a lot," Beth said. "I like the independe nce and creativity I'm allowed to exert." However, she noted there is "quite a bit of responsibility, too." Come the fall, Beth will return to classes. She is not certain what she will do once he r studies here are complete. "I'm thinking about law school, but I haven' t made up my mind yet," she said. In the meantime her energy is directed to the job at hand. "Co-ordinating a reunion is a lot of work ... a lot of details." The People Page Provincial award for Petrone Father Tim Flaherty ) Professor Penny who ha Petrone has won been at aprovincial Lakehead for award for exceltwo years, lence in teachsaid gooding. Dr. Petrone, bye to his professor in the many friends School of Educaat th e end of tion, was one of May. "Father 13 Ontario pro- =======-----==..i Tim" will fessors to receive continue his studies in Toronto. Joy L - - - -- - -- = - - i the 1988 OCUFA Lawson, Director of Student Services, Teaching Award. Winners of the Ontario said he will be missed, not only as chapConfederation of University Faculty Asso- lain but as a fine teacher. Fr. Flaherty ciations are selected for superior work in taught two courses in education. such instructional areas as the classroom Counsellor Irmo Marini said Fr. and/ or laboratory, for course preparation, Flahe rty "turned out to be a great asset in team teaching and audio-visual presenta- many ways." In addition to spiritual countion. Winners are chosen by a committee of selling, Father Flaherty "helped with the faculty and also includes student represen- work load in personal counselling and he tation. will be greatly missed." Appointments Art Davies has been appointed Special Advisor to the Vice-President (Administration) on Campus Construction. Jim Podd is Dave Zelkovich and his wife Lori have the Acting Director of Campus Developa baby girl. Their bundle of joy arrived ment. Easter Sunday. Geraldine White has been apponted Coordinator of the Leaming Assistance Phys. Ed. 's Peter Crocker and his wife Centre on a full-time permanent basis. Linda have a baby girl.Julisa was born May TheJuly issue of the Agora will list all 17, 1989, and weighed in at 7 lbs and 2 oz. new appointments (Chairmen and Directors) for the upcoming term. The Human Resources office needs temporary "floater" employees. A floater could be called in to work when a regular staff member is ill, for example, or on vacation. Assignments can vary from one day to several weeks in length. For more information, please call extension 8578 or come by the Human Resources office to fill in an application. Baby Faces Fond Farewells Kay Hakala, "gave 'em hell" at her Bon Voyage party in May. Singling out many friends during 15 years at Lakehead, Kay recounted the stories and people behind the scenes during her various positions at the university. She started full-time with the University in 197 4 as office supervir) in the Registrar's Office. Two years lat.:: she moved to Campus Development where she served as a secretary until her retirement this year. Kay's farewell party had a large turnout and she was greeted by many well-wishers who were sorry to see her leave. University summer fun camp I Lakehead University is holding a fun camp for kids ages 7 years to 12 years. The full and half day sessions will run 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday. The two-week sessions begin July 4. For more information, please call the Pool Office at 8656. I ) ~ J"':, French competition: The Lakehead University Modern Language Competition dr,,_J talented representatives from local high schools. Left to right, Professors Andre Cloutier and Alain Nabarra, ofthe Department ofLanguages, who acted asjudges., share a little joke with 1989 winners Kathy Madzovic (Hammarskjold), Kathie McCuaig (Sir Winston Churchill) and Karen Wenckebach (Hammarskjold). Page 12 - - -- - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - AOORA - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - June 1989 �Research News From The :fice Of raduate Studies And Research Research Officer: Trish McGowan NEWS FROM NSERC General Research Grant We recently received news from NSERC concerning our 1989/90 General . Research Grant (GRG). 'Ille allocation for the GRG Program, including Small University Supplements (SUS), has stayed the same as that of 1988/89, with a total program budget of$ 7 million. This results in a lower multiplication factor on the base, and hence, a lower GRG, as our total grants from NSERC remained fairly stable over the two-year period. The base is comprised of all 1988/89 grants to researchers at each university for the following: operating grants; infrastructure grants; northern supplements; collaborative special projects grants; strategic research grants; cooperative R and D grants; and forestry -t research development project grants. (. ..c SUS is given to universities with adjudicated grants of less than $1 million. Our 1989/90 Basic GRG is $44,000 and SUS is $8,000, for a total NSERC GRG of$52,000 (down from $55,000 last year). Research Partnerships NSERC's University-Industry programs are being expanded, with the addition of a university-government program component and a $3.5 million budget increase. Under the expansion, the UI programs and the ne wly created university-government programs will be regrouped under the name "Research Partnerships", with a total budget of$31.3 million for 1989/90. As the result of negotiations with some fede ral government departments that have programs for the support of university research, NSERC struck the first accord late in 1988 with Agriculture Canada. Under the agreement, Agriculture Canada will match funds committed by industry to research at universities. NSERC also will match industry's contribution if the application meets its standards. Individual - 1jects will have a ceiling of Sl50,000 per year in total support. Discussions are underway with other departments, including Fisheries and Oceans, Environment Canada and Energy, Mines and Resources. If the talks are successful, new programs will evolve, with a variety of arrangements: some may be similar to that with Agriculture Canada, involving significant industry support; othe rs may involve little or no private sector commitment, and take the form of chairs rather than project grants. Details on new initiatives with government departments will be announced as soon as they become available. 1989 Microelectronics Fund Competition The proposals received during the first Request for Proposals under this program were directed largely to the more traditional fields of Computer Aided Engineering and Test. NSERC found that too many proposals were aimed at tackling gate level verification and VLSI layout-problems which plagued industry 3-1 0years ago, but which are, for the most part, solved. The remaining $3.4 million will be targeted at accelerating the development of tools in support of system level design of hardware/software • intensive electronic or opto-electronic products. Funding priority will be given to proposals for research on Tools and Methodologies for Hardware and Software Intensive Systems, in the following areas: Architecture Exploration, Specification, Automatic Synthesis, Performance Modelling and Verification. The deadline for submission of applications for this competition is: June 30, 1989. Postgraduate Scholarships for Employed Scientists and Engineers It is a common misconception that NSERC postgraduate scholarships are available only to persons currently registered as students. In actual fact, any individual who meets the academic and citizenship requirements may apply for such a scholarship. NSERC is particularly interested in encouraging scientists and enginee rs who currently arc employed to consider returning to university to obtain a master's or doctoral degree in the natural sciences and engineering. There are three ways in which such people may obtain an NSERC scholarship insupport ofa period offull-time study and research at a graduate school: -recent bachelor's graduates who hold a deferred NSERC postgraduate scholarship may return to university within the twoyear maximum deferral period; -anyone who meets the basic eligibility requirements may apply to NSERC in the fall ofany year through the annual scholarships competition for an award which may be taken up in the following summer or fall; -In 1989, on an experimental basis, persons who are currently employed in a scientific or engineering capacity, who did not apply for a scholarship in the fall of1988, and who intend to return to university in the fall of 1989, may apply to NSERC for a special one-year scholarship. A small number of scholarships are available for such persons on a first come - first served basis. Applications will be accepted by NSERC until July 15, 1989. Their evaluation will be based on the same criteria used by the selection committees in the regular competition. Winners of these awards wiU, in most cases, be eligible to apply for further scholarship support via the regular compe tition. Those interested should also be aware that there is no limit on the amount of supplementary financial support received from any source other than the federal government. It is possible, therefore, for an employed person to return to graduate studies without a major drop in income, provided that the employe r is willing to grant a leave of absence with partial salary. NSERC/SSHRC Master's Scholarships Program in Science Polley A program of Maste r's scholarships in science policy was announced recently by NSERC and SSHRC. The new program is the first to be supported jointly by the two granting councils: NSERC will provide the funds and SSHRC will administer the program. A multidisciplinary selection committee is being established jointly by the two councils, and will include representatives from the natural sciences and engineering as well as from the social sciences and humanities. Students from all disciplines who have completed an undergraduate degree are eligible to hold an award under this p ro-gram. Approximately six scholarships will be awarded in the first competition in 1989/90. 1be deadline for applications will be : December 1. Further information and application forms will be available in July. (Research News continued on page 14) June 1989 AOORA Fage 13 �... More Research l'lews NEWS FROM SSHRC Ge neral Research Grant The General Research Grant (GRG) awarded to the University is a performance-based award calculated on the basis ofa three-year moving average of new and continuing grants from the Researc h Grants and Strategic Research Grants Programs. The differential rate a pplied to our past performance is 20%. Our GRG for 1989/90 is $3,543 (down from $3,847 last year). Block Travel Grant for Inte rnational Confe rences The Travel to International Scholarly Conferences (flSC) grant is made on an annual basis to the university. The amount of this block grant is calculated according to an established formula which provides a base amount ($2,000), plus an amount determined by the size o f each institution's pre vious GRG (approximately 17.4% of our 1988/89 GRG). This year's award is S2,671 (as compared to S2,383 last year), and will be adjudicated through the Senate Research Committee's established funding for conference travel competitions (September 15, January 15, and May 15). {continued from page 8} aside for new researc he rs each year. For the Fall 1989 competition, the existing rules will be used. The first competition under the person- and program based system will take place in the fall of 1990. Other matters which were addressed in the context of the discussions o n the Research Grants Program include the statement of objectives for the program, which now incorpo rates the training of future researchers, where appropriate; the af. firmation of the essential role of external assessme nts in the peer adjudication process; and the structure and administration o f block grants to universities. As of 1990/ 91, the Gene ral Research Grants and Travel Grants to International Conferences programs will be me rged into on e block grant to unive rs ities. Calculation of block grants in future will include a base amount linked to the number of social sciences a nd humanities faculty in each institution, as well as a performance suppleme nt which would be earned according to a formu la s imilar to the one used at prese nt. The block grant will be made without pre-determined allocations for the GRG or 11SC. The purpose of this me rging is to make it easier for universities to handle the receipt and reporting o f the funds, and to e nable Council to release the information earlie r. The Strategic Grants Program The Research Grants Program At its April meeting, Council approved in principle the major thrusts which were recomme nded by the Courtney committec in its final report on the Research Grants Program. 1he most imponant resuit of the Courtney committee's work is the introduction of person-and programbased funding in the Research Grants Program. Under the new system, applicants for funding will be evaluated on their record of research achievement and funding will be awarded for more general programs o f research ra the r than for sp ecific projects. The inte nt o f these changes is to reduce the effort involved in preparing research p roposals and to provide greater stability o f funding. In the evaluation o f applications from established researchers, rankings will be obtained by accord ing a weight of 70% to the record o f previous research achieveme nt and 30% to the proposed research program. In the case o f new scholars, this weighting will be reversed : 30% to the track record and 70% to the quality of the research p roposal. A minimum of 10% o f the Research Grants budget will be set l"age 14- - - - - - - - - -- - Council has approved the final re port of the Task Force on Priorities regarding the future direction of the Strategic Grants Program. The Task Force based its recomme ndationsonthcrcs ultsoftheOn e-Timc Experime ntal Program, the respo nses to a consultatio n document sent to the research community last summer, and the conclusions of a formal evaluation o f the strategic programs which was unde rtaken by the SSIIRC Program Evaluation Office last year. The rcportonapplicdethics,submitted by the Canadian Fede ration for the Humanities unde r the One-Time Experimcn tal Program, indicated tha t there arc gaps in Canada's researc h capa bility in this area. The report indicated that there is a n urgent need to coordinate the e thics research effort in Canada, particularly in the areas o f biomedical, environme ntal, and professional and busin ess ethics. Thus, SSHRC will introduce a ne w the me on Ap plied Ethics in 1990/91. The theme on The Family and the Socialization of Children , established in 1981, has helped to increase knowledge in this area a nd h as produced research re- - -- - -- - AOORA suits of interest to policy makers, particularly at the provincial level. As this theme has met its objectives and as special incentives arc the refore no longe r deem"" to be necessary in this field, this the1 _) will be concluded after the 1989 competition. Two o f the remaining themes, The Human Context ofScience and Technology and Managing the Organization in Canada, will be refocused in order to respond more closely to the needs and expectations of society. In response to concerns raised by the public and private sectors on the assessment of the social relevance o f proposa.ls and their potential contribution to public policy, Council has decided to involve experts from relevant socio-economic sectors o n the selection committees. In order to encourage the dissemination of strategic research resu lts and to e nsure that kno wledge produced through the the matic programs reaches po tential users and practitioners outside the academic community, applicants in future compe titions will be required to include in their grant applications a description o f the measures which will be taken to disseminate their research findings to other researche rs, policy makers, practitio ne rs and the public. The c urrP~ budgetary restrictions of $400 a year ...al dissemination activities will be modified in order to allow researchers to allot up to a maximum ofl0% of the total value of their grant for the dissemination of research in Canada. The Seed Money Program, which provided grants ofup to S5,000 to assist researchers in formulating research proposals, has not me t its objective. The program evaluation demonstrated that the success rate for applicants who have received seed money grants is lower than the success rate of those who have not received such a grant. Therefore, the program will be discontinued after the 1989/ 90 competition. Canada Research Fellowships Program A fourth and final competition for Canada Researc h Fellowships will be held in 1989. Forty new awards will be made in this competition. Council has relaxed the restric tions on the universities' half o f the funding to allow us to use whateve r funds are available; the fu· no lo nger have to be from a private sec™ source. {Research News contfnued 011 page 15) June 1989 �• • . More Research News Joint Initiatives Program The primary objective of the newly approved Joint Initiatives Program will be to develop stronger research links b etween the academic, government and private sectors on issues of mutual concern within areas of national priority. It is designed to encourage multi-sectoral consultation and multi-disciplinary approaches in the study of contemporary issues; to promote consultation on the definition of needs within a sector; to encourage communication among researchers and users o f research; to ensure rapid and effective dissemination of new knowledge to users; and to help integrate strategic research results with policy making and socio-economic development. Under this program, SSHRC would fund jointly with the public or private sectors a number of initiatives. All joint initiatives will be administered using a competitive program-based adjudication process involving peer review. Discussions are in progress between the Council Ask Dr. Weir Professor. Department of ~--------~ Dr. Neil Weir Chemistry Q. We are hearing a lot about the destruction of the ozone layer. I have two questions: (a) lf ozone is destroyed by sunlight, why is there any left there at all? and (b) I have heard that one molecule o f a chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) can destroy ten thousand molec ules of ozone. Surely this is impossible; or is there something else going on? A. In order to understand the answers, we must begin with a brief chemistry lesson (it's not too technical, so don't stop eading!) Ozone has the formula 0 3_and it l .onsists essentially o f an atom of oxygen (0) joined to an oxygen molecule (0 2). In the upper atmosphere (stratosphere) (ca. 20 km above the earth), the high energy June 1989 { continued from page} and various public and private sector organizations on jointly financed and managed funding programs. Council will soon be announcing joint programs with the fede ral d epartments ofJustice, the Solicitor General and Communication. A budget of $900,000 has been allocated for this program. search project entitled "Genetic Differences Betwee n Damaged and Healthy Sugar Maple Throughout Ontario". The intent of the research is to study the genetic component underlying damaged sugar maple stands as well as damaged individual trees using isozyme analyses. 'The hope is that the research may lead to the delineation ofa more pollution-resistant genotype in sugar maple. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES GRANTS AWARDED Killam Research Fellowships Ors. Peter Crocker and Marcel Bouffard (Physical Education & Athletics) have been awarded a research grant by the Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute for a project e ntitled "Challe nge in Physical Activity: Ways of Coping by the Physically Disabled". The purpose of this study is to investigate how cognitive appraisal and coping strategies are interrelated and how coping influences challenge resolution and affect. Dr. Peggy Knowles (Biology/Forestry) has been awarded a grant by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment's Research Advisory Committee for a re- ultra-violet radiation from the sun is absorbed by ozone, and this leads to its decomposition into an oxygen atom and a molecule of oxygen. At the same time, of course, the ozone is acting as a filter preventing the harmful radiation from reaching the earth. However, oxygen atoms and molecules join up once again to re-form ozone molecules. Eventually the destruction and the formation reactions reach a state of equilibrium; i.e. for each ozone molecule destroyed by radiation, another is formed from an oxygen a tom and a molecule somewhere else in the stratosphere. So the damage is reversible, provided an equilibrium is maintained, and thus there will be a certain concentration ofozone in the stratosphere. Obviously the equilibrium has been disturbed in the region ("the hole") over Antarctica. Now to the second question. Unfortunately, it is not impossible for o ne CFC molecule to destroy ten thousand ozone molecules; indeed under certain conditions, this figure can increase by a factor of ten, and the reason is that the reactions involved are that of the simple A+ B = C type. CFC is released o n earth travel slowly through the troposphere (lower atmosphere) up into the stratosphe re (this process can take periods ofa few months to two years to occur) while they arc stable indefinitely in the troposphere, they absorb the AOORA The Killam awards of the Canada Council are intended to support scholars of exceptional ability engaged in research projects of broad significance and widespread interest in any of these fields: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences and engineering. The purpose of the awards is to provide released time to a scholar who wishes to pursue independent research for a period of up to two years. 'The application deadline is Tune 30, 1989. high energy radiation in the stratosphere, and this leads to the formation ofchlorine atoms by the breaking ofcarbon-chlorine bonds (the other bonds in the CFC; le. the carbon-carbon, carbonhydrogen and carbon-fluorine are much stronger). The chlorine atoms arc reactive and they immediately attack ozone molecules to produce oxygen and chlorine monoxide molecules, i.e. one CFC has destroyed one ozone molecule. However, chlorine monoxide also absorbs the radiation and it is very rapidly decomposed into atoms of c hlorine and oxygen. The same chlorine atom as destroyed the first ozone molecule then goes on to destroy a second. This process can be repeated a large number of times, since the c hlorine atom is constantly regenerated. Thus it is e ntirely possible that one CFC molec ule (through the intermedians of a c hlorine atom) will destroy ten thousand ozone molecules (the oxides of nitrogen can act in a similar fashion). The above complex reaction is called a c hain reaction, and its effects could be greatly decreased if CFC's were replaced by hydrocarbons or fluorocarbons. Incidentally, not all chain reactions are destructive. If it were not for chain reactions, we would not have common plastics like polystyrene, PVC and some types of synthetic rubber. Page 15 �Campus Calendar To include your Department's event or activity in the Campus Calendar, please call Flo Sherren at 8300 or mail your information to SN1002. Deadline for the July Agora is June 21, 1989. July SATURDAY, 1 CANADA DAY - University Closed MONDAY,3 June WEDNESDAY, 7 Alumni Volunteer Supper begins at 5:30 p.m. Annual General Meeting begins 7:30 p.m. Faculty Lounge Cash Bar WEDNESDAY, 14 SEMINAR FOR INVENTORS "MAKING YOUR INVENTION A REALITY" Guest Speaker: Nonn Rolston, a successful inventor and c r eater of the "Able Walker" Sponsored by Innovation North/Lakeh ead University and the Central Canadian Inventors Associatio n 8:00. 10:00 PM RYAN BUILDING ROOM 2047 ADMISSI ON FEE I S $15.00 PER PERSON Tickeis from Innovation North: 343-8124 and LUSU 343-8259 Canada Day Holiday •· University Closed THURSDAY, 4 Summer Session full-courses and halfcourses commence FRIDAY, 7 Alumni Annual Golf Tournament Centennial Golf Course Tee times: 4 to 5 p.m. Dinner 7:30 p.m. Cash Bar Tickets available at Alumni House Call: 343-8155 Final date for refunds on withdrawal from Summer Session full courses and half courses which commenced July 4 Final date for registration and changes in Summer Session full-courses and halfcourses which commenced July 4 WEDNESDAY, 12 SATURDAY, 17 3rd ANNUAL LUCC PICNIC Staff/Students & Families Saunders Fieldhouse Family Baseball • 9:30 am Full day of activities & prizes Happy Hour • Faculty Lounge Cash Bar for adults Juice and Pop for children WEDNESDAY, 21 Hump Day BBQ Board ofGovernors' Annual Meetin J 4:00 pm Senate Chambers DAILY FOREIGN TELEVISION NEWS Mexico, Madrid, Warsaw, Tokyo, London, Moscow, Rome, Jerusalem, Teheran, Paris. 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Cred it is appreciated when material is reproduced o r qu()(ed. Director of Community Relations: John Russell, Editor: Katherine Shedden Assistant: Maureen Martin atlendar: Flo Sherren Photography: Peter Puna Graphics: Ben K.-iminski, Debby Tew . Printing: Rainbow Address correspondence to: Editor/ Agora Information Office SN1002 Lakehead University Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7 B 5E I (807) 3,13.8631 or 3'13-6300 ., celebrating our Silver Jubilee Fun begins at 5 p.m. All Staff, Faculty, Alumni, Stude nts and Friends of Lakehead Univers ity are welcome Tickets available at LUSU and Office Services Page 16 - - -- - - - - -- - - - -- - - - - AOOKA (I) ~ ., ., a. i uict 0 "' 0 0.. (.) a. ... Q) Q) i::, ·;;; E Q) Ill ..__ ., .,a. Cl. ., ., .... °ui '1i i::, C a, 0 Q) en en (.) Cl -• 0 (.) 0.. 0.. (/) Cl) Cl) .._ Ill rJ U::u June 1989 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lakehead University Alumni Collection Description An account of the resource Material kept by the Lakehead University Alumni Association, or donated by Alumni to the Association. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agora Magazine Vol.6 No.6 Subject The topic of the resource Universities Description An account of the resource This issue of the Agora contains pictures from convocation 1990, a report from the President, and an article on Re-tracing Mackenzie's search for Northwest Passage. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lakehead University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989-06 Agora Agora Magazine Alumni Alumni Association Alumni Association of Lakehead University Convocation Convocation 1989 Lakehead Lakehead University President Rosehart President's Message https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/18645931d0339c975cde70f89dfb49b6.pdf 60c13c62df97756ad89368150fefe217 PDF Text Text Inside: LUFA Settles .............. 2/3 Off to Siberia .................. 4 Loneliness Research .. 8/9 Pubs ................................ 10 THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO VOL. 7. NO. 8 SEPTEMBER 1990 Reverend Lois Wilson: Distinquished Canadian appointed 5th Chancellor A large crowd including Scan Conway, the Minister of Colleges and Universities, was present to welcome the Very Reverend Lois Wilson who will become the fifth Chancellor in the history of Lakchead University. She will be fom1ally installed at Spring '91 Convocation. Dr. Wilson is from Winnipeg where she received a bachelor of arts and a bad1elor of divinity degree from the University of Winnipeg. She has also received honorary degrees from 11 Canadian universities. She is married to Rev. Roy Wilson, with whom she co-pastored at First Church Unit, d in Thunder Bay from 1960 to 1969. Rev. Wilson was President of the Thunder Bay Social Planning Council in 1967-68 and helped to pioneer the use of television in community education through 'Town Talk'. Listed in Who's Who her accomplishments are many and varied . She has taken a special interest in disarmament, human rights, immigration and refugee issues and has travelled extensively to developing nations in her role as President of the World Council of Churches. continued on page 15 - ( .__ "Ready and waiting: Enrolment may reach all-time high It's a monumental task but Moyez Noormohamed (left) and Terri Potter aren't quite in over their heads as they complete another 12-hour shift preparing books for the anticipated bumper crop of new and returning students. �uniform strength of program applicants across the institution (with one or two exceptions). This may be the year that L.U. tops 4,000 full-time students. LUFA Report From t h e President Board Faculty Con tract Dr. Bob Rosehart Visual Arts Maureen Doyle who received an HBFA in May, was noted in a recent National Art Competition sponsored by the Galerie Glaude La Fitte that appeared in the Globe and Mail. Campus Development This summer, several students sponsored by an Environment 2000 grant started what is estimated to be a 5 year task, the enhanced management of our forested lands. You will note the first positi vc signs along the Bever! y entrance where windfalls and dead trees have started to be removed. Construction is well underway with the Regional Education/Student Centre Project with estimated completion being September '91. Fall 90 Registration Confirmations continue to exceed last year's level and if the trend con tinues through registration, L.U. should see a modest increase in enrolment this fall. Encouraging this year is the As you know, LUFA Unit #1 (Faculty) and the Board of Governors recently successfully completed negotiations for a new 3 year collective agreement. This is a progressive settlement that both groups can be pleased with and I believe was the first facu lty contract negotiated at L.U. without the help of third party Ministry of Labour assistance. I would like to congratulate both negotiating teams (led by Ken Hartviksen and Fred Poulter) for the very professional approach taken during the negotiations. The stability and direction given by the new contract will greatly assist L.U. in its next few years of development. Election 90 By the time you read this, I expect Ontario will have experienced the Sept 6 election (or non-election). To date the campaign has fostered little interest in post-secondary issues and in spite of all sorts of explanations and process, it is literally a non-election for eligible students. Normally the student body and faculty host all candidates meetings and "get involved", however, the registration week timing is a no persons land and I would hope that in future election calls, that due consideration is given to the real involvement of postsecondary students. I am becoming more and more convin ced that in Canada we should move to the U.S. model of regularized elections every 5 years. .J Jo hn Zanatta It was truly sad last month to learn of the tragic death of John Zanatta, an L.U. alumnus, former star and coach of the Nor Wester basketball team, teacher and parent. John was truly a fine individual who will be missed by all, especially his family . Jro;1ically, at the time of his death John was en route to Lakchcad to participate in our summer basketball camp. A part of John never left L.U. and he was truly interested in the institution. Last winter both Dean Whitfield and 1 spoke with John at the L.U. baskctbaU games at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. John and his family had travelled from London for the weekend series to see many of his friends involved with our team. John Zanatta will long be remem- _) bered as a dedicated athlete, student, teacher and member of the Lakehead University community. "Spirit of co-operation" was the most repreated phrase at the media conference announcing the final results of the LUFA contract negotiations. Left to right, 1990-91 LU FA President, Dr. Gerry Vervoort, joins some members of the J\ssociations's negotiating team: Dr. Emst Zimmermann, Dr. Darlene Steven and Professor Ken Hartviksen, Chief negotiator. (LUFA people missing, Dr. Alistair MacDonald, Dr. Jim Stafford, Dr. Peggy Knowles) Members of the LU administration team: Mr. Bill Bragnalo, Mr. Fred Poulter, Chief Negotiator, Dr. John Whitfield. (Admin people missing: Professor Geoffrey Weller, Myrna Holman). Page 2 AGORA - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - September 1990 �Around Campus Professors and Lakehead University Sign Three-Year Pact capped at two percent on January 1, 1993. The special adjustments arc designed to help faculty salaries relate closely to average faculty salaries in the Province. The new Collective Agreement provides for improvements in the University dental and group life insurance plans, 12month sabbatical leaves, professional allowances, and contract wording. Both parties to the contract have committed themselves to work toward the development of an early retirement plan and to continue the process of revising the University Pension Plan. The Board of Governors of Lakehead University and the Lakehead University Faculty Association have now ratified a new Collective Agreement that affects 261 fu ll-time professors and 22 continuing scssional lecturers. The three-year agreement which is retroactive to July 1, 1990provides the facu lty with a 5% scale adjustment in 1990, and 4% in each of 1991 and 1992, with costof-li ving adjustments as well as normal career progress and merit increments. The pact also provides a special adjustment for member's salaries of one percen t on January 1, 1991 and again on July 1, 1991, as well as a formula-based adjustment ~ -- • ~ p~c<:.:f ~ / f+,-f. : ~... Pioneer program set (. • -~'t ~-~' , ~ ~-:- Japanese sign twinning foundation for agreement -- •• • • ~.. agreement with LU In the summer of 1989, an English-immersion program for Gifu students was established at Lakehead University and with its success, the pioneer program set the foundation for the new agreement. The program continued for a second year this summer once again in conjunction with the Department of Languages and under the tutelage of language professor Peter Scyffert and four student monitors. Originally six weeks long, the program was shortened to four weeks this summer. In 1989, students lived on campus during the week, staying in local homes on weekends. A change was made in the Ii ving arrange1ents this year to better foster cultural immersion. Two weeks ( ere spent on campus, Jiving in residence and taking English classes. The students spent the remainder of their stay with host families in Thunder Bay, Dryden and Atikokan . The success of this endeavour is summed up in a statement written by one of the Japanese students, "host families arc the greatest" . A farewell reception hosted by the students, Continuing Education and the Department of Languages, was held at Old Fort William on August25 to say thank you to the host families. On July 27, Lakehead University hosted a delegation of 24 students and university officials from the Gifu University for Education and Languages at a special reception. A general agreement between the two institutions was signed "to foster an understanding between Canada and Japan through our rcspecti ve educational institutions". Programme activities within the agreement may include the exchange of faculty and administration, exchange of students, symposia workshops and other academic and cultural agreements. The term of the present agreement is set at five years with potential for renewal. The two institutions are particularly interested in fostering an understanding between northern Ontario and Gifu and the role of the universities in each. Gifu University is situated in the city of Gifu located on the island of Honshu, a three hour drive west from Tokyo. President Rosehart greets the delegation from Gifu University at the signing of the twinning agreement. From left to right, Mr. R. Sugiyama, President of the Board of Governors, Mr. S. Hashi.zume, university President and Mr. S. Kano, Member of the Board of Governors. Spanning the globe, Gifu student Yoko Wada discovers how far from home she is at the welcoming reception in July. Septe mbe r 1990 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- AGORA - - - - -- - - -- - -- - - -- -- Page 3 �First Student in Canada to Attend Tyumen University, Siberia Lakehead University student Lisa Ventrudo has been selected to attend Tyumen University, Siberia this academic year. Lisa was born and raised in Thunder Bay and graduated from Fort William Collegiate institute in 1985. She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Political Studies from LU and is pursuing her Honours degree in History. Lisa will study Russian history and will be tutored in the Russian language. She also plans to conduct research for her dissertation on the Trans-Siberia Railway. In 1988, Lakehead University entered into a five-year agreement with three universities in Northern regions of the USSR, Syktyvkar University, Kemerovo University and Tyumen University. Director of Continuing Education, Dan Pakulak has been the facilitator representing Lakehead University in negotiations for the Tyumen University exchange. In March 1990, Pakulak, who speaks Russian, travelled to the Siberian university to set up with Rector (President) Alexei Ivandaev, a pilot exchange project for students and faculty. Two students from Tyumen University will arriveat Lakehead University in September for the Fall term. The Lakehead program falls under the auspices of the Centre for Northern Studies. Acting Director of the Centre, Marg Boone, says that both universities are in the process of selecting faculty members for the exchange. Lisa Ventrudo has had a fascination about the Soviet Union all through her academic life. "While other people read novels in their spare time, I read Russian history texts". She spent two years at the University of Toronto in Russian studies before coming to LU. She continued to pursue her interest in Russian history and culture at Lakehead and took a Russian language course at Confederation College. Lisa is well-prepared for her year in the Soviet Union and has been briefed on everything from the climate of Tyumen, Siberia (brrr) to what she can talk about (everything). Lisa's exciting expedition will take Page 4 her to where no Canadian student has gone before. Student wins Queen Elizabeth Award Lakehead University student, Susan Polisdrnk, has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Endowment Fund for Study in a Second Official Language Award. This award is one of only six presented in Canada. The Queen Elizabeth Award has a value of $5000 plus initial transportation expenses. Candidates are chosen on the basis of their ability in their second official language to pursue studies in that language as well as their good academic standing, motivation and adaptability. Originally from Simcoe, Ontario, Susan came to LU to pursue a double major in Geography and Biology. She will spend the next academic year at i....:::=== ___...-= =-the University of Ottawa taking her Biology classes in French. Susan will return to Lakehead the following September to finish her Honours Bachelor of Science Degree. Heritage Fund Supports LU-CARIS In July, the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation, with Chairman Rene Fontaine at the helm, presented a grant of $765,000 to the Lakehead Uni".ersity Centre for the Application of Resource Information Systems. Smee 1983, the Lakehead University School of Forestry has been committed to a program to develop and implement a Geographic Information System (GIS) in Nort_hem Ontario. This system can supply computer-generated maps such as forest fire models to show the rate of spread, habitat supply analysis, and wood supply ~odels used to determine the long-term supply in a given area. The new proiect mvolves developing even broader applications for the computerized map information management system. . The Lakehead University project involves an importan t private sector mvestment component as well. An approximate contribution of $500 000 from Prime Computer of Canada ' significantly enhances the services available. Prime Computer is a major supplier of computer systems and equipment to CARIS. N?rthem Development and Mines 0inister, Rene Fontaine (centre), and Taras Kozyra (right), was treated to a demonstration of one of the CARIS computers by Heather Anderson. AGORA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - September 1990 �Native Access Program The Native Access Program is a new rogram sponsored by Lakehead Uniersity. Designed to encourage Native tudents to enroll in university programs and to increase their participation rate, it will also provide the framework for successful integration and completion of academic programs, academic support while in the programs, and a supportive social and cultural environment. The unique program was established upon the recommendation of the Native Studies Study Group which looks into educational opportunities for Native stud~nts. Two parallel streams, the Health Sciences Access and the Arts, Science and Professional Studies Access, have been created to meet the needs of the students. C MNR and Universities Establish Advanced Forestry Program The Ministry of Natural Resources, Lakehead University and the University of Toronto will begin a program of advanced forest management studies for professional foresters and resource managers in Ontario this fall. The r"'rograrn was announced by Natural I..,_ csources Minister, Lyn McLeod, at a news conference at Lakehead University in July. The program will be delivered through Lakehead University and the University of Toronto and the Forest Resources Group of the Ministry of Natural Resources is providing the funding. This new forestry initiative consists of six intensive two-week modules of study in forest management and the program will involve 30 resource professionals from across the province. The first module will begin October 1 at Lakehead University. The Ontario Advanced Forestry Program will provide resource professionals with the latest information and technical training in their field, including the biology, ecology, economics and silviculture of contemporary forest management. Budget Savings For You (Work For Students) Why not hire a student on the Ontario Work Study Plan (OWSP) to lp stretch your budget dollars!! c1dents in financial need and eligible for the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP), can work and earn up C to $2000 from September to March (maximum $1000 per term). The best part is -- you only pay 25% of this cost!! The Ministry of Colleges and Universities will pay the balance. Watch for information being sent to your department, or contact Phyllis Bosnick at 8150. T-Shirl Logo Contest Winner L.U. Computer Science T-Shirt Logo Contest winner was Michelle McIntosh. T-Shirts will go on sale in the LU Bookstore. Wild Rice Northern Ontario's wild rice industry received a boost with the announcement that Lakehead University would receive $456,000 in provincial funding (Northern Development and Mines) over the next three years to continue its successful wild rice extension program. The announcement was made in July by Taras Kozyra, Port Arthur MPP and Parliamentary Assistant to Minister Rene Fontaine. "Wild rice is a northern crop that can compete around the world. We hope our growers will be able to boost their exports in the future," Kozyra said. Currently LU crews work with local growers to improve their yields, promoting modem techniques such as adjusting water levels and sowing special strains of seed. New locations are also identified for planting. The crews will continue to visit small lakes around communities and reserves to determine their suitability for seeding. Testing of water depths and bottom soils have spotted many potential growing areas. Computer analysis of aerial photography will also be used to help the crews zero in on the good growing areas. The rice team will be determining which strains of wild rice will grow in lakes with less than ideal bottom soil. These strains can then be used to get these lakes into production. LUFA's New President, Dr. Gerry Vervoort The new President of the Lakehead University Faculty Association, Dr. Gerry Vervoort, predicts that now that salary negotiations have been completed it may be a quieter year for him than predecessor, Dr. Henry (Hank) Akervall, but there is still a lot of work to be done. Professor Vervoort is working to clarify some of the association's policies which have become outdated and will continue to move ,-----::--,=----=- -- - , further on solving outstanding issues. "One of the issues we need to negotiate further is the right of legal defence. It is very easy these days to be accused of one thing or another, for example, prejudice in marking. The university will provide the legal defence to an association member in such a scenario, but the specific details and limits have yet to be worked out''. Dr. Vervoort was born in Holland and received his teaching and principal certificates there. He moved to Canada beginning his career as a grade one teacher in a one room schoolhouse and since then has taught grades one through 12 as well as undergraduate and graduate students. He made the decision to go back to school "because there were lots of things I didn't know about teaching". Professor Vervoort received his Bachelor of Arts Degree and PhD from the University of Iowa. Upon graduation, he was hired to teach mathematics at Lakehead's Faculty of Education. Dr. Vervoort has become wellknown by teachers and students alike for his enthusiasm about his subject and his development of unique mathematical learning materials. His term runs from July 1, 1990 to July 1, 1991. Notice Parking Lot #6 in front of the Bora Laskin has undergone extensive renovations this summer with the installation of electrical outlet posts and new pavement. Beginning October 1, 1990 all cars parked in this lot must have a valid L.U. Parking Permit. Safe Dr. and Mrs. Som Naimipally were on vacation in India when the Iraqui invasion of Kuwait took place. Friends and family has been in contact and report they are in good health and returning to Canada at the end of September. Dr. Naimpally has been teaching at Kuwait University since retiring from Lakehead University. September 1990 - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - AGORA - - - -- - -- - - -- -- - - - Page 5 �Science and Technology Program Meets Future Needs Student's speak According to recent survey findings by the Canadian Labour Market and Productivity Centre, high-tech industries are growing rapidly and are crying out for skilled staff. The centre predicts that in 1990 and 1991, employment in the hightech sector will increase by 3.8 per cent each year. That compares with a one per cent annual growth rate for the economy as a whole. Each year the demand for skilled high-tech labour is anticipated to grow at an even faster pace. The Summer Program of Science and Technology's primary objective is to elevate the profile of science in Northern communities and to improve the percentage of Northern students who continue their education in the science field. An offshoot of that goal is the hope that the program may increase the number of Northern high school students applying for science and math courses at the two Northern host universities, Lakehead and Laurentian. For the past two summers, the summer schools had been given funding by the government on a yearly basis. In March, the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines gave the green light to the schools, committing itself to funding the program for three more years. As well, the program was expanded by 50 per cent to accomodate 270 students in the two universities. The schools were also changed to a four-week format. This summer, 90 students from across Northwestern Ontario attended the Summer Program of Science and Technology at Lakehead University. These students, in grades 11 and 12, applied through their schools. Good marks and interest in mathematics and science along with recommendations from their Mathematics and Science teachers, were the main criteria for admission to the program. Final selection was made by the co-ordinating committee consisting of representatives from Program Councils East and West, the Boards of Education in Thunder Bay, the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines and Lakehead University. Students got a real taste of university life through this program. Whether they were from Thunder Bay or the surrounding regional communities, the students lived in residence for the entire duration of the program. Classes ran from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm each weekday where the students were instructed in mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, geology, engineering and forestry, by university professors, high school teachers and graduate students. The evenings were packed with athletic activities, social events, outings or lectures. On the weekends excursions included trips to Sleeping Giant Park and Kingfisher. Amidst this flurry of activity, students were also expected to complete a number of assignments, projects and reports. Participants of the program were given opportunities otherwise not encoun tered in high school settings, for example, the chance to use advanced lab equipment and more extensive library resources. The 90 students were representative of 21 high schools from across the region, with approximately half from Thunder Bay and the remaining half from regional high schools. There was an even split between male and female students. Upon completion of the program each student received a stipend of $1000. "I came into the program knowing a few people. I came out with 90 new friends and a priceless learning experience''. Scientists Must Educate People on Forestry In the news Canadian Press Frank Oberle, Canadian minister of forestry, called on 2,000 forestry scientists at an international convention yesterday to leave their labortories and speak to the public. Mr. Oberle, a former sawmill owner who has been in Parliament for nearly 20 years, said that "public opinion - well-informed or otherwise - will eventually become public policy or else the democratic system doesn't work." Governments may be pushed by well-meaning but poorly informed citizens into making bad decisions on forestry management. Mr. Oberle said. "Scientists and researchers must take part in this public dialogue so that we who are charged with developing public policy positions and promoting international co-operation can respond appropriately to the demands of an informed public. You speak to an average Canadian and some have it in their mind that a tree, if allowed to grow long enough, will eventually grow to heaven". The forests are largely managed by the provinces, while the federal role has been mainly in research. Ottawa and the provinces have a council of forest ministers who are in the process of signing a second round of agreements on reforestation and forest management. Page 6 '' ... the experience was ) a valuable one that will prepare me for university life. It is definitely worth attending for any student interested in the math and science field''. learned new, interesting and challenging things. I can share this with teachers at my school, and my dad's interested in it too!" ''I In·a Manitoba newspaper, Dr. Rick Freitag was front page news in a feature article entitled "Portage Sandhills are alive with tiger beetles". In addition to his recent Manitoba studies, Dr. Freitag classified tiger beetles in Brasil, researched their biogeography in the Caribbean and catalogued the North American tiger beetles for the US department of Agriculture. His expertise in this area is recognized world-wide and his research is vital to the protection of drylands which he says "are not very well protected in Canada because many people are under the impression that there is an abundance of them". AGORA - -- - - -- -- - -- - - - September 1990 �New Faces (C R.(Shanker) Natarajan has recently arrived from India to work with Dr. Nirdosh in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He is presently registered for his PhD at Bharatisdasan University, Tiruchirapalli but has taken a break from his formal studies at the university to work at Lakehead until late fall. Both are present! y still in India. In addition to his studies, Shanker is an organic chemist, and teaches chemistry at a high school in Southern India. One. of $hanker's favourite pastimes is .___ __ _ _ _ _ __, playing cricket-something he definitely misses about home. He looks forward to exploring Thunder Bay and would someday like to come back to the area with his family. "You don't feel the mechanical way of life here, as you do in the big cities". Gisella Scalese was recently appointed the Off-Campus Services/ library Orientation librarian. Gisella is a graduate of Lakehead University, receiving her Honours Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology in 1988 and her Bachelor of Arts Degree in English in 1987. After graduation, Gisella enrolled at the University of Western Ontario where she received her Masters Degree in library and ~ Information Science. She has recently ,. . moved back to her home town of Thunder Bay after working in Ottawa at Transport Canada's Risk Management Branch, where she set up the library. She enjoys being back in the Lakehead University setting. "H's been great to run into old profs and I'm looking forward to seeing all the students in September". Marg Forbes is not really a new Marie Pitawanakwat is the new face on campus after working here co-ordinator of Native Programming. almost a year. Marg is a lecturer in Originally from Manitoulin Tsland, Accounting in the School of Business Marie has resided in the area since and isan alumna of Lakehead,gradu1984. Shespentafewyearsofstudyat ating with her HBComm Degree in Osgoode Law School as well as the 1985. After graduation Marg was University of Regina in the Commu(:71ployed at the local branch of Peat nications programme. Marie has 'L,larwick Thome Chartered Accountserved on a number of boards in the ants where she received designation area, including Animkee, the Native asa Chartered Accountant. Now that Education Council. She worked on she has two semesters of teaching the project that developed the prounder her belt, she says,"[ love it. It posal for a Comm unity Development was tough at first but it is certainly<=========::.; ' - - - - - - - - - - ~ Degree which was presented to well worth the work". Marg was born and raised in Thunder Lakehead University. The proposal was absorbed by the Native Bay and attended Hillcrest High School. She enjoys many types Studies Study Group and is now part of the new Native Access of fitness activites and belongs to the Masters swim dub at the Program-a program that falls under the umbrella of Marie's new Complex. Marg is the President of the Thunder Bay Business position. Marie loves to read and has written an umber of articles Women's Network. for publishing in journals. Human Resources Officer Appointed Bev Adams has joined Lakehead University as the new Human ReNew Director sources Officer. Bev is a Lakehead graduate with previous experience Appointed in a wide range of human resources Professor Jerry Phillips has been functions. Recently she has been appointed Director of the School of employed at LU as a Project AssisBusiness Administration for a tant in Distance Education dealing three-year period effective 1 July with the development of Additional 1990. He is a graduate of the Basic Qualification (ABQ) courses. University of Saskatchewan and Bev will be Lakehead's Personal Queen's University and was first Harassment Contact Person. She will appointed to Lakehead University also have responsibilities in a variety of areas including training, em-======-=:..:=.:==:::.., <====;__-=:::....:===-i in 1968. Professor Phillips was oloyment equity and con tract administration for faculty and li- Director of the School of Business Administration from 1979;arians. 85 and was Acting Dean of University Schools during the Please feel free to phone 8356 or drop by the Human Re- 1985-86 academic year. sources Department to welcome Bev to the University team. September 1990 - - - -- -- - - - - - - - - AGORA - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - Page 7 �Loneliness by Andrew Wagner-Chazalon Its been a year and a half since the Psychology Department took over the single-story brown building which stands alone near the university's front gate. It's still referred to as the Pottey Building but research projects conducted by faculty in the psychology department may help explain why people get lonely, how they form trust bonds and perhaps why students drop out.. The pottery wheels and lumps of clay have been moved to Cornwall Campus and been replaced with neat rows of desks, tiny cubicles, and observation rooms equipped with one-way glass. "Without this space, much of the work we have done over the past year would have been impossible," says Dr. Brian O'Connor, Department of Psychology. Connor has spent much of the past year developing what he calls "a data bank of personal interactions" -- a video tape library of fifteen minute long converstaions between strangers, together with personality profiles of the participan ts. Once the tapes have been catalogued and coded, they will provide a valuable reference source which will be useful to reserchers for years to come. The tapes are already being used by Dr. Ken Rotenberg to study how lonely and non-lonely people act. His study took a lot of time (approximately three hours for each of 80 subjects and could only be conducted in a setting such as the one in the laboratory," says O'Connor. Other work conducted in, or planned for the new space includes: studying how well children and adults understand the factors which inhibit the expression of emotion; observing the effect viewing soap operas has on trust and attitudes; testing lonely and nonlonely people to determine the relationship between loneliness and a tendency to not trust others. Ken Rotenberg has been using the space to determine whether loneliness is actually caused by a tendency not to value certain social behaviours. "Lonely people hear one particular norm of behaviour more dramatically than non-lonely people," says Rotenberg. "This makes them unable to escalate the intimacy of a relationship." Most people have a norm which dictates what sort of response is appropriate to an intimate discoloure -- it tells us that high or low degrees of intimacy deman a matching response. "If you told me that your father had just died, then my norm might tell me that it is appropriate to reply that I have had a similar experience myself," explains Rotenberg. Other studies have shown that lonely people often don't respond appropriately to different diegrees of intimacy. this made Rotenberg wonder if lonely people lack this norm. To test his idea, he administered the UCLA Loneliness Scale to 586 introductory psychology students to determine their level of loneliness. The top and bottom 25% (those who were most lonely and least lonely) were shown a video tape of two women talking and responding both appropriately and inappropriately to high and low intimacy disclosures. the subjects were then asked (0--O•o• rate the women and say how much they liked them . ''To my suprise, the lonely people actually showed a higher level of the norm than the non-lonely people," says Rotenberg. " In particular, lonely people were very harshly judgemental of the women who responded to a low intimacy disclosure with a high." This result -- the exact opposite of what Rotenberg expected -- reveals a paradox. Tn the normal course of a relationship, the level of intimacy rises over time. For this to happen though, someone must respond to a low intimacy disclosure with a higher one. This bumps the relationship up a level, because it allows the other person to respond at an equally high level of intimacy. In order to make this response of high to low, a person must override the norm which u sually says that this is inappropriate. This creates a problem for people who are unable to override the norm. They condemn this kind of bcgaviour, shy away from it, and are unable to increase the level of intimacy. Their relationships with others tend to stagnate, and they become lonely. Loneliness research is desperately needed by therapists, says Rotenberg, because it allows them to identify the needs and problems of lonely people, rather than simply saying "lonely people don't have any social skills", or " lonely people don't like others to make self-disclosures". ) Dr. Ken Rotenberg, graduate studies secretary Sh some experiments are carried out in the new psyc. �Ian Cull is the Co-ordinator of Counselling Services at Lakehead and he sees a lot of lonely people. "It's a problem here and at every other university," he says. University can be a very lonely place for someone who is 19 and away from home for the first time. Lakehead students face geographical problems: many are unable to go home for a weekend and long cold withers can add to ~he feeling of being isolated. Also at risk are adult students, who may have left spouses and children behind, international students and native students from small, distant reserves. Nearly all new students experience some loneliness for the first month or so but Cull says that most of them adjust. "There's another group of students that just don't mix easily, they don't have a lot of confidence," he says. "they'·re the ones that will leave university after three or four weeks and not come back again, or get depressed, or get physically ill." Cull feels that one of the best ways to counteract loneliness is by living in residence, where people are "almost coerced" into getting involved and meeting others. Failing that, he stresses the importance of mental preparation -- not coming with a rigid preconception of what university is going to be like -- and the right kind of parental support. "When their kids call home and say they're not happy, some parents say: 'These are the best years of your life. It's wonderful. You should be happy, and I think that's the wrong thing to say, says Cull. ''These may not be the best years of your life, things may not be wonderful, and you may not be happy." A more healthy approach, says Cull, is for parents to tell their child to wait until Christmas before making a decision. While this may help a student who is suffering from a touch of homesickness, it will not do much for the "pathological loners" -- those who have made loneliness a wav of life, and who were lonely even at home, in their best environments. There are limits to how much can be done for these people, even with therapy, but their best hope is in research which expands the therapist's understanding of loneliness -the kind of research now being conducted in the Pottery Building at Lakehead University. '4, \ A I II I ,\ II U \ I \ I U , I T \ Parent's Handbook ~~ti) •. : Delin (right) and research assistant Bonnie Jeffery demonstrate how ,gy lab. Joy Lawson, the Director of Student Services, has prepared a useful handbook for parents of university students. Contact the Information Office for a copy. Next month we'll find out what it's like to run an office with 13,000 visitors a year. Find out about Health Services at Lakehead University. �People, Papers/Publications/Awards conference was organized by the & Special Projects Patricia Vervoort, Department of Visual Arts, ~ F = ~ has published an article t~~~~~~R titled "Lakehead Terminal Elevators: Aspects of Their Engineering History" in the June 1990 issue of the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, vol. 17, pp. ¥:=='E~'!' , 404 - 412. Dr. A. Sedov, Depart-';;;;~'1::,i~~ ment of Mechanical Engi= necring and Dr. L. W. Schmerr of Iowa State ~F==~ University are the coauthors of a paper, "Ultraf~t~~~~~ sonic scattering models: Aat-bottom holes and spherical reflectors", presented at the annual conference on Review of Progress in Quantitative NOE held in La Jolla, California, July 15-20, 1990. Ron Lappage, School of Physical Education and Athletics, presented a paper entitled, "Controversies Related to the 1936 Canadian 01 ympic Hockey Team" at the 18th annual convention of the North American Society for Sport History in Banff, Alberta, May 26-29, 1990. Dr. Thomas M. K. Song, School of Physical Education and Athletics, Coordinator of Human Performance Laboratory, has published the paper entitled "Effect of Anaerobic Exercise on Serum Enzymes of Young Athletes", in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, Vol. 30(2):138-141, 1990. Elizabeth Diem and Linda McKay, Assistant Professors of Nursing at Lakehead University and Helen Thomas, Assistant Professor of Nursing at McMaster University have been awarded a Northern Ontario Research Grant to conduct a comparative study on the Health and Social Behavior of Adolescents in Northwestern and Southern Ontario. The seed grant, jointly funded by the Centre for Northern Studies at Lakehead University and the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University is designed to support joint research projects on Northern health care problems conducted by faculty members of two universities. Dr. Harun Rasid, Professor of Geography was invited to present a paper entitled "Flood Problems in Bangladesh: Modern Engineering Solutions vs Human Adaptation" at the 'Ten River Conference', which was held in Paris, France in June, 1990. The European Foundation For Environment (FEE) and the French Ministry of Environment. Dr. Alan Bowd, School of Education, presented a paper entitled "Mainstreaming and integration in Canada" at the International Special Education Congress, Cardiff, Wales, 30 July - 3 August, 1990. AWARDS Joy Lawson, Director of Student Services, was nominated and awarded a Student Affairs Division Distinguished Accomplishment Cer tificate in Toronto at the annual general meeting. APPOINTMENTS Ron Spina, director of Residence and Conference Services has been elected as the Chairperson of the Ontario Associa- tion of College and University Housing Officers (OACUHO) for the 1990-91 academic year. Ron served as the Chair-Elect for thr2) 1989-90 academic year. This association represents the housing/residence professionals in the province with regard to Universities and Government affairs. The association has been very active in developing alcohol policies, lobbying for student housing, and implementing the Hansen Report on Student Housing. Dr. Borradaile has been appointed to the NSERC operating grants selection committee for 1990-93 in Ottawa. Dr. Borradaile has published 62 Geophysics and Geology papers in peer-reviewed journals and he holds Ph.D and D.SC research degrees from Liverpool University, UK. Farewells There were several good-byes during the summer. John Metcalf reached the 20-year mark with security services on campus. We can assume there will be lots of travel and time with the grandkids. John poses at his farewell party with Joan Gerow who enjoyed his visits to the switchboard. Lorraine Smith started in 1969 in the general office, followed by the anthropology department and development and alumni. Since 1977, she served as department secretary in the computer centre always working above and beyond the call of duty. She will be remembered for her kindness and efficiency. Myrna Holman spent4 years at Lakehead: two as employment equity coordinator and two years as human resources officer. She has taken a position with Ontario Hydro as equity officer and will be missed by her many friends. Page 10 - - - -- - - - - - -- - - - - - AGORA - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - September 1990 �Research News , FROM THE OFFICE OF GRADUATE STUDIES AND RESEARCH Connie Ha.rviksen, Interim Research Officer RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES SSHRC News I have kept all SSHRC eligible facu lty up to date by direct memos (all yellow) re: 1) Application lnformation for the Preparation of SSHRC Research and Strategic Grants Programs. 2) Salary Guidelines to be Used for Preparation of SSHRC Grant Proposals. 3) SSHRC - The Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research. 4) SSHRC Program Modifications, 1991-92 Competitions. 5) SSHRC/NSERC/MRC NEWS -Tri-Council Funding What You Can Do! 6) SSHRC Workshop September 13, 1990. I trnst you have kept all of these in your SSHRC correspondence file, but if you can't seem to locate any of these, and would like a copy of any of these memos, please let me know. The SSHRC meeting scheduled for September 13, 1990, will be very significant. Please try to attend that meeting scheduled for 9:30 a.m. in the University Theatre. Remember the Internal SSHRC Submission Deadline September 28, 1990. c ~SERCNews l have kept all NSERC eligible faculty up to date by direct memo's (all green) re: 1) NSERC UPDATE - With special instructions for first time applicants and for those who have not re-applied recently. 2) NSERC - 1990/91 Grant Application Forms 3) NSERC - small note regarding early application. l h·ust you ha•,e kept all of these in your NSERC correspondence file,, but if you can't locate any one of these and would like this informa tion, please let me know. NSERC has announced their second competition for the NSERC lnternational Fellowships. There are no changes to the program; however, two points deserve particular attention: i) a candidate already in Canada may submit an application, but the place of tenure cannot be at the university at which he/she is presently located; and ii) the host university may supplement the NSERC stipend with a further fellowship, but that supplement cannot come from an NSERC grant. Lakehead University can nominate only one candidate. We must receive th e application by December 1, 1990, nominations received by NSERC January 15, 1991 and notifications of decisions will be made by April 15, 1991. Please call for program regulations and application forms. The Research Office has set Internal NSERC Submission ( )eadlines: September 28, 1990 - First Time Applicants October 15, 1990 - Operating/Equipment/Renewal, etc. September 1990 - - - - -- - - -- - - - -- Two NSERC meetings have been planned. The morning of September 21 , Erica Besso will present a workshop on the Research Partnerships and Strategic Programs. ln the afternoon, Isabel Blain will present a workshop on the Operating Grants. On October 2, Francine Pouliot will be here in the morning to present a workshop on the NSERC Scholarships Programs. She will be available in the afternoon for individual interviews. Watch for a memo detailing the specific times and places for these two important meetings. Mark them on your calendar today and plan to attend if possible. Research Ethics For all research involving human subjects, approval of the Ethics Advisory Committee must be obtained. Ideally the Committee's approval should accompany your research application. This approval process can take up to six weeks, so you should judge your time accordingly. For SSHRC, Confirmation of Ethical Clearance must be received by February 1, 1991 or your application will be withdrawn from the competition. This requirement applies not only to experiments and surveys, but also to research involving observation, interview, biographies and access to personal information including data or artifacts related to deceased person which may affect living persons or communities. International Development Research Centre ODRC) - Agriculture, Food and Nutritional Sciences Division. One of the ways in which rDRC supports research in developing countries is through Canadian collaborative projects. Collaborative projects are intended to promote access by developing countries to research strengths in Canada: they are not intended to establish new research capacity in Canada. The AFNS program mission is to support research to make adequate food available to the individual, and to improve the production, protection, preservation, processing, distribution, marketing, and sustainable utilization of agricultural commodities of plant and animal origin from land - or waterbased systems, including forests. The Division's main strategy is to support indigenous applied research carried out in close association with the target beneficiaries, prin1arily rural households, which make up 70% of the people in developing countries. Special attention is given to the needs of the more disadvantaged sectors _o f the population such as the rural landless, women, and children .. The greatest importance is attached to applied research that 1s likely to have a rapid impact, although more basic or strategic research is also sometimes needed. The Division is concerned about the environmental impact of the production and utilization systems on renewable natural resources: these concerns are integrated into the following programs. 1) Crop Production Systems Program 2) Animal Production Systems Program 3) Postproduction Systems Program 4) Fisheries Program 5) Forestry Program 6) Agricultural Economics Program Priority areas are integrated pest management and biological pest control to reduce the dependence on toxic chemicals. AGORA - - - -- -- - - - - - - - -- - - Page 11 �For specific details regarding these programs, application procedures and forms, contact me at extension 8223. develop an understanding of the value of research .in improving the treatment of the mentally ill. Centre For Studies in Defence Resources Management (CSDRM) Solicited Research Program On April 1, 1991, the Centre for Studies in Defence Resources Management (CSDRM) will be issuing research funding to successful applicants doing work in the field of defence economics and defence resources management. Awards will be made up to the $50,000 limit of the total program. Thus, it might be that several projects are funded concurrently. Proposals should be related to one of the following areas: 1. Potential Security Implications for the West Arising from the Diversion of Capital and Foreign Aid from the Third World to Eastern Europe. 2. The Medium to Long Term Cost of Environmental Legislation on Canadian Defence Policy and Operational Objectives. 3. The Rationalization of Canada's Defence Industry in the 1990's: Survival of the Fittest. In exceptional cases, proposals unrelated to the above topics but with a defence economics application to Canada will be considered. Research funds will normally go to Canadian academics, nongovernment scholars or post-doctorate students or teams of like researchers in which Canadians serve as the principal researcher(s). The deadline for submissions is December 15, 1990. Acceptable proposals will be decided by the Director, CSDRM on recommendation of the CSDRM Advisory Committee, and announced by March 15, 1991, for funding April 1, 1991. All research must be completed within one year. Follow on funding in subsequent years for the same subject area will not be considered. THE FOUNDATION'S PROGRAMMES ) To realize these objectives the Foundation provides funds to a number of programmes. 1. The first criterion in awarding funds will be the scientific quality of the proposed work. The best interests of the Foundation and the public will be served only if excellent applications for awards come forward, and from a wide range of research interests. 2. Given the limits of the Foundation's resources, and the many aspects of mental disorder, the Foundation can serve the Province best by promoting work on a broad range of topics. 3. In scientific research, one aims at a moving target. The Foundation should, therefore, adopt policies that permit changing the mix of research and allow new investigators to enter the field. The Foundation will support research work which deals with any of the biological, psychological or social factors which either foster mental health or lead to mental illness. The Foundation aims to improve knowledge about the prevention of mental disorder, and the rational and efficient diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of the mentally ill. The Foundation will accept applications dealing with any period of the life-span, any of the factors thought to cause psychopathology, and from any of the relevant scientific specialties. The Foundation has a particular interest in studies which address mental health problems of importance in Ontario. The Foundation will provide funds under five different programs, and within each programme there are a number of~ different awards. The five different programs and deadlines ..,J are: 1. Research Grants Program - September 28, 1990 2. Applied Research and Program Evaluation Program - October 12, 1990. 3. Fellowships Program - November 30, 1990. 4. Publications Program - November 30, 1990. 5. Conference Program - November 30, 1990. The Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute - Call For Proposals The Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute has announced its upcoming Research Contributions Program and invites applications to support research concerning physical activity and fitness. High performance and sport oriented research is excluded. Application forms and guidelines are now available from the Research Office. Completed applications must be sent by December 1, 1990. Decisions will be announced in April of 1991. Ontario Mental Health Foundation - Announcement of Funding Programs (5) In 1988 the Ontario Mental Health Foundation approved the following statement: The objectives of the Foundation shall be: first, to support research which will improve and enlarge the knowledge required to promote mental health and to prevent, treat and cure mental disorders; second, to collect information about mental illness, and the sciences bearing upon mental illness, so that the Foundation may actively plan programmes which will maximize the benefits to be expected from the funds available to it; third, to provide information to practitioners so that knowledge generated by investigation is promptly disseminated and used; and fourth, to communicate the results of research to the general public in order to The Ontario Mental Health Foundation and Alzheimer Association - ''The Alzheimer's Competition" The Alzheimer Association of Ontario will provide grants to qualified investigators whose work is directed towards the treatment and care of those who suffer from Senile Dementia! of the Alzheimer's type. This competition is intended to encourage investigations of all kinds which bear on diagnosis, treatment and care; all aspects of the services which can be offered to Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers will be eligible for investigation. The Ontario Nursing Home Association will help to find research venues if necessary. A maximum of $250,000 will be available in the first year to support research projects. The Ontario Mental Health Foundation will manage the peerreview of all the applications submitted and will administer grants made to successful applicants. The terms of award will be those which govern the Foundation's research grants. Application forms are available from the Research Office, and the deadline for receiving applications is Friday, October 12, 1990. Enquiries about this special competition can be directed to myself or Val Dennison of the Thunder Bay Alzheimer's Society at 345-9556. Page 12 - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AGORA - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - September 1990 �External Affairs and Internal Trade Canada - Foreign Government Wards Program As part of the implementation of cultural agreements between anada and a number of other countries, the following foreign i(ovemments offer awards to Canadian Graduate students each year: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Yugoslavia. These awards have been combined to form the Foreign Government Awards Program (FGAP), which was administered by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) for several years, then transferred to the International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS), in June 1989. The foreign government awards are intended to assist Canadian students to further their studies or conduct research abroad at the master's, doctoral or post-doctoral level. Most countries offer a wide selection of disciplines to which awards may be appli<?d, but not all countries offer awards for all disciplines. Althot1gh all of the awards are similar in nature, the specific cost items covered by each individual award are determined by the offering country. They generally cover travel to and from the host country, tuition and registration fees and a monthly living allowance. Several awards also cover books, mandatory health and accident in_~urance and various other allowances. Complete details on all awards appear in the award descriptions that follow. The FGAP competition doses on October 15, and the Research Office has several copies of the brochure/application forms. New Appointment Congratulations to Dr. Gary Locker on his appoirt-~t>°# tl\e representative of Association of Urnversities and CollegesCanada on the Industry, Science ~d Tocpnology 4itada ~ study entitled "Contribution of T~nida~ attd._~c,. gists to Canadian Industrial Competiti-v~?,-; Th\S:-will be! a v!t~l study and an appointn1'1't~-~ -~ a n . .~ b1lity. We are proud of you! ; '-~ :-:. ,;,;;-, . '.0. • . :. ·•:··.: ;~ ·-• . 3.iRecipients of Regional K~dt~"'\.-. -~ ~ ,. I am·pleased to present t h e ~ ~ · ~: ·: ~. receJ)t competition for t h e ~ ~ ~ ~~:--• •• :. Reg~ Research Gr~. -::t•i . $,\'t • '•i,> '- i•. ~: )h_ ~. ◄ ·f· ..~ . . i'; . .·. R.Glew/S.Lucky . -~_;.,,_'-/·:! ···,-.. ,~_,·•.· ... · •. (BtlS. Administration) ~~~~~~'~ • .: · ·}~ ; •• : · ~:' > L. ~ (Nursing) ' Y. Piitvost (Forestry) ~~ -~ -~~L ~~~ ~~-- .~~~--~~~~ 7,- - .~· fen«c ~~~ . G. Knutson (Nursing) Nu.rs~StJ~'~ A S of. PatieJ1ts f,;om. ~t--C.,es· L. HGffman (Nursing) Basic Knowle. . at ~egiaiettd Nurses ill Cn~al a-re ~liting T. Song (Physical Educ) Effect of Neuromu,cu,lar Electtical Stimulation on M~tabolism L. Garred (Engineering) Urea Kinetic Modelling foe Haemodialysis Based On Monitoring The Spent Dialysate Steam T. Bauer (Physical Educ) Effectiveness of Ankle Appliances for Use at Lakehead University Sports Medicine Clinic ::t:he Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security ihe Barton Awards The Institute has a programme of awards, named in honour of its first Chairman, William H. Barton, the distinguished former Ambassador to the United Nations in New York and Geneva. Conferences/Workshops The programme's objective is to promote scholarship and 1. International Symposium on Cold Region Development expertise in the field of international peace and security by 1991 - Edmonton, Alberta, June 16-21, 1991. Papers for supporting Canadians who wish to pursue their studies at presentation at this symposium are now being accepted. institutions abroad or in Canada. Abstracts should be submitted by September 30, 1990. There are two levels of award; a senior fellowship valued at 2. Ministry of the Environment/Environmental Research up to $30,000 and an advanced scholarship valued at up to Technology Transfer Conference - Toronto, Ontario. $14,000. The Institute expects to award two fellowships November 19 & 20, 1990. and nine scholarships in 1991. 3. SSHRC/University of Toronto/Health & Welfare CanProposals for study must fall within the areas of the mandate ada/Public Health Association - Health Promotion Reof the Institute. Applicants will therefore be expected to search Methods: Expanding the Repertoire - Toronto, pursue studies relating to international peace and security Ontario. November 30 - December 2, 1990. with particular emphasis on arms control, disarmament, 4. Winter Cities Forum '91 Conference - Sault Ste. Marie, defence or conflict resolution. Ontario. January 21-25, 1991, A Conference on SustainAwards arc for one year. Applications must be received by able Development For Winter Cities and Communities. February 1, 1991. For Information and application forms, please call me at ex. Canadian Ethnic Studies, Heritage, Cultures and Languages, 8223 or drop by the Research Office. Multiculturalism and Citizenship Canada For information about Foundations, please call Jo-Anne Silverman, Foundations Officer at extension 8910 or drop by the Canadian Ethnic Studies, Heritage, Cultures and Languages, Alumni House. Multiculturalism and Citizenship Canada has provided me with a copy of the research projects supported by the p,madian Ethnic Studies Program from 1986-1989. This is \. .tilable to any interested person to review in the Research Office. September 1990 - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - AGORA - - - - - -- -- - -- - - - - - P a g e 13 �LETTER TO THE EDITOR PENSION PLAN Revenue Canada has finally accepted the conversion of the University's Retirement Plan (a defined benefit plan) to a "general of" type of pension plan. A letter from Revenue Canada dated July 13, 1990 was received on July 23, 1990. CONGRATULATIONS! Now, the members of the academic and professional staff shall be able to receive, at retirement or termination, pension benefits reflecting ir market valuef the member's and the matched University's contributions to the plan, retroactive to the date of the plan's inception, in 1965. It is common knowledge that the pension reform process lasted over three years and was fraught with frustrations, acrimony, defeat {between 1987 and 1989) and, then victory, in 1990. On a personal note, I thank all those who helped in the process. A number of points need to be made about the role of the LU Board of Governors: The prudent investment of the pension fund in the past from which we reap benefits. Commitment to improve pension benefits from the surplus. The inclusion of pensioners in the distribution of surplus. On their own initiative, the offer and, then, a commitment, to fund Minimum Guarantee Account in the revised plan, after rejection of Draft 4 by regulatory agencies. The significance of the above needs to be spelled out in very clear and precise terms. Consider all of the above in the light of actions of some other Boards, at other universities. The Board of Governors of Trent, McMaster and Guelph have started taking contribution holidays from pension plan surpluses! They have decreased ployers' future cost so their employees' pension plans, without first increasing pension benefits. Our Board has opted to continue contributing to the pension fund at the previous level and has facilitated increases in acoued pension of employees and increased pension of retirees and beneficiaries. Much goodwill is owed to the Board of Governors of Lakehead University. Thank-you! Also, in this respect, I offer my special thanks to the present and past editors of Agora, Katherine Shedden and Joan Hoskinson, for agreeing to publish my somewhat controversial letters. They and those who manage and run this paper deserve our gratitude for an editorial policy that guarantees freedom of speech. Indeed, this is very essential to the generation of new id eas and makes this small university newsletter a very special paper in our lives. Exclusive to Lakehead Univers ity: The Native Language Instructors ' Program Lakehead University offers a unique selection of Native Language courses and programs, including the Native Language Instructors Program. This summer more than 160 students, from reserves and communities across Ontario, Northern Manitoba and Minnesota, attended the program. Barbara Toye-Welsh, co-ordinator for Native Language Programs says, "the school has become a well-established and highly regarded institution. Each year's program builds upon the experience of the years before". The program was established in 1984 and is designed to train fluent speakers to teach Native as a second language. The course length is four weeks for three summers with winter practica. Upon completion, participants receive Native Language Teachers Certification through the Ministry of Education. Out of town students live in the university residences. In addition, the university offers Native as a Second Language to children from ages 5 to 13. This course is designed to develop and enhance the student's awareness of Native culture and communication skills in Native language. The program includes outdoor activities, field trips and afternoons at the LU Fun Camp. Native Language student and artist, Wolf Morrisseau, reminds Natives about their heritage at a sunset ceremony during his visit to the university campus. Agha M. Akram. Page 14 - - - -- - -- - - - - - - - - - - AGORA - - - - - - -- - - -- - - - September 1990 �Chance Last Writes continued from page 1 by Katherine Shedden Dr. Wilson has many accomplishments to her credit 1duding: - First woman President, Canadian Council of Churches (1976-79) - First woman Moderator, United Church of Canada (1980-82) - First Canadian President, World Council of Churches (1983-91) - Order of Canada (1984) - United Nations Pearson Peace Medal (1985) Telling Sean Conway, left, that she would keep a close eye 011 education issues at Queen's Park, the Chancellor-designate joins him for a campus lour hosted by Dr. Roseharl. Chancellor-designate Lois Wilson stands with her two predecessors. On the right, current chancellor G. Bernard Weiler who took office in 1987 and will serve until May '91. On the left is Lakehead's 3rd Chancellor, Robert}. Prettie, who served from ( 80 to 1987. Lakehend's first chancellor was Senator Norman M raterson (1965-71) followed by The Right Honourable Bora Laskin (1971 to 80). September 1990 - - - -- -- - -- -- - -- I popped into my office on the long-end to do as we say in the trade, "bury the paper". Tcould hardly get a parking spot. The campus was buzzing with out of town cars, rented vans and U-hauls, apprehensive students and their families. What's wrong with that? Nothing, except the place was virtually dosed. One rather forlorn security officer was functioning as the sole hospitality agent for the more than 50 telephone calls he received and steady stream of visitors wanting infom1ation. He did his best. Student services had put out OSAP fom1s, parent's handbook, campus maps, visitors' Guide, bus routes. It wasn't enough however, to remove the look of disappointment from the faces of the family who had driven from British Columbia to help their 19-year old settle into her new life, her first experience away from home. They wanted to buy LU souvenirs, perhaps have a meal in the cafeteria and tour the campus. I acknowledge that formal registration procedures begin Tuesday September 4 but I believe universites and colleges are missing the mark. I called five Ontario universities and Confederation College. At Trent, the answering machine ended in the middle of a telephone number it was giving, Laurentian wouldn't even give me the emergency number but could tell me the number for the pool. The Confederation College answering service doesn't even tell you when they'd be open. The labour day week-end is the obvious opportunity for families to transport their children to university. I'm surprised parents and students don't protest long and loud about the unavailability of services. I can hear the cries of "what about the staff? They need a break". Perhaps, some members of the university would be willing to celebrate their labour day holiday in November after labouring to make Lakehead University's fall registration and orientation the best in the country. We do a good job but it can be better. The Director of Student Services has made laudable efforts to make changes to improve student and parent orientation. Early indicators suggest that the new orientation format for first year students and parents will be a success. I also applaud the efforts of the new LUSU executive: an early ARGUS issue, survival handbook and welcoming bodies at the airport and the bus station. Residence Council worked long and hard to provide wam1 hospitality during orientation activities. The entire university must join forces and make every effort to welcome our new students and their families when they need us. How horrendous arc costs to hire students or ask volunteers to conduct campus tours during the week-end? Why aren't Food Services open? You feed us all year long, why not labour day week-end? Other requests by parents and students? Please open the bookstore, library, a few classrooms and counselling. Well, colleagues, what say you? AGORA - - - - - -- - -- - - - -- - - Page 15 �Campus Calendar To include your Department's event or activity in the Campus Calendar, please call Flo Sherren at 8300 or mail your information to SN1002. Deadline for the October Agora is September 15, 1990. SEPTEMBER THE CHANCELLOR PATERSON LIBRARY HOURS Monday to Thursday 8 am -11:30 pm Friday 8 am - 9 pm Saturday 9 am - 9 pm Sunday 11 am - 10:00 pm NO Circulation Desk service on halfhour before closing CORNWALL CONCERT SERIES 1990-91 MONDAY, 10 CLASSES START ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING LITTLE DINING ROOM 7PM FRIDAY,21 Final date for late registration, changes and addition of fall courses for all students except Forestry (Sept.28) and Distance Education (Aug.24) MONDAY,24 SENATE MEETING 2:30 PM SENATE CHAMBERS FRIDAY,28 Final date for late registTation, changes and addition of courses for all Forestry degree and diploma students Recital Hall, Cornwall School 210 S. Algoma St. Tuesdays at 12:30 pm unless otherwise noted. Sept. 25 Jeff Gibson, horn; Colleen 1990/91 VARSITY Gibson, oboe; Heather Morrison, HOME SCHEDULE piano - Free C.J. SANDERS FIELDHOUSE Oct. 9 Robert Silverman, piano (VanFRIDAY/SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5/6 couver) $3.00 LADY NOR'WESTERS VOLLEYBALL Oct. 23 Jane Leibel, soprano (winner of INVITATIONAL the 1990 Eckhardt-Gramatte Competition); Rachel Andrist, FRIDAY /SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12/13 piano $3.00 PIZZA HUT HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT THUNDER BAY ART GALLERY Aug. 31 - Sept. 30 SATURDAY,OCTOBER20 VISUAL AIDS ALUMNI GAMES Lecture Friday, Sept. 28, 8 p.m. - WOMEN'S 6:30PM "WHAT MAKES A GOOD AIDS - MEN'S 8:30 PM POSTER: ART AND PROPRIETY" OCTOBER BOARD OF GOVERNORS SEPT. 26 ANNUAL MEETING 4 PM SEPT. 26 FIRST MEETING 12:30 PM SEPT. 27 ORIENT ATION 2-4 PM SEPT. 27 ANNUAL DINNER 6:30 PM MONDAY,3 LABOUR DAY UNIVERSITY CLOSED TUESDAY/SATURDAY, 4/8 STUDENT ORIENTATION AND REGISTRATION WEEK TUESDAY/SATURDAY 4/15 Forestry Field School for all Forestry degree and diploma students MONDAYl ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING LITTLE DINING ROOM 7PM MONDAY,8 THANKSGIVING UNIVERSITY CLOSED Special Event The McMaster Medical School Team will visit Lakehead _ University on Tuesday, Septembe 25, 1990. A meeting for all "' students interested in enterin g Medical School will be held in the Lakehead University Senate Chambers at 2 PM. For further information contact Lakehead University Scheduling & Examination Office 343-8498 or Northweste rn Ontario Medical Program (NOMP) at 345-4515. Public Lecture Dr. Emo Zalai, Prorector of Internal Relations at the University of Economics in Budapest, Hungary, will give a lecture entitled "New Opportunities in Eastern Europe" on Monday, September 24, at 7 pm in the Faculty Lounge. Everyone welcome. Agorl\ The AGORA is produced by the lnfom1ation Office, Department of External Relations, Lakchcad University, Thw1der 13ay, Ontario. It is published monthly (except August), and is distributed free of charge to the Univers ity's faculty and s taff, local government, media, business and friends of the University. Credit is appreciated wh~n material is reproduced or quoted. 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DES UNIVEIISITES 1 I' du 1-4 ""'n ouobt~ .:;ide: What's all the construction about? .. 4 Small business consulting ................ 5 Archeology donation ........................ 9 Greenwood reminisces .................. 18 Forum ................................................ 19 ~?-S' ll,v1t, ~ ~ ~~ ~- Lakehead( -.,.·_jUniversity _Agorl\ 1 • • : · I · • I I • I • • • , 1: • • • : • Serene, triumphant finale to successful voyage After a canoe journey of more than 3,450 kilometers, 27 modem voyageurs have safely returned to Lakehead University. This past summer, 25 students and expedition leaders Jim S"'lithers and Derek Apple successfully travelled 3,475 kilometers n Fort McMurray, Alta., to the Arctic Ocean - by canoe. - All members of the group are members of Lakehead University's Outdoor Recreation program. Upon their return, the group performed a ceremonial paddle into Thunder Bay's Old Fort William, where they were given a hero's welcome, complete with cannon fire, and treated to a sumptuous feast. The Sir Alexander Mackenzie "Canada Sea-to-Sea" Bicentennial Expedition was launched to re-create and commemorate the 200th anniversary of the first recorded crossing of Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. The Continued on page 11 ... �Report From The President Dr. Bob Rosehart Agora Wins Big A special congratulations to Editor Katherine Shedden. The Agora beat out all competitors in the competition for the International Association of Business Communicators Award -Thunder Bay Chapter. Special Farewells (i) Godfather Departs A very special person, Irmo Marini, has been smitten by the doctoral bug and has departed Lakehead University after four years as our first full-time counsellor in Student Services. Irmo, with his M.A.Psy. background from Lakehead University, has established the office and has assisted many students (and others) during the past four years. Irmo is leaving the Thunder Bay winters for a doctoral program at Auburn University in the southern United States. We wish him well. (ii) Research News (ii) Another special person and regular contributor to the Agora with her "Research News" column has been Trish McGowan. Trish has recently left Lakehead University to return to university in Ottawa with the ultimate objective being a doctorate. Trish has worked hard to enhance the role of research at Lakehead University, and I wish her all the best with her new career and personal goals. The Smoking Committee has further refined the Lakehead University Smoking Policy, and the recommended changes are being put into place. Smoking policies and enforcement of such policies are not the easiest for organizations to implement. The Committee realizes that there is some resistance to aspects of the Smoking Policy, but it also appreciates the general support given to this initiative. The involuntary rights of non-smokers are important to protect in buildings which have complex, integrated air systems, and I ask the L.U. smokers to respect the rights of your colleagues. Efforts continue to be made to deal more adequately with improving designated smoking areas. Organizational Changes (i) Graduate Studies and Research To further enhance the opportunities of research and research development on the Lakehead University campus, Innovation North and the National Research Council IRAP program, headed by Ken Mclellan, will now become part of the Office of Graduate Studies and Research and will report to Dr. Connie Nelson. The Innovation North/NRC Office will be relocated to CB4106 in order to allow for a greater interaction with interested faculty researchers. Dr. Martin Oosterveld will continue to be involved on an advisory basis, and Ms. Anne Fiorenza will be working in Dr. Nelson's office. (ii) External Relations As we move closer to the start of our new capital drive, the focus of the Community Relations group (Information and Promotion, Graphics, Alumni, and University Development) will be more and more on external relations and, hence, the community relations description will be replaced by external relations. Teaching and Learning Special Congratulations to (i) Penny Petrone on her O.C.U.F.A. Teaching Award and to (ii) Ken Brown for his appointment as Co-ordinator of our Teaching and Leaming Office on a part-time basis. Policies i) Aids The Board of Governors has now accepted the policy developed by the Aids Committee. The proposed policy was reviewed by outside experts and has been proclaimed to be progressive. Jessie Sutherland presents Irmo Marini with a care package for his life as a student. Page2 Smoking Special Projects Bring Acclaim to Lakehead University (i) Canada Sea to Sea Completed Successfully As you know, the 3,400 km. trip from Fort McMurray to the Arctic Ocean has been successfully completed by 25 of our Outdoor Recreation students under the supervision of Dr. Jim Smithers and Mr. Derek Apple. The project went very smoothly and has brought much acclaim to Lakehead University. In addition to local and regional media coverage, several provincial and national articles have featured the Mackenzie re-creation. Special thanks must go to the Province of Alberta who hosted the students at a fantastic banquet at Fort Edmonton on their return, and to the Province of Ontario who did likewise at Old Fort William. Our students had many unique interactions, particularly with Native children on this voyage of a lifetime. The Mayor of Edmonton spoke in very positive terms of the accomplishments of these young people at the Fort Edmonton occasion. On another front, the project has also been a financial success with the initial accounting indicating that fundraising has covered the costs of the 1989 trip. Preliminary plans are now under discussion with respect to the 1990 Canada Sea to Sea project which will not involve a major expedition, but rather be focussed on educational interpretation of the fur trade era. A special thanks is due to Old Fort William for their assistance with this venture. AGORA - -- - - -- - - - - - -- September 1989 J �(ii) Summer School for Science and Technology By all accounts, Year III has been the best year yet. Special thanks must go to Paul lnksetter, the Program Director this year, Dr. John Whitfield, the Dean of Arts and Science, and also to Brad Rush of the School of Business Entrepreneurship Centre who ran a very successful entrepreneur contest. (iii) Gifu English Immersion From a technical perspective, I believe the English Immersion Program for approximately 30 students from Gifu was a success. However, from a personal impact perspective, Lakehead University has left a tremendous impact on not only the Japanese students, but also on the many Thunder Bay citizens who helped to make the program a success. I was very proud of our student monitors who were a key feature of this program - a challenging and very personally rewarding summer job for some very impressive Lakehead University students. Also, the Thunder Bay community opened its doors wide on weekends for the host family program. The experience was equally as rewarding for the students as it was for the host families. Some friendships have been made which will continue to develop further between Gifu and Thunder Bay. Capital Projects Construction, portables, and dust continue to be features on the Lakehead University campus. Work is progressing well on all facets and, sooner or later, the pieces will all be in their proper places. In the interim, we ask for your patience. The Student Centre/Regional Education Project is at an advanced stage with the architects and, in September, floor plans for the two projects will be put on display. The new residences will be ready for September (I hope and pray) and they are very impressive. Many faculty and staff have wandered over at lunch and coffee to have an informal look. If you haven't already done so, you should. Our new residences are a far cry from the residence l was exposed to in Year I in 19??. Matchbox With the coming of the Student Centre Project, Ken Dolph has closed the Matchbox. The University is assuming the operation on an interim ' J \. ( j I twas a rip-roaring "Paddle Dance" and "sayonara "for the Japanesestudents,host families and members of the University community at the Old Fort Farewell Dinner. basis until the construction starts (in late spring), and Rhonda Kelly is gearing up the new operation. The post office service will remain, and any profits from the store will go directly to the Lakehead University Scholarship and Bursary Fund. Fall 1989 A new terrn is about to begin, and the campus will once again spring to life. This fall, we have several new members of faculty and staff, and I take this opportunity to welcome them to the Lakehead University community. La.kehead University Congratulates Lyn McLeod In the recent Cabinet shuffle, Lyn McLeod received a significant political promotion to Minister of Natural Resources and Minister of Energy for the Province of Ontario. Both of these portfolios are critical to our economic development and, while Natural Resources has a more northern focus, in the next few years, important decisions will have to be made about our future energy supply. Our new Minister, Sean Conway, is a very competent and strong Minister who has a sincere interest in Northern Ontario. The "super" Ministry of Education, Colleges and Universities, and Skills Development is not new as this was the structure in place for the last few years of the Davis Government. Such a structure has good and bad points. It allows for enhanced coordination on the one hand, but on the other hand, it places a lot of pressure on one Minister's time. Silver Jubilee Trivia Question As you know, we are celebrating our Silver Jubilee over the next ten months. As part of these celebrations, Lakehead University is sponsoring the Great Entertainers Series at the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium. The first two correct callers to Linda Phillips (8200) with the correct answer to the following question will win two tickets to the performance of Ballet B.C. which will be held at the Auditorium on Wednesday, November 29. Who gave the first La~ehead University Convocation Address? Watch for further contests in future articles. September 1989 - -- - - - - - - -- - - - - AGORA----- - - - - -- - -- - -- Page 3 �Construction Boom and Renovations Construction is popping up all over Lakehead University Campus and the many new projects are keeping Art Davies, Senior Advisor for Campus Planning, very busy. He said, "the new student townhouses will be complete and ready for move in by the week of September 5th. They will accommodate 144 students including two disabled students. All are 4-bedroom townhouses each with a living room, dining room, kitchen and bathroom. They will share a common laundry facility. The accommodations are furnished and rent for $275.00 per student plus utilities. ''We have begun construction of the new Forest Biology Centre. The foundations are poured and we are raising the steel frame. It should be enclosed by November and in operation by next May'' Davies continued. There are also plans for a Building Maintenance Shop to be located north of the student townhouses. The land is now being cleared, construction will start during the second week of September, and the project should be complete by Christmas. Mr. Davies added, "the Black Shack will be relocated to north of the Ryan Building and will be back in operation on September 5th. Also, the Portable Faculty Offices east of the S.N. Building will be completed this week. A 12 inch water main by the Music House has upgraded water pressure to improve fire protection." Planning is complete for the new Regional Education Centre and Student Centre. The Education Centre will be a four story structure and the Student Centre will consist of two levels plus a mezzanine. The two buildings will share a common wall and be placed in the Black Shack's former location. Construction will begin in the early spring. Jim Podd, Director of Campus Development, is responsible for renovation projects at Lakehead. ''We have a five year maintenance plan to address our major problems", he said. ''With many facilities 20 or more years old, repairs and renovations can be quite extensive. This year we will be spending $500,000 on restoration." Projects include: -replacement of the substandard sewer Page 4 Lucky students 144 graduate and senior students will be the first occupants of the six new townhouse complexes. The spacious 4-bedroom residences were named after the neighbouring towns of Nakina, Ignace, Keewatin, Beardmore, Wabigoon and White River. The official opening will take place during National Universities Week in October. . ', t '-< • /t' \ 1· ·;.,... .... . t". • ~~:,~.....- ~"'~ ( \u - -J. f ... • "!f' • ·, ... v... . .....:. .. :0-. ' -•~:1$•,1:.. • ~~, •~:--· • ••• • r.. , .~ ■'-'!flfflilf ,, ~\~ 3 -~~~... -.:,; • I line at the Bora Laskin Building -upgrading the old Music House to hold the Occupational Health and Safety Resource Centre allowing for the expansion of Alumni Services -roof repairs on University Centre and the Greenhouse -upgrading Animal Care/Environmental Control -removing the exterior quarry tile on University Centre with a non-slip replacement -air-conditioning improvements (a three-year project) -changing the chairs in Room 1021 Braun Building to make it a more versatile teaching area -roof repairs for Saunders Field House -interior improvements for the Library, Bora Laskin Building, Ryan Building and Saunders Field House (painting, rug replacements etc.) -expansion of parking lots (Bora Laskin #6 and Main Campus #13) -room restoration and common area renovation for the Bartley and Prettie Residences According to Podd, "though this might seem like a lengthy list, this is just a normal year. " AGORA - -- - -- -- - - - - - - September 1989 �Small Business Consulting: It Works! Business students got the chance to apply classroom theory to the business world this summer. The Small Business Consulting Program is a student-run enterprise which offers affordable consulting services to local bu~inesses. The Program operates on the Lakehead University campus and is partially funded by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Technology. The program's main focus is market research and surveys with feasibility studies being secondary. With the assistance of faculty advisors, Guenther stated that the consultants tackle any project they feel they can handle. After a free initial interview, a proposal is prepared. The client knows beforehand exactly what will be accomplished and the charge. Group members include Bob Poulter, Vince Letwin, Kerri Law, Todd LaHaye and manager Valerie Guenther - a veteran of last summer's program. The differences ·helped the group pull together and have a very successful year. Poulter describes the group as being diverse. "We're all Commerce students, but that's where the similarities end," he said. The differences helped the group pull together and have a very successful year. Letwin, in his final year of general management, has no definite plans for the future. Law J ----...-i t--- -t: - ~ . J ~~-~ The winning team pose.... Back row, Todd LaHaye and Valerie Guenther. Front left to right, Kerri Law, Bob Poulter and Vince Letwin and LaHaye are both entering their third-year of accounting. Guenther is in her fourth year of accounting and finance. After graduation she is extending her education to include both accounting and financial planning designations. Her experience over the past two years has encouraged her to open her own consulting firm after graduation. Poulter, a marketing and finance major, has definite plans for his future. "I want to get into a big industry," he said. He explained that his strategy was to "start as a manager trainee and work up the ranks." Poulter also sees an MBA somewhere in the future. Generally, the consultants agreed that working for Small Business Consulting has helped solidify their future plans. Letwin said the consultants are learning . the 'practical aspects' of budgeting, proposals and report writing. "It's eye-opening since you deal with so many variables." The consultant agreed that dealing with individual's feelings, perceptions and ideas brings the application of theories into focus. Every situation demands a different approach. There are no hard and fast rules. The theories don't apply equally to all. ... uattimes itfeels like you are flying by the seat of your pants." Guenther states that the work is challenging and at times it feels like you are 'flying by the seat of your pants'. However, the consultants learn to break the projects down into pieces and then tackle the parts. Dr. Bahram Dadgostar, the faculty coordinator for the Program, has been involved for two years. He agrees with the student's evaluation of Small Business Consulting as a useful learning tool. "They are actually involved with the outside world," he said. "They must learn to solve unexpected problems and apply what they have learned." September 1989 - - - - - - -- - - - - - AGORA - -- -- - - - - - -- - - - - Page 5 �S.E.E.D./Challenge '89 Helps Students and Staff Twenty-eight Lakehead University students and thirteen campus employers are benefiting from S.E.E.D. grants this summer. S.E.E.D. stands for Summer Employment Expe.rience Development and the program gives wage subsidies to employers who are creating new jobs that will give students career-related experience. Subsidies vary according to the sector in which the employer is classified. Private sector employers are given 50% subsidy up to a maximum of $3.00/hour which ever amount is less. Public sector instutions such as Lakehead University are allowed a 100% grant which covers the provincial adult minimum wge. Non-profit organizations receive 100% of the provincial adult minimum wage plus 100% of the mandatory employer costs - U.I.C., C.P.P. and vacation pay. Non-profit groups also receive an "Other Costs" grant of $20.00/week which helps with the summer job's supply costs and/or other mi~llaneous expenses. Students are eligible to participate in the S.E.E.D. program if they are elementary, secondary, post-secondary or vocational school students legally entitled to work in Canada. They must be registered full-time students during the preceding academic year and intending to return to full-time studies in SepAgora staff interviewed a few of the S.E.E.D. employers and employees at Lakehead University and found that both groups were very satisfied with the results of their summer projects. Earlier this year, Marion Muldoon, Human Resources Officer became responsible for tracking all the hazardous materials on the L.U. campus for the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (W.H.M.I.S.) as required by the Ministry of Labour. This Antonella Longo and Alfredo CeCCJlrelli spent the summer tracking hazardous materials on campus. Page 6 tember. They must also not be employed in another full-time summer job. Students are referred to the employer by a Canada Employment Centre office and all S.E.E.D. program potions are ) posted there. However, students can suggest project ideas to potential employers and grant proposals can then be sent by the employer. Employers initiate the process by submitting a S.E.E.D./Challengc application form. These forms are usually available in the C.E.C. office by February and application deadline is in mid-March. If the employer receives the grant, interested and qualified students are sent to the employer by the C.E.C. office for interviews and selection. Supervisors arc expected to provide career-related or practical work experience for S.E.E.D. program students. There must be the necessary supervision, instruction and challenges to improve the student's future employability. To qualify for the subsidy, supervisors must also ensure that the student works at least 30 and no more than 40 hours per week. Employment must also occur between 6 and 18 consecutive weeks. However, part-time work will be allowed in the case of disabled students. The period of employment must fall between the beginning of May and the first week in September. Debbie Moquin, Project Officer with the Canadian Job Strategy Unit at the C.E.C. office emphasized, ''The S.E.E.D. program is designed not to displace or replace existing employment. It creates new jobs that would not otherwise be there without the subsidy." is a huge task in a university environment. Muldoon applied to the S.E.E.D. program and was able to hire two science students, Antonella Longo and Alfredo Ceccarelli to locate, identify and provide specific fact sheets to all labs and departments working with hazardous chemicals. Ms. Longo confessed, "I am really grateful to have been chosen for this summer job. I am one of the few students going into fourth year Biology who is working in a science-related field. There is a great deal of administrative work in this position and I have found out that I prefer messing around in a lab and getting dirty. I'm glad I've learned that about myself." "It has also been valuable to learn about the chemicals I work with everyday. As a Biologist I worried more about the effect of the chemicals I was using on my specimen and not about the potential hazards to myself. I really appreciate being able to put my scientific knowledge to work", she said. Chairman, Dr. Glen Carruthers also received a S.E.E.D. grant to help his Department of Music pursue some new directions. He needed a student to coordinate a concert series for the 1989-90 academic year. After interviewing a number of interested applicants he hired Debbie Allison, a third year music student and President of the Lakehead University Music Association Glen Carruthers and concert organizer Debbie Alison. (L.U.M.A.). L.U.M.A. is also co-sponsor of the concert series. ''The department had budgeted for a 12 concert series and we were hoping to schedule local and national musicians to appear. Debbie was able to nearly double our budget for the concert series by discovering and applying for a special Ontario Arts Council grant. The additional money allowed us to schedule nationally famous artists that we wouldn't otherwise be able to afford", Dr. Carruthers explained. "I am very pleased that Debbie was able to work so independently. She read all the promotional literature sent to us by touring and local artists and culled AGORA - - -- -- - - - -- - -- September 1989 �Alumni team of Frances Harding (left) and Beth Huston the list. She then conferred with me and after we made the final choices, Debbie then contacted the musician or the artist management firm involved with the offer of a concert date. All the responsibility for setting fees, programs, transportation and accommodation has been given to her", he stated. Debbie found her position a great opportunity to find out more about local and national musicians. "I found it very flattering that nationally known musicians will travel to our you:1g music school at reduced fees. It was great working in my chosen field this summer and actually making money. That's rare in music!", she revealed. Ms. Allison added, "I plan to do graduate work in the area of Musicology and what I have learned this summer will help." Frances Harding, Alumni Services Co-ordinator has high praise for the S.E.E.D./Challenge program. She hired Beth Huston, a third year Political Studies student to assist her Changes at the LUFA Office rr Dr. Henry (Hank) Akervall, newly elected President of the Lakehead University Faculty Association is continuing the work of former association head, Dr. Ernest Zimmermann. His term runs from June 1, 1989, to May 3, 1990. During this time he hopes to see the new pension review through to completion. "I would like our retirees to receive a better pension. Our current pension means starvation wages for present retirees," he declared. "Our pension plan had an 18 million dollar surplus and the surplus was never redistributed to the contributors. I think we will be successful in our negotiations with the pension fund managers and it is possible that our retirees will get a 30 per cent increase in their annual pension," said Dr. Akervall. Currently the Ontario Pension Commission and Revenue Canada are reviewing LUFA's plans and Professor Akervall is unsure when they will complete their examination of the proposal. "Also, negotia lions will resume with the university in February. We are coming to the end of our three year contract. The length of our contracts are negotiable and each time we have to determine the current advantages and disadvantages of a short-term or long-term contract," he stated. ''We will be looking at making improvements in our benefits package and the impact of the day to day operations of the university on our members." Professor Akervall added, "On a national level, LUFA is a member of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) and their concerns are our concerns. CAUT is lobbying the federal government for increases in funding for higher education. Also, free trade has made it possible for with Celebration 1990/1.akehead University Alumni Reunion as well as other projects. Outlined Ms. Harding, "The reunion will be the final event of the Silver Jubilee celebrations. Beth worked very closely with the Alumni volunteers to co-ordinate the event. As well, she served as editorial assistant on the alumni magazine "Nor'Wester" and helped update the files and mailing lists that are such an important part of alumni tracking. She cheerfully pitched in with general clerical and office duties when we needed her, too!" '1 think S.E.E.D. is an important and worthwhild project. It gives students opportu.nities for meaningful work. The jobs themselves can be part of a maturing experi~nce - helping students discover the direction they wish to go in life. These jobs contrast with those that are available in the service industry. For instance, I gave Beth as much responsibility as she could handle and she never disappointed me", Ms. Harding commented. Beth Huston offered, "This job has been the best experience of my life and Frances has been the best supervisor! She has always been there to give me guidance when I needed it. During the summer I have identified areas of interest and abilities that I didn't know I had. I am really excited about the kind of impact this type of job has on the community. Previously, my visions of the future lacked definition. This job has given my life direction." Other S.E.E.D. employers at Lakehead University this summer are: Dr. W. T.Momot (Biology), Dave Christie (Finance), Alastair McDonald (Biology), Dr. S.A. Mirza (Engineering), Dr. R.E. Pulkki (Forestry), Dr. Peggy Knowles (Biology-Forestry), Dr. K.D. Eigenbrod (Engineering), Dr. Ernie Epp (History), Peter Lee (Biology) and Dr. Jim Smithers (Outdoor Recreation). part-time teachers from the United States to come to teach in Canadian universities. We will watch developments in this area. CAUT is establishing a national policy on sexual harassment and is establishing guidelines to make it easier for younger professors to obtain seed money for research." Judy Foulds, Executive ( Assistant at LUFA, is also a newcomer. She comJ menced her duties on May 1, 1989, and was formerly Dr. Henry (Hank) Akervall assistant to Ernie Epp in the federal riding of Thunder BayNipigon. '1 enjoy the variety at the LUFA office. Since I am the only person employed by the Faculty Association I have to contribute to nearly everything that LUFA does. Even if I don't enjoy a particular job there's no one else to delegate to," Mrs. Foulds confessed. '1 find my new position different from a constituency office since there aren't the constant interruptions. I have more control over my schedule and my work." Mrs. Foulds was born in England. "My chief claim to fame is going to Liverpool University in the 60's when the Beatles p layed there," she laughed. She has completed a honours BA in History and Bachelor of Education and has taught in England and Thunder Bay. LUFA's office hours are 9 a .m. to noon, Monday to Thursday. September 1989 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AGORA--- -- - - - - - - - - - - - - Page 7 �Around Campus Thank You -LU Staff and Faculty Last year the Alumni Association raised $77,000 thanks to the generosity of 127 staff and faculty members who donated $7,861 to the Alumni Fund. Your money was used to fund scholarships and bursaries, research, library acquisitions, allocations to faculties and departments, publication and distribution of the Nor'Wester alumni magazine, and a variety of other campus projects. This year in recognition of our Silver Jubilee, the Alumni Association has set its highest ever target at $100,000. And to be successful the Alumni Association is going to need your help ... again. If you can, why not make your contribution early this fall and come out and help with the Alumni Phonathon October 10-27. You'll be telephoning some of the 4,500 graduates who live in Thunder Bay. The Phonathon will be held in the offices of Thunder Bay Hydro from 5:30 to 9:30 pm and a light supper, prizes and refreshments will be provided. If you car. spare a few hours in October and want to sign up as a volunteer caller, contact Frances Harding, Coordinator, Alumni Services at 343-8193. Alumni Board Named The Alumni Association of Lakehead University is pleased to announce the members of the Board of Directors for 1989-90. President: Joe Baratta First President: Eric Wilson First Vice President: Betty Coates Treasurer: Don Sutton Representative to LU &>a.rd of Governors: Margaret Page LUSU Representative: Greg Beckford Members at Large: PeterGacuk Debby Krupa Larry Hebert Lynne Merritt Lynda O'Brien Jeff McKenzie Twenty-five New Grads! A graduation ceremony was held for Lakehead's Native Language Teachers Program. Diplomas were given to 25 students. There are two diploma programs; Native As a First Language and Native as a Second Language. These programs involve three weeks of training every summer for four years. Students come from across Ontario, Manitoba and parts of the United States. The pilot program began in 1972. Since then many students have graduated and gone back to their communities to work in administration at their band offices. Fade-out for Matchbox After 18 years of service to the university community the Matchbox con- "\ venience store closed on Aug. 11, 1989. ...1, It served as a central depot on campus offering a sub-post office, confections, books, cards and clothing. Matchbox owner Ken Dolph said, "the university is making some physical renovations and we wouldn't be able to operate once the construction started. Also, the University is planning to open its own on-campus store. It"s hard to leave all the people that we've associated with over the years. But it's been a pleasure to be of service to so many great individuals." "I am looking forward to a career move. I know that change is inevitable and I appreciate the fact that administration gave me more than enough notice. ln fact, I selected the closing date that would be most convenient for me," he declared. Lorraine Harris, Executive Assistant of the Lakehead University Student Union noted, "It's sad to see a familiar face go. I hope that the new university-operated store opens on Sept. 1. The students need the service. I expect the prices in the new store to be compatible with student budgets and I hope to sec another sub-post office established on campus. It is also my understanding that the new convenience store will be hiring student workers. I'm pleased that all profits from the store will be returned to the students in the form of bursaries." Highlights from the last Board of Governors' Meeting Sad Farewells: Six members retired from the Board of Governors effective July 17, 1989: Mr. G. Sydney Halter, Mrs. Ruth Callon, Mr. Arnold E. Westlake, Mr. Archie Watson, Prof. F.J. Anderson and Ms Charlotte Caron. The Chairman extended deep thanks and appreciation to all retirees for their significant contribution to the Board. The University acknowledged Mr. Halter's remarkable achievement of 15 consecutive years of active service. He was first elected to the Board in 1974 and was re-elected for four additional 3-year terms. He served as first ViceChairman from 1983 to 1984 and Chairman from 1984-86. Mr. Halter's served on the Executive committee of the &>a.rd and other standing committees, most notably many years on the Investment Committee. Townhouses Names: Following a precedent of naming various residence "houses" after cities and towns in the geographic area, the new townhouse residences were named: Nakina House, Ignace House, Keewatin House, Beardmore House, Wabigoon House and White River House. Page 8 • New Members: The Board welcomes five new members: Dr. Jane Crossman, Senate representative, Mr. Roch Letourneau, LUSU representative, Mrs. Augustine, Mr. Fred Stille and Mr. Frederick J. Nowgesic, community representatives. FOCUS ON A NEW MEMBER: Elected for a 3-year term is the University's first North American Indian representative. Frederick Nowgesic is from Gull Bay, and is a Program Manager with Employment and Immigration Canada in Thunder Bay. His community involment includes six administrative positions with the Gull Bay Indian Reserve. He is the elected representative by the Chiefs of the Robinson-Superior Treaty of 1850 to the Union of Ontario Indians, and the designated to the Assembly of First Nations. He is also very active with the Neebing municipal council and somehow manages membership in many other organizations like the K of C., Thunder Bay District Labour council and native Indian Pastoral care. Lakehead University is proud to have Mr. Nowgesic as the first Native representative on the Board and in his own words, "my contribution to your Board would be the Native Indian perspective in terms of philosophy, the degree of awareness of issues and problems of our times". AGORA - - - - - - - - -- - ----September 1989 �Amateur archeologists donate their life's work to University It began with a fishing trip in the 60's. Dick and Mary Anne Smach of Minnesota were portaging around a rough spot on the Black Sturgeon when they found a pot on the shoreline". A 20-year love of archeology really began that day and Lakehead University is the happy beneficiary of their avocation. Calling it" a significant collection in phenomenally good shape" archeologist, Scott Hamilton, received approximately 20,000 items from the Smach family to be housed permanently at Lakehead University. "Because they kept everything organized and catalogued in great detail, including mapping, these prehistoric artififacts are a useful collection for research purposes. It's excellent." Items include pottery and stone tools and fragments from the production of stone tools. The vast majority of the collection was discovered littering the washed out beaches of the Black Sturgeon River system. Murray Lankester, the past Director of Research and Graduate Studies, said the University was proud and fortunate to receive the private collection. Northern Experience Summer 1990 Open to Third Year, Fourth Year, and Graduate Students All Disciplines The Centre for Northern Studies is launching its 1990 Northern Experience program which is open to all disciplines. The Centre, in conjunction with the Presidential Advisory Committee on Northern Studies w111 apply for financial support (Northern Training Program) on behalf of interested students and faculty members. The primary area of focus is the region of Canada that has permafrost. So if you are a student interested in working in the north ..... or a faculty member interested in supervising a project...... or a Northerner that has a contact for development of a local initiative Please contact Dr. Paul Watts or Ms Robbie Ferguson at the Centre for Northern Studies at extension 8360. Mary Anne and Dick Smach, discuss one fragment of the collection they generously donated to the Department of Anthropology. Professor Scott Hamilton and Murray Lankester in the laboratory. The Role of Circumpolar Universities in Northern Development: November 24-26th Conference sponsored by The Centre for Northern Studies, Lakehead University. The Conference will provide a forum to examine the challenges unique to the development of the north and the ways in which universities and governments can together respond to them. One of the objectives will be to provide a systematic and documented comparison of the different approaches used to meet the circumpolar development mandate. It is anticipated that the event will further develop and strengthen the links and cooperation already existing between the circumpolar institutions. The conference is attracting leaders from the international academic community, senior policy makers from all levels of government, and other individuals interested in the area or topics to be discussed. The main theme of the conference will be examined from the perspective of each of the circumpolar universities and from their respective governments. Emphasis will be on pragmatic and unique responses to the challenges of the day. More specialized thematic sessions will explore the many perspectives of northern development. A combination of plenary, concurrent, and workshop sessions will provide appropriate levels of presentation and discussion. A reception at the Valhalla Inn will welcome delegates on Thursday evening, November 23rd; conference sessions and activities will take place on the campus of Lakehead University (Saturday) and at the Valhalla Inn (Friday & Sunday). The final conference event, Sunday luncheon, will be the occasion of the official opening of the Centre for Northern Studies. The participation of Lakehead Faculty and Administration in the conference is welcomed. Please contact the Conference Coordinator, Jean Engholm, for further information and for details of registration at 343-8377. September 1989 - -- - -- -- -- - -- - AGORA-- - - - - -- - - - - - - -- - Page9 �Japanese Learn English - Northwestern Ontario Style This summer, "hello" became as easy as "kon nichi wa" when Lakehead University hosted 31 Japanese students in an English Immersion Program. After several years of formal English instruction, students from Gifu College, Hashima-gun, Gifu-ken Japan needed to apply their knowledge in a practical setting. Dr. Emil Dolphin, of the Department of Languages, and the Department of Continuing Education developed the program and greeted an excited group of students on July 21, 1989. The students lived in campus residences and visited host homes on the weekends. The two living arrangements gave students the opportunity to become thoroughly immersed in Canadian culture and society. It was also a learning experience for members of the host homes to learn more about Japan and its people. The Languages Department hired six Lakehead University students to work closely with the Japanese students. These monitors lived in residence and encouraged the visiting students to speak English. Immersion program teacher and weekend host David Nancekivel observed, "I took the students to my summer cottage and we filled the weekends with waterskiing, canoeing and fishing. My first group of students were so tired after one day's activities that they slept until one in the afternoon!" He added, "they asked me if all Canadians talk so much at meal times. Ap- parently, this is not done in Japanese homes. The students enjoyed all types of food except for our desserts. They are much too sweet for Japanese tastes." While at Lakehead, students received 60 hours of classroom instruction. Ac- cording to Professor Peter Seyffert, their out-of-classroom experiences included "\ field trips to a local mine, the Thunder .l Bay Art Gallery, a harbour boat tour, the district agricultural station and Old Fort William. YoshiyukiMatsuda, aJapanese student from Gifu College, winces like most men when hehas his necktie adjusted by a "gentleman" in the Great Hall at Old Fort William . Fellow student Yoko Tsuji chuckles over her classmate's reaction. The field trips provided the students with opportunities to develop their language skills. Lanaguage professors David Nancekivel (left) and Peter Seyffert co-ordinated in-class language programs with the field trips. Page lO - - -- -- - - - - - -- -- - AGORA - - - - - - -- - -- - - - Septembe r 1989 �Lakehead University Voyageurs Return from 3,000-km Trek continued from page 1 Lakehead group completed Phase I, which re-created Mackenzie's search for the Northwest Passage. Another goal of the expeditions is to help Canadians understand the importance of this chapter in Canadian history. Like the early explorers, the modem voyageurs endured 12-hour paddling days, unpredictable weather, and swarms of insects. Throughout the journey, the explorers felt a kinship with Mackenzie and his group. Following Mackenzie'~ diary, they often found themselves walking and camping in the exact spots Mackenzie had been 200 years earlier. In spite of some of the hardships, Lakehead University's explorers had some exciting moments. They were able to paddle across Great Slave Lake, one of the largest lakes in North America, and had a chance to meet a descendent of one of Mackenzie's voyageurs. Along the route, the students and leaders enjoyed the warm hospitality of several northern communities where they were treated to special ceremonies and banquets. During the isolated paddling days, encounters with moose and bison added new dimensions to wilderness exploration. Now that Phase I of the Mackenzie Sea-to-Sea expeditions are over, attention is turning to the remaining phases. Phase 11 will take effect in 1990 with a touring exhibit depicting Mackenzie and his significance to Canada's development. These exhibits will visit major communities across the country. Phase III is planned for 1991 to 1993. It will involve an excursion stretching from Montreal to the Pacific Ocean, covering 8,835 kilometers. Photos, top right and clockwise, Fiona Tyrell Terence Carty, Angela Goering (centre left), Jennifer Steele-Allen, Derek Apple (constantly busy with the media), Peter Labor and Lisas Riseling. The Sir Alexander Mackenzie °Canada Sea-to-Sea" Bicentennial Expedition Participants Jim Smithers Expedition Leader Derek Apple Expedition Assistant C Allison Barr Phil Boswell Cliff Britton Leslie Bugden Jean-Guy Cadieux Terence Carty Don Chevalier Ian Collinson Rich Corbyn Angela Goering Chrissy Evans Peter Labor Mary Beth Moore Kelly Morgan-Rauh Tracey Mullins Jane Papenhuyzen Shawn Patterson Andrew Pitre Lisa Riseling Jennifer Steele-Allen Fiona Tyrrell Karin Vogel Dave Walsh Laurie White Brandon Woods September 1989 - - - - - -- - -- - - - AGORA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - P a gell �================ Faces L___ __ on Campus ================== c_o_l_i_n_G_rah_a_m _ _ _ ___.l LI_ _ _Ar __ is_C_ar_a_s_ta_t_h_i_s_ _ _~ Dr. Colin Graham comes to Lakehead University from Northwestern University. He has been appointed full Professor in the Mathematical Sciences Department for the 1989-90 academic year. Along with continuing his research in Fourier Analysis and Functional Analysis he will be teaching Calculus and Differential Equations for Engineers. ''Fourier Analysis examines functions in terms of waves much like a musician's ear does when she hears a chord and can determine which instrument plays which note," he explained. Professor Graham has been on the Northwestern Faculty for the past 20 years and received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Bachelor's degree from Harvard. "The summer is delightful here," he enthused, "people are more relaxed." "My wife, Mary Weir ~nd I are hoping to stay in Thunder Bay. She has been appointed Associate Minister at First Church United." During his off hours he likes to work on his MacIntosh computer and finish moving into his new house. '.'I also pl~ ot ~ singing Tenor in the church choir and reading Canadian literature. My favourite authors are Jannette Turner Hospital and Timothy Findley." ~~~~====~:!.! A newly appointed Assistant Professor (Theory) in the Departmentof Music, Dr. Aris Carastathis was most recently affiliated with the Saskatoon Conservatory in Saskatoon, Sask. He was awarded his Doctor of Musical Arts (Composition) from Louisiana State University, his Master of Music (Composition) from the University of Northern Iowa and his Bachelor degree ~ also from Northern Iowa. Profcs. sor Carastathis explained, "the / L!:....!...._::=!.. _ ___::~:='~.,,~~~ Music Department will be trying to present a uniform program of Music Theory. So far, it is a three year program which will emphasize ear training. In the future we may look at expanding into composition and electronic music." "I am enjoy~g my new ~olleagues. They arc being very helpful and hosp1 table and I hke the relaxed atmosphere." Away from the classroom he enjoys composing - experimenting with new sounds. _"The _idea of pleasing sounds is not as important as the emotion raised by the sound itself. I think it is important to explore new areas," he revealed. "l also like all types of sports especially cycling, soccer, racquetball and tennis." Jose De Cangas Recently appointed to the Faculty of Nursing, Assistant Professor Jose De Cangas is thoroughly enjoying life at Lakehead University. He obtained his Master of Nursing from the University of Alberta and his Bachelor of Nursing from the University of Manitoba. Professor De Cangas became a Registered Nurse and a Registered Psychiatric Nurse in London, England. Most recently, he has been employed in health adl!!!!~~~===-=-~ ministration. He was Regional Director of Community Mental Health Services in the Red Deer region, Director of Nursing at the Albe~ta Hospital, Edmonton, and Director of the School of Nursing at the Brandon Mental Health Centre. Among his plans for the year are teaching third year Psychiatric Nursing and a research project involving Lakehead Psychia~c Hospital. The_ s~dy will deal with following up the chrorucally mentally ill in the community. "lam delighted to be at Lakehead University. You have a great computer system and friendly people who really go out of their way to assist New~omers," Profes5?~ De Cangas noted. "Much of my spare time 1s devoted to wnting articles and reviewing books for 'Hospital and Community Psychiatry.' I love to collect rare wine -- I hav_e over 500_ bottles in my collection. If there are any staff interested m starting a wine club on campus, please con:c1ct ~eat 8246: I also like bird watching - we have a hummmgbrrd feeder m our yard." Other interests include fishing, sailing and travel. Faculty receives supportforteaching ~ J) Dr. Ken (Mac) Brown has been appointed the first instructional Development Advisor for a 1year term. He tells a humorous story about his first teaching experience. "l had a terrible time. There must have been 180 students, Faces to the rafters. It was really intimidating.' Motivated by that early memory and a sincere interest in developing strategies to assist professors become better teachers, Mac Brown is 'ready for the challenge'. In add ition to developing the role of the new position, Professor Brown will teach three half-courses in his area of forestry experise. Brown has served on the Senate Teaching and Leaming Committee Tackling his new job with great enthusiasn. Brown has already produced his first issue of a faculty newsletter and is busy reviewing books and investigating upcoming teaching seminars. He will be looking for input from his colleagues and believes that compiling an inventory of expertise and interests will be high on his priority list. Give Mac a call 8369 or drop by for a visit at BB1011 D. Page 12 - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - AGORA - - - - -- - -- - - - - - September 1989 Q) �Papers /Publications & Special Projects ( Dr. Joyce Forbes was one of 10 invited participants to a day of symposia - (June 9, 1989) at Guelph ~~~: ];;:;;~: University on the "State of the Art of Collaborative Planning of Curriculum at ~~~~ Canadian Universities." Most participants were #M Fellows and/or OCUF A award winning educators. The symposia were preceded on June 8, 1989"with presentations given by 16 ~ ===-9~ Guelph award winning -=~ c=!!.~educators and OCUFA's 16th Annual Awards Ceremony for outstanding contribution to university teaching. Lakehead University was well represented at this year's OCUFA award ceremony. Attending the ceremony were Dr. Penny Petrone, one of this year's 13 winners; Dr. Paul Satinder, member of the OCUFA Committee on Teaching Awards; Dr. John Griffith of Lakehead's faculty association and Joyce Forbes. These celebrations were part of the 25th Anniversary Celebration of Teaching at Guelph. Dr. Douglas Thom, School of Education, is entering his third year as Editor-inChief of The Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CCSE) News. This publication is supported through a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada grant. It is the monthly communication vehicle for the CCSE which is the main national unifying association for researchers, professors and others interested in Canadian education. In his role, Dr. Thom solicits material, deals with education and business organizations across the provinces and is responsible for the final decisions regarding content and style. A strong ( content focus is materials on reserch and development in Eduction (both established and innovative themes). Professor Marta Blenkam of the School of Education assists with French and Jlt. there is a cross-Canada advisory board. The CCSE News is mailed to 1,100 educator professionals across all Canadian universities, community colleges, school systems and some interantional locations." Dr. Willard H. Carmean, School of Forestry, recently presented two invited papers at forestry conferneces. The first paper was presented at the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Workshop "Tools for Site Specific Silviculture in Northwestern Ontario," held April 18 - 20 in Thunder Bay. Carmean's paper "Site Quality Evaluation for Forest Land in North Central Ontario" summarized the site quality research program developed at Lakehead University. The second paper was presented at the Western Mensurationists Workshop held June 14-16 in Kelowna, B.C. Carmean presented the keynote address for the Workshop "Relations between site quality evaluation, yield prediction, and forest land classification." Dr. Chris Jecchinis, Professor Emeritus of Economics, has visited officially the Soviet Union after an invitation from the Soviet Institute of World Economy and International Relations. Dr. Jecchinis gave a paper on The New Trends in the Management of Human Resources to the international participants of the United Nations program of Demography and Development Planning which is organized by the University of Moscow. He also gave a seminar to the staff of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. Two Soviet scholars are collaborating with Dr. Jecchinis in the writing of a book on the problems of the developing countries which will be published early in 1990 in five languages. Dr. Jecchinis is currently the Research Director of a project sponsored by the EEC concerning problems of regional labor markets, and his is also a member of a standing committee on workers' participation in management and the working evironment as part of the effort to implement the European Communities' Social Charter. Perestroika: Dr. Chris ]ecchinis, Professor Emeritus of Economics, with Dr. May Vo/kov of the Soviet Academy ofScience at the front of Moscow University (May 1989). Psychological Effects on Relatives and Survivors." Frederick M. Holmes, Department of English, has published 'The Trouble with Giles Goat-Boy: The Perils of Narrative Self-Subversion." Wascana Review 23 (1988}: 51-65. Appointments Geoffrey R. Weller was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS) at the annual meeting of the Association held in Quebec City in June. Dr. W.T. Melnyk of the Psychology Department, has been invited to address a symposium in Ottawa to the Emergency Preparedness Canada Group on September 27. Title: Air Crash Trauma: September 1989 - - - -- - - - -- - - - - - AGORA - - - - - -- - - -- - -- ---Page 13 �Accreditations Awarded The School of Engineering During the past 15 years Dr. Locker and his colleagues in the Departments of Chemical, Ovil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering have developed strong engineering programs with national reputations with students and employers. Engineering programs in Canada are reviewed at least every six years by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board. Lakehead University's engineering programs have been accredited since their inception in 1974. Following a review in October, 1988, each program was awarded with a six-year accreditation, the maximum term possible, by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board. The University is ~rticularly proud of this achievement because only approxunately 50% of Canadian Engineering programs that have been reviewed in recent years have received the full term accreditation. The Engineering programs at Lakehead University attract students from coast-to-coast, in fact, 20% of the students in the Bachelor of Engineering degree programs come from British Columbia. Dr. Locker is often surprised to learn that local high school students are not aware that they can obtain a quality Bachelor of Engineering degree with four years of study in Thunder Bay. Dr. Locker has been reappointed as Director of the School of Engineering where he is the longest serving academic administrator, having occupied this position since January 1976. Dr. Locker began his teaching career in 1963 at the Royal Military College and taught at the University of Regina prior to coming to Lakehead University. This year he was honoured by the Engineering Institute of Canada ~h?n he was ma?e a Fellow of the Institute and by the Assoaation of Professional Engineers of Ontario which made him a member of the Sons of Martha. These awards were made for contributions to the profession and to engineering education in Canada. He is past Chairman of the Committee of the Ontario Deans of Engineering and is presently Chairman of the National Committee of Deans of Engineering and Applied Science. The School of Nursing The School of Nursing at Lakehead University has become the first university school of nursing in Ontario to receive accreditation from the Canadian Association of University Schools of Nursing. The 3-year accreditation puts Lakehead in the company of only three other Canadian Universities. According to Director, Marg Boone, "one of the reasons we were anxious to apply early in the process was because we were the school in the pilot study in 1974/75. It meant we were committed to the process of accreditation."It's an affirmation that we have a strong and unique nursing program." said a proud Margaret Boone who pointed out that all faculty participated in the development of the report. "The process included about six months se~-~tudy and _the report presentation plus a 3-day on-site v1s1t by a national review team. "All members were impressed with our cirriculum and commented on the support and closeness of not only the University community but with the community at large. "We found out during the preparation that we work well together as a group". The School ?f Nur_sing r~ives provinicial approval for students to wnte the~ r:str~tio~ exams but being awarded the national accreditation indicates that "we are striving for a degree of excellence". o! Merit Awards ARTS AND SCIENCE J.E. Molto, Anthropology, scholarly activity and service to his Department and University; M. Knowles, Biology, Research and teaching; N. Weir, Chemistry, research and service to his Department and University; S. R. MacGillivray, English, service to the Department and scholar!y activity; J.M. Richardson, English, scholarly activity and service to the University; H. Rasid, Geography, research and service to the University; G. Borradaile, Geology, research and service to the Department; R. Mitchell, Geology, research leadership and publications; J. D. Rabb, Philosophy, research and publications; R. Delaney, Social Work, service to his Department, the University, his Profession and the Community; D. Nock, Sociology, research and publications. PROFESSIONAL STIJDfES Dr. K. Brown, Forestry, outstanding contribution to School and University activities; M.C. Courland, Education, outstanding contribution to Profession and achievement in research and scholarship; T. Song, Physical Education, outstanding achievement in research and scholarship; Professor C. Loos, Nursing, outstanding achievement in research and scholarship; S. A. Mirza, Engineering, outstanding achievement in research and scholarship; V.R. Puttagunta, Engineering, outstanding achievement in research and scholarship; R. Nelson Business, outstanding service to the School, Faculty and University; M. Boone, Nursing, outstanding service to the School and University; R. Lappage, Physical Education, exceptional achievement in research and scholarship. .- ···•i oF _.~o • • • •• ·-• L - •• •• •• •• •• ◄ • . "' . ◄ ◄ ,,,,,. ""-0.. FU •• • Double anniversary Photo right, Moe Ktytor (left) Director of Student Placement at Lakehead University, presents Dave Wright of KimberlyClark of Canada Limited, a shirt commemorating the University's 25th Anniversary. The men were in Geraldton celebrating the 60th Anniversary of wgging and both acknawledged the co-operative role between the university and the logging industry. Page 14 - - - - -- - - -- - - - - - - AGORA - - - -- - - - - -----September 1989 �Research News FROM THE OFFICE OF GRADUATE STUDIES AND RESEARCH Director: Dr. Connie Nelson The Office of Research and Graduate Studies wishes Ms. Trish McGowan the best in her new academic career pursuing a degree in Languages and Linguistics at University of Ottawa. As the Office continues to work to enhance research opportunities for faculty, I am sure we will constantly be appreciative of all the work Trish has done in promoting research opportunities at ~kehead University and in encouraging supporting faculty in their research endeavours. I am very happy to announce that Ms. Anne Fiorenza has been appointed acting research officer. Anne has a degree in Business Administration from Lakehead University with a major in Marketing and Personnel. She has previously been working with Innovation North utilizing marketing research to develop business plans. This work provided many opportunities to have contact with private industry and various government agencies. The Office of Research and Graduate Studies has been busy this summer gearin~ up to support faculty in responding to the many research funding opportunities available during Fall Term. Please feel free to drop in or call about any of the research funding opportunities listed below or others that come to your attention where this office could be of further assistance. CONTRACTS AWARDED ( Dr. Murray Lankester (Biology) has been awarded a contract by the University of Saskatchewan for a research project entitled, "Studies of the Biology and Pathogenicity of Elaphostrongylus cervi in Fallow Deer". The objectives of the research, to be conducted at the University of Alberta, are to determine whether E. Cervi develops to maturity and produces first-stage larvae in fallow deer; to determine if clinical disease results in fallow deer given E. cervi; and to describe the gross - and histo-pathology resulting from infection. Dr. L. Malek (Biology) has been awarded an O.R.R.R.G.P. contract by the Ministry of Natural Resources to study "Chloroplast gene expression in relation to tree seedling stress tolerance". The purpose of the research project is to establish photosynthetic parameters indicative of winter hardiness of tree seedlings produced by the extended culture method; with the goal to develop predictive tests of seedling stress tolerance levels, applicable to winter stress, and possibly other environmental stresses. As well, basic knowledge will be gained about the regulation of chloroplastic gene expression, in respect to photosynthetic potential of tree seedlings subjected to environmental stress. Professor K.C. Yang (Forestry) has been awarded a contract by the Ontario Renewable Resource Research Grants program (ORRRGP) to study the ''Wood properties of Picea mariana and Picea glauca trees at various spacings". The objective of the research project is to determine the impact of spacing to wood property. The results of this study will provide fundamental information for tree breeders, district managers and forest industries involved in Jong term forest planning. Dr. Harold G. Cumming (Forestry) has been awarded a contract by the Ontario Renewable Resource Research Grants Program (ORRRGP) to study the "Effect of glyphosate herbicide application rates on moose browse and moose behaviour." The purpose of the research project will be to determine if forestry objectives, requiring the use of glyphosate herbicide, can be achieved without eliminating the treated areas from the inventory of moose range habitats. The research would also contribute to the growing knowledge about the environmental effects of this chemical. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council - Operating and Equipment Grants It is, once again, time to prepare submissions for NSERC's Operating Grant comJ?Cti~on. The deadline for receipt of applications for new applicants is ili1.o: .ru:ill and, for renewal applicants, No.: vember 1. The Equipment Grant application deadline is also N ovember 1. Council anticipates a 30% success rate in this year's competition, which is higher than in the past few years. New Awards Guides and all necessary forms are available at this office. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council - Research Grants SSHRC's Research Grants Program supports research in all disciplines of the social sciences and humanities, including biographical and historical studies in the fine arts. Grants may range from $5,000 to $100,000 a year, from one to three years, and may include a research time stipend for teaching release when justified by the needs of the project. Applications should be submitted to this office by October 10. 1989. Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services - Lottery Research Grants Program The Lottery Research Grants Program provides funding for applied research and program evaluation projects concerning developmentally handicapped persons, elder! y persons and physically disabled persons. Priority is given to collaborative studies ~hich are relevant to service delivery issues. The application deadline is October 6. 1989. Ontario Mental Health Foundation Research Grants The Foundation will support research work which deals with any of the biological, psychological or social factors which either foster mental health or lead to mental illness. The Foundation aims to improve knowledge about the prevention of mental disorder, and the rational and efficient diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of the mental diseases. Applications dealing with any period of the lifespan, any of the factors thought to cause psychopathology, and from any of the relevant scientific specialties will be accepted. Small Research Grants are designed to support pilot or feasibility studies, or studies by junior or new investigators, and have a limit of $15,000. Research Project Grants provide funding up to $75,000 a year for one or two years. The application deadline for both of these categories is September 29. 1989. The Premier's Council on Health Strategy - Health Innovation Fund The Health Innovation Fund provides financial assistance for innovative pilot projects aimed at improving the overall health of all Ontarians. A wide range of projects that address community health needs will be considered. These can include health promotion and disease prevention projects; projects that strengthen coordination between programs; and projects offering funding and/or incentive arrangements to improve the way that health services are September 1989 - - - - - - - - -- -- - - AGORA - - - - - -- - - - - - - - --Page 15 �provided. Projects should address the following objectives: to reduce inequities in health status across the province; to effect positive changes in consumer attitudes and behaviours regarding individual/family health status; and to improve coordination in the delivery of services and programs that support health; to test new and cost-effective methods for delivering these services. Application deadlines are October 1 & March 1, Health and Welfare Canada - National Welfare Grants Special Competition: Community Health, Health Care and Social Service Aspects of Osteoporosis Priority areas for research in this special competition are studies of people with osteoporosis (Identification of modifiable risk factors, preventative strategies for diminishing risk factors, effects of decreased mobility etc.); studies of family and informal caregivers; studies of formal services and formal caregivers; and research methods that enhance measurement of the functions and care needs of people with osteoporosis. The application deadline is October 30, 1989. Health and Welfare Canada - Special Competition: Strengthening Community Health Services - Literature Reviews Proposals are invited for critical review papers which appraise the published and unpublished findings on the following topics: (1) preventative strategies in community health services (disease prevention, health behaviours, and social/environmental conditions); (2) organizational multi-disciplinary models for community-based services; (3) models and strategies of delivering community health services with emphasis on participation, planning and evaluation. The application deadline is November 21, 1989. Ministcy of Colleges and Universities University Research Incentive Fund (URIF) This program has recently been renewed for an additional three years with a total of twenty-five million dollars for matching, dollar for dollar, eligible investments by the private sector in university-based contract research. Program funds will be given to the university and can be used to provide salary support for professional, technical and support staff, to assist in the purchase, installation or modification of research equipment, or to subsidize indirect costs. The deadline for applications is October 15, 1989. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation - External Research Program for Housing Research CMHC is interested in all aspects of housing and urban growth and development in Canada. The External Research Program supports research investigations into all questions affecting Canadian housing, including the social, cultural, economic, technical, environmental, legal and administrative aspects of housing. The deadline for applications is October 2, 1989. RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS Japanese Science and Technology Agency Fellowships These fellowships, available to promising young researchers (those who have received their doctorates within the last ten years), are tenable in Japan's National Laboratories and at. certain non-profit research institutes. Fellowships are available in any discipline in science or engineering and may be held for periods between six months and two years. Included in the fellowship are travel and living expenses, housing and relocation allowances. There is no deadline for the submission of applications. The JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers This award is intended to provide young foreign researchers with opportunities to pursue collaborative research with their counterparts at Japanese universities. Eligible fields of research include the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering and medicine. Applicants must hold a doctorate, be not more than 35 years of age at the commencement of the Fellowship, and make prior arrangements with Japanese host researchers regarding research plans. The award will provide travel expenses, a monthly stipend, settling in, housing, family and language - training allowances. The Bora Laskin Fellowship in Hu.man Rights Research This fellowship has been established to encourage research and the development of expertise in the field of human rights. The research should emphasize themes and issues relevant to the Canadian human rights scene. Research in all areas of the humanities and social sciences is eligible. The fellowship is tenable for one year and is valued at $45,000, with an additional $10,000 for travel and research expenses. The application deadline is October1, 1989. The Jules and Gabrielle Leger Fellowship The Leger Fellowship is awarded for research and writing on the historical \ contribution of the Crown and its repre- ..J sentatives, federal and provincial, to the political, constitutional, cultural, intellectual and social life of Canada, including comparisons between Canadian and other Commonwealth systems. The fellowship, tenable for one year, is valued at $4D,OOO, with an additional $10,000 for travel and research expenses. The application deadline is October 1, 1989, Association of Commonwealth Universities The Symons Fellowship in Commonwealth Studies The intention of this fellowship is to give major impetus to the completion or to the launching of a significant piece of academic work and/or publication in any branch of Commonwealth Studies. Of particular interest are topics pertinent to the Commonwealth in such areas as the study of human resources, higher education, human rights, multiculturalism, cultural policy, and international academic and cultural relations. The fellowship may be held in any member institution of ACU outside the Fellow's own country, for between three and six months' duration. The fellowship will provide for travel expenses and a living allowance. Nominations by the President must be submitted by October 15. 1989. Information about research opportunities is available at the Research Office, UC-2002, Ext. 8223. Please feel free to drop in or call at any time. GET THE FAX FACTS = - • • · - - === Tlle friendly staff in the Travel, Telex and Liquor Services office [ at UC0003E (around the corner ___ &om Human Resources) offer • this advice for faculty and staff sending a FAX on either University or personal business. 1. Fill out the cover sheet and "log in" with your budget code. Rhonda or Carol Ann will show you how to send your material. A FAX is merely a photocopy by phone wire. 2. For sending a private FAX bring CASH. North America -$1.50 per page with a $5 minimum. Overseas - $3 per page with a $10 minimum. 3. Receiving a personal FAX will cost you .25 to .40 cents per page. Pagel& - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - AGORA - - - - - - - - - - - - -- September 1989 �Lakehead 's Learning Assistance Centre The Learning Assistance Centre was established in September 1988 to offer increased academic support to all Lakehead University students, to improve and expand existing tutoring services and to provide increased administrative and academic support to students with special needs. We began offering tutoring in English and Mathematics on a drop-in or by appointment basis. The peer tutoring program was added to the Centre and all tutoring services were coordinated and expanded. With six tutors working part-time in the Centre and approximately eighty students tutoring in the peer tutoring program, learning assistance took on new meaning. In addition to the formal lectures and personal help provided by Lakehead's professors, students had a place to tum to for free individual and small-group tutoring and workshops on topics such as essay writing. We monitor our progress through evaluations of our tutors and evaluations of our programs and procedures, and respond to concerns and requests for increased services. We will continue to offer the academic support begun last year and will expand and improve this support. For example, tutors will receive training through tutoring skills workshops provided by the Centre. We also provide support to students with special needs. Like other post-secondary institutions, Lakehead University has an increasing number of students with special needs who are continuing their academic studies. Students with special needs include those who are deaf or hearing-impaired, blind or visually-impaired, mobility-impaired, learning-disabled or speech-impaired. We meet with students on their special learning needs and consider the academic accommodations which will allow equal access to education at Lakehead. Some students need textbooks read onto tape by the Ministry of Education's W. Ross Macdonald School.Some need additional time for examinations and in-class assignments. Others need notetakers in class and some must "note" lectures by audiotaping. Oral examinations are needed by some, while others must use a word processor to "write" examinations. We have a word processor and variable-speed tape recorder for use in the Centre by students with special needs. To aid faculty and support staff in understanding the academic accommodations needed by students with special needs, we are distributing this Fall a handbook on special needs and situations which may arise. An instructor may be asked to wear an FM transmitter for a hearing-impaired student using an FM Phonic Ear. Diagrams or charts may be needed for print enlargement or to be described to a visuallyimpaired student by a reader hired by the Centre. Last Spring, we organized an awareness seminar on Learning Disabilities and their Effect on the Leaming Process. These non-visible learning disabilities often are the most difficult to understand and include dyslexia, dysgraphia and discalculia. The Learning Assistance Centre exists for all full-time and part-time students of Lakehead University and we respond to students' academic needs, complementing the formal learning methods and enhancing student life at Lakehead University. We invite inquiries and look forward to discussing any aspect of learning assistance. Please call Geraldine White, Coordinator of Learning Assistance, at 343-8087 or drop in to the Centre at UC0031. ( - -- - -- - - - - -- -- - - - -- - -- - GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANTS LAB ASSISTANTS STUDENT MONITORS YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND A lWO-PART WORKSHOP ON THINKING ABOUT TEACHING AND LEARNING Thursday, September 14th and September 21st, 1989 7:00-10:00pm CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR CENfRE BARTLEY HALL Limited to 65 participants Application Forms available from Departmental Chairpersons or Office of Graduate Studies & Research, UC-2002 APPLICATION DEADLINE, SEPTEMBER 12, 1989 Sponsored by The Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning Savings For Your Budget Employment For Students As part of the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP), the Ontario Work Study Program (OWSP) offers students eligible for OSAP the opportunity to work part-time to subsidize their OSAP funds. The maximum earnings per student per term is $1,000.00 to a maximum of $2,000.00 per year. The announcement that the Ministry of Colleges and Universities will cost share 75% instead of 50% for the OWSP should increase participation of University departments and research grant recipients. What this means is that each employer (like yourself) can hire an eligible student from September to March and only use $500.00 from your budget. What a great way to get that project or special research assignment done and help a student at the same time. Last year, jobs such as slide technician Visual Arts, and project assistant in the Registrar's office were successfully filled by students. For more information contact Phyllis Bosnick in the Financial Aid Office or call her at ext. 8150. What Every Adult Learner Wants To Know But Is Afraid To Ask! Tuesday, September 20 11:50 -1:00 pm Thursday, September 21 7:00 - 8:30 pm Little Dining Room Introduction to Lakehead University -services - academic regulations - Who do I talk to? Concerns regarding study skills,-exams, essays, etc. Choice of career/ program Balancing academics and home Coffee and Donuts ·- Can I really do this? September 1989 - - - -- - - - -- - - - - AGORA - - - - - -- - - -- - - ---Page 17 �Martin Greenwood: Career in anthropology had an unusual beginning Story and photo by Maureen Henley "We climbed out the window and ran to the museum where the other lecture was. It was the most fascinating thing and it seemed exotic." Martin Greenwood started at Lakehead in 1968. "You don't really leave a university community ." There is a Chinese curse that goes "may your life be interesting." Martin Greenwood's life has certainly been interesting. ''That's not necessarily good or bad," he said. ''There is always something to catch your attention." Greenwood, an anthropology professor, will officially retire in December. "I came here in '67," he said. "At that time there were only one and onehalf people in the department of anthropology; I was the second person." He shakes his head when he talks about how much the campus has changed over the years. "When I came, the place was quite small. This building (Nursing Building) wasn't built and the Centennial Building was just being built," Greenwood said. In the early years of Lakehead, student enrolment seemed to be growing every year with no end in sight. In time however, enrolment dropped and finally levelled off, he said. The physical makeup of the campus is not the on! y change. "Over the last few years there has been a real sense of community," he said. ''That's the kind of thing that sustains a place like this." He credits Lakehead president Bob Roschart with helping create that sense of community. Greenwood said new customs such as giving 20-year pins helps add meaning to being here. Along with teaching on campus, Greenwood was involved in off-campus classes. He has a collection of stories about long train rides, bumpy plane • rides and colorful travelling companions. He said he learned about the real power of teaching one year when some members of a class underwent changes in philosophy and occupations during the course of the program. "I could have felt great about influencing people," he said. "But teaching is a great responsibility." Greenwood said at that point he realized just how much power an instructor can wield. Speaking about off-campus classes, he reflected that some students take courses which could help them at work, resulting in better pay. ''That's quite le- gitimate," he said of that reason for taking classes. "But there are others who are intellectually starved. They crave real conversations." Since the early years, Lakehead has settled into a level of sophistication. "The burrs have been combed out of the fur," he said. In fact, the University has been so conservative that Greenwood was "flabbergasted when so many turned out for the (faculty) strike." Although Greenwood will be retiring in a few months, he will be far from inactive. "I'll paint and do some writing," he said. Greenwood is a student majoring in Fine Arts (Hons). He chuckles when he talks of the irony of being a teacher and a student at the same time. Greenwood believes many young people are in too much of a rush to get a degree; they do so without considering whether they are actually taking the best courses for them. He uses himself as an example. "I became an anthropology major quite by accident," he said. His original goal was to go into journalism or a similar writing field. "I was listening to a lecture on sociology; it was the most boring thing I had ever heard," he said. During the lecture a friend suggested going to an anthropology class which was supposed to be more lively. "Well, there was a window right next to us and we climbed out the window and ran to the museum where the other lecture was. It was the most fascinating thing and it seemed so exotic." Greenwood's affair with anthropology had begun. "I'm a great believer in windows (for students)," he said." Any program that locks students in is very uncertain of itself." He is not concerned about leaving the University. "You don't really leave a university community," he said. "Well, you do but only in the sense that you don't hang around as much." Asked if there is anything he will miss, Greenwood said "I'll miss the few students who are bright and ask (challenging) questions." Page 18 - - - - -- - - - -- - - - - - - AGORA - - - - - - - - -- - - - - September 1989 �Forum By Dr. Don Carpenter PARADIGMS AND PARENTHESIS Visionary writers such as Alvin Toffler and John Naisbitttell us that the developed countries of the world are rapidly evolving into a new era in which human experience will be quite different in many respects. In his book, "The Third Wave", Toffler - says that we are now in the last throws of the in dustrial age and moving rapidly into "the third wave" - the first and second waves having been the agricultural and industrial ages. In the transition period between historical ages, according to Toffler, society is subjected to great stress and strain which results in problems of family deterioration, crime and violence, ecological degradation, economic chaos, etc. Naisbitt, in "Megratrends", refers to the transition period as "a time of parenthesis" in which we are "bracketed off" from the past where we have been, and the future where we are going. In a time of parenthesis, however, some people try desperately to r hang on to the past while others position themselves on the \.. leading edge of the changing social order. One tendency of the hangers-on is their persistence in the use of problem solutions which no longer work. In so doing, they commit a most basic human mistake that of not realizing they are trying to fit old solutions to new problems. Toffler gives us the example of those who are going through frantic motions trying to resurrect the smokestack industries of the old industrial order. The problem, however, is not how to bring back these economically unsupportable heavy manufacturing industries and the jobs they • once provided, but how to best replace them and get people who once made their livings in these industries into other kinds of productive and satisfying work based on the new technologies now being developed at almost lightening-speed as a characteristic of the coming third wave. One reason why some individuals, and entire societal institutions as well, may hang on to old solutions even in the face of overwhelming evidence that they don't work any more is that successful adaptation to a new age requires the development of a basically different view of the world i.e. the adoption of a new "paradigm". A paradigm is a broad frame of reference or way of perceiving and thinking about th,e world. Those who continue to dutch the old unworkable solutions do so because they have been unable to develop"new paradigm thinking''. But this isn't surprising since the still pre- dominate world-view, which has been around for a few hundred years, is basically a Cartesian Newtonian paradigm in which the world and its workings are thought to be most like a machine made up of various parts. In this mechanistic view, when something goes wrong we try to fix the part where the trouble seems to be located and leave the other parts alone on the assumption that the parts don't really have that much to do with each other in terms of how good any given part is. For example, if we get concerned enough about the problems of poor people we mount a "war on poverty'' which usually targets the victims of poverty but doesn't result in significant changes in our society's economic system or social arrangements which produce the preconditions of poverty in the first place. Poverty is one part of the worldmachine and the economy and social order are other parts. The way we deal with mental illness is another example of old paradigm thinking. During times when we become sufficiently bothered about mentally ill people we devise various "new and innovative" programs for the mentally ill, most of which also focus on the victims, but we persist with the conflicting values and contradictory expectations built into the fabric of societyf which play a strong contributory role in many kinds of mental illness. In contrast to the mechanistic world-view of the industrial age, new paradigm thinking tends to utilize an organismic (life) metaphor. It represents an ecological understanding of the world, its problems and potential for progress. It assumes significant interrelationships between things like poverty and the economic system, mental illness and social disorganization. New paradigm thinking points to problem solutions which require as much or more repair work on relationships between things as on the things themselves. In future issues of the "Agora" this column will explore some of our problems of "the parenthesis" in relation to new paradigm thinking now being articulated in various academic disciplines, the professions and other quarters. However, since part of what's involved in successfully moving into a new age is the formulation of new questions to ask, the column will most likely come up with as many questions as answers. But then, I once saw a bumper sticker which read ''To Question Is The Answer." September 1989 - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - AGORA - - - - - - - - - -- -- - - - - P a gel9 �Campus Calendar SATURDAY, 23 & SUNDAY, 24 Twins To include your Department's event or activity in the Campus Calendar, please call Flo Sherren at 8300 or mail your information to SN1002. Deadline for the October Agora is September 15, RB 1042 8pm Students $2.00 Others $2.50 1989. Department of English Silver Jubilee Lecture Series Speaker: Professor John Fu they Topic: "The foll, the rise, the carol, the creation: A Celebration of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844-1889" Ryan Building 1022 7:30 pm September MONDAY, 11 FORESTRY SEMINAR SERIES Speaker. Mr. Jack Flowers, Retired Forester. Topic: "CUSO's Activities in Rural Forestry with Specific Reference to Northern Ghana" Braun Building 1021 1:00 -2:20 pm Public invited FREE CORNWALL CONCERTS Brandon University Trio Music Recital Hall 12:30 pm Cornwall School TUESDAY, 12 LUSUMOVIES Rocky Horror 8:00 p.m. Main Cafeteria Students $2.00 Others $2.50 FRIDAY, 15 Pow-Wow Sponsored by Lakehead Native CommunityAgora SUNDAY, 17 LUSUMOVIES Cocktail RB 1042 8pm Students $2.00 Others $2.50 MONDAY, 18 President's Silver Jubilee BBQ Lake Tamblyn 5:00 pm All students welcome TUESDAY, 19 LUSU Silver Jubilee Party #1 October LUSUMOVIES MONDAY,25 FREE PUBLIC LECTURE FORESTRY SEMINAR SERIES Speaker. Dr. Sten Nilsson, Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Garpenberg. Braun Building 1021 1:00 - 2:20pm Public invited THURSDAY,28 Jeff Gibson (french horn) Colleen Gibson (oboe) Heather Morrison (piano) Music Recital Hall 12:30 pm Cornwall School FRIDAY, 6 & SATURDAY, 7 Women's Nor'Wester Thanksgiving InvilationalVolleyball Tournament Northland College, Carleton University, Vermillion College, Concordia College and University of Wisconsin, Superior C.J. Sanders Field House Contemporary Cups September 8 -October 8 Mexico, Madrid, Warsaw, Tokyo, London, Moscow, Rome, Jerusalem, Teheran, Paris. BB2011 9AM-5PM . . \ : ttl... Thunder Bay Art Gallery Thunder Bay National Exhibition C<'ntrc and Centre for Indian Art Board of Governors Meeting 3:00 pm Senate Chambers Board of Governors' Annual Dinner Faculty Lounge SATURDAY, 30 Silver Jubilee Exhibition Rugby Game LU versus University of North Dakota Women's Game at 2:30 pm Men's Game at 4:00 pm C.J. Sanders Field House SATURDAY 30 & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1 LUSUMovies Tequila Sunrise RB 1042 8pm Students $2.00 Others $2.50 THE CHANCELLOR PATERSON LIBRARY HOURS REGULAR HOURS RESUME MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1989 Monday -Thursday 8 am - 11:30 pm Friday 8 am - 9 pm Saturday 9 am - 9 pm Sunday 11 am - 10 pm Agorl\ The J\GORA is produced by the Information Office, Department of External Relations, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario. It is published monthly (except August), and is distributed fre<- of charge to the University's faculty and staff, local government, media, business and friends of the University. Credit is appreciated when material is reproduced or quoted. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lakehead University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989-09 Agora Agora Magazine Alumni Alumni Association Alumni Association of Lakehead University Lakehead Lakehead University President Rosehart President's Perspective Residence Voyageurs https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/51f6823a2818de1e0811236d0115254c.pdf 6c20989f37266e769b793cf91cf1ae85 PDF Text Text inside: .. ~~ ll,i,✓., • c Cornwall School becomes 'lrst off-campus building 2 Administrative r estructuring 4 New look for AGORA 5 LU butts out! 5 Norm LaVole new Director 5 ~v ~ Lakehead t •·: }University ·_ _AgOTI\ THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO VOL.5 NO.8 SEPTEMBER 1988 " . . . and our lows in winter can reach mi- nus 23 degrees Celcius. " Coordinator of Counselling Services, Irmo Marino, is surrounded by some oflhe 28 Malaysian students who will enter first year programsatLU this year. Their orientation included a study skills session, assistance with course selection and scheduling time tables. After reviewing information in the International Students Handbook there were many animated conversations about name pronunciations and Canadian winters! ... For more details on enrolment figures see story on page 3 Welcotlle to Lakehead University! Funding for University Registration Stats: Residence Program . Record..,Breaking year Announced by Lyn McLeod A grant of $1,846,000 over 25 years to subsidize the construction of 142 new residen ce beds at Lakehead Universitywas announced today by Colleges and Universities Minister Lyn McLeod and Taras Kozyra, MPP for Pon Arthur. The program, first announced by Premier David Peterson in September 1987, will allow an add itional 5,000 students to live in university residences. It reduces fin ancing costs for )PC construction of resid ence facilities. . \...,,•is will be a major asset for Lakehead University and the communlty" Mr. Kozyra said. Mrs. McLeod said the In itiative "represents another component In the government's commitment to ensure access to all qualified students." .. . page6 The university has experienced a 25% increase in applications for admission for the 1988/89 academic year which resulted In an additlonal 1,000 offers of admission going o ut to prospective students. According to the Registrar, Pentti Paularinne, approximately 600 addition al s tudents (48& Increase) have accepted offers of admission and indicated that they will be registering at Lakehead this fall. The University has experienced the largest Increase of any Ontario university in applications received from Ontarlo high sch ool students (816 in 1988 compared to 633 last yearan increase of 29%). Acceptance of our offers of admission for high sch ool applicants Is also up by 47% which Is ihe highest percentage Increase In the Ontario system. ... page3 Campus improvements "right on schedule" Art Davies, Director ofCampus Development, has been able to draw lines through a long list of completed summer projects. With all the flak about the speed bumps, he remained his calm and cool self during an interview to provide an update on campus renovations. This year, nearly $100.000 was spent on major residence repair. Expenditures were for draperies, paint, carpets, furniture, showers, tile replacemeents and other upgrading to residence buildings. The paving has been completed o n all p~klng lots at a cost of $1/4 million dollars. The most noticeable ch ange is to the entrance to the lo t between the Nursing Building and the Bora Laskin Building. . .. pages 8 and 9 �President's Report by Dr. Robert Rosehart September '88 is upon us, and the summer per iod has brought many changes to the campus. On the physical side, the roadways and parking lots are obvious, as well as the move of Visual Arts and Music to Cornwall School (how ab out Cornwall Hall?), the colour co-ordinated "appendages" to the Bora Laskin Building and, finally, the Frood comer. ScveraJ months ago, Dr. Frood suggested to the University Space Committee that a righ t-tum lane be provided from Lot 5. After due process, the project has been completed, and it seems to be working o ut well. Thank you, David Frood. For years, students and faculty have been "potential victims" of the walkway crossing the main campus from th e Bora Laskin Building. The new alignment, as well as the speed bumps, give the pedestrian a fighting chance. On the human s ide of the institution, there has been a major r e-organization of the administrative suppo rt s ide of the Universitywhich was announced in early July. These changes, particularly the ones dealIng with the Human Resources gro up, should provide new opportunities for consultative input. Under Vice-President Weller, a new position in Institutional Research should provide a much-needed analytical support service to the Vice-President (Academic) as well as to the various Senate Committees (particularly the Budget Commiucc). Enro lment '88 Preliminary indications arc that enrolment this Fall will be at record levels. This will, no doubt, create p ressures with respect to section sizes, etc., and the Deans are prepared to listen to any problems that might arise. AJmost all universities arc accepting additional students in varying numbers so that the actual n u mber that register is still somewhat up ln the air. Reach for t h e Mediocre - U n da Fn1111 Saturday Night, Scptembcr/88 Linda Fmm continues to make money by making outlandish statements about the Canadian university system. In her latest article, she ignores Lakchcad but does quite a number on some of the other Ontario institutions. I am going to ask John Russell to see if she would respond to a " public" debate at Lakch ead University. Workshops on Improved Teaching The efforts of the Senate Committee on Teaching with respect to the workshops conducted by Dr. George Brown In May were well received, and I would tmst that such workshops shouJd become an annual event at Lakeh ead University. I was en- 2 Glen Carruthers, (left) Chairman of the Department of Music, and Mark Nisenbolt, Chairman of the Department of Visual Arts, pose inside the gutted interi or of Cornwall School which will open its doors on September 12 to approximately 100 stuaents. LU's first off-campus building ts situated at 210 Algoma Street South. to fund a delegation of six, but the timing is now m ost probably June of 1989. More on this in a future column. couragcd to hear from facu lty that this event was a visible indication that the profile of teaching cxcelJcncc h as begun to rise at L-ikehead University. The fund-raising efforts of L-ikehead University continue to b ear fruit. Over the sunm1cr, several more Silver Jubilee Scholarships have been arranged. As well, the University Scholarship fund was the recipie nt of a significam inheritance from an individual with n o previous connections to L.akchcad University. Distance Education As you know, Lake head University's efforts in Distance Education have evolved during the past two years undcrthc direction of Co-ordinator Susan Cole. During the summer, we had an external consultant review the organization of Distance Education within the Continuing Education Division, and I am pleased to report that subsequent to this review, Susan Cole h as accepted a fu re her two-year contract as Co-ordinaror of Distance Education. Long-lunge Campus Development Concept Some time ago, as a result of a donation in "kind" to the Partne rs' initiative, a local a rchitect bcg~n working wilh the Universit'(_ Space Commmcc and, ultimately, with Board of Governors Campus Devleopme Committee, on a long-range d evelopment slrategy for the university lands. This initiative was undertaken fo1- several reasons. Obviously, the Unive rsity does not have funding in place to implement the details of the conceptual plan, but it should, to some extent, take away from the ad-hoc planning of the past. Secondly, at least six outside groups have focussed recently on the use of University lands, including a transportation consultant hired by the City of111under Bay who envisioned a four-lane highway bisecting the Bora Laskin Building and the SNRyan Building area. The long-range concept, in a sense, "stakes out" our prime lands. The Space Committee would be inte rested in your react ion to the concept represented, and reduced copies of the "long-range concept" will be available from Mrs. Linda Phillips. Omb udsperson Upd ate This year, Lakehead Un iversity is to have a p ilot student Ombudspcrson program. During thesummcr, a committee spcatheadcd by LUSU and Student Services, was working on the proc- .-- - - - - - -- - - -- - - - - ~ ess, mandate and selection of the Ombudsman. At this stage, the group feels that more work is necessary on the d efinition of the mandate of the office and, asa result, the selection of the individual may be delayed for a few months. China Update As you may remember, some ti me ago a group of faculty identified themselves via this column, for a pos.~iblc trip to several Chinese universi tics In the fall of 1988. K.C. Yang has now had a Good idea man response back from China and they arc willing Dr. David Frood Susan Cole �Registration continued from p age I add ition to the 100 additional students a ._itted to the 1-year Bachelor o f Education program, well over 100 additional students have accepted offers of admission to Arts programs. For the first time in approximately 5 years acceptances to o ur forestry programs are up. 45 admitted applicants have indicated that they plan to register in the 1st year of the forestry program thfa fall compared to 24 last year at this tlmc. Acceptances of offers of admission to the Physic.al Education program arc also up with 94 acceptances to date compared to 37 last year. Similar Increases have occurred In Outdoor Recreation (26%) -ForestryTech, Commerce (27%) and BusinessAdministration (60%) and Engineering Tech (27%). Applications to Science programs have risen by 28% which has resulted in 78 additional offers of admission going out to science applicants. This in tum has resulted in a 32% increase in acceptances (103 this year compared to 78 last year). Included among the new students expected to register this fall are 28 Canada Scholarship recipients. This is a prestigious new scholarship program sponsored by the Federal government to encourage o utstanding students to enterscience and technology fields. The Canada Scholarships am is part of the federal government's 1 .,-term sa-atcgy to secure future economic growth and prosperity by using science and technology to develop new industries and enhance existing ones. Lakehcad University nominated many outstanding high school students and 28 have c hosen Lakchead. A large percentage arc from Thunder Bay, with representation from other parts of the province. More than half of the participants are female and they will enter programs in forestry, science and engineering. Confirmations for the newly approved 13A in Library and Information Studies degree program have doubled over last year's acceptances to the library tech diploma program (19 vs 8). Another interesting statistic includes an increase in international students who will attend this fall. Paularinne says that despite the sizable fee differential for International students we can still expect a 10% increase for 1988. Through an arrangement with the Malaysian government, 26 Malaysian students will enter programs in arts, science and engineering. Th1·ough the Canadian Bureau of lntemation Education, 10 Lybian students have enrolled at LU. The University's 1987 fall enrolment stood at 3,357 as of November 1, 1987 which was a ql""-line of 1.4% over the previous year. Con''- 1tion figures to the end of August for the 1988 academic year suggest that the university's full time enrolment may grow by as much as 350 full time students which would top the previous h igh full-time enrolment figure of 3,695 studen ts In 1984. C "The University's full-time enrolment may grow by as much as 350 full time students which would top the previous bi.gb fulltime enrolmentfigure of3,695 in 1984." Pentti Pau/arinne Applications 1987 1988 Offers 1988 1987 Conflnnatlons 1987 1988 1093 1543 (41.2%) 722 1135 (57.2%) Science 362 452 (24.9%) 233 327 (40.3%) 96 128 (33.3%) Education 2190 2911 (32.9%) 422 606 (43.6%) 235 385 (63.8%) 266 306 (15%) 89 141 (58.4%) 38 79 (107.9%) Prof Studies 2386 2621 (9.9%) 1537 1586 (16.9%) ...2§.2._ 79 (~5.5%) 7833 (24.4%) 2823 3782 (34.4%) Arts Grad Studies 6297 Student housing: the search continues Admitting that there were HOO applications for628 beds, the Director of Residence, Ron Spina, is still confid e nt that all Lake head Univcrsitystud e ntswilJ be adequately housed by the time classes start. The University sec ured 19 beds at Patterson Hall w h ich is part of McKellar Hospital for 27 females and 22 males. There a.re two floors with both single and double occupancy and cooking facilities. The rates will be slightly cheaper than campus residence to compensate for the distance commuting from the south ward. Also several hotel and motel businesses have expressed Interest in providing discount rates for students. On-campus housing accommodates 648studcnts in single and double rooms. lbc addition of new resident townhouses will provide an add itional 144 beds in 1989. Nina Ariganello, off-campus housing officer, said students have been actively using the listing service provided by the University to find apartments, rooms and houses in the community. An emergency plan is already in p lace should students arrive on campus and not be able to find housing. Aliganello said she has had a good response from the community for room and board, but apartments a re still in big demand. Personal harassment brochure circulated The task ahead seemed difficult when In October 1988, Mr. Fred Poulter, Vice-President (Administration), called for the establishment of a Personal Harassment Committee, with representatives from all e mployee groups and the student union. The Committee was chaired by Myrna Holman, Human Resources Officer, and the mandate of the group was to establish methods to implement the Lakchcad Un iversity Personal Harassment Policy Statement. 1212 1799(48.4%) The Personal Harassment Policy covers all forms of harassment included in the Ontario Human Rights Code. The list includes the prohibited grounds of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual o rie ntation, age, record of offences, marital status, family status and handicap. The po licy applies to staff, faculty and students. Harassment can include comments or conduct consisting of words or actions that disparage or humiliate a person in relation to one of the prohibited grounds. T he Personal Harassment Committee has developed a brochure in response to the challenge of developing a means to implement the policy. The aim of the brochure is to infonn the University communityabout the policy and offersome suggestions for dealing with harassment. The pamphlet encourages individuals to talk with one of three designated individuals. These individuals will be trained to offer suggestions, give guidance, moral support and help check out perceptions. The list includes Joy Lawson, Director of Student Services, Professor David Parsons, Department of English, and Myrna Holman, Human Resources Officer. An educational campagn is being planned to complement the pamphlet. Mr. Fred Poulter indicates that although he believes that harassment is not an issue on campus, it is important to foster an awareness and develop procedures for those who may experience a problem. Resolution of complaints includes both an informal stage where the people listed on the brochure can be contacted in confidence to discuss the problem, and, a more formalized process for those who wish to pursue the matter further. Questions o r comments regarding the policy can be addressed to Myrna Holman, Human Resources Officer, in the Human Resources Department. 3 �Administrative restructuring: "Focus on service" says President On July 12, President Roseh art announced a major resn-ucturing on the administrative side of the institution. In 1985 c hanges were made on the academic side and Rosehart felt that a review of the "Human Resources" role within the organization was in order. Together with Fred Poulter, Vice-President (Administration), two major Initiat ives were undertaken to create what he called a "more supportive approach" in some areas and the fonnation of a new consultative body with respect to labour relations. As wcIJ, a new support position was established in the area of institutional research. The changes were effective Septe mber 1, 1988 with allowances made for a n·ansitional phase. The total staff complement of the new structure is the same as the old with no loss of staff positions. The chart below outlines both the curre nt and new structure. One major change involves the red uctio n in thc numbcr of d ircctorsfrom six to four. Mr. Poulter said "I think it's a better organization to have fewer than six reportin g to me. l t' IJ improve the effective n ess and efficiency of adminisn·ations." The four "new" positions arc Director of Camp us Development, Mr. Art Davies, Director of Finance, Mr. Les Miller, Director of Human Resources, Mr. BilJ Bragnalo and Director of Services, Mr. Grant Walsh. The Director of Services wilJ be responsible for 12 separate departments but Poulter is not concerned about the size of the portfolio. " It is a very large portfolio but there is stron g leadership in each area and t hey actualJy operate as little businesses on their own. i want the Director of Services to become invo lved in some administration. He'IJ work with me on special assignme nts. If one lo o ks at the master plan there is a possibility that ~ V ice-Presiden t (Adm i nis tra tion) t-- - Is · Academ ic Staff 1 - - -- 1 1 - - - - -- - - I p~c,a l Assistant Re la t io ns Office r _(Fi na nce) . cs, e nce & C onference 1 ompu t,n g Serv ices Pri I Gene ral Off V ice-Pres ident Admi n istration ircctor Finance ,r ec tor 1rec1or Human Resources Direct or Serv ices Employ me nt •• E ui t A m ,n,s1ra1 1ve Support Audi o/ Vis ua l Ce nt re Compu tin g Se rvices l Mic ro Compu ter Support Genc r~I Office Pr in 1 S hop Food / Liquor Serv ices Teleco m mun ic~ I io ns • Curre nt ly reports t o Direc tor of Co mmunit y Rela t ions • • C ur re ntl y reports 10 Pr eside nt 4 J Academic Administration Ne w Stru c ture Ca m us De v. someday we may want a maIJ on campus to service the needs ofstude n ts and me mbers of the nearby community". Poulter said that the re is no o n e currently h ired as manager of "New J o int Ven tures" but the position v ) built into the n ew sn-ucrurc to be in pla......,, should future projects necessitate it. The Director of Hu man Resources wilJ fo. cus only on human resou rces management and staff development. The position of Academic Staff Relations Officer will be eliminated and the academic deans will assume a more active role with respect to the LUFA contract administration in a more decentralized mode of operation in concert with the senior academic administration. To reflect the maturing and operational nature of the employment equity program within the organization, the Employment Equity Support role wilJ report to the Dire ctor of Human Resources. As a first major step in initiating a consultative process to build a productive human resources environme nt in the institutio n, a " Labour Manageme nt Advisory Committee" will be established. This group wiIJ meet a minimum of twice a ye ar and de al with general labour/manage me nt issues within the institution. The committee will initiate policy recommendations for additional initiatives in the area of labour management. The follo wing groups will be invited to nominate members to the committe e. a) Representatives of e ach e mployee grouo, within the organization b) Chairman of the Board of Gove rno rs c) Chainnan of the Board of Governors Staff Relations Committee d) President and Vice-President (Academic) e) Direccor of Human Resources I) to be chaired or co-chaired Initially by Vice-President (Administration). Booksto re Consistent with a major recomme ndation from the Academic Plan and the 1987/ 88 Report of the Se nate Budget Committee, a new support position in the area of " institutional research " has been c re ated fro m the existing staff establishme nt. Rosehart appointed Mrs. Kerrie-Lee Clarke to the position. Such a position, working closely with the various Sen ate Committees (particularly, Budget and Acade mic), will be charged with d evelo ping a comparative d atabase that wo uld p ermit a more quantitative approach to be take n to various acad e mic analyses. Senior administrat io n believes that changes will produce a mo re functio nal and e ffic ie nt organization, an organization with a "suppo rtive" philosophy. At the informat ion meeting and in his written report, Presid e nt Rosehart stressed that the two major initiativessho uld improve the overall hu"}l resources climate within the institution as._J produce a consultative forum whe re additional initiatives can be developed. �"Wealth of Experience": Norm LaVoie appointed Director of New Department of Physical Education i Athletics Dr. Norm LaVoie, above left, receives congratulations from President Bob Rosebart at the press conference to announce bis appointment. Dr. LaVote ts very enthusiastic about thefuture ofathletics andphysical education at Lakehead and the next issue ofthe AGO.RA will introduce the new team members andfuture plans r The search for the Director of the newly formed department of Physical Education and Athletics ended right at home with the appointment of Dr. Nonn LaVoie. His appointment was effective July 1, 1988. Dr.Jane Crossman and Dr. Ron Lappage shared the directorship in 1987-88. In making the announcemenc, PresidcntRosehartsald "Nonn brings a wealth of experience with which to assume the leadership role at a time when Lakehead University Athletics will be making major new Initiatives." A native of St. Thomas, Ontario, L.'lVoie received a BA in Economics in 1965 and his BPHE in 1966, both from the University of Windsor. In 1969 he obtained his MA (Ph&!) and in 1972 completed his Ph.D from the University of Alberta. Norm Lavoie has been teachingatLUsince 1972wlth the exception of brief stints as visiting professor at McGill and Unlversite de Montreal. The Thunder Bay community has been well served by LaVoie's various sporting interests and expertise. He was a consultant for Judo Canada, a member of the Northwestern Ontario Regional Sports Advisory Council, a course conductor for Countdown (a program to stop smoking with the Ontario Lung Association) and served as a member of the steering committee of the Thunder Bay Junior Football League. Dr. LaVoie Is currently President of the Lung As.sociation, Thunder Bay Region. What do you think? Last spring, when the decision was made to change the AGO RA from a newpaper to a newsletter format, some of us thought we could just tum on the computer. The transition proved to be more difficult than expected. Graphics Manager, Ben Kaminski, carefully worked on the new masthead which we just love. Bob Cornell and Stan Nemec from the print shop moaned and I 1.,.-..oancd about rollers, colour mixes and 1-.,.. ipper margins. The advantages of producing completely "In-house" were offset by new postal problems (envelopes and labels and a strike!) and a longer rumaround time from our office to you. Our Pagemaker desktop publishing operation performed well but despite our computerized graphic capability, there was still much to do In the graphics department (thanks Unda). Computer bugs were ironed out by a small army of technicians lead by Tom Stevens, Bob Angell and Cathy Rhind. We've been through staff changes, format changes and an increased work load in the Information Office but we believe that the new AGORA will provide a more efficient and convenient format to read and store for future reference. A grateful thank-you to everyone who supported me through this first Issue. (The Editor] © LU A SMOKE-FREE WORKPIACE Lakchead University Joined the ranks of othersmoke-free workplaces on September 1, 1988, For the past 6 months, the nonsmoking Committee, with representatives from faculty, staff and students, have been researching data, and formulating policies and procedures. For the purpose of providing a safer, cleaner and more comfortable campus environment for faculty, staff, students and visitors, the University will permit smoking on the premises only in designated areas. Smoking will not be permitted in classrooms or offices. Smoking at Lakehead University is permitted in the following areas only: designated areas of the Main Cafeteria, the Faculty Lounge, the Bora Laskin Student Lounge, the Games Room, the Aesthetics Lounge, the Study, UC0046 Custodial change area, designated residence and designated areas of Alumni House, Lutheran House, Centre for Northern Studies, Shipping and Receiving, Cornwall School and any other buildings which may become the property of Lakehead University. The new signs have been put up, butting apparati have been installed on the outside of most buildings, cigarette machines have been removed and educational and assistance programs toward smoking cessation will be provided. There is an enforce ment procedure in effect for all members of the University Community but Fred Poulter, Vice-President of Administration, says the attitude towards smoking and second-hand smoke has changed so much that he is expecting pcoplc to comply with the new regulations voluntarily. 1988/89 merit awards Arts and Science: Prof. F. J. Anderson, Economics; Dr. M. Benson, Mathematical Scie nces; Dr. R. Berg, Philosophy; Dr. J. Forbes, English; Dr. J. Gellert, English; Dr. D. Holah, Chemistry; Dr. J. Jamieson, Psychology; Prof. M. L Kelley, Social Work; Dr. W. Momot, Biology; Dr. J. Ryder, Biology; Dr. G. Schroeter, Sociology. Professional Studies: Dr. R. W. Archibald, Business Administration; Dr. A. D. Bowd, Education; Dr. J. Crossman, Physical Education; Dr. 8. Dadgostar, Business Administration; Dr. S. Easa, En gineering; Dr. I. Ni.rdosh, Engineering; Dr. W. H. Parker, Forestry; Dr. E. Setliff, Forestry; Dr.j. Smithers, Outdoor Recreation. 5 �Science summer school another smash hit! Top-notch students from across Northwestern Ontario attended the Summer Program of Science and Technology at Lakchcad University this summer. The progra m, in its second season, was sponsored by the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. Students applied through their home schools and were selected by a coordinating committee consisting ofrcprcscntatives from program councils East and West, the Boards o f Education in Thunder Bay, the Min istry of Northern Development and Mines and L1.kehead University. The main criteria for admission to the program included high marks in mathematics and science, good recommendations from teachers and a kee n interest in science and technology. Upon satisfactory completion of the 6-week program, e ach stude nt received a $1500 scholarship. TI1c summer school program is residential and students anended classes each weekday from 9 am to 3:30 pm. They received instruction in biology, c he mistry, engineering, geology, mathematics and physics fro m a staff that includes university professors, high school teachers, and graduate studen ts from the University. From 4 lo 5:30 pm each day, students participated in organized athletic activities. In the evenings, activities included guest lectures, exercise and recreation at the Canada Games Complex, musical and cultural even ts around the city. On weeken ds, students went o n field trips to local industries and points ofscientific interest as well as participating in sports such as canoeing, orlcntccring, wind surfing and water skiing. This year's Program co-ordinator, Paul lnksetter, said that it was basically an "immersion p rogram." There is a responsibiJity on the part of the students to go bac k and em;ch their fellow students and the staff at their high schools. The teachers participating in the program also benefit by bein g with very keen stude nts who presenc new c hallenges and ideas. Inksetter said that one of the goals of the program was to send " revitalized teachers" back to their schools. " It's an immersion and em;chmcnt program for teachers as well as studen ts". The 60 studen ts involved in the program were in grades 11 or 12 with 30 coming from Thunder Bay high schools and 30 coming from the regional h igh schools.The 60 pai1icipallng studen ts represented 21 different high schools from as far away as Kenora, Fort Frances and Rainy River, and east to Manitouwadge and Marathon. There was an even split between males and females for bcith the students and lnstn,ctors. Women teachers at bottom of scale In 1985, women continued lo hold only 17 percent of all teaching positions in Canadian universities, even though they have been entering the academic ranks at a faster rate than men since 1960, according to Statistics Canada. In addition, 81 percent offemale teac hers are concentrated in four fields of study: social sciences, health sciences, humanities and education. Women also form a greater proportion of teachers in the lower academic ranks and earn considerably less, on average, than their male counterparts. In 1985, the median salary for a full-time female teacher was $41,300, about $10,000 less than the ave rage for men. Statistics Canada attributes the slow move ment of women in to the higher ranks to the usually long time lag before a teacher can attain the status of full or associate professor. 6 The amazing world of science . .. Students fro~ th!=! Scienc~ and Technology Summer School program at Lakch_c~d Uruvers1ty watch m awe as c rystals form in from of their eyes. Super te~hru_c,an, Mr. Davey Jones, set up an experiment for the budding young sc1enttsts. He put copper "trees" in large test tubes and let it stand in a solution ofsilver nitrate. The liquid turned blue as the copper displaced s ilver from the solution and a silver tree grew. More beds co111i11uedfr ompage I All publicly assisted universites were eligible to apply for the grant assistance. The largest gran ts went to the University of Toronto at over $11 million for 868 beds and York University which was approved for 538 beds in low-rise buildings at nearly $7.1 million and another $3.4 million for 264 in mid-rise residence units. Ryerson received slightly more than $7 million, while Guelph netted just over S6 million. Carleton received S5.2 for 400 beds and McMaster $5 million for 385 beds. Brock will sec an additional 360 new residence beds with a $4.6 million dollar grant. The program was intended to complement the government's "housing first" policy by reducing the competition for affordable h o using between students and low-income earners. Sir Wilfred Lauricr University will begin construction on 300 new beds with $3.9 million and Windsor's grant o f2.9 million is to cover 224 beds. Western, L'lkchead and Nipissing ColJege received $2.6 million (200 beds) and very similar grants of $1.8 million will create 142 beds at LJ1.kehead a nd 140 at Nipissing College. The challenge facing the Universities is to find the balance o f the funds. The govc,nmcnt funding represents only a portion of the final cost. In the case of Lake head, the 36 houses, which will be in 6 blocksof6 units, will cost administration $3.6 million dollars. Mr. Davies said that he expects construction to begin in October. sJ According10 the 1988 report on the Financial Situation of Universities in Ontario, Ontario ranks ninth among the 10 provinces in terms of operating grants to universities based on the relative wealth of each province. "The priority afforded to this province's universities by the govemmentofOntariohasdeclinedsteadilyandsubstantiallyoverthepastdecade",lhereport states. Ontario universities' share of total government spending has declined from 5.92 % in 1977-78 to 4.6 % in 1988-89. �The Order of Ontario sabbaticals ; following faculty have received sabbatical or study leaves or 1988/89. The AgorA artempted to catch up with the researching, writing, lecturing, testi n g, travelllngprofessors and find out what projects they were undertaking during their 6 or 12 month sabbatlc:tls. All arc Invited to correspond with the Information Office and keep us up to date. J. Stewart (12), Anthropology, research, lectures, writing and museum visits; R. Freitag (12), Biology, research at the University of Alberta and ncld studies In the Caribbean;}. Ryder(12}, Biology, Victoria, mainly writ in g; D. llolah (12), Chemistry, working In Montreal with private Industry doing research; G. Kondor (12), Economics; D. Crozier, English, C. Uman (12) , English, visiting Professor at the University ofSeattle; S. Klssln, Geology(6) writing his various research grants and testing new laboratory apparatus; H. Hasegawa, Mathematical sciences, reseai-ch on data condensation and compaction; R Ripley (12) Philosophy; S. McBride (12), Political Studies, will be In England working on a book; N. Ginsburg (12), Psychology, working on research with dots (perception and number quantity) with the Valgroep Psychonomic at the Rijksu n lvcrsiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands; W. Melnyk (6), K. Rotenberg (6); M. L Kelley (12), Social Work, writing scholarship to complete a case book, W. Crowe (6) Business Administration;}. Pylyplw, (6) Education; D. Barry, (6) Engineering, working at the University of Bradford, UK, working with Dr. Alf Kelle r on electronic component reliability and visiting professor at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, working with the director of physical electronic laboratories on novel sensors; L Garred ( 12), Chemical Engineering, will continue his dialysis research ~ hospitals in France and Australia; R. J. Day, (12) Forestry, •clllng, lecturing and research in Australia; R Farmer (12), Forestry, continue research at the University of Victoria and In Nepal and Hong Kong; J. Tanz, 2 year study leave to complete his PhD at UBC; L McDougal, Nursing, Study leave; R Rollins (12) O utdoor Recreation, research projects out of Victoria, BC; T. Song, Physical Education, research projects In Quebec. update : chemistry department Dr. Alan Hughes, Chairman of the Depanment of Chemistry was rather excited about showing off some new equipment. 1he Department bought the $400,000 piece of equipment o u t of a special northern grant. The "bean of the machine" according to Dr. Hughes Is a superconducting magnet. More than 90 litres of liquid he lium keeps t he conductor cold. T he re Is also a barrier o f liquid n itrogen which insula tes the h elium. The addition of this specialized e q uipme nt "makes us strongly compet itive with the big guys. We al.s o have the advantage of rapid access due to our smaller size". The new equipment was intalled in the instru ment lab and the Chemistry department will be the primary user with thcdepartmcntsofphysicsand geology sharing use. "We could not operate a graduate program and much of our under/I.ad program without It. The former instruntwas cxccllent In Its time, but it's nowl5• year old technology. To do publishable research and give students modem hands-on experience we really needed a replacement". The NMR's main use Is to probe molecular structure In detail. Nomination forms and b rochures arc available for t his lmpon ant award which pays tribute to exceptional people w ho exemplify the highest q ualities of ach ieveme nt a nd cxcelltn In thei r c hosen professions or in community service on an international, national or provincial level. The Order o f Ontario was established in 1987 as a means of honour these special men and women. To submit a nomination for consid e ration by the Advisory Council, pick up a form at the President's Office and send it to t he Honours and Awards Secretariat by October 31, 1988. ----------- Dr. Thomas Song Ill "Of course everyone recognizes tbe new nuclear magnetic resonance cryospectrotrn!ter (NMR) . . . • The new equ lpmcnt was installed in Dr. Griffith's Instrument Lab in May. geological readings Dr. Graeme Borradallle , Department of Geology, assumed the Chairmanship from Dr. Roger Mitchell effective July 1, 1988. Dr. Borrad a ill c came to Lakehead In 1978. He received hi.s PhD In structural geol- .__ __ __ _ _~ ogy from the Un iversity of Liverpool in 1971 and a D.Sc In Tectonophysics from the same University In 1987. He has taught at the Universities of Durham, UK and Amsterdam, Holland. Current research focusses on experimental deformation of rocks and the use of magnetic fabrics of rocks in the Canadian Shield as a prospecting tool. His experimental laboratory, established with a BILD (Ontario) grant nas computer controlled equipment that can simulate condi tions as deep as 20 km In the c rust. Cu rrently, three graduate stud ents arc working with Dr. Borradaile. He sends this departmental report highlighting a few people and projects. Dr. Barbara Kron berg was working in the Amazon th is past summer. Her additional neld work In the forests of nonhwcstem Ontario includes investigation oflhc geological aspects of environmental changes and the effects on soils and forest productivity. "It is the most important work we're doing" Dr. Borradaille explained. Kronberg is also working on program devclopme111 for a special option which will be called "Resources and Environmental Science" which sn1dents from any science or engineering dcpanmcnt could take. The developmcr.t phase will be approximately 18 months. Dr. Phil Fralick is another very active member of the geology team, who has a very positive influence on the studen ts. I le is doing field work in northern Ontario but also has a very exciting project going in Nova Scotia with LU graduate students. ThC) arc investigating the early opening o f the Atla ntic Ocean.. I le is piecing togethe r the way in w h ich the north western coast of Africa and Maritime Canada were originally pieced tO!!et hc r. He is a.lso heavily in volved with con tacts with China. Together wit h Mr. Wu, a post-<loctoral fellow, they are studying econo mic deposits of the Canadian Shield which arc very like deposits in the Ch inese sh ield. Mr. Wu has been o n the p roject for a year and d iscussions arc in p rogress that could event ually realize a studen t exchange between Canada and China. Dr. K,;hlenbcck recently travelled to China as part of an In ternational contingency. The faculty produced an outstanding number of publications in 1987-88. Seven faculty members delivered 13 conference papers as well as giving lectures In their specialties In Zurich, various cities in China, Moscow, Leningrad, a nd Canadian locations from Beardmore to Newfoundland. During 1987- 88, 7 faculty members received approximately $200,000 In grants from NSERC, OGRF, OMNR and other granting bodies. ~ �UPDATE 88: Tite Forest Bio logy Building has been delayed d ue to the first design coming in substantially over budget. T he buildingwill be leased by the MNR and there is still hope for a spring start date. TI1e Black Shack will sing no more. Having only recently discovered that the quaint blackish building beside the University Centre was called the Black Shack, it was a biggersurprise to find out that graphics, AV and the Infonnation Office were once housed there and more recently Itwas used forvoice training. Physical plant now has it under construction for offices. There will be five for faculty, one graduate student and administration area and the new Centre for Entrepreneurship. Ron Nelson explained that the centre Is one of six in Ontario and ours is a joint effort with Confederation College. The objectives of the centre will be threefold: to teach entrepreneurship, to do research in that area and to promote activities to increase public awareness. LU has a course slated to begin in January Looki?g Annual campus renovations and new university projects created a great buzz of activity all summer. The photo series below captures some of the action and changes on the grounds. The top left photograph looks down on the row of newly purchased portables arranged neatly behind the Bora Laskin Building. Only two of the six temporary structures assigned to the School of Education will be used for classrooms. Faculty, scssional lecturers, graduate students and administration will occupy the other mobiles. The portables are a shorttcnn solution meant to case the space problem brought on by increased enrolments. The photograph bottom left, shows workers completing the last of the paving contracts. Havi ng all parking lots paved will affect the pocke tbooks of users, however, Lakehead $100,000 has b een spent each summer for the past 5 years on major residence repair. This year's expenditures went on draperies, paint, carpets, furniture, showers, tile replacements and general upgrading. Paving contracts are complete to the cost of $1/4 of a million dollars. Closing off the entrance to the parking lot between the main campus and the Bora Laskin Building was considered essential to "protect pedestrians". A new entrance to Lakehcad University campus is being constructed off Balm oral at a cost of U65,000. Construction began September 12 and the road should be in use by October 15. The new entrance will s ignificantly reduce the traffic line-ups o n Oliver Road. Beware thieves. Burglar alanns were installed in all outlying bu ildings on campus property. 'lltere was an upgrading to Increase the air flow and air conditioning by 50% in the student services area. The University has purchased the property at 954 Oliver Road from the Rudiak family. The house ls being rented on a I -year contract until a decision is made about its future use. The gang at Cornwall School does not seem to mind the construction going on all around them. They are happy to have doubled their working area space and have their own building. Drop by and pay them a visit. The old fine arts space will be the new h o me for Continui ng Education and Distance Educatio n. Susan Cole announced that Vonnie Ch e ng bas been appointed Delivery Supervisor in Distance Education and can be rcachcd at 8713. 8 L--------------------------------- �good LU remains one of the least expensive (and most accessible) places to park at any Ontario University. Top right, the Minister of Colleges and Universities, Lyn McLeod, smiles as Board of Gove rnor Chairman Robbert Welter (centre) and President Bob Rosch art display a map of the campus and indicate the location of the new townhouse residences scheduled for occupancy next fall . The provincial gove rnment handed out large grants to universities and colleges for temporary buildings and new residences. Roofing is a dirty, difficult job at any time but from the look of the sky in the bottom right photo, those workers may have been trying to beatMotherNatureaswell asputtinga ncwroofon the Bora Laskin Building. ' A student fiom a university 'in outer~pace' responds The following article appeared Jn the Ottawa Citizen on August 29, 1988 in the Letter of the Day column My father sent me a dipping from a report In the Citizen written by BruceWard, "Teens face cough fight for spots in choice universities.• In thls al'.tlcle Ward calls a number of universities, including lakehcad Unlverslty, "The halls of higher leamlng In outer space." Asa student atLakebcad University, I thoughtyou might like to know what It is like to attend such an "outer space• lnstln1tlon. Can you imagine attending a sehool where professors and students know each other on a firstname basis? What other university offers a tollfree numberforthosewlshlng informadoo about programs? When was the lase timeyou could park for 25 cents an hour at an Ottawa unlversity? Have you seen many southern universities offerIng acres of greenery, bicycle trails In the middle ofthe campus and a take filled with trout next to the residences? We may be far north and small but at least stu• dents arc humanized and given a strong personal education. Long live Lakehead, and the other universities In outer space. We will let the students down south enjoy the big dty lnstltutlot)S ofhigher learning where che srudent Is often just a number paying tuition fees. Robert-Albert Blgras DepartmeQt of Social Work Thup.der Bay • • Pbotograpby by Peter Puna In June and July of 1988, Rob Foster, a biology student from Lakehead Univeristy, attended an intensive 6-week program in Mall in northwestern Africa with 30 other Canadian students. As the first LU participant he felt compelled to share his experience and encourage students and professors to apply for the 1989 International seminar in the Leeward and Windward Islands in the Caribbean. [Story to appear in October AGORA]. Applications and further information arc available from Rob Fosterc/o the Biology Department or from Margaret Page c/ o the School of Nursing. WUSC is the World University Service of Canada, a non-profit, nongove rnmental organization which involves Canadians In International development In Canada and overseas. 9 �Research News FROM THE OFFICE OF GRADUATE STUDIES AND RESEARCH Research Officer: Trish McGowan NEWS FROM NSERC It is, once again, lime lo prepare submissions for NSERC's Operating Grant competilion. NSERC'sdeadline for receipt of applications is November 1. Please try, if at all possible, lo submit your application several days in advance of this deadline, to ensure that the application will be complete and well-presented, that all signing authorities have had an opportunity to review the proposed project, and that no unfortunate mishaps or delays will occur. Last year, when I attended a number of open discussion sessions during granl sclcclion committee visits, several members of different committees strongly encouraged all faculty to consider submitting an equipment grant application. As you are aware, the size of the purse which the committees have for allocation is determined as a proportion of the total dollar value of the applications that each receives. Hence, the more equipment grant applications it receives, the larger the amount which the committee can award. Il is also In each individual's best interest to be able to work with the most advanced and appropriate equipment for this research. The deadline for equipment grant applications is also November 1. NSERC has a number of other programs which may be of interest to Lakehead faculty. There are a range of opportunities for the fund Ing of International ventures: the Bilate ral Exchange Program, CIDA/NSERC Research Associateships, and International Collaborative Research Grants arc a few. The application deadline for each of these programs is October IS. More information can be found about these and other NSERC programs in the Awards Guide. Coples of this guide and of all relevant forms and information can be obtained from this o ffice. NEWS FROM SSIIRC New President Instated On June 6 Dr. Paule Leduc began a fiveyear term as President of the Cour.cil. Dr. Leduc is well-known in both the university community and the public sector. After obtaining a Ph.D. in literature from the UnlversityofParis (Sorbonne), she taught for several years In Montreal-area universities. Her administrative career began at the Univcrsitedu Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), where she held the positions of Chair, Department of Literary Studies; Dean, Graduate Studies and Research; and Executive Vice-Rector. She has published widely. 10 In addition to her academic experience, Dr. Leduc has e njoyed a distinguished career as a senior o fficial in the provincial government in a n umber of positions, including Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Relations, Deputy Minister of International Relations, and Deputy Minister of Cultural Affairs. Immediatelyprior to her appointment as President of the S.S.II.R.C., she was Head of the Quebec Government delegation and Director of the Centred' etudes politiques et administratives du Quebec (CEPAQ) at the Ecole national d'administration publique (ENAP). Research Grants Competition The Research Grants Program is designed to support scholars engaged in advanced research in the social sciences and the humanities. Grants are made toward direct costs of a project, and may include a research time stipend when justified by the needs of the project. Applications should be submiucd to this office by October 101 1988. Guidelines and applications are available at this office. TI1c Bora UlSkln National Fellowship In Human Rights Research One fellowship is offered each year to encourage multidisciplinary o r Interdisciplinary research and the development of expertise in the area of human rights, especially with relevance to Canada. The value of the award Is $45,000, with an additional research and travel allowance of Sl0,000. '(be deadline for applications Is October 1, 1988. SENATE RESEARCH COMMITicE The Senate Research Commiucc provides modest support for research projects, conference travel and other research-related activities at Lakehead University. The Committee awards funds on the basis o f merit, need and the availabilityoffunds; some consideration is also given to providing support for new faculty and for seed money for research in new areas. Deadline dates for application for research projects (for funding up to $2,000) arc October 10 and March 10; for conference travel (national and international), September 1 S. January 15, and ~ ; for support of a visiting scholar, October 10 and March 10. Guidelines and application forms arc available from d epartmental secretaries or from the secretary to the Committee, Mrs. Uta Hickin, UC2003, ext. 8283. GRANTS AND CONTRACTS AWARDED Congratulations to Dr. Brian Lorch (Geography) and his collaborator, Mark Smith, who were awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant for a project entitled "Consumer Behaviour Associated with DowntownShoppingMalls". Theprojccl ls designed to assess the appropriateness of the use of malls as a tool for revitalizing central shopping districts. Dr. G. Hazenberg (Forestry) was awarded a grant through the Association of Colleges and Universities (AUCC) Fund for the Support of Modest-size Projects. The grant will provide funding for a planning mission to the Makarcrc University of Uganda. This microfund supports planning missions to Third World countries to aid in the developmcot of projects which then can be submlttc. CIDA or the International Ocvelopmeru Research Centre (IRDC) for funding. The next deadlines for application are: October 1, 1988; January 15, 1989; and May 1, 1989. r Dr. Barbara awarded a re-...----:....._ _ _:....._--, search contract by the Ontario Minisny of Natural Resources to collect and analyze vegetation and soil samples in the vicinity of Thunder Bay. Dr. Kronberg L - - - - - - - - - - ~ will be testing the hypothesis that cadmium levels arc significantly different and higher in lhe immediate vicinity of the major highways in Northwestern Ontario than in other parts of lhc province. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES ·n1c Easter Seal Research Institute of Ontario The Institute offers grants for resca· n ) and development and professional train...j} in the prevention, treatment and management of physical disabilities in children. The Institute Is interested particularly in supporting research relating to cerebral palsy, splna blfida, neuromuscular disorders, acute brain damage and long-tcnn sequelae. The next appllcalion deadline is October IS, 1988. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation • External Research Program for Housing Research. The Corporation is intereslcd in all aspects of housing and urban growth and development In Canada. The External Research Program supports research investigations into all questions affecting Canadian housing, including the social, cultural, economic, technical, environmental, legal and administrative aspects of housing. Deadline for application is October 3, 1988. Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services • Lottery Research Grants Program. The Ministry's Lottery Research Grant Program supports applied research and program evaluation projects concerr"li1 developmentally handicapped, e lderly, <../,,i!. physically disabled persons. Priority is given to issues which concern community living and to projects which involve collaborative efforts between agencies. Application deadline is October 14, r: �Ontario Mental Health Foundation • Re search Programs The Foundation sponsors a number of Rarch grant and training programs d e\. .,ied to improve and enlarge the knowlehge required to promote mental h callh and to prevent, treat and cure psychological disorders. Applications for Research Project grants (forl-2years, atup to $75,000)and forEquipmentgrantsmustbc delivered to the Foundation by September 30, 1988. Applications for Small Research Project grants (up to $15,000), for the support of pilot studies, feasibilily studies or partial tests of a novel hypothesis, are due at the Foundation by October 31, 1988. the production of Canad Ian studies materials by assisting authors in the pre-publication stages (research and writing) of a booklength manuscript prepared for publication. Priority will be g iven to manuscripts dealing with one of the following themes: Canada as a northern country; the Canadian cullural context; the Canadian social context ( including social history); Canada and the new technologies; Canada in an International context; Canada and the North American economy. Application deadline is Nov 15, 1988. Further infonnation abo ut these and other sources of research fund ing Is available at the Office of Graduate Studies and Research. Ontario Mental Health Foundation • Special Competition In Applied and Community Mental Health Research The Foundation is offering a special competition designed to stlmulalc applied research and research in community mental health, particularly in the areas of: p revention; the diagnosis, early treatment and rehabilitation of mental illness; and methods of providing care and support to the mentally ill in the community. The deadline for submissions is October 31, 1988. OTHER NEWS Ontario Ministry of the Environment - Excellence In Research Awards, 1988 In an effort to e ncourage research and to recognize excellence in research, the Ministry, for the nrst time in 1987, made four awards available to recognize those people whose work was Judged tO have provided leadership in the field. The awards program has now been expanded to include the work done by graduate studems. Lakchead University nominated Marc Pelletier (Psychology) as a candidate for the award. Mr. Pellctier's research topic for his Master's thesis was "Effect of Prenatal Cadmium on the Development and Behaviour of Selectively Bred Genetic Lines of Rat", con- Association for Canadian Studies • Canadian Studies Writing Awards ( This program Is intended to encourage L U engineer and Innovation North working on wood- fired generator: provincial government grant provides seed $ Dr. Martin Ostcrvcld, professor of civil e ngineering, is the designing and consulting engineer and Innovation North will provide the support for the development of a a smallseale, wood-fired electrical generator. Lakchcad University received a grant of $87,500 to conduct a feasibi lity study and develop the design over the next four to six months. Port Arthur MPP Taras Kozyra announced the grant in early August and said "a wood-powered system will greatly reduce power costs In our remote communities and create local employment". Wood chips would be burned to power a steam-driven electrical generator for isolated communities or camps not served by the Ontario Hydro distribution network. The wood-nred gcncraror is expected to produce e lectricity at 20 to 25 cents per kilowatt hour, one half the cost of diesel power. Using local wood resources, communities, tourist operators or bush camps would chip their logs and feed the chipsintO a boiler. The feed rate wo uld be regulated by instmments according to the demand for power. The Y- ~m would require slightly more supervi!}, .1 than diesel generators but repairs are expected to be needed less frequently. Professor Oostervclt says the "technology is not complicated - it's reaUy a modem day version of the old steam engine". He feels there are important implications for LU. The governme nt grant provides funding to produce a working design but he's hoping thar if all goes well the re will be additional fundingforthe University to develop the working model. Helpful research book available The International Division of AUCC has recently completed a comprehensive guide to the operations of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). a Crown corporation based in Ottawa, whose principal mandate is to contribute to international development through the support of research capability in the'Illlrd World. A very useful bilingual publication entitled "The International Development Research Centre: A Guide for the Canadian University Research Community/Le Centre d e recherches pour le dcveloppement international: Guide a !'intention des sclentinques des universites canadiennes" Is available free of charge from AUCC Publications, 151 Slater Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, KIP 5Nl: Tel: 613563-1236. Faculty who wish to pcmse this new publication may view copies at either the Jnfonnation Office SN1002 or sec Trish McGowan, Research Officer UC2002B. ducted under the supervision of Or. K. Paul Satlnder. A Canadian Polar Research Commission Is Proposed TI1c Honourable Bill McKnight, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, has announced plans to set up a Canadian Polar Research Com.mission. This initiative was a major recommendation of The Shield ofAchilles, the report of the independe nt Canadian Polar Research Com.mission Study led by Vanier Professor Thomas H. B. Symons of Trent University. The Canadian Polar Research Commission would play a key role in the developme nt and dissemination of polar knowledge in Canada, linking and focusing the work of existing institutions. Its main tasks will be to monitorthc general state of polar research in and about the North, and to provide advice to government, industry and institutions of higher learning on a wide range of polar issues. It also will promote Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and provide Canada with a higher profile in international circumpolar research and cooperation. This report, and the earlier report chat recomme nded the conduct of this study, Canada and Polar Science, are available for review at th is office. Environmentalist visits campus Dr. Herb Bonnann will be at LU on September 21 and 22. He is an internationally reknown ecologisl whose specialty Is studying the impact of disturbance on ecosystems. Ilisplonecring work on the Hubbard Brook Experimental forest in New Hampshire has provided data for more than 700 publications. The Yale scholar will give two free public lectures on Wednesday, September 21. The nrsttalk will be at 11:30 and will draw on the work done on the Hubbard Brook Experimental f o rest. In light of the Environme ntal Assessment hearings now being held In Thunder Bay, his topic should be of great interest to a forest industry faced with the problem of harvesting under more wildlife and human constraints. His second talk, at 2:30, will address a global concern over widespread destruction of vegetation types. Man has thus far only been concerned with the impact on local ecosystems. Many scientists throughout the world today consider t his dangerous, pointing to the global destruction of the rain forests as an example of the seve1;tyofthis situatio n. Dr. Bormann's talk will draw attention to this global problem. Bo th lectures wilJ be in the Lower Lecture Theatre. For fm1hcr infom1ation contact Don Barnes, Forestry, or Peggy Knowles, Biology. r------------7 Do _something good for the I envtronment - recycle good I junk by donating yours and I I buyj.ng_ back someone else's I I at the -:Srd annual Alumni flea I Lmarket on September 15 _ ..J 11 I �FACES ON CAMPUS correction Janice Causgrove will commence her second tcnn at Lakehead University with the Department of Physical Education and Athletics. She is from Red Deer Alberta and received her masters from the University of Alberta. Her special areas of study arc adapt ive physical education which includes program development for people with special needs. Calling It a "busy first year" Causgrove taught first and second year physical education courses and found time for tennis, theatre, visiting a few parks In the area, and paddling a 36-foot canoe in Fitness Challenge '88. Heads arc going to roll If the AgorA staff cannot get the right " heads" together with the appropriate write-up. Our apologies to Lella Wallcnlus, shown above, who made her LU debut posing as Janice Causgrove. Ms. Wallenius bas happily settled into her new position as Information Librarian as reported in the J uly issue. new on campus Dr. James J. Ryan , (above) has join ed the School of Education asan assistant professor. He recently received h is PhD from OISE with concentrated study In native education. He will be insouctlng in the educational administrative are a (theory and research) and supervising student teaching. Dr. Ryan received his BPE from O ttawa University, a bachelor of education from Queens and h is MEd from Memorial University. He taught in Labrador for 10 years and conducted extensive research on the Innut. He says be basn't had much free time lately but looks forward 10 settling into Thunder Bay with hiswife and young children. Welcome! Erle Klein , above, is the new technologist in the School of Outdoor Recreation. He calls himself a "mellowed out" outdoor rcc'cr. He's an LU grad from the HBOR and geography degree p rogram (1985), and a graduate of the Bachelor of Education program in 1987. He spent the past year supply te aching and selling computers and admits he liked the call of the "steady Job." His position e ntails all aspects of equipment: education, usage and repair. His first major task is to help the school director, Tom Stevens, develop a totally computerized inventory syste m. (Watch out for calklng sleeping bags.) He will also assist with the development of computer courses for stude nts to develop computer skills and develop course materials and promotional literatu re. In addition to au tomating the sign-ou t system, t he job involves preparing equipment and food for field trips, ma intenance of equ ipment for practicals, support services for equipment courses and designing and ma.king custommade articles for the outdoor recreation program. Sou nds like a challenging job for a tale n ted LU grad. Service Agency In Moncton, New Brunswick. Dr. Gallant is interested in training programs and possiblysome private practice in the notso-distant future. Dr. Gallant will look a.ft"f 3rd and 4th year placements as the field l'. ordinator in addition to his Distance Edu~ tion course in Geraldton. He's an avid golfer but also hopes to get skiing. Or. Bob Payne, below, got right into lhc thick of things in the School of Outdoor Recreation by leaving on a 2-wcck field trip to B.C. a week after his arrival. His recent teaching assignment was at Ryerson Polytcchnical Institute whe re he taught recreat ional geography co "career.) minded"' s tudents. Payne received his r ) from the Universily of Guelph, MA from tti Un iversity o f New England, and PhD from the University of Calga.ry. He started researc h in the human dimension of wildlife manage me nt and wants to continue that researc h at Lake head. He provided expert consultation o n non-timber values which will become pa.rt of the written submissions by forests for Tomorrow at the Class Environme ntal Assessment for Timber Manageme nt o n Crown Lands In Northern Ontario. Very excited about living in Thunder Bay, Payne says "the c hallenge is to be involved in teac hing and research in the context of northwestern Ontario. It's a young school and the opportunity is there to encourage the love of o utdoor recreation - to move and change and grow"'. He has h igh praise for the enthusia.sticstudents he has met already and says "they'll inspire the profs, they're second to no ne ''. He lists recreational activities as hockey, squash, hydroponics, birdwatching There is a rumour, however, his special love is whitewater canoein . Dr. Paul ~ llan t, top right photo, is the smiling new face in the Department o f Social Work. Born In Summerside, PEI, he got his early education in ea.stem Canada (BA, St. Thomas University, MSW, Dalhousie) before h eading to Flo rida State University to earn his PhD in Marriage and FamilyTherapy. Previous work experience includes 5 years in Summerside a.s a counsellor at a psychiatric hospital and managing director of a Family 12 ~=--°--'~-----~~~-----------~----------------------..,.,===,,,..... . . --_-_-___ :- �papers/ publications &. special project s MMIWIMtWNltt-■ Gero Sch roeter, Department o f Sociology, published a review essay on social research in Germany between 1872 and 1933 in the July issue ofjo1m1al ofthe History ofthe Behavioural Sciences (Vol. 24, No. 3). At the end of May be presented a paper entitled "Social Stratification in Weimar Germany and Extremist Politics: The Pioneering Work of Theodor Geiger" to the biannual meetings of the Research Committee on the History of Sociology) affiliated with the International Sociological Association), held in Madrid. Last fall three translations of his appear.ed in Modem Gennan Sociology, edited by Volker Meja et al. (Columbia University Press). Professor Dennis Roddy, Chairman of Elec- trical Engineering, recently gave a paper on CepstraJ Analysis of Sub-Surface Radar Data, at a workshop on ground penetrating radar. The workshop was hosted in Ottawa by the Geological Survey of Canada and the Federal Panel for Energy Research and Development. As well as having a strong Canadian representation, the workshop drew many participants from the USA and overseas, including the UK, Sweden the FRG and Belgium. Dr. Nonnan LaVole, Professor and Director f-the School of Physical Education and Ath\ .:s, and Mr. Steven Norris, who received his MSc in the Theory of Coaching at the spring convocation, presented a paper at the Inte rnational Conference on Exercise, Fitness and Health, held in Toronto May 29 • June 3, 1988. Their presentation was entitled "The Transient Oxygen Uptake Response as an Indicator of Sports Specific Adaptation". Dr. Randle W. Nelson, Professor of Sociology, and Dr. Jan Mayer (fonnerly assistant professor of Sociology) published their article "The Corporate Promotion Process and the Hidden Curriculum of Class and Gender: Reply to Wexler" in Huma11 Affairs (13), 1987, pp. 168-177. Dr. Brian Lorch, Department of Geography, and Ml". Mark Sm Ith, a former LU Geography student and nowan employeewith DELCAreceived a $7,000 SSHRC grant to carry out a study of pedestrian flows associated with downtown shopping centres. This was a first application 10 SSI-IRC and the two spent the summer months on a pilot study to test their questionnaire and in September they will be ready to start data collection for the project. Their work will have a local flavour as they will be using the Keskus Mall as a case study. 1~ Darlene Stevens, School of Nursing, l - ...ented a paper entitled, "Collective Bargaining and Nursing: An Historical Overview" at the first National Nursing History Conferen ce held in Charlottetown, PEI on June 16, 1988. Professor Stevens also convocatcd from the University of Alberta on June 9, 1988 with a d octorate -in Philosophy. The title of he r dissertation was "Suspensio n and Terminatio n of Employment among Nurses in Canada". Dr. Laurie Garred, Department of Chemical Engineering, attended a meeting of the International Society of Blood Pur ification in Vicenza, Italy, to present a paper entitled "Evaluation of the Partial Dialysate Collection Method of Urea Kinetic Modelling". Dr. Garred was promoted to the rank of full professor effective July 1, 1988. Or. TI1omas M. K. Song, Professor, School of Physical Education, Coordinator of Human Performance Laboratory, presented a paper "Effects of Three Anaerobic Tests on Venous Blood Values", at the Annual Meeting of American College o f Sports Medicine, Dallas, Texas, May 25 • 28, 1988. Dr. Song also presented two papers "Serum Enzymes and Electrolytes after Three Anaerobic Tests", and "Human Muscle Metabolism during Three Anaerobic Tests", at the International Conference on Biochemistry of Exercise, in London, Ontario, June 1-4. At the International Conference on Exercise, Fitness and Health held in Toronto from May 29 to June 3, h e presented a paper entitled "Scrum Enzymes and Lipids after Exhaustive Rowin·g Exercise". Dr. Song has been carrying out a joint research project on Effects of Exercise o n Cardiac Output and Effect of Electrical Stimulation on Metabolism, at Laval University in Quebec City, as a visiting research professor during his sabbatical year. His study was funded by an Ontario-Quebec project of Exch ange grant and Laval and Lakehcad University grants. Bonne chance, Dr. Song. Ms. Anne Ilowd, social worker at HogarthWestmount Hospital, and Dr. Alan Ilowd, Professor, School of Education, had their paper "Companio n Animals: A positive contribution to social work practice" published in The Social Worker, 1988, 56, 6-9. Professor Bowel a lso presented a paper e ntitled "Client satisfaction and normalization of residential services for retarded persons" at the annual convention of American Psychological Association, Altlanta, August 1988. Professor W. T. Momot, Biology Depart- ment, hash ad many articles published and the most recent are listed: 'A Range Extension for the Crayfish Orconectes rusticus: Sibley Provincial Park, Northwestern Ontario", in The CanadianFieldNaturalist, co-authored with C. Hartviksen and G. Morgan, 1988, "Exploitation of Orconectcs virilis in Northern climates: Complementarity of Management Options with Self Regulatory Life History Strategies, Freshwater c rayfish" (7), co-authoried with G. Morgan, and a book chapter entitled, "Orconectes spp. In the USA and Elsewhere" p. 262 • 282 in Freshwater Crayfish, Biology Management and Exploitation, publishe d by Croom-Held Publishers, 1988. Dr- C. H. Nelson, Social Work, and Dr.J. B. MJnore, Socio logy, presented a joint paper entitled, "Distance Education in Northern Ontario: Technological Initiative or Technological Imperative?" as part ofasession on Education and Social Change at the annual meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association in Windsor in June. Dr. S. Easa, Professor of Civil Engineering, had the followin g referred journal papers published recently: "Improved Method for Locating Centroid of Earthwork" and "Area of Irregular Region with Unequal Intervals" and "Estimating Pit Excavation Volume UsIng Nonlinear Ground Profile" all In the Journal of Suroeytng E11gi11eering, ASCE, 1988volumes. His article "Selection ofRoadway Grades that Minimize Earthwork Cost using Linear Programming" appeared in Vol. 22/\, No.2, pp.121-136, 1988 of Transporation Researchjoun1al. busy in retirement Dr. Chris Jecchlnls, Professor Emeritus of Economics, has been very busy in retireme nt. He is President of the Institute for Labour Studies and Consultations in Athens. The Jnsti- ' - - - - - - - - ~ tute is an independent tripartite organization dedicated to find ing solu tions for contemporary labour problems through mediation in industrial disputes, and theseholarly study of labour market issues. Dr. Jecchinis is also research consultant for the Greek Productivity Centre and the Manpower Employment Agency. His recent publications include an updated version of his book on the Greek trade union movement, a chapter in the book Greece 2,000 and an article in the March 1988 issue of the lLO Social and L-.bour Bulletin, both dealing with employment policy issues In addition to the above contributions, three more of Dr. Jecchlnis's publications areseheduied for distribution in September 1988: an International survey of working conditions, labour relations and productivity, a manual on the practical aspects of personnel management, and the new pocket book edition of his 1960 war book Beyond Olympus. Dr. Jecchinis has also been presenting papers at international conferences, and is scheduled to present a paper to the International Round the Table conference in Belgrade on the impact of new technology on labour-management relations (Sept. 1215, 1988). 13 �visitors on campus The Consulate General of the People's Republic of China, Mr. Liu Dian-Qiu, was at Ulkehead University of August 18 and 19 to visit the School o f f orestry and meet with Chinese students and "visiting scholars" who arc working at LU. Mr. Liu enjoyed a walkingtour ofthe forestry facilities and an informal meeting with faculty. Shown above, from left to right , are Mr. Luo Ru-Ying, visitingscholar, Dr. Will Carmean, Dr. A. Kayll, Mr. Liu, and Dr. G. Hazenberg. appointments Dr. John Whitfield, Chairman of the Silver Jubilee Commince, announced the appointment of Dr. George Merrlll as Co-ordinator of the 25th Anniversary Celebrations. Dr. Merrill's long association with and keen interest in the University combined to make him the perfect candidate to develop, monitor and co-ordinate the upcoming celebrations. Ifyou have any ideas which could become part of the activities for the Silver Jubilee, please forward them to Dr. Merrill in the Department of English or to Mrs. Linda Phillips, Assistant Co-ordinator, in the Office of the President. Dr. Frederick Homes, Department of English, has been appointed to the Professional Concerns Committee oftheAssociation of Canadian University Teachers of English. Their task for 1988 -89 will be to compile a list of fellowships, awards, research grants and scholarships available to graduate students of English in Canada. They also plan to supply a commentary which would characterize the features of successful grant applications. new baby faces Ina Chomyshyn (Resource centre for Occupational Health and Safety) and David Sedor proudly announce the arrival o f the ir beautiful daughter Kyra Aalcn on March 11, 1988. new information officer Katherine Shedden has been appointed Co-ordinator of Information and Promotion Services. She served as the assistant to the Infonnation Office for the past year and says "I feel like I've finally found the pc.rfcCl job." She has a BA and teaching certificate from the University of Saskatchewan. Her journalism background includes experience as a reporter, freelance writer and editorial assistant. "The University setting is exciting; notwodaysareeverthesamc. The people at Lakchcad are interesting and the job presents a challenge I look forward to. The new promotional activities are perhaps the best part. I call Lakehead ' the little Universitywith a big heart' and I can'twaitto tell the rest of the world about the energy and vitality here". who? ~ To maintain our sense of humour In the Information Office, we have Initiated a new column which looks suspiciously like the product of the "old flies" d rawer. If you h ave any "guess who" p ho tos In your possession, we'd love to share th e m with the University Community. It might be fun to ferret out photos that are at least 25 years old l 14 Pete r Puna ls the new full-time photograph er . With a permanent smile on his face and bound less e nergy, he goes abou t his new duties with e nthusiasm and a dcd' -· lion to excellent p hotography. His ina\ ration included a trip in the Zodiac out on Lake Superior to s hoot the McKenzie Expedition promotional package. Peter's work will include formal photography in his lab, capturing the "spirit of LU" around campus, location work for the AgorA, slide preparation for faculty and photographic assignments as requ ired by the various Departments and Schools. Peter was born and raised in Thunder Bay and graduated from the 4-year photographic arts p rogram at Ryerson. He has worked in studios in Toronto, freelanced and currently teaches photography at night school at Confederation College. This talented man is also a member of the Thunder Bay Magic Circle and Magic Castle in Hollywood, a private club for magicians to perfect their art. He has been working on his magic skills for about 10 years a nd especially enjoys h is yearly trips to Hollywood where he can work with the masters. We' re happy to have you on stage at LU Peter - pooll here's your picture. a) Freud b) Bill Melnyk c) Rasputin d) Machiavelli c) Peter Sellers Great Canadian Peanut t,;hallenge Dr. R G. Rosehart is the Honorary Chairman of the 1988 Peanut C..am- paign for the Thunder Bay Chapter of the Kidney Foundation of Canada. TheKick-Offfor this year's campaign is on September 11 at LU. The goal is to raise $3Q.OQ() for medical research patientservices and public ~duciti,....,, This unique fundraislng event J benefit more than 1 million Canadians suffering from 1ddney disease. 'Buy your peanuts on campus September . 11. �update: New Pension Plan for Members and Spouses (Our cu,;:i:ent pension plan is unde r a major re:Wston . Subject to tlle approval pf membership and the regulatory agencies the following provisional Information ls provided "one man's opinion") as A.Akram. As you know a major revision of lhc Rclirc- mcm Pian of Professional Staff of Lakchcad University is being undertaken. Services of a new Actuary (fumbull and Turnbull of Winnipcg)wcrc retained forlhis purpose on 3 Feb. 1988. The p lan will be administered by a Board of Trustees. Members of the plan will have a majority on the Board of Trustee. In other words, we manage our own pension plan. Accounts: Each member will have four accounts. The Required Conn-ibutions are credited new on a monthly basis for investment. Surplus: The current plan has a huge surplus. This will be disuibutcd to members (including pensioners). Accounts will be calculated retroactive to 1965 or lhc date of your employment. nenents: 1. TI1crc is a m11111num guarantee. Your nefitswill not be less than thoscundcrthe rent plan. ( At retirement, noimal, early or postponed, you arc entitled to a pension based on the accumulated value of the four accou nts (I hope it will be called money purchase account), a deferred pension or pension. You may receive the value of the four accounts in a locked-in RRSP. You arc vested after two years of employment. That means that if you leave the e mployme nt of the University, you are also entitled to receive the account #3. The rules arc that you arrange to make a direct transfer to the plan of the new e mployers or in a prescribed retirement saving arrangement (locked-in RRSP). Though a locked-in RRSP an-angcmcnt is subject to the Income Tax Act, you can manage your own funds. You can use as much as you need, the rest will earn income, tax tree. At age 71, you must either purchase a pension from an accredited institution, for example, an insurance company or slart a !Ullf (Rcgis1cred Rctircmcm Income Fund). Revenue Canada's Pension and RRSP Guide gives a summary of these rules. You should pick up a free copy from your local Income Tax office. The New Pension Plan plans to provide pensions from the fund. However, the c hoice to receive a pension from a financially sound insurance company or another institution is a matter of choice. 3. At tcm1ination, if you arc vested, you arc entitled to receive a deferred pension or arrange 10 have a direct transfer of your money purchase account to a loc ked-in RRSP o r in to the pension plan of the new employer. ,f. On the death of a member, the spouse may receive a lump sum (and pay Income tax) or receive a tax free direct transfer to an RRSP. If a member d oes no t have a spouse, the benefic iary of the Estate will receive the accu mu- lated value of the Accounts. This is a major change in lhc new plan. Prcviouslv, the spouse o r the estate did not receive the value of University's share of comributions. Other lnfonnation: Spouses' rights arc protected under the Provincial Family Law Refo1m Act. Unless Lhc spouse signs a waiver, the spouse is cntilicd to at least 60% of survivor benefit. On maniage breakdown, the spouses have certain rights to the pension fund. MORE INFORMATION? 1. YOU AND YOUR SPOUSE have the right to receive extensive info1111ation about the pension plan, annual statements, an updated complete pension account etc. Your rights are protected under Section 25, Section 30 of the Pension Benefits Act and Ontario Regulations 708/87. You should make a written request for information, always with a copy to the Pension Commission of Ontario, if you arc serious about receiving this inforn1ation. You have a r ighl to inspect and make photocopies of d ocuments. You may have to pay a nominal fee. You arc entitled to inspect the documents filed with the Pension Commission of Ontario during b usiness hours of the Commissio n . As a membe r, you a nd your spouse arc e ntitled to receive a copy of the Pension Bene fits Acts 1987, and the Regulations of the Pens ion Benefits Act (Ontario Regulation 708/87) from Lhc Pension Commission of Ontario (101 Bloor Street, West, 9th floor, Toronto, Ont. M7A 21<2). The Act is also available in the University librai-y. The Regulations arc published in the Ontario Gazette, which is also available in the University libra1-y. ARGUS! With one hand on the mouse, a steely eye o n the screen, Production Manager Brad Salavich tests out some of the new computerized desktop publishing equipment which makes the ARGUS the most technologically advanced student newspaper in Canada. The over-the-shoulder boss ls Graham Strong, Editor-in-Chief. With the new toys, the artistic talents of Duncan Weller and lhc enthusiasm of the rest of the Argus team, this should be a grcal year for a great newspape r. 15 �CAMPUS CALENDAR To include your Department's event or activity in the Campus Calendar, please call Ao Sherren at 8300 or mail your information to SN1002. SEPTEMBER TUESDAY, 20 VICE-PRESIDENT'S INTERNATIONAL RECEP'flON Ali Visa Students and International Students Faculty Lounge 4:30-6pm President & Deans to host receptio n (sandwiches & refreshments) Questions and information time TUESDAY 6 • SATURDAY 17 FREE STUDY SKILLS SEMINAR Listening & Note Taking Forestry Field School for all Forestry degree and diploma students 7-Spm BB 1021 WEDNESDAY 7 - SUNDAY 11 WEDNESDAY, 21 ••• SPECIAi. EVENT••• FREE PUBLIC LECTURES SUNDAY, 11 LUSU FILM NlGHT "Above the Law" 8:00pm UC Theatre ( UC 1017) $1.50 Studen ts, $2.00 others MONDAY, 12 Final date for submission of supplemental examination results for Forestry stude n ts WEDNESDAY, 14 FREE CONCERT Noon in the Agora Dave Smyth AIESEC POSTER SALE Outside Main Cafeteria BARBEQUE 5pm Lake Tamblyn (behind the Unive rsity Centre) THURSDAY, 15 MEETING Board of Governors 4pm Senate Chambers ALUMNI SERVICES PRESENTS STUDENT FALL FLEA MARKET Truly, the sale of the century Good and great junk 10am -4 pm Grounds of Alumni House Donuts & Hot dogs available Donations still accepted FRIDAY, 16 ANNUAL DINNER Board of Governors 6pm Faculty Lounge MONDAY, 19 FREE STUDY SKILLS SEMINAR Time Management 7-Spm BB 1021 Noon - Faculty, Staff & Students Auxiliary Gym, C.J. Sanders Field House Mon. 12:30 - 1:30 Wed. 12:00 - 1:00 Fri. 12:00 - 1:00 $10.00 p e r person Make Cheques payable to Lakehead University. OCTOBER MEEflNG Monday, 3 r----------------·1------------------__j H.B.P.E. III - Camp School AEROBICS SPEAKER: Dr. L H. Bormann YaJe ecologist Topic: "Disturbance and recovery o f nonhern ecosystems 11:30 to 12:30 "Reducing the Global ecological d eficity" 2:30 pm - 4:30 Lower Lecture Thrcatre Alumni Board o f Directors 7:00pm Litt le Dining Room PUBtlCATION DF.ADUN.E lhe October AGO.RA will be published the firstweek ofOetober. Deadline forsubmission is September 20. Agorl\ FRIDAY, 23 ACADEMIC SCIIEDUI.E Fina l date for late registration, changes and addition of courses for all students except forestry MONDAY, 26 MEETING Senate 2:30 pm Senate Chambers FREE STUDY SKILI.S SEMINAR Text Book Reading 7-Spm BB 1021 The AGORA is produced by the Information Office, Department of Community Relations, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, O ntario. It is published mo nthly (except August), and is distributed free of charge to the University's faculty and staff, local governme nt, media, bus iness and friends of the University. Materia.1 published in this newspaper may be reproduced or quoted with credit. WEDNESDAY, 28 LUSU FILM NIGHT "Good Morning Vietnam" Robin Williams 8:30 pm UC Theatre (UC 1017) $1:50 Students, $2.00 other.; TIIURSDAY, 29 LUSU FILM NIGHT "Good Morning Vietnam", Robin Wil.liams 8:30 pm UC Theatre (UC 1017) $1.50 Students, $2.00 others FRIDAY, 30 MCMASTER MEDICAL SCHOOL TEAM Director of Community Relations: John Russell Editor: Katherine Shedden Secretary: Ao Sherren Photographer: Peter Puna Graphics: Debbie Tew, Linda Slsckar Printing: University P1inting Services Address all correspondence to: Katherine Shedden Co-ordinator of Information and Promotion Services, Room SN1002, Lakehead University, Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7B 5El (807) 343-8631 or 343-8300. Meeting for students, , - - - - - - - - - - - L - = == = = ==========-::: interested in entering medical school Senate Chambers 2pm For further information contact: Tony Cappello: 343-8515 celebrating our Silver Jubilee � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lakehead University Alumni Collection Description An account of the resource Material kept by the Lakehead University Alumni Association, or donated by Alumni to the Association. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agora Magazine Vol.5 No.8 Subject The topic of the resource Universities Description An account of the resource This issue of the Agora contains a report from the President, an article and pictures of construction around campus, and an article on summer school. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lakehead University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1988-09 Agora Agora Magazine Alumni Alumni Association Alumni Association of Lakehead University Lakehead Lakehead University President Rosehart President's Perspective Student Centre https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/51bf02b665344428f2b7ab35bca07c2e.pdf fc864b68b3bb428828aa0aed1f4ab9ba PDF Text Text Inside: We've done it again! rolment breaks all-time record L •••• •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 2 First aid awards ............................ 2 Parents on campus ...................... 3 Book report .................................. 6 Around Campus ........................ 11 THUNDER BAY.ONTARIO VOL. 7. NO. 9 OCTOBER 1990 Campus Climatemore than the weather "To escort, assis t, observe and report", says Grant Walsh, Director of Services, about the role of the new student security service on campus. On Monday, October 1, a team of two student secu rity officers, dressed in bright yellow reflector jackets, will begin ~hoir duties on campus. Members \..._.he team, 14 men and women, were screened, given an orientation, and put on the university payroll. The service will operate from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. seven days a week. The primary role of the Student Security Service is to provide safe passage for students, facu lty, staff and visitors w ithin the boundaries of the main campus. A secondary function is to assist the security guards with patrols to deter crime and vandalism on campus. "Basically, we have additional eyes, ears and legs," said Walsh. "We don't want or need a swat team out there. We have a very beautiful campus and safety is a vital part of the total aesthetics". Paul Brezanoczy, senior security officer, is in charge of the implementation and orientation phase and is very pleased w ith the new service and s ta ff. Walsh ·d the students are taking their c;ponsibilities very seriously and time will tell w hether the Pa ul Brezanoczy, senior security officer, gets a good-natured ribbing from Joe Levine, one trial project will actually make of the newly-hired student security members. this a safer ca mp us. �Report From the President Dr. Bob Rose hart ENROLMENT TOPS 4 ,300! So much for my predictions for a modest increase in enrolment to 4,000 studen ts. At the present time, our enrolment has achieved the 4,300 level and, for the most part, the additional students are distributed in such a way as to minimize room and schedule difficulties. Additional sections of some classes have been necessary, and numerous room changes have been made. The patience shown by both students and faculty has been much appreciated by the Registrar's Office. Although Lakehead University's enrolment has much surpassed our expectations, this is not the story at all of the other Ontario universities, some of which have suffered significant dedines in year one intake. TRAVEL POLICY Recently, the University clarified some aspects of our travel policy. This was necessary for two reasons - first, the recent audits of universities in Ontario and, the Lakehead Board of Education have pointed out some deficiencies in our ~urrent process. For example, our previous travel request form did not specify the reason for h·avel. This is deemed unacceptable by public audits, and it is necessary that we make the change. Further consideration is also being given to the whole process of initiating the travel request form. At the present time, this process starts in the General Office. In most travel request systems, the fom1 is initiated by the traveller. A second motivation for our recent travel policy directives is the significant financial advantage to Lakehead University of directing as much of our travel business as possible to one selected carrier through a limited number of agents who act on behalf of Lakehead University. This does not imply that users have to use one airline, but every conscious effort should be made to do so. As well, a limited number of individuals in the past have preferred to use their own personal travel agent rather than the General Office. Unfortunately, with the new system, if we don't use the General Office, Lakchcad University receives no financial incentives. Exceptions will be made by the Vice-Presidents for good reason and, if you wish to continue to arrange your own travel, please present such a request to the appropriate VicePresident. It is difficult in a publicly funded institution which manages both federal (NSERC, etc.) and provincial monies not to use the system which gets the maximum advantage for the institution. I would encourage you to give the system every chance to prove itself beneficial to the University. For example, at a time when research travel budgets are tight, this system will allow additional research trips to be funded internally without additional budget costs. As I said earlier, we arc looking at some further changes, and l will bring you up to date in a future column. POLICY DEVELOPMENTS . A few new policy developments arc bemg worked on which I hope to sec finalized in the not-too-distant future. A self-funded leave program similar to that in place with the Lakehead Board of Education is being developed, and this would apply to all University staff. Secondly,_ our_University housing loa11 \ program 1s be111g updated, and consid-J eration is bei.ng given to extending this program to both faculty and staff. HEALTH AND SAFETY Marion Muldoon tells me that, in spite of_all the support in the University to provide a healthy and safe working environment, a few troublesome areas conti~ue to exist. With trusty photographer 111 hand, a tour will be made for future column material. If you (or your department) don't want to receive publicity in this area, 1would suggest that a CLEAN-UP would be appropriate. Lakehead is proud of its safety record and the work of our Health and Safety Committee, but all of our efforts go for naught without your personal support. PAR.KING (or lookin g for a spot) One of our graduates who went on to the University of Oregon told me o~ce tha t, at that campus, a parking sticker was not a guarantee of a parking place, but rather like a licence to hunt for one. Improvements have been made this year to the Bora Laskin Lot and, by the end of October, the new lot should be paved (and plugs installed) at the back of Lot 13. Until then, the best approach is to avoid the 8:30 a .m . rush. NEW ONTARIO GOVERNMENT By the time you read this, the new Ontario Government will be sworn in and we will have a new Minister of ' Cc?ll~gcs and Universities. I am optim1stte that the new government will offer enhanced support to both educational and regional development initiatives in northern Ontario. More will be said about this in a future column. J Congrats! First aid training is available on campus and 19 university employees successfully completed the Standard First Aid course last spring. Top row, left to right: Fred Anderson, Darlene Yahn Darlene Yakimoski, Karen ' Merkley and Norm Calloway. Bottom left to right: Dave Mueller, "".arren Paju, Frank Sebesta, Richard Beach, Paul Brczanoczy and Dave Corbett. Certificates were presented by Fred Poulter, VP Administration, bottom far left. Page 2 AGORA - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - October 1990 �Another record-breaking year for student enrolment For the first time in its history, Lakehead University's fulltime enrolment has surpassed the 4,000 mark. According to ~ Registrar, Pentti Paularinne, the end of September figure '-rands at just over 4,300. This is the third consecutive year that the university has broken enrolment records. On November 1, 1988 the university experienced an 11.4% increase with ~ / / 3,726 students w hile the 1989 figure reached 3,813, a 2.3% 111 increase. When asked what factors contribute to the increased enrolment the registrar said, "increased promotional activities played a role, especially Silver Jubilee activities, and strong programs in student services. We also benefit from a continuing trend wherein students are seeking smaller universities". Lakehead University leads all Ontario universities with the largest percentage increase in applications from high school students. First year enrolment increased by nearly 10% with 1,493 students regis tered full-time. This figure does not include the 300 students registered in the one year bachelor of education program. Preliminary part-time enrolment figures point to a moderate increase in the number of part-time students which was 2,100 in 1989. Over 700 of that number were students taking courses at 21 sites throughout northwestern Ontario and an additional 250 studied at home through Distance Education. Very encouraging increases were experienced in the following targeted areas: Forestry up 63%, Outdoor, Recreation, Parks and Tourism up 57%, Science up 28.8%, the Bachelor of Engineering up 10.4%, B13ScN up 17%. Stiff competition continues for entrance to the I-year BEd program which is available for students who hold undergraduate degrees. There were 5300 applications for 250 spots r ,ich expanded to 300 due to an increase in the number of '-,-:ceptances. ln response to a question about the selection process, the Registrar said that Lakehead University places primary emphasis on marks, however, personal statements Jre also considered. Age demographics are not yet available, but last year dose to 80% of the fulJ-time students were under 30. The figures changed dramatically for part-time students, with more than Construction of the Student Centre and Regional Education Centre 80% between 20 and 50. The national trend shows the age of is progressing "right on schedule" for completion in September '91. university students increasing. There are more than 60 It's certainly great timing with the influx of a record-breaking students over the age of 60, taking advantage of free tuition. number of students. Parent Orientation Program a Success Dave and Vangie Bjorkman had a few concerns when their daughter headed off to university. When an invitation to attend Parent's Orientation arrived, they jumped at the opportunity. " l had a lot of preconceived notions about what university would be like. Maybe I was associating universities with radicals, but this orientation has shown me that university isn't what I thought." It was music to the ears of the university community to hear parents say "We like the atmosphere, you're not a number at LU". Approximately 250 parents, more than half from out of town, attended orien tation activities which included a sample lecture, campus tour, the new paren t handbook, do's and don'ts from studen ts and informal m eetings with support staff. Parents were concerned about money, accommodations, course selection and how their sons and daughters would adjust to their new lives. The message they heard over and ,ver was "Expect change. That's the norm." "We had a tremendous turnout for our first year" commented Joy Lawson, Director of Student Services. "Their Parents listen (keeners even take notes) during "lectures" at presence and positive feedback validated our belief that a Parent Orientation sessions. parent orientation is a necessary ser vice". Oc tober 1990 AGORA - - -- -- - -- - -- - - - - -- Page 3 �New Faces J Sister Alice Greer (ex. 8002) is the new chaplain in the Counselling and Career Centre. Originally from Thunder Bay, Greer left the city in 1977 and joined the Sisters of St. Joseph, an order based in Sault Ste. Marie. In Sault Ste. Marie she took courses in theology at St. Paul's University. Counselling has played a major part in Greer's work experience. She has a diploma in Social Work from Confederation College and received her BA in psychology from Lakehead in 1988. She spent a number of years in private practice working with families and couples as well as counselling people with addictions at the Smith Clinic. Greer points out that the trend towards traditional teaching and nursing professions for Sisters is shifting. "We have a lawyer, a doctor, even an opera singer but being chaplain at a university is the first for our community". Greer's leisure pursuits include tenting, fishing, all season skiing, playing guitar and woodworking. The Chaplaincy Office offers spiritual counselling on campus and services each Sunday, 7:00 pm at the Avila Centre. Dan Rice (ex. 8084) joined Student Services as the Native Support Services Co-ordinator. Rice received his Bachelor of Education degree from Lakehead University a t the recent convocation and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Algoma University College in Sault Ste. Marie. Rice is a status Native Canadian (Onkwehonweh - original people) and belongs to the Kahnawake Band in ==--== :__:== Montreal. Since embarking on his career, Rice has been involved in three specific areas. His background is in fam iJy, marriage and career counselling, and has worked in marketing/retail sales, at one point in a marketing position at Sault College. He has been "in front and behind the radio mic and the tv cameras", most recently at CBQ Radio in Tirnnder Bay. Away from work Rice spends time with his wife and five ch ildren, pli:!ys basketball and classical and pop guitar. An avid reader, Rice recently picked up Honour the Sun by Ruby Slipperjack-Farrell (his predecessor at Native Support Services) and has put her at the top of his list of favourite authors. Glenn Payne Joanne Andrew-Cotter Glenn Payne (ex. 8783), recent! y hired in the Remote Sensing lab at CARIS feels at home in his new position. " I did my undergrad thesis with CARIS" . He graduated with his HBSc in Forestry at the 1990 convocation . Originally from Comer Brook, Newfoundland, Payne graduated with a forestry technician diploma from the College of Trades and Tedrnology in St. John's and worked in the forestry field for a number of years. He decided to return to school for his degree and chose Lakehead because of its college transfer program. In the past Payne has been a competitive power lifter competing in the '85 and '87 World Powerlifting Championships and winning the National Championships in 1987. Although he does not plan to compete in the near future, Payne has recently returned to powerlifting's rigorous training regimen. Joanne Andrew-Cotter (ex. 8729) has made a recent move from the Centre for Northern Studies to the Library. She is presently serving as secretary to the ) librarians and relishes her new positior, "It's so busy, especially now that the students are back". Born and raised in Thunder Bay, Andrew-Cotter graduated from Hammarskjold High School. She has taken a few interest college computer '-'-----------' courses in the past and would like to continue part-time studies at LU. Andrew-Cotter spends her spare moments sewing, knitting and crod1eting. Depending on the season, she also enjoys downhill skiing an d waterskiing. Andrew-Cotter is presen tly making p lans for her wedding in 1992. B_.K _ ._ K _e_n_t _ ____. L..-1_ _ _ Derrik Patola I . ' - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - -- - - ' Derrik Patola has recently joined the Audio-Visual Department in the area of Computer and A/V Equipment maintenance. The university environment is a definite change from Patola's 13 years as a mechanic with a local car dealership and he enjoys the new environment. "Everything is interesting and diverse and you're constantly meeting fascinating people". Now that he has settled into his new job, Patola is looking forward to bagging the L-~ ~ = ~ : = ! : : ~ elusive moose this hunting season. "I live for the outdoors". Patola plans to spend his winter leisure time with his two children. Page 4 Dr. Beverley "B.K." Kent (ex. 8338), new associate professor of phiJosophy, is a world traveller who looks forward to rooting herself at Lakehead University. Growing up in New Zealand, Kent left the country after her initial schooling and travelled the world. "I still wasn't ready to go home so I spent three more years in London (England)". Kent eventually moved to Montreal, attending Sir George Williams College (now Concordia University) at night. She discovered her taste for philosophy at Sir George and received a BA. Kent then attended tht> University of Waterloo where she received her MA and PhD After teaching in New Zealand and Australia, Kent returned to Canada briefly for a posting at Simon Fraser University followed by six years in the U.S. Kent is the author of a book entitled Logic and the Classification of the Sciences . AGORA - - - - -- - - - -- - - - - - October 1990 �People, Papers/Publications the Conference on Unemployment in & Special Projects Dr. S. A. Mirza, Professor of Civil Engineering was recently elected, for a twoyear term, the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Reinforced Concrete Columns of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The Committee's mission is to review and correlate information on the analysis and behaviour of reinforced concrete columns and frames including the methods required by various structural codes, to encourage experimental and theoretical research on column and frame behaviour, and to propose provi~ions for design of columns. The members of an AC! or ASCE technical committee are elected intcmat1onall yon the basis of their expertise in the area of the committee's mission. The Committee on Reinforced Concrete Columns is currently composed of fifteen ,·oting members and five associate members. Dr. David Nock, Professor, Sociology r1d his paper "Star-Wars: Social Con\. c1ction of Reputation in EnglishCanadian Sociology" on May 28 at the 25th annual meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association held at Victoria, B.C. in conjunction with the Learned Societies. He also organized .:i session with the title "Founding Figures and Social Context in the Developing Canadian Sociology Tradition" and acted as dicussant for a session dealing with Ethnic Minorities in Canada. Renate Eigenbrod, Deparhnent of English, presented an invited paper entitled "Canadian Indian Literature: Insights into Indian-White Relationships" at the National Library in Ottawa {in June 19, 1990. The event was spon~ored by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany. Dr. S tephen McBride, Department of Political Studies, recently presented a paper" Authoritarianism without Hegemony? The Politics of Industrial Relations in Britain" at the annual meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropological Association, in Victoria British Columbia. Dr. McBride is also the _?C-author, with Dr. Bruce Muirhead l istory) who presented the paper, and Dr. Kjell Lundmark (Political Science, University of Umca, Sweden), of "Politics versus Markets: Employment Strategics in Peripheral Regions", presented at October 1990 Peripheral Regions, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, June 1990. Dr. Yves Prevost had one refereed article published in The Canadian Entomologist 122:441-447 titled Spruce Cone Axis Midge, Dasineura rachiph~ Tripp (Dippera Cecidomyiidac), in cones of black spruce, Picea mariana (Mill) B.S.P." and one symposium paper published titled "Environmental architecture Preventing loss of seed production to insects in black and white spruce seed orchards in West R.J. (ed.) the Proceedings of a Cone and Seed Pest Workshop in St.Johns Nfld. 1989. He also presented two posters and one paper at the 19th Jnternational Union of Forest Research Organizations held in Montreal from August 5-111990. Poster l School of Forestry Lakehead University educational programs; poster 2 "Are black spruce cone and seed insects threatening forest regeneration?" and one paper "Preventing loss of seed production by insects in black and white spruce seed orchards". Dr. Jim Smithers of the School of Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism was the keynote speaker at the Annual General Meeting of the Alexander Mackenzie Trail Association in Vancouver, British Columbia on Saturday, September 15, 1990. The address was hosted as a public event by the Vancouver Museum. In conjunction with the address, a Proclamation from the Government of British Columbia was presented to the Alexander Mackenzie Trail Association regarding the dedication of the British Columbia section of the proposed Alexander Mackenzie Voyageur Route from Lachine, Quebec to Bella Cool, British Columbia. In addition, the new Alexander Mackenzie Voyageur Route brochure which details the 1989 to 1993 Canada Sea-to-Sea activities was presented under the auspices of the Canadian Parks Service, the National Film Board and the British Columbia Ministry of Municipal Affairs. Dr. Smithers was also invited to participate in the arrival of the Simon F.raser Brigade at the end of its 10 day voyage down the Fraser River. The expedition was part of Simon Fraser University's "CAMPAIGN FOR THE FUTURE" promotional activities. Mr. Michael Boss, Department of Visual Arts is presenting an exhibition of recent paintings at the John B. Aird Gallery in Toronto, Ontario. The exhibition was from September 7 - 29, 1990. Michel Morton, School of Nursing, recently delivered papers at two conferences. On Scptember 22, she prescn ted the paper, "Assisting Student Community Health Nurses to Increase their Cultural Sensitivity to Canada's Native People" ,at the third provincial conference on multicultural health, Partnerships in Health Ill: Cultures and Health Leadership and Innovation in Multicultural Health held in Hamilton. On October 13 she presented the paper, "Facilitating Contextual Literacy for Student Community Health Nurses" at the con ference, Contextual Literacy Writing Across the Curriculum, at Laurentian University. Appointments Congratulations to Dr. G. Borradaile on his appointment to the NSERC Operating Grants Selection Committee for 1990-1993 in Ottawa. Dr. Borradaile has published 62 Geophysics and Geology papers in peerreviewed journals and he holds Ph.D. and D.Sc. research degrees from Liverpool University, U.K. Dr. J.E. (El) Mollo, Professor and Chairman, Department of Anthropology, was appointed to a 1-year term with the Ontario Heritage Foundation. Awards Dr. Henry (Hank) Akervall, Outdoor Recreation Parks and Tourism, will be inducted into the Michigan Tech Sports Hall of Fame. Induction ceremonies will take place October 20 in Houghton, Michigan. He will join a prestigious group of top athletes, coaches and administrators honoured over the past 100 years. Dr. Akervall received his undergraduate degree from Michigan Tech in 1962 an d was named All American the same year. Dr. Akervall was inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1988. Ina Chomyshyn, Director of Resource Centre of Occupational Health and Safety, has been granted the designation "Registered Occupational Hygienist" by the Canadian Registration Board of Occupational Hygienists. There arc only 200 ROHs in Canada. PUBLIC LECTURE Speaker: DR. JOHN GRANT Head, Department of Classics, University of Toronto Subject: ILLUSTRATIONS IN CLASSICAL BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS MONDAY, 15 October, 1990 8PM Ryan Building Room 1022 Sponsored by the Department of Languages and Classical Association of Canada AGORA - - -- - - -- - -- -- - - -- - Page 5 �Another history book for Angus: A Deo Victoria "When I was a boy, growing up in the tiny community of Big Chute on the Severn River in the 1930's, the fabled Georgian Bay Lumber Company was often spoken about by our elders. Even though the company had not logged the river for over forty years, there were plenty of relics around to confirm the loggers' one-time existence". These stories and "artifacts" representing the past glory of the Georgian Bay Lumber Company, sparked the interest of Dr. James T. Angus, professor of Education at Lakehead, and inspired him to write a book on the subject. Written for the general reader, A Deo Victoria: The Story of the Georgian Bay Lumber Company 1871 -1942 is the history of a business that had a powerful impact on the development of the Georgian Bay district. The Georgian Bay Lumber Company was the largest and oldest company of its time, having been formed through the amalgamation of original Georgian Bay sawmills. The book is not just a record of the development of the company, but a chronicle of the fortunes and misfortunes, successes and failures, of a group of 19th century entrepreneurs, whose sole motive for exploiting the forests was the acquisition of wealth.This book will appeal to those interested in local history and gaining an understanding of the resource communities that were crucial to the development of Ontario's frontier regions. A Deo Victoria, published by Severn Publications, is Dr. Angus' second book about Ontario history. His first book, A Respectable Ditch: A History of the Trent-Severn Waterway 1833-920, was published in 1988 by McGill-Queen's University Press. Both are part of the Ontario Heritage Foundation's Local History Series. Health Services Log: 12,500 c lient visits and 9,000 telephone calls A few members of the health team: left to right, relief nurse Sandi Covino, Dr. David Legge, clinic physician, Jessie Sutherland, Health Uni/ manager, and receptionist, Pal Coates. Part-lime students will be assisted with the addition of more evening clinics. Page 6 J It may be a dubious honour, but Health Services can ) certainly win the award for busiest office on campus. At the helm is a soft-spoken, hard-working nurse who's been at LU since 1969. In a gentle brogue, she talks about the changes over the years and recalls the 70's when there were 3500 students and one nurse - Jessie Sutherland. The Health Unit now has 2 nurses, a full-time receptionist, a relief nurse and 8 local physicians offering 12 medical clinics each week. "And sometimes we're still straight out" she says. Primarily a student health centre, personnel also take care of the health needs of staff members, with approximately 657 visits last year. Sutherland stressed that students will always have priority "but we try to help everyone". Joy Lawson, Director of Student Services, acknowledged that services are running at capacity and identified two problem areas: space and a lack of psychiatric services. "It's under review right now, but a major difficulty is the lack of space and the whole issue of confidentiality due to space limitations. In the area of psychiatric care, we must refer students to community services." What can you expect at the Health Centre?" Anything and everything" says Jessie Sutherland stressing that they offer personalized health care which promotes the total health of the individual. Staff organize many programs including diet and nutrition, blood pressure, safe sex, AIDS awareness, alcohol and drugs. They also provide immunizations, co-ordination with labs or family physi- J cians at home. Nurses will also make hospital or residence visits to students. AGORA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Oc tober 1990 �Research News ' FROM THE OFFICE OF GRADUATE STUDIES AND RESEARCH Connie Hartviksen, Interim Rese arch Officer Any information regarding research opportunities is available at the Research Office, or ex. 8793. Research Opportunities SSI-IRC News: An informative workshop was presented by Mrs. Patricia Dunne on September 13, 1990. Strategic and Regular Research Grants were discussed. I would like to thank a LI of those people who were present. Overheads are available for those who were not able to attend. Did You Know? Professors Emeriti are eligible for SSHRC fund ing! NSERC News: Ms. Erica Besso and Ms. Isabel Blain presented workshops on Parh1crships, Strategics, and Operating Grants on September 21, 1990. Special thanks to all of you who were able to attend these worthwhile sessions. For those of you who were unable to timetable this, I would be happy to discuss the details of these meetings with you. Several NSERC site visits arc scheduled over the next four months. The Research Office wi.11 be assisting in the planning and co-ordinating of these visits with the individual departments. Did You Know? Professors Emeriti are eligible for NSERC mding! The comment 1received when 1 asked this question .,i the NSERC Grants Officer was "Of course, some of our best research is done by Professors Emeriti. They are truly dedicated and arc not constrained by classroom/teaching obligations" . National Research Council Laboratories Research Associatesh ips 1991 The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) offers Research Associa tcships tenable in the following NRC laboratories. Biotechnology Research Institute Hcrz!:ierg lnstitu te of Astrophysics lndus t:rial Ma terials Institute Institute for Aerospace Research Institute for Biological Sciences Institute for Environmental Chemistry Lnstitute for Information Technology lnstitu te for Marine Biosciences Institute for Marine Dynamics Institute for Mechanical Engineering Institute for Microstructural Sciences Institute for National Measurement Standards Institute for Research in Construction Plant Biotechnology Institute Steacie l.nstitute for Molecular Sciences These Associateships are intended to give promising scientists and engineers an opportunity to work on challenging research problems in fields of interest to NRC as a stage in the _r'-lcvclopmcnt of their research careers. At any given time, \ ,ere are approximately 200 Research Associates at NRC. Applicants should have recently acquired a Ph.D. in Natural Science or E<ngincering or a Master degree in an engineering field or expect to obtain the degree before taking up the Associateship. C Oct ober 199 0 Associateships are open to nationals of all countries although preference wiU be given to Canadians. Research Associates will be offered appointments to the staff of the National Research Council on a term basis and will be offered salaries and benefits currently available to members of the continuing staff. The initial appointrnen t will normal! y be for a two-year term and may be renewed, subject to the Associatc's performance and subject to the requirements of the Division. Renewals are considered annually. Partial travel allowance. Applications must be made on special forms which may be obtained from the Research Office. Applications and supporting documents must be received in Ottawa no later than N ovember 30, 1990. Association of Universities & Colleges of Canada 1991/92 Canadian Commonwealth Visiting Fellowships On behalf of External Affairs and International Trade Canada, the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Committee is pleased to announce that up to five Visiting Fellowships arc to be awarded by Canada for the 1991 /92 academic year. These Fellowships are intended to bring to Canada from other countries of the Commonwealth, persons who are prominent in any function at universities, colleges, primary or secondary sd10ols, technical institutes or related educational agencies. The purpose of the Fellowship is to offer the Visiting Fellow the opportunity to discuss various educational matters with Canadian colleagues and to advise and be advised on techniques and problems pertaining to the particular field of interest. In this connection, I would like to emphasize that Visiting Fellowships are intended to bring to Canada persons who arc prominent in any function at educational institutions. This includes senior administrators, librarians, registrars, experts in financial aid or experts in computer systems, to name only a few. The tendency has been for universities to nominate on! y researchers for Visiting as well as for Research Fellowships. Over the next year, you might wish to take this into considcra tion. Please note that only one nomination may be made by this university and that nomination must be signed by Dr. Rosehart. The completed nomination form must reach the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan, c/o Awards Division, Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, 151 Slater Street, Ottawa, Ontario. K1 P SN1, no later than October 31, 1990. Environment Canada Great Lakes University Research fund (GLURF) A new subvention program, the Great Lakes University Research Fund (GLURF) has recently been created. GLURF was established by Environment Canada in parh1ership with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) to promote and finance research within Canadian universities that wi.11 assist Canada in meeting its obligations under the Canada/U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. The Fund, totallfog $4 million dollars, will be granted to university researchers over a fouryear period. The competition for the fund is open to any Canadian university conducting research of direct relevance to the Great Lakes. Priority will be given to research conducted in the lakes, rivers, tributary basins and ground waters of the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem. The deadline for application to the Fund is Novemb er 30, 1990. ALI submitted research proposals will be evaluated for compatibility with the research priorities established by Environment Canada. Proposals meeting the priorities will undergo formal peer review to be coordinated jointly by Environment Canada and NSERC. AGORA - - - - -- - - -- -- - -- - -- Page 7 �lnstructions and a summary for applying to this new program are now available at the Research Office. Canadian Cancer Society Stephen Fonyo Fellowship Award The Canadian Cancer Society is pleased to announce that the Stephen Fon yo Fellowship Award is available to health professionals in a variety of different fields. These awards have been made possible by a gran t from the Government of Canada for health professionals who wish to obtain a short period of training in the cancer field. The objective of these training fellowships is to improve the candidate's knowledge of cancer. The experience might be in pain management or in any other of the activities that are carried out in a modern cancer treah11ent centre, including clinical research. • An applicant for the award must be a graduate of a recognized health professional education program or its equivalent. The length of training will be detem1ined by the qualifications and needs of the applicant and the proposed program of study. The minimum period of study will be two weeks and the maximum of ten weeks. All successful applicants, whether physicians or su rgeons, pharmacists, nurses, social workers, psychologists, chaplains, etc., will be reimbursed for reasonable living expenses for travel, tuition, lodging and meals in keeping with the Society's current practices. Those Health Professionals who are not on salary, will receive in addition, S1,000 per week. The fellowship will be completed in a Canadian Cancer Treatment Centre preferably in or near the community in which the applicant is located. In the event that the proposed course of study is not available in such a centre, an alternative facility may be approved a t the discretion of the Selection Committee. Application for these awards should be made at least two months prior to the date on which the applican t plans to begin training. The decision regarding an application will be made within one month of its receipt. Health professionals interested in this program may pick up a description of the conditions of the Fellowship and application forms. The Canadian Red Cross Blood Services Research and Development Program 1991/92 Career Development Fellowship Awards Career Development Fellowship Awards are offered for a non-renewable period up to three years to provide support for highly qualified candidates who have recently completed their forma l research training and wish to acquire further experience in a Blood Transfusion Service setting. Lt is expected that successful candidates will engage in a career in research related to blood and blood products in Canada upon completion of their award, but this is not a condition of the award. The value of each Fellowship is related to the major degree and experjence of the applicant. The Fellowship offers a stipend based on curren t Medical Research Council Rates for each of the three years, as well as a fi rst year research allowance of $10,000. The number of awards will be no more than two in any year. Candidates must: (a) hold a recent Ph.D. (or equivalent research degree) or an M.D./D.D.S./O.V .M., plus a recent research degree in an appropriate health field (minimum M.Sc.) or equivalent research experience. (b) not be registered for a higher degree at the time of the application nor undertake formal studies for such degree during the period of the a ppointment. Page 8 Candidates for Career Development Fellowship Awards are required to complete a Career Development Fellowship Award Application Fom1 (RD30). Applications must be made through and with the support of the MEDICAL DIRECTOR r the BTS Centre at which the applicant intends to work. .-, Applications must reach the research and Development Administrator, National Office by mid-January 1991. Candidates will be notified of the outcome of their applications by June 1, 1991. Successful applicants can take up their appointments on or after July 1, 1991. The John C. Polanyi Prizes, 1991 In honour of the achievement of John Charles Polanyi, corecipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Government of the Province of Ontario has established a fund to provide annually up to five prizes to outstanding researchers in the early stages of their career who arc continuing to postdoctoral studies at an Ontario university. In 1991, the prizes have a value of $15,000 each and are available in the areas broadly defined as Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Economic Science. 1. Any person who is planning to con ti.i1ue to post-doctoral studies (or has a facu lty appointment) in a recognized Ontario university who meets the following criteria may apply for one of the prizes: i) is normally resident in Ontario and has completed or is near completion of doctoral studies in any recognized university in the world, or ii) has completed or is nearing completion of doctoral studies in an Ontario university; and iii) either will have completed all the requirements for the doctoral degree by December 31, 1991, or received the doctoral degree between September 1, 1988 and the above date. (Note: applicants holding facu lty ap- ..J; pointments within these time limits may apply). 2. The p rizes are awarded to assist the recipients in their research and professional development. 3. The prizes may be held along with any other financial support or research funds received by the winners. 4. It is hoped that 1991 prizes will be conferred by September 1991. No prize will be awarded without the successful applicant having completed all requirements for the doctoral degree. Application procedures and forms are available in the Research Office. The application deadline is January 11, 1991. Royal Society of Canada Konrad Adenauer Research Award 1991 On the occasion of his visit to the University of Toronto in June 1988, the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr. Helmut Kohl, announced the Konrad Adenauer Research Award. This award, established through the generosity of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, will be made annually to one Canadian scholar in the Humanities or in the Social Sciences. The aim of the Award is to promote academic rela tions between Canada and the Federal Republic of Germany. This award program will be administered by the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation in Germany in cooperation with the Royal Society of Canada and the University of Toronto. The award has been donated for an initial period of five years and will be granted annually. The first award was granted in 1989. The award will be made to highly qualified Canadian scholars, whose research work in the Humanities or in the Social Sciences has brought them international recognition and who belong to the group of leading scholars in their respective area of specialization . The award will be made regardless of the age, race, religion or sex of the applicants. AGORA - - - - -- - - -- - - -- - - October 1990 �Canadian scholars who have been granted the award arc entitled to carry out research work of their own choice at German Research Institutes for a period of up to one year. he research stay in Germany can be divided into several ,..,criods, but must commence within one year of the announcement of the award. The Humboldt Foundation will pay the return travel costs once only for award winners and fam ily members (provided the latter stay with them in Germany for at least three months) between Canada and Germany. Medical and accident insurance may be provided for the award winners ( and family members) if requested. The Award winners are included in the Humboldt Foun dation's sponsorship program. They wiJl be invited to take part in all functions arranged by the Foundation. The Konrad Adenauer Research Award will be granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Nominations will be made jointly by the Royal Society of Canada and the University of Toronto, and submitted to the Humboldt Foundation. At least two candidates should be nominated each year. The Humboldt Foundation's appropriate selection committee will select the award winner. The winner of the Konrad Adenauer Research Award will be announced by the Humboldt Foundation early summer of the year. SC'lf-application cannot be accepted. Candidates must be nominated by this university by December 1, 1990. German Academic Exchange Service DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) is a private, publicly funded, self-governing organization of the institutions of higher education in the Federal Republic of Germany. The DAAD has the function of promoting international ·adcmic relations especially through the exchange of .,rudcnts and faculty. The head office of DAAD is located in Bonn and there arc branch offices in Berlin, Cairo, London, Jakarta, Nairobi, New Delhi, New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, San Jose (Costa Rica) and Tokyo. DAAD grants are available to faculty and students in the United States and Canada for participating in a wide variety of academic programs. The programs and the application deadlines arc listed below. Un less otherwise stated, participants in DAAD programs must hold U.S. or Canadian citizenship and must be full-time faculty members or students at U.S. or Canadian colleges or universities at the time of application. Grants for German Studies Programs in the United States 1. Interdisciplinary Summer Seminar in Cennan Studies for Graduate Students and Ph.D. Candidates of California at Berkeley, July 8-August 16, 1991. Deadline is March 15, 1991. 2. lntcrdisciplinary Seminar in German Studies for Faculty and Recent Ph.D.'s at Cornell University, June 17 -July 20, 1991. Deadline is March 1, 1991 . 3. Grants for teaching - Team Teaching and Guest Lectureships - Deadline is Anytime. 4. Sur Place Grants - Deadline is November 1, 1990 and May 1, 1991. Grants for Courses in Gennan S tudies and Language in the Federal Republic of Germany I. Dcutschlandkundlicher Sommerkurse at the University of Regensburg - Deadline is January 31, 1991. ( Hochschulsommersprachkurse at the University of Freiburg- Deadline is December 1, 1990. 3. Hochschulsommerkurse - Deadline is January 31, 1991. 4. Summer Language Courses at Goetke Institutes - Deadline is January 31, 1991. C C October 1990 5. Learn German in Germany for Faculty and Ph.D. Candidates - Deadline January 31, 1991. Grants For S tudy, Research and Information Visits lo the Federal Republic of Germany l. Study Visit Research Grants for Faculty - Deadline November l, 1990. 2. Research Grants for Recent Ph.D.'s and Ph.D. Candidates Deadline November 1, 1990. 3. Young Lawyers Program - Deadline March 15, 1991. 4. Information Visits - Deadline November 1, 1990. Annual Grants l. DAAD - Fulbright Grants 2. DAAD - Canadian Government Grants 3. DAAD - Quebec Government Grants Other Programs 1. Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowships 2. Leo Baeck Institute - DAAD Grants 3. DAAD - AICGS Grant The Institute For Chemical Science and Technology (ICST) lCST The Institute for Chemical Science and Technology is a non-profit research institute with both industrial and academic members. The Institute was established to contribute to the growth of the Canadian chemical, peh·ochemical and petroleum process industries through support of precompctitivc research. The research projects funded by ICST are carried out primarily at Canadian universities. Results of this research will be further developed by member companies in order to enhance their growth and competitive position. At the present time, lCST has identified five broad research areas: Emulsions and Dispersions Industrial Waste Management and Environmental Quality Polymer Properties and Structure Sensors Technology Separation Science and Technology Novel ideas of potential commercial interest to the members which fall outside the five main research areas are considered in an Open category. This category provides funding for projects which, although outside the identified research areas, are still of potential economic or technical importance to our industrial members. In making proposals in the Open category, researchers shou ld bear in mind the commercial interests of the member companies. In particular, projects in the following areas of industrial catalyst research will be considered: Polymerization and Hydroprocessing Catalysis Selective Olefin Hydrogenation Selective Oxidation c l Chemistry Acidic and Basic Solids as Catalytic Materials Statistical Methods in Reaction Kinetic Studies and Reactor Design [CST invites preliminary proposals for research in the five broad categories outlined above and in the Open category. More specific information concerning the research can be obtained from the Research Office. Please note also that TCST is much more interested in supporting a new and novel program than it is in providing incremental support to an on-going mature program. Thus it is important that the proposal be clearly differentiated from any projects currently being funded from other sources. Typically projects are funded at a level of $30,000 to Sl00,000 per year for a period of from one to three years. Preliminary proposals arc invited and will be promptly acknowledged. AGORA - -- - - - - - - -- - - - - -- - Page 9 �Final Submission must be received by ICST by December 1, 1990. The Canadian I nstitute for Nordic St udies Graduate Scholarshi p The Canadian Institute for Nordic Studies announces their Graduate Scholarship. This scholarship is tenable at any recognized Nordic postsecondary institution granting an earned degree at the postbaccaJaureate level in the applicant's field of study. The Nordic countTies are Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, as well as the Faeroe Islands and Greenland. The level of study is to be at the Graduate level with a degree objective granted by either a Canadian or Nordic postsecondary institution. The field of study should be related to Nordic subjects in all fields such as the humanities, social sciences, physical/ natural/applied sciences. The following con ditions apply: 1) Canadian citizen or landed immigrant 2) Completion with high scholastic achievement, the minimum of a bachelor's degree from a Canadian university or college 3) Evidence in writing of acceptance of proposed study or research plan by the host Nordic post-secondary institution or academic member of that institution. 4) Minimum of six months residency in the Nordic counrry while holding the scholarship. 5 ) The successful applicant will, within six months of completing the study /research projects, submit a written report to CINS. 6) The successful applicant will, within one year of completing the study / research project, provide an oral presentation/lecture/seminar at a Canadian university or college, or at the annual meeting of the Learned Societies or other professional association meetings. The value of this scholarship is S2,500 in Canadian funds. The application deadline is January 31, 1991 . The date of award is April 15, 1991. Please call Kris at ext. 8785. UPCOMING DEADLIN E DATES Senate Research Committee - General Research Awards October 10, 1990 Ontario Mental Health Foundation - Grants Program For: Applied Research and Program Evaluation Projects - October 12, 1990 Ontario Mental Health Foundation and the Alzheimer Association of Ontario - "The Alzheimer's Competition" October 12, 1990 SSHRC Research Grants #410 - October 15, 1990 SSH RC Major Research Grants #411 - October 15, 1990 SSHRC - Strategic Grants - October 15, 1990 University Research Incentive Fund (URIF) - October 15, 1990 NSERC - Internal Deadline - Operating/Equipment/Renewals - October 15, 1990 SERC Women's Faculty Awards - October 15, 1990 NSERC First Time Applicants For Operating Grants - Oct.15, 1990 Foreign Government Awards Program - October 15, 1990 Ontario Graduate Scholarship 1991 /92 Part 1 - Oct. 24, 1990 6SSHRC - Aid to Occasional Scholarly Conferences in Canada - October 30, 1990 SSHRC - Travel Grants for International Representation October 30, 1990 A.U.C.C. 1991 /92 Canadian Com monwealth Visiting Fellowships - October 31, 1990 Laidlaw Foundation Program; Children and Families at Risk Program - November 1, 1990 NSERC Operating/ Equipment Grants/Renewals - Nov. 1, 1990 Department of Energy, Mines & Resources (EMR) 1991 /92 Research Agreements Program - November 1, 1990 SSHRC/NSERC Chairs in the Management of Technological Change - No vember 15, 1990 SSHRC/ FCAR/NSERC Join t Initiative: This program is intended to encourage graduate students to change their linguistic milieu and their place of study from Quebec to another province and vice-versa - November 15, 1990 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships - November 15, 1990 AJzheimers Award - November 15, 1990 International Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) Award - November 15, 1990 Ontario Renewable Resources Research Program (ORRRGP) November 15, 1990 Ontario Graduate Scholarship 1991 /92 Part 2 - Nov. 15, 1990 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship 1991 /92 - Nov. 15, 1990 Ontario Mental Health Foundation-Fellowships, Publicatiom Program, Conference Program - November 30, 1990 N.R.C. 1991 Research Associa teship - November 30, 1990 Environment Canada's - Great Lakes University Research Fund - November 30, 1990 International Society of Arboriculture: Shade Tree Research December 1, 1990 lnstitute for Chemical Science & Technology - R.F.P. December 1, 1990 Konrad Adenauer Award - December 1, 1990 NSERC/SSHRC Master's Scholarships in Science Policy December 1, 1990 CentTe for Studies in Defense Resources Management Solicited Research Program -December 15, 1990 Polanyi Prizes 1991 - January 11, 1991 A.U.C.C. Micro-Fund 1 & 2 - January 15, 1991 Canadian Red Cross Fellowship - Mid January 1991 ClDA Professional Awards - January 31, 1991 Canadian lnstitute for Nordic Studies Graduate Scholarship January 31, 1991 Barton Awards - February 1, 1991 Wildlife Toxicology Fund - Open Social Science Federation of Canada; Aide to Scholar! y Publications Program - Open SSHRC Special Awards: The Queen's Fellowships, Canadian Law Scholarship Foundation, SSH RC Legal Research Scholarship, Doctoral Fellowships in Mant1gement Studies - Open Department of Energy, Mines and Resources; Environmental Studies Revolving Funds - Open Canadian Department of Communications; International Cooperation Assistance Fund on New Information Technologies - Open National Geographic Society; Research Grants - Open Laidlaw Scholar Program - Open North Atlan tic Treaty Organization (NATO) - Advanced Research Workshops - Open National Science Foundation (NSF) - Open, but must allow 6 months for review and processing. International Development Research Cen tTe (IORC) - Open, allow 3 months for a full response. Canadian Cancer Society's Stephen Fonyo Fellowship Award - anytime (2 months prior to when training begins) For more information about Foundations, please contact Jo-Anne Silvennan, Foundations Offi cer at 343-8910 or dro~ by the Alumni House. Page 10 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AGORA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - October 1990 .J. �Around Campus WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM After a lengthy review process, Lakehead University has launched the /omen's Studies Program. The program has 13 undergraduate courses in the field of Women's Studies thus offering a healthy selection for a minor. Following the trend established by a large number of Ontario universities, Lakehead University founded the Women's Studies Study Group in 1987. The result was a foru m whereby women in various disciplines could share their knowledge. Instructors Pam Wakewich and Susan Tiura arc shari11g the positiOI'} of Co-ordinator of the program. They will co-teach the core course which is an mtroductory course "exploring the past, present and future roles of women in society". Specific topics will include: historical overview of feminist theory; politics, law and the family; women, health and illness; women and philosophy; women, culture and creativity; women and science; research methodologies and women in Northwestern Ontario". A speakers series will also complement the program and s tudents and the public will benefit from their expertise. ( UEW RATIFIES CONTRACT TI1e Board of Governors of Lakehead University ratified a two-year agreement between Lakehead University and the Canadian Union of Educational Workers for the period September 1, 1989 until August 31, 1991. The agreement provides graduate students with a 7% increase in wages in year I and 4% in year II. Graduate students on assistal1tship will also receive a benefits package 111 year II that includes partial medical and vision care coverage. Undergraduate students will receive wage increases that average 6.95% in year I and range from 4.5% to 5.95% in year II, depending on the classification. 111 addition to wages and benefits, there were changes made to contract language in various articles such as appointments, postings, unpaid leaves, Union information listings, etc. New wording was also added to the agreement dealing with personal harassment and HIV-related illness. October 1990 NOMINATIONS FOR HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS The Senate Committee on Honorary Degrees is now accepting nominations for possible honorary degree recipients for the May, 1991 Convocation. Nominations, together with biographical data, should be sent to Mrs. Linda Phillips, Office of the President, by MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1990. ALUMNI HONOUR AWARD Nominations are being accepted for the 1991 Alumni Honour Award to be presented to an alumnus/a of Lakehead University who has made an outstanding contribution in one or more fields. Nominations shou ld include a onepage summary of the reason for your selection and the candidate's C.V. Send submissions before FEBRUARY 15, 1991: The President, Alumni Association. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!! Last year the Alumni Association raised over $100,000 thanks to the work of over 80 volunteers who helped out during the annual Phonathon. We need your help agai11 this year -- in November. If you can spare a few evenings to call alumni in Thunder Bay, contact Frances Harding at 343-8193. Money raised will go towards scholarships and bursaries, library acquisitions and many other worthy campus projects. JAPANESE DELEGATION VISITS LU Lakehead University played host to a delegation from Yanaizu, Japan on Friday, September 14. The delegation was on a whirl-wind 6-day trip across Canada and made a stop in Thunder Bay. The Japanese citizens are interested in strengthening established ties with the area. Yanaizu is located near Gifu University, which signed a twinning agreement with Lakehead University in July. NOR'WESTERS' NEW SEASON UNVEILED Lakehead University's Nor'westers will likely have the Thunderdome rocking again this season if the varsity coaches have anything to say about it. The teams were introduced at a reception on September 25 and according to Clyde Tuy!, athletic co-ordinator, the season looks promising. Lou Pero's men's basketball team is expected to perform well this season because of the experience of the squad with only three new recruits added. Lady Nor'Wester basketball coach, Stu Julius, recruited hard last season and gained some valuable rookies. He predicts another win in the Ontario women's west division . Francis Clayton, wrestling coach, is optimistic about the season and believes that the LU team will fare well in competition. The women's volleyball squad has a promising roster with OWIAA all-star team member, Kelly Breutigam, and top-notch setter Kelly WilUams, returning. Coach Claude Lapre predicts a strong season for the team. Also announced at the reception was the establishment of the annual John Zanatta Memorial Alumni Game, to be held this year on October 20. Zanatta, past player and coach for the Nor'Westers, died tragically in August. The Nor'Westers will retire his unifom1 number and establish a scholarship fund in his name. Chief Booster, Larry Hebert, left, discusses the upcoming season with Clyde Tuy/ centre and Or. Bob (another big sports fan). AGORA - -- - -- - - - -- - - - -- - - Page 11 �Campus Calendar To include your Department's event or activity in the Campus Calendar, please call Flo Sherren at 8300 or mail your information to SN1002. Deadline for the November Agora is October 15, 1990. THE CHANCELLOR PATERSON LIBRARY HOURS FALUWINTER TERM Monday - Thursday 8 am -11 :30 pm Friday - 8 am - 9 pm Saturday- 9 am - 9 pm Sunday-11 am -10 pm THANKSGIVING WEEKEND HOURS Saturday, 7 - 9 am - 9 pm Sunday, 7 -1 1 am - 10 pm Monday,8 -9am -Spm CORNWALL CONCERT SERIES 1990-91 Recital Hall, Cornwall School 210 S. Algoma St. Tuesdays at 12:30 pm unless otherwise noted. October 9 Robert Silverman, piano (Vancouver) $3.00 October 23 Jane Leibel, soprano (winner of the 1990 Eckhardt-Gramattc Competition); Rachel Andrist, piano -S3.00 November 6 Eva Solar-Kinderman, piano (Victoria) - S3.00 1990/91 VARSITY HOME SCHEDULE C.J. SANDERS FIELDHOUSE Friday/Saturday, October 12/13 PIZZA HUT HIGH SCHOOL G IRLS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT Saturday, October 20 JOHN ZANATTA MEMORIAL ALUMNI GAME WOMEN'S 6:00PM MEN'S 8:00 PM Friday/Saturday, November 2/3 MEN'S & WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PIZZA HUT TOURNAMENT Saturday, November 10 WRESTLING DUAL MEET (tentative) Friday/Saturday, Novem ber 16/17 WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL vs GUELPH Friday, November 23 WRESTLING DUAL MEET vs WESTERN ONTARIO Friday/Saturday, Nov.30/Dec.1 WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL OCTOBER FREE PUBLIC LECTURE J FRIDAY OCTOBER 19 PUBLIC LECTURE SPEAKER: DR. CHARLES W. TAYLOR Medical-Physical Division 3M Corporation, St.Paul, MN TOPIC: "Adhesives Research & Development and Careers and Opportunities in Industries" PLACE: RB 3044 2:30 PM The lecture is sponsored by the Industrial Research Institute, NY, 3M Corporation and L.U. Chemistry Depar tment. TUESDAY, 23 SENATE 9:30 AM MONDAY,29 PUBLI C LECTURE SPEAKER: DR. FREDERICK HOLMES TOPIC: History, Fiction and the Dialogic Lmagination: John Fowles' A ''WOMEN IN ENGINEERING'' Dr. Monique Frize, the first holder of the Canadian Chair of Women in Engineering, will conduct an information session for the public to learn more about opportunities in the engineering fi eld. Tuesday, October 9, 1990 7:30 pm Senate Chamber Dr. Frize is a professional electrical engineer with industrial, research and teaching experience. Everyone Welcome Maggot PLACE: RB 1022 7:30 PM NOVEMBER MONDAY,5 ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING LITTLE DINING ROOM 7PM University Campus Final date for withdrawal from first term half-courses without academic penalty The 2nd annual L.U.C.C. Children's Halloween Party will be held for all faculty, staff, and their families on Sunday, October 28, 1990 at 2 pm in the Main Cafeteria. Agorl\ 111<• /\GORA is produced by the Information Office. Department of External Relations, L.ikchead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lakehead University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990-10 Agora Agora Magazine Alumni Alumni Association Alumni Association of Lakehead University Lakehead Lakehead University President Rosehart President's Perspective Student Centre https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/37d6968c22f3f8f53cee8f7d6a9141f8.pdf 75c95c4aa6c0b456db6db0a4d7296315 PDF Text Text ► 14 NATIONAL UNIVEIISITIES• WEEN SEMAINE NATIONALE DES UNIVEIISITiS octob<.>r 14 ton i ill Ii du 14 ~u 22 octob<e .._..is¾Je: "Jus(your Garton variety" ........ 3 Agoraphobia halted .................... 4 Student Services: we care .......... 8 Jay Ingram on Campus ............ 10 Open House '89 ........................ 12 THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO VOL. 6. NO. 9 OCTOBER 1989 A New Beginning... C "I know the immigrant story'' says Oliver Tiura, Department Chairman and Associate Professor of Visual Arts. His bronze sculpture, entitled A New Beginning, will be the focal point of a fountain in the new Multicultural Centre. ''The arch is symbolic of entry into Canada," explained Tiura who was born in Finland and emigrated to Canada at the age of nine. He recalls the traumatic experience of being struck by a freighter and thinking his boat would sink. Tiura was working on the sculpture when approached by the Thunder Bay Multicultural Association to help with a suitable design for the fountain and a sculpture for the centre's foyer. The Rotary Club of Thunder Bay (Port Arthur) donated $5,000 to the fountain project, which Tuira designed. The Association will soon have a gala unveiling and they invite the public to see the final results. �Report From The President Dr. Bob Roseh art Enrolment '89 Another great academic year for Lakehead! As I write this article, our enrolment has surpassed last year and is just over 3,900 full-time students. Our first year intake has also increased from last year, and this places Lakehead in a favourable position with respect to the base funding review process currently being carried out by the Ontario Committee on University Affairs. The academic reputation of our academic offerings continues to draw students in in increasing numbers from throughout Ontario. Kenora Campus For some time, our offerings in Kenora have been growing, and it has been increasingly difficult to serve the Kenora and region students in a carpet bagging mode. Initial discussions with Confederation College will sec an office space provided to Lakehead in their new Kenora facility which will be opening in 1991. In the interim, space has been obtained to open a modest facility in Kenora. The official opening will occur later in the fall as part of our Silver Jubilee Program, and the facility will provide a counselling centre and two classrooms. Circumpolar Conference Geoff Weller reports that plans arc well underway for the first major conference to be sponsored by the Centre for Northern Studies, "The Role of Circumpolar Universities in Northern Development'' to be held at Lakehead University from November 24 to 26, 1989. This conference will bring together delegates from Sweden, Finland, the U.S.S.R., and the U.S.A., as well as representation from many parts of Canada. . For details, contact Jean Engholm at Extension 8360. Page 2 Electoral Board for Chancellor With the completion of the term of Chancellor G. B. Weiler, the Senate and the Board of Governors are constituting an Electoral Board. Although Chancellor Weiler is eligible for a further term, he has given me the indication that his plans are to step down. Chancellor Weiler has done an outstanding job for Lakehead University during his term as Chancellor. New Maintenance Building With the completion of the new residence complex, the "Ponderosa" (an old greenhouse) had to go, and it will soon be replaced by the first phase of a modem, central maintenance facility. The building will be located on the site of the previous building and is being built by BayWalsh Ltd. Bill Hanley Bill's recent passing saw Lakehead lose one of its most dedicated professors. Bill was very committed to both his students here at Lakehead and those he was directly involved with during his time in Africa. I remember talking at length with Bill, over the years, about his African experiences, and I am sure there was always a part of him that longed to return to Africa. Enrolmen t: Another record-breaking year! For the second year in a row, Lakehcad University will establish a1/ historic high in full-time enrolment. According to the Registrar, Pentti Paularinne, enrolment totals in first year Arts increased by 31.9%. Last year's total full-time enrolment reached 3,732. By the end of September, 1989, figures tallied 3,920 fulltime students. Part-time student registrations are down slightly but off-campus enrolment is up (final figures not available). Lakehead continues to draw 49.9% of its full-time enrolment from the City of Thunder Bay and district. Of full-time registrants, 57% arc from Northwestern Ontario. Enrolment figures for international students continues to fall. Compared to an all-time high of 400 students, or 12% of the full-time enrolment, only 149 international students are currently attending full-time. r • Departures Jeff Crocco has left his job at the Conference Centre to become the Sales Manager at the Valhalla Inn. Fashion Show Come out and watch L.U. male and female members of faculty, staff, students and Board of Governors strut their stuff at the Silver Jubilee "Holiday Magic" Fashion Show and Dessert to be held in The New Ballroom at the Valhalla Inn on Sunday, December 3, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available from Mrs. Linda Phillips in my office, from Mrs. Susan Childs in the School of Engineering, at the Switchboard and Bookstore, and from any of the participating retailers. - .. ---..;:- Brenda Steen, Assistant Registrar, coordinates registration procedures from the Agora. Her team of 23 part-time and 6 full-time staff assist students and faculty at 5 registration points and fro the main office. The operation went ver smoothly this year despite recordbreaking numbers. AGORA - -- - -- -- - -- - - -- Octobe r 1989 �Claude Garton -Profile This 1989 photograph sh?ws Doug Li~dsay ~nd Claude Garton, right, discussing one of the plant samp!es in the Herbariu_m. Lindsay was Chairman of the Biology Department at that time and the herbarzum was described as one of the finest local collections in Ontario. The name Claude Garton is synonymous with conservation in Northwestern Ontario. Claude Garton is also a big part of Lakehead University. Tucked away on the third floor of r '! Centennial Building is the herbar..un, where Garton is the undisputed authority. This is as it should be since the herbarium would not exist without him. When Garton, a well known educator, retired from teaching in 1966, he donated his private plant collection to Lakehead University. Since that time, he has served as curator of the Claude Garton Herbarium. In 1979 he received an honorary degree from Lakehead. "When I retired from teaching I volunteered my time to Lakehead U," he said. "I've never been a paid member of the staff. My wife is dead, my family is gone, so I have nothing else to do." As to why he would donate a collection he spent much of his life developing, Garton says, "Well, it was too damn big to keep in the house." He said Doug Lindsay, who was head of Biology at that time, helped orchestrate the transfer of the collection to the University. Gesturing to the herbarium, Garton said "there it is, it's grown much too big for a home now. We have about 90,000 sheets of plants." Garton's involvement with plants ~ 1an in childhood. " I had a grand___,her who was a gardener and I just became converted to plants," he said. "I like to get out and see where the first spring flowers are." October 1989 In spite of a heart condition, Garton tries to get out to see where the flowers are. The summer of 1989 was spent in the Whitefish Lake area, about 50 kilometers southwest of Thunder Bay. Garton and a student assistant worked on a plant survey of the area and got about 400 collections of plants from that area. "See those cartons back there," he said, pointing to two mountains of cardboard boxes, "that's the result." The winter months will be spent "identifying, exchanging (with other collectors), entering data and all that crap," he said. Garton has a lot of will power and does not like to be kept from the things he most enjoys doing. This was never more dramatically illustrated then in 1932 when he suffered a fractured skull in a ski-jumping accident. Once he had recovered, he not only took up skiing again, but "I went back the next year and won the Novice Jump." Through the years, he has actively pursued his love of plants, and worked in the field of conservation. In the late 1940s, Garton was instrumental in founding the first Junior Naturalist Club of the Lakehead. At Lakehead University, he was very active in the Forestry Field school. "Up until I developed this heart problem I would go out with them for the two weeks of the field school and work with them on identification of plants in the field." Garton keeps up with the latest news in conservation, biology and other natural sciences. Physically, he has been forced to slow down. "I now have a heart pacer in and I just don't have the push that I had at one time." Not being able to drive has curtailed his explorations severely. "That has just restricted my activities terribly and I resent it very much!" However, Garton is not one to brood over what he cannot have; he takes heart in doing what he can. Glancing around the herbarium and the work to be done, he said "This is my release; at least I get to see the plants here." Garton's work brought him a brush with fame. In 1954, he submitted a plant specimen to the Department of Agriculture. "Dr. Boivin (of the Dept.) decided that it was a subspecies of a moss that hadn't been described," Garton said. "So he called it variety Gartonis." Unfortunately it was later discovered that the plant had already been discovered and described. "So, I have no plant names with the name Garton on it, now," he said. "But maybe I will." In the meantime another type of fame has been accorded Claude Garton. After his retirement in 1966, the Current River School was renamed the Claude Garton Public School in honor of his many years of teaching. However, he doesn't take this very seriously. He believes that, while flattering, having a school named in one's honour does not guarantee one will be remembered forever. 'There's Vance Chapman School and Gron Morgan, they're just names now," Garton said. "I guess that's our fate, to become a name on a building." Ever modest, Claude Garton does not care for tributes; he simply does what he enjoys. He denies being someone special. To Claude, he is just your Garton variety human being. A G O R A - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Page3 �MAJOR DONATION FOR LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY Lakehead University received $40,000 from Canadian Pacific last month. The money will go towards making the Agora in the University Centre a more comfortable place. CP Rail Toronto representatives Glen Swanson, Vice-President of Operations and Maintenance, and Bob Pelland, Community Affairs Office, presented Bob Rosehart, President of Lakehead University with a $40,000 cheque. Agora is a Greek word meaning 'place of assembly.' At present there arc only a few seattered chairs around the perimeter of the area. With the donation, the Agora can be better furnished, making it a more appealing meeting place for the 6,000 students and 1,200 employees who spend their days at Lakehead University. Mr. Glen Swanson, Vice-Resident of Operations and Maintenance for CP Rail, presented Dr. Bob Rosehart with a cheque for $40,000.on behalf of Canadian Padfic. Also present, back row left to right, Dr. Dianne Common, Dean of Professional Studies, Roger Forsberg, Assistant Superintendent, Lakehe.ad Division, CP Rail, Dr. John Whitfield, De.an of Arts and Science, Greg Beckford, President of LUSU, and Bob Pelland, Community Affairs Officer. Native Students Celebrate Native students at Lakehead University started off the academic year in a big way. A Pow-Wow was held last month to celebrate and share Native culture with the rest of the University. Ruby Slipperjack-Farrell, Coordinator of Native Support Services, said the event was a big success. "It came together so beautifully." According to Slipper-Jack Farrell, there was an increase in attendance and participation this year. This popular campus event is designed to "welcome students back and introduce them to our culture." .,. -r, 1.-...~ #-{~ I ~ l Page 4 ... l• f AGORA - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - October 1989 �Northern and Regional Studies librarian tackles "challenging job" e..::::....._ _ _ _ _ __ _ : = == The Northern and Regional Studies Library is starting off the new academic year with a few changes. Louise Wourinen has joined the Northern and Regional Studies Library as the librarian. She is the former Assistant City Clerk (Administrative) for Thunder Bay. The biggest change for the Library will be the growth of its collections. Wourinen says there are two main collections; the Regional Collection and the Northern Collection. The Regional Collection has grown from the local history collection, which covers Thunder Bay and the immediate area and now covers Northwestern Ontario from Thunder Bay to Rainy River to Kenora. Topics covered in the collection include economic development, resource conflict mechanisms, health care and Native people. "We are trying to cover what is in the curriculum at the University as well as research interests at the Centre (for Northern Studies)," Wourinen said. The Northern Collection covers the provincial norths, Yukon, Northwest Territories, and similar areas worldwide, such as Scandinavia. The Centre opened in the spring of 1988 and there is still a lot of organizational work. They have developed a database of about 17,000 records. That database is growing according to established guidelines. Wourinen's work also entails "general reference type work and organization." 'The job is quite challenging," she said. "It's going to be a very useful collection." While there is still much work to be done on that collection, "it's certainly usable at this point," Wourinen said. The Regional and Northern Library is located in the basement of the Chancellor Paterson Library. Lakehead University hosts Swedish exchange students Photograph and story by Elinor Barr Stina Levin and Eva Wretlind are the first students to come stayed with the Cecilia Papak family. The flight at midnight, to Canada under the recent agreement between Lakehead Uniseeing the sunset over Hudson Bay and the treeless tundra, versity and Lulca University in northern Sweden. They spent fascinated Stina. She also learned some Inuktutuk words. six weeks based in Churchill, on the coast of Hudson Bay, Eva's biggest thrill was visiting an Inuit fishing and hunting Jnder the supervision of Robert Archibald of Lakehead's camp nearby. She found to her surprise that caribou meat has a School of Business Administration. One final week at the much milder taste than reindeer. Centre for Northern Studies was required to write their report, What a marvellous opportunity to compare lifestyles at the completed August 11. During this time in Thunder Bay they same latitude in Sweden and Canada, where the climate is so were guests of Frank and Evelyn Heroux. different! The program is co-ordinated through Lakehead UniThe feasibility study outlined the most economical way to versity's Centre for Northern Studies. distribute medical supplies from the Churchill Health Centre to eight Inuit communities in the Keewatin~- - - - - - - - - -- - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ region. The communities arc widely scattered, covering an area which would account for almost the entire length of Sweden. The furthest south is Sanikiluaq in the Belcher Islands, at 56 degrees latitude, and the northernmost is Repulse Bay which lies on the Arctic Circle. At Present 7,000 people are serviced through the Churchill Health Centre, which acts as the nerve centre for nursing stations located in each community. All transportation is by air, except for barge service in the summer. Churchill itself is connected to Winnipeg, its main supply and service centre, by a railway. the journey one-way ta kcs 35 hours. Stina and Eva spent most of their time in Churchill, with one week in Winnipeg and another at Rankin Inlet 480 kms. to the north. Although neither actually saw a polar bear, both participated in Churchill's Polar Bear Dip July 1. The water was very cold. The ice had gone out only three days before, and icebergs were floating in the bay. Their most memorable moments happened at Rankin Inlet, when they Stina Levin(left) and Eva Wretlind of Lu/ea are all smiles outside the Centre for Northern Studies. October 1989 AGORA - - - -- - - - - - - - -- - - - Page6 �========= Faces on Campus========= Mic h ael Boss Michael Boss has joined the Visual Arts Department as an assistant professor. His specialty is painting and drawing. Originally from Winnipeg, he earned his BFA from the University of Manitoba; his masters degree came from the University of Windsor. Having previously taught in different schools, Boss is aware of the unique challenges of teaching in the Visual Arts field - especially in grading. He said grading visual arts is not cut and dried. "You can tell what's good and what's bad but it's not like mathematics which has a right answer." However, Boss is quick to point out that this is one challenge he is experienced in conquering. Outside class hours Boss enjoys painting and has had shows in different areas of Canada and the United States. 1 1 Cathy Chapin Cathy Chapin has joined the "'I Geography Department as the Mai{ Librarian and Cartographer. Her training came from the School of Natural Resources in Lindsay, Ont., where she studied cartography. Chapin's responsibility is to keep the Geography Department's collection in order and do some mapping. Chapin has worked for forestry companies and was with I the Environmental Protection Agency in the States before coming ' - - - - - - - - - - - = = = . i to Thunder Bay. Leisure pursuits include fishing, canoeing and "all the outdoor goodies out here," she said. Chapin likes Thunder Bay because it is just the right size - city conveniences without the traffic jams and hassles. .____ _ _B_e_t_t_y_B_art _ _o_ri._e_k_ _ ___,I ~I_ _ _ _V_io_l_e_t_S_i_m_a_n_d_ _ ___, Betty Bartonek has recently joined the staff in G vii Engineering although she has been at Lakehead for about a year. During her secretarial career at the University she has worked in Campus Development, the Computer Centre, the Vice-President's (Administration) office, mathematics and the VicePresident's (Academic) office. Originally from the Georgian Bay area, she has lived in Thunder Bay for 16 years. Away from work she is kept busy by two children. As for athletic pursuits, Bartonek admits to being a dedicated armchair athlete. Although she is happy in with her present work, Bartonek dreams of other things - like a trip around the world. "If you're going to dream you might as well dream big," she said. Correction: They were good-humoured gentlemen (and bought the story about computer foul-ups). Jose De Cangas and Aris Carasthathis swapped photographs in last month's Agora. Jose said he's not thinking about trading his wine collection for a racquet but he did immediately write to his friends and urge them to "see how fast Northwestern Ontario can change a man". Apologies to both. Page 6 Violet Simand is the new secretary for Native Support Services. Originally from Northern Quebec, Simand journeyed to Thunder Bay in 1988 when her husband came here to work. The Native Support Services office was closed during the su1':I mer,sothereisa lotofwork todotl,..,,. fall, she said. "It's very interesting and very busy," Simand said. A computer buff, Simand has spent quite a bit of time working with IBM com~ ~ ~ ~= =~~=!.J puters. However, the office has a MacIntosh SE which she is trying to getacquainted with. Outside the office, Simand is kept very busy by her two young children. The Jays and Cubs bit the dust and so did many University ball players during the annual President's Ball Tourney. The team from Psychology was the big winner this year - no doubt partly due to the hot glove of Steve Goldstein. l r' ·~ -~ - -- -- - - - - -- - - - - - -- AGORA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - October 19 8 9 �Student Services ''We're going to have a good year'' Student services faced a signifcant turnover this past summer. Now that new people are aboard, Joy Lawson, the Director of Student Services, is confident that the full complement of student service programs are up and running. A member of the counselling and career services team, secretary Linda Veinot (8018) says "we're going to have a good year. The Chaplaincy office has been an - -nportant force on the campus for apr1roximately 12 years. Brother Glenn Doughty was appointed during the summer and has quickly shown his warm and friendly manner to students, staff and faculty. Brother Glenn defines his role "as a listening ear". "As a counsellor, I will be part of a team that assists students and staff with spiritual counselling - to assist in personal growth, value decisions, basically to help in whatever way I can". He was part of a chaplaincy team at the University of Ottawa and recently completed his masters in counselling and pastoral care. He was in private practice at St. Agnes for four years but looks upon his new position at the Lakchead with great excitment. "I've been wanting to do this all my We." Brother Doughty was born in Kirkland Lake and has been a member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate since 1960. Everybody is teasing Brother Glenn about his "Eastern music" and "tranquil lighting'' so please drop by and share a coffee and welcome the man with a wonderful sense of humour and r October 1989 We all get along great and these are good people to work with." New members are Ian Cull (8739), Co-ordinator of Student Counselling, Brother Glenn Doughty (8002), Chaplain, and Ruby Slipperjack-Farrell (8084), Co-ordinator of Native Support Services and secretary Violet Simand (8085). Lakehead University graduate Ruby Slipperjack-Farrell (BA/BEd) has taken over the position of Native Support Services Co-ordinator. The Native Support Services office was dosed during the summer. Now that a new academic year has begun, Slipperjack-Farrell has discovered a large backlog of work. "I'm up to my elbows in correspondence," she said. "It's total craziness." Slipperjack-Farrell is quick to point out that no matter how busy the office may get "we are here to support the students." She said the office provides personal support as well as educational support. "Just giving some basic information can help ease confusion," she said. Slippctjack-Farrell described going through the education system in Thunder Bay as being an advantage in her work. "I can anticipate the problems they (Native students) will run into." Accurate figures on the number of Native students at Lakehead University is not yet available, however, early indications are that students have come from all parts of the country to attend Lakehead University. "I would like to have a giant map of Canada on the office wall so students can mark where they are from and see where other students come from." Ian Cull is returning to Lakehead University. The masters graduate of the psychology program was working at St. Joseph's until his recent appointment. He and Irmo Marini, his predecessor, were graduate students together and worked on the study skills package together. "I guess you could say that launched his career and now five years later we swap jobs." Ian graduated from McMaster in 1979 and says he did "a stint in Southern Ontario" prior to his Thunder Bay transfer and a return to school. Cull's background includes experience with study skills, We-style enhancement, assertiveness training, and individual and group counselling. He is also experienced with vocational aptitude testing and is currently doing research and counselling in the area of eating disorders. Ian previously lectured at the University and was involved with distance education. "The idea of moving to an academic setting appealed to me. Clients are well-read, m.otivated and goal-directed. One can see efforts paying off in that setting," he commented. He says he's looking forward to the challenge and has already started looking into the employee assistance program on campus. • AGORA--- - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - Page7 �Papers /Publications & Special Projects Ian Cull will be giving a public presentation on D Eating Disorders at the Brodie Public Library on y,,,="'-~=!!,o Tuesday, October 24th at · 7:00 pm. The presentation will be titled ''Understand~~~~ ing Bulimia and Anorexia ~~~=~~~; Nervosa". Dr. Birbal Singh, Associate Professor of ~~~==" Mechanical Engineering, presented a paper entitled ~ "A Hydraulic Jet Mining D - Technique for Recovering ..ES.::::;;,::!1.D !::..L Bitumen from Alberta Oil Sands", at the 5th American Water Jet Conference held August 29-31, 1989 at Toronto. The paper was co-authored by Mr. K. Redford and Dr. V. R. Puttagunta of the Chemical Engineering Department. Dr. V. R. Puttagunta, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Dr. Birbal Singh, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mrs. E. Cooper published a paper entitled"A Generalized Viscosity Correlation for Alberta Heavy Oils and Bitumens", in Heavy Crudes and Tar Sands - In Situ Recovery, Vol 4, edited by Richard F. Meyer of the U.S. Geological Survey, and E.J. Wiggins of AOSTRA, August 1989. Drs. Harun Rasid and Brian Phillips, Associate Professors of Geography have recently published the following: Rasid, H. and Phillips, B.A.M. (1989) "Effects of fluctuating levels of Lake Superior on morphological adjustments in the Neebing-Mclntyre flood way, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, Regulated Rivers, Volume 3, 16 pages (in press). Dr. P. D. Watts, Director, Centre for Northern Studies has published the following: Malley, D.F., and Watts, P.O. 1989. A scientific silence. Policy Options 10: 34-36: Watts, P.O., 1988. Sightings of the bowhead whale off the coast of Manitoba. Can. Field. Nat. 102:538-539; Watts, P.O., 1989. Whole body thermal conductance in denning ursids. J. Thermal Biol. 14:67-70; Watts, P.O., and L.C. Cuyler, 1988. Metabolism of the black bear undersimulated denning conditions. Acta Phys. Scad. 134:149152; Watts, P.O. and B.A. Draper, 1988. Beluga whale ecology - A concern of freshwater biologists? Freshwater Biol. 20:211-213; Watts, P.O. and C. Jonke!, 1988. Energetic cost of dormancy in the grizzly bear. J. Wildl. Manage. 52:654656; Watts, P.O. and P.S. Ratson, 1989. Page 8 Tour operator avoidance of situations requiring polar bear deterrence. BearPeople Conflicts - Proc. of Symp. on Management Strategies. Northwest Territories Dept. of Renew. Res. pp 189193. Dr. Frederick M. Holmes, Department of English, has published "John Fowles's Variation on Angus Wilson's Variation on E.M. Forster: The Cloud,' 'Et Donna Ferentes', and 'The Story of a Panic." Ariel 20.3 (1989): 39-52. Dr. Jim Smithers of the School of Outdoor Recreation, presented an invited paper to the 1989 Interpretation Canada Conference in St. John's Newfoundland on September 19, 1989. The paper analyzed the various forces such as sponsor requirements, community expectations and authenticity concerns which impact on the design and delivery of historical re-enactments. Dr. Smithers was also presented the Dorothy Walters' Leadership Award by the Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario at the Annual Meeting of the Council in Collingwood, Ontario on October 1, 1989. This annual award is presented for outstanding leadership achievement in the Outdoor Education profession in Ontario. Dr. Jim Angus of the School of Education has a paper entitled "How the Dokis Indians Protected Their Timber" published in the September issue of Ontario History. The paper, demonstrates how a small band of 19th century Indians on the French River resisted attempts by lumber companies and the Department of Indian Affairs to purchase rights to cut their timber for almost 30 years. When the Indians, then numbering 61 souls, finally released their timber for sale in 1908 they netted $1.1 Million in bonuses and timber dues.This paper is a Chapter in a forthcoming book, A Deo Victoria: The Story of the Georgian Bay Lumber Company 1871 - 1942, to be published by Severn Publications Limited this winter.Dr. Angus has received financial assistance from the Ontario Heritage Foundation to assist with publication costs. The book will be designated No. 2 in the Heritage Foundation's Local History Series. The grant from the Heritage Foundation is the second grant for a second history published by Dr. angus in the last two years. In 1988 Dr. Angus was awarded a grant of $8,300 by the Social Science Federation of Canada to assist with the publication of his seminal history of the Trent-Severn Waterway, A Respectable Ditch, published by McGill-Queen's University Press. The Role of Circumpolar Universities in Northern Development: ...)• N ovemb er 24-26th International interest in the conference continues to grow. Confirmation of participation has been received from the circumpolar universities of Iceland and Greenland, from Umea and Lulea in Sweden, Oulu and Lapland in Finland, Tyumen in the USSR and from Alaska and the Duluth campus of the university of Minnesota. In addition participation is expected from academic colleagues at the universities of Uppsala (Sweden); Yakutsk (USSR); the Arctic Centre (Finland); the Institute of Economics, Copenhagen (Denmark); Ben Gurion University (Israel) and Baylor, Texas (USA). Participation has also been confirmed by the governments of Finland and the USSR. Similarly, most Canadian circumpolar institutions have now indicated their intention to participate. Interest in the conference theme, and in the multi-disciplinary nature of its discussions, is widespread and attendance is expected quite literally from coast to coast, from Memorial University in Newfoundland, to the University of Victoria in British ·1 Columbia. ...J/-' Deadline for receipt of conference registrations is Friday, November 3rd. For further information please contact Jean Engholm, Conference Coordinator, at 343-8377. Big cake, big heart ... that describes the anniversary cake and Lorraine Harris on the occasion of the 1st Birthday Party for Lakehead's Silver Jubilee. A hungry crawd shared coffee and cake and enjoyed the entertainment. The first President of Lakehead University, Bill Tamblyn, and Chllncellor Weiler assisted our hostess. Join us for the next party October 25. AGORA - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - October 1989 �Research News FROM THE OFFICE OF GRADUATE STUDIES AND RESEARCH Interim Research Officer: Anne Fiorenza ( WORKSHOP NEWS I wish to thank all those individuals who have participated in our various workshops. Our guest speakers Dr. Alan Frosst (NSERC) and Gordon Stokell (URIF) are to be commended for providing the Lakehead University community with invaluable information and advice regarding research and grantsmanship. For those faculty members that could not attend the Alan Frosst workshop on "Grantsmanship", the session has been recorded on tape. The corresponding information package is also available and can be picked up at the Research Office. All faculty submitting applications to NSERC or SSHRC are encouraged to make use of these resources. NEWS FROM SSHRC Reorientation of Strategic Programs We recently received news from SSHRC regarding the restructuring of its strategic programs, with a view to intensifying public and private sector collaboration with the academic community and to making strategic research more responsive to the key issues facing Canada today. The most important changes involve the establishment of a Joint Initiatives Program, and the launching of a new strategic theme in Applied Ethics. Joint Initiatives Joint initiatives is an exploratory program which will be implemented during the current fiscal year. The major objective is to encourage partnerships between the public, private, and university sectors for development of multidisciplinary approaches to the study of national issues. The program also aims to promote communication between researchers and users of research and to ensure efficient transfer r ,f new knowledge to potential users. , fhe Council has allocated a budget of $900,000 to this exploratory program and discussions arc underway with several potential partners. October 1989 New theme on Applied Ethics A new strategic theme on Applied Ethics will be created to promote research in this area of vital and p ressing need. With the rapid introduction of new medical technology, and the proliferation of chemical wastes and its dramatic consequences for the environment, it is urgent to address the ethical questions confronting society and to coordinate research efforts, particular! y in the areas of medical, business, and environmental ethics. GRANTS AWARDED Dr. Connie Nelson (Social Work) has been awarded a SSHRC Strategic Research Grant under the theme: Managing the Organization in Canada. The study to be undertaken by Dr. Nelson is entitled "Empowerment, Accountability and Ecology: The Need for an Innovative Approach to Management in Human Sector Organizations. The objective of this research project is to address the question of what is an appropriate management model in the human service sector, given the current emphasis on consumer empowerment, organizational accountability and the ecological-systemic approach to problem solving. Dr. Robert Sweet (Education) has been awarded a SSHRC Strategic Research Grant under the theme: Education and Work in a Changing Society. The L.-___;,__..c.=..-===--==::..i research study is entitled "Computer Conferencing and Continuing Professional Education." The purpose of the proposed study is to further elaborate current definitions of cooperative professional developmentwhich emphasize learner control and collegial learning - to include distance education concepts. The use of computer conferencing is proposed as a learning environment uniquely suited to requirements of personal autonomy as well as cooperative exchanges and participation in group learning activities. Cynthia H. Loos (Nursing) and Dr. Alan D. Bowd (Education) have been awarded a SSHRC Strategic Research Grant under the theme: The Family and the Socialization of Children. The research study is entitled"Alzheimer's Disease and Associated Cognitive Impairments: A Family Affair." The purpose of the study is to provide information bearing directly upon the care and community support of persons with Alzheimer's Disease and related cognitive impairments. It is equally directed toward the development of an instrument to determine the dynamics of caregiving. CONTRACTS AWARDED Mr.Ken Hartviksen (Business) has been awarded a contract by Thunder Bay Ventures to create a model for a local Investment/Trust L==:...=~~~~:..__Jfund. The model is to be based on the Northeastern Minnesota structure. This project is targeted for completion by September 30th. Mr. Brad Rush (Centre for Entrepreneurship), Dr. B. Daclgostar (Business), Mr. R.M. lsotalo and Anne Fiorenza (Research) have been awarded a contract by Thunder Bay Ventures to conduct a research study into local export potential. The purpose of the study is to find out why some companies with high potential for exporting are not doing so, what factors are contributing to successful exporting by others, and what can Thunder Bay Ventures do to encourage increased exporting activity by local businesses. The project will be completed by midNovember. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES Easter Seals The Easter Seal Research Institute supports Research and Development and Professional Training, concerned with the prevention, treatment and management of physical disabilities in chlJdren and young adults in the Province of Ontario. The following are descriptions of the grants offered and application deadlines. Summer Studentships $3000 One available in each Ontario University upon nomination by the Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences. Applicants must be enroled as full-time students. The deadline for this award is March 1, 1990. Doctoral Training Grants Grants are offered to ~versity graduates who are undertaking full-time training in research related to physically disabled young people. Training should AGORA - - - -- - - - - - - - - -- - Page 9 �ordinarily lead to a Ph.D. degree. Application deadlines are: October 15, 1989 and April 15, 1990. Post-Doctoral Fellowships Training grants are offered in the form of Fellowships to candidates holding an M.D. or Ph.D degree. Conditional upon satisfactory reports of progress, fellowships may be extended to two years. Application deadlines are October 15, 1989 and April 15, 1990. Canadian Federation of University Women The Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) invites applications for the following fellowships: Margaret McWilliams Pre-Doctoral Fellowship - Master's degree or equivalent; study well advanced into doctoral program ($8000). Professional Fellowship - Bachelor's degree or equivalent; intention to pursue graduate work below the Ph.D. level ($4000). Beverley Jackson Fellowship - open to women over the age of 35 pursuing graduate work at an Ontario university. The CFUW also offers awards to assist women doing REFRESHER work, SPECIALIZED study or RETRAINING in new techniques applicable to their field. The qualifications required for these awards are a Bachelors degree or equivalent. The awards offered are: CFUW Memorial (1) for studies in science and technology ($1000). Alice E. Wilson (6) for candidates returning to study after a few years ($1000). Margaret Dale Philp (1) awarded by the Kitchener-Waterloo Club, for beginning or continuing studies leading to an advanced degree in the field of humanities or social sciences; special consideration is given to candidates in Canadian History, Canadian residency ($1000). Should any eligible individual be interested in any of the awards sponsored by the CFUW the application deadline is November 30, 1989. International Development Research Centre (IDRC) The IDRC has established Young Canadian Researchers Awards to contribute to the growth capacity in Canada that is responsive to Third World priorities by supporting Canadians to undertake field research of a professional placement in Latin America, Africa or Asia. The awards are open to Canadian graduate students registered at a Canadian university, at the doctoral level in the fields of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Sciences, Communications/Media, Health Sciences, Information Sciences, Social Sciences, Law, Energy, Environment, Earth and Engineering Sciences. The awards are also open to individuals at the master's level in the fields of Health Sciences, Information Sciences, Law, Communications/Media, Environment, Finance and Administration. Silver Jubilee Public Lectu,~e Series Jay Ingram ''Quirks and Quarks'' Educational Centre for Aging and Health (ECAH) ECAH invites applications from interested individuals for E.C.A.H. Educational Fellowships. The purpose of the fellowship will be to broaden the educational skills in Geriatrics/Gerontology of health care professionals in Ontario. The fellowship is intended for physicians, nurses, physiotherapy/ occupational therapy, social workers and other health professionals. Deadlines for applications are: October 1, January 1, April 1, July 1, 1989/90. CENTREFOR NORTHERN STUDIES Northern Training Program The primary purpose of the Northern Training Program is to encourage and support Canadian university students with an interest in northern work, by assisting them to gain northern professional experience and training, through the issuance of Northern Training funds. Priority is given to applications for support of graduate students in various disciplines, however senior undergraduate students entering their final year and intending to undertake an honours thesis based on northern fieldwork or research which will be continued in subsequent graduate study are also eligible. The deadline for submitting applications is December 8, 1989. Thank heavens for Pons and Feischmann. The cold fusion furor that erupted last March and carried on well into the summer, was greeted with enthusiasm by science journalists and the public and dismay by many scientists. This disparity of views reflects some of the problems involved in communicating science to the public, and raises the question, "Can Science EVER take a place alongside entertainment, business and politics as a regular feature in the media?" Tuesday October 17 7:30 p.m. University Centre Theatre UNITED WAY Give to the United Way - the Way to Help The Most One family in three needs the services provided each year. All funds raised in Thunder Bay stay here to serve the community. Page 10 - - - - -- - - - - -- - - - - - AGORA - - - - - - - - - - -- - -- October 1989 �Forum C By Dr. Don Carpenter Department of Social Work BEEN "COLDING" LATELY? Some time ago I attended a conference on new approaches to various problems dealt with by the human services professions. One of the workshops was on holistic medicine. Leading the workshop was a M.D. who was barely recognizable as such because of the highly unorthodox way he described his approach to practising medicine. As an example, when a man in the group who seemed to be increasingly sceptical about the good doctor's explanations of holistic medicine, asked him how he approached handling a routine case of head cold he replied in a way that must have been initially somewhat mystifying to his questioner. First, he said, there are no "routine" cases of head colds; they are all special cases unique to particular clients. Next, he didn't think of those who come for his professional services as "patients" but as clients. The role of patient, he explained, requires the person to be just that -patient, while the doctor - performs the treatment procedures deemed appropriate with ,he patient remaining essentially passive. He said he encourages his clients to be active in their treatment, whatever the problem. As far as the cold is concerned, he never thinks of a client as "having" a cold but instead, being in a process of "colding." Colding, he went on to explain, is a process not only involving the action of certain microorganisms in the person's system which produce the usual well-known symptoms and client complaints, but even more importantly, it involves the psychosocial and environmental context of the client's symptoms. This symptom-context consists of the person's current life situation including his\her home life, job, school and whatever areas of daily living the client is involved in. He further explained that what is usually referred to as a "medical condition" is actually an integral part of the client's total life situation at the time. He said that an illness and its symptoms can serve an important educative function and provide a personal growth opportunity for the client if recognized as such. It should not be viewed as something just brought about by a chance contact with a germ affecting only the person's body. If viewed diagnostically in this limited way, the physician will attain only partial understanding of his client's health problem and be unable to help him/her actually benefit from the iJlness, which as strange as it may sound, would be possible with a more holistic approach. Just handing the client a prescription accompanied by the usual advice about resting for a couple of days sends a message to the client that he/she has little if any personal responsibility for actively addressing the health problem. .,-The doctor said he often finds that the person who suffers ~nough discomfort with colds and sore throats to come for medical treatment is a person who may be chronically October 1989 overworked, frustrated or generally exposed to a variety of stressful situations. This person's illness serves the purpose of signalling the need to do something about his/her life situation. It was interesting to hear this doctor say that the worka-day result of his holistic medical perspective finds him easily spending twice as much time in health counselling and psychotherapy as in traditional medical procedures and prescription writing. This doctor's holistic approach to medi~e is an example of how the model for professional services is changing in keeping with the changing world paradigm. I've used the example of medicine only because it's the one with which we are most familiar. Many lawyers, psychiatrists and social workers, as well as doctors and other professionals, are beginning to take a different approach in serving their clients. In the traditional model the solution to the client's problem, whether it be medical, legal, social, psychological or whatever, is seen to be largely dependent on the professional practitioner's status as an "expert." This status implies that the professional possesses esoteric knowledge and skill that clients are not capable of sharing toward the end of self-help. In this model the client expects the practitioner to do something to him/her which will make everything all right. This expectation is reinforced for the client by the expert role behaviours demonstrated by traditional professional practitioners. In the newly developing model for professional services the client is viewed by the practitioner as a partner in the effort to solve the client's problem. A major goal of the practitioner is to empower the client with a part of his/her expert knowledge and skill on a selective basis. Medical clients are being educated about how to recognize and avoid conditions in their lives which make them susceptible to various injuries and illnesses and on how to safely provide self-care - sometimes as a supplement to medical treatment and sometimes as the sole form of care. The clients of social workers and psychiatrists are being taught problem-solving and stress management methods which they can use on their own subsequent to being seen for treatment. The new model involves shifting toward an emphasis on client education for self-help in partnership with the professional practitioner. It shifts away from the traditjonal reductionistic approach which has an almost exclusive focus on the expertise of the professional practitioner. The new model, while not negating the professional's expertise does view it as only one factor in the provision of human services. Would you like to go to a doctor who would treat you for "colding?" Or maybe you already do. • AGORA - - - - - - - - - - -- - -- - P age 11 �1),.,,,t Ji,,,t ~ Of't1t Y~14> ~.,.4 Campus Calendar FRIDAY, 20 To include your Department's event or activity in the Campus Calendar, please call Flo Sherren at 8300 or mail your information to SN1002. Deadline for the October Agora is October 15, 1989. OCTOBERFEST Main Cafeteria 5:00 p.m. -1 :00 a.m. FRIDAY, 20 - SUNDAY, 22 October Alumni Silver Jubilee Basketball Tournament 14 AGORA - 11 :30 a .m. - 1:30 p.m. LUSUMOVIES FORESTRY SEMINAR SERIES Speaker: Dr. Sten Nilsson, Professor, SILVER JUBILEE OPEN HOUSE '89 person living with AIDS Agora, 9:30 - 10:30 am Informal discussion about AIDS and the role of the media FREE CORNWALL CONCERT SILVER JUBILEE SYMPHONY SERIES Community Auditorium"Elmer Iseler Singers" with Dr. Elmer Iseler, Conductor, LU Vocal Ensemble, Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Iseler Singers to perform together. THURSDAY, 19 BIRTHDAY PARTY 2 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Garpenberg Topic: "The Future of Forestry in Europe" Braun Building 1021 -1 :00 -2:20 pm Bring the entire family and spend the afternoon with us. Come and discover Lakehead University. AIDS AWARENESS WEEK Ann Medina will be accompanied by a Sylvie Proulx, classical guitar (Toronto) Cornwall School 12:30 pm - Recital Hall WEDNESDAY, 25 SATURDAY, 21 & SUNDAY, 22 SUNDAY, 22 TUESDAY, 17 Senate Meeting 9:30 a.m. L.U.S.U. Silver Jubilee , - - - - - - - - - - - - -- --, Burbs RB 1042 8 pm Students $2.00 Others $2.50 TUESDAY,24 Women's - 7:00 p.m., Men's 9:00 p.m. C.J. Sanders Field House SATURDAY, 14 & SUNDAY, 15 Three Fugitives SILVER JUBILEE PUBLIC LECTURE S ILVER JUBILEE CAREER FAIR ON CAMPUS "Welcome to Wellness" Lakehead University Info: 475-6484 NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES' WEEII october to 22 Speaker: Mr. Jay Ingram "Quirks and Quarks" Topic: "Can science EVER take a place alongside entertainment, business and politics as a regular feature in the media?" Ryan Building 1042 - 7:30 pm Speaker: Dr. George Merrill, Topic: "Patronage and the Politics 01....J Power, 1986-1600" Ryan Building 1022 - 7:30 pm CONFERENCE SATURDAY, 21 LUSU MOVIES MONDAY, 23 SILVER JUBILEE LECTURE SERIES Agorl\ Festivities begin Lakeside at 1 pm with a ceremonial voyageur arrival . . . . . . . Visit the mini circus Tiny trees and balloons for children Meet students, alumni, professors Prizes Tours - campus and laboratories Exhibits Canoe rides Focus on the helping professions Social Work Works Who is the health and safety officer at your house? $How much will you amount to? Teachers: Meeting the challenge of tomorrow, today Changing times in Nursing "Hands on" in the Library computer system ANDMUCHMORE! Don'tmissit. 1 - Spm The AGORA is produced by the Information Office, Department of External Relations, __, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario. It is published monthly (except August), and is distributed free of charge to the University's faculty and staff, local government, media, business and friends of the University. Credit is appreciated when material is reproduced or quoted. Director of External Relations: John Russell, Editor: Katherine Shedden Calendar: Flo Sherren Photography: Peter Puna Graphics: Ben Kaminski, Linda Siczkar, Debbie Tew Freelance Writers: Karen Skochinski, Karen Lewis, Denise Bruley, Dalton Cormier Printing: Rainbow Address correspondence to: Edi tor/ Agora Information Office SN1002 Lakehead University Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario, l'7B 5E1 (807) 343-8631 or 343-8300 FREE PUBLIC LECTURE Sponsored by the Thunder Bay Hungarian Friendship Orcle, School of Education and the Thunder Bay Multicultural Association Speaker. Dr. Attila Horvath, member of the Pedagogical Institute in Budapest Topic: "Current Political Issues in Budapest'' Thunder Bay Multicultural Associaton Bldg. at 17 North Court St. 7:45 p.m. celebrating our Silver Jubilee ., .. >- UJ\11 ~I'>\) ~ ~ ~ "< ~"1 < ...., ~ 0 0-, ~ <1' . ~ (i,~R- J\l'i>\-.; C: 'C 0 OJ 0 a.(.) a. ~ ::0 a- ~ ~~ ~ vi "O .. "O ·;;; a. a, Cl ~ vi~ <0 0 0 -• (.)a.a. Q) i · - Q) E (/) Q) (/) .... Cl! a. u a. ,.. -u:: u N (/) (/) (/) .... Cl! � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lakehead University Alumni Collection Description An account of the resource Material kept by the Lakehead University Alumni Association, or donated by Alumni to the Association. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agora Magazine Vol.6 No.9 Subject The topic of the resource Universities Description An account of the resource This issue of the Agora contains a report from the President, an article announcing a major donation from Canadian Pacific, and an article on Lakehead hosting Swedish exchange students. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lakehead University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989-10 Agora Agora Magazine Alumni Alumni Association Alumni Association of Lakehead University Canadian Pacific Lakehead Lakehead University President Rosehart https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/d5ed124c9ccf6bd239bd472bbf60ae30.pdf b23bc94d0ef322f85b6bcac4533f8127 PDF Text Text Inside: Macleans gets report card from Rosehart ................................. 2 ~ rd ent callers raise $60,000... 3 Student Athletes named Academic All-Canadians .... 4 Research New s..... Blue Pages Carton's Legacy Continues.... 9 Lakehead :.;, ' University _AgOrl\ THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO VOL. 8. NO.IO NOVEMBER 1991 The Long Wait is Over - Student Centre Opens On October 30 the Lakehead University Student Union held the official opening of the new $3.75 million student centre. The afternoon celebration was hosted by current student union president Ian Middleton and past president Roch Letourneau. Invited guests included administration, student union representatives, and the people responsible for the design and construction of the facility. The spanking new building houses student union offices, club space, a games room, a convenience store, the Gender Jssues Centre, Financial Aid, Student Services and Native Support Services. The centre is also the site for the new pub/events hall facility, recently named "the Outpost" in a student referendum. The pub, with its full service roadhouse-style menu and the largest dance floor in J'>0 rthwestern Ontario, has already proven to be ~ of the busiest places on campus. Minore na1ned Site Director $2 million to research recruitment and retention of health care workers in the North Lakehead and Laurentian Universities will each receive $1 million spread over five years to research chronic shortages and the maldistribution of health care workers throughout the northern part of the province. The funding for this research comes from the c___== =-=='----"= = = health system-linked research unit within the Ministry of Health . A 22-member advisory committee was set up and quickly identified the establishment of a research unit as a high priority. Members include researchers from the two universities, members of District Health Councils and Hospital Associations and Nishnawabe Aski Nation (N.A.N.). Both universities will involve researchers from cross disciplines and develop the research agenda in consultation with health providers and consumers of the services. A news conference was held to announce the funding and "r )intment of Dr. Bruce Mi.narc, Director of the Lakehead Sne of the Northern Health Human Resources Research Unit. Dr. Minore is Associate Professor of Sociology and has been at Lakehead since 1974. The focus of his research in the last seven years has been on the delivery of human services in single industry towns and native communities in the region. More specifically, he has worked on the N.A.N. youth suicide consultation, the impact of the Young Offenders Act on native youth and native broadcasting programs. Minore identified several targeted research areas: "First, we need to find out the factors that effect students' choices to go into a health-related career, especially northern students. There is research showing a higher success rate of recruitment and retention when the student comes from the North". Dr. Anita Chen, Department of Sociology, will conduct a retrospective study of career d10ice nurses in Northern Ontario. Another study will look at training programs that expose caregivers to the northern experience. Research in that area will attempt to find out if students who train in the north stay in the north. Dr. Andy Dalrymple, Director of Research at the Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital, wiU spearhead a study on recruitment and retention of psychologists and psychiatrists in Northern Ontario. Dr. Minon? and Professor Boone will work with N.A. N. researchers Mac Katt and Peggy Kinch on retention of front line health workers in the Nishnaawbe Aski First Nations. Minore explored that both studies are seeking to find out how we can keep health professionals already working in the North employed here. Dr. Minorc will be setting up offices in the new H ealth Sciences Resource Centre in the very near future. �Report From the President '· R Smith Commission Versus Maclean's Recently, there have been two significant reviews of the Canadian university system - the Smith Commission Inquiry on Canadian University Education and the Maclean's Magazine expose. The Smith Commission, which cost nearly $1 million, is a credible report, the Madean's treatise is, at best, apples and oranges rubbish. Smith Commission Smith, in declaring that the system is "fundamentally healthy", has issued a strong warning to universities that they are not putting enough focus on teaching and enough of their tenure-stream professors in the classroom. He is very concerned that we are drifting quickly to the research intensive and tiered American system. Smith outrightly rejects this approach as the wrong way to go. He supports the guaranteed quality of a publicly-funded system but argues for increased tuition fees and a major revision to the student loan program that would see repayment tied to future income. Stuart Smith, the Commissioner, has done a thorough job. During the term of his work, he held extensive public hearings and visited many Canadian universities, including a day spent at Lakchead. Lakehead University is featured in three key citations in the final report of the Smith Commission. Smith was impressed with the way in which Lakehcad University has responded to its regional mandate in terms of being a university "in and for" the development of Northwestern Ontario. Specifically, Smith cites "The curricula at Lakehead University... have(sic) been admirably tailored to meet the needs of the society and Page 2 economy of a specific region namcl y Northwestern Ontario ...". ln the same vein, Smith was also complimentary of the progressive action that Lakchcad University has taken to provide professional program access for our Native peoples. Specifically, "The Commission was pleased ... with nativeoriented programs at Lakehead University". And finally, one of Lakehead University's niches in the Canadian university system has been the development of unique post-diploma programs which allow community college graduates in programs such as engineering, business, nursing, social work, and forestry to further their studies to the university degree level in the shortest period of time. Specifically,"Another major area of concern brought to the Commission (partly, admittedly, by the Commissioner, who has written on the matter in the past) is the need for coordination between colleges and universities. Lakehead University, with its "Invest your Diploma in a Degree" program, can provide examples which deserve to be emulated". And now on to Maclean's! Maclean's We seem to be catching an unfortunate illness from south of the 49th, ie., the compulsive need to "rank" things. While Stuart Smith is warning us not to further emulate the U.S. college and university system with its highly variable quality, Maclean's has launched forth with a national ranking effort that, while not completely useless, is highly flawed with its apples and oranges comparisons. A major concern of the Maclean's ranking exercise was its over-reliance on variable data sets and the fact that, with a very few exceptions, little on-campus research was undertaken. Linda Frum, to her credit a few years ago, did visit, I believe, each and everyone of the university campuses about which she wrote. \ Jt is hard for me to know where to .J start with the Maclean's analysis. Firstly, Lakehead University finished 38th of 46 institutions ranked. I should add immediately that Canada has about 90 degree-granting institutions, but Maclean's only based their analysis on B.A. and B.Sc. programs. No analysis involving the professional programs within an institution was made. In the case of universities like Lakehead University and several others in Canada, this has obviously put us to some considerable disadvantage. In all fairness to Maclean's, they did try to treat the institutions statistically the same. Part of the Madean's summary was a Presidential rating of the top 10 insti tutions. I refused (along with the President of Concordia University) to participate in this highly subjective exercise as I felt and still feel that it has absolutely no credibility. lt would be interesting, for example, to know how many of the 44 (of 46) Presidents who did complete the survey have actually visited and studied the other 43 institutions. Maclcan's made an effort to sub"\ divide the analysis into four categories,_./ Student Body The two categories involved in this section arc highly misleading as they do not at all take into account the population sample from which each university draws its student body, and it also ignores (in a negative way) accessibility initiatives that individual institutions may have made with special access initiatives such as education equity (handicapped, learning disabil.i tics, Native participation, etc.). As well, although parameters such as entering averages arc ranked, the absolute vari?tions arc not major. For example, in Arts and Science at Lakehead, the entering average is about 5 percentage points lower than the provincial average, but 10 percentage points above the provincial minimum. Faculty I have no great argument with the parameters used in this section, but one must exercise some caution as, although arts and science programs were being analyzed, most of the data was university-wide. Lakehead University did well on all categories and ranged from 15 tc 30 in four sub-categories). Continued 011 page 11... AGORA - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - November 1991 �Around Campus Student Callers Make a Difference c Thanks to the efforts of Phone-an Co-ordinator Maureen Doyle JFA '90) and a first-rate staff of 18 dents, the Alumni Association is right on target for the 1991-92 campaign. As of October 24, 1991 the Association has raised $60,000 towards its $150,000 goal. In addition to asking for taxdeductible contributions, the students are updating files, promoting the LU Mastercard and sharing campus news with ovt'r 11,000 alumni all across Canada. On November 6 and 7 Dr. Connie Nelson is planning a special night targeting over 1,000 graduates of the Graduate Student Scholarships at Lakehead University. Highlights of the season? guest appearances of Campaign Co-Chair Geraldine White, Chief Librarian Fred McIntosh, and Registrar Pen tti Paularinne. Oh, and the sighting of a bear feeding on crabapples just outside Alu mni House in early October. It's great to be a northerner! Special thanks to our corporate supporters for donating pizza, pop and donuts: Papa Piccolinos, Coca-Cola Ltd., and Robin's Donuts. The Alumni Phone-a-thon continues through November. For those faculty and staff m embers who wish to support the Annual Fund this year, please send your cheque (payable to the Alumni Association of Lakehead University) to Alumni House. Over $60,000 pledged! Geraldine While (back row, second from right) gets the Phone-a-than swann from callers I ..,.., \ -,. I \ / I 1· November 1991~ - - -- -- - - - - -- - - AGORA Page 3 �WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE LIBRARY! The Northern Studies Resource Centre The Northern Studies Resource Centre in The Chancellor Paterson Library collects materials for northern and regional research. The Centre houses several special collections; Regional, North, University, Faculty and Seaway. i:,e following is a selection of titles relevant to !he ~thrnc dev~l?pment of Thunder Bay. These titles, along with titles pertammg to other aspects of the development of Thunder Bay and Northwestern Ontario are in the Regional or University collections of the Northern Studies Resource Centre: The Polisl1-Canadia11 Commu11ity at the Lakehead. Zawadowski, Leo. Presents a history of the Poli~h-Canadian community in the Lakehead, discusses European continental immigration to Canada, and provides information for the. general reader interested in the history of Canada's culture. Project Bay Street: Activities of Finnish-Canadians in 11111nder Bny Before 1915. Metsaranta, Marc (ed). A historical study of Finnish immigration to Thunder Bay before World War 1. Specific attention is given to the history of local Finnish churches, temperance societies, workingmen's associations and introductory information on Finnish history and culture. 11,e Italian Immigrant Experience. Potestio, John and Antonio Pucci (eds) A collection of papers which relate to the Italian immigrant experience in North America, and specifically in the Lakehead. Polyphony: 11,e Bulletin of the Multicultural History Society of Ontario. vol. 9, no. 21987. Special Issue: Thunder Bay's People. . This special issue of Polyphony gives the reader a portrait of the rid, ~thnic diversity of Thunder Bay. For more i11fon11ation 011 The Northern Studies Resource Centre, or to arrange for a guided tour, contact the Centre at 343-8728. In the midst of what seems to be a publishing flurry, one author thought it would be a good idea to donate a copy to the university library. According to Fred Mclntosh, the Chief Librarian, "these donations are very important to the library. First, it is a great way to increase our acquisitions but more important it ensures that the work of our faculty is in the library." The donor in this case is geology professor Roger Mitchell, shown autographing his new book, Petrology of Lamproites co-authored with Steven Bergman. To find out more about the works of our own faculty, check the displa~ in the Bora La~kin Buildi~g. It's a very diverse collection of books wntten or edited by professors from the School of Education. Later this month there will be a book launch for three new books of interest to residents of Northern Ontario written by geography professors Brian Lorch and Brian Phillips and alumna Elinor Barr. a or'Westers recognized for academic success ~ -- - - - - - - - , Geraldine Bergmans, a member of David Pineau, a student in his the-Lady Nor'Westers voUeyball third year of the Physical Educateam, and a student enrolled in the tion and Athletics programme Honours Bachelor of Science was recently named an academic program, was named an academic all-Canadian for 1991-92 by CIAU. all-Canadian by the CTAU. This is Pineau plays varsity basketball for the first year the CIAU has recogLakehead University. In order to nized academic excellence in this qualify for the honour, the student manner. Bergmans is the starting must be a varsity athlete and middle blocker for the volleyball maintain academic first class team and has been and her strong standing. Pineau has maintained performances this season have been an A average throughout his key factors in the team's successes. academic career. At last year's Bergmans received a Lakehead awards banquet, Pineau was GERALDINE BERGMANS University entrance award for named the Nor'Westers' most academic excellence and a Canada scholarship offered to first improved player and is on the ~ta~tin~ lineup thi_s season. Pineau is a graduate of St. Patrick s High School m Thunder class students entering science programs. Bay. Page 4 AGORA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - November 1991 �Faces .______ _M_art_h_a_ G_i_n_g_e_ri_c_h_ ____,l l.___ _ _ _c_h_u_k_ O_d_i_a_h_ _ ____, Martha Gingerich was recently ( ,x,inted Executive Assistant to the President. As Executive Assistant Gingerich is secretary to the university Board of Governors and the Senate as well as Electoral Officer for Faculty elections. Originally from Southern Ontario, Gingerich relocated to Thunder Bay four years ago. She has since worked part-time for the community organization, the Women's Health Information Network, and presently holds a scat on the Board of Directors. Gingerich received her undergraduate degree in Geography from Simon Fraser University in 1980, worked in the mining industry for three years and returned to university, this time Carleton, to pursue graduate studies. After taking a break to raise her three children, Gingerich says "I'm really enjoying being back in a university community. Working with the Board of Governors and the Senate will be stimulating." Gingerich enjoys camping and skiing and when she has a rare free moment, likes to curl up with a long historical novel. Chuk Octiah is a new assistant professor in the department of Social Work. Born in Nigeria, Odiah moved to Finland when he was five years old. His father was a diplomat and by nature of the business was required to move frequently. ''My father thought that we should stay in one place and complete our schooling." Odiah remained in Finland, receiving his Masters degree from the University of Tampere. He worked in various areas of social welfare, including international consultancy firms, before continuing with his schooling in Canada. "I was offered a fellowship to teach and go to school at the same time". Odiah received his PhD in Social Work from the University of Toronto in 1990. Odiah's research interests lie with international social work, social policy and research. One of his main interests, cross cultural social work, deals with how to adapt social wqrk experience to a couutry's specific cultural identity. In his spare time Odiah collects and restores antique cars - "mostly Mercedes, Jaguars and Volvos. It's an expensive hobby and because of the expense of moving them all here, I had to sell some." Representing more than 275 members ... /,-few of the members of the 1991-92 LUFA Executive Committee pose for a group photo prior to the General Meeting. From " . to right Ian Dew, Treasurer, Glenna Knutson, Chief Grievance Officer, Jim Stafford, Pension and Benefits Chair, Chris Southcott, Elected Member, John Griffith, President, Colin Graham, OCUFA Salary Chair, Darlene Steven, Faculty-Board Relations Chair, Gerry Vervoort, Past President and Lisle Thomson, Membership and Services Chair. Executive members absent: John Fu they, Vice-President and Raoul Ruiperez, Secretary. November 199.r-- - -- -- - -- - - - -- AGORA Page 5 �Academic Planning Update - Senate The Senate Academic Committee charged with the responsibility of reviewing the existing Academic Plan and developing a revised plan. The process for this has been developed and was published in the September Agora. Six working groups have been formed to receive input, analyze proposals and draft recommendations. They will be carrying out their work over the next four months. The Working Groups first task will be to produce, together with the Senate Academic Committee, an issues or "green" paper. This will include a call for input to the working groups. The working groups together with a brief indication of their mandate are: 1. Academic Programming Lakehead University offers a wide range of undergraduate programs and a growing number of graduate programs. The Academic Programming Working Group will review current programming, receive and analyze five-year plans from departments and schools, and formulate recommendations for new programming initiatives and directions. R. McLeod (Chair) J. Gellert C. Nelson P. Paularinne D. Common CC.Benson, Alternate) D. Pakulak Teaching and Learning The 1987 Academic Plan recognized good teaching as an integral component of providing a high quality education experience for its students. The Teaching and Learning Working Group will evaluate the initiatives that have been undertaken and propose new initiatives and directions to support and evaluate the teaching and learning enterprise of the University. K. Brown (Chair) K. Fedderson I. Middleton G. White J. Haines 2. 3. Research and Scholarship The University has the stated goal to enhance the quality and quantity of its research and scholarship. The Research and Scholarship Working Group will review the progress made in reaching this goal. ln addition, the Working Group should consider the development of research and scholarship and the necessary infrastructure to support this endeavour. W. Keeler (Chair) K. Hartviksen C. Nclso,, C. Loos B. Morrison G. Borradaile 4. Internal Environment and Resources The University is committed to providing the best possible environment for its students, faculty and staff as they learn, ) work and live on campus. The Internal Environment and Resources Working Group will examine the state of the internal environment on campus. Further, it will make recommendations concerning th e appropriate level of physical and human resources required to support the primary activity of scholarship and learning as well as providing a suitable environment in which these activities can flourish. B. Handford (Chair) G. Walsh F. Poulter T. Stevens M. Lankester B. Nelson J. Lawson F. McIntosh External Environment and Community Relations For the University to reinforce its role in the regional, national and international community, it is necessary to understand the political, economic, social and technical forces that impinge on it. The External Environment and Community Relations Working Group wiU examine these factors, our role as a university in and for the north and the expectations of our constituent communities. L. DiMatteo P. Duinker (Chair) J. Russell A. Fiorenza D. Pakulak R. Slipperjack-Farrell S. McCartney A. Macdonald 5. 6. Governance Fo!Jowing from the Touche-Ross Report and the 1987 Academic Plan, the Board and Senate approved d1anges in academic governance and administrative structure ranging "'\' from department chairs in Professional Studies sitting on J Senate to the creation of two Faculties and an office of VicePresident (Academic). The Governance Working Group will review the effectiveness and appropriateness of these changes and consider recommendations for further changes or refinements of the academic administrative and governance structure. G. Engholm (Chair) M.Page E. Zimmermann J. Thatcher Cfinnge of Command. On September 21, 1991, Lieutenant Colonel E.C. (Liz) Diem (seated left) turned over command of the 18th Thunder Bay Medical Company to Major G. Perales (seated right). Colonel B. Bruce of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario Militia District witnessed the signatures. The Honorary Lieutenant Colonel Margaret Page (standing left) and Honorary Colonel S. Graham (standing right), oversaw the signing ceremony. Liz Diem, of the School of Nursing, had been the commanding officer since 1986. Page 6 AGORA - - - - - - -- - - - -- - - November 1991 �RESEARCH NEWS NOVEMBER 1991 INNOVATIVE EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY THRIVES AT LU The s_implest ecological communities are composed of dozens, 1f not hundreds, of interacting species. The most complex contain thousands or, perhaps, tens of thousands of speaes. Lakehead evolutionary ecologist Douglas Morris, Centre for Northern Studies and his students, are attempting to understand the rules that govern these complicated systems. The evolution_ar_y perspective is essential. Each species is the product of m illions of years of evolution. Natural selection has gradually moulded adaptations to the environmental conditions that each species has been exposed to. A good example for the evolutionary viewpoint comes from Do~g's research on life history. One of many ongoing proiects attempts to understand the evolution of reproductive rates in £mall mammals. Many small mammal species have evolved adaptations ([ ..t allow females to mate immediately following parturition. As_the female nurses one litter to independence, anoth~r 1s already developing in her womb. Why has evolution produced such a demanding life history? The answer required an estimate of the most elusive of ecological parameters, evolutionary fitness. Females that produce the most descendants have the highest fitness. Or, p_ut anoth~r way, genes that produce the greatest number of viable copies will become more frequent in the population. But how do you determine which females, or which genes, have been successful at producing descendants? Doug, with assistance from his spouse Kelly, built several hundred wooden nest boxes and located them in fencerow and forest ha~itats. The b?xes were soon occupied by nocturnal white-footed mice. Doug and his assistants have checked every box several times ead1 spring and autumn breeding season for more than a decade. All mothers and their nursing offspring have been uniquely marked by small numbered _ear tags. Throughout the study, nearly one thousand litters, and thousands of animals, have been marked. Doug has thus been able to measure fitness directly and with large samples. He knows the number of descen- ' dants produced by different females as a function of their rcprod ucti ve history. It_ soon becar:ie dear why females breed as frequently as possible. Most litters, regardless of their size, yield no descendants at all. The vast majority of young mice die befo:e becomin_g adults. Doug likens this to a lottery where (tp.c tickets are litters, and the prize is the holy grail of immor·. ty._ The more litters a female produces, the greater arc her odds in the lottery of litter success. Adult white-footed mice h~ve a _s~ort and hazardous lifctin1e. Females with a genetic d1spos1hon to produce many litters in a short period of time would leave more copies of their genes than would females that delay reproduction. The frequent, iterated reproduction that we observe is, in hindsight, a predictable result. At the same time, however, there has also been selection on litter size. In the population at large, females that produce litters with five siblings leave more descendants than females producing litters of any other size. We should expect, then, that litters of size five should soon come to be th~ most frequent litter size in the population. Contrary to this expectation, the most frequent litter size is four, not five. Although Doug's study is the first to document this pattern ~mammals,~ similar pattern has been frequen tly observed m the clutch sizes_ pr<;>duced by birds. The most frequently observed clutch size 1s often less than the clutch size that produces the greatest number of fledglings. Theoretical ecologists have proposed several possible explanations for this apparent anomaly. All assume that the estimate of fim~ss is incomplete. It may be, for example, that females produong large broods have lower survival than '.emales producing smaller broods. Their chances of producing future broods arc reduced by the survival costs of the current brood. As a result, throughout their lifetime, they may leave fewer descendants than other females that tradeoff their chances of maximizing recruitment from the current brood in favour of maximizing their chances to survive and reproduce in the future. Without a simultaneous measure of maternal survival, the estimate of reproductive success is incomplete. Doug has tested alternative models and found none to be a completely satisfactory explanation for the evolution of litter size in white-footed mice. Tt appears, instead, that rath:r than paying a cost of reproduction, females of many species may have been selected to produce a brood size corresponding to the resources that they have available for repro?uction (Doug's theoretical model for this phenomenon 1s called the optimal investment hypothesis). This is what we should expect for a species like the white-footed mouse. Females that produce the greatest number of litters, and hence the greatest number of descendants, arc those that simultaneously maximize their reproductive lifetime whih.! minim izing the interval between successive reproductions. This interpretation leads to an interesting J prediction. Females living in high-quality territories or habitats should have more resources available Dr. Doug Morris �for reproduction, or they should at least be more efficient at harvesting the resources that are available, than females living in low-quality sites. We expect females in the high-quality territories to produce larger litters than females living elsewhere. In white-footed mice, the opposite appears to occur. Females living in forest produce twice as many descendants per litter as do females living in fencerows . But, the average litter size produced by fencerow females is greater than that in the forest! The reason for the success of forest litters has little to do with the size of the litter produced. Instead, a voracious predator, the long-tailed weasel, forages for mice extensively, and with great effectiveness, in the fcncerows. 1,0 a: w ...... .8 Forest :::; .6 a: w 0.. ... .4 (J) 3 a: u Edge ·2 w a: Fence 0 1·3 4 LITTER - S I ZE 5 6 •7 C L ASS Fig. 1. Some of the complexities of litter-size evolution in white-footed mice. The graph compares the number of adults produced by litters of different sizes in three different habitats. Litters of size 5 produce fa r more recruits to the population than do litters of any other size. For each Jilter produced, females occupying forest, recruit twice as many descendants as do females that reproduce in either edge or fencerow habitats. Yet, average litter size (vertical lines) tends to be smaller in the forest than in the nearby fencerows. Females, weighing as it were, their evolutionary options, should preferentially choose to live in forest. Preference for forest tends to increase the population density of animals living there, and reduces the average quality of forest territories. As ,1 consequence, the relatively small average size of forest litters is not an anomaly at all. It makes perfect evolutionary and ecological sense. But it makes sense only in hindsight, and only because a scientist's curiosity about nature was allowed to develop unfettered by current paradigms and targeted research priorities. There arc those among us who would suggest that such topics as the evolution of litter size are too academic" and that university research should be directed more towards societal needs. Too often, they forget the basic human need to know. Yet, with reflection, it is apparent that Doug's ''basic research" is highly applied. It points toward new research protocols that will help resource managers and conservationists allocate their limited resources more productively. They can use Doug's research on the life history of white-footed mice as an empirical guide through the myriad of interactions that modify life histories, and that are ultimately responsible for Page2 the productivity of natural populations, and their chances of survival in a rapidly changing world. Who could have foreseen these direct applications of fundamental research on white-footed mice? Others, promulgating a common misconception about ..J.. current tests of ecological theories, suggest that the test of explicit hypotheses is reductionist, and more applicable to the physical world than to ecosystems. Doug's research stands as a stark counterpoint. Tests of specific hypotheses revealed a wealth of interactions influencing the evolution of life history. The tests quantified the crucial role that predators and habitat play in the evolution of reproductive rates and litter sizes of white-footed mice. The effects of predators and habitat are not additive. Remove the predators, or change the habitats, and the evolution of the life history is forever modified. What could be more holistic than that? To the theorist, Doug's research points toward the need to explicitly incorporate habitat selection into models of life history evolution. To the empiricist, it demonstrates how important it is to collect long-term data in a design that allows their sources of variation to be thoroughly analyzed and interpreted. To the applied ecologist, and to the policy maker, it demonstrates the need to tolerate, should we say encourage, a fundamental curiosity about nature. The evolutionary story doesn't end here. Habitat selection itself evolves in response to a variety of environmental conditions operating across a wide spectrum of temporal, spatial, and organizational scales. Research on habitat selection has taken Doug and his students from the forests of central Labrador and the barrens of Newfoundland, to the Rocky Mountains and prairies of Alberta, and more recently, to the coast of Hudson Bay and the borcal forests of northwestern Ontario. We will explore those studies, and their '\ , implications, in a future issue. ..J,) GREEN PLAN F UNDING ANNOUNCED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING The Government of Canada has committed $50 million of Green Plan funding to Canadian Universities over the next six years to create a funding program for Research and Training in Environmental Studies. The program will help meet the urgent need for qualified environmental scientists and engineers across the country. Funding will be awarded in three categories: fellowships, to increase the number of doctoral students concentrating on environmental studies; research chairs, to attract world-class professors in the environmental sciences to Canadian universities; and ecosystem research grants, to create partnerships and teams that would integrate skills from the social and natural sciences, engineering, and health sciences in the study of regional ecosystems in Canada. Together, these three elements will provide a training ground for Canada's future environmental scientists and engineers. Both large and small universities are expected to participate in and benefit from the program. This is the first program to be jointly administered by all three research councils: NSERC, SSHRC and MRC. Although, guidelines and application procedures have not yet been released, researchers interested in applying are encouraged to begin fostering partnerships and formulating a draft proposal. The Office of Research and Graduate Studies will inform researchers when the guidelines and application fom have arrived . - - - - - - - -- - - -- - - RESEARCH NEWS----- - - - - - -- November 1991 �RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES CANADA-ASEAN CENTRE Academic Institutional Support Fund The Canada-ASEAN Centre is a CIDA funded Centre in \ _ngapore mandated to serve as a catalyst linking Canadian and ASEAN interest groups in a wide range of activities. These include the strengthening of academic links to increase knowledge and understanding by Canadians of the ASEAN region (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand). The Canada-ASEAN Centre's Academic Institutional Support Fund aims to increase the mutual knowledge and understanding of Canadian educators by enhancing the capacity of Canadian academic institutions to teach about ASEAN issues, and to ensure there are abundant courses and materials to facilitate the teaching process. Financial assistance will be provided to Canadian educational institutions to cover part of the costs of: 1) Conferences - meetings, conferences or workshops on an ASEAN theme, to invite speakers from ASEAN institutions and to produce and disseminate reports; 2) Exchanges - reciprocal exchanges to promote collaboration in courses, publications and other academic areas; and 3) Publications - preparation of publications directly rdated to the enhancement of teaching or learning about ASEAN. Priority subject areas are: ASEAN Studies, Gender Studies and Women's Issues, Strategic Studies, Business and Investment and Environmental and Resource Management Studies. Deadline: January 15, 1992. CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN DEFENCE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT The Centre for Studies in Defence Resources Management :CSDRM) was established in 1979 within the Department of , ~ational Defence to provide training in and conduct studies pertaining to defence resources management. As part of the evolution of the CSDRM research function, a solicited research program has been established to help fund Canadian researchers doing work in the field of defence economics. The program is designed to sponsor research projects that contribute to an understanding of defence resources management issues and in particular projects which would further the Department's efforts to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in the carrying out of its responsibilities. Deadline: December ·c 15, 1991 CIDA PROFESSIONAL AWARDS Up to 25 awards arc available on an annual basis to Canadians interested in deepening their understanding of the economis: and social forces which influence international development. Applicants must develop their own short-term work/study projects which will bring them to a developing country for a minimum of two months. Projects may receive funding of up to $25,000. The awards program has a mandate of improving the professional, technical and cross-cultural skills of Canadians by encouraging their participation in work/study projects which will be of benefit to both the individual and the host country chosen for the fieldwork. The program hopes to promote better linkages and contacts with developing countries and to encourage long-term partnerships and cooperation. Previous overseas experience is not required. Those who do have overseas experience are ,encouraged to develop projects which will bring them to new !as of the world and develop new skills, thereby maximizing the learning experience. Deadlines: January 15 and April 30. NATO FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAMS - 1992-93 The aim of NATO Fellowship Programme is to promote study and research leading to publication on aspects relevant to the North Atlantic Alliance. The programme comprises Individual Grants intended more particularly for individual research work and Institutional Grants concerning research projects designed to stimulate cooperation between relevant university departments or recognized centres of strategic and international studies. For the Individual Grants Program, each fellow will be awarded the sum of $240,000 Belgian francs (qr the equivalent in the currency for any other member state, inclusive of cost of transportation). Applicants must be nationals of a member State (Canadians eligible). They should pursue their work in one or more member countries in close liaison with recognized academic institutions. Candidates must have at least a working knowledge of the language of the country, or countries, in which they propose to do research. Further information on the Institutional grants are available in from the Research Office. The deadline for both programmes is December 13, 1991. ONTARIO-QUEBEC UNIVERSITY EXCHANGE PROGRAM - 1992-93 The Ontario-Quebec Commission for Cooperation is dedicated to promoting cooperation and exd1ange between the two provinces in educational and cultural matters. One of the principal educational objectives of the Commission :s to encourage co-operative efforts in scholarship and research, as well as the exchange of students, faculty and staff between the universities of Ontario and Quebec. Of greatest priority are co-operative and joint research projects concerning technology, pollution studies and those that are industry related. However, other research topics, educational exchanges to teach (faculty) or study (students) are also welcomed. An Exploratory one- or two-day visit to a university in the other province to plan an exchange project is also eligible. Deadline: January 13, 1992. • PUBLICATIONS Dr. Azim Mallik, Department of Biology has presented two papers at conferences in 1991: 1) "Morphology and anatomy of Vegetative regeneration of Ka/mia Angustifolia" presented at the Canadian Botanical Association annual Conference, University of Alberta from June 23-27 in Edmonton; and 2) "Ericaceous shrubs and the modified landscape of the Northern Ecosystem" presented at the World Congress of Landscape Ecology, Carleton University from July 19-25 in Ottawa. GRADUATE STUDIES NEWS Dr. Gary Murchison, School of Forestry has been appointed an Associated member of the University of Guelph's Faculty of Graduate Studies. Dr. Murchison will be involved as a member of the Advisory Committee for graduate student, Tesfaye Teshome. November 1991 - - - - - - -- - - - - RESEARCH NEWS - - - - - - - -- - -- - - - Page3 �UPCOMING DEADLINE DATES NSERC Programs Agriculture Canada/NSERC Research Partnership December 1, 1991 Department of Fisheries and Oceans/NSERC - December 13, 1991 Forestry Canada/NSERC Research Partnership Program December 1, 1991 Forestry Postdoctoral Assistantships - June 1, December 1 International Collaborative Research Grants - March 1, 1992 International Fellowships - December 1, 1991 International Scientific Exchange Awards - March 1, 1992 Research Partnerships Program - Open Scientific Publications - October 1 and April 15 Strategic Grants - May 1, 1992 SSHRC Programs Aid to Occasional Scholarly Conferences in Canada - July 1, November 1, April 1 Doctoral Fellowships - November 15, 1991 Strategic Partnership Development Grants - November 1, January 15, April 15 NSERC/SSHRC Master's Scholarships i'n Science Policy December 1, 1991 SENATE RESEARCH COMMITTEE NSERC Internal Programs Conference Travel Program - January 15, 1992 Travel to do Research Program - January 15, 1992 Graduate Student Support Program - March 10, 1992 Research Projects Program - March 10,_~992 Visiting Scholar Program - March 10, 1992 Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines; Geoscience Research Grant - November 15, 1991 Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Recreation; Recreation Research Grants - September 20, 1991 and December 31, 1991 Ontario-Quebec University Exchange Program - January 13, 1992 University Research Incentive Fund - January 31, 1991 World Wildlife Endangered Species Recovery Fund - January 1, April 1, July 1, October 1 GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Canada - United States Fulbright Scholar Program - November 30, 1991 Government of Canada Awards - Deadlines vary by country Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarships - February 1, 1991 1992-93 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship Applications: November 15, 1991 1992 Rhodes Scholarships, Oxford University- November 15, 1991. Medical Research Council; Studentships - December 1, 1991 Ontario-Jiangsu Educational Exchange - October 25, 1991 . ~· •• Shared Technology Dr. Takashi Iida, former director of Space Communications Division, Communications Re/ search Laboratory (CRL) was on campus to talkwith faculty and engineering studentsabout experimentalmobilesattelite systems in Japan . Dr. Iida, centre, gets the campus tour ~ with Dr. Khan, left, and Professor Coo/en, both from the Department of Electrical Engineering. l r ~ ~ . . SSHRC Internal Programs Conference Travel Program - January 15, 1992 Research Projects Program - March 10, 1992 Visiting Scholar Program - March 10, 1992 OTHER RESEARCH PROGRAMS Association for Canadian Studies; lntercultural/ Interregional Exchange Program (September 15, 1991 and December 15, 1991); Canadian Studies Writing Program (November 15, 1991). Canada-ASEAN Centre: Academic Institutional Support Fund - January 15, 1992 Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute December 1, 1991 Canada - United States Fulbright Scholar Program November 30, 1991 Centre for Studies in Defence Resources ManagementDecember 15, 1991 CTDA Professional Awards - January 15 and April 30 Educational Centre for Aging and Health; Fellowships/ Bursaries - January 1, April 1, July 1, October 1. Imperial Oil Ltd., University Research Grants December 1, 1991 International Society of Arboriculture - December 1, 1991 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation - November 1 and February 1 NATO Fellowships Programme 92-93- December 13, 1991 Ontario Heritage Foundation: Niagara Escarpment Program - December 1, 1991 Ontario Mental Health Foundation; Fellowships (November ~~{~m-~~;;;z::::::~::::~:::.m- . ! :.:.:. ~:, .......:... . ,.,. · === Page4 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - RESEARCH NEWS---- - - - - -- -- November 1991 j) �Pe,,~1 e /Papers /Publications Special Projects/Awards Dr. Darlene Steven, Associate Professor, >Choo! of Nursi.n g and Mrs. Lyne Soromaki, Staff "\Jurse, The General Hospital of Port Arthur :ecently published the following article: Soromaki, L., & Steven, D. (1991). Perfonnance ,1ppraisal systems: Development of a tool. Canadian Journal of Quality Assurance, 8(3), 92-16. (refereed). The paper was prepared while Lyne was a , tudent in N4262 - Nursing Leadership. The ~ ·_ __ :uthors wish to acknowledge the assistance and , upport of Mrs. P. MastToianni, Assistant Executive Director, Patient Services, Joan Scott and Sharlene Kuzik, Nurse Managers, at Hogarth Westmount Hospital, where Lyne completed her leadership practicum. Dr. Said Easa, Professor in Civil Engineering, is co-author of a paper entitled "Regulatory Reform and Freight Mode Choice", Transportation Journal, Vol. 18, 1991. The paper is authored by Dr. Afi Soliman of the University of Manitoba and Dr. Ahmed Gadi of the University of Tripoli, Lybia. Dr. H.T. Saliba, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, has had two refereed conference papers presented in the thirteenth Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics. The conference took p lace at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg from June 2 to June 6, 1991. The first papc:, entitled "Experimental Free Vibration Analysis of Square Cantilever Plates with Rigid Poi11t Supports", was PIAented by Miss S. Stangier. TI1e second, entitled "Expcrin\ al Free Vibration Analysis of Simply Supported Square Plarcs with Rigid Point supports", was presented by Mr. D.J. Michelussi. Both Miss Stangicr and Mr. Micl1clussi arc students working under Dr. Saliba's supervision. Professor Jose de Cangas from the 11=:-== School of Nursing presented 5 papers .---_:::-::;;;;;;i, at The Third Congress of the World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation. All papers were refereed by an international scientific panel of experts composed of psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, recre( ational therapists, occupational therapists and psychobiologists.The Promethean Muse: The Development of a Tool to Measure the Helping '-------="--' Behaviours of Case Managers. The Client as Therapist: A Program for the Training and Empowerment of Consumers. A Comprehensive Evaluation Method for Psychosocial Rehabilitation Community Mental Health Programs for the Chronically Mentally Ill client. Quality of Life and Effective Psychosocial Rehabilitation: Results of an Experimental Study of a Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program. Social Reinsertion: Beyond Case Management and Psychosocial Rehabilitation . The papers were delivered in Spanish and English, with simultaneous translation in French. The congress was held in Montreal, P. Q. October 13 to 17, 1991. The World Association fc r ,ychosocial Rehabilitation is affiliated with The World H~u,th Organization. 1,500 scientists from all over the world attended the event which was opened by the Premier of Quebec and the Chainnan of WHO. The next Congress will be held in Dublin, Ireland in 1993. Dr. Thomas Dunk of the Department of Sociology and the Centre for Northern Studies recently published two books, It's a Working Man's Town: Male Working-Class Culture in Northwestern Ontario (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991), 192 pp., and an edited volume entitled Social Relations in Resource Hinterlands: Papers from the 27th Annual Meeting of the Western =======-.;:= Association of Sociology and Anthropology (Thunder Bay: CenlTe for Northern Studies, Northern and Regional Studies Series, volume 1, 1991), 235pp. Dr. Min-sun Chen, Professor Emeritus and Sessional Lecturer, Department of History, recently received special recogni lion for his distinguished contributions to Asian Studies in Canada from the East Asia Council, Canadian Asian Studies Association (CASA). At the 1991 Annual Conference of the East Asia Council held at Brock University, October 4-6, Dr. Chen was honoured and awarded a gift of appreciation for his co-editorship of the following three CASA books: China Jnsight (1985), East Asia Insight (1988), and East Asia Inquiry (1991). The East Asia Inquiry contains Dr. Chen's lengthy article on Dr. Norman Bethune in China as well. A condensed version of this article had appeared earlier in the February 1117, 1991 issue of the Beijing Review, the leading English weekly published in China. During the conference at Brock University in October, Dr. Chen also presented a paper entitled "Dr. Richard F. Brown, Bishop Ronald 0 . Hall and the Failed Western Missionary Attempt to Influence the CCP, 1938-1939." Dr. Bill Morrison and Dr. Margaret Johnston of the CenlTc for Northern Studies received a Canadian Studies Research Tools Grant of $26,650 from SSHRC for their project entitled "Inventory of Archival Resources in Northwestern Ontario." The Northern Tourism conference held at Lakehead University in September attTactcd 42 participants, 15 of whom gave papers. Lakchcad Faculty who gave papers were: Professor Robert Dilley, "Thunder Bay Tourism: Opportunities and Attitudes"; Dr. Margaret Johnston, "The Myth of the North and Northern Tourism"; Dr. Bob Payne, "The Future of Remote Tourism in Northern Ontario"; and Dr. Dave Robinson, ''Tourism Impacts in the Nepalese Himalaya: Lessons for Northern Canada". Dr. Wolfgang Haider, of the Centre for Northern Forest Ecosystem Research, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, presented "Effects of Timber Management on the Choice Behaviour of Tourists and Rccrcationists in Northern Ontario." The conference was organized by Dr. Haider and Dr. Johnston. The conference proceedings, which will be refereed, arc to be published by the Centre for Northern Studies in about eight months. November 1991-- - - - -- - -- - - -- - AGORA Page 7 �Publications continued from page 7 Professor Bruce Muirhead has recently had his book, Canadian Trade Policy, 1945-57: The Decline of the Anglo-Canadian Option, accepted for publication by McGill-Queen's University Press. His paper presentation at the Canadian Historical Association meetings of the Learned Societies Conference this past June, 'The Politics of Food, 1947-48: The 1947 Anglo-Canadian Food Negotiat==- ~=~== tions as a Case Study in the Disintegration of a Relationship", as chosen by the CHA as one of the twelve best presented and is included among those being published by the Association in the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. He has also had an article, "Canada, the United States and the 1954 GAIT Review Session: A Clash of Perceptions", accepted for publication in the country's top-ranked History journal, the Canadian Historical Review. As well, he has an article coming out in the January 1992 edition of the British Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History entitled "Canada, Britain and the Collective Approach to Freer Trade and Currencies, 1952-57". Finally, Professor Muirhead had his article, "Perception and Reality: The GAIT's Contribution to the Development of a Bilateral North American Relationship", published in the ·, American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol.20, 1990. J With respect to paper presentations, Prof. Muirhead presented 'The Decline of the Anglo-Canadian Relationship During the 1950s" at the British Association of Canadian Studies Conference held at the University of Nottingham, England in April 1991 . As well, he gave the paper mentioned above at the Learneds in June 1991. Finally, together with Prof. McBride of the Political Studies Department and Kje11 Lundmark of the University of Umea, Sweden, their paper, 'The Politics of Exclusion", was selected as an official paper at the International Political Science Association meetings in Buenos Aires, Argentina in July 1991. Dr. S.Y. Mansour, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, presented a paper entitled, "Power Systems Economic Bus Voltages by State Estimation", at the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering which was held in Quebec City, September 24-27, 1991. Professor David A. Nock presented a paper entitled "E.F. ..]) Wilson and the Social Construction of Text", at the international co11oquium held at the University of Edinburgh this past May 2-4. Dr. Nock was also invited to be part of a concluding panel on the nature of biological truth. The conference was hosted by the Centre of Canadian Studies and its theme was Biography and History in the Canadian and Irish Contexts. Members of the international panel from left to right, Owen Dudley-Edwards (University of Edinburgh), Ken Mitchell (University of Regina), Elspeth Cameron (University of Toronto), Ced Martin (Director, Centre of Canadian Studies, University of Edinburgh, standing), and Professor Nock. The proceedings of the conference are to be published by Dundum Press of Toronto and the editor is to be R.B. Fleming who helped in the organization of the conference. Noticed Any Spots? The AGORA is pleased to announce that it has gone green! This means that due to imperfections in the recycled paper, tiny flecks may appear throughout text. The university is currently investigating ways to initiate "blue bag" paper recycling but in the meanwhile, individual offices or departments may wish to initiate their own recycling programs. Page 8 AGORA - - -- -- - - - - - -- - November 1991 �Acting Herbarium Curator Safeguards Vision The word herbarium is derived from fof!: Latin word herbum originally grass U later, an edible plant. An herbarium was a place or cabinet where dried plants were kept. Originally, they would have been for culinary or medicinal purposes. In the medieval monastery it was a repository for medicinal herbs and, as the early botanic gardens were associated with the art of the apothecary, the term herbarium became associated with their libraries of pressed plant specimens kept for reference purposes. Today, university departments, botanic gardens, museums, colleges, libraries and schools all over the world have herbaria to assist in teaching and research. The Claude E. Garton Herbarium was begun by Claude Garton in 1933 as his personal collection. It was not until 1951 that he began to collect really extensively. I le became well known in Canada and the United States as an expert on the plants of the Thunder Bay area, as a dedicated collector and for the production of exceptionally fine specimen sheets. On his retirement as a school principal in 1967, he donated his collection, by ;,b,£n over 10,000 specimens to Lakehead \ iversity. He became curator of the herbarium which was named for him. He was later awarded an honourary doctorate. He continued to collect plants until 1989. Often, he worked on research projects over the summer for various agencies. These took him to different parts of Northwestern Ontario and increased both the size and value of the herbarium holdings. He also collected replicates of each numbered sample which were exchanged for plants from other herbaria round the world. Thus increasing the size and diversity of the collections which now number over 97,000 and indude bryophytes, lichens and pteridophytes as well as flowering plants. His specimens may be found in the National Herbarium of Canada, the Royal Ontario Museum, many Canadian universities and, as far afield as the University of Helsinki and New Zealand . Claude retired due to ill health in the spring of 1990, although he still enjoys getting out and naming every plant he sees. In December 1990 a committee, drawn form the Biology and Forestry departments, was formed to direct the activities of the herbarium in future. In January 1991,Joan Crowe was appointed acting curator. The committee has decided to concentrate on the regional aspects of this herbarium - serving the needs of Northwestern Ontario between Lake Superior and Hudson Bay. Ading Curator Joan Crowe Lakehead University founds Northern Educational Centre for Aging and Health (N.E.C.A.H.) Lakehead University's Northern Educational Centre for Aging and Health was established on September 1, 1991. The new office is the outcome of collaboration between Lakehead and McMaster Universities in the field of gerontology and is funded and supported by McMaster's Educational Centre f,>: Aging and Health until September 1993. After that time N.E.C.A.H . will continue independently. The mandate of the Northern Educational Centre is: • To support collaborative activities in gerontological education and researd1 among Northwestern Ontario educators, researchers and direct practitioners. • To faci litate ongoing academic and clinical exchange with McMaster University's Educational Centre for Aging and Health and other centres of expertise in r atrics and gerontology. ' Goals of the Centre include: • the establishment of a clinical Teaching Unit in Northwestern Ontario ,. sponsoring and organizing a gerontology conference in 1992 • developing an interdisciplinary research program in gerontology • providing administrative support for the Lakehead University Gerontology Study group, an interdisciplinary group of 15 faculty members The Centre is staffed by a fulltime Director, Mary Lou Kelley and a part-time secretary, Julie Wojciechowski. Mary Lou is an Associate Professor at Lakehead University and has been a member of the Department of Social Work since 1980. Prior to that she worked as a medical social worker in an acute care setting. TI1e proceedings of the very successful Gerontology Forum '91 November 199-- - - - -- - -- - - - -- AGORA held in Thunder Bay on May 8, 1991 will be available soon from the Centre office. This 200 page report includes a panel presentation, poster abstracts, research papers and the report of a workshop on clinical Teaching Units. Presenters were from Northwestern Ontario and McMaster University. The Forum publication should be of interest to educators and researchers interested in familiarizing themselves with gerontological practice, research and education in Northwestern Ontario. Page 9 �Forum At Home in the Serengeti Editor's Note: LU Alumni Rob Foster and wife Lana Bresele are having the time of tlieir lives. Rob penned off a note to the lnfonnation Office recently. He is on hiatus from Oxford University, doing field research in Tanzania. Here in the Serengeti ecosystem of East Africa my wife Lana Bresele and I are a Jong way from our roots in Thunder Bay, and even farther removed from conventional, urbanized life. For the past year and a bit, we have been living in our tented camp on the border of Tanzania's Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area while I conduct field research for my postgraduate degree in zoology. Our camp in the Acacia woodlands surrounding Lake Ndutu, borders on comfortable, depending on the definition. Home constists of a 9' x 13' canvas universe which is a bedroom, office, lab and garage tent all in one. A solar panel lights up our nights, and powers the laptop computers on the office side of the tent. A well-travelled 1972 Woods tent serves as our kitchen although, weather permitting, we cook and dine out of doors. "We" also includes Ally Kitangwa, the one-man gang, who acts as field assistant, cook, Swahili instructor etc., and appropriately sleeps in a 4-man nylon tent. With most "modem" amenitites inconspicuously absent, we have adapted to the local environment. Rainwater collected off the tents and stored in drums serves as our source of potable water, and an adequate supply of diesel fuel had to be trucked in at the start. With no refrigeration, fresh produce must be brought in every couple of weeks from the nearest village, whereas we go to the nearest town for dry goods only once every 6 weeks or so since it is a 6-7 hour drive to get there. What we lack in luxuries however, our surroundings make up for in excitement. Four inch long scorpions and 8 foot cobras make for in tcresting trips to the biffy at night, especially when the flashlight batteries run down. Spotted hyenas frequent our camp almost every night but are much less dangerous than the four lions who came for dinner (we had to chase them off with the Land Rover and a spotlight aimed at their eyes). Not all our visitors arc "nasties", as we have mosque swallows nesting under ourt tent's verandah and diminutive dik-diks which mark our camp with their territorial dung heaps. As a result, r usually have little trouble finding the dung beetles which are my subject of study and ticket to fame and big money. And the valley which our camp overlooks is often filled with a variety of wildlife; from noisy guinea fowl which look like animated bowling balls when they run, to elephants which definitely act with a little more self-respect. Situated as we arc in the middle of 25,000 square kilometres of protected wild lands, we are above all very fortunate to be able to witness a biological spectacle which has no other equivalent left on earth. The Serengeti ecosystem supports over 25 species of Deloitt Tou large, herbivorous mammals but none nearly so abundant as the wildebeest. , With over 1.5 million crowding onto thJ short grass plains near our camp during the wet season, they dominate the landscape. When surrounded on the plains by the overwhcming mass of hoof and horn, one cannot help but feel insignificant. And saddened as well. As impressive as 1.5 million wildebeest arc, J can't help but think of what the Great Plains of North America must have looked like when the estimated 60 million bison and 30 million pronghorn antelope blanketed them. Those multitudes are gone forever. For that matter, about one quarter of the endangered birds and mammals in Canada arc e found in the prairie provinces, and undisturbed prairie is one of the most endangered habitats in Canada*. It is a tribute to the far-sightedness of the Tanzanians that they have managed to preserve the Serengeti despite the many pressures to develop it as we did our grasslands. In comparison, one of the best patches of tall-grass prairie left in Canada is only about 10 hectares in size and is found within Winnipeg's city limits*. Even more worthy of respect is the fact that more than 11 % of Tanzani?, enjoys protected status, a figure en.J dorsed as a guideline by the United Nations Environment Program. Canada's National Park System encompasses 1.8%. Considering all the advantages Canada enjoys, economic and otherwise, we still have a long way to go in protecting our natural heritage. *Monte Hummel. 1989. Endangered Spaces. (Toronto: Key Porter Books Limited), pp. 280. The International Association for Students in Economics and Commerce (A IESEC) presented Career Day 1991 on Wednesday, October 23 in the university Agora. National and international companies representing the banking industry, government, business, forestry and many others met with potential LU grads to discuss their job futures. It was especially gratifying that many recruiters were our own LU graduates. Page 10 - - - - - - -- - - - -- - - - - - AGORA - - - - - - -- - - -- - - - November 1991 �Report from the President Continued from page 2 Financial Resources highly misleading particularly when This category of four parameters you look at the nature and role of :uscd on residence space, student various institutions and the motivations rvices, scholarships and operating for students to attend out-of-province budget. These are important parameters and, again, Lakehead University ranked institutions (for example, low tuition fees). overall in the 14 to 31 range and, on a An interesting observation has been provincial basis ranked 10th, 5th, 4th, made about the Maclean's ranking and and 5th respectively. (The relative the "age" of the institutions. To the ranking of Ontario, in general, as 9th in extent that age influences the perception per student funding is noteworthy and of excellence, Maclean's might have indicative of the Ontario underfunding saved the institutions a lot of work and problem in general). ranked by age as shown in the table. Reputation Personally, I feel Maclean's missed This section involved two comp<r the boat by not putting more focus on nents, the Presidential Ranking and the diversity of youth within our another parameter that related to the university system . As well, they have percentage of foreign and out-offallen (probably for budget reasons) into province students. I have commented the "urban" trap which is all too comearlier on the Presidents' ranking and mon in Canada. If revisited in future would only suggest that, if this effort is years, I would encourage Maclean's to done another year by Maclean's, at least spend enough investigative journalism they should supply the Presidents with money to really try to get the "pulse" of the stati~tical data base in order to assist the institutions. in the ranking. The approach this year In summary, Stuart Smith gets an broke every rule in survey research. The "A" rating for a job well done, Maclcan's second parameter, related to percentage gets a "C-". More effort is required next of foreign/out-of-province students, is time. C MACLEAN'$ UNIVERSITY RANKING INSTITUTION AGE VERSUS RANK - 18 of the first 20 institutions are over 50 years old - 15 of the first 20 institutions are over 100 years old - of the remaining 26 institutions, only 6 are over 50 years old - of the remaining 26 institutions, only 2 are over 100 years old November 1991- - - -- -- - - - - - - -- - AGORA Last Writes by Katherine Shedden Norman Kunc is a most interesting man. He has style - and passion. I've never heard the term "the right to be disabled", or "help is a 4-letter word" but Norman has a good repertoire of one-liners to help get his message across. Brought to campus by the Learning Assistance Centre, Kunc is a seasoned speaker who gives presentations and conducts workshops dispelling myths about the needs of the disabled population. And he can talk tough when he needs to. Why doesn't he support Telethons? "Screw wheelchairs, we need jobs!" he argues. Kunc is the author of Ready, Willing and Disabled and is working on a second book about rehabilitation. Norman's own advocacy actions for persons with disabilities began when he realized "that segregation programs maintain the prejudices, and perpetuate the myth that we are different but with !"ehabil.itation we will get better, which translates to 'normal like us'." From that understanding Norman began to argue that he had a right to be just who he was, that his disability did not diminish his "personal worth". I especially enjoyed being reacquainted with Maslow's hierachy and hearing Kunc talk about the importance of the feeling of connectedness, the sense of belonging. Kunc challenged the university administration to investigate how it contributes to society, not just how many graduates it can punch out each year. Kunc passionately believes that by making universities more accessible to people with all kinds of disabilities, the entire society will benefit not only the individuals attending. Quoting Plato, and sprinkling his talk with anecdotes, Kunc delivered his message with a plea to get rid of labels, move away from valuing perfection and start to recognize the inherent gifts in each individual. "Admiration doesn't necessarily mean equity", he told the audience. "Never underestimate the abilities of people with disabilities". Page 1 1 �Campus Calendar To include your Department's event or activity in the Campus Calendar, please call the Information Office at 8300 or mail your information to SN1002. Deadline for the December Agora is November 18, 1991. CHANCELLOR PATERSON LIBRARY HOURS Monday to Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Friday 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Thursday, 7 FREE PUBLIC LECTURE Speaker: Gwynne Dyer Topic: After the Wars Upper Lecture Theatre 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, 20 2:30 p.m. Senate Meeting (Approval of Graduands) Friday, 22 Program Day '91 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Bora Laskin Building Monday, 25 FREE PUBLIC LECTURE Speaker: Professor Joan Dolphin Topic: Multiple voices, Multiple Truths? An Exploration of Michael Ondaatje's, In The Skin of the Lion. Ryan Building, Rm 1022 - 7:30 p.m. Food Drive to support Shelter House / Thunder Bay Friday, November 29 7:00pm C.J. Sanders Fieldhouse Nor'Wester Wrestling Team vs. the University of Western Ontario Mustangs Benefit dual meet Non-perishable foods and donations 1991 VARSITY HOME SCHEDULE November November 1-2 Pizza Hut Men's Basketball Tournament Women's Basketball vs. Brandon November3 Women's VolleybaJI vs. Sheridan College 10:30 a.m. November 8-9 Women's Volleyball vs. Wilfrid Laurier 7:00/7:30 p.m. Men's Basketball vs. Northland College 9:00 a.m./2:00 p .m . November 15-16 Women's Basketball vs. St. Scholastica 7:00p.m. November27 Men's Basketball vs. St. Scl10lastica November 29 Wrestling vs. Univ. of Western Ontario 7:00 p.m. Cornwall Concert Series 1991/92 All Concerts are held in the Recital Hall, 210 S. Algoma St. and arc on Tuesdays at 12:30 PM unless otherwise noted. Tickets arc available at the door. J Novembers Lubomyr Melnyk, piano (Sweden). Co-sponsored by Definitely Superior Art Gallery, assisted by the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council. $5.00 Novemberl2 Victor Schultz, violin; Erica Schultz, piano (New York). $5.00 November19 8:00 p.m. The Gents (Toronto), vocal sextet. SS.00 Thunder Bay Art Gallery October 18 - November 17 Recent Acquisitions TBAG October 11-November 10 Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Works on Paper Art Callery of Ontario October 11-November 6 and Nov. 21December 15 Benjamin Chee Chee TBAG November 19 - December 15 Satyrs, Cardinals, and Beggars Na tional Gallery of Canada November 20 - December 15 Extension Services, Art Gallery of Ontario The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is offering tours to interested groups. Whether your group be from a public school, a high school, a special interest group or an organization with specific needs. The Gallery's education department can plan a tour that fits your requirements. Contact the Education department at 577-6427. 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