1 10 9 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/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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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 1991-11 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/a00a1787ad957db6dfc50f9850b3d0ae.pdf 9343d1cdafb5f0cdef96568869aade4b PDF Text Text OL I{ \ORTIIER\ \"ISI O\ ..,nside: Student going to Lapland .. 3 Research News .. blue pages Attorney-General on Campus ............................ 6 "War an d H ypocnsy • " ......... . 7 Lakehead ~~ University _AgOr~ THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO VOL. 8. NO. 2 FEBRUARY 1991 Giving: A Family Affair $19.2 million in five years. It's a big Regional Education Building and the Stuchallenge, but according to John Russell, dent Centre with shared construction features, and he starts to imagine all that Director of External Relations and the Share our Northern Vision Campaign, "it's is possible when people get involved and feel part of the dream. "The $6 million exreachable, and more important, a pansion on the Bora Laskin Building, $3 necessary goal". The campus is experimillion for the library, another $3 million encing major growth for the first time in for the Fieldhouse, $1 million for scholar25 years, largely the product of the ships and another $1 million for equipsuccessful Parh1er's Campaign comment: these were just items on a muchpleted in 1987. Russell points to the A 12-member, all-party Committee set up their Thunder Bay headquarters in the Agora to hear views about the future of Canada and the Pravince's role within it. People did voice their concerns on many issues including language rights, needed wish list a couple of years ago, but with strong support, we can make them a reality. It's critical that we start at home, with the university family" . He defines that family as faculty, staff, Board of Governors, alumni, parents and students. When the private sector is approached for major contributions, the first question they ask is often "what have you done for yourselves?" Continued on page 4 Quebec separatism, Free Trade and native issues. To receive further information or register your views call the Toll-Free number: 1-800-668-7275 �J Report From the President Dr. Bob Rosehart Dr. John Rideout Dr. John Rideout, Professor Emeritus of English, passed away recently. Dr. Rideout made a long and important contribution to the development of Lakehead University. In recent years, after his formal retirement, John became involved extensively in off-campus teaching for Continuing Education. He loved to go to the regional communities, and his students really enjoyed him. I believe that he has been quoted as saying (paraphrased) that, while the focus of Lakehead University has been the Thunder Bay campus, the real students to serve are out there in the region. It was only in the past couple of years that, on medical advice with respect to his vision, he had to give up this activity. Dr. and Mrs. Rideout enjoyed retirement and many postcards arrived in my office over the past few years, all of churches and cathedrals around the world. John was fascinated by the archi tccture of cathedrals. Unfortunately, often upon passing, an unknown chapter is opened in one's career. Although some of John's dose friends at Lakchead University were aware, to some degree, of his contribution to the civil rights movement in the U.S., all were somewhat surprised to hear the extensive array of his involvement. His commitment to the cause of equality was unfailing, and his contribution to Lakehead University has been appreciated. Dr. John Rideout also holds another p lace of honour in the history of Lakehead University. He was, and is, I believe, the only Lakehead University faculty member, to date, to hold a Rhodes Scholarship. Ontario Constitution Committee The recent hearings of the Ontario Select Committee on the Constitution held in the Agora were very interesting and successful. Without getting into content, the Agora (Greek for meeting place) is a spectacular and appropriate room for such serious topics to be discussed. Numerous students took advantage of the day and evening meetings to help become more focused on this important debate which may ultimately lead to reshaping the definition of Canada as we know it today. Although organized on very short notice, I received many favourable comments about Agora Editor (Katherine Shedden) and the effort she and the university staff put into the day's events. As well, the Parliamentary Channel broadcast the entire hearings live (and repeated) all over Ontario. I really enjoyed the very dramatic and colourful shots of Lakehead University shown on the signoff. (Who says public television doesn't have commercials?) Vice-President (Academic) Search By the time that you read this, I expect that the two candidates, Dr. D. Atkinson and Dr. J. Whitfield, will have completed their on-campus interviews, and the Search Committee will be mulling over the input received during the process. The search has been competitive, and I feel that we have two excellent candidates for the position. A decision is expected by the end of February. Page 2 Buildings, Buildings! In spite of the weather, construction continues on our current projects. All seems to be going well, and next fall should see some impressive new facilities added to our spacL inventory. The Space Committee continues to review the areas of space freed up by the various moves and, as we would expect, there arc still more needs than space. A couple of times in the past few weeks, I have donned my hard hat and had a sneak preview of the new Student Centre/ Regional Education Centre facility. At this stage, it is impressive, and I can hard! y wait to see the finished product. Having a few new "rectangular" classrooms will prove to be a real novelty. The view from the Economics Department offices and the Geography Map Room, however, will probably be the focal points of the new facility. Operating Grants and Tuition Fees (91/92) As I finish this column (Monday, February 11, 1991), the Ontario Government is in the process of announcing grant increases for next year to the University system of approximately 8% and corresponding 8% increases in tuition fees. As you know, Lakehead University doesn't achieve our new student corridor average until the 92/93 fiscal year so this coming year was expected to be another tight one. With the level of grants announced, I can assure you that we will have to budget carefully. I am somewhat relieved, and I believe the students will be also that, in spite of all the recent attention given to proposals to massively increase tuition fees, the actual increases proposed are consistent with recent government policy. Students bring Honour to L.U. Congratulations to Andre Roy, Engineering Department, who has been selected to receive The 1991 Bell Canada Engineering and Computer Science Award. The School of Nursing should be very proud of Therese Lim and Elizabeth Borycki, 4th year students, who were one team of only four student presenters at the National Conference hosted by McGill. More than 150 delegates from across Canada heard their presentation, "The Trend Toward NurseMidwifery in Canada" and asked lots and lots of questions". The students received financial assistance from Mary O'Rourkc, alumna and long time university supporter, and LUSU. Therese Lim, left, and Elizabeth Borycki, take a well-deserued break after putting the finishing touches on their research paper. AGORA - - -- - - - -- - - - - - February 1991 �Around Campus Native Student at University of pland Art Sinclair, a native Canadian and senior Education student, has been chosen to spend six weeks at the University of Lapland, in Rovaniemi, Finland. Lakehead University, through the Centre for Northern Studies, has an exchange program with Lapland and Art and fellow student Susan Flabiano, are the firs t students from Lakehead to attend. The University of Lapland is located on the Arctic Circle. It is in the beginning stages of setting.up a program of s tudy for the Sarni people, the indigenous people of Lapland, and specifically requested a native student for the exchange. "They were looking for a student's perspective", said Sinclair, "and though LU's programs are modest, they are significant in terms of native education involving the community" . The Faculty of Education has a number of exchange programs with Scandinavian universities and will be sending another two students to the University of Lulea in Sweden later in the month. Professor David Bates, Chairman of Pre-Service Education, says "we know that with Art's background and knowledge he will be a good ambassador at the University of Lapland" . Native Students' Day Once again LU was the site of Native Students' Day, held this year on February 1. The event is a unique one among t1"":1adian universities and was organized by the Native ~ udents Association and Native Support Services. The morning was reserved for Native displays - Arts and crafts and native organizations set up booths in the Agora. Guest lecturers included Dr. Bob Thomas, University of Arizona, who spoke to the audience on the problems of interpreting oral history. Dr. Calvin Martin, Rutgers State University, discussed the problems of Native history due to Western European thought and the difficulties involved with Native studies. The evening closed with a Pow Wow and traditional dancers and drummers. 23rd Annual Forestry Symposium The 23rd Annual Forestry Symposium, organized by the LU Forestry Association, was held January 25 and 26 at the university. The theme of the symposium was "Community Forestry". Speakers included Minister of Natural Resources, Bud Wildman, Stewardship Director of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai, Mary La Ronde, Julian Dunster of Simon Fraser University, Richard Baerg, CTDA and Mike Roy of the Centre for Forestry and Environmental Studies, Newfoundland. Lecture topics dealt with the definition of community forestry, community forestry for and by aboriginal peoples and the Ontario government policy on community forestry. OBITUARY John Graville Rideout passed away on January 26, 1991 in Thunder Bay. Born in Vermont, he was educated in Maine, England (a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford) and Rhode Jsland. Dr. Rideout taught at several colleges and universities in the United States before coming to Canada in 1964 to serve as Chairman of the English Department at the soon-to-become Lakehead University. He retired as Professor Emeritus in 1980 but continued to teach off-campus in Kenora, Dryden, Rainy River, Ear Falls and Red Lake for another four years - a total of 44 years dedicated to his love of English literature. His colleagues speak with great admiration about the zest for literature and life that he infused into his teaching. He had the gift of being able to put the litera ture in the context of its age making his classes an unforgettable experience. The university community sends condolences to the family of Dr. John Rideout. A m emorial scholarship fund has been established at Lakehead by family, friends and colleagues who wish to honour his long and distinguished association with the University. Those wishing to donate to this fu nd, which will create an annual award in perpetuity, may send their contributions to the Lakehead University Development Office (Rideout Memorial). Official Opening of the Centre for Northern Forest Ecosystem Research January 25 was the official grand opening of the Centre for Northern Forest Ecosystem Research (CNF ER) on campus. The building, which houses Ministry of Natural Resources biologists, ecologists and foresters, was the site of the official ribbon cutting by MNR Minister Bud Wildman, centre, and left to right, Sister Alice Greer, MPP Shelley Wark-Martyn, hidden in back MP Joe Comuzzi, Mayor Jack Masters and Dr. Bob Rosehart. February 1991 AGORA - - - - -- - - - - - - - -- -- - Page 3 �'7t s t a r t s a t h o m e " Conlinuedfrompage1 Knowing that a successful campaign at home would build the foundation for the larger campaign, organizers structured the campaign in such a way that everyone would be personally contacted. "We started with the President, Chair of the Faculty and Staff Campaign, who then met with members of senior administration, who had the opportunity to involve their people and set Department and School goals. "The areas we've mentioned have been given top priority but the key to the success of this campaign is the involvement factor. People are very concerned about where their hard-earned dollars will go. If they have a say, if they feel that their contribution is for something they believe in, then the community spirit alone will build these future dreams, just as it did 30 years ago when the people of the area envisioned a university". People often want information about how to channel their donation so that it best meets their needs. Russell pointed out one case where a donor insisted the money go to the library - and then recommended certain journals! "That's great'', he said "People need options and whether they help with bricks and mortar or start a new scholarship, it's the participation that is going to make a difference." For further information about the Share Our Northern Vision Campaign, or how to get involved call John Russell or Rob Zuback at the Development Office 343-8913. I "I believe this region is very fortunate to have a university. For the past eight years, l have been contributing to an endowed scholarship through payroll deduction because I consider Lakehead University and its students a worthwhile investment. I look upon it as my way of leaving something lasting and meaningful behind." Betty Hygaard, Assistant External Relations "Stories students have told me of the was/P. of human potential at some large universi ties, help me to understand what a good educational investment Lakehead University is." Clem Kent, Professor Mathematical Sciences 'Tm a grad, but that is not the only reason I give. I really believe most people want to give. We all have to give a little bit and stand together and do some good. I think cooperation is the way to counteract cynicism. The alumni has been working their butts off and I want to support them. It means a lot "l think it's the university's commitment to regional programs that means the most to me to know that our contributions, no matter Being able to deliver our university courses to the people of Northwestern Ontario in thei how small, can make a difference and home community is a gratifying experience. Being from Northwestern Ontario, I fully improve the quality of life at this institution support the fundraising efforts that help make these programs possible." - now and in the future." Marg Boone, Director Andy McFall, Grounds Lead Hand School of Nursing Campus Development February 1991 AGORA - - - - - - - - - -- - -Page 4 �RESEARCH NEWS Ever since man's presence on earth, he has had to compete with pests in order to grow food, shelter and clothe himself. Man's intense clashes with pests have resulted in disease, famine and even death. In order to minimize the impact of pests and consequently improve his lifestyle, mankind has developed pesticides, chemicals aimed at killing the unwanted organisms. h1 spite of all the benefits of increased pesticides, they have come under intense attack, as a result of increased public awareness about health and environmental effects. A research team, led by entomologist Dr. Yves Prevost, School of Forestry, is developing a new understanding of how de.ii with pests. "Pests arc any organ,n th.it interferes with the comfort .ind well being of m.inkind. TI1c pests we arc dealing with arc insects. We arc looking at methods w hid1 will minimize the use of insecticides. Sometimes insecticides are the only answer to the problem, but often other methods can be used and that is the focus of our current research." A long-standing approach to the control of spruce bud worm populations is aerial application of insecticides. Dr. Prevost and graduate student Shelley Vescio arc inves tiga ting how trees defend themselves against feeding by the bud worm. "We believe trees can take care of themselves because trees arc loaded with defence chemicals much like the immune system of humans. What we would like to understand is how trees use these defences in repelling .in insect attack and once we understand how it works then we could apply the principle to forest management". Another pest that is making its presence well-known is the white pine weevil. This insect destroys the principle growing shoot of newly planted spruces and pines, which is counter -;>roductivc to the massive regeneration 1 ( .'orts of the forests. There are on! ya few insecticides available for white pine weevil control, but their u se is labour intensive and not always successful. Dr . Prevost, graduate student Anne Villeneuve, and Rhonda Millikin, terrestrial (C vertebrate ecologist at the Forest Pest Management Ins titute (FPM I) in Sault Ste. Marie, arc investigating the importance of bird natural enemies on white pine weevil populations. "We virtually don't know anything about the significance of birds, or for that matter other natural enemies, in keeping white pine weevil populations in check. We must understand the biological links in the ecosystem first, if we are going to be successful in controlling any pest, by wha tcver means". Another approach to minimizing insecticide use is to practise selective application. In collaboration with Dr. G. Grant of FPMf and the Ministry of Natural Resources, Dr. Prevost is monitoring for the presence of spruce bud worm and spruce concworm in seed orchards which yield seeds used in seedling production. These two insects feed on the cones which produce the seeds and thus d iminish seed production potenti.il. Traps specific for bud worm and concworm moths are being used to monitor for the presence and numbers of these moths in the orchards. Research is underway to relate the numbers of moths caught in the traps and the expected damage to cones the following year. Armed with a prediction, orchard managers should be able to pl.in if they need to apply insecticides or not. Reduction in pesticide usage rests also with the public. With the support of the Ministry of Natural Resources program, Environmental Youth Corps, Dr. Prevost has organized an insect identification clinic in the School of Forestry. The public can bring in their insect guests and the clinic will identify the insect and indicate how the insect should be dealt with. 'The grea t majority of insects are beneficial and the application of insecticides in most cases actually docs more harm than good. Before the public can treat perceived problem insects, they must know what they are dealing with. We promote non-insecticidal approaches as much as possible". RESEARCH PROFILE: "THE BUG MAN" Dr. Yves Prevos t Sch ool of Forestry 'The great majority of insects are beneficial. .. in most cases the application of insecticides actually does more harm than good." �Four Professors Going to China The Ontario-Jiangsu Educational Exchange (OJEE) Program has initiated a three-year pilot project with Lakehead University and Nanjing Forestry University, which will provide additional funding to nurture existing linkages. Dr. P. Knowles Ten person-months have been reserved on the exchange for Lakehead University scholars and graduate students to go to Jiangsu and as well for Nanjing Forestry University scholars to undertake research or teach at Lakehead University. The Office of Research and Graduate Studies is pleased to announce that in a recent competiSOVIET SCHOLAR TO VISIT DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY The Department of Chemistry at Lakehead University has accepted a Soviet scholar, Dr. Alexander Yuffe, to pursue short-term research (2 months) under the 1990-91 Canada/ USSR Academic Exchange Program. The program is administered by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) on behalf of the Department of External Affairs and International Trade. Dr. Yuffe is a professor of Chemistry at Tyumen University and specializes in Heterogeneous and Metal Complex Catalysis. CONTRACTS AND AWARDS Dr. R.J. Day, School of Forestry, has been awarded a research con tract by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources to complete the analysis of the snag and down log rnmponent of the Temagami white and red pine ecology study in the Northeastern Region. Dr. E. Setliff, School of Forestry, has been awarded a prestigious research grant from the National Geographic Society to study wood inhabiting fungi (neotropica-the polypores) in Puerto Rico. PUBLICATIONS Dr. Azim Mallik, Department of Biology, was invited to write two chapters for a book published in 1990 entitled, Wetland Ecology and Management : Case Studies. The case studies are entitled, "Microscale Succession and Vegetation Management by Fire in a Freshwater Marsh of Atlantic Canada" (pp. 19-29) and "Smoldering Combustion, Thermal Decomposition and Nutrient Content Following Controlled Burning of Typha Dominated Organic Mat'' (pp. 717). Dr. Mallik also co-authored an article entitled, "Moose browsing and allelopathic effects of Kalmia Angustifolia on balsam fir regeneration in central Newfoundland" which first appeared in the 1989 issue of Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 19(4): 524-526 and has been reprinted by the National Research Council of Canada. Dr. R. Rollins Prof. K.C. Yang Dr. R. Farmer tion, the OJEE Selection Committee chose four scholars from Lakehead University to go to Jiangsu during 1991 - 1992: Dr. R. Rollins, School of Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism; Dr. P. Knowles, Depar tment of Biology /Forestry; and from the School of Forestry, Prof. K.C. Yang, and Dr. R. Farmer. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES HEALTH AND WELFARE CANADA (NHRDP) AIDS Research Program The purpose of this announcement is to provide an update on the mandate and revised application deadlines of the National Health Research and Development Program's AIDS Research initiative. As part of the federal government's commitment to fighting ATOS in Canada, the NHRDP provides support for health sciences research related to HN and AIDS. The following research issues relate to three of the fundamental goals identified in the national AIDS strategy: 1) To stop the transmission of HlV; 2) To search for effective vaccines, drugs and therapies; 3) To care for, treat, and support people infected with HIV, and support their caregivers, families anr') friends. The biomedical, epidemiological, clinical, health services, psychosocial, and health promotion research which is supported under the NHRDP's AIDS research program lays the groundwork which will help Canada to achieve these goals. Activities eligible for support include: research projects, pilot and feasibility studies, formu lation proposals and demonstration/evaluation projects, salary support of career researchers and research-oriented conferences, workshops and symposia. If you are interested in applying to the program, please stop by the Office of Research and Graduate Studies for further information. Health and Welfare Canada is trying to facilitate proposal preparation and has given researchers the option of submitting a Jetter of intent, which may be submitted at any time, or to submit a full proposal by March 15 or September 15. THE EASTER SEAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ONTARIO The Easter Seal Research Institute supports Research and Developmen t and Professional Training concerned with the prevention, treatment and management of physical disabilities in children and young adults in the Province of Ontario. In addition to the following programs, the Institute offers Doctoral Training Grants as well as Post-Doctoral Feilowships. Research Grants - Research dealing with preventative aspects of an y medical condition which could result in a continuing physical handicap will be encouraged, but atten tion will also be directed toward improved methods of treatment. Deadline: April 15 and October 15. Summer Studentships - $3,000 The object of the Summer Studentships is to provide five fu ll-time students, only one per Ontario University, with an Page 2 - - - - - - -- -- - - -- - - RESEARCH NEWS - - - - - - - - - -- - February 1991 �opportunity to gain firsthand experience with research relating to the prevention, treatment and management of ohysical disabilities in children and young adults. Deadline: ..1arch 1, 1991. WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION FELLOWSHIPS A limited number of WHO Fe!Jowships arc available for Canadian citizens wishing to under take short-tem1 health studies (less than 3 months) outside of Canada. Fellowships are limited to a maximum of $5,000. This amount is provided to contribute to the cost of air fare and daily expenses. Applications are welcome from health personnel in medical, paramedical and health related fields such as dentistry, nutrition, rehabilitation and veterinary medicine, as well as teachers and administrators in these areas. Deadline: June 30, 1991 . C KILLAM PROGRAM OF THE CANADA COUNCIL Killam Research Fellowship s The purpose of the Killam Research Fellowships program is to support researchers in any of the following broad fields: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medicine, engineering, and multidisciplinary studies. The Fellowship provides released time to an individual scholar who wishes to pursue independent research (max. $53,000). The deadline for submitting applications is June 30, 1991. GRADUATE THESES The Senate Graduate Studies Committee has asked that acknowledgement be given to a student and supervisor when a thesis is completed. Beginning with this issue of the AGORA, Ms. Kris Delorey, Graduate Studies will prepare for Research News, a list of all completed theses so that the ~cadcrs can be informed about the types of graduate student ( cscarch being undertaken at Lakehead University. The following graduate students are to be commended for their outstanding scholar!y effor ts: CHRETIAN, Roland (M.A. Psychology) Supervisor: Dr. K.P. Satinder Thesis Title: Immunological Consequences of Chemically Induced Generalized Epilepsy. DENG, Shaotang (M.Sc.Forestry): Supervisor: Dr. R. E. Farmer, School of Forestry Thesis Title: Variation of Syllepsis in Eleven Tamarack (Larix laricina (Du Roi) K. Koch) Provenances in Northeastern Ontario and its Relation with Height Growth. MAHON, Shelley (M.A. Psychology) Supervisor: Dr. M. Sellick Thesis Title: Coping Strategies Used by Cancer Patients in Anticipation of Cancer Centre Follow-up Appointments. MALEY, Madeline (M.Sc. Forestry) Supervisor: Dr. W. Parker, School of Forestry Thesis Title: Phcnotypic Variation in Cone and Needle Characteristics of Pin us ban ksiana Lamb. (jack pine) in Northwestern Ontario". MOONEY, Scott (M.Sc. Geology) Supervisor: Dr. P. Fralick Thesis Title: Statigraphy of Two Late Paleozoic Basins: Implications for the Timing of Final Emplacement of the Meguma Tcrranc. YU, Ling (M.Sc. Mathematical Science) ( upcrvisor: Dr. J. Whitfield {hesis Title: Compact Sets of Banach Spaces February 1991 GERONTOLOGY STUDIES GROUP: CALL FOR PAPERS Lakehead University's Gerontology Studies Group presents: Northwestern Ontario's Research and Educational Forum '91. This forum will be held on May 8, 1991, in conjunction with Confederation College's Conference entitled "New Aging - A vision of wellness promotion for older persons and caregivers", to be held May 9 and 10, 1991, at the Airlane Motor Hotel in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Papers or poster sessions may be submitted for presentation during the Forum. Please send the title of your paper or poster presentation, a 200-word abstract, and a one-page CV, by Friday, March 8, 1991, to either Dr. A.B. Chen, Department of Sociology (ext. 8792) or Ms. Ti King, School of Nursing (ext. 8340). A memo with further details will follow shortly. The following Mission Statement has been established for the Gerontology Studies Group: 1. To provide a forum which will support the professional activities and development of Lakehead University facu lty and staff, and regional professionals, in gerontological research and education. 2. To promote the recognition of Lakehead University as an important regional and provincial resource for gerontological education and research. 3. To promote collaboration and evaluation between Lakchead University and professional agencies forgerontological research, education and practice. lf you are interested in joining the Gerontology Studies Group, please contact Mrs. Mary Lou Kelley, Department of Social Work (ext. 8737). UPCOMING CONFERENCES M ilitary History Symp osium - March 14, 15, 1991 Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario Topics include: India and the North West Frontier -The first Afghan War; The ACEH War and the Creation of the Neilierlands East Indies States; The French Occupation of Madagascar; and many more. Canadian Socie ty of Zoologists - May 8 to 11, 1991 - Annual Meeting Lakchead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario Learned Societies Conference 1991- May 26 to June 9, 1991 Queen's University, Kingston (Addition:il information available at Office of Research and Graduate Studies). Globe '92 - March 16 to 20, 1992 Vancouver, British Columbia The conference will focus on examples, case studies and demonstration projects of sustainable development in action, in both developed and developing nation s. A trade fair will showcase leading-edge products, services and technology for pollution prevention and control, and environmental management. Expanded programs, matching problems with solutions and buyers with suppliers will continue to stimulate collaborative trade opportunities in the g lobal marketplace. - -- - - -- -- - - RESEARCH NEWS - - - - - -- - -- - - - - Page 3 �Upcoming Deadline Dates Quick Reference Research Opportunities Canadian Cancer Society's Stephen Fonyo Fellowship Award - anytime, but 2 months prior to when training begins. Canadian Department of Communications; International Cooperation Assistance fund on New Information Technologies - Open CIDA International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Open, allow 3 months for a full response. Easter Seal Research Institute of Ontario: Research Grants (April 15 and October 15). Educational Centre for Aging and Health; Fellowships/ Bursaries - January 1, April 1, July 1, October 1 Energy, Mines and Resources; Environmental Studies Revolving Funds - Open Health and Welfare Canada; National Health Research and Development Program (NHRDP) - deadline postponed to June 1, 1991 Health and Welfare Canada (N HRDP); Aids Research Program - March 15 and September 15, 1991 Health and Welfare Canada; National Welfare Grants Special Competition: 1) Social service issues affecting aboriginal people and 2) Child and family poverty -February 1991 call for letters of intent. Heritage Canada Foundation Awards Program - June 1, 1991 Japanese Science and Technology Agency Fellowships STA/NSERC - Open, but allow 6 months for processing Japan Science and Technology Fund - EAITC/ISTC/NSERC - Open, but allow 3 months for processing. Killam Program of the Canada Council; Research Fellowships - June 30, 1991. Laidlaw Scholar Program - Open Lakehead University Senate Research Funds; NSERC and SSHRC General Research Grants Competition - March 10, 1991 National Geographic Society; Research Gran ts - Open North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - Advanced Research Workshops - Open National Science Foundation (NSF) - Open, but must allow 6 months for review and processing. Northern Ontario Heritage Fund - Open NSERC Forestry Postdoctoral Assistantships - January 15, April 15, July 15, October 15 NSERC International Collaborative Research Grants - Mard1 1, 1991 NSERC International Scientific Exchange Awards - March 1, 1991 NSERC Scientific Publications - April 15, 1991 NSERC Workshops and Seminars - Open Ontario Ministry of Health; Research Projects Program, Health Care Systems Research - May 1, 1991, Feasibility /Formulation Studies - Open, Information - May 1, 1991, Workshop/Conferences - Open Ontario Ministry of Health - Ontario Nursing Innovation Fund, Group projects - January 1, May 1, and September 1; Professional Development for RNs and RNAs - Open Social Science Federation of Canada - Aid to Scholarly Publications Program - Open SSHRC Special Awards: The Queen's Fellowships, Cana\ dian Law Scholarship Foundation, SSHRC Legal Research ...P Scholarship, Doctoral Fellowships in Management Studies Open University Research Incentive Fund (URIF) - January 31, May 31, October 15 World Health Organization; Fellowships - June 30, 1991. World Wildlife Toxicology Fund - Open World Wildlife Endangered Species Recovery Fund - January 1, April 1, July 1, October 1 GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES Easter Seal Research Institute of Ontario: Summer St\ldentships - March 1, 1991. Noranda/Bradfield; Graduate Fellowship Program - March 1, 1991 Second Annual Graduate Student Conference - Mar. 15, 1991 Wildlife Habitat Canada - Graduate Scholarships - Mar. 1/91 UPDATE ON 2N0 ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE There has been an overwhelming response to the Call for Papers for the Second Annual Graduate Student Conference. Twenty-two abstract submissions have been received from various disciplines, including Hjstory, Psychology, Biology, Mathematical Science, Chemistry, Forestry, Economics, Education, Physics, and Physical Education and Athletics. As a result of so many submissions, the Conference will be held over two days (llrnrsday, March 14 and Friday March 15). Senate Research Committee members, Dr. KC. Yang and Prof. Rhonda Kirk-Gardner arc reviewing the submitted abstracts to ensure they meet appropriate standards for conference presentation. Students who have submitted abstracts will be contacted by Kris Delorey to infom1 them of the date and time of their presentation, and other details about the Conference. Following the last session on Friday, there will be a Wine and Cheese Reception in the Faculty Lounge beginning at 6:00 p.m. Everyone participating in the Conference is welcome to attend. The Office of Research and Graduate Studies, in conjunction with the Office of Information Services, is asking all faculty to share with us interesting research stories to feature in the RESEARCH NEWS, We would like to hear from you if you are currently involved in innovativeresearch, have attended an interesting conference, are collaborating with industry or the community or if you would just like tq profile your research expertise. RESEA.RCH NEWS enjoys an .audience of approximately 2000 and can be a valuable vehicle for commi.micatingyour research endeavou.r s to the community at large. • For infonnatfon and appU~ation forms on any of the above research programs, please call Anne Fiorenza at ext. 8223 or drop by the Office of Research and Graduate Studies. . for information about Foundations, please call Jo-Anne Silverman, Foundations Officer at ext. 8910 or drop by the Alumni House. Page 4 - - -- - -- - - - -- -- - - RESEARCH NEWS - -- -- - - - - - -- February 1991 J J �New Faces Dr. Azim Mallik is a professor Creceived n the Department of Biology. He his Bachelors and Masters of Science degrees from Dhaka University in Bangladesh and his PhD from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland . He served a doctoral fellowship at Aberdeen and a second one at the University of New Brunswick in the Biology and Fire Science Centre. From there Mallik went to St. John' s, Newfoundland where he worked for the Canadian Forestry Service (now Forestry Canada) until 1989. He looks fondly on his four year stay in St. John's, "the city is active and the people arc very friendly" . Mallik conducts research in plant ecology and enjoys his collaboration with other facu lties on research projects. Mallik's wife is presently enrolled in the MA program, studying English literature, and they have a three year old son. He vows that learning to ski is a top priority this winter and "I must get back into gardening this summer" . Mallik keeps active by swimming and playing badminton. '-------J_a_c_k_C_h_r_is_t_y_ _ ____.·I Professor Jack Christy has recent! y returned to Lakchcad 1niversity to join the School of ( c1sincss Administration. Originally from Thunder Bay, Christy received his Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from LU in 1981 and was awarded the Gold Medal and the President's Award at Convocation. After his graduation, Christy joined the accounting firm of Clarkson Gordon (now Ernst & Young) and received his Chartered Accountant designation. After three years with the firm he was selected for a Rotary Foundation Scholarship to the University of Strasbourg, France. Christy took graduate courses in International Business and interned with a number international companies and later worked as a consultant. Christy lectured for one year at LU before going to France, and says "I loved my year of teaching. Moving back mean t I could continue to do some independent management consulting, tead1 and enjoy the quality of life here. With my consulting work I can still keep on top of what's going on out there in the business world" . He lists leisure pursuits as wine testing and being a "better than gourmet cook" . Dr. Livio DiMatteo is a new professor of Economics at Lakehead University. DiMatteo was born and raised in Thunder Bay and attended FWCT high school. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Lakehcad University in 1985 and his Masters Degree and PhD (June '90) from the University of Western Ontario. Lakehead is his first appointment as a professor and he is ===--....::....-=== very happy to be back and working with his colleagues once again. DiMatteo teaches courses in Public Finance and Economic History. His la test research deals w ith 19th Century wealth holding, with major focus on Northwestern Ontario's Economic history. Being from the region DiMatteo would like to direct new initiatives of study towards it. "I'm presently looking into Lakehead economic development both in the past and the present''. DiMatteo is a member of the Thunder Bay H istorical Museum Society and is working on an article for their publication, Papers and Records. In his spare time he likes to read "histories, of course" . DiMatteo stays active by swimming and jogging. c_h_a_ri_s_s_e_W _ h_i_tfi _1_e_ld_ _____. ,__/_ _ _ Charisse Whitfield was recently hired in the Accounts Office as a clerk. Originally from Michigan, Whitfield moved to the city when she met her husband, who is from Thunder Bay, while he attended school in the state. She attended Lakehead University and graduated in 1988 with BA in Sociology. After graduation, Whitfield worked at the university part-time ~~~~~~~~~ until the birth of her baby girl, Mara, last year. She decided to return to work fu ll-time and says "1 like the atmosphere and I plan to be here a long time". In her free time Whitfield enjoys downhill skiing and reading science-fiction novels. She loves to cook, especially baked goods, "the fattening stuff' . She and her husband look forward to travelling in the future. "For our honeymoon we got in the car and drove wherever the turnpike took us. We ended up in Charleston, or south North Carolina. It was great''. What's Happening in the Library... CORNWALL DELIVERY SERVICE Lakehead University Library is pleased to announce a new service for students and faculty at the Cornwall Campus. Students and faculty can search the Online Catalogue - ,t Cornwall Campus, select music and visual arts titles, then request to have these items sent to Cornwall Campus. Requests can be made by contacting: Weekdays 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. 343-8129 Evenings and Weekends 343-8148 February 1991 SPORT DISCUS Come and try out the newest addition to our CD-ROM (Compact Disc Read Only Memory) collection. Sport Discus corresponds to the Printed Sport Bibliography, Sport and Fitness Index and SportSearch. This disc provides access to the latest information in sports medicine, exercise, biomechanics, coaching, physical education and outdoor recreation. Contact the Search Services Librarian at 343-8129 for more information. AGORA - - - - -- - -- -- - -- - -- - Page 5 �People, Papers/Publications Special Projects/Awards Jack Granatstein: "The Craft of History" Professor Jack Granatstein of York University calls himself _) a "nuts and bolts historian". "I've always thought of myself as one .. I am problem-oriented in the way that I ask myself why thmgs happen. I am by no means a theorist". This last statement portrays Granatstein's aversion to the fairly recent trend of h istorians to focus on social and historical theory rather than the fundamental traditions of study in Canadian history (the political parties, the wars, conscription, Canadal.J_S rel_ati~ns). "Canadian h istory has moved in the wrong direction m the past years. ft should be accessible and understandable to the public" . Granatstein, as a narrative historian, is one of few Canadian academics who probably sells enough books to sustain him without his university salary. His recent book, mitten with York colleague Robert Bothwell, is Pirouette, based on former Prime Minister Trudeau's Foreign Policy and it ~as the topic of his lecture presented in the evening of January 24. Earlier in the day, speaking to a class of Honours and Graduate History students, Granatstcin talked about "The Craft of History" and explained the process of researching a Attorney-General of Ontario book. Although he admitted that the process can be painstakGives Lecture at LU ing at times, obtaining documents for the Trudeau book was Lakehead University was the site of a lecture by the new almost too easy. "We didn't have to worry about using the Attorney-General of Ontario, Howard Hampton on January Freedom of information Act or the 20-ycar document rule. 12. Speaking to a capacity crowd of staff, faculty, students The Department of External Affairs records were completely and members of the legal profession, Hampton called for open to us. Once those were accessed we were able to obtain greater access to justice service. The new governmen t has access to National Defence files and Bank of Canada records. proposed to increase the accessibility to Ontario' s justice We found it surprising that we were able to gain free access to services by increasing the jurisdiction of small claims courts such recent information". from $1000 to $5000, setting up a provincial pre-paid legal The Trudeau book analyzes the history of the former ""),. insurance plan and allowing paral_cgals to represent clients for prime minister's "flaky" foreign policy and how he unsuc- J certain offences in provincial court. Also included in the ccssfully attempted to distance Canada from US influence. provincial plan is the idea of having child support payments Trudeau wanted to cut back on Canada's international role automatically deducted from paycheques and allowing and its involvement in NATO and focus more on Canada and natives to deal with certain offences on their own, in their its internal problems. By the end of his political career, own communities. however, Trudeau had learned the ropes of international Hampton said "the Justice system must be able to solve relations and realized his original policy path was unrealistic the issues of concern, the disputes of the ordinary folks". He in the world scope. stated that a legal insurance plan, similar to the OHIP model, Dr. J.L. Granatstein is p resently researching a new historiwould allow a new segment of people guaranteed access to justice services. Another proposal is to expand the role of the cal topic and will continue to lecture and campaign for a return to the study of more traditional Canadian history. paralegal in the system. According to Hampton, paralegal services save consumers money especially when the situation According to him, universities arc favouring social historians deals with provincial offences. These offences arc not eligible rather than political ones "but the largest classes arc the ones that offer the traditional courses. Political history is very for legal aid because there is no jail term for convictions. popular - students want to know who Wilfred lauricr is. The Nevertheless, going to court is very costly and as Hampton says, "paralegals are perfectly able to provide the service at an way we have written off history in this province is a scandal. Secondary school curriculum has eliminated most of its affordable cost". The Law Society of Upper Canada is Canadian history and history courses are now designed opposed to this notion. mostly to teach students to fom1ulate a thesis and an arguThe Attorney-General's office also proposes automatic payroll deductions for payer's of child support. According to mcn t". Hampton there are over 100,000 children in Ontario dependent on the payments. At present only 25% of the children "History cannot be rewrittenfor receive the benefits and 85% of the people who shirk the the political whim of the day". rcsponsibilty can afford to pay it. If the process is unsuccessful, the government will go further to have the province pay Granatstein is also incensed at politicians. "History the support and will seek recourse with the party at fault. cannot be rewritten for the political whim of the day''. A better system of Native justice administration is a pilot Granatstein refers to Prime Minister Mulroncy's apology to project the government is dealing with at present. Hampton Italian and Japanese Canadians for their internment in World pointed to the District jails where 75% of the inhabitants arc War IT. "Some of these people were not so innocent and Native. 'The justice system has not adequately positioned spread terrible propaganda through their communities. We itself to deal with the needs and issues of Native people". have sanitized our history and eliminated truth for political This project requires Natives to adjudicate in cases involving reality'' . their own people - offences like impaired driving - without using the court system. February 1991 AGORA - - - - - - - - - - - - -- Page 6 Margaret Boone (School of Nursing) presented a paper jointly written with Bruce Minore (Department of Sociology), Mac Katt and Peggy Kind1 (Nishnawbc-Aski First Nations) at the First -4,S~j;;;;;;i~~ National Conference on Health Promotion Research held in Toronto, Ontario - December 1, , 1990. The paper, "Using Focus Group Research to Develop Health Promotion Strategics: A Model =~~il:;:::~;pfor Suicide Prevention in the Cree and Ojibway Communities of Northern Ontario", was based on a wide scale community consultation about youth eiia.1-'====~..__ suicide initiated by the Nishnawbc-Aski First -~□ Nations in April, 1990, with funding from Canada's Departments of Health and Welfare, and Indian and Northern Affairs; the Anglican Church of Canada; and Ontario's Ministries of Health, Citizenship (Native Community Branch), Community and Social Services and Northern Development and Mines. 1 �Forum War and Hypocrisy Dave Robinson, School of Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism When telling Americans and the world about the outbreak of war, President Bush conspicuously neglected to mention the word oil. The war, Bush asserts, is about higher principles. And here in Canada, it's business as usual. Prime Minister Mulroney acts on a sense of responsibility to the international community (with a special ncx:I to the U.S.A.) when it docs not compromise his political and economic interests. Perhaps one of the reasons Canadians currently dislike Mulroney so much is that he uses the language of moral discourse, a h igh-flown gentleman!y rhetoric, wi thou t one suspects, meaning a word of it. Of all the questionable arguments advanced for the disastrous Iraq war, the most intellectually offensive is the claim that this conflict is evidence of a new age of inte rnational law and collective security. Such a simple-minded description conceals the motives behind the p resent allied coalition. The present coalition docs not reflect collective security, but merely the security of the collective interests, primarily economic, of those with the most power. I abhor this unnecessary war, a war whose protagonists use rhetoric to hide the oil and munitions interes ts responsible for the current conflict. The destruction of Iraq, at the cost of lens of thousands of lives (perhaps millions should the war become nuclear), would not be underway if Kuwait had no oil. Mulroney and Bush talk of the need to check criminal aggression in the name of protecting freedom and democracy. Yet it is difficult to accept this at face value given their willingness to sacrifice lives in only selected instances of such aggression. To give but one example: China invaded Tibet in 1950, and continue ._ oppress the Tibetan people, to destroy their culture, and to rob ( .ir natural resources. Mulroney d oes nothing, apparent!y for fear of upsetting China's leaders - the same lead ers who ordered the troops into Tiananmen Square -- and thereby disrupting Canadian-Chinese trade relations. Kuwait was not, of course, a democracy; it was a near-feudal state where imported, disenfranchised labor d id most of the work. Moreover, Saddam Hussein, while certainly guilty of many crimes, is just the sort of man that the west has often supported or even installed in power in other lesser developed nations -Somoza in Nicaragua, and Pinochet in Chile. And while a lot of popular rage has been a imed at German companies that built up Saddam's lethal arsenal, the most powerful countries of the allied coalition - U.S.A., Canada, Britain, France, Ita ly, the Soviet Union - have all, directly or indirectly, contributed either nuclear, military, or bio-chemical technology or hardware lo Iraq's arsenal. In short, hypocrisy abounds. With regard to events surrounding the actual war, the picture of mixed messages and hypocrisy is much the same. The Iraqi brutality detailed in Amnesty lnterna tional' s human rights report on violations in Kuwait reportedly moved Bush to righteous indignation. Yet similar reports from Latin America and elsewhere elicit no response from Washington. And while economic sanctions were considered perfectly adequate against South Africa for years, they were deemed ineffective against Iraq after less than six months. Similarly, while Bush condemns Hussein's intentions to employ bio-chemical weaponry and scud missile a ttacks, he is comfortable with the destruction inflicted by 10,000 bombing sorties in seven days on a country the size of California with a population of 17 million. With our political leader's demonstrating such a b readth of { ,ocrisy, one is d rawn to question where it will e ventu ally end. .. .:: arc promised that the war will not escalate into the realm of nuclear attack, yet without an explicit political theory for the employment of nuclear forces in war, there can be no viable theory as to why these forces should not be used. There are currently February 1991 over 1,000 nuclear weapons in the Persian Gulf, and nothing in the past can make us aware of the consequences of employing such weapons. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima was a mere 0.013 megatons, small in comparison to the destructive power of today's 24 megaton warheads. Reports from Greenpeace Canada indicate that the explosion of one Tomahawk nuclear missile on a ship in the Gulf would be equivalent to 100 Chernobyls. Moreover, it is now appreciated that the climatic aftermath of a medium to large-scale nuclear war could cause more casualties than the direct effects of nuclear explosions. Add to this the potential g lobal cooling and warming consequences of the destruction and burning of the Kuwaiti oilfields (Kuwait has 1,000 oil installations and hold s 9% of the world's oil), the effects of further oil spills (the current spill is 12 times larger than the Alaska disaster), and the residual effects of biochemical warfare, and it seems tha t a global cco-catasrophe is a real possibility. The hypocrisy of Western a ttitudes is evident in the contrast lo deal seriously with the Palestinian issue and our enthusiasm for making war in the name of Kuwait. There will not be a short-term "techno-fix" or a surgical removal of a dictator; this war effectively lays the foundation for future wars. The potential dividends gained from the end of the Cold War - the channeling of military spending into international development, the building of a durable peace and the protection of the world environment - have merely been thwarted by the legacy of future Arab-West conflict. The outrage of the so-called Christian nations of the West is being driven by a moral code which is dictated by expediency and profit rather than by any spiritual or philosophical stimulus. The hypocrisy of the U.S.A. and the U.K. is beginning to contaminate other countries, countries which will steadfastly pay out the millions and even trillions of dollars to fuel the machinery of war but not to help the millions who currently lead wretched lives of quiet desperation throughout the third world. In following the lead of the Americans, Canada has lost its credibility as an honest broker. David Taras, at the University of Calgary, says that television coverage of the war has produced a "disconnected connectiveness" among students watching a war for the first time. He p redicts that support for Canada's role will d ecline when the real nature of the war sinks in, and that young Canadians will be looking for a ve ry different kind of role in foreign affairs than the one Mulroney has mapped ou t for us. I for one hope that Taras is correct. I condemn the actions of Husse in, I hop e that this is clear. Yet I also condemn those who would have us enter into such a tragic military conflict. I shall continue to express my anti-war viewpoints to all with whom I come into contact in my d ealings at this university. And for those who would prefer that university faculty maintain an air of detached political neutrality when interacting in classroom settings, I finish with a quote: "Critical pedagogy does not afford teachers the comforts of naivete or selective amnesia or a pretense of non- involvement concerning the social and political dimensions inherent in the act of educating people. Instead, it implores them to think and act on their ethical, moral, and social responsibilities and commitments, and to work towards increased opportunity for social justice and economic parity in society. Our present education system is floundering and fo undering partly because it rests on a false premise of being politically "neutral". (Gordon, 1986, p.65) AGORA - -- - -- - - - - - - -- - - - - Page 7 �Campus Calendar Wednesday, 20 Parenting Seminar Lakchcad University Conference and Seminar Centre Speaker: AUcc Greer - $15.00 per person - $25.00 per couple (Parents) To include your Department's event or activity in the Campus Calendar, please call Lynn Gollat at 8300 or mail your information to SN1002. Deadline for the January Agora is February 15, 1991. Wednesday, 27 THE CHANCELLOR PATERSON LIBRARY HOURS How to Enhance Your Career Progress Lakchead University Conference and Seminar Centre Speaker: Dr. Walter Crowe - S20.00 per person Monday - Thursday: 8 a.m. - 11:30 p.m. Friday: 8a.m. -9 p.m. Saturday: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Sunday: 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. FEBRUARY .- _ _ _____JI L _ MAR_CH_ _ SIBLEY SKI TOUR - March 2 The LU Nordic Ski Oub is training hard and tuning up for tough competition. 30 strong competitive and recreational skiers will be aiming for personal bests at the 1991 Sibley Tour. Last year LU won the Team award for the first time in the history of the event by beating the always strong Lappe club. LU names to watch for: George Ozburn, Crandall Benson, Claude Li.man, Ron Lapagge, Jane Crossman, Moira McPherson, Ian Newhouse, Don Orr, Bill Parker, Peter Rutherford, Bill Day, John Whitfield, Fred McIntosh, Ray Viita, Mark ~Puumala. ____. Saturday, 2 ,___ Tuesday, 12 Cornwall Concert Series - Free - Penelope Clark/flute - Joy Fahrenbruck/piano Recital Hall, 210 S. Algoma St. -12:30pm Thursday, 14 Board of Governors Meeting Senate Chambers - 4:00 p.m. Friday,15 Basketball Doubleheader - 6:30 p.m. Women and Men vs Wilfrid Laurier Saturday, 16 Basketball Doubleheader - 8:30 p.m. Women and Men vs Wilfrid Lauricr Monday, 18 to Saturday, 23 Mid-Year Study Weck (except Education and February Session Students) Monday, 25 Department of English Free Lecture Series Speaker: Professor Cindy Soldan Topic: Words and White Spaces: Poetry's Survival Through Stanza Ryan Bldg. Room 1022 - 7:30 p.m. Department of Music Master Class - Free Philip Dent Candelaria/guitar Recital Hall, 210 S. Algoma St. - 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, 26 Sibley Ski Tour '91 Sleeping Giant Provincial Park 9:30 a.m. Mass start 12:30 p.m. 10 km Family start at Rita Lake Monday, 4 How Your Upbringing Affects Your Role as a Parent Lakchead University Conference and Seminar Centre Speaker: Alice Greer - $15.00 per person - $25.00 per couple (Parents) Thursday, 7 Planning Your Conference Lakehead University Conference and Seminar Centre Speaker: Ron Spina - no charge Friday, 8 International Women's Day Monday, 11 to Saturday 16 Mid-Year Study Weck (Education) Tuesday, 12 Connvall Concert Series - $3.00 Cambrian String Quartet (Winnipeg) Recital Hall, 210 S. Algoma St. -12:30pm The AGOR/\ 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 Uruversity. 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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 1991-02 Agora Agora Magazine Alumni Alumni Association Alumni Association of Lakehead University Lakehead Lakehead University President Rosehart President's Perspective Regional Centre Regional Education Centre Student Centre https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/5152cc921fe27e4e75798cc97b21c40b.pdf fa987db72686297f9b0d7b773f29467a PDF Text Text Inside: _ l Athletics wrap-up 5 Lakehead becomes 'Wonderstruck' 5 Juried art show - winners all! 11 Open houses for two services THVRDEK BAY, ORTA.KIO VOL. 6 RO. 4 A.YB.IL 1989 Morgentaler visit b rin gs controversy to Lakeh ead Security checks and tension marked the visit of Dr. Henry Morgentaler to Lakehead Unive rsity March 21. People entering the lecture hall were searched and protesters outside voiced their feelings but there were no confrontations. About 400 people paid to hear Morgentaler's speech. Referring to anti-abortionists as "religious fanatics" and a "quasi-fascist group" Morgentaler continued his crusade to legalize abortions. He told listeners about his fight against Canada's abortion law during the past 20 years. The law was struck down last year by the Supreme Court of Canada. The plight of women who died or were maimed from crude "back alley" abortions is what prompted him to provide abortions. He said two basic principles have been upheld in his practice: that procedures be as safe as possible, and that no woman be turned away because of an inability to pay. Morgentaler said his only quarrel with religious groups comes when they try to force their beliefs on others. He said the anti-abortion fanatics are dangerous. "They call themselves right-to-lifers, the n they threaten to kill me," he said. He said the decision to abort is usually made by a woman and her male partner. However, when the male wants the pregnancy and the woman does not, the n it is a woman's right to make the decision alone, he said. Morgen taler said the abortion debate should centre on how long into the pregnancy abortions should be allowed, rather than whether abortions should be permitted. Morgen taler's lecture was sponsored by LUSU as pan of an on-going speakers' program. Park 'n' Shave: Peter Barnett, a 1th-year Physical Education student from Ottawa, took a few mornents to shave in the parking lot before starling his day. He says mom's gift comes in very bandy. Elections Hello new Student Centre, farewell to Roch In last month's elections, students approved the building of a new student centre and elected a new LUSU president. Roch Let0urneau was defeated by Greg / "eckford in the race for president. '---,eckford said he has been active on various LUSU committees and is ready for his term of office. The LUSU executive for 1989-90 is as follows: Corinne Santa, Vice-President· Academics; Adam Miller, Vice-President Communications; Michael Miller, VicePresident External Affairs; and Rob Taniwa, is the Vice-President Finance. Construction on the new Student Centre is expected to begin in the fall To help pay for the centre, next year students will pay a n additional $5 per course, to a maximum ofS25, with another increase the following year. -------------~ ~nglish Immersion for Japanese Students There is a very good chance that 30 - 40 post-secondary students from Japan wilJ be living on the University Campus this summer for an inte nsive 30-day English Immersion program. Chairma n of the Department of Languages, Emil Dolphin, and Director o f Continuing Education, Dan Pakulak, arc finalizing arrangements for a program which includes language development and the opportunity to experience Canadian culture - Northwestern Ontario style. �group, approximate ly 70% we re successful (approximate 140 s tuden ts). Report from The President Black Sturgeon Study Group Dr. Bob Rosehart Response to my caU for interest has been tremendous, and a meeting wiU be set up in late April to plan an orientation trip to Black Sturgeon for the Study Group. Cornwall Campus Boar d Appr oves 1989/90 Operating Budget After extensive consideration by the Financial Planning Committee, the Board of Governo rs approved, on March 23, 1989, the 1989/90 Operating Budget of $40,611,000. This year's budget represents a significant inc rease over the 1988/89 operating budget of approximately $37.7 million. We arc tar• gcting to end the 1988/89 fiscal year with a surplus of $420,000, and the 1989/90 budget will reflect an operating deficit of slightly over $500,000. Overall, Lakehcad's fiscal situation is good at this time due lo the accessibility funding we are lo receive as a result of enrolment increases in the fall o f 1988. Expe nditures this year will include increased numbers of faculty and support staff positions to deal with inc reased demands for service. Future year fund• ing will be largely dependent upon the formula review curre n tly underway by O.C.U.A. Forest/Biol ogy Building After a false start last year and a lender price almost 50% over the approved budget, the Northern Forest/Biology Centre is close to the start of construction. The redesigned project has been successfully tendered a nd is within project cost. Construc tion is expected to start in May on this project. Fate of Supple m e ntals By a close vote (25 to 24), the Senate voted to re tain supplemental examinations for the time being until a complete "system" review can be undertaken by the Senate Academic Commiucc. It is expected that this review will consider all oflhc direct and indirect implications of either a partia l or complete elimination of supple mental examinations at Lakehead University. Last year, only about 40% of those e ligible to write supplemental exams did so and, of this Pagel 1 think that we should congratulate our Cornwall Campus for the positive impact il has had in the local community. l have heard many positive com• mcnts about the music concert events and, as well, the visual arts initiatives targeted for the general public. Studen t Campus Centre WeU, the student referendum was a strong endorsement for this exciting project, and the Board of Governors has now empowered the Campus Development Commiuce to negoti• ate a formal agrement with L.U.S.U., a further step in making the Campus Centre a reality. An architect will be selected jointly with L.U.S.U. for both the Campus Centre project and the Regional Educatio n Centre project. A decision by the Ontario Government on the Regional Education Centre project is expected by the e nd ofApril. Construction of the Student Campus Centre will be delayed if the Regional Education Centre project is not approved. Lakchead University's share of the Regional Education Centre project, which contains classroom, office, and specialized space, is estimated to be approximately $1.5 millio n , an d this funding will come from the recently completed Partners Fund Drive. The Student Centre will, I feel, have a major positive impact on "student life" a t Lakchead University, particularly for the majority of students who live off campus. Residence Constnictlon Update As I write this article, 1 can see roof trusses in the distance and some ply• wood sheeting. Progress, to date, has been excellent, and so has student interest in our new town house type residence. AOOKA City of Thunder Bay Scholarships After several years of reductions, the City of Thunder B· has increased tl. Scholarship Program from 20 to 25 thousand for next year. This program is an important Jack Masters source o f scholarship and bursary funds for our Thunder nay students. The Mayor and Alde rmen should be congratu• lated on the reversal of the negative trends in this program during the past few years. .J 1-'lbour/Management Committee After due consideration, an E.A.P. (l:m• ployee Assistance Program) Commillcc has been set up to develop a program for Lakehcad University. More details in a future article. Letter to the President l lello Dr. Roschart, I hope you are enjoying your life. I re ccivcd you lc llcr sometime ago. It w;i_.,_ very n ice of you to answer my letter. I want to keep in touch with Lakehcad University, beautiful Canada and its lovely people; I really miss you. I had a fantastic time there. I receive the Alumni Associaiton newspaper "Nor'Westcr" which gives me a lot of news. So happy to hear that my prof is now the big boss and one of the energy minister consultants. 1am fine and still working on the platform with the off-shore oil company. During the past two years we have been attacked three times by Iraqi jct fight· crs. The last time, the American Navy attacked us. I was in charge of the pla tform and when I called the Navy to extend time for evacuation, they started shooting and I had to throw myself in the gulf. It took me one and a half hours to get rescued. I survived. I love to hear news from Lakehcad University, Thunder Bay. Please write when you have some free time. Give my best regards to your wife, my other p rofs in Chemical Engineering Depart•mc nt (Dr. Garred, Mr. Fels and Mr Bruley.) Your old student, Gholam 11. Yavary - April1989 �The Lakehead University Act, 1965, was given Royal Assent by ,lf!e Lieutenant Governor of Ontario on June 22, 1965, and rme intoforceonjuly1, 1965. May 1989 toJuly 1990has been Dr. w. G. Tamblyn, designated the period for Silver jubilee celebrations. Four Presidents have served during the 25year bistoryofLakehead University, The first two presidents sha re some memories. I st President of Lakehead University 1965-197'2 lbe first 7 years in the history of Lakehead University were a lime ofchaos, confusion and excitement. It was a period ofla rge increases in student enrolment, rapid proliferation of courses offered , rapid growth in the number of faculty, and a tremendous construction program to accommodate all of the above. In the University's first year, 1964/65, enrolment was 466, faculty numbered 3 r, and the value of all buildings was under $2 million. Ily 1971, enrolme nt had increased to nearly 3,000 students, faculty numbered over 200, and the value of the physical pla nt was over #30 million. Faculty and administration operated under difficult circumstances. Planning of entire new degree and diploma programs was extensive and time consuming. Construction was continuous, but space requirements were always increasing faster than the space available. However, in times of expansion and growth, there is always excitement. Lake head University certainly had some exciting times during this period - some pleasant and some not so pleasant. There was the "fake" professor of Psychology who created both a humorous and a sad situation in the early years of L.U. It was a period of the radical student movement with many protests occurring including a sit-in outside the President's Office. It was a time when an English Lord "broke the ground" for the Centennial Building by detonating dynamite. It was a time full of problems but also a lime o f promise for thousands ofstudents. These promises were happily fulfilled. Dr. Andrew D. Booth, '2nd President of Lakehead University 1972-1978 - My first recollection ofmy time as President ofLakehead Uni.:rsity is one o f surprise. At the time of my appointment I was told that the Institution was in a healthy financial position, this illusion was rapidly dispe lled when Grant lbompson, the then Comptroller, came into my office on my firs t day to ask me what I p roposed to do about the deficit! TI1is proved to be a recurring theme during my whole tenure of office. A second proble m was that ofGraduate studies, an area of special interest to me. Herc my efforts to start Ph.D. programs in areas ofspecial excellence were frustrated by the dead hands o f the Council of Ontario Universities and the older institutions. Their reasons were centred on the notion of "Critical Size", that is to say their belief that good Doc toral work was impossible unless the departmental size was greater than some minimum. This position was and is absurd, my own Ph.D. studies were done in the department ofa Nobe! Prize winner. The total faculty was 6 and the g,aduate student numbers 3! This was a common situation in good European Universities. Despite these frustrations some academic progress was m:it~e and some graduate programs, albeit at the Maste rs level, were created. A final academic memory, o f a more pleasant kind, was the rejection ofa move to Unionize. I was saddened to see that m y successor was not so fortuna te. In a lighte r vein the re was rr ·1e curious e pisode of the weighing of a Dean whe re the Arts faculty decided to evaluate the re newal of its the n Dean by voting with 1 cent pieces whic h were then balanced against each other! April 1989 - -- - - - - - - -- - - - - On the social side my though ts arc more positive. The friendship of many colleagues which continues to th.is day. The support of several Board ofGovernors Chairmen and of hardworking Board executive committees is pleasant to rccoUecL Off-Campus visits to Dryden, Kcnora and Red Lake to encourage students the re were always memorable as were the nume rous occasions when I had the opportunity of speaking to the business community and teache rs of the area. The Symphony under two fine directors - Manuel Suarez and Dwight Bennett • was always a pleasure as were the festivities at LU. 111c Ice Ca.rnival and a 'Casino' night organized by the students come to mind as exceptional events as do Carol singing in the Agora a t Christmas. The annual dinne r held by the Chinese staff and students was a n event to which both my wife and I look back with pleasure. Both of my children graduated at LU and, although I had then retired, I still derive enjoyment from tapes made by my daughter of a splendid satirical review, composed by Evadne Be nson one ofour Nursing Grads. Many o f the Campus 'characters' were parodied and songs included 'The Merchant o f Menace' (for the head ofsecurity) and witty items commemorating the doings o f 'Macilooth' and 'Gorgeous George'. Finally I reflect o n my last convocatio n speech in which I castigated M. Cre tien for fiscal irrespor.sibility, p lus ca c hange... ! - - /\GORA Page 3 �Coaches reflect on first year in new league The athletic program has completed it's first year in the new School o f Physical Education and Athletics. The coaches agree that Lakehead University's athle tes were moderately successful in compe tition. This year marked Lakehead's first year in the Ontario University Athletic Association (OUAA) and the Ontario Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Associatio n (OWIAA). Previously, varsity teams competed in the Great Plains Athletic Confe rence (GPAC). Bruno Colavecchia, me n's basketball coach, expressed some disappointment that the Nor'Westers finished out o f the playo(fs in their first year ofOUAA competition. In spite of this, the team proved to be quite competitive =====--==== and, given an additional year of experience, they will become a force to be reckoned with in the near future, he said. "This is a relative ly young team and everyone is e ligible to come bac k next year, so tha t bo des well for us," Colavecchia said. The season ended on a n upbeat note with the selectio n ofJohn Laplante to the OUAA All-Star Team. The Lo ndon, Ontario native, a fo rmer GPAC All-Star, averaged 16.5 pointspergameandan amazing 63 per cent three-point s hooting accuracy over the course of the year. • Stu J ulius, women's baske tball coach, announced that the Lady Nor' Weste rs finr==--==--==-- - -. ished the season in third place with a record of 8-6. If the exhibition games a r e include d , the Lady Nor'Westers had a record of 14-13. Tris h Hyland e nded he r career on a high note by - -- - -- - - ~ being named to the OWIAA West All-Star Team. Julius has already started recruiting for next year's team. He said recruiting is "difficult because o f the distance from major areas." Locally, Jennifer Tad do, who is gradua ting from Churchill High School has been signed to the team. "She is a qual.ity player," he said. Women's volleyball coach Claude Lapre, who came to Lakehead from Carelton, had high hopes for the team. lie said the Lady Nor'Weste rs Volleyball Team completed their season on a high note but fe ll just short of making the play-offs. Lapre note d that "the team's constant improvement is clear evidence of their commit• ment to training. " He said the te am is young and if e fforts continue in the 1989- 9 0 season, the Lady Nor'Westrj ·should "get a taste o f post-season p·1 and get an opportunity to challenge the OWIAA's top teams. Wrestling coach Francis Clayton announced the Lakehead University Wrestling Team ended their 1988-89 schedule by competing in the CIAU Wrestling Championships. Clayton said Mike Kirlew (95KG) and Nian I.in hart (130Kg), both first-year wrestlers, were the only ones to qualify for the CIAU Championships. Kirlcw and Linhart frnished second and third respectively at the OUAA's with Kirlcw being named an OUM All-Star. Indoor Track and Field went well during the year. Iain Galloway and Ian Mcllwham represented l.akehead at the OUM championships in Toronto. Galloway p laced ninth out o f 20 in t'- , 1 1500m with a time o f 4:02 and tenthJ the 300m with a time of 8:48. Mcllwham placed sixth out o f 12 in the high jump with a jump o f 1.90m. Svend Paulsen, who spoke on behalf o f track coach Jan Newhouse, noted that almost all of the track and field athletes pla n to continue training throughout the su mmer. "Track and field is here to stay at Lakehead University," he said. Lakehead University d ive rs competed in the preliminary round of the OUM c hampionships in Toronto and d id very well. Lakehead placed third with 73 points (2 d ivers). Trevor Palmatie r was voted "diver of the meet." In Npine skiing, LU collected three individual medals and the women's team qualified for the regional finals at the divisio nal finals. The 1988-89 season officially ended April 2, with the Annual Athletic and Awards Banque t at the Red Oak Inn. Cordon Kyle (centre) and Mike Rapino (right) representing Labatt's Canada presentedChairman of the Partner's Campaign, Robert Paterson. o Lakehead University with S5,000, the thirdannual installment oftheir generous pledge of 125,000 over 5 years. Pa g e 4 - -- - - - - - - - - -- - - - - -- - AOORA - - - -- - - - - - - - - -- - April 1989 �Innovation North assists local business with development of national franchise lt's a great little success story about two nard-working business people with a great product and the desire to turn their "sweat equity" into a marketable idea. Ted and Bernice Cottingham are the owners/partners of Showerwall Industries, a sole proprietorship that has offered specialized renovations since 1987. Their Thunder Bay business was designing and installingseamless one-piece bathtub enclosures using a unique processing technique involving a laminate bender. 'The husband and wife team knew there was a big demand for their product and the knowledge they possessed about running the operation. The Cottinghams took their idea to Innovation North, who quickly put them in touch with design engineers under the National Research Council's IRAP program. Next, the market-ready franchise package was developed with consultants from Innovation North and the Ministry of lndustsry, Trade and Technology. Rainbow Refinishing is the model franchise. Showerwall Industries will centralize operations and provide support to franchisees from Thunder Bay, which presently Richard Pohler, Development Officer with the Thunder Bay EconomicDevelop. ment Corporation, presentsed a plaque to Ted and Bernice Cottingham on March 3 at the official launch oftheir franchise operation. MPP Lyn McLeod (right) brought greetings from the Province and assisted with the ribboncutting. includes the product test site and training ship in franchise operations will be centre. The goa.l of Showerwall Indusemphasized by offering a systematic tries is to sell 21 franchises in the first training package. three years. Consistent quality workman- Annual juried art show is crowd pleaser at TBAG The Lakehead University Juried Student Exhibition got underway March 16 as awards were presented for selected works in the exhibition. 'Ille exhibit remained at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery until April 2. All award-winning pieces, except two, were selected by a jury offour from outside the Lakehead University communHy. Jurors were Joanne Danford, Curator of the Art Gallery, Tim Alexander, a well-known local ceramist, Lori Gilbert ofDefinitely Superior and Lorna Shaffer, a lso a local artist. The winners of the two Painted Turtle Awards were selected by Ruth McKenzie, the owner of the Thunder Bay art supply shop. The awards and winners: Framing E.xperlence Award ($50) •· Judy Ward, Who's that Girl, print; Painted Turtle Award ($50) •· Kahru Latt, Old Cutover, painting; Painted Turtle Award ($50) •· Debra McEachern, Incitamentum, print; Framing Post Award ($50) •• E. Ilond, Flight , print; Dean's Award, Sculpture/Three-dimensional ($75) •• Shelley Crawford, Untitled, clay sculputre; Dean's Award, Ceramlcs ($75) •· Mark Newman, Spout of Gothic Teapot, clay; 1'' ean 'sAward, Prints ($75) •• Re nate Grinfelds, Declining '' •✓oman, print; Dean's Award, Drawing ($75) • Seated Male Nude, drawing; April 1989 Michael Kowbuz, shown above with Deanjobn Whitfield Dean's Award, Painting ($75) •· Michael Kowbuz, Still Life with Hat and Teeth, painting; LUSU Award ($150) .• Debra McEachem, Untitled, clay sculpture; Henderson Associates Award ($250) •• Vivian Michon, Brian, painting; Munro Family Award ($450) •· Nanc y Bjorgo, Yellow Sweater, print; Abitibi Price Purchase Award ($500) •· Debra McEachcm, Interior Viewer, painting. McEachern's Abitibi Price winning painting is now part of the company's permanent collection. - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - AgorA Page 6 �Visitors on campus Lakehead University becomes 'Wonderstruck' when CBC comes to towr...,,1 Ilob McDonald, host of CBC Television's "Wonderstruck.", spent a day at Lakehead University filming several science episodes. The morning was spent with Steve Goldstein and his friendly rats and somewhat less cooperative Archer fish . The filming crew spent the afternoon on the frozen banks of Lake Tamblyn preparing a segment on the insulative properties of snow. It took four students from the School of Outdoor Recreation a few hours to build the quinzhee (an Athapaskan Indian word). McDonald will likely explain to his loyal science fans how the snow dome can provide shelter and protection during the coldest winter conditions. Due to the CBC strike, it is not known when the segments will be shown. Wonderstruck is aired locally on Saturdays at 12:30 pm. Now you see us ... ... Now you don't. The quinzheefinally caves in after Bob MacDonald (back, right in photo at left) and Outdoor Recreation students stand on the snow hut's roof ) Lakehead artists around town Aside from the Annual Juried Art Show at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, the Visual Arts Department has been active off-campus in other ways. On March 29, David Aurandt and Mark Nisenholt gave a talk and tour at the Art Gallery entitle d "Breaking Down the Mystery in Contemporary Art." 'They addressed post-modern issues relating to Ou Est Le Fragrnent, an exibition of contemporary Quebec art being displayed at the 1hunder Bay Art Gallery. Aurandt is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Lakehead and Niscnholt is an Assistant Professor and Chairman of the Visual Arts Department. On March 21 artist Regina Granne give a slide lecture at the Art Gallery on her work. Granne has been visiting LU to meet with and critique the work of senior art students. Page 6 Finnishfriendships: Dr. David Kemp (left) ofJ,akehead's Geography Department, was host to Dr. Olavi Heikkinen (right) a geography professorfrom the Universi'"'I of Oulu in Finland. Heikkinen spent three weeks at Lakehead as part of ._ exchange agreement signed last year between LU and various universities in Finland. AGORA - - -- - - -- - -- - - - - - April 1989 �Papers/ Publications & Special Projects Geoffrey R. Weller, VicePreside nt (Academic) has had the following manuscripts published: "Accountability in Canadian Intellige nce Services," International Journal of Intelligence and Counte1in telligence, Vol. 2, No. 3, (Fall 1988), pp415441; "Health Care Delivery in Northern J-Iinterlands: Canada, Scandinavia and the United States" in J orn Carlsen and Bengt Strcijffert (eds), Canada and the Nordic Count1ies, Lund: Lund University Press, 1988, pp 343-364; '"Inc Role of Unive rsities in the Development of the Canadian Nonh" in T. Craig (ed.), What Can We Do For Our Countires? The Cont1ibution of Weighting around? Just after their weigh-in, and prior to eating their pledge forms, the smiling men photographed below, vowed to lose 47 pounds (collectively, of course) by June 3, 1989. Lakehead University is participating in Pounds for Heart, a fund-raising campaign for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. Anyone wishing to participate can drop by the Health Services office, weigh-in and pick up a sponsor sheet. Come on Lakehead, each pound we lose will raise funds for Heart and Stroke research and make us he althier. Follow the example of soon-to-be Lightweights John Russell, Rob Rosehart, Norm LaVoie and Clyde Tuy!. Jessie Sutherland, RN, will be on hand to cheer you on and provide moral support - and the scales! C Universities to National Development, London: Association of Commonwealth Universities, 1988, pp 5961. (with Dr. RG. Rosehart). Dr. Frederick M. Holmes presented a paper titled "The Reader as Discoverer in David Lodge's Small World" at the Tenth Anniversary Conference of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on March 15, 1989. Appointments Dr. W.T. Melnyk has, by Order in Counc il 159/89, been appointed as a member of the Board of Examiners in Psychology for the period effectiveJ an. 12, 1989 to and includingJan.11 , 1992. Board of Gov.'s reappointments At the March 14, 1989 meeting of the Board of Governors' Executive Commitee: the following reappointments were approved: •• Dr. J. G. Locker as Director of the School of Engineering for a threeyear period fromJuly 1, 1989 to June 30, 1992; •• Dr. J.E. Mollo as Chairman of the Department of Anthropology for a two-year period from July 1, 1989 to June 30, 1991; .• Dr. R Ruiperez as Chairman of the Department of Sociology for a three-year period from July 1, 1989 to June 30, 1992. Science student seeks PhD at MIT A 22-year-old Lakehead University student is on her way to M.I.T. and a PhD. Patti Christie, who is studying biology and chemistry for a double honours degree, is very excited about attending the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology. Christie had to decide between M.I.T. and the UniversityofMichigan. How-ever, M.I.T. was chosen because it offered her a chance to go directly into a PhD program and work with Dr. William Orme-Johnson, whose work she has admired. " If you've got a PhD from M.I.T. you written your ticket o u t," Christie said. She hopes to go on to teach and do research at the university level, "preferably in Canada or overseas." To he lp fund her education, Christie has been granted a scholarship. Under the terms of the award she must do four hours of tutorial per week or six hours of laboratory work per week. The award is worth about $25,000 US, which will cover basic needs. While some people may feel nervous at the thought of leaving everything that is familiar to them, Christie confident that all will work out. This will be he r second time living far from home. At the age of 17 she went to work in Switzerland for a year. P Varsity's Nor'Wester logo to Retire? The rumor mill on campus has it that the Nor'Wester, long-time logo of our athle tes, may be rcitred in favor of a new logo or image. Any comments or suggestions would be most appreciated and can be passed o n to Clyde Tuy! at 3438601 before the e nd of April. April 1989 - -- - - - -- -- -- - -- - AOORA Fage 7 �Faces on Campus ...____ _ _s_ e_li_n_a_K_a_k_e_k_a_g_u_m_ic_k_ _ _ ___.l I...._ _ _ _ _ _s_r_a_d_K_u_s_h_ _ _ _ _ _ _l Selina Kakekagumick is the new face in Native Student Support Services. She comes to us from the Native Employment Opportunities Program (NEOP) where she was a secretary/bookkeeper. Selina, who is originally form Sandy Lake, has been in Thunder Bay for five years. She took business courses at Confederation College and worked in Timmins as a secretary/bookkeeper before settling in Thunder Bay. Selina enjoys the more relaxed pace L--- - - - -- - - - ' at Lakehead after the hectic pace a t NEOP. She also enjoys working with computers. She plans to take courses to improve he r computer skills. Although she considers her future to be full of possibilities, she hopes computers will play a major part in that future. Brad Rush comes to us fror five-year stay in Calgary. He holcls two positions at the University: he is Program Development Officer at the Centre of Entrepreneurship and is anAssistant Professor ofEntreprencurial St udies in the School of Business Administration. Brad's area of research is the development of growing, ownermanaged firms. He has held managerial and administrative positions in seven countries and re~ ==~ ~==:..=:...:::J ceivcd his MBA from Otago University in New Zealand. In fact, he has lived outside the country for a total ofabout 17 years. Brad admits that he does not have much free time at present. He is working to complete his PhD in Entrepreneurship from the University of Calgary. Are you new to Lakehead University? We want to hear from you. Is there someone new in your department? Give us a call and let us know. We would like to introduce newcomers to the university community. We would also like to let people know when someone has c hanged departments. Don't be shy; give the Agora a call at 8300 or 8631 and tell everyone Who's New. Who? Fa ge8 Want to advertise? How do you get information on the video monitors or the signs outside? It's easy and it's free but two different departments are responsible for these university services. To advertise on the inside monitors or on the e lectronic bill board outside student services send a memo with your information to John Bonofiglio c/oAudio Visual (8020). John says give as much advance notice as possible. To get your information on the outside signs, send your request to Campus Development or call 8208. We managed to stump a few people last month with photographs of Marg Page and Dave Parsons. Can you figure out who is who in this puzzle? Look closely and sec ifyou can equate these p ictures AOORA - - - - -- - -- - - -- - - - April 1989 �Research News 'ROM TtlEOrrlCE Or GRADUATE STUDIES Arm RESEAR CH Research Officer: Trish McGowan NSERC RESEARCH AWARDS The rec ipients of research grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for 1989/90 have been announced. Lakehead faculty cominue their strong showing in obtaining operating grants despite increasing competition for limited federal funds. A tota.l of S691, 738 was received by 40 faculty members. The value of the average award inc reased slightly over last year. In addition to operating grants, Lakehead receives NSERC funding in other categories. The Forestry Transition Grant ($80,680) held by six investigators (Knowles, Parker, Pulkki, Carmean, Tanz, Yang), supports research on the en,cement of jack pine resources in ,them Ontario. A Univers ity Development Research Grant ($10,000) is held by Dr. D. Eigcnbrod in the School o f Engineering. An NSERC Strategic Grant ($38,600) was awarded to Dr. I. Nirdosh (Chemical Engineering). Dr. D. Holah (Chemistry) currently holds a Senior Industrial Fellowship ($11,520). Dr. B. Kronberg (Geology) continues her appointment as an NSERC University Research Fellow ($17, 156). The successful candidates and research topics in this year's operatinggrants competition include: t Biology Dr. R. Freitag - Systematics and evolutionary biology of tiger bee tles. Dr. P. Knowles - Genetic substructuring in black spruce and sugar maple stands. Dr. M. Lankester - The biology o f pathogenic helminths of game animals. Dr. P. Lee -Life history strategics of wild rice. De. A. Macdonald - Vegetative and re·r ductive development in the l3etu• \~_..:ae. Dr. L. Malek - Protein degradation in seeds. April 1989 Dr. W. Momot - Effect ofexploitation on the self-regulatory dynamics of a crayfish population. Dr. J. Ryder - Breeding ecology and behaviour of Colonial nesting birds. Dr. W. Parker - Population difTerentiation and focal point seed zones of North American conifers. Chemistry Geography Dr. A. Hughes (with Dr. D. Holah) - Reactions of transition metal salts and complexes with hydrobo ra te and o the r reducing agents. Dr. H. Rasid - Morphologic instability of flood-control channels. Dr. N. Weir - Photochemistry of polymers. Dr. G. Borradaile • Rock deformation: field and laboratory studies. Dr. P. Fralick - Paleogcographical interpretation of Archaen sedimentary sequences in Northwestern Ontario. Dr. B. Kronberg• Geosphere interactions. Dr. R. Mitchell - Pe trology and geochemistry of alkaline rocks. Dr. R. G. Platt - Petrogenetic studies of alkaline magmas. Engineering De. D. Barry - The reliability of present generation electronic components. Dr. S. Easa. traffic management in port terminals. Dr. K.D. Elgenbrod -Arching in soil around large span steel c ulverts. Dr. D. Barry Dr. M. • Khan · Adaptive forward e rror control coding for land mobile radio system. De. J. Kiszka - Expert systems technology for realtime process control: The pulp and paper industry, computers, and controls of the pulp and paper industry. Dr. P. M. U -Ae rodynamic structure of swirl flow and its applications. Dr. S. Mirza - Probability-based strength criteria for steel-concrete composite columns. Dr. K. Natarajan - Aspects of discrete time periodic control systems. Dr. I. Nirdosh - Removal of 230Th from process solutions o f acid-leach uranium mills. Dr. U.S. Panu -Applications of pattern recognition theory to a stochastic study of daily streamllow time series. Dr. V. R. Puttagunta - Viscosity correlation for heavy oils and bitumens using simple characte rizatio n measurements. Dr. H. Saliba - Simplified approach to the free vibration analysis of thin plates with straight edges; classical and discontinuous boundaries. De. A. Sedov - Ultrasonic transducer and naw modelling for NOE applications. Dr. B. Singh - A numerical and experimental investigation of jct pie rcing of oil sands. t\GORt\ Forestry Geology Mathematics Dr. W. Allaway - The umbra! algebras and their application to orthogonal polynomials. Dr. M. Benson - Parallel iterative methods. Dr. R. A. Day - Pure and applied aspects of lattice theory. Dr. C. Kent- Prooftechniquesin computer science. Dr. S. Nalmpally • Proximity approach to hypertopologies. Dr.J. Whitfield - Geometry and nonlinear analysis of Banac h spaces. Physics Dr. M. Hawton - Dielectric studies of phospholipid phase transitions and semiconduc tor/metal contacts. Hr. V. Paranjape Dr. W. Keeler • Optical and impedance investigations of semiconductors, high Tc superconductors and lyotropic liquid crystals. Dr. V. Paranjape Research in solid state physics. { Research NL>ivs continued on page 10} Pa ge 9 �... More Research News GRANTS AND CONTRACTS AWARDED Dr Witold Jankowski (Economics) was awarded a contract by Transport Canada to conduct a study of the economic impact of the Thunder Bay Airport on the city and the surrounding region. 1be study will provide a measure of the economic activity generated by the Thunder Bay Airport and will forecast anticipated changes over the next ten years. Dr. Marcel Bouffard (Physical Edu- cation) has been awarded a research grant by the Ontario Mental Health Foundation for a project entitled "The Effect of General and Specific Strategies upon Printing Performance of Mentally Handi• capped Children". Dr. Bouffard and his research associates, Dr. Peter Crocker and Professer Janice Causgrove, plan to teach mentally handicapped children general and specific problem-solving strategies that can be applied to motor tasks, in the hope that improved motor skills will improve their functioning in school and on the playground, where social acceptance and tolerance a re frequently based on motor competence. Work is progressing very well on Dr. Gary Murchison's (Forestry) Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources contract to develop alternative field sampling designs for growth and yie ld data collection using a TRIM syste m. Phases III and N of the project recently have been approved. These phases involve the application of the TRIM plot data base developed in Phase I and ll for mature jack p ine stands to immature jack pine stands (Phase III), and to mature and immature black spruce stand (Phase IV). Dr. Joe Stewart (Anthropology) has been awarded an Ontario I leritage Foundation grant for his research project entitled "Analysis of Terminal Woodland Materials, with e mphasis o n Ddjm-3". Dr. Stewart will use the grant to analyze existing archaeological materials whic_h have been recovered from the Patricia Kozak Site, near the eastern end of the Shcbandowan Lakes. CENTRE FOR NORTHERN STUDIES 1989 Faculty Research Grants {continued from page 9} Or. Will Carmean (Forestry), "Site Quality Evaluation for Jack Pine in Northern Ontario." Dr. Anita Chen (Sociology), "Recruitme nt to Nursing Profession in Northweste rn Ontario." Dr_ Harold Cumming (Forestry), "Effectiveness of Ontario Guidelines for Protecting Nest Sites of Bald Eagles." Professors Uz Diem and Linda McKay (Nursing), "Identifying Health Promoting and Risk Taking Behaviour in Middle Adolescent Females in Northwestern Ontario". Dr. Dieter Eigenbrod (Engineering), "Longterm Creep Movements of Embankments on Soft Sens itive Clays in North Western Ontario." Dr. David Kemp (Geography), "The Climate of Northern Ontario." Ors. Barbara Kronberg (Geology) and Lada Malek (Biology), "Tree Seedling Fertilization with Crushed Rock and Nutrient Enric hed Rock Slags (A Greenhouse Study)." Ors. Walter Momot (Biology), Brian Phillips (Geography), Phil Fralick (Geology) and Barbara Kronberg (Geology), "Zoogeography of Freshwater Fishes in the Sibley Peninsula, in Relation to the Events of Dcglaciation Since the Marquette Readvance (10,000 B.P.), and the Potential Implications for Management of Aquatic Resources.'' Ors. Connie Nelson (Social Work) and Bruce Minore (Sociology), "Some- day Country: Studies of Empowerment in Northern Communities." Ors. Brian Phillips and Brian Lorch (Geography), "A Socio-Economic Atlas of North Western Ontario." Or. Harun Rasid (Geography), "Ef- fects of Hydropower Operations on Streamflow Regime in North Weste rn Ontario." Dr. Jim Stafford (Sociology), "The History of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union." L - ~~-==~ Dr.Jim Stafford Professor Patricia Vervoort (Visual 1989-90 Northern Scientific Training Program Grants - The Northern Scientific Trainjng Program provides travel, food and lodging expenses for students at the senior undergraduate and graduate level to obta in experience in northern research. Our Northern Studies Committee re• ceived an $8000 grant from the Program, and has awarded it to the following student projects: S.F. Clarke (Biology), "Staging Habitats ofMigratory Birds in Northern Manitoba." R. Foster (Biology), "Spring Ecology in Ring Seals in Manitoba's Coastal Waters." H. Lavertu (Social Work), "Development of a Counselling Program in a Remote School." B. Paleczny (Soc ial Work), "Development of a Nutrition Program in an Isolated School." FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES The University Research Incentive Fund J The purpose of the University Research Incentive Fund (URIF) is to encourage universities and the private sector to enter into co-operative research ventures with each other. 1be program will match, dollar for dollar, e~gible investment by the private sector m university-based contract research. Program funds will be given to the university and may be applied directly to the costs of the project o r used to expand its scope. Eligible projects include basic or applied research and preliminary or feasibility studies in areas of pote ntial economic benefit to the province. The re are three applicatio n deadlines per year; the next is: May 31, 1989. DAILY FOREIGN TELEVISION NEWS Mexico, Madrid, Warsaw, Tokyo, Dr. Paul Watts, Director of the Centre Arts), "C. D. Howe as Engineer for the CaLondon, Moscow, Rome, for Northern Studies, has announced the nadian Board of Grain Commissioners in Je rusalem, Teheran, Paris. research grants which will be supported Thunder Bay: 1913-1916." 882011 this year by the Centre. 1be 1989 Fac ulty 9AM • 5 PM Research Grants have been awarded to EVERYONE WELCOME the following faculty for their research projects: - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - April 19 89 Page 10 - - - -- - - - -- -- - -- - - - AOOKA �Open Houses introduce services to University community Two open houses were to mark the move of two services to larger quarters. The Learning Assistance Centre and Native Students Support Services have taken up residence in the Tunnel, near the Matchbox. The Leaming Assistance Centre, which opened last September, offers tutoring services, mainly in the areas of mathematics and English. There is also a peer tutoring program in which students who are doing weU in a subject work with those who need help. The Centre also helps students with special n eeds, such as hearing or visually impaired students. The Native Students Support Services has been operating for about two years. The Centre fulfills many functions for the Native community at Lakehead University. The Centre acts as a meeting place where students can drop-in or attend scheduled workshops. Students receive social, academic, cultural and educational support and information from Native Students Support Services. Top,from left to right, Coordinator ofth Learning Assistance Centre: Geraldine White, Tutor Carey Mossop and Secretary/receptionist Dawn Kucber. Photo bouom, left to right: part ofthe team att Natiue Support Services: Beverly Sabourin, Coordinator, Walter Lin• klater, Cultural leader and bead ofthe Sweet Crass Ceremony, Joy Lawson, Director of Student Services and Peggy Smith. John Russell, Director of Community Relations, receives a chequefor SJ ,000 from Dorothy Cattani, Sales Representativefrom Xerox Canada Inc. who reinstituted a scholarship program al Lakehead University. The 1989-90 scholarship recipient was Dennis G. Morson. ( "Ask Dr. Weir" is unavailable th.is month, but will return next month. You are invited to send your science questions to Dr. Weir in care of the Chemistry Department. April 1989 /\GORA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Page 11 �Campus Calendar FRIDAY,21 To include your Departme nt's e ve nt o r activity in the Campus Calendar, please call Flo Sherre n at 8300 or mail your information to SN 1002. Deadline for the May Agora is April 19, 1989. MEETING Alumni Board 7:30 pm little Dining Room MONDAY, 24 MEETING Senate 9:30 am Senate Chambers April MONDAY, 3 Final date for la te registration in Spring term Distance Education courses ~ ~ ~~ .·,_' .~: SEMINAR, ~ I\ r ,"-I CONCERT Felicia Urbanski - Music for violin, clarinet & piano Cornwall School 1006 7:30 pm FREE ADMISSION SUNDAY,14 TUESDAY 25 The Myste; of MIDI (Musical, Instrume nt, Digital, Interface) Thunde r Bay Chamber Players Music for winds & piano 7:30 pm - Cornwall 1006 Adults $10 Students S5 9:00am Cornwall 2005 TUESDAY, 4 FREE ADMISSION CONCERT Penny Clarke - Flute May Elizabeth GanJatsos - Virginal Cornwall School Recital Hall cs 1006 MONDAY, 1 FREE ADMISSION Final date for submission o f all marks/ grades for courses, projects, theses, and practica sche duled over the full year or in the second te rm • due 4:30 pm THURSDAY, 6 SEMINAR Stress Control and Self Improvement Seminar Leader: Mr. Walte r Martin, MA LIBRARY HOURS Psychology Department St. Joseph's Hospital Conference & Seminar Centre 7:00 - 10:00 pm; $30.00/pcrson Effective: March 13 lO April 24 WEDNESDAY, 13 "Chlld & Famlly Facing Death" Seminar Le ader: Ms Unda McKay, BScN., MN, RN. Asst. Prof. School of Nursing, LU Clinic Nurse Specialist - Pediatric Oncology Conference and Seminar Centre 7:00 - 8:30 pm Monday to Friday: 8:00 am - 11:30 pm Saturday: 9:00 am - 11:30 pm Sunday: 11:00am - 11:30 pm MONDAY, 17 J Agorl\ The AGORA is produced by the Informario _ Office, Department of Community Relations, Lakehcad University, Thunder Day, Ontario. It is published monthly (cxcepr August), and isdisrributed 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 vr quoted. Director of Community Relations: John Russell, Edicor: Katherine Shedden Assistant: Maureen Martin Calendar: Flo Sherren Photography: Peter Puna Graphics: Den Kaminski, Debby Tew ~rinting: Rainbow Address correspondence Lo: Editor/ Agora Information Office SN1002 Lakehcad University Oliver Road, ·niunder Day, Ontario, P7D 5El (807) 343-863 I or 343-6300 FREE ADMISSION CONCERT Lakehead University Vocal - • Ensemble • Spring Concert: Music from Vie nna St. Paul's United Church 8:00 pm Advance S5.00 - At Door $7.00 FRIDAY,12 celebrating our Silver Jubilee -VJ VJ VJ ... co u:: u � 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 April 1989 Subject The topic of the resource Universities Description An account of the resource This issue of the Agora contains an article announcing the new Student Centre, a report from the President, and an article on Dr. Henry Morgentaler giving a lecture on campus. 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 1989-04 Agora Agora Magazine Alumni Alumni Association Alumni Association of Lakehead University Dr. Henry Morgentaler Lakehead Lakehead University President Rosehart President's Perspective Student Centre https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/4ac4b2d74ba68750de69a4024ac0f50c.pdf 8b4479cbbe7b8099b3769919e483168d PDF Text Text Inside: Have we done it again? Enrolment stats ........................ 2 & 3 "She Stoops To Conquer'' .......4 Research News ................ Blue Pages A Day in the Life of a University President ............... 8 & 9 Announcing ... He could be heralding the arrival of fall or simply serenading the workers or students passing by, but in fact, the top moody sillouette was captured during a promotional shoot on the second floor of the steel skeleton which will become the home of the Music and Visual Arts departments. Other rites of autumn include perusal of the calendar by a parent attending an orientation workshop, friendly students welcoming newcomers with a campus map and windshield wash and personal assistance during registration. �Report From the President Dr. Bob Rosehart Customer Service A considerable number of articles have been written recently on TQM or Total Quality Management which is an approach to excellence in whatever you do by carefully ensuring that.all components of a given system function together in a supportive interactive fashion. Over the past few weeks, I have had occasion to observe a few areas where our collective performance would not have received high TQM ratings. Be it an abruptly cancelled class, lack of supplies, a timetable error, or a student stuck in the parking lot, each and every part of the University should see themselves as pro-active members of an integrated team of problem solvers. This docs not mean that you personally have to deal with a particular situation but, rather, that you take charge, make the necessary contacts, and ensure that our system works. Lakehead University is an excellent university on its way to greatness, but we must start to think and practise a lot more of the TQM philosophy. Student Centre to Open I would like to wish L.U.S.U. all the best with the opening of the new Student Events Hall. It is a facility that rates at the top of similar facilities in the Ontario university system. New Faculty/Staff Surprise Event A surprise variation of the "new faculty/ staff" get-togeth:r ~ill ~ ~ed this year. Look for your mv1talion m the mail shortly. It should be a fun event. Ontario Public Sector Restraint On Friday the 13th <:3ept~mbc: ~3), the Presidents of Ontano umvers1lies were called to Toronto to meet personally with M.C.U. Minister Richard Allen and the Chairman of Management Board, Tony Silipo (the governmen\s banker) to hear first-hand the poor fiscal state of the Ontario Government. lt is . clear that, after taking much h:at on this year's deficit, the govem!11~nt 1s d_e!ermined to meet the $9.7 b1llion deficit figure and selective cuts to_the current year's provincial budget will be anPage 2 nounced in the next few weeks. We were told that next year's funding would be at "below'' historically low levels of transfers and that public sector wage settlements will have to reflect this new reality. The government . would clearly like to see the collective bargaining process work but d!d _not rule out any options. As well, 1~ 1s clear that, in the coming months, the issue of increasing tuition fees will again~ the subject of public policy debate. This will not be a popular or desirab_le option but, at this stage, seems almost inevitable. Up to now, for the most part, our system at Lakehead University has escaped the major impact of the recession that we see has ravaged not only the Ontario economy but has, in the long term, cost the permanent loss of several hundred thousand jobs. Ontario is going through more_ than the effects of a recession. We arc going through a major industrial restructuring in order to be competitive in the global marketplace. Although Lakehead University's position is about as good as one can be to prepare for a storm, we cann_ot escape the impact of the current Ontano and Canadian economic realities. The N.D.P. Government is asking all sectors for co-operation and, over the next few weeks, will meet with various union and student groups. Enrolment '91 Our enrolment objective this year was to move into the 4,500 full-time students' level, and this has been achieved. It is still too early to accurately estimate our peak enrolment this year, but I suspect that it will be close to 4,700. As well, part-time, on-campus enrolments are also up significantly. All departments are doing a good job in dealing with the increases and, as well, the various moves into our newly- Never to be caught up the creek without a paddle, Bob Rosehart discusses race strategies with Bob Armstr~ng from Confederation College. The first annual canoe race, won by a couple of strokes by Dr. Bob et al., (photo finish on cover) was set in I.Ake Tamblyn with the teams paddling 900-pound Voyageur canoes. opened facilities. Our residences are full and we still have over 500 on the waiting list. Off-campus housing seems to have gone very smoothly this year, and this has helped. The Thunder Bay community has really responded to our ca11 for help. More and more, I hear local business talk of the impact of the University and College on the community. In fact, a few have been heard to call Thunder Bay a college town. I anticipate that our enrolment has peaked in this current growth phase and that over the next few years, we will stabilize the fulltime enrolment at or near the 4,500 students' level. We hope to add more residences this year and, as well, we will see the formal kick-off in late November of the "Share our Northern Vision Campaign". The Student Centre is now open and expected to become the hub of the university. AGORA _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ October 1991 �Around Campus We're nearly there! The Faculty and Staff Campaign is almost complete and the response to date has been very positive. $180,000 towards our goal of $200,000 has been realized in gifts and pledges. To all who have participated, the University community thanks you. If you have not yet contributed there is still time to do so. Pledges can be made through the philanthropy fund , or if you desire, a one-time donation can be sent to the Campaign care of the Development Office. International students get warm Canadian Welcome It began with more than 25 volunteers from Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, the Chinese Christian Youth Fellowship and the Host Family Program giving of their time, their homes and themselves to help arriving international students. Their efforts helped ease the transition for more than 40 new international students. Thirteen volunteers looked after the international information table in the Agora during registration week. Volunteers also took time to explain the academic time tables, direct students to various appointments, provide transportation to and from the immigration office and answer any of the students' questions. Another fourteen volunteers provided temporary accommodation and assisted students in locating permanent housing. StiII others met students at the airport and bus depots and brought them to the university. The Liaison Office arranged for special campus tours. Two spontaneous field trips included a great visit to the Hymers Fall Fair and the Harvest Festival at Old Fort William. Special thanks go to the Evangel Church who offered the use of their van with all expenses paid. A welcoming BBQ was held on September 19 in the Faculty Lounge. Tt included a "collect the signature" icebreaker which served to initiate a lot of conversation and cultural exchange. Hedi Kogel, the International Student Coordinator, was delighted with the volunteer support and resulting services that Student Services could provide. Hedi asked the AgorA to extend "warmest appreciation to all who made registration week a great success for the International Students." Help to Stop Smoking Effective September 1, LU is smoke free. Lakehead University is initiating an innovative program for smoking cessation. This program is a joint effort of the Department of Psychology and the Office of the Vice-President (Administration). With a serious commitment and active support from Fred Poulter, V.P. Administration, the program will be run under the direction of Dr. K. Paul Satinder, Professor and Chairperson, Department of Psychology. This smoking cessation program will be available to all members of the University community (faculty, staff, and students). As soon as the infrastructure is in place, the members of the University will be accepted into the Program on a first come, first serve basis. Many systems and programs have been devised to help people to give up smoking. The majority of these programs treat all smokers alike, whereas scientific research has shown that different people have different motives for smoking. In the context, for a successful smoking cessation to occur, the program must be personalized to the particular needs of a smoker. An assessment is needed as to why docs a particular person smoke? What factors in the immediate environment maintai:1 this practice? How can the smoker modify his or her environment to reduce smoking and eventually eliminate it? The program at LU will provide personalized assessments and programs for people planning to quit smoking. Look for the announcement for the start up of the Program and get ready to break the smoking habit Profs in the Limelight Awarded CMC Designation Professor Jack Christy has been awarded the designation of Certified Management Consultant (CMC) by the Institute of Certified • Management Consultants of Ontario and has been placed on the honour roll of the Institute. His mark on the lnstitute's comprehensive examination was 82%, placing him third highest overall in Canada. Professor Christy is the first fulltime faculty member of any university in Canada to hold the designation. In addition, he is the only Certified Management Consultant in all of Northern Ontario. There are over 2,500 members and prospective members of the Institute of Certified Management Consultants of Canada. The Institute was established in 1966 and is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Earlier this spring Professor Christy was appointed to the Examination of the Institute of Certified Management Consultants of Canada. This committee, made up of six CMC's from across Canada, will conduct a comprehensive review of the approach and design of the Institute's seminar program and examination materials. They will also be considering potential provisions to allow university professors who have not consulted on a full -time basis to obtain the designation, depending on their education and the extent and quality of their cumulative consulting experience, and upon successful completion of particular examinations. Polar Commisssion Appointment Professor Marg Boone, Director of the School of Nursing, has been apppointed to the Canadian Polar Commission's Board of Directors. Tom Siddon, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, announced the members of the 12-membcr Board calling them"prominent individuals in the humanities and sciences who have experience in Canada's polar regions." The Canadian Polar Commission is • 7.....,,, mandated to promote the develop.. ~ ment and dissemination of knowl~ edge about the polar regions in Canada and internationally. Chairman of the board is Whit Fraser, the host of CBC Newsworld's program 'This Country'' which has sensitized and educated Canadians about changes occurring in the North. Marg Boone has been the Director of the School of Nursing since 1986 and has been involved in native studies and circumpolar affairs. She is also the Chairperson of the Presidenr's Advisory Committee on Northern Studies. October 1991 - - - -- -- - -- -- - -- - AGORA Page3 �NEW ON THE SHELVES WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE LIBRARY! Northern Studies Resource Centre Did you know that the Northern Studies Resource Centre in the Library houses two special collections which focus on the north? The "Regional" Collection This collection is comprised of material on northern Ontario with a particular emphasis on the northwestern portion. Special features include many rare publications from the early days of Port Arthur and Fort William as well as extensive holdings of local newspapers on microfilm . The "North" Collection This collection is comprised of material on Canada's provincial norths (except northern Ontario), the Yukon and Northwest Territories, and similar circumpolar regions world wide. Tours of the Centre's collections as well as demonstrations on the Northern and Regional Studies (NRS) database may be arranged by contacting the Centre at ext. 8728. In addition to local newspapers on microfilm, the Centre also receives the paper copy of many of Northwestern Ontario community newspapers. Regional New spapers Algoma News Review Atikokan Progress Dryden Observer Fort Frances and Rainy Lake Herald Geraldton - Longlac Times Star Ignace Driftwood Thunder Bay Post Marathon Mercury Northern Times (Kapuskasing) Magnus Theatre on Campus Tuesday, October 22 & Wednesday, October 23 Volume 1 ----==t: 5 ft PROGRESS IN RURAl POllCY AND PlANNING ~ • Ed.,. d b I SHE&J.l STOOPS rol~ Andrew W . Gilg Health Sciences Resource Centre Opens CONQUER University Centre Theatre, 8:00 pm $14.00 reg. $10.00 student Tickets available at the University Information Desk, LUSU, the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium and Ticket Express at Keskus Mall Pajle 4 The successor to the International Yearbook on Rural Planning has been published . The annual review is entitled Progress in Rural Policy and Planning edited by Andrew W. Gilg. Professor Robert Dilley, Department of Geography, is the regional editor responsible for the four chapters on Canada in Section IV . Dilley wrote the introduction and a provincial encapsulation of what's going on in the rural scene. Another chapter gives a critical review of the CanadaUS Free Trade Agreement and Agriculture. It's a wonderful sourcebook for planners in universities and government and consul tan ts. The official opening of the building which houses five separate health education programs took place on Friday, September 13. Some programs are relatively new, like the residency program, and others, like the Northwestern Ontario Medical Programme, under the steely direction of Dr. Peter Neelands, have been around for decades. But what they will all share is space in the wonderful new building on campus visible from Balmoral Street. Sixteen doctors have joined the Family Medicine North program and will train in the North for the next two years. The Occupational Therapy program has students in class in the new facility this term with physiotherapy students coming in the new year. A detailed report on the programs, the facility and the new administrator, Jim Kraemer, will appear in the November Agora. AGORA - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - October 1991 �Faces .____ _ _G_o_r_d_o_n_B_r_u_y_e_r_e_ _ ____,JI 1L-_ _ _ _ _D_a_v_id_H_ar_e_ __ __.. Gordon Bruyere was recently appointed the new Co-ordinator of Native Support Services. Bruyere does not really qualify as a "new" face to the campus. He graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and in 1990 with an Honours Bachelor of Social Work. He was also Captain of the Norwester Basketball team during the 1986/87 season and Co-Captain during the 1989/90 season. Bruyere most recently worked as a Probation/Parole Officer for the Ministry of Correctional Services serving the communities of the Northshore of Lake Superior to as far East as Mobert. Bruyere looks forward to his new position. "I like the university environment for its promotion of new ideas. Native students have their own objectives, their own agenda of what they want to get out of a university environment. It's a challenge." Bruyere's passion is studying the classics in literature and he is pursuing that interest by taking a course at the university in the History of Literary Criticism. Away from work, Bruyere stays active by running and enjoys camping and hiking. ,-;;;;;;;;;::;:;:;;::;;;;;;::::;;:;:::::;;:;;;;;;;;;=;:;-i David Hare is the new Manager of Residence and Conference Services. He comes to Lakehead from York University where he was the Manager of Housing Services. Hare has a strong facilities background. Following his 1982 graduation from Guelph University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and History, Hare worked as the Supervisor of Physical Resources and then 1..;:::=c..;__;;'--'---=-- - - . . . . , as Manager of Residence for his alma mater. He then joined York University and stayed for three years but commuting from Pickering each day (11 /2 hours one way) took its toll and he thought it was time for a change. 'There are going to be a lot of challenges but I enjoy what I do. I consider my position as one of an educator. As an educator it is my job to provide a healthy, safe enviroment in which these students live - not just bricks and mortar." Now that Hare has a few more leisure hours in the day he looks forward to reading and camping and cross-country skiing with his wife and two sons. Patricia Redhead Patricia Redhead is the new Librarian responsible for Government Documents in the university main library. Redhead and family moved to Thunder Bay in June from Richmond, British Columbia. Originally from Ottawa, Redhead received her undergraduate degree in Economics from Carleton University. She continued her academic pursuits at the University of Western where she received her Masters in Library Science. '-'-====== With two young boys aged 2 and 5, Redhead and husband Jim Burchert, newsman for 94 FM Radio, spend most of their time doing "family things". "Since we've been here only a few months we haven't seen everything yet but we look forward to exploring". Her spare time Redhead likes to take walks and enjoys reading British mysteries. October 1991 AGORA Page 5 �Canadian Universities Undertake Large-scale Fnndraising Campaigns ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL LITERATURE PROGRAM EXP AND ED FOR WRITERS Ontario Arts Council's (OAC) Works-In-Program for professional; writers has been expanded to include more nonfiction categories such as biography, history, social issues and travel. The yearly budget has been increased from S300,000 to $470,000 for four adjudication periods. Deadlines arc: October 1, 1991, January 1, April 1 and July 1, 1992. Professional writers can apply for up to 520,000 primarily for living expenses. 'This program is intended to assist professional writers in completing book-length works of distinguished literary merit in poetry and prose. The program will still be open to works-in-progress in fiction; literacy criticism; poetry; visual or performing arts criticism; and essays, commentary or analysis in the literary tradition. Other new nonfiction categories include: health/psychology, environment/science/nature, philosophy, business, politics and media. Manuals, "how-to books, rcfcr~nc~ . materials, calendars and cookbooks arc among the tnchg1ble projects. Literature officer Lorraine Fi Iyer stressed that the program will continue to maintain its high standards of excellence. '1urics will assess entries by literary merit and quality," she said. 'The program affords the professional writer an uninterrupted period of time to work on a draft suitable for presentation to a publisher." Applicants must be professional writers. Individuals who arc employed full time are ineligible, unless they arc planning to take unpaid leave for the duration of the funding period. Poetry award applicants must submit five copies of 40 manuscript pages and prose award applicants must submit five copies of 60 manuscript pages of the work-in-progress. For further itlfon11ation a11d application forms, please contact OAC's Literahire Office at 151 Bloor St. W. 5th floor, Toronto, M5S 1T6 or call (416) 961-1660 or toll free in Ontario 1-800-387-0058. Calling All Churchill Grads 25TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS Thursday, October 10, 1991 Football Reunion Stag Da Vinci Centre - 8:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. Saturday, November 23, 1991 Cabaret Dance Churchill Gymnasium - 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Friday, January 17, 1992 Exhibition Alumni Basketball and Casino Night Churchill Gymnasium - 7:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. Thursday, February 20, 1992 Family Fun At Churchill - Winter B.B.Q. and activities for the entire family - 5:00 p.m. to 9 pm Saturday, May 23, 1992 Mixed Golf Social Centennial Golf Course - 3:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. Monday, June 1, 1992 Birthday Party at Churchill - 2:00 p.m. Friday, May 29, 1992 Dinner Dance - Da Vinci Centre Symposium 6:30 p.m. FOR TICKET AND EVENT INFORMATION CONTACT SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL C. & VJ. AT 473-8100 Page 6 The 40th annual survey of university fundrai sing campaigns, released July 8, reveals that Canadian universities arc looking for $1.5 billion mainly from business, foundations, alumni and the general public. According to Claude Lajeunesse, president of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, 'The money raised through fundraising campaigns is crucial to the needs of the universities. Public funding is no longer sufficient. We cannot hope to be competitive in an ever-shrinking world without the highlyqualified and resourceful men and women needed for the task. If our universities arc to continue playing their part in contributing to Canada's future by both providing these qualified people and undertaking a high level of research, they have to ensure adequate financing from a variety of sources." As funding from transfer payments by the federal government to the provinces via Established Programs Financing shrinks, fund raising campaigns assume increasing significance for the mission of the university. Cross Campus Computer Network Lakeh ead University now has a Cross Campus Nelwork to connect computers and microcomputers in the Braun Building. Ryan Building, University Centre, Centemnial Building, Regional Educalion Centre. lhe Library and Bora Laskln Building. Several existing networks have been joined Inexpensively by stale-of-lhe-art technology lo form the new network. In lime. It will be expanded lo all olher university buildings. Once connected to lhe network. anyone can reach all network services from an office microcomputer at a transmission speed of 10 megabits (1,000,000 characters) per second. Current FREE services Include: - Access to infonnallon. such as the Library's catalogues, student records (including transcripts). financial records. Ii brary catalogues at o lher u niversl lles. externa 1 databases. experl/collcaguecomputerconferences/news. etc. - Fastelectronlcmail (messages. documents) to worldwide academic institutions. on campus colleagues, central storage for students to collecl, articles lo lhe AgorA, etc. - Use of olher compulers on any university campus (Including high speed connection lo VMS, Unix, CARIS and lhe Novell IBM/PC network at Lakehead). - Downloading free microcomputer software. - Back up oflocal (hard disk) data. - Submission ofdata (le. part-lime tlmecard hours can be sent through the network rather lhan by mailing a disk). Wllh a cross campus network, there Is also the opportunity for a new development. CWIS (campus wide Information system). CWIS allows departments or businesses to provide Information lhat Is of value lo the University community - calendars. events, sludenl acltvities, plane/bus timetables, lhephone book. weather forecasts. announcements. up to lhe minute infonnallon, handbooks. course/curriculum informallon. menus from local reslauranls, seminars and specia l lectures, career tnfonnalion. safety infonnallon, University policies/procedures. etc. AGORA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - October 1991 �RESEARCH NEWS I . (\Jr :• MIGRAINE RESEARCJ{ OCTOBER 1991 ~--iD{) Deborah Anderson, a second-year Masters student in Clinical Psychology is currently addressing the question "How Migraine Sufferers Differ from Headache Sufferers" for her thesis research. The study is being conducted under the supervision of Dr. Bill Melnyk, Department of Psychology, Lakehead University, and Mr. Martyn Thomas, Director, Bio-behavioural Treatment and Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Toronto. Very few studies have focused on this area and those that have produced conflicting findings. Two studies comparing migraine sufferers and nonheadache controls found differences in performance on a number of tests assessing memory, attention and visual-motor skills. A more recent study found no differences in performance. Differences in personality were also noted, such as higher levels of anxiety and depression in migraine sufferers. The purpose of the current study is to determine if there is evidence to indicate long-term effects of migraines, or, whether the conflicting findings in the previous studies were related to other factors, such as differences in subject selection, type of test and administration used, fatigue or SCHOOL OF FORESTRY HOSTS ONTARIOJIANGSU SCHOLAR Lakehead University's School of Forestry is pleased to announce the arrival of Prof. Fuliang Cao, OntarioJiangsu Scholar from Nanjing University in China. Prof. Cao hopes that his stay at Lakehead University will allow him to master and understand the basic principles, methods, and analytic techniques regarding cross breeding and tree improvement. His interests mainly lie in resistance breeding and intensive culture of trees for industrial timber. Prof. Cao will be taking several advanced forestry courses and collaborating on a research project with Dr. Rob Farmer. His eleven month visit in Canada is supported jointly by the Ministry of Colleges and Universities' Ontario-Jiangsu Educational Exchange (OJEE) and Lakehead University. Currently, Dr. Robert Farmer and Dr. K.C. Yang are in Jiangsu, as reciprocal Ontario-Jiangsu Scholars. With OJEE support, this three-year pilot project will enhance existing linkages between Lakehead's School of Forestry and Nanjing University and perhaps create a few more. The deadline for submitting applications to this exchange is October 25, 1991. Faculty members and students from any discipline are eligible to apply. personality differences. Additionally, the study would like to determine if there are differences in performance on tasks which are left versus right brain hemisphereoriented, in comparison to the side in which the migraine headache usually appears. Community volunteers who suffer from migraine headaches as well as those who have never had a migraine, are being recruited for testing in both Thunder Bay and Toronto. Volunteers participate in a two- hour testing session which includes tests of memory, attention and motor skills, as well as a number of questionnaires assessing moods and feelings. Data collection for the study has just begun, so no preliminary findings are available as of yet. The study should be completed by the spring of 1992. Results of the study will be made available to anyone who participated. To volunteer call: 343-8476 or 623-7892. �CONTRACTS AWARDED Dr. Yves Prevost, School of Forestry was awarded a contract by the Ministry of Natural Resources, Environmental Youth Corps Program. A Technical Assistant will be hired through EYCP to assist Dr. Prevost explore the dietary relationship of spruce budworm (SBW) with its host trees (balsam fir, white spruce, black spruce). Recent research has shown that host trees actively defend against SBW feeding by increasing levels of foliar indigestible fibre (cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin). Dr. Prevost aims to determine if there is a threshold fibre level above which SBW populations decline. Knowledge of natural tree defences will assist in developing alternative strategies to the chemical control of the spruce bud worm. Dr. Tony Thompson, Department of Psychology has been awarded a contract by the Ontario Ministry of Correctional Services to undertake an "Investigation of Native and Non-Native Young Offender Characteristics". This research investigation will provide baseline data on approximately 420 native and non-native offenders across northern Ontario. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES CANADA-UNITED STATES FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM The aim of the Fulbright Scholar Program is to enhance the study of Canada and the United States in all fields at universities in the two countries and to encourage and broaden research efforts in subjects pertaining to the relationship between Canada and the United States. Proposals are welcomed in a wide range of subject areas in Canadian Studies, American Studies, and in the study of the relationship between the two countries. Eligible applicants must be a Canadian citizen at the time of application. The following types of awards are available: 1) Faculty Applicants- LECTURING/RESEARCH, for those scholars who want to combine research with a lighter teaching load; LECTURING, for those who can teach undergraduate courses, graduate courses, or a combination of the two, and perhaps act as an advisor for thesis or dissertations; RESEARCH, for those who want to do research at an institution where the resources available are particularly relevant to the research project. 2) Graduate Student Applicants - DEGREE PROGRAM, for those who want to begin a doctoral program at a university in the host country; and RESEARCH awards, for those who want to spend an academic year of research at an institution in the host country, but who are enroled in a doctoral program at their home institution. All Fulbright grants are for a minimum of three months and a maximum of nine months. For faculty recipients, the Page2 award consists of a fixed sum grant of approximately $2700 per month (travel inclusive). The maximum amount of the grant for a full academic year is $25,000. For Graduate Students, the fixed sum grant is approximately $1667 per month (travel inclusive). The maximum amount of the grant for a full academic year is $15,000. The deadline for submitting applications is November 30, 1991. CANADIAN FITNESS AND LIFESTYLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE Research Contributions Program The mission of the Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute pertains to the well-being of Canadians. The Institute encourages investigations concerning physical activity, fitness, the inter-relationships between physical activity, fitness, lifestyle and health, and the use of this knowledge in the development of programs and services. Since the Research Contribution Program was initiated in early 1986, an average of $300,000 per year has been awarded to conduct fitness research. The studies are being carried out over a one to three year period and are addressing questions of interest to scientists in the biological and social sciences as well as to professionals in education, recreation, and public health. Applicants should be aware that funded studies do not normally exceed $25,000 per year. Applications for research awards may be submitted by any qualified researcher or group of researchers within Canada, provided the project does not constitute the doctoral or master's thesis of the principal investigator. Deadline: December 1, 1991. FORESTRY CANADA/NSERC Research Partnership Program The Forestry Canada/NSERC Research Partnership Program enters its third year in 1992-93. This program supports the federal government's objective of encouraging industry to participate in funding research. Forestry Canada and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) will each match industry's cash contributions under a Research Partnership agreement. This creates, in effect, a double matching fund that has the potential to triple the funds available to researchers. Grant support requested from Forestry Canada and from NSERC must not exceed the cash amount to be provided by industry. The maximum grant from Forestry Canada and NSERC is $50,000 per year each or a total project budget of $150,000 per year, when taking into account the contributions by the industrial partner. The main purpose of the program is to support graduate students and post-doctoral fellows working in disciplines and on projects consistent with the priority research needs of Canada's Forests. Forestry Canada's strategic science and technology priorities are focused on the following: 1) Forest Management Systems; 2) Forest Product Development; 3) Improved Pest Management Techniques; and 4) Atmospheric Change. Environmental impact studies related to forestry are becoming an increasingly important aspect of Forestry Canada's research priorities. Deadline: December 1, 1991. IMPERIAL OIL LIMITED University Research Grants (URG) The purpose of Imperial Oil's URG Program is to encourage research at Canadian universities in areas of interest to Imperial Oil Limited's petroleum, petrochemical and energy resource development businesses. These areas include the fields of engineering, environmental, earth, chemical, physical and computing sciences. The grants are also to encourage - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- RESEARCH NEWS----- - - - - - -- October 1991 �research in the social sciences pertaining to relationships INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF between the above businesses and their employees, customARBORICULTURE ers and the commercial and social environment in which they Grants for Shade Tree Research and Educational Projects operate. The grants for specific research projects are made to Each year since 1975, the International Society of full-time faculty members, for support of research work Arboriculture has awarded grants to encourage scientific carried out by university students under their direction. and educational research on shade trees. Horticulturists, Individual grants will be awarded in units up to a maximum plant pathologists, entomologists, soil specialists and of $10,000 each and more than one unit may be awarded others are invited to submit brief outlines of proposed depending on the research budget, the availability of funds projects where a grant might help buy supplies or equipand the judged potential significance to Imperial Oil Limited. ment, hire technical or student help, or otherwise aid the Grants are made on a competitive basis. Last year, Imperial work. Although the size of grants for 1992-93 have not yet Oil granted 75 awards to 22 Canadian Universities for a tota1 been determined, in the past grants awarded were valued of $800,791. Deadline: December 1, 1991. at approximately $2,000 each. Grants are not expected to L.S.B. LEAKEY FOUNDATION GRANTS cover all research costs but to aid, stimulate and encourage The Foundation was formed to further research into scientific studies of shade trees. Most importantly, it is expected that the results of your research will help every hum3;11 origins, behaviour, and survi~al. Recent priorities arborist do daily tree-care work. A two-page proposal have included research about the ~nvrronm~nt, archaeology, must be submitted by December 1 1991. and human paleontology of the Miocene, Pliocene, and the ' ,__ Pleistocene; into the behaviour, morphology, and conserva- -..........:.... tion ?f the great apes and other o~d worl~ I?rimate species; and into the ecology and adaptations of livmg hunter'W gatherer peoples. Other areas of study related to human ~ evolution have be_en funded occasionally. T~e following \ @ ~ BE A BUSY BODY programs are available through the Foundation:. . . ~~ -. !/ Local Heroes know that when the need is there 1) General Research Grants ($3,000 -$5,000) - Pnonty 1s ,~ . . ' 1 given to the exploratory phase of promising new projects. ,::/ ~ " ' even the busiest people have time to help. Deadline for submitting a Letter of Intent: August 1, Novem- '- ~ ">',.,~ They know that volunteering is one of life's ber 1 February 1 ~-:::::;;//~ d' • 2) Feilowship fo;Great Ape Research and Conse,vation ~~ most rewar rng expenences. r~ ($40,000) - Deadline for Letter of Intent: May 1, 1992. ' : ~ ~ J, Be a L ocal Hero. - ·~ ~. 3) Fellowship for the Study of Foraging Peoples ($20,000) ~ A N 5 • • O r c· · Deadline for Letter of Intent: Ma Y 1 1992. •~ / ew . p,m ,ving : ~ A ruu on.11progr.1m to encour.a.ge giving and \'Olunt« nng. Ho~v, TO BE A LOCAL HERO 1 GRADUATE STUDIES AND SCHOLARSHIP NEWS Dr. Maurice Yeates, Executive ViceChair of the Ontario Cound1 on Graduate Studies, will be visiting Lakehead University on Thursday, 3 October 1991. Dr. Yeates will be meeting with various faculty groups who are currently involved with graduate developments and providing them with advice and consultation. According to recent figures communicated by the Registrar's Office, the present full-time graduate enrolment is 173, as compared to 167 last year. We are pleased to see several international graduate students from the countries of Indonesia, Ghana, Finland, China, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Iran, Nigeria, and Poland. RECENTLY A WARDED CENTRE FOR NORTHERN STUDIES GRADUATE AWARDS 1991-92 Continuing Graduate Awards ($3,000) CARRENO, Ramon (Biology) (Supervisor: Dr. M. Lankester) FANG, Xilin (Forestry) October 1991 (Supervisor: Dr. G. Murchison) HACQUOIL, Andrew (History) (Supervisor: Dr. B. Muirhead) KNIGHT, Tom (Biology) (Supervisor: Dr. D. Morris) KONG, Xianhua (Forestry) (Supervisor: Prof. C. Benson) KOOPER, Ken (History) (Supervisor: Dr. P. Jasen) VESCIO, Shelley (Forestry) (Supervisor: Dr. Y. Prevost) WAIT, Murray (Geology) (Supervisor: Dr. B. Kronberg) 1991-92 Graduate Entrance Awards ($5,000) BAXTER, Tom (Biology) (Supervisor: Dr. J. Ryder) GRAHAM, Amanda (History) (Supervisor: Dr. W. Morrison) PURDON, Robert (Geology) (Supervisor: Dr. B. Kronberg) RUSAK, Jim (Biology) (Supervisor: Dr. D. Morris) WHITLAW, Heather (Biology) (Supervisor: Dr. M. Lankester) He Huang and his son enjoyed the graduate students family barbeque. Currently enrolled in the graduate mathematical science program, Mr. Huang previously completed his Masters in Physics at LU. - - - - - - - -- - - - RESEARCH NEWS - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - Page3 �UPCOMING DEADLINE DATES NSERC Programs Conference Grants - November 1, 1991 Energy, Mines and Resources Canada/NSERC Research Program - November 1, 1991 Equipment Grants - November 1, 1991 Forestry Canada/NSERC Research Partnership Program December 1, 1991 Forestry Postdoctoral Assistantships - January 15, April 15, July 15, October 15 Infrastructure Grants - November 1, 1991 International Fellowships - December 1, 1991 Operating Grants - First-time applicants - October 15, 1991 Operating Grants - Regular applicants - November 1, 1991 Research Partnerships Program - Open Scientific Publications - October 1 and April 15 Strategic Grants - May 1, 1992 Women's Faculty Awards - October 15, 1991 SSHRC Programs Aid to Occasional Scholarly Conferences in Canada - July 1, November 1, April I Bora Laskin National Fellowship - October 1, 1991 Doctoral Fellowships - N ovember 15, 1991 Jules and Gabrielle Leger Fellowship - October 1, 1991 Major Research Grants - October 15, 1991 Post-doctoral Fellowships - October 1, 1991 Standard Research Grants - November 1, 1991 Strategic Research Grants - November 1, 1991 Strategic Partnership Development Grants - November 1, January 15, April 15 Strategic Research Networks - November 1, 1991 Strategic Research Workshops - October 15, 1991 NSERC/SSHRC Master's Scholarships in Science PolicyDecember 1, 1991 SENATE RESEARCH COMMITTEE Ontario-Jiangsu Education Exchange - October 25, 1991 Ontario Mental Health Foundation; Fellowships (November 29, 1991), Projects Research Grants and Major Equipment (September 27, 1991) Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources; ORRRGP - November 15, 1991 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 Risk Research Institute - October 19, 199 I St. John's College, Cambridge, Benians Fellowship - November 1, 1991 University Research Incentive Fund - October 15, 1991 and January 31, 1991 World Wildlife Endangered Species Recovery Fund - January I , 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 l, 1991 1992-93 Ontario Graduate Scholarship - October 25, 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 Internal Research Grants SSHRC/NSERC Research Project Grants Program - October 10, 1991 SSHRC/NSERC Visiting Scholars Program - October 10, 1991 OTHER RESEARCH PROGRAMS Alzheimer Society of Canada - November 15, 1991 Association for Canadian Studies; Intercultural/ Interregional Exchange Program (September 15, 1991 and December 15, 1991); Canadian Studies Writing Program (November 15, 1991). Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan; Visiting and Research Fellowships -October 31, 1991 Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute - December 1, 1991 Canada - United States Fulbright Scholar Program - November 30, 1991 Canadian Lung Association - November 1, 1991 Educational Centre for Aging and Health; Fellowships/ Bursaries - January 1, April 1, July 1, October 1. Environment Canada/NSERC; Great Lakes University Research Fund - October 4, 1991 Gennany/Canada Research Award - October 15, 1991 Going Global 92; Travel Grants - October 15, 1991 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 Page4 Don't get caught with your head in the bucket because you forgot a deadline - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - RESEARCH NEWS - - - - -- - - -- - - :;.:;i ..,,:,..,.,.,""2&1I;u~ October 1991 �People /Papers/Publications Special Projects/Awards Professor Patricia Vervoort, Department of Visual Arts, has published "Industrial Building in the West: The Dominion Government Elevators in Saskatoon, Moose Jaw and Calgary" in the September 1991 issue of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Bulletin, vol. 16, pp. 60-71. Dr. Said Easa, Professor of Civil Engineering, authored the following articles: "Maximizing Accuracy in Stadia Surveying" and Modified Prismoidal Method for Nonlinear Ground Profiles", both in the Journal of Surveying and Land Information Systems, Vol. 51, No. 3, 1991. Dr. Easa also presented a paper· entitled "Nonlinear Programming Applications in Construction" at the Fourth International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, held in Tokyo, Japan, July 29-31, 1991. Dr. Easa attended the leadership Conference of the Urban Transportation Division, American Society of Civil Engineers, held in Minneapolis August 17 and 18, 1991. The purpose of the conference was to discuss future issues and to identify the goals to be pursued by the Division officers over the next several years. Topics discussed in workshops included education, research, technical activities, transportation policies, and publications. Dr. Stephen McBride, Department of Political Studies, is co-editor of a recently published book Regulating Labour: The State, Neo-Conservatism and Industrial Relations (Toronto: Garamond Press). Together with the other editors he contributed an introductory chapter (pp. 1-13) and is sole author of a chapter on "Authoritarianism Without Hegemony? The Politics of Industrial Relations in Britain" (pp. 118-48). Another article, '"The New Right's Political Economy: ldeology and Political Practice in Britain, Canada and the United States,"was published in the Journal of History and Politics, v. 8 (1990), pp. 175-98. Dr. Darlene Steven, Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Professor Rhonda Kirk-Gardener will present a paper titled, "Job Satisfaction and Stress of Nurses" at the Canadian Council of Cardiovascular Nurses, Scientific Sessions to be held ~ in Calgary, October 1991 (refereed). The study was completed November ' A 1990 at the General Hospital of Port \ . . Arthur. Funding for this project was ' - - - - - - - - ~ received from SSHRC (Internal). " Dr. S.A. Naimpally, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, delivered the following papers: 1) "Metric and g-metric spaces via annihilators" at the Short Conference on Uniform Mathematics, Bern, Switzerland on August 14 -16, 1991. 2) "Characteristics of generalized metric spaces in terms of real valued functions" at the International Topology Symposium at Prague, Czechoslovakia on August 19 - 23, 1991. The above work which has appeared in Q and A in Gen. Top was done jointly with Dr. C.M. Pareek in Kuwait in 1988 -1990. Dr. Naimpally began a two-year appointment at Kuwait University on September 25, 1991 . October 1991 - - - - - -- - -- -- - -- Dr. K.N. Pathak, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics, Lakehead University during the summer of 1991. During his visit he was involved in collaborative research with Dr. V.V. Paranjape. While at Lakehead, Dr. Pathak received the news that he was awarded the National Fellowship offered by the University Grants Commission of India. The honour is in recognition of research contributions, and is restricted to two or three faculty members per year in an all India competition. Dr. Pathak has recently returned to India. Dr. H.T. Saliba, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, has had a paper entitled "Transverse free vibration of simply supported right triangular thin plates: a highly accurate simplified solution" published in the refereed Journal of Sound and Vibration Vol. 139 (2) pp.289 - 297. He also presented two refereed conference papers. The first entitled "A modified Levy type solution for the free vibration analysis IE!~~ -=~ L ~ ~ of simply supported isosceles triangular plates" was presented at Queen's University in the 10th Symposium on Engineering Applications of Mechanics. The second, entitled II A simplified analytically exact solution to the free vibration problem of S.C.S. right triangular thin plates" was presented at the University of Toronto in the CSME mechanical Engineering Forum. The full papers were published in the refereed conference proceedings. The Accidental Tourist turned Coach Dr. Ian Newhouse, School of Physical Education, had a pleasant diversion while vacationing in Malaysia with his wife last August. The National Track and Field team invited him to conduct a clinic which he happily did. Discussions with sport administrators, coaches, athletes and academics from Malaysia revealed that the exchange of information is mutually beneficial and further exchanges would be welcome. The AgorA Apolo~izes People's Choice Award Winner Barbara Baird In the May issue of the AgorA the Lakehead University Juried Student Exhibition People's Choice Award Winner was incorrectly identified. Local artist Barbara Baird won the award for her piece "Barb's Grocery Store". We apologize for the error. AGORA Page 7 �A F°'~~! b!:':,::!!b~~~'~~"A''~~!~~!:,~!!~~~!;!~gI~, view about the job ofbeing a university president. Into the being _set up with some r~cord-breaking day_ ofapP_Omtments and second year of his second 5-year term, he acquiesced and func(1ons t~ attend: I qu!ckly_leamed_ that ,twas 1ust an average gave his husky consent: "September 9111 is good. Meet me day m the life of /h,s university president. by Katherine Shedden 7 am Where can he be? His maroon station wagon with the LU slickers is in the lot but he is definitely not with the Board of Directors of Ontario Hydro, the breakfast meeting I had just crashed. With a little more digging I discover that Dr. Bob, Gary Locker and another 8 people are having a private meeting. With a wry smile I sit down and begin my day of shadowing the "man at the top". The conversation (contents private at this point) is businesslike but friendly and long-term strategic planning is discussed with a most efficient Chair drawing comments from all attendees. There is a sense that when Bob Rosehart gives an opinion it's worthy of serious consideration. 8:30 am It was coming out of his first meeting that I started to understand that Bob Rosehart conducts a lot of business in the halls, parking lots and stairwells. He had a quick chat with Pat O'Brien, Thunder Bay Hydro, Pat Forest, City of Thunder Bay, and then announced that we should get to LU for his" morning ritual" . ~!e«u.l.~ii'm*~iiJ't&l:ia.iJtt1iiihlle.;1I* ~ .~ 1li~~MR:to~<~#~~!#.t~$l)s'~¥:'~ 8:40 am The morning ritual is to check in at the office with his secretary Linda Phillips (secretary, in fact, to all four presidents and Dr. Braun before them) and then "go down stairs and check the enrolment stats". A quick walk to the Registrar's Office reveals that today's totals arc not quite ready. He checks the day's appointments on his computer, glances at his mail, has a brief personal conversation with Linda, mutters he's catching)a cold, probably from so many dunkings at the Jaycette's fundraiscr in Westfort on Sunday ("next time John Russell can go"), returns two telephone calls and doesn't reach anyone. 8:55 am Linda comes back in and says the father of a student wants to meet with him. They agree on a time and he asks her to get the student's transcript. He continues with his mail, laughs out loud, jumps up and heads down the hall. Clue: follow this man. He gives a form to his new assistant Martha Gingerich and discusses the room change for the senate executive meeting. 9:00 am Catches someone in the office, consults his calendar, and his impressive memory goes to work as names and figures fall off his tongue. The conversation is quite long and obviously about fundraising strategies. Suddenly, without notice, he's out wandering the halls again. As I make my second mistake of the day by not following him, I deduce that a more dedicated journalist would ask his mother if he was hyperactive as a child. 9:15 am He's back and on the phone again. "What's new?" This side of the conversation is about Japan, Russian students, cheaps fares, an Esso station that sells ice-cream and evening courses. Dan Pakulak would be a good guess. 9:28 am Phones the Registrar and a litany of exclamations follows: "Holy", ''Today will be heavy'', "A price on your head", ''The starter works like a charm", ''That would be up 300!" 9:31 am We're in the Senate Chambers at the Senate executive meeting. He introduced Martha, who is charged Page 8 with all minutes, and quickly the 14 or so faculty, students and administrators are reporting from their committees with Rosehart making summaries and talking about space pressures and timetable changes, and students in the halls and a lack of chalk and "the inevitable chaos" for a few days. There was more exchange about the upcoming OCUA hearings, transfer programs, budget reductions, the undergraduate learning experiences, registration stats and promotional materials. The meeting is adjourned and he goes over to a sligh tly overwhelmed Martha and fills in a few of the blanks. 10:28 -11 am I discover where he went earlier in the morning: the Regional Education Centre. I shall always refer to the next scene as the Chalk Fiasco. When we look back on the presidential annals, some will roll their eyes upward and argue that Roschart got too involved in the day to day operations of l.akehead University and others will defend his actions as a true sign of his dedication to the small and big problems of being at the helm of a university. The record will always show, however, that on the first day of class in 1991, Dr. Bob Roschart had discovered a brand new building overflowing with students and no chalk! He spotted the problem at 9:23 am and was returning to the scene of the crime only to discover that the crime was still in progress. It is also true that witnesses now included Peter Kerr, Jim Podd, Gonzo, Jimmy, Ian Middleton, who just happened to be walking by, and an unidentified secretary. The next half-hour resembles a Hercule Poirot investigation: up the elevator, into the classrooms, search for chalk, down the elevators, up the stairs, into classrooms, over to Campus Development, back to the classroom a few conversations and finally a case of chalk. He never raised his voice but like a badger, he never let go. 11 am Back in his office for a meeting with The Honourable John Gogo, Minister of Advanced Education for Alberta, Deputy Minister Lynne Duncan and Assistant Dr. Bill Workman, about transfer programs between colleges and universities and challenges unique to smaller, isolated northern universities. Next is a tour of the campus including many of the engineering laboratories followed by lunch. 1:30 pm A meeting begins with members from various schools that offer transfer programs. 1:30 - 2:30 pm We part company while I check into my office and I later discovci: he had returned to the new building and chewed the fat with a tradesman about some alumimum problem, talked to the VP Administration about the specs, wandered in the halls a bit and saw the baby of one of his staff. 2:45 pm checked in with Linda about how the Ontario Work Study Program worked and how he really needed help with his "research files". He's at his desk going through the mound of maiJ and suddenly is out in the halls again. 2:46 pm The Dean and a Director arrive for their appointment about a potential problem with a student and parent. They discuss "attitude" and "the bottom line" and leave. 2:50 pm The SAlT and NAIT 5th year engineering students arrive for their meeting with the Alberta Ministers and Dr. Bob goes back to the Registrar's Office and bumps into Jim Smithers whom he invites upstairs to the meeting. 3:15 pm Back in the office and a great conversation is in full swing. Smithers gives his impromptu Mackenzie prescn- AGORA - -- - - - - - - - - - -- - October 1991 �tation and Syd Halter, a Board of Governors representative (and engineer) wrap up the meeting. He signs a few letters and then invites Mr. Halter for a tour of the new buildings. Enroute he has information exchanges with two Directors and goes back to the trades people about the earlier problem. He spots a student about to use the wheelchair ramp and asks her how it's been working. 4 pm Back in the office, rifles through Linda's papers, returns another call and looks ready to bolt again. 4:10 pm After another short call I seize the opportunity to ask him a few questions about his life outside the office. He quickly identifies camp as his only real retreat. Says he's a Blue Jays fan but doesn't watch much lV. Reads a cquplc of newspapers daily and the odd mag, skis in the winter and will only go fishing if the fish bite within 20 minutes. He's currently restoring a sports car which is a challenge he enjoys. Bob and Rita, his wife of 24 years, share their home with two dogs and two cats and their 15 year old daughter Karen, who is at least partly responsible for the growing menagerie. Two older sons arc away at university which was the signal for Rita to return to university and complete her degree. She's in the general Arts program and "enjoying it tremendously". Rita Roschart likes to stay in the background and "just go along with things". She agrees that her husband is completely dedicated to the University and his community organizations. "When we came to Thunder Bay 20 years ago we thought we would stay five years. Things just happened and now this is our home and we love it here." 4:20 pm He updates Fred Poulter on the aluminum situation. He announces that he's going home to shower and change and to meet him in one hour at the Valhalla Ballroom. I ask him how many receptions and dinners he usually goes to. "2 or 3 a week where I usually get to meet and talk to the same people who were at the previous function" he chuckles. Sharing a laugh with the Alberta Minister. 5:30 pm Miraculously we arrive together. Dr. Rosehart is a very well-known figure and his friendships and acquaintances arc wide and far reaching. At one time he sat on a great many Boards "but found it necessary to drastically reduce that commitment" . He travels out of town once a month as a member of the Premier's Council on Economic Recovery. Much of his work as the Chief Negotiator for Ontario with the Nishnawbe Aski First Nations is in town. He's an invited speaker once or twice a month and will be doing more travelling with the Share Our Nortltern Vision Campaign. He seems a little nostalgic that he won't teach a course in chemical engineering this year - the first time in 15 years. Back mingling at the Ontario Hydro Reception and laughing about staying away from high caloric hors d'oeuvres. As I return with my cauliflower, J think of the Newfoundland expression, ''There he was, gone." It's 7:14 pm. The next day Exercising his sometimes-style of brevity, his answer to what did you do the rest of the day was: "Went home, went grocery shopping with my wife to Safeway, helped my daughter with her science homework, watched five minutes of the Dallas Cowboys, five minutes of the Jays' game and went to bed." He probably dreamed about chalk. While on a tour he actually bumps into his wife who is talking with Peter Levis. October 1991 AGORA Page 9 �Mark the English Lecture Series on your Calendar The Department of English is again sponsoring its annual series of free public lectures. These onehour presentations, designed for a general audience interested in literature, will be held in the Ryan Building, Room 1022 and will begin at 7:30p.m. Monday, N ovember 25 Multiple Voices, Multiple Truths? An Exploration of Michael Ondaatje's in the Skin of the Lion Professor Joan Dolphin Monday, January 27 A View from the Roof: A Song from the Window Noreen Ivancic, Confederation College Wednesday, October 16 Sleeping with the Giants: Bringing Oassical Theatre To Northwestern Ontario Michael McLaughlin, Artistic Director, Magnus Theatre Monday, March 2 Thoreau's Water Music: Reflections on Cape Cod Dr. William Heath Monday, October 28 Turkish Delight: English Daily in Turkey- 1990 Dr. George Merrill For further infonnation about the series, please contact Kim Fedderson at 343-8292. She's Back! The hjghly acclaimed musical, RN (Real Nurse) returns from a successful tour of southern Ontario to Thunder Bay with an updated version. Don't miss the one-night-only performance on Thursday, October 24 at 8 pm in the Bora Laskin Auditorium. Tickets are $6 RNAO & students and $8 for others. ~. , I#~-:A,tJ],'~,,o ~ ·t- ~) 1 ~ Ontario colleges and universities hold hearings in Thunder Bay Lakehead University and Confederation College hosted the OCUA hearings entitled "Permeable Boundaries, the CA AT-University interface" on September 20, 1991. Above, Dr. George Segal, President of the Council of Ontario Universities, and Dr. John Whjtfield, Vice-President (Academic) share a story between sessions. In anticipation of the final report by the Commjssion of Inquiry on University Education, senior administrators from many universities and colleges across Ontario met in Thunder Bay to discuss existing and proposed changes at colleges and universities which give students more mobility and greater options. From the presentations, it was clear that administrators recognize the changing makeup of the student population, the importance of transfer programs, recognition of each other's courses and the increased need for joint university-college programs. Of great interest to all members of post-secondary institutions is the release of the Smith Report in October and an upcoming feature in MacLeans magazine. ff;~ ¢·'"''✓-, aw• .;;::~'.';:•~ ~s?~ -0Jrtt., •M t:t==::=::.-eo"'" • "' Enter your Group of Seven runners, classmates, co-workers (or somewhat mobile human beings) for the 3rd Annual Group of Seven Relay. Each team will cover a 10.7 km route in and around Lakehead Campus with individual segn1ents ranging from 0.7 to 2.7 km. Prizes will be awarded the Magnificent Seven who arc first to cross the line in the following categories: ,.Open male ,. Open female ,. Co-ed (2 or more runners must be women) ,. Masters (combined ages must be over 277) ,. High School ,. Corporate - The first 7 teams to register will receive free "Polo" shirts or T-shirts • -1st place team in Open Women receives "Gucci" watches while 1st Place Open Men receives "Rolex" watches - The group with the most teams entered will take home the Intramural Participation Trophy -The team with the best uniforms will win the fashion statement award - Free lunch with Seven-up and additional draw prizes at the awards ceremony For further information call: [ntramural Office 343-8808 Page 10 - - - - - - - -- - -- - - - - - AGORA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - October 1991 �Last Writes Letterbag by Katherine Shedden Thanks for your help Dear Mr. Kerr: Our family was very impressed by your cooperation when we arrived at Lakehead University on August 30, and had a problem with moving our daughter into residence. . You immediately took it upon yourself to help us out with our dilemma, and we were able to move Karla's possessions into residence. We would like to thank you and all of the administration members that we met on that Friday. All of the staff were very friendly and helpful. Karla has called and she loves the new residences and has said too, that the staff is very friendly and helpful. Good luck in the new school year, and thank you again. Irene and Gene Woodsit Greetings from Singapore · It's everything you said it was, but not quite as cheap as you remember. What a place. We are really enjoying ourselves. There is a desperate demand for ESL teachers. Seems the whole world wants to learn English or Japanese - of which I speak neither, according to a cabbie this week. He admired our good English - explained that was our native language and said "No, you speak Canadian". Informed us that USA speaks American, evidenced by Nite and Center and no one was changing his mind! Cheers! Bev (Stefureak) who is on a 1-year travel leave And from Siberia Greetings from the Palace of Trade Unions in Irkutsk. Lake Baikal is beyond my wildest expectations. Siberia is so beautiful, not at all what you think it's like. Also hot and sunny. Scan Isaac (LU student and member of the Superior-Baikal kayak cxchan_gc) Thanks Alumni Dear Frances, l would appreciate it very much if you could express my sincere thanks to the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association for the equipment for two new library listening posts which are now up and running for the fall term. Thanks to that generous assistance, the listening library is a particularly well-equipped part of our facility; students have access to topdrawer recording and playback equipment, and we are able to · avoid the long line-ups for equipment which are a feature of so many university music libraries. Dr. Glen Carruthers Chairman, Department of Music (Photo below shows a few music students in front of the "on budget, on schedule" Music and Visual Arts Building which is scheduled for spring occupancy by faculty and students.) • :-- I ·,., October 1991 , lk-i:::i::=iu Incessantly, persistently, relentlessly, the information/media age bombards us with pictures and data from groups and organizations across the country, across the world; environmentalists, political lobbyists, bureaucrats, politicians, war correspondents, cultural groups, protesters, combatants, newscasters, refugees, disc jockeys and veejays. That's the opening paragraph of a news.release about the return of Distant Voices, a Canadian television series which promises an alternative - "a soft and quiet voice; a voice of storytellers, of hunters and trappers, of swimmers and biologists, of social activists and teachers and entrepreneurs, the voice of distant Canadians, the people of the North". As a fed up and then put up or shut up member of the disenchanted-with-television group, I went so far as to remove the television set from my house for one year. Perhaps it was the incessant, persistant, relentless and often mindless smorgasbord on my screen - and I didn't even have cable or a satellite dish! Sure, there were some good programs but the will to carefully select seemed to have turned to pablum. When a fancy television was presented as a family gift, the deal we worked out gave the set to the kids but the remote to me. And so, it was during the early days of careful monitoring of quality and quantity t~at I fell in love with TVOntario. I loved the lack of commercials, the mouldy oldies on Fridays, the magnificent n~~re, ~usic and history shows and those somewhat erotic hims m romantic foreign languages. What is especially endearing about the upcoming segments is the strong tie to Lakehead University and people we know and respect. T~e show is hosted by Sist:r Eva Solomon who gives the scnes strength and compassion. LU alumna and historian Elinor Barr is the associate producer. The fall series is listed below with a reminder not to miss upcoming interviews with Robert Paterson, Heather Anderson and Bruce Hyer. DISTANT VOICES airs Thursdays at 7:30 pm on TVOntario. October 3 - Ari Lahdekorpi, Finnish-Canadian jazz guitarist October 10 - Robert Paterson, the family business and tradition October 17 - Steve Gresham, full-time trapper tries to make a living October 24 - Claire Trahan, North Bay crusader for the handicapped October 31 - Jim Tester, labour leader and retired miner November 7 -Tami Saj, Thunder Bay Olympic athlete with spina bifida November 14 - Steve Mantis, log house builder and spokesperson for the Injured Workers Support Group November 21 - Kelly Roy, lawyer from Manitoulin Island and advocate of a non-adversarial justice system November 28 - Art Solomon, Ojibway spiritual leader and cider who has worked extensively with native inmates December 5 - Heather Anderson, Lakehead University staff, shares her experiences getting established as a business entrepreneur (computerized mapping) and the obstacles encountered as a disabled person. Left to right: Rob Hole, Owen Duncliffe, Kellie, Hotson, Glen Carruthers, Ron Scott, Matt Klassen, Paul Acree AGORA Page 11 �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 November Agora is October 21, 1991. The Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce presents CBC's Patrick Watson Chamber Fall Meeting Thursday, October 17, 1991 Stel Red Oak Inn Reception: 5:00 pm Dinner: 6:00 pm Ticket Prices: Members - $35.00 Non-Members - $40.00 Special Student Rate - $25.00 Register before October 11, 1991 at 622-9642 Thunder Bay Art Gallery September 6 - October 13 Allen Smutylo: Works on Paper Organized by the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery September 6 - October 6 Judy Martin Regional Artists Series September 13 - October 13 Christopher Columbus: The Genoese Italian Cultural Institute and the Consulate General of Italy October 1 - November 3 4 Hours and 38 Minutes: Videotapes by Steel and Tomczak Art Gallery of Ontario October 18 - November 17 Recent Acquisitions TBAG October 11-November 10 Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Works on Paper Art Gallery of Ontario October 11-November 6 and N ov. 21December 15 Benjamin Chee Chee TBAG Sunday, 6 FREE PUBLIC LECTURE Speaker: Takashi lida, Director, Space Division, Communication Research Laboratory, Japan Topic: Space Communication Development in Japan School of Nursing Room 1015 - 7:00 pm Monday, 7 to Friday , 11 INTERNATIONAL CRAFf SALE Concourse Confederation College 9:00 am - 9:00 pm Monday, 7 FREE PUBLIC LECTURE Speaker: Katherine Dunbabin, Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, McMaster University Topic: The Evil Eye in Antiquity: Amulets, Symbols, Methods of Protection Senate Chambers - 8:00 pm Wednesday, 16 FREE PUBLIC LECTURE Speaker: Michael McLaughlin, Artistic Director, Magnus Theatre Topic: Sleeping with the Giants: Bringing Classical Theatre to Northwestern Ontario Ryan Building, Rm 1022 - 7:30 p.m. Cornwall Concert Series 1991/92 All Concerts are held in the Recital Hall, 210 S. Algoma St. and are on Tuesdays at 12:30 PM unless otherwise noted. Tickets are available at the door. October 8/91 Krista Buckland, violin (winner of the 1991 Eckhardt-Gramatte Competition); Lydia Wong, piano $5.00 October 22/91 Doris Dungan, flute; Sean Mundy, guitar; Heather Morrison, piano Free November 5/91 Mary Whicher, soprano; Marcella Smithers, piano. Free Thursday, 17 FREE PUBLIC LECTURE Speaker: Dr. Larry Black Director, Centre for Canadian-Soviet Studies Carleton University Topic: The Soviet Union Today: The Danger of Inter-Ethnic Conflict Lecture Theatre (UC--0050) - 8:00 pm Tuesday, 22 Senate Meeting - 9:30 a.m. Monday, 28 FREE PUBLIC LECTURE Speaker: Dr. George Merrill Topic: Turkish Delight: The English Daily in Turkey-1990 Ryan Building, Rm 1022 - 7:30 p.m. AT THE FIELDHOUSE October 11/12 Pizza Hut High School Girls Basketball Tournament October19 John Zanatta Alumni Basketball - Women 6:00 pm, Men 8:00 pm October 25-27 Pizza Hut Women's Basketball Tournament, Men's Basketball vs. Laurentian Agorl\ 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. 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