530 10 13346 https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/563131dbe6e539025bd287009400554d.pdf 64f0001b4f40756b2d060bc157560786 PDF Text Text June 2001 A Newsletter for Faculty and Staff Convocation Messages Speak of Optimism and Change by Frances Harding Two Honorary Degree recipients shared their wisdom with about 775 members of the graduating class who attended Convocation on Saturday, May 26. In the morning, author Carol Shields (represented by her daughter Catherine) spoke about the importance of finding work that you love because work "places us inside the wheel of human experience." "You will form lifelong attachments, you will travel, perhaps have children of your own, but your future will, in very large part, be your work. Your task will be to bring creativity or excellence -- or both -- to work which may at first not open to those twin assaults. Another task will be to contribute to making the workplace more equitable, more humane, more graceful, more rewarding for everyone -- in short, a happy, productive environment. The day of the bossy boss is over. The work hierarchy is being challenged and reconstructed. The old way was too hard on everyone." In the afternoon, teacher and wildlife biologist Jack Ward Thomas, spoke about his optimism in our ability to resolve the most important challenge -- "living well on our Spaceship Earth and passing on our legacy from generation to generation intact." "We have the experience, knowledge, technology, and skilled people to make headway in heading off, mitigating, and repairing environmental problems. It comes down to focus, will, understanding, setting priorities, and caring.... "In 40 years or so, one of today's graduates, weighty in years and achievement, may address another graduating class. The speaker will acknowledge achievements made in the husbandry of the Good Earth since the century's turn. She will marvel at new understandings and knowledge and note expansion in the human mind and spirit and the extension of ethics to include the land itself." The award for outstanding citizenship given to a student who has contributed most to the welfare of the University went to Michael Poulin -- a strong advocate for the Aboriginal community and students. During his undergraduate years, Poulin worked full-time as the HIV/AIDS Coordinator of the Ontario Native Women's Association, and was appointed their representative on the Lakehead University Aboriginal Management Council (AMC). In addition, he served as AMC's representative to Senate, president of the Lakehead Social Planning Council, chair of the Aboriginal lnteragency Council, and Cultural Coordinator of the Lakehead University Native Students Association. In recent years, Poulin was instrumental in forming a partnership between Aboriginal students and LUSU to establish an Aboriginal Commissioner within LUSU, and approving a proposal to establish an Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Centre.. Poulin graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Arts (Political Science). He is shown holding the Poulin Award which was named in memory of the late Robert Poulin (no relation to Michael) in 1951. Lakehead U N I VERS I TY �Lakehead 2 UNIV E RS IT Y From the President's Desk by Dr. Frederick F. Gilbert President Convocation, despite the gloomy weather, was another wonderful day. The glowing faces of the graduates and their friends and family certainly more than compensated for the climatic conditions. Both speeches by the Honorary Degree recipients, Carol Shields and Jack Ward Thomas, were challenging and upbeat. Certainly both from the different perspectives of the arts and the sciences, showed the value of the individual in helping to bring about positive change whether in the work environment or the planetary environment. It was especially gratifying to see Jim Colquhoun and Tony Seuret receive Fellow of the University recognition. There are so many people from Thunder Bay and beyond who have volunteered their time and effort to the University as well as their community. All are appreciated and it is important to recognize their contributions at the time of Convocation. The success of our alumni/ae was represented in the Alumni Honour Award given to Peter Prior. All in all, a special day with special people involved. Our new graduates will do well if they emulate any of the awardees in their own personal careers. As can be seen elsewhere in this edition of the Agora, Lakehead University continues to receive awards for the actions of its faculty, staff and students. In addition to those mentioned in these articles is the success of our civil engineering students in the steel bridge contest at Clemson University where, as the only Canadian team, they placed leh in a field with 42 U.S. universities. Having won the mid-west competition three years straight, our students and faculty in Civil Engineering clearly demonstrate their excellence. Also, Lakehead received an award from AGORA - June 2001 Ontario Library Resources-North for the pioneering efforts of LU-Net in connecting Northwestern Ontario to the Internet by making LU-Net available in community libraries. Two publications by the University won 2nd and 3rd place awards in the annual report and fundraising categories respectively of the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education. Our Business Administration students ranked in the top six teams in Canada in this year's Intercollegiate Business Competition at Queen's University. These are but a few examples showing that Lakehead competes successfully with the best in North America and makes contributions to its region that have significant impact on people. We can be justifiably proud of our University especially considering that all this is accomplished with funding per student well below the provincial average. This inequity has been a constraint on us all but despite the unfairness of the funding situation, Lakehead has demonstrated an extraordinary ability to excel under difficult circumstances. Once we are able to complete on an equal footing from a funding perspective, our impact will be further enhanced. Well done and congratulations to all who haye made Lakehead University recognized for the quality of its efforts. There is a lot more to come! Mark Your Calendars 18th Annual Alumni Association Open Strathcona Golf Course Friday, August 24, 2001 To register, call Alumni Relations 343-8155 �Lakehead 3 U N I VERS I TY Honours, Awards & Appointments Water Resources Engineering Students Bring Honours to Lakehead University Amin Eishorbagy, who has completed a doctoral thesis entitled "Group-based Estimation of Missing Hydrological Data" under the supervision of Lakehead University Professor of Civil Engineering U. S. Panu and Professor Simonovic of The University of Western Ontario, has been awarded the prestigious NSERC Fellowship for two years (valued at $70,000). Eishorbagy will conduct his post-doctoral research investigations in water resources engineering at the University of Kentucky, Lexington Campus. In a nationwide competition conducted by the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering, the undergraduate project supervised by Professor Panu and entitled "Corrosion Study of the Thunder Bay Drinking Water Supplies" by Christopher Martin (BEng 2000) has won the first place in the Environmental Engineering Division. The award will be presented at the upcoming CSCE Annual Conference in June. 2001 Alumni Entrance Award The Alumni Association is pleased to announce that Raymond Salee has been awarded the 2001 Alumni Entrance Award. Salee is a graduate of Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate and Vocational Institute where he has been the school champion for the Canadian Mathematics Competition for the last two years. He was also the first student in Northern Ontario to be one of the top three in the CA Challenge 2000 OAC Accounting Contest. Salee plans to study biology at Lakehead in preparation for medical school. Lori Chambers receives Prentice Award Dr. Lori Chambers, an assistant professor of women's studies, is the recipient of the Alison Prentice Award for 2000, granted by the Ontario Historical Society. She receives this award for the best book on Ontario history in recognition of her book Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario, published in 1997 by the University of Toronto. Employer Support Award The Canadian Forces Liaison Council awarded Lakehead University a national Employer Support Award (Special Award for Support to Operation ABACUS) to recognize the University as an employer who has been particularly supportive of its employees' reservist military service. Dr. Fred Gilbert received the award at a national ceremony on Parliament Hill on June 2 from the Minister of National Defence and the Chief of the Defence Staff. Captain Robert Omeljaniuk of 736th (Thunder Bay) Communication Squadron, who made the nomination, attended the ceremony and formal military dinner in Ottawa with Dr. Gilbert. Omeljaniuk is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Lakehead University. The award recognizes Lakehead University Senate's passing of a formal motion in November 1999 granting all Reserve Force students "approval for absence from classes without academic penalty in support of Operation ABACUS." This action affected 70 Lakehead University student Reservists in the Thunder Bay Garrison (38th Brigade). The motion ensured all Lakehead University faculty would make alternate arrangements for student examinations and assignments in recognition of particular time constraints imposed by their participation in Operation ABACUS. AGORA - June 2001 Meloche Monnex Fellowship in Alumni Affairs Lakehead has secured a Meloche Monnex Fellowship in Alumni Affairs to hire a graduate, Gord McLean (BA2000), on a one-year contract to assist the University in increasing the number of its alumni chapters. McLean is now working on an alumni survey and planning a strategy for alumni chapter development that will strengthen Lakehead's fundraising and friend-raising endeavors. McLean is shown above (right) with Chris Daniel, vice-president of Meloche Monnex. Gary Locker elected to the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board Dr. J. Gary Locker, professor emeritus of civil engineering and executive director of the Native Access Program for Engineering, has been elected as a member-at-large of the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board of the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CEAB). The CEAB is responsible for the accreditation of Canadian undergraduate engineering programs. Locker has been vice-chair of accreditation visits to the University of Waterloo, Queen's University, Ryerson University, the University of Manitoba and the University of Saskatchewan. He has been the program visitor for Civil Engineering at Concordia University and the University of Costa Rica. While he was chair, National Council of Deans of Engineering and Applied Science, he helped design a new accreditation unit system for curriculum content. �Lakehead 4 UNIVE R SITY English Prof Brings Out the Best in His Students by Twyla Carolan Kristen Poluyko, a master's student in English, seems to have lost the ability to explain why Dr. Rick Holmes is such a good instructor. Not just good, but good enough to be the recipient of Lakehead University's Distinguished Instructor Award for 2000. 1 In a very short amount of time though, she recovers well and says, "He's approachable. He's not intimidating at all, and he just elicits from his students this desire to do well; you want to impress this man. If he's going to do that much for you, you want to make sure that your work comes across as extraordinary." As for Rick Holmes, he says that just getting nominated by his students was the real award -- the real honour. Holmes received his BA from the University of Winnipeg, his MA from the University of Manitoba, and his PhD from Queen's University. He began as a teaching assistant at the University of Manitoba, and has been teaching for many years since learning his trade at Queen's University, the University of Manitoba, the University of Winnipeg, the University of Calgary, and Lakehead University, where he's been since 1987. Holmes' area of expertise is Twentieth-century British literature, with special emphasis on contemporary fiction and narrative theory. He has a secondary interest in Victorian literature. Holmes' most frequently taught courses are Major British Writers, The Victorian Period, and British Literature 1900-1930 and 1930present. Holmes believes that professors have three main responsibilities: teaching, research, and administrative service, with teaching and research being the most important. He often teaches what he is researching and writing papers about, and, over the years, has noticed a connection between the two. Holmes finds the dynamic interaction between the material he presents and the students' reception and reaction to the information to be very fruitful. He says, "I get ideas from my students. There's a reciprocity there. It's very symbiotic." When working with students, Holmes believes that listening to them and trying to get them involved is a key motivator in the classroom. He's interested in where they are in their lives, what their problems are, and what their futures look like. He is enthusiastic and open with ideas, and believes it is critical to involve the students in the learning process, rather than just standing at the front of the classroom lecturing. Holmes has great respect for his students, and reciprocally, they admire and respect him as well. Twyla Carolan is one of several students taking part in SPARK, a student writing program at Lakehead funded by The Chronicle-Journal Top-Notch Chemical and Civil Engineering Students The Lakehead University Student Chapter of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE) is the 2001 winner of the Student Chapters' Merit Award. The Lakehead Student Chapter is the smallest chapter of its kind in Canada, yet the group has won five national awards in the last six years. They won Merit Awards in 1995, 1996, 2000 and now in 2001 and received an honourable mention in 1997 and 1998. Lakehead's civil engineering students have consistently placed among the top-ranking teams in the Steel Bridge Competition sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineering/American Institute of Steel Construction. For the past three years, Lakehead's team has placed first in the mid-west region competition. Over the years, Holmes' teaching methods have evolved. He says, "I've probably become more focused on making students their own teachers in the sense of really making them responsible for what happens in the classroom. " He accomplishes this by This year Lakehead's team was the only Canadian team organizing the students into small structured groups, giving each to compete in the national competition at Clemson group a specific task, and then letting the group take control of University in South Carolina, where it placed 16'h overall the learning experience. He says, "It's amazing how they take competing against 42 other teams. ownership of what they are doing and really become responsible for it." AGORA - June 2001 �LAl"EHEAD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY VOYAGER NEWS Volumcz FROM THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN'S DESK W<?lcom<? to th<? last installm<?nt of VOYAGER NEWS. Wilh th<? impl<?m<?ntation of VOYAGER just around th<? corn<?r w<? hop<? that you hav<? found this n<?Wsl<?rt<?r informative?. Th<? impl<?m<?ntation of th<? VOYAGER syst<?m at Lak<?h<?ad U niv<?rsity marks an important st<?p in our ability to coll<?ct. maintain and mak<? acc<?ssibl<? th<? growing numb<?r of r<?sourc<?s available? in digital format. All Library staff arn to b<? comm<?nd<?d for th<?ir hard work and d<?dication in making this proj<?ct a succ<?ss. Watch th<? Library w<?b pag<? and oth<?r promotional mat<?rials for more? information on th<? Voyagar syst<?m. 1. lssucz J June 18, 2001 VOYAGER OPAC SEARCH SCREEN Th<? Public Acc<?ss T<?am has prototyp<? of th<? 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ChanC<?llor Pat<?rson Library 955 Oliv<?r Road Thund<?r Bay, Ontario Canada P7B 5E1 PROJECT WEB SITE T <!l<!phon<Z: (807) 343-8147 http://www.lakehczadu.ca/~llbrwww/ systems/voyager.html Fax: (807) 343-8007 E - mail: voyag<?r@lak<?h<?adu.ca �Lakehead 5 UNIVERSITY NSERC Awards for 2001-2002 The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) recently announced the results of their annual research and equipment grants competition. Department of Geology For the year 2001-2002, the total value of grants awarded was $922,858 for both research and equipment grants. The success rate for new research grants, as opposed to ongoing installments, was 65% compared with 48% for last year. At present, there are 38 NSERC holders at Lakehead. This represents 38% o( the total eligible faculty R.H. Mitchell, "Petrology of Kimberlites and Alkaline Rocks;' $86,625, research grant (6/6). G.J. Borradaile, "Rock Magnetism and Deformation," $62,300, research grant (2/4). Department of Mathematical Sciences A.J. Dean, "Derivations of Inductive Limit C*-algebras," $8,000, research grant (1/4). W. Huang, "Job Scheduling Problems in Modern at Lakehead. The following is a list of all NSERC recipients at Lakehead University who were successful in the 2001-2002 research and equipment grants competition. They are grouped according to the new academic structure that goes into effect on July 1, 2001. Office of Research M.L. Howe, "Development of Retention and Reasoning," $39,000, research grant (year 2 of 4 (2/4)). FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Department of Biology Manufacturing Systems and Management Science," $9,702, research grant (3/4). D. Li, "Asymptotic Behaviour in Stochastic Modelling," $15,000, research grant (2/4). L. Liu, "Reliability in the Finite Element Method for Non-Linear Problems," $9,500, research grant (2/4). L. Liu, "Reliability in the Finite Element Method for Non-Linear Problems," $16,000, equipment grant. T. Miao, "Amenability of Locally Compact Groups and Geometric Properties of Ap (G)," $13,650, research grant (3/ 4). Department of Physics S.J. Hecnar, "Species Richness and Spatial Dynamics in Amphibians," $15,750, research grant (3/4). M.W. Lankester, "Impact of Parasites and Disease on Northern Animals," $26,188, research grant (2/4). A.U. Mallik, "Induction and Release of Retrogressive Succession After Fire in Kalmia-Black Spruce Communities;· $19,000, research grant (2/4). D.W. Morris, "Habitat Selection, Patch Choice, and Spatial Dynamics of Small Mammals in Changing Environments," $51,000, research grant (1/5). Department of Chemistry C. Gottardo, "The Photochemistry of Compounds Which Contain Heteroatoms," $30,000, research grant (3/3). S.D. Kinrade, "Aqueous Chemistry of Silicon;• $38,115, research grant (4/4). Department of Computer Science X. Li, "A Multithreaded Logic Virtual Machine for Intelligent Mobile Agents," $17,000, research grant (1/4). X. Li, "A Multithreaded Logic Virtual Machine for Intelligent Mobile Agents," $22,960, equipment grant. A. Wei, "Combinatorial Methods in Threshold Crytography: Protocols, Structures and Optimizations," $14,000, research grant (1/4). M.C. Gallagher, "Atomic Structure of Ultrathin Films," $30,000, research grant (1/4). M.C. Gallagher, "Sputter Ion Gun for Sample Cleaning," $13,734, equipment grant. M.H. Hawton, "Photo-Matter Interactions," $15,000, research grant (2/4). W.J. Keeler, "Ultrafast Ti:Sapphire Laser Applications," $16,300, research grant (2/4). V.V. Paranjape, "Research in Solid State Physics," $12,000, research grant (1/3). FACULTY OF ENGINEERING Department of Chemical Engineering L.J.J. Catalan, "Studies in Stabilisation/Solidification of Industrial Waste," $19,000, research grant (2/4). L.J. Garred, "Modelling Studies of Solute and Fluid Transport in Kidney Dialysis," $21,500, research grant (1/4). A. Gilbert, "Optimizing Control of Kraft Mill Processes," $21,945, research grant (4/4). I. Nirdosh, "Solid-Liquid Mass Transfer Applications," $23,909, research grant (4/5). ... continued on page 6 AGORA - June 2001 �Lakehead 6 U NI VER SI TY NSERC Awards continued from page 5 Department of Civil Engineering D.K. Eigenbrod, "Shaft Resistance of Piles in Sand During Loading in Tension and Compression," $14,700, research grant (3/4). S.A. Mirza, "Strength and Stiffness of Slender Composite Steel-Concrete Beam-Columns," $19,520, research grant (4/ 4). U.S. Panu, "Development of Group Based Hydrologic Data Infilling Procedures," $14,000, research grant (2/4). S.K. Vanapalli, "Design of Flexible Pavements Using the Soil Mechanisms for Unsaturated Soils;' $18,000, research grant (1/4). Department of Electrical Engineering S.M.J. Alirezaie, "Three-dimensional Visualization and Segmentation of Multispectral Medical Images," $15,000, research grant (1/4). K. Natarajan, "Model Reference Adaptive Control in the Frequency Domain;' $23,310, research grant (3/4). A.T. Tayebi, "Iterative Learning Control for Uncertain Systems," $21 ,405, research grant (1/4) Department of Mechanical Engineering K. Liu, "Identification and Control of Linear Time-Varying Systems," $17,000, research grant (1/4). SSHRC 2001-2002 Competition Results Lakehead University is pleased to announce its successful applicants in this year's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council competition. The number of successful research grants applicants represents an increase over the previous year's results. This year's success rate was 22%, whereas the previous competition saw a success rate of 12%. G.A. Genosko, Department of Sociology (new scholar category) , 'The Role of Journals (Defunct) and Splinter Groups (Disbanded) in the Institutionalization of Critical and Postmodern Theory in Canada," $71 ,000 over three years, including a research time stipend worth $12,150. J.P. Jasen, Department of History (regular scholar category), "Women and Cancer: Historical Perspectives on the Concept of Risk," $50,900 over three years. H.E. Smith, Department of History/Women's Studies (regular scholar category) and P. Wakewich, Sociology/ Women's Studies "Cultural Representations and Women's Narrative of Wartime Work and Lives,"$52,850 over three years. M. Liu, 'Transformation Matrices for Finite Element Analysis of Plates and Shells With Structural Discontinuities," $13,737, research grant (4/4). In addition to the new awards, the following are Lakehead University's continuing SSHRC awards: A. Sedov, "Modeling the Ultrasonic Inspection of Complex Components," $10,300, research grant (2/3). L. Di Matteo, Department of Economics, "Late 191h and Early 20th Century Wealth and Economic Development in Ontario," third year of three-year grant (3/3), total grant value: $48,506. S.A.Q. Siddiqui, "Vibration Suppression in Systems Characterized by Interaction Between Lumped and Distributed Parameter Elements," $17,000, research grant (1/4) FACULTY OF FORESTRY AND THE FOREST ENVIRONMENT Q.L. Dang, "Interacting Effects of Soil Conditions on Ecophysiological Traits and Their Responses to Changing Aboveground Environment in Boreal Tree Species," $34,073, research grant (4/4). W.H. Parker, "Development of a GIS Methodology to Determine Breeding Zones for Second Generation Tree Programs;• $19,635, research grant (4/4). J.R. Wang, "Relationship Between Hydraulic Conductivity and Photosynthesis of Paper Birch," $18,000, research grant (1/4). T. Dufresne, Department of Philosophy, "An Introduction to Critical Freud Studies," 2/3, total grant value: $65, 170 (including research time stipend). B. O'Connor, Department of Psychology, "Interpersonal Rigidity, Hostility and Corpplementarity: Associations with Psychopathology, Relationship Quality and Attachment History," 3/3, total grant value: $36,850. Thunder Bay Regional Arts Council Business & Education Awards Congratulations to Dr. Fiona Blaikie (Faculty of Education) and Janet Clark, former curator of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, for receiving an award at the annual Mayor's Arts Luncheon honouring Business and Education. The two women developed a special kit of resource materials for the teaching of art in local elementary schools which incorporated color reproductions of art by 16 regional artists. AGORA •• June 2001 �Lakehead 7 UNIVERSITY Allen Bibby Endows Memorial Bursary and gives a gift of art to Lakehead University. by Jennifer Willianen Development Researcher and Writer It has been over 70 years since artist Joan Bibby (nee Keefer) left Northwestern Ontario; yet her legacy lives on in the region thanks to the thoughtfulness and generosity of her husband. In loving memory of his wife, Allen Bibby of Vermont, recently donated her painting - The Red Coral Bean - to Lakehead University and endowed a memorial bursary in her name. Joan, who was born in Port Arthur in 1919, is the granddaughter of Francis (Frank) Keefer after whom the local Keefer Terminal is named. The Red Coral Bean is an exquisite watercolour painting featuring a Florida wildflower sprouting pods of scarlet beans. It is prominently displayed in the reference section of The Chancellor Paterson Library. Also in her honour, Allen Bibby donated stock holdings to Lakehead worth over $15,000. The gift, in combination with matched funds from the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund, endowed in perpetuity the Joan Keefer Bibby Memorial Bursary. Annually, two students from the Department of Visual Arts will each be awarded a bursary valued at $1000 on the basis of financial need and academic standing. Allen Bibby's motivation in creating the Development Officer Laurie Hill adjusts the watercolor painting by the late Joan Bibby now on display on the ground floor of the Chancellor Paterson Library. Bibby's husband Allen recently endowed a bursary that will benefit students in Visual Arts endowment is twofold. First, he is celebrating Joan's talent and love of art. And vitally important, he is fulfilling a desire to afford young art students an opportunity to revel in their creativity. He sincerely hopes the bursaries will "urge students to do their best, to enjoy their own work and to be receptive to the possibility that others may also find pleasure in it." Joan is described by her husband as having been "innately modest'' to the point where she was reluctant to take due credit for her work. Her artistic talent, which she discovered after the age of 50, is said to beautifully reflect her varied interests as a gardener, outdoor adventurer, world traveller, and photographer. AGORA -- June 2001 In a letter addressed to all future recipients of the Joan Keefer Bibby Memorial Bursary, Allen conveys the depth of his wife's artistic imagination by quoting one of Joan's fellow artists who said, "This gentle woman leapt joyfully into the combat between abstract forms and the demands of the thing seen. Her work doesn't just reflect the pleasure of a moment lived, but like a strong storage battery, it contains energy within it, a life of idea and impulse that will continue through time." It is a quintessential fit that Joan Bibby's artistic legacy will "continue through time" at the University of her birthplace and in a department where the lives of ideas and impulses flourish much like her work. �Lakehead 8 U N IVERS I TY Lakehead UNIVERSITY June 2001 Vol. 18, No.5 THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO, CANADA ISSN D828•5225 The Agora is published by the Office of Communications and distributed monthly September through June. We welcome news and other submissions from our readers. Send them to: Meet the staff and faculty at Lakehead's new Paleo-DNA Laboratory: (back row) Dr. Ryan Parr, Curtis Hildebrandt and Dr. El Motto (front row): Renee Praymak, Jen Maki, Amy Junnila, Arlene Lahti, Dr. Wera Schmerer Editor, Agora Lakehead University 955 Oliver Road Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1 Paleo-DNA Laboratory moves to New State-of-the-Art Facility "There is a revolution taking place in science, and DNA is at the centre of it," says Dr. Keith McKenney. The forensic scientist from George Mason University was speaking at a reception held on June 8th to celebrate the opening of the new Paleo-DNA Laboratory located on the third floor of the Northwestern Ontario Technology Centre. The new lab places Lakehead "among the leaders" in DNA research. ''This is the genesis," says Dr. El Molto who, along with Dr. Ryan Parr, is co-director of the Lab. "Ours is the best facility in Canada primarily dedicated to the extraction, amplification and analysis of ancient DNA." Since its founding in 1996, Lakehead's Paleo-DNA Lab has combined state-of-the-art equipment and staff with special skills in handling ancient DNA. In fact, the opening of the new Paleo-DNA Lab coincided with the conclusion of a two-and-a-half week internship for 20 qualified advanced undergraduate or master's level students interested in working in the growing field of DNA research. This is the third year Lakehead has offered such a course which all five of the Lab's full-time analysts have completed. Lakehead's Paleo-ONA Lab has developed special expertise in extracting and recovering DNA from bone samples. The primary research project is a world-class study arising from a large collection of skeletal remains from the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt. The Lab is also involved in studies of the ancient Nubian peoples of Kerma and the ancient Chinese of Anyang. Another project that has recently attracted international attention has been a project to identify some of the "last of the lost" from the Titanic disaster at the request of surviving family members. Lakehead's new Paleo-DNA Laboratory is funded primarily by the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund, the Ontario Innovation Trust, and Lakehead University. AGORA - June 2001 Telephone: (807) 343-8193 Fax: (807) 343-8075 E-mail:frances.harding@lakeheadu.ca Canadian Postmaster: Send address changes to Office of Communications Lakehead University 955 Oliver Road Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada P7B 5E1 Publications Mail Agreement Number 1497073 Photography: Peter Puna Printing: Lakehead Print Shop The Agora is not published in July or August. Oeadline for submissions for the next issue is Sepember 1, 2001 � 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.18 No.5 Subject The topic of the resource Universities Description An account of the resource This issue of the Agora contains an article on convocation 2001, a message from the President, and announces the Allen Bibby Endows Memorial Bursary. 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 2001-06 2001 Agora Magazine Alumni Alumni Association Alumni Association of Lakehead University Convocation 2001 Dr. Frederick F. Gilbert Lakehead Lakehead University President Frederick Gilbert President's Message https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/a50bd0d4c73e3ace12eef8198a85e785.pdf 4a96cdb60b17bf010a3fe80036e05901 PDF Text Text LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY Thunder Bay Ontario, Canada GOR Vol.12, Number 2 March 1995 Chancellor Paterson Library moves into the 21st century Ontario government announces $2.8 million in jobsOntario Capital support toward the completion of renovations to Chancellor Paterson Library Education and Training Minister Dave Cooke visited the campus in February to announce the Ontario government will provide $2.8 million in jobsOntario Capital support toward the completion of renovations to Chancellor Paterson Library. . "To say that the University community at Lakehead is pleased with the Minister's announcement would seriously understate the case," said Chief Librarian Fred McIntosh. "We have known for some time that the Chancellor Paterson Library. opened in 1966. was no longer adequate to handle the increases in enrollment and development of new programs that have occurred since that time." 1n 1993 Lakehead University was given $1.3 million injobsOntario Capital support to initiate the renovation program which included replacing the roof of the building, renovating the Dr. Bob Rosehart, Education and Training Minister Dave Cooke, Shelley Wark-Martyn and Fred McIntosh are all smiles after the announcement that renovations to the University's Ubrary will be completed. ·our government is committed to improving education facilities in Northern Ontario,· said Shelley Wark-Martyn, Minister Without Portforlio (Health) andMPP for Port Arthur. 'I am pleased that jobs will be created in Thunder Bay and that library facilities will be upgraded. I congratulate those at Lakehead who have worked so hard to make this project possible. • photo: Peter Puna ground. fourth and fifth floors of the library. providing new student space and improving building safety. The $2.8 million awarded in 1995 will allow the University to complete the functional reorganization of the main. second and third floors of the building; upgrade computer systems for enhanced electronic access; upgrade the mechanical and electrical systems to improve energy efficiency; upgrade the fire alarm system; refinish the interior; replace windows and clean the exterior of the building. The project is expected 10 generate approximately 50 jobs. "In planning our library renovations we set ourselves the task of designing a library which will serve the information l)eeds of the Lakehead University community into the 21st century," said Mcintosh. "The plan recognizes that while books and journals will remain the core of our library, we will increasingly be dealing with information stored in electronic formats. Our library must be capable of helping our students locate and access this information ... We must also recognize that we are entering an era where there will be a much greater sharing of library resources between Ontario university libraries. The technology must be in place to facilitate this process." -- Frances /larding �AROUND CAMPUS KIDS IN THE HALL 520 students evacuated from campus residence A fire broke out in Marathon House residence on Thursday, February 16th at approximately 7:00 PM. One student received minor bums to his hand, several were After giving apublic lecture on campus in February entitled "Knowing by Heart: Memory and the Imagination in Fiction,· Jane Urquhart mingled with the guests and signed books for all who wanted them including Lori Kapush, a secretary in the School of Nursing. Jane Urquhart is the 1994 Marian Engel Award recipient andhermost recent bestsellingnovel Away shared the Government of Ontario's 1994 Trillium Award with Margaret Atwood's book Robber Bride. In 1992 she received the prestigious Le prix du meilleurlivre etranger (Best Foreign Book Award) for her first novel, The Whirlpool, becoming the first Canadian writer to have beenhonouredby this prize. taken to hospital as a precautionary measure for smoke inhalation, and all were released later that night. Residence Manager David Hare said that 51 students had to be housed temporarily in alternative accommodation. Stu• dents on the first and third floors of the damaged residence During her talk, Urquhart spoke about growing up in moved back to their rooms within a week and students on Geraldton, Ontario, where her father worked as a mining engineer at the second floor were expected to be back by the second the Uttfe Longlac gold mine. Her interest in fiction was encouraged week. by her godfather, Danny Henry, an Irish-born prospector who used to Dr. Rosehart confinned that a student accidently regale the family with stories. According to Urquhart, it is the heart that caused the fire and he praised the Residence Staff and triggers imagination and allows the writer to enter his own inner Assistants for their unified and effective response to the theatre. "You have to care enough about what is being conjured, •she fire. said. The reading was hosted by the Department of English and If one can find good news in a fire, it's the fact that sponsored by Thunder Bay Travel, Sweet Thursday Bookshop and Lakehcad's new fire alarm systems worked beautifully. Thunder Bay Public Ubrary. -- Katherine Shedden Director of Campus Development Jim Podd reports that the addition to the Faculty of Education's Bora Laskin Building is well underway with the new space expected to be complete by spring break. Renovations to the second floor of the existing facility will then begin with an expected completion date of May 1995. 2 AGORA March 1995 �REPORT FROM THE PRESIDENT This wa,; a sobering reminder that, both here at Lakehead University and al home. we should lake every precaution to prevent such incidents. A special thanks goes out to officials from Confederation College who were on the phone early the next morning to offer us empty space in their residence. All students have been accommodated. and we expect to have most of them back on the Lakehead University campus within a few days. Dr. Robert Rosehart President Lakehead University Bacchus Program The Bacchus Program is a national initiative aimed at the promotion of safe alcohol use on university and college campuses. In a recent publication, LUSU Vice-President. Student Issues. Stephannie Roy. is congratulated on her initiative here at Lakehead University. New LUSU Executive Congratulations go out to the new LUSU Executive: President. Adele Ritchie; Vice-President. Student Issues, Nicole Lewis; Vice-President. Finance, Sonja Hansen. This is the second time in recent history thal Lakehead University students have elected an all-female slate. LU Nor'Westers Complete Season As the regular season winds up, it is impressive, once again, to see the Lakehead spirit generated in the Thunder Dome. Last Saturday night, against the University ofWindsor, a special presentation was made to Lakehead University' s Peter Brown in recognition of his many efforts made on behalf of the Men· s Basketball Team during the past five years. Peter (from Elliot Lake) deserves special recognition. as well, because of his sportsmanship shown both on and off the court. Starting on March 9. 1995, Lakehead University and the Thunder Dome will host the 1995 CIAU (Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union) National Women's Basketball Championships. With the top teams in Canada to be here. try to come out and show your interest. Lakehead University has a young but spirited team that will put on a very competitive and entertaining show. Dave Cooke on Campus On page one of this issue you will read that Minister of Education and Training Minister Dave Cooke visited our campus and made an official announcement regarding the completion of the renovations to the Chancellor Paterson Library. This is very good news and some1hing we have been working hard on since the first phase was completed two years ago. Dave Cooke is from a community (Windsor) not unlike Thunder Bay and has been a consistent supporter of our initiatives. I would also like to acknowledge the support and encouragement given in this project by Shelley Wark-Martyn and her Assistant. Lynda Betcherman. Now that the Library project is in hand and the Bora Laskin addition is nearing completion, we will be turning our minds in future months to the other space needs on campus. In the short term. most of these will have to be dealt with by optimizing our use of existing space. One area that needs considerable thought is the C. J. Sanders Fieldhouse. The School of Kinesiology currently has a committee examining both short and long-term options. 15% Exercise I mentioned in a previous column the above planning exercise and, although the detailed analysis has yet to hit my desk. John Whitfield and the Deans seem quite satisfied with the ideas generated. Now the hard work begins in trying to access which of the options are most viable taking into account both our internal and external environment. In looking at the preliminary report for this effort and, as well. trends in student interests. Vice-President Whitfield has advised academic units at a recent Senate meeting that they should retain as much academic program nexibility as possible until all of our options have been reviewed. Residence Fire a Lesson! The other night. when I was called out to the Residence after the fire. I was impressed by several things. First. our emergency response policy seems to have worked very well. By the time that Fred Poulter and I arrived on the scene. the onthe-ground team of Grant Walsh. David Hare, Bill Bragnalo. Norma Jean Newbold and lhe Residence Assistants had the situation well in hand. The co-operation and leadership shown by our students and Residence Assistants was first rate. The fire itself was another matter. It was accidental. but clearly could have been prevented. It is clear that an open flame in a confined space is not safe and, in this case. the result was a serious fire. Our new, high-tech fire alann system worked well and. in fact. provided lhe type of notice that otherwise could have led to much more serious consequences. The power and danger of smoke was very evident in looking over the area of the fire and the floor on which the blaze occurred. Dean of Forestry Named to head new "Forest Futures Trust Fund" Congratulations go out to Dr. John Naysmith on being named by Ministry of Natural Resources Minister, Howard Hampton, to Chair the Forest Futures Fund. This initiative is a part of the new Crown Forest Sustainability Act and will promote forest renewal investment by many vehicles, including research. 3 AGORA March 1995 �RESEARCH NEWS Philosophy Professor Gordon Christle is one of three Visiting Humanities Research Fellows at Lakehead University participating in the Native Philosophy Project, a program funded by The Rockefeller Foundation. tered not in evaluating a people's world view from one empirical stance. as is a common practice, but in a more relational and multiperspeclival way. Native philosophy largely exists in an aural mode, expressed in mythic narratives passed down through countless generations. To this Christie will add reports of ethnologies and anthropologies. but will focus most of his attention on a small but rapidly growing body of first-person literatures. Christie advocates a sensitive approach, that is, letting the picture emerge rather than having it fill our perceptions of what it should be. His primary goal is to Jet his subject matter develop from within, whatever shape it may talce: "We must uncover, not invent it," he says, "The goal is discovery." An apparent instance of the fundamental differences in the nature of Inuit beliefs and By Michelle Novak Western beliefs comes from a study of the differing perception Gordon Christie is trying to of people and society. The bring together two worlds from two "social contract" theory, central different perspectives., He is to many Western belief systems, attempting to uncover and articufocuses on the adversarial nature late a philosophy of Inuit society, of civilization. It theorizes that and to compare its belief systems societies are formed only because with Western models of thought. of the individual's need to share "We believe we're generating resources, to further his own a system of thought analogous to progress and to protect himself. philosophy," says Christie, "But is However, the Inuit views human it? Or is it spiritual or cultural?" nature from the premise that we An Inuit who grew up in the are social animals in harmony Northwest Territories and went on with each other and our natural to study Philosophy at Princeton environment. University, Gordon Christie is Christie is wary of the danger acutely aware of the need for of what he terms "philosophical caution. "We don't know if Native integration" -- approaches which philosophy is even communicable attempt to incorporate Native to others outside its framework." perspectives into a world view. says Christie, "or if there is a Christie warns if the purpose is panNative philosophy or even a only to criticize and compare world Native philosophy ... Anyone Native philosophy with other, who says 'This is it' will be more established and familiar ''We believe we're generating questioned." models, these truths will be a system of thought Christie is motivated by the limited by the perspective to analogous to philosophy, need for Native philosophy to be which they are linked. In this but is it? Or is it explored and recorded autonorealm, he says, "the stronger may mously, but also in relation to dominate the weaker." spiritual or cultural?" other models of thought, particuStill. Christie thinks the -Professor Gordon Christie larly by those from an Indigenous unique nature of Inuit philosophy background. Attempts at compariis not an impediment to underson will centre specifically on the standing, musing that "it may be nature of knowledge and certainty (epistemology), the a virtue that it does not fit the Western epistemological nature of existence (metaphysics). and political theory and model." ethics. Unlike Western philosophical schools. Native Michelle Novak is a graduate of Lakehead University currently philosophy does not have "touchstones" with which lo enrolled in the Master's program in English. She is one of several Lakehead students participating in SPARK - Lakehead, a writing compare new information. Precious little is physically program funded by NSERC. recorded or gathered as yet. Christie's approach is cen- Comparing Two World Views 4 AGORA March 1995 �RESEARCH NEWS School of Kinesiology Dr. Tony Bauer and Carlos Zerpa, working in the field of biomechanics, have developed a mechanical device for the training and testing of skiers. The three-year project involved the design and construction of a training and testing ergometer interfaced to specialized computer software to measure lower extremity kinetics during simulated skiing movements. The work has culminated in a paper accepted for publication as a technical report: "The design of a test ergomcter for leg strength and power measurement in skiers." Lakehead is one of six universities in Canada to receive funds from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) to begin an innovative student writing program. SPARK.--Lakehead is based on a program developed by the Research Office at the University of Guelph where graduate and undergraduate students arc paid to interview university researchers and write articles for their campus publications. The goals of the project are threefold: -- to help students develop journalism skills and build a portfolio of published work; Further research using the de vice is currently in progress using local elite alpine and freestyle skiers from the Northwestern Ontario region. Special recognition should be given to Ed Drotar and Rocco Mazzaferro in Lakehcad's Science Workshop for their valuable expertise provided during the construction of the device. -- to help Lakehead University promote the many innovative research projects currently underway on campus; -- to help ra ise public awareness about the importance of research and its benefits to society. Department of Political Studies Lakehead's share of the seed money ($1,000) was awarded in 1994 with the understanding the University would seek private sponsors to fund the program in future years. The founder of the program, Owen Roberts, says the University ofGuelph's program is now into its seventh year and sponsors have rallied around. They include three government ministries and agencies. a national research network, two multi-national companies and two media outlets, one of which is the local daily newspaper. In l 994. the Guelph program won the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education's first "Best New Idea -- Creativity on a Shoestring" award. The council liked how the program achieved effectiveness with economy in mind. SPARK -- Lakehead is co-ordinated by the Department of External Relations in conjunction with the Office of Graduate Studies and Research. To date Lakehcad University has published four SPARK stories including two by Michelle Novak on pages 4 and 8 in this issue of the Agora. Dr. Laure Paquette recently gave a paper on current issues in Japanese security policy at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Consortium on Asia-Pacific Security (CANCAPS). CANCAPS. of which Dr. Paquette is a founding member. is the Canadian wing of CS CAP, the international consortium on security in Asia and the Pacific. CSCAP conferences regularly bring together leading scholars and officials (in their private capacities) from Pacific Rim countries for discussions on issues of mutual concern. School of Nursing Professor de Cangas is the recipient of a $10.000 fellowship from the WHO and PAHO 10 study abroad and conducl research during his upcoming sabbatical. Fellowships are awarded in a competilive basis and this year applications were in the thousands from all over North America. Ten fellows were selected from Canada. This is the first lime that a member of Lakehead University has received this award. For more information about the program contact Frances Harding, Publications Officer (807) 343-8193 AGORA 5 March 1995 �PROFILE DR.DARLENE STEVEN Recipient of the 1994 Distinguished Instructor Award Women's health issues have always been uppermost on Darlene Steven's agenda and she recently received funding to embark on another research project examining risk factors for breast and cervical cancer. Mentoring is a way of life. She encourages her students to be "the best that they can be" and applies that same credo to her own work. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Darlene Steven completed her nursing and public health training in Manitoba before graduating from Lakehead University in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Her professors at the time, Margaret Boone and Margaret Page, asked Steven what she wanted to do with her life, but the answer -- to be a head nurse -- wasn't good enough. They encouraged her to do graduate work. So Darlene Steven enrolled in the Master's program in Health Services Administration at the University of Alberta She completed the program in 1980 and went on to complete a PhD in Educational Administration in 1988, returning to Thunder Bay as a faculty member in the School of Nursing later that year. If one detects a sense of urgency about Darlene Steven it might be because she has been on the other side of the health care profession -- as a patient -- on more than one occasion. "But whatever happens," she says. "my students will always come first." -- FH Ask Dr. Darlene Steven what makes a good teacher and you get a simple answer: You must believe your students will do well. The hefty teaching dossier on her bookshelf is a testament to her outstanding abilities as Associate Professor in the School of Nursing. Along with her ideas on course design. curriculum development. educational planning and research. it is filled with letters of appreciation from students and associates. Many more cards. gifts and graduation photos clutter the walls of her office. One former student who now volunteers to help with Darlene Steven's research projects writes: "In my four years at Lakehead I have never allended a more cleverly ~esigned and exciting class which kept the student totally involved throughout the class period... Her sense of humour and her ability to portray issues in a vibrant manner kept class attendance at nearly full capacity at all times...." Not suprisingly, it was Darlene Steven's students who nominated her for the 1994 Distinguished Instructor Award. as they did for the Contribution to Teaching Award in 1993. Darlene Steven's research and community involvement -- in addition to her teaching -- is prodigious. In the fall she was appointed to serve on the Board of the Ontario Cancer Treatment & Research Foundation. As well. she and her colleague, Professor Rhonda Kirk-Gardner. completed their highJy successful "Hearts for Life: A Community Program 011 Cardiovascular Disease" which is now being translated into Finnish and Ojibway. 6 AGORA March 1995 �PEOPLE, PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS Faculty of Forestry Department of Biology Peter Duinker has recently had the following papers published in the Nov/Dec 1994 issue of the Forestry Chronicle: (a) "Making major meetings more meaningful: in search of better get-togethers about forests"; and (b) with coauthors Patrick Matakala. Florence Chege. and Luc Bouthillier. "Community forests in Canada: an introduction". Also. with former graduate student Mike Hay, Dr. Duinker co-authored a paper entitled "Environmental assessment. forests. and contextual change: in search of bigger pictures." which was published in November in a refereed proceedings volume under the titJe Looking Ahead: The /11 clusio11 of Long-Term Futures in Cumulative E11viro11me11tal Assessments, published jointly by the University of Toronto and the Canadian Electrical Association. Dr. Azim Mallik has published the following papers in refereed journals in 1994: "Antecological response of Kalmia angustifolia to forest types and disturbance regimes" in Forest Ecology and Management; with B.A. Roberts Dr. Mallik published "Natural regeneration of red pine on burned and unburned sites in Newfoundland" in Journal o/Vegetation Science; with H. Rahman he published "Community forestry in developed and developing countries: a comparative study" in Forestry Chronicle; with B.A. Roberts he published "Response of red pine to wild fire in Newfoundland" in Journal a/Vegetation Science; and with H. Zhu he published "Interactions between Kalmia and black spruce: Isolation and identification of allelopathic compounds" in Journal of Chemical Ecology. LAKEHEAD GRADUATE School of Kinesiology MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH RETURNS FOR "EVER LOVING" Dr. Joey Farrell presented a paper at the 10th Commonwealth and International Scientific Congress held ~~ in Victoria in August, 1994. The paper. entitJed "The Relationship f' Between Addiction and Commitment to Exercise in Adult Fitness Participants." was also accepted for publication in the Congress Proceedings. More recently. Dr. Joey Farrell presented a paper entitled "Exercise Commitment and Addiction: A Fine Line" at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology held the end of October, 1994 in Hamilton. Ont. ' ' I;~ \ , 0 March 2-18, 1995 ' Magnus Theatre has chosen a play by a Lakehead University graduate to entertain visitors to the 1995 World Nordic Ski Championships in March. Margaret Hollingsworth's play Ever Loving is set in 1945 and tells the story of three women who marry Canadian soldiers and emigrate to Canada. The story is about their adjustment to post World War II Canada, their changing roles in life and their new lives in a new land. Hollingsworth is currently associate professor in the department of writing at the University of Victoria She was born in England and settled in Fort William in 1968. She graduated with a BA in 1971 from Lakehead and worked as Chief Librarian for the Fort William Public Library. Since then she has written one collection of stories (Smiling Under Water). two collections of plays (Willful/ Acts and Endangered Species), and numerous plays for radio, and TV. Her latest publication, a stage play In Confidence is published by Sirhocco Press. 1994. Margaret Hollingsworth is the recipient of the Chalmers Award in 1985 and Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1986 and 1987. { The Faculty of Business Administration presented Mike Duffy, host and editor-in-chief of CTV's Sunday Edition, as part of their distinguished speaker series in February. The evening was sponsored by the Society of Management Accountants of Ontario. "THE SEARCH FOR HUMAN ORIGINS" with Dr. Donald Johanson Friday March 3 1995 Upper Lecture Theatre Room UC 2011 AGORA Dr. Johanson is one of the world's leading and America's best known, paleoanthropologists. His dramatic discovery, in 1974, of LUCY·· our oldest. most complete ancestor·· sparked a controversial change in our view of human origins. 7March 1995 �RESEARCH NEWS Dr. Laura Donaldson is examining the ways in which historically marginalized groups such as women and Indigenous peoples have been defined by colonization. Decolonizing Native American Culture through Writing by Michelle Novak Dr. Laura Donaldson defies the traditional image of the scholar working in isolation. She views her research, writing and teaching as a fonn of community work, and she looks forward to examining her own family history which can be traced back to the early 19th century Cherokee community in Alabama, U.S.A. Since coming to Lakehead University last September as the Senior Research Fellow in The Rockefeller Foundation's Visiting Humanities Research Fellowship Program. Dr. Donaldson has been working on a book-length study with the working title: The Ski11 of God: Native American selves at the centre of their own literature... Appropriation is the breaking away from the view of Natives as victims with no life apart from colonized civilization." Dr. Laura Donaldson is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and English at the University of Iowa where she teaches in the American Indian Studies Program. In an earlier book, Decolonizing Feminisms: Race, Gender, and Empire Building (The University of North Carolina Press, 1992), she situates contemporary theoreticaJ debates about reading, writing, and the politics of identity within the context of historical colonialism. Dr. Donaldson's dedication to bridging barriers to true understanding translates into her research and she is already looking forward to her next project which will involve the study of her own family. Dr. Donaldson's Cherokee heritage involves both the Chickamauga Cherokee community, known for their anti-assimilationist views, and the Chisholm family, one of the founding families of "Old Settler" Cherokee who emigrated to Arkansas long before the "Trail of Tears" (the forced removal of the Cherokee people from Tennessee and North Carolina to Oklahoma in 1839). Dr. Donaldson is eager to explore her family history because she sees it as a microcosm of all issues and problems of contact. and their effects on Indian identity. "Research should strive to find continuity within differences...each Native group is very distinct but there is a continuity in terms of shared social goals and attitudes toward the world." - Dr. Laura Donaldson Just as Natives have been almost exclusively viewed from their relationship in colonized reality, so too must the researcher be careful not fo circumscribe infonnation gathering within the confines of her own narrow approach. Instead of fulfilling one particular goal, Dr. Donaldson believes research should strive to find continuity within differences. Each Native group is very distinct, she says, but there is a continuity in terms of shared social goals and attitudes toward the world. Dr. Donaldson appreciates having the opportunity to experience Northwestern Ontario. She realized only after arriving in Thunder Bay that she needed and wanted to learn much more about First Nations peoples. "One thing I'll take away from this experience is bridging the communications gap between Native scholars in both Canada and the United States." Writing as Colo11ial Technology and Pos1-Co/011ial Appropriatio11. The work explores the contradictions of cultural imperialism. "The act of writing was a tool of conquest," says Dr. Donaldson. "which Aboriginal peoples then appropriated for use within their own systems of knowledge." "Writing is a discipline that reconfigured Native cultures in ways that were functional for imperialism, but it created opportunities for resistance. Only now are these communities decolo11izi11g themselves by placing them- 8 AGORA March 1995 �FORUM FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING tion for teaching, for example, getting a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science, but there is an urging for the university to have a role to play in teacher education. Lakehead University has had a long and active role in aboriginal education and it is considered to be a leader in the field. The recommendations in the Report indicate that Lakehead will be able to continue the work it is doing. They look for a different relationship between the federal and provincial governments and school boards; some funding changes with an emphasis on finding more appropriate curriculum; making natives and non-natives more aware of the history of natives and their role in the country; and the need for resources and curriculum that are appropriate for native schools on reserves." Report of the Royal Commission on Learning Education and Training Minister Dave Cooke has announced major refonns of teacher education which. if implemented, will have an impact on Lakehead University. ln a news release issued on February 13, 1995, the Ministry of Education and Training said the teacher education refonns included: - standards of practice for teachers; - two-year teacher education programs; - creation of the Ontario College of Teachers, a new governing body for the teaching profession; - a provincial framework for professional development for all educators; - mandatory recertification of teachers every five years; - accreditation of teacher training programs and; - a complaints process for students and parents. "I was particularly pleased to see the recommendation for a two-year professional component for teacher education as opposed to the current practice of having a oneyear professional component. The two-year program will allow us a much needed opportunity for including work related to the teaching ofexceptional learners and helping students develop much stronger linkages with schools generally... I think one of the challenges we face as teacher educators is helping students to learn in context: helping Dr. Hope Fennell, students learn to manage and disci- Chair of pline students and, of course, the Pre-Service Teacher best way of teaching this is in the Education Program actuaJ context itself. So, having longer blocks of field experiences certainly will aJlow for that development." The announcement was part of the government's education refonn D.""' ~ initiative, New Foundations for Viw I 11,· •• . •~-, " Ontario Education. which is based on Love ofLeaniin . t, the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Leaming. "The reforms will promote the highest standards of excellence in teaching and put Ontario in the forefront of teacher education in North America." Mr. Cooke said. "New standards and impro vements to teacher training will help teachers deal with the many challenges that they face in the classroom. Teachers will benefit from these changes. and so will the students." A professional body. the Ontario College of Teachers. will be established. Members of its governing body will include teachers. parents. students. staff of faculties of education, school boards. and the ministry, and representatives of the private sector. ........ - . . ... c.--..i.,, . . . . . . . . . "The report recognizes the potentiaJ of graduate study for the on-going development of teachers. It acknowledges connections between research and practice for teachers who are involved in graduate programs as well as for faculty members." Reactions from Lakehead's Faculty of Education Professor David Bates Dean Faculty of Education AGORA "The general reaction from the Faculty of Education has been quite positive. The commissioners heard a wide range of opinions and they have done a fairly good job of picking out a reasonable set of recommendations from the wide range of ideas. Of particular interest is the role of the university as a whole in teacher education ... It's always been there as a prepa.ra- Dr. Mary Clare Courtland, Chair of Graduate Studies and Continuing Teacher Education TheReportof the Royal Commission on Learning is now available at The Chancellor Paterson and Education Ubraries. At the Chancellor Paterson Ubrary there are copies available at the Circulation Desk andin the CODOC Collection. At the Education Library, please inquire at the circulation desk. -- FH 9 March 1995 �WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE LIBRARY LU Injury Statistics WENGER ANTHROPOLOGICAL DATABASE COMPENSABLE INJURIES The Chancellor Paterson Library has recently received the Wenger Anthropological Eskimo Database on CDROM. This is a full text CD-ROM containing 200 significant English language works on Inuit/Eskimo peoples of Greenland. Canada. Alaska and Chukotka. For more information or access to the CD-ROM please inquire in the Northern Studies Resource Centre on the 5th floor of the Chancellor Paterson Library or call Louise Wourinen at extension 8728. Jan. l-Jan.31 1995 Medical Aid Injuries Approved Pending Decision by WCB Lost Time Injuries Approved Pending Decision by WCB Number of Days Lost On Approved Claims On Claims Pending NORDICS DISPLAY Watch for the 1995 World NordicSki Championships display on the Main Floor of The Chancellor Paterson Library in March ... also don't miss Nordic Friday. March 10th at Lakehead University. Join us in welcoming all visitors to our campus. Versa Foods.will provide special meals all day. Special ~vents include Campus Tours and an Adventure Slide Show and Lab Demonstration. For more information contact Katherine Shedden 343-8631. Since information on this type ofnon-consecutive service is not available on the Human Resources data base, all those who fall into this group are asked to contact the Department ofHuman Resources as soon as possible so that they may be appropriately recognized. Human Resources: Telephone: 343-8334 Fax: 346-7701 2 0 0 0 0 19 0 For further information, contact your supervisor, a Joint Health and Safety Committee member, or the Human Resources Department· Health & Safety. QUARTER-CENTURY CLUB DINNER We would like to include in these events individuals with a break in employment (i.e left their employment with the University and were later rehired) but whose total years of service at the University is 20 years or greater. 6 To avoid physical overload, learn and use proper lifting techniques, never bend or twist while lifting or carrying, and whenever possible, use mechanical help. Be alert to the hazards you face each day and learn what you can do to protect yourself against accidental injury and disability. & On Thursday, April 20, the President will be hosting the Sixth Annual Quarter Century Cfub Dinner to honour new and present members of the 25-Year Club who have dedicated 25 years of service to the University. 8 0 The number one cause of on-the-job injuries at Lakehead University is physical overload -- lifting too much (or improperly), straining, overreaching, bending, twisting, and otherwise making our bodies move in ways that they were not designed to move. EMPLOYEE SERVICE RECOGNITION RECEPTION On Tuesday, April 4, 1995, the President will be hosting the Second Annual Employee Service Recognition ReceptiontohonouremployeeswhohaveservedLakehead University for 20 and 30 years and those employees who will be retiring in 1995. 2 4 Jan. 1-Jan. 31 1994 "Working together to create a safe and healthy environment for work and study." More than 120 people curled, ate, danced and collected prizes at the recent Alumni Curling Bonspiel. These enthusiastic university supporters enjoyed the ·tunspiel' and raised money for the Association. Nobody, however, was more enthusiastic than the Versa team led by the boss, John Rose. Versa entered two teams, complete with matching shirts, and won the "Clean up your Act· award. Photo above shows part of one team, left to right, Kerry Monteith, Operations Manager, Monica Whitty, Office Manager, and John ~~~~~~ -~ 10 AGORA March 1995 �NEWS FROM HUMAN RESOURCES Reminder: There is an Employee Assistance Program for University employees and family members. Call the Behavioural Sciences Centre at 343-4626. What Has Happened to Dental Costs? (Cost/Participant vs CPI) Source: Green Shield Canada EMPLOYMENT EQUITY Last month in our introductory article on Employment Equity, we dealt with principles, definitions and identification of the steps to implementation. The following is some further information on the steps: Informing Employees: . . Employers and bargaining agents are required to communicate with employees about equity principles,the workforce survey, the review of employment policies and practices and the employment equity plan. The employer must establish a ~~nsultation process with employees unrepresented by a bargaining agent. Represented and unrepresented employees of each designated group must be consulted. Workforce Survey: Employers and bargaining agents must establish a profile of the organization. This profile will show how many members of each designated group are employed in the workplace. The survey asks employees to voluntarily identify whether they are members of a designated group. All forms must be returned. The survey must be kept up to date. • Review of Employment Policies and Practices: Employers and bargaining agents must examine policies ~nd practices for recruiting, hiring, retaining, treating and promoting employees. Based on the review and the workforce survey, employers and bargaining agents will determine if any of these policies or practices are barrier~ t~ th~ fair treatme~t of members of the designated groups. Sernonty nghts concerning layoffs (or recall to work after layoff) will not be considered barriers to employment. Employment Equity Plan: Employers and bargaining agents must jointly d~velop a_ threeyear employment equity plan. An employment equity plan list~ the barriers that will be removed during the term of the plan, describes the measures that will be put in place and establishes timetables for implementing them. The measures include: barriereliminati?n measures, positive measures, measures to accommodate designated group members, supportive measures and anti-harassment and anti-discrimination measures. Numerical goals must be set for each designated group, by occupational group, as well as timetables for achieving these goals. More on Employment Equity in Future Articles Human Resources Telephone Fax number Increase in Dental Costs vs CPI 120 ~ 100 Q/ 80 ~ IJ) ro ~ 60 C 40 u Dental Costs CPI 20 0 L.a.J.a..~~Rj-1..........................J 84/85 86/87 88/89 90/91 92/93 85/86 87/88 89/90 91/92 Have you considered having a dental checkup every nine months instead of every six months? Benefits and Professional Pension Plan Text: Information about dental, medical, vision, EAP, voluntary accident insurance, self-funded leave, etc. is also available on LUCIusing the following access: 1. 2. 3. 4. LUCI Internal University Services and Information Administrative Units Human Resources You're there!! 1995 Holiday Schedule Victoria Day Monday, May 22 Canada Day Monday, July 3 Civic Holiday Monday, August 7 Labour Day Monday, September 4 Monday, October 9 Thanksgiving Day Christmas Break: The University will be closed at noon on December 22, 1994 to and including Monday, January 1, 1995 Quote of the Month: The biggest lie ever told is: 'The game's almost over, honey. I'll be there in a minute.· Tom FitzGera/d 343-8334 346-7701 11 AGORA March 1995 �CALENDAR To include your Department's event or activity in the Campus Calendar,please call Frances Harding at the Information Office at 343-8193 or mall your information to Avila Centre. Deadline for the April Agora Is March 24, 1995. MARCH WOMEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS March 10-12 The CIAU Women's Basketball Championships - final Eight - will be held at the LU Fieldhouse beginning Friday, March 10, 1995. The first ever event of its kind in Thunder Bay! The best university Women's Basketball Teams in the country will compete for top honours in the Thunderdome. Tournament passes (11 games of nailbiting action) are being offered at $33 adult, $22 studentlsenior, and $15 children under 12. Family-of-Four Tournament Passes are also available at $75. (Includes 4 Pepsi and 4 Popcorn per family). Tickets are available at both Pizza Hut Restaurant locations, LU Fieldhouse and LU Bookstore. For more information on single tickets and game times call our Hotline (580 CKPR Events Line) at 3432790, Box 7045. BEYOND BORDERS -INTERNATIONAL DAYS AT LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY February 27-March 4 International Days at Lakehead University celebrate the diversity of culture at the University. Events are scheduled all week -- from lectures and films, to slide shows and cultural fairs. For more information contact Denise Bruley at 343-8372. RAINBOW FESTIVAL International day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Tuesday, March 21, 1995 Holding our Ground: Advocating lnclusivity in a Constrained Environment for Change 12:00 - 1:30 PM Senate Chambers Joanne St. Lewis will discuss the legal and social ramifications of equity legislation in employment and education. Why and how can we bring equity into institution in times of fiscal restraint? Living in a Multiracial Society: Obstacles to Reconciliation and Opportunities for Harmonious Relations 7:30 - 9:30 PM Agora A panel discussion in which audience members are invited to participate. Joanne St. Lewis will comment and expand on the themes raised to inlcude the larger, global context. 11 :00 AM - Opening Ceremonies 11 :00 AM - evening. A Festival of Events in the Agora and Senate Chambers including music, theatre, video screenings, information booths and special presentations. 1:30 - 2:30 PM "Voices of Survival" in the Senate Chambers. Highlighting Canadian survivors of the holocaust, this film is a poweriul reminder of the results of unchecked racism and anti-semitism. This NFB production is presented by the Jewish Students Society 2:30 - 4:00 PM Whitefish Bay Singers in the Agora. Apresentation on Native Myths, Legends, Ceremonies and Rituals, including drumming and singing. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CONFERENCE Saturday, March 25 Senate Chambers: Keynote address will be by Dr. Jane Phillips, Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Toronto and Past President of the Professional Engineering Association of Ontario. She will be speaking on the topic "Women Engineers: Surviving and Thriving." To register please contact Dr. I. Nirdosh, Department of Chemical Engineering, at 343-8343. A GORA The AGORA is produced by the Information Office, Department of External Relations, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario. II is published monthly (except July and August) and is distributed free of charge to the University's faculty and staff, local government, media, businesses and friends of the University. Credit is appreciated when material is reproduced or quoted. Director of External Relations: Joy Himmelman Co-ordinator, Information and Promotion Services: Katherine Shedden Publications Officer: Frances Harding Communications/Special Events Officer: Denise Bruley Photography: Peter Puna and PR staff Graphics: Ben Kaminski, Nicole Sutherland Printing: LU Print Shop Address correspondence to: Edltor/Agora Information Office, Avlla Centre Lakehead University Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B.5E1 (807) 343-8300 FAX (807) 343-8192 E-mail: FHarding@alumnl.la keheadU.CA i CO Troja n Devel. & Alumni Affairs Q) Q) ~ · - Q) 'O a:u ~ E~ Q)Q ?• & t; 0 V) V) ... 0. N !.. I • io 12 AGORA March 1995 � 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.12 No.2 Subject The topic of the resource Universities Description An account of the resource This issue of the Agora contains an announcement of a grant to Lakehead for renovations of the Chancellor Paterson Library, a message from the President, updates on research around 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 1995-03 1995 Agora Magazine Alumni Alumni Association Alumni Association of Lakehead University Chancellor Paterson Library Dr. R. Rosehart Lakehead Lakehead University President's Message https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/206090a2549eba1e38802bf20583e75d.pdf 98a3e7547fcf5b7c85a94336c720b606 PDF Text Text Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada March 1996, Vol. 13, No. 3 Lakehead Nordic Skiers Dominate Ontario University Cross Country Ski Championships by Kris Ketonen Who says cross country skiing isn't exciting? In the women's 5 km classic event during the 1996 Ontario University Cross Country Ski Championships, LU skier Brook Latimer defeated teammate Lisa Patterson by one tenth of a second. Now that's close! Last month Lafcehead University hosted twelve Ontario universities competing for the championship at Big Thunder Sports Park. The event was a huge success, especially for Lakehead whose men's and women's teams emerged as the OUAA and OWIAA champions. INSIDE 1995 Incoming Students: AStatistical Profile "We have been bidding to host OUANOWIAA's here in Thunder Bay for the past five years -- it's a great opportunity to show skiers from Southern Ontario what tremendous facilities we have," says Team Director and Associate Professor of Kinesiology Moira McPherson. Although the competition was stiff, Lakehead skiers dominated the event, having at least one skier in the top three positions in all but one race. (continued on p.8) The winning men's relay team celebrates its OUAA victory. L•R: Kevin Denston, Kerry Abols and Craig Story. �Dr. Robert Rosehart President Lakehead University SNOBELEN LETTER On the following page you will find a Jetter printed at the request of the Minister, John Snobelen. As you know, the current government has severely reduced funding to an already under funded system, and the policy review being initiated in the "White Paper" exercise will, no doubt, come to the conclusion that the university system is going to unacceptably decline in quality unless post0 secondary education becomes a higher government priority. Lakehead University welcomes the opportunity to have input to the White Paper group when it is established. The long delayed membership announcement is expected shortly as well as the release of the discussion paper. The latest confidential draft that is floating around is not as objectionable as earlier versions, but it still rings a few warning bells. The current system of 17 universities provides a geographic and programmatic diversity of which Ontario residents should be proud. I hope that the currentexercise will look at ways of preventing further decline to this publicly-accessible system. Although I don't believe it was intentional, some of the early policy directives from the government seem to favour the older, established, research-intensive institutions. Only in a few years will one be able to judge what impact higher fees will have on the participation rates of both financially and geographically-disadvantaged, yet academically qualified, students in post-secondary programs. Recently, a lot of media attention has focussed on the doubling of dental school fees. In spite of all the talk ofenhanced student aid, it is hard to believe that these decisions will not result in a somewhat more elitist student population. But I may be wrong. Only time will tell. BUDGET DEVELOPMENTS 1996/97 More detailed work continues on the budget development, and I expect a couple of 2 weeks of delay in terms of finalizing the budget. Our original target date was April 18, and this, most probably, will now be pushed back to the end of the month. As you will know from the Budget Report #6, our $6-6.5 million shortfall is now down to an estimated shortfall of just under $2 million. Detailed budget reviews are now seeking to extract this level of reductions from our base budgets. Although not without pain, I am getting more optimistic that we have the situation in hand and that we will either achieve or come close to achieving the objectives when we started the budget development exercise. Not the least of our concerns is the estimated enrolment we might expect next September and succeeding years. For the final budget development push, enhanced co-operation will be needed, and I have been impressed by the serious and committed way in which almost all of the Lakehead University community has taken to this exercise. The clear feedback we received from the University of Calgary on their recent budget reduction exercise was that those who participated came out of the exercise positively reinforced and those groups and departments that waited for the shoe to drop did not feel very positive about the experience. Again, I would suggest that we continue to have the opportunity to plan and manage the future of our programs and departments. We all need to take this responsibility seriously. Human Resources Bill Bragnalo. Although no formal plan exists for staff, in order to provide some degree of equitable consideration with faculty, individual requests· will be considered. Pueuc SECTOR WAGE DISCLOSURE On March 29, 1996, Lakehead University, along with other public sector agencies in Ontario, will disclose to the public, through the media and the government, the salaries of all employees that exceed $100,000. The responsibility centre for this information at Lakehead University will be Fred Poulter, the Vice-President (Administration). BIG THUNDER PROSPECTS DR. JOHN WHITRELD Apparently, there have been some visionary reports from the media on possible Lakehead University interest in the Big Thunder site. While it is true that we are taking a look at the site in the context of possible educational use, Jet me assure you that Lakehead University is not contemplating getting into the ski jumping business. The assets and some of the activities on the site are being assessed as to their possible use to the University. Our review is expected to take several weeks, and it is far too early to speculate on the outcome. It must be stressed, however, that, in our current operating budget situation, any participation would have to be at no additional operating cost to Lakehead University. RE-APPOINTED NSERC RESULTS ANNOUNCED VICE-PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC Lakehead University has done quite well in spite of the reduced NSERC program funding budget. In total, we received 41 awards with a total value of$730,000. This is down about 3 percent from last year but represents an impressive 83 percent success rate. Dr. Roger Mitchell achieved the largest award of $75,000/year for five years. Congratulations! The work of the Vice President Academic Review Committee has been finalized and the unanimous recommendation made to reappoint Dr. John Whitfield for a second 5year term as Vice President Academic effective July 1, 1996. At a recent meeting the Executive Committee ofthe Board ofGovernors accepted this recommendation. Congratulations! VOLUNTARY EARLY RETIREMENTS Some interest continues to be expressed even though the "enhanced" window is closed. Faculty still have the negotiated plan which updates the existing plan outlined in the collective agreement, and any staff members wishing to explore voluntary exit options should speak to Director of ANNUAL EMPLOYEE RECOGNmON RECEPTION Faculty and Staff are invited to attend the Annual Employee Recognition Reception which will be held on Wednesday, April IO from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge. The purpose of this Reception is to honour those employees who have served Lakehead University for 20 years, 30 years, and those employees who are retiring in 1996. Agora, March 1996 �OPEN LETTER FROM THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING The following letter was sent to all staff and faculty newspapers at Ontario colleges and universities on March 6, 1996. Dear Editor: The changes in provincial funding to post-secondary education have received a great deal of public attention recently. Some ofthe media coverage may not have been clear about the reasons for these new directions. I am writing today to clarify where there may be misunderstanding and explain why the government is taking the actions it is at this time. Making changes like these is never easy, but I believe our direction will lead us to a more promising future for all Ontarians. • As you are probably aware, Ernie Eves, the Minister of Finance, announced last November that funding for operating grants for colleges and universities would be reduced by $400 million in 1996-97. Universities will receive$/ .5 billion for the fiscal year 1996-97, a reduction of$280 million over last year, and colleges will receive $689 million, a reduction of $120 million over last year. In total, taxpayers spend $2.2 billion a year on post-secondary education and this does not include capital expenditures. At the same time, Mr. Eves announced that universities will be allowed to increase tuition by IO per cent next fall, and may charge an additional 10 per cent in total, for all programs, at their discretion. The finance minister also announced that college fees would be increased by I 5 percent. We are doing this because, as a government, we believe that we must not only prepare young people for thefuture, we must prepare the future for young people. lfwe do not act~. the Ontario government's debt will be unmanageable by the time many of your students have graduated, and are working and paying taxes. Thar will mean that even more ofyour tax dollars will go towards paying the interest on the debt, alone. Some of the public services that you now have the privilege to enjoy -- in areas such as health care, education, roads, and municipal services -- will no longer be affordable in this province. We currently spend more to service our debt than we spend in total 011 education. So we' re taking action now to restore the economic health of the province. Even with these increases in tuition fees, Ontario students will still pay only a portion of the total cost for their education. University students.for example, paid about 26 per cent ofthe total cost oftheir education in 1995-96. Taxpayers cover nwst of the remaining cost. College students paid about 19 per cent ofthe total cost oftheir education in 1995-96, with taxes paying for most of the remaining anwunt. During our election campaign last spring, we promised to deregulate tuition fees so that students could pay a fairer share oftheir education. While no one likes to see Agora, March 1996 increases, we do need to bear in mind that there is a long history showing that people who have post-secondary education earn more money than those who do not. Our government remains committed to supporting post-secondary education to the best of its current abilities and resources. We are, in collaboration with the federal government, looking into changes to student assistance to ensure that post-secondary education remains accessible to everyone who is qualified to attend an institution. Shortly, I will be releasing a discussion paper to everyone involved in post-secondary education so that we can all engage in a focused dialogue on key directions and policies the government might pursue with respect to the post-secondary education sector. This paper will raise issues, such as the share ofthe costs ofeducation borne by student and taxpayer, accessibility to education, and co-operation between college and university sectors. The paper is meant to stimulate and encourage discussion, and will serve as the basis for further consultations expected to last from four to six months. Afterwards, advice will be provided to the government by the panel undertaking the review. I am looking forward to having all partners in post-secondary education involved in this process, including faculty and staff at colleges and universities. I believe that the government and many citizens in Ontario recognize and appreciate the role that faculty members play in educating and training post-secondary students. l acknowledge the fact that you, like many colleagues and friends in other parts of the country and the world, carry out these responsibilities in the midst of a major restructuring. I realize that the years ahead will be challenging to many of us as we search for new and better ways offunding the postsecondary system. As well, many other policy reform issues will need to be critically assessed in our consultation process. Our work must result in a more affordable and accountable system which is driven by excellence. Anything less would be to fail for future generations. I am also certain that the changes we are making are necessary and will build a province that is stronger economically, and where you, as citizens, will be able to meet your needs and realize your dreams. Sincerely, John C. Snobelen Minister of Education and Training 3 �ON CAMPUS STUDENT AWARD WINNERS RECORD ATTENDANCE AT THE OPENING OF .THE 1996 lAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY JURIED STUDENT ExH1emON March 1-17 Toe Thunder Bay ArtGallerysaw264 people in attendance for the Opening Reception of the Lakehead University Juried Student Exhibition held March 1. This was the 20th annual exhibition of Lakehead University student work hosted by the Thunder Bay Art Gallery. For the third year in a row the exhibition was sponsored by Philpot and Delgaty Insurance Limited. The Framing Experience (gift certificate) Tammy Noganosh, "Bird Utopia" (print); Painted Turtle Art Shop (gift certificate) Artur Augustynowicz, "The Dancing Man" (print); Pert's Framing &ArtGallery(giftcertlflcate) Chantal Cormier, "It's a Party" (drawing); Corners Framing & Art Gallery (gift certificate) Paul Saari, "Apple' (print); Thunder Bay Art Gallery (oneyear membership and book) Angella Woodhouse-Wild, "The Piano" (drawing); The Framing Post (gift certificate) Tammy Noganosh "Bird Utopia" (print}; LUSU Purchase Prize(cash) Bruce Stonehouse, "The Great Wall of China"(painting}; Dean's Awards(cash)Artur Augustynowicz, "ManGrabbingHisButtock"(drawing) Bruce Stonehouse, "The GreatWallofChina· (painting) Artur Augustynowicz, "The Dancing Man" (print}; Jessica Spring, "Child" (ceramic}; David Karasiewicz, "Othila" (sculpture); Pictures (gift certificate) Jay Larson, "Puberty" (drawing); Theresa Trainor Award (cash) Shelba Lovelace, "Canadian Country Chess· {ceramic sculpture); David Bruzzese(cash) Mary Jenner, "Illiteracy" {painting); Thunder Bay Society of Architects (cash) April Leino, "Rapture• {ceramic) andJennifer Blomquist, "Self Portrair(drawing); Maier Hardware (gift certificate) Mary Jenner, 'Urtlan Cowboy" (sculpture); President's Award (cash) Allisyn Briscoe, "Spring Rising• (painting); Canadian Art (one-year subscription) Rafaela Gollek, "The Candleman• (ceramic); Pottery Supply House (gift certificates) Stan Kalaska, "Give my Apologies to Homer" (ceramic) and PeterWrage, "Constructed Forms· (ceramic); Fuse Magazine (one-year subscription) Julie Laffesh, ·untiUed" {ceramic}; Ontario Clay and Glass Association (one-year subscription and membership to Fusion magazine) Lena Hartvikson, "Goblets of Architecture" (ceramic); Mr. and Mrs. James McCallum Munro Family Memorial Prize( cash)Shelba Lovelace, 'Canadian Country Chess· {ceramic); The Arn and Marg Westlake Visual Arts Award ( cash) Matti Alatyppo, "Jeff and Sarah" (drawing}. This year's exhibit was comprised of 89 works produced since May, 1995, by students currently enroled in the Department. The work created for the exhibit included a broad cross-section of printtnaking, sculpture, mixed media, drawing and painting. Three jurors - Marianna Maguire, Debbie Brimage and John Stephenson - made a selection from the work submitted by students, some of which was chosen to win awards donated by the University, the Munro Family, the Westlake Family and local businesses. In total 27 awards ranging up to $500 were given out to the students. For a number of years now, Philpot and Delgaty Insurance Limited has provided generous financial support for this exhibition. David White, Manager of Philpot and Delgaty is proud of the community-oriented nature of his business and an established record of excellence that spans 25 years. When asked why he supports the show, White stated, "I have always been interested in local art and was impressed with the quality of talent in Thunder Bay, specifically that of Lakehead University Visual Arts students." 4 Guide Dawn Chony looks on as "victim" Shawn Maclel/andis carried outby Brian Dubeau and Angela Burns and Amanda Macivor. The Lakehead students •• all members of W's FirstResponse Team •· were coping with a simulated drug overdose during the Emergency First Response Team provincial competition held at Lakeheadin February. Lakehead University earnedfirst, secondandthirdplace in the4-day competition involving Trent, Guelph, McMaster, Western and Queen's. Team director Jan Blanchard credits their success on the many hours spent in training alongside Thunder Bay's Emergency Health Services (Thunder Bay Ambulance and Thunder Bay Regional Hospital•· McKellar). Agora, March 1996 �NEW ONLINE REFERENCE SERVICE DEBUlS AT LIBRARY The Chancellor Paterson Library is considering expanding its reference services with the FirstSearch service, now available to all library users for a trial period in March and April. Get on the Information Superhighway with FirstSearch, an electronic information service providing online access to popular databases, including the world's largest database of bibliographic information about books, serials, videos, sound recordings, etc. The easy-to-use system enables library users to search multiple databases using one command language without any online searching experience or computer training. Users can conduct in-depth subject searching, compile comprehensive bibliographies, locate hard-to-find materials, and get the full text online or order materials through the InterLibrary Loan department. The Library welcomes all faculty, staff and students to come in and try FirstSearch. Any comments you may have will be greatly appreciated. FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL: Information Desk Extension 8302 Chancellor Paterson Library NEW ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS As a full depository library in the Depository Services Program of the Canadian federal government, The Chancellor Paterson Library has received the electronic government publications listed below. To use these new products, contact the Information Desk on the Main Floor of The Chancellor Paterson Library (ext. 8302): Public Registry: Federal Environmental Assessmentlndex: Contains information on the "who, what, when, where and why" of all federal environmental assessments conducted under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and currently registered with the Federal Environmental Assessment Index. GA'IT Uruguay Round: Final Act:TlncludesthetextoftheFinalAct of the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations signed in Marakesh, Morocco on April 15, 1994. List of Scholarships and Grants Awarded in Aid of Research: Scholarships and grants awarded in aid of research for 1995/96 by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. STATUTES OFCANADA ON CD-ROM Includes the Consolidated Statutes of Canada to April 30, 1995, Table of Public Statutes and Constitution Act. Jim Smithers, HBA Psychology, is congratulated by Undergraduate Scholarships Officer Tracey Marks (centre) and Donna Grau, Coordinatorofthe LeamingAssistance Centre on receiving a Mattinson Endowment Fund Scholarship tor Disabled Students. The selection of Jim Smithers was made bjtanationalcommittee ofuniversity andcollege representatives who basedtheirdecisions on the academicexcellence of the applicants, their level of motivation and maturity in addition to community involvement andextracurricularactivities. CHANGES TO THE LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY TRAFFIC & PARKING REGULATIONS To provide additional short-term parking space on campus, parking meters have been installed in Lots 8, 10, and 14. Parking permits are not required nor are they valid for parking in any metered areas. Violators will be issued a University Parking Ticket at the above meters. Metered parking is enforced from 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday through Friday excluding official University holidays. Do WE OWE YOU $40? Just a reminder to all volunteers who agreed to take part in the clinical trial of herbal remedies, that the study ends March 31, 1996. Please return your vials, consent forms and common cold check list to Health Services (across from Security in the • University Centre) on or before March 31, 1996 to ensure you get your cheque. Thanks for your cooperation-- Dr. Sandro Galea and Dr. Ken Thacker. Any questions please call 3432131. NEWS FROM THE ARCHIVES The Thunder Bay Amalgamation Oral History Project tapes are now available in The Chancellor Paterson Library Archives. Dr.P. Raffo was the Project Director assisted by David Black and Cara Yanab. There are nearly eighty interviews in the Collection. For more information please contact the Archives at ext. 8856. On March 26, 1996, Virginia Taylor in Library Loans will be celebrating a "significant" birthday! Don't forget to stop by and wish her a Happy Birthday! IN MEMORIAM: KAY ANDREWS Lakehead University extends condolences to the family and friends of Kay Andrews, former member of the Northern Woman Journal Collective, who worked at the University as a Lab Technician from 1966-73. In a letter to the Agora Sara Williamson writes, "Fort Resolution, an Aboriginal Community in the Northwest Territories has been her home since the late 1980s. There she gained the respect and love of students and colleagues at Northern college for her excellence as an adult literacy educator and as a person." -- Gisella Scalese, Off-Campus Services Agora, March 1996 5 �COMMUNITY SERVICE Survivors in Search of a Voice ATTHE THUNDER BAY ART GALLERY MAY 11-26, 1996 Wednesday, May 15, 1996 •· Breast Cancer: An Information Forum Threeexpertsinourcommunityspeakaboutbreastcancer:treatmentoptions, medical opinion, researchand the ouUook for the future. GuestSpeakers:Dr. Juliet Franczyk, Radiologist, Dr. Donald Ballantyne, General Surgeon, and Dr. Saleem Malik, Oncologist. Moderator: Dr. Ingrid Vroom Thursday, May 16, 1996 - Take Gare by Taking Charge: How to do a proper Breast Self Examination l:,y Frances Harding Staff and faculty at Lakehead are participating in a breast cancer speaker series associated with Survivors -- In Search of a Voice, a Canadian art exhibition corning to Thunder Bay in May. Chancellor Lois Wilson, Professor of Forestry and Biology Peggy Tripp-Knowles, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Program Coordinator of Women's Studies Pam Wakewicb and Fmancial Aid Officer Tracey Marks are all talcing part. In addition, Lakehead University is sponsoring the evening of Tuesday, May 21 when Juanne Nancarrow Clarke, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Wilfrid Laurier University, will speak on the topic of Women and Social Change: From Education to Activ- Guest Speaker: BarbaraJ. Crooks, Health Promotion Officer, Northwestern Ontario BreastScreening Program and Communication Officer, ThunderBay Regional Cancer Centre, will give an overviewofbreastcancerincluding risk factors, treatmentoptions, community resourres, and breastselfexamination. Moderator: Charlotte Rutherford. Tuesday, May 21, 1996- Women andSocial Change: From Education to Activism GuestSpeaker:Juanne NancarrowClarke, PhD, Wilfridl.aurierUniversity, was awarded the 1994 Therese F. Casgrain Fellowship for Research on Women andSocial Change in Canada. The award has given her the opportunity to spend a year focussing on the people and the complex issues that are influencing the breast cancer ism. Survivors --In Search of a Voice was commissioned and funded by the Toronto-based Woodlawn Arts Foundation. It features works of art by 24 prominent Canadian artists and has come to be seen as a "monument to courage." Each artist conceived her piece after meeting and talking with breast cancer survivors who told the artist "what it was to be a woman living with breast cancer." Like the AIDS quilt, which became a symbol in the fight against that disease, Survivors -- In Search of a Voice will empower breast cancer survivors, their families and friends, to lift the veil of silence that pervades this disease. The art exhibit was launched in February, 1995, at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and began its North American tour in Fredericton. It then moved on to Halifax, Regina, and Ottawa. Immediately after the Thunder Bay showing, Survivors -- In Search of a Voice will travel to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.where Barbara Bush will be the patron, then on to Houston, Texas, and Washington, D.C. BREAST CANCER SPEAKER SERIES ; -. ::~e~:~~~~.~:~:~~p;~~s~ri~~~~ incidence and prevalence.Moderator: Pam Wakewich, Assistant ProfessorofSociology and Program Co-ordinator, Women's Studies, Lakehead University. • Wednesday, May 22, 1996 •· Wellness and Breast Cancer Whatrole can die~ nutJition, exercise,alternative methodsofhealinginduding herbs, and acupuncture playinthe fight against breast cancer? GuestSpeaker: Peggy Tripp-Knowles, PhD, is a professor of Forestry and Biology at Lakehead University with expertise in Forest Genetics and Feminist Science Critique. Moderator: Fay Gleeson, Fay Gleeson Dance Centre. Thursday, May23, 1996--Finding Spiritual Strength-The Powerof Thought What are some of the psychological, emotional and spiritual dimensions of illness? GuestSpeaker: Rev. Hugh Walker,Chaplain, Thunder Bay Regional Hospital -· McKellar. Moderator: The Very Rev. Lois Wilson, Chancellor of Lakehead University. Monday, May 13, 1996 - Crisis and the Creative Process First Nations artist JaneAsh Poitras will share herexperience of working with breast cancer survivors to prepare her piece in the exhibition. Moderator: Janet Clark, Curator, Thunder Bay Art Gallery. The Breast Ganeer Speaker Series is being sponsored by The Senator Norman M. Paterson Foundation, Bearskin Airlines, Thunder Bay Travel, and CBQ Radio. Tuesday, May 14, 1996 - Living with Breast Cancer: Survivors and their Families tell their Story All lectures begin at 8:00 pm in the Thunder Bay Art Gallery. Seating is limited so please come early to reserve your place.For information call: Northwestern Ontario Breast Screening Program {807) 343-1690 or write to: Northern Cancer Research Foundation -- Survivors 290 Munro Street Thunder Bay, Ontario P7A 7T1 1-800-461-7031 Apanel discussion to hearreal life storiesoffathers,daughters,mothers, sons, husbands and wives who live in ourcommunity. Panelists: Cliff Friesen, Alyre Knott, Val Midgley and Tom Thomson. Coordinator: Tracey Marks, Moderator: Tish lceton, Announcer, CKPR. 6 Agora, March 1996 �NEWS FROM HUMAN RESOURCES Congratulations!! $9 .99 To Christine Nielsen and Michelle Colquhoun who recently completed Novell training and are now certified Novell Engineers. IDispensing Fees I ci 0 Cl) Cl) ~ >.. (.) c,;s Upcoming EAP Sessions: E 0: c,;s Eati11g for Performance - Starts Thursday 18 April l 996 Learn to properly fuel your active lifestyle. Learn the nutrition secrets of Olympic athletes. Have your nutrition questions answered by a sports nutrition expert. Managing your Pain through psychological and behavioural techniques - Thursday 25 April l 996, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. This presentation is for anyone who is experiencing chronic or repetitive body or headache pain from injury, disease or tension. Included in this presentation: information about current pain theories; how to identify and alter your personal "pain triggers"; training in relaxation, imagery and behavioural techniques for pain management. Speaking in Front of a Crowd with Ease - Tuesday 30 April 1996, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. If you ever wished you were more comfortable speaking in front of others, this presentation is for you. We will address the various reasons why speaking in front of a crowd can be so fearful for us at times and we will introduce and allow participants the opportunity to practise various techniques for reducing or eliminating the 'stage fright' of public speaking. The basic principles of effective, interesting public speaking will also be covered. Massage Therapy - A Hands-On Workshop - Thursday 2 May 1996, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Learn basic massage techniques for relaxation. Bring a partner, pillow, loose clothes. Quote ofthe Month: If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts - a selective memory! (.) :§ 0 Shoppers Drug Mart $10.49 Human Resources Telephone 343-8334 Fax number 346-7701 Agora, March 1996 7 �CALENDAR 0 Public Lectures: Toe Department of Political Science invites you to a public lecture on Tuesday, March 26 from 2:30 to 4:30pm in the Senate Chambers. Professor Goran Rystad from the University of Lund, Sweden will speak on the topic: "Human Rights in Swedish Foreign Policy." 0 Regional Dialogue'96 is being hosted by Lakehead University on Friday, April 26, 1996, for regional secondary school guidance counsellors and Ontario university liaison personnel. 0 WallofFamelnduction Dinner. Watch for further announcements about this event which will be held in June. For informationcall 343-8213. OThe Department of Visual Arts presents an exhibition of Senior/Advanced Drawing Students on the theme of "the Self' at the Definitely Superior Art Gallery March 26 - April 5. An Opening Reception is being held March 27, 1996 from 7-9 pm EMPLOYEE SERVICE R ECOGNmoN RECEPTION Wednesday, April 1o On Wednesday, April 10, the President will be hosting the Third Annual Employee Service Recognition Reception to honour employees who have served Lakehead University for 20 and 30 years and those employees who are retiring in 1996. QUARTER CENTURY CLUB DINNER Thursday, April 18 On Thursday, April 18, the President will be hosting the Seventh Annual QuarterCentury Club Dinner to honour new and present members of the 25-Year Club who have dedicated 25 years of service to the University. We would like to include in these events individuals with a break in employment (i.e. left their employment with the University and were later rehired) but whose total years of service at the University is 20 years or greater. Since information on this type of nonconsecutive service is not available on the Hwnan Resources data base, all those who fall into this group are asked to contact the Department of Human Resources as soon as possible so that they may be appropriately recognized. 8 Lskehesd Dominates {continued from p.1) The women's team did especially well, winning their first ever OWIAA championship. They put out an excellent effort throughout the entire weekend, sweeping all three medal positions in each individual race and taking the relay by an outrageous 2 minute and 47 second margin. These results meant a 66point victory over Laurentian, which placed second. LU also got very strong performances from Lana Puumala (who placed third in the 5 km classic), Jessica Spring (who placed third in 10 km free technique), and Tasha Betcherman. "We have been gradually building up the strength of our women's team. Th.is year we knew we had a real chance at winning both the relays and the individual races," says McPherson. The men's races were close, featuring undera-minute margins and a 57-second victory in the relay. In the end, the men's team had earned a l 0-point victory over second-place Waterloo and successfully defended their title as OUAA champions. Th.is is partly thanks to the excellent efforts put out by LU skiers Craig Storey, Kevin Denston and Kerry Abols (who also made up the winning relay team). It was an outstanding effort by all the Lakehead sltiers as Lakehcad University earned the title of Overall Combined Team Winner. Congratulations to all LU team members. The event was also successful on the sidelines as a huge crowd of spectators braved the biting cold to chet.'1' Lakchcad University on. Special thws 10 the members of the Big Thunder Nordic Siu Club who volunteered their time to help out and ensure the event went smoothly. Kris Ketonen ,sa{lade 12student atHillcrest doing his Co-op Placement with Lakehead University's Depar1ment of External Relations. PLEASE SUBMIT STORIES FOR THE APRIL ISSUE OF THE AGORA BY APRIL 5, 1996 CHANCELLOR PATERSON EXTENDED LIBRARY HOURS Mon. to Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 8:00 am to 11 :30 pm 8:00am to 10:00 pm 10:00 amto 9:00 pm 12:00 noon to 11 :30 pm Agora The Agora is published by the Information Office of the Department of External Relations. The newsletter is distributed monthly {except forJuly and August) to faculty, staff and friends of Lakehead University. Director of External Relations: Joy Himmelman Publications Officer: Frances Harding Communications/Special Events Officer: Denise Bruley Secretary: Betty Hygaard Photography: Peter Puna and Staff Graphics: Ben Kaminski Printing: LU Print Shop Submissions of interest to the University community are welcome. Send them to: The Editor, Agora Lakehead University 955 Oliver Road Thu_nder Bay, Ontario P7B5E1 Telephone: (807) 343-8300 FAX: (807) 343-8999 E-mail: trances.harding@lakeheadu.ca _... ():TI C. Trojan External relations 0~ (/) (/) .."8"8(> ,• oro ri ) () "iJ ~ C. ~3 <D <D (D I H; "8(>'8 • ' Agora, March 1996 � 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.13 No.3 Subject The topic of the resource Universities Description An account of the resource This issue of the Agora contains an article on Lakehead's Nordic Skiers dominating the Ontario University Cross Country Ski Championships, a message from the President, and updates from the Alumni Association. 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 1996-03 Agora Agora Magazine Alumni Alumni Association Alumni Association of Lakehead University Dr. R. Rosehart Lakehead Lakehead Nordic Skiers Lakehead University President's Perspective https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/bd79465559f3ec9bf576954d20092c3b.pdf 548fcd9d17db9c9a98b4b9c5b6d655b1 PDF Text Text A NEWSLETTER FOR LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY STAFF & FACULTY Lakehead students expressed their concern with rising tuition fees on February 25 by staging 45minute Talk Show with the president, mounting a mock execution of a student "fried by debt" and faxing 1,000 letters of protest to the Ministry of Education and Training. See page 2 for information on tuition fee increases. Check our Website Shad Valley Coming to Lakehead by Dr. Yves Prevost www.lakeheadu.ca under "New and Events" for more information about Events On Campus •• Events Off Campus •• Media Releases •• University Publications •• Strategic Planning Update Search Committee for Vice-President (Academic) Shad Valley is not a place on a map. Shad Valley is a live-in motivational program representing a partnership between universities, high schools and industry. Science, technology, entrepreneurship and the environment will be the themes studied by 52 of Canada's top high school students this July at Lakehead University. The students that participate in the program are in the top 2% nationwide. They are top scholars, community leaders, provincial, national and international athletes, gifted musicians, published authors, competitive and curious about the world around them. The program consists of two phases; the first is four weeks of university life and the second is a five-week work placement with a partnership company. On the campus in July, the days are intense when the students attend university lectures; participate in sports, math challenges, and workshops about business, ecology and engineering; work on at least two business proposals; produce a month-book and a web page; organize an open house and a variety show for the closing ceremonies. Shad Valley could be likened to a menu, where the students get a taste of this and that to help them discover what they want to do as a career. In Shad Valley, the same students are not always the best of the class as they are accustomed to be. The synergy generated by their interactions pushes the students to be the best they can be. Company placements occur in August and consist of practical work where the student may lead the way in computerizing a workplace, creating a company we.b page, or solving a problem that no one else has had an opportunity to think about. The work experiences are wide and varied! The companies in northwestern Ontario that participate as Shad partners in 1999 are Abitibi Consolidated in Fort Frances, Bowater, Bearskin Lake Air Service, FedNor, KBM Forestry, Lakehead University, Paterson Foundation, Royal Bank of Canada, Thunder Bay Hydro, Thunder Bay Telephone, and Union Gas. continued on page 3 �Board of Governors Sets Tuition Fee Rates and Approves Open Meeting Policy From the President's Desk by Denise Bruley, Communications Officer by Dr. Frederick F. Gilbert On page 6 of the Agora is an article on the "double cohort." While it is difficult to predict the impact on Lakehead University, it would appear that the government is looking at the situation seriously to determine how best to manage the influx of greater numbers of university students. There are massive implications for faculty, physical facilities, and operating budgets that, even if we were to take in our current proportion of provincial enrolment, would mean drastic changes at Lakehead. Some COU estimates place the dollar impact in new funding for all universities at a level equivalent to current government funding ($1.5 billion). This level of funding is an unlikely scenario as the government will be seeking less costly measures to address the increased number of students. Extending the hours of operation (including summer sessions), workload adjustments, leasing of space, new cooperative arrangements with the colleges, and distance education are all proposals being considered. Issues like tenure, faculty review procedures, quality indicators, sabbaticals, and merit are all part of the current discussion mix prompted by university requests for additional funding and the Ministry's drive for greater institutional accountability. Ultimately, there will be trade-offs and issues of critical importance to Lakehead like unfunded (i.e. out of corridor) students , deferred maintenance, additional space requirements (new construction), and technology enhancement may get addressed. We are making our case directly, and indirectly (through COU), to the Ministry. I am optimistic that the double cohort At a meeting held on February 25, 1999, the Lakehead University Board of Governors accepted the tuition fee recommendations by the Board's Financial Planning Committee. problem will bring about major action by the provincial government. There are ancillary issues associated with the demise of Grade XIII and now the OAC's. For example, should we continue to offer three-year degree programs? What should be the most effective working relationships with the colleges? Still the basic questions remain related to access and quality and how the existing physical and human infrastructures can be tweaked to maximize productivity and efficiency. These may be government words but they are well worth heeding. There will be "strings attached" to any new funding consistent with the patterns we have seen with OSOTF, ATOP and other recent government initiatives. It will be important to deal with these in ways that improve the university, respect its autonomy to make internal decisions, and ensure that current and future students receive a highquality education. The forthcoming Strategic Plan should aid us in the longer time frame (beyond the next election), but action will have to be taken to respond to government proposals that should finally re-infuse some much-needed funding into Lakehead University. Needless to say, we will continue to track the evolving policy decisions related to the double cohort. I would expect the Speech from the Throne and the Provincial Budget to provide clearer insight into the implications for the Ontario universities and Lakehead. ~ Lakehead University- March, 1999 2 The rates for 1999/00 reflect a 7% increase for undergraduate degree and diploma programs except for Education and Engineering degree programs which would increase by 11. 3%. Graduate student fees will increase by 5% and visa rates by 12% for graduate students and 12.9% for undergraduate programs. In addition, the Board approved a policy that will make meetings of the full Board of Governors open to anyone who wishes to attend. The first open meeting will be in fate April and will announced on campus and in the local media. The Open Meeting Policy is subject to certain guidelines which will be made available on the Lakehead University website and to media. "The Board of Governors is committed to the principle of accountability to the students, faculty and staff and of Lakehead University and to the public which is served by the University and this resolution further demonstrates that commitment, • said Paul Gordon, Acting Chair, Lakehead University's Board of Governors. CORRECTION In the previous issue of the Agora, an article appeared detailing the Canada Foundation for Innovation awards received by Lakehead University. The description of the project entitled "Lakehead Engineering Research Centre" omitted research centre members: Dr. H. T. Saliba, S. H. L. Tsang, Dr. C. D. Johnson, Dr. W Huang and Dr. A. G. Gillies as being part of the research team. This new Research Centre has 10 faculty members as part of the original CF/ application. �- s•••••z- t ----- ----------Graham Borradaile's Work Subject of a BBC Documentary SHAD continued from page 1 In 1999, Dr. Yves Prevost will direct the Shad Valley program , as well as be responsible for ecology, while Professor Ken Hartviksen will lead entrepreneurship. Dr. Meilan Liu will teach engineering and Professor Craig Law will offer expertise in computers and systems. Dr. Graham Borradaile recipient of the 1998 Distinguished Researcher Award will give a public lecture entitled Lakehead has many well known professors and collaborators who have much to offer in science, technology, engineering and environment. This is an invitation for all professors to give a guest lecture during Shad Valley on some aspect of your science and technology that would be intellectually challenging to 52 of the brightest high school students in Canada. Please contact D r. Yves Prevost at yves.prevost@lakeheadu.ca before June "Using Magnetic Properties to Understand the History and Deformation of Rocks" Wednesday, March 17. 1999 4p.m. Lower Lecture Theatre 1, 1999. If any business would like to become a partner they can contact Christine Costa at cmcosta @qale.lakeheadu.ca or at (807) 343-8747. Applications for high school students can be obtained by calling (519) 884 8844 or at www.shad.ca. Apply before March 31 if you would like to participate in one of the nine campuses in Canada 35th Annual Northwestern Ontario Regional Science Fair Wednesday, April 21 , 1999 For further information www.baynet.net/-sciencefair/index.htm or e-mail: sciencefair@mail.baynet.net The deadline for entries from schools is Wednesday, March 31 , 1999 Superior Science A New Summer Day Program for children ages 9-12 QUEST Engineering Science Quest presents "Superior Science," a hands on science program for children ages nine through twelve. The goal of this university studentrun program is to explore new horizons in science by giving children an opportunity to see, touch, design and experiment in a variety of different fields of science. This week-long adventure takes place on the Lakehead University campus allowing children to learn more about university life while conducting science experiments, building structures and using computers to learn about the Internet. Enrolment is limited. Registration will be on a first-come, first-serve basis. Program runs: August 9 -13 and August 16 - 20 Cost: $100/week Call toll-free to register 1-877-377-5437 and receive more information. British public television will be filming a short documentary on a method for determining the age of re-orientation of rocks, developed by Or. Graham Borradaile, a professor in the Department of Geology. Filming is planned in Britain where Borradaile first calibrated the method using archeological monuments ranging from late Roman times (A.O. 300). When ancient builders quarried and reoriented certain types of stone, the rock commenced remagnetization in the newly imposed direction of the geomagnetic field. The 'amount' of remagnetization acts as a clock, fixing the age of reorientation. Borradaile then used the calibrated remagnetization scale to estimate the ages of some poorly documented medieval building phases to within 25 years. He was able also to prove that medieval builders had recycled Roman masonry, to reduce the costs involved in quarrying new stone. BBC will also film in Cyprus where the studies are continuing in collaboration with the Department of Antiquities, and subsequently in the laboratory at Lakehead University. "The archeological aspects of this work are merely applications, the main focus is to understand the mechanism by which rocks become magnetized, " says Borradaile. Until Borradaile's work, the longest "experiments" on magnetization took place in the laboratory over periods of hours or days, quite inadequate for extrapolation to geological times and processes. The work is funded by NSERC. Lakehead University - March, 1999 3 �------------------¥■•■;■; - - 1 - -- - - -- - - - - - - - - - - Advanced Anatomy Course Offers Unique Learning Opportunity by Kris Ketonen Since the beginning of January, Lakehead students have had an exciting opportunity to take a close-up look at the human body. It comes courtesy of a new fourth-year half-course in Advanced Human Anatomy, created by Donna Newhouse, a sessional lecturer in the Department of Biology. "The course is unique because it will revolve around two surgical observations, an autopsy observation, and surgeons putting on active lectures," said Newhouse. "It's a much more involved course than the other anatomy course currently offered •• Biology 2020 (Human Anatomy) and the students who are admitted are topnotch." The idea for the course came to her about a year ago, but it took time to transform that idea into an actual course. First, she had to make a presentation to both the School of Kinesiology and the Department of Biology as the course is hosted by both units. "I had to kind of sell it, but they liked the idea:• said Newhouse. When Lakehead approved the course last spring and the funding came through, the next step was to get the idea approved by the Hospital's Operating Room Committee (surgeons, nurse managers, physicians and hospital administrators). The focus of the course is on all structures pertaining to regional anatomy such as the head, neck, back, and extremities. "Students choose the surgeries they want to see and they go on their own," said Newhouse. "I get a list and post it as far in advance as I can." Another interesting aspect comes with the autopsy viewing. Because autopsies obviously aren't scheduled and an opportunity to view one can appear with only a few hours notice, Newhouse and Senior students like Aaron Bois (right) are being given the opportunity to witness surgeries at the Thunder Bay Regional Hospital thanks to the efforts of Donna Newhouse {left), a sessional lecturer in the Department of Biology her class make use of a pager that the students take turns carrying. Since t he course came into official existence too late to be published in the University course calendar, all the advertising has been word of mouth. And the buzz is good, according to Newhouse. The maximum number of students allowed in the course is 20. Last fall, 24 students applied. Academic standing and a paragraph outlining why they want to take the class were used to screen the applicants. And the work doesn't stop there. Newhouse is tackling the material with a tremendous amount of respect and gratitude, and is making sure the students do the same. ''The workload is heavy," she said, adding that the students are required to submit a continued on page 5 Lakehead University- March, 1999 4 �- SWM••;W; . . . . 1 -- - - - - - - - - - -- -- - Anatomy continued from page 4 •EL 0 H pre-surgery report three days prior to each surgical observation. The report is a formal paper outlining the related anatomy of the surgical procedures they are about to see. "It must be of 'A' quality," Newhouse pointed out. "If not, they won't go to see that surgery. I'm not going to send anyone in there that doesn't know their anatomy. I want them to be the second-most knowledgeable person in the O.R." But the effort will pay off in the end according to Scott Kingston, a fourth-year Kinesiology student who acted as Newhouse's teaching assistant. He has had the opportunity to view both a surgery and an autopsy and says, "It's really invaluable when you consider that you're usually just looking at plastic models and books." Aaron Bois and Jill Criscione, also fourthyear Kinesiology students, agree. "It opened up a new perspective to what science has to offer. Textbooks only offer so much. Viewing a surgery has huge educational worth," Bois said. "It gets you more into what real anatomy is;• Criscione said. She stressed the value of the experience, especially to students who go on to study in the health sciences field. As for Donna Newhouse, she is excited about her course and the fact that it was approved by both the University and the Hospital. "One of the most interesting things," she says, "is that it comes at a time when the Thunder Bay Regional Hospital is making plans to construct a new hospital on 60 acres of land donated by the University.... This course may pave the way for other instructors to create similar kinds of learning opportunit ies for Lakehead students." Kris Ketonen is one of several Lakehead students taking part in a student writing program sponsored by The ChronicleJournal. ~ I :: Ill Civil Engineers Best in Mid-West Regional Champ ionship The civil engineering team of Joe Martino, Kristy Mattila, Scott Pattyson, Scott MacKenzie, Shaun Walker, Alan Jinks, Bill Mellanby, Dr. Tony Gillies (Faculty Advisor) and Kai/ash Bhatia (Shop Supervisor) captured first place overall at the 1999 Steel Bridge Competition. The competition, hosted by the University ofIowa, challenged civil engineering students to an intercollegiate competition that included design, fabrication and construction. Participating students gained practical experience in structural design, fabrication processes, construction planning, organization and teamwork. Lakehead University, the first Canadian team to win the annual competition, beat engineering teams from Iowa State; North Dakota State; South Dakota State; University of North Dakota; University of Wisconsin-Platteville; University of Minnesota and University of Iowa. The scaled simulation bridge, which spans 17 feet and can withhold 2,700 pounds, was judged in the following award categories: Construction Speed, Economy, Stiffness, Efficiency and Aesthetics. The structure was required to meet standards for durability, constructibility, usability, strength and serviceability that reflect the volumes of regulations that govern the design and construction of full-scale bridges. Safety was the primary concern, as with actual construction projects. Winning the competition has qualified the students to enter the National Student Steel Bridge Competition in Anchorage, Alaska in May, 1999. Sponsorship from the following local organizations and businesses helped make this accomplishment possible: Anchor Construction Industrial Products; Classic Gift and Tuck Shop; Coastal Steel Construction; HG Limo Services; Lakehead University Engineering Department; Lakehead University Student Union; Local Union 759; Mallon 's Corporate Impressions; Payford Steel; Canadian Society of Civil Engineering (Lakehead University Student Chapter) and Thunder Bay Testing & Engineering. This talented team of graduating civil engineers is looking for more sponsorships from the community to enable them to represent Lakehead University in Alaska. For more information, contact Dr. Tony Gillies, Department of Civil Engineering at 343-8755. -- Jennifer Wi/lianen, Communications and Institutional Analysis Assistant Lakehead University-- March, 1999 5 �-----------------;w■••••-1---------------- Double Cohort: Worrisome Prospect By Susan Bloch-Nevitte The following article appeared in the January. 1999, issue of For the Record, a publication of the Council of Ontario Universities Double cohort. Preface it with "decaf" and it sounds more like a new coffee, one that nonetheless is keeping a lot of people awake at night. A by-product of restructuring in the Ontario high school system, the double cohort results from the elimination of Grade 13 by the year 2003. An unprecedented surge in postsecondary applicants and enrolments could ensue as many of the last of the OAC students and the first of the Grade 12 students simultaneously come knocking on the doors of colleges and universities. Making the brew even more potent is the fact that no one really knows yet what that the numbers will be. Starting with next fall's crop of Ontario high schoolers, students can opt for the last of the five-year curriculum or an accelerated fou r-year program. Depending on what the students choose, the impact of the double cohort could be spread over several years or hit all at once. Demand for an Ontario postsecondary education could increase by as much as 53,000 spaces over current enrolment of 227,800 Figures based on projected demand for full-time enrolment No, Stvdtint1 (H.ad<ountl Among the issues they are exploring are enrolment patterns throughout the postsecondary system; institutional resource constraints including faculty, libraries, labs, and ancillary space such as sports facilities, the potential of distance learning and new information technologies; alternative class scheduling options such as weekends and expanded summer schools; and current and projected institutional capacity. Additional Students Seeking University Opportunities 60,000---------_-..:_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ ~_ ._, •0ue "'Double C"'-t al>ue to Pop<11ation ~ .50,000 40,000 - - - - 30,000-i---- - - - - Robert Prichard, chair of GOU and president of the University of Toronto, views the double cohort as an opportunity to create a legacy of reinvestment in the system. But he acknowledges the risk of the double cohort's being perceived as merely a temporary problem, one that merits only temporary attention. "Temporary personnel, facilities, and support negate long-term planning and building on strengths," says Prof. 10,000~- - - - ~ Prichard. "We should have a strategic In addition, students, parents, and objective of using the double cohort 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 20()1 2009 2010 as an occasion to invest in enhancing teachers are being asked to get an earlier start on planning for life after the quality of the university experience across Ontario" high school. The Ontario government has Assuming some sort of surge is just around introduced "streaming" into the high school Ontario ranks dead last among the 1O the corner, the question facing curriculum, where core courses will have provinces in university operating grants postsecondary leaders and the provincial either an academic or applied focus in per capita. In Prof. Prichard's view, new government is how the surge will be Grades 9 and 10 and a university, college funding based on the double cohort could accommodated while protecting access and or work focus in Grades 11 or 12. Both substantially improve that ranking if the quality. educational reforms are destined to have an funding were to be permanent, regardless The Ministry of Education and Training has impact on student participation levels in of whether enrolments retreats after the assembled a planning group to begin getting Ontario universities by the first years of the double cohort bulge passes through the a handle on the numbers and strategies for new millennium, but it's still unclear just how postsecondary system. "During the peak coping with the double cohort. much. period we would be preserving quality and Representatives of the ministry, colleges, The Council of Ontario Universities (COU} then see a modest appreciation in quality universities, the Association of Colleges of estimates that as many as 53, 000 additional through increased resources per student Applied Arts and Technology of Ontario students could be seeking university in the latter years; he says. "That would (ACAATO}, and GOU are meeting monthly opportunities by 2004 -- a figure which be a very desirable outcome." and hope to have preliminary combines the double cohort and population Faculty renewal, already a priority at Ontario recommendations to the ministry by April growth among the 18-to-24 age group. universities, assumes greater urgency in the 1999. 20,000- --- Lakehead University -- March, 1999 6 �Cohort continued from page 6 face of the double cohort. COU estimates that thousands of new faculty will have to be hired just to keep pace with current enrolment. According to COU figures, the ratio of students to faculty has increased by 25 percent over the past decade. At a current ratio of 21 to 1, Ontario universities would need 2,400 new appointments just to restore the faculty complements to where it was a decade ago. Prof. Prichard says that universities should be expanding their teaching complement over the next two to three years. "A delay in hiring until the onset of the double cohort will see demand outstrip the available supply of new faculty." The ministry's working group will also have to grapple with an "echo" double cohort some two to four years after the enrolment bulge when universities can also expect increased demand for places in first-and second entry professional programs. Graduate and professional programs may not be top of mind yet within the double cohort working group, but universities with significant enrolments in postgraduate programs are expected to keep the issue alive. While the double cohort is front and centre with the ministry, university leaders are also encouraging the government not to lose sight of the other important public policy objectives such as enhancement and maintenance of research infrastructure and support and effective mechanisms for student financial aid and debt reduction. Prof. Prichard says Ontario's universities need the opportunity to develop their own responses to the new postsecondary environment. "In a differentiated university system with different combinations of quality and cost, a one-size-fits-all approach will not likely work well. Each university should be challenged to think systematically and strategically about how it might contribute on its terms to the challenges of the double cohort and longer-term demographic challenges." Get the Facts Ever wondered .... How many Honours Bachelor Kinesiology degrees were issued in 1998? Answer:80 What percentage of the total student body is female? Answer: 54% What is the ratio between students and faculty at Lakehead? Answer: 21.4:1 in 1997-98 compared to 16.9:1 in 1990 These facts and many others can be found in Lakehead University's 1998/99 Institutional Statistics Book prepared by the Office of Institutional Analysis and distributed to Senators, Board Members and Departments. And Speaking of Faculty ... Lakehead University hired 21 new faculty for the 1998-99 academic year. Some have already been profiled in the Agora and others will be featured in future issues. In the meantime, here is a complete listing of the new faces on campus: Don Auger, Assistant Professor, Indigenous Learning Dr. Xiang Chen, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Dr. Glenn D. Colton, Assistant Professor, Music John Colton, Assistant Professor, Outdoor Recreation, Parks & Tourism Dr. Todd Dufresne, Assistant Professor, Philosophy Dr. Stephen J. Hecnar, Assistant Professor, Biology Colin Kelly, Lecturer, Forestry Craig Law, Lecturer, Business Administration Dr. Judith Leggatt, Assistant Professor, English Dr. Deli Li, Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences Zeng Lin, Assistant Professor, Education Dr. Kefu Liu, Assistant Professor, Engineering (Mechanical) Dr. William J. Montelpare, Associate Professor, Kinesiology Alioune Ngom, Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences Dr Christopher Parkes, Assistant Professor, English Dr. Bryan J. Poulin, Associate Professor, Business Administration Dr. Gillian H. Siddall, Assistant Professor, English Dr. Teresa Socha, Assistant Professor, Education Dr. Sharon Stone, Assistant Professor, Sociology Dr. Michael Stones, Professor, Psychology (NECAH) David Tranter, Assistant Professor, Social Work CIAU National Women's Basketball Championship Susan Bloch-Nevitte is the director of Public Affairs at the University of Toronto and a member of the Ontario Universities' Public Affairs Council. March 11 ,12, 13 & 14 For tickets and information call 343-8213 Lakehead University -- March, 1999 7 �22nd Annual]uried Student Exhibition March 12-April 4, 1999 Agora at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery MARCH 1999 VoL. 16, No. 3 THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO, CANADA Opening and Awards Presentation: Friday, March 12, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. In Memoriam ISSN 0828-5225 Dr. Gerd Schroeter Department of Music 1940-1999 Lumina Concert Series A memorial service was held at the Avila Centre in March to mourn the passing of Dr. Gerd Schroeter, a professor in the Department of Sociology, who died suddenly and unexpectedly during his sleep on February 10, 1999. Dr. Schroeter was a respected scholar who enjoyed reflecting on key issues of his discipline and their connections to the problems of society. Agora is published by the Communications Office and distributed monthly September through June. 1998-99 Publications Officer March 16, 1999 Frances Harding Dominique Corbeil, violin; Communications Officer Colin Mathews, cello; Denise Bruley Joy Fahrenbruck, piano Analysis and Communications Assistant Concerts are held in the Jean McNulty Recital Hall, William H. Buset Centre for Music and Visual Arts at 12:30 p.m. Jennifer Willianen Photography Peter Puna & Staff Born into a Mennonite community near Gdansk, Poland, he emigrated to Canada Public Lecture in 1949, and settled in Winnipeg where March 23, 1999 he completed undergraduate studies • Mark Murphy before pursuing postgraduate studies in sociology at Vanderbilt University in Office of Environmental Commissioner of Ontario will speak on "Ontario's Tennessee. There, in 1974, he obtained Environmental Bil of Rights" a PhD and joined the faculty at Lakehead University a year later. 2:30p.m. Friends, relatives and colleagues speaking about his life recalled Schroeter as being a quiet, solitary man whose intellectual discourses were often peppered with acerbic witticisms and insights. He was a generous man who involved himself in the lives of his relatives and friends and supported their interests and activities. Dr. Schroeter served Lakehead University as chair of the Department of Sociology, secretary of the Arts and Science Council, member of Senate, chair of the Senate Appeals Tribunal, and secretary and treasurer of the Lakehead University Faculty Association. His community activities included serving as secretary and treasurer of the Port Arthur NOP Riding Association, a member of the Board of the Thunder Bay Education Employees/ Credit Union and member of the Ontario Film Review Board. Printing: LU Print Shop RC-2003 Send us your news. Alumni Curling Fundspiel Deadline for submissions for the next issue is April 1, 1999. Editor, Agora Friday, March 26, 1999 Lakehead University at the Port Arthur Curling Club 955 Oliver Road $35 per person$140 per team Chinese Food Buffet. Cash Bar. Prizes Open to all Alumni, Friends, Faculty and Staff. Space is limited. To register call Alumni Services at 343-8155. Registration Deadline: March 19, 1999. Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1 Telephone: (807) 343-8193 Fax: (807) 343-8999 E-mail:frances.harding@lakeheadu.ca ,POSTE ......._...... CD Troj n & Mlumni Aftdi r s De v al . Lakehead University- March, 1999 8 ........ Pnt1-l111TH -99 ay,Ontarlo � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lakehead University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1999-03 Agora Magazine Alumni Alumni Association Alumni Association of Lakehead University Lakehead Lakehead University President Frederick Gilbert President's Message Shad Valley https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/734436905bb263ba7b8033ba90b6ff15.pdf 36c1c4ae9c9359cbc20b655da075085c PDF Text Text Lakehead UNIVERSITY A NEWSLETTER FOR LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY STAFF & FACULTY Lakehead Awarded $13.38 million from the SuperBuild Growth Fund by Frances Harding Lakehead University has been awarded $13.38 million by the provincial government to fund an Advanced Technology and Academic Centre. The new $32 million project will enhance the University's capacity to provide an appropriate technology base for classroom learning and to reach out to the region and beyond with distance learning. Challenge Fund (ORDCF), and matching dollars for these programs. The Development Office together with the Fundraising Committee of the Board and the Lakehead University Foundation are working to raise the remaining funds." "Much of these additional funds are already in place such as the funds from the Access to Opportunities Program (ATOP), Canada Foundation For Innovation (CFI), and the Ontario Research and Development The centre will include "smart" classrooms, videoconferencing facilities, multimedia production/teaching seNices, GIS facilities, as well as regular classrooms and computer labs. (continued on page 6) The Advanced Technology and Academic Centre will be constructed next to the Ryan Building and will "With the SuperBuild contribution of $13.38 million generate 1,377 spaces for students. now secure, the remaining funds will come from a The state-of-the-art facility will house a multitude of number of different private, public and institutional advanced technological applications primarily in the sources," says Dr. John Whitfield, vice president areas of engineering, mathematics and computer research and development. science. Best in the Mid-West Civil engineering students have earned the right to compete in the national competition of the American Institute of Steel Construction/American Society of Civil Engineering Student Steel Bridge Competition. ,._ (I) ;f 0 0 .c a.. At the US Mid-West Region competition held in February, the students placed first overall, building their blue and yellow steel bridge in just 12.25 minutes! Last year, the Lakehead team was the first Canadian team to ever compete at the national level where they took the top award in the category of aesthetics and placed 20th overall. "The National Final will be hosted by Texas A & M in May," Team members include Brian Maver, Govinder Dhesi, says Dr. Tony Gillies, "and the team is currently seeking James Jollymore, Brian Dietrich, Glen Furtado and financial support in order to participate in the competition." Bill Becker. Dr. Tony Gillies and Dr. Claude Johnson are their faculty advisors. M ARCH 2000 �AGORA From the President's Desk by Dr. Frederick F Gilbert Dr. Frederick F. Gilbert President NEWS BULLETIN In a press release issued on March 14, Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities Dianne Cunningham announced the transfer funds for postsecondary institutions for the 2000-01 academic year. For the first time, a portion of the increase will be tied to performance based on three indicators (graduation rates, and graduate employment rates after six months and two years) and to access based on enrolment levels. As well, the government announced a five-year plan (beginning in 2000-01) to cap annual tuition increases for most programs at two percent. I have serious concerns about the impact of this announcement on Lakehead University and will be exploring these issues in greater detail in the April Agora. - Dr. Frederick Gilbert I thought readers might find it interesting this month to vicariously sense what makes Lakehead special for me, its fifth president, based on some events of the past week. Part of being president is a requirement to keep in touch with the campus and the people who make up the University as well as interacting with interests outside the University. This past week included a faculty luncheon meeting, the monthly meeting with the LUSU Executive, a meeting of the Strategic Plan Monitoring Group, the weekly meeting of the Administrative Executive Committee, the monthly meeting with staff who report to me, a meeting of the Electoral Board for the new Chancellor, and a teleconference with the Living Legacy Trust to finalize a Working Group meeting later this month. I voted for Athletes of the Year, wrote an address for the Gifu Shitoku Gakuen University's Convocation, an article for the Nor'Wester, an introduction to the Annual Report, and attended a meeting of the Accreditation Team visiting campus to review the Faculty of Education. I paid visits to the Ryan and Braun Buildings to talk with faculty and met with numerous people from on and off-campus regarding the business of the University. All in all, a pretty normal week. As a wrap-up to the week, there was a reception for the Consul General of India, The Honourable Mr. C. M. Bhandari, who was in Thunder Bay to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Independence of India from Great Britain, the Visual Arts Juried Student Exhibition for Lakehead students at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, and a Powwow at the Fieldhouse -- one of a number of activities scheduled during the month of March to celebrate Indigenous History/Aboriginal Awareness Month. Following on Black History Month's events in February, the Tamil Society's Spicy Night and the Multicultural International Week activities, it is apparent that we have a university that truly recognizes its diversity and is successfully overcoming the many cultural and racial biases found within modern society. I know many faculty wonder about my commitment to the arts and humanities. As a result of the SuperBuild Growth Fund allocations to post-secondary education, John lbbitson used his column in the Globe and Mail to suggest that the provincial government and its Premier were deliberately funding projects with a technological bias and paying little attention to and, in fact, downplaying the liberal arts. In a telephone conversation with Mr. lbbitson before the article appeared (he was contacting most of the university presidents), I, in turn, suggested that, without knowing the nature of the SuperBuild applications, it is impossible to determine whether any such bias existed. The projects which received funding could very well have been representative of a cross section of the submitted projects. Furthermore, in a situation where only 35 out of 109 projects were funded, it is hard to imagine the government putting itself in a situation where the projects which best fit the four criteria they had said would be the objective bases for success were not followed. I wrote a letter to the editor of the Globe and Mail which was not published, but I want to present it here as I think it may provide clarification of my personal position. "John lbbitson seems to have extrapolated much from the government's funding for capital projects at Ontario's universities and colleges. His primary argument is that the funded projects represent a government imprint on academic programming. These capital projects were submitted because there are needs to improve the technology at most campuses. Lakehead University - Agora - March 2000 2 �AGORA From the President's Desk continued from page 2 Chancellor's Reception In Lakehead University's case, not only will academic programs dependent on advanced technology be served but also all programs will benefit from the "smart" multimedia classrooms, distance education facilities, and centralized computing capacity created. If there is a message inherent in the a/locations other than that some projects met the criteria better than others, ·it is not readily apparent. If there is an attack on the liberal arts and humanities, and I am not convinced of such, surely the universities need to recognize that a fundamental responsibility we all have is to ensure the relevance of these programs to the learning environments we host. There are many examples of appropriate linkages between technology and a liberal education, a lesson not lost on institutions like Acadia University, where the synergy of ideas combined with software and hardware result in better learning experiences for students. The very nature and substance of the frameworks for a learning environment are being changed all around us. Surely we can find ways in higher education to show the relevance of a liberal arts and humanities underpinning to an increasingly technologized society. It means thinking about academia and academic programs in new, innovative and ultimately more exciting and relevant ways." Graduates living in the Ottawa area were invited to attend a reception last month on Parliament Hill hosted by the Chancellor of Lakehead University, The Very Rev. Lois M . Wilson. Special guests included MPP Lyn McLeod and MP Dr. Stan Dromisky. Lois Wilson was appointed to the Senate in 1998 and has been described by the Globe and Mail as a trail-blazing feminist, the first woman to head the United Church of Canada, a lifelong crusader tor human rights and an advocate tor the poor and the marginalized. "Being a Senator has given me a wide public platform to continue advocacy for the social justice agenda I have pursued for many years." - The Very Rev. The Hon. Lois M. Wilson Wilson is stepping down this year after serving as Chancellor tor 10 years. An electoral board has been established and it is expected a new Chancellor will be announced in late spring. Finally, in response to a query from the Strategic Planning Monitoring Group, I want to assure the University community that should the Hockey program go forward in the fall of 2001, it will be completely funded externally. Distinguished Researcher Lecture Dr. Azim Mallik "Disturbance in Boreal Forests: The Challenge of Balancing Acts" Tuesday, March 28, 2000 1 p.m. in the Senate Chambers More than 90 alumni and friends turned out for the Chancellor's Reception on Parliament Hill including Merrick Schincariol (second from left) and Samantha Wrensall (second from right). Schincariol (HBSc'99) is working with Nortel Networks and Wrenshall (HBMus'98) is with the National Arts Centre. Lakehead University - Agora - March 2000 3 �AGORA Barb Eccles appointed Technology Transfer Officer \. With her background in science and law there is no doubt that Barb Eccles is well equipped to be Lakehead University's Technology Transfer Officer. Eccles graduated from Lakehead with an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Physics with Energy and Fuel Science and spent one year at McMaster University studying Experimental Physics at the master's level before switching to law at the University of Toronto. She was called to the Bar in 1996 and has since been practising with a local firm -· Cheadle Johnson Shanks Macivor •• concentrating on taxation, corporate and commercial law, and bankruptcy and insolvency. The position of Technology Transfer Officer was created with funding from NSERC to promote and facilitate the transfer of University technology to the private sector, to help protect commercially valuable intellectual property, and to provide a resource to the Lakehead University research community for intellectual property management. Dean of Graduate Studies and Research Dr. Mark Howe says that with the appointment of Barb Eccles, the Office of Research can now offer more assistance to researchers who deal directly with issues of technology transfer. "This is an exciting opportunity for researchers at Lakehead, particularly those involved with commercial and industrial partners, to obtain accurate and up-to-date information on issues concerning intellectual property, patents and copyrights. " Eccles is vice-president of the Alumni Association of Lakehead University, Northwest Regional Representative on the Council of the Canadian Bar Association of Ontario, and a director of the Thunder Bay Law Association. · : ')-. ; , 1 ) .,-. :J ·~ ~- - .. .. J'? } J ... ~,,.: ... Y:" Northern Plains Aboriginal History and Adaptation by Frances Harding Lakehead University is part of an interdisciplinary research team led by Brandon University that has been awarded $2.5 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to study Aboriginal history and adaptations. "It's a huge, interdisciplinary project that will study patterns of change over a 9,000 year time period right up to the recent past," says Dr. Scott Hamilton, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and one of the project's coinvestigators. Researchers will be using archeological, geoarcheological, archaeobotanical and ethno-historic information, together with oral traditions preserved by Aboriginal elders, to illustrate patterns of change in the natural and cultural landscapes of First Nations peoples. These include the Blackfoot of Alberta, the Plains Cree and Assiniboine of Saskatchewan, and the Plains Ojibway and Dakota in Manitoba. "Essentially we'll be producing 'a timelapse photography version' of how the Plains Indian peoples used and perceived the land at various times and in response Dr. Scott Hamilton Department of Anthropology to various environmental episodes and cultural influences," says Hamilton. "We'll be relying heavily upon multivariant data management technology just to get information into a manageable format. It's a huge, challenging project... and GIS will be important to us in terms of managing and i ntegrating spatial information." The grant has been awarded under SSHRC's Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (MCRI) program, a program which supports large-scale projects emphasizing collaboration. The project is led by Brandon University, with co-investigators from Lakehead University, University of Calgary, the Alberta Provincial Museum, University of Saskatchewan and University of Wisconsin (Eau Claire). Lakehead University - Agora - March 2000 4 �AGORA Maternal behaviour and medical history have the potential to act as key perpetrators in prenatal programming of the fetus' immune system to favour allergic disease • . •·- - .~ · I \ ►/ James Koprich, a master's student in experimental psychology, is researching the prenatal origins of asthma and allergy Origins of Asthma and Allergy As Early as Pregnancy? by James 8. Koprich A recent Health Canada study has shown that prevalence of physician-diagnosed asthma in children has risen from 4.7% to 13%, and in adults from 2% to 9%. With treatment currently aimed at symptom management, a call for further research to unravel the underlying pathogenic mechanisms of the disease has been made. To answer this call, a Lakehead University research team including James Koprich, a master's student in experimental psychology, Dr. Paul Satinder (Psychology) and Dr. Gabriel Dakubo (Biology) have developed a model that attempts to provide evidence that the immune system of the fetus is, to a certain extent, under the mercy of maternal behaviour - referred to as prenatal programming. the end, two biochemical markers representing asthma and allergy evolvement were chosen. These markers are being compared between mother and newborn, and are also being compared to an additional chemical analysis measuring the amount of blood nicotine from smoking. How the levels of asthma and allergy markers change in relation to nicotine levels and items on the questionnaire will provide evidence that maternal behaviour and medical history have the potential to act as key perpetrators in prenatal programming of the fetus' immune system to favour allergic disease. Elucidation of possible prenatal origins of asthma and allergy holds tremendous potential for therapeutic intervention during critical periods of immune system development. By establishing a model of prenatal programming, target sites for pharmacological management can be explored, or education can simply be enhanced to encourage pregnant women to avoid certain activities such as smoking and exposure to various allergens. The Asthma Society of Canada has recognized the researchers' efforts by providing major funding for this project in the amount of $10,000. A close working relationship with obstetricians and labour and delivery nursing staff at the Thunder Bay Regional Hospital has been instrumental in orchestrating the logistics to bring this project to light. To assess this, eligible pregnant women complete a questionnaire providing information related to lifestyle variables such as caffeine consumption, exercise frequency, and smoking habits and medical background, including allergic and asthmatic history. These reported items are then used to observe how they might be involved with prenatal programming of the immune system. The Northwestern Regional Cancer Centre also plays a role by providing lab space and technical assistance. The model is being tested by taking blood from the mother and comparing it to that of the newborn obtained from the umbilical cord. Much effort has gone into determining which components of the immune system would be evaluated in the blood samples. In James Koprich is one of several students participating in a student writing program sponsored by The Chronicle-Journal. Lakehead University - Agora - March 2000 5 �AGORA In Memoriam of course the University with distinction, commitment and generosity. He Jed by example, stressed practical experience, and was an advocate of the "train the trainer" approach. Thunder Bay has lost a champion." A memorial fund has been established in memory of Henry Akervall. For information contact the Development Office at (807) 343-8194. SuperBuild (continued from page 1) Dr. Henry (Hank) Akervall Hank Akervall, a professor emeritus and a consummate sportsman, passed away on February 18, 2000 while playing hockey. He was 62. Akervall joined Lakehead in 1966 to teach forestry and to serve as director of athletics where he was instrumental in starting the physical education program. He also laid the foundations for the establishment of the outdoor recreation program and, when he retired in 1996, he was a professor of the School of Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism. In 1999, Hank Akervall was inducted into the Lakehead University Sports Wall of Fame as coach of the 1966-67 Nor'Wester Hockey Team. the only Lakehead University hockey team to have ever won a national title. In 1988, he was inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame. Akerval/'s accomplishments as an athlete were many. They included being captain of the Canadian National Olympic Hockey team and competing at the Olympic Games in Innsbruck in 1964. He was a level five hockey coaches' instructor and was active in a number of community groups including Ducks Unlimited, the Thunder Bay Fly Fishing Club, and the Northshore Steelhead Association. "Henry was a Thunder Bay boy," says Or. John Whitfield, vice-president research and development. "The opportunities and options for someone with his talent and drive were enormous, but he chose to return here where he served his home town, region, and The announcement was made in Sudbury on February 24, 2000 by Jerry Ouellette, parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Northern Development and Mines. In addition to Lakehead, four other educational institutions in northern Ontario received funding from the SuperBuild Growth Fund: Cambrian College in Sudbury ($14.84 million), Canadore College in North Bay ($1 .78 million), Laurentian University ($.61 million) and Northern College in Timmins ($.06 million). "I am extremely pleased by the government's support for this major capital project," said Dr. Fred Gilbert, president of Lakehead University. "This is a significant statement of the importance of our university to the students of this province and to the social and economic well-being of Thunder Bay and Northwestern Ontario. I hope that everyone shares my excitement of what this means for the future." Currently, plans are under way for the architectural design and project management of the new Advanced Technology and Academic Centre. Construction is expected to be completed by the fall of 2002. Through SuperBuild , the Ontario Government is spending $742 million this year to build and modernize universities and colleges for future demand. Campus Notes In Memoriam Lena Odjig White, a teacher of Aboriginal language courses at Lakehead, passed away on January 28, 2000 after a short battle with cancer. White grew up on Manitoulin Island and completed a master's degree in Environmental Studies (Languages ~nd Culture) at York University. She taught in Lakehead's Native Language Instructors' Program since its inception in 1981, and was coordinator of the Program from 1993 to 1995. According to the Program's current Coordinator Wanda White (no relation), Lena White was widely respected by students, faculty, and members of the Aboriginal community for her dedication to Ojibwe language and culture. She leaves behind her husband Charles Nelson, and two sons Stanford and Shannon White, both of Walpole Island. Women's Basketball Coach Trish Lorenz has been hired on as coach of the Women's Thunderwolves Basketball Team replacing Bob Main who has been serving as Interim Coach for the current year. She will begin in her new position at Lakehead in late spring. Lorenz comes to Lakehead from Augustana University College in Camrose, Alberta, where she was appointed Head Coach of the women's basketball team in 1996, taking the team from a record of 6 and 1O, to its current position of first place in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (North). Trish Lorenz received her Bachelor of Arts degree (Physical Education) from Augustana University College in 1992, her Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Lethbridge in 1994 and her Master of Arts degree (Physical Education) from the University of Alberta in 1996. Lakehead University - Agora - March 2000 6 �AGORA Rotary Study Exchange Helping Varsity Athletes Succeed by Kris Ketonen Balancing sc~ool and sports can be tough, especially if you're a varsity athlete. That is why Lakehead University has begun to develop two new programs that will help students cope. Congratulations to Jill Zachary, associate field coordinator in the Department of Social Work and Alex Pasquali, international activities coordinator. They have been chosen to participate in the Rotary Foundation Group Study Exchange Program this spring. Zachary will be travelling to Sweden to study the Swedish social services system and to foster links with Swedish universities. Pasquali will be travelling to Italy to meet with representatives from Italian universities. Strengthening Our Circle Powwow The first is the Academic Success Program which was initiated two years ago for varsity wrestlers by Coach Francis Clayton with assistance from the Chawkers Foundation. The program is comprised of a number of seminars which cover a wide range of topics from time management, study skills and essay writing to health-related issues such as drugs, alcohol, and STDs. The seminars are given at the beginning of the school year and, for the first time this year, the program was available to all varsity athletes. The second program, now in the early stages of development, is a proposed Academic Assistance Program, which will enable Lakehead University coaches to monitor how their players are performing in the classroom. It will also give them a chance to intervene and recommend appropriate assistance in the event of an academic problem. "These programs will help prepare student athletes for the challenges ahead," says Athletic Director Tom Warden. "We as a department are directly responsible for the academic success of our athletes. It's up to us to help them succeed." Varsity wrestlers Mel Anderson and Justin Beauparlant speak highly of the Academic Success Program. "It builds self confidence," says Anderson. "Even if it just gives us the names of the people to talk to when we're having problems ... it opens those doors." Clayton originally started the Academic Success Program for the Lakehead wrestling team. "If the athletes do well in school and know where they're going, they'll get to wrestling practice and be more at ease," he says. Lakehead University -- Agora - March 2000 7 The Lakehead University Native Student Association (LUNSA) helped to organize a powwow in the C.J. Sanders Fieldhouse that attracted hundreds of participants in early March. The weekend included workshops with Aboriginal elders -- Richard Lyons, Anne Wilson, Louise Shebegegit and Gilbert Smith. �AGORA Mark your Calendars... The Annual Alumni Curling Fundspiel OPEN BIOLOGY SEMINARS AND LECTURES will be held on Friday, March 24 at the Port Arthur Curling Club. To register your team call Kris Carey at Alumni Chromatin and cancer Services at 343-8155. Dr. Roy Harkness Don't Miss an Evening with the Lakehead University Music Department starting at 8 p.m. at St. 3:30 pm -- RB-2042 Cell cycle control of a chromatin assembly pathway in yeast Paul's Church on Tuesday, March 21, with performances by the Lakehead University Vocal Ensemble (choir conductor Susan Marrier) and the Lakehead University Student Composers Project. Dr. Roy Harkness Tuesday, March 21, 2000 12:30 pm -- UC-2011 Biofilms, a supreme defensive fortress of microorganisms Monday, March 27, 2000 10:30 am -- RB-1023 Ecology of biodegradation, a molecular approach The Annual Student Juried Exhibition continues at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery until April 9 with The Major Studio Exhibition (fourth-year thesis shows) taking place from April 11 - 23. Dr. Kam Leung Molecular biology and the natural history of microbes Dr. Jianping Xu Monday, April 3, 2000 1:30 pm -- RB-1023 The Second Annual Gerontology Research Day will be held in the Senate Chambers on Friday, March 31 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Guest speakers include Dr. Elizabeth Dow, Michel Bedard, Dr. Myrna Reis and Dr. Jean Kozak. For more information call Sharon Stone at 343-8530. Clonality, recombination and speciation in human pathogenic fungi Dr. Jianping Xu Tuesday, April 4, 2000 Deadline for the Next Issue April 3, 2000 11 :30 am -- RC-0005 For more news and information about Lakehead University check our website www.lakeheadu.ca March 2000 Vol. 17, No. 3 T HUNDER BAY, ONTARIO, CANADA The Agora is published by the Office of Communications and distributed monthly September through June. We welcome news and other submissions from our readers. 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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 2000-03 Agora Magazine Alumni Alumni Association Alumni Association of Lakehead University Chancellor Lois Wilson Lakehead Lakehead University President Frederick Gilbert President's Message https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/7872d9788cc1cf20efa1ae1b0185bde9.pdf 58a8d595ba294a5a9fc8af4e274c6c63 PDF Text Text March/April 2002 A Newsletter for Faculty and Staff All-Female Bridge Building Team places First in Mid-West Competition by Nancy Angus, Coordinator, Communications and Public Affairs The Lakehead University civil engineering team took first place in the American Institute of Steel Construction/American Society for Civil Engineering Mid-West Regional Student Steel Bridge Competition at North Dakota State University, held March 1 to 2 in Fargo. This year's team, the first all-women team from Lakehead and possibly in the history of the competition, is comprised of fourth-year civil engineering students Susanne Cousineau, Pamela De Paulo, Carla McGregor, and Lisa Pickering. Dr. Tony Gillies and Dr. Timo Tikka assisted as faculty advisors to the team. The Lakehead students came out winners in a tough competition, beating out seven other teams. It was reported in the Fargo Forum newspaper that Lakehead's boisterous cheering section waved a Canadian flag attached to a hockey stick after their bridge was assembled. Lakehead University has a proud tradition at this event as this is the fourth year in a row that the Lakehead civil engineering students have placed first at the mid-west regional level. From here, the team is in training for the U.S. National Student Steel Bridge competition, which will be held at the University of Wisconsin - Madison from June 21 to 24. The Madison competition will be a memorable one as 2002 marks the 150th anniversary of the American Society for Civil Engineering. The competition challenges civil engineering students to design, fabricate and construct a steel bridge based on a problem statement. Criteria for excellence are represented by the award categories of stiffness, lightness, construction speed, di aesthetics, efficiency and economy. Standards for strength, durability, constructability, usability, functionality and safety reflect the volumes of regulations that govern the design and construction of full-scale bridges. Lakehead U NI VERSITY �2 AGORA March/April 2002 From the President's Desk During the week of March 18 candidates for the position of dean of the Northern Medical School will be on campus as part of their interview process. The three candidates, Dr. Carl Robbins, Dr. Sheila Harding and Dr. Roger Strasser will be on campus March 18, 19 and 20 respectively and a copy of the itinerary follows. by Dr. Frederick F. Gilbert President I hope that the University community comes out to assess the candidates and then provides input to the Lakehead University Review Committee who will be making recommendations to the joint Lakehead/Laurentian Dean's Search Committee. The Lakehead committee is chaired by Vice-President (Academic) and Provost Dr. M.L. Hill, and has as its members Ruth Baxter (Board of Governors), Dr. Michael Stones (Department of Psychology and Director of NECAH), Dr. Alastair Macdonald (Acting Dean of Science and Environmental Studies), Dr. Moira McPherson (Director of the School of Kinesiology), Dr. Lorne McDougall (Director of the School of Nursing), Dr. Kam Leung (Department of Biology), Teegan Trochimchuk (Student) and Bev Bicknell (Secretary to the Committee). It is expected that selection of the dean will be finalized in early April. The Implementation Management Committee (IMC) for the Northern Medical School has added Dr. Arnie Aberman as a member as consulting dean. Or. Aberman addressed Senate at its February meeting and talked about the accreditation process. The IMC has drafted a governance model that includes Lakehead and Laurentian as equal partners but the model and the 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast at Valhalla Inn business plan under development have 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Public Presentation: yet to be approved by the provincial Vision for the Northern Medical School government. Nonetheless, it appears University Community and interested groups that the medical school is tracking in a Senate Chambers manner that will have a full four-year undergraduate commitment at 10:15 a.m. -11 :15 a.m. Meeting with Review Committee in the Lakehead. Vice-Presidents' Conference Room Itinerary 11 :15 a.m. - 11 :45 a.m. Meeting with Dr. Gilbert at President's office 12:00 p.m. -1 :15 p.m. Lunch hosted by NOMP at Health Sciences North 1 :30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Tour of new hospital and meetings 3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Tour of Northwestern Ontario Regional Cancer Centre and meetings 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Candidate's option 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Dinner with representatives of the University Candidates will visit Sioux Lookout the following day. Lakehead UH I YI l: Slf'r Dr. Buell, vice-president (research and development), is on extended sick leave and his responsibilities have been transferred to me for the most part. The Offices of Research and Development are helping to shoulder the work load but both will be reporting directly to me for the time being. The latest information from OUAC shows that high school first choice applicants to Lakehead are up 27.1 % compared to the provincial average of 15.8%. The academic units are working hard to contact these students and invite them to follow through on their interest in Lakehead. �3 AGORA March/April 2002 Coaches' Corner by Francis Clayton Coach of Men's and Women's Wrestling Teams Lakehead " ' ~ THUHDHWOLVD It was a very successful year for the wrestling program, which finished with the Canadian lnteruniversity Sports (CIS) Championships held in the C.J. Sanders Fieldhouse on March 1 to 2. With both the men's and women's team comprised of mainly first- and second-year students, this season was viewed upon as a rebuilding year. ff this is the case, the future looks bright! .~··. ' ,· >, ~ n, :c Q) > n, 0 0 0 .c a.. "Individually, they all were superb, wrestling to their personal best every time oul " Thirteen of a possible 17 qualified for the Nationals (nine men and four women) and all of these 13 improved upon the pre-tournament rankings, moving up at least one position. As a team, the men placed in the silver medal position only one point behind Brock University and two points ahead of the University of Guelph. On the women's side, Lakehead's team placed fourth, improving on their position last season of 13th . Individually, they all were superb, wrestling to their personal best every time out. Q) -"' C: :.:::; Throughout the championships, Lakehead wrestlers were showing people what they are about. In a first round match, Brent Fryia upset defending champion Kyle Sweezey from Brock via a fall, while Alex Jeffrey easily handled his opponent, the current Canada West Champion, also with a fall. These matches set the stage for many strong matches to come, with a highlight being the final in a match in which we lost. Four Lakehead wrestlers made it to the gold medal matches, with the first setting the tone. At 68 kilograms, Brock Curtis was taking on defending champ and last season's Most Valuable Player Ryan Wieker from Brock. Their match at the OUA's ended up in a 10-0 technical superiority by Weiker over Curtis. At the start of this one, it seemed to be going in that same direction with the score 7-0. Brock kept to his game plan and a steady pace, and finally put some points at the end of the first round. With it 11-4 and three minutes to go against the defending national champion, it had to be an all out effort if Brock was to challenge for the win. Brock's efforts brought him to 11-9 with a chance to score and tied it at the end, only to run out of time. And, that in the end is what happened to our Lakehead wrestling teams. We didn't lose, we just ran out of time. It was a tremendous effort by a group of exceptional people working at achieving their best performance, and that is what this season was about. Watch out next year! .D 0 a: Highlights of the Year QUA Individual champions: Katie Patroch at 61 ; Steve Raine at 76; Devin Kirk at 82 MVP and OUA player of the week Steve Raine Finalists winning silver. Brock Curtis at 68; Brent Fryia at 65; Alex Jeffery at 61 Bronze Winners: Trevor Manchester at 72; Matt Lawrence at 54 Nick Zuback at 57: Jake Gallinger at 90 CIS Individual Gold: Trish Lebel at 77; Devin Kirk at 82 Silver. Brock Curtis at 68; Steve Rain at 76 Bronze: Katie Patroch at 61; Brent Fryia at 65 Other CIS Fair Play Award: Brock Curtis CIS Men's Coach of the Year: Francis Clayton Lakehead U N I VElS I TY �4 AGORA March/April 2002 accustomed to linguistic quality. It was imperative for the actors to strive for such quality, as the essence of the play, with its many nuances of language, its puns and comments, simply had to be conveyed. Dramatically Wonderful La Troupe des Etudiants Extraordinaires by Marie-Noelle Rinne In the spring of 1999, a group of thirdyear students approached Professor Alain Nabarra, chair of the Department of Languages, to discuss which course would best suit their needs. Most of them were about to enter their last year of studies at the Faculty of Education and wished to continue to learn and practice their French, a language they were preparing themselves to teach. The Department was pleased to have student input in the matter, and in an effort to accommodate their needs, proposed, after much research and discussion, French 3811 Oral Expression through Drama. This course would allow students to feel more at ease in their use of French. Having been approved by the Senate, it was offered for the first time in September 2000. Using dramatization and group dynamics, the course was designed to improve oral communication skills (fluency, enunciation, rhythm of speech), and creative expression and selfconfidence in the use of the target language. Our first class was small, but the students eager. During the first half of the course, they worked on their diction, reciting poetry and stumbling through tongue-twisters. They worked on skits, taking turns acting and directing. Most skits were improvised and many French language skills had to be summoned in order to achieve a coherent, and often hilarious, performance. In January came the task to choose a play that was to be presented by the end of the academic year. We settled on Eugene Ionesco's "Exercices de conversation et de diction pour etudiants americains." Ionesco had written this nonsensical play about the meanders of life and language as a possible textbook for American students of French. It seemed to be appropriate for our first performance. Thus began eight weeks of rehearsal and language acquisition. The hard work paid off in many ways and there was a noticeable improvement in French diction. The "final exam" was not to be spent facing a blank, but indifferent, page, or a teacher too often immune to language violations. The public was to be the arbiter. Among the French-speaking audience, some came from France, some were Franco-Ontarians, most were Lakehead UNIV(ltS I IY As the students worked on Ionesco's work, focusing on stage directions and memorizing lines, their syntactic and grammatical performance improved steadily during the many and lively spontaneous exchanges that took place in class. Klassen, the author of the Monitor theory, would have explained the phenomenon by suggesting that their "monitor," that little voice that prevents many students from speaking a foreign language for fear of making mistakes, was silenced. They were relaxed, attentive to a different form of language production and, naturally, they acquired higher skills in French. As far as the audience was concerned, we believe it was an enjoyable experience. First-year students who attended were able to witness work done by graduating students, something that the Department would like to encourage. Faculty members obtained further proof that drama is indeed a very efficient teaching tool in the context of language learning. All in all, we feel that Oral Expression through Drama, was a successful first attempt. How does one define success when it comes to teaching, learning and implementing new courses? We could have attempted to "measure" oral and grammatical improvements, but let's simply say that we all enjoyed it. Marie-Noelle Rinne is a lecturer in the Department of Languages. She says French 3811 will be offered again in the fall of2002. �5 AGORA March/April 2002 Chair in Finnish Studies Dr. Lassi Heininen is enjoying his work as Lakehead's Chair in Finnish Studies. 'This position is more than just teaching and researching," he says, "It's about meeting people and having access to see another kind of community." Heininen is a political scientist from the University of Lapland in northern Finland. He is spending the winter term of 2002 at Lakehead and is leaving in April. Throughout his stay, he has been associated with the Department of Sociology where he is teaching the course, Sociology of the North, and is working on his current research topic of northern issues and regional studies. He is also doing research in security issues, European studies, Russian studies and environmental studies. The Chair in Finnish Studies at Lakehead University differs from traditional academic chairs which are occupied by one individual for long periods of time. This position is occupied by different professors from different academic disciplines. Dr. Heininen is Lakehead's third Chair of Finnish Studies, following Dr. Kari Hakapaa, (Department of Political Science) who held the position in 1998, and Dr. Tatu Leinonen (Department of Mechanical Engineering) in 2000. "I find the Finnish Studies Chair is an interesting and challenging position," says Heininen. "I am pleased to have had the opportunity to come here for this term to teach and research, as well as meet people and community groups in Thunder Bay." -- Marla Tomlinson Scholarship and Bursary Recipients say 'Thanks' - --, ' .. ,,' ' -I.ii ·i ~ Two award recipients expressed their appreciation "face-to-face "at the annual Donor Reception held on February 12 at the Northwestern Ontario Technology Centre. Chris Miller (left), recipient of a 2001/02 President's Award, told donors their generosity allowed him to "focus on academics" while at University. Leigh Anne Watterworth (right), a master's student in biology, described the excitement she felt about being part of an expanding microbiology research team at Lakehead. Watterworth is the recipient of the George Ozburn Bursary in Biology. Later she posed for a photograph with the man who established the bursary -- Professor Emeritus George Ozburn. Lakehead UNI Vf RS IJY Residence Phones Representatives from Nortel Networks and Bell Canada were back on campus on February 12 to meet with Residence students to answer questions concerning the ongoing problems they have had with the Internet Protocol (IP) phones that were installed last summer. In November, Lakehead students were promised that the telephone system would be stable by the beginning of January and if not, a new switching system would be installed. That is, in fact, what is happening. Nortel is currently installing "Option 81" a more "robusr system that is expected to be operational by the end of March. In the meantime, says CTRC Director Bob Angell, Lakehead will continue to deploy the new IP phone system across campus, as planned, with the offices in Residence, the Avila Centre, and the Centennial Building being next on the list. "The truth is, it's been a very disruptive installation for Residence students," says Executive Director of University Services, Grant Walsh. "We didn't anticipate these problems, nor have we been able to resolve them to our satisfaction." Nevertheless, both he and Bob Angell are optimistic the situation will be resolved. In the meantime, Lakehead continues to work with its partners and with the students to make the best of the situation: the students' telecommunications charges (approximately $25 per month) have been refunded; their questions and concerns are being fielded by staff working around the clock in Rez Net, and a student subcommittee (led by incoming LUSU Vice-President of Student Issues Billi-Jo Cox) is working with a representative from Bell Canada to revise the training manual that will be used by the students next fall. �6 AGORA March/April 2002 ......... .......... ................ .... ...... ........ .... ..... . . . . ·.·.·.·.·.·~··.·.· :: . .. .. ....:-........ . .... ... . . . . . . ............ ....... In Search of an 'Intelligent' Robotic System :· :· : · o;: Aiirieihamid Tayebi has secured more than half-a-million dollars in research funding that will go towards equipping a new Automatic Control Laboratory to be housed in the Advanced Technology and Academic Centre (ATAC) by Daniel Hansen When Dr. Abdelhamid Tayebi drives to Lakehead University in the morning, he's thinking about control. As an assistant professor in Lakehead University's Department of Electrical Engineering, control means something a little different to Tayebi than to the general population. Control in electrical engineering terms is the device which manages a system. Your brain, for example, is the control for the system of your body. 'When you drive to work in the morning," Tayebi says, "your brain is a control mechanism, responding to input from your eyes, and then making your hands and feet respond accordingly." Educated in Algeria and France, Tayebi came to Lakehead University in 1999 where he felt he would have the freedom and flexibility to start and direct research in control theory with applications to robotic systems. "I've always been fascinated by robots, ever since I was very young," Tayebi admits. Now, Tayebi develops control algorithms that would be used in industrial robotic applications. ''The use of robotic systems performing certain production tasks such as material handling, spot welding, spray painting and assembling is taking a significant place in manufacturing industries and the design of efficient robots is still a challenging problem:' Tayebi's main areas of research are in nonlinear control theory, adaptive control, robust control, and iterative learning control - a relatively recent development in a more than 100-year-long history of control theories. ILC techniques is to take advantage of the previous operations in order to adjust the control input to be applied to the system in the upcoming operations. In fact, the longer the robot performs the task, the smaller the margin of error will be." ' "Iterative learning control (ILC) is a relatively new addition to the control engineer's tool kit when it comes to dealing with the tracking problem for a control system that operates repeatedly," says Tayebi. "It is designed in such a way to be able to learn from the tracking errors at the previous operations in order to perform progressively better with every new operation to achieve 'almost perfect' tracking as the number of operations increase." "ILC allows robotic systems to be more 'intelligent'; in the sense that robots can learn from their mistakes to avoid them and perform better in the future. For instance, a robot operating repeatedly under the same control input will produce the same tracking error over and over again. The main idea behind So far, Tayebi has only designed and tested ILC algorithms in simulation, but not in real-time. That will change thanks to his recent award from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), which in turn has been matched by the Ontario Innovation Trust (OIT) and generously supplemented by other corporate partners for a total exceeding $500,000. This money will go toward equipping the Automatic Control Laboratory, which is to be located in the new Advanced Technology and Academic Centre (ATAC), currently under construction. The Automatic Control Laboratory will have "a very significant impact on the research capabilities at Lakehead University and training of highly qualified professionals in control engineering," Tayebi says, and will "lead to innovative industrial technologies in Canada. The publication of research and results will be very beneficial to the University." An interesting example of the potential value of modern control techniques exists in the hydroelectric industry. Pointing to an outlet on the wall, Tayebi explains that even though that outlet is supposed to supply 11 O volts (V), if you were to actually measure the voltage it would rarely be exactly 11 OV. It would more often hover around this value. If the hydroelectric industry were to adopt ... continued on page 7 Lakehead UN I Yt.11:Sll 'I' �7 AGORA March/April 2002 Q&A with Syd Halter, Honorary Chair of Advanced Technology & Academic Centre (ATAC) Capital Campaign Q. Why is it important for you to volunteer your time for Lakehead University? A. Well it seems as though I have been raising funds for the University forever! In fact, my first involvement with Lakehead began in the late sixties when I was the chair of a volunteer group of engineers raising money for the engineering program. Personally, it is gratifying to be associated with Lakehead University and its faculty, staff and students. higher education opportunities to our community and surrounding areas. I believe ATAC will draw more students and faculty from other centres to our region where they will study, live and make contributions to our great community. It is also my hope that ATAC will stimulate the growth of high-tech start-up companies in the region and that these companies will provide benefits to Lakehead University in terms of graduate employment opportunities. Q. As honorary chair of the Advanced Technology and Academic Centre fundraising campaign, how do you see your role in this campaign? Syd Halter is a consulting engineer who, before entering private practice in 1989, was the president and chief engineer of G.D. Howe Central Ltd. and senior vice president and director of the Howe Group of Companies including its overseas branches. Syd was recently appointed the honorary chair of the Advanced Technology and Academic Centre (ATAC) Capital Campaign. Jennifer Willianen, development researcher and writer, caught up with Syd and posed a few questions on his involvement with Lakehead University. a. What have been some highlights of your long-standing record of volunteer involvement with Lakehead University? A. The time I spent as chair of the Board of Governors from 1984 to 1986 was certainly a memorable experience. The University was growing and we were in the midst of hiring a new president. My greatest individual highlight occurred when I was named Fellow of the University only one year after I finished my term with the Board. I was surprised and honored at the time and I remain proud to this day to place LUF after my name. A. I hope to be a catalyst for the other volunteers. We have a great team assembled who give generously of their time to Lakehead. My role is to encourage their involvement and to lead the group towards achieving our goal. a. How will ATAC benefit Lakehead University students? A. I think it is important to stress that ATAC will be a benefit to students in all faculties in addition to those enrolled in engineering and computer science. The smart classrooms will be open to the general classroom scheduling pool and will allow for more opportunities to make connections with guest experts through videoconferencing. ATAC will also provide Lakehead students with more access to computer labs outfitted with the latest state-of-the-art technology equivalent to, if not better than, any university in Canada. a. What is your personal vision for Lakehead University as it relates to the ATAC project? A. Lakehead University is an important part of the business community in Thunder Bay and it has a huge economic impact on the region, amounting to over $170 million yearly. ATAC will allow Lakehead University to do an even better job of providing more Lakehead UNIVf l i l f Y In Search ofan 'Intelligent' Robotic System continued from page 6 more sophisticated control techniques in its systems, the voltage output at the outlet would be much closer to 11 OV all of the time. This increased efficiency would save both the industry and its consumers a great deal of money in the long term. The significance of modern control techniques is clearly enormous, both for industry and military/space systems, especially where safety is of prime concern. Unfortunately, much of the manufacturing industry is still using classical control techniques from as far back as the 1940s, which the industries see as being 'good enough' for the intended task. Tayebi hopes the research coming out of the Automatic Control Laboratory and the ATAC will convince industries still using classical control techniques of the benefits of modern control theory, as well as continue to establish Lakehead as leader in technological research and innovation. Daniel Hansen is one of several students taking part in SPARK, a student writing program sponsored by The ChronicleJournaf. �8 AGORA March/April 2002 New Faculty Profiles The third in a series of articles introducing Lakehed's newest fa,culty members by Marla Tomlinson Kevin Ride Lecturer, Faculty of Forestry and the Forest Environment Courses: Forest Harvesting; Forest Regulation and Scheduling; Forest Management I & II; Landscape Ecology and Modelling Background: HBScFfrom Lakehead University and a MScF from Lakehead University Why Lakehead? "I've been here for a while now as a sessional lecturer and have recently worked for both the forest industry and government. I find great enjoyment in developing and delivering courses as well as working on various collaborative projects with my contacts in industry and government. Teaching/Research Goals: "My main goal is to bring knowledge of contemporary forestry practices and concepts to my students. I teach thirdyear and fourth-year classes and, as such, I have a last opportunity to ensure that all of my students have the knowledge and tools necessary for their future careers. I try to bring concepts from across the curriculum into Forest Management I & II and demonstrate their interconnectedness and application in forest management. I am currently pursuing a PhD opportunity at the University of Guelph on the topic of ecosystem responses to intensive forest management practices. I am most interested in the areas of forest management including intensive forest management, ecosystem management and landscape ecology and modeling." Professor Karen Maddox Assistant Professor, School of Nursing Courses: Caring Across the Lifespan; Life-span Wellness Assessment; also provides clinical supervision to students \ Background: BSc in Nursing from the University of Alberta, MA in Nursing from the College of Saint Scholastica in Minnesota Why Lakehead? "I've taught at Lakehead before in the 1980s as a lecturer. When an opportunity became available, I thought it would be an exciting challenge to come back to the new program." Teaching/Research Goals: "I am working on a research project with colleagues from The University of Western Ontario in the area of outpatient mental health. I'm also interested in women's health and gerontological nursing with a focus on helping people to maintain wellness in older adulthood." Dr. Xiaoping Liu Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Why Lakehead: "I taught previously at Northeastern University in China. I like teaching and doing research very much. I came here because Lakehead is the first Canadian university which offered me both opportunities. Lakehead provides an excellent research environment." Teaching/Research Goals: "My goal for teaching is to let students master more of the discipline while developing skills to analyse and solve the real problems. My research goal is to develop some novel control methods and to solve some benchmark problems in control engineering." Dr. Wa Gao Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Courses: Environmental Control; Statics; Water Supply and Waste System; Solid Waste Management Background: PhD in Environmental E11gineering from the University of Alberta Background: Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Engineering and PhD from Northeastern University, China Why Lakehead: ''The opportunities were offered at Lakehead to carry out interdisciplinary research work." Courses: Electric Control Devices and Applications; Linear Control Theory; Electric Machines: Electronics II; Degree Projects Teaching/Research Goals: "My goals are to continue research work related to water/waste water treatment and cold regions environmental engineering:' Lakehead UN I VERSI T Y �9 AGORA March/April 2002 S. Ali Mirza Honored , 1 Day of Action Lakehead students joined thousands of other students across the country on February 6, 2002, for the Canadian Federation of Students' annual day of action to protest rising tuition fees. After a rally held in the Agora, about 25 Lakehead students occupied a portion of Dean's Row for close to 20 hours, leaving after President Fred Gilbert agreed to co-sign a letter with LUSU President Jeremy Salter to Dianne Cunningham, Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, supporting a fully-funded tuition freeze. Organizers say tuition fee levels have jumped an average of 126 percent over the past decade, putting higher education out of reach for many students from low- and middle-income families. In their letter to the Minister, Salter and Gilbert stated: " ... Ontario students receive the lowest amount of government funding per student per capita in Canada and the situation is especially critical at Lakehead University where we deal with a significant under funding of our Basic Income Units (BIUs) and where tuition fees currently constitute 40% of the revenue base. A fully funded tuition freeze would be an important first step in addressing these issues." lnderjit Nirdosh awarded Strategic Project Research Grant Dr. lnderjit Nirdosh, professor of chemical engineering, has been awarded a Strategic Project Research grant by NSERC. His award is for $145,000 for two years with $100,000 in-kind support from five major Canadian mineral processing industries: Noranda, Cominco, INCO, TECK Corporation and Imperial Metals. The research work will be on synthesis and testing of new mineral collectors for utilization of vast Canadian resources of low-grade ores. This is Nirdosh's third strategic grant. In 1985, he was responsible for winning the very first NSERC strategic grant award for Lakehead University. A Lakehead University civil engineering professor has been honoured for his achievements in engineering. Dr. S. Ali Mirza has been elected a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EiC). He was recognized at the EIC's annual awards banquet in Ottawa on Saturday, March 2, 2002. Receiving this honour is rare, as each year only 20 of among approximately 35,000 EiC members are elected to the grade of Fellow with the EiC. Becoming a Fellow with EiC recognizes the individual's excellence in the practice of engineering and service to the profession and to society. "One does not expect this kind of honour, but it is nice to be recognized for one's work;' Mirza says of the fellowship. Mirza is a fellow of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), and the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), and is recipient of the ACl's Raymond C. Reese Structural Research Award. During his career, he has authored and co-authored more than 11 O research publications and four design handbooks, and he has held a NSERC research grant since 1982. He has served the structural engineering profession through his committee work for the ACI, the ASCE, and the CSCE. He has acted as reviewer for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the ACI Structural Journal, the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, and the International Journal of Computers and Structures. He has served on editorial boards of several conferences and is a past chair of the Joint ACI-ASCE Committee on Reinforced Concrete Columns. The safety clauses in the Canadian Code for the Design of Concrete Structures are based on Dr. Mirza's research. A similar criterion included in an appendix of the ACI Building Code makes use of his work in this area. He is a co-inventor of the patented Confined Capping System for compressive strength testing of high strength, high performance concrete and, also, has used the results of his research on inverted Tgirders to develop methods that are now widely in use in North America for structural design of bridges and parkades utilizing such girders. -- Marla Tomlinson Lakehead U N IV [R.$1f'I' �10 AGORA March/April 2002 Dr. Laurie Garred receives Distinguished Researcher Award by Daniel Hansen When Dr. Laurie Garred learned that he had been awarded the 2001/2002 Lakehead University Distinguished Researcher Award, he was, in his words,"surprised." However, when one looks at his contributions to his field of study and to Lakehead University over the past 26 years, it immediately becomes apparent how modest Garred really is: 24 years of NSERC funding, 79 government and institutional research grants, and several corporate grants and contracts totalling more than $600,000; over 130 research publications and conference papers; and invited research presentations in eight countries on three continents. But perhaps even more important than the quantity of valuable research Garred has produced, is the quality and impact of his research. Chemical engineering students Marianne Ariganello (left) and Adrienne Law (right) are working on Bachelor of Engineering projects with Dr. Laurie Garred (centre). Their research involves the use of hemodialysis machines like the one pictured above which was donated to Lakehead University by Gambro, a multinational manufacturer of dialysis equipment. A professor of chemical engineering at Lakehead University since 1975, Garred's research for the past 20 years has almost exclusively dealt with the application of chemical engineering concepts to optimize dialysis treatments received by kidney failure patients. When someone's kidneys fail, dialysis machines can do the work of the kidneys; however, the dialysis process can be very long and very demanding on the patient. Where kidneys filter the body's liquids continuously, kidney failure patients must store their excess water and wastes, such as urea and creatinine. These fluids and wastes must be drained and filtered by a dialysis machine usually three times a week. Often lasting four or more hours, a single dialysis session may see a patient being drained of as much as six kilograms or more of retained fluid. If proper precautions are not taken, the patient can have what is called a hypotensive episode, marked by nausea, dizziness, and a sudden drop in blood pressure. The ultimate aim of Garred's research is to optimize this treatment process so as to make it as comfortable as possible for the patient, as well as make it as efficient as possible. The process currently requires a good deal of time and money, and with the number of patients needing dialysis treatment growing about 8 to 10 percent every year, the load on the health care system will only increase. More efficient treatment will translate into less in-hospital and treatment time for the patient and less load for the hospitals. To help him reach this goal, Garred has fully employed Emmanuel Merliere, a recent Lakehead University chemical engineering graduate. As well, Garred also enlists senior chemical engineering students as research assistants. These assistants are engaged in research work that is going toward developing mathematical models for studying the effectiveness of dialysis treatments. One student, Adrienne Law, worked over the past summer at the McKellar site of the Thunder Bay Regional Hospital gathering data from 44 hemodialysis sessions with 14 patients. Garred expects to present the results of this study to Canadian nephrologists (kidney specialists) at a Toronto symposium in April as well as at the annual conference of the European Dialysis and Transplant Lakehead UNIVf"SI T Y ... continued on page 11 �11 AGORA March/April 2002 Garred continued from page 10 Juried Student Exhibition Association annual meeting to be held this July in Copenhagen, Denmark. When Garred began doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota in 1967, he assumed his research would remain purely theoretical. However, the influence of an eminent biomedical engineer altered this thinking. "I don't think I'd have been as happy doing strictly mathematical or theoretical research," Garred says. "I also enjoy work in a more clinical setting because I can see its direct impact on individuals". Always moving forward, Garred will be taking a six-month sabbatical in Italy, where he will work with researchers at the University of Bologna's Department of Biomedical Engineering, with nephrologists at the University hospital, and with the research and development group of a nearby multinational dialysis company. It will come as no surprise to us if we hear more from this most distinguished researcher in the future. Daniel Hansen is one of several Lakehead students taking part in SPARK -- a student writing program sponsored by The Chronicle-Journal. Lakehead signs Agreement with IBM Lakehead signed a Memorandum of Understanding with IBM Canada Ltd. on February 28 that will benefit undergraduate and graduate students, faculty engaged in research and the teaching and learning process at Lakehead University. 'This agreement marks an important step forward in our relationship with IBM ," said President Fred Gilbert. "Following on our initial involvement during the Provincial Government's .. . continued on page 12 James Woodbeck (centre) picked up four awards from the Lakehead University Student Juried Exhibition including the Mr. and Mrs. James Maccallum Munro Memorial Prize in Visual Arts and the Dean's Award for Ceramics. Julie Cosgrove (left) won the President's Award as well as the Dean's Award in Painting. With the students is Ceramics Instructor Sarah Link (right). It was standing room only during the awards presentation for the Annual Student Juried Exhibition on Friday March 8 at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery. This year's exhibition, sponsored by Philpot & Delgaty Insurance (for the eight consecutive year), featured 150 artworks by 66 students from all year levels. During the reception, more than $5,000 in cash, prizes and gift certificates were given out. According to Visual Arts Professor Roly Martin (and this year's exhibition coordinator), the Student Exhibition serves two functions: it's a way for the faculty to celebrate what the students do, and it gives the students the opportunity of seeing their work in a gallery setting as opposed to a studio setting. "The jurers all come from outside of the university community," he says. "It's a way of involving, and to some extent educating, the community in the activities of the Department." Five Lakehead University Dean's Awards were presented: Painting: Julie Cosgrove; Printmaking: Dave Mancuso; Ceramics: James Woodbeck; Drawing: Lana McGregor; Sculpture: Cara Colburn Whiting. The LUSU Purchase Prize went to Lauren Rigato; the Lakehead University Alumni Purchase Prize went to Joe Mikulinski; The Northwestern Ontario Regional Cancer Centre Purchase Prize combined with the William Trainor Memorial Award went to Leslie Shaw; and a new award this year, The Gilbert Award, went to Chris Bobinski. Cast your vote for the People's Choice Award by visiting the Thunder Bay Art Gallery before the Student Exhibition closes on March 31st. Lakehead U N I VERSI TY �12 AGORA March/April 2002 IBM continued from page 11 Access to Opportunities Program (ATOP) initiative, this agreement will allow the University to advance its hardware and software capacities with a world leader in technology. While the Advanced Technology and Academic Centre (ATAC) building will be the focus of our enhanced technology relationship, there will be positive impact across the entire campus." IBM is providing its NetVista desktops, lntelliStation workstations and e-server XSeries servers, WebSphere, MO Series and DB2 software, IBM Learning Services Curriculum, faculty training and technical support. In addition, IBM is contributing about $100,000 to the University's Advanced Technology and Academic Centre. Lakehead is providing skills initiatives, research collaboration, development cooperation and a reference site. "IBM is proud to supply its industry leading hardware and software solutions to Lakehead University's new and exciting Advanced Technology and Academic Centre," said Ed Kilroy, President, IBM Canada. "IBM is committed to developing a techologically-advanced, highlyeducated and competitive professional workforce by providing our expertise and product offerings to post-secondary educational institutions, and by developing unique, powerful and mutually beneficial relationships like this one with Lakehead University." This agreement also offers a possible opportunity for Lakehead to become an IBM Scholar's Program Partner. IBM would provide Lakehead students and faculty with a wide range of software applications and training for studies and applied research. As well, Lakehead is considering the possibility of the University's Advanced Technology and Academic Centre being used to promote and offer IBM PC Institute Training to IBM Business Partners and customers. •· Nancy Angus Call for Nominations Distinguished Instructor Award Deadline: May 30th Nominations for the Distinguished Instructor Award must be submitted to the Chair, Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning, c/o Janice Pellizzari, Office of the Vice-President (Academic) and Provost by May 30, 2002. 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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 2002-03 Agora Magazine Alumni Alumni Association Alumni Association of Lakehead University Lakehead Lakehead University Mid-West Bridge Building Competition President Frederick Gilbert President's Message https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/3f67a9875e3600ccdcd199f8d1440ffa.pdf 609a3696045d6ae6290d3eb599e29380 PDF Text Text LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY Thunder Bay Ontario, Canada GOR Vol.11, Number 5 May 1994 Lakehead Celebrates 30th Convocation Nellie J. Cournoyea The Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa Ian Tamblyn The Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa James MacNeill The Degree of Humane Letters Honoris Causa Ursula M. Franklin The Degree of Humane Letters Honoris Causa Elizabeth Chalmers The Title of Fellow of the University The Honourable Henry N.R. Jackman Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Saturday, May 28, 1994 at the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium More than 1,800 degrees and diplomas will beconferred by Lakehead University this year making the Class of '94 the largest in the University's history with a significantly higher number than last year's total of 1,628. Four honorary degrees will be awarded, one more outstanding Northerner will begiven the title of Fellow, and the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario will take pan in celebrating the University's 30th Convocation. As well the University will honour two of its generous benefactors at separate dedication ceremonies on campus -- the first at the A viia Centre and the second at the School of Nursing. For details please see the Convocation Day Program on page 2. * * * INSIDE Dr. Roger Mitchell named Fellow of the prestigious Royal Society of Canada.....5 Research projects in Sustainable Development receive over a million dollars in funding .....6 New York or Baltimore? Music Student Ron Greidanus gets another offer.....9 �CONVOCATION 1994 The Honourable Nellie J. Cournoyea Nellie Coumoyea has represented the Western Arctic riding of Nunakput since 1979 and has served as Premier of the Northwest Territories since 1991, guiding northerners through what might well prove to be the most significant period of change in the history of the north. She has played an important role in economic development, land claims, national constitutional discussions, and broadcasting in the north. Ian Tamblyn Thunder Bay-born Ian Tamblyn has been praised as one of the most creative singer-songwriters in Canada. He is an accomplished instrwnentalist, accompanying himself on piano, guitar, synthesizer and hammered dulcimer. His recent recordings incorporate field recordingsofCanadian wildernesssounds which have brought him recognition as a new age musician. Elizabeth Chalmers Beny Chalmers is a leader in the area of health and social services in Northwestern Ontario, especially in services for the elderly. Before retiring in 1983 she worked for the Thunder Bay District PlacementCoordination Service and was responsible for all placements into Homes for the Aged, Nursing Homes and Chronic Care Facilities. Mrs. Chalmers continues to make her ideas known in the expanding field of Gerontology through her research, writing, and radio commentary. Ursula M. Franklin CONVOCATION Fans of the CBC radio program Ideas may know of Dr. Franklin through her 1989 Massey lecture series entitled The Real World of Technology and other programs including Democracy, Technology, and Terrorism and Nuclear Peace. She has a PhD in experimental physics from the Technical University ofBerlin and has been professor of Metallurgy and Materials Science at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Engineering from 1967 until her retirement in 1989. Dr. Franklin is an inspiration to women in society, in the university in general, and especially in the scientific, technological and engineering fields. James MacNeill Jim MacNeill is an international consultant and policy advisor on environment and sustainable development who was the principal architect and major authority in the World Commission's report Our Common Future which sets out a new global agenda for sustainable development. Prior to serving as Secretary General to the Geneva-based World Commission on Environment and Development, he was for seven years the Director of Environment for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) headquartered in Paris, France. The Honourable Henry N.R. Jackman The Honourable Henry Newton Rowell Jackman is Ontario's 25th Lieutenant Governor since Confederation. He was appointed by the Governor General in Council, and was sworn into office on December 11, 1991. CONVOCATION EVE CELEBRATION The Alumni Association cordially invites the graduating class and their guests to its annual Convocation Eve Celebration Friday, May 27, 1994 7:30 • 10:00 PM in the Faculty Lounge Special guests include Chancellor Lois Wilson, the Honorary Degree Recipients and the 1994 recipient of the Alumni Honour Award - Professor Dennis McPherson Staff and Faculty are welcome to attend. For information contact Denise Bruley 343-8372 DAY PROGRAM Morning ceremony: 9:00 AM Nellie Cournoyea will give the Convocation Address. Honorary Degrees will be conferred upon Nellie Cournoyea and Ian Tamblyn. The Title of Fellow of the University will be conferred upon Elizabeth Chalmers. Degrees will be conferred as follows: MA, MSc, HBA, HBFA, HBMus, HBSW, HBSc, BA, BSc, HBScN, HBOR, Diploma in Library and Information Studies. Chancellor's Luncheon: The Chancellor welcomes graduates, members of the LU Alumni Association, faculty and guests to a luncheon in the Main and Residence Cafeterias between 12 noon and 2:00 PM. Dedication Ceremony: The Chancellor invites graduates, members of the LU Alumni Association, faculty and guests to a dedication Ceremony of Halliday Hall, Avila Centre at 12 noon. Afternoon ceremony: 2:30 PM The Honourable Henry N.R. Jackman, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario will bring greetings. Ursula Franklin will give the Convocation Address and Honorary Degrees will be conferred upon Ursula Franklin and James MacNeill. Degrees will be conferred as follows: MA, MSc(Applied Sports Science and Coaching), MScF, MEd, HBComm, BAdmin, BEd, Native Language Instructors' Diploma, Bachelor of Engineering, Diploma in Engineering Technology, HBScF, Diploma in Integrated Forest Resources Management, HBPE. 5:00 p.m. Dedication Ceremony: The Chancellor invites graduates, members of the LU Alumni Association, facuity and guests to a dedication ceremony of The Olga Merz School of Nursing Building. 2 AGORA May 1994 �CONVOCATION 1994 DEDICATION CEREMONIES HONOUR TWO UNIVERSITY BENEFACTORS The Olga Merz School of Nursing Building Halliday Hall Olga Merz was born O lga AndruczykonApril 19. 1914.inFort William, Ontario. She was the only child of Harry and Mary Andrucz.yk. who were originally from Craz, Poland. Mts. Merz grew up in Thunder Bay where she attended high school. She particularly enjoyed the study of languages. While in school. Mrs. Merz worked the bottling line at her father's 7-Up Bottling Company. In 1945. Mrs. Merz moved with her mother to Chicago, lllinois. Shortly after her arrival in the United States. Mrs. Merz met her husband. William. Mr. Merz was born in Seitingen. WestGennany in 1907. He emigrated to the United S tates in 1927. At the time William met Olga, he was employed as a surgical instrument manufacturer. They were married in 1935. Shortly after World Warll Mr. Merz. went to work for a division of Baxter International and continues to work there as of this date. During his tenure at Baxter International. Mr. Merz has become renowned for his contributions to the field of Neurological Surgery. specifically for his efforts in improving the surgical treatment of patients through his work with surgical instrumentation. Olga and William Merz. were married for fifty-five years. On June 20. 1992. Mrs. Merz died at the age of seventy-eight. Mr. Merz has chosen to commemorate her life by establishing the generous Olga Merz Endowment Fund at Lakehead University which will provide in perpetuity financial support to deserving students who wish to attend Lakehead. To acknowledge Mr. Merz's leadership gift in memory of his wife. Lakehead University will officially name The Olga Merz School of Nursing Building in a special dedication service at at 5:00 PM on Saturday, May 28. 1994. Diploma Frames... Videotapes ... Books and Gifts The Alumni Association is offering a Degree Framing Service in the lobby of the Community Auditorium all day on Saturday, May 28. Graduates may purchase apolished gold-coloured frame complete with a mat with the official colours and logo of the University for the special price of $47 (including taxes). Videotapes of morning and afternoon Convocation ceremonies will be sold by the staff of the Communications Technology Resource Centre. The Alumni Bookstore and Intersection will be open between 11 :00 AM and 3:00 PM. AGORA 3 Evelyn Halliday was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, on April 20, 19 18, the only child of Scottish parents, Alexander and Evelyn Halliday. He r father, an accountant and outdoorsman. first visited Fort William, Ontario, in 1911 and found the area much to his liking Lake Superior reminded him of the ocean and the KaministiquiaRiverand Mount McKay were like the rivers and rolling hills of the south of Scotland. When World War I broke out, Alexander Halliday joined the 8th Battalion of the Royal 90th Winnipeg Rifles - the "Little Black Devils" - one of first Canadian contingents to fight in the trenches of France. In 19 17 he married Evelyn Beattie Skilling in Scotland and after the war the couple emigrated to Canada, where Mr. Halliday worked as Assessment Commissioner and Tax Collector for the City of Fort William. Miss HaJliday was educated at Central School. Isabella Street School and Fort William Collegiate Institute. It was while she was at school that Miss Halliday developed a love of language, literature and art instilled in her by her parents. She also developed lasting friendships with many of her teachers who kept in touch with Evelyn long after her graduation. Shortly after World War n was declared, Evelyn joined the Canadian Air Force and was sent for training to southern Ontario. There she met and became engaged to a young Scouish officer. Evelyn was in England when she learned her fiance had tragically lost his life in a bombing raid over Europe. When the war ended, Miss Halliday returned 10 Thunder Bay and worked for Great Lakes Paper until 1947 when she was diagnosed with cancer and began a program of radium treatments. Her strong will. detennination and courage have seen her through many health-related tribulations over the years. Evelyn Halliday also played a key role in ensuring that a memorial was built at the Thunder Bay Airport to commemorate the people of Thunder Bay who served in The Batlle of Britain. She is an avid reader and keeps a passionate interest in the issues of the handicapped. A long-time supporter of Lakehead University's A wards Program. in October 199 l Miss Halliday made a leadership gift in honour of the Share Our Northern Vision Campaign. In recognition of her generosity. Lakehead University will officially name the fellowship residence portion of Lakehead's newly acquired Avila Centre. Halliday Hall. A dedication ceremony will be held at 12:00 noon on Saturday May 28th at the Avila Centre. May 1994 �REPORT FROM THE PRESIDENT Ideas for Savings Dr. Robert Rosehart President Lakehead University Convocation 1994 A record numberof graduates will be on stage at the Community Auditorium on Saturday, May 28. 1994 as well as four honorary degree recipients and a Fellow recipie nt. This is a special day for the graduates, and they would be most honoured to share it with you. Contribution to Teaching Award A special congratulations to Dr. K. Natarajan of the Department of ElectricaJ Engineering who has been named by the Senate Committee on Teaching and Leaming as the recipient of the 1994 Contribution to Teaching Award. Congratulations on a job well done! 1994 Operating Budget On Tuesday, May 17, 1994, we took the 1994 Operating Budget to the Board of Governors for approval. As 1 write this on May 16, Lakehead has yet to receive its detailed allocation from the Province but, operationaJly. we have decided to move forward with our estimates on income. Considering that the fiscaJ year for government s tarts on April 1, it is hard to believe that every year it takes so long to inform the transfer agencies of their aJlocations. There has been much written about accountability in recent months. and this process is one that should be looked into for efficiency. In the various deliberations that led up to the recommended budget, a considerable effort was made by LU's Task Force on Funding to look at the suggestions for saving money submitted by members of the Lakehead University community. (You will remember that this input was part of the process outlined in our SociaJ Contract Agreement.) The Task Force has considered all of the suggestions and has informally ranked them as being either "short-tenn" or "long-term" savings. As well it was noted whether the suggestions were fora "one-time" savings or a "recurring" savings. Vice-President Fred Poulter and Vice-President John Whitfield will now take a more detailed look at implementing the suggestions and, in a future column, I will report back on some case studies. Anti-Racism Project Work on this initiative. co-ordinated by Linda Penner. continues. During the coming months some of you will be randomly selected and asked to participate in a voluntary and confidential campus survey. I would encourage you 10 take the time to participate. External Relations Joy Himmelman has assumed the position of Director of External Relations a nd is on secondment from her position as Director of Student Services. The former Director of External Relations, John Russell . left Thunder Bay on April 27th to take up a new position at a University in England. It is very important that the ongoing fund-raising and Alumni initiatives continue without interruption and Joy will fill the vacancy created by John Russell's departure. The position of Directorof Student Services. vacated by Ms Himmelman. was posted internally and the selection committee will fi ll the secondment position in the very near fu- 4 AGORA ture. I expect an appointment will be made in Student Services prior to the end of May. I wish Joy aJI the best with her new responsibilities and I am sure that she would be interested in your suggestions or comments with respect to Advancement, lnfonnation and Alumni activities (343-8000, Avila Centre). Royal Fellow• Dr. Roger Mitchell Although it is somewhat "old" news by now, I would like to offer my speciaJ congratulations to Dr. Roger Mitchell of the Department of Geology on being named the first Lakehead University faculty member to be elected to the RoyaJ Society of Canada. Donated Vacation Update Social Contract As you know, a key part of our SociaJ Contract Agreement has been additional voluntary vacation time without pay. This past year. our target was $200,000, and we achieved approximately $ 125,000. Although we did not reach our goal, combined with additionaJ income and savings, we did manage to achieve our desired budget without the need to take involuntary "Rae Days". For the 1994-95 fiscal year. starting on May 1, 1994, our donated vacation target in Year Two of the Lakehead University Social Contract is$100,000. To date, very early in the year, we already have commitments for approximately $25,000. I would encourage anyo_ne who is interested in additionaJ donated vacation time to put the request in writing to their immediate supervisor who will forward the approved request to Human Resources for processing. As was the case last year, for the first month taken, Lakehad University will continue to pay benefits and pension contributions. Beyond one month, you would have to make arrangements to pay benefit premiums and the appropriate pension contributions (if desired). If requested, payroll deductions for donated time may be arranged over extended periods of time. continued on page 5 May 1994 �AROUND CAMPUS . \/ Report from the President continued from page 4 , We have had some difficulties in the past with employees being able to arrange specific dates with their supervisors. However, I have sent a strong message to management to be as flexible as possible with request dates. We have been able to accommodate most. but not all, requests. Problems have arisen in small units when a minimal number of staff is needed for continuing operations. If you are having any.difficulties in this regard. please talk about your concerns, in confidence, with Bill Bragnalo. DirectorofHuman Resources. at 343-8757. ABORIGINAL PEOPLES' CONFERENCE October 14, 15, 16, 1994 at Lakehead University Call for Papers & Presentations All proposals will be considered Suggested areas include, but are not limited to: Treaties and land claims Legal issues and strategies Survival of Native Languages History, Anthropology, Archaeology Indigenous Philosophy Indigenous Art Economic development Education Non-status Issues Literature Science and Technology Cultural Traditions For more information contact: Dr. Doulas A. West Department of Political Studies Lakehead University 955 Oliver Rd Thunder Bay, Ont. P78 5E1 Telephone (807) 343-8304 Fax (807) 346-7831 Deadline for submission is JUNE 15, 1994 <·, ·---,~-. / • I \ )· )' .,..,, C, ~ ~(), DOUBLE HONOUR FOR MITCHELL Geologist receives highest mineralogical award and is the first LU professor to be inducted into the Royal Society of Canada It's been a great year for Dr. Roger Mitchell. Shortly after learning that he had been awarded the 1994 Past Presidents' Medal by the Mineralogical Association of Canada, he received a letter notifying him that he had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the prestigious learning society founded in 1882. Dr. Mitchell's primary field of research is with diamond-bearing rocks. The 'rock man• has trave!led extensively --Siberia, Africa, Australiaand the United States--studying diamond deposits. In the next six months he will undertake field trips to Russia and Romania. Roger Mitchell was born in England and earned three degrees from Manchester University (including a DSc) and his doctorate from McMaster. Dr. Mitchell joined the faculty at Lakehead University in 1972 publishing extensively. conducting extensive field work across the globe and completing two books. Obviously pleased with lhe awards, Mitchell admits that as a kid he was a "rock hound". Despite rock-collecting adventures in lhe moors of Yorkshire, he argues that his career in geology was strictly by fate. "I was all set to go into organic chemistry but apparently they didn't like the way I sketched the naphthalene molecule at the interview and I ended up studying geochemistry." After all his education. teaching and research. he sums up his lifetime of work in geology: "I like the intellectual challenge of lhe very complicated diamond-bearing rocks." Dr. Mitchell was quick to say that no accomplishment stands alone and he praised the work of colleagues Al Mackenzie of the Inslrumentation Lab and Anne Hammond. a technician in the geology laboratory. Fellows nominated into the Royal Society of Canada "are elected on the basis of distinction in their field and include many of the most creative and productive minds in the nation... Dr. Mitchell joins an outstanding group of scientists including Nobel Prize recipients. The induction will take place in October at Rideau Hall in O11awa with Governor General Ramon Hnatyshyn presiding. Upon his return Dr. Mitchell has agreed to share the fascinating and mysterious world of diamonds through a public slide show and lecture. The Past President's medal, awarded annually from the Minerological Association of Canada, is for excellence in research and is given to a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to lhe mineralogical sciences in Canada Dr. Mitchell was cited "as one of the world's leading authorities on alkaline rocks" and given the award "for his work over the past 25 years directed towards the detailed understanding of their origin and evolution. His experimental work is characterized by diverse methods of investigation and his attention to detail -- from field work to extensive analytical characterization." The Medal recognizes the breadth and universality of these contributions (in mineralogy. applied mineralogy, petrology, crystallography, geochemistry or the study of mineral deposits). rather than a narrow area of expertise. He will receive that award in May at the annual meeting in Waterloo. -- K. Shedden 5 AGORA ··, May 1994 �RESEARCH NEWS "With these awards, Lakehead researchers have shown what a broad range of expertise we can bring to tlie question of how to achieve forest sustainability in Ontario. 11 - - Dr. Duinker, Chair of Forest Management and Policy Enhancing Sustainable Forestry Development: Nine research projects in Forestry, Biology, and Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism have received a total of $1,015,700 in funding under the Canada-Ontario Northern Ontario Development Agreement--Northern Forestry Program (NODA-NFP) to conduct studies that will foster sustainable forestry development. The research projects cover a broad range of topics in the areas of integrated resource management, silvicultural practices, forest protection, environmental impact, and planning and forest resource management. Researchers include Dr. Peter N. Duinker (seated in centre), Chair of Forest Management and Policy, School of Forestry; (Left to right): Adjunct Professor Laird Van Damme, Forestry; Dr. William H. Parker, Forestry; Dr. A. Rodgers, Centre for Northern Forest Ecosystems Research; Dr. Harold Cumming, Forestry; Dr. Azim Mallik, Biology; Missing from photo: Dr. K. Abraham, Centre for Northern Forest Ecosystems Research; Dr. David Robinson and Dr. G. Twynam, Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism. Taking care: A Lakehead University committee ensures the ethical use of animals in teaching and research The Lakehead University Animal Care Committee is a President's committee which was established in the early 1970s to ensure the ethical use of animals used in teaching and research. The Committee composition and Terms of Reference are governed by the Canadian Council on Animal Care and the Ministry of Agriculture ·s Animals for Research Act. The administrative office for the Committee is the Office of Research and Graduate Studies. The Committee meets at specific times in September, December, February, April and July to review research protocols. The Committee's role is to ensure that all animal care and experimentation is conducted within the guidelines of the Canadian Council on Animal Care and the Ontario Animals for Research Act. Project forms must be completed for all animal use including research, teaching, testing and field studies. The forms may be obtained from Lynn Wilson, the Committee Co-ordinator, in the Office of Research and Graduate Studies. For further information contact Lynn Wilson at 343-8283. OCUA TO PREPARE DISCUSSION PAPER ON UNIVERSITY FUNDING An open meeting was held on campus on April 27 with members of the Ontario Council on University Affairs to discuss the Resource Allocation Review of the funding system for Ontario Universities. This review of the system for distributing operating grants to Ontario universities was initiated by the Honourable Dave Cooke, Minister of Education and Training, as a result of projections that the demand for university-level education will continue to increase for the foreseeable future while public sector fundng will remain at current or reduced levels. This reference anticipates that changes to the funding system will be required in order to realize the objectives which the Minister asked Council to consider. These objectives are: - increased accessibility - a stronger emphasis on teaching - the transfer of credits between universities, and between colleges and universities - ways to encourage cooperation. rationalization and sharing to increase quality and accessibility to universities and - a funding system which encourages accessibility, adaptation, and restructuring. The Minister further requested that in the course of its consideration of a revised funding mechanism, Council "examine issues in achieving an appropriate balance among teaching, research, administration and community service and in developing mechanisms for accountability in the use of resources in these areas." The meeting was attended by over 70 people, mostly staff and faculty, and a lively discussion ensued. Chair of the Committee Dr. Jill Vickers stated that by July 30 the task force will produce a discussion paper as a result of widely held meetings and discussions. After July 30, there will be another round of discussions. It is expected that the frnal report will be completed in November. 6 AGORA May 1994 �RESEARCH NEWS NSERC GRANTS TOTAL $781,578 The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council recently released the results of the 1994-95 Operating and Equipment Grants Competition. The Office of Research and Graduate Studies is pleased to report that 39 NSERC eligible researchers at Lakehead University were awarded grants totalling $781,578. Unfortunately, this is a decrease of 14% over last year. Approximately 33% of NSERC eligible faculty members hold NSERC grants. DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING Dr. S. Easa • "Highway geometric design for safety". Dr. D. Eigenbrod - "Measurement of pore water pressures in freezing and thawing fine grained soils". Dr. SA Mirza - "Strength and stiffness of slender composite steel-concrete beam-columns". Dr. U.S. Panu - "Extension of pattern recognition based methodology for infilling of missing va!ues in strearnflow records". In this year's NSERC competition, two of Lakehead's new DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING researchers were successful in receiving grants. They are: Dr. K. Natarajan - "Aspects of discrete time periodic control Dr. Meilan Liu, Department of Mechanical Engineering and systems". Dr. Wendy Huang, Department of Mathematical Sciences. DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Dr. M. Liu • "Finite element analysis of nonlinear shell structures; random vibration analysis of general nonlinear structures" and an equipment grant for an Engineering Workstation. Dr. H.T. Saliba - "Experimental and theoretical free vibration analysis of thin plates with various shapes, boundary conditions and complication factors". Dr. A. Sedov - "Ultrasonic transducer and flaw modelling for non-destructive evaluation applications". Dr. B. Singh - "Scaling criteria for jet cutting of oil sands". SCHOOL OF FORESTRY Dr. W. Parker • "Focal point seed zones and adaptive variation Dr. Meilan Liu Dr. Wendy Huang of North American conifers". The successful researchers in this year's operating and DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY equipment grants competition (new grants and renewals) are as Dr. G. Borradaile - "Rock physics and deformation". follows: Dr. P.W. Fralick - "Paleogeographical interpretation of archean sedimentary sequences in Northwestern Ontario". DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY Dr. R.H. Mitchell - "Petrology and geochemistry of kimberlites Dr. R. Freitag • "History of the North American Cicindelidae". and alkaline rocks". Dr. M. Lankester • "Parasitic diseases of Northern Ungulates". DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES Dr. L. Malek• "Dry seed proteasome and related proteins". Dr. M.W. Benson - "Parallel iterative methods". Dr. D. Morris• "Habitat selection, population dynamics and Dr. C. Graham - "Topics in functional and harmonic analysis". community structure of northern vertebrates". Dr. C. Hoang - "Recognition and optimization algorithms for Dr. R.J. Omeljaniuk - "Neurochemical receptors, actions, and perfect graphs". mechanisms in fish brain: pituitary axis". Dr. W. Huang - "Equipment grant for a Sun Workstation". DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY Dr. S. Li - "Distributed logic programming language design and Dr. T. Garver - "The chemistry of lignin transformations". implementation". Dr. A. Hughes and Dr. D.G. Holah - "Reactions of transition Dr. T. Miao - "Amenability of locally compact groups and metal-phosphine systems with hydro-borate and other reducing properties of the fourier algebra". agents in the presence of carbon monoxide and isonitriles". Dr. Y. Yao• "Sun workstation". Dr. S. Kinrade - "Aqueous chemistry of SilV". DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS Dr. M. Rappon • "Photoinduced reactions of dyes". Dr. M. Hawton - "Physics of membranes and absorbed water". Dr. NA Weir • "Studies of photodegradation of polymers". Dr. W. Keeler- "Optical spectroscopy of semiconductor DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING heterostructures and heterogeneous materials". Dr. L. Garred • "Hardware and software development and Dr. V.V. Paranjape - "Research in sold state physics". simulation studies to exploit spent dialysate for urea kinetic Dr. W.M. Sears - "The electrical properties of the surface-gas modelling in hemodialysis". interface of wide band gap semiconductors". Dr. I. Nirdosh - "Removal of radionuclide and heavy metal DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY contaminants from low-level radioactive waste". Dr. G. Hayman - "Separating episodic and semantic Dr. V.R. Puttagunta • "Generalized one-parameter correlation contributions to memory performance". for crude oils, hot water slurring of oil sands". Dr. M. Wesner - "Mechanisms of complex colour perception". ft """ r ~,1 AGORA 7May 1994 �PEOPLE, PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS Dr. Chris Southcott, of the Department of Sociology, is happy to announce the publication of his edited book Provincial Hinterland: Social Inequality in Northwestern Ontario by Fernwood Publishing of Halifax. A large number of Lakehead and fonner Lakehead faculty have combined to provide a comprehensive picture of life in the north. Contributions include Thomas W. Dunk, David Nock, James Stafford and Chris Southcott from Sociology, Paul Driben of Anthropology, former Lakehead faculty G.R. Weller, Stephen McBride, and Sharon McKay, Mary Ellen Hill (a doctoral candidate at Vanderbilt University with an M.A. from the Sociology department) and Miriam Wall, a local Economic Development Consultant. Topics include hinterland politics, unemployment, women and development, healthcare inequalities, retirement, Lakehead Provincial-Hinterland: University as Sn~it~Owrio a hinterland / _..,. --.,, .. institution, I \ fishing and natives. and racism and regionalism. all in the Chri,Southcou ·::~'.'t: ·· t cHtor ~~ • context of _., Northwestern Ontario. Editor Southcott wrote his own chapter on "Hinterland Healthcare Inequalities," contributed an introduction, and saw the project through to its completion. •;f~;~]11· Northwestern Ontario has until recently been overlooked by social scientists, either because they live in other regions or had other interests. Students were likely to hear about "elsewhere" because good local materials did not exist. Now this is changing. -- David A. Nock Dr. Thomas M. K. Song, Professor of the School of Physical Education and Athletics. Coordinator of Human Performance Laboratory, has published the paper entitled "Twin Resemblance in Somatotype and Comparisons with Other Twin Studies" in the Human Biology, Volume 66, Number 3, pp. 453-464, 1994. The study was collaborated with Drs. C. Bouchard and L. Perusse, Laval University, Quebec. and Dr. R. Malina, University of Texas. Austin, Texas. Dr. Laurie J. Garred, Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering, presented a paper in April entitled. "Simple Equations for Protein Catabolic Rate Detennination from Pre-Dialysis and Post-Dialysis BUN" at the 40th annual meeting of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs in San Francisco. The co-authors include Mr. David Barichello whose work as an NSERC summer student was a major element of the research presented. As well. Dr. Garred was invited to the University of California, Davis campus, to present a research seminar to the Department of Nephrology entitled, "Erythropoietin Therapy: Insight From Mathematical Modeling". Chemical Engineering Conference "A day full of learning and fun" The Second Annual Chemical Engineering Conference on March 26 organized by the LU Student Chapter of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering was attended by more than 50 delegates comprised of undergraduate students, alumni and faculty. The undergraduate student presentations were enjoyed by all. Mr. Dale Smith, Bleach Plant Superintendent, A venor Inc., Thunder Bay, presented the keynote address entitled "Quality and the Engineer'', which was the highlight of the conference and set the tone for the very animated disucssion that followed. Next year's conference will be held on March 25, 1995 at Lakehead University. For futher information contact Dr. I. Nirdosh, Faculty Advisor at BIODIVFRSilY Two Canadian natural resource scientists and a socio-environmental activist were invited to a Conference on building cooperative approaches to Ecologically Sustainable Forest Management in the Lake Superior Region, held at Hotel Chequamegan, Ashland. Wisconsin in April 1994. Dr. Azim Mallik from the Biology Departrnentwas one of the three invited participants. Dr. Alan Honey, Dean of School of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; Mr. Gary Larsen, Senior Policy Analyst for Natural Resources, President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development; and Laura Rose, Manager, Lake Superior Project. Natural Wildlife Federation; emphasised the need for multidisciplinary and cooperative approach in sustainable forest management. The challenge of accommodating ecological, economic, social, cultural and ethical issues in natural resource management and maintenance of biodiversity in the Lake Superior watershed was discussed at length. It was agreed that although it is often difficult to achieve consensus among landowners. natural resource scientists, economists and managers, building a cooperative approach would be the best way to deal with this complex issue of ecologically sustainable watershed m~agement. The stage two report of the National Wildlife Federation's Lake Superior Biodiversity project indicates that with good intention and hard work it is possible to achieve such cooperation from the diverse interest groups, landowners, natural resource managers and scientists to develop a workable land-use plan for a large watershed like the Lake Superior basin. The report will be publicized in the near future. (807) 343-8343. 8 AGORA May 1994 �PEOPLE, PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS Last month the Agora reported Ron Greldanus, a fourth-year student In the Honours Bachelor of Music program, had been accepted at the prestigious Mannes College of Music in New York City. Since then we have received word that he has also been accepted to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, another one of the top five American music schools. Now Greidanus faces the fough decision about which school he will attend. One solution he is considering is attending Peabody for one year and then transferring to Mannes, as he can defer acceptance for one year. Greidanus came to Thunder Bay from the small community of Londesbrough, Ontario, and was attracted to Lakehead because of the northern climate as well as the quality of instruction in the Department of Music. He will be bringing his career at Lakehead to a poignant end with the perfomance of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 at 3:00 p.m. on May 22, 1994 in the Jean McNulty Recital Hall. Dr. Said Easa. Professor of Civil Engineering. attended the Leadership Conference of the Transportation Division. American Society of Civil Engineers. March 25 and 26. 1994, which as held in Las Vegas. Nevada. and chaired the Planning Committee meeting which was held in conjunction with the conference. The purpose of the conference was to discuss future directions and activities of the Division in light of the environmental. technological. and institutional challenges faced by urban transportation. Dr. Easa authored an article, entitled "Transcontinental Highways Overseas A Reality". in Canadian Civil Engineering magazine, Vol. 11 , No. 4, pp. 6-7. The anicle is coauthored by Dr. A.O. Abd El Halim of Carleton Universit . AGORA Technical Sessions for the Midwest Branch of the CANADIAN PULP ANE PAPER ASSOCIATION Airlane Hotel June 2-3, 1994 Technical sessions for the Midwest Branch of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association will be held at the Airlane Hotel on June 2-3, 1994. Representatives from local mills and allied industries will present 13 papers on developments in papermaking, pulping, bleaching and process control. The meeting is open to anyone involved in the pulp and paper industry. Registration forms and information may be obtained from the Centre for Nonhem Studies at Lakehead University (807) 343-8360. At the members' dinner on the evening of June 2, 1994, Robert Chambers will speak on "The Future of the Pulp and Paper Industry in Nonhwestem Ontario". An exposition of services and products for the pulp and paper industry will take place concurrent with the technical sessions from 12:00 noon on June 2 until 4:00 PM on June 3. 1994. For more information contact: Dr. Theodore M. Garver, Department of Chemistry (807) 343-8619. FUN CAMP FOR AGES 7-12 2-week sessions starting July 4 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM For information call 343-8656 GIRLS VOLLEYBALL CAMP August 29 - Sept. 2 Ages 14 - 19 Cost $97 NOR'WESTER BASKETBALL CAMP Boys' Camp: Mini-camp August 9-12 Ages 10-12 $50 Day Camp: August 1519 Ages: 12-15 $97 Girls' Camp:Day Camp August 22-26, Ages 12-15 $97 Evening Camp: August 22-26,Ages 1619 $55 Registration deadline: June 30, 1994 NOR'WESTER SUMMER HOCKEY CAMP Power skating skill development Ages 9-12 $70; Bantam & Midget Development Camp Ages 14-17 $80; Defenseman's Development Ages 1015 $80; Advanced Skills Ages 11-15 $80; College/Junior Professional Camp $80 August 29-Sept. 2 Registration Deadline: June 30, 1994 FIELD HOUSE HOURS May -June Monday to Friday 8:30 AM to 9:00 PM Saturday 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM Sunday - closed July- August Monday to Friday 8:30 AM to 8:00 PM Sat & Sun Closed Closed: May 21 , 22, 23, July 1, August 1 September 3,4,5 Offfice Hours: Monday· Friday 8:30 to 4:15 PM Pool Schedule April 1 - June 30, 1994 Monday to Friday 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM 11 :30 AM to 1:00 PM 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM 7:00 PM to 8:30PM Saturdays 12:30 PM to 1:45 PM Closed: All Sundays in May and June 9 May 1994 �1 SENATE AND BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETINGS BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING April 21, 1994 Re-appointment: Dr. M. Kehlenbeck was re-appointed as Chair of the Department of Geology for a three-year term commencing July 1, 1994. Approval of Tenure effective July 1, 1994: Student Code: The Board of Governors accepted the revised Code of Student Behaviour and Disciplinary Procedures. Copies of the Code are available in the Office of the Secretary of the Board and will be available for wide distribution in late June. Appointment of Adjunct Professor: Dr. Michael Kral of the University of Windsor was ratified as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology for a three-year period commencing July 1, 1994. Faculty of Arts & Science: Dr. M. Johnston, Geography/CNS Or. P. Jasen, History Prof. M. Maclean, Library and Information Studies Dr. C. Hoang, Mathematical Sciences Or. A. Caristathis, Music Dr. W. Sears, Physics Faculty of Professional Studies: Prof. S. Cole, Business Administration Prof. M. Forbes, Business Administration Dr. J. Epp, Education Dr. H. Fennell, Education Dr. I. Newhouse, Physical Education & Athletics Dr. J. Taylor, Physical Education & Athletics Prof. M. Morton, Nursing Prof. L. McKay, Nursing Renewal of Probationary Appointments: SENATE MEETING April 21, 1994 Recommendation of Senate Committee on Academic Regulations: Senate decided that in the computation of a First Class Standing Average, in addition to having attained a minimum overall average of A in the transfer credit courses, students who have completed credits at another institution must have completed at LU a minimum of 2/3 of the courses used in the calculation of the First Class Standing. Faculty Elections to Senate: Elections of faculty members to Senate have been completed and the successful candidates to serve as elected faculty to Senate for the term 1994-1997 were: Prof. M.L. Kelley Dr. V. Puttagunta Dr. E.R. Zimmermann Recommendation of Senate Academic Committee: Senate decided to create the following faculties headed by a dean: Faculty of Business Administration Faculty of Education Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Forestry Senate decided to dissolve the Faculty of Professional Studies. Senate endorsed an administrative structure in which the Schools of Nursing, Outdoor Recreation, Parks & Tourism and Physical Education & Athletics be associated with the Faculty of Arts and Science as independent and autonomous schools. The plan is to implement this model by July 1, 1994, with the Vice-President (Academic} appointed to work out the details. Nominations Committee Report: Senate approved the election of faculty members to standing committees. Faculty Equity: Dr. Whitfield reported on the statistics relative to gender balance in the faculty as a whole, in appointments over the past seven years, and in applicants for tenure who were successful over the same period. These statistics are available in the Institutional Statistics Book (p.40} which is on LUCI. They are reproduced in the table below: Faculty of Arts & Science: Dr. T. Garver, Chemistry Dr. M. Shannon, Economics Dr. J. Lynes, English Dr. D. West, Political Studies Dr. C. Netley, Psychology Dr. M. Wesner, Psychology Dr. K. Brownlee, Social Work Prof. S. Taylor, Social Work Faculty of Professional Studies: Prof. J. Christy, Business Administration Dr. M. Rahim, Education Prof. R. Slipperjack-Farrell, Education Lakehead University Faculty Appointments over the past 7 years Vear Males Granted Tenure 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 Females Granted Tenure 4 2 12 12 2 8 9 2 3 4 4 10 10 AGORA May 1994 �NEWS FROM HUMAN RESOURCES Human Resources: Telephone 343-8334 Fax number 346-7701 Important Phone Numbers Holiday Schedule Just a reminder of important on-campus phone numbers that all staff should know: Security Emergency: all Emergencies: 24 hours 8·991 except: From Forestry Biology & Health Sciences North 9·343-8911 from pay phones & private phones on campus 343-8911 Monday, May 23 Victoria Day Friday, July 1 Canada Day Monday, August 1 Civic Holiday Monday, September 5 Labour Day Monday, October 10 Thanksgiving Day Christmas Break: The University will be closed at noon on December 23, 1994 to and including Monday, January 2, 1995 Security Business Line: 24 hours 8569* Health Services 8361 Emergency First Response Team: 24 Hours 8569** Direct External Emergency Assistance (Fire, Police, Ambulance} 9·911 except: from Forestry Biology & Health Science North, from pay phones & private phones on campus 911 Note: *The Security business phone number is incorrectly listed in the front of the LU Internal Telephone Directory as 8596 •• please correct this page of your directory. **The Emergency First Response Team is active during the Fall & Winter sessions only (September to April). First aid assistance is available through Security (24 hours per day, year-round} and through Health Services (during regular business hours}. Did You Know that the dispensing fee at the Superstore is only $2.99? Quote of the Month: Ayoung fellow was filling in an application form for the post of lifeguard at the local swimming pool. Atthe end of the form was a space for "any further information that might show your suitability for the job". He wrote the following: "Depth of swimming pool • six feet six inches. Height of applicant • six feet seven inches." LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY INJURY STATISTICS: January 1 to April 30, 1994 Medical Aid Injuries Approved Pending Decision by WCB Question: What do I do to show my medical coverage when I go to the hospital? New insurance cards for Prudential Insurance will be printed and sent to each employee over the summer. tt you go to the hospital in the meantime, all they will need is the policy number (71999 • which is printed on all claim forms} and your social insurance number. COMPENSABLE INJURIES Jan. 1 - April 30 1994 Same Period Last Year 18 10 9 Lost Time Injuries Approved Pending Decision by WCB 4 1 2 Number of Days Lost On Approved Claims On Claims Pending 34 2 41 •• SAFETY NOTE: The Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System, or WHMIS, is a program legislated under Ontario's Occypatjonal Health &Safety Act. The system is designed to provide access for employees to information concerning hazardous chemical products used in the workplace. Under this "Right-to-Know" legislation, information concerning products used in the workplace is conveyed through product labelling, access to Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS's), and employee education. For more information on WHMISin your department, contact your supervisor, a member of the Joint Occupational Health & Safety Committee, or the Human Resources Officer - Health & Safety. REPORTING INJURIES: Prompt reporting of workplace injuries is both a University policy and a legal requirement. Employees: If you have been injured or disabled on the job, contact your supervisor immediately. Supervisors: Contact Human Resources (343-8671} as soon as you have been notified of an injury or of a work-related disablement. "Working toward a safe and healthy environment for work and study." 11 AGORA May 1994 �CAMPUS CALENDAR To include your Department's event or activity in the Campus Calendar, please call Betty Hygaard at the Information Office at 343-8300 or mall your information to Avila Centre. Deadline for the June Agora is May 30, 1994. JUNE Friday, June 3 Seniors Day on Campus Senate Chambers 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM An informal afternoon to enjoy for older adults on campus at lakehead University. Meet university staff, faculty and students, learn more about the University and the Northern Educational Centre for Aging and Health. Mrs. Betty Chalmers, a Fellow of Lakehead University, will be the keynote speaker. Sunday, June 5 Laughter is Good Medicine All are invited to a "Tea Party" Sunday, June 5, 1994, at 2:00 PM at the Health Sciences Centre, lakehead University This event features a series of portrayals, giving a light-hearted look at the serious problem of misuse and overuse of medication among the older adult population. If you, or anyone you know takes medication, this afternoon of laughter and learning is for you - and your parents • and your grandparents. Open to the public. Free Admission Information: Ivy Isherwood 344-5080 Mark your Calendars 6th Annual Maintenance Choice Golf Classic Friday, June 24 Centennial Golf Course Best Ball. Shotgun Start. 1:30 p.m. Tee-off. $35 per person includes a Steak Dinner to be served in the Faculty lounge.Cash Bar, and Prizes. Shuttle Van Service to and from the golf course. Drive-home service also available. Everyone wel• come. To register contact Don Malcolm or Wayne Hainrich at 8920. LIBRARY HOURS - SPRING (MAY 2-JUNE 16) Chanceller Paterson library: Mon. to Thurs. 8:00 AM • 10:30 PM Fri. 8:00 AM • 8:00 PM Sat. 11 :OO AM • 5:00 PM Sun. 1:00 PM • 9:00 PM Education library: Mon. to Fri. 8:30 AM· 5:00 PM EXCEPT Tuesdays May 10, 17, 24, 31 & June 7 when the library will be open from 8:30 AM • 8:30 PM Information Desk: Spring/Summer Hours Mon. to Thurs. 8:30 AM • 5:00 PM, 6:30 PM · 8:30 PM Friday 8:30 AM • 5:00 PM International Friendship Days August 5,6,7, 1994 The Thunder Bay/Duluth Frienship Games To get involved contact the Thunder Bay Parks & Recreation Department Could you be a Host Home Family? The Office of Continuing Education is once again looking for famiiies to entertain a Japanese student in their home for one week this summer: August 13th through to August 20, 1994. Previous families have found it to be a wonderful experience sharing their Canadian customs with a Japanese guest. For futher information, please call Susan Burton at 343·8068. A GORA The AGORA is produced by the Information Office, Department of External Relations, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario. It is published monthly (except July and August) and is distributed free of charge to the University's faculty and staff, local govern• ment, media, business and friends of the University. Credit is appreciated when material is reproduced or quoted. Director of External Relations: Joy Himmelman Co-ordinator, Information and Promotion Services: Katherine Shedden Publications Officer: Frances Harding Secretary: Betty Hygaard Photography: Peter Puna and PR staff Graphics: Ben Kaminski, Nicole Sutherland Printing: LU Print Shop Address correspondence to: Edltor/Agora Information Office, Av/la Centrs Lakehead University Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 5E1 (807) 343-8300 FAX (807) 343-8192 E-mail: FHardlng@alumnl.LakeheadU.CA__ ., Alumni Mixed Golf Tournament Sunday, July 17 .. ~§: t; t: £u£ 'O ~ Centennial Golf Course $35 per person includes green fees and steak dinner To register call 343·8155 t.t 12 AGORA u££ + (I) .... .~Q) E~ Q) 0 .__ a..() (/) .. 0- N (/) ti 0 iIO May 1994 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lakehead University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1994-05 30th Convocation Agora Magazine Alumni Alumni Association Alumni Association of Lakehead University Convocation 1994 Lakehead Lakehead University President Frederick Gilbert President's Message https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/849c12ec8aee3f22281acb562abeb10a.pdf e631cd529fc8a221aefa3d70de63792d PDF Text Text LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY Thunder Bay Ontario, Canada Vol.12, Number 4 May 1995 Convocation 1995 Two Anniversaries to Celebrate: Lakehead's 30th Thunder Bay's25th Saul Laskin The Degree of Doctor ofLaws Honoris Causa - Morning Convocation Monique Frize The Degree of Doctor of Engineering Honoris Causa•· Afternoon Convocation It seems fitting this year, as Thunder Bay celebrates its 25th Anniversary, that Lakehead University will confer an honorarydegree on the city's first mayor, Saul Laskin. Joining him on stage at the Community Auditorium will be author Timothy Findley, genetics researcher (and Lakehead alwnna) Helen Donis-Keller, and engineering professor Monique Frize. Annette Augustine, a fonner member of the Board of Governors and now CoChairofthe Music and Visual Arts Centre fund-raising campaign. will be awarded the title of Fellow of the University during the morning ceremony. RobertJ.Gregor, presidentofJamesRiver Marathon Ltd., will receive the AlwnniHonourAwardintheafternoon. In addition, eight professors will accept the title of ProfessorEmeritus including Dr. George Merrill who, for many years, has carried the mace and led the graduands up onto the Convocation stage to themusicofElgar's PompandCircum- stance. Helen Donis-Keller The Degree of Doctor of Science HonorisCausa -- Afternoon Convocation Timothy Findley The Degree of Doctor of Letters Honoris Causa -- Morning Convocation Assistant Registrar Brenda Nelson says 1995will be another record-breaking yearwithcloseto2000 students expected to graduate. Afterthemorning'sceremonies, faculty, staff, students and their guests are invited to join Otancellor Lois Wilson on campus for ajointcelebration in honour of two anniversaries: Lakehead's 30th and Thunder Bay's 25th. Inside: Aids Education Programs -Are they Working?... Contribution to Teaching Awards...Biomechanics �REPORT FROM THE PRESIDENT Convocation 1995 TheConvocation is shaping up to be a special 30th Birthday PartyforLakeheadUniversityandaspecialrecognitionoftheCity ofThunder Bay's Silver Jubilee. I encourage all of the faculty to comeout and see the pinnacle of your efforts over the years. As you know, over the years, attendance at Convocation has not been stellar. I would remind readers that, increasingly, universities are being held more and more accountable to the public, and this is one very public occasion. Besides, yourstudents would like to see you there. Dr. Robert Rosehart President Lakehead University It does not seem like along time since my last column, so this one will be short. SSHRC INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE Budget 1995-96 TheGovernment ofOntario has still not given us our specific allocations for 1995-96 but, with or without the data, we will ask the Board ofGovernors, at their April delayed meeting on May 26, 1995, to approve the 95-96 operating budget. I have stressed to the Deputy Minister the need to get this type of information out in a more timely manner. The 95-96 fiscal year started May l, 1995! "Challenge '95: Social Science Perspectives on HeaHh Service Delivery Issues In Rural and Remote Areas" -August 14-24, 1995 Eight teams were selected by an international and interdisciplinary panel of senior social scientists, to participate in this 11-day event. All teams have an interinstitutional membership and comprise both established and new scholars. The home institution of the team leaders are -- Beyond'95 Throughout the public and broader public sector, beyond 1995 promises to be a challenging time. Challenge does, however, present opportunity for creativity and innovation, and we need to be up for the issues we will, as an institution, have to collectively work out. In the interim, I have detected a sort of "wait and see" attitude among most staff, faculty and administration and, although I can relate to this from ahwnan nature and behaviour perspective, it comes up short in terms of a planning model. Having said the above, I also concedethat itis difficult to know or to give too much direction until we see the lay of the land. I expect the new Ontario Government (whatever party wins) will bring in a budget in early fall which will include the transfer reduction targets. This will be ourfirst concretesignal as to the magnitude ofthe challenge before Lakehead. As well, the enrolment dust will have settled, and we can then look at where we may start over the next three to five years from a student enrolment perspective. Finishing off 1995 and entering 1996 will, as well, see the end of the Social Contract. University of New England, Armidal,NSW University of Florida,Gainesville, Florida University of Maine,Orono, Maine Alberta Cancer Board, Calgary, Alberta University of Windsor, Ontario Universityof Lethbridge, Alberta Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario Australia USA USA Canada Canada Canada Canada Canada Lakehead University will be well represented, having members on three of the eight teams. J. Farren (Kinesiology),L. McKay (Nursing), J. Park (NHHRRU), J. Tan (Psychology), with B. Cohen (Community Health Science, University of Manitoba) will form one team led by L.Diem (Nursing). M:L.KeUey(NECAH) and J.B. Minore (NHHRRU) will participate on teams initiated by Laurentian and Windsor Universities respectively. Health Canada and the Medical Research Council of Canada have recently awarded grants in support of the Institute. They recognize the Institute offers unrivalled opportunity for the establishment of ongoing and lasting contacts between international scholars who share similar interests, and for the development of joint research initiatives in this important area. This is the first MRC grant to be awarded to Lakehead University. For further information, contact Jean Engholm, Coordinator, at 343-2137. In consideration of the above, I have been encouraging the Vice-Presidents, Deans and Directors to preserve as much flexibility in staff and faculty appointments as possible and, as well, to present maximum opportunity to fill openings from within in order to continue our commitments to our existing faculty and staff. Although this is not possible in all cases, increasingly, it will be seriously looked at when openings occur. Ontario Election 1995 The talk continues. Little focus on universities yet except some philosophical remarks from Mike Harris, P.C. Leader on the issue of tenure. All tenured faculty might be interested in his perspective - Linda Phillips has a transcript if you are interested. 2 AGORA May 1995 �PEOPLE, PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS Lakehead University Wins Lakebead University congratulates the recipients oftbe Contribution to Teaching Award for 1994-95: Dr. Aris Carastathis Department of Music Dr. Doug West Department of Political Studies Dr. Scott Hamilton Deparnnent of Anthropology Thunder Bay Wins is the first communffy-based lottery in Ontario which serves over 90 not-for-profit agencies. As recipient ofthe allocation proceeds, LakeheadUniversity has awardeddeserving students substantial bursary dollars to help offset their education costs. This year we were fortunate to receive over$4400 which assisted over 15 students. We salute Thunder Bay Wins/ Students receiving a $300 bursary include: Dana Biernacki, Bachelor ofEducation, Stacey Blais, Bachelor ofScience-Nursing, TraC8y Cressey, Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Education, Michelle Cmkovieh, Bachelor of Science-Nursing, Allison Cyr, Honours Bachelor of ScienC8-Medical Lab, Delia Grandinetti, Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Education, Todd Irwin, Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Education, Clinton Kraft, Bachelor of Education, Anne Lamesse, Bachelor of Science-Nursing, Lori Naccarato, Bachelor ofArts, Bachelor of Education, Carrie Paukstys, Bachelor ofEducation, Andrea Peden, Honours Bachelor ofArts, Tammy Pentney, Bachelor ofScienceNursing, Todd Tran, Bachelor ofScience-Nursing, Chinaeme Ukwuoma, Bachelor of Science-Nursing. Dr. Daniel Klassen Faculty ofEducation Lakehead University was well represented at the 4th Circumpolar Universities Cooperation Conference at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George where Geoff Weller, our former VP (Academic), is PresidenL John Whitfield represented Lakehead's administration. Marg Boone, Lorne McDougall, Michel Morton and June O'Brien of the School of Nursing, all presented papers. Lorne and June presented their paper entitled The Native Nurses Entry Program and the lAkehead University School ofNursing: Supporting Cullurally Sensitive Health Care Delivery. In addition, the NNEP promotion/recruitment display was mounted for the information ofconference participants. Michel's presentation, Understanding Attrition Among Aboriginal Nursing Students, described research Marg Boone, Karen Poole and Michel are doing. Marg also presented a paper Understanding One Another's Roles: A Criticallssuefor Multidisciplinary Health Team members working in Northern RuralCommunities. This paper described the work ofMarg, Bruce Minore (NHHRRU), Mae Katt and Peggy Kinch (Nishnawbe Aski Nation). June O'Brien, John Whitfield, Lorne McDougall and Michell Morton attended the 4th Circumpolar Universities Cooperation Conference at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George last February. AGORA 3 May 1995 �RESEARCH NEWS Aids Education Programs Are They Working? Researchers at Lakehead Unisecond year similar surveys were versity have completed a three-year conducted and important changes EDUCA study investigating the ways young made in several parts of the educaFOR peopleenteringwtlversityfromhigh tional program. Inall, approximately school are prepared to cope with the POST SEC one thousand students directly parthreat of AIDS. The work was supticipated in the study, several hunST ported by grants from the Max Bell dred of them taking part in specific Foundation and the Canadian Founactivities. dation for AIDS research. An important outcome of the NursingprofessorCynthiaLoos studyisanAIDSEducationPackage and educational psychologist Alan for Post Secondary Students. This Bowd began the project bysurveying consists of a lively and informative first year students coming directly to hour-long video with accompanying the campus from high school. Stuactivities and resources. The video dents were asked questions about was made entirely on campus and their own sexual behaviour, their features students in frank discusknowledge about AIDS and safersex, sions of how to practise safer, reA HANDBOOK FOR and their communication skills and sponsible sex in the second half of HEALTH EDUCATORS ability to change behaviour that might the nineties. Young women form the put them at risk for infection. group in which AIDS is now increasAkm Umvd. 1-'h.lJ. & l)mhia l...oo..:. M .Hd.... H.N . Through the subsequent year a ing most rapidly. The video and variety of activities and resources some of its accompanying material were made available to all students and a follow-up surveysought take a close look at some of the different needs of young women to discover how effective each approach was. During the project's and men in avoiding mv and other sexually transmitteddiseases. AIDS 'We would like every college and university campus in Canada to have one of our AIDS Education Packages," says Professor Loos. "Thanks to the help received in production from the Max Bell Foundation, this should soon be possible." Among the many findings reported by Cynthia Loos and Alan Bawd were: •Students were generallyfactually well-informed about AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Many thank high school programs for this but believe they should begin earlier. -The desire to enquire concerning apartner's past sex behaviour decreases as time in university increases. -Students who had engaged in unprotected sex with anumber of partners judged their risk level for AIDS no higher than students who were in monogamous relationships. Many of the nineteen-year-olds took the dangerous view "it can't happen to me." -Young women were more likely to insist on safer sex than were males, They were also better communicators, and more likely to seek out current information on AIDS. To enquire about the AIDS Education Package for Post Secondary Students contact Cynthia Loos at Lakehead University, School of Nursing, Telephone(807) 343-8733 or Fax (807) 343-8246 4 AGORA May 1995 �RESEARCH NEWS Research on the 1995 Nordic World Ski Championships In late 1992, a group of Lakehead researchers came togetberto fonn the Nordic Championships Research Centre. The objectives of the centre included facilitating and encouraging research on various aspects of this special sporting event. Several of the research projects initiated under the auspices of the centre are now coming to fruition. Among these are two projects undertaken by Dr. Dave Twynam of the School of Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism and Dr. Margaret Johnston of the Centre for Northern Studies and Department ofGeography. School of Kinesiology Dr. Thomas M.K.Song and graduate student Ron Wilson have been working on the effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMEs) of various frequencies and intensities on energy metabolism. Neuromuscular electrical stimulation is commonly used in rehabilitation from injuries and to improve strength. Little study has been done on the effects of various frequencies and intensities ofNMEs on energy metabolism. The study attempted to provide the most efficient and least painful electrical stimulation training program for the able, the disabled and athletes. Both projects were designed to examine the nature of perceptions, behaviours, and attitudes related to the Championships, with two specific groups surveyed through the use ofquestionnaires: spectators and community residents. The spectator survey took place on site with 350visitors and 300resident spectators responding after random interception. Visitors were questioned particularly about their views of the host community and their levels of use and satisfaction with tourist attractions and infrastructure. All respondents were asked about their experiences at the event and their views on specific potential impacts of the Championships. The survey ofcommunity residents measures attitudes toward the event, perceived effects on the community, and respondents' involvement in the event. lnree cycles of surveying were planned. The first phase occurred in December, the second immediately following the close of the Championships, and the third will occur in the autumn of 1995. Dr.John Shultis, fonnerlyoftheOutdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism program, is also associated with this component of the research. Results from these surveys will help in assessing the impacts of the Championships on the community and the ways in which various segments of the Thunder Bay population experienced the event. Though not commissioned by the Championships Organizing Committee or City Council, it is expected that both groups might be interested in the results. Call for Papers and Workshop Presentations for Shaping Tomorrow's North - The Role of Tourism and Recreation -An International Conference for Industry, Governmentand Researchers Thunder Bay, Ontario October 12-15, 1995 Paper sessions and workshop themes:challenges in northern tourism; native people and tourism; research needs; culture and tourism; nature-oriented recreation; marketing strategies; eco-tourism; adventure recreation; environmental protections; planning for tourism and recreation; regional initiatives; land use conflicts. presented by: Centre for Northern Studies Lakehead University Phone: 807-343-8360 Fax: 807 343-8100 E-mail: robbie.ferguson@lakeheadu.ca 5 AGORA May 1995 �CONVOCATION 1995 HELEN DONIS-KELLER After graduating with an Honours Bachelorof Science Degree in Biology from Lakehead University in 1975,Helen Donis-Keller went on to complete a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Harvard University and is now working with the Washington University School of Medicine. Her title is Professor of Surgery and Genetics, and Director of the Division of Human Molecular Genetics, Department ofSurgery. She also holds joint appointments in the Department ofPsychiatry and Genetics. In theearlyl980s while working for Collaborative Research, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Donis-Keller led a project which included mapping the gene for cystic fibrosis to human chromosome 7. Recently. her laboratory has been active in the construction of genetic maps of the human genome, in identifying genes responsible for inherited disorders including some forms of cancer, and in developing predictive tests for these disorders. She has also been involved in studies to define the current status of genetic testing and recommending policy regarding the use ofgenetic information. SAUL LASKIN MONIQUE FRIZE Aformer alderman for the City of Port Arthurfrom 1959to 1960, Saul Laskin served as Mayor of Port Arthurfrom 1962to 1969 and was the firstMayorof the City ofThunder Bay, serving from 1970 to 1972. Born in Fort William, Saul Laskin received his secondary education at Fort William Collegiate Institute and later at Harbord Collegiate Institute in Toronto. He subsequently earned a diploma in Business Administration from the University of Washington. In addition to serving as president of Laskin'sFumiturefrom 1946untilhis retirement in 1988, Mr. Laskin has been active in community activities in Thunder Bay for many years. His achievements include being past president of Shaarey Shomayim Synagogue, the Port Arthur Red Cross, the Ontario Mayors and Reeves, B 'nai Brith Lodge, the VJ.P. Independent Purchasers, and the Port Arthur Rotary Club. He has also served as past Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Unemployment Commission ofCanada. and was a past Chairman of the Board ofGovernors ofLakehead University. having served on the Board from 1965 to 1973 and from 1975 to 1982. Muchof Monique Frize's career has been devoted to increasing opportunities for women in engineering. In December, 1989,shewas appointed the first holder of the Northern Telecom-NSERCWomen in EngineeringChairat the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton where she had the responsibility to develop programs to recruit and retain women in the profession. Dr. Frize was the first woman to study engineering at an Ottawa University. She graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Electrical Engineering) at the University of Ottawa in 1966, and then continued her studies at Imperial College in London where she obtained a Master's in Philosophy in Electrical Engineering (Engineering in Medicine) in I970. In 1986, she completed a Master's ofBusiness Administration from the Universite de Moncton in New Brunswick and in 1989 a Doctorate from Erasmus Universiteit in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. At UNB, Dr. Frize teaches in the Department ofElectrical Engineering and is a research faculty member of the Biom~ical Engineering Institute. She currently chairs aNSERC Task force whose focus will be to report how to increase women's participation in scholarship and university teaching in the fields of science and engineering. New this Year: Convocation Eve moves to the Outpost The annual Convocation Eve Celebration will be a little different this year. Instead of It being In the Faculty Lounge, the evening celebration for graduating students and thelrfamllles Is being held In the Student Centre. From7:00to8:00pm,acompllmentary beef-on-a-bundlnnerwlllbeserved, followed by the Introduction of the Honorary Degree Recipients and the Alumni Honour Award Recipient. Music and danclngwlll follow. All students, alumni, staff, faculty and friends are welcome to attend. Formorelnfonnatlon contact Kristine Carey at Alumni Services (807) 343-8155. 6 AGORA May 1995 �CONVOCATION 1995 TIMOTHY FINDLEY ANNmE AUGUSTINE Fellow of the University Timothy Findley's first career was in the theatre; he was a charter company memberof Ontario's Stratford Shakespearean Festival in 1953, and later appeared in several European capitals, in New York and Toronto, touring both the United Kingdom and the United States in Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, starring Ruth Gordon. With the encouragement of both Wilder and Gordon, by 1963 Findley turned to fulltime writing, and first came to prominence with his third novel, The Wars, winnerofaGovernor-General' s Award ( 1977) and now a Canadian classic. Following such best-sellers as Famous Last Words ( 1981 ), his first mystery-The Telling ofUes-was awarded an "Edgar" in 1989. His most recent collection of shon fiction, Stones, won Ontario' s Trillium Award in 1989, whilehisfirstbookof non-fiction, InsideMemory:Pages from a Writer' sWorkbook, in 1991 made him the first two-time winner of a Canadian Authors Association award. Other books and plays include Not ' WantedontheVoyage, Headhunter, and The Stillborn Lover. In 1994, Findley's body of work earned him the Toronto Arts Award in Writing and Publishing. He is an Officerof the Order of Canada (1986) and has also been awarded the Order of Ontario ( 1991) as well as several Honorary Doctorates. Annette Augustine isa greatfriend ofLakehead University, both in spirit and action. From 1989-93shewasamemberoftheLakehead Board of Governors where she served on tbelnvestment,Nominatingand ExewtiveCommittees. During that time she and Syd Halter became Co-Chairs ofa largely grassroots fundraising campaign which has succeeded in surpassing its goal of $500,000 for the Lakehead University Music and Visual Arts Centre. Augustine was pivotal in helping to build the National Exhibition Centre, currently the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.In recent yearsshe served on the Board ofthe Art Gallery of Ontario where she worked to create a greater awareness about the North and its cultural needs. Born in Kitchener, Augustine graduated from the Ontario College ofArt in 1951. She and her husband, Dr. John Augustine, have beenconsistentgenerous supporters ofLakehead University. ROBERTJ. GREGOR Alumni Honour Award RobertJ.Gregor,tbedyruunicpresidentofJamesRiverMarathonLtd.,and a lifelong resident of Northern Ontario, will receive the prestigious Alumni Honour Award this year presented by the Alumni Association. BominSudbury, Gregor graduated from Lakehead in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in EconomiQi & PoliticalStudies and wenton to study at the University ofManitoba in the pre-masters program. He joined the Marathon kraft pulp mill operation in 1972 and worked his way up through the ranksofthe company to become president in 1989. Gregor is being recognized for hisachievements in economic development and environmental concern, and for his exceptional commibnent to improving thequality oflife in hiscommllllity. He is the recipientofthe Northern Ontario Business-- Executive ofthe Year --Award ofMerit, the Amercian Economic Development Council Award ofExcellence, and the James River Corporation Gold Key Award for Environmental Achievement. Professors Emeriti: Dr. Willem H. Baarschers Dr.Edward Bauman Dr. Donald Carpenter Dr. RobertE.Fanner, Jr. AGORA - Department ofChemistry - Department of Psychology - Department of Social Work -Faculty of Forestry Professor D. Gwynlleu Hughes Dr. Virshwar V. Paranjape Dr.John Warren Dr. George Merrill - Department of Physics - Department of Physics - Department of Physics -Department ofEnglish May 1995 �Having completed her education as a mature student, Gloria Fraser feels she has much in common with many of the aboriginal students who see her in her capacity as Native Counsellor at Lakehead. She is also sympathetic to students with special needs since she has had to overcome both physical and learning disabilities. Fraser spent six years of her childhood in a body cast because of a congenital bone disease. She was ten years old when she started school and with such difficulties as dyslexia and a speech impairment to overcome, it was a considerable achievement to eventually land a bookkeeping job in her hometown ofLunenberg, Nova Scotia. Gloria soon became bored, however, and began to search for schools that could meet her special needs. After some academic upgrading, she was able to complete the Bachelor of Science program at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. She then returned to Canada to complete her Bachelor of Education and Master of Educational Psychology at Acadia University. She has since worked with emotionallydisturbed children through the Newfoundland school system and for Integrated Services for Northern Children in Pickle Lake, Ontario. Fraser, a Micmac, is deeply interested in all things relating to her aboriginal heritage. She also enjoys photography, hiking, reading, and a number of arts and crafts activities. Her heroes? Albert Einstein and Helen Keller. Ray Rivard, one of the first graduates ofLakehead's degree program in Forestry and a former member of the Alumni Association's Board of Directors, is back on campus - this time as an employee in the Office of Graduate Studies and Research. As Acting Research Officer, Rivard negotiates funding for research projects and then monitors their progress especially the financial aspects. Rivard's credentials are impressive. He spent almost a decade working in the forest industry before becoming Regional Development Economist for the Ministry of Development and Mines. In the 1990s, he has been Manager oftheMinistryofTourismandRecreationforThunderBayand Sault Ste. Marie, and partner/manager of Loch Lomond/Candy Mountain Ski Resort. His wife Judy is owner and operator of Uniforms Plus on Memorial Ave. Toe Rivardshave three children: adaughter Shannon who has just graduated from Queen's, Jayme, a student at the University ofNorth Dakota, and Jeff who is finishing high school. Now that the children are leaving the nest, Ray and Judy have a new project in the works. In about a year, they plan to open a bed and breakfast establishment in the city's downtown south core. As a Lakehead University alumnus who was born and raised in Mississauga, Chris White is happy with his position as Secondary School Liaison Officer in the Registrar's office. He is responsible for admissions, counselling and liaisons which includes travelling and speaking to students in high schools and community colleges around Ontario. White completed an Honours Bach. &,, elor of Physical Education and one-year . ____,_ _ _ _ _ _ __. Bachelorof Education. He first volunteered in the Registrar's Office in 1991, and he felt then that this was an area he would like to pursue. Other jobs have included supply teaching, three years as Residence Assistant andsummers working for Conference Services. As Liaison Officer, White says it is his job to be accessible, to enlighten, and to make students aware of what is available at Lakehead both academically and socially. As you would expect from a Phys Ed major, sports occupy a great part ofChris White's leisure time, but he also enjoys music and reading. Most people would be surprised to learn that he actual! yearned money working as amovie/television actor before leaving the Toronto area. Since January, Rob Olivier has been Program Co-ordinator of the Native Access Program for Engineering (NAPE).Olivier, who grew up in Homepayne, Ontario, completedhis honours degree in civil engineering at the University of Windsor. This co-op program allowed him to acquire a broad range of practical experience working with traffic and roads engineering for the City of Windsor, as a junior construction engineer in Toronto, and wi ih a consulting firm in Sault Ste. Marie. After graduation, Olivier was employed in the Technical Services Department of a tribal council. As NAPE's co-ordinator, Olivier is largely concerned with the administration and promotion of the program. He does some tutoring, however, and finds working with the NAPE students particularly rewarding. In his leisure time, Olivier likes to run, cycle, hike, fish and photograph our rugged northern landscape. Indoor pleasures include working with computers and reading--"lots." Rob says the most surprising thing about him is that he is an engineer who does not play golf - a rare specimen it seems. 8 AGORA --Lo"aineSeppala May 1995 �PEOPLE, PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS _) l . SCHOOL OF KINESIOLOGY to host XIII INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF BIOMECHANICS IN SPORT July 18-20, 1995 Jc A GORA The month ofJuly will be a busy time for the School of Kinesiology as more than 200 delegates are expected to take part in theXIII International Symposium ofBiomechanics in Sport. Researchers presenting papers at the Symposium include Pekka Lutanen from the DepartmeQt of Biology of Physical Activity at the University of JyvAskyla, Finland; Frantisek Vaverka from the Laboratory of Human Movement Studies at the Palacky University of Czechoslovakia; Nigel Gleeson from the University ofStaffordshire, England; Lufteruis Tsarouchas, of the Helenic Sport Institute in Athens, Greece; and Ross Sanders from the School of Physical Education at the University of Otago, New zealand. Specific areas of discussion will be sport biomechanics, coaching and teaching, sport and special populations, training and rehabilitation and equipment design. The conference Chair is Associate Professor Tony Bauer who has been atLakehead University since 1984. Dr.Bauer's past research interests have included the Biomechanics of Exercise and Sport, the Effects of Footwear on Balance and Postural Control while his current study involves the Biomechanical Measurement of Human Power Production in Skiing. The social convenor of the XIII International Symposium is Associate Professor Moira McPherson who is also Director of the new Sport Research and Testing Institute at Big Thunder Sports Park. Dr. McPherson's recent interests have been in the area of applied sport biomechanics of winter activities and she is currently working with the National Cross-Country, Figure Skating and Ski Jumping Teams on Technique Assessment and Coaching Development. This is the first time that such a conference has been held at Lakehead University and it is a sign of the high quality of academic research being carried out at the School of Kinesiology. Not only will participants be involved in the conference proceedings, but there is a full schedule of recreational activities planned to hlghlight the Thunder Bay area. Special activities include salmon fishing, a canoe trip, nightly entertainment and dancing, an informal barbecue, slide shows, a First Nations Pow-Wow, local bus tours and closing ceremonies, which will be held at Old Fon William. Dr. Bauer and Dr. McPherson invite the residents of Thunder Bay and Lakehead University alumni to register for the conference and enjoy some of thew orId's most accredited researchers and practitioners discuss current concepts in biomechanics and sport. For more information on the xm International Symposium ofBiomechanics in Sport, or on purchasing the proceedings of the Conference, contact the University School of Kinesiology at (807) 343-8110. -- Tony McQuilter AGORA Best Newsletter p Lakehead University's staff and faculty newsletter was presented with the award for "Best Newsletter" at the Thunder Bay Press Club's annual media awards dinner last month. In addition two new Science/Research Awards sponsored by Lakehead University were presented. Winners this year were Laura Boast, a reporter with The Chronicle-] oumal/The TimesNews, and Mark Oldfield and his team from MCTV in Sudbury. BOUND FOR JAPAN For three months this summer Shelly Lyn Perozak, Robert Dew, Undsay Baker, and Kathryn Hauck (not shown) will be taking pa.rt in an exchange program at Lakehead's sister institution in Japan - Gifu University ofEducation and Languages. The students will stay with host families, study basic Japanese and learn about Japanese culture andsociety through lectures, class discussions and field trips. THANK YOU On behalf ofLakehead University Community Council we wish to express our sincere appreciation to the UniversityComrnunity fortheirparticipation infund-raising for LUCC. Sofarwehave accumulated $767 which will be used over the year to support the various children's activities. During the clean up/garbage collection day in December the University donated $1 per garbage bag collected with a grand total of $515. We have received several donations plus the annual donation from LUSU. We also have a penny collection and a monthly 50/50draw with tickets available at the switchboard. We will also accept Canadian Tire money which can be left at the switchboard. We appreciate your continued support. Cheryl Balacko, Bookstore Norma Gibson, Switchboard Heather Williams, Payroll 9 May 1995 �WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE LIBRARY m Lakehead University Injury Statistics January 1- April 30, 1995 NEW AND UPCOMING CD-ROM PRODUCTS IN THE CHANCELLOR PATERSON LIBRARY COMPENSABLE INJURIES Jan. ELECTRONIC HRAF The Human Relations Area Files (HR.AF) is a collection of resource materials on selected cultures from all major areas ofthe world. This collection has been previously issued in microfiche format, but is now being issued only on CD-ROM. This firstCDROM installment of HRAF contains text and graphics covering fifteen cultures. Cultures include Chinese-Americans, ChineseCanadians, Cajuns and Trobriands. Medical Aid Injuries Approved Pending Decision by WCB 15 8 Lost Time Injuries Approved Pending Decision by WCB Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM This is the CD-ROM version of the second edition of The Oxford English Dictionary. This dictionary is a record of the history and development of the language since its early origins before the Norman Conquest. Each entry traces the development of forms and meanings of a word in chronological order. This historical information is illustrated with quotations. Number of Days Lost On Approved Claims On Claims Pending Jan. 1-Aprll 30 1-Aprll 30 1994 1995 24 0 5 0 6 1 36 0 Twosummerstudents will bejoiningthe Human Resources-Health &Safety staff from May to August of this year. One of ourstudents will be working behindthe scenes setting up aWCB database. The database will help usto track trends in injuries andaccidents, and will provide uswith the means to easily calculate WCBsurcharges and/or rebates underthe New Experimental Experience RatingSystem (NEER). We anticipateth atthe infonnationwill be particularlyuseful to managers and supervisors infurtherdeveloping accident prevention programs intheir own departments. HYDAT CD-ROM HYDAT contains water quantity and sediment data collected by Environment Canada from over3,500 active stations and some 4,200discontinuedsites across Canada. Data ranges from the year 1850 to the present. For more information on these orany otherCD-ROM product, please contact Valerie Gibbons at extension 8129. Oursecond student will be visiting staffwho are currently using computers on the job. The student will be evaluating both computer workstation design, andjobdesign/task organization. As well, he/she will document injuries and/orphysical discomfort associated with each individual's use of his/her computer. Afinal report outlining aprioritized listof workstations requiring upgrading will be issued atthe end ofthis project. NEW AND UPCOMING SOURCES IN THE NORTHERN STUDIES RESOURCE CENTRE BibliographyofNative North Americanson CD-ROM This CD-ROM includes over 60,000 citations to "journal articles, essays, monographs, dissertations and U.S. government documents related to Native North American history, culture and life". It replaces the Ethnographic Bibliography ofNorth America. "Working together to create asafe andhealthy environment for work and study. " Electronic Finding Aids for Indian Affairs RG10 These finding aids allow for quick access to the records found in Indian Affairs RG 10. ASTIS Bibliography (Arctic Science and Technology Information System) The ASTIS Bibliography provides bibliographic citations and descriptions of research projects on the Canadian Arctic. Currently, this bibliography is available in the Centre on microfiche. In June, this Bibliography will beavailableforsearchingon CD-ROM For more information on these or other reference sources in the Northern Studies Resource Centre please contact Louise Wuorinen at extension 8728. Congratulations to the newly•el9Cted LUSU ex9Cutive for 1995· 96: President Adele Ritchie (centre), VP Student Issues Nicole Lewis {left), and VP Finance Sonja Hansen. 10 AGORA May 1995 �NEWS FROM HUMAN RESOURCES - Reminder: There are video and cassette tapes available for borrowing from the Human Resources Department. Health and Safety Certification Two members of the Lakehead University Joint Health and Safety Committee (JHSC) recently completed training which enabled them to become designated as Certified Members of theJHSC. Norma Gibson (OPEIU), representing worker members of the committee, and Peter Kerr, representing management members of the committee, attended three weeks of training with the Workers' Health & Safety Centre and the htdustrial Accident Prevention Association respectively. After completion of the training, Norma and Peter submitted a hazard analysis to the Workplace Health and Safety Agency to complete this portion of the certification process. Later this year they will attend sector-specific training, which is anticipated to last approximately one week. • The new designation carries with it both rights and responsibilities as outlined in the Occupational Health & Safety Act. These include the right to: - investigate reports that dangerous circumstances exist; -jointly order the University to stop dangerous work; -conduct workplace inspections; and - assist in the investigation of a work refusal. Norma and Peter will work together to enhance the internal responsibility system of the University in its mission to provide a safe and healthy environment for work and study. Congratulations! Something Bugging You? Buy5mart#3: Generic drugs helpto significantly reduce drug expenditures. On average, they are priced between 40·50%lowerthan theirbrand name equivalents {Canadian Drug Manufacturers Association). Generic drugs are high quality and just assafe and effective astheirbrand name equivalents. Increased use ofgenericdrugs could save our health plan substantial dollars annually, and still providethe employeethe required medicine. Have you discussedthe use of ageneric substitute with yourphysician and/orphannacist? Frequently Asked Benefits Questions: Call Your EAP 343-4626 For CONFIDENTIAL Help Q. ls there any advantage to being covered underourinsurance plan when my spouse has family coverage where he/she works? A. If the coverage isthe same for both spouses,there is no advantage except in vision care, where you can claim your expenses under both policies. Check your spouse's plan carefully to see if both plans are really necessary. It costs the University $139.09 permonth to pay for family benefits. Q. How do I submit claims for my spouse and children if both my spouse and I havecoverageunderdifferentplans? A. If both you and your spouse have coverage, you must submit your claims to ourinsurance plan, and your spouse must submit his/hers to his/herplan. Claims for your children mustbe submittedfirstunderthe plan ofthe parent with the earlierbirthday in the year, i.e. ifyour birthday is in May and your spouse's is in November, your children's expenses must be submitted under yourplan first, and any expenses not covered canthenbe submittedunderyour spouse's plan. Quote of the Month: There are millions of adults who can't read or count, recent studies claim, and if you don't believe it, take a look at the folks in front of you at the express checkout. HumanResources Telephone Fax number 343-8334 346-7701 11 AGORA May 1995 �CALENDAR To include your Department's event or activity in the campus calendar, please call Frances Harding at the Information Office at 343-8193 or mail your information to Avila Centre. DeadlinefortheJune Agora is June 9, 1995. MAY / JUNE 1ST ANNUAL VISIONS DINNER CHANCELLOR PATERSON LIBRARY HOURS Tuesday, June 20 Spring Session-May 1to June 15, 1995 The CNIBandtheAlumniAssociation present aspecial fundraisi ng dinnerfeaturing "The Wit and Witticismof ArthurBlack," atthe Italian Centennial Hall. Tickets are $30. For informationcall 345-3341. Mon.toThurs. Friday: Saturday: Sunday: 8:00amto 10:30pm 8:00amto 5:00pm 11 :0Oamto 11 :30pm 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm Monday May 22 (Victoria Day} the Library will be closed. TEA-'N-TOTS'-FASHION Sunday, June 4 CONVOCATION EVE CELEBRATION Friday, May 26 Alumni, Faculty, Staff&Students are invitedto the annual Convocation Eve Celebration which will be held in The Outpost. 7:00-8:00 pm Complimentary Beef-on-a-Bun 8:00 -8:30 pm Remarks 8:30 - 1:00 Music & Dancing Formore informationcontact Kristine Carey atAlumni Services343-8155. Nanabijou childcare centreis hosting an afternoontea and children's fashion show (for kids aged 1-14 years} on Sunday, June 4at 2:00 pm at the Da Vinci Centre's main hall. (doors open at 1:00 pm}There will be general information relatedto kids.Tickets (in advance):$6 tor adults, $4tor children (at the door} $7for adults $5 forchildren Available from LUSUoffice, Kiddie Kobble,TtheSunglassClub, and Ettabets. CANADIAN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY WEEK June 12-19 QCONVOCATION D saturday, May 27 Thunder BayCommunity Auditorium Morning Convocation:9:00 am Afternoon Convocation:2:30 pm For more Information Call the Registrarat343-8269 Various activitiesand events will be occurring atworkplacesthroughouttheCity and atthe Children's Festival. An Awards Luncheon recognizing outstanding achievementwill be held on June 15. For more information, Call John Petherickat343-8001. INTERNATIONAL BIOMECHANICS CONFERENCE SCHOOL OF NURSING 30TH ANNIVERSARY The School of Nursing's30thAnniversary Reunion is setforthe May 26-28 weekend. There are anumberof activities planned for Saturday, May 27 culminating in adinner with entertainment atOld FortWilliam. A Sunday brunch on campus has also bee planned. Thedinnerwill cost$30and brunch $11. There is alotof excitement aboutthisweekend and manyformer faculty and alumni will be in attendanc~. Registration packages were sentout m early April. For more information contaci Lori atthe School of Nursing 343-8395. July18-20 Hosted by the School of Kinesiology. The AGORA is produced by the Information Office, Department of External Relations,. Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontano. It is published monthly (except July and August) and is distributed free of charge to the University's faculty and staff, local government, media, businesses and friends of the University. Credit is appreciated when materlal Is reproduced or quoted. 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Rosehart Lakehead Lakehead University President's Perspective https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/bf58a0318c6d8d1c0df73c7a8959577f.pdf 916c5382e46ef820725f386524146b10 PDF Text Text A NEWSLETTER fOR LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY STAFF & f ACULTY CONVOCATION '99 Lakehead University will mark its 35th Convocation on Saturday, May 29, 1999 by celebrating the achievements of three people with ties to Northwestern Ontario. Rev. John J. Pungente, a Jesuit priest and an authority on media literacy, will receive the only honorary degree being awarded this year. He will address the morning Convocation which begins at 9 a.m. Vic Prokopchuk, an entrepreneur and a consultant in the field of telecommunications engineering, will be awarded the title Fellow of the University. He will address the afternoon Convocation which begins at 2:30 p.m. Rev. John J. Pungente, S.J. Vic Prokopchuk Inside Dr. Mark Howe appointed Dean of Graduate Studies and Research ... 3 ATOP Announcement ... 4 Dr. Julia O'Sullivan appointed Dean of Education ...8 1999 Retirees ... 9 The Office of the Registrar is expecting approximately 1000 students to graduate this year. The Alumni Association of Lakehead University cordially invites you to attend Convocation Eve As usual, the graduands and their family and friends are invited to a luncheon on campus at noon on Saturday where they will have an opportunity to meet the faculty, staff and Convocation guests. Friday, May 28, 1999 7:30 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge to welcome the Class of '99 The Alumni Honour Award Recipient Diane Schoemperlen will give a reading from her recent work, "Forms of Devotion" Staff, Faculty, Students, Alumni and Friends are Welcome. For information ca/1343-8155 Diane Schoemperlen, author and recipient of the 1998 Governor General's Award for Fiction, will receive the Alumni Honour Award. Diane Schoemperlen More on Convocation on page 6. -- Frances Harding �- - - -- - - -- -- - - - - - - 1 ~; • • • - • + - - f - -- -- - - -- - - -- - - - - Agora May, 1999 Vol. 16, No. 5 THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO, CANADA ISSN 0828-5225 From the President's Desk by Dr. Frederick F. Gilbert The Agora is published by the Office of Communications and distributed monthly September through June. We welcome news and other submissions from our readers. Send them to: Editor, Agora Lakehead University 955 Oliver Road Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1 Telephone: (807) 343-8193 Fax: (807) 343-8999 E-mail:frances.harding@lakeheadu.ca Deadline for submissions for the next issue is June 1, 1999. Publications Officer: Frances Harding Communications Officer: Denise Bruley Analysis and Communications Assistant: Jennifer Willianen Photography: Peter Puna & Staff Printing: Lakehead University Print Shop Canadian Postmaster: Send address changes to Agora, Office of Communications Lakehead University. 955 Oliver Rd, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada PlB 5E1 Publications Mail Agreement Number 1497073 Find out more about Lakehead University on our website: www.lakeheadu.ca Click on "New and Events" Lakehead UNIVERSITY The provincial budget has been announced and was quickly followed by the election date of June 3. Thus, much of what follows may not materialize unless the Tories are re-elected. With that caveat, these are the elements that will affect Lakehead directly, or indirectly. The most significant commitment to higher education is the $742 million in the Super Build Growth Fund directed to colleges and universities over the next 5 years. Of this total, $660 million will go to new construction, $62.5 million to renewal, and $19.4 million to completion of ongoing projects. We have seen the consequence of the renewal increase already, as our facilities renewal funding for this fiscal year has tripled to almost $1 million from the $330,000 we are usually allocated. This will allow us to pursue more of the priority deferred maintenance and renewal issues on campus. The University has submitted two major projects for the new capital monies and did so last December. These include an Advanced Technology Centre to house CTRC, computer labs, smart classrooms, faculty multi-media and distance education development facilities, GIS, and Part-Time Studies, as well as a major modification of the Bora Laskin Building. We are exploring, in addition, the possibility of a joint initiative with the College, the Regional Hospital, and the Cancer Centre, that would provide a medical research facility in conjunction with the new acute care hospital. Lakehead University- May, 1999 2 The ATOP Program has been expanded by $62 million to fund all the student spaces applied for last November. This will not have a direct impact on Lakehead but will have a significant indirect impact as the 6,000 additional spaces will increase the provincial competition for students. There will be an "Aiming for the Top" Scholarships' Program that each year will fund 2,500 graduating high school students beginning next spring at up to $3,500/ year for up to 4 years. These will go to the top graduating students as they will be based on merit coupled with demonstrated need. The provincial government also has harmonized the OSAP loan program with the Federal Student Loan Program. This will facilitate access to monies for student loans and, in conjunction with the Canadian Millennium Scholarships Program which will be based primarily on need and secondarily on merit, provide additional fiscal support for needy students. A Strategic Skills Development Fund of $100 million one-time funding over 5 years and controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development and Tourism, will target support in areas defined as strategic by the government. The establishment of the Ontario Innovation Trust ($250 million) will provide research infrastructure funding for hospitals, universities and colleges and will be used as well to match CFI funded projects. This, too, is one-time funding. �----------------- S-•■ ;iiZ- President continued from page 2 As planned in the university's 1999/2000 budget, the government has confirmed a 1% increase in base funding, but there was no other mention of additions to base funding to deal with corridor, quality, or double cohort issues. In summary, student support and capital funding were the two major higher education components in the provincial budget. I am optimistic that our capital project proposals will be favourably reviewed even though the budget document only mentioned four southern Ontario projects. Furthermore, such a massive investment in physical infrastructure suggests the government is aware of the need to provide the spaces for the increased numbers of students expe·cted in the system within the next few years. Thus, this investment likely is a presage of future operating grant adjustments. Stu Julius Leaving Lakehead Lakehead is losing a basketball coach who has consistently pushed the Lady Nor'westers into the "Top-1 O" ranking of the Canadian lnteruniversity Athletic Association. Dr. Mark L. Howe Appointed Dean of Graduate Studies and Research Lakehead's new Dean of Graduate Studies and Research believes that graduate students are the lifeblood of a university and he is committed to enhancing their opportunities here in Thunder Bay. Dr. Mark L. Howe says Lakehead is a progressive institution, uniquely positioned to benefit from the Government of Ontario's new funding initiatives and "exactly the right size for effective change." Howe has spent the past 15 years conducting research and teaching psychology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. As a professor in the Faculty of Science, he has concentrated his research in the area of memory and cognitive development, and on many occasions, has served as an expert witness in the law courts both for the crown and the defence. In 1996, he and his wife Dr. Julia O'Sullivan established the Centre for the Application of Developmental Science -- an organization designed to make research in the arts, social sciences, health, medicine and engineering more widely available to the public. As Co-Director, he has worked with researchers in all disciplines as well as industry representatives and members of the community. Stu Julius, a Lakehead University graduate (HBPHE'77, BEd'78), has been on staff for 18 years and i.At:IBt.\j) currently holds two positions: coach of the women's basketball team and coordinator of athletics. At a media conference on May 10, he announced that he had accepted a coaching position at Wilfrid Laurier University and will be leaving Thunder Bay in early August. Born and raised in London, Ontario, Howe completed all of his graduate and undergraduate studies at the University of Western Ontario, finishing up with a PhD in Experimental/Cognitive Psychology in 1982. In 1998, Howe became a Fellow of the American Psychological Society. In 1992, he was presented with the President's Award for Outstanding Research from Memorial University. He and his wife Julia -- who has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Education at Lakehead -- met in graduate school and they have two boys: Galen and Reilly. While Julius says the Laurier team has not been nearly as competitive as Lakehead's (they have won only two games in the last two years), he says that he based his decision on a belief that Laurier has made "a major commitment to women's basketball" and he wants to go forward with them. Howe will take up his position on August 1, 1999. He replaces Dr. Connie Nelson, who has held the position since 1989. Nelson will begin a decanal leave on July 1, 1999, during which time she plans to continue her own research in sustainable community development. "Over these 10 years," says Nelson, "I have very much enjoyed working with my colleagues to enhance research and strengthen our graduate programs at Lakehead University." Nevertheless, he says, "I'll always be a Nor'Wester... Lakehead University has been an outstanding institution and I'm looking forward to coming back here to compete." Lakehead University -- May, 1999 3 �----------------;w■•■ •;-1------------------ Ahead of the Pack A TOP initiative enables Lakehead to position itself in the forefront of Canadian universities by Frances Harding Lakehead University is ahead of most other universities in Canada when it comes to computing power. Way ahead. The shift has come about with the delivery of the Cray-Origin 2000, a super computer manufactured by Silicon Graphics (SGI) which, according to company president David J. Wharry, "is the most powerful super computer at any university in Ontario" and one of 500 in the world. The "Cray" arrived in April packed in wooden crates the size of ice-fishing huts. It was acquired with the help of the Access to Opportunities Program, a $150-million initiative of the Ontario Ministry of Education and Training designed to increase the number of university spaces in "high tech" fields such as engineering, computer science, and other high demand technology programs. CTRC Director Bob Angell: Lakehead has shown great leadership in the area of technology, innovation and high performance computing with the recent purchase of the Cray-Origin 2000 "super" computer The "ATOP" program has enabled Lakehead to partner with three giants in the computer industry: IBM, Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc. and SGI and to secure $5-million in grants, donations and matching contributions. It strategically initiated the introduction of the newly approved Software Engineering Program wh ich will commence in September 1999 and is projected to accommodate 130 "ATOP" eligible students. Added to the projected 35 additional electrical engineering students, this enables the Faculty of Engineering to potentially contribute a total of 165 students toward the required 225. In return, Lakehead has promised to increase enrolment in its engineering and computer science programs by approximately 225 undergraduate students over the next three years. Lakehead's Faculty of Engineering anticipated the move toward targeted funding, a full year ahead of the Ontario Government's announcement of the ATOP program. In addition to the "Cray," Lakehead has secured a contribution from IBM in the form of 32 lntellistation MPro high end work stations, 40 PC300 GL personal computers, and a VisualAge software package consisting of leading edge development tools that will provide "open" solutions through object oriented technology. From Sun Microsystems of.Canada Inc. , Lakehead has received 84 Sun TM Ultra™ 1O work stations and 2 Sun Enterprise™ 4500 servers running the Solaris™ operating environment. The driving force behind the move toward enhancing the University's computing capabilities has been Lakehead President Fred Gilbert. "We are now in an unprecedented position to offer the kind of computer technology usually only offered at the larger universities," he says, "These are truly exciting times for Lakehead." ATOP partners (l-r) - Brian Semkowski, Vice-President, Sun Canada ISO; John Kutchy, General Manager, Education Industry, Canada, IBM; Dr. Fred Gilbert, President of Lakehead University; David Trick, Assistant Deputy Minister, Post-secondary Education Division, Ministry of Education and Training; and David J. Wharry, President of SGI The fact that LUSU endorsed the University's suggestion to levy a $50 Technology Fee (on top of the existing Student Activity Fee of $338) to improve student access to basic computer Lakehead University- May, 1999 4 �-.siirii•■.wz-1---------------Ahead of the Pack continued from page 4 First in Ontario service, including 24-hour access for students, is a testament to the seriousness of the need being expressed by many on campus and the commitment of all parties to address the issue. It's not just students who will benefit from the enhanced technology. Researchers across disciplines will be able to access integrated, high-performance computing for applications in science, engineering, computer science, mathematics, visual arts, and other areas. The new technology will also provide visualization capabilities for 3D imaging applications such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), bioengineering and computer-aided design (CAD) and molecular modelling. Dr. Minoru Hasegawa, chair of the ·Department of Computer Science, says that although there will be a learning curve for faculty and staff in getting used to working with the "Cray," he is confident it will be an asset, particularly for the students. Dr. Henri T. Saliba, dean of the Faculty of Engineering, says the additional computational capability will provide Lakehead researchers with the means to investigate more challenging engineering issues than was ever possible before. "It will help raise the Faculty's research profile to new heights, and attract and keep high quality faculty in some of the critical engineering areas," he says. "As for our electrical and software engineering students, they will have the added advantage of gaining direct access to over 40 new IBM computers for the purpose of hands-on hardware training." According to Saliba, the Faculty of Engineering in partnership with Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd. and Fluke Electronics Canada Inc. is upgrading its electrical and software engineering laboratory facilities. The over $1-million worth of equipment and teaching tools which will be provided by Fluke and HewlettPackard will put Lakehead's laboratory facilities at the forefront of technology. The details of these partnerships and upgrades will be announced on the date of the material's arrival on campus this summer. What is behind this trend for government to support educational initiatives in the high tech sector? Changing global markets and a significantly altered global economy have led to critical shortages in the high tech areas of engineering and computer science, says Gilbert. A recent survey conducted by the Information Technology Association of Canada, found that Canada's high-tech industry is expected to generate at least 30,000 jobs over the next two years. As a result, there will be an even stronger demand for graduates in the high technology areas of engineering and computer science. Marianne Ariganello, a second-year chemical engineering student and the recipient of no fewer than eight entrance scholarships, received the first Ontario region university entrance level scholarship to be given out by the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation. The Foundation is a national non-profit organization established by Canada's engineering community in memory of the 14 women who tragically lost their lives at the Ecole Polytechnic massacre in 1989. In 1990, it established a national program of awards and incentives to encourage young women to choose careers in engineering, and to help educate young people about engineering. The presentation was made by Shirley Matile, vicepresident of the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (right) during the media conference to announce Lakehead's ATOP initiatives. "While there is an increasingly strong demand for graduates in the high-technology areas of computer science and engineering, graduates of all disciplines are expected to be competent users of technology," says Gilbert. "Our powerful new technological acquisitions will position Lakehead at the forefront of universities with the capacity to respond to the demands of our rapidly changing society." Not since the 1960s has such a huge investment in universities been necessary to deal with the expected growth in demand in order to help position Ontario as an economic powerhouse and leader in higher education in Canada. Any way you look at it, Lakehead is ahead of the pack and well positioned to prepare its students for the next millennium. And you thought the wooden packing crates were impressive! Lakehead University- May, 1999 5 �----------------'-.;a■,■ wi . - 1 - -- - -- - - - - - - - - -- - CONVOCATION '99 Rev. John J. Pungente, S.J. Doctor of Letters, honoris causa John Pungente has a Master's degree in English from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, a Master's degree in film from San Francisco State University and a Master's in theology from St. Mary's University in Halifax. Following his ordination in 1971 , Pungente taught at St. Paul's, a Jesuit high school in Winnipeg. In 1983, he was assigned to the Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture in London, England, where he conducted a two-year research project on media literacy around the world. Since 1985, he has given over 300 presentations on media literacy and serves as a consultant to a number of media professional groups including CHUM Television, the Alliance for Children and Television, Cable in the Classroom, the National Film Board of Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, YTV, TV Ontario, and Warner Brothers. In May, 1999, Mclelland and Stewart published More than Meets the Eye: Watching TV Watching Us, a book which Pungente co-wrote with Martin O'Malley. Vic Prokopchuk Fellow of Lakehead University Vic Prokopchuk, a native of Atikokan, is an entrepreneur whose first love is telecommunications engineering. In 1955, he designed and built one of the first cable television systems in Canada. After selling the company -- Norwont Limited -- in 1975, he continued on as general manager overseeing operations and working as a consultant on several cable and microwave relay and satellite re-broadcast projects. Prokopchuk, along with two other shareholders, built the White Otter Inn, a motel and dining room in Atikokan. In May, 1985, he bought the Atikokan Progress -- a weekly community newspaper which he then modernized and sold to the employees in 1994. In 1992, he was presented with the "Entrepreneur of the Year" award by Northern Ontario Business Magazine. That same year, the Government of Ontario appointed him to serve on the Advisory Committee on a Telecommunications Strategy for the Province of Ontario and since 1993 he has been chair of the Northwestern Ontario Regional Telecommunications Strategy Committee. Diane Schoemperlen Students, Alumni, Faculty and Staff are invited to attend the Alumni Association's Annual General Meeting to be held on Alumni Honour Award Diane Schoemperlen has been described as "a major literary talent at the top of her craft." Her book of short stories, Forms of Devotion, won the 1998 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. Schoemperlen was born and raised in Thunder Bay and graduated from Lakehead University with a BA in English in 1976. She is the author of Double Exposures {1984); Frogs and Other Stories(1986), winner of Writers' Guild of Alberta Award for Excellence in Short Fiction; The Man of My Dreams (1990), short-listed for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award; Hockey Night in Canada and Other Stories (1991 ); and In the Language of Love (1996). Lakehead University - May, 1999 6 Thursday,Junel0,1999 in the Faculty Lounge For information call 343-8155 �New Interdisciplinary Programs Build on a Strong Foundation by Jennifer Willianen Lakehead is building on its strong interdisciplinary tradition by adding several new interdisciplinary degree programs for the 1999-2000 academic year, says Dr. David Kemp, the acting dean of arts and science. "The realization that in the real world all elements are interrelated in some way or other has led to a general trend towards cooperation among disciplines, says Kemp. "This has been helped to some extent by the development of increasingly sophisticated technology, but the success of the interdisciplinary approach needs a basic philosophical acceptance of the importance of interrelationships. "Lakehead already has a strong interdisciplinary tradition with programs like Environmental Studies and Gerontology. These new programs build on that tradition." Education/English/History/Music In the Faculty of Education, a unique double honours program has been created which enables students to earn an HBA, BEd (English and History Majors). This five-year program, offered at the Intermediate/Senior level, is the only double Honours option in the Concurrent Education program. Aside from the natural connection between the study of history and literature, the program has been created to "give the teacher candidate a competitive edge leading into the job market," says Pat Jasen, chair of the Department of History. "Students will bring more confidence to the classroom because they will possess a strong core knowledge of two teachable areas." the Intermediate/Senior Specialization level. Music majors can also pursue an HBA, BEd at the Primary/Junior or Junior/ Intermediate Specialization. Philosophy/Political Science The Department of Philosophy and the Department of Political Science are offering a combined HBA. The thorough interdisciplinary exploration of these two disciplines will appeal to students who are interested in the more theoretical aspects of politics; the more practical applications of philosophy. According to Dr. Richard Maundrell, chair of the Department of Philosophy, "The new program in Philosophy and Political Science is a natural one in that these are disciplines which already share subject matter in common. For example, public policy is often shaped by philosophical considerations and the law embodies certain concepts of justice and ethics which are central to philosophical enquiry." Anthropology/Geography/Geology Geoarcheology (BSc and HBSc) is another interdisciplinary program which has been implemented. Geoarcheology integrates courses taught by the Departments of Anthropology, Geography and Geology. The program is tailored for archaeology students interested in the application of the earth and physical sciences. Dr. Scott Hamilton, chair of the Department of Anthropology, says that the program is one of a very small group of programs in North America, where students receive a strong interdisciplinary education at the undergraduate level: 'The application of the physical sciences to archaeology has become increasingly important at the graduate school level. This creates difficulties for students since most undergraduate archaeology programming is traditionally found in Anthropology programs rooted in the Humanities and Social Sciences." The program has been calculated to give students the foundations necessary to excel in graduate schools. Anthropology/Biology/Chemistry The Department of Anthropology has also teamed up with the departments of Biology and Chemistry to deliver an interdisciplinary program in Applied BioMolecular Science (HBSc). The goal of the program is to develop basic knowledge and hands-on skill in modern applications of bio-molecular research. Emphasis will be on forensic, biotechnological and diagnostic applications. Booster Club Golf Tournament Sunday, June 6, 1999 at the Centennial Golf Course Nine Holes -- Best Shot -- Meal to Follow Five Person Teams, minimum of two females $30 per person $150 per team. For information call 343-8213 Other new five-year programs for the Faculty of Education include an HBA, BEd {English) and an HBA, BEd (History) at Lakehead University-- May, 1999 7 �-----------------.;a■•■W+ . . .f - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Julia T. O'Sullivan Appointed You've heard of Y2K ... Dean of Education How about WNRO? Lakehead's new Dean of Education is a developmental psychologist and licensed teacher who says that good schooling is of vital importance to our children, our families and our country. (Week Number Roll Over) We've all heard about the Y2K problem, but there is another global problem that may be life-threatening. Dr. Julia T. O'Sullivan spent two years working as a school psychologist and coordinator of guidance counselling at the Roman Catholic School Board for St. John's before joining the Faculty of Education at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1987. The problem is called the week number rollover (WNRO) problem and ii is related to the global positioning system (GPS) which utilizes satellites to determine the three dimensional position of the user on the earth, such as in navigation (ships, vehicles, etc.) and recreation (sailing, hiking, climbing, skiing, biking, hunting, etc.) The problem will occur after the midnight of August 22, 1999. Basically, if you have a GPS receiver that is not WNRO-compliant it may not work at all or ii may work but give you incorrect information. She says she is pleased to be coming to a university that is thriving and growing, and especially to the Faculty of Education which has a wonderful reputation across Canada. Dr. Said Easa, a professor of civil engineering at Lakehead, wants to ensure that people know about it. Easa wrote a paper on the Y2K and WNRO problems, entitled Y2K and WNRO: Implications for Transportation, that has been accepted for publication in the June, 1999, issue of the Transportation Quarterly Journal. The paper is coauthored by Eva Lerner-Lam, president of The Palisades Consulting Group, Tenafly, N.J., and Kenneth Harvey, community relations coordinator, Seattle, WA. The Internet address of the paper is: http://www.transity2k.org/Paper4.10.99.htm O'Sullivan holds a BSc in Psychology from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and an MA and PhD in (Psychology) Child Development from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Her current research interests -- which she developed after joining Memorial -- focus on reading in children growing up in poverty. O'Sullivan enjoys the way in which theoretical research can be applied in practice and believes, "A university ought to be heavily involved with the community." Dedication in Honour of George Takahashi Along with her husband, Dr. Mark L. Howe, she founded and is currently Co-Director of the Center for the Application of Developmental Science (CADS). The mission of the Center is to develop and transfer knowledge and methods in developmental science to practical problems and issues involving children, contributing to the development of policies and services at a local, national and international level. Friends gathered in the Wolves' Den on March 8 to pay tribute to the late George Takahashi, a former Lakehead employee and longtime Fieldhouse user. The occasion was the dedication of the treadmill purchased with a generous donation from Mr. Takahashi. Shown in the photo are Mr. Takahashi's wife and daughter, Edith and Susan Takahashi. In the 1990s she was asked to consult on education for children with brain injuries by the Newfoundland Brain Injury Association. Her research and report prompted the province to rewrite its policy on special education. Subsequently, in 1996, the Association presented her with an Outstanding Service Award. What will she do first when she takes up her duties as Dean of the Faculty of Education at Lakehead? O'Sullivan says she wants to meet the faculty and staff and find out "how things work." Next she would like to gel out into the community to meet the educators (including preschool educators), community groups, businesses and government. Lakehead University- May, 1999 8 �--------------------,-.s» ■•■ •z- Best Wishes on Your Retirement At the annual Employee Service Recognition Reception held on April 14, 1999, Lakehead honored its long service employees and the folfowing staff and faculty who are retiring this year. Dale Black Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences Professor Black received his BSc (Hons.) in mathematics and physics and his MSc in mathematics from the University of Manitoba in 1954 and 1964 respectively. In 1956, he went to work at the National Research Council in Ottawa where he conducted engineering research for three years. He then lectured in mathematics at the University of Manitoba from 1960-1964 and, prior to joining Lakehead University in July, 1967, he taught mathematics and French at Fort Frances High School where he became acting head of the Department of Mathematics. Black served as a member of the Ontario Mathematics' Commission from 1969 until 1973 where he held the positions of chairman, Advisory Committee on Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology, vicepresident, president, and past president. Dale Black has always had an interest in languages and took courses in Italian, Spanish, Greek, Latin and German at Lakehead University. He has also served as a translator here and as an interpreter/ translator for the Latin-American community in the City of Thunder Bay. Black and his wife have had a lifelong interest in travel -- in fact, their first daughter was born in Pakistan. They have six children and five (soon to be six) grandchildren. Their retirement plans include a bicycle trip around France. John Coo/en Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Professor John Coolen completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of New Brunswick in 1960 and 1966 and worked for Bell Telephone and CAE Electronics in Montreal. Prior to joining Lakehead University's School of Engineering in 1970 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering, Coolen taught at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in the electronics department. John Coolen assisted in the curriculum development of the Department of Electrical Engineering which led to the establishment of the Bachelor of Engineering program in the early 1970s under the leadership of friend and mentor Professor Dennis Roddy. In 1976, Coolen received tenure and was promoted to the rank of associate professor shortly thereafter. In the years since, Coolen has collaborated with Roddy in the writing and editing of several editions of the textbook Electronic Communications and another book entitled Electronic Devices and Circuits. Coolen's research work included the development of circuitry for a modified ground penetrating radar system for use on rock and on ice. Lakehead University- May, 1999 9 Coolen served as treasurer for the Lakehead University Faculty Association (LUFA) for several terms. He also initiated the establishment of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) student branch on campus in 1984. He served as its faculty counsellor for many of the years since that time and has also served as a representative of the IEEE Winnipeg branch in Thunder Bay since the late 1970s. Emil Dolphin Associate Professor & Chair, Languages Professor Emil Dolphin came to Lakehead University in 1975 following studies at McGill University and at the University of Wisconsin and after teaching school in England and at St. Lawrence University in New York. As a lecturer, subsequently assistant professor and, since 1996, associate professor, he has been teaching Spanish language and culture as well as French in the Department of Languages. During Dolphin's career at this institution, he has been the longest-serving chair of the department holding that position from 1981 to 1989 and from 1996 to 1999. As a teacher, researcher and administrator, he has devoted unremitting energy to second language instruction, particularly to the application of new technology (computers and satellite television) in this field, to the organization of language immersion field trips in Spain, France and French Canada, and to the promotion of student exchange between Lakehead and institutions in Europe and Gifu University in Japan. An enthusiastic teacher, lover of foreign films, traveller, outdoors hiker, gardener and parent, Professor Dolphin retires from the formalities of his post only to pursue with undiminished zest his many interests in life. �------------------;«■•-•!- Richard Hanchar Custodian, Campus Development Richard Hanchar has worked at Lakehead University since October of 1989. The majority of his time was spent in Residence where he made a solid impression on the students, staff and his co-workers. Known as "the whistler," Hanchar has been a bonus to the University, and he is well-liked by everyone. Richard is always willing to stop and lend a hand and to do that extra little bit that makes a difference. Hanchar will be spending his retirement on some of his favourite hobbies -namely, gardening and home carpentry. His daughter will be relocating to Thunder Bay, and this will be an additional plus for him and his wife. Richard Hanchar's kind words, friendly greetings and positive manner will be greatly missed by all who know and work with him. David Ho/ah Professor, Department of Chemistry Dr. David Holah retired on December 31, 1998, after 31 years of service in the Department of Chemistry. During that time, he taught many different courses including introductory chemistry, analytical chemistry, and his speciality -- inorganic chemistry at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Holah is particularly proud of the fact that many of his students have gone on to complete their PhDs and pursue careers in chemistry. Holah has also had a very active and productive research career. He consistently obtained external funding, was a member of a Network of Centres of Excellence, and was awarded the Distinguished Researcher Award by Lakehead University in 1994. David Holah and his wife Marion plan to enjoy retirement by travelling and visiting with their children. Beverley Kent Associate Professor, Philosophy Dr. Beverley Kent, or "BK" as she is known, arrived at Lakehead University in 1990 after teaching philosophy al universities in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. BK's specialities include value theory and the philosophy of C. S. Pierce. In addition to standard introductory courses, she has taught a wide variety of subjects including logic, environmental ethics and American pragmatism. Throughout her career, BK has tried to challenge students to think critically and creatively, and she sought innovative ways for doing so. This was to the chagrin of those students who wanted only to swallow information and regurgitate it on demand. On the other hand, it earned the respect and affection of her colleagues and a large number of other students. Dr. Kent retired at the end of December of 1998. At this very moment, BK is on her way to Vancouver Island with her husband Don Roberts, professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo. Their plan is to monitor the construction of a new home with two studies, a huge library, and large room for table tennis. George Kondor Professor of Economics Dr. George Kondor joined the Department of Economics in the summer of 1974 as an expert in economic theory and mathematical economics. He had formerly been a senior researcher at the Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and taught economics in Ibadan, Nigeria, prior to his appointment at Lakehead University. In 1967-68, Kondor was a Ford Scholar at Columbia University, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of numerous articles and reviews dealing with theoretical topics in economics. He has presented lectures on economic theory in the People's Republic of China and in Eastern Europe. Kondor has been an active participant in educational and community affairs in Thunder Bay. In addition to his work on University committees, he has served on the Action Committee for the quality of Education and made presentations on educational matters to several royal commissions. He has served as a volunteer and board member for the Thunder Bay Multicultural Association and is a former chair of the Hungarian Friendly Circle. He has also been a member of the Thunder Bay Chess Club and a referee for athletic events. Kondor intends to pursue his lifelong interests in economic theory and educational issues after retirement. Work has already begun on a new book on the teaching of Mathematics which is designed to inspire students to move from passive understanding to creative thinking. continued on page 8 Lakehead University- May, 1999 10 �--s■••••z-1--------------his BSc with honours in economics, specializing in international relations from the London School of Economics and, in 1963, his doctorate from the Royal University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. He joined Lakehead University in 1965. Arthur Ponder Professor, Education Dr. Arthur Ponder took up his appointment at Lakehead University on July 1, 1990, as chair of the Graduate Studies and Continuing Teacher Education program in the Faculty of Education after a very productive career at Memorial University. Art, as he is familiarly known, has been a member of the Senate, taught in both the undergraduate and graduate programs in the faculty and has done significant work on "teacher absenteeism" focused both on the local districts and beyond. He has over 50 articles in refereed journals and other professional publications. Ponder, known for his humour, is a lover of the muse Thalia and has recently published a book of poetry A Bottle in Front of Me and Frontal Lobotomy. He also has a selection of poems published in various literary journals. As for retirement, Art Ponder thinks of it more as a view of life from lakeside. He may pursue his piscatorial habit. He has caught a few in his time and may even write about them as he "ponders" the finer things of life. Pradip Sarbadhikari Professor, Political Science Dr. Pradip Sarbadhikari comes from five generations of university professors. He was born in India and received his honours degree in political science and economics from Presidency College at the University of Calcutta in 1955. In 1958, he received During the course of his career, Sarbadhikari has attended and given papers at conferences all over Canada, the United States, and abroad. He has also been invited to give lectures by colleagues in Sweden, Finland, Switzerland and India, and he maintains contacts with colleagues at Utrecht and the London School of Economics. Sarbadhikari helped to create the Thunder Bay Multicultural Association which has become a model for the rest of Canada. Sarbadhikari's commitment to scholarly excellence saw him asked to be an advisor to the Minister of External Affairs from 1986 to 1989 in the selection of Centres of Excellence across Canada. So far as retirement is concerned, Pradip and his wife Conchita plan to move to Toronto to be close to family. Puttagunta was the recipient of Lakehead University's Distinguished Researcher Award in 1996-97. His viscosity correlations for Athabasca bitumen, bitumen-diluent mixtures, and just about everything else, have been well accepted by industry. They have been featured in a number of articles in the prestigious Mcketta Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing and Design and the Encyclopedia of Fluid Mechanics. He is a fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada and the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering. Rao served on the LUFA pension committee significantly improving benefits to both existing and retired faculty. He is currently the chair of the pension board for faculty and professional staff and is a LUFA pension advisor. Puttagunta will be moving to Edmonton to be closer to family. He continues to be interested in teaching but, because of the increased viscosity of stiffening joints, warmer locations are preferred! Keith Roy Rao Puttagunta Professor, Chemical Engineering Dr. Rao Puttagunta joined the Department of Chemical Engineering in July, 1986, as professor of chemical engineering, having a strong research background from Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (19671980) and Alberta Research Council (1980-1986). He also had a strong inclination toward teaching having been captivated by a previous exposure to Lakehead as a sabbatical replacement in 1977-78. From the time of his arrival, Rao has been entrusted with the teaching of the crowning discipline courses of plant design. Lakehead University- May, 1999 11 Professor, Mathematical Sciences Dr. Keith Roy began his career at Lakehead University in 1969. During the past 30 years, Roy has served 20 years on Senate, served on nine Senate committees, served two terms on the University's Board of Governors, served as assistant coach and head coach of the Lakehead University women's varsity volleyball team, served two terms as chair of the Senate Undergraduate Studies Committee, gave 13 talks on mathematical subjects to high school students visiting Lakehead and served one term as chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Keith and his wife Jocelyne will be moving to Peterborough in order to be closer to their family. �- -- - - -- - - - -- - -- - - • • · - • ! - - 1 - -- - - -- - - -- - - - - - NORTHERN AND REGIONAL STUDIES COMMITTEE SPEAKER SERIES THE CHANCELLOR PATERSON LIBRARY Spring Session Hours May 3 to June 16, 1999 1999/2000 The Northern and Regional Studies Committee invites departments and schools at Lakehead University to submit applications for funding to support visiting speakers. The funds are intended to offset the travel costs of the speakers, with individual departments or schools being responsible for other costs. Applications should include such information as the name of the proposed speaker and topic, expected date of public lecture, relevance to northern and regional studies, and estimated costs. Please submit proposals by June 30, 1999 to: Or. Margaret Johnston, Chair, Northern and Regional Studies Committee c/o Department of Geography For further information, please contact Robbie Buffington at ext. 8458 or robbie.buffington@lakeheadu.ca. ESL Program at Lakehead Residence will be a little more crowded than usual this summer. The University of Manitoba will be running its 6-week ESL program at Lakehead University beginning July 5th with approximately 200 students being housed in the Bartley Residence. (The change in venue has come about because the Canada Summer Games are being hosted in Winnipeg this su mmer.) For more information about the ESL program contact Dr. Arthur LeBlanc, director of language studies at the University of Manitoba at 1-888-216-7011. Monday to Thursday 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. NOTE: The library will be closed on Victoria Day, May 24, 1999 Education Library Hours Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday closed Sunday closed RNDON Reunion Were you a Residence Assistant in the '60s, '70s, '80s or '90s? Then mark your calendars for the Reunion of Residence Assistants July 30 - August 2, 1999 Come back to Lakehead for a weekend of fun. For information contact: ~ 1999 Atikokan Alumni Golf Tournament Little Falls Golf Club Norma Jean Newbold Atikokan, Ontario Residence Life Coordinator Saturday, June 19, 1999. (807) 343-8622 All alumni, friends and family welcome! Fax: (807) 343-8521 e-mail:newbold@gale.lakeheadu.ca CD Trojan Devel . & Alumni Affairs Lakehead University- May, 1999 12 • For information contact the Alumni Services Office at 343-8155 � 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.16 No.5 Subject The topic of the resource Universities Description An account of the resource This issue of the Agora contains an article on convocation '99, articles on Dr. Mark Howe and Dr. Julia O'Sullivan are appointed to Deans, and an announcement of the 1999 Retirees. 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 1999-05 Alumni Alumni Annual Fund Alumni Association Alumni Association of Lakehead University Alumni House Convocation 1999 Lakehead Lakehead University President Frederick Gilbert President's Message https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/78d58857c0a3ad9f0a7d8c241940dea3.pdf b271c7fc08139e7cdbd3fc35f2860420 PDF Text Text Lakehead UNIVERSITY A NEWSLETTER FOR LAKEHEAD UNIVERSllY STAFF & FACULlY Convocation 2000 Lakehead University will mark its 36th Convocation on Saturday, May 27, 2000 by presenting honorary degrees to two distinguished Canadians. Singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie will be presented with an Honorary Doctor of Letters and she will address the graduands during the morning convocation ceremony which begins at 9 a.m. Architect Douglas J. Cardinal will be presented with an Honorary Doctor of Engineering and he will speak during the afternoon ceremony which begins at 2:30 p.m. Preston Reid (Jerry) Cook, a well-known local businessperson and community activist, will be given the title of Fellow of Lakehead University during the afternoon ceremony, while Margaret Page, a Professor Emerita of Nursing, will receive the distinguished Alumni Honour Award in the morning. The Office of the Registrar is expecting between 1,500 and 1,600 students to graduate this year. Buffy Sainte-Marie As usual, the graduands, family and friends are invited to attend the Convocation Eve reception hosted by the Alumni Association in the Faculty Lounge on Friday and to enjoy a luncheon on Saturday in the main cafeteria. See Pages 4-5 for biographies of the Convocation guests REAL WRESTLING Douglas J. Cardinal The Senior National Wrestling Championships were held at Lakehead University May 4-10, 2000 featuring women's nationals and men's freestyle and greco-roman nationals MAY 2000 �AGORA From the President's Desk by Dr. Frederick F Gilbert 'G.. -r' ~~. .... C"i: ' Dr. Frederick F. Gilbert President Appointees to the Lakehead University Foundation The following people have been appointed by the LieutenantGovernor-in-Council to serve on the Board of Directors of the Lakehead University Foundation for a three-year term: Gaye Emery, formerly President of Advantis Canada (a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM); Peter J. Prior, Vice President, Operations - Client Interface, Nesbitt Burns; Patricia Meredith, formerly a senior executive with CIBC Corporate Strategy Group; John Richardson, Senior Executive Vice President, Manulife Financial; and D. John Valley, Managing Director, The Chase Manhattan Bank of Canada What makes a good university great? It is important to answer this as it represents Lakehead's quest. It is not as simple as saying the people even though, ultimately, it is the faculty, staff and students who define a university's greatness. It is an attitude, a commitment, a striving to be the best, to excel, thus creating an environment that nurtures and sustains the best in individuals. Without such incentive, there is a lassitude, a disinclination and, in reality, a constraint that prevents forward movement. Lakehead's past is Lakehead's past; its present and its future are where we are now and where we are headed. If all we do is attempt to recreate the past, the present becomes an effort to maintain the status quo, and the promise of the future is bypassed. There are those at Lakehead who have striven for greatness and have had success, and we salute their achievements. But the future of higher education demands that we all find the mechanisms that will position us to succeed in a competitive realm where only the best institutions will be able to retain and recruit the best students, faculty, staff or administrators. It is not a function of money although money certainly helps -- it is a willingness to compete and grow, to consider new ideas, to assist others in the common goals to succeed, and to have both compassion for others and a passion for Lakehead. There are many here who understand these dynamics, seek them and are prepared to foster and build the capacity for greatness. There are doubters within and without the institution and some utterly opposed to the principles I have articulated here. As a consensus builder and someone who has championed the causes of collegiality and shared decision-making, it has been a challenge to apply these principles at Lakehead. I could have been and it was suspected that I was a "slash and burn" type of president. It mattered not that I have consistently stated that the president must be a facilitator, a consensus builder, the flash point for action and change, but not normally the sole point of decision-making. As an example, I have indicated in Senate that the new academic structure I would have proposed would have been a radical departure from that proposed by the faculty committee and the current structure. Lakehead has the potential to be a great university. But to become one, it must be willing to see itself from the viewpoint of the external community. It must recognize that some things need to change if we are to be successful or perhaps even survive. We must overcome the tendency by some to view negatively every positive move forward, and any lingering attitude that everything is fine as it is. Those who want this university to be great must assert their influence in Senate and on its committees. The academic decisions that will drive the institution to greatness will be made there as, unfortunately, will the decisions that could blunt any initia,tives to move us forward. Senate will determine ultimately whether the will exists to change Lakehead University and position it as an institution of choice. The time frame for action is limited. My farewell comments to my colleagues at Colorado State University (CSU) expressed this, and I offer some of them here for your consideration as all universities are truly faced with similar challenges. continued on page 3 Lakehead University - Agora - May 2000 2 �AGORA President continued from page 2 ''There are difficult times ahead for most institutions of higher education as the marketplace becomes more competitive and the traditional sources of funding continue to shrink. CSU is well positioned to capitalise on the opportunities that such circumstances provide if it is prepared to acknowledge that part of the equation of success is a willingness to embrace change and. innovation. The institutions which thrive will be those that embrace a commitment to the undergraduate student in particular and in all the forms from traditional to placebound that will be represented in the student body. CSU, as a land grant university, has an inherent advantage in this competitive environment by virtue of its mission. Effective outreach builds the constituencies that will be essential to sustain the institution. Not all universities will be successful or sustainable. As an example, Lakehead faces the same difficult choices that face CSU. Faculty, staff and administration must be ready to determine direction, priorities and opportunities to build on strengths that provide a competitive advantage." As I write this, Lakehead is a few days away from a crucial Senate meeting that will be a measure of the capacity to embrace new approaches. This article will be read after that meeting. I can only hope that there was a willingness to try a new paradigm of form that would define and influence our future, or at the very least a willingness to continue the discussion to achieve a consensus on a new structure in the near future. Editor's Note The Agora will feature Staff and Faculty Retirees Dr. Lorne G. Everett to become Chancellor Lakehead University has chosen an internationally renowned scientist and one of its own graduates to be the next chancellor. Dr. Lorne Everett is chief research hydrologist and senior vice-president for ARCADIS Geraghty & Miller, Inc., the largest consulting engineering firm in Europe. He will become Lakehead's sixth chancellor, effective July 1, 2000, replacing The Very Rev. The Hon. Lois M. Wilson who has served as chancellor for 10 years. Everett was elected in 1995 to the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, a prestigious honour that has been bestowed on only eight non-Russian nationals. In 1997, he received the Ivan A. Johnston Award from ASTM for Outstanding Contributions to hydrogeology and, in 1999, he received the Kapitsa Gold Medal -- the highest award given by the Russian Academy for original contributions to science. This yea,; he was appointed to the Permanent Pollution Panel by the 70,000-member World Federation of Scientists. "Lakehead University opened up doors for me around the world," said Everett. "Perhaps in some small way, my visibility can now open a few doors for Lakehead." Everett is a biology graduate from the class of '68 who completed a master's degree and a PhD in hydrology from the University of Arizona. Today he is an internationally recognized expert on hazardous waste and groundwater monitoring. He has conducted turnkey monitoring programs at numerous solid waste landfills and hazardous waste disposal sites. His innovative technologies have been patented and his expertise sought by numerous organizations around the world. SPORTS WALL OF FAME INDUCTEES This year's inductees to Lakehead University's Sports Wall of Fame are Peter Dika (builder); Terry Paice (athlete, wrestling); John Zanatta, posthumously (athlete, basketball); and the 1969no Men's Basketball Team comprised of Renato Savioli, Wayne Chuchmuch, Ken Traynor, Brain Nieminen, Charlie Tallack, Dale Olsen, Richard Earl, Robert Jackson, Jerry Hemmings, Joe Parks, Brian Smith, Shelton Bellamy, Louis Vaughn, and Coach George Birger. The Lakehead University Sports Wall of Fame honours those who have made outstanding contributions to athletics at Lakehead. Each year, two athletes, a builder and a team may be inducted. The 5th annual Sports Wall of Fame dinner takes place Saturday, June 10 at the Victoria Inn. T ickets ($35 or $65 with a tax receipt for $30) are available at the Athletics Office, C.J. Sanders Fieldhouse, and must be purchased by June 2. For more information, call Sharon Kozak at 345-2290. in the June issue Lakehead University - Agora - May 2000 3 �AGORA Douglas J. Cardinal Architect Douglas J. Cardinal is an Ottawa-based architect who has gained national and international recognition for his signature designs in Canada and the United States. Born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1934, Cardinal completed a Bachelor of Architecture (Honors) degree at the University ofTexas in 1963 and began practising architecture a year later in Edmonton. In 1976, he incorporated under the name of Douglas J. Cardinal Architect Limited, and has since taken on projects of a diverse nature -- from individual houses to institutional and government projects to 25-year community development plans. Cardinal's distinctive designs are demonstrated in projects such as his award-winning St. Mary's Church in Red Deer; the Grande Prairie Regional College; the Ponoka Provincial Building; St. Albert Place; the Edmonton Space Sciences Centre; and the Canadian Museum of Civilization, a facility to display and house our national treasures. The firm's work also includes the Kahnawake Tourist Village for the Kahnawake Mohawks in Montreal; the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College in Regina, Saskatchewan; a major hotel complex and Children and Elders' Center for the Oneida Indian Nation of New York near Syracuse, New York; and the master plan for the Cree village of Ouje-Bougoumou, Quebec, which earned a United Nation's Award for sustainable development. In 1993, the firm was awarded the design commission for the National Museum of the American Indian on the last remaining site on the Mall in Washington, D.C. Cardinal's firm was a pioneer and world leader in the use of computers in the profession and the business of architecture and has constantly kept up with technological advancements in this field. Douglas Cardinal is an Officer of the Order of Canada and has received honorary degrees from Carleton University, Trent University, University of Lethbridge, University of Windsor, University of Calgary, and the Massachusetts School of Art. In 1995, he received a National Aboriginal Achievement Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and, in 1999, was awarded the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Medal, the highest award the profession of architecture in Canada bestows. Buffy Sainte-Marie Artist, Teacher, Singer and Songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie is known not only as an Academy Award-winning songwriter ("Up Where We Belong" from the movie An Officer and a Gentleman), but also for her innovative work in cross-cultural education using computers in the classroom. Sainte-Marie was born at the Piapot (Cree) Reserve in Saskatchewan and raised in Maine and Massachusetts. She earned a degree in Oriental Philosophy, a teacher's degree, and a PhD in Fine Arts, all from the University of Massachusetts. Her songs "Until It's Time for You to Go," recorded by Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand , and hundreds of other international artists, and "Universal Soldier," the anthem of the '60s peace movement, brought fame and the fortune to found her Nihewan Foundation for American Indian Education. A teacher before she ever started singing, Buffy Sainte-Marie has continually used her talents in art, music and cutting edge technology to educate both on stage and in the classroom. For five years in the '?Os, Sainte-Marie was a regular on Sesame Street, letting little kids and their caretakers know that "Indians exist." She raised her son and toured internationally throughout the '80s to Aboriginal communities as well as major cities. In Lakehead University - Agora - May 2000 4 Paris, she was named "Best International Artist of 1993" and in 1995, was inducted into the Juno Hall of Fame, Canada's equivalent of the Grammies. In 1998, she was presented with the Louis T. Delgado Award as Native American Philanthropist of the Year for her work in The Cradleboard Teaching Project, a cutting edge initiative to raise self esteem in all children through cross-cultural exchange with kids on the reservations, using classroom computers and accurate core curriculum. Sainte-Marie operates out of Hawaii and commutes to North America several times a year to teach digital art and music as Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at Saskatchewan Indian Federated College in Regina. She also travels to York University in Toronto where she serves as an Adjunct Professor; and to the Evergreen State College in Washington State where she taught electronic music, digital art and Native American studies as an Evans Chair Scholar. Buffy Sainte-Marie was named an Officer of the Order of Canada and is the recipient of the American Indian College Fund's Lifetime Achievement Award. Convocation Eve Friday, May 26 7p.m. in the Faculty Lounge to welcome the Class of 2000 Staff, Faculty, Students, Alumni and Friends are Welcome For information call 343-8155 �AGORA his friend Bob Andras. Robert K. Andras ran successfully as a Liberal candidate representing the Port Arthur Riding in the 1965 federal election and then succeeded -- with Cook's help -- in winning every subsequent election up until his retirement from politics in 1980. Preston Reid (Jerry) Cook Executive, Political Organizer and Community Leader Preston Reid (Jerry) Cook has helped to shape the economic, political and social fabric of Northwestern Ontario through his energetic work as a businessperson, political party organizer and community leader. Born in Fort William, Ontario in 1923, Cook received his early training in Port Arthur elementary and secondary schools before going on to Queen's University where he completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1943. He joined the army and saw active service during World War II. Then, in 1947, he married Barbara Marie Bain and they had two children: a son Grigor who went on to become a professional engineer and a daughter Gail who completed a PhD in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For 35 years, Jerry Cook was active in the construction industry, working his way up through the ranks to become president of Barnett-McQueen, a company that provided heavy construction services to the grain and mining industries in Canada and the United States. Cook himself retired in 1987, but continues to work as a consultant and to serve as past chair of St. Joseph's Foundation, director of Thunder Bay International Airports Authority Inc., and president of Thunder Bay Condominium No. 5. Throughout his life, Jerry Cook has taken a leadership role in many different businesses and community organizations. His impressive list of accomplishments include serving as director of Centra Gas Ontario Inc; president of the Lakehead Chamber of Commerce; chair of the Thunder Bay Library Board; commissioner of the National Capital Commission; commissioner of the Thunder Bay Harbour Commission; chair of the 1981 Canada Summer Games; chair of St. Joseph's General Hospital; the first chair of St. Joseph's Heritage; a member of the Board of Confederation College; vice chair of Let's Talk Thunder Bay; a member of the Thunder Bay Branch of St. John Ambulance; chair of the Board of Management of St. John's Anglican Church in Thunder Bay, and honorary colonel with the Lake Superior Scottish Regiment. From 1981-87, he served as general manager and CEO of the Thunder Bay Harbour Commission during which time he witnessed six of the busiest years of Thunder Bay's international port. His lifelong involvement and interest in politics began in the mid-1960s when he volunteered to be campaign manager for Margaret Page Public Health Educator and Professor Emerita of Nursing Lakehead University - Agora - May 2000 5 Margaret Page has touched the lives of many as teacher, nurse, and mentor with her knowledge and humanitarian approach to life. In 1945, Margaret accepted the position of District Nurse with the Ontario Society for Crippled Children in which capacity she travelled extensively throughout northern Ontario. This role exposed her to the vast expanse of the province as well as to the health care needs beyond the urban centres of Southern Ontario. Margaret's marriage to Trevor Page, professor of geology at the Lakehead College of Arts, Science and Technology, led to Margaret's attachment to Lakehead. Margaret completed a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Lakehead, complementing her Certificate of Public Health Nursing from the University of Western Ontario, and her Diploma of Advanced Public Health Nursing from the University of Toronto. She went on to complete a Master of Public Health Nursing from the University of North Carolina in 1970. In 1973, she joined Lakehead University as assistant professor in the School of Nursing. She was chair of the School of Nursing from 1974-77, received her full professorship in 1977, and served as director from 1977-80. ' Margaret worked tirelessly on many university committees and played a significant role in the evolution of Lakehead's School of Nursing. Upon her retirement in 1984, Lakehead University awarded her the title, Professor Emerita of Nursing. During her tenure at Lakehead, Margaret incorporated her love of adventure with her interest in public health. The result was two terms as Principal at the University of Malawi's Kamuzu College of Nursing in Africa between 1980 and 1985. There she was instrumental in the design and evaluation of nursing education. From 1989 to 1990, Margaret worked with the Canadian International Development Agency on a project with McMaster University which took her to Karachi, Pakistan. In 1998, she was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. �AGORA Campus Notes Nova Lawson appointed to Early Years Task Group Co-ordinator of Aboriginal Initiatives Nova Lawson has been appointed to the Early Years Task Group by the provincial Minister Responsible for Children, The Hon. Margaret Marland. The Early Years Task Group is an advisory body formed to oversee the creation of a province-wide Early Years program. The 10-member Task Group, chaired by Philip Donne, President of Kellogg Canada, will advise the government on key elements and standards for a successful provin·cewide early child development program. The Task Group will deliver a final report to Marland by April 2001. Lawson will assist the group with developing the framework to guide the action of communities and all sectors to achieve the goal of extending early development opportunities to every child in Ontario. "I hope to make a valuable contribution to the overall project and bring forth perspectives from northern and Aboriginal communities," she says. One of her responsibilities will be to identify barriers to early learning and childhood progress of northern children. It's been a gratifying year for Dr. lnderjit Nirdosh (right) and the Student Chapter of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering. Dr. Nirdosh has been elected to the Fellowship of The Chemical Institute of Canada, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the profession of chemical engineering. The Student Chapter has been awarded this year's Student Chapters' Merit Award by the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering - its third Merit Award in the past five years. In addition to their regular activities, the Student Chapter organized a highly successful national CSChE Student Conference in March which earned kudos from Dr. Paul Amyotte, CSChE past president: "I heard that Lakehead has the smallest chemical engineering department in the country. That may be true, but from what I have seen, there are many lessons to be learned from our 'smallest department' - things like leadership, responsibility, and commitment." Annual Report earns Bronze Award Lakehead's first Annual Report earned a place in the winner's circle in this year's national awards competition of the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education (CCAE). CCAE members represent more than 170 post-secondary institutions in Canada.The judges liked the fact that Lakehead secured sponsorships to help offset production costs. Sponsors for the 199899 Annual Report were The Alumni Association of Lakehead University, Thunder Bay Travel Limited , Aramark, Cargill, Royal Bank Financial Group, and Campus Worklink:NGR. Dr. Walter Epp Appointed Instructional Development Advisor Dr. Walter Epp (Faculty of Education) has been serving as Lakehead's instructional development advisor since January 1, 2000, replacing Dr. Ken Brown (Forestry and the Forest Environment) who was instructional development advisor for the past 10 years. Epp's mandate includes: identifying and enhancing good instructional practice and facilitating discourse around effective teaching; identifying and enhancing cross-curricular instruction and research opportunities; and identifying and promoting successful campus- wide teaching initiatives. "It's exciting to be involved in an area which is so central to the mission of the University," says Epp. Future events will include panel discussions with Distinguished Instructors describing their approaches to classroom teaching. Lakehead University - Agora - May 2000 6 �AGORA Profile Dr. Azim Mallik recipient of the 1999 Distinguished Researcher Award by Nadine Lessard Dr. Azim Mallik began his scientific career 26 years ago as a lecturer in the Department of Botany at the University of Chittagong in Bangladesh. Since completing his PhD in Botany at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland in 1983, he has developed his knowledge in the field of plant ecology with increasing concentration on chemical interactions between competing plants, a specialty known as allelopathy. Mallik's expertise and personal enthusiasm towards his research has led him to various positions in Canada with the University of New Brunswick, the Canadian Forestry Service-Newfoundland Forestry Centre, and The University of Western Ontario. . In 1989, he came to Lakehead University to teach in the Department of Biology and has since advanced to the position of full professor. Throughout his career, Azim Mallik has managed to supervise several postgraduate students, saying he "loves creating new knowledge for his students as well as learning from them." "The more you study the more you find." Mallik's commitment to scientific research has enabled him to travel all over the world. His energy and positive attitude has led him to establish collaborations with scientists from many countries, including South Korea, China, Japan, Spain, Scotland, Sweden, France and Italy. He is regularly invited to speak at international conferences to communicate his findings and he has an impressive list of publications. Although Mallik's commitment to teaching and research takes up a lot of his time, he still manages to find time for the other things he loves: his wife Mary and son Adiel, gardening, swimming, and relaxing with a good book or in the company of friends. Last August, Mallik chaired the Second World Congress on Allelopathy -- an international conference held at Lakehead University attended by 200 people from 34 countries. ". . .. ...,._.., ·~ .... ""! -~~ - ~ ~ > ....... ~ "Lakehead University, with its natural setting, has provided me with the opportunity to study the dynamics ofboreal forests after clearcutting and fire. The analytical facilities ofthe University labs and opportunities to involve graduate students in my research program have enhanced my ability to better understand the successional complexity of natural ecosystems following disturbance. We need to learn more, and modify the land management practices in the light of new knowledge for a sustainable future." - Dr. Azim Mallik Through his work abroad, he has promoted Lakehead University and continues to represent the University with distinction. Coming Up: Nadine Lessard is one of several Lakehead students participating in a student writing program sponsored by The Chronicle-Journal. A Profile on Dr. Ken Brown Recipient of the 1999 Distinguished Instructor Award Lakehead University - Agora - May 2000 7 �AGORA LAKEHEAD AWARDED 7 NEW RESEARCH CHAIRS to attract and retain the best researchers possible. This Program will support our efforts to do so in a competitive market." Lakehead Uf}iversity will see an injection of nearly $8. 4 million over the next seven years to foster research excellence and to enhance its role as a world-class centre of research excellence in the global, knowledge-based economy. For more information, refer to the CF/ Web site (http://www.innovation.ca). Under the federal governmenfs Canada Research Chairs Program, seven Research Chairs will be established at Lakehead, two of which may be in place by September 2000. There will be two types of Chairs under the Canada Research Chairs Program: Seven-year renewable Tier I Chairs will attract current research stars, that is, experienced individuals acknowledged by their peers as world leaders in their research fields. Five-year Tier II Chairs, renewable once, will attract future research stars, meaning those acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead their research fields. Lakehead University has been awarded three Tier I Chairs and four Tier II Chairs. For each Tier I Chair, Lakehead will receive $200,000 per year in financial support for seven years. For each Tier II Chair, Lakehead will receive $100,000 per year in financial support for five years. In addition, there will be support available from the Canada Foundation for Innovation which, when matched, will provide about $2.2 million. The seven new Research Chairs will be in priority areas identified by Lakehead University and will be filled by individuals who meet the program's rigorous criteria of excellence. "Lakehead University commends the federal government for recognizing that Canada must be 'capable ofcreating nextgeneration ideas and putting them to work to generate jobs, growth, wealth and improved quality of life'," says Dr. John Whitfield, vice-president (research and development). 'To do this it is essential Lakehead UNIVERSITY May 2000 Vol. 17, No. 5 Mark your Calendars ... The 12th Annual Maintenance Choice Golf Classic June 23, 2000 Emerald Greens Golf Course 12:30 p.m. Tee Off THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO, CANADA ISSN 0828-5225 The Agora is published by the Office of Communications and distributed monthly September through June. We welcome news and other submissions from our readers. Send them to: Editor, Agora Lakehead University 955 Oliver Road $40.00 until June 19, Cheques payable to Brian Baraskewich or Wayne Hainrich at the Physical Plant Maintenance Building. Shuttle van to golf course and return to Lakehead, also ride home if necessary (last van 10:30 p.m.) Entry fee Includes green fees, steak supper, prizes, and FUN. Supper is at the Faculty Lounge. 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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 2000-05 Agora Magazine Alumni Alumni Association Alumni Association of Lakehead University Chancellor Lorne Everett Dr. Lorne G. Everett Lakehead Lakehead University President Frederick Gilbert President's Message